The more the muddy face tried to persuade them, the more Xie Lian became worried. "Everyone back away, don't go near it, and don't listen to a word for what they say."
The crowd dispersed and hurriedly moved. The muddy face kept laughing, "No need to be so cruel. I am also human, I will not hurt you."
Just then, one of the merchants suddenly slipped back into the fields, maybe thinking he still had to bring back the potion they had picked to treat the wounded. He bent down to pick up the bushels of fern he had dropped in fear before, but the mud face turned and saw it, the glint in his eyes glowed.
Oh no! Xie Lian thought, hurrying towards the man, "Don't take it! Come back!" But it's too late. A muddy face opened his mouth and something long came out from there, red blood crept out.
That is a long tongue!
Xie Lian gripped the merchant with his collar and retreated, but the flying tongue had a length which was quite strange and broke into the ear of the previous merchant!
Xie Lian felt the body in his grip move fiercely, the merchant's limbs stretched nonstop, and the man screamed in short, agonizing screams before falling to the ground. The long tongue dug a large piece of blood from his ear and brought it back to the mouth of the mud face. The muddy face happily chewed and laughed, its loud laughter filled the entire palace.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !! SO ENJOY SO DELICIOUS SO DELICIOUS SO DELICIOUS !! I'M VERY HUNGRY, VERY HUNGRY!"
His voice was sharp and squeaky, his eyes were bulging and red, looking terrible and annoying.
This man who had been buried for more than fifty years in a royal land filled with evil had been formed into his land and became something other than humans. Xie Lian loosened his grip on the merchant who had died, his entire arm shaking. He was about to attack that disgusting monster when the muddy face screamed again, "GENERAL! GENERAL! THEY ARE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!"
The deafening scream was fiercer than the beast roaring in the distance.
Dark shadows descended from the sky, and landed heavily in front of Xie Lian. The entire palace courtyard shook as he landed. When they slowly stood up, the crowd was imprisoned in their large shadows.
This 'man' is very big.
His face was gloomy like steel, his expression ferocious and turbulent, like the face of a wild animal. A thin layer of armor covered his shoulders and reached at least nine feet. Rather than a man, one could say he was more like a wolf walking. Behind him, more and more similar forms appeared. One, two, three ... more than ten of these 'men' jumped from the palace roof and surrounded him.
Each of these 'men' was as large as a horse, made like a beast, and carried a club full of sharp teeth on their shoulders. They might also be werewolves. When they surrounded the intruders in the park, it was as though a large steel cage had fallen on them.
They are Ban Yue warriors!
These warriors emit a black aura, no doubt the creature is not alive. Xie Lian felt tense, Ruoye was in a position ready to attack.
However, when the Ban Yue soldiers looked at them, the soldiers did not rush to kill. Instead, they raised their heads and burst out laughing, and howled in foreign languages. The sound of their words was terrible, hoarse and heavy on the tongue. That is Ban Yue's language.
Even though it had been two hundred years and Xie Lian had forgotten enough of that language, he had indeed reviewed it with San Lang before at the General Tomb, and the words the soldiers had spoken were loud, simple and vulgar, so they were not difficult to understand. He heard the army call the first person 'general', their conversation was full of words like 'take them away' and 'won't kill for now', and Xie Lian took a deep breath to force herself to relax. He said in a low voice, "Everyone, don't panic. These Ban Yue warriors won't kill us for now. Looks like they want to take us somewhere else. Don't do anything rash, I can't guarantee I'll be able to fight them. We will find out about this problem when we go "
It was clear that the soldiers would find it difficult to fight, each thicker than the next; even with Ruoye in hand, strangling one might take a lot from him, let alone ten. With living beings with him, Xie Lian could not do anything brave and could only remain vigilant and protect them as best she could.
San Lang didn't say anything, and the others had lost their nerve. Even if they want to do something in a hurry, they won't know how, and can only nod and cry. Next to them, the muddy face screamed again, "General! General! Please, let me out! I've managed to hold your enemy back, let me go home! I want to go home!"
Seeing Ban Yue's army, the muddy face became hysterical, screaming and crying, blabbering nonsense, with a few words of Ban Yue mixed in his sentences, no doubt he learned it from the years he spent from being buried here. The nine-foot-tall man they called 'general' seemed to find that the writhing mud face was very disgusting, and swung his stick at him, and smashed his face until his blood scattered all over the place, his stick teeth pierced his brain. When he pulled his wand again, his whole body was pulled out, fulfilling his wish "Let me out!". And the body excavated is not a whole human body, but a skeleton.
The traders screamed in fear. The muddy face, upon discovering his body, seemed to have also froze in fear after seeing his own body, "What is this? WHAT IS IT?"
"This is your body." Xie Lian reminded him, seeing that the mud face was numb and still could not believe it. This man has been buried in the desert for more than fifty to sixty years; his body became fertilizer for ShanYue's ferns and cleaned him of his flesh with only the bones left.
"How could this happen?" The muddy face shouted, "My body is not like this! THIS IS NOT MY BODY !!!"
Her cry shook but Xie Lian only considered it tragic and frightening, shaking her head and turning around. Next to him, San Lang laughed mockingly, "Are you not only accustomed to your body now? What came out of your mouth earlier? Didn't you think it was strange?"
The muddy face immediately replied, "That's not strange! It's just ... the tongue is a little longer than the usual tongue! Right, just a little longer!"
"Yes. Sure. Maybe longer, maybe." San Lang's voice was filled with scorn but didn't bother to chat more with the monster.
"It is true!" The muddy face shouted, "It's just longer! It's all because I've spent decades trying to live on eating insects, forcing my tongue to become longer. It must have been like this!"
Maybe he was still human when he was first buried, and did his best to survive by swallowing insects with his tongue, but he became less human over time, and his tongue grew longer, ate more than just insects but bad things. . But having been buried for so long, he could not see his true form, and could not accept or believe that he was no longer human. The mud face kept trying to convince the crowd who didn't listen, "There is another person who has a long tongue, not just me!"
San Lang laughed again, but Xie Lian could feel him shivering listening to him laugh. Xie Lian thought that sometimes when this kid laughed, there was a certain cruelty hidden under his smile, a cold feeling that could tear flesh.
"Do you think you are still human?" San Lang asks.
Hearing that question, the muddy face became agitated, "Of course I'm human! I'm human!"
The muddy face screamed and tried to move its white, bony limbs at the same time, as if trying to crawl away. Finally he was dug up, he went crazy with chuckles, "I'm going home! I'm going home! Hahahahahah--"
'Crack'
"General 'Banyue seems to have finally felt quite fed up with this monster bush, and crushed his bones in one step, killing again" I'm human! ".
After stepping on the mud face, the 'general' roared at the others. Then, the Ban Yue soldiers raised their 'Mace' and growled in the direction of Xie Lian's group, and began to lead them out of the palace.
Xie Lian walked in front with San Lang still following from behind. Although escorted by the cruel Ban Yue army, the boy's steps were still light and relaxed, as if he were taking a walk. Xie Lian intended to look for an opportunity to talk to him, and after a while when the Ban Yue army returned to converse among themselves, Xie Lian spoke in a low voice, "The Ban Yue soldiers called their leader 'general'. I wonder who is that."
As expected, San Lang has the answers to all his questions. "Generals at the time of the fall of their kingdom. His name, translated in Hanzi *, was Ke Mo."
"To Mo?" Xie Lian wondered at the name that sounded strange.
"It is true." San Lang said. "Apparently it was because he was very weak when he was young and often intimidated. He rose, and built up his strength training with large stone slabs, and got his name."
Xie Lian rubbed his forehead and thought, "So he's a giant ..."
San Lang continued, "Legend has it that Ke Mo is the strongest warrior in Ban Yue history, nine feet tall and very strong. He is a loyal supporter of the Head Reverend."
"Does he continue to support him even though he has opened the castle's gates to the enemy?" Xie Lian asked.
"That's hard to say," San Lang replied.
"If Ke Mo is still following the Head Reverend's orders even in death, then they are most likely escorted to the Head Reverend's place. If there are more Ban Yue warriors there how can they escape? How can they send ShanYue's fern to the injured person? within 24 hours? "
All they can do now is go with the flow and adapt to whatever situation arises. Xie Lian walked and pondered, and noticed that General Ke Mo had taken them to a remote place at the far end of the fortress. When they stopped and Xie Lian looked up, a giant wall stood in front of him like a giant.
Their goal is the Sinner's Hole!
Even though Xie Lian had lived in the Ban Yue area for a while, he rarely entered the city, and never approached the Sinner Hole. Seeing this close Xie Lian's heart began to beat fast.
The muddy yellow wall had a ladder along the outside, and as he climbed to the top, Xie Lian scanned the hole and tried to look deep until he finally understood why his heart was beating fast. It's not like this is a place of torture and cruelty, and it's not his concern for all those who are somehow forced into being pushed into. It's like the feeling of a heartbeat from a series of arrays that is so powerful that it works.
There is a strong array drawn around the entire Sinner Hole, and this array has only one goal - to prevent its fall from ever appearing!
That means even if a rope or ladder is placed in a hole, anyone who tries to climb from the bottom will be cut off in the middle of the road and thrown down. Xie Lian passively used the wall as a support to climb the stairs, but truly felt the touch of the wall. He discovered that even though it looked like a wall built with mud or concrete, it was actually a much stronger rock, perhaps upheld with a layer of magic.
When they reached the end of the stairs and reached the top of the hole, standing along the wall, the only word to describe the view was 'awe'.
The entire Sinner Hole is formed by four large walls which surround it. Each wall is about thirty feet long, twenty feet high, and four feet thick. At the very top of every wall there was nothing, neither the gazebo nor the fence. In the hole was a deep bottomless abyss visible, and with the night appearing, there was only darkness and the smell of blood rising in the air coming from below.
No one dared to look down while walking along the roof without a fence that was tens of feet high on the ground. After a while they could see a pole standing in the middle, and on top of the pole hung a corpse. It's the same as they saw before. The corpse was from a small girl in black, tattered head bowed.
Xie Lian knew that this pole was used mainly to hang criminals who deserved humiliation and humiliation. Usually prison guards will strip their criminals and clothes and then hang their naked bodies. The criminals will die of starvation or dehydration, and after their death their bodies will be left to swing carried by the wind that blows, burns in the sun, and rot in the rain. When the corpse is truly rotten, the corpse will fall into the hole itself. The girl's body didn't seem to rot, so it must have been a long time since she died. Maybe it was a local girl who was captured by the soldiers. To do vulgar things to a young girl, Xie Lian felt truly disgusted. A-Zhao, Tian Shen and other faces turned white at the sight, and stopped at their pace, afraid to move forward. Ke Mo also did not bother pushing them forward, but turned towards the hole and howled.
"Why is he howling?" Xie Lian wondered, but the question was immediately answered.
From the bottom of the dark hole came a growl chain in response to howls. It was like the roar of a beast, a groan like a tsunami, the lament of monsters, hundreds and thousands of crying bursting into the ears. The walls trembled due to the noise and made the people standing on the roof lose balance. Xie Lian could clearly hear the sound of rocks and debris falling inside. Only criminals are thrown into the Hole of the Sinner, 'Xie Lian thought,' Do those who die answer Ke Mo's voice? '
Ke Mo howled again and Xie Lian paid more attention to listen. This time, Ke Mo didn't make a meaningless sound, and it wasn't a curse either. Rather, it is encouragement. Xie Lian was very sure he heard the words: "Brother."
After howling, Ke Mo turned his head to the soldier who was watching Xie Lian and the others, and roared to give another command. Xie Lian understood. He said, "Just throw two and hold the rest." is what his words mean!
The others might not understand what the General had said, but the actions of the soldiers would not be difficult to guess, and everyone looked as pale as a ghost. Xie Lian saw that the other pair couldn't even stand properly anymore, trembled with fear, and stepped forward. He said in a small voice, "Don't worry. You guys ... If something happens, I'll go first."
Xie Lian thought if they all fell, then he might be the first to fall and examine what was in that place. It can't be worse than snakes and venomous animals, ghosts and threatening demons. He can't die from falling, he can't die from poison, he can't die from bites, and he can't die from being hit. As long as it's not puddles that dissolve corpses, his body shouldn't be too damaged. Besides that, He brought Ruoye with him. Even if he might not be able to escape from the array arrangement, he can still use it to catch others who fall afterwards. Ke Mo said "Hold the rest!", Which means that most of the others are temporarily safe. After all, it's not easy to hunt for prey in the Gobi desert, they should enjoy them more than eating everyone at once! Xie Lian cleared his mind, but beside him, the other person couldn't hold his breath anymore.
Ever since they reached the peak of the Sinner Hole, other than San Lang who looked like nothing out of the ordinary, everyone was shivering with fear, especially A-Zhao. He must have thought that if he died, he would die by fighting. He closed his fist and ran towards Ke Mo!
He looked in a hurry and as if A-Zhao was ready to take Ke Mo into the hole with him. Ke Mo was a bigger man, stronger like a steel tower, but even he was pushed back three steps from A-Zhao's despair. He roared angrily, and immediately threw the young man into a dark emptiness. Everyone started shouting, and Xie Lian called out to him too. "A-Zhao!"
At that moment, from within the deep abyss came a roar of roar, and the sound of flesh being torn to shreds, like a hungry beast struggling just to eat. It was easy to understand from hearing voices that A-Zhao's youth would never survive.
Xie Lian did not expect this kind of final development and was stunned too. He was suspicious that A-Zhao was subordinate to Chief Reverend Ban Yue, who deliberately directed the groups to the rubble. He also suspected that the person here 'fifty to sixty years ago' was him, but the young man ended up being the first to be killed.
Did he fake his own death? Not impossible. But now they were all enslaved under the control of Ban Yue's army, if A-Zhao was subordinate to the Head Reverend, he would have the upper hand and could easily reveal his true identity in glory without doing anything excessive and faking his own death. But why did A-Zhao rush to attack Ke Mo and die meaninglessly?
What is the purpose of the action?
Xie Lian's mind jerked again, and Ban Yue's army began to look for the next victim. Ke Mo measured them and pointed towards Tian Shen. Another soldier then moved up and opened his palm, ready to push. Scared, Tian Shen fell to his knees and exclaimed, "Save me!"
Without time to think, Xie Lian stepped forward and said in Ban Yue's language, "Wait, General."
Ke Mo was shocked to hear the words from Xie Lian's mouth and waved his hand, stopping the soldiers. "Do you know how to speak in our language? Where are you from?"
"I am from the Central Plains." Xie Lian replied. He wouldn't mind lying and said he was also a citizen of Ban Yue, but with how smooth and fluent he was in speaking, there was no way he could continue his lies if he talked too much. In addition, it is also clear from his appearance that he is a Central Plainsman. Ke Mo's question is only from simple confusion. The Ban Yue people also hate liars more than anything, if Xie Lian is known to have lied the results would be the worst.
But there are also cons to telling the truth. The Kingdom of Ban Yue fell into the hands of the Central Plains; Hearing that Xie Lian was from the Central Plains, Ke Mo's black face immediately blazed with anger, and many Ban Yue warriors also began to growl, cursing him harshly. It was nothing more than "the vile Central Plains people!" And "Throw it away! Throw it!", And Xie Lian did not care. But he also heard "Rotten Bitch!" and stop. He didn't catch what was said before, but it still made him feel rather depressed. 'Some of the intentions of the first sentence I can understand, but the last one why is it rather sudden? Are they sure they did nothing wrong? ' Xie Lian thought sadly. Even though I'm not cosplaying now? WHAT Are Their Eyes Wrong?
As General, Ke Mo was not the least bit uneasy and said, "Our kingdom has disappeared in the Gobi desert for more than two hundred years. You are not from our people, why do you know our language? Who are you?"
If he is going to play fake, then it's time to start talking nonsense. Xie Lian couldn't help but glance at the calm boy behind him, mentally hoping that if his lies fell apart, maybe he could shamelessly ask San Lang to save him. He cleared his throat and was ready to start blabbering nonsense when a series of angry growls could be heard from below.
It seemed that whatever was in the hole had finished tearing A-Zhao but was still hungry and asking for more, using their cries to convey their thirst for fresh blood. Ke Mo waved his hand again, ready to throw Tian Shen, so Xie Lian spoke up, "General, please take me first."
Ke Mo had never heard of anyone asking to be thrown first and his eyes bulging like bells. He asked incredulously, "You first? Why ??"
Xie Lian couldn't tell the truth and said it because she wasn't afraid. He thought for a moment and appeared with a logical answer, "General, they are innocent merchants. There are even children!"
Ke Mo snickered, "When your army annihilated my kingdom, don't you think we also have merchants and innocent children?"
The fall of the Ban Yue kingdom was more than two hundred years ago and the dynasties in the Central Plains have changed, but hatred and revenge will not fade with dynastic changes. Ke Mo continued, "You are very suspicious, I need to ask you. You will not be dropped. Throw the others!"
Nobody helped him. Xie Lian is ready to jump if all else fails. Behind him San Lang stepped forward.
Xie Lian's heart jerked and turned around.
With his arms crossed, the boy nonchalantly stared at the dark, groundless hole with an atmosphere of intrigue. This is not a good sign, and Xie Lian exclaimed, "San Lang?"
Hearing his call, San Lang looked up at him and smiled softly, "Don't worry."
San Lang took another step and was on the edge of danger. Xie Lian's head and heart began to pound, and he called again, "Wait, San Lang, don't move!"
At a height on the edge of a cliff, the boy's red clothes danced in the night wind. San Lang glanced at him again with a smile, "Don't be afraid."
"Come back here! Come back here and I won't be afraid!" Xie Lian said.
"Don't worry, I'll just be gone for a while." San Lang replied.
"Do not -"
Before he finished, the boy jumped with his arms still crossed, and disappeared into the abyss.
As he jumped, Ruoye shot out of Xie Lian's wrist, a stream of white light trying to grab the boy's figure. But his fall was too fast, and Ruoye returned without carrying anything in his arms. Xie Lian knelt on the edge of the wall and shouted, "SAN LANG !!!"
No answer. There was no sound after the boy jumped, there was no sound!
Next to him, many Ban Yue soldiers began to shout, all dumbfounded and confused. What's with today? In the past they had to catch their prey and throw them into a pit before they fell, but tonight their prey take turns to struggle to jump down, and when they hold back, they keep jumping ?? General Ke Mo shouted to control his army. As for Xie Lian, when he saw Ruoye not catching San Lang, he didn't take the time to think before taking the leap from his own wall. But when his body was still in the air, he felt his collar pulled tight, and he remained in the air.
It turned out that when General Ke Mo saw him jumping too, he stretched out his arm and pulled Xie Lian's collar and prevented him from falling. "If you want to join me, that's fine too!" Xie Lian thought, and like a snake, Ruoye shot out once more and wrapped herself in Ke Mo's arms, tying her entire body.
Ke Mo saw that the white silk ribbon was unpredictable and deadly but also vibrant, wrinkling his face and tearing out his veins, his muscles immediately exploding in size, trying to tear the cloth that bound it. Xie Lian stopped with Ke Mo when he saw something scary in the corner of his eyes.
The corpse hung from a moving pole, and slightly raised its head.
Ban Yue's group of warriors also saw the corpse move and started screaming, swinging their clubs to attack him. But the girl in black somehow escaped and jumped off the pole, and drove towards both of them.
He was like a black wind blowing through the roof, fast and evil. The soldiers could not maintain their balance and were immediately dragged into the Sinner Hole one by one, shouting. With anger, Ke Mo shouted all kinds of vulgar sentences at him, many of whom were street slaves that Xie Lian could not understand well, but he understood the first words: "That bitch again!"
His speech stopped next time because Xie Lian suddenly pulled himself up, and brought Ke Mo to fall into the hole with him.
The inevitable pit of sinners!
While falling, Ke Mo roared with such violence, killing Xie Lian's eardrums, he had to call Ruoye back and give a kick towards Ke Mo to keep the general away from himself and protect his ears. Then he urged Ruoye to fly up to try and reach for anything that could prevent him from falling further, or if there was, hold on to something so that when he fell it wouldn't hurt too much. But the Penitents Hole was not built to save (make someone safe); and with such a strong arrangement where it worked, nothing could be found by Xie Lian. He thought he would fall and flatten like a pancake as many times before when suddenly, in the dark, there was a flash of silver passing through his vision.
A pair of hands lightly caught it. Prevent it from falling hit the ground.
Whoever catches him perfectly, as if this person was made only to catch him at the bottom. With one hand on his back to hold his shoulder, the other under his knee to support his weight, the terrible gravity of the fall was meaningless. Still looking confused and still not realizing what had just happened due to falling at such a height, Xie Lian involuntarily held onto that person's shoulder and called out, "San ... Lang?"
The hole was full of darkness, nothing could be seen, including that person. But Xie Lian still called out that name. The person did not respond so Xie Lian patted and squeezed her chest and shoulders just to be sure. "San Lang, is that you?"
Perhaps because this was at the bottom of the hole with a strong and confusing smell of blood, Xie Lian was bewildered and continued to feel the person carrying her, leaning forward to grope someone's body until she reached a strong and hard apple adam. He was shocked and immediately rebuked himself, pulling his face and hands back. What did he just do ?? "Are you San Lang? Are you alright? Are you hurt?"
It took a while before he heard the boy's low voice very close to him, "I'm fine."
Xie Lian didn't know why, but this voice was strangely different from before.