Chapter 29 second quarter
Although the "Three Realms Army" was impacted by King Xiaoxuan's death and retreated in the first battle with the "Guardian Army", they still maintained an absolute superiority in strength.More than 400,000 troops guarded a hundred miles south of the capital, staring at the world's largest city.
Surprisingly, they did not launch a second offensive for a long time.
Because of a secret that must never be known to the enemy, nor to the subordinates of the "Three Realms Army":
King Jing disappeared.
In two months, Kamakura embarked on his last trip. Going west, passing through many towns in the territory. Look at the world he created himself. He saw it. Then he turned back with deep sorrow, and ran again in the direction of the capital.
The few guards guarding the tower on the west wall of the capital were sitting around the small stove, warming their hands that were about to become stiff.They absolutely hated the night job.Especially in the middle of winter. Fortunately, it hasn't snowed these days.The wild land outside the city wall is still covered with a vast expanse of whiteness, which glows faintly in the dark night. "It seems... there is a weird sound..." one of the guards shrank and said. "Did you hear wrong?" The captain frowned. "The bandits are still far away...they won't come in this kind of weather..." The guard scratched his head. "Did you hear wrong?..." Another sound, and this time they all heard it.Not too loud, outside the city wall, very close. "Evil door..." The captain pushed the guard just now. "Go! Go and see!" The guard raised the barrel of his gun, held it with trembling hands, and approached the edge of the city wall step by step with fear. Just when there were still a few steps away, something suddenly appeared from the edge of the city wall, scaring the guard out of his hand. A skinny but broad palm. Another identical palm also climbed up. - hell... Supported by those two palms, a tall figure climbed up from under the city wall.The skeleton is unusually huge, but emaciated; a shaved head; only the lower body is wrapped in a cloth scarf, and the rest is not worn, not even shoes; the bony protruding chest and abdomen and limbs are all exposed. With white steam. "You, you, you... who are you?" The captain asked in panic, pointing at the man, overturned from the stool. He had never heard of anyone who could climb the walls of the capital with bare hands. "Is it a spy? A secret operation of the bandit army!" Another guard drew his waist knife and rushed to the man, trying to strike. But as soon as he saw the man's eyes, the guard's knife was fixed on the head and could not be cut off. "I came in to see someone." The man said in a hoarse voice. "Please take me to him." The guards felt that the figure, appearance and voice of this man possessed an irresistible force.
In the "Cultivating Root Hall" of the "Big Tree Hall", a tall screen with dragon and tiger patterns painted on many sides is erected in front of the hall master's throne. In the enclosure of the screen, Yu Runsheng sat high on the big tiger leather chair, looking at the sickle sitting below him, who was only ten feet away. There are iron shackles on the hands, ankles and wrists of the sickle head.Although he has become like this today, no one can forget how terrible the fifth master of "Dashutang" was back then. Yu Runsheng stroked the tiger skin on the chair, and the hair had already been removed in several places.The original owner of this piece of skin was hunted and killed by the prisoner in front of him in Monkey Mountain. See you in twenty-four years, but Yu Runsheng's face did not show a single ripple.The sickle head is also calm. "A long, long time ago..." Yu Runsheng finally spoke.The sound has lost the sonority of the past, but it is still hard to listen to. "...I have come to realize that you possess a power that even I am jealous of." Sickle didn't respond. "It took me a lot of hard work to get others to worship me like a god. But you... When you were in Piaocheng, even if you sat and did nothing, you got it very easily..." "That's when I knew: You won't be under my control forever. I just kept trying to prolong that period. But you finally left..." While Yu Runsheng was talking, saliva oozed from the corner of his mouth.He wiped it with the sleeve of his expensive clothes and continued to talk. "In the first few years after you left, I was really worried. I didn't know what would happen to you when you came back. Afterwards, I didn't hear from you, so I relaxed and gradually forgot about you..." "At the same time, the 'Big Tree Hall' kept growing. It was so big that even the leaders of 'Feng Yilong' never imagined in their dreams, and it was so big that it was impossible to have any enemies. Including the masters of this country—they Destiny has also been closely linked with us. They need the 'Hall of the Tree' and they need me. With such an ally, the 'Hall of the Tree' cannot be destroyed—at least I thought so before. I was wrong." These were three words that Yu Runsheng had never said in the past. "That mistake was exactly the same as that of Meng Zhen and Zhang Shuai back then. I thought that some existing things would always exist for granted, and I forgot that everything can be shaken from the most fundamental place, starting from the most inconspicuous place..." "However, I was right about one thing: if there is one person in this world who can destroy the 'Big Tree Hall' and everything I own, that person is you." After Yu Runsheng finished speaking, he seemed a little tired, so he stopped and breathed hard for a while.He reached out and pressed the arrow wound on his chest. "Here...it hurts every winter..." Yu Runsheng looked at the scythe with a wry smile. "Maybe it's the ghost of Long Er Er who is at work..." Sickle still didn't show any expression or reaction. Yu Runsheng rested for a while, and then said: "Now, you are sitting in front of me, and in the end I won. I always just look at the results, and 'why' has never been my most concerned thing." "But this time, I really want to know: why? Why did you come?" When Yu Runsheng said, his eyes regained a little light. The two elderly men looked at each other for a long time. "I saw..." Lian Shou suddenly opened his mouth. "I saw... everything." Sickle's body moved, and the shackles on his hands and feet made a sound. "I saw... In Qitang Town, I saw that the guard of the 'Three Realms' built a new house, which was even more luxurious than the governor's mansion there before, and the houses next to it were still dilapidated..." "I saw...in the fields outside Zhangcheng, farmers hunched over like slaves to farm, in order to produce food for the 'Three Realms'..." "I saw... In Tongcheng, people inform each other out of personal grievances, and those who have no money to bribe the generals are hanged on the city gate as spies of the officers and soldiers..." "I saw... After the fields in Caodong Township lost their harvest due to severe drought, no one else from the territory of the 'Three Realms' came to rescue. Some children starved to death, and parents exchanged babies to cook..." "I saw...in Zhaocheng, the prefecture of Qinzhou, the hometown of Mao Renjie, the 'Flying General', his relatives were wearing the gold and silver jewelry he plundered from various places; The treasures of the treasuries of various places; the maids and servants of their families are all the wives and daughters of officials or military families who have been robbed from various places..." "I saw... there was a 'Taoist' in three-color clothes, talking about me among a large group of people, but I didn't even know what he said...he described miracles that I couldn't do ;talking dogmas contrary to what I hold;spreading hatred that I have never preached...at last he brought out a cloth bag, and the crowd threw copper coins into it in panic...then I asked him: 'What do you say Is everything true?' He looked at me not daring to lie, just smiled and whispered in my ear: 'Does it matter?'..." When Lian Shou spoke, there was no movement in his face or body.It was as if he was just telling a story that had nothing to do with him. "I saw . . . all of this. Then I decided to come back. I wanted to end this." Yu Runsheng smiled and asked, "Are you hoping...to reconcile?" Sickle shook his head. "It doesn't matter... It doesn't matter who wins, it doesn't matter... nothing will change..." Yu Runsheng's pupils suddenly lit up, and the extraordinary luster of power reappeared. ——If the power of the "Three Realms" is combined to overthrow everything... "Dashutang" may climb to a higher peak that has never been imagined before... - the power of a nation... But after a while, the brilliance in Yu Runsheng's eyes faded again. "I'm sorry..." Yu Runsheng looked down at the sickle head and said, "The world only needs one person with such power as us." He turned his head and waved to the screen on the right. "I've finished asking, take him away." The screen moved back, revealing a large number of guards behind it. One of the men came out, it was Wei Yishi, the "Iron Blood Guard Township Taoist" who was old but still had a sharp face. Wei Yishi showed a gloomy smile, looked at the sickle head and said, "Unexpectedly, when I was so old that I was about to resign, I would still have such an honor."
In two months, Kamakura embarked on his last trip. Going west, passing through many towns in the territory. Look at the world he created himself. He saw it. Then he turned back with deep sorrow, and ran again in the direction of the capital.
The few guards guarding the tower on the west wall of the capital were sitting around the small stove, warming their hands that were about to become stiff.They absolutely hated the night job.Especially in the middle of winter. Fortunately, it hasn't snowed these days.The wild land outside the city wall is still covered with a vast expanse of whiteness, which glows faintly in the dark night. "It seems... there is a weird sound..." one of the guards shrank and said. "Did you hear wrong?" The captain frowned. "The bandits are still far away...they won't come in this kind of weather..." The guard scratched his head. "Did you hear wrong?..." Another sound, and this time they all heard it.Not too loud, outside the city wall, very close. "Evil door..." The captain pushed the guard just now. "Go! Go and see!" The guard raised the barrel of his gun, held it with trembling hands, and approached the edge of the city wall step by step with fear. Just when there were still a few steps away, something suddenly appeared from the edge of the city wall, scaring the guard out of his hand. A skinny but broad palm. Another identical palm also climbed up. - hell... Supported by those two palms, a tall figure climbed up from under the city wall.The skeleton is unusually huge, but emaciated; a shaved head; only the lower body is wrapped in a cloth scarf, and the rest is not worn, not even shoes; the bony protruding chest and abdomen and limbs are all exposed. With white steam. "You, you, you... who are you?" The captain asked in panic, pointing at the man, overturned from the stool. He had never heard of anyone who could climb the walls of the capital with bare hands. "Is it a spy? A secret operation of the bandit army!" Another guard drew his waist knife and rushed to the man, trying to strike. But as soon as he saw the man's eyes, the guard's knife was fixed on the head and could not be cut off. "I came in to see someone." The man said in a hoarse voice. "Please take me to him." The guards felt that the figure, appearance and voice of this man possessed an irresistible force.
In the "Cultivating Root Hall" of the "Big Tree Hall", a tall screen with dragon and tiger patterns painted on many sides is erected in front of the hall master's throne. In the enclosure of the screen, Yu Runsheng sat high on the big tiger leather chair, looking at the sickle sitting below him, who was only ten feet away. There are iron shackles on the hands, ankles and wrists of the sickle head.Although he has become like this today, no one can forget how terrible the fifth master of "Dashutang" was back then. Yu Runsheng stroked the tiger skin on the chair, and the hair had already been removed in several places.The original owner of this piece of skin was hunted and killed by the prisoner in front of him in Monkey Mountain. See you in twenty-four years, but Yu Runsheng's face did not show a single ripple.The sickle head is also calm. "A long, long time ago..." Yu Runsheng finally spoke.The sound has lost the sonority of the past, but it is still hard to listen to. "...I have come to realize that you possess a power that even I am jealous of." Sickle didn't respond. "It took me a lot of hard work to get others to worship me like a god. But you... When you were in Piaocheng, even if you sat and did nothing, you got it very easily..." "That's when I knew: You won't be under my control forever. I just kept trying to prolong that period. But you finally left..." While Yu Runsheng was talking, saliva oozed from the corner of his mouth.He wiped it with the sleeve of his expensive clothes and continued to talk. "In the first few years after you left, I was really worried. I didn't know what would happen to you when you came back. Afterwards, I didn't hear from you, so I relaxed and gradually forgot about you..." "At the same time, the 'Big Tree Hall' kept growing. It was so big that even the leaders of 'Feng Yilong' never imagined in their dreams, and it was so big that it was impossible to have any enemies. Including the masters of this country—they Destiny has also been closely linked with us. They need the 'Hall of the Tree' and they need me. With such an ally, the 'Hall of the Tree' cannot be destroyed—at least I thought so before. I was wrong." These were three words that Yu Runsheng had never said in the past. "That mistake was exactly the same as that of Meng Zhen and Zhang Shuai back then. I thought that some existing things would always exist for granted, and I forgot that everything can be shaken from the most fundamental place, starting from the most inconspicuous place..." "However, I was right about one thing: if there is one person in this world who can destroy the 'Big Tree Hall' and everything I own, that person is you." After Yu Runsheng finished speaking, he seemed a little tired, so he stopped and breathed hard for a while.He reached out and pressed the arrow wound on his chest. "Here...it hurts every winter..." Yu Runsheng looked at the scythe with a wry smile. "Maybe it's the ghost of Long Er Er who is at work..." Sickle still didn't show any expression or reaction. Yu Runsheng rested for a while, and then said: "Now, you are sitting in front of me, and in the end I won. I always just look at the results, and 'why' has never been my most concerned thing." "But this time, I really want to know: why? Why did you come?" When Yu Runsheng said, his eyes regained a little light. The two elderly men looked at each other for a long time. "I saw..." Lian Shou suddenly opened his mouth. "I saw... everything." Sickle's body moved, and the shackles on his hands and feet made a sound. "I saw... In Qitang Town, I saw that the guard of the 'Three Realms' built a new house, which was even more luxurious than the governor's mansion there before, and the houses next to it were still dilapidated..." "I saw...in the fields outside Zhangcheng, farmers hunched over like slaves to farm, in order to produce food for the 'Three Realms'..." "I saw... In Tongcheng, people inform each other out of personal grievances, and those who have no money to bribe the generals are hanged on the city gate as spies of the officers and soldiers..." "I saw... After the fields in Caodong Township lost their harvest due to severe drought, no one else from the territory of the 'Three Realms' came to rescue. Some children starved to death, and parents exchanged babies to cook..." "I saw...in Zhaocheng, the prefecture of Qinzhou, the hometown of Mao Renjie, the 'Flying General', his relatives were wearing the gold and silver jewelry he plundered from various places; The treasures of the treasuries of various places; the maids and servants of their families are all the wives and daughters of officials or military families who have been robbed from various places..." "I saw... there was a 'Taoist' in three-color clothes, talking about me among a large group of people, but I didn't even know what he said...he described miracles that I couldn't do ;talking dogmas contrary to what I hold;spreading hatred that I have never preached...at last he brought out a cloth bag, and the crowd threw copper coins into it in panic...then I asked him: 'What do you say Is everything true?' He looked at me not daring to lie, just smiled and whispered in my ear: 'Does it matter?'..." When Lian Shou spoke, there was no movement in his face or body.It was as if he was just telling a story that had nothing to do with him. "I saw . . . all of this. Then I decided to come back. I wanted to end this." Yu Runsheng smiled and asked, "Are you hoping...to reconcile?" Sickle shook his head. "It doesn't matter... It doesn't matter who wins, it doesn't matter... nothing will change..." Yu Runsheng's pupils suddenly lit up, and the extraordinary luster of power reappeared. ——If the power of the "Three Realms" is combined to overthrow everything... "Dashutang" may climb to a higher peak that has never been imagined before... - the power of a nation... But after a while, the brilliance in Yu Runsheng's eyes faded again. "I'm sorry..." Yu Runsheng looked down at the sickle head and said, "The world only needs one person with such power as us." He turned his head and waved to the screen on the right. "I've finished asking, take him away." The screen moved back, revealing a large number of guards behind it. One of the men came out, it was Wei Yishi, the "Iron Blood Guard Township Taoist" who was old but still had a sharp face. Wei Yishi showed a gloomy smile, looked at the sickle head and said, "Unexpectedly, when I was so old that I was about to resign, I would still have such an honor."