Yan Rong found the right opportunity to disintegrate the soldier's chain stick. After taking a few steps back, he stopped his offensive.
"Hey! Why don't you fight?" Yan Rong shouted with unfinished content.
"The rule is that if you can win one and a half moves, you will pass. If you can find a chance to counterattack in my attack, or even destroy the chain configuration, you have won."
When the soldier said this, Yan Rong was a little disappointed: "Does this count as a win? Hey, you obviously didn't use all your strength, right?"
"Young man, do you still want to steal lessons from my subordinates?"
Another voice came from above. Yan Rong looked up and found someone standing on the chain between the boulders. His whole body was shrouded in shadows, and only a pair of eyes were golden, as if they could glow by themselves.
"Legion Commander." The soldier immediately gave a military salute.
"You called me here to verify the identity of the residents of the inner city? Come forward."
The legion commander jumped off the chain and landed next to the wall. The light illuminated her face, and Lu Ning could see some differences between her and the photo.
The black military uniform has not changed much, but her face no longer has the slightly happy and relaxed expression in the photo. The most obvious change is that her facial hair has almost all turned into snow-white color, not due to age. It is caused by aging, but the simplest reason is fading. Perhaps sensing Lu Ning's gaze, the legion commander turned to look at her: "What's wrong?"
"No...it's nothing."
The legion commander didn't care, and took out an instrument similar to a walkie-talkie from his waist. When Lu Ning and the other five people came to the front, they scanned their faces one by one, but they didn't even ask.
"Excuse me...can I confirm my identity in this way?" Rang was a little confused.
"To put it bluntly, the identities of the residents of the inner city are all granted now. You only need to check them in the library. It doesn't matter how you obtained the identities." The legion commander explained casually, "Specifically, you only need to enter the inner city. It’s clear, of course I can barely remember what it’s like there, and I can’t tell much more.”
"Have you been here for a long time?" Zhu Qinyuan asked.
"I can't remember the time. My legion and I haven't had any shifts for a long time. Maybe some of them are gone now." The legion commander put the instrument back on his waist, "There's no problem with your identity, you can get in the car. "
"When will the car arrive?"
"Now."
Lu Ning heard a sound like the chirping of birds from afar, and then a green mist suddenly rose in the platform surrounded by walls. As the mist dissipated, a huge train had stopped. On the platform. This train is completely black and has a cold and hard metallic feel. A huge "D" is cast on the front of the train, and there are countless ghost carvings on the carriage. About ten seconds later, the car door slowly opened. A cold white light shone from the inside of the car, and air-conditioning spewed out at the same time. Even Lu Ning, who was a black man, couldn't help but shudder.
"The Netherworld Train will arrive at the station in the inner city of the royal capital. It will not stop on the way. When you board the train, you will see many people. They are passengers who boarded the train at a different time than you. There is no need to worry." The legion commander said.
"Thank you." Lu Ning nodded to her.
"Get in the car. I hope you will gain something in the inner city of the royal capital."
After saying this, the legion commander turned and left. This was originally supposed to be a legendary strong man, someone who had survived from that time like the Dark Sage, but Lu Ning couldn't find any chance to ask her about what happened back then.
"Let's go." Two teams, Lu Ning and Liu Yunqing, totaling twelve people, stepped into the Netherworld Train one after another.
After slowly getting used to the cold feeling, the train only had a somewhat cold atmosphere. Everyone could see that some passengers were sitting on some seats, but they were all sleeping with their eyes closed. It could be judged from the slight rise and fall of their chests that they were still alive. The equipment on these people was obviously combat-type, or it could be said that they had a mission to get on this train.
"Um?"
When passing by a seat, Lu Ning saw a person sitting upright. It was Luo Bei, one of the three tourists who escaped from the Glory Sacrifice incident. It was just that Chai Ying and Ise were with him now. They were all gone, and he was the only one sitting on his seat, closing his eyes and not listening to anything else.
"Let's sit here." Jean found an empty seat, and everyone sat down on the seats one after another. Even Bi Sheng woke up at this time, but he was a little weak. Even if he was missing an arm, nothing would happen. No.
When Lu Ning sat on the seat, she felt a cold rush from her spine to the top of her head. It was more piercing than the temperature inside the train, and even her thinking began to become sluggish.
"I seem to understand why these guys are going to bed..." Yan Rong whispered beside her, "I... also... want to..."
Lu Ning couldn't hold back her sleepiness and slowly closed her eyes.
…
The dead and the living, a distant and confusing world.
"What if I told you...that I could solve your problem?"
A voice with a hint of playfulness said this.
"Your medical skills are superb, but medical skills are the ultimate cure for immortality. No one can escape from the cycle of life and death." This time it was the king's voice.
"Medical skills are just a derivative of my research. Treating diseases and saving people is indeed very meaningful, but it is not as good as the ultimate mystery of life, life and death."
"you--"
"When His Majesty the King recruited me, did he not know what research I was really doing? Hahaha." The voice laughed happily, but the King was obviously helpless.
"Are you studying life and death? It is difficult to reach a final conclusion on this subject."
"But I did find the entrance to the Netherworld."
"What did you say?"
"In charge of the place of reincarnation, the netherworld, the place where ghosts go, the place where countless legends say you should arrive after the end of life. If you wish, as long as you end your own reincarnation, then you will always keep this Youth and vitality have eternal time to slowly repair this country."
"Isabelle...this is taboo."
"What taboo? Are there not many taboos that need to be broken since the development of civilization? Take my colleagues as an example, who has something in their hands that is not something that people in the past were afraid of? King, if you want to change, you must change it fundamentally Everything! Otherwise, what is the development of technology for?”
…
"They didn't die."
"People are still alive and suffering."
"Life cannot change life. If this kingdom continues like this... it will be destroyed."
"We need new nationals."
"I still need you."
Lu Ning struggled to open her eyes. She felt a little stiff all over, but other than that, she didn't feel any discomfort. Rolling her eyes slightly, she turned her gaze to the opposite side. Rang and Yuan Jie had also woken up and were slowly moving their frozen bodies. Only then did Lu Ning notice that there was a golden light shining in from the outside of the car window. Like sunshine.
It took about a minute for Lu Ning to regain the mobility of her limbs. She raised her arm and wiped her face. After slowly feeling that she could move, she began to move her body.
Then Yan Rong slapped her on the shoulder, and the fiery red net covered her body. The coldness was quickly dissipated, and the warmth from the heart and blood vessels was poured into her limbs. In the blink of an eye, Lu Ning was free. Active.
"Does your treasure still have this use?"
"Stimulate the activity of the body, very basic usage." Yan Rong continued to walk over to help others relax and activate blood circulation, while Lu Ning stood up and took a look at the carriage. Most of the passengers were moving their bodies, recovering from the cold and stiff bodies, and the car door had been opened. She came to the door, looked outside, and was stunned.
The golden warm natural light is like the warm sunshine of golden autumn, and the soothing temperature falls on the body. Compared with the stressful outer city and the chilling wasteland, it is like another world. However, what you see on the buildings and streets, which are illuminated by the sunlight and cast a golden color, are the ruins and ruins that make you feel empty.
It was difficult for Lu Ning to even describe her inner feelings. There is no accumulation of moss or dust in the houses, walls, and bricks that line the streets, as if they had just become what they are today. There are only mottled cracks carved by time on the stones that seem to be soaked in stories. Some wooden sheds on the ancient streets have only collapsed half, without any decay. One can even imagine that not long ago, the stall owners were still shouting at themselves here. Products of. There are various buildings in more distant places, some have cracks, or half collapsed, but the cause of all this has long been submerged.
Hollowness—that was all she could feel about the sight. The well-preserved city without decay can even allow people to picture the prosperity of the past in their minds. Specifically, who should be here and what they should be doing... But everything no longer exists.
"Is this the inner city?" A tired voice sounded beside her. She turned around and saw an old man in an old suit. His face was full of wrinkles, he was holding a cane in his hand, and his eyes were dim. Just as he was looking out of the car door through blurry lenses, two young men hurriedly came over to help him. Lu Ning looked at the weapons on the two men and knew that they were probably bodyguards who came here to protect the old man. figure.
There are no intermediate stations on the Netherworld train, and the inner city is the only target. But Lu Ning seemed to understand some of the old man's thoughts. She moved slightly out of the way, and the old man walked to the door tremblingly, stretched out his hand, and seemed to want to hold it. A handful of golden sunlight, but of course the fragments of light cannot be grasped by anyone.
"Why... why..."
More people have woken up, and most of them came to the inner city of the royal capital for the first time, and the appearance of the inner city really shocked them.
Compared with the outer city, people imagined that the inner city would be prosperous, with a comfortable life, with the seven nobles working together to maintain stability, and using the most advanced technology... No one thought that the inner city would be so desolate.
Lu Ning heard the noise behind her, turned around, and found that her companions had already walked over.
"It's unexpected, isn't it?" Yan Rong raised his lips, "But... no matter what it is, we have to face it. Let's go, Lu Ning."
"We will also be together. Although we have handed over several treasures, we still have some backup means." Liu Yunqing also said.
"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded and stepped out of the car door.
There was nothing unusual, she had already set foot on the land of the inner city of the royal capital. Despite the desolation here, the vastness of the entire inner city is almost as far as the eye can see. The urban planning is much neater than the haphazard construction of the outer city. Even if it is damaged, it still retains its grandeur. The light in the sky is not real sunlight, or even similar stars, but the sky itself is emitting light.
"It's so warm." Zhu Qinyuan raised his head and glanced at the sky, while Lu Ning glanced at Zhu Qinyuan.
Since merging the treasures on his body, Zhu Qinyuan seems to have remained in that fused state. His body is wrapped in blue light of time. In addition to the knife provided by the distribution center, there are three pointers in his hand. He is completely unlike Lu Ning. After merging with Yan Rong, he returned to his original state. It's not that Lu Ning can't display the fusion state of "Sudden Yesterday" now, it just requires a lot of energy to maintain, and the cost is similar to that of cutting the past, so it's easy not to use it.
However, Yan Rong can activate and deactivate the fusion state relatively freely, which seems to be a property that varies depending on the treasure.
As for Lian Bi Sheng... he didn't care much about losing his treasure. He didn't think about the power he couldn't control. He was quite open-minded about it.
"Where should we go?" Yan Rong suddenly asked a question.
"There should be many ruins in the inner city of the royal capital. The Dark Sage said so. Of course... we still have to find the three locations in the mission. By the way, we also need to meet the boss of Yoshimitsu Kataha. From there we can probably get More information." Lu Ning has already considered this, "Although it is a bit unexpected that there is no one in the inner city, our plan will not change. We have already obtained the position of the boss of Yoshimitsu Kataha before, how about starting from here? "
"No problem." Jean nodded, "Let me add, maybe we can find the old site of the Seven Nobles here."
"Yes, the king's canonization will definitely be carried out here. Including the predecessors of the seven nobles, the commanders of the four legions, and people who once played an important role in the kingdom all have their footprints here. It is so completely preserved. For most traces, it is not particularly difficult to find relevant clues," Lian Bisheng said.
"First of all..." Lu Ning took out a photo with a note on it, "Refining factory, Jade Green Street. This is the address of Boss Yoshimitsu Kataha. At least there are some living people here waiting for us to visit."
At this time, a voice came from behind the crowd: "I'm sorry...can you take me with you?"
Lu Ning turned around and saw Luo Bei wrapping his cloak tightly and looking at everyone with a gloomy expression.
"Your friend……"
"The rotary train."
Obviously, Chai Ying and Ise failed to make it to the terminal.
