The official ship docked.
Three or four anchor chains as thick as a man's arm were thrown from the deck and hooked on the wooden piles.
There was a trumpeter on the shore shouting loudly, "One, two, three, hi yo yo, hi yo yo."
There was the sound of whips lashing in the air, and the sound of people arguing and cursing.
One after another in the quiet Yongcheng City, like the howling of wolves in the wilderness, piercing into the ears, harsh and uncomfortable.
The river breeze smelled fishy.
Baitao and Zheng Guo had two circles of chains wrapped around their hands, and they were driven out together with the crying, numb and vain children like cattle and sheep.
"Hurry up, why are you dawdling?!"
"What are you looking at? There are other things in the village with ugly bones. I asked you to look at them."
Seeing that the tallest boy was still looking around, the officer went over and gave him a whip.
Blood overflowed from the corner of the boy's mouth, and the corners of his eyes lowered coldly, "I don't dare anymore, sir."
Bai Tao smelled the blood smell from his body, which was a little sweet.
She licked her mouth, and the boy looked sideways at him with blood in his mouth. When Baitao met his gaze, she realized that he looked quite delicate.
The boy glanced over.
Baitao also withdrew his eyes, and Zheng Guo came up beside him and asked, "What should I do if I go in?"
"what to do?"
"I'm asking you."
"I'm asking you too."
Zheng Guo groaned: "But I don't know. Your cultivation level is higher than mine now. I will listen to you in everything."
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Baitao looked at him sideways and said, "You have lived for thousands of years. Can you stop being such a girl and act like a man?"
Zheng Guo now looked like a carrot head with red lips and white teeth. Hearing this, he put his face, which was as white as a pancake, on her shoulder and said, "Yes, I understand."
Baitao: "."
When she said nothing.
Baitao moved her two tied hands twice, feeling that these iron chains did not have any charm to restrain the monsters and could not restrain her at all, so she followed the officials obediently with downcast eyes.
It gets darker and darker as you walk inside, like a vast dark swamp with no end in sight, and even some desolate and dilapidated weeds grow under your feet.
Bai Taoer listens and sees in all directions, and the wind from Yongcheng comes and goes without a trace, sending the scent to the tip of the little fox's nose.
Baitao sniffed and whispered: "The evil spirit here is a little lighter, but the smell of snakes is still very strong. I don't know if it's the red-haired snake demon's heavy body odor or another unenlightened snake. In short, You have to be careful."
Zheng Guo also smelled it. He sniffed it and then covered his nose: "The smell is too strong and fishy like this. This monster doesn't even take a bath. He shouldn't bring this bad habit into the world. What should his colleagues do?" Work with him.”
The generals were also exhausted, but they continued to move forward without changing their expressions.
The other children were still crying and getting more and more frightened.
Only the tall boy in the lead had eyes shining brightly in the darkness, as if he was paying attention to some nook and cranny underground.
Baitao paid attention to him.
The officials took out their tokens and opened the nine-layered palace gates one after another.
Logically speaking, it is just an abandoned ancient royal city. On weekdays, it is only managed by the deacons of Yongcheng. Moreover, there is no king living here, so it cannot use the specifications of the nine-layer gate.
When walking into the last palace door, Baitao caught a glimpse of the tall boy hiding in the gap between the walls of the palace door and quickly breaking free from his shackles and then his anklets.
"Ding Dong—"
At this moment, the deacon in front who accepted the last token raised his voice and said: "This is different, who are you?!"
Everyone's attention was attracted. The boy took out a hook lock from the stone carving next to him, and threw it with a "swish" and hit the eaves of Yongcheng.
The boy's legs flew into the air and he used the recoil of the wall to leap up like a god. After stepping onto the eaves, all his clothes jumped away. His bones and muscles grew taller, and in the blink of an eye he became the figure of a strong young man.
He turned his head and glanced at the dumbfounded Baitao, opened his arms, and jumped down lightly.
Baitao has never seen a mortal capable of such means, and he can become bigger as long as he wants.
Zheng Guo came over and bumped her arm lightly: "Why is he running naked?"
Baitao: "."
Baitao: "No."
What should be blocked should be blocked. Mortals are different from goblins. They have a strong sense of shame.
But that's not the point.
She asked, "What kind of unique skill is he doing? Why did he suddenly become bigger?"
The general who was questioned earlier about the different tokens picked up the token and was arguing with the deacon, "Why is his grandma's token different?"
"I don't know what I have done for Marquis Chang Xin. I can know whether this token is true or false even if I dig out my eyes. The things of a dog will blind you with a pair of donkey eyes. If you look carefully, you will be wrong. I want you to look good!"
The deacon fumbled for a while, looked at it again, and seemed to have checked it well: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding, please come in."
"snort!"
The last palace door opened with a bang.
While walking, Zheng Guo said to Baitao: "This is a bone-shrinking technique practiced by ordinary people."
"Bone shrinking skill?"
"Well, we fairies have demon power, and they mortals have internal power. If they have internal power, they can use their internal power to squeeze their bones, narrow the gaps between the bones, and arrange the bones closer together to achieve the purpose of transforming into a child."
"...Hiss." Baitao couldn't help but gasp, "This kind of technique, let alone practicing it, is scary just listening to it."
"Mortals are no better than us fairies. They don't have special abilities. They can only work harder to temper themselves."
Baitao said: "Well, I looked carefully just now and there is a scar on this man's shoulder."
"I can tell that it was cut by Qin Jian's blade, but I don't know what his purpose is in coming to Yongcheng now." Zheng Guo murmured, "It must be a friendly force mixed in the official ship."
Baitao glanced at him appreciatively: "Okay, before I asked you, you didn't understand everything, but now you are still talking clearly. It seems that you have not only used your thousands of years of demon life to gnaw on tree bark. "
Zheng Guo Baozi's face turned red: "That's the unknown. I'm afraid of the unknown. I'm only sure of the known."
"it's the same."
Who can guarantee that you will yearn for the unknown?
But knowing the terrible unknown in advance is not a deeper fear.
Baitao knew that she was about to die, so she sighed like a grown-up in her heart: "Oh, I'm tired."
Zheng Guo: "?"
He almost said let's go back to sleep, we've arrived at our destination.
This is a palace filled with splendor and splendor. The lights inside weave a long and beautiful dream.
The generals were even more cautious, keeping the front half of their feet close to the ground and not stepping down at all with their back heels.
They walked into the palace with a sigh of relief. There were two cribs inside. There were two swaddles in the cribs, which kept making weird hissing sounds. As for whether there were babies inside, they couldn't spy.
Next to the crib is a woman sitting like a flower, it is Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji looked at the two swaddles in the cradle with gentle, watery eyes. She raised her fingers and pointed, "Oh oh oh, Da Bu, Xiao Bu, Mom knows you are hungry, don't cry. Oh, yours." My father told my mother before he left that the food will arrive in the evening, look, it’s fresh.”
When Baitao heard Zhao Ji calling her child's name, she was stunned for a moment.
Xiao Bu, Da Bu?
Zhao Ji's eyes and eyebrows glowed softly, and she patted the baby twice.
She raised her head and glanced at the eleven children who were sent over. None of them were afraid. Perhaps it was Zhao Ji's tender motherly love that aroused the children's longing for their mother. "Oh, oh, oh, mother, I I want to go home, woo woo woo, mother. mother.”
"Mom, I'm hungry."
"I'm obedient, I'm obedient, mother, I won't run around again next time, wuwuwu, mother, I was wrong."
Several children cried so much that they hiccupped. Baitao knew that Aunt Zhao remembered her appearance as a child, so she kept her head hanging down and hid behind Zheng Guo to avoid causing trouble.
In order to prevent himself from becoming conspicuous, Zheng Guo also pretended to wipe away a few tears that were not in vain, "What should I do? Why is the child so crying? I almost can't catch up."
Baitao poked his back, looking around at the strange things and movements, and said, "You don't even know how to cry. Do you need me to pinch you?"
"Hiccup." Zheng Guo burped, "Uuuuuuuuuuah, let's forget it."
The summer breeze blew, and the children could only be heard crying.
But the strange thing is that there are no sounds of insects, ants or Zen in this palace, and even the clear moonlight looks gray.
Zhao Ji's eyes flickered among these children, and she frowned and said, "They are all getting sallower and thinner no matter what. I want you to be more careful and get some in good health, so as not to put any infectious disease in my son's mouth. Now Not only is the delivery getting slower and slower, but everyone is sick, you are desecrating the duty, what crime should you be guilty of?"
The general smiled and said: "Don't look at me as a sick person, but if I can survive on a ship with little food and clothing, for more than half a month, my body and bones will not be weak. This is the reason for your desperation to serve as the Queen Mother."
"Although it's a little slow, there are at least twelve children. The humble subordinates have counted them, and there are two more toes."
Zhao Ji glanced critically and was reluctantly satisfied, "In this case, when my husband comes back, I will also count you as a credit."
"Yes Yes Yes!"
General Tong Ling's big eyes fell on the hiding Baitao, and he was about to come and pick it out, "I knew it was a plague, and I haven't come out to see the Queen Mother. This is the first-class Tianhuang nobleman of the Qin Kingdom. You have three generations of ancestors." A big shot that you can’t see even if you smoke!”
Oops.
Bai Taoque was being pulled by her collar, and she was still thinking of a decent reason to come up with later.
Unexpectedly, the two swaddling clothes on the cradle began to stir as if smelling meat. They kept hissing and twisted their bodies vigorously.
"Crack-"
Among them, a swaddled baby fell down, and all eyes were drawn to it. His pupils were wide open and he was shocked.
"ah."
Is that still a baby? What kind of baby looks like this!
It could no longer be called a baby, let alone a human being. The monster's pupils were protruding, it had no eyelids, its nostrils were exposed, and its mouth was like a film.
Especially the monster's skin was covered with crystal red and densely packed scales. As the monster let out its forked temper and made a hissing sound, the scales all opened upright.
Human form, snake skin.
What a shocking and weird thing that makes people's scalp numb.
The first ones to scream were a group of children. The general, who had seen such a scene for the first time, also held his sword that was about to be unsheathed and looked at the beautiful Zhao Ji and some accustomed attendants in surprise.
They took a step back with their legs, then a half-step.
"My son——"
Zhao Ji focused her whole body on the monster she gave birth to. She hurriedly picked her up and pressed her cheek against the monster's face, not afraid of the pain of being cut by the scales. She didn't even care when the monster greedily licked and sucked her blood.
"Do you blame me for being the high-ranking official of Marquis Wenxin, abandoning you all alive in this desolate Yongcheng, and allowing these generals of the Qin State to bully our mother and son like this? You are anxious to stand up for your mother."
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Your father will be back soon. He will never abandon us. He will never abandon us."
Zhao Ji babbled, motherly love almost overflowing from her eyes.
Baitao's scalp went numb when she saw such a monster under her, but with sharp fox ears, she heard that the words she was talking about were Marquis Wenxin, Lu Buwei, and not Marquis Changxin, Lao Ai.
Although the two have the same title, they are also important figures in the Qin Kingdom.
But no matter what, looking at the person's body shape and the spirit inside, the two should not be confused together.
What is the reason for this?
Why did that red-haired snake demon give birth to such a ghost thing with Aunt Zhao?
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
Zhao Ji was still coaxing the little monster, and her eyes were as smooth as a snake's.
Wandering around these children.
She was the first to see the fat and fair Zheng Guo. She stretched out her fingertips painted with phoenix flowers and said softly, "Come here, my child is hungry. Cut open his heart, put it in a bowl, and feed it to me." My child."
Zheng Guo: "!"
