The north is a cold and desolate place. People who have lived here for a long time will not only not adapt to the life here, but will also be very disgusted and hate the cold and want to escape from this place.
However, there are still many people living here in the vast north. It is not because they like it or want to, but because they cannot leave. It is very difficult for most people in Kyushu to change their living environment. On the one hand, the cost of moving is very high, and it is difficult to move anywhere. You need a house that can accommodate people and a business that can basically sustain your life. On the other hand, many places are very exclusive. It doesn't matter if you do business, but if you suddenly live around you, you won't look good at it. Some unscrupulous people will even directly Drive away outsiders.
Under such a premise, many people choose to endure. No matter how difficult life is, they will persevere as long as they can still eat. This gives many sects and forces the opportunity to exploit them crazily.
This has also caused a strange phenomenon. No matter how poor the place is, no matter how hard the poor have enough to eat, there will still be people who spend all their time eating and drinking, and there will also be people who spend money like water. The reason is very simple, one person can achieve great results and wither all bones!
The once powerful Qi Dynasty was like this, Bichun Pavilion and Qilin Sect were like this, and so were the major imperial sects.
There is nothing wrong with them doing this. After all, everyone around them is doing it. Even God has set the rule that the weak should eat the strong. Who can say who is wrong?
"Eat and drink!"
Although there is no ice and snow in Yuxu Mountain and the woods are lush, it is very cold, colder than other places around it. No one knows why it is so cold. Even if you live on the mountain in the hot summer, you have to burn charcoal and firewood to avoid freezing to death. Most people live at the foot of the mountain and don't dare to live on the mountain because it gets colder as you go up. When you reach the top of the mountain, it's not even useful to burn firewood.
Yuxu Mountain is very large, like a spread out pie. The mountains gather from all sides to the middle. There is a huge cave opening pointing to the sky at the top of the mountain. There are no other peaks. The mountain is gentle and few outsiders go to the top of the mountain. , firstly, the severe cold blocked it, and secondly, it was impossible to get up.
Ordinary residents can only cut firewood at the foot of the mountain or halfway up the mountain. There are no animals on the mountain, so there is no such thing as hunting, so the mountain looks very desolate and inaccessible.
But there are always exceptions. There is a road to the south of Yuxu Mountain. Every day, caravans transport goods to the top of the mountain. In addition to fresh ingredients, there are also many rare treasures. These people wear animal skin coats and carry large bags. The people at the foot of the mountain didn't know who these people were delivering boxes to, and they didn't dare to ask. This became a strange thing that everyone nearby was curious about.
Ji Hongluan was locked in a wooden box and staggered up the mountain.
At the end of the road is the edge of the cave entrance on the top of the mountain. There is a small checkpoint. The two people were eating venison and drinking wine. When they saw the caravan coming up, they asked loudly: "What did you bring?"
A fat man at the head of the caravan replied: "Usual food, and one person!"
"People? What people??"
"It is said to be a gift from that sect, but we don't know which sect it is or who it is from. There is a letter in the box with wax sealing on it. You can check it out!"
"Well, let's see who it is!"
The fat man pulled down a panel from the top of the wooden box, and Ji Hongluan's face was revealed. She quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be dizzy.
"so beautiful!"
Everyone was dumbfounded. There were still a few drops of the wine they had just drank dripping from the corners of their mouths, and they couldn't help but touch Ji Hongluan's face.
Another person hurriedly grabbed his hand and said: "You are crazy, this kind of stuff must be given to a few adults, don't give up!"
"Yes, yes, you go over there!" He was so frightened that he quickly shrank back, not daring to stand in front of him.
The caravan passed through the checkpoint and walked towards the cave entrance on the top of the mountain. The cave entrance was very large, and a platform was built around it. There were various houses on the platform, one after another, and the houses were pressed against the rock wall. , in front of the house is the corridor, which extends in a spiral shape to the deepest part of the cave.
After entering, the caravan began to unload the goods and stopped in front of some houses to hand things over to the people inside. The goods were not given to one house, so the caravan kept unloading and kept going in circles.
Until there was only one wooden box left, and Ji Hongluan was inside.
Arriving at a house on the third floor from the top, the caravan handed the wooden box to the people inside and returned the same way.
Feng Qiang opened the letter on the wooden box and read it, "Be careful, it's for Manager Zhao, don't cause any trouble!"
"yes!"
A few middle-aged men lifted the wooden box and continued walking down.
The cave is very big and deep. Looking down from the top of the mountain, it is so dark that you can't see the bottom. I don't know how many floors I walked until I finally reached the bottom of the cave. There was a flat place, and even the rock walls were covered with neat There is a luxurious palace directly underground made of bluestone bricks. It is surrounded by firelight, and the firelight keeps flickering. The palace appears and disappears for a while, looking both terrifying and luxurious.
"Brother Li, why are you doing this? We have known each other for more than thirty years, and I can't bear it to get to this point!"
In a room deep in the palace, a sixty-year-old man was hung on the wall. A chain made of platinum passed through his bones. A thin tube was inserted into his hole. The blood flowed along the thin tube to a hole on the ground. There was more than half of a large bowl in it. The old man was still alive. It could be seen that the blood was not flowing all the time, but it would not stop for long.
There were three sixty-year-old men sitting opposite him. They seemed a little reluctant to give up, but they still couldn't hide the endless desire on their faces.
Infinite desire caused a huge change in the appearance of these three people. Manager Li looked at the three friends who were once congenial. He didn't know what made them become like this.
Although the faces of the three people are different, they all have the same feature, that is, the entire face collapses towards the middle, giving people the feeling of being punched. As they grow older, this collapse becomes more and more obvious.
These four people are the four chief managers of Yu, Zhao, Qian Sun, and Li.
These four people were appointed by the Five Holy Lands as general managers to control the eyes of the sky and monitor the world. At the beginning, the four people worked together to investigate and truthfully reported all the troubles in the world. At that time, the world was calm and many sects, including the emperor-level sects, did not dare to After doing even a little too much, the three of Zhao, Qian, and Sun gradually changed. They were greedy for the enjoyment of the world, and the injustice in the world turned into injustice to themselves. Gradually, they got tired of this job, and then they betrayed .
That night, the three of them teamed up for a surprise attack, beating Mr. Li's energy and blood to the point of collapse. They penetrated his bones and opened a hole in his hiding place, allowing his blood to maintain the minimum level needed to sustain his own survival, and then other blood They are all collected into a container and used to activate the Eye of Heaven that must be controlled by four people working together.
As time goes by, Manager Li's physical strength becomes weaker and weaker. If he fails to control it well, an accident will occur. He will either recover a little strength, commit suicide or escape, or die completely. No matter which of these two accidents, This will lead to very serious consequences.
In the early years, through the efforts of the four people, the entire world was very stable. The Five Holy Lands were very satisfied with them, which led to the gradual relaxation of their monitoring. By the late Qi Dynasty, Yu had become a completely out of control of the Five Holy Lands. organization.
Not only did they accept bribes and create false news to confuse people in the world, they also fabricated lies to deceive the Five Holy Lands, making them think that the world was still in the era of peace and prosperity.
Of course, they are only cooperating with emperor-level sects. Those emperor-level sects want Yu to tell others whatever information they want, and Yu will do it, including concealing the bad things done by these sects.
If some small sects want to conceal the bad things they have done, they will give gifts to the emperor-level sects, thereby obtaining Yu's help, forming an interest group layer by layer.
The advantage of this is that it is not easy to be discovered, and if we are in the same boat, no one will betray the other.
The small sects didn't know why the emperor-level sects were able to conceal what they were doing. They thought they could challenge the five holy places. Later, more and more sects did not follow the rules, and fewer and fewer sects followed the rules.
The three chief executives Zhao, Qian, and Sun fabricated more and more lies, and the world became more and more chaotic. Some big sects began to kill, loot, and do whatever they wanted, and did countless unscrupulous transactions behind the scenes. On the contrary, the three chief executives Their lives are getting better and better. All kinds of treasures and beauties are sent to them by imperial sects in droves. However, their greed has not diminished at all, but has become stronger and stronger.
At the same time, they are also very worried about what will happen if things are exposed one day. What worries them the most is Manager Li. His lack of cooperation may cause the Sky Eye to be unable to activate and lose its effectiveness at any time. It is a trivial matter that they cannot continue to monitor the world. The failure of the Sky Eye in the Five Holy Lands It will definitely be discovered that when the time comes to trace them, all three of them will be finished.
Fortunately, the stability over the years has resulted in the Five Holy Lands rarely intervening in Yuyu's affairs, which gave them a lot of freedom and even secretly built a magnificent palace underground.
Very few people know that Jade was founded by the Five Holy Lands. No one in Jade knows anything except the four general managers. The deacons and shopkeepers below all think that the four general managers are their masters, and no one will care about the construction of the palace. .
The original intention of the Five Holy Lands was to reduce unnecessary people's knowledge to prevent the news from leaking, so as to better monitor the entire world. The three chief managers took advantage of this loophole to deceive the superiors and the subordinates, trapping the Five Holy Lands in a fabricated story.
They can't kill General Manager Li. The best result is that General Manager Li joins them. This will not only eliminate future troubles, but also free up some energy for enjoyment.
But Manager Li refused to join them even though he suffered tremendous pain every day.
"Bah, the world is in such chaos now! This is all caused by the three of you. You want me to join you and daydream!"
"I think you are looking for death!" Manager Qian put his hand on Manager Li's neck and threatened.
"Kill!" Manager Li said with his eyes widened.
Manager Qian slowly took his hand back. This man must not die. It is safe to keep him alive. But he is also a thorn in the hearts of the three of them, a thorn that he pricks hard from time to time.
How to pull out this thorn?
The three of them tried many methods, but they couldn't control the Eye of Heaven with the power of three people. At the same time, they searched for a long time in the world, but they couldn't find any treasure that could imitate a person's energy and blood.
They couldn't pull it out, and General Manager Li didn't agree to betray the Five Holy Lands. The situation was frozen. The three of them could only continue to use various treasures to tempt General Manager Li, hoping that he would change his mind.
Some people died, but not completely...
