In the vermilion forbidden city, Feng Jianxue was rushing through the buildings, avoiding the patrolling team from time to time, and then leaving marks one after another for the attention of Hexia behind.
He knew the approximate location of the divine sword, but the guards along the way were a problem.
Oops, the sound over there has stopped. Is the battle over so soon? Feng Jianxue felt the pressure slowly rising.
At this time, another group of guards patrolled by, followed by several suspended self-disciplined investigation units, scanning back and forth.
Seeing such a configuration, Feng Jianxue couldn't help but shrink her head and stood in the corner for the time being, not daring to move rashly. At the same time, she tried her best to reduce the heat source on the body surface and lower her body temperature to avoid being detected.
Fortunately, many things in Jilou City are relatively old. If there is a new scanning detector in the federation, it can be easily detected even through walls. And just when Feng Jianxue was in trouble and was temporarily stuck here, Hexia on the other side also encountered some problems.
"You are the second young lady, right, right, right..."
In front of her, a short old man looked excited and raised his hands high, as if he wanted to shout something joyfully.
She followed the mark left by Feng Jianxue before, but when passing by a remote pavilion, a black figure suddenly jumped out and blocked her.
"I don't know who the second young lady you are talking about is, but it could be my mother." Seeing that no one else was around, Heshia breathed a sigh of relief and thought about how to appease the person in front of her first.
"Mother? Could it be that the second young lady gave birth to a child outside? How could it be like this? Such a beautiful second young lady would actually give birth to a child for a man? No! This is simply, simply, simply unacceptable. Why? Why is this? Why is she still alive? Will it come?" He covered his head in pain.
"She must have been forced, right, someone must have deceived her. She has such a good personality and is easily deceived. If I had known, if I had known, I should have stopped her..."
"Although I'm a little embarrassed, this is not the place to talk. Is there any quiet place where there is no one?" Heshia said in a hurry.
"Oh, yes, yes, it is indeed not safe here. Come with me." After saying that, the old man took Hesia into the pavilion nearby, and then carefully closed the door.
It was very quiet in the pavilion. He seemed to be the only one living here. There was a painting hanging on the wall facing the main entrance. In the painting, there was a scene of a phoenix taking flight.
"This is better." He asked Heshia to sit in the hall, and then brought a pot of cool tea.
"I don't have anything hot here, only herbal tea for you to drink."
"Well, it's okay. I don't like things that are too hot." The girl shook her head, then looked around and found that there were no electrical appliances here. It was very quaint.
After sitting for a while, the old man looked at Heshia carefully, nodding from time to time, and then shaking his head again.
"Did you see anything?" the girl asked in a low voice.
"Are you the second lady's daughter?" asked the other person.
"Probably, but my mother never mentioned Jilou City. I only learned about it not long ago and came here."
"Then did she say her name?"
"Her surname at home is Gu and her first name is Yongtian."
"That's her. She said before that she doesn't like the word grace. It's too luxurious and distant."
"My name is Ge Lianfeng, and I am your mother's distant uncle. Most of the old people in this city are related to each other, so there is nothing to say." At this time, his mood gradually calmed down.
"Are you here to help your mother retrieve the sword?" he continued to ask.
"No, in fact, my mother has passed away, and she has never mentioned this to me before." Hesia shook her head in despair.
"What, she, she is actually dead?" The person opposite was in disbelief.
"How did you die?" the person on the other side asked through gritted teeth.
"He died of illness. My father found many doctors and tried many methods, but it still didn't work." Hesia sighed.
The old man opposite him fell silent, his teeth clenched.
"If Qianlou hadn't argued with your mother..." He said half a sentence, then stopped and shook his head.
"Well, no one can tell what's right or wrong about those things... It's okay not to mention them. What about you, how are you now?"
"I live alone now, but it's still fine." She was afraid that the old man opposite her would force her to stay.
"Haha, are you afraid that I will keep you here? That's not necessary. Your uncle and I have different views. I can be considered one of your mother's supporters back then and would not do such boring things."
"As long as you live a good life outside, it's a good thing if you don't come back." He sighed.
"Can you tell me what happened that year? What I have always learned are fragments, not complete."
"What happened that year? It will probably take several days to explain it all. I'll just give you a rough outline."
"That's the line of 'Sword Guards' represented by your mother, who decided to abandon Jilou City and let everyone live in other cities in Jade Skirt, so that they don't have to struggle in this barren and cold place.
"But your uncle didn't think so, or the older generation at that time held objections, thinking that this was simply a betrayal, a betrayal of the oath that had been made for thousands of years. Back then, the 'god generals' protected the direct descendants and traveled thousands of miles between the stars. , there were many casualties, and finally they slowly settled down in this emerald skirt, and now they say they are breaking up? Then who are they? "
"The people gathered here are all descendants of those who fled back then. Once they disperse, they will never be able to gather together again in the future. Here we can still make our own decisions, but if we go to other cities, we will be at the bottom with no power and at the mercy of others. Sooner or later it will be swallowed up and become silent.”
"For this, the 'Sword Guards' lineage also feels deeply guilty, but what is helpless is that the classics and secrets of the year are gradually lost. There is no point in persisting any longer. Even the 'Sword Guards' are not willing to Let future generations inherit this responsibility." He shook his head and said that he was also one of the 'Sword Guards' back then.
"Then what happened next? How did mother leave?" Hesia continued to ask.
"This is more complicated. At that time, the T2 level AI 'Phantom' in Jilou City was about to reach its meltdown time, so the older generation of people in power took out the treasures in Jilou City and traded them with some outside force, and traded a piece of T2 in the black market Super AI was sent, and in this transaction, some people from the older generation regretted and opposed it, and there was an internal conflict, and your mother was also involved."
"During this period, your mother was injured by Qianlou and was imprisoned. Later, the office officer who transported the AI mastermind saw that something was wrong and wanted to take the things away, but we stopped him. Then he hijacked your mother as a Hostage threat.”
"Because your mother is the next generation direct descendant of the 'Sword Guard' in Jilou City, and is also the most talented successor in a century. She is expected by many old people, so she was hesitant at the time whether to hand over the AI mastermind."
"But in the end, the matter failed due to various reasons, and the two sides continued to fight. Then we saw your mother was shot in the chest and lying in a pool of blood, and her body was burned by fire." He shook his head.
"It seems that your mother was not dead at that time. It was just a pretense. I wonder how the other side was willing to shoot such a beautiful person."
Although he didn't die, he probably had some hidden wounds in the conflict. Later, when he was pregnant, he didn't dare to give birth to two children at the same time, so he froze one child first. Heshia contacted the past and slowly understood what happened that year, sighing in her heart.
The estrangement between her and her sister stems from this dislocation. If they had grown up together, many tragedies could have been avoided.
Time passed slowly, Heshia sat in this quiet and almost dark hall for a long time, and suddenly Feng Jianxue's voice came from the earphones again.
"Where is it? I'm going to the ancestral hall where the divine sword is placed."
In the darkness, this faint voice stood out.
The expression of the old man opposite him changed, but he seemed to remember something again, smiled bitterly, and continued to sit down.
"Let's not mention the divine sword. It's actually nothing to grab. None of the forces that traded with us back then took a fancy to it."
"If you want to take it, go ahead and take it, but the best I can do is sit back and do nothing. It is impossible to assist you."
"Actually, I don't care about the Divine Sword or anything." Hesia shook her head and stood up, looking around.
"You guys really don't want to leave here?"
Her long gray hair gradually turned black, and a faint blue brilliance appeared in her eyes, just like the blooming tiland flower in the dark world.
The appearance is almost exactly the same as that of Gu Yongrong back then, and she is equally astonishingly talented and beautiful, even better than the blue one. The aura slowly coming out of this girl's body, the blue magic light sand floating beside her, and the gentle breeze in front of her. The slowly condensing Qingying Ancient Sword gave the old man in front of him an unprecedented shock and impact.
"I, I...did I really see the secret technique of Qingluan that has been lost for thousands of years in my lifetime?"
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