It wasn't until the afternoon that the fog gradually dissipated.
There were several black shadows in the fog, which kept making circuitous attempts to approach the three of them, but finally disappeared.
After the fog cleared, the ruined temple on the top of the mountain was revealed again.
Li Wan pointed with his hand excitedly, "Rourou, look, sure enough, the temple is still there."
Sun Rourou lived up to her name and smiled gently: "Yes, Your Highness, it will be good when the fog clears."
But I couldn't help but start to worry again. His Highness insisted on blowing out the eternal lamp of the "Mountain Saint". I don't know if he will be punished, and I don't know if the emperor will be furious if he knows this.
"Your Highness, let's go down the mountain quickly, find a restaurant and canteen, and have a warm and hearty meal first." Wang Chi leaned down at this time to carry Li Wan down the mountain.
Li Wan remained motionless, his eyes resting on a place at the bottom of the mountain for a long time. It was a huge city with black smoke, just on the other side of their way up the mountain.
Sun Rourou hesitated and replied: "Your Highness, that is not a good place. It is very dangerous. It is better for us to return the way we came. When we came, there was a restaurant on the roadside. The business was very good, and the food must be delicious. Woolen cloth."
Wang Chi imitated Sun Rourou's tone and continued: "That's right, our family is starving to death. No matter what, we have to fill our stomachs first. Your Highness must not go to places where birds don't lay eggs. Our family has been there Yes, I’m afraid even half the city won’t be able to find a single ounce of meat, it’s really not a good place.”
The two of them tacitly understood the horror of that place, and both knew that Li Wan must not be allowed to go there.
It is the messiest, most chaotic and most dangerous place in the world.
It's a place that even a tough guy like Wang Chi doesn't want to go a second time.
But the more Li Wan heard what the two said, the more he looked at the place, and the more he saw the flowers.
Li Wan said that the place looked like a lion sleeping on the ground and winked at him.
Li Wan also said that there was a golden house hidden inside, and the roof of the house was also a golden lion's head. The place was not much different from his own palace, and there must be a good dining hall.
Li Wan also said that the place was a treasure cave with many rare treasures.
Wang Chi had no choice but to move out of the emperor, pretending to be pitiful, and said that if we didn't go back, the emperor would punish me severely. If he cuts off my hand, I will no longer be able to use the sword or carry it. He ran around with His Highness.
Sun Rourou had no choice but to coax and say, today is an odd day, but that place is only open on weekends, so we have to come back tomorrow.
But wherever Li Wan wanted to go, he had to go. He didn't listen to what they said anymore, and already took long strides and ran down the mountain.
Li Wan felt that this was the place he had to go today. Someone and something would meet him there at some point, and something would happen and something would change.
Although he is not aware of it yet, Li Wan, as a perfect person, is born with this innate ability to predict the unknown, an ability that is hard to find even among true immortals.
Wang Chi and Sun Rourou were also used to chasing after Li Wan. The three of them hurriedly and slowly arrived at the place.
From a distance, this place looks like a burnt forest. In the dense forest, it is dark and sloppy, and the shadows are longing, making it difficult to see clearly.
As he looked closer, Li Wan discovered that this was a huge village, or a walled city. The dark, gray, and dense buildings, like mountains, forests, and palaces, were actually all built one by one. There are countless small houses of different shapes built against the mountain. From the foot of the mountain to halfway up the mountain, one building after another, one layer after another, they are slowly stacked up over time.
These tents, low houses, hanging buildings, basements, archways, overpasses, shops, and various signboards are placed in an irregular manner. They are built and combined at will, getting higher and higher at will, but they are naturally arranged because of the Among them, people's walking is divided into several narrow roads with distinct levels, so this disorder has become the most advanced natural order. Li Wan stood here and looked up, and was greatly shocked. This was different from the palace. The forced orderliness creates a completely different feeling.
Li Wan felt that he liked this feeling very much.
A feeling of depressing dampness yet full of freedom.
"Lion, son, city, village." Li Wan struggled to read out the four huge characters on the gate of the city wall with the few words he knew.
"What! This is just a big garbage dump!" Sun Rourou looked at the other gate and wall in front of her, which were made up of various abandoned gates. She smelled the disgusting smell of rot and feces, and waited. As a group of wet and oily rats passed by him in a row, he couldn't help but cover his nose and mouth, and began to scream wildly.
Wang Chi, the most valiant of the Forbidden Army, in front of the three-person-high gate, held the handle of the knife tightly with both hands, trembling all over.
If I had to say it, he wasn't actually scared, he was just disgusted, so disgusting that he was scared. About twenty years ago, when he was patrolling the capital, he went to this village to arrest a gangster, and it took him seven days to find him. When I opened the door to the villain's lair, I saw mountains of corpses and blood, and minced meat everywhere. But there was actually a family of seven normal people living upstairs above this man, and the neighbors next door acted like they were fine. Still walking around there, as if all this was normal, as if they were no longer human beings...
All in all, this is really not a good memory.
The front door has not changed at all, but the four characters "Lion City Village" have been repainted by someone. The blood-red color is covered with grease and dust, but it looks even more scary.
"Your Highness, let's go back. There can't be any golden lion tower here." Wang Chi swallowed and tried to persuade Li Wan one last time.
"Yes." Li Wan didn't look back, his tone was very firm. He stood at the door and looked at the village carefully from outside to inside, bottom to top, and finally pulled over the man who kept looking troubled from time to time. Sun Rourou, who was retching, asked her, "How many people do you think live in my father's palace?"
"Ah, that's a lot of people, I estimate there are more than 10,000 people." Sun Rourou thought for a while and replied.
"What about here?" Li Wan asked again.
"This...I don't know this." Sun Rourou smiled when she saw Li Wan's face.
"You estimate."
"I estimate...I estimate there must be hundreds of thousands of people here." Sun Rourou took a serious look at the walled city and made an estimate.
Wang Chi came forward at this time and said, "I saw the information from the Ministry of Household Affairs twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, there were millions of people living in this Lion City."
Li Wan's expression was a little confused. Mathematics was his biggest headache: "How much is one million? Is it a lot?"
"One million means one hundred and ten thousand. It's not many, many, many, many, many, many." Sun Rourou still explained gently.
"So, tell me, which one is more fun, one million people or ten thousand people? Of course, the more people there are, the more fun it is!" Li Qi clapped his hands happily like a child and turned forward. With a somersault, he fell into the lion city.
Some people died, but not completely...
