Dragonborn Spring and Autumn

Chapter 18

Under the surface of the Dragon City, along the winding tunnel like a centipede, countless well-dressed men kept gathering towards a huge cave.

This place was originally a naturally formed karst cave, located just under the Fengle Tower in the Dragon City.This karst cave with a height of nearly 20 meters is close to the size of a football field. The cave is illuminated by countless torches and candles like daylight.The men who gathered like ants in the countless tunnels were inevitably blinded by the strong light when they first entered the cave. After a little adaptation, they could see the huge high platform built of logs in the cave, and the stars lined up all around. A big man in black with black armor.

After everyone stood still, their voices soon fell silent, and everyone looked at the high platform quietly.

On the high platform, there were ragged Hanako going up and down all the time. All Hanako left directly after whispering a few words to a handsome man dressed as a Confucian scholar on the high platform. Occasionally, the Confucian scholar would explain to some of them. Two sentences, but often a few steps away, a few extremely short sentences, after the explanation is clear, the person who comes in quickly retreats.

"Hanqing, what do the spies say?" In the middle of the high platform was a huge throne.Well, it is not an exaggeration to call it a throne.The copper base is nearly four meters square, and the nine steps are all inlaid with gemstones of various colors. The top is a gold-plated and silver-stitched strip. Under the light, a dazzling dragon flies above the metal gemstones. The bald old man in patchwork clothes sat casually on the throne made of giant dragons.

He looked at the Confucian scholar who was walking quickly, but the Confucian scholar didn't answer, and went straight to the throne and walked to the bald old man and whispered a few words in the old man's ear.

"Well done, Hanqing." The old man jokingly pinched the Confucian scholar's handsome face, and then turned to caressing, "I thought it was just us and Zeya who wrestled with each other, but I didn't expect the Liu family to join in, haha , actually released the news of the beast in the city, you continue to let the spies out to see what they want to do. Whoever wants to show their teeth today, let them see what a shadow king is and what kind of person I am Long Taibao !"

"Can I bring someone to do it?" That handsome Confucian scholar is Su Yi Su Hanqing, the acquaintance of Fenglelou. Instead of rejecting the frivolity of the old man, he stretched out his hand and pressed the old palm on his face He said, with a double meaning, "Nunu is a good spearman!"

"Okay," the bald old man Long Taibao patted his cheek lightly, and laughed loudly, "Then I will give you another 200 elite members of the gang, and these 200 people should not go into battle until the critical moment. It is for self-defense. The other thing is to use the flea crossbow well. The twenty crossbowmen are elite crossbow riders who I have trained for many years. When he goes into battle, hundreds of people are not enough for him to kill!"

After finishing speaking, Long Taibao waved his hands, and Su Hanqing shook his old hands. Turning around his tender and tender appearance just now, he turned around and got off the throne without muddling, and jumped from the high platform to the bottom of the cave with ease. ground.

As he stretched out his hand, four neat teams of 50 people followed him along a narrow tunnel.
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At this time, not far from Jiangjiazhuang in the south of the city, the seven or eight hundred soldiers of Meteor Dragon City were divided into eight areas according to their respective teams. In the middle, a tyrannical monster with a length of about seven or eight meters was lying sideways on a huge wooden cart, bound tightly by more than a dozen steel chains.It appeared to be asleep, breathing very slowly.

Beside Tyranny, a man in a purple robe with a hood was tightly wrapped around his body, and a biting cold air constantly shrouded Typhore's whole body from his raised hands.

Not far from the tyrannical surroundings, twenty simple wooden cages were neatly arranged. In each cage, there was a Chinese teenager standing in it. All of them had their heads and hands fixed on the top of the cage by shackles. No matter how they struggled and kicked, the people around them did not respond in the slightest.

Lehe turned his head with difficulty to look at the large group of soldiers who were resting behind him, and then at the giant beast sleeping in the frost in front of him, and suddenly remembered the days in the ruined temple, and those who had food every day The very happy brothers and sisters remembered the raccoon slave named Guodi that he had owned not long ago.

I don't know how the bottom of the pot is now. Since he left the ruined temple that day, he can't feel its existence. The feeling of being able to perceive the existence of another life at any time is really strange.Lehe is not afraid of death. On the contrary, he has been making a living on the streets of Meteor Dragon City since he can remember, and he is a little worried about the little friends in those ruined temples.

He also understands that a little beggar like him can't help himself, so why think so much.

"Hey, don't cry," Lehe shouted to a young man on his left who was also locked in a cage, "Good luck, maybe you can become a tyrannical intermediary, and you don't have to die."

The boy cried even harder.

"Hey, can you hear me?" Lehe turned to the right again, looking at another silent boy in the cage and shouted, "Does it mean that if you become Jieren, you won't know your old friends?"

"If you become a Jieren, you are no longer a human being, and you won't have any memories of the past," the young man estimated that his family was relatively well-to-do. Although his brocade robe was a little messy, it could still be seen that the texture was expensive. He turned his head Looking at Lehe, he said bitterly, "Don't talk about friends, parents and relatives can't recognize each other. Whoever asks him to do what he is next to Jieren will do whatever he wants. If Jieren is restrained in advance, and others tell him to do something, then Jieren will not be able to do anything." People will order the beast to do something. Rather than becoming a beast’s mouthpiece like this, I’d rather die today.”

"You may not know it, it's fun to control a beast. I have a raccoon called the pot bottom. I can control it to spin around, catch mice, or sweep my brother's nose with its tail," maybe thinking that it won't be long He couldn't talk anymore, Lehe suddenly became very interested in chatting, he said to the young man in brocade robe, "If you become an intermediary, you must let Tyranny not mess up my body too much, my brother will replace me It will be difficult to take care of when the body is collected."

"If I become an intermediary, I won't embarrass your body too much, and your family will help you to collect it." After thinking about it, Le He added.

"Then I really have to thank you," the young man in brocade robe didn't seem to have heard Lehe's words about controlling the Jie beast, and muttered in a low voice, "You think you are the beast knight of the Little Dragon King hundreds of years ago, and become Jie Ren It's not as good as an animal..."

"Look, there are many people on the watchtower in Jiangjiazhuang!" Le He suddenly raised his chin and pointed to the watchtower next to the gate of Jiangjiazhuang not far away.

I don’t know when there were more than ten people standing densely on the top, pointing at them, and a man dressed as a servant walked past the group of people with a big box in his arms. Every time he passed by a person, that person So he threw a small kit bag with writing in it into the box, and bursts of laughter burst out from time to time.

"Ma De, they are betting on which of us will become the intermediary!" The young man in brocade robe looked in the direction Lehe pointed, and immediately kicked hard on the cage, but the sudden severe pain made his voice They all changed their tune, "This doesn't treat us as human beings too much, what's the difference between us and the porpoises in the animal pen in the market!"

"It's probably because guinea pigs can't be intermediaries, but we can. The rest is the same." Lehe thought for a while and said.

"You... don't you think this is humiliating? Don't you want to kill them?" The young man in brocade robe was almost blown away by Lehe's serious look, his eyes almost burst into flames, "They don't treat us at all. Be human!"

"You just know, I already knew," Lehe sighed, and stopped looking at the archery tower.

He looked in the direction of Dragon City, and suddenly thought of Li Yuanlei and Little Cotton, and he didn't know what they were doing. He always felt that they would come to save him, although this idea was really too unrealistic A group of little beggars wanted to rescue one of their companions from the city lord's army. Old Xu, the storyteller of Fenglelou, would not dare to tell such a bizarre story, "I think my brother will come to rescue me, I have Brother, he is different from others, he is capable!"

"Heh, your capable brother is not called..." The young man in brocade robe was about to taunt and laugh, but he found that there was smoke and dust billowing on the horizon, and dozens of beast carts were rushing towards them like a race. He swallowed the non-existent saliva, turned his head and took a deep look at Lehe and said, "Your brother may really be capable."

(End of this chapter)