I'm on duty in Yinshi

Chapter 398 Miniature
The sun is blinding.

The ground is slightly dry and cracked, and the surrounding fields are overgrown with weeds and no one is working.

The wind blows away the sand, revealing the buried town monument, and the words [Meihua Town] are already mottled.

Li Kui looked at the dilapidated town ahead and sighed slightly:
"This world is really messed up."

It is now 1930, and the first time he came here was five years ago. In just five years, the town, which was considered prosperous at the time, has been desolate to this point, and the population has withered.

Natural disasters and wars have come to this small town one after another.

'I don't know what happened to Ah Hao and Uncle Jiu? '

Li Kui turned his head to look at the opposite hill, Yizhuang was there, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

……

It is getting closer and closer to Yizhuang.

'Sure enough, it's gone. '

Li Kui stood still in front of the door, looking at the cobweb-studded plaque and the two rotten white lanterns. With a thought, the door opened automatically, and what came into view was a bluestone road leading directly to the main hall.

A few memories came to mind.

Memories of eating with Uncle Jiu and others, and practicing with Ah Hao.

Li Kui walked in, and the furniture was still there, but there was a thick layer of dust. It seemed that he had been away for a while.

But this is not an ordinary Yizhuang, but a stronghold established by Maoshan, which may leave clues.

Thinking in this way, Li Kui's eyes rippled slightly, and he looked at Uncle Jiu's room in the backyard. There was a shrine enshrined there, and inside was the Lord of Earth, with a shallow aura fluctuating.

Exorcism!

"Oh, who is it!"

An old voice rang in his ears.

But when he saw a white-haired old man being sent to Li Kui through the wall, he rubbed his head with a pained look on his face.

"Lord of the Land, Li Kui, the Ghost Envoy of the Department of Yin Law, asks you a few questions."

As soon as the old man raised his eyes, the faint blue token hit his eyes, and his eyes raised. It was a young man with a stern and heroic face, observing the token with half-belief and some vigilance.

Soon.

"The little god has seen a ghost envoy the lord, and I don't know if the lord has anything to ask the little old man." The old man cupped his hands.

"Li Kui's actions just now were a bit reckless, please don't be offended by the Lord of the Land." Li Kui first apologized sincerely, and then asked, "I don't know where Uncle Ninth Ahao and the others have gone? How long have you been away?"

"My lord knows Lin Jiu?"

"Correct!"

The old man whispered softly:
"It's like this. Lin Jiu and the two apprentices left half a year ago, and they should have gone to Phoenix City, Jizhou."

"Jizhou Phoenix City."

Li Kui's eyes flickered, and he quickly found the location of Phoenix City from Black Scorpion's memory, which was at least thousands of miles away from Meihua Town.So he asked curiously, "How did they go so far away?"

Hearing this, the Land Lord shook his head:

"This little old man is not clear. At that time, Meihua Town was ruled by a warlord surnamed Long, and there was a ghost king standing behind him. Under the attack of elite soldiers and strong guns, Uncle Jiu had no choice but to leave here first. Yizhuang entrusted the little old man Take care of one or two."

"Is that so?"

Li Kui nodded thoughtfully, his inner thoughts spreading.

'Come here, just kill demons and demons all the way, kill two birds with one stone! '

With this in mind, he asked again: "Master of the Earth, where is the ghost king behind the warlord with the surname Long?"

"at……"

The land lord's eyes lit up, and he quickly said the address.

After a while.

At the gate of Yizhuang, Li Kui grinned with a bloodthirsty murderous intent, soaring into the sky, and disappeared in an instant.

……

……

Setting sun, deserted road.

However, the seven or eight-year-old boy walked on the official road step by step, holding a rusty dagger in his hand, with a numb expression, on both sides were dead trees covered with teeth marks, and three or two starving people lay underneath.

Flies, maggots, and the stench of corpses.

"water……"

He repeated the cycle in his mouth, hunger made phantoms appear in front of his eyes, he raised his head and tried to identify the direction, and plunged into the woods on the other side.

I don't know how long I walked, and finally a small river appeared in front of me.

In the blood-yellow turbulent river, the boy's tired body suddenly burst into strength, his pace became faster, and he was about to pounce on him to drink water immediately.

at this time.

"This river water, you will die if you drink it!"

He felt as if someone was grabbing the back of his neck, and when he looked back, the huge blood-stained tiger's head hit his eyes, his pupils shrank, and he passed out directly.

"..."

Li Kui held the tiger head in his left hand, looked at the boy, and sighed slightly.

Look at a dozen or so giants floating on the river, with a few sparrows standing on their white, swollen bellies, as if they would burst open under their beaks in the next second.

"This damn world." Li Kui said in a complicated tone.

It has been more than ten days since he left Meihua Town, and now he came to the border of Tiannan Prefecture. There was a severe drought and locust plague, and the fields that had been plowed for a year were eaten up by locusts that covered the sky and the sun.

Coupled with the fact that the warlords collected taxes hard; the officials at the bottom embezzled and seized the relief money;

The grass roots are almost dug up, and the bark is almost stripped.

Along the way, I do not know how many people starved to death.

When he was in Daming, Li Kui once heard Tang Saier say that droughts occurred in various parts of Dongshan.She said: The common people feed on the grass roots, sell their wives and children, and move the old and the young;

He himself had seen those victims, disheveled, starving, pale and emaciated.

When these miniatures were completely enlarged, when Li Kui walked into Tiannan Prefecture, and when he saw the appalling situation along the way, he finally had a very deep understanding of this troubled world.

The more grievances he saw, the stronger the flame in Li Kui's heart.

The tiger head in his hand is the demon king of the nearby land.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!
Use the sword in your hand to make the world clear!
……

It's getting dark.

Snapped.

The bonfire was burning fiercely, and the thick meat porridge in the iron pot was fragrant.

Li Kui ground the elixir for restoring vitality into powder, mixed it with some water, fed it to the boy, and covered him with a blanket.

Immediately, she sat on the boulder and looked at the boy.

Thin, with a sallow complexion, dry hair, starved to nothing but skin and bones, ribs are clearly visible, a dagger is tightly clenched in his hand, and he does not let go no matter what, talking meaningless dreams in his mouth.

Xiao Hei lay at Li Kui's feet and took a short rest.

"mother……"

"mother……"

Various images floated in front of Zhou An's eyes. Familiar faces of father, mother, and younger sister appeared in front of him, but they seemed to be very far away from him. He ran, ran, and chased.

Until under a dead tree, my mother hugged him with her arms and said, "Xiao An, don't let others pick up your mother's body."

The eyelids trembled and opened suddenly, revealing cloudy eyeballs.

"woke up."

unfamiliar voice.

Zhou An stood up abruptly, clutching the dagger, and stared at it viciously, like a desperate wolf cub.

The fire reflected in the pupils, and he could see the person clearly.

With a sword on his waist, with a soft face and a faint smile on his mouth, he looked at him gently.

This is a very strange but familiar look.

bona fide.

"water."

"hungry."

(Who are you?)
The prolonged hunger made Zhou An's voice degenerate into a cry of seeking food.

Li Kui lowered his eyelids slightly, got up and picked up the iron pot on the campfire to fill the boy with a bowl of meat porridge, and put it in his hand: "Hot, you are too weak, eat slowly, bit by bit."

Zhou An still looked at Li Kui warily.

Li Kui looked directly at him.

a long time.

Zhou An carefully picked up the bowl, the smell of meat rushing into the nostrils, the cells all over his body seemed to be revived in an instant, desperately sending out the signal of longing, and his head even began to feel slightly dizzy.

He can't wait.

Open your mouth wide to swallow.

however,
"I said eat slowly, little by little."

An invisible force imprisoned Zhou An's body. He looked up at Li Kui, and finally there was a different kind of look in his vigilant and cloudy eyes, which was both startled and hated.

But this time, Zhou An was obedient.

(End of this chapter)