Chapter 390: Remains of the Zhou General (2)
She continued to move forward with Li Xiu. The further they went, the thinner the fog became. They could already see the corpses under their feet and the outlines of objects within a ten-meter range. They could also clearly see the shapes of the arrows in their hands. Each arrow was engraved with a lotus flower - the symbol of the Xuanyue royal family.
Li Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. It was not a pleasant feeling to not be able to see anything clearly and not dare to speak.
Buzz buzz buzz...
A continuous buzzing sound was heard, and Tao Zi immediately used his spiritual weapon and looked around vigilantly.
There are mosquitoes and flies in this place? Li Xiu's first reaction was that it was small flying insects like mosquitoes and flies, but he felt it was unlikely until a large group of ordinary-looking mosquitoes flew past them.
They looked just like ordinary mosquitoes, except that there were more of them in swarms.
Tao Zi pulled the rope, he turned his head to look at her, and she pointed to the ground.
Li Xiu looked down and saw that the plump corpse was gone, leaving behind a pile of white skeletons.
His blood froze for a moment, and the moment he reacted, his whole body was covered in cold sweat. He pressed his forehead hard and barely woke up.
Tao Zi transmitted a message: "From the time they flew over to the time they left, it took less than ten seconds."
He pointed to his ears. She thought for a few seconds, and after figuring out his question, she replied, "It's probably the buzzing sound that's covering up the sound of them gnawing on flesh."
Li Xiu nodded, his expression becoming more serious. He suddenly reached into his pocket and took out the teleportation talisman.
As expected, the teleportation talisman had dimmed.
Sudden attacks, unknown creatures and unusable teleportation talismans, this thick fog will definitely screen out many monks.
The further we go, the thinner the white mist becomes.
Tao Zi looked at the ground beneath her feet, where no corpse could be seen, and asked in a voice transmission, "Is there still a smell of blood?"
Li Xiu shook his head, but after thinking about it, he lowered his head to smell the scent of the soil, and then nodded.
She also jumped off the spiritual weapon, a shovel appeared in her hand, and began to dig the ground.
Li Xiu looked at the shovel in shock. Tao Zi even brought this thing?
After digging about half a meter deep, a skeleton appeared. Tao Zi touched it and the skeleton shattered instantly. She dug the soil underneath with her hand and vaguely saw the skeleton again.
After a moment of silence, she raised her eyebrows, took out a shovel and handed it to Li Xiu, saying, "Go dig somewhere else. When you find a body, you can stop and dig in another place."
Li Xiu took it silently and started digging with them.
Medical practitioners are not able to carry things on their shoulders or lift things with their hands. Even if they can carry and lift things, there will always be someone to help. Tao Zi treats medical practitioners as laborers.
Tao Zidu dug out seventeen or eighteen bodies, but he could only barely dig out six, and even broke one with a shovel.
Looking at her disgusted eyes, Li Xiu:...I'm so angry, I really want to speak.
She transmitted a message: "Alright, it's almost done, let's bury it again."
She turned around and reburied the body. Halfway through, she felt something was wrong behind her. She looked back and saw Li Xiu looking at her expressionlessly.
Tao Zi raised her eyebrows: "What's wrong? Are you tired? Okay, go to the aircraft and rest. I'll bury it myself."
She shook her head slightly, and Li Xiu instantly knew what she was thinking. She was probably disgusted with him for being too weak and lacking in strength.
He was a medical cultivator! A medical cultivator! He wasn't a physical cultivator like her who could be used like an animal!
She buried the body again, put away the shovel, returned to the aircraft, and said in a voice transmission: "This should be the outskirts of Xucheng."
Li Xiu was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and wrote on her palm: Corpse pit?
Tao Zi nodded. "That bloody smell must be from the blood that seeped into the soil during that great battle. These ruins are quite detailed, even this has been simulated."
After walking a little further, a big tree appeared in front of us. Behind the tree extended four clearly defined roads, which looked strange and harmonious.
Li Xiu wrote on her palm: Four doors.
The layout of Xucheng flashed through her mind. Xucheng was built along the river, with four gates in the east, west, south, and north. According to records, the mother and son entered Xucheng through the west gate.
So, which door is the west gate?
Li Xiu looked at her and asked which door she should go through. She whispered, "West Gate. That door is definitely of special significance to General Zhou."
He wrote the word "death" to remind her that if she walked through that door, she would most likely be killed. After all, Xucheng was destroyed because of the opening of that door.
Tao Zi explained, "Fortune and honor are sought in danger. My intuition tells me that door is very important, and General Zhou is most likely guarding it. Now that we're already here, we can't choose a place that's safe but might not yield any rewards."
Li Xiu thought about it and nodded in agreement.
The two stared at the four roads, and Xu Cheng's layout flashed through her mind. She placed the four doors on a horizontal line, and then pointed to the second road on the left without hesitation. Coincidentally, Li Xiu also pointed to that road at the same time.
The two reached a consensus and embarked on that path.
The road was covered with yellow earth, and occasionally a few corpses and pools of blood could be seen. Slowly, grass, flowers and big trees appeared.
The two looked at each other and became more cautious, even holding their breath to inhale as little of the fragrance of the flowers as possible.
The grass, flowers and trees disappeared one by one, and blood appeared in front of them again. The difference was that this time it was no longer scattered corpses, but the ground was covered with broken bodies and burnt bones.
The blood that hit his nose made even Li Xiu, a medical practitioner, want to vomit.
Tao Zi didn't care about these things, but looked up at the city gate not far away. There was a man standing on it, a man in armor.
She walked slowly with Li Xiu until she could see the man clearly - a handsome and heroic young man.
Tao Zi was in a daze for a moment. It turned out that the general who committed suicide was only in his twenties. He became a general at such a young age. No wonder the person beside the imperial princess said that his marching and arranging battle formations were first-class. If he was not first-class, it would be impossible for him to reach such a position at such an age.
Suddenly, a man appeared beside the young man and shouted, "You two, mother and son, please leave immediately. We have a rule that we cannot open the city gates."
Mother and son?
Li Xiu looked at herself in disbelief, then at Tao Zi.
He just wanted to try to speak, but found that his body was out of control, and when he opened his mouth, a series of cries came out.
Tao Zi turned her head silently to look at him, her hand uncontrollably raised high to touch his hair, and she said, "Dear Yier, don't cry, we've arrived in Xucheng."
"Mother, I'm hungry!"
"Good girl, don't cry, it hurts your heart."
The two looked at each other expressionlessly, talking about the conversation they had back then, with complicated expressions in their eyes.
The next moment, Tao Zi took a step forward and knelt down at the city gate. "General, please, I can stay out of the city, but Yi'er can't. He's only five years old! Five years old! He's so small, only up to my waist. Please, General, save my child's life."
As she spoke, she knocked her head hard one by one. Only Tao Zi was so durable that not even a drop of blood came out.
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