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The third day of Frost City investigation.

The endless gray-white sky passed a few gray-black vultures, and the flat roofs stretched into scales. The whole Ningshuang City looked like a big-bellied fish. The senior sister stood at the spine of the fish, which was close to the edge of the ancient city wall, and the city wall had already collapsed. Yes, the corner is the cold stench from the garbage dump. Several children are playing there while looking for usable things in the garbage. The senior sister saw the girl named Tiantian with a flushed face and two long streams of snot from the freezing , stumbling behind the boys.

The boys still didn't play with her, and there were no potholes here, so she felt relieved to throw her behind her ass. When she fell, she got up and chased after her, never being discouraged because she was excluded.

The senior sister visited two-thirds of Ningshuang City during the investigation on the second day, and came to this remote place on the third day. From here, the colorful flags on the hillside could not be seen, so the only thing in the field of vision was gray and pale. .

Ah Hao walked in front, jumping step by step, as if stepping on an invisible grid on the ground, Xi Yi walked behind, thoughtful, and when the senior sister looked back, she smiled slyly, as if performing for the senior sister.

"You two beauties, you are now visiting the most culturally valuable place in Ningshuang City! Look at this house, at least 500 years old. Our ancestors dug out large stones from the mountain and built a magnificent building here. The Stone City! Ningshuang City, as an important stronghold of the ancient military, played an important role in many ancient wars! Look here! Although there is no record in history, but let me tell you, before the Yaozu Dynasty was established, the Yaozu Dynasty At that time, the Ningshuang City was the gate of the cold environment, and the Yaozu closed the city for a hundred days. We ate bark, gnawed tree roots, and boiled the soil into wild vegetable soup. We survived for a hundred days , Later Shangyang City was completely occupied and the city lord opened the door to surrender, look here, this is the brick that the city lord stepped on!"

Ah Hao said it vividly as if he saw it with his own eyes. He almost jumped up when stepping on a black brick that looked no different from other bricks.

Xi Yi snorted: "If there is such a historical tradition, the descendants of the descendants are really worthy of the ancestors."

She poked at the soft spot, and the senior sister glanced back, Xi Yi smiled, waiting for Ah Hao's response.

"Yes, since the ancestors' glorious deeds cannot be inherited by future generations, why must the ancestors' disgusting deeds be inherited by future generations? What's the reason for this?" Ahao's glasses blinked, and Xi Yi's knife was lightly opened, Ah Hao wasn't annoyed at all, and smiled openly, "Hey, the stone Mr. Xi Yi stepped on was stepped on by a famous general in ancient times!"

"Why don't you say that the latrine over there was squatted by a famous city lord in ancient times?" Xi Yi thought it was funny, and stomped hard.

"Which is the latrine, that's Tiantian's house, let's go."

The senior sister followed Ahao's guidance and looked at a small house with a leaky roof beside the garbage dump. There were air leaks on three of the four walls, and the cracks in the stone were so wide that you could stretch your arms in.Ah Hao didn't say that this was a house for people to live in, but the senior sister thought it was a pile of children playing around, her eyes were cautious.Xi Yi laughed hard: "Oh, it's amazing that the child didn't freeze to death, you, the city lord, don't make up for the house?"

"It's the spokesperson." Ah Hao corrected, he could see that Xi Yi likes to argue, talking to her more is better than recharging her energy, it's cold.

There was a person lying in that shabby house, a black and thin man, all the warm clothes of the whole family were wrapped around him, but he still looked thin.There was no furniture in the room, only two creaking wooden beds covered with half animal skins, and an iron pot that was made out of nothing was stuffed under the bed.

"This is Sweet Dad. We call him Hei Dayanzi. He used to be a blacksmith, but he is old. According to his age, he is after the beggar, so he doesn't fight anymore, and he can't be sold if he is beaten. Everything is sold. Instead of drinking, I just sit here waiting to die every day after drinking... Hey, big black eyes, get up, I didn’t see you the day before yesterday when I made rice and noodles.”

Ah Hao introduced, and brought the two senior sisters into the house, and saw the appearance of Hei Dayanzi clearly.

He was exceptionally dark, with three wrinkles on his forehead that looked like they were carved out by a knife. He didn't know whether it was a congenital or acquired pimple on his brow. I'll leave Tiantian to you."

"Damn it, die, now that the big shots in Shangyang City are here to make decisions for Ningshuang City, you still have decades to live."

"I'm from Fengyin City." The senior sister corrected her background, Ah Hao groaned, but didn't correct him, and walked in front of the senior sister with big black eyes.

The senior sister encountered many such situations when she visited every household in Ningshuang City. Although people are complicated, the senior sister read the same kind of sadness on the faces of the people in Ningshuang City, that is, knowing the date of their death. Age is a thick booklet, and every time the demon cultivator 27 comes to hunt, one is crossed out, and death comes as scheduled.

Some people can take it easy and think that they are going to die anyway, so it is better to live happily. Some people think that they are guilty and accept the pity of fate calmly. , Suffering like a walking dead.

There were also a few young people who were unwilling to accept such a fate, and picked up farm tools to rally against the demon cultivators. Thoughts, already severely scolded by parents.

This big black eye is living like a walking dead. For this kind of people, the senior sister doesn't expect that she can arouse their hope of survival. How can she do what Ah Hao hasn't done for so many years? She is not good at all. words.

But the sound of shortness of breath from sweet running outside and the voice of calling the boys to wait for her rang crisply in the ears of the senior sister, and the senior sister still opened her mouth: "What wish do you have?"

It seems that my senior sister is used to being enshrined as a god stick in the temple, opening her mouth to fulfill someone's wish.

"I don't want to die...I don't want to die..."

Afterwards, the senior sister found out that Hei Dayanzi's wife had been eaten the week before the beggar, and death was approaching.

Senior sister really wants to tell the truth, you will die sooner or later, even if you are a cultivator, most people will perish within 200 years at most, unless you cherish spiritual energy and rarely use it, your cultivation base is high, and you have a great chance like Master Cangyun , to live longer.

Moreover, even the master, didn't he die at the age of a hundred or so? Death accompanies life. Higher monsters live a little longer, but the oldest monster so far is the one in Shura Hell who is said to have broken through to become a god but not Knowing whether the demon king is dead or alive, all that remains is this demon fox who has slept for 1000 years behind him.

But the senior sister didn't say in the end that she wasn't Xi Yi, she was about to choke to death when she opened her mouth.

"I will protect you."

"I don't want to die...I don't want to die..."

The senior sister left.

One thing my senior sister realized during a two-day door-to-door survey is that the people don’t really know what they want...they want to get married, they want to eat, they want friends, they want to live, they want their children to leave the condensate Frost City... all kinds of requests...

But few people say like the beggar, please kill the demon cultivator27.

Such a direct request is something senior sisters can do. Besides, their imagination of senior sisters is too poor, so that senior sisters don't know their most fundamental needs in their requests.

is alive.The senior sister got the answer from the incoherent black big eyes. No one said to the senior sister, please let us stop worrying about being killed all the time, we want to live well.

But everyone's one-sided understanding seems to be every aspect of the answer, combined——

The senior sister plans to go to Demon Cultivator 27 again.

Xi Yi said: "It's getting late, it's a bit of a mess for you to go now, if you have good intentions, a lonely man and a widow, although you are serious and boring, you are a beauty after all..."

The senior sister filtered Xi Yi's compliments, realized that she was indeed too impatient and had to follow procedures in everything, so she nodded in response.

Because Xi Yi's reminder was rarely useful, the senior sister re-examined the monster clan. Xi Yi's cultivation base is strong, and he never practiced kung fu every day. When the senior sister meditated and rested, she secretly guessed what the monster clan's cultivation was like, so she couldn't rest well. , opened his eyes, Xi Yi really came over and lay down on her back, rubbed against her with his body, and then closed his eyes.

The senior sister thought for a while, throwing away Xiyi, she would definitely climb up again without any shame, if she didn't throw away her, she would not be able to practice, so she simply got up and went out, picked a dead grass branch in the not spacious yard and practiced her sword Come.

Grasses and trees are also swords, and with a flick of the blade, a cloud of ash fell, Xiyi unfolded her shield to make herself clean and refreshed, the senior sister saw the demon energy rolling around her, sighed, left the grass branches, turned them into ashes, and sprinkled them down.

It was late at night.

My senior sister had only a handful of experiences of raising pets when she was a child. At most, she just watched the birds in the sky when she was free from practicing swords, or listened to the laughing and chirping of me and Cong Ming from a long, long distance.She doesn't understand the meaning of "cute" more than others, just like when many people make strange noises for cute cats, the senior sister can only think of the furry and majestic monsters she hunted and killed, and she can be scratched out with one paw The kind of heart, liver and lungs.But my senior sister is a very gentle person after all. She gradually realized the benefits of being furry on the demon fox, and she felt a strange satisfaction when she touched it, like sleeping in a warm bed in winter, but she never stayed in bed, so I don’t know how to describe.

Now that Xiyi is in front of her, she really wants Xiyi to change back into a fox, which will be more pleasing to the eye.But it didn't happen after all, the senior sister lowered her eyes to look at Xi Yi, Xi Yi flashed her tail and dangled behind her, but it wasn't a dog wagging its tail to flatter her, but just doing it naturally, the senior sister smiled and said, "Let's rest."

"Xiao Shoujie." Xi Yi suddenly pulled her hand, the senior sister broke free lightly, and responded politely.

"I have a question."

Xi Yi braced her face, stopped looking at her senior sister, stretched her legs forward, and touched her toes casually.

The senior sister said, "It's getting late."

"You're a high official now...you should know, the ox-nosed Taoist priests in the cultivation world...how are you going to deal with me?"

"Well, I know." The senior sister didn't lie.A sudden impulse rose in her heart, she wanted to see Xiyi's reaction, she was going to take Xiyi to the circle next, she should have flattered Xiyi so that she could drag Xiyi, who she couldn't beat, into the circle The world of comprehension was caught in the net of the ruins of the setting sun, but she didn't. Xi Yi followed her all the time, and she didn't know why.

"What are you going to do with me?" Xi Yi suddenly turned around and smiled brightly, "I am innocent."

"Follow orders."

"Don't lie, Xiao Shoujie, I can see it."

When my senior sister lied, her expression became extraordinarily stern, as if a snow mountain that could not be melted was piled up on her face, she tightened her expression so as not to reveal her secrets, anyway, she usually had such a bland face.

At this time, the senior sister's expression was as cold as ice.

"Let's talk about it when this is over."

"Four more days."

"What are your plans?" The senior sister turned against the army. The senior sister didn't intend to sacrifice herself to tempt Xiyi, but what is Xiyi's plan?If Xi Yi started to slip away after finishing the Frost City business, she would have nothing to do, wouldn't she?But at that time, the problem became serious, because asking the two senior Nascent Souls meant that they were serious, and they had to be caught, and they couldn't let themselves be led and run by Xi Yi like flying a kite.

"Touch my tail," Xi Yi became serious, she grabbed her senior sister's hand to touch her own tail, "it doesn't know the answer, I know I will follow you, sooner or later... well, it's hard to say, but People like you and want to be with you."

The senior sister let go, thinking that Xi Yi knew everything, and her hesitation was a bit ridiculous.Whether she can take Xiyi to the ruins of the setting sun... It's not up to her, it all depends on Xiyi's mood.

"You like me as much as I like you."

Xi Yi opened his eyes wide: "You?"

The senior sister stroked Xiyi's fluffy red tail: "It's such a superficial thing."