"Unbearable to Copy" by Wuxin Mage

That tower is quite weird, it doesn't look like a tower in the Han Dynasty, but it is in the style of the Western Regions in the desert.Even though it is in the grassland, the exterior of the city tower seems to have been sharpened by wind and sand, and the edges are severely worn.There is a stone carved plaque in the center of the city tower, and the words can no longer be read clearly.Wuxin opened her spirit vision and saw that the whole city exuded a faint evil spirit, so she knew that this place was very ominous.

A group of people tied their horses to the side of the tower and stepped into the tower together.I saw a complete ancient city in front of me, with vertical and horizontal streets, and the houses along the streets were well preserved, without any sign of collapse.Calculated from the Liao Dynasty, it has been 1000 years since the present, and these wooden and stone-structured houses have been preserved intact in the wind and sand of the grassland.

Except for Yue Qiluo, the other three all understood how strange the scene before them was.It was already late at night, and the royal city under the darkness was lifeless. This place should be the outer city, so the houses were low and simple.The roads extend in all directions, and you can't see the end at a glance.After walking a few steps, Yue Qiluo suddenly tiptoed and said, "That's my shrine!"

Wuxin followed Yue Qiluo's fingers, and there was indeed a golden spire standing in the distance, shining brightly under the moonlight, and she wondered: "It's strange, such a conspicuous palace has not been overlooked for more than 1000 years." Have all the gold gone?"

Bai Liuli frowned deeply, bent down and grabbed a handful of sand on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "That's not right."

"how?"

"Wuxin, do you remember that we walked on the grassland before we came?" Bai Liuli looked around, "The place where we met the tower was still a full day's walk from the Hunshandake Desert, even at the gate of the tower. , We are also stepping on the grassland. But the ground here is sand, this is obviously a city in the desert.”

After Wuxin heard this, a chill came up from her back, and she stammered: "Is it difficult, is it difficult?"

"There must be something wrong with this royal city." Bai Liuli stared at the houses next to her and said, "Look at these houses, if they were really located in the desert, they would have been buried by wind and sand within 30 years. But look, the houses here It’s old, but it looks like it was only built in the past ten years.”

"What should I do, let's go?" Wuxin raised her spirits resenting her life.

"No," Gu Zhi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "You guys have to go, I want to stay here and find a way to cure Qiluo."

Wuxin couldn't just watch Gu Zhi stay here alone, so she didn't mention leaving anymore.The four of them walked along the avenue, and the houses on both sides became more and more exquisite.Bai Liuli did not speak the whole time, while walking, she inspected the house carefully.After walking for about half an hour, most of the previous houses were empty, but later, the complete furniture in the house could be seen through the open door.Unintentionally walking away, he felt uneasy, and suddenly, Bai Liuli's figure in front of him flashed, and he got into the nearest room.

Wuxin was taken aback, followed him into the room, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

Bai Liuli entered the room, unceremoniously rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and finally found a hairpin from the drawer of the dressing table, held it in her hand and looked at it for a moment, her face sank, she pushed it away and ran out without heart.Wuxin didn't know what was going on with him, so she also chased him, and ran along the main road for a few hundred meters before suddenly stopping.When he took a closer look, the hairs all over his body stood on end.

I saw a large city in front of me, although there was still no trace of human habitation, but it was brightly lit.Wuxin looked at the frightening scene in front of him, and raised his chest in a moment of anger.Gu Zhi led Yue Qiluo to catch up, seeing this scene, he was too shocked to speak.

Wolf eyes?Will-o'-the-wisp?Wuxin can't figure it out, this ancient city has been hidden deep in the grassland for so many years, is there still people living there?

"I guessed right." Bai Liuli squeezed the hairpin tightly in her hand.

Wuxin was sweating anxiously: "Don't play tricks, what's going on?"

"Look at this hairpin."

Wuxin took it over and looked at it seriously for a moment, then admitted honestly: "I don't understand."

Gu Zhi took the hairpin from his hand, looked at it over and over several times, and said, "This hairpin looks like the style of the Khitan tribe in the Liao Dynasty. It's made of gold, but..."

"It is indeed an ornament of the Khitan people, and it is indeed something from the Liao Dynasty, but it is not an ancient relic." Bai Liuli's eyes reflected a little light, "Judging from its fineness, this hairpin has been in recent years. It was just beaten out. When we first entered the city, the houses on the edge of the city had been uninhabited for many years. Along the way, I found that the dust accumulated in these houses became less and less. When I arrived at the room I just entered, there was no deposit on the furniture. dust. Look at these lights, Wu Xin, this is not an ancient city, but a ghost town!"

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Wuxin's back, and he said blankly: "You mean...the city still maintains the same state as before?"

Bai Liuli nodded and said: "This city is surrounded by a huge magic circle. When we first entered the city, the power of the magic circle was not strong enough to fully restore the state of the year. You can see that the lights are brightly lit in front of you, which means that we have already penetrated into the magic circle. In the center of the formation, I can't get out."

"In other words, this city was indeed once located in the desert?" Gu Zhi walked up to Bai Liuli, "Then we were able to find it on the grassland because..."

"Because it's not a real city at all," Wuxin's voice trembled slightly, "it's... a ghost of a city!"

The three of them were shocked by this thought for a moment, and they were relatively silent.After a while of silence, it was Gu Zhi who spoke first: "Go on, maybe we can find a solution when we get to the shrine."

This is already the inner city, and the houses on both sides of the street are already quite majestic, twice as tall as the bungalows in the outer city.These houses are not in the style of Khitan, but have the meaning of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that Yelu Tinni, the head of Nieyang County, also admired the Han style.I just walked on these streets inadvertently, thinking that this place is a ghost town, I couldn't help but feel a chill, and my spine felt cold.Although he often dealt with lonely souls, he was never deeply trapped among a ghost.He is completely under the control of the ghost city at this time, and he is afraid that the blood in his body will not be able to do anything to this huge ghost.

The four of them walked for several more hours, their legs and feet were numb as they walked straight, and the golden summit in the distance was still out of reach.Wuxin sighed and said, "I'm afraid we're going in circles."

"It's hard to say, maybe it's the magic circle that won't let us go to the shrine." Bai Liuli also sighed, "Let's rest here tonight."

Wuxin was too tired to walk, so she naturally agreed with it.The four of them approached the nearest room and saw that everything was brand new here. They walked into the bedroom unintentionally and touched the quilt on the bed. There was still a little warmth, and they couldn't help but gasped: "Damn it!" gone."

"Okay, just go to sleep, you're lucky if you didn't bring out a fresh corpse." Bai Liuli walked in and fell on the bed, and said angrily.

"Damn, you're sharing a bed with me again?" Wu Xin shrank into a corner.

"This house only has two bedrooms, one for you and me, one for Gu Zhi and Yue Qiluo."

Unintentionally lying on the bed, his stomach rumbled, and he said, "Bai Liuli, I'm hungry."

"There's venison in the bag, take it yourself."

Wuxin turned over from the bed to look for venison, and kicked a bamboo basket with his foot. He picked it up and looked at it, wondering: "Bai Liuli, look at this." Then he threw the bamboo basket into his arms.

Bai Liuli picked it up and saw that it was a half-sewn tiger-toe shoe, with the needle still stuck on it, and said, "It seems that the last residents of this city left very suddenly, without any warning at all."

"I still left in the middle of the night, and the quilt was still hot." Wuxin pointed to the burning candle, "This candle was half lit, it seems that the hostess of this house made shoes by candlelight, I don't know what happened, husband and wife They both disappeared together."

"It seems that the past of this ghost town is far more complicated than we imagined." Bai Liuli fell into deep thought, "Wuxin, do you still remember what Yue Qiluo called herself after losing her memory?"

"I remember, she called herself Gu, and called this city the Royal City, and her palace was the Shrine." Wuxin sat by the candle and recalled, "But a princess who calls herself Gu, isn't it against her?"

"Maybe this is the real cause of Yelu Tinna's death," Bai Liuli straightened up, "Yelu Tinna...was executed by Yelu Longxu, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom at that time!"

Yue Qiluo straightened up from the bed suddenly, causing Gu Zhi to be taken aback, and asked softly: "Princess, what's wrong?"

"It's okay." She had a sudden palpitation just now, which made her wake up from a dream, and could no longer fall asleep.Gu Zhi was still sitting next to her, watching her fall asleep.She looked at this unfamiliar general, and suddenly became interested: "Zhe Du, let me sing for you."

Gu Zhi was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay."

Yue Qiluo sang with one voice, without any skills.Her voice is actually more mature than her appearance, like an elderly person, a little hoarse.She sang an old folk song: "Gaochang's soldiers and horses are like frost and snow, and Han's soldiers and horses are like the sun and the moon. The sun and the moon shine on the frost and snow, and they will disappear when they look back."

"Gaochang soldiers and horses are like frost and snow,

The soldiers and horses of the Han family are like the sun and the moon.

Sun and moon shining frost and snow,

Looking back on self-destruction. "

Yue Qiluo sang for a while before he came back to his senses.Yue Qiluo sang beautifully, and there was a touch of sadness in this song.It sounded familiar to him, as if he had heard it many years ago, but he couldn't remember it.It seemed that thousands of years of history were spread out in front of him like a scroll, but his vision was blurred, and he could only see the intertwined figures of people, but he couldn't see everyone's face clearly.

"This is a folk song of the Han people," Gu Zhi stared at her blankly, "How can you sing this?"

Yue Qiluo smiled: "I am originally from a Han family."

Gu Zhi looked at her, for a moment he didn't know whether the person in front of him was Yelv Tianni or Yue Qiluo, maybe it was because her past was too complicated for him to figure it out for a while.Then she walked over and covered her with the quilt, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Waking up, Wuxin stretched contentedly, but when he opened his eyes, he found that the room was still pitch black.He rushed to the window, only to see that the ghost town was still shrouded in darkness.He was dumbfounded, turned around and pushed Bai Liuli to get up: "Bai Liuli, don't sleep!"

Bai Liuli was pushed awake by him, opened her sleepy eyes, and was taken aback when she saw the darkness inside and outside the house.The two went outside to knock on the door of the other bedroom, and just after knocking, the door was pushed open from the inside.

Gu Zhi stood at the door and motioned them to silence, indicating that Yue Qiluo was still asleep, and then said with a serious expression, "I also noticed that the time here doesn't seem to flow. I just checked my watch, and now it's clearly It's nine o'clock in the morning, but it's still late at night here."

Wuxin thumped in his heart: "Could it be that we are just trapped at this point in time and can never get out?"

"Don't be crowed." Although Bai Liuli said this, she felt uneasy in her heart.At this moment, Gu Zhi's stomach rumbled. He didn't eat last night, and he was so hungry right now, so he smiled awkwardly and looked away.

"Ah," Wu Xin suddenly remembered, "The venison brought here has been eaten up, and there are no live animals here. What should I do?"

Bai Liuli smiled: "You're so hungry, why are you just joining in the fun? Before I entered this room, I saw a supper stall a few meters in front. Go and see now, maybe there will be something to eat."

The three of them went out, and there was indeed a small stall not far in front of them.It's just that the table was empty last night, but now there are a few more steaming meals.Bai Liuli frowned and said, "It seems that the spells here are getting stronger and stronger."

Wuxin looked at the supper on the table, thinking that these foods had been stored for more than 1000 years, and felt a little nauseous for a while.Gu Zhi was so hungry that he didn't care about these things, so he walked over to eat a little.Bai Liuli lit a stick of incense on the table next to him, and sat next to him to eat.

After eating and drinking, the two went back to the hut to wake up Yue Qiluo, and they went on the road together.When she walked to the supper stall, Bai Liuli suddenly stopped in her tracks, and called out to a few people: "Wait." Wuxin also stopped, looked at the small table where she was sitting just now, and was stunned.

The food on the table was still the same as before, but there was no trace of being tampered with, and it was still the same as it was just put out.Bai Liuli walked to another table and said, "Look, there are so many incense sticks scattered around this stick, but it's still as long as it was just lit."

"Damn it," Wu Xin was dumbfounded, "Could it be that in this ghost town, apart from the fact that time doesn't flow, even all the consumables in the ghost town are frozen in the same state as before?"

Gu Zhi had been listening by the side, and suddenly thought of something: "Doesn't that mean that this ghost city has the effect of immortality?"

Eternal life, Wuxin shuddered himself, eternal life was already painful enough, he lived for so many years, he didn't want to live anymore countless times, but he couldn't die no matter what.He said: "Forget it, I will live forever in this ghostly place, and I will never see the sun. I am afraid that I will not be able to walk until the sky falls and the earth is broken on the road. Let's think about how to get out."

"Wait a minute," Bai Liuli pulled out a candle, lit it with a match, and stood on the ground, "I'm afraid that if you really want to die with this way of walking, you won't be able to reach the shrine. Maybe it's the arrangement of the streets here that makes us I had hallucinations, thinking that I was walking in a straight line, but I was actually going in circles. If I light a candle every time I walk, maybe I can find a way out.”

The four of them walked forward, lighting candles along the way.There were almost dozens of candles lit, and when Bai Liuli touched his bosom, there were no candles left.The street in front of me still had no end in sight, and there was no candlelight in sight.Wu Xin wondered: "Is there no mystery?"

Going all the way to Gu Zhi's watch showing one o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Xin's sharp eyes saw a fire on the ground in front of him.He ran over and saw that it was the candle that Bai Liuli had lit. The wax flowed all over the floor, but the length did not decrease.He looked around for a week, and sure enough, he saw the supper stand and the hut where he stayed last night. He shuddered immediately and murmured: "Damn...Damn..."

Gu Zhi caught up, wondering: "This is wrong, I remember that when we walked from the outer city to the inner city, there were changes along the way, how could we be going around in circles?"

"That's because this ghost wall is only set up in the inner city," Bai Liuli said with a gloomy expression, "that is, when we saw the lights, we had already fallen into the ghost wall."

"Before that—"

"From here to here again, it took four hours." Bai Liuli sighed, "With such a long distance, if there were no candles, none of us would find ourselves going around in circles."

The three of them ran out of ideas, so they sat on the stall and looked at each other.Yue Qiluo was quite at ease, humming a tune and sitting on the table with her little feet dangling.Wuxin looked at the sky sadly, suddenly remembered the compass, and said, "Bai Liuli, take out that compass and have a look."

Bai Liuli pulled out the compass from her pocket, but the magnet of the compass had failed, and the iron needle was dangling limply.The thread is broken again.

It was Gu Zhi who suddenly thought: "Do you still remember how we met the ghost town?"

Bai Liuli was stunned: "That's right, this ghost town comes and goes without a trace. We walked for a day and a half and didn't see each other. How did it suddenly appear on the grassland?"

"I remember that before I met the ghost city, I heard a wolf howl..." Wuxin frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly clapped her hands, "It's blood! Yue Qiluo's hand was scratched and bleeding, and then suddenly met the ghost city!"

The three of them turned their heads to look at Yue Qiluo in unison, they were stunned for a moment, then they frowned and said, "What are you looking at!"

Gu Zhi walked up to her and smiled at her: "Princess, we are discussing how to get to the shrine."

Yue Qiluo's expression eased a bit, motioning for him to continue: "En."

"I'm afraid I have to borrow your blood."

"My blood?" Yue Qiluo froze for a moment, then generously handed him the injured hand, "Here, here you are."

Gu Zhi untied the cloth in his hand, and saw that her wound had dried up and scabbed, so he sighed: "Princess, I'm afraid you will suffer."

As he spoke, he took a small knife and lightly cut a gash in her palm.Yue Qiluo didn't blink her eyelids, as if she didn't feel any pain at all.Bright red blood gushed out of the wound and dripped on the ground, Gu Zhi carefully held her hand and walked forward, Wu Xin and Bai Liuli followed, walking step by step along the path where the blood dripped.

Within half an hour, the road in front of me suddenly opened up, which was twice as wide as the previous path.After walking a few more steps, there was a right corner, and he walked through several street corners twisting and turning, and when he turned around, the magnificent temple stood in front of him.

Wuxin happily said: "Yes!" and walked up hurriedly, the remaining three were all relieved, especially Yue Qiluo, who smiled even more, pulled Gu Zhi's sleeve and said: "Zhe Du, my god!"

Wuxin decided that the secret to unraveling the magic circle was in the shrine, so she walked over without hesitation.The gate is half-hidden, and I accidentally saw that the exterior of this tens of meters high temple was covered with real gold. When I opened the door, I saw that the huge hall was brightly lit and resplendent, with murals painted on the surrounding walls and pasted with Glass.Directly opposite is a pure gold throne, and on both sides of the throne are coral trees several meters high.I'm afraid that the Liao Emperor's palace may not be so luxurious, and he inadvertently sighed after seeing it, only thinking that Yue Qiluo not only knows how to live, but also reincarnated well, unexpectedly he still has such a chic life.

The four of them took a few steps inward, and before they got close to the throne, they heard the door slam shut with a loud bang.A gust of black wind flew down from the dome and landed in front of the throne. The black mist dispersed, and a figure in black robe came out, holding a long sword in his hand.

It's Zhixuan!Wuxin had a bad heart, Zhixuan disappeared for a few months, he actually left him behind, and now he fell into his trap again.Wuxin whispered: "Not good!", and stepped back a few steps to protect the three of them behind him.

Zhixuan lifted his mask, glanced at the four of them coldly, and said with a sneer, "Alright, I'll catch you all today!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his sword and pierced through the air. The blade of the sword was wrapped in evil spirit, and he killed him with every move.Wuxin was about to bite off her finger and suppress him with poisonous blood.Suddenly a paper figurine flew out from behind, slashing towards the sword.Zhixuan was taken aback for a moment, quickly stopped his momentum, and staggered the general away from the paper figurine.

Yue Qiluo pushed aside Gu Zhi and Wuxin who were standing in front of him, walked up to Zhixuan, raised his face with a sinister sneer, and his voice was as cold as ice: "Don't come here, little Taoist priest .”

The author has something to say: It was two o'clock in the morning when I wrote this chapter, and I was scared when I wrote it hahaha