Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 165: Mujiang City Disaster

"This time, the cause of the multi-year drought near Xiongbian Mountain was a demon that transformed from a corpse. The scope of its damage and the severity of its violence are unprecedented."

After Gong Tianwu heard this, vague memories suddenly emerged in his mind, and it was as if something flashed through his mind.

In an instant, he recalled some past events.

It was in the previous life when I went to my hometown: Shimen Village, Maoshan County for investigation. I entered a secret base of the Xutong Organization and rescued the little demon Hua Manlou.

Then I received a tip, saying that this guy was supposed to die in the black prison, but his fate had been changed by me:

The final way he died was decades later, because he tried his best to prevent the goddess Ba from being born, he was brutally killed by the Qingcheng elders Xu Chenzi and Xu Jingzi!

Could it be that the demon that appeared this time was actually Hua Manlou's fatal disaster?

Thinking of this, Gong Tianwu looked at Hua Manlou carefully, and found that this guy had a ruddy face and looked very good, and did not look like he was dying at all.

At this time, the atmosphere was a little awkward, probably because Gong Tianwu had been silent for a long time.

So the seventh sister spoke up in time to smooth things over:
"If that's the case, then my husband probably understands Senior Hua's intention of coming here, but does he want to ask him to help deal with this monster?"

Hua Manlou nodded and said concisely:

"Yes."

The seventh sister glanced at Gong Tianwu and noticed that he nodded slightly, so she immediately said:

"We have had a deep friendship with Mujiang City for many years, and we have cooperated for mutual benefit for so many years. We are like brothers and sisters, and we suffer together. It is our duty to lend a helping hand."

Hearing this, Hua Manlou breathed a sigh of relief and looked pleased.

The seventh sister continued:
"However, just deducing the whereabouts of this demon has seriously damaged the vitality of even the city lords and other peerless strongmen, and has caused the loss of hundreds of years of cultivation. This guy's strength is definitely not ordinary."

"Of course, I believe you understand this, which is why you come here to seek external help. Therefore, I would like to ask a few questions boldly."

The corridor is full of flowers:

"Okay, you say."

The seventh sister spoke clearly:

"As the saying goes, brothers should settle accounts clearly. If my next words are offensive, I hope you will forgive me."

Hua Manlou nodded and smiled:

"What's there to forgive or not? Just say whatever you want to say."

Seventh sister said:
"For Mujiang City, this demon is a monster that must be eliminated as soon as possible. If it survives, Mujiang City will perish."

"But for my husband, even though this monster will cause great harm to him, he doesn't have to kill it. If it doesn't work, we can retreat back to the Great Snow Mountain."

"So, if there is a need to fight to the death, my husband will definitely not do it."

Hua Manlou nodded and said generously:
"That's right. This time we are fighting for Mujiang City. Even if there are sacrifices, we must go first. If things are impossible, we can leave first."

After hearing this, the seventh sister continued:
"Also, the amount of goods we received in recent times has obviously decreased."

At this time, Gong Tianwu suddenly said:

"Stop, let's talk about Moba now, and we can talk about business later. There's no need to mix the two things together."

After hearing what Gong Tianwu said, the seventh sister immediately shut up obediently.

Gong Tianwu turned around and looked at Hua Manlou and said:

"Saving people is like putting out a fire. The situation in Mujiang City must be extremely serious, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you, Uncle Hua, to come. It just so happens that I've been feeling bored in the sect lately, so let's leave now."

After hearing this, Hua Manlou nodded slightly and said:
"Okay, the situation in Mujiang City is indeed very difficult. It can be said that every time we delay for half a day, at least hundreds or thousands of people will die. It would be best if we could leave immediately."

***
an hour later,
Gong Tianwu and Hua Manlou have already embarked on the journey back to Mujiang City.

In order to be quick and convenient this time, Hua Manlou even brought a flying magic weapon, and Gong Tianwu stayed in it with Hua Manlou.

There is a different world inside, covering an area of ​​about five or six acres. It is a typical Suzhou-style garden with flowers and bamboos, flowing water, birdsong and flowers, and even three side rooms.

But the places that cannot be reached are covered with white fog, and when you get close, a strong force will slowly push you away.

The appearance of this thing is vermilion in color and is shaped like a gourd. It is said that it is the wine gourd left by the Immortal Dongxu who founded Mujiang City. It flies at an incredibly fast speed and can return to Mujiang City in just over an hour.

Of course, it is very costly to drive the immortal relics. It is said that just to fly back and forth, Hua Manlou consumed 670 spirit stones. The cost of using such a thing is truly staggering.

From this, we can see how bad the situation in Mujiang City is, to the point where they have to race against time.

At this time, Hua Manlou was not with Gong Tianwu, but was lying in the room of the magic weapon to rest. He held a bead in his hand, and the conversation between him and the city lord a few days ago rang in his ears:
"Who are you going to look for on this trip?"

The corridor is full of flowers:

"Let's go to the rocky cliffs first to look for Brother Luo. I saved his life forty years ago, and we have been in touch all these years. We have a life-long relationship."

The city lord coughed slightly:

"Brother Luo, is that the two-headed monster?"

Hua Manlou said with certainty:

"Yeah, I think he's definitely going to give it his all."

The city lord smiled noncommittally. This thing caused several more wrinkles to appear on his loose skin.

By the way, the city lord at this time can no longer maintain his human form, but exists as a demon. His beast body is the legendary divine beast Bai Ze, which is said to be able to know the existence of all things in the world.

Of course, it’s a claim.

The same claim as Cao Cao’s claim of having an army of 800,000.

However, this is enough to prove one thing, that is, Bai Ze is indeed much smarter than the other monsters.

After a while, the city lord said again:
"What else? There isn't only one person you want to ask for help, right?"

Hua Manlou thought for a while and said:
"I want to go to Qingqiu. I used to have a relationship with the girl from the Hu family. She should be able to help me." The city lord sighed slightly and handed him a bead.
"This is an exquisite pearl. It has nine holes and is exquisite on all sides. It has its own inspiration."

"You slowly inject demonic power into it. If someone nearby has ill intentions towards you, it will begin to vibrate. If someone nearby lies to you, it will heat up slightly. Take it with you to do your work."

Hua Manlou was shocked:
"Ah? So this is the Linglong Pearl?"

"But, it is said that it takes you, the Great City Lord, a hundred years to refine a Linglong Pearl, which takes thirty years of your life."

The city lord smiled bitterly and said:

"I made this one temporarily. It doesn't cost as much as you said, but it's only valid for less than a month, and it's not that sensitive. Go quickly and come back soon."

(Hua Manlou left to seek help, then returned five days later and met the city lord in the same reception room)

The city lord coughed and said:
"You're back, how's it going?"

Hua Manlou said painfully:
"My Lord, did you know something in advance?"

The Grand City Lord took a sip of the medicine and said slowly:
"No, I told you everything I know."

Hua Manlou said with shame:
"I failed. After I told her my purpose, Concubine Hu kept giving me perfunctory advice and deceiving me."

"After deceiving me, the Luo brothers even had malicious intentions. Fortunately, I withdrew in time, otherwise I don't know what the consequences would be!"

The city lord said calmly:
"Then what do you think now?"

The corridor is full of flowers:

"I don't know. I now suspect that there is something wrong with my judgment of people."

The Grand City Lord said:

"Perhaps people over there in the Snowy Mountains can give it a try."

Hua Manlou looked up in astonishment and said:

"Great Snow Mountain? Are you talking about Xu Tianwu? He is a human, and we are just exchanging interests, we don't have any friendship."

The Grand City Lord said:

"Do you know why I didn't think highly of your request for help before?"

The corridor is full of flowers:

"do not know."

The Grand City Lord said:

"Whether it's the fox girl from Qingqiu or the demon wolf from Luanshiya, although they once had a deep friendship with you, that friendship is like water without a source and a tree without roots. It will disappear quietly over time."

"However, although the people of the Great Snow Mountain seem to have a casual relationship with us, both sides have interests involved. It can be said that if one suffers, all suffer. This kind of friendship may seem ordinary, but it is actually quite solid!"

"Although saying this may make people think that I look at the world too coldly, but most of the time, interests are always more reliable than friendship."

At this time, the words of the city lord were still echoing in his ears, but he had already successfully brought Xu Tianwu back.

Thinking about Xu Tianwu's words and actions after meeting him during this trip, Hua Manlou couldn't help but sigh in his heart: The old ones are still the wisest, the city lord is really good at judging people.

***
Gong Tianwu certainly didn't know about the trap Hua Manlou had fallen into these days. He was a person who remained calm when faced with major events, so he just sat on the cushion in the room to relax and cultivate his energy.

It is worth mentioning that this time Gong Tianwu left in too much of a hurry, so he had to leave his seventh sister behind to guard the shop.

After all, if the huge family business was left alone without anyone to watch over it, the loss of spirit stones might exceed hundreds every day. Once such losses were calculated, the seventh sister became extremely anxious and could only ask Gong Tianwu to take care of himself.

Of course, the most important reason is that the seventh sister knows that her own strength is too weak and she can’t help much if she goes there. She might even need Gong Tianwu to protect her.

Feeling a shock under his body, the speed of the entire Immortal Family Wine Gourd was slowly slowing down. Gong Tianwu knew that he was about to reach his destination. He couldn't help but sigh that Mujiang City was indeed a wealthy and powerful city with rich cultural heritage.

At this moment, Gong Tianwu felt almost like he was on a VIP flight from BJ to New York, and the whole journey was completed within half an hour.

Soon, Gong Tianwu came to the gourd's mouth and looked outside, then he was shocked!
It turns out that the entire Xiongbian Mountain, which was so lush and verdant in my memory, is now covered with large areas of withered yellow as far as the eye can see, with only a hint of bleak green occasionally mixed in.

Large patches of brown and black depressions can be seen everywhere on the mountain peaks. They are the traces left behind by the withering and death of large areas of plants, just like their heads have been plucked out one by one.

Mujiang City was built on the basis of more than twenty huge sacred trees such as the Xuantong wood. It was located at the confluence of the three rivers of Lishui, Kuangshui and Mujiang. It was built on a delta surrounded by rivers and has great geographical advantages.

The three long rivers are full of water, sparkling in the sun, like three silver snakes winding across the earth.

Vast and endless!
But now, the three big rivers have even completely dried up, revealing the pitch-black riverbeds. They look like three rotten dead snakes with limp bellies, giving people a desolate and tragic feeling.

What's even more exaggerated is that in the entire Xuantong wood forest that looked like towering mountains, more than ten trees had fallen down, and the remaining ones were emitting bursts of black smoke.

Surrounding the Xuantong Tree, there are densely packed monsters and beasts!

Although these creatures are only the size of sesame seeds when viewed from above, they are densely packed and endless, like a large black tide, tightly surrounding the entire Xuantong forest, which makes people's scalp tingle just by looking at it.

Obviously, it is estimated that at least more than 50% of the living creatures in Xiongbian Mountain have come to this place, because they have become disaster victims and have no way to go or escape, and only here is there a glimmer of hope.

In their simple minds, they would either be sunburned to death, starved to death, or die in battle!
As for how they will continue to live after conquering this place and how they will have enough food in the future, that is not what they are considering now.

After all, if they can’t take down Mujiang City, they won’t even have a future! !

For Gong Tianwu, after seeing this scene, four words could not help but come to his mind:

Charcoal
As the wine gourd slowly descended, Gong Tianwu could clearly see that a giant black tung tree near the periphery was still being besieged.

The attackers include monsters and wild beasts, densely packed, one after another, fearless of death!

This is probably because they know very well that if they rush forward and risk their lives, they may still have a chance of survival, but if they take even a step back, they will inevitably die of thirst or starvation.

Under such a terrifying attack, the black tung tree suddenly roared, and a large number of root spikes suddenly sprouted from the ground! I guess it also felt the threat of death.

The range and power of this attack were completely unexpected. It directly attacked in a 360-degree angle, covering an area of ​​two to three square kilometers around the trees.

The spikes of these roots were extremely sharp, and they were more than two meters long when they protruded from the ground. More than half of the besiegers were killed or injured in an instant, and the number of casualties even exceeded thousands. It could be said that the blood flowed like a river!
(End of this chapter)