166|Fluffy Heart Guardian Sage Out of the World 2

Xie Ren couldn’t help but look dumbfounded. Pei Ming said, “Is this okay?”

Flower City, however, said, “Why not?”

Several people looked at him. Hua Cheng said, “Isn’t pointing generals just pointing mortals to the sky? All he needs to do is to point all the Wuyong people near the Imperial City to the sky temporarily, and then put them back after the volcano erupts and the dust settles, why not?”

Pei Ming said, “Don’t make it sound so easy, Your Excellency isn’t unaware that it takes mana to point generals. How many people does he have to point up here?”

To appoint generals is actually to use one’s own magic power to “feed” the mortals that one has appointed for one’s own use. Otherwise, if there is no restriction, all the magi would be trying their best to bring people up to the sky. The emperor will be the three palaces and six courtyards full of civil servants on the point, generals will be their own army up to the point of the point.

Hua Cheng said, “Judging from the remains left behind, the entire Uyong Country has a population of about a hundred thousand people. There are only a few tens of thousands of people near the Imperial City.”

Xie Ren whispered, “Although strenuous, but …… barely a spell, may not be unworkable.”

Pei Ming said, ”Even if there are tens of thousands of people, no magus has ever dared to order so many. If that’s the case, it’s hard to say whether he’s courageous or extremely stupid. It’s also considered to be something that no one has ever done before or since.”

Xie Ren looked at the bridge on the mural, unable to stop staring. The faces of the white-clothed prince and the four guardian deities under the bridge became more and more bizarre in his eyes, and the more he saw them, the more they looked like his own face and the faces of the four masters of the state, and then he remembered that the fluorescent confusion of the guardian of the heart of the phase, which seemed to be a reincarnation of the story that he couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen down there, and yet he felt as if he vaguely knew it already.

He didn’t dare to look at the mural, turned his head and said, “Did you find the water?”

Half Moon dragged Pei Su, saying, “That brother went looking.”

She was talking about drawing jade. Xie Ren looked at Pei Xiu who had his eyes closed, and after a moment of contemplation, she still said, “I think, next we’ll go to the Copper Furnace, and little General Pei will just stay here.”

Pei Su is now, after all, a human body, many inconveniences, moreover, there is no telling what is waiting for them in front. Pei Ming squatted down to look at Pei Su and said: ”Alright, I agree. But please, Your Highness the Crown Prince, don’t tell him what the reason is when you’re in front of him, the boy will understand. I’ll just tell him about this.”

Xie Ren said, “Don’t worry, General Pei, I’ve saved this, or else I wouldn’t have said it while he wasn’t awake.”

After all, Pei Su was once a promising young martial arts god in the Upper Heavenly Court, and now if he has to be put here because he can’t keep up with the team, it’s hard not to feel bad. However, to do wrong is to accept the punishment, the taste of exile is so, can only suffer.

Several people stayed in the temple and discussed for a while longer before Xie Ren wondered, “Where is Guiding Jade? Why hasn’t it returned for so long? Haven’t been able to find any water?”

Hua Cheng, on the other hand, was gazing at the several Necrotic Butterflies perched on his fingertips, those Silver Butterflies had been put to great use just now, and had now returned to him, put away to accumulate energy. He raised his head slightly and said, “It won’t take this long.”

Xie Ren was wary and stood up, saying, “I’ll go take a look. General Pei will watch here, and Sanlang will join me?”

That was natural to join him. Thus, Xie Ren left Ruo Xie behind and had it form a protective circle as the two of them left the temple and headed deeper into the dungeon.

There were quite a few houses and miscellaneous objects on the road, Xie Ren picked up a jar that looked quite smooth, as if Hua Cheng found it funny, he said, “Why pick this up?”

Xie Ren said, “If you find water later, you can bring some back to General Xiao Pei.” He was used to collecting rags after all, and couldn’t help but pat the jar in his hand, saying, “Speaking of which, this is still a thousand year old antique.”

Hua Cheng laughed out loud and said, “If you like this kind of thing, come back to my place. I also have a few pieces, so you can see if there’s one you like well.”

After an incense stick was burned, the two of them then vaguely heard the sound of water flowing. Not long after, Xie Ren said, “Here it is!”

There was indeed a dark river at the bottom. Xie Ren put the jar he picked up into the water and scrubbed it vigorously. The millennia of grime had already congealed into a thick layer of shells that couldn’t be washed off, but brushing off the surface layer of dust could be used to make do. He used this jar to fill up the water, lowered his head and just wanted to take a sip himself, Hua Cheng who was keeping an eye on the surroundings turned his head and saw it, but said, “Don’t drink.”

Xie Ren had already put his face close to the jar, and hearing him stop, he queried, “What?”

At that moment, a voice suddenly said, “It’s hot.”

There were only two of them present, where did this third voice come from? Xie Ren subconsciously looked toward the place where the voice came from, and that voice actually came from the jar in his hand!

He jerked his head down, only to see a pair of very small scarlet dots in the jar, lurking in the water and staring at him.

Any way you look at it, it’s a pair of eyes! Is it hard to believe that there’s someone hiding in there?

The moment he met these eyes, the thing violently came towards Xie Ren’s face. The “clattering” splash came first, Xie Ren’s quick eyes and hands, instantly threw the jar flying several feet away, hitting the wall, “Dang Clang!” A sound, a thousand years of antiques smashed open flowers, and hidden inside the thing fell to the ground, instantly scurry into the darkness. In her haste Xie Ren didn’t see it clearly, she only thought it was a large black mass, and said, “What is that?”

As Hua Cheng stopped in front of him, Xie Ren said dejectedly, “There wasn’t anything like this in that jar before, was there?” And why did he say “so hot”? In that water, shouldn’t it be cool?

Hua Cheng said, “No, it swam in from the water specially. There are often things swimming in groups in this underground dark river, so tell brother not to drink this water.”

Xie Ren heart said, “Then let General Xiao Pei casually drink it?……” Suddenly, he had a chill on his back and drank, “What people?!”

In that moment of the party, he heard someone cough from a distance.

That was definitely not his illusion, and immediately went on full alert. Soon, a sound like a tidal wave of whispers spread. On all sides of the two, pair after pair of red dots lit up, surrounding them in the center. Flower City said, “No need to worry. It’s not people.”

Xie Ren thought to himself, “Not talent need to worry about well well ……”

Listening closely to the whispers, he discerned what the voices were saying:

“Cough cough cough ……”

“It’s hot, it’s hot ……”

“Scalded me ……”

“Wooooooooooooo……”

“I’m going to be smothered …… is there anyone on ……”

“Can’t move, can’t move!”

These voices, though small, were clear and painful, as if a small ant was drilling into one’s ears one after another. Xie Ren was just about to put his hand on the fang, when he suddenly heard a voice mournfully say, “His Royal Highness, where is His Royal Highness? Save me, save me!!!”

Hearing the last sentence, Xie Ren was given a chill, instantly mistaking that the voice was calling out to him. And with a wave of Hua Cheng’s hand, thousands of Dead Spirit Butterflies violently dispersed, swooping down on those pairs and pairs of crimson glowing eyes!

The silver butterfly’s silver light arrived and illuminated the countless things that whispered in the darkness. They really weren’t people, they were actually – rats!

Hua Cheng carried him and said, “I told you, there are a lot of rats here. Go!”

Xie Ren was stunned as he walked, “Is that a mouse? Why do I look more like a cat ……”

Really, those rats are bigger than kittens, the body of the rat hair black as steel needles, a pair of small red eyes in the darkness flashing ferocious, many of them climbed on the wall, staring at them, the mouth also speaks human language, bizarre to the extreme. The silver butterfly pounced on them and they fought with them, red light and silver light interlaced chaotic flash, can’t see the battle situation, but also know that fierce and ferocious to the extreme. Xie Ren said, “Guiding Jade wouldn’t have been dragged by them somewhere, right?”

Flower City then said, “It’s not that wasteful. It should have been slowed down by something else.”

Listening to the first half of the sentence Xie Ren slightly relaxed, the second half of the sentence again raised. He said, “Even if the rats are so big, why are there so many of them? What do they eat to grow so big?”

Hua Cheng said, “Simple. Naturally, they are dead people. These are ghoul rats.”

It turns out that when the city was covered in volcanic ash, there was nowhere for people and large livestock such as cows, horses and sheep to hide, but the rats burrowed into the deep underground and were spared by the air and stored food deep in the holes in the ground.

After the dust settled, they re-entered their holes and ran around the city, which had been reduced to an inferno, in search of food. However everything was destroyed, either buried in lava or covered in ash, chewing up so many things that no food could be found for a long time.

Until one day, they smelled rot.

The putrid odor was coming from those humanoid petrified statues. Some of the corpses were encased in volcanic ash shells, which were thinner, and began to rot, wafting out odors and oozing corpse water.

So the hungry rats circled around the fossilized statue, chewed a small hole in the surface of the statue, burrowed through this hole, and gnawed on the body inside.

The most puny things are often the most likely to survive. The bodies of the dead people were encased in fossils, and so were their strong emotions of fear, anger, resentment, etc. The rats ate their corpses, taking these emotions along with them, and began to be able to spit out what they wanted to say at the moment before they died, but were not able to.

Xie Ren said indistinctly, “So that’s why they say those words. I was wondering why they were such words ……”

Who knows, Flower City suddenly said, “What did you say?”

Xie Ren was stunned and said, “What did I say?”

Flower City stared at him and said, “What did they say? What did you hear?”

Xie Ren said strangely, “Didn’t you hear it, Sanlang? It’s ‘so hot’, ‘suffocated’, ‘can’t move’, ‘help me’, and so on. ……”

However, before Hanagi could answer, he reacted.

Nope!

The ghoul rats were repeating the ravings of the Uyong people before they died, and rightfully so, in Uyong language.

So why does he understand Uyonese as well?