"How would I know? The city lord is really good at joking." I grinned.

The city lord pursed his lips: "Then let me tell you, in the past thousand years, not many people have come here. Anyway, very few people can reach our village safely.

Maybe it was blocked by the lake outside the village, maybe. As you can see, there is not a single living thing in our village, all the villagers are souls.

And those villagers with physical bodies were lucky enough to come here to hunt for treasures, and then they couldn't escape from our hands."

Having said this, the city lord's harmless and handsome face finally showed a cold look. This expression in my eyes, combined with his words, made me shudder.

"Huh?" As if he noticed my reaction, the city lord smiled at me playfully. I shook my head quickly and sat upright: "It's nothing, you go on, you go on."

The city lord looked away, looking at the ground as if in a trance, as if he was thinking about it: "I don't know what's going on with the lake outside the village. But the people in our village are not evil people.

Before, the warrior was entrusted by the emperor to come here to guard the treasure!"

Warrior? This word exploded in my mind. Are there children, old people, and women in the village? I didn’t see many men?

The city lord continued: "You may have noticed that there are not many young men in our village." At this point, the city lord began to change the topic and said:

"Thousands of years ago, our enemy army and the demon emperor signed a non-aggression contract, and each left tokens and treasures, sealing them in this dome mountain.

In order to protect these treasures and stored tokens, our emperor selected two battalions of soldiers from the elite army of the dynasty at that time to come here to guard, in order to be wary of those who have evil intentions or local masters who come here to explore for treasures.

fiscal.

In our dynasty, many people liked the profession of being a local master. After all, there were many people who wanted to make a living and become rice bugs.

And we, the selected elite soldiers, are specially allowed to bring our families to live here. After all, everyone knows very well that after the emperor’s order, this matter may never be mentioned again in this life.

After entering the mountain for the first time, no one will be sent here again.

Firstly, it is to keep the family members of the soldiers who stayed outside from talking nonsense. Secondly, it is to allow the soldiers to be stationed here forever, so that their descendants can still guard this place for generations, even to death.

This dome mountain.

I have to say that the emperor’s idea has really cut off the escape route for all of us.” When the city lord said this, he burst into laughter, and his words were full of self-mockery.

"Then, a group of us, along with our respective family members, were secretly sent here. As for the soldiers who sent us, after returning to the DPRK, well, they probably won't have much to live for.

In this dome mountain, this isolated place, we have really lived peacefully for decades. During those decades, we lived the life of ordinary people, getting up early every day, tilling till dusk, plowing and practicing, and working at sunrise.

Rest at sunset."

As the city lord spoke, his eyes became blurred, and the corners of his mouth seemed to curl up into a smile unconsciously: "This is really the most leisurely period of life."

I held my chin and nodded with certainty: "Well, I can tell from your expression. Please continue."

I stretched out my hand to signal the city lord to continue speaking. In my heart, I also had a slight premonition that the city lord's speech would stop here, and he must be preparing for a turning point.

Moreover, it still had a strong sense of foreboding.

"But that kind of good life did not last forever. Until that group of people appeared, everything changed. Our peaceful life was completely broken." The city lord pursed his lips and continued to talk.

"The number of that group of people was not large, but they were very powerful. Each of them could fight one against ten. All the young people in our village went out to deal with them, but no one came back alive. At that time, I

, he is already a bad old man.

I led the family and waited in the house for a long time, but there was no news about my son or the others. When I stepped out of the house under great pressure, I happened to run into a young man holding a torch.

The man was very unfamiliar, and I knew without even thinking that he was not from our village. Immediately, I hid in the house again, holding my wife and grandson tightly.

I admit, I was really timid at that time. I was scared. Having been a lieutenant general for more than ten years, I probably never imagined that I would be so scared at that time. But the nightmare did not end with my avoidance.

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The nightmare really started when I hid in the house.

It didn't take long for us to smell the smell of burnt wood. It wasn't until I stood up to check that I found that the door was already a sea of ​​fire. No, it should be said that the whole village was a sea of ​​fire.

I hurriedly called my family members out of the house, and finally I went to hug my grandson who was huddled in the corner. Unexpectedly, when I just jumped out of the sea of ​​fire, I was hit by a sharp knife.

The sharp blade penetrated directly through the spine of my grandson in my arms and pierced into my stomach. In an instant, I saw that the family members I had just called out had all turned into souls killed by the sword. They were tragic

fell to the ground.

The blood dyed the door of every house red." At this point in the story, the city lord's spirit seemed a little strange, and his eyes suddenly turned bright red, as if the scene of his family being killed really appeared in front of him.

I stretched out my arms, trying to comfort him a little. Unexpectedly, the other person suddenly lowered his head and grabbed his hair, making an expression of great pain, his Adam's apple sliding up and down, and letting out a low whimper.

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I paused in my movements and felt confused for a long time before I patted the other person's back with my palm and whispered a few words of comfort.

The city lord lowered his head so that I could not clearly see the expression on his face. It took me a long time to free myself from the nightmare.

He gave me a miserable smile with a miserable look on his face: "I'm fine. I didn't expect to tell you so much. I wanted to tell you briefly."

"It's the city lord who has expressed his love." I nodded lightly and looked back at him with a bright smile.

"Now that we have talked about it here, I feel a little uncomfortable if I don't tell everything. I might as well tell you everything." The city lord is also a straightforward person, and he simply waved his hand and said bluntly to me.
Chapter completed!