Back Off, Let Me Come

"Mama, why are you in such a hurry?" Gong Xiqiu was grabbed by a hand and pulled in as soon as he opened the curtain. His body subconsciously wanted to fight back, but he could identify the person's identity based on his strength and suppressed his instinct. " Are you here to play with me today?"

Alas, he was so idle that his bones were going stiff.

If it weren't for Mama's unfinished business, he would have packed his bags and gone to find his brother and nephew. It would be more meaningful than wasting time here. As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Tang was touched on the back of his hand. Gong Xiqiu reached back his hand like lightning: "Hiss, you hit someone!"

Shen Tang said seriously: "Let's get down to business."

Gong Xiqiu responded with an "Oh" in his mouth, but acted lazily and casually. He picked a place to sit down and said, "You say it."

Shen Tang pointed to the pattern on the ground and asked him if he had any impression.

Blindfolded Gong Xiqiu: "..."

He pointed to his eyes, indicating to the other party that he was still injured and could not see the pattern on the ground. Shen Tang had no choice but to grab his hand and draw pictures on his palm with his fingers. Gong Xiqiu tilted his head, and a few braids of his hair fell down. He looked very attentive.

"The first picture is impressive."

Gong Xiqiu is talking about nuclear radiation warning signs.

Shen Tang asked him: "Where have you seen it?"

Gong Xiqiu pretended to think seriously and said: "I've seen so many places! You know one place, Mama! On Xian Yujian's back! If it weren't for this pattern, I wouldn't have bothered to care about this kid. Just a side note. There are also some documents in the clan, but this pattern is traced back to a force called the Society of Gods. Did they come into contact with Mama? "

"...Aren't you also a member of the Society of Gods?"

Is she the only outsider in the co-authorship? ? ?

Gong Xiqiu suppressed the frivolous smile on his lips and shook his head: "How is this possible? The gods will have a deep hatred for the ancestors of the Gongxi clan. Although there are only a few members of the clan left and all the ancestors are buried underground, as a member of the Gongxi clan, I You can’t do anything that goes against your ancestors. If I die tomorrow, my soul will go to the gods, why won’t I be surrounded and beaten by my tribe? It doesn’t make sense!”

Shen Tang and Gu Chi looked at each other.

"... Deep hatred? What hatred? What hatred?"

Gong Xiqiu hooked his hand at her.

"It's a long story. I'm thirsty."

Shen Tang threw the unused water bag into his arms, and Gong Xiqiu didn't give in. He moistened his throat and continued the story.

"Because the Gongxi clan migrated several times in history, the earliest clan annals were originally lost during this process. The subsequent clan annals were all revised by later generations based on their memories. There should be eight or nine chapters revised in the memory, and many of the contents are contradictory. Some are simply judged to be fabricated legends... There is a saying that the history of the Gongxi tribe can be traced back one or two thousand years ago. At that time, all the tribesmen lived in an isolated world with abundant crops. Here, they had no worries about food and food. Drink, don’t worry about wearing..."

Shen Tang couldn't help but complain.

"Is this place called the Garden of Eden?"

Hearing these three words, Gong Xiqiu turned his face: "Hey, how does Mama know? Did you regain any memory?"

Shen Tang: "..."

Gong Xiqiu continued: "However, 'Garden of Eden' is just one of its other names. The mainstream name recognized by the clan chronicles is 'Taoyuan'! According to the mythological clan chronicles, at that time, the heaven and earth changed, and the Yin and Yang realms were out of balance. The ghostly death energy belonging to the underworld permeates the world, and living people polluted by ghost energy will turn into ghost puppets, feeding on living people, causing countless deaths and injuries..."

Shen Tang frowned and said, "Ghost energy?"

Gong Xiqiu nodded: "Well, that's what the clan chronicles said. It also said that ghost cholera has lasted twelve years in the world, and all life in the world has been almost extinct. There are only a few uninfected people, animals and plants. Seeing that the world of heaven is about to turn into the underworld, our ancestors After praying to heaven, God was finally moved. The gods took action and took all the survivors to an isolated place. This place was the "Peach Garden". The gods planted a sacred tree as the core of the "Peach Garden". This tree can isolate the outside world. Ghosts are intruding. If the ancestors have something to worry about, they can pray devoutly under the sacred tree, and the gods will hear it..."

Gu Chi listened with great interest.

"What happens next?"

Shen Tang interrupted Gong Xiqiu: "No, I remember you said a few years ago that your family met your benefactor on the road to exile after being convicted more than two hundred years ago. The benefactor gave you a coffin, and I will be placed in this coffin." Inside. In order to thank your benefactor, your ancestors carved a statue of the benefactor after living in seclusion?"

Is this the origin of the gods worshiped by the Gongxi clan?

Gong Xiqiu said very naturally: "I have already said that the family records were lost and damaged during several migrations. The contents are all supplemented and revised by later generations. It is inevitable that some personal understanding and speculation will be mixed in... It may be true, or it may be all true. It’s a lie, or it could be half-truth or half-false… As for the records of ‘Taoyuan’, the tribesmen don’t really believe it, they just treat it as a story.”

Shen Tang: "..."

This reason is too real.

"How did your ancestors become enemies with the ancestors of the Gods Association?" Gu Chi brought the topic back to the distant topic, hoping that these two strange friends would have a casual chat. Who knows where the topic would go?

"This is a longer story. A few days after God saved our ancestors, he said he was going on a long trip to deal with ghosts. Once he left, he never came back. And God saved too many survivors, and they... The ancestors and the gods, with the ancestor as the leader, lived in peace and harmony for many years. However, during this period, people were born and animals were born, and the "Peach Garden" had limited space. In addition, the seeds that the ancestors brought to the "Peach Garden" were invaded by ghosts. Contamination, production reduction from generation to generation, food shortage in 'Taoyuan', and conflicts soon broke out."

"The ancestors of the Gods Association used force to gather a group of people and tried to use force to feed others as food, but the ancestors strongly opposed it. A war broke out between the two sides, and the ancestors were defeated and escaped from Taoyuan with the survivors who had not been fed. '."

Shen Tang: "Didn't you say that the ghost atmosphere outside is uninhabitable?"

Gong Xiqiu said: "The ancestors are not stupid. They quietly took away many branches of the sacred tree. The ghost energy in the outside world has become much thinner than at the beginning, so we can still survive. However - it is also affected by the ghost energy. After a period of time, , the babies born were either dead or deformed, with two heads and half a head, three hands and so on. The ancestors prayed to the gods and managed to survive."

Gu Chi asked: "What about the people who stayed in Taoyuan?"

Gong Xiqiu recalled carefully: "There are not many records about this in the family history. They just said that after a hundred years, 'Taoyuan' finally couldn't support it, and people escaped one after another. These people were scattered all over the continent, and they multiplied and became what we are today. people."

Gu Chi joked: "According to this myth and legend, we were still a family thousands of years ago? Does your family history describe what society was like before the great disaster?"

In this regard, Gong Xiqiu just shook his head: "If this part of the ethnographic records is true, the relevant documents should be in Taoyuan. Our ancestors escaped with nothing, so it is not easy for them to retain so many records. "

Shen Tang made a decision.

"Look back, you accompany me to the Gongxi clan land."

She wanted to see those clan records with her own eyes.

Gong Xiqiu knew her plan, but he still couldn't help pouring cold water: "Mama, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't remember much of the contents of the remaining books in the clan. On the night when the clan was exterminated, 90% of them were destroyed. The Geng Kingdom snatched it away. Among the 90%, 50% are records after the last migration of the Gongxi people, all within two hundred years. There are only a few single volumes left in the collection that can be traced back to one or two thousand years ago. There are also I don’t know how many of them were fabricated and modified by later generations... I’m afraid they are of little use.”

Shen Tang said gloomily: "Then you have to go and see."

Gong Xiqiu asked her: "Mama is in trouble?"

Shen Tang concealed the details of his time travel and only said that these three patterns existed in the wrong era. Gong Xiqiu did not get to the bottom of it: "So, according to what Mama said, that myth and legend may not be a legend, but reality? Didn't the ancestors Liar? However, there should be no so-called 'nuclear weapons' in the hands of the Gods Society. What can exist for thousands of years and still be used..."

Gong Xiqiu's complaints were very accurate.

But Shen Tang was still worried.

"Maybe it will be created again later?"

Gong Xiqiu shook his head. He was very optimistic: "Impossible. If the Gods Association has a treasure that can kill eighty or ninety thousand people with a wave of hands, how can it hide its head and shrink its tail for so many years?"

Shen Tang: "Well, that's true..."

Although the Gongxi myth is consistent in all aspects, it is neither empirical nor authoritative. Shen Tang would rather find ruins or find relevant unearthed cultural relics. Even if there is only one piece, it can prove that there was indeed a modern civilization.

Maybe we can also figure out the reasons for the collapse of civilization.

Ghosts, puppets, feeding on living people?

Good guy, it can’t really be a zombie apocalypse, right?

Shen Tang scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.

Gu Chi was very curious about the new vocabulary that suddenly popped up.

"What are zombies?"

Shen Tang said: "They are just the living dead."

She looked at Gu Chi and there seemed to be a strange light in her eyes: "You don't still want to write a novel about zombies, do you? Stop it, I don't even know where the novels you owe have been arranged."

Regardless of digging or burying, he is simply the eunuch in charge.

Gu Chi is a bachelor: "As long as you live long enough."

He originally scorned the myth of the Gongxi tribe, but when it was confirmed that such a civilization might really exist, he became very interested. However, until hard evidence is found, these are just speculations. The top priority is still the meeting of the gods...

Speaking of the Society of Gods, Gu Chi wanted to give Shen Tang a vaccination, lest she develop a grudge over Qi Shan being an executive at the Society of Gods, which would in turn shake her trust in Qi Shan. No matter how tough my lord's destiny is, he can't resist Qi Shan being the lord's killer.

"Lord, as far as I know, the Society of Gods has also contacted Qi Yuanliang..." Gu Chi did not dare to say where he met Qi Shan for the first time, "Would you like to write and ask?"

Shen Tang was not surprised by this.

These strange people under her account are always trying to deceive people, but their talents and qualifications are beyond question. If Qishan’s feat of killing seven masters in a row can’t attract the olive branch from the gods, then the gods will be blind: “I won’t write any more letters. Letters also have the risk of being exposed. Now that we are exposing our enemies, we must eliminate any risks. When we meet again, I will ask him personally...don't say anything."

Although Gu Chi's scribe's ways allow him to know a lot of gossip, he is not a gossip. There was more than one person staying behind asking for Qi Yuanliang, but he was the only one who mentioned him. There must be special circumstances.

Shen Tang knew what was going on.

Gu Chi crossed his hands and saluted, "Wei."

Before leaving, Gong Xiqiu suddenly remembered something. "Little Mama Lin in Mama's tent, she has a handwritten note written by the high priest. There is a detail in the handwritten note. On the way the high priest was looking for the [Corpse Vine], he came across a strange mass grave in a deep mountain forest. , the pit is full of old bones... guessing the time, maybe they are relics of that era..."

Hearing that there were clues, Shen Tang borrowed the letter from Lin Feng.

Transcribe the records related to the mass grave.

He also ordered her to find Captain Mojin who knew how to fight upside down.

Lin Feng's expression was horrified: "Master, are you going to dig a human grave?"

Counting with his fingers, during the battle to guard the pass, Military Advisor Xun showed great power, and the lord's private treasury owed an unknown amount. Taking advantage of the chaos of the war, they found some gold captains to steal graves and make money. Although this method is unethical, it cannot make a huge profit. Lin Feng didn't have much resistance to this.

The living are always more important than the dead.

Shen Tang said: "Ahem, no."

She did it too, but she did it quietly. Regardless of whether it was Heyin County or Longwu County, the ancestral graves of the local wealthy squires were richly buried. Shen Tang was really in a difficult situation at that time. Just confiscating his home was not enough, and he had to borrow more from their ancestors.

She explained: "I just want to collect something from them. After thinking about it, they have a lot of contact in this profession."

This excuse convinced Lin Feng.

She has always trusted her lord, and she will believe whatever Shen Tang says.

After Lin Feng left, Shen Tang looked at the map for a long time.

My eyes were almost red, and I couldn't find the approximate location of the "mass grave". I couldn't help but mutter that the high priest was not rigorous.

Why not mark the coordinates of such an important discovery?

Because the influence of Kang Jishou's bad luck was still there, Shen Tang didn't even dare to close his eyes for too long these days, for fear that he would be buried alive when he woke up. After changing his footing seven or eight times, and going through a series of tortures including choking on water, stuffing his teeth, biting his tongue, falling on the ground, and receiving justice from the sky, Shen Tang paid the heavy price of having both of his feet sprained. Finally got over it.

At this time, she was in a trance.

His mental outlook was completely different from the last time we met.

Qin Li was shocked at first glance.

"Lord, what's wrong with you?"

Although Shen Tang's eyes were bloodshot and she had a cane under her arm, she was agile and could use the cane with ease. Seeing that it was Qin Li coming over, he grinned: "Gongsu!"

Qin Li bowed his hands and said, "I have met my lord."

Seeing his perfect hands wearing the ring she carefully selected, Shen Tang, who had been "released after serving his sentence," felt a little better: "No need to be polite, are you used to it these days?"

"Thank you for your concern, lord. It's very customary."

Qin Li was a little restrained and couldn't let go, but Shen Tang didn't force him and let him walk around with him whenever he had nothing to do.

Qin Li: "..."

His eyes fell on Shen Tang's legs.

Shen Tang coughed and said, "Ahem, I accidentally sprained my ankle while walking. It will heal in two days..."

Qin Li: "...are you tired of walking?"

Should this word appear on the sixteenth-level master?

"Haha, horses stumble, and people stumble... I am only one Kang Jishou away from sprained feet... If I don't mention him, my eyes will hurt..." Only she knows how she survived these days. "Don't look at my feet wrapped like this, I'm still walking as fast as I can, I -"

The gravel where the crutch landed suddenly collapsed, and Shen Tang's body fell uncontrollably toward the city wall: "Oh my God——"

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Let me ask you quietly, how about the next book with multiple male protagonists?

PS: Although it’s unlikely, because girls don’t allow that_(:з」∠)_