This is a mortal city built on the mountain, the sky is gray, the land of the original oasis is full of wind and sand and stones, hazy, and the dim smoke and dust can faintly see the collapsed peaks and broken houses.

In the distance, it was gray and completely submerged in the wind and sand, so that it was impossible to see where the road was.

In the hazy wind and sand, there were faint shadows of sporadic human figures trying to trek, all of them chapped lips, and the palms of their hands were also dry cracks, and the cracks were full of dry dirt, deep in the flesh and skin.

There are no longer a few such people, and the whole land, hundreds of thousands of miles, everywhere, all of them have done their best to go east, although the vast majority of them do not know what awaits them in the east, whether it is hope, or utter despair!

A slender figure dressed in coarse cloth and blue, like other mortals who could not see clearly in the hazy wind and sand, gritted his teeth, lowered his head, and tried to move forward step by step. She couldn't look up, the knife-like wind and sand might penetrate the rags covering her face and scratch her face, although her face was no longer as broken by blowing bombs as it used to be, and it was already covered with traces of 'wind and sand'.

The woman in blue cloth was carrying a package on her back and holding one in her hand, although she herself suffered a lot in this kind of wind and sand, but she tried her best to help the 'package' behind her back and in her arms to block the wind and sand.

"Mother, how long will it take to find the father and the emperor, Ling'er wants to drink lotus seed soup!" A weak voice came from the arms of the coarse cloth woman, and asked a question that she had been asking for two months, it turned out that the wrapped package was actually a little girl, and listening to her immature voice, she was only six or seven years old, or even younger.

"Ling'er, it's coming, it's coming, it's already in the country of Wu, and it should be there in a few days!" The coarse cloth woman turned her head slightly, moved her chapped lips, and said with difficulty, her voice was also quite weak.

Unfortunately, the wind and sand were too strong, and before the woman's words could be spoken, they were blown behind her back, and the little girl only listened to a rough idea.

"Hmm!" the package in her arms came with a sound again, and it was quiet again, perhaps after being deceived by the woman for a long time, the little girl also knew that the woman was just comforting, in fact, there was no end to this road.

Gently patting the 'package' in her arms, the woman raised her foot again vigorously, against the wind and sand, and walked towards the east, but when she looked up again, she was suddenly stunned, she seemed to see something, majestic and towering, like a huge mountain standing between heaven and earth!

The woman suddenly realized something, and hurriedly tore off the rag that covered her face, put one hand in front of her forehead, and tried to look ahead, and finally determined that this was not an illusion, in the hazy wind and sand, the huge wall that was so high that you could not see the top, and so wide that there was no end, although it was hazy, it was not an illusion.

Struggling all the way, the incredibly strong woman in blue coarse cloth suddenly collapsed, knelt directly on the ground, looked up to the sky and cried, crying silently, no matter how much dust was poured into her mouth, "Your Majesty, the concubine has lived up to her last promise and arrived with the little prince!"

The woman in the coarse cloth and blue only cried for a while, and then immediately got up, hugged the package in her arms, and with the last of her strength, staggered towards the mighty giant city a hundred miles away. At the same time, many other mortals around her also discovered the giant city in the distance, and suddenly found hope, and all of them went crazy and seemed to go that way.

Many of these people are from extraordinary backgrounds, some are from a country's royal family, some are from the Jianghu martial arts sect, and some are well-hidden famous families, and so on, all of them are high-ranking and powerful people among the mortals. But now, all of them were tattered beggars, desperately rushing towards the giant city over there.

Before the woman arrived at the giant city, she found that outside the huge city like a mountain, there were already many people, all black and oppressive, all blocked outside the city wall, noisy and chaotic!

The wind and sand under the city wall have been much weaker, a little hazy, this woman looked over, and found that there were as many as tens of thousands of people, as for the invisible wind and sand, whether there are more people, that is not known.

These people with all kinds of origins are guarding outside the giant city wall, there is a wail everywhere, they are all people who can't accept the reality, they can't accept it, they have traveled eastward for so long, how many life and death crises have been passed, and they have paid so much, but when they come here, they are not allowed to enter the country with a sentence of "no token, no qualification"?

This rule is for everyone, no matter where they come from, what kind of nobles they are, or what peerless masters, or what kind of masters of the family, no token is allowed to enter, and those who disobey are dead!

If they don't get inside, what else can they do? Thousands of miles of wind and sand here, do you want them to walk back? If you go again, there are tens of thousands of people in this area alone, and it will be good if you get out alive!

The coarse cloth woman in blue walked forward with great difficulty, and finally found a stone hall more than ten miles away, about more than 100 zhang, which was taller than the palace where she lived before, but the overall structure was not as exquisite as the palace!

After asking hard, the woman knew that she needed a token to enter this huge city, and as for what the token was, there was no fixed number, and all kinds of tokens had been used, some people had taken out a stone that was not amazing, which was used as a token for three people, and some took out a token, which was also used as a token, and could bring in twenty people, and some people took out a dim yellow talisman, which was also regarded as a token.

Outside the stone hall, there is a special giant monument with all kinds of tokens hanging on it, which is an example for the mortals who rushed here, telling them what can and cannot be used as tokens!

The woman in blue in coarse cloth stood more than a hundred feet long, browsing the nearly 10,000 kinds of 'tokens' hanging on it one by one, but her heart was getting colder and colder, these tokens were too strange, all kinds, there were even rags with dense small characters written, and a kind of tattered boots, there was none on her!

And when she saw a blue waist card, her heart trembled suddenly, she knew this token, and her majesty also had a piece, very similar, it was said to be the inheritance of the royal family, and her majesty regarded it as a treasure and always wore it with him.

It's a pity that the world is in turmoil, leaving their own country, and they can no longer cover the sky with one hand, this blue waist card along with the royal convoy, and her majesty, and nine out of nine members of the royal family fell into a horse thief interception.

In that horse thief interception, in the entire royal convoy, only she and Ling'er survived, as well as the emperor's favorite child, which was the one on her back!

The woman continued to look downward, little by little, and at last she saw something familiar, it was a talisman, very similar to the treasure of her mother country, which she had seen once when she was young, but unfortunately this treasure of the town and country would not be in the hands of one of her princesses.

Further down, she didn't see anything familiar, it was something extremely unfamiliar, she had never seen before!

She wanted to explain to the adults in the stone hall, in fact, they had tokens, but they were lost by accident, but she didn't dare, and she heard the people around her say that the people in the stone hall only recognized the tokens, not people, if they dared to entangle a few more words, they would kill them directly.

Undying back and forth, looking at the token giant list more than ten times, the woman finally sat down on the ground as if deflated, thinking back to the past, she felt a little vague, and now her mind was all about the years of the eastward journey.

Once an incomparably graceful concubine, with fine clothes and fine food, but now she has been reduced to a first-order beggar woman, and the ordinary meals that she used to disdain have now become delicacies, which are completely like a world away.

"Mother, Ling'er is hungry!" a weak voice came from the package in her arms again.

The woman who was sitting on the ground regardless of her image heard the voice in her arms, and then she suddenly came back to her senses, lowered her head, hugged the little girl wrapped in a wide coarse cloth in her arms, and said with a forced smile: "Ling'er wait, the mother concubine will help you find food!"

Although this giant city is not allowed to enter, it will distribute food and water to everyone, enough for half a month to survive, and it can be regarded as a way for desperate people to live, return the same way, survive the wind and sand, and go back and forth!

And this food and water can only be received by one person, and the woman has not had time to get the food and water when she has been looking for the token, and it is not too late to go now.

Walked towards the stone hall with difficulty, and after making a report, there was a piece of food that was thrown in front of her, not bad, all of them were soft big white steamed buns, and after she released the little guy in her arms, the little guy devoured it for a while, and was choked several times.

If it was a few years ago, the little guy would definitely not want to eat this kind of steamed bun, but now she has eaten wild vegetables that are even more difficult to swallow, and then holding the thin noodle steamed bun, it is naturally a good thing.

And the little prince behind him was also released at this time, happily holding a steamed bun half the size of his little head, swallowing it in a big gulp, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

When the woman saw the two children so cheerful, she felt a little sad in her heart, and if she had no tokens, she would not be able to go in the same way, and where would she go back? The original country was completely unrealistic, and if she could not enter the city, she would definitely die.

The future is bleak, desperate at the end of the road, and not only them, these people outside the city are like this, which one did not come here after a lot of hardship, but now, it is all empty!

"Mother, what a big mountain, higher than the walls of the palace!" At this time, the little girl filled her stomach a little, and finally noticed the mountain-like black wall behind her, and then said excitedly: "Mother, are we here, father, brother, they are waiting for us behind the mountain!"

The little prince also raised his head at this time and looked at the woman expectantly.

"It's not there yet, but it's coming soon, Ling'er, don't worry!" the woman was stunned for a moment, and then spoke with bitterness to comfort.

"It's not there yet!" The little girl's tone was a little low, and the little prince also lowered his head, but he didn't say anything, just swallowed the steamed bun silently, and didn't know what he was thinking.

At this time, the woman saw a red thread on the neck of the little prince, and a glimmer of hope suddenly surged in her heart, and she remembered that the emperor liked this little son the most, and when he was only full moon, he gave him a long-life lock carved from the finest jade.

Although gold and silver money and the like are not useful at all now, maybe bribe the people in the stone hall with this piece of superb jade, and you can exchange some places for entering the giant city, thinking of this, the woman immediately got up, gently picked up the little prince, opened his collar, and saw the jade lock that was no more than the size of a child's fist.

It is really a piece of superb jade, without a little flaw, even she can't help but admire this kind of jade decoration, if this was placed in the past, it is not an exaggeration to replace it with ten thousand taels of yellow and white things, but unfortunately, now it can only be regarded as a stone that sells better!

Picking up the two little ones again, the woman cheered herself up, and finally chose to walk into the stone hall, she wanted to bribe this superb jade to the adults among them, after all, this beautiful jade is not like an ordinary yellow and white thing, it is still quite good-looking!

"Depleted wood attribute spiritual material waste!" A Taoist priest in a yellow robe glanced at the piece of beautiful jade, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said: "Although it has no effect, it can be regarded as a token related to the immortal cultivation world, so it can be regarded as a token!"

"Token, is this a token?" the woman was shocked to disbelief, and then her face was full of ecstasy, and she immediately chased after Xie and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"But this is just a scrap, the relationship is not deep, according to the rules, barely count nearly two people, there are three of you, choose two, after the election, go to the apse of the city, and the rest leave here. The Taoist priest said lightly, and then stopped paying attention to the woman.

"Only two?" The woman was stunned when she heard this, and then immediately smiled and said, "Look, my lord, they are all half-grown children, they are all under seven years old, they should be half a person, adults are good, let's all go in!"

"Even if you are half a person at a young age, there is no such rule here!" the Taoist priest said coldly, refusing without emotion.

"But they are all my in-laws' children, how do you let the little woman choose, the palms and backs of her hands are full of meat!" the woman begged, and then put down the two children, and knelt directly on the ground, and bowed again and again, "Please, sir, let us all go in!" and forced the two children to kneel down and pray together.

The three people knelt down, and instead of feeling pity, the Taoist priest frowned and said coldly: "This token makes it difficult for two people to enter, and you still want to enter three, is this when the rules here are nothing?"

"There are a lot of people outside, if I set a precedent this time, what about the next one? Do you also want to be merciful? Then do you want me to let everyone in?" The Taoist priest slanted his eyebrows, "Hurry up and choose, after half a pillar of incense, if you don't choose, just roll together, don't even think about going in!"

"Also, if you hear a little cry again, get out of here!" the Taoist priest added coldly.

As soon as the Taoist priest's words fell, the woman suddenly didn't dare to beg hard, forced to sob, and looked at the Taoist priest in front of her pitifully, but found that the Taoist priest didn't bother to take care of him at all, just looked through this ancient book by herself.

Time passed little by little, getting closer and closer to the half-pillar incense, and the woman finally knew that the Taoist priest's heart was as cold as iron, and it was impossible to be moved, so she could only turn her head and look at the two children in front of her with hazy eyes.

One is her own daughter, her only child, and the other is her sister's son, and she still remembers the scene when her sister finally handed the little prince into her hands and went to stop the pursuers with a knife.

How to choose, it is difficult to choose, if she can, she would rather not go in herself, only let the two children in, but the two children, how can they survive on their own, after all, there is no father on the other side of the 'mountain'!

After wandering between the two children for a while, the woman finally half-knelt on the ground, hugged the little girl in her arms, cried, and forced her to squeeze out a smile: "Ling'er, wait for A-Niang here, A-Niang and her brother have gone in, and they will come out later!"

The Taoist priest just glanced coldly at this side, and then turned his head again.

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