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It is not impossible to manipulate sea beasts. During the Sui Dynasty, the nine-headed monster sect that haunted the East China Sea was able to control sea beasts with special meat and attack passing ships for them.

A little longer, there is also the legendary merman, who does not know fire, and whose kingdom is located in the deep sea.

Including Xuegong himself, through years of observation and research, he has mastered some methods of inducing specific sea beast behaviors and changing the habits of sea beasts.

"For the time being, no signs of manipulation have been found, but it cannot be ruled out prematurely."

Cheng Juxiu said: "The good news is that, as in the past, the 'relocation' of the sea beast clusters is not fast, like a huge circle, slowly moving westward.

If there were no special circumstances, it would take one or two years at the earliest, or three or four years later, before approaching the coast of Yu State. "

"Everyone, follow the standard for dealing with the demon tide, and make preparations as soon as possible."

Lian Xuanxiao issued the order calmly.

Seeing that the head of the mountain was still calm, everyone's suspenseful hearts gradually let go-a buffer time of one or two years, whether it is long or short, is better than rushing to meet the enemy.

Everyone immediately prepared in an orderly manner, or went to Zangshuge to obtain the blueprints of the breakwater and city wall ballista in the former Sui Dynasty, and make improvements;

Or go to the back mountain, urgently modify the sky scorpion, and prepare to use the sky scorpion to hunt sea beasts;

Or go to inform the imperial court and specify a strategy for evacuating the people;

Or go to the Dongjun Building to get the alienated item that can calm the waves and drive away the monsters - I don't know if it will be useful, but I will try it first;

Li Ang was on a tour of the academy, and he wanted to go to Zangshuge to look up information, but was stopped by the head of the mountain, "Li Ang, come with me."

The eyes of Cheng Juxiu, Sui Yi, Tantai Leshan and others came together. Li Ang was stunned for a moment, nodded in agreement, followed behind the head of the mountain, climbed up the steps, and came to the top floor of the teaching building.

Squeak.

As Lian Xuanxiao pushed open the wooden door of the study, the whole room seemed to come alive, the windows opened for ventilation, the lights automatically lit up, the drawers popped open silently, and stacks of documents that needed to be reviewed flew out from them, neatly stacked on the desktop .

Shan Zhang flicked his palm, and the wooden chair placed in the corner moved smoothly and stopped in front of the desk.

Wave your palm again, and the porcelain tea set on the shelf will float down by itself, receiving spring water from a palm-sized rockery, and slowly boiling it.

The head of the mountain sat behind the desk, flipped through the documents, and asked casually, "Do you want tea? Qujiang flakes."

"Huh? Okay, thank you."

Li Ang rubbed his palms awkwardly. In fact, he doesn't have much preference for tea, he just drinks whatever he has at home. The friends he met in Chang'an didn't know the inside story, and thought he was fond of Qujiang flakes, so he gave more and more.

However, Li Ang felt a little honored that the head of the mountain knew his tea-drinking preferences.

A pot of water boils quickly, and the tea set floats gracefully, making, brewing and serving tea, just like a tea master is manipulating it.

"Have you met a nightmare?"

Li Ang was sipping tea, admiring the tea leaves floating in the teacup, when he suddenly heard Shan Changleng's non-stop inquiries, he was startled and coughed a few times.

Relying on the city he cultivated since awakening the memory of the foreign world, he resisted the shock and astonishment. He didn't crush the teacup, pretending that he didn't hear clearly, and asked, "What did you say?"

"Have you met a nightmare?"

The head of the mountain raised his head from the document and said with a smile: "The Supervision Department caught a group of suspicious-looking monks at the border of Luzhou the day before yesterday.

After inspection, this group of monks came from the Taihao Mountain Trial Court. The leader was Chen Wanyi. A few months ago, following the order of his superiors, he went to Luzhou to look for the demon nightmare.

One of the places to stay is Yuelai Inn.

The Department of Supervision linked Chen Wanyi and others with Jin Wusuan, who had recently died of illness in the Yuelai Inn, followed the clues, and discovered that Jin Wusuan had hired someone to explore the Endless Sea and found something.

After following the clues, he found that Jin Wusuan had a deep old grudge against Lu Qingya, so he formulated a strict revenge plan for this.

And reported the information to me.

To sum up, the people in Taihao Mountain did not find the nightmare, and Jin Wusu, who tried to use the nightmare to avenge Lu Qingya, died of illness. The biggest possibility is that the nightmare escaped.

I think there is a demon in your body. If the nightmare escaped from the inn by tampering with memory, you might remember something. "

It turned out to be like this.

Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, Chen Wanyi and his group are too unreliable! He was actually caught by the supervision department, so that he was also implicated.

"Students don't remember ever seeing a nightmare."

Li Ang replied cautiously.

This is not a lie, he has never seen the face of the nightmare, only the brown and yellow pupils.

"Is it?"

The head of the mountain sighed, "That's really a pity."

Li Ang made a puzzled expression, "What a pity?"

The head of the mountain said: "During this time, I was also investigating on the endless sea, but it was not in the east in the same direction as Gongyang Deming and the others, but in the farther south sea area. On an island in that sea area, I found chestnuts. country."

Li Ang was really puzzled this time, "Is it the Li country that disappeared inexplicably?"

"Um."

Shanzhang nodded, "Li Kingdom is a small Quer country located on the border between Yu and Zhou.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, wars broke out, and dense forests grew on the border of Li State for some reason, cutting off communication with the outside world.

When the Central Plains was stabilized and the Kingdom of Yu was established, people were sent to investigate, but the entire Li Kingdom had disappeared out of thin air, suspected to be destroyed by some kind of disaster—this is the history in the classics of the Academy.

While I was on that island, I heard a different story. "

Li Ang put down his teacup, sat upright, and assumed a posture of listening carefully.

"From the perspective of the people of Li State, the disaster came very quickly. With the news of the assassination of Emperor Yu and the war in the Central Plains, a large number of saplings grew on the border of Li State.

These saplings grew extremely fast, surpassing the city wall after seven days, forming an endless sea of ​​trees. "

The head of the mountain said leisurely: "These trees are of solid material, impenetrable by water and fire, and they can be cut down with an axe, and a sapling will grow again on the stake the next day.

The people of Li State, who realized this, still wanted to have fun while suffering, thinking that this was a gift from Haotian——Haotian spread dense forests to surround the border of Li State to protect them from the war.

But soon, the mutation arrived. Black and rotten tree roots spread into the fields, and any crops that were planted became rotten and inedible.

People who have been exposed to the roots of the tree will also suffer from diseases. Most people will die of illness directly, and a small number of people can barely survive, but the price is that tree roots grow all over their bodies, and their appearance gradually becomes inhuman.

Haotian Bell and Haotian Bell have no effect on this, and all medicine stones are also difficult to cure and reverse the disease.

A few practitioners from the Li country decided to fly over the forest to seek help, but suddenly vomited blood, died, and fell when flying over the dense forest—they also inhaled plant seeds invisible to the naked eye into their lungs.

No one can escape.

In the first year, the fields that could be cultivated dwindled and the forests became more and more dangerous with deformed beasts.

In the second year, heavy rains continued, swamps formed in the low-lying areas, and countless livestock fell ill and died.

In the third year, sarcoma and tree roots appeared on some newborn babies.

In the fourth year, the rebel army and the people rushed into the king's city, hanged the king, and hung his body on the city gate to expose himself to the sun, in order to get Haotian's forgiveness.

In the fifth year, wild beasts in the forest began to prey on humans.

In the sixth year, the desperate people dug up the old king's body from the tomb and re-placed him on the throne, in order to get Haotian's forgiveness.

In the seventh year, some people no longer believed in Haotian, but instead believed in a fictional god—the Lord of Flesh and Swamp. "

The head of the mountain paused and said calmly: "This kind of disaster has lasted for fifty years."