Lord of Rot

Chapter 514 Dare to pry with my little wife (page 12)

A giant city like a mountain range sits in the desert, blocking the sky behind it.

High Blood City was built deep in the desert, closer to Oasis City, the merchant capital, and not far from the coast if you go west.

It's still more than half a day's journey, but the door is so close that it seems to be right in front of you. The closer you get, the more you need to look up.

Except for the guide who had been here once, including Miss Desert Pearl, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed, does a building of this scale really exist? It is said to be a city-state, but in fact it is a big mountain.

Li Qi thought more. It is said that Earl Bailong's Duen City was built behind Steel Knife Mountain and also took advantage of the mountain.

There is also the legendary golden grassland, which is on a high-altitude plateau that reaches into the clouds.

But after all, this was the first time Li Qi had seen such a magnificent building, and he thought that only the pyramids on Earth could compare with it.

The difference is that from a distance it looks like a flat triangular pyramid, while High Blood City looks like a trapezoid. You have to get closer to see the details.

At noon, when the sun is at its strongest, a dozen vultures fly overhead.

Driven forward by the wind and sand, Li Qi and others traveled day and night for three days, and finally something other than sand appeared on the road ahead.

Wheels inserted horizontally and vertically in the sand formed a forest of wheels.

There were crushed and twisted dead bones on top, and several vultures were standing on the corpses looking for food.

Wheel torture, a very cruel punishment, involves nailing the body to the spokes of a wooden wheel. When the wheel rotates, the person nailed to it will be twisted to death.

Looking at the densely packed wheels and the twisted bones and corpses on them, the atmosphere in the team became much more depressing, and even the hot air felt chilly.

It’s not that I’ve never seen them before, but I’ve never seen so many, let alone four or five thousand wheels.

The psychological pressure it brings is not ordinary.

This world happens to not have the laws of "no ghosts will appear at dawn" and "it's absolutely safe to hide under the covers". Even if the sun above your head is like a furnace, hot sweat is pouring down your body, your heart is still feeling cold, and your arms are covered with goosebumps. Layer after layer, there is no time to stop.

Among the group of people, there is only the highest leader on the surface. Miss Desert Pearl is an ordinary person, the others are extraordinary people. Li Qi has the highest combat power and is the most "ordinary" body-enhanced type among them. With his current physical condition Not to mention the high temperature of more than 40 degrees and the sun, even the fire pit of 400 degrees can be jumped in for a while to ensure that the skin is not rotten and the flesh is not injured.

Li Qi then cast a cooling spell to make her feel more comfortable.

Although Li Qi claims to be a knight, Li Qi hopes that he can take the route of a mage. It would be so comfortable for a mage to just throw a piece of magic with a wave of his hand. Moreover, after all, his magic talent is a golden finger given during time travel. Others have learned it for half a year, but he only uses a few... Days of time, it would be a shame not to use this ability.

After walking forward for a while, the torture forest gradually disappeared, but hanging cages began to appear on the roadside.

The so-called hanging cage, cage torture, involves hanging people in an iron cage. Compared with the cruel but short-term round torture, hanging cage torture does not cause direct physical harm, only death from thirst, starvation, and sun exposure, which is more torturing to the soul than flesh.

The hanging cage is like a road sign, pulling the team forward.

Occasionally, you can still see corpses nailed on the torture rack, imitating Ye Ge.

The corpses also gradually changed from rotten white bones to relatively fresh corpses. Even when they arrived at the gate of Gaoxue City, they could still be seen still twitching.

Li Qi looked at Vendela, but the other person kept shaking his head. It seemed that his ability didn't work here.

"Your Highness Princess," Li Qi said to Lisu, "We should first buy a group of slaves and fight slaves."

It was only after getting to know him that he knew that there were many types of slaves in High Blood City, including ordinary strong slaves, fighting slaves, breeding slaves, and birth slaves. As for slaves who were selected because they were beautiful? All digested internally.

Among them, the trained combat slaves are just like the dead soldiers. They have been trained to have no will of their own and completely obey orders.

The same is true for their apparent plan. This place is no better than Oasis City. Even if 50 people stretch their necks for Li Qi to chop him with a knife, they will tire him to death.

There must be something difficult to deal with inside, and it is not advisable to take action before the investigation is clear. Of course, Li Qi's plan is to capture the slave owner on the spot and make a dead body, and then go up layer by layer to find out the information. It is best to cook it all in one pot.

He is not greedy for these 50 people, but others will be too.

"What happens after we go in?" For some reason, Lisu, who is a little female leopard to others, acts like a little wild cat when facing Li Qi. She scratches and fusses sometimes, but most of the time she is very obedient.

Always very obedient.

"Stabilize them." Li Qi said his plan: "No matter what they say or whatever price they offer, we will agree. We must stay at least one night."

He wasn't planning on paying anyway.

Killing people is easy, but how to take in the slaves with minimal damage and ensure that they are obedient is a difficult problem. The best way is to turn all the slave owners into corpses and control them.

Not to mention that Li Qi's spiritual power unit only has 500 points. Even if Isis and the Water Fairy are dragged over, it will definitely not be enough.

To manage 500,000 people, the management level is estimated to be more than 10,000 people, and in terms of force, it is estimated to be tens of thousands.

It is absolutely impossible to control thousands of corpses using the method of controlling dead corpses.

Finally, after crossing the drought, they arrived when Li Qi's magic failed. It was almost dusk.

They had just stopped at the gate for a few seconds when someone recognized the flag and trotted over.

The other party introduced himself, but Li Qi didn't listen to a word. His attention was attracted by the city gate.

A huge gate made of cast iron, covered with wood.

The city wall was three rooms thick. Riding horses and walking through the gate, everyone was relieved to see the shade above their heads. Even with Li Qi's magic, the sun was really shining, so it was better to hide in the shade and feel comfortable.

Li Qi continued to control the magic to ensure that his body was light, otherwise the war horse under his crotch would have been crushed into pulp.

"It seems that we will only be female knights in the future." Li Qi sighed. If he accidentally fell down while he was on top, and the beauty turned into a beauty cake, it would be too bloody and would easily leave a psychological shadow.

After actually entering Gaoxue City, Li Qi began to observe this city-state seriously.

A huge statue is hidden behind the house, revealing only the uncovered dotted hemisphere and the upper body of a delicate woman's head with closed eyes.

There are also a few feathers growing out from behind the temples.

"Harpy?" Li Qi looked at the giant creature that looked like the Leshan Giant Buddha, giving him a slight phobia of giant objects, as if it could tip over and fall down at any time.

If you look carefully, you can see that they are different from the birdmen Li Qi once captured. They don't have that much hair on their bodies, but their faces are just as delicate.

Then I heard the person leading the way take the initiative to introduce: "That's Avada'o!"

"Dao? Where is Arnold?" Li Qi couldn't help but sigh.

Only now do we really understand High Blood City from the local population.

First of all, High Blood City only covers an area of ​​​​one city, but it is larger than an ordinary barony. From the outside, it feels like you can't see the end. When you enter the city, you feel like a cricket crawling into a cage, but suddenly there is no one. The skinned giant broke through the city wall, and he didn't feel out of place.