Facts have proved that even a two-hundred-year-old skeleton will become angry if someone steps on it and hurts the foot. Shen Tang's words hit Wei Cheng's scar, and he turned his head sharply, with flames dancing in his eyes. Explodes in a straight line, full of anger.

Shen Tang smiled awkwardly: "Did I guess wrong?"

Wei Cheng: "..."

He didn't open his mouth, but the two clusters of flames in his eyes were full of brightness.

Just when Shen Tang was secretly on guard, preparing for Wei Cheng's sudden killing move, he said in a solemn tone: "You guessed it right."

Shen Tang: "...6."

If you guessed it right, you guessed it right. Why are you doing this?

Wei Cheng didn't know the meaning of "6", but he expected that Shen Youli couldn't spit out ivory, so he was probably mocking himself: "Don't think that I am showing goodwill to you by not taking action. I have turned against my uncle and wants to pursue you. There is no conflict in life. This place is quite deep from the ground. If it collapses accidentally, no matter how talented you are, you will not be able to escape. Do you understand?"

Wei Cheng is a skeleton and does not need to breathe. Shen Tang and Gong Xiqiu are living people. The need for air for brave warriors is much greater than that of ordinary people. If they are really trapped in such a deep underground, they will suffocate to death.

Shen Tang pointed to his nose.

He said: "To be honest, I am a practitioner of both civil and martial arts."

With such a thickness, a brave warrior cannot penetrate it before the oxygen is exhausted, but she is also a literary scholar, so she can definitely use the spirit of words similar to "Replacing Flowers and Trees" before she burps. Before she and Gong Xi Qiu came down, they had already Marked.

Wei Cheng's palms closed and opened again.

Finally, he suppressed his anger and said: "Humph!"

Shen Tang was shocked.

Her behavior just now also had a testing purpose.

Wei Cheng is tolerant in every possible way, but things may not be simple.

Gong Xiqiu secretly touched Shen Tang's fish scale wristband with his fingers, not to persuade Shen Tang to be patient, but to give her a secret signal. If you really want to take action, then do it together. You can't suffer any loss.

Shen Tang gave him a calm look.

This temporarily dug secret passage is really dark. Shen Tang has good night vision, but it can't be compared with someone like Gong Xiqiu, who takes advantage of martial arts totem benefits and ignores the darkness. Wei Cheng's two holes simply have their own firelight, giving Shen Tang Tang provides great convenience.

Wei Cheng led the way, and the three of them went further and further down.

Shen Tang felt something was wrong, so he approached Gong Xiqiu and said, "Gong Xiqiu, don't you think there is a problem in this place? Neither of us feels the discomfort of insufficient air supply here."

This question was quickly answered.

There is an underground city built by the Gods Society underground.

There was only a pile of ruins left in the magnificent city, and only the ventilation system built by the sophisticated Yanling was still functioning. Shen Tang followed Wei Cheng and Gong Xiqiu and jumped out of the pit, and his vision suddenly became clearer. Not far away, a slightly embarrassed Jimo Autumn has been waiting for a long time.

Gong Xiqiu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. Seeing that he had not changed much before he left, he was relieved. He wanted to give his eldest brother a hug for the rest of his life, but to his surprise, the eldest brother walked right around him and rushed towards Mama. Saluting and greeting, Gong Xiqiu dropped his hand in frustration.

He said angrily: "If you lose money, you will pay for it."

Fortunately, he had ridiculed Xun Ding that he was just adding someone to his family, but he didn't expect that his biggest talent was not Xun Yong'an, but his own brother. The eldest brother couldn't see himself when he saw Mama, which really chilled Snake Snake.

Gong Xiqiu was angry, but he still moved his legs forward honestly.

Wei Cheng was thoughtful on one side.

Isn't the Gongxi clan as united as he thought?

"High Priest of Jimo, you've had a hard time on this trip."

"It's not hard work, but fortunately it's not a disgrace." The face similar to Gong Xiqiu's smile broke out, and the corners of his eyes were curved, which greatly neutralized the cold and unruly temperament of the facial features. He looked very well-behaved and friendly. Jimo Qiu Knowing who Shen Tang wanted to see most at the moment, he didn't exchange much greetings. He gently explained the twists and turns he had experienced not long ago, "Wei Lou has been trapped. Your Highness, go to see him now?"

"Wei Lou?"

This is an unfamiliar name.

Shen Tang was stunned for a moment before realizing that Wei Lou should be the secular name of the Grand Master of the Eternal Life Sect: "Of course I want to meet him."

If he wasn't sure how far Wei Cheng would turn against him, he would rather let Wei Lou meet King Yama than meet him. As an enemy, there is really nothing to talk about with Wei Lou.

The ruins in the city, on the side of dead trees.

When I came here, I didn't see Wei Lou himself. I only saw a collapsed tree that even three or five big men couldn't hug.

Countless broken tree roots are exposed.

It was obvious that the tree had been dead for a while.

"Where are the people?"

"above."

Shen Tang followed what Jimo Qiu pointed and raised his head.

Above this dead tree, hundreds of tree roots intertwined to form a huge ball. At first glance, it was thought to be a tree crown. Shen Tang had not seen it for the first time due to the angle of view. Jimo Qiu said from one side: " Wei Lou had some tricks that were really hard to catch, so he boldly used this incarnation to trap him here, and he couldn't break free."

Shen Tang didn't pay attention to the details of Jimo Qiu's words. His attention was focused on the ball of roots. There was indeed a breath of life in it. Wei Lou obviously heard their conversation.

Jimo Qiu raised his wooden stick and waved it towards the prison cage.

The tree roots pulled apart to both sides in response.

Revealing the white-haired scribe sitting inside.

Except for his slightly disheveled appearance, Wei Lou had no visible injuries. He didn't have any extreme reaction when he saw Shen Tang. He just glanced away lightly. Shen Tang felt a little regretful. If Wei Lou was seriously injured now and died later, how much could he have saved her. Trouble.

At this time, Wei Cheng, who had always been quiet, suddenly spoke.

"Uncle, you have also seen the person, can you tell me?" As a skeleton, Wei Cheng will not be tired, but his tone at this moment is full of fatigue, "I just thought about it for a long time, a hundred years ago, or even earlier, I have thought about it one by one. I really can’t think of it, uncle, when did you change? Why did you betray the Lord? You clearly know that we are just one step away!"

If you have never seen it, you will not regret it.

It just so happened that he had been in such close contact with the top!

The more this happens, the more unwilling and angry you become.

For more than a hundred years after the fall of the Wu Kingdom, whenever he had free time, he would think about who betrayed his lord and the Wu Kingdom, causing them to fall short of their achievements and regrettably stopping before they could unify the world! He had doubted many people, even himself, Only there is no uncle!

The blow brought by this truth was bigger and more intense than when he was seriously injured and begged his uncle for death, when he woke up and saw his body cooking in a pot, or even when the city was destroyed and his family was wiped out! He wanted to crush the other man's neck and throw him away. Put it into a stone mortar and smash it into minced meat to feed the dogs!

In the end, reason prevailed over emotion.

Wei Cheng only wants the truth.

Shen Tang was surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect that it was Wei Lou who wanted to see her. Just when she was about to speak, Wei Lou sneered and asked quietly: "Only one step away? Do you really think that's the only step away?"

Shen Tang took back his stepped foot.

It is rare for uncles and nephews who are over two hundred years old to quarrel.

Wei Cheng was very sure, clenching his palms tightly to restrain his boiling anger: "It's just one step away! Wei Lou, that's just one step away from unifying the world! My lord, you and I, together with people like Yunda, are living as neither humans nor ghosts. Who is not here for this?" Lose everything in one step?"

Doesn’t the master who refines the Gu know its disadvantages?

Do soldiers who take poisonous insects know its disadvantages?

The civil and military colleagues who are under the pressure of food shortage, and finally have to feed on the corpses of the enemy and even their own dead soldiers as food, do they not know these shortcomings? No one is a brainless fool! Just to end the war with war, Kill, stop killing!

If this move can end the most disgusting sufferings of troubled times, unify the world, and prevent future generations from having to make the same mistakes again, then it is worth it!

result--

On the last step before climbing to the top, the cornerstone was taken away by one of his own people. He took a missed step and fell to pieces. The Wu Kingdom was destroyed overnight.

How could he accept this?

If Wei Cheng were still flesh and blood, his blood would definitely rush to his brain.

Faced with Wei Cheng's accusations and questions, Wei Lou's reaction was to chuckle. He glanced at Shen Tang and said, "Does Lord Shen think so too? Back then, the Wu Kingdom was just one step away from unifying the world?"

The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond.

I didn't expect that the conflict between the uncle and nephew could involve me.

Shen Tang looked at Wei Cheng's uncle and nephew's scorching eyes and said softly: "I am not from that era, and I don't know what you have gone through. Just based on my personal opinion and several years of experience as a country leader, I think it is still far away. Wu Guo's disaster is due to Overdrafting the population in exchange for strong combat power can certainly defeat powerful enemies in a short period of time, but what happens after victory? The most important thing is that the country is stable, the people have enough food and clothing, and live and work in peace and contentment."

She felt that Wu Guo had taken too big a step.

Just promote it and not engage in domestic construction.

"... Assuming that Wu State really unified the world, how many people would there be in Wu State? Thirty million? Or fifty million? With so many people, the amount of food consumed in one day is an astronomical figure. It would take several months to grow the food. Before the turmoil subsides and before the new seedlings are harvested, do you and your rulers have any countermeasures? Do the grain depots have several months of grain storage to hedge against risks?"

Shen Tang's voice was so calm that no emotion could be heard.

She has no likes or dislikes towards the Wu Kingdom, which has been destroyed for more than a hundred years.

However, this country has been destroyed for hundreds of years and there are still a group of old antiques who remember it. Thinking about it, it did have an impressive charm back then.

Shen Tang can only use his own experience to evaluate objectively.

"With such a large border, how long does it take to communicate from east to west, north to south? Can the royal court's decrees be issued to all places in time? How well does the royal court control local forces? By conquering the entire territory by force, the Wu Kingdom is nominally unified, but if it cannot control the local areas, In fact, it is no different from being torn apart and warlords acting on their own. The powerful local gentry can still do whatever they want, and the lives of the common people are still in dire straits. As long as ordinary people don't have enough to wear, enough to eat, and no land to farm, they will eventually be forced to go to a dead end. Nothing will happen. Nothing has changed…”

From Shen Tang's point of view, it is still early for the Wu Kingdom to be unified.

Territorial reunification is only the first step in a long journey of thousands of miles.

He made a long speech, which made Shen Tang feel thirsty.

Uncle and nephew Weicheng never interrupted.

After a while, Wei Cheng calmed down, and the fire in his eyes finally stopped being so fierce: "Is this also your reason?"
To be continued...