Chapter 95: City Guardian Beast
Zhou Ling listened to her mother's words and quickly took out the communication talisman to look at it.
Just one glance and disappointment was written all over her little face.
"Empty, nothing received."
Now it has been completely confirmed that the communication talisman is here and is ineffective!
The only way to contact the outside world, apart from the communication talisman, is for one of them to leave this hellhole and bring the message out personally.
As people who need to hide their identities when going out for training, the mother and daughter do not want to show up in public easily and go out to spread this news.
Even with the double insurance of magical and physical disguises, they dare not take the risk easily.
It's easy to pass on a message, but it would be a big deal if your identity is discovered.
"How about we go and ask those monks guarding the city?" Zhou Ling made a small suggestion, but was rejected by her mother.
"No, those cultivators are basically the outer disciples of the Ice Domain Sect. Now that there is no response to the communication talismans they sent out, they may be suspicious, but they are definitely not desperate. Imagine if they knew that everyone in their sect had disappeared and the sect might be gone, how would they feel? Knowing that there is no reinforcement, they will lose the breath they have been holding on to. Can they still defend this city?"
Zhou Li's mind was working rapidly, and his grammar and speech became clearer and clearer.
He placed his fingers on the table, lifting and lowering them rhythmically, tapping the tabletop.
Zhou Ling didn't dare to disturb him. She sat aside, gradually calming down and thinking carefully about her current situation.
"A group of monsters are attacking this city desperately. Besides wanting to eat humans, there may be other reasons."
The mother and daughter stopped thinking almost at the same time, sat at the table, and prepared to discuss their ideas.
"That's right. Usually, when monsters attack a city, they have an agenda. But they usually don't gather all the monsters in a region to attack mortal towns, because the effects of eating cultivators and eating mortals are very different. When monsters attack a city, they usually attack weak sect towns. As long as they take them down, they can have a full meal and greatly increase their strength. But eating mortals is useless. Occasionally, there are monsters attacking mortal cities, but they won't come in large groups. Usually, only a few monsters will do such a stupid thing."
Zhou Ling paused, tapped the table with his fingers again, and continued to ask.
"Mother, I remember we stayed near Winterfell for a while before. Did you live here?"
"You can remember all this?" Zhou Li stared in shock. After the child was born, for safety and for a living, she took her to travel around and lived in many places. But this near the Winter City... How old was the child at that time? She was born not long ago, right? How could such a small kid remember all this?
"Hehe, I have a good memory." Knowing what her mother was surprised about, Zhou Ling shyly gave her a flattering smile, hoping that her mother would not continue to ask this question.
"Okay, you guessed right. We did live nearby and did some small business in the Winter City. Although we didn't live in the city, we went there every day and were familiar with everything in the city. What did you think of?"
"Well, I want to ask, is there anything special in this city that can attract monsters from outside?"
The thing that could make them attack the city at such a cost must be something or someone that could attract them. Since my mother is familiar with this place, maybe she has heard some rumors about it.
"Well, I actually thought of one thing. They want to eat chicken?" Zhou Li answered uncertainly.
Zhou Ling was filled with questions after hearing this.
what? What?
Has Winterfell become an exciting battlefield?
The monsters come in to pick up equipment and fight to win the game?
"No, what do you mean by eating chicken? There are a lot of chickens in this Winter City?"
"You drew a formation at the city gate, so you should have noticed the statues of the gods protecting the city on both sides of the gate."
"I noticed it, it's quite strange, it seems like there's a bird squatting there."
"That's a chicken." Zhou Li slowly corrected her.
As for Zhou Ling, he held his forehead with his hand, and was completely speechless.
"Could it be possible that eating the chicken, the guardian beast of the city, would make one immortal?"
"It won't make him immortal, but his cultivation will definitely increase greatly. Besides, I don't think those ordinary monsters want to eat him. The one who is really after him should be the thing in the Snow-covered Forest that can control monsters."
Ordinary monsters do not have much intelligence. Most of them rely on their own instincts to survive. Although their brains have large capacities, they all seem to be thick-skinned and few of them can really think with their brains.
It is huge in size, extremely strong and has great destructive power.
It is already difficult to deal with such powerful monsters that attack humans based on instinct. If one of them has a brain that can control them, the consequences will be terrible just to think about.
The expression on Zhou Ling's face gradually became solemn, and she naturally thought of her mother's concerns.
"The monsters are attacking the city, why don't the guardian beasts here show up to protect it?"
"There is a legend that says that more than ten thousand years ago, the current snow-covered forest actually covered an area much larger than it does today, and it had a tendency to continue expanding. No one knows the reason, and the people living nearby only know that their living space has been squeezed out by the snow-covered forest. The existence of the snow-covered forest has always been a threat to all sides, and its expansion until it swallows up all mortal towns is a disaster for all sides.
So, at this time, a rooster stood up. The boundary between monsters and spirit beasts was actually a bit vague, and no one knew whether it was a monster or a spirit beast. In short, after it appeared in the world, it was extremely ferocious. With the power of a chicken, it pecked to death all the monsters outside the Snow-Covered Forest that attempted to attack the mortal territory. It also used a pair of chicken feet to flatten all the extended snow-covered forests, returning the mortal territory to the mortals, and later settled down in Winter City.
A chicken, became famous in one battle, became a guardian beast of the city, and was worshipped by people. But later there were rumors that the reason why it settled down in Solstice was because it could not walk anymore. In that cleansing battle, it was seriously injured, and has been staying in Solstice to recover. No one knows whether it is dead or alive. In short, no one has seen its figure for more than ten thousand years. "
Zhou Ling half-lay on the table, listening to the story of a chicken's rise to fame with great interest.
But after hearing this story, she could understand why those monsters had to attack the city.
The Snow-Covered Forest wanted to expand and completely swallow up the North, and it was about to succeed, but a chicken showed up halfway and started killing pests and trampling weeds, shrinking the area that had been expanded.
This is no longer an ordinary hostile relationship, it is simply a mortal enemy that cannot reconcile.
(End of this chapter)
