928 In the Human World II (2/2)

Sangsang looked at the abandoned dusty city and remained silent for a while. Then she pointed at the celebrating savages by the campfire and said, ”They love me too.”

Ning Que tried to control his anger and asked, ”How could that be the same?”

Sangsang answered calmly, ”They are all my people. I treat them equally.”

Ning Que could no longer hold his anger and thundered, ”If you have not become an idiot, you should know clearly why they died… They died for you!”

Sangsang still showed no sentiments at all. Her voice was still as cold as her expression, or rather, she had no expressions at all. She seemed extremely cold-hearted. ”How about every war they fought other than this one? Throughout the years, humans have been slaughtering each other under my name. Do I need to be responsible for every war they have launched?”

Ning Que looked again into her eyes and said, ”You said so yourself, other than this one.”

He did not say anything further and got onto the carriage. He whipped harshly in the wind and scared away the cooling winds and lights from the campfire.

The carriage passed by the yurts and stopped again.

The moon was not bright and hung above like a hook tonight. Stars studded on the night sky and shedded scattering lights on the Wilderness. The lights slightly brightened up the dark fields and a huge block of rocks.

Dozens of wooden stands were erected among the rocks. Decayed and dried bodies were placed on the stands. According to their ripped clothes, they were definitely Tang soldiers.

Ning Que could not figure out whether it was a flaunt by the Golden Tribe after the war or they were the spy-cavalrymen that the Tang army sent out last year but were arrested and tortured to death.

He looked extremely calm, almost frosting.

Upon a piercing sound, he pulled his blade out of the sheath and hacked to the block from a dozen of miles away. The blade chopped the air silently but an indistinct chilling whistle of the Vermilion Bird was heard.

The block of rocks was divided into two piles upon a thump.

A blazing flame was set off from his blade and landed on the rocks. In an instant, the wooden stands and the corpses of Tang soldiers were burnt into the purest ashes.

Ning Que put his blade back to the sheath. The carriage carried on. He did not get into the carriage but sat on the shafts instead. He listened to the sounds of wheels rolling over the grass and looked into the darkness silently.

After a long while, Sangsang's voice was heard from inside the carriage. ”I thought you were going to kill all those people outside the City of Wei or burn them slowly to death.”

Ning Que did not turn to her and asked indifferently, ”Would you stop me?”

Sangsang said, ”I don't know.”

Ning Que scorned, ”Is there anything you Haotian don't know?”

Sangsang said, ”Because there are things I don't want to predict now.”

Ning Que visualized the handsome boys and charming girls by the campfire and calmed down gradually. He even spared a smile. ”I have told you when we were in the imperial palace of Chang'an, in Qinghe Prefecture and in many other places. Everyone of them will die, with no exceptions. Therefore, I'm not in a hurry.”

The carnival by the campfire, the dancing pairs of young boys and girls, the pious elderly and muddled teenage who just learned to ride — if all these beautiful existences were destroyed completely, what kind of charm it would bring?

Sangsang's voice became a bit chilling, ”Do you think I will allow you to do that?”

Ning Que said, ”That is why I will defeat you first and then kill them all.”

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This was a journey of tracking back. From Lanke Temple to the City of Chang'an was one chapter of their past. From the City of Wei to the west was another. It was the same group of two people with a black horse and a black carriage. However, it used to be a cheerful journey with clouds following them from above and birds singing along their way. Whereas today there was nothing but silence.

After they left the City of Wei, for some unknown reasons Ning Que became very quiet. He seldom talked to Sangsang and stared blankly at the fields for most of the time.

When they passed by Shubi Lake, he had originally planned to stay overnight and let Sangsang relive their past. Then, he suddenly changed his mind and carried on that night.

Sangsang knew that he was in a mood, but she did not care. At least it seemed to Ning Que that she did not care. Indeed she did have more important matters to care about.

Haotian could predict anything in this world. She knew that their journey would lead to a satisfying end. Due to some thoughts she came across when she was pondering in the vast fields between Heaven and Earth, she confirmed again that there was one thing she could not predict.

It was because she could not predict it that she had to go and see for herself. When she finished touring the human world, she would like to see the people and things that are beyond the human world. Then she should finally leave.

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