Unconsciously, the battle in Eternal City was divided into four battlefields: Pu Zixuan and Hanba fought one-on-one in the Shadow Castle, Hong Yasha captured Chen Shuqing and the other three in the North District, and a large-scale melee between people and the slings in the square around the Shadow Castle, and the remaining fourth battlefield was led by Xiong Xiao.

The structure of the Eternal City is divided into five distinct floors from the inside to the outside: the core area is the Shadow Castle, which is for the discussion between the Hanba and the Corpse King; the surrounding auxiliary square is the second floor for the Hanba to gather troops and train troops; the outermost desert area is the residential area for slaves; the residential area is the stone forest belt where zombies live, and the circle between the stone forest belt and the square is a variety of houses, most of which are for the Corpse King and the White Bone servants, and some are functional buildings.

Xiong Xiao’s target was the alchemy room located in the northwest direction. His original intention was to destroy this room and the alchemy furnace inside. He didn’t know that at this time, just below the alchemy room, a group of humans were struggling hard.

Below the ground, in a spacious and dark space, a blazing fire was burning in the middle. The flames passed through a large hole at the top and went straight to the alchemy furnace on the ground.

This is not a strange thing. What is terrible is that the fire is not caused by the combustion of some kind of fuel, but is generated by the rotation of a hundred ring-shaped "permanent motion machines" around it. The reason why these "permanent motion machines" are always operating is not based on mechanical principles, but are clearly caused by a slave who stays in it and keeps running.

In a nutshell, the fire in the alchemy furnace in the alchemy room was born by a hundred underground humans running continuously, and these humans were recruited from the residents of the desert in the name of "serving the king".

Cang Rui, the son of Yuansheng, was one of them. Although he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, he was running expressionlessly like other runners.

Their running was not willing. There were eight sword-holding white bone soldiers in this basement walking back and forth around the supervisor. It was obvious that if someone dared to slacke in work, he would definitely suffer a lot of flesh and blood.

Soon, a woman on Cang Rui's left stopped running, walked down the ring, supported her hands on her knees, and gasped for a long time. After a while, she begged to a nearby bone soldier: "I can't do it anymore... I need a rest..."

The bone soldier walked up to the woman and kicked her left waist rudely. The woman fell to the ground weakly. The bone soldier had no mercy and shouted angrily: "Why do you want to rest again? One hour and one quarter of an hour are the rules set by the King of Fighting Corpse! You have only been running for half an hour? You are really not good at this newcomer!"

The woman vomited on the ground for a while, barely half-supported her body with her right hand, and covered her slightly raised belly with her left hand, feeling weak: "I may...maybe I'm pregnant..."

The white bone soldier snorted coldly: "Why do you come to do this errand when you are pregnant?"

The woman replied sadly: "I have never known about pregnancy before... I hope you can tell the King of Fighting Corpse to see if others can replace me."

"Tsk, this is the first time I have encountered such a thing. Female slaves are really troublesome..." The bone soldier complained, thought for a while, and said, "I will report to the King of Fighting Corpse, but before that, you are still a glorious 'hot slave' and you are not allowed to rest without time. You can return to the perpetual motion machine now!"

The woman begged sadly: "But... I'm weak all over now... Even if I go up, I can't run anymore... I hope you can let me rest for a while. After I get better, I will go back to do my duty."

"Stop fucking nonsense!" The bone soldier kicked the woman again and said angrily, "A rest for an hour, and less than time, I will allow you to rest. That is my dereliction of duty! The King of Fighting Corpse blamed me, but I can't afford it! Go back quickly, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

The woman slowly got up when she heard the sound. Before she could return to the ring, she suddenly couldn't help but cry.

"You...you damn! Serve the King of Drought is the most glorious thing in the world. Many people can't ask for it! Why are you crying? Are you doing this sacred errand?" The bone soldier became more and more angry. He raised the butcher knife in his hand and shouted, "I said it last time, let me go up to me, don't force me to kill people!"

Although the smell of gunpowder was full of gunpowder, no one of the other people running on the ring dared to plead for the woman, and continued to run without any attention.

After all, they were all exhausted and couldn't take care of themselves, so they didn't have the time to manage other people's affairs.

In extreme danger, Cang Rui took the initiative to rescue the woman and said, "Let her rest for another quarter of an hour, just take it as if it was, give her my rest time. Next, can I run for two hours in a row?"

The woman seemed unable to believe that in such a desperate situation, there would be someone to lend a helping hand, and immediately looked at Cang Rui with great gratitude.

The white bone soldier pointed at Cang Rui's head and said sternly: "Heroes save beauty? Haha, such heroes usually don't live long. Then, don't be so tired that they cry and call their parents."

After saying that, the white bone soldier hummed twice, agreed to Cang Rui's proposal, and patrolled elsewhere.

When the bone soldiers walked away, the woman walked to Cang Rui and bowed and whispered: "Thank you, Brother Cang Rui, for your help!"

Cang Rui smiled slightly, ran and asked, "What do you call me?"

The woman said, "My name is Shuoling."

Cang Rui asked again: "Why did they ask you to do this errand?"

Shuoling looked around and saw that several white bone soldiers were far away from the two of them. He whispered: "Brother Cang Rui, you are a good person, so I might as well say it straight. Over the past few months, those who have been called to Shadow Castle to work as coolies are all named by Drought. He suspected that some slaves were going to rebel, so many women were taken away. On the surface, they were working for Shadow Castle, but in fact they took us hostages. I was arrested twenty days ago, and my husband was named Haotian, which was his key object of suspicion."

Cang Rui had never heard such disrespectful words from Hanba. He was stunned and even his running pace was messed up and almost fell off the ring. After finally stabilizing his body, he panicked and said in panic: "You...how could you say such a rude word? No, no, I just pretended that I didn't hear it. Don't say that in the future!"

Shuoling refused to give in, "Brother Cang Rui, think about it carefully. Why did they ask you to do this job more than 20 years ago and never let you go back for so many years? The old man Yuanshi had already figured it out very well. It was because as the gatekeeper of the Eternal City, his status was very sensitive. Drought was afraid that he would escape, so he chose his son - you came here as a hostage. In this way, even if the old man Yuanshi had great courage, he would not dare to have a second thought!"

Cang Rui was stunned. He hadn't thought about the truth of the matter. However, like the early Yuanshi, he always used the word "glorious mission" to convince himself, and would never allow any disrespect to the drought-ba to arise in his heart. He ran hard under the ground for twenty-three years.

Cang Rui did not dare to face Shuoling's sincere eyes and murmured: "But, King Hanba allowed me to meet a woman here and let us get married. We gave birth to a daughter, and he also sent my daughter back to my father's place. If it were hostages, why would King Hanba be so kind to me?"

Shuoling sneered: "That was to add a hostage to restrain the old man from Yuan Dynasty. Brother Cang Rui, you don't know yet. Your daughter Ningdie turned ten years old a few months ago. She was also named by Hanba himself and sent to Shadow Castle to serve him. Now she is missing. When their grandfather and grandson separated, I was right next to her. Both of them were clearly in pain, but in front of Hanba's soldiers, they had to pretend to be happy. Ningdie is only ten years old, and she is so sensible... I really admire them so much!"

Cang Rui suddenly encountered a bolt from the blue. After a while, Leng Ruobingshuang said: "Shuoling, what happened in the city over the past few days, why did everyone become like this?"

Shuoling said: "A white bone soldier, after learning about the evil of the drought, found out with conscience that he actually came to find the people in the city and told us all the scams carefully compiled by the drought! Nowadays, too many people no longer believe in the drought. However, the white bone soldier is just a traitor on the ground and does not know the secrets under the alchemy room. Therefore, your father Yuanshi still doesn't know that you are here..."

The two of them were just talking to each other. The bone soldier had broken back before, pointed to the ring, and shouted to Shuoling: "Okay, it's a quarter of an hour, you can go up to me now!"

"Yes!" Shuoling put away her conversation, responded coldly, returned to her ring, and ran in small steps.

Then, the white bone soldier walked to Cang Rui, raised his hand and grabbed Cang Rui's left ear, and said arrogantly: "Remember, you have to run for two hours in a row. If you can't do it, I will cut off your ear and drink!"
Chapter completed!