The brilliant sunset crosses the ridge, reflecting the green fields, green forests and golden desert. Under this dazzling warm light, "everything seems so vibrant" seems to be ready to welcome this beautiful day with great interest.

However, for Lixuan City, the "Desert Bride" located on the Silk Road, this seems to be her last day in the world.

Because all the inhabitants of this city will leave her forever and set out for the legendary distant homeland.

Even if the empty city is soon occupied by new residents, and if it continues to exist in one way or another, as long as there are water sources and plants, no oasis in the desert will be idle, but will be broken by poor nomads to compete for it. But she is no longer the civilized beacon that has been struggling by tenacious ancient survivors and has been stalwart for twenty centuries in the barbaric desert.

Although the process is melodious, after a long and cruel battle, barbarism finally defeated civilization.

All the glory and decline, glory and shame are settled in this dust: the history of Lixuan City that lasts for thousands of years is over, and it ends on this day!

However, although the end of this history has been determined a long time ago, it was still rejected by many people when it really arrived.

Even though the beautiful fields have been swallowed up by the desert, even if the prosperous business road has been depressed, the prosperous city has become a pile of great ruins. I can only hold the ruins and remember the glory and prosperity of the past. But this is their homeland after all, their hometown!

No matter how the world changes, how everything in the world changes, their roots are always here and never change.

After entering the underground library covered with thick rock walls again and bid farewell to the founding father of Iolum who was trapped in it and could not leave, "Master Feritayle and Elder Theron walked side by side in the dark underground tunnel. For some reason, both of them were silent for a long time, making the atmosphere seem quite heavy, and only the crisp sound of footsteps repeated between the rock walls.

It was not until they passed through the entire Wei Guang City that Feili couldn't help but drive first...

"...Senior Theron, do you really need to think about it again? Although the enemy was defeated yesterday," but after all, there are many people. As long as you breathe a little, you can at least collect thousands of soldiers. And even if the Tukan people are completely scared, they will never return. But in this cruel desert where the strong prey on the weak, there will always be others who will come to snatch this land.

What should you guys who stay there then do?”

, ""Thank you for your concern, Mr. Marshal Taylor, but there is really no need to worry about us!"

Theron turned his face and gave Feilizhan a sincere smile, "...Thank you very much for everything you have done for this city so that the children can find a bright way out. But we, the old stubborn people with granite heads, may have to live up to your kindness."

He smiled self-deprecatingly, but a faint sense of arrogance was filled with his tone, "...I am old and no longer as young people's enthusiasm. I feel that I can no longer bear the hardships of wandering and rebuilding my home." I can't bear the sorrow of leaving my hometown, because our spirit is here, this lonely city that is about to be destroyed. I have already integrated my life into this forgotten city without any unnecessary distractions..." "" "In order to defend the freedom and glory of this city, I have given everything. My two sons, a brother, and a wife.

Zi and Lao Mother, almost the entire family died on the battlefield. At this time, except for the city under my feet, there is nothing in the world worth my concern... If I am destined to be unable to witness the revival of Lixuan City, then let me watch it disappear with my own eyes!" When he said this, the tone of the Seron's tone became more and more difficult, and he finally couldn't speak anymore. It seemed as if a biting cold current flowed through his whole body. All kinds of negative emotions of resentment, emptiness, loss, and despair instantly filled his heart, and it took a long time to slowly dissipate.

So he took a deep breath, took another step forward, and continued to Feili without looking back: "... Moreover, the sixty or seventy-mile migration route from this place to the Xiangrui berth is not long but still dangerous. If the enemy can really organize again after such a great defeat, we old bones can also exert some of our remaining heat. "To restrain some of their troops, we can give more security to the city's migration team..."

Looking at the slightly hunched and staggering back of the Elder Theron," Feili couldn't help but shake her head in complex eyes and then sighed a long time ago. But she did not continue to persuade her. She just accelerated her pace and followed.

No matter how declining civilization is, when it goes to destruction, there will always be a group of people who are willing to die for it...

The morning sky gradually became brighter and collapsed. The noisy crowd gradually gathered outside the city gate of Lixuan with smoke rising from the wind.

Looking around here, there are charred and twisted corpses around them, and the shining sun shines on the broken limbs and bones, as if they are going to roast them into meat pancakes. The air has begun to smell a terrible odor, and it has attracted many mosquitoes to buzz.

After the assembly call that urged to set off sounded several times, more and more Lixuan urban residents finally began to push the tib cart, carry the baggage, support the children and the wounded, and turned step by step over the wall that had long collapsed into a hill, leaving the city of death that was about to be abandoned.

When they walked to the dry moat, many people looked back at the broken city. They couldn't help but kneel down on the mud and cried bitterly. They shed tears like rain. Then they took out their handkerchiefs or tea jars and carefully collected a handful of mud from their hometown as their final memory.

From now on, they will say goodbye to this hometown that has raised their ancestors forever!

As time went by, the migrant teams from the city dragged into a long and rapid dragon in the suburbs, and then divided into two. "Most of the Naisè remnants who lived in Lixuan City for generations" and the gray dwarfs who remained in the Grey Light City. Naturally, they followed Marshal Ferry Taylor to the Aviation Floating Battleship of the Xiangrui" and then took a free boat back to the Naisère Empire on the Feren continent.

But another group of surviving Tubo Plateau fugitives refused the Xiangrui intake, but upholding their firm belief, led by their living Buddhas and lamas, walked another way across the Gobi Desert, "trying to find a new place to stay in this wilderness." At the same time, contacted all the allies that could help them counterattack the homeland of the plateau and fight for a new war.

In all these people, Feili could not feel any happiness in the aftermath of the disaster, but only a faint desolation and tragic spirit.

The deputy commander of the Giant Bear Legion, Mr. Druid Winnie, who was in the form of a bear, stuck out his tongue while carrying a few children in front of the team. It seemed that he was not very accustomed to the heat of the desert. The old black dragon Holmes hid in a cool place at the foot of the city wall, preparing to wait with Feili for the entire migration team to complete, and then follow up and cut off the rear.

A few hours ago, Feili had already sent Xiao Huagen Long Xuefeng, carrying several seriously injured Nair soldiers, and returned to the Xiangrui floating battleship first, and notified the remaining troops on the battleship to send troops to welcome the migration team in Lixuan City as soon as possible.

On the other side of the ruins of the city wall, the Senator of Theron and hundreds of elderly or disabled people who refused to leave were silently watching the whole city gradually fade away.

They are basically old and weak, missing, and are unwilling to add burden to their families who have left their hometowns or moved; or their whole family dies from war, and are disheartened and think that they have no meaning to live, so they will die at home even if they die.

Fili could only remain silent while sighing and regretting their choice.

One, after all, in many cases, “living is often more painful for some people than dying…

When this team that had moved away from the city finally reached the end, and Marshal Ferry Taylor, who was responsible for the breaking of the rear, turned around and stepped on the dragon saddle, suddenly sounded behind him, as if he was seeing him off: "Lend my eyes to you so that you can see the dangers along the way;

Lend you my ears so that you can hear the call from afar;

Lend me my hands to you and let you cut through the thorns along the way;

Lend me my feet to you and let you go through all the ups and downs;

Lend you my good luck and let you reach the end of your journey;

Give you my dreams to you and let you realize everything in your hope..." Feiri looked back in surprise and found that all the left-behind people led by Elder Theron were singing loudly while smiling and waving to him. Although there were no more words, it almost made people burst into tears.

This song with a simple style and desolate sound was heard by Feili at the night banquet of the Lixuan Palace. It is said that more than 20 centuries ago, "when the ancestors who founded this Lixuan City resolutely left the Nairel Empire, which was gradually swallowed by deserts and monsters in order to preserve the fire of civilization that had been passed down for three thousand years, and walked on the long expedition in the direction of the rising sun, another group of Nairel people who insisted on staying in the ruined land of the old empire sang this sad and sad song to see off these explorers with uncertain futures.

After more than 20 centuries of time passed, the Nesèrel Empire on the Feren continent in the West had long been rebuilt and revived and developed into the world overlord. However, the once prosperous "Desert Bride" Lixuan City, however, gradually reached its final end under the erosion of the desert and the invasion of the barbarians.

The so-called "thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi" is always so surprisingly similar in every change of fate and every reenactment of history.

Therefore, the meaning of the senator Theron in this song is almost the same as the situation in that year.

Once I send you off here, I will leave forever!

In this desolate singing that seemed to have traveled through dozens of centuries, Feri Taylor sighed and lowered his head, trying to suppress the tears in his eyes, and finally looked at this strong city deeply, "and then resolutely stepped onto the dragon saddle and left without looking back.

However, perhaps because of the excessive emotion, it affected the normal observation. Neither Fili nor the Senator of Theron noticed that behind a low sand dune not far away, there was a pair of sharp eyes peeking in the dark, excitedly watching the flow of people gradually fading away."

And he greedily looked at Lixuan City, which had reached its extreme emptiness.
Chapter completed!