"The city we are going to is the City of Pride! The most magnificent among the Choke Points between the Human and Demon Continents." Ku w.a.n.g said with a huge smile on his face and a small sparkle in his eyes. It seemed like he was very excited to reach the city and would get even more excited when the topic of the city arises. Zhu Long smiled and shook his head, he could guess that Ku w.a.n.g was excited just from his voice, "I guess this fellow is very excited to reach the city, I would also like to know what his excitement is about.." Zhu Long looked towards Ku w.a.n.g, "Brother Lin, Why did you say that the City of Pride is the most magnificent city? Also, what is so special about the city that"s got you so excited?" Zhu Long asked in a straightforward manner. Ku w.a.n.g"s face turned red, he seemed to be embarra.s.sed just by Zhu Long pointing out that he was excited. Ku w.a.n.g coughed to clear his throat as well as to reduce his embarra.s.sment and said,"Brother Lin, The choke points are named after the seven sins. The reason for the name, I don"t know but what I do know is that the City of Pride is so magnificent is probably due to the reason that it"s named after the sin of pride.." Zhu Long nodded as he heard Ku w.a.n.g"s explanation. It seemed logical for a city to be named after the sin of pride to be prideful of it"s ways. It would be ironic if the city was small and rundown, but that wasn"t the case, according to what Ku w.a.n.g had said, the city was huge and magnificent, filled with whatever you require.Ku w.a.n.g suddenly started to sneak, Zhu Long followed closely. "Hey you! Come over here!" A harsh and angry voice came into Zhu Long"s ears, the voice seemed to come from a distance away but Zhu Long could tell that the speaker was yelling very loudly. "That"s it, Now follow me!" The voice one again came into Zhu Long"s ears, "It seemed like that demon is taking some human prisoners to someplace else or someone else.." Zhu Long said to himself. "Captain! We have brought some humans from the nearby villages. This one in particular is very special, I"m sure that Captain will be happy.." The same voice came into Zhu Long"s ears, but this time it seemed to be submissive and a lot more fearful. "Good, bring the one you speak of to me, I"ll be the one to judge whether it is good or bad." Another voice came into Zhu Long"s ears, it was extremely deep and scary. After a few seconds of silence, The voice continued, "Yes, this is truly a hidden gem. I bet that this one would make a great catalyst.. You have done good, I"ll make sure to reward you and your team, now tell me what about the other humans, are there some cultivators?" The voice sounded angry but it"s contents were of delight, which confused Zhu LOng. "Sir, some of the rest are low stage cultivators but a majority of them are mortals.." The prior voice said in a more fearful tone, Zhu Long could guess that the demon was afraid of angering the Captain in front of it. "Hmm, Well this one is more than enough to satisfy, the rest are also good. KIll the mortals and bring the cultivators to the cells." The voice replied, seeming to be a little bit disappointed by the fact that the rest of the humans were low stage cultivators and mortals. Zhu Long sighed as he heard the conversation, it was very similar to the conversation that he had heard before in the demon army camp before this one. Zhu Long had guessed that all the army camps must be gathering up cultivators for something big.
"Noo! Mother No! Don"t kill her! Please I beg you please! I will do anything you ask but please let my mother go.." A girls voice reached Zhu Long, it seemed to be cries of sorrow,
"This.." Zhu Long stopped following Zhu Long and looked towards the direction of the voice, a hint of sorrow in his eyes. Ku w.a.n.g stopped walking and looked towards Zhu Long, "Maybe this man isn"t as cold as he looks to be.." Ku w.a.n.g had tried to ignore all the voices that came from the demon army camp but couldn"t ignore the girls voice. He also felt that he should go and save the girl. "Brother Lin, I know what you are feeling but you should remember your word. Going to save that girl as well as the other prisoners would do nothing but harm us, we don"t exactly know what the demons are doing with them but if it is something very important for the demons, which I think it is then the both of us would be targeted by the entire demonic army, which we don"t have the power to deal with at all. h.e.l.l, I bet that killing that captain would take all out efforts, and by the time we kill the captain, the soldiers would escape or call for reinforcements. So I repeat myself, I hope brother Lin doesn"t do anything on his own.." Ku w.a.n.g said sternly, he had also felt like saving that girl but he knew that it would only bring harm to everyone. He had to make his heart cold and ignore the cries and continue on forward. Zhu Long nodded, "I know the consequences of being involved, It"s just… Leave it, brother Ku, let"s continue, I don"t want to hear any more cries…" Ku w.a.n.g nodded and continued on his way, Zhu Long sighed and started to follow Ku w.a.n.g. Lucky for the two of them, they had reached far enough to not hear any more cries.
After walking a few more minutes, Ku w.a.n.g started to increase his pace, after some more moment"s he was running. It looked like both of them were in the clear now, far away from the demon army camp. "Brother Lin, A few more minutes of running then we will start to see the city, what the paintings I"ve seen of it, The entire city looks magnificent even from far away." Ku w.a.n.g said with excitement. Zhu Long smiled when he saw Ku w.a.n.g"s enthusiasm. After another few minutes of running, Zhi Long finally saw a huge city, it looked like it was s.h.i.+ning. The city has a huge wall around it, which seemed to protect from anyone sneaking in or trying to sneak out of the city. Zhu Long could also see an enormous gate at the front side of the walls, which seemed to be the entrance. "So, This is the City of Pride." Zhu Long said as he looked towards the City. Ku w.a.n.g nodded as he also stared towards the city in awe, "It looks even more amazing that what was portrayed in the drawings. Heck, It looks a million times better!" Ku w.a.n.g was surprised, he saw the paintings and didn"t expect the city to be this amazing, the actual city looked many times better than all the paintings he had seen till now. He felt very excited and rushed towards the city, Zhu Long smiled once again and followed closely.
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Hey Guys, There is no Chapter for Detective Carter today.
I"m giving my friend a shoutout, he is new to this and I hope that some of you guys try out his book. I was given his permission to post his prologue, you guys can read it and if you like it, you can continue on his novel, Choices of Life and Death Author- s.h.i.+nigami-2.
Prologue
A group of old friends gather out and make a group of six members as they plan to excavate, find and study about the ancient places and earn money from selling the antiques they dig up from the excavation sites for their living.
They have been going through many excavation sites and studying about the past of the sites and sold most of the antiques whereas some of them were kept in their home as a show piece or a token for the remembrance of the place.
But as they are excavating through a very old ruin, there is something waiting for them, something sinister.
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