165: I'd like to read Chapter 165, but I'm also a little hesitant.

With the lizard running blindly and desperately, Xie Feng and his group finally rushed to the outer village of the Old Capital.

Leaning against the low wall, one could see the Old Capital not far away.

The outer city wall of the Comorion Old Capital was built from rough, heavy grayish-white stones, with the gaps filled with frozen soil and fragments of bones. Having been repeatedly eroded by the cold wind of Hyperborea for hundreds of years, it still stood firmly.

On the path outside the city wall, villagers in twos and threes were carrying luggage and holding children, hurrying towards the city gate. Their faces showed a certain excitement of finally being released after being suppressed for a long time.

Several young villagers whispered to each other as they walked, their voices cheerful and loud, as if discussing a good show that had just ended.

They boasted to the people around them.

Xie Feng stopped a middle-aged villager carrying a bundle of firewood.

He switched to the common language of the northern continent and asked casually for directions: "Brother, why is the city so lively today? We fled here from the Northern Cities and just walked here. Seeing so many people rushing into the city, is something big happening?"

The middle-aged villager jerked the bundle of firewood upward, wiped the sweat from his face, and his tone still carried excitement:

"You came just in time! Today, a bastard was just beheaded in the central square. He is a half-breed between a Voormis and a human, and was publicly beheaded by the Lord Wizard! He usually pretended to be a normal person; if it weren't for the Lord Wizard's meticulous observation, who could have guessed he was a half-breed? Leaving such a half-breed in the city is a curse, and sooner or later he will lure the White Worm over!"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, his spit flying far away in the cold wind, and he added another sentence: "Since you are also refugees, after entering the city, go to the central square to take a look. That bastard's head is still hanging on the altar pillar!"

Xie Feng's expression froze.

Half-breed, Voormis, beheaded.

These words simultaneously triggered the materials he had browsed when running TRPGs on Blue Star deep within his consciousness.

He suppressed the trace of alertness in his tone and asked another question:

"What is that half-breed's name? Do you know?"

The middle-aged villager tilted his head to think, shifted the bundle of firewood to his other shoulder, and answered casually:

"It seems to be called Kengasing... Kengaxin Zaun. Yes, that's the name. The Lord Wizard said this is the bastard name passed down from the Voormis side."

Good job, truly good job.

It's actually this time point?! Damn ancestor!!!

Isn't there only three days left before the destruction of the Old Capital?!

Xie Feng's worry was not groundless.

Kengaxin Zaun is a demigod in the cthulhu mythos, first appearing in one of Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean series of novels, 《The Testament of Athammaus》.

And this person was no ordinary human half-breed.

Kengaxin Zaun was the culprit behind the decline of Comorion, the capital of the northern continent.

He was a descendant of Tsathoggua.

According to the 《Book of Eibon》, he was born from the union of a girl named Sfatlicllp, the daughter of Tsathoggua's son, and a Voormis.

To put it bluntly, his great-grandfather was the God of Toads!!!

Xu Liujing had asked before how the Old Capital was destroyed.

Very simple.

In an ambush battle, Kengaxin Zaun was captured and thus brought back to the capital Comorion, where he was sentenced to death.

Subsequently, Kengaxin Zaun was beheaded, and after his execution, his corpse was also buried on the same day.

However, on the second morning, Kengaxin Zaun resurrected!

After his second arrest, Kengaxin Zaun was sentenced to death again, and people began to attribute the reason for Kengaxin Zaun's resurrection from the dead to his extraordinary Bloodline.

After the second decapitation, people buried Kengaxin Zaun's body and placed huge stones on the burial site to prevent him from resurrecting and eating people again.

However, Kengaxin Zaun resurrected again, and even devoured one of the eight judges in full view of the public.

Immediately he was arrested and executed for the third time.

This time, he directly turned into a monster, and just as the White Witch predicted, destroyed the Old Capital Comorion.

"You... chopped him up, how was the corpse handled?" Xie Feng maintained a smile, but it was obvious he was about to break down.

"The head is hung on the altar pillar, and the body is nailed to the pillar. The Lord Wizard said to let everyone in the city see, this is the end of a bastard! Only after the Wizard finishes his work can he be buried."

After finishing, the middle-aged villager jerked the firewood bundle again, walked towards the city gate, and shouted back after a few steps.

"If you want to find a place to stay, there are a few empty houses in the West City, first come, first served!"

Tu Ziguan leaned to one side and had already judged from Xie Feng's pace that something was wrong.

"What happened?"

Xie Feng briefly and concisely introduced what happened in the city.

The side of the low wall became quiet.

"The Old Capital Comorion was destroyed in the White Witch's prophecy, but the White Witch's prophecy did not state the cause of the destruction. In later historical records, the one who destroyed the Old Capital was him."

Xie Feng picked up his blind cane from the low wall, turned around to face the direction of the Old Capital's city gate, where the outlines of those stone pillars over the square could still be faintly seen inside the gate, with a small, blurry black dot hanging on top of the tallest stone pillar.

Without approaching to look, he knew that was Kengaxin Zaun's head.

"What should we do then? Are we still going in?"

Xu Liujing asked somewhat tremblingly; coming out this time really opened his eyes.

"We are not participating in this matter. The main quest of this expedition is to find the wizard to ask out the whereabouts of Noph-Keh, and then find the God of the Ivory Throne. What will happen to the Old Capital tomorrow, and how Kengaxin Zaun will destroy this city, has nothing to do with us. Take advantage of tonight to find that wizard living in the abandoned temple, and leave the city immediately after asking for the intelligence."

Zhou Jinglan made a quick judgment and then gave a plan.

"If the wizard asks us why we don't enter the city to stay for a few more days, just say we are rushing to do business in the New Capital Uthur-Tulu. If the wizard is not in the temple tonight, we must leave the city before Kengasing resurrects tomorrow morning. If the city gate is closed tomorrow, Tu Wu, use your gun to open the way, and we will charge out."

Zhou Jinglan's tone was calm, having already deduced all possible directions in his head.

Tu Ziguan jumped down from the low wall and patted the cake crumbs on his knees.

After listening aside, Xu Liujing gave up thinking and directly began to check his remaining inventory of Seal rune stones.

"These people in the Old Capital don't know what they have provoked, but we know, so we must be smarter than them. Enter the city first, find the wizard, ask the way, and leave."

The Third Princess summarized and took a step forward.

Xie Feng's mood was a bit contradictory; he wanted to see Kengaxin Zaun resurrect a bit, but didn't quite dare to tell everyone, fearing he would be beaten to death.

"Forget it, forget it."

If they really stayed here for a day and couldn't run away when the time came, they would really be done for.

This demigod was not like those demigods in other original novels; he was powerful, cannibalistic, and ruthless, so they had to run when they needed to.