Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Withering

The rain has not stopped for five days and nights, and the originally clear river has turned into yellow waves.The waves were tumbling, and there seemed to be thousands of fish and dragons roaring in the water. The sky and the ground were full of water. After the loess levee was soaked, it might collapse at any time.Xiyang ordered the hard workers to build a circle of embankments behind the original embankment, and continued to use soil to reinforce the original embankment. The double dam might be able to withstand the rain, Xiyang thought. In the morning, Gonggong looked at the embankment with a solemn expression.Beside him, the heroes of the Knife Hilt Society were eating like hungry wolves.

"Hey, hello." Gong Gong said, "Is this the last meal? Then eat it to death." "Don't be discouraged." Yu Shi said, "You have a crow's mouth." "The crow's mouth is terrible because it always speaks correctly." Gong Gong stood up abruptly, "It's about to landslide!" The three Daohanhui brothers jumped up in horror and looked along Gonggong's finger. The side of the inner embankment in the distance had begun to seep water, and the thin water flow formed an increasingly dense net. "Don't confuse people!" A soldier came over and yelled, "What landslide? The hard workers of Kuafu's department who got up early have been strengthening the inner embankment!"

"The loess here is too soft, and it's nothing like your king. Open your eyes and look there, and the water has begun to seep in." Gong Gong said. "Presumptuous," the soldier was even angrier, "You crow's mouth, is the king a thing or not? Besides, the loess here is still very reliable." "Get down the embankment! Get down the embankment!" Suddenly, the veins on Gonggong's neck burst out, and he shouted desperately at the Kuafu warriors who were compacting the loess on the inner embankment, "It's about to collapse!" Everyone looked at him in surprise, but it was too late. A section of the inner embankment collapsed with his roar, and the Kuafu warriors on the embankment were immediately swallowed up by the torrent.

"They're not dead yet!" The first laborer who rushed to the interface between the inner and outer dikes shouted in surprise. Under the violent flowing water, those Kuafu fighters could still put iron rods and wooden pegs into the remaining embankment, and stabilize themselves against the impact of the current, while the outer embankment built in the distance has prevented the flood from spreading, and The water rolled wildly on the inside of the outer embankment, but could not destroy it.Every Kuafu's face was like a knife and an axe, their muscles were knotted, desperately grasping the last ray of life in their hands, and the water waves slapped their iron chests.Not a single one gave up even though the look of pain seemed to tear their faces apart.

"Rope, go find the rope!" Chi You yelled. The peons hurriedly connected tens of feet of long rope together, and tied the stone to one end of the long rope.When Chi You swung the long rope above his head furiously, there was a sound of breaking wind, a long silver whip locked his wrist, and at the same time, the whip tore a bloodstain on his face. Xiyang stood not far behind Chi You, his handsome face was expressionless, "You step back! I have an idea." "Bring the soil bag!" Xiyang shouted. The hard workers hurried to fetch earthen bags, and they found hundreds of them. Xiyang finally smiled, "Hold it up, and go to the side of Duandi."

"Is it going to be a bridge?" Yu Shi said, "I know!" "Fart! What kind of bridge is made of hundreds of earth bags? When you throw it down, it will be swept away by the water!" Feng Bo said. "We'll know soon." Xiyang said. The peons stood by the broken embankment holding a soil bag, looking at the dying Kuafu soldiers in the waves, wondering, waiting for Xiyang's next order. "Drop it!" Xiyang said. "Throw it down?" The peons glanced at each other, "There are people below, and if you throw it down, they will be crushed down below."

"Drop it!" Xiyang ordered again. Everyone felt a chill in their hearts that was deeper than the fear of the rain and the dike breaking. They thought about what Xiyang was going to do. Chi You threw down the earth bag and pushed away the crowd, irritable like a tiger, "You want to play bury alive?" "Throw it down!" Xiyang's water whip pierced the air, and the arms of the laborers holding the soil bags trembled in pain, and hundreds of soil bags fell down.There was no groaning or wailing, just like people before the landslide had no time to escape.The peons could only watch helplessly as those Kuafu soldiers were hit by the heavy soil bag, let go of the wooden prongs and iron rods, and were brought to the bottom of the broken embankment by the swirling water, and filled the gap in the broken embankment together with the earth bag.

There were only khaki water waves left in front of his eyes, Chi You trembled all over, and lay limp on the edge of the broken embankment. "The prisoners of the Kuafu clan each carried two earthen bags to fill in the broken embankment. If they could come back, they would take two more earthen bags to fill in and find more earthen bags." Xiyang was satisfied. Smiling softly, "The inner embankment must be repaired, and I will promise to the king in the end that I will live and die with this embankment." "General...isn't this killing people? The water is so big, how do you fill it?" A hard worker couldn't help it.

"I can't see that you are a righteous person, pity these Kuafu prisoners? You can help them fill it up, but unfortunately you are too small to hold back much water even if you fill it up." The peon turned pale, hesitated for a while, and quietly retreated into the crowd. The whip shadow of the water god's whip flashed across the air, and Xiyang accurately rolled out Lily from the crowd.Lily's waist was locked with a long whip, as if wrapped tightly by a poisonous snake, she was so frightened that she forgot to cry.Xiyang raised his hand, and the water god's whip hung Lily on the head of the giant waves under the embankment. As long as he shook the whip, Princess Kuafu would be swallowed by the flowing water.

"If you don't go, your princess will die." Xi Yang said. The Kuafu fighters, who were ready to rush out of the crowd with their tools clenched, stopped, and there was silence.The white-haired old man Kuafu who ordered the crowd walked out of the crowd again.At the same time, the Kuafu soldiers dropped the tools in their hands, and there was no anger or murderous intent on their faces. "It's nothing. From the day I became a prisoner of war, I was not prepared to live." The old man said, "I have followed two generations for 23 years, but in the end I could only save the king's flesh and blood. It is a shame." He turned his head Looking at the Kuafu soldiers around him, "Don't listen to my orders. I will no longer be your general since I was captured. Your lives are your own."

"Hey, is it time for this provocative line?" Uncle Feng said, his eyes were red and he was breathing like a cow. The old man suddenly grabbed two earthbags and carried them on his shoulders, roaring and rushed up the embankment and toward the flowing water.This is the charge of an old guy, and his footsteps are on everyone's hearts.He approached the break, roared and threw the earth bag, but was hit in the face by the rolled up waves and fell to the embankment.With a splash of water, that old guy no longer exists in this world. Another Kuafu soldier threw two dirt bags on his shoulders, and lowered his head to rush towards the broken embankment. "Changyue!" Lily called the old guy's name sadly, "Didn't you say you want to go home together?" "Damn it!" Yu Shi said, his voice hoarse. "Don't go! We all have to live until we go home!" Lily shouted. No one paid any attention to her, and one after another Kuafu warriors carried the soil bags on their shoulders and strode up the embankment, just like the legendary king chasing the sun, brave and vigorous. "Are these idiots so twisted?" Feng Bo jumped, "If Xiyang tells them to die, they will die?" "Don't go! Don't go!" Lily watched the figures being swallowed up by the water at the broken end of the levee. Their burly bodies and soil bags became filling materials together. Her tears were surging and her voice was hoarse, " Didn't you agree that when Hongri and I get married...you all want to go?" "Red Sun?" Xi Yang's eyes widened, "You and Hong Sun...are married?" Chi You's heart skipped a beat. "When we are going to get married, you will all be dead!" Lily was saying some thoughtless and sad words. "You don't know? You don't know?" Xiyang smiled in surprise, as if he had heard the most childish and ridiculous thing in the world, "You don't know?" "Are you going to die if you don't speak?" Chi You roared, he had a premonition that something terrible would come out of Xiyang's stinky mouth, and he wished he could pick up a piece of mud and stuff his mouth.He wondered if there was still time. "The red sun assassinated the king and was beheaded at the Xuantian Grand Ceremony. The blood stained the ground for several feet. The person who killed him," Xiyang glanced at Chi You, "is the Shennong Department over there. Young Master Chi You's bodyguard, the brave general Xing Tian, ​​has now received the King's commendation and has been promoted to the general of our Xuanyuan Department." "Shit!" Chi You yelled so loudly, but his voice dropped. Lily trembled as if she had been struck by thunder, she raised her head, Chi You's restless face was reflected in her big black eyes, Xiyang sneered in her ear. Chi You lowered his head, not daring to look at her, he was really afraid of seeing a little girl so desperate, even though she was so tall, taller and burly than her.But something was pulled from her soul, and the eyes gradually lost their vitality and turned a dull gray. She believed in Xiyang, because Chi You didn't dare to look her directly in the eyes. It was too late when Chi You regretted it, Yu Shi and Feng Bo both screamed strangely, like two dying birds, Chi You suddenly raised his head, and saw the long and big figure falling from Xiyang's whip to the water waves . Xiyang felt the light of the whip, and was also stunned.He didn't do any harm, it wasn't necessary, he also wanted to see how sad these ignorant little men and women looked. However, Lily untied the whip herself. "It's so interesting," Xiyang thought, "Kuafu is as stubborn as a lump of iron, including their women." He suddenly felt a burning sensation on his face, and a cloud of burning fire rose from the embankment, and he couldn't help covering his face. Everyone thought it was an illusion, the dazzling person threw himself under the broken embankment, with the most brilliant and turbulent glow on his body, and the color of fire flowed on the turbid water. "Chi You!" The two bosses, Feng Bo and Yu Shi, watched their only younger brother throw himself into the water, and felt that the sky was falling on top of their heads. "Don't be so overwhelmed," Feng Bo murmured, "It's Xing Tian's fault, why are you blaming yourself so much?" In the rolling yellow waves, Chi You swam towards Lily with all his strength. Everyone watched this fool do an incredible feat against the god of water. Everyone thought that he was going to die. They didn't know what kind of water got into this guy's head. No, water has probably poured into his mouth and lungs, carrying sediment, engulfing this person from both inside and outside.Chi You grabbed Lily's hand, which was the result of all his hard work.Then the light of a man is swallowed up by the mighty force of nature, and is only a curl of yellow spray. "Stupid," Xi Yang sneered, "Is this the heroism of the Ministry of Agriculture? Whoa, whoa, whoa, he should at least be a good man who knows how to swim in order to be a hero." Feng Bo jumped out from the crowd, roaring. Xiyang raised his whip, leaving a bloodstain on his face. "Bastard" Feng Bo said again. "What are you scolding me for?" Xiyang raised his whip again, two cross-shaped bloodstains divided Feng Bo's ferocious face into four. "He called you an asshole!" Yu Shi stood beside his brother. Xiyang touched the handle of the knife at his waist, he felt that it was about the same, and Huang Di told him that there is no need to keep these pig-like protons for too long.At this time, the cloudy water surface was burning with a glow, and the glow was directly projected into the gray sky. It looked like there was a force behind the clouds that wanted to tear apart the dense clouds, maybe it was a fire dragon. "Sunrise?" Xiyang was taken aback, looking at the top of his head, it was still pouring rain. The river water is sizzling and steaming under the scorching high temperature, like a huge cauldron burning under the river bed, this river is a good pot of soup. "There are monsters! There are monsters!" Someone yelled in horror. The monster slowly emerged from the water, its whole body was red like burning coals, its hair was also red, like hot threads pulled out of copper water, its eyes were also red, and water splashed into its pupils The surface immediately turned into water vapor.He held Princess Kuafu up high, not letting the heat on his body destroy her dress, but the place he touched was already black and scorched, Lily didn't cry out in pain, she fell asleep like a child, and the child would always wake up when he fell asleep. If you don't wake up, so does Lily. "Hey... Chi You," Yu Shi said, "Did I read it wrong?" Uncle Feng wiped away his tears with emotion, "That's right, it's him! Our three brothers' sense of loyalty is so overwhelming that they must have died in the same year, the same month, and the same day." The scorching Chi You stepped on the river bed to the bank, and then stepped on the embankment and walked up. He knelt down on the ground exhausted, and his body gradually returned to normal. Tears secreted from his still-heated eyes and vaporized in an instant. "Hey, they just want to go home to live." Chi You stared blankly at Xiyang, "Everyone wants to go home, doesn't it?" "Isn't it okay to leave a way to survive?" He suddenly yelled at Xiyang hysterically, looking like a beast that had its minions cut off. "Bastard!" He used the same swear words as the two bosses. "I didn't give you a way out," Xiyang actually smiled, "It was your bodyguard Xing Tian who killed her fiancé, you should make it clear to her." Chi You regained his silence, and sat on the embankment with Lily's body in his arms. The rain sizzled on his body, making Master Yu Feng worry that the too fast quenching would shatter him. "Hey! Hey!" Uncle Feng quickly went up and knelt beside him, "Cheer up! If you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood." "Damn!" Yu Shi also knelt beside him, "I almost thought that I would do my best to die on the same day as you." Xiyang watched their two eldest brothers pat their brother who escaped death on the shoulder, slowly let go of the Water God Whip, and pressed the handle of the knife at his waist.With a smile on his lips, he approached slowly. "The young people are very brave, and the big things need the old guys to do it." Gonggong threw away the bamboo thread for picking his teeth, and patted the soldiers around him, "Your knife is famous." "What?" The soldier was at a loss. "Because your knife killed General Xiyang!" Everyone only heard a soft swish in their ears, and Gonggong took the soldier's knife and strode towards Xiyang.No one can describe his steps towards Xiyang, just as no one can imagine the mountains moving forward.Gonggong's laughter drowned out the sound of the water, and he was incomparably taller in the world at this moment. Xi Yang turned his head abruptly, his eyes were gray with death.He tried to back away, but a terrible force overwhelmed him. Just like that, everyone watched Gong Gong walk under Xiyang's horse in dumbfounded.He bowed his head and let out a long breath, as if exhaling all the stale air in his chest, and then swung his knife! When the knife fell, Xiyang's face slowly split open, and the knife he was about to swing towards Chi You and his back fell to the ground. From the beginning to the end, Xiyang never thought of resisting. Gonggong grabbed Xiyang's head, lifted the body up, and at the same time grasped the knife tightly, showing a cruel smile. "I think people like me are considered scum. They are already obscene. They have done many shameful things, owed favors to many people, and hated many people. They are shameless and coaxing. Insidious, vicious, impersonal, and body odor!" Gonggong brandished a long knife and slashed at Xiyang's corpse like a mad wolf, "But you, how can you be such a bitch? Such a bitch? Such a bitch?" He chopped off Xiyang's head with a knife, and let out a final growl, "Why don't I understand?" He calmed down, turned around slowly, raised Xiyang's head, and showed a bloodstained face and a smile to everyone, "He's dead." Dead silence. Gonggong's finger slowly brushed the blade: "Many years." "It hasn't been like this for many years!" The chief of the Gonggong smiled and raised his knife, laughing wildly, "Do you know about the rebellion?" There was dead silence again, and then all the water control laborers, headed by the soldiers of Kuafu's tribe, roared and waved to the sky excitedly and angrily. "Now you line up," Gonggong pointed at the Iron Tiger Guards with a knife, "Each of you has a bag of earth, ready to rush up the broken embankment. The inner embankment must be repaired!" "You are bold!" a leader of the Iron Tiger Guard said tremblingly. The light of the knife flashed, and the leader fell down, and the blood quietly stained the ground.Gonggong nodded. "You don't have to go, just be a dirtbag." The Iron Tiger Guards looked at each other's pale faces tremblingly. "If you don't go, I'll kill all of you and use them as soil bags." Gonggong said casually, "If you go, there may be a chance of survival. Isn't that what you do to us?" Under his sneer and the blade, countless swords were thrown to the ground.The iron tiger guards carried their earthen bags, lined up silently, and walked past the hard workers one by one, heading for the broken embankment, or to the underworld.Countless pairs of blood-red eyes stared at the iron tiger guards who had been deprived of their weapons. All the hard workers had the same expression as Gong Gong, cruel and even vicious. Chi You suddenly discovered that when these people who had wailed once grasped the life and death of others, they were equally indifferent to life and death.This kind of vengeance waiting to bleed makes Chi You's heart go cold. "Gong Gong!" Chi You struggled to stop those Tiehu Guards, "Let them go, it's hard for them to come here, don't they want to go home like us?" "No?" Gonggong shook his head, "If they go back, the Xuanyuan tribe will have thousands more troops when I attacked Zhuolu. I'm not that stupid." "Attack Zhuolu?" Chi You felt that he heard it wrong, "Are you crazy? Many people will die that way!" "Really? I was originally a lunatic." Gonggong brandished his saber and shouted at those Kuafu warriors: "Pull away the young master, and I will take you to attack Zhuolu. I will help you pay back the hatred of Kuafu and Princess Baihe. After capturing Zhuolu, everything will be destroyed." It's yours!" Looking at the smiling faces of Kuafu Warrior and Gong Gong who rushed forward, Chi You was enveloped in despair from the bottom of his heart, and he felt that something was quietly breaking in his heart.He stood there silently, like an empty shell that had lost its soul. All of a sudden, the sound of iron breaking the wind sounded from behind, and one of the leaders of the Iron Tiger Guards pulled out a long knife from his side. Chi You, who was in a daze, had no time to dodge, and the long knife was already across his neck. "You...you let me go!" The leader panted heavily, "Otherwise I will kill this young master!" There was only a brief panic, and then Gong Gong asked calmly, "Chi You, let me ask you again, are you willing to go to Zhuolu with me?" "I don't want to fight." Chi You shook his head "You heard that," Gonggong said to the leader with a half-smile, "this man is useless to me, you should kill him." "I, I..." The leader didn't expect such a change, dragged Chi You backwards in a panic, and shouted threateningly, "I will really kill him!" Gong Gong sneered: "If you really want to kill him, then why are you moving to the horse?" As soon as he finished speaking, the leader who had dragged Chi You jumped onto a steed in the chaos, and the three soldiers beside him also snatched the last three horses.The four riders rushed away from the crowd, and fled in the direction of Buzhouguan under the eyes of everyone. "Madman!" Master Yu and Uncle Feng shouted anxiously, "You find a way to save Chi You." "Go on your own," Gong Gong shook his head, "What does a cowardly child have to do with me? I just want to kill the Yellow Emperor and go to Kunlun! I don't care about the rest!"