Chapter 9 Chapter 6 Tianxiang
"Wait a minute." A voice suddenly reached everyone's ears.The sound was not loud, but it was like lightning flashing across the dark blue sky, causing everyone to turn their heads in surprise.
Qing Luo was pushed to the ground, and suddenly seeing the people gathered in the square erupting like a wave, they cheered together: "Lu Mo! Lu Mo!"
When the name that had been haunting Qing Luo's heart for a long time was uttered from the mouths of these people, it made him feel like he was electrocuted.At first, he thought he had ignited a hallucination by repeating the name subconsciously; but when he came to his senses, he found that they were indeed chanting the seemingly magical name.
"Lumo..." Qing Luo also called out softly, and the two words collided lightly in his mouth.Only then did he understand why the mountain king was beating so hard in his hand just now.
This name is like a light, illuminating the rough and dirty square.
These vulgar and humble people from the lower city respectfully backed away from the hatchback, and made way for an alley. At the end of the alley, there stood a figure of extraordinary grace. dancer.Behind her is the bald and one-eyed Tie Kunnu, the loyal guard of Tianxiang Pavilion.Holding an iron rod, he was a full two and a half heads taller than that petite Yuren. His strong muscles and arrogant demeanor really made people awe-inspiring.
But the respect shown by the shadows in the lower city was not for the big man. They were purely impressed by the girl in front of him, for her appearance, for her simplicity, and for her dancing.With her beauty and charm, she captivated all beings in Fireweary City.
Three or four people still pressed Qing Luo firmly, and Lu Mo's feet were like transparent wings of a dragonfly, allowing her to approach lightly without touching her feet.She watched him silently.
Qing Luo's chest was full of blood, he had a lot to say, but he couldn't utter a single word.
Does she still know him?
"I know this person," Lu Mo smiled, and said with wide eyes, "Jia San, why did you kill him?"
The ferocity of the whip-wielding man Jia San seemed to dissipate in front of her, not only him, but Qing Luo saw that the expressions of those men with ferocious faces in the square all changed.Qing Luo thought to himself, so these people also know how to be gentle.
Jia San withdrew his arm, and the whip, which was as thin as a spirit snake, rolled back as if it had spirituality, wrapping around his arm in circles.Jia Sanyi smiled and said: "Heiying Dao has an order to take a little Yuren girl, and someone saw him with her at last. Why, does Miss Lumo want to speak for him?"
Lu Mo frowned: "Is he with that little girl?"
Seeing that Qing Luo seemed to be out of breath, she lightly patted the back of the butcher's hand that strangled him.A filthy servant like the Butcher would swear to the death that he would never touch him, but Lu Mo patted him very naturally, and the Butcher's reaction was also normal.He let go of Qing Luo's neck and grinned at her.
Of course, they are familiar.All the shadows are very familiar to Lu Mo.
Jia San looked at the butcher and the short man carrying the weight.The two of them froze for a moment, then said, "No."
The short man clutched his chin, thought for a while and added: "When the two of them met, they really didn't seem to know each other."
"Boy, do you know her?" Jia San turned his head and asked Qing Luo again.
Qing Luo shook his head, he really didn't even ask Yu Chang's name.
"Do you know where she is?"
"I don't know." Qing Luo replied honestly.
"Okay. That's it. Let's go." Jia San nodded.
Qing Luo didn't expect it to be so simple, these shadows who claim to be the most mysterious and powerful in Fire-hating City, these shadows who claim to kill people invisible, these people who were screaming to kill him just now, just let him go .
The people around him looked at Lu Mo with admiration.
He called out softly, and suddenly understood everything. His voice was full of joy, annoyance and indescribable emotions: "So you are Bai Yingdao."
"Why do you think I'm Bai Yingdao? Could it be that only power can make them like me?"
"you are not?"
Lu Mo just smiled, but refused to answer.Her smile was like a white lotus flower blooming in the dark night.
The wind with moisture was blowing in from the sea, groups of dark clouds were running wildly in the sky, and the rain was about to fall.Firehate is finally getting a rain in its scorching weather.
Qing Luo stared blankly at her and said, "This is the second time you have saved me."
Lu Mo smiled: "Kunu, help me lead his camel here. Keep busy, we're leaving first."
Until Lu Mo brought him to Tianxiang Pavilion, Qing Luo still felt that he was in a dream.
He opened his eyes wide, looking at the zigzag promenade connecting six equally exquisite small buildings, and the curved roof was like the distant mountains at the end of the land.Qing Luo was led into the last small building where Lu Mo lived. Her residence was much simpler than the other small buildings, but Qing Luo sat on the bare ebony floor in the outer hall, and could see the high pillars on all sides. The hanging cloud-like curtains-those tulles as transparent as dewdrops on the grass blades of the summer prairie, as hazy as the morning mist that surrounds the woods in the winter lowlands-still feel that the objects and utensils here are as exquisite.He couldn't help holding his breath, for fear that the breath he exhaled was too large and would destroy something here.
Sitting on the mat, he felt the faint sound of rustling raindrops flying by in the sky. After a while, the velvet-like raindrops came down and floated into the house through the large open window. human face.
He watched the rain splash all those precious silk curtains, and cried out "Ah Yeh".
"Don't close the window. I like it that way." Lu Mo said.
Qing Luo remembered something: "Where is my white camel?"
"I was taken to the back by my servants. Don't worry, what is the Tianxiang Pavilion, and there are no stables." Lu Mo smiled lightly.
While talking, Lu Mo has already brushed the small table quickly, placed a few plates of fruit, poured wine and placed it in front of Qing Luo, her movements were familiar, but her smile was full of innocence, without any trace of innocence. The smell of dust.
"This is a new green plum this year, you should try it."
The fragrance of her body, like the water wormwood after the rain, diffuses in all directions, wafts into the bosom, refreshing.
Qing Luo was born on horseback, and has always lived a turbulent life, where has he experienced such a moment.With a blushing face, he took it and chewed it in his mouth. He didn't know what the taste was, but in the blink of an eye, he saw a willow tree planted in the yard in front of the small building, with a vaguely visible human face carved on it, and a few green leaves sprouting from it. Buds, shaking slightly in the silky rain.
"Why, do you have relatives traveling far away?"
Lu Mo said lightly: "Although I'm in the city, I'm always a person who cares about me."
Qing Luo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, as if the smell of green plums came to his heart.However, this faint sour taste is hard to stay in Qing Luo's happy heart for a long time.He looked at the dark floor and suddenly smiled.
"why are you laughing?"
"Yesterday, a little girl told me that I can find anyone I want in Fire-hating City, and in the end, I really found you."
He said softly: "I thought, you don't even remember me."
Lu Mo smiled and said: "How can I not remember? I was bored by myself and ran to Yutu Mountain to play. When I got to the foot of the mountain, I saw the fire roaring down the slope. I have never seen such a thing. The big fire, looking at where it started, seemed to start from a village.
"I have heard of that village. It is said that it was built between the streams. There are hundreds of big camphor trees exuding fragrance, covering the stream like a canopy. There are many old vines hanging on the trees, and there are clusters of clusters on the vines. Every time the flowers fall, it is like a piece of purple rain falling. I wanted to know what happened to those flowers, so I went upstream along the stream. When I reached the end of the stream, I saw a row of bodies Hanging on those beautiful trees, swinging in the wind like a bell, exuding the breath of death.
"It turned out that a group of robbers had just sacked the village. They took the women, killed the men, and hung the children on trees. Those who were still alive were afraid and hid in the dense forest. After the robbers left, they dared not come out. Let the fire spread. I was too late, the flower vines had been burned, and countless burning snakes were swimming among the trees. At this moment, a black horse emerged from the fire. It was you, Qing Luo .”
"it's me?"
"Yes, at that time I saw you riding a horse and running along the stream, the horse's hooves made splashes like snow, and there was a child on the horse's back, and the black and red flames and smoke spread out like a cloak behind you - it was so beautiful .” Lu Mo said with an innocent smile like a child.
"Am I like that?" Qing Luo asked with a wry smile.
"Don't you remember? I also suddenly saw you falling crookedly into the stream, so I knew you were poisoned. Hey, you were bitten by a snake, do you still want to try to save others?"
Qing Luo's gaze became frozen, and his tightly pursed lips made him suddenly look serious.
"What's wrong with you?" Lu Mo asked.
"It was my tribe that set the fire that day..." Qing Luo admitted with difficulty, his face flushed to the neck, "We killed your tribe, maybe, you should hate me instead of saving me .”
"Did you set fire too?"
Qing Luo bit his cheek and choked out every single word: "Not that time."
"Well, should I hate you?" Lu Mo tilted his head and thought seriously, "Why? I don't want to think about it so much. I met you, liked you, and saved you, that's all."
Qing Luo pondered and said: "But people hate barbarians."
"They are them, I am me. Everyone is different. You are also different from them. You won't kill me, right?" There was an obvious smile in the corner of her mouth.
"Of course not," Qing Luo nodded his head vigorously, "I didn't want everyone to kill each other...but this is a troubled world," Qing Luo suddenly groaned, he didn't know why he had a relationship with this Bright-eyed girls talk about these bloody facts.He was unwilling to reveal his true thoughts, but he couldn't lie in front of those big eyes that were as black as a deep well.
He also wanted to talk about the hooked crescent moon on the prairie, the mighty wind, the she-wolf running with food in her mouth, the marmot standing in a daze like a sentinel, the old animals dying, and new cubs reappearing on the same prairie, Every day is different.This is the rule of blood, but he didn't say it after all.All his Common Tongue was not enough to sum up these thoughts that danced like the wind.
There was a moment of silence between them.At this time, a donkey brayed faintly from the next door, and Qing Luo also barked when he heard the response from the ginkgo downstairs.
"By the way, you wait..." Qing Luo jumped up suddenly, ran down like a gust of wind, found the ginkgo peel, and returned to the house after a while, dragging a huge cloth bag in his hand.
He put the bag on the floor, and said awkwardly: "I saw that you like flowers, so I ran to many places, many forests, many grasslands... I found these... Here I give you, they are all very useful Flowers, shepherds usually have to use a lot of cattle and sheep to exchange for them..."
He dumped them on the floor and showed her like a proud child: "Look, this is the iron crane plant, folded into the shape of a paper crane, it can be used as a barbed wire; this is the sea orchid pearl, the fruit has arrived It is as bright as a mirror at night; this is Ruoyu grass, you can dive into the bottom of the water if you wear it; this is cat's eye grass, you can see things at night as well as during the day; this is dovetail grass...they are all very difficult to get."
Lu Mo didn't look at those precious flowers and plants, but just looked at him and smiled.
Qing Luo asked nervously: "What, isn't it good?"
Lu Mo smiled: "It's not bad, it's just that they are all too useful."
"Too useful?" Qing Luo repeated guiltily.
Lu Mo went to the open window and pointed to him. His slender fingers stuck out in the rain, as white as if they were transparent.
"Look at the flowers I like. These horsetails, swallows, hydrangeas, narcissus, cannas, and white camellias are all useless except for their beauty. I grow flowers and plants not for their usefulness. They are useless That's what they're for."
Qing Luo shook his head in frustration: "I don't quite understand what you said."
"I was born in Shangcheng, and my family blood is noble, but I have been weak since I was a child, and I couldn't fly. I watched other feathered people flying high into the clouds on the day of spreading their wings, and I couldn't help but feel sad. Feathered people don't have wings. It was so painful." Her voice was like a swan dying, which made Qing Luo, who was always happy, secretly sad when he heard it, "But later, I discovered that everyone has their own talents, no matter how stupid or stupid people are. Everyone has a reason worth living, which cannot be replaced by others.”
Her white teeth gleamed in the night, and her smile was as indistinct as the rain falling outside. "I do a lot of things they never do. I swim in deep lakes, climb to the top of godwood to see the stars, and dance, and I like to dance freely, I like, I like to run down town, in the open air Dance with those people. They can never fly, they are dirty, mean, vulgar, never take a shower (Lumo makes a face), but they can live happily, better than those in the upper city Wrapped in silk and satin, the Yu people who think they control the entire city and the lifeline of Ningzhou are even happier. I can't fly, so I can find so much happiness. I also learned to read palms, you want me to do it for you Want to take a look?"
She grabbed his big hand: "Why are your hands so hot?"
"Ah..." Qing Luo sighed in embarrassment, "I must be dreaming." He closed his eyes, but his eyelashes were trembling slightly, looking very nervous.
Lu Mo touched his palm prints and frowned.
"Your palm print is quite strange, do you want to know what it says?"
"I don't want to." Qing Luo said nervously with his eyes closed.
Lu Mo smiled: "Why don't you dare to look at me."
"I am always afraid that if I move too much or talk too much, I will suddenly wake up from the dream."
Lu Mo sighed for some reason and touched his face. "You idiot," she said.
The red candle flickered with coquettish light, just like the flame lit by Dahesa at the night of the great festival. The mist covered Qingluo's eyes, making it hazy and unable to see anything clearly.
Lu Mo stopped mentioning his palm prints, but smelled the smell of grass on his body and asked him, "You must have traveled a long way to find these flowers, right?"
"It's a pity that everything I do is useless." Qing Luo said a little frustrated.
"I just like it when you do useless things for me - just stay tonight." She leaned on his shoulder and invited him.
Her breath, as light as a feather, hit his face.Qing Luo felt a buzzing in his head, and then went blank.It was as if countless blades of grass flew up into the sky, covering his eyes and ears.He seemed to have smelled too many buddha leaves, and the blood roared in his ears like a flood.Something was lying on his chest, light and gentle.
He opened his eyes nervously, but he saw Lu Mo's black pupils, like black flowers blooming in the dark night, expanding infinitely outwards, enveloping Qing Luo's whole body.
He felt again that he was dreaming.But something wet and soft touched his lips.Qing Luo's mind exploded, happiness was like fireworks falling from the sky, suffocating him in it.He stretched out his hand ignorantly, and hugged his sweetheart.
Lu Mo touched his arms: "What's the hard stuff here?"
"A skin bag I picked up." Qing Luo said, untied the things from his arms and put them on the table.
None of them noticed that the green leaves on the top of the willow tree in the yard were turning yellow and then drooping down.
six second
When the sky was about to brighten, the Nanshan Road gradually became quiet, and the long street, full of singing and dancing, finally quieted down.After a night of nonsense, the hard-working people also need to rest, but at this time, in the small buildings of Tianxiang Pavilion, there is a faint sound of singing like a donkey braying, as well as beats and applause.
On the corridor outside the door of the small building, there were two or three small tables, and several drinkers with knives and shields were sitting there talking loudly, and one of them was Xiao Si.
He could only hear him yelling loudly: "The doctors in the mansion always say, if this continues, sooner or later I will be drained by wine and sex and die."
A patronizing fellow asked, "What do you say?"
"I replied, isn't it my life's dream to die from alcohol and sex?" Xiao Si tried to keep his mouse eyes open.
They roared with laughter, and each of them toasted General Xiao Si with a glass of wine.
Long Yin walked in in a hurry, his shoulders were wet by the rain, he frowned and looked around: "Why did you find such a place, where is the young master?"
Xiao Si looked at him with drunken eyes, and replied: "Didn't you hear this song? It sounded like a frog croaking. No one else could sing like this except our young master. The young master is messing around with the singing girls inside. He insists on singing by himself." Tie a veil on your head and dance for the singing girl to see—hey, where is your child, did you find it?"
"Don't worry," Long Yinxuan said with a gloomy face, "That kid can't escape, and I will catch him sooner or later."
"Cut," Xiaosi waved his hands indifferently, "Everyone says I'm drunk, but I think you're drunk. Fire-hating city is so big, where are you going to find a child?"
Long Yinxuan sneered and said: "I put Silver Toad Gu on his arm, and it can grow in one day and one night. At that time, can he still run out of my palm?"
He looked around at the surrounding environment, and asked again: "Why did you come to Tianxiang Pavilion? Didn't Shi Daheng help you find a good place in the upper city? There are mixed fish and dragons here, and Master Yu was stabbed here last night. Dangerous, don't you know?"
"Where is the danger? Where is it?" Xiaosi set up a pergola with his hands to look for it.He laughed and leaned back on the chair, and said: "The art of war, the truth is not true, the truth is false. It is because someone was killed here that we are safe. Look, we have been here for more than half the night. No, I didn’t see the danger you mentioned. Our son is wise, resolute and resolute, can’t you figure out this little calculation? Besides, there are flower houses like the one in Shangcheng everywhere in Ningzhou. It’s fun to come to a vulgar place, to come secretly.”
Long Yin sneered: "Is there any news about the stone?"
"Yesterday, there was one. That Long Zhuzun, he brought a fake one to pay a job, and was scolded by our young master so much, he just kicked him away."
"My cousin doesn't know what to do," Long Yinhuang sneered again, "Forget it, I'll go find him again and urge him."
As soon as the tall Yinchi Warlock left, a tea key's family general rushed over, and whispered in Xiao Si's ear, "There is a clue. General Long sent someone to say that he had already got the real stone, But it was snatched away by a man riding a white camel. It is said that the man is extremely dangerous and has the bravery of a man, but he is a gangster who kills without batting an eyelid.
"Okay, let him check." Xiao Si drank another glass of wine, opened his dim drunk eyes, thought hard (this is really rare for him) and said: "By the way, I really saw it somewhere A white camel."
At this moment, there was a strange cry, echoing the cheerful singing of Mr. Tea Key from under the window.
Xiaosi walked to the window crookedly, looked down, couldn't help shrinking his head, and dodged behind the window.He saw a white camel standing in the stable with its neck held high, singing happily with the young master.
Although he drank too much wine and his hands and feet were numb, but after all, he had experienced many battles at the wine table and his brain was still functioning. When he returned to the table, he grabbed a few companions at the table and shouted: "Dangerous! Whatever you drink, don’t fucking make a sound, shhh—butler, butler, it’s urgent, go to the upper city to gather people, and bring all of our people here!”
Six C
The heavy rain has just stopped, and the sky will be bright. In the open space near the dock, more than a dozen people are sitting or standing.The shirtless Tie Kunnu put a thick iron rod across his shoulders, caressing his bald head absently; behind him stood a slender figure, with a face hidden under a black oiled hat, and a small silver knife was always in front of her. Flickering between his fingers, like lightning entangled in dark clouds; a huge body like a mountain squatted beside the upturned boat, and an ax as big as a millstone lay beside his dustpan-sized hand; His greasy apron had a frowning look; a big man with a yellow beard was holding a long whip, and he bowed his head in thought; No matter what material it is made of, the beard and hair will automatically move without wind, as if you are a living thing.They all stood silently in the mist, without saying a word, as if they were waiting for something.
The dark shadow of a large ship loomed through the mist, approaching the pier.Standing on the bow was a man with a fat body, like half a sail.There were still about fifty steps between the boat and the pier. The man on the bow raised his arm, and with the whine of the wind, a long rope snapped over and fastened firmly on the long rock that tied the boat.
The sailors on board hurriedly pulled the big boat closer to the pier, and the boat came out of the thick fog. The big man standing at the bow had a wide purple-black face, and his downcast beard was as angry as a flame. He was dressed in black shark The skin is watery, but the scarf is as bright red as fire.
More rope flew up to the pier, and sailors jumped ashore to tie the boat down.Only then did the broad-faced man flick his wrist, and the three-clawed iron hook thrown ashore earlier lifted up in the air like a snake's head, and slammed heavily at his feet.
Everyone could see clearly that the three-claw hook used a triangular iron sleeve to cover three crescent-shaped iron hooks together. It was extremely heavy and could be thrown farther.
This big man is the leader of Haigouzi, the famous pirate Red Hu Yuchi on Huijingwan; Spicy and vicious is famous in the lower city; plus the top figures in the shadow are already here; these ten or so people are all the characters who call the wind and rain in the fire-hating city. Unless something big happens, it is impossible to gather them together. this.
Red Hu Yuchi jumped ashore, and one of his followers saw that there was thick fog on the shore, and wanted to put a cloak on him.Honghu waved his hand impatiently, and the attendant stumbled and flew about ten steps away, the cloak flew into the sea like a waving banner.Without turning his head, he leaped over in big strides and shouted, "How's the situation?"
"The government soldiers have been mobilized. From yesterday to today, they have arrested more than 200 of us."
"The main roads in and out of the city gates are blocked. The situation in the upper city is still unclear, but the Yanhuo Town Army and Lu Renwei will not be idle."
"Business in the city has all stopped, and it can be lost in a day..."
They answered in a hurry, and immediately showed a tit-for-tat anger.
"Don't talk about your shitty business. Damn it—the armistice is dead."
"...Stop the fart fight, the crane bird is obviously trying to force us to do it."
"That's what he wants you to do—"
"So what if we think about it, are we just going to be slaughtered?"
"Don't make a fuss—"
They quarreled with each other, like giant swords colliding, like a sea tide crashing on a bank, no one obeyed the other, and no one took half a step back.
"Anyway, Crane Bird has a reason to do this. Someone actually assassinated him in my territory yesterday." Qing Qiaoyao tilted her hat, revealing a white and pretty face.She is about thirty years old, her voice is slightly hoarse, her face is strong and strong, but her eyebrows and eyes are as fresh as violet petals. Murderousness and charm can be integrated on this face, and everyone who sees her will feel sweet and sweet. The feeling of being pricked.When saying this, Qing Qiaoyao glared at a black figure.
The figure of the Black Shadow Knife was hidden in the mist, and it was vaguely visible.He snorted in a low voice, waved his hand and said, "Tigers want to eat pigs, are you afraid they can't find an excuse? You're still dreaming, the war has already started—no one can escape here."
They were discussing there when suddenly a night owl pierced through the thick fog and swooped down towards them, holding a bamboo tube in its claws, and threw it down with a "swish" as it passed over their heads.Heiyingdao took the bamboo tube in his hand, took out a note from it, looked at it, and then stretched out his hand above his head.
The crowd who were still arguing suddenly fell silent, staring at the small note in Hei Yingdao's hand.
Heiyingdao shook his head after a long while, and he could not tell whether he was surprised or angry: "Master Tie has died."
The chilly wind cut through the dense fog on the pier in the lower city like a sharp knife, and they all felt a cool air rising from their feet.
"Nonsense!" Kulong said in shock and anger, "I checked the injury, and the sword pierced under the fourth rib and came out under the left shoulder bone. It should have injured the left lung. If there is a good doctor, it may not be There will be serious problems..."
The Black Shadow Knife wiped out everyone's hope with a short sentence: "The doctor said that there is poison on the sword."
Red Hu Yuchi roared angrily, "That's poisonous! If Lord Tie is hopeless, there's no point in discussing it here! Let's gather all our men, go to the upper city, and fight Yuheting to the death .”
Qing Qiaoyao's voice was as cold as ice: "Don't worry, isn't it enough for someone to get into trouble once? Of course Haigouzi doesn't care. If you can't beat him, you will go to sea and run away - our wealth is all here. Besides , at this moment, do we have evidence that Yu Heting did it?"
Jia San also interjected: "Even if we don't know who sent the assassins, the government soldiers and town soldiers are all acting wantonly. Are we just sitting around waiting to die?"
Qing Qiaoyao said sharply: "Who gave Yu Heting an excuse again? If it weren't for your shadow to do it without authorization, could you have harmed Lord Tie?"
Heiyingdao glared angrily: "I only hate being blocked by others. I can't accomplish anything. If I had known this, I should have killed those who blocked me."
Tie Kunnu held back for a long time, and couldn't help shouting: "Okay, since Master Tie is gone, who is in charge of Huoyan City now, let's vote to decide!"
He lowered the iron rod from his shoulders and glared at everyone in the field.
The way of voting in Fire-hate City is to see blood for nothing.
Qing Qiaoyao's arms also retracted, hiding in the cloak, and the white blade wrapped around her fingers disappeared in a flash, as if a pouncing beast would hide its sharp claws first.Her watery eyes were like a pair of sharp scissors, sweeping back and forth in the hazy mist, no matter who she caught, it would make one's heart chill.
Jia San's eyes were like the night eyes of an owl, golden in color, shining brightly in the mist.
Tie Kunnu's fiery eyes are bright and bright, as if they can ignite all obstacles that dare to stand in front of them.
Heiyingdao's eyes are bright and small, shrunk into the eye sockets, piercing like two needles.
Honghu's eyes were narrowed, hiding his cunning and viciousness.
These four or five pairs of eyes collided with each other in the thick fog, tearing the sea fog apart one after another.The people around seemed to be caught in the rain of swords and arrows, and they couldn't help taking a few steps back.
With Master Tie dead, everything is in chaos, and no one can put these tigers on the reins.If these terrible people were known to be arguing like this, the entire Fire-Annoying Lower City would fall apart and become a mess without the need for an attack.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up, harmony makes money..." Kulong shook his fat arms from side to side to dissuade him, "We can't mess up our own way when the enemy is in front of us. This is not cooking bird's nest porridge with dried abalone. Is there any smell? Tiger head, don’t you think so?”
Kulong turned his head and gave Hutou a hard wink, and then the mountain-like braggadocio stood up staggeringly, stretched out his hand and pulled out the ax that was half sunk in the ground, and two stones the size of millstones were turned up and rolled to the ground. Among the several groups of people who are at war.
Under the shadow of the huge body of the tiger's head, they temporarily calmed down.I heard Kulong said: "If there is only Yuhe Pavilion, of course we can still fight. But if Shatuoman suddenly appeared, what can we use to compete with them?"
Anxiety was written all over their faces.
The Black Shadow Knife took a step back and disappeared into the gray mist again. He said in a dark tone: "There is only one way now..."
"Do you want to join hands with Sha Tuo?" Hong Hu interrupted and asked.
Qing Qiaoyao said: "Barbarians are more vicious than Yuren. If they invade Yanhuo, how many heads will fall? Will there be peace in Ningzhou?"
Heiying Dao snorted and said: "The situation is changing rapidly, and everyone is looking at the fire. When the turmoil comes, it doesn't matter if you are a feathered person or a waste person. Every head is cut off with blood. We carry Knife, you can hug your head to protect yourself, don’t people think it’s a threat? Don’t dream! I think no matter who gets bigger, they will think about eating us.”
"Is this what you really mean?" Qingqiao Yao screamed and laughed wildly, "You made up your mind to surrender a long time ago."
Heiyingdao said slowly: "Anyway, it's either killing the barbarians or the Yuren. Either they die or we die. There is no forgiveness. The one I want to surrender is not Shatuo, but the Yuren."
Everyone listened to his words and suddenly broke off the quarrel.These giants who terrified others in the city also changed their faces at this moment.The ferocious look in their eyes all disappeared for a moment, returning to a majestic calm.
Honghu's face became very pale, and he said angrily: "Yuheting stabbed Master Tie, how can we join hands with him?!"
"How can there be evidence that it is him?" Hei Yingdao asked with his eyes crossed, he suddenly borrowed Qing Qiaoyao's tone, turned around and asked everyone, immediately leaving them speechless.
"I don't care about that much, as long as I find the person who killed Master Tie and exchange his blood for Master Tie's life."
Jia San said coldly: "The people who watched the scene that day were from Haigouzi. If you want to ask, you have to ask yourself."
"What do you mean by that?" The fire blazed up from Hong Hu Yuchi's eyes, "Do you suspect that I'm a traitor?"
"I didn't say that." Jia San folded his arms and narrowed his eyes.
Honghu stared at Jia Sanzu for a long time, as if he wanted to stab him to death with his eyes, and shouted back suddenly: "Bring me everyone."
The sea hooks who were on duty that night came up with their heads down, not daring to raise their faces, and knelt in a row in front of Honghu.
Red Hu rushed forward and kicked and kicked: "Master Tie is going to die, do you hear that?! Master Tie is going to die, do I have a chance to live? Do you have a chance to live?" His kick was heavy and fierce, But those sea hooks were kneeling on the ground, not daring to dodge.
Honghu kicked each of them seventeen or eight times, panting and said: "Who killed Master Tie that day, and what you saw, report them all to me! Don't miss a single one!"
The leader on duty was beaten the hardest and spat out blood.He forced himself to put his hands on the ground, raised his head and said, "I saw the assassin. He ran to the entrance of Wufu Alley on the rope ladder tied in the water beforehand, then jumped on a white camel and ran away."
Honghu squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Then find all the people in the city who ride white camels!"
When he said this, Jia San and Tie Kunnu who were standing opposite had strange expressions on their faces.
Although Honghu looked rude, he narrowed his eyes and didn't miss any movement around him.He turned around sharply, stared at the two of them and asked, "What?"
Tie Kunnu patted his head, while Jia San grabbed his chin, and they both replied sullenly, "Camel? White? I just saw a peak."
Six Ding
Old He Luo Mo Tong met a big wine vat and was running fast with a wheel. He chased after it and finally blocked it in a dead end.The wine jar ran to the end of the alley, jumping and barking like a dog cornered, Mo Tong approached with a grinning grin, and said to it, "Where are you going to run?"
Before he could finish his sentence, the wine tank was fighting trapped beasts, and suddenly he jumped, and the glistening white wine fell towards him like a waterfall.
Lao Heluo woke up immediately.
He shook his eyelids to shake off the drink, and a bright face fell into his eyes.
"Mo Sikong, I made a big mistake and lost the Dragon's Breath." That face said.
It turned out that the night before, Yun Peichan and the others got stuck in the labyrinth of Laoheluo's mechanism, and stayed there all night without getting out.Later, they were surrounded by obscurity and poisonous spiders in the corridor. The brave Nanyao guards died one after another, or turned into treants. They spewed highly poisonous white gas from their mouths and rushed towards her along the passage.
Yun Peichan had no way out, she lowered her head suddenly, and covered her head and face with the cloak, the blazing fire burst out from the red cloak embroidered with gold thread, forming a flame cloak, covering Yun Peichan in it.That is the fire cloak, a life-saving magic weapon made by the best Yufei magician in Nanyao City. Neither poison nor tree people can get close to this barrier with fierce flames jumping.But Yun Peichan held the cloak with both hands, her face was flushed by the fire, she couldn't free her hands to attack, she could only watch more buds gestating the youngsters swell and mature on the treant's head and fingers .What's more frightening is that this cloak will consume a lot of air, maybe before those terrible poisonous insects can find a way to break through the flames, she will suffocate to death first.
At this moment, two wooden puppets jumped out from the end of the corridor. Without saying a word, they rushed towards the tree man who had sprouted countless fibrous roots and was deeply embedded in the soil. The huge iron claws shone with cold light, and the skin The pale treant twisted to pieces.The advantage of wooden puppets is that they are not afraid of poison.它们绿莹莹的眼睛在甬道里发着光，手挥脚拍，将能找到的胧遗和毒跳蛛全碾成了粉末。
它们来得正是时候，云裴蝉喘息着放下了斗篷，身上的铁甲已经被大火烤得发烫，头发蜷曲，满脸是汗。可是大火一收，云裴蝉就看到了木头傀儡那绿如猫眼的双目，在黑暗中一个接一个地转了过来，盯着她不放。它们把她同样当成入侵者。
窄小的通道里毫无回旋的余地。云裴蝉只能拔出双刀，咬着嘴唇迎战。木人被她砍了十七八刀，但浑若无事，就是不退。云裴蝉被压迫着向后边打边撤，明知道这样会陷入更深的迷宫之中，却没有丝毫办法，只得一步步地退入那个六角形的地下砖室内，眼看着室内等着的其它四名木傀儡一起举起铁钩来。
就在这时，砖室屋顶突然破出一个大洞，砖土纷落中，穿下来一根盘卷的粗大青藤，一落地就向外舒展开更多的蛇一样的卷须，顷刻间与那些木头傀儡纠缠成一团。还有几根卷须朝她身上卷过来，但羽人身子轻捷，卷须一把没抓住她，被卷住的木傀儡的铁钩也没钩住她，云裴蝉借着那些盘绕的藤蔓一垫脚，飞似的穿出地室屋顶上显露出的洞口，窜了上去。
莫铜的房间里，有两个人一见面就朝她扑来。她不愿恋战，逼开一人后，一步蹬在床头，又穿透屋顶，跳了上去。黑色瓦顶和土黄色的泥屋顶如起伏的波涛在她脚下一层层掠过。她跑了三四里地，才找了个空场子跳下来，一摸怀里，登时满心冰凉，这才发觉龙之息不见了。
云裴蝉左右寻思，只能是跳出地面后，与那两人交手时颠了出来。
被困了一夜一日，死了四个人，却功败垂成，云裴蝉气得几乎把银牙咬碎，拔刀将眼前的一丛矮树砍为齑粉。云裴蝉想，要找回石头，非得靠莫司空不可，待要硬着头皮回去找莫铜，却又发觉自己也迷了路。
在城中迷宫一样的道路里摸了将近半个晚上，云裴蝉才重新找回莫铜的住处，她小心翼翼地探头往院子里看时，只见满目狼藉，院子角落的大树半倒在地上，露出十来条假根，几间木屋楹柱半塌，两个木头傀儡半埋在土里，半探着头，怎么也挣扎不出。其他傀儡只怕还被埋在下面的迷宫里。
她在屋顶上看到的那条原先长满院子的大青藤竟然不见了，只留下满地崩陷的大洞。院子被糟蹋成如此模样，机关只怕全都被废了。
她跳上正屋的屋顶，还在担心莫铜的安全，却听到呼噜声大作，原来老河络还躺在原地呼呼大睡，于是在地上找到一袋子酒水，将他浇醒。
莫铜听了云裴蝉对那两个人相貌的形容，不由得恼恨地揪起了自己的胡子。
“终年打雁，却叫雁叼了眼，我只道这个姓辛的家伙成不了大气候，对他始终没下狠手，没料到最终是栽到了他手里。唉，大意了，大意了。”
云裴蝉也恨恨地说：“我要知道这两个小贼往哪里去了，定然将他们抓住碎尸万段！”
莫铜朝她吹起了胡子：“你才是笑嘻嘻的小贼，居然敢对你莫叔叔耍心眼……”
云裴蝉按住他的肩膀撒娇说：“抢回石头，侄女给你慢慢赔罪。看在我爸的面上，你可不能对我生气。”
莫铜长叹了一口气，揪着胡子说：“我帮你，不过这次你可不能不告而取，也不许给再我灌酒了，尤其不许往我脸上泼酒。”
云裴蝉眨巴了一下眼睛，忍住笑，垂下眼帘说：“不敢了。这次我全听你的。”
“不敢了，哼哼，这天下还有你不敢的事吗？”
云裴蝉连忙岔开话题：“这城就跟个大迷宫一样，我们怎么找啊？”
“问它们就行。”老河络随手往边上一指。
云裴蝉顺着他的手指看去，却是墙根前半埋着的木头傀儡。
“我的木头人和普通的傀儡可不一样，”莫铜带着几分得意说，“它们的力量来自龙之息剥下的微小碎片，所以力大持久，而星流石的碎片总是相互吸引的，虽然这么远我们感觉不到了，它们却自会知道怎么找到石头。”
他一边说一边走到被埋住的傀儡身前，俯身看着它心疼地说：“木之丁，怎么搞成这个样子，脏死了。不如先洗个澡……”
云裴蝉狠狠地跺了跺脚，莫铜只好说：“算了，时机紧急，回头再来给你们洗吧。”
木之丁扭了扭尚且能转动的脖子，望着主人，呆呆地不动了。
他们两人七手八脚地将它挖了出来。莫铜草草修理了一下，让它动了起来。这下就容易了，力大无比的木头人三下五除二，就将土木下埋着的木之甲、木之乙直至木之己全都放了出来。
老河络爬到木之甲身上，又调整了大半天，取个注油壶在它各关节上都加了点油，随后在它背上猛拍一记，大喊一声：“木之甲，找去！”
云裴蝉的眼睛一动不动地注视着它。
只见那名傀儡人摇摇晃晃地抬起身子，头向四处乱转，犹疑了一下，随即坚定地朝着南山路天香阁的方向迈出了步子。
六之戊
羽鹤亭的府邸宛如一座内城，四墙高厚，转角上都设有角楼，大中门起始，皆重檐高阁，形体华美。
羽人崇尚高楼，而格天阁则是厌火城中最高最华美的楼阁，它分为前后两部，前面朝南是间重檐歇山九间殿，高七丈八尺六寸，阔十有四丈二尺七寸，深七丈九尺五寸，正面一列外檐柱均用石料琢成，雕着盘龙，为三百年前的遗物。这间大殿只在极隆重盛大的典礼中敞开自己的大门，其余时间则为流转低吟的风所独占。
北部重檐十字脊顶的高楼紧贴前殿而立，其下高高的廊庑连绵而出，更有无数复杂的避道、吊桥、楼梯蕴藏其中。这座楼精巧之极，外面看着是四层，内中却是六层，其间暗室、藏兵房数不胜数，其高度和面积仅次于青都王宫的大成阁。在六层的高楼上，树着高高的白顶，在晴天里如银子铸成的那样闪着亮光，在厌火城外十里地外就能遥遥看到。在最高的银顶檐下，挂着一块巨大的匾额，上面书着“一德格天”四个大字。
羽鹤亭如果在阁内。那么在高阁前沿的月台上，不论寒暑风雨，都能见到鬼脸如同一尊永恒的雕像按剑而立。除了这个忠诚的卫士外，格天阁两侧还有四层高的东西台，如同亲兵拱卫。它们以吊桥与主阁相连，每台驻守二百庐人卫。
羽裳一到羽府，就与羽鹤亭分了开来。她被几名侍女送到了格天阁紧挨着银顶的次高一层里。这里有一座凸出高台的偏殿，深深的屋檐长长地伸向空中——形如一只张开翅膀的巨鸟，双爪紧抓住阁身，却将长长的颈子伸向空中。
这间偏殿的窗户虽小却很密集，将阳光切割成无数碎片投射进屋子，投射在十二根合抱的柱子边上各摆放着的铜猴子上。那些铜猴子端坐在一根虬曲的松枝上，神态顽皮，毛发毕现，惟妙惟肖。原来却是熏炉，松枝下藏有熏香，十二股淡淡的香烟正从猴子的嘴里氤氲而出。
朝南的一排花格门是开着的，浩大的风从海上吹来，四角的檐上挂着的成串铜风铃就和着风声叮叮当当地响了起来。侍女将她送到此处后，就都退走了，四周都无人影，羽裳被着那铃声所吸引，慢慢地向前走出了花格门，她第一眼看到的是一排拱月梁下的妙音鸟木雕，她们上半身是人下半身是鸟，各持乐器，作着弹奏和歌唱的样子，自由自在地飞翔在风卷动着的波纹里。
门外是一个很大的悬在半空的平台，乌木栏杆边上矗立着令人惊叹的青铜雕像。那是按照羽人独有的十二星辰传说塑造的拟人化神像，也即传说中的十二武神。每尊铜像高有三丈，其中三位是女性装束，他们身披战甲，各自摆出战斗的姿势，二十四双眼睛在夏日炽热的阳光下灼灼发光。羽裳望着背景上流动的云，仿佛看到这些神像在飞动，在永恒的时间里飞动。他们的名字和各自的勇武事迹，都已经随风飘散在广袤的宁州大地上了。
她抬头向上，就又看到了格天阁高高在上的银顶子。阳光是那么的刺目，使得格天阁那带着优雅曲线的屋顶失去了所有的细部，它闪闪发亮，带着完整而精致的形态，各个角落都在闪烁。
与银顶比起来，层层叠叠的屋檐仿佛隐没在黑暗中，如同无数展翅欲飞的鸟，将格天阁高高托起，好像顷刻间就要飞走。
这里见到的每一个景象都令羽裳惊叹，她毕竟只是一名从被繁华浮世所抛弃的乡村来的小女孩。她大张着眼睛，一步一步地走到栏杆边，从这高高飘浮在厌火城之上的平台望下去。
在她脚下展现出的是整座城市。
鳞次栉比的白色上城中树立着无数高塔，层层的飞檐带着叮当的风铃。在它们身后，她可看到层叠的青葱群山，如少女般妖娆窈窕，在这黛青色的衬托下，更显得纯白的上城在阳光下如玻璃一样脆弱。
“喜欢厌火城吗？”羽鹤亭在他身后说。
羽裳惊讶地一跳，转过身来。她看到羽鹤亭就站在她的身后，影子倒映在乌黑漆亮的地面上，如同一个虚幻的影象。他声音里略显疲惫地说：“为了维持这副景象，为了它的完美永恒，我耗尽了心力。我是为了厌火而生的，但却没有多少人理解我。”
羽鹤亭相貌古雅，温和又庄重，几乎是时刻都在微笑着。他低垂的白眉毛下，压着一双锐利的眼睛。
在这座外人无法临近的高阁上，他说话和在外面的神态完全不同。他和蔼可亲地眯着双眼，望着远处，声音略带点鼻音。这很难不让人对他生出某种亲近感。
羽裳鼓足勇气说：“我喜欢。”
她说：“它看似坚固，却终将毁灭。可是这样很好，因为有生又有死的东西，才拥有生命，它们才会是真正美的东西。”
羽鹤亭的目光露出了惊讶，他沉吟着说：“这话说得和她真像。”
“她是谁？”羽裳大胆地问。
羽鹤亭不回答，却叹道：“唉，你长得可和她真像……”
他用两根细长优雅的手指轻轻扶起了她的下巴。羽裳颤抖着闭上眼睛。
羽鹤亭感觉到了手指上传来的微微的抗拒之意，不禁哈哈一笑：“你放心，我羽鹤亭岂是那样的人。你的同伴，我已经派人去与茶钥说了，只要见到即刻放人。那张弓我也交代他们还给你的同伴了。”
羽裳闭着眼，只有眼睫毛不停地颤动。她轻声说：“让他不要再来找我。”
“他不会再来找你的。”羽鹤亭理解地点了点头，露出一丝若有若无的微笑。
他俯身说：“最近我有许多事要忙，你先跟随雨羡夫人住一阵子吧。她是银武弓王的长公主，在我这里已经住了三十二年了。她会好好照顾你的。”
楼梯上已经传来了数人行走的脚步声，正从最高一层的银顶上走下来。有人在外面通报说：“夫人来了。”
“哦，这么快。”羽鹤亭脸上微现讶色，一抖袖子，遮住自己的脸，匆匆而出，竟然是不愿意见她。这时通往楼梯的门正好被推开，四五名侍女簇着一名衣饰雍容的羽族贵妇走了进来，那贵妇面如满月，虽然年岁已大，行动举止中却自然而然地带着华贵之相。
如果雨羡夫人是银武弓王的女儿，那么就是当今王上的姑姑，血统高贵，但听羽鹤亭的口气，她虽然居住在此，却不是他的正妻。而他不愿见她的面，那更是大不敬。但那雨羡夫人站在门口，也不以为忤，反而低下头去，任由城主举着袖子擦过她身边，匆匆下楼。
羽裳站在平台上，最后望了下面一眼，她正看到格局森严的羽府，从外到内，一层层的门在次第打开，如同花朵绽放。
原来是庐人卫的一名武士赶到阁下，从马上跳下来，气还没喘匀，就向高台上报告说：“那个骑白骆驼的人，已经找到了。”
月台上的鬼脸趋前一步，问：“在哪？”
“有人看见他走入了天香阁。”
鬼脸微微一愣，道：“快速动手，给我杀了。”
高台上却飘下一个声音：“且慢。”
鬼脸听出那是羽大人的声音，退了一步，按剑等候。
羽鹤亭慢慢走下楼来，到了月台上，道：“我们的人不要掺合进去。若是露了马脚，沙陀怎会干休。让昨晚上去雷池的那人再去一次吧。”
Grimace nodded calmly.
此刻，厌火下城割脸街的府兵驻处内，也正有一名传令兵上气不接下气地闯入门内，告道：“在天香阁看到了一峰白骆驼，怕就是辛老二提到的那头。”
“哦，天香阁？”龙不二把每个字都在嘴里绕了一圈，才重新吐出来。
龙柱尊历来是个责任心重的人，他转着圈地想：羽大人交代下来的事，可不能出差池。辛老二办事不够利索，我早晚要敲了他。既然和铁问舟已经公开翻了脸，也不用保密了。这事，我看还得亲自去办。
此外，他也想到了天香阁中那些如花似玉的女人们。他想：这可是个美差啊，我还从没顶盔贯甲，提着我的宝贝大斧闯进去过呢。那付模样威风凛凛，可不是寻常人等可以看见的。自古美人爱英雄，那些女人们见他如此英雄了得，当即以身相许，也未可知。
龙柱尊幻想着那些女人们拥挤在后排小楼的栏杆边冲他招手，乱糟糟地喊“不二快来”时，脸都羞得红了。
他抬起头来，正好和跪在地上禀报消息的兵丁对撞了一眼，龙不二见那兵丁神色古怪，不由得威猛地咳嗽了一声，怒喝道：“看什么看，还不快去传我将令，点起兵马来，和老爷我拿人犯去者。妈的，记住喽，都给我把鞋擦亮，把头盔顶正了，咱们得军容整齐地开过去，谁丢了我的脸，可别怪我刀下无情！”
与此同时，下城所有的影子们也在忙碌。这其中，最繁忙的还是他们的大本营码头区。
虽然经过了府兵的清洗，这一天这儿汇集的影子们却比任何一天都要多。
他们三五成群地簇拥在一起低语着什么，整个广场就如同一个打翻了的马蜂窝，到处都是可怕的嗡嗡声。所有的人都在腰上或者肩头上亮着随身携带的各种奇形兵刃，有干草叉子、双刃斧、大镰刀、劈柴砍刀、杀猪刀、鱼叉等等，更多的武器，短刀、长矛、勾戟、长剑、大弓、短弩、金瓜锤、狼牙棒，还有整套的铠甲、大号盾牌、小圆盾，正在从码头上被翻扣过来的七八条渔船底下被流水般搬出来，小山一样堆放在地上。
每座小山边都簇拥着一大群影子，他们就在其中挑挑拣拣，选出趁手的兵器武装着自己，挑出大小合适的盔甲套在身上。他们高竖起手里的武器，码头上以及周围的十多条扭曲的巷子里就如同平地上冒起了一片密集的金属森林。
影者的公开武装，有史以来不过是第二次。上一次是在三十年前，武装起来的影者甚至打败了可怕的蛮族大军。这一次他们又将为自己的荣誉而战。
黑影刀高高地蹲坐在船头上，低头看着脚下这支慢慢显露峥嵘，越来越可怕的军队。他知道前一天的搜捕，以及铁爷的遇刺，已经把这支军队的怒火彻底挑拨了起来。
只要行动起来，只要一点巧妙的引导，他将带给他们战斗，以及胜利。这一股动员起来的力量，如同火山喷出的熔岩洪流。黑影刀深信它将会带着影子们走向连影子们自己都无法控制和把握的方向——但是他能控制。黑影刀充满自信地想，一切都在他的掌握中。
他并不想仅仅依靠一个简单的盟约就将自己的命运与羽鹤亭绑在一起。他长长地伸出了自己的触手，和各方势力都保持着接触。
他对贾三说：“别管其他几家怎么想的，我们自己得准备好。”
贾三那时候正在场子里走来走去，监督着武器的发放。贾三是个直肠子，说什么信什么，但他还是不完全信任这个魁梧汉子。
龙印妄来过码头与他会面。黑影刀要让茶钥家也亲眼看看自己所拥有的力量，他当然知道贾三的鼻子比狗还灵。为了掩饰陌生人的气息，他带着路上碰到的小孩子进场。
说到底，黑影刀谁也不相信，不论是茶钥家来联络的龙印妄，还是亲自与他密谈的羽鹤亭。沙陀答应派人来与他接洽，只是他还没有碰到那位来使。
这一切都没有关系了。he thinks.只有完全显示出自己的力量之后，他才有价码去和上城，或者沙陀，讨价还价。
自然，在完全控制这股力量之前，他必须除去一个隐患——那个看见了他和羽鹤亭密谈的小姑娘。他高坐在翻转的船底宝座上，对身边站着的几名精锐影者下令：“给我把话传到城里每个地方，找到那个小姑娘，并且格杀勿论。”
六之己
就在厌火城中众多人格外忙乱的那一夜里，厌火城西边那破碎的山岭沟壑也同样不宁静。
到处都有一股一股的武装骑者，大股的上千人，小队的几百人，络绎不绝，在向东进发。
他们衣着简陋，面目狰狞，大部分裹着不合时令的破烂皮袄，也有不少人穿着不合体的羽人衣袍，他们撕去上面花哨的装饰和缨穗，将华贵的绸缎变成腌臜油腻的猎袍。他们背着弓箭，挎着长刀，马屁股上架着笨重的斧头和狼牙棒；他们骑着个头矮小的马，牵着骆驼，捆扎起来的长矛和毡包在牲口的背上晃动。他们没有旗号也没有统一的服色，可他们不是商旅，因为他们全都小心翼翼地避开了登天道，在沟渠和危险的悬崖小路上跋涉前进。
宁州西部的崇山峻岭间，覆盖着密集的纵横交错在一起的七片森林。
这些森林在上千万年的时间里始终矗立在这片青白相间的大陆上，或者蔓延，或者退缩。
暗青色的暴风之林从鹰翔山脉一直延伸到北部莽莽的冰原，羽人银王朝的始祖银者空王曾经在这里带领大军向冰雪之神挑战；翼望之林沿月亮河向东俯冲到青都的舆图山，在它的腹部曾爆发过惨烈的鹤雪之战；碧瑶之林中则耸立着高大的通天神木，它是王族神圣的世代领地；总是飘着淡蓝色雾气的莽浮之林胁裹着青都直到洄鲸湾上大大小小上百座密林，它是爱情的凄楚坟墓，这里的林中深潭埋葬着无数在寻觅爱情中倒下的武士，在它最隐秘的地方，生长着神秘的蓝铁草；银森林是螣蛇的天下，据说这种爬虫与龙有着极近的血缘，它们可以乘雾而飞；黑森林则据说是神秘的虎蛟居住地，贸然而入的人有去无回，罔象林不过是这个迷幻林地向南伸出去的一根小尾巴；在这两片森林里都埋藏着无数财宝，自然还有密布的怪兽、精灵、毒雾和沼泽；还有维玉之林，这是宁州最西南角的唯一一片森林，也是最破碎的森林，它与黑森林南北夹着登天道，曾让风铁骑的骑兵在其中躲避，也目睹了十万蛮族大军的最后崩溃。
无论哪一座森林，全都拥有遮天蔽日的枝桠和茂密的浓叶，树底下是荆棘和灌木、针苜蓿和羊齿草，还有厚厚的苔藓。走入到这样的森林里，看不见人的踪迹，听不见人的声音。
如果说厌火城乱麻一样的街巷算是个庞大迷宫的话，那么宁州的森林就是迷宫外的迷宫，它以自己的庞大来藏纳空间和时间，是一座大得不可想象的，可以容纳数百年和上百万人战争的迷宫。羽人曾经来自于这些森林，如今还有众多村落隐藏在这样的森林里，自给自足，自生自灭。城市里的羽人，那些讲究礼仪的人，那些崇尚繁琐奢靡生活的人，那些动作缓慢高雅的羽人已经逐渐忘却了他们祖先的生活方式，他们放弃了森林，铸造起高耸的城墙和堡垒，如今反而是蛮族人混入了这些丛林，把它们当成了自己的堡垒和要塞。
三十年前的灭云关之战，四散逃走的蛮族人总有七八万，他们成了流浪武士或者盗贼。尤其宁西的十万丛山，更是成了他们的巢穴。宁州王室内乱，也无法一举将其荡平。这些远离瀚州老家，失去了草原的蛮族人，就此在宁州茂密的森林里游游荡荡，四处掠劫。
为了适应丛林中的生活，他们许多人换下长刀改用长矛和刺剑。他们是些奇怪的、凶猛的和从不留活口的战士。他们憎恨城镇和居民村，一旦发现这样的地点，他们就如豺狼一样猛扑上去，如果能夺取下来，他们往往会把这些漂亮的建筑付之一炬。他们喜爱血一样红的大火。
他们一会儿从密不透风的树丛中冲出来，一会儿又水一样四散，被沙子吸收得干干净净；他们像咆哮的巨狮一样出现，又像隐身的席蛇一样消失。
他们安静地行军，连一片草叶也不会惊动，在冲向敌人的时候却发出可怕的巨魔咆哮。
他们从不费心去排兵布阵，一阵风一样骑在马上冲出，受到挫折就乱纷纷地掉头逃跑。
偶尔他们中间也有将领带领，那时候他们就习惯性地围绕成一个新月形，发动闪电那样的袭击、歼灭、烧杀或者转身逃跑。
萨满在他们中间受着无限的尊崇，在任何地方任何时候，他们遇到一个合萨，就会在箭雨中跪来下接受萨满的祝福，仪式结束后，还活着