Chapter 13 Chapter 8 Heavenly Prairie (2)

At this moment the skin bag was flying in the air, Qing Luo stretched out his arms and waited, but there were seventeen or eight black shadows in the air, armed with knives and guns, rushing towards him together. Qing Luo didn't dare to take the leather bag, stretched out his hand, and threw it towards Lao Heluo in the air, turned around and kicked the Ming Fubing over, then shrunk his neck, rolled to the ground with a "gudong", avoiding Long Buer An ax full of anger. Lao Heluo was short because he was short, and he couldn't reach it even after two jumps, but there were already three or two government soldiers who were clever and quick to turn around, jumped over his head, and stretched out their hands in the air to catch the skin.

Mo Tong reached out and hugged a soldier's leg, dragged him down from the air, and slapped the ground with a "slap".Another thin soldier stepped on his head, jumped high in the air, his five fingers had already touched the skin... Suddenly his eyes blurred, his wrist hurt, and his whole body was crushed On the ground, the arms were twisted and pressed against the back. A pretty face with lightning-like eyes stood in front of her eyes.Yun Peichan grabbed the skin bag with one hand, twisted his arm with the other and shouted: "Bah, you traitor, you abandoned citizen, do you want to snatch it from me?"

"No, no..." Before the soldier could finish his sentence, Lao Heluo got up and kicked him on the head, and passed out. Lao Heluo kicked and yelled, "I hate people bullying me for being short. You fucking step on it, step on it again..." In a blink of an eye, Yun Peichan saw that Long Buer had leaped over the crowd with an ax in his hand, and was already rushing towards her, so he turned around and ran away with his skin bag in hand. Suddenly, a knife was stretched out from the shadow by the side of the alley. The knife only flickered slightly, not too much, and it forced Yun Peichan, who was always sweeping back and forth like a raging flame, to take three or four steps back, just about to stand Ding, staggered, took another three or four steps back, and even took seven or eight steps back and forth before gaining a firm foothold.

A black figure quietly turned out from the shadow of the wall. Its face was a mask with silver-blue and indigo-black patterns, and there were hollow flame shapes on its cheeks. Two fangs were turned out of its lips. It was just a grimace—just The mask he wore was different from the ones he had seen before, it only made people feel extra cold and covered with severe frost. Grimace walked out of the shadows, looked at Yun Peichan coldly, and said, "Give me the stone." Yun Peichan felt that when the opponent turned out from behind the wall, he glanced at him, but just this one glance made him shiver as if being poured over his head by a bucket of ice water.The more frightened she was, the angrier she made herself. "Go to hell!" She gritted her teeth and shouted in a low voice, holding the skin bag in one hand and the knife in the other, she rushed towards Grimace with the knife in front of her shawl.

The others only saw the two figures merge together, and a bright knife light suddenly appeared between them. Yun Peichan's body turned sharply, like a big bird flying in the air, the fiery cloak on her back spread out, like a raging fire rolled outwards, the flames swirled, scorching heat, Qingluo's sharp eyes, seeing the original The skin bag caught in Yun Peichan's hand was like a bird, flying high in the air. He said "Ah Ye", but saw Yun Peichan stumbled to the ground, reaching out to support the alley wall before standing still.If it weren't for Huoyan's cloak to protect her body, Grimace's knife would have killed her.

As soon as Grimace reached out his hand, he had already received the star meteorite in his hand. Qing Luo, Mo Tong, and Xin Buqi were all surprised and angry. They never imagined that this faceless man would have such a tough hand. They just uttered a cry and wanted to rush up to grab the stone back together, but they saw Grimace retreated back into the darkness, but dozens of government soldiers poured out from both sides behind him, like two torrents, coming up on the left and right. Yun Peichan barely got up, her elbows were bleeding.She wanted to chase after her, but was stopped by Mo Tong.

"You go first," he shouted, "we can't rely on you. You have to go out of the city and find your cavalry. At all costs, you must stop Ghost Face and give the stone to Sha Tuo." Together they dragged the angry Yun Peichan back.Yun Peichan stopped to think for a while, stomped her feet, stepped back into another alley, and ran out of the city like flying. Qing Luo grabbed a long spear and greeted the soldiers who were rushing forward. But Xin Buqi stopped him and asked, "Hey, am I considered admired by thousands of people? Why don't you feel anything?"

Qing Luo said angrily: "It doesn't count if you didn't hand it over to us in the end." Long Buer yelled angrily: "Good boy, you have the guts." As soon as he waved his hand, the government soldiers rushed up screaming, and rushed towards the two of them. "Stop them for a while!" Mo Tong demanded, he pouted his buttocks, climbed onto a wooden puppet covered with water plants, and sorted things out quickly. Fortunately, the entrance to the alley was narrow, and although there were many soldiers, it was not easy for them to rush up.Long Bu'er wanted to charge forward himself, but was blocked by those soldiers rushing back and forth.

Knowing that the moment of life and death was at stake, Qing Luo swung his spear. Bai Zhanzhan was like a windmill, but he couldn't stop the crowd. A small soldier came in from the shadow of the gun. Li cut at Qingluo's waist. Suddenly a black shadow jumped out slantingly, jumped onto the soldier's back like a cat, and tore his mouth violently.It turned out that it was Xin Buqi, he was wearing a steel claw glove, and with this grab, four bloody gashes were drawn on the soldier's neck.Relying on his dexterity, Xin Buqi scuttled between the crowd, stabbed a dagger in the cold, and asked at the same time: "How can it be counted? I threw it at you."

Qing Luo gritted his teeth and struggled, and was pressed on the spear by four or five soldiers together, so that he retreated step by step to the edge of the thunder pool, and he was about to be squeezed down. "It doesn't count anyway." He said with veins all over his face.Suddenly there was a whistling sound, only the rattling sound of the wooden mechanism was heard, and a big wooden puppet rushed out like a mad tiger, waving its two claws, and threw seven or eight government soldiers out like straws, some of them fell into the thunder pool In an instant, a splash of blood splashed and disappeared.

Mo Tong straddled Mu Zhiwu's back like riding a horse, and rushed out, it was really Pi Yi who was in charge. "What should we do now?" Qing Luo asked Lao Heluo. "Ride on it and chase after it. It will lead you to find the stone." Mo Tong said, he pulled Qing Luo and pulled him onto Mu Zhiwu's back. Xin Buqi also wanted to jump up, but he missed Mu Zhiwu's speed, so he missed and almost landed in a bunch of spear stabs. "Hey, old man, take me there." He shouted angrily. "I can't take so many people with me anymore." Lao Heluo yelled, driving Mu Zhiwu to slam left and right, killing a bloody path.Even Long Buer couldn't resist Mu Zhiwu's crazy iron claw combo for a while. "Old man, isn't there a wooden man here?" Xin Buqi ran up to Mu Zhiyi and climbed onto its back, kicking and beating him, but he couldn't make it move.He said anxiously, "It's not that your wooden man hit me hard, why would I be stupefied?" "It's probably stuck by water plants," Mo Tong said, while running into the distance, "Hey, I can't control it anymore, I have to run." "Damn it, it won't get stuck sooner or later," Xin Buqi pulled out the water plants hanging from its neck, "How do you start it, old man?" "Touch the back of its head, there is a wooden tip, turn it to the left, and stop when it hears screams." Mo Tong said while running. "What scream?" "You'll know when you break it." Mo Tong shouted from afar. While talking, the government soldiers had already rushed over, Xin Buqi stretched out his long legs, kicked the two soldiers back with one kick on the left and the other on the right, and bumped into a pile with the people behind.He seized the time to touch the wooden tip, so he twisted it hard. Sure enough, Xin Buqi heard a scream, and the scream came from himself. It turned out that as soon as the tip turned to the end, there was a "bang", Mu Zhiyi's whole body shook, like a dog in the water, he swung his arms and shook twice, this shaking shook Xin Buqi, who was lying on his shoulders, to the left and right. Hitting each buttock, Xin Buqi immediately flew high. “啊啊啊啊啊——”他惨叫着飞在半空，却看到身子下面木之乙果然又活了过来，左手抡了个圆，将十来名府兵排头推倒。 He fell from the sky and landed back on Muzhiyi's shoulder. "Run, dead wood." Xin Buqi shouted. Mu Zhiyi opened his green eyes and made a strange sound of "huhuhu" in his chest, but instead of running in the direction of Lao Heluo and the others, he spread out his double iron hooks and fought in and out of the crowd, killing the dragons. Two chased and ran around.It stumbled all the way, hit a wall and then stopped, and then rushed straight in another direction. Xin Buqi poked his head to look at it from behind its neck, and felt that Mu Zhiyi's eyes were a little dull.Xin Buqi thought in surprise, could it be that he was drowned and stupid?It is safer to leave this crazy wood as soon as possible. He just wanted to let go and jump down, but Mu Zhiyi suddenly screamed twice, squatted down with his legs, and with a "teng", he flew into the air like clouds and fog, and landed on a high roof with a "click". The roof was more than two feet high, and when it weighed down such a heavy wooden man, the tiles flew and creaked, Xin Buqi was so frightened that he hugged Mu Zhiyi's neck tightly and dared not let go. But Mu Zhiyi stretched out his long legs and arms, like a giant orangutan, and galloped up and down the roof. It crossed the undulating ridge of the roof, and jumped across the roof when it encountered a distance away. .The government soldiers who surrounded the streets and alleys below could only stare blankly with their necks raised.Its running and jumping has no regular route to follow, and it is obviously wandering around aimlessly, jumping over the old city wall for a while, reappearing on Nanshan Road for a while, and jumping into the Fubing Street of Cutting Face at a certain time. The station, before being surrounded by people, suddenly took three beautiful long jumps in a row, flew over the half-collapsed Suzaku gate, and jumped into the messy alley in the dock area. "Run again?" Xin Buqi's facial features were distorted, the wind blew his hat away, and his hair flew back again, "I don't want to run away, I have been to these places before, you Put me down, help—" He grabbed Mu Zhiyi's spine, kept shouting, demanding, seducing, showing affection, reasoning, and threatening, but he couldn't convince this hard-hearted man who started circling the fire-hating city. Blockhead. Hachi no Wu Qing Luo was riding on the wooden puppet's neck, he could only feel the wind in his ears, and the houses on both sides of the street whizzed away. Although the ditches and ridges are dense, the bumps are not severe.Qing Luo realized that Kizhiwu's weird back was actually a comfortable saddle, sitting with legs hanging down, no different from riding a camel.He hugged the head of the vicious-looking puppet tightly, rubbed his palm on Kinoko's shoulder, and suddenly discovered that it was not all carved out of wood.The surface of the tree is full of galls, extremely rough, like a thick layer of armor, but the muscles and bones under it are well-defined, and it trembles slightly as it runs. He could see clearly that Kizhiwu was actually a half-living and half-non-living hybrid. Could this be the legendary general?He muttered, but the wind cannot move without its master, but these wooden puppets not only moved freely but also were extremely alert when Mo Tong was drunk.Qing Luo had no choice but to guess that Mo Tong had integrated the skill of controlling the wind into the wooden mechanism, so he could manipulate it freely and act independently.Even among the Heluo tribe who are proficient in carpentry, this set of skills is considered miraculous. Qing Luo looked down at Mu Zhiwu, the six wooden figures looked exactly the same, but they were actually different.Kinobo was neither the wisest nor the strongest of them all.If you look closely, it depicts a vague face, as if with a slight smile. I saw it taking big strides mechanically, or running or jumping, its movements were ridiculously stiff.But who knows if it has emotions?Will they be afraid of life and death when they face the forest of knives and halberds? They crossed streets and alleys, all the way to the north, Qing Luo began to worry about how to get over the city wall, when he ran to the city gate, he found that the city gate was open. Some soldiers hurriedly carried some repelling horses, placed them three or four times, and blocked the road. Their armor was shining and their weapons were excellent. They were indeed fire-hating Yuren Zhenjun. These busy guys turned their heads when they heard the wooden puppet's footsteps. Mu Zhiwu lowered his head and rushed forward with his master and Qing Luo on his back. A Yuren school lieutenant was the first to understand, drew out his knife neatly, jumped into the middle of the road, and shouted fiercely: "Don't leave the city!" The moment he was about to bump into the rejecting horse, Mo Tong yelled "Drive!" like driving a horse, and the wooden man stepped forward with long legs and jumped over the head of the school lieutenant.It didn't get entangled with the town guards who were guarding the gate. It jumped three times and two times, jumped over the horse rejection post, passed through the doorway in a cloud of smoke, and left without a trace. And the Yuren Xiaowei stretched out his hand to block the road, opened his mouth wide in a daze.He dazedly turned his head and asked his subordinates: "I feel like something jumped over my head, did you see it?" Qing Luo knew that Grimace had already left the city, and felt even more anxious.Outside the north gate is a flat and desolate wilderness, but it is full of ravines washed by the rain.The main road has also been rutted into a deep ditch, with high ridges on both sides. A little farther, there are some small hillsides that are not too high, which is also a barren land where not a single grass grows.There are not too steep slopes everywhere, the heights are different, and at a glance, it looks like a large chest that rises and falls.Farther away, there are small jagged forests of birch forests.The faint shadows of Lumenyuan and Longshouyuan are like two generals with gloomy faces on one left and one on the right, guarding the vital point of going north.The sea of ​​hot and turbulent metal formed by the army of Sha Tuoman is just below it. The breeze blew gently, if there was nothing there, and suddenly it hit the face head-on for a while, as if it was about to become violent, it suddenly disappeared again.The hoofprints on the ground were complicated and complicated, and it wasn't just a grimace, but Qing Luo didn't care about that much, and just wanted to catch up with all his strength.As for how to get the stone back, he didn't think much about it. They ran for a distance, and dry dust flew up and covered their faces.Looking far away, you can see a red gravel field in a radius of about five miles.Although there are thousands of troops hidden around, there is no one in the five miles. Qing Luo jumped off the puppet's back, looked at the hoof prints on the ground, raised his head and said anxiously: "It's far away, what should I do if I can't catch up?" Mo Tong didn't say a word, and calmly waved for Qing Luo to go up.The wooden puppet no longer ran along the main road, but jumped onto a small path. The narrow path winds over the field, disappears in the depression, and suddenly appears on the hillside.Wooden Wu skipped and jumped over the ravine, like small stones thrown by an urchin. They ran straight towards the shadows of the two plateaus, and soon saw a cloud of dust floating on the ground in the distance. "Run there, you can stop them in front of them." Mo Tong pointed to a row of small rolling slopes.Mu Zhiwu galloped away like an obedient hunting dog.They turned a steep slope, and sure enough they jumped onto the main road again. Mu Zhiwu turned around and stood still.Together they looked at the thickening cloud of dust in front of them. Qing Luo jumped off the wooden puppet's shoulder, Mo Tong reached out and tapped Mu Zhiwu's back, a dark black knife handle suddenly popped up on it, Mo Tong pulled it out from Mu Zhiwu's spine, and threw it to Qing Luo Ro.The long knife was glowing green, and when it was pulled out, Qing Luo closed his eyes for a moment. "This knife is for you." Old Heluo said briefly.He slid down Kinoko's back, suddenly looked left and right, sniffed the air, and said without any explanation, "You wait here, I have to take a step ahead." Among the rivers that Qing Luo knew, he had never seen such a clever, cunning, and unpredictable guy, but Qing Luo still believed in this old guy, let him shrug his thin shoulders, and quickly disappeared into the densely covered area. in the gully. He turned around and thrust the long knife into the ground.Standing side by side with the lonely Kinoko. In the middle of the empty road, only the two of them stood, the sun had already moved to the zenith, and their shadows were only a small point.The clouds are flat and slender like sails, floating scattered and gradually melting into the distance. "Okay, it's just you and me left." Qing Luo patted Mu Zhiwu's generous shoulder and said.Its shoulders were thick and broad, and like all tall people, they were slightly stooped.The wooden man, who had always kept his composure, suddenly lowered his head to take a look at Qing Luo, his vaguely carved face remained dull, but there was a rumbling sound from his chest. Qing Luo didn't expect it to make a sound, he was startled, and it took a while to realize that Mu Zhiwu was talking: "Cang Si Cang Si!" "I don't understand what you're talking about." Qing Luo smiled apologetically, showing his white teeth.He put his hand on the handle of the long knife given by Lao Heluo, and couldn't help but turned back to Mu Zhiwu and said, "But, do you know? I'm very happy to have you by my side." Kizhiwu obviously didn't like nonsense, it stared at Qingluo twice, muttered again, then turned its head to stare at the approaching cloud of dust and smoke on the road, at that time, the dust and smoke were being blown away by a sudden wind, The army hidden inside finally showed a hideous face. Although Qing Luo was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback.What he saw was not a small group of ceremonial cavalry, but a thousand Lu Renwei phalanxes lined up neatly.With shining banners and swaggering armor, they moved forward slowly, like a huge scaled reptile with countless limbs. In the center of this huge team, there is a carriage decorated with tall white hoods. The dark black body is painted with gold trim, and it is pulled by four tall and strong white horses. with tall swan feathers. No wonder the city gate is open, Qing Luo thought to himself, this is Master Yu's driving!They must not close until he returns to town. Bai Yan, who was riding in the lead, looked at the young man standing in the middle of the road, reined in his horse in astonishment, and asked, "What are you going to do?" Their tone was more curious than threatening.Could it be that this kid wants to intercept the footsteps of Yuheting, one of the eight towns of the majestic Yu clan and the city lord of Yanhuo City, by himself?Bai Yanyi waited patiently for an answer, and at the same time raised his eyes to look around to see if there was an ambush. Qing Luo's eyes were hurt by the dazzling light emitted from the large piece of metal armor on the opposite side, so he had to squint.He couldn't see anything clearly. "Stone," Qing Luo said, trying desperately to put on a vicious look, and at the same time hoped that the big puppet behind him would add some weight to his words, "Hand over the stone and let you go." The armored cavalryman of the Lu Renwei smiled and didn't want to talk to him anymore. He crossed the ceremonial spear with Bai Yan on his horse with his left hand, and took out a knife from his waist with his right hand. Qing Luo suddenly saw a gorgeous mask under the dazzling sunlight.It was a face painted with blue and indigo paints, with a shimmering metallic luster, and horrific and hideous patterns were carved on it. Grimace lightly pressed down on the warrior with little force, but the Lu Renwei immediately froze on the horse's back, motionless as if frozen. There was no expression on Grimace's iron face.This matched perfectly with the calm and expressionless Kinoko who was standing across from him. "How bold!" Grimace asked, "Do you know what's in the car?" Qing Luo gritted his teeth and said, "Just because I know what's in the car, I can't let you hand it over to Sha Tuo." Grimace laughed silently behind the mask, and he asked softly, "You, why, what, did you do this?" When he said this, he waved his hands back, and the phalanx formed by thousands of Luren guards behind him was like a black wall with no expression. Sand and stone hit their armor and faces, but they didn't move, just silently Holding the weapon, he looked at Qingluo. This scene is so familiar.Qing Luo thought with a wry smile in his heart, three days ago, I just came to Yanhuo City for fun... At that time I had to face fifty people, now... I must be crazy. "You must be crazy." Grimace said coldly, he stopped talking nonsense, shook his head back slightly, and said, "Kill him." The armored warrior behind him surged forward like a black flood that broke the embankment. Qing Luo reached out and touched his bosom.According to the customs of the tribe, before the bloody battle that is destined to die, they all have to put their soul jade in their mouths, but this time Qing Luo reached out and found nothing, the rope around his neck was hanging there empty, nothing No.He put down his hands helplessly, but found that Grimace's body was also a little stiff. Qing Luo followed his gaze and turned his head to look west, only to see the dust rising like a column of smoke for half a day, under the smoke, a group of men and horses came out. That group of men and horses came menacingly. The leading warrior was wearing a golden armor and dragging a long red cloak. Like a fiery red banner, he rushed into the formation. Knocked off the horse. Old He Luo Motong hugged the neck of a green-maned horse tightly, and followed her closely, waving his hands, and he did not know what tricks he used, and Lu Renwei who was close to him also fell to the ground one after another. After that, hundreds of guards rushed straight into the formation like a group of fierce tigers, and it was the elite of Yunhun Town that Yun Peichan brought to Yanhuo.They shot arrows while flying horses. Taking the dense bows and arrows as the guide, they shot a gap, and then rushed into the gap, passing through the formation from left to right, cutting off the unprepared Lu Renwei all the way. Yun Peichan passed by, then turned around and turned the horse's head, she proudly raised her head, and said with a sneer: "Lu Renwei is well-known, but after all, they are some lowly abandoned people, how can they be our opponents, give me Turn around and charge again." But Lu Renwei has already begun to show their experience and strength.Regardless of their heavy casualties, the line of flankers turned around one after another, took off their shields, and set up a steel barrier. Behind the shields, long guards stretched out, with sharp spikes facing the enemy, like a group of armored hedgehogs.Once their dense shield formation is set up, Yun Peichan's Yu clan town army can only circle around the square formation quickly, and there will be no more conflicts. Kizhiwu rushed forward without saying a word.He swung his long arms and turned around, like a terrifying windmill, rushing sideways into the Lu people's guard formation.Those long soldiers of the Luren Guards broke like grass grass when they touched his iron arms, and their thick shields were crushed like thin sheepskin. Fly out on the back. Grimace jumped off the horse, and Qing Luo saw his tall and thin figure appearing in the smoke of the horses and horses, and rushed over along the path of Mu Zhiwu, and then a sharp Bai Lian streaked across the sky. As the sparks burst out, Qing Luo saw that the invulnerable Mu Zhiwu also took a step back, and the thick double iron hooks on his wrists were cut off by this knife. The person who made the knife was Grimace.The movement of his hands was as fast as lightning, so fast that he couldn't see the shadow of his knife clearly, and Mu Zhiwu still danced his double hooks unhurriedly. Its clumsy movements couldn't resist Grimace's sharp knife, and his body was chopped off in an instant. Seventeen or eight knives.Grimace's body is thin and tall, making people wonder where his strength comes from.He waved his hand casually as if carelessly, each knife could cut deeply into Mu Zhiwu's body.Kinoko's huge body had already been covered with countless arrows and broken spear points, but at this moment, many deep cuts were left, and light spots splashed out from the wounds bit by bit. Green sap comes. But this clumsy and bloated wooden giant didn't take a step back. It just relied on its huge body and brute strength to attack without blocking or evading. . Qing Luo gritted his teeth and ran towards the carriage alone. The driver of that chariot was also very skilled, with a shake of his left hand, the horses neighed and stood up.The emperor was standing on a high place, holding a short halberd in his right hand and stabbing down with a whirring sound. Qing Luo bowed his head and rolled, stuck to the edge of the halberd and got into the bottom of the car, and slashed with his backhand, like cutting tofu, he was also surprised, he didn't expect the knife to be so sharp. The axle broke with a "snap", the car tilted over, the right wheel was almost completely pressed under the car, the driver flew a few feet away, and the hub of the car rose into the sky with silent despair. Qing Luo didn't waste a single moment, climbed into the carriage, and raised the curtain—the carriage was empty, Yuhe Pavilion wasn't here, only the shimmering skin that contained the hopes of countless people lay on the empty seat cushion. Qing Luo reached out to pick up the skin bag. Suddenly he heard a clear and sweet voice behind him saying, "Put it down." Qing Luo's body froze. That was the sound of deer dancing. The little girl, he recalled the first time he met her.At that time, she was wearing a light green shirt, sitting on the well fence, with a pair of clean and penetrating big eyes, as pure and beautiful as a small flower in the sun. "Put it down." Lu Wu said again.The voice is as cold and sharp as a sharp blade.She was dressed in black, riding a yellow horse, standing clearly beside Grimace and those Lu Renwei. The wind passed through his empty chest, brushed over a foot of red soil between Qingluo and Luwu, and then disappeared behind the hills. "Why do you help them?" Qing Luo asked painfully, "What can they give you?" "Why do you help them?" Lu Wu asked painfully, "You are from Shatuo, but you stop us from handing over the stone to them?" "That's right, I'm Shatuo's emissary." Qing Luo admitted. Holding a long knife in one hand and a stone in the other, he said hastily, "I am from Shatuoman. Although I always say that I am from the grassland, I was actually born in the forest of Ningzhou. I grew up here." , became a bandit here, we have 50,000 young people who have never seen what the grassland is like. But who can forget the grassland. That is our root.Everyone is discussing the grassland every day, the old people talk about it, the young people yearn for it, but the grassland is far away on the side of Mieyun Pass, blocked by the feathered people, farther away than the sky from us.That is the dream of each of us. "But today, I realized that Ningzhou is also our hometown." He slowed down his speech and said slowly: "We grew up on this land, we can't let it be destroyed in our hands." Qingluo was holding the Xingliu stone, looking around, he saw that the Yunhun army had been surrounded by Lu Renwei, and was being hooked off the horse one by one by the long weapons, and chopped into meat; he saw that Yun Peichan was like a lonely The golden bird clashed left and right, but couldn't fight a way out; he saw Lao Heluo lying on his horse's back covered in dust; these Ningzhou people were still killing each other. Qing Luo shouted angrily at them: "If the star meteorite falls into the hands of Sha Tuo, Ningzhou will be destroyed. Don't you understand?" "I don't care about it." Grimace replied coldly, he slashed obliquely, and the long whistle sounded across the sky, and the huge and clumsy wooden man staggered and half-kneeled on the ground.Its calf joints were seriously injured, and it was already unable to turn around, but Mu Zhiwu didn't back down, dragging its injured leg and staggered towards it, like a clumsy old cow chasing an oriole. "It doesn't matter, everything doesn't matter. They are going to die anyway, just like I am going to die eventually." Grimace said with a laugh, and jumped back lightly, dodging the ferocious blow of the iron hook in Mu Zhiwu's left hand. As soon as the knife was stretched out, it slashed deeply on the wooden puppet's neck with a slamming sound.Kizhiwu's head was crooked and wobbly, but he just didn't fall down.Its green eyes gleamed, and it limped forward on its stumped leg for another hook.It doesn't know fear, it doesn't know fear, and as long as it can move, it won't stop fighting. Grimace frowned, and whispered to Lu Wu: "I'll block this wooden guy, you kill him quickly, get the thing back—" Lu Wu looked at Qing Luo, and begged desperately: "Leave the stone, you can go." Qing Luo sighed: "You should go quickly." Grimace yelled with no emotion: "Listen, time is running out. Kill him quickly!" Lu Wu gritted her teeth fiercely, kicked the yellow horse under the seat, and rushed straight towards Qing Luo.She pulled out the King of the Mountain on the horse and shouted: "Raise the sword! If this is what you want, then let us fight." Deer Dance's Ma Shenjun is extraordinary, and the two of them crossed each other in an instant.The wind and sand and the roar of thousands of horses and horses all went away at the same moment, and it seemed that there were only the two of them in the vast world. Lu Wu turned the horse's head, her eyes were shining with an invisible light. Qing Luo looked down at his chest slowly. At the open front of his clothes, on the bronze-colored strong chest muscles, a wound was gushing bright red spring water like agate, with a long and gorgeous whistle. The dagger that was drawn from his chest just now was like a spot of light, jumping away from him. Qing Luo struggled to turn his head and took a look. There were corpses strewn across the field behind him, two hundred human and horse corpses lying there.Between the indistinct flesh, there are broken knives and shattered metal armor.Those stiff horse legs struggled to reach the sky. He has done a lot, but it is getting farther and farther away from success. I can't die, he struggled to think, I have to take it back, take it back. Lu Wu lowered the mountain king in his hand and said softly, "I'm sorry. I have to get this stone." Power was rapidly drifting away from the wound on his chest.He touched the wound on his chest and thought, maybe I can't beat them.I can't get over it anymore.For the first time, this thought popped into his mind.In particular, how could I raise a knife at her. He was unable to twist his neck, but he knew that the city behind him was still shining in the sun. If he lost, the fire-hate city he knew would be destroyed.He is a foreigner, but he has only stepped into that city for three days, but he has to shoulder the responsibility of saving it.The people in the city, the friends he had just made, the enemies he had just made, all of them had to die.His chest was burning.The speed at which the blood spurted out was slowing down, like a scalding river began to flow down the chest.The world turns pale and spins. I can't die.He groaned, and persisted in grabbing the knife, trying to stand up.He knew that he was carrying the last hope of the city behind him. I can't die. The grimace on the opposite side was looking over, with a gloomy glint in his eyes.He shook the long knife with a swipe, and a sharp whistling sound came like a huge grinding disc. This screeching sound was the last straw, enough to make the dense, endless, maddening gravel rush head-on.He turned over and fell down on the sandy ground, dimly saw Lu Wu jumping off the horse, kneeling down to support his drooping head. Qing Luo looked at her face, wanted to speak but didn't know what to say, so he smiled again.Blood froth flowed out of his mouth, the taste was sour and sweet, just like the green plum that he ate last night. Lu Wu hugged his head, big teardrops fell from her big eye sockets, it seemed like it took a long time before they landed on Qing Luo's face.She said loudly: "I told you many times, don't trust people, you just don't listen." She grabbed his collar and tried to pull him up: "get up and fight me again, fight me. You idiot." Qing Luo felt cold all over his body, desperately trying to grab something, but couldn't.He wanted to tell her not to cry, but there seemed to be a whole mountain hanging from his eyelids.The sun shrank rapidly, shrinking into a very small and sharp white spot. "You just don't listen, you just don't listen." Lu Wu asked, wiping away tears, "Why do you trust me?" "Is this the fate described by my palm prints?" He remembered Lu Mo's strange look, before the final death came, he struggled to feel his chest with bloody hands.A broken black string was visible around his neck, and the pendant that had hung from it was gone.Their deaths would not be complete without Yu. But it was at this time that he suddenly realized that Lu Wu still didn't want to kill him, she stole my soul jade, and she just didn't want me to die. This is enough.He smiled slightly. He let go of his hands and lay down gracefully, showing an unrestrained appearance and indifference to death. The corners of his mouth were turned up, it was a kind of smile with hope for the future. Death came upon him. Like a flash of red lightning, Yun Peichan drove the mount towards the carriage. There was no Lu Renwei to stop her from slashing angrily, but a white light flew from the slanting stab, Yun Peichan yelled loudly and yanked the horse Rein, the horse under her stretched its hooves straight, and jumped up.White light brushed past its legs. Yun Peichan landed on the ground, her heart pounding, the knife almost cut off the two front legs of her mount.She turned the horse's head and saw a grimace standing opposite, just in time to wipe the knife in her hand. Behind him, Kinobobo's head had already rolled aside, the green light in its eyes was extinguished, but its body was still trying to crawl towards Grimace, and it reached out to grab Grimace's ankle, and then remained still. up. Grimace looked down in surprise, as if he didn't know how to get rid of the wreckage of Kinobuta. "Okay, you go, you go for me," Grimace stopped Yun Peichan and urged Lu Wu in a deep voice, "It's noon." Lu Wu knelt down and took out the star meteorite from Qing Luo's arms. She stroked his face lightly and stuffed something into his mouth at the same time.That thing was as cold as water. Is that my soul jade?I am finally going to die here, Qing Luo thought, countless memories slid through his mind like a whirlwind.That was the experience of his life.He didn't know whether to be proud of them or sad. Qing Luo bowed his head and died. Yun Peichan yelled angrily again, but she couldn't break through the grimacing sword screen standing still with her continuous slashing, and instead, she was forced back two steps by him. The wind finally picked up.The dust rolled up half a day high, covering all the sky. Shatuoman, who was a private soldier in Lumenyuan and Longshouyuan, also seemed to see something strange here, and mobilized two large armies to come here. And Lu Wu, with the breath of a dragon in her body, stepped on her divinely handsome yellow fat horse, and headed towards the direction where the Shatuomen came, and could no longer catch up. Hachinoki It is said that when a person is about to die, memories pour down like a waterfall. Qing Luo's eyes were full of white mist and confusion, floating back and forth.The blood on his chest spurted to the sky, and then fell down endlessly, just like the rain that night. He seemed to hear a voice in the dark saying to him: This is your destiny. That was Lu Mo's voice. At that dawn, before going to the island, in the middle of the deep black water in Leichi, there were only the two of them sitting in the boat.Lu Mo lifted the bamboo pole, and the black water fell down the yellowed bamboo pole.She lowered her head, her hair drooped like water, which set off her white jade face as beautiful as an elf. Qing Luo plucked up his courage and said to Lu Mo, "Come with me to the grassland." These six words exhausted all his courage, and made him lift it like a huge rock. He had to lift it six times before he could utter it completely, and he couldn't help sweating. 露陌望着他的脸，显露出奇怪的表情。仿佛他刚才袒露出来的滚烫的话毫无价值，犹如一块瓦片。 “不。我不会和你走的，”她平静地说。 青罗惊异地咽了口口水，四下张望了一下，他也不知道自己想要看什么：“为什么？难道你不爱我，在这里发生过的事，都是假的么？” “是因为还有他吧，是因为还有别人吧，所以你才不愿意跟我走？”他想起了天香阁里，那株柳树上模糊的脸，不由得脱口而出。 “不全是。”露陌咬着下唇说。 “就是。”青罗愤怒起来，大声叫了起来。他的眼睛变成了血红色，就如一匹狼。 “那棵树……刻的是我父亲……”露陌的声音低了下去，“羽鹤亭。” 船轻轻地撞了一下，碰到了岸边。 “我不相信，我不知道……我不明白。”青罗忙乱起来，是他把这个精致的梦碰醒了吗，还是它原本就是如此。 露陌轻轻地笑了，她把手放到青罗的手背上，用安慰的口气说：“你会是他的敌人，而他是我的父亲……这两天我看到了你身上最美的东西，就像那天看到你时，背后燃烧的大火如你黑红色的斗篷。就把这最美的时刻留下，不是很好吗？” “我找了你很久……” “你来不是为了我。”她打断了他的话，“你从我身上看到的不过是自己想要的影子。可我不是你想象中的露陌，我就是我。” “不。我不爱草原。你不爱城市。我继续唱我的歌，跳我的舞，你去做你的强盗。不要破坏它。好吗？”露陌要求说。 青罗低下了头，他觉得自己的五脏六腑都在这夜色里痛了起来。露陌的话让他彷徨无措。 来厌火前，他经历了无数的风云变幻，穿破无数的鞋，走了无数的路。最后，他找到的只不过是自己心里的梦吗？ yes.青罗想，露陌没有明说他就要死了，是因为他们互相都在对方的心里留下了一点印迹，它会比肉体更永恒。 奇怪的是，露陌并不是唯一出现在他心里的影子。还有那个小姑娘，那个爱穿淡绿衫子，刺了他一剑的小姑娘。她总是坚硬地，倔强地出现在青罗临死的回忆中。 他就这样带着新的梦想，带着希望死去了。 太阳滑过了天顶正中。厌火城仿佛变成了一座死城。它的城墙和四周的荒野上此刻拥有着超过二十万的人马和平民，却是一片寂静无声。 上十万匹各种驮兽垂下头颅，林中的猛兽抿起耳朵低伏在树阴下，老鼠和蛇深藏入洞底，连鸟儿也不敢放声鸣叫。它们都树起耳朵在等待着什么。 沙陀蛮没有攻城，他们也捕捉到了空气中蕴涵着的可怕讯息，勒着兵马向后退却了五十里。厌火人则在城墙上交头接耳，相互低语。谁都不知道发生了什么，但他们都在等待。等待谜语揭示的一刻。 “大人，沙陀要拿这块石头作什么？”就连鬼脸也抑制不住自己的好奇了。 “我猜得到一点，”羽鹤亭双手按在自己的膝盖上。自从与沙陀药叉见过面回来后，他就这样端坐在格天阁里，那个摆放十二尊武神雕像的平台上，俯瞰着厌火城的西面，一步也没挪开过。 “那你相信蛮子的信义？” “当然不，”羽鹤亭抖动了一下白眉，“但除非他想消灭所有的羽人，否则，在宁州他总是需要朋友的。” 他反过来问鬼脸，“你猜沙陀派人赶到灭云关要多久？” 鬼脸愣了一愣，答道：“顺着大道走的话，快马加鞭，到灭云关最快也要三天，可是如果沙陀的队伍里有羽人……有鹤雪术的羽人的话，只要一天就能到了。只是蛮子军中会有这样的羽人吗？” 羽鹤亭冷笑了起来：“这世上什么样的人没有呢？” 他脚下的大地被西面闪闪的群山阴影迅速吞没，接踵而来的一个夜晚既漫长又寒冷。 他们等了又等，没有人提一个睡字。黑夜就如同一头毛发茂盛的猛兽蹲伏在每个人头上，沉甸甸地压着他们。 在黑暗即将过去的时刻，突然，在越出视野之外的地方，一道夺目的红光喷薄而上，瞬间席卷过半个天幕。宁西所有树木和丘陵的影子历历可见，长长地拖在大地上。 在那片红光之中，乌云腾起如同伞盖，被映照得通红如血，它在空中翻卷而上，被可怕的风暴撕扯成巨大离奇的云之城堡。 过了良久，可怕的一声巨响才汹涌而至。站在高楼上的羽鹤亭觉得两耳间被猛击一计。可怕的轰鸣如同一阵暴风呼啸擦过人的耳朵，让许多持枪的士兵摔倒在地。这巨响连在两千五百里之外的青都也能听到。紧接着地面穿来一阵低沉的轰隆声，如同洪流滚过，盖过所有的声音，它越来越大、越来越近，震撼了整座大地。 几千里长的地面都在抖动，先是升起又落下，然后是左右摇摆，大地的波涛向各个方向翻卷而去，它向东越过维玉山脉、三寐平原和空旷的洄鲸湾，然后在浩淼的丘陵和森林地带渐次消沉；它向北翻过大风口，在堆积着亘古不化厚冰的冰原上凿出一连串深达上千丈的可怕裂缝；它向西猛烈地撞入高耸的彤云山和破裂的虎皮峪间，发出的咆哮让最勇烈的蛮族牧民们战抖不已；它向南越过勾弋山的尾翼，冲入潍海，激荡起墙一样的巨浪—— 羽鹤亭站在高高的格天阁上，能清晰地看到海面上不断形成一个又一个隆起，每一个有上百尺高，它们会向外奔腾，如同绵亘上千里宽度的一串同心圆的波纹，跨越海面和岛屿，低矮的陆地，直到几万里后才会停息下来。 地震和海啸之后，最终到达的是可怕的大风。 云和抛起的尘土就像一扇巨大的黑色屏风压了过来。在这片吞没厌火的旋风里，那块龙之息中躲藏的恶魔仿佛摆脱所有的束缚，展现出它所有的力量。乌云的旋风在头顶疾驶，蟒蛇一样的闪电在云层上编织着腾腾烈焰，炽热的水珠和冰雹大的石块组成的雨，噼里啪啦地砸在惊恐的人们周围。 虽然白昼已经到达，但是没有人看到太阳的升起，乌云和尘土遮蔽了天空，大地一片阴暗，如同黑夜。 终于世界陷入了一片沉寂。士兵和平民们惊慌失措地从泥泞中抬起头来，他们和房屋、树木、牲畜身上都蒙上了厚厚一层尘土。 此刻这些人还不清楚，这次爆炸将影响整个宁州、以及海那面的澜州北部接下来半年的天气。这个并未完全度过的夏天将会极其寒冷，霜冻将会落在北方，南方的大海则会结冰，远在海另一侧的澜州也将出现大片作物被冻死的灾祸。 “他们做到了。”羽鹤亭喃喃地说，他的手指深深地扣进了木栏杆里。 沙陀人炸开了灭云关口。宁州从此不再是一座封闭的大陆，它向瀚州彻底展开了胸怀。这座宁静的大陆政治和经济形势都将发生翻天覆地的变化，而他将要紧紧地把握住每一个变化。 “派到铁问舟那儿去的镇军还没有消息吗？”他问随侍在后的鬼脸，“还有，把鹿舞招来见我。接下来有许多事要做，我们需要人手。” 余震还未完全消除的时候，可怕的警报声再一次响彻厌火城上空。 大地那黑沉沉的剪影上，亮起了一片浮动的亮光之海，如同天上的星辰落到了大地上。那是大股军队行进的火把。沙陀的军队卷土重来了。 “我知道我不会输，”羽鹤亭疲倦的面容上，两眼灼灼地放起光来，“沙陀得到了自己要的东西，现在该轮到我了。” 他充满喜悦地张开双臂，拥揽着灰蒙蒙的空气中，依旧如银子般干净的上城。在这场历经了三十年的充满阴谋的惊心动魄的博弈中，他确实不能输。如果他输了，上城就完了，而下城——他厌恶地看着下城暗淡的片片灯火，那些扭曲的街道和肮脏的面容，它是附着在美丽皮肤上的一片癣疥。三十年来，他总是无法将它清洗干净，它是一片吞噬一切的可怕迷宫。 黑影刀和时大珩还没有来复命。他确实心存忧虑。铁问舟，哪怕是一个垂死的铁问舟也是危险的，所以灭云关口的打开，让他心中一块石头终于落了地。只要与沙陀达成了协议，不论再出什么意外，他都已经牢牢扼住了命运的咽喉。 下城在沙陀蛮和厌火镇的联合大军面前，就如层层叠叠累起来的危卵。它将不堪一击。 “铁问舟就算有通天的伎俩，此刻也无能为力了吧，”他仰天长笑，朝着下城抖了抖袖子，轻蔑地说，“就让沙陀药叉替我把这乾坤世界打扫干净吧。”