Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

It is said to be a trebuchet, but it is just a rough lever placed on a rock under the city wall.At one end stood the drawn villagers, and at the other end stood three burly officers and soldiers side by side. The first villager to be drawn stood at one end of the lever and looked down at his feet, only to feel that his feet were trembling and dizzy, and he couldn't stand still.He got short and was about to slide down when two steel knives were immediately placed on his neck.The villagers immediately cried: "Please forgive me, I would rather wait to die outside the city, my wife is very ill, and I can only take care of the two children here..."

All things looked at him crying, his hands sank, and a bloodstain immediately appeared on the villager's neck, and the villager's cry seemed to be choked in his throat.It's all a matter of vagina: "When a man dies, he will die. Why are you crying? Besides, whether he is alive or dead is still unknown. Since you also have a small family, you have to think that if you open the city gate, everyone will survive. For the sake of everyone, I have to make some personal sacrifices..." He slammed his knife back, cupped his hands at the trembling villagers, and said with a sneer, "This ceremony is regarded as a farewell ceremony for a hero, take care!" His words fell , and winked at the three officials, and all three jumped up together.Just hearing a bang, the bamboo pole under their feet immediately cracked several deep gaps, and the villagers at the other end screamed loudly, and were thrown far away like a kite with a broken string.

The villagers below also exclaimed repeatedly, and saw that the villager's body folded in the air, like a stone, and fell heavily towards the top of the city.Hearing a few "clicks", the man's body hit heavily on the bricks and stones at the top of the city, only a few of the bricks and stones he hit collapsed, and the dust flew up, and he himself marked a stream of blood from his mouth. Before he had time to scream, he was silent, his body paused at the top of the wall, and then rolled down to the ground. Some of the people below couldn't bear to look any longer and covered their faces, and his family members and friends even cried bitterly.Suddenly someone exclaimed: "Ah, he's not dead yet!"

Everyone looked up and saw that the man's body was just hanging on a broken brick at the top of the city by the corner of his clothes.The man was not exhausted at first, but he woke up again after being held back by this force, but it seemed that all the bones in his body had been broken, hanging on the top of the wall like a puddle of mud and howling. "Success!" Na Dushi's face was full of joy, and he shouted to the man: "Climb up, climb up!" The man couldn't move his body, so he had to keep turning his head in the air. The man's face was covered with blood, his facial features were distorted by the severe pain, and his body was swinging in the air like a lone leaf. It looked really terrifying.

At this moment, a group of guards suddenly appeared from the top of the city, they didn't answer, they raised their knives and slashed at the man like cutting melons and beans.The poor man's head, hands, and torso were immediately cut into several pieces, and they rolled down the city one after another, while the remnant body in the middle was still hanging firmly on the top of the city, like a banner of flesh and blood, fluttering in the night wind. A thick bloody smell permeated the city wall, and even the cold crescent moon above the wall seemed to be dyed reddish. It was all about swearing, and he didn't care about other things for a while. He pointed a knife at another villager who was drawn and asked him to climb up the lever.The villager was so frightened that he lay on the ground and refused to get up no matter how hard he kicked or beat him.

Xiangsi couldn't bear to look any longer, turned back to Yang Yizhi and Xiaoyan and said, "This is the end of the matter, are you really indifferent? Are you still trying to stop it?" As soon as she turned her head, she saw Xiaoyan sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, and the surrounding night was covered by a Separated by the round purple air, light purple smoke escaped from behind him, as if trying to seal Qianli Zishi's wound.However, his face was bloodless, and it seemed that the circulation of the true energy was still not satisfactory. Xiangsi felt sad, and said: "Your Highness has not yet recovered, and you have to heal Miss Qianli, so you really don't have time to do anything, but what about you, President Yang?" Although her tone was strong, her clear eyes were shining like stars in the night, Full of anticipation and pleading.

Yang Yizhi sighed and said, "Miss Acacia, haven't you understood the meaning of the mandala formation yet?" Xiangsi replied: "I just can't see through Leader Yang's intentions." Although the speaker had no intention, this sentence made Yang Yizhi speechless for a long time. "My heart?" He laughed at himself, but looked away. Xiangsi didn't realize it, and asked: "It's you, don't you have any compassion?" Yang Yizhi stared at Acacia for a moment, with a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth, he turned his eyes to the distance, and said: "Since joining the battle, evil things have continued, and what we have in common is our willingness to do something."

Acacia said: "What is promising?" Yang Yizhi said: "The more we want to change the things in the mandala formation, the more we make things worse, and all events are triggered by our own emotions. I think this is exactly the mandala formation. the intention." Xiangsi was startled, raised her head and said, "But we have already stepped out of the mandala formation, and this is Xumo County, Yunnan Province, the imperial court." Yang Yizhi shook his head: "Xu Yaozhi County is the county of emptiness—we are still in the battle." Xiangsi was speechless in astonishment, and after a long time, he said: "So we can only let them slaughter and mutilate the villagers?"

Yang Yizhi said: "The mandala array is both illusory and real, and both virtual and real. I can't fully comprehend the profound meaning of it. The only thing I can do now is to wait and see how it changes." "Go in!" The villagers under the city wall suddenly cheered loudly, but there was a commotion on the top of the wall, screaming again and again.As several guards fought, they fell from the wall like gravel.The villagers held on to the torches and shouted in unison: "Bite seven people before sunrise and you will be healed!" "Let us in quickly!" "Open the city gate!" A strange red light.

After a while, the shouts of the villagers died down, and the commotion in the city gradually subsided.The mood of the villagers became heavy again, and they didn't know what happened there. Suddenly a pair of bloody hands protruded from the top of the wall, and then a person stood up lying on the wall, and he could vaguely recognize the leader of the defenders.He was bloodied wholesale, with a fierce look on his face, as if he had been injured in the chaos just now. Du Shi looked up and shouted: "We are all like-minded people, let us in quickly!" The leader said in a hoarse voice: "Let you go in? We are all thanks to you today! What's more, let you go and compete with us for the medicine man who treats the disease. Now it is not far from sunrise, we have to go in Go to the city to find a medicine man to treat the disease, and you are such a wolf-hearted thing that deserves to wait outside the city to die!" After he finished speaking, he waved his hand violently, and a corpse that had been chopped up to a shapeless body rolled down, although he couldn't see clearly He didn't know his face, but everyone guessed that it was the villager who was thrown into the city just now.

Everyone's heart trembled, and they only heard the sound of footsteps fading away, as if the group of defenders had abandoned the city gate and headed towards the city.Nadu was furious, pointing at the city gate and cursing, the other villagers knew that there was no hope of being rescued, so they all sat on the ground screaming and weeping bitterly. All of that suddenly stopped cursing, turned around and shouted: "Shut up! Although the city gate is closed now, the arrows at the top of the city are gone. How can a mere door panel stop us! Come on, give me Collide!" As soon as he called out, everyone suddenly felt that there was a life-saving straw, and they rushed over like crazy, bumping their heads against their shoulders. , hitting the city gate creaking and shaking. A small remote county, and not Jincheng Tangchi, how can it withstand hundreds of people bumping around like this.After only ten or so efforts, a big crack was knocked out, and Du Shi led his officers and soldiers to attack with swords and axes, slashing fiercely, and immediately opened a big hole the height of a person.The villagers squeezed each other and rushed over. The poor old and the weak were trampled into meat before they got sick. The city was dead silent, the lights were dim, and it didn't look like there were people. All the villagers fought their way into the city with great difficulty, but they didn't see half of them.In addition, at this time, the poisonous blood was attacking the heart, and everyone's madness was triggered. They all opened their claws and teeth, showing ferocious faces, looking around and sniffing wildly, wanting to find someone to bite. All things guide Fang, sneered and said: "Just now those people went to the direction of the Tower of Sacrifice in the city, the county governor and the villagers in the city must be hiding there!" The Tower of Sacrifice to Heaven is a place where residents in the city worship the gods every New Year's Eve.It is said to be a tower, but it is actually a high platform. It is more than ten feet high from the ground to the top of the platform.The surrounding walls are majestic, and there are nine sentry towers along the sides, which store bows and arrows and food, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is indeed the best place to hide in times of crisis.It's all about being in charge of the military affairs of the whole county on weekdays, how can I not know these things. Those villagers are now poisonous and bloody, and their minds are confused. They only have the thought of biting strangers. If they have any other ideas, they naturally only follow the lead.In a moment, a group of people headed towards the Heaven Sacrifice Pagoda in a mighty manner. Yang Yizhi and others also followed Du Shi and his party to the tower of offering sacrifices to heaven. I saw a ten-foot-high platform standing tall, with a thick stone pillar on the top of the platform, which was ten feet high, piercing into the vast night sky. Long beep.The three large official script characters of "Tongtianzhu" on the body of the column sparkle under the starlight.The pillars add up to more than twenty feet, and the whole body is made of stone, which is magnificent.Don't say that in this kind of miasma-poisonous barren land, even if it is placed in the Central Plains city, it can be called a temporary spectacle. The flames on the stage were blazing, and the shouts continued.The guards on the roof are throwing rolling stones from the sentry post on the top of the platform.Under the audience, the group of archers who were originally guarding the city wall were firing arrows on the stage under the command of the leader.Because the roof was too high, the feather arrows could reach less than half of the wall on the platform, but those rolling stones were merciless, smashing the archers' formation in a few hits.The leader's hands and feet were all injured, and while yelling curses, he personally grabbed the bow and arrow and shot upwards indiscriminately. Seeing this, Du Shi laughed and went straight to meet him.The leader turned around abruptly, pointed the black arrow point at Du Shi's chest, and said angrily, "How dare you tease me?" Du Shi smiled unabated, stretched out his hand to lightly block the arrow tip, and said, "My lord, don't misunderstand. My lord has also seen that the enemy has a favorable geographical position and strong military equipment, so it is not so easy to subdue. But at this moment, there are only you and me. Together, they drove the villagers off the high platform one by one." The leader looked at him hesitantly for a while, and said, "What can you do?" Dushi smiled and said, "My lord, come here with your ears." The leader took two steps back alertly. Du Shi laughed loudly and said, "You and I have been injured, are you still afraid that I will take the opportunity to bite Sir's ear?" The leader hesitated for a moment, finally put down the bow and arrow in his hand, leaned over his head, and said, "Quickly say it!" Du Shi nodded and smiled, bowed his head as if whispering, stretched out his right hand and patted the leader's shoulder a few times.His gesture changed suddenly, his five fingers were falling on the neck vertebrae of the leader, and he turned his wrist vigorously, twisting the leader's body completely. The leader realized that he had been tricked, he was furious and wanted to struggle, but his acupoints were restrained, he couldn't move, he could only curse and greeted all eighteen generations of his ancestors. This sudden change made the rabbits rise and fall, the group of archers were shocked and didn't know what to do.At this moment, Du Shi lightly waved his hand, and the soldiers under him shouted, swung their knives and rushed towards the archer.Dushi's personal soldiers are all ruthless, like wolves and tigers, not to mention that once the archers are approached, they have no choice but to be slaughtered.In just a moment, the group of archers with bright armor just now were slaughtered completely.The leader was helpless when he saw the tragic situation with his own eyes, and even cursed continuously. Seeing that all the people in the audience had been killed, he smiled sinisterly behind the leader's back: "Besieging the Tower of Sacrifice to Heaven is an offense to the gods, so I have to use you and your subordinates to sacrifice the flag." Tightening his hands, he Hearing the bone shattering sound, the skin, muscles, and bones between the head and neck were separated by him, and the skull fell into the dust with a thud, and the blood splashed in the dust, which was more than ten feet away. Dushi twisted the headless corpse with one hand, grabbed the bow and arrow from the corpse with the other, and shouted to the stage: "You have nowhere to escape. If you come down obediently and become a medicine man, you can leave a whole corpse, or you will end up with me." This person is the same!" There was a burst of exclamation on the stage.The flames were blazing on the wall, and a group of officers and soldiers escorted a middle-aged civil servant to the wall. The middle-aged civil servant, wearing a crown and a long beard, stood at the top of the wall and said in a low voice: "Li Anren, your family has a long history. Thanks to the grace of the saints, this official treats you kindly on weekdays, but at this moment you would actually encourage foolish people to take the lead in rebellion, where is the conscience of heaven?" Li Dushi sneered, and said: "Lord County Yin, now that the plague is on the rise, either you or I will die. The heavens have a conscience, my lord should put it away." County Yin said: "You have also been educated by saints, and you actually believe in the nonsense of biting people to cure diseases! Throughout the ages, it has never been heard that you can cure diseases by spreading diseases to others. Biting each other, except for more crimes Is there any other benefit? It is said that it is a pair of seven, but in fact, most of the seven people are bitten, but they are bitten by others, so they have to find another seven people. Escape! Li Anren, although you are usually wicked, you are cunning and wise, how could you be deceived by such rumors?" Li Dushi laughed and said: "Master Xian Yin is on a high place, so of course he can talk about it with eloquence. You must know that these principles are useless to us people who are about to die. I just ask you one question, whether to come down or not? " County Yin said angrily: "Li Anren, you are not only insane, but also ignorant of the heights of heaven and earth, do you think you can really break through the Sky Tower with just a few people?" Li Dushi grinned pitifully, threw away the corpse in his hand, reached out to snatch a torch from someone else, put on a longbow, and shot an arrow at Xian Yin.Although the torch was heavy, it was coming faster than the feather arrow just now, and it had already reached Xian Yin's eyes in an instant. The guard beside Xian Yin yelled: "My lord, be careful!" He didn't care about offending, and pressed Xian Yin's body down, and the two of them lay down on the ground together. landed on top of the stage. Although Li Dushi missed a blow, he didn't show any sign of frustration, instead he laughed even more wildly.It turned out that the top of the platform was originally used for sacrifices, and a thick layer of bracts had been piled up on the ground all year round. The bracts on the top of the platform had already dried out due to the wind and sun, and when they saw the fire, they immediately burned blazingly. County Yin was shocked and immediately ordered to put out the fire.The villagers on the stage were in a hurry, and it took a long time to manage to put out the fire, but the green smoke was still curling up. Once the night wind blows, it may rekindle at any time, and everyone's mood becomes extremely heavy.These buds have been accumulated year after year, and are already half the thickness of a person. Even if they throw them away immediately, it will be too late.Li Anren has been involved in the county's secrets for a long time, and he knows these situations well.He shot a small torch, and the stage was almost uncontrollable. If thousands of arrows were fired, the rooftop would turn into a sea of ​​flames, and the villagers living on the rooftop were like turtles in a urn, with nowhere to escape. Li Dushi waved the longbow in his hand, and ordered his subordinates to use torches as arrows, facing each other in vain.While laughing wildly, he stretched out his five fingers to count down.The clear moonlight illuminated his increasingly mad face, and everyone's hearts sank deeper and deeper during the countdown. Xiangsi suddenly turned her head and stared at Yang Yizhi: "President Yang, although what you said makes sense. But I must not just sit and watch thousands of people being burned to death on the stage, even if I know it is a phantom array, even if it will touch a bigger one." The murderous opportunity, we can't sit idly by." Yang Yizhi nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go to the stage together." Xiangsi said pleasantly: "You agree?" Yang Yizhi silently looked at her blushing cheeks with joy, her eyes were a little stubborn and impulsive at the moment, but they were also so pure, like a child who had just stepped into the world.In the mandala formation, it was she who triggered more dangerous murderous intentions time and time again, but no one blamed her—at least Yang Yizhi would not. She always only acts with her own kindness, and never calculates success or failure, the biggest gain, but this is not because she is naive and has no thoughts, but because she has her own thoughts and her own persistence—— —Everyone is the most precious.Goodwill does not need to be calculated, nor can it be calculated. Looking at her, Yang Yizhi felt an indescribable emotion in his heart. He sighed softly and said, "In the mandala formation, there is no right or wrong. To save is to be persistent, and not to be saved is also to be persistent." "Then... Your Highness..." Xiangsi turned and looked at Xiaoyan.His complexion has recovered a little, and the Qianli Zishi in his arms has also fallen into a deep sleep.Xiaoyan smiled lightly at Xiangsi: "Although I'm tired, I can barely take the purple stone up to this stone platform." At this time, Li Dushi had already counted down to "one", several people looked at each other for a moment, they jumped up and down several times, like a few stars shining in the twilight, they lightly landed on the stage.Almost at the same time, Li Dushi yelled loudly: "Fire the arrow!" For a moment, the flames flew randomly, like shooting stars.Yang Yizhi gently pushed Acacia away, and with a wave of his hand, a light curtain opened from his palm, and dozens of falling torches were bounced off.The flames fluttered one after another and fell to the dark high platform. Seeing that the savior came, the county Yin showed a gleam of joy on his face: "Thank you for your help." Before they could answer, the county Yin turned around, his face sank, and he said to the defenders on the stage: "Immediately release the arrow and the rolling stone!" How dare those defenders be negligent, bows, arrows and rolling stones fell like rain, throwing them at everyone in the audience.When Li Dushi saw a few Cheng Yaojin killed on the way, he couldn't help being startled and angry. While backing away, he ordered his soldiers to seek cover on the spot.It only suffered for those unarmed people who had no time to dodge. They were beaten to the point of bleeding and screaming continuously. Xiangsi frowned, and was about to ask County Yin's subordinates for mercy, but Li Dushi had followed the gap between the rolling stones and asked his subordinates to stand scattered around the roof, looking for opportunities to fire rockets on the platform, which would not only distract Yang Yizhi's attention, but also make it easier to avoid Rolling Stones.After going back and forth like this for several times, although none of the rockets could land on the stage under the joint efforts of Yang Yizhi and Xiaoyan, the rolling stone bows and arrows on the rooftop were almost exhausted.However, Li Dushi's raw materials were endless, and he urged several teams of villagers to cut down bamboo poles nearby, and even collected several large barrels of pine oil from nearby houses to make arrows on the spot. The archers were also divided into two pairs, one team Shooting around, the other team stepped back to rest, as if deliberately waiting until the people on the roof were exhausted.And those villagers also showed madness, climbing up the only ladder, stepping forward one after another, not afraid of the obstacles of the knives and axes above. Another hour passed, Xiangsi was afraid that Yang Yizhi would be overworked, so she got up to help defend against the rockets in the air.In fact, when she made a move, she often disrupted Yang Yizhi's light curtain above the stage, and Yang Yizhi had to spend more effort to make up for it at any time, but she was sincere, and Yang Yizhi was unwilling to ignore her kindness. Just like this, the flames ignited the sky, and the shouts moved the ground. The county Yin and Li Dushi were even more jealous, wishing to drag each other down from ten feet away, eating skin and sleeping meat. There was a shout from the Tongtianzhu: "Stop it all!"