Volume 1 Southern Regions Chapter 27 Nine-colored Deer
That night, the dark clouds were thick, Hengshan could not see his five fingers, the air was dull, and the heavy rain was held all day, and it was about to fall.
Lao Jin and his gang set up camp on a flat land in Hengshan, built a bonfire, roasted game from the dense forest, sprinkled salt, and ate dinner with a pot of spirits.
"Damn, isn't it raining yet?" someone in the team scolded.
Bai Ze mixed in the crowd, eating barbecue, and watched the changes.
At that time, looking down from the height of the camp, Bai Ze found another team of men and horses entering the mountain, lined with torches, and it seemed that it was a group of elite divisions.
"Let's get to the bottom of it. Old Kim said to one of the men in black, "Look at where that group of men came from." There are already people from the Du family in Heyang, and there is another family, this spirit deer is not easy to catch. ”
The man in black went for two quarters of an hour and came back and said, "It's a person from the City Lord's Mansion, wearing standard silver armor, and the leader of the team is the county lord of Heyang, Mu Qingling." ”
"Damn!" Lao Jin scolded, "This is going to be a big scuffle!"
Bai Ze's eyes moved, and he said in his heart that he really didn't meet in life.
Mu Qingling's City Lord's Mansion army was stationed near Bai Ze's camp, and Bai Ze saw a person walking over there, dressed in standard silver armor, glanced at the camp, and then turned around and went back to his life.
Bai Ze got the mountain ghost seal, his soul gradually fit into the natural way of the mountains and rivers, his eyes can see at night, and when he sees the place where the city lord's mansion is stationed, Mu Qingling is dressed in red, soft armor and sword, and he has been in the mountain for dozens of days, and he still looks heroic.
"Lao Jin, the leader over there seems to be the youngest knight with the title of the City Lord's Mansion, the silver knight Lu Zheng. On the other side of the team, a man in his forties said, his tone a little heavy.
"Is that the eighteen-year-old silver knight who already knows half a step, Lu Zheng?" someone answered.
"Now that two years have passed, I'm afraid he has stepped into the micro-knowledge. Lao Jin frowned and scolded, "The City Lord's Mansion plus the Du family, how can this be played? ”
While speaking, Bai Ze looked towards the camp of the City Lord's Mansion, and saw that beside Mu Qingling, there was indeed a tall young knight standing, with a snow silver spear in his hand, which made him look mighty.
Sensing Bai Ze's gaze, Lu Zheng glanced sideways slightly, glanced at Bai Ze, then turned around, leaned over and said something to Mu Qingling.
The firewood pile crackled and burned, and in the second half of the night, when everyone took the sky as a quilt and slept in their clothes, there was a sudden thunderclap in the distant sky.
"Boom ——"
On the Hengshan Mountain, Bai Ze and his party immediately woke up.
The electric light tore through the night, illuminating the deep forest terrifyingly and eeriely. The bean-sized raindrops were shattered by the dense leaves of the woods, dripping down in the gaps in the jungle and hitting everyone in the faces.
"It's raining. Bai Ze muttered to himself.
Accompanied by the thunder, Yokoyama suddenly became in turmoil, and the shouts were one after another.
"What's going on?" Lao Jin stood up, shouldered the big knife, and looked around.
"It seems that someone is calling the nine-colored spirit deer?" Bai Ze had clear ears and eyes, and heard someone shouting in the distance, but the more he listened, the more Bai Ze felt that something was wrong, "Why does it seem that someone is still screaming?" He wondered in his heart.
"Where is the nine-colored deer?" asked Lao Jin.
"There. Bai Ze pointed in a direction.
"Let's go, let's take a look!" Lao Jin waved his hand, and the accompanying team immediately followed, heading straight to the direction Bai Ze pointed out.
Bai Ze hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that Mu Qingling's side also began to move, everyone sorted out their weapons and packs, searched for the sound, and didn't think much about it at the moment, followed behind Lao Jin, and looked for it.
Running wildly, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the deep forest gradually became muddy and difficult to walk.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, the two teams of people and horses drove up the mountain, invariably over a low hill, looked up, only to see that in the thick night, a hundred zhang away, a nine-colored deer with a full body of spiritual light was standing tall and standing under a pine tree that was more than 1,000 years old and looked down on everyone.
"Nine-colored spirit deer!" Mu Qingling shouted softly, "Lu Zheng, catch it!"
"Command!" The silver knight Lu Zheng was dressed in silver armor, but the armor on his body was obviously different from the style of the city lord's mansion, it was more sophisticated, and it was a leader's equipment.
The snow silver spear dragged the ground, and Lu Zheng took the lead and ran towards the nine-colored deer. The army of the City Lord's Mansion guarded Mu Qingling in the center and followed closely behind.
"Let's go too!" Lao Jin gritted his teeth, "If two tigers fight, one will be injured." We don't have a chance!"
Ten zhang away, the people of the Du family also arrived. Du Qian, the young master of the Du family, was dressed in a strong suit, carrying the spirit sword Huangshan, and the man with an umbrella behind him was like a ghost.
The shouts all over the mountains, Bai Ze looked at it, and there were at least hundreds of people and horses!
The nine-colored spirit deer stood quietly on the hill, full of spiritual light, and became more and more brilliant in the darkness. It seems to be proud of the crowd, but its eyes are staring straight at somewhere, as if it is waiting for something.
Bai Ze stood still and didn't move, the rain was pouring down, and there was no other sound in the dense forest except the sound of rain and faint shouts.
He looked at the nine-colored spirit deer, but he had a strange feeling, as if the psychic deer was also looking at him.
The pioneer had already touched the bottom of the hill where the nine-colored spirit deer was located, the hunting net was opened, and the greedy eyes mixed with the sin of the sword were quietly stretched out on the night of the thunderstorm!
"Boom ——"
It wasn't thunder in the sky, it was the earth that shook!
"What's going on?!" the vanguard troops were unsteady on their feet, and they fell down one after another, rolling down the hill.
"Earthquake?" Bai Ze didn't make a move, he stood in place and looked at it, and suddenly his feet were cold, and he went straight to his mind.
The hill where the nine-colored spirit deer is located has moved.
It's not a delusion, it's really moving! It's as if something is waking up underground.
"What is this?!" someone exclaimed in the heavy rain, but the sound was muffled by the sound of the rain, and the others could not hear it at all.
Mu Qingling and Du Qian's side also found that something was wrong, and stopped hesitantly to observe the situation.
"Chirp, tweet!" The nine-colored spirit deer stood on the hill, and the old pine coiled the dragon, like a huge beast silent in the dark.
Immediately after, the huge beast really became a beast, and Bai Ze watched as the pine tree moved!
In that instant, the whole mountain came to life.
The trees that could not be seen at a glance, like wild donkeys that had been scattered, pulled their roots out of the rocks and soil, walked like flies, and rushed down the hill like a frenzy, and immediately swallowed all the horses that went ahead.
"Ahhhh
It was like a locust crossing the border, and wherever the dryad passed, it pushed everything that stood in its way, and it was a mess, and there were dead bodies everywhere.
"My ...... "Lao Jin shouted, turned around and ran, "Run!!"
"Protect the county lord and retreat!" the silver knight Lu Zheng shouted, single man and single gun, but instead of retreating, he advanced, and rushed towards the drumming monster head-on.
At the same time as him, there was also the mysterious master of the Du family's umbrella. Except for these two people, all the rest of the horses saw the trees all over the mountains come to life, and they all frightened and hurriedly retreated.
The heavy rain was pouring down, Bai Ze watched the pitch-black frenzy gallop on the muddy mountain road against the heavy rain, like a bamboo, and all the people and horses who would not have time to escape in the future were swallowed up, and the nine-colored spirit deer was still standing proudly on the top of the hill, with his head held high.
Bai Ze suddenly remembered a story that Xie Xuan told him after he came to the boundary of Heyang and pointed to Dushan, he said that seventy years ago, on the border of Yan State, the Jin army launched a surprise attack, intending to cross the remaining veins of Dushan and attack the first city in the southern border of Yan State, Heyang.
But the strange thing is that the army led by the first general of the Jin State has no news after advancing to Dushan.
A month later, the king of Jin still did not hear from the army, so he sent scouts into Dushan to look for it, and finally found traces of the army in the depths of Dushan, sixty miles away from the route of the march.
According to the scout's report, all the people in the army survived, and all of them were hanged in that forest, including the first general of the Jin Kingdom at that time, the man who was praised as "a rare general in a century" by King Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the north, Xianzhen!
Seventy years ago, the Northern Frontier was at war. Due to the sudden death of King Li of Zhou, the younger son of the Great Zhou Dynasty was young, and his younger brother Zhou Gong assisted the government, monopolized power, dominated the Seven Kingdoms, and triggered a full-scale war in the north.
The first of the four famous generals who emerged in the national war was the general of the Jin Kingdom.
"The whole army was wiped out?" Bai Ze asked.
"Hmm. Xie Xuan said, "It is also because of the inexplicability that the first place in the Jin State will die, which leads to the great reduction of the national strength of the Jin State, the inability to fight again, the surrender of the Great Zhou, and the willingness to obey the leadership of the Great Zhou with courtiers, the northern national war gradually came to an end." ”
"The trees in that woods are all youkai, right?" Bai Ze asked.
"I'm afraid it's more terrifying than youkai. Xie Xuan's eyes were deep and he looked at Dushan, "The first to lead the troops to the expedition, his own cultivation, but it is also the transcendent supreme realm, he died in Dushan in vain, and in that forest, there are most likely demon kings." ”
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The silver knight Lu Zheng and the mysterious umbrella bearer of the Du family rushed into the dryad frenzy, all the way to the head of the general, and the dryad was shocked by the strong protective true qi of the two and retreated one after another.
The escaped centaurs found that the two god-like men behind them were fighting back and forth in the tree tide, not to mention that they were unharmed, and they also killed the tree demon frenzy to pieces, and immediately raised their morale, and they all applauded, "This tree demon is nothing remarkable! In front of the master of Zhiwei, it is not at the mercy of others?!"
Bai Ze looked down from the mountain, those two people were really like gods descending to earth, Lu Zhengxue had a silver spear in his hand, and he turned away, and the approaching tree demons disintegrated one after another.
The umbrella bearer was even more weird, the rain around him was not wet, and the rain was close to him, and he was torn into a rain sword and knife qi, slashing at will, and cutting out a messy avenue in the tide of trees.
"Boom ——"
The hill trembled, and the thousand-year-old pine rushed down the hillside and headed straight for the two people in the center of the tree tide.
"The old dryad has moved!" shouted Old Gold, "I wonder if the Silver Knight and the Umbrella Man can stop it." ”
"Can you go?" Some people are still scared after all, once those two Zhiwei can't stop them, if they don't leave now, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave later!
"Wealth and danger are sought, wait!" Lao Jin shouted, his expression fierce.