At that moment, the mighty Nowu himself took Merauth by the right hand, called him by name, and said, "You are mad, Meraus! Don't be so impulsive, restrain yourself, though it will sting your heart! Don't fight with Noc, a man far better than you, just for the sake of a duel, and the other warriors will tremble with fear in his presence!" In the battle of honor, even Nodin is afraid of him, yes, Nodin, a warrior who is far stronger than you, and go back, and sit in your companions, and we will bring out another warrior to fight him. Although this man is brave and warlike, I think he would have been happy to sleep at home with his legs bent over, if he could escape the terrible rush and fight to the death. ”

The hero's exhortation was justified and convinced the brothers. Meraus obeyed his advice, and his attendants happily removed their corsets from his shoulders. At that time, the prophet Stoll stood up among the people of Xicheng, and cried out in a loud voice: "Enough! Oh, great sorrow is coming upon the land of Xicheng! Alas, at the sight of this scene, the old wise man must cry out loud, he, the warrior on the chariot, the eloquent speaker! He used to ask me questions, in his house, and how glad he was to learn of the family and blood of all the people of Xicheng! Now, if he were to learn the news that you were all cowering in the face of Noc, he would raise his hands again and again and beg the Almighty, so that the soul of life would leave his limbs and drift into the hellish realms of hell. Oh, Almighty, I wish I could be as young and strong as I was when we were gunmen, when I was the youngest. I fought with their arrogant challengers, and the sheep-eyed angel gave honor into my hands, and the so-called invincible challenger was slain by me! Of those whom I slew, he was the tallest and most robust, and his reckless body lay on the muddy ground, taking up a great piece of land; I wish I was as young and strong now as I was then, and I had the same strength as I did then! In this way, in an instant, the shining-helmeted No-C would find an opponent! But you, the bravest fighters among the people of Xicheng, did not dare to face Noc, and did not have full fighting spirit at all. ”

After listening to the old man's reprimand, nine warriors immediately stood up in the crowd.

Nou was the first to rise, followed by the mighty Medus, then to the Ugly and the Mighty, both of them with ferocious ferocity, then to Menius and Menes, the fierce warriors of the murderous angels, and Melos, and then to the Mighty Moas, and finally to the illustrious Noji. All these warriors were willing to fight the great Hector.

After they stood up, the crowd once again resounded with the voice of Stoll, who was also a well-known chariot fighter: "Let us choose by lot, one by one, and see who has this luck! This man will make the sturdy people of Xicheng proud and will bring honor to himself, if he can survive the terrible rush and desperate struggle." ”

Each of the nine men then carved a mark on his stone lot and threw it into Nobing's helmet.

Stone lot, is a kind of prop used by people to make decisions when deciding things, each adult man has his own special stone lot, only the owner of the stone lot himself can know, when it is necessary to decide a thing, the owner of the stone lot makes a unique signal on the stone lot, and then the participants put their stone lot into a common container, or a basin, or a helmet, and then a more authoritative person shakes the container, and at the same time the participants pray to the Almighty, to achieve the result they want, in their consciousness, no matter what result appears, it is decided by the Almighty, is the embodiment of the will of the Almighty, just like their casting of lots this time, presided over by the old man Stoll, who was diviner.

When they had put their casts in their helmets, they would raise their hands and pray to the Almighty, and someone would open their mouths and lift up their eyes to the vast heavens: "Let Nough, O Almighty, win the lot, or let Medes, or let the king himself win." ”

And when they had prayed in this way, Stoll shook his helmet, and a stone leaped out, and a piece of the lot they had hoped for the most cut, with the handwriting of the ugly, and took it, and the messenger passed through the crowd and showed it to all the chiefs of the people of Sicheng, from left to right. The chiefs did not know the carvings on the stone and did not claim it. But as he walked through the crowd and showed the lot to the chief who had carved it and cast it into his hat, the glorious Nuo Chou stretched out his hand to him, and the messenger stopped beside him and put it into the palm of his hand, and the latter looked at the inscription on it, recognized it and rejoiced.

He threw the lot at his feet on the dirt floor, and cried out, "Look, my friends, the lot is mine, and my heart is full of joy! I know that I can overcome the great Noc, and now let us do it! I will put on it, and you pray to the Almighty, that you will not be silent, that you are a man, and that you will not be heard, or that you may say aloud, that none of us will be afraid!" On the battlefield, no one can force me to retreat against my will, with his strength, or with his cunning, I think, on the battlefield, I am not a doll with a tender face!"

When they heard this, they prayed to the Almighty, and some would open their mouths and raise their eyes to the vast heavens: "O Almighty, the Almighty, who watches over us from the top of Catherine's Hill, a glorious example, a great symbol! Promise to give glory to Nocho, and let him win the battle! If you really care about and love Noc, let the two sides draw and share the glory of the battle!"

They prayed sincerely, and Nochou put on his shining bronze armor with his hands, picked up his weapon, and prepared to stop, and when he had finished putting on his clothes, he strode forward to meet him, just like an angel of war, the one characterized by recklessness, stepping into the flow of fierce battles, shaking his mighty body, and the angel of war drove them to fight, as if the two sides had accumulated a heart-rending hatred for the ages.

Just like this, the majestic man strode forward, the warrior of the fortress known as the Xicheng people, squeezed out a cruel smile under his thick eyebrows, spread his powerful legs, took a solid stride, and brandished a spear with a long projection forest; looking at such a majestic posture, the people of Xicheng couldn't help but be happy, while the people of Dongcheng were all frightened, and their legs trembled.

Even Noocing's heart is "pounding", however, he can't turn around and run away now, shrink back to his team, who asked him to challenge and urge people to fight? In fact, after he issued a challenge, he has been waiting for the other party's response, during this time he has nothing to do, just waited there quietly, and his mind once again came to his mind the question that his wife asked him about the comparison between Helen and her; he also knew that today's situation was caused by his dare not give up the irreconcilable contradiction between Helen and Nodin, and the tragedy of a woman who caused countless men to fight the fire because of her beauty.

In retrospect, he felt guilty about his wife and young son, but he felt that even if he had to do it again, he would have to do the same thing, which was the natural thing for a man, and he would never die.

As for which one of his wife or Helen is really good, his answer to his wife is also his sincere words, beauty is important, but how can it be compared with weal and woe? He and Helen certainly do not have that feeling.

Moreover, he also knew that his burliness and majesty were ugly in the eyes of many women, and that Helen was the same, except for his wife, who accepted herself gladly and praised her, and was a woman with true vision.

Now, the other party has selected an opponent to fight, and it is such a guy, it is estimated that he is very different from Nodin, and even more difficult than Nodin in some aspects, that is, life and death are unpredictable, from now on, don't even think about your wife and children, you need to go all out!

Everyone in the audience saw that Nochou was approaching quickly, carrying a wall-like shield, and seven layers of cowhide were pressed under the copper surface, and the great master worked hard to hammer the casting, and the handsome man among the leathermen in his hometown refined this shining war shield, padded seven layers of cowhide, cut it from the strong bull, and then hammered the copper layer as the shield of his heavy war shield.

Holding this battle shield to protect his heart, he approached aggressively, and on the other hand, he opened his mouth to threaten, and said: " Through one-on-one fighting, Nuo C, you will soon know, without the slightest ambiguity, what a warlike leader there is in the West City, even if we put aside the lion-like Nuo Ding, the courage of sweeping away thousands of armies, we can still fight with you alone; the third brother, now the fourth brother is lying away from everyone, lying beside the ocean-going ship with his mouth up, he is still angry, angry, but there are still us here, there are not a few generals who can match you, and each one of them is enough to fight with you. Throw off your arms and do it, and use your strength to eat!"

Hearing these words, the tall Nuo replied, "My twelfth brother, do not try to tempt me, and treat me as a weak and ignorant child, a woman who knows nothing about war; I know how to defend myself with a strong battle shield of cowhide! I know how to drive a fast horse and kill people in a chariot formation, and I know how to attack and swing the murderous dance of the god of war. Listen! Even though you are tall and big, I will not hurt people with a secret gun, and I will fight openly to see if I can hit you and beat you head-on! Look at the gun!"

After speaking, No Bing held the spear of the Shadow Forest, threw it with all his arms, and hit the terrible seven-layer leather shield of Ah Ugly, cutting into the outer copper surface, covering the surface of the cowhide, and the tireless copper spear pierced through the six layers of cowhide, but was blocked by the seventh layer of hard leather.

When it was time for Nochou to make a move, the outstanding Nochou waved his gun, dragged the projection of the chief of the forest, hit the round battle shield of Nochou, the heavy tip of the gun penetrated the glittering shield, pierced the cuirass made by Seiko, stabbed at Noocing's abdominal ribs, and picked off the close-fitting shirt, but Noocing was experienced, and he turned sideways in time to avoid the dark death.

At the same time, both of them grabbed the shaft of the long spear, pulled it out of their shields, and swooped down on it head-on, like a hungry lion that was devoured alive, and like a wild boar of infinite strength.

Nockey stabbed the spear into Nochou's shield and stuck it in the middle, but the bronze spear did not penetrate the shield, and the hard layer behind it bent the tip of the spear.

Nochou rushed forward, stabbed Nochou's shield, pierced through the plane, and pushed the reckless Nochou to the legs, the tip of the spear grazed his neck, releasing thick black blood, even so, Nochou did not stop fighting, he took a few steps back, stretched out his big stout hand, and picked up a stone lying across the plain, huge, black, and wrinkled, and smashed it at Nochou, hitting the terrible seven-layer leather shield, smashing against the protruding shield, and striking with a deafening sound.

Then, Nochou also picked up a larger stone, turned it around a few times, and threw it out, pressing the weight of the whole person, and it was unstoppable; the grinding stone-like stone smashed on Noc's shield, smashing the shield surface, and shaking Nochou's knees weak, and he fell to the ground on his back, eating the weight of the shield! In an emergency, Apollo, the angel of war who was guarding him, helped him up in time.

At that time, Nuo Bing and Nuo Chou would be armed with swords and fight in close combat, if it weren't for the intervention of the two messengers, one from the east city and the other from the west city, the two would have stabbed their heavy swords into each other's bodies.

The two messengers separated them with a scepter, and one of them spoke with a shrewd argument: "Stop, my children, and fight no more! But night has fallen, and it is not advisable for us to fight against the night. ”

Hearing this, Nochou replied, "Let Noc's reply to your suggestion is that he has the ambition to fight the best of us. Let him be the first to speak, and I will do as he wishes. ”

Nocin replied, "Twelfth brother, since God has given you courage, Besides, among the brave generals of the Western City, you are the best gunner, let us stop the fighting and slaughter today, but tomorrow we will resume the war until the will of heaven chooses between you and me, and gives victory to one of them, and now that night has fallen, it is not for us to fight against the night, so you will bring pleasure to the brave and the common people of the Western City, especially your relatives and friends, and I, in the magnificent city of the east, will also bring joy to my fellow citizens, and will give our men and women in long skirts a short reunion, and they will enter the meeting and thank the Almighty for letting me survive; Let us give each other commemorative gifts, so that the people of the West City and the people of the East City will say this: 'The two warriors first slaughtered with heart-rending hatred, then shook hands and parted in a friendly atmosphere.' ’”

After saying that, Nochou took out a sword with silver nails and handed it into the other party's hand, along with the scabbard and neatly cut strap, while Nochou gave back an armor belt that shone purple-red.

The two parted, and Nochou walked towards the group of Xicheng people, while Nochou returned to the Dongcheng people, and his people happily watched as he survived, out of battle, and unharmed, avoiding Nochou's bravery and irresistible hands. They flocked to Nobing back to the city, barely believing he was alive. On the other side of the battlefield, the sturdy people of Xicheng led Noughou, with the joy of victory, to meet their brilliant leader, Nowu, who was also full of pride that the fierce challenger had been repelled by one of their nine heroes, and that hero had returned to his camp unscathed.

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