Chapter 346: Life and Death Nexus

Yang Zhijian waited left and right and couldn't see the pillar come out, and anxiously rushed behind the bushes, but there was no trace of him. Yang Zhijian thumped his chest and thought: "Oh no, where are the people? Why is there no movement at all?"

Yang Zhijian pulled his throat and wanted to shout, his mouth opened wide, and the voice he came out was indistinct, dull and low, babbling, like a baby who had just begun to learn his tongue.

Unable to effectively transmit the sound, Yang Zhijian could only look around, and searched for it several times in the vicinity, but still did not find the pillar. Yang Zhijian thought dejectedly: The forest is so big, the vegetation is dense, where can I find the pillar, even if it is three or five meters apart, if he doesn't take the initiative to come out, it will be difficult to find it! Could it be that my voice is too terrible, the pillar is so frightened that he hides and does not dare to come out?

Returning to his original position, Yang Zhijian carefully examined the traces on the ground, and finally found the stampede marks that extended into the distance in the bushes.

Following the traces all the way, Yang Zhijian heard the sound of birdsong flying in the distance, and he limped towards that side despite the pain in his feet.

Ahhh

After running a short distance, Yang Zhijian heard a frightened scream and exclaimed, "Pillar—"

……

The pillar ran after the hare, panting, completely oblivious to the danger in the woods, and he thought to himself: "I must catch you! Hmph, hare, hare, you will be the first prey I have caught!"

The hare was very cunning, running and stopping, and from time to time he turned his head to look at the pillar, as if to mockingly say, "Come, come, come and catch me!"

When the pillar catches fast, the rabbit runs faster, and when the pillar slows down, the rabbit slows down. One after the other, it's like playing a game of 'soldier pursuit'.

Being teased by a seemingly weak hare, the pillar became visibly agitated, and when he got closer, he pounced on him with a vicious dog, and shouted, "You can't run away now, can you?"

Then the hare came out of the bushes beside him and continued to run. The pillar was so angry that he got up and began to chase again, and when he came to a rocky hill, the hare slipped into the hole.

The pillar stood angrily at the entrance of the cave and stomped his feet and scolded: "Damn thing, look at how I clean you up!"

When Nizige took the pillar into the mountain, he once told him about the three caves of cunning rabbits, and in order to escape, their caves usually have several exits.

"Hmph, I'll bet on your exits one by one, see if you still escape!" The pillar only thought about one thing, not the other, moved over the big stone to block the entrance of the cave, and walked around the rocky hill to look for other exits.

The pillar amused himself and was very happy, and he had long forgotten the potential dangers in the woods and the purpose of his trip.

He only thought about finding all the holes and plugging the hare inside, but he didn't think that by the time he tried his best to find the hole, the hare would have run away without a trace.

After going around for a while, the pillar saw a hidden hole, lifted the stone, and scolded: "You little thing, no matter how smart you are, can you be smarter than me?" Don't forget, you are a beast, and I am a man, can a beast be smarter than a man?"

The pillar got carried away, staring excitedly at the huge chaotic stone hill in a circle, his mind was not at the slightest under his feet, and suddenly, his feet stepped on the air, and the whole person fell down at great speed.

Frightened, the pillar instinctively let out a scream, reaching out and clutching at it, but failed to grasp the explanation that could carry the gravity of his body.

Falling all the way, the pillar's body was blocked by the branches, click-click-the branches snapped, and his body fell heavily on the grass.

The pillar lay on the ground, rubbing his aching buttocks, thinking: It's too mysterious, if it hadn't been blocked by a branch and fell straight down, it wouldn't have thrown me half to death?

Although it was fine, the overly frightened pillar lay on the ground for a long time before he slowly sat up and looked around, feeling that the place was familiar.

Looking at it, the pillar felt more and more that this place had come, and he got up from the ground and walked cautiously forward, looking as he went. Racking his brains to recall, Zhu Zi finally remembered that this place was the hinterland of the valley where he and his mother rolled down, and here, the master killed the male wolf, and it was here that his mother went crazy.

The pillar's heart was happy and afraid, happy that he was one step closer to the wolf's den, and afraid of how he could fight the she-wolf and her accomplices when he was alone and unarmed.

The pillar walked forward in fear, and at the slightest stirring, he stopped in fright and held his breath. The pillar regretted a little, he shouldn't have been playful, and in order to catch a hare, he made himself isolated.

There was a sound in the thatched bushes that were one man tall beside him, and the pillar jumped to the side in fright, staring at the thatch with wide eyes and horror, and did not dare to move.

A hare came out of it, staring at the pillar with red eyes, and the pillar pressed the pounding heart, and when he looked at it, his lungs almost exploded. The little thing in front of him was actually the hare that lured him down.

"Damn!" the pillar angrily raised his foot and kicked over, and the hare sprang aside, and looked up at him again, raising his two front legs from time to time, as if he were laughing and uncontrollable.

The pillar was teased repeatedly, and he hated to catch the hare at once, skinned it, and ate its flesh.

The pillar laboriously broke off a thorny vegetation, peeled off a foot of skin, held it tightly in his hand, and pulled it fiercely towards the position of the hare, and before the rattan could fall, the hare scurried forward.

The pillar was unwilling to chase after him, and secretly vowed to catch the hare.

A rabbit and a man played hide and seek in the hinterland, and the pillar was sweating profusely and panting by the hare. He couldn't run anymore, and he sat on the ground with his butt on his head, feeling a gurgling in his belly, and then he remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast in the morning.

Often, there was nothing to fill the stomach around, so the pillars had to uproot the thatch, wipe off the soil from the roots, pinch off the white roots, put them in their mouths and chew them. A stream of sweet liquid swirls in his mouth and swallows into his stomach.

The gastrointestinal tract was irritated, and the column felt more and more hungry. He looked resentfully at the hare gloating not far away, and could only let it go.

A muffled thunder came, lightning flashed across the sky in the distance, the pillar's heart was terrified, hunger was nothing to fear, patience passed, what he was most afraid of was that once it rained, hunger and cold, it would be unbearable. If it gets dark again—

The pillar didn't dare to imagine whether the single shadow in this deserted place would be able to survive tomorrow and see the dawn.

The pillar realized that he had to shout loudly to attract the master, or other villagers, to come to his rescue. The more he thought about it, the more terrible he felt, and the pillar didn't care about the hare's ridicule, and cried out loudly: "Master—Master—I'm here—come and save me—"

In the wolf's den halfway up the mountain, the baby was woken up and cried, and the she-wolf's heart was disturbed, and she rushed out of the cave in anger and ran towards the place where the sound was made.

Running not far from where the sound came from, the she-wolf hid in the bushes, staring intently at the pillar.

The pillar was still crying, completely unaware of the danger. The pillar only cared about crying to himself, and did not hear his own cry mixed with the faint cry of a baby.

When the she-wolf heard the baby's mournful cry, she was so restless that she burst out of the bushes like lightning and threw herself straight at the pillar.

The hare heard a strong wind blowing overhead, quickly burrowed into the bushes, and disappeared without a trace.

The pillar saw a large figure rushing towards him, and the crying stopped abruptly, and the cry of a baby lingered in his ears.

When the she-wolf's body pressed against the pillar, the pillar had already fainted from fright.

……

Yang Zhijian heard the cry of the pillar, followed by the intermittent, sometimes strong and sometimes weak cry of the baby.

Closing his eyes and listening attentively, Yang Zhijian quickly identified the direction and ran in the direction of the sound without hesitation.

There was a thunderstorm in the sky, and the sound knocked on Yang Zhijian's heart, and he swore in his heart that if he couldn't save the pillar and his daughter, he would never survive, and he would go back to face Juan'er and Nizi without face.

Yang Zhijian knew that the voice was coming from the hinterland of the valley, but he couldn't find the entrance. The terrain in the mountains is complicated, and it extends in all directions, and the last time they went down to rescue Juan'er and the entrance of the pillar, it was thirty or fifty miles away from here, and if he returned there, entered the valley, and then went all the way to the place where the pillar was, I am afraid, it would be too late.

Yang Zhijian was so anxious that he used the barrel of a gunpowder gun to cut through the bushes and look for the entrance. Another muffled thunder sounded, and dark clouds and rapid rain came from a distance at a rapid speed, and soon pressed on the top of Yang Zhijian's head.

"Ahh

Yang Zhijian looked up at the sky and shouted in his heart: God, you are too ruthless - they, they are all just babies, they are sins created by me, and they have nothing to do with them - you take my life - I beg you, let them live well - as long as you are willing to let them go, I am willing to do whatever you ask me to do, even if it is to let me die, I will never hesitate-

Yang Zhijian looked at the sky, but his footsteps did not stop, his injured foot was in unbearable pain under the rain, he was completely unconscious, and his heart seemed to be bitten by thousands of insects and ants, gnawing away from a net.

The shouting of the pillar stopped, the cry of the baby also stopped, Yang Zhijian ran frantically in the forest, suddenly, his feet were empty, and his body fell, at this moment, Yang Zhijian laughed, thinking: God, are you going to take my life? You are happy, I am also happy-my life is not worth anything, you take it-

……

Nizi was lying on the bed, her eyes closed, struggling in pain, she seemed to see Yang Zhijian walking towards her with her daughter in her arms, reaching out to grab it, but she couldn't catch anything. Yang Zhijian stared at her coldly, suddenly hugged her daughter and turned around, and left without looking back.

Nizi wanted to shout loudly, but she was stuck in her throat and couldn't make any sound—

"Nizi-Ni-" Nizi cried anxiously from the side.

Nizi felt that her eyelids were heavy, and it took all her strength to squint, and when she saw her brother's blurred face, she shouted weakly and hoarsely, "Brother-brother-"

Brother Nizi saw that Nizi's lips were moving, but he couldn't hear any sound, he put his ear close to her mouth, and said in pain: "Nizi, brother can't stand you-what you have to say, just say it-"

"Brother, I, I'm going to—go—Yang Zhijian—Yang Zhijian and my daughter—are waiting for me—" Nizi said something intermittently, and Nizi burst into tears after hearing it.

Brother Nizi shouted with tears in her eyes: "Nizi, don't think nonsense - take care of it well, you will get better- it will be fine-"

A bitter smile squeezed out of Nizi's face, and that smile was like a bloody remnant of the sun, which was heartbreaking to watch-

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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)