197. Finals

At the end of the second round, a total of 25 players from the five groups were selected to enter the third round, and the third round of the competition was about shooting Pihou.

Shooting Pihou is also known as shooting hooves, hooves are a kind of balls made of animal skin, painted with tigers, leopards, bears, deer, monkeys and other nine kinds of animal images, contestants to shoot one of the animals or even a certain part of the animal body according to the requirements, this is a very traditional way of comparing arrows, but in this competition has made a corresponding innovation - players need to step on the swing, while swinging the swing shot!

What's even more terrifying is that this round of the competition is not like the first two rounds of a total of ten arrows of chance, 25 players are divided into five groups of five people to take turns, each group of five people, each person only has the opportunity to put an arrow, the elimination of the miss, the one who shoots first, who advances, only one of the five people can enter the final - there is really a kind of cruelty of a sword to seal the throat!

The competition field began to remove the props, the arrow target wooden frame was lifted down, replaced with five swings and five small salute barrels up, Pihou will be hit by these cannon barrels into the air, when rising must be extremely fast, the difficulty of archery is also great, but this is the test of kung fu, if you want to wait for the fall before shooting, I am afraid that someone has already grabbed your front.

When the five competitors in the first group stood on the swing board, the cheers almost lifted the ground, especially when the navy blue-shirted boy who had stood out in the first two rounds stood straight on the shaking swing board, many of the spectators even stood up and cheered loudly.

Five swings are lined up at a distance of more than ten feet from the fireworks, and behind each swing there is an event staff member who is responsible for pushing the swings of the competitors to the maximum amplitude.

A whistle sounded, five staff members moved together, with all their strength to push the swing, the players on the swing did their best, with their arms around the swing rope to maintain balance, with legs tripping, and even sissies sitting on the swing board, one did not grasp and almost fell, bluffing out the audience in a cold sweat, and one is wearing a fluttering silk robe today, the swing swinged, the whole hem of the clothes was lifted, and he wrapped himself into a silkworm chrysalis with his head and face, and he was so anxious that he hurriedly pulled it down, and laughed at the audience on the table.

When the swing was almost swinging back and forth into a flat corner, a drum was heard, and a large wooden sign was erected directly opposite the swing, with the sign writing the target of the players - monkey ears. Immediately after the salute cannon was ignited, the cannon twist still had a short period of burning time, during this time the staff no longer controlled the swing, the players can adjust themselves, in order to achieve the most favorable amplitude and angle when Pihou is shot, then I saw that the swing of the young man in blue suddenly seemed to be falling on a heavy object, the swing amplitude suddenly decreased, as if there was an invisible big hand in curbing the ups and downs of the swing, and in an instant the amplitude was reduced to only about 45 degrees before and after, the audience was shocked, but there was a know-how to call out the mystery of this hand: "A Thousand Gold Pendants!"

Qianjin pendant is a kind of internal kung fu, luck can make the body as heavy as a thousand gold, just like the antonym of light power, want to do this also need to have a deep internal skills, I don't think this young man in blue can achieve such a journey!

In the audience's admiration, five small fireworks cannons "bang bang bang" successively bombarded Pihou into the sky, everyone only felt that a flower in front of them, there were only a few wisps of green smoke left at the muzzle of the cannon, and Pihou had already turned into a few small black dots in the high sky, the five players took bows and arrows, stared at the black dot with their heads up to the highest place and slowly fell, and just fell to the size of a walnut, the young man in blue had already shot, the sharp arrow was shooting, and everyone seemed to be able to hear "poof" There was a thud on the ground, and one of the Pihou fell from the sky with the arrow that had pierced it.

The other four contestants also shot arrows, and all of them hit Pihou, the audience craned their necks to see the results, then saw several referees come forward to watch for a while, and soon one of them ran to the judges' bench with one of the arrows pierced, and the results came out in a short time - the boy in blue became the first person to advance to the finals!

The second group of contestants appeared in the cheers of the audience for the young man in blue, Yuan Chang stepped on the swing, one leg stood on the board, one leg hooked the swing rope, and both hands held the bow and arrows , but it is more difficult than the monkey ear, Pi Hou jumped into the air, Yuan Chang did not use the kung fu of the gold pendant like the blue-clothed boy, but still maintained the posture of holding the bow with the swing of the swing, Pi Hou fell, the sharp arrow rushed out, and the "poof" sound was neat.

"Did you get it?" Fourth Young Master Yan didn't know when he sat behind Yan Qi, put his hands on the pergola and looked up.

"Hit, sheep's eye. Yan Qidao, "Promoted." ”

Fourth Young Master Yan could only see that Yuan Chang had shot Pihou, and as for whether he had shot the sheep's eyes, he couldn't see it at all.

"Seventh sister, do you think Yuan Chang is better than the one in blue clothes, whose archery skills are better?" asked Fourth Young Master Yan.

"It's not for sure," Yan Qi shook his head, "It's not easy to show the true level if it's too simple." ”

"......" is too simple...... This is "too simple" than that...... Fourth Young Master Yan felt that it would be good for him to be a horse god quietly.

The five people who finally advanced to the finals, except for the blue-shirted boy and Yuan Chang, the other three are all soldiers from the major military camps, and it is not that these soldiers raised by the imperial court are not helpful, you must know that the vast majority of the soldiers are from civilian backgrounds, and they have not undergone any systematic training since they were children. When you really go to the battlefield, the enemy on the opposite side is a large area of Wuyang, where you need to carefully aim at people's eyes and ears, and those who shoot the enemy to death are good soldiers.

Powerful and wealthy children like Yuan Chang and them, they can afford to hire famous teachers, and some have time, and they have been practicing like this since they were young, and of course they will not fall behind the soldiers in a calm manner, but as for what will happen on the real battlefield, it is difficult to predict.

Under the anticipation of everyone, the final game of the Houyi Grand Event finally kicked off, and hundreds of soldiers wearing armor and carrying knives and guns suddenly poured into the arena, standing in a circle along the audience, standing one at intervals, staring at the arena waitingly.

The audience was a little confused for a while: Why did he let the soldiers stand guard compared to an arrow? The emperor didn't come today, could it be that he was still afraid of assassins?

The five finalists were now brought to the judges' bench, gathered around a table and listened to what the staff of the tournament organizer department were talking about, and after talking for a while, the five began to write on a piece of paper with a pen, which made the audience curious and craned their necks desperately to look at the room.

But someone close to him spread the news - those five people were actually signing the life and death certificate!

Mom, it's better than a race, what is this going to be compared to?!Could it be that five people shoot each other with arrows to survive to the end?! This is too exciting...... I knew that I would swallow two heart-saving pills before I came like this......

The first five people signed the life and death certificate, and then each returned to the seat where the family was located to say goodbye and leave a last word......

The audience felt more and more uncomfortable, some of them were already thinking about whether to leave the venue early or change their seats a little later, and more people were speculating about what the final would be.

Yan Qi took advantage of this vacancy to get up and go to the toilet outside the shooting range, this shooting range was built very humanely, dozens of public toilets were built along the outer wall, some were used by commoners and some were dedicated to nobles, and at this moment, no matter which class used it, there was a queue outside.

Yan Qi stood under a red coggie tree and waited to enter the pit, and was waiting like he was fascinated, when he felt that he was lightly hit by a small stone on his shoulder, and turned his face to look, but saw that it was Yuan Chang, standing not far behind and looking at her.

Yan Qi walked over and stood in front of him: "Nervous?"

“…… Can you have a good chat?" Yuan Chang raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

"Can you do it, do you really sign a life and death certificate?" Yan Qi seized the time to gossip.

"Hmm. Yuan Chang didn't seem to care about this, just looked at Yan Qidao, "Are your feet okay?"

"Totally fine, thank you for the medicine. "I haven't had time to use the sixth bottle yet......

Yuan Chang lowered his eyelids, didn't look at Yan Qi's face, only stared at the rouge-like leaves under his feet, and stared at it for a long time before he raised his eyes and looked at the rouge-like lips of the person in front of him: "After today's competition, you probably won't see me for a while." ”

Yan Qi didn't speak, and only looked at him.

"You ......" Yuan Chang pursed his lips, "...... It's good. ”

"Hmm. Yan Qi responded.

Yuan Chang turned his head and glanced at Yan Qi indiscriminately, suddenly raised his hand and stroked the top of Yan Qi's head, and dropped a sentence: "I want this thing!" turned his head and ran away.

Yan Qi stretched out his hand and touched his hair, and saw that the crown of the little dolphin was gone.

…… How do you tell him that it's a jade statue of her nervous uncle's godson......

When they returned to their seats, the finals were about to begin, and the spectators were nervous by the soldiers on the sidelines, all of whom breathed a sigh of relief, making the scene strangely quiet, and even when the five finalists rode into the center of the arena, they failed to cause cheers and noise, and people just looked at the five people quietly, as if they were going to pick up arrows and greet each other wildly in the next moment.

Five contestants rode in a row on horses, facing the entrance to the passage into the shooting range, wearing light armor, carrying an arrow basket behind their backs, the basket was full of arrows, and the lower mount was also covered with armor pieces of body protection at the key point.

Everyone's appetite was hung higher, and they all stared at the shape of the field, and saw that the five referees quickly ran away from the shooting range after being blindfolded, and after leaving through the passageway, they also closed the iron fence gate used to isolate the shooting range, and a long whistle sounded from the judges' seat, and the five players in the field immediately raised their bows and arrows, but the direction was pointing directly at the iron gate!

The spectators craned their necks and held their breath to look at the gate, only to see a small gate open under the gate, as if to put something low in......

Whoosh and swish--more than a dozen gray shadow arrows generally shot into the small fence gate, ran to a distance of dozens of meters away from the five players in the field, and slowly stopped, and approached the five players step by step in an encirclement posture -

It's a wolf!

The audience couldn't help but scream the moment they saw those gray shadows, some jumped up and ran, some were stunned on the spot, and some crawled and cried for their fathers and mothers -- more than a dozen wolves with blood-red eyes! Look at this posture, it is clear that it is a pack of wild wolves caught from the wild, I don't know how long they have been locked up and starved, and once this time is released, the saliva is constantly dripping!

-- It's terrible! The content of this final is terrible! This is actually asking these five contestants to kill wolves to decide the winner! No wonder they want to blindfold the horses, if the horses see these wolves, they are afraid that they will be so frightened that they will not be able to run! No wonder these five people are asked to sign life and death certificates, this is a direct fight to the death of the wolves! What is this?! This is a wolf pack! The most terrible group hunter with fierce cunning and strong coordination ability! Who would have come up with such a way of playing!

The common people were already frightened and ran out like crazy, but some of the brave ones only retreated to the top of the stands, watching the situation below in horror.

The magnates in the VIP seats were also frightened, but because of their status and face, they didn't dare to fart and pee like the common people, and the women shrank into a ball in fright after screaming, and the men were quite calm, barely holding on there and staring nervously at the evil wolf in the field, their faces were silent, but in their hearts they scolded the bastards of the military department and the ritual department to the fullest--why don't you fucking play this hand and say hello in advance, fuck! There are so many powerful people at the banquet who hurt any of them, and you can't get out of it!

But there are also clear brains, looking at the height difference between the lowest stands and the field is also six or seven meters, and the edge is surrounded by barbed wire, usually to prevent people from falling off the stands or arrows in the field to fly to the audience, it is expected that those wolves will not be able to jump to such a high place, even if they jump up, are there not those strong soldiers with weapons just sent to stop them?

Thinking about it like this, I was somewhat relieved, and continued to stand there to watch the game, making a look of not being shocked on the surface, but letting others look at it highly.

The most unfazed is probably the area where the Wu family sits, and more than 100 people are more excited when they see the wolves than the wolves see their prey, and they look at the way their eyes shine one by one, and they can't wait to form a group to go down and tear the wolves directly.

The old lady on the Yan family's side took the lead in bluffing back, the eldest lady, the third wife, Yan Wuyan, Yan Liuyan, and several female dependents screamed, and the second girl Yan was also so frightened that her face turned pale, but she was still trying her best to hold the old lady with one hand and support the eldest lady with the other. Old lady Yan's beard also trembled a few times, after all, it was something that happened, sitting there steadily, as for Yan Zike, he supported his cheek on the arm of the chair with one hand, and pressed his mouth to pout, so cute that he didn't want it, there was a wolf in the field and no wolf in his eyes, and Cui Chunyi, who was sitting next to him, even wondered if this person was wandering and thinking about something else.

Yan Ziheng, who was blind and still holding his son Young Master Yan, heard him shout happily: "Dad! There are dogs! There are so many dogs!"

"Really, will Daddy take you to feed them later?"

"Yes, yes!"

…… Everyone on the side thinks that sometimes being blind is also a simple and happy life experience......

The remaining young masters and Yan Qi are more calm than the other, young people are always fearless and thrill-seeking, and the fourth young master Yan even has a little envy of the five people on the field: "Fighting with wolves, this is too domineering!"

Yes, it's really domineering, others shoot rabbits more than riding and shooting, these few shooting wolves, more than a dozen wolves, five people, is it really that easy to deal with?