Qiaoya looked back at Xue Ying, who looked indifferent, as if she hadn't heard anything, and continued to drink water. Qiaoya suddenly felt a little depressed, feeling that the young lady in front of her, who had grown up together, looked so strange.

"I'll go out for a walk."

"Be careful, don't go far."

Qiaoya went downstairs and walked around the deserted street, the sky was vague, and there were fewer people on the street, because there were no street lights, and the pedestrians on the street looked particularly infiltrating.

After only two steps, I began to feel bored, and after thinking about it, it was really unsafe to leave the young lady alone in the inn, and it was better to go back and stay by her side. But the moment she lifted her foot, she heard a voice coming from deep down the alley.

"It's a baby girl who is not full moon, the meat is tender and smooth, whether it is steamed or stewed, it must be delicious."

"It's all so big, the meat is old, right?"

Qiaoya was a little stunned at first, but when she understood, a surge of blood and qi suddenly surged, and her body moved faster than her brain, and she had already rushed in: "Stop!" ”

snatched the baby from the man's hand and glared angrily: "What are you going to do?!" ”

"What's the matter with you? Give it back! Two men rushed over to retrieve the baby, but they were kicked out by Qiaoya.

"Qiaoya." Xue Ying's call came from the mouth of the alley.

"Humph!" Qiaoya no longer paid attention to the two scumbags on the ground and walked out with the child in her arms. "Miss?"

"Throw the child away."

Hearing this, Qiaoya took a step back defensively: "How can that be?" As he spoke, the baby in his arms woke up, opened his mouth and cried, struggling with some uneasiness. Qiaoya's heart tightened: "Miss, this is just a child who doesn't know anything, we can't see death without help." ”

"As I said, in northern Xinjiang, even babies can be your enemies."

"But......" Qiaoya still wanted to speak, but suddenly felt a tingling pain in her hands, and had to put the baby on the ground, rolled up her sleeves and saw that her arms had turned purple and black.

Xue Ying stepped forward and pulled out a thin rope to tie Qiaoya's upper arm: "Don't move." ”

But in an instant, Qiaoya's hands were already unconscious, and her face turned white. It was not that he was afraid of this poison dying alive, but that he realized that what Xue Ying had just said was not wrong at all.

What kind of world is this?

Outside, above, and behind the mouth of the alley, there was a sudden sound of children's giggling, which looked very abrupt and gloomy in the night. Probably disturbed by this sound, the baby on the ground suddenly began to cry loudly, as if very frightened and painful.

Qiaoya stood in front of Xue Ying and looked around vigilantly.

Xue Ying lowered her eyes: "It's really self-defeating." After speaking, regardless of those voices, he took Qiaoya's hand and cut through his palm, squeezed out a pool of black blood, and then sprinkled it with medicinal powder.

And at the same time that Xue Ying was healing Qiaoya's injuries, many black shadows flew out like bats on night patrol, staggered and fluttering, very lively. Qiaoya has good eyesight, and can see that the secret guards are fighting with a group of children about ten years old, although those children are young, they are ghostly and ruthless, and they use some lose-lose moves, which makes her tremble.

Xue Ying said lightly: "This time it should be considered as an apprenticeship for you, the more you go on, the more dangerous it will be, and next time you may not have such good luck as today." ”

Qiaoya looked at the crying baby on the ground, and bit her lower lip hard: "I know." ”

Xue Ying finally finished healing her, raised her eyes and looked at Qiao Ya quietly for a while, and said, "Qiao Ya, why don't you go back?" ”

Qiao Ya stiffened, stared at Xue Ying's eyes, and then suddenly pulled out the soft sword in her waist and stabbed her head backwards without looking back. In the night, a seven or eight-year-old child in black showed his figure, looked down at the soft sword that passed through his heart, and fell backwards with a dead eye.

Qiaoya still didn't look back, neatly withdrew her sword, and looked firm: "Wherever Miss goes, I'll go." ”

"Qiaoya......" Xue Ying has to persuade again.

"If Miss asks me to kill, I'll kill someone."

Xue Ying stopped talking.

Qiaoya was silent for a moment, reached out and hugged her shoulder and patted her gently: "Don't be afraid, I will accompany you." ”

One sentence made the fortress that Xue Ying had worked so hard to build collapse in an instant, and she leaned on Qiaoya's arms with red eyes and trembling: "I want to be stronger." ”

"No one can be strong, it's just that the ability to disguise has increased. However, you don't need to pretend in front of me, I know that you have always been that kind and soft-hearted young lady, and you will never change. ”

The alley was quiet, and the whole world fell into silence and darkness again, Xue Ying hugged Qiaoya tightly, trying to draw enough body heat from her body to stop retreating from fear.

………………

Under the scorching sun, the distant scenery seems to be distorted, making people dizzy.

"Miss, miss?" Qiaoya screamed softly, pulling away the sweaty hair on Xue Ying's neck and face.

Xue Ying opened her eyes in a daze, her face flushed unnaturally, but her lips were pale and dry, revealing a layer of dead skin.

"We're here, let's go down and rest." Qiaoya carefully helped Xue Ying up and got out of the carriage. In front of him was a mountain beam that was not too high, and at the foot of the mountain leaned against an old and rough inn, covered in thick dust, and looked lifeless.

When she arrived at the room, Qiaoya hurriedly wet a towel to wipe Xue Ying's face and try to cool her down. Xue Ying was uncomfortable for a long time before she came back to her breath and said, "Open the window." ”

Qiao Ya hesitated for a moment before opening the window. The heat was rising, and an indescribable stench filled the air. Qiao Ya said in a low voice: "Further ahead is Jiaocheng, the coachman said that there is a war in Luocheng, and no one else can enter the city except for the army transporting grain, so he will only send it here." ”

"Hmm." Xue Ying replied absentmindedly. Qiaoya looked at her demeanor carefully and found that she was listening to the conversation of the people downstairs.

“…… opened the city gate and let the first group of people in, and came to catch turtles in an urn, but the army of the northern plains was fierce, and those people who came in fought hard with the defenders for a day and a night before they were killed, and there were heavy casualties on both sides, and the blood and water at the mouth of the urn of the city gate could flood people's feet and necks...... The city couldn't dispose of so many corpses, so they had to be moved to the city wall and thrown out, and when the sun broke, it was called a stinker. Now there is less than one-third of the original guard army left in Jiaocheng, and if the reinforcements do not come again, I am afraid that Luocheng will not be able to hold it. ”

"Reinforcements? The city is worse than this side, where can the reinforcements take care of it? ”

"Hey, I heard that Beiyuan got our border defense map this time, so he made such a fatal move. After all, Xue Shuai is a newcomer, and he was a civil official before, can he withstand Beiyuan? ”

"Why can't you resist it? Beiyuan has been tossing and turning every year, when has it succeeded? ”

"That's not sure, since the slaughter of the people by Sichuan Shuai, the morale of the northern Xinjiang army has been lost......"