Chapter 25: Life and Death
"Stop!" Qi Ye took off his armor and shouted, "Helan Lin, if you have any tricks, let the horse come over! With my Yuwen Qiye here, no one is allowed to touch her at all!"
"Whoa," said sooner than he could, as a short dysprosium whistled past my ear and pierced a golden light in front of my eyes. My gaze followed closely, and in the blink of an eye, I saw the short dysprosium piercing straight into Qi Ye's right knee, he frowned in pain, gritted his teeth and endured it for a long time, and finally fell to his knees unsupportively.
It was as if I had gone through the same pain as him, and I couldn't bear to see him yet. The second short dysprosium shot out immediately and nailed into Qi Ye's left shoulder, and my heart was filled with a tearing pain from my internal organs, watching him ooze blood from his knees and shoulders, blending with his clothes, and his black figure looked extremely thin at this moment.
I could feel that he seemed to be trembling all over, but he couldn't hold back the slightest expression on his face. Helan Lin took the third short dysprosium, held it in his hand and played with it, the evil gaze swept over the cold arrow, and said with a smile: "I asked you to take my three short dysprosiums, and you actually fought with flesh and blood." In this case, I will not show mercy to this third arrow. With that, he quickly gathered a smile on his face, his frozen eyes burst into a cold light, and he shot the last arrow with his bow.
My heart jumped suddenly, the short dysprosium shuttled through the stagnant air, and the golden arrow pointed directly at Qi Ye's heart!
I cried out as hard as I could, but the voice came from my dry throat but became silently hoarse. I closed my eyes in fear, the silent darkness eroded my consciousness, and the world seemed to stand still for a long time, except for my heartbeat, which almost stopped beating.
No...... Qi Ye ......
β¦β¦ No...... Can't leave me again......
A voice in my heart kept calling, and I opened my eyes suddenly, only to be stunned by the scene in front of meβ
Yuwen Qiye raised his right hand high, his palm clenched hard, and the tense wrist burst with green tendons, and gurgling blood meandered down the green tendons, reflecting the shining double-thorned arrows in his hand.
"Brother...... Yuwen Qi Ye he, he caught your thorn dysprosy!" Ah Tuan's eyes widened, and his face showed admiration, "His first two arrows fought with flesh and blood to resist this deadly last arrow." Brother, this life-saving method Baturu taught me, and I only understand it today. β
"It's a little trick, it's nothing. Helan Lonely's expression was faint, he squinted at me, and sneered, "Princess, don't be too happy. With a wave of my hand, two Turkic soldiers who were waiting for my command stepped forward to untie the ropes that bound me and dragged me back to the tower. My hanging heart was about to let go, and as soon as I landed, I stood up and ran to the city desperately, looking at the current situation of Qi Ye. Qi Ye also happened to look up at me, his originally frowning brows soothed the moment he searched for me, the corners of his mouth tugged slightly, and he reluctantly pulled out an extremely ugly smile at me.
There is no time when it hurts my heart more than to see him scarred and still smiling at me. I looked at him deeply, and the reunion after a few months filled my heart with sour joy, and such complicated feelings turned into bitterness when I saw him smile at me.
"Yuwen Qiye saved your life with three short dysstools, but he couldn't save himself!" Helan's lonely words rang in his ears, "Release the arrow!"
"Don't!" "Don't!" "Don't let go of arrows!" I blurted out at the same time as Ah Tuan, and Ah Tuan took the lead and said to Helan Lonely: "Yuwen Qi is outnumbered at night, and the Turks have won a disgraceful victory! Brother, such a hero should be used by me, isn't it a pity to die in vain?"
As a Turkic khan, the order of the regiment caused many soldiers who were ready to go hesitate for a while, and they put down their bows and crossbows one after another. In the face of his rebuttal, Yi Helan's dictatorial temperament was not annoyed at this moment, he rubbed Ah Tuan's hair, squatted down, and showed a loving expression on his face: "Your Majesty's broad-mindedness is a blessing for the Turks. It's just that this Yuwen Qi doesn't know what to do at night, he would rather recognize a thief as his father than surrender to the Turks, His Majesty is merciful to him, that is cruel to himself!"
Helan Lone's words meant something, and I stood behind him, quietly listening to the conversation between the two.
Ah Tuan glanced at me: "Brother, you kill him, when the reinforcements summoned by this woman last night arrive, will we be in a desperate situation?"
"Your Majesty, rest assured, when I set up an ambush in Youzhou, I had already expected this. Now that Yumen Pass has long been blocked by boulders, and the roads leading to Liangzhou have all been destroyed, the Central Plains wants to come to me to settle accounts? I'm afraid I will have to wait until the day when Yuwen Qi turns into white bones!"
Suddenly there was a loud trumpet out of nowhere, and the majestic sound shook the earth faintly, and the soldiers on the tower looked at each other, and immediately became panicked. Helan silence's back stiffened, stopped talking, and turned to look at me, with a bit of disbelief in her expression.
"This is ......" He Lanxi didn't continue, the expression on his face was diametrically opposed to Fang Cai's Chengzhu in his chest, revealing an unexpected panic in his heart.
"That's right. A smile tugged at the corner of my mouth, and I wrote lightly, "I, the woman, lit the beacon fire and summoned reinforcements, and they have arrived." β
Helan Lin forced his composure: "Impossible! That is the only way to reach Liangzhou within three days, even if you cross the Qilian Mountains day and night, it is impossible to reach it today!"
I raised my eyebrows slightly: "Do you think that with your Turkic army of 30,000 soldiers, you can resist the Celestial Empire's divine strategy guarding the border of Liangzhou?" Yuwen Qiye under the city tower covered the wound on his shoulder with one hand, and kept dripping blood with the other hand, and slowly stood up, his thin figure revealing endless tenacity. He stood upright, like a green pine in the wind and snow in the sound of the horn that was getting closer and closer.
"When did you two collude with each other, and you actually set up such a good game in advance!" Helan asked silently.
I replied, "The plan of the military has been like this since ancient times, and if it weren't for the collusion between me and Kuro, it would have started when I met him. β
"Jiulang?" Helan smiled silently, "Do you know what his name was when he was in Xiliang?"
I was puzzled by Helan Lone's sudden imminence and asked, "Do you know?"
"The little ninth master of the Gao family can be described as the little king of Yama who is feared by the people of Xiliang, a famous town. Helan Lone's eyes flashed, and he didn't miss a moment to capture the change in the expression on my face, "When he worked for Xiliang, he killed a lot of people from the Central Plains. β
Every word of his words revealed a message that I could not and did not dare to refute at this moment, and I pretended not to hear it, and only said: "Under the whole world, it is not the imperial land." The people of the Celestial Empire should have the surname Gao. β
"Hahaha......" Helan Lin laughed, but his steps moved while I was unprepared. I had a hunch that the momentum was wrong, and with a thrill in my heart, I turned around quickly, making Helan fall silent.
"Come on, take down the princess of the Zhou Dynasty for me!" He Lanshan gave an order, and the soldiers rushed towards me one after another, and in the dodge, I heard Helan Lin speak: "Don't blame me for being a villain, if you want to blame him, Yuwen Qiye only has such a weakness as you!"
His words immediately woke my heart up, and I looked for a way to escape through the human wall that surrounded me, only to see that the exits at the four corners of the city tower were closed, and they had already been heavily guarded by the soldiers arranged by Helan Lone.
"Yue'er!" Qi Ye shouted from downstairs, floating into my ears through the thick wall, I was about to respond, only to hear a loud sound from downstairs, the ground began to shake faintly, I stumbled, almost fell to the ground.
"Siege!" I heard someone give an order from the tower, and then there was another shaking of the mountain. "Protect Your Majesty!" Helan Lin shouted to the soldiers who were beginning to show panic, "Escort Your Majesty from leaving!"
I took the opportunity to get out of the crowd in one go, and ran to the head of the city only to find that there was no way out. A group of soldiers behind me rushed towards me, and there was no way to retreat, so I climbed to the top of the city with all my heart.
"You are not allowed to come!" I shouted loudly, but my eyes fell on Helan Lin, "If you come over, I will jump down!" I die, Yuwen Qiye will not let you go, and Da Zhou will not let go of the Turks!"
The wind was howling in the city, raising my long hair that had already been scattered, and I looked down tremblingly, Qi Ye didn't know when he was already standing in front of me, with a worried face. When his life hung by a thread, there were several columns of divine soldiers standing neatly behind him, and the whole land was solemn in front of my eyes for a moment, as if the overwhelming tide was surging, making people dizzy.
In the twilight, my heart hung in the air, the yellow sand was all over the sky, and the wind from the west sky blew me in a fiery red ragged wedding dress, like a burning flower. Under the city tower, a Shence army ran to Qi Ye's side, and whispered something in his ear, but he waved it back with one hand. Several Shence soldiers carried huge copper pestles on their shoulders to attack and close the city gate, and the loud bang shook the sky.
I glanced at Qi Ye and I, and looked back at the Turkic soldiers who surrounded me layer by layer but did not dare to take a step forward, Helan Lin stood alone behind the people, put on the Shura mask again, and a team of guards on the other side surrounded Ah Tuan, leaning over and fleeing quickly.
I straightened the tattered wedding dress on my body, changed my embarrassed posture, opened my arms, and showed the brightest smile I can ever remember in my life to Qi Ye, "Jiulang, catch my ......"
I leaned forward and kept falling downward, closing my eyes and seeing everything, only hearing the terrible sound of the wind pouring into my ears, lingering in my mind, turning into strange and familiar words from a distant direction.
"Ah Yan, when I come back, no matter what I become, you must marry me......"
Countless memories came flooding in from all directions, overturning me. My body kept falling, there was liquid coming out of my eyes against the wind, I heard myself speak softly, and the fragmented words remained in the wind, "I will wait for you, wait for you to marry me......"
The world stands still in this moment, surprisingly quiet. My body went limp, like I had fallen into the Infinite Void. I let out a sigh from my chest, but it hurt all over my body. A warm breath hit my cheeks, and the man who had just spoken said to me in the voice I had ever known best, "Little Black, I'm back." β