The galloping dragon horse was like a meteor sliding from the sky, raising a piece of flying sand on the road to Xia Qian City. Huo Wuxian hugged the body of his second brother in his arms, but tears couldn't stop rolling in his eyes.

There is nothing more tragic in this world than the death of a loved one.

The second brother is so cheerful and open-minded on weekdays, and he has never cared about someone or something. "Perhaps he is the most father-like son of our three brothers." Big brother always says that. But now, he can't come back. The pale face, the closed eyes, only a cold shell remained in this world for the time being. Where did his soul go? Nobody knows.

Just as Huo Wuxian was thinking about these trances on the horse's back, a feathered arrow flew out of the woods on the side of the road, but because the dragon horse galloped too fast and missed, it flew past the back of his head. One after another, the figures of the Hewei army appeared from the woods, and it turned out that they had already laid an ambush here according to the instructions of the Hewei King.

originally thought that the road to survival led to Xia Qian City, but now it has become a dangerous way home. The Imperial Army had completely lost their fighting spirit, and they were scurrying in horror amid the indiscriminate arrows, and none of them thought of doing anything, let alone bravely resisted. The god of fear was manipulating their minds, the fear of death tearing at their wills all the time, and even the little remaining instinct for survival seemed so humble.

Huo Wuxian didn't care about everyone, he just rode the Thunder Shadow Flying Dragon Horse and ran wildly all the way. In the distance, the outline of Xia Qian City is faintly visible, and the banners of the defenders on the city wall are hunting and flying in the wind, but they are no longer the military flags of the Huo family's army, but the yellow-colored Shenzi flags.

Driving his horse to the city, Huo Wuxian shouted at the defenders in the city: "Open the door!" The Crane Army chased after him. ”

A figure leaned out of the city wall, it was Shen Zhi, the minister of the court, who arrived from the imperial capital at some unknown time, and replaced the defenders of Xia Qian City with the troops he brought. Seeing Huo Wuxian holding the dead Huo Yunqi in his arms, he shouted in a complaining tone: "I have already heard about the battle in Mocao City, your father Huo Yiben's improper command caused the annihilation of more than 100,000 troops on the front line, and now you still have the face to flee back, it is simply a shame for the country." ”

What his father did was remembered by Huo Wuxian in his heart. When faced with danger, the first thing a father thinks of is his subordinates, even the safety of his son. It is better to stay and delay yourself than to lose a single soldier. If it weren't for the army, Huo Wuxian would not have been able to see such a father, who was a completely different person from when he was at home, a man who carried the fate of the empire. It is precisely because of a clear understanding of these that in the face of Shen Zhi's unconcerned accusations at this moment, his heart will be even more angry.

"What right do you have to criticize my father!" Huo Wuxian stared back at Shen Zhi on the city wall and roared, leaving those Hewei troops who were rushing towards the city gate behind. Even if he was insulted, he couldn't let his father bear the infamy, and he suddenly felt that he was a little unbelievable about his thoughts.

Shen Zhi's eyes were full of disdain, "Qualification? Are you talking to me now about qualifications as a defeated army? Do you think you deserve it? In short, if your Huo family army can't repel the enemy army, don't think about stepping into the city gate! ”

Huo Wuxian was about to refute, when he suddenly felt his shoulders sink, and a feather arrow had pierced his armor and stomach and pierced into the flesh. Immediately after that, he was stabbed in the back, and the menacing Hewei soldiers were running behind him. He turned sharply to avoid the blades that were following him, only to see more enemies rushing towards him like a tidal wave. He glared at the enemy as if he were fighting the whole world with the power of one person.

The flagpole of the Huo family army that was cut off from the city wall was at his feet, and it was picked up by Huo Wuxian and held high above his head. He flew up and jumped on horseback, holding the body of his second brother and moving forward bravely, smashing into a passage among the thousands of Hewei troops. At this moment, he has lost any support, not even his own life. As if he woke up in an instant, the oppression given by death, the desire to survive, knowing that he was invincible, he had to do his best, and even if he died, he had to maintain the reputation of the Huo family, all kinds of complicated emotions were heated and burned in his beating heart, and the heat was enough to boil and consume all the energy in his body.

Two generals of the Hewei Army chased from the left and right, one was Heweiben with a hammer, and the other was Heweihu, a two-handed swordsman. Although the war horse under their crotch was not as fast as the Thunder Shadow Flying Dragon Horse, they chased after it all the way. The three horses shook off the people and rushed into the dense forest northwest of Xia Qian City.

The flagpole above his head was torn in half by the branches, but Huo Wuxian still insisted on holding his arm high. The blood flowing from the wound had soaked the stomach and armor, and consciousness began to become sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, except for the arm holding the body of the second brother as unshakable as iron tongs. For a short moment, he also had the idea of giving up resistance, but when his father's gaze and the face of his second brother flashed in his mind, it would always lead him to an almost crazy stubbornness, even if there was only a glimmer of life, he had to continue to persevere for survival.

The sword was thrown out by the Crane Tiger, and when it was about to stab Huo Wuxian in the back, the tail of the Thunder Shadow Flying Dragon Horse suddenly cocked and struck the blade of the sword like a whip, causing it to deviate from its trajectory and fall into the bushes on the side.

He Wei rushed high and lifted the hammer from the horse's back, and smashed it down on the top of Huo Wuxian's head with an overwhelming momentum. The Thunder Shadow Flying Dragon Horse turned sharply and changed the direction of its original running, and its front hooves covered with dragon scales jumped slightly, passing between the two low trees. Then the hammer of the crane fell and smashed a piece of bluestone that could accommodate a person to lie flat into a pile of rubble.

At this time, Huo Wuxian had completely lost consciousness, and the bumps on the horse's back could not make him sober. His consciousness was gone, and the Thunder Shadow Flying Dragon Horse also dissipated with the soul pattern energy. happened to come to a dirt slope in the forest, Huo Wuxian and the body of the second brother fell together, below the soil slope is a crack in the mountain forest, the water pouring from the waterfall washes out a ravine all the year round, and below is a bottomless valley, the two of them rolled down into it and disappeared.

He Weiben and He Weihu then arrived, and when they saw that there were traces of rolling on the dirt slope, they dismounted and came to the crack to watch.

"With such a deep valley, this kid won't survive."

"It's really unlucky, if we catch it alive, we will be a great achievement."

The two muttered as they turned around and walked up the dirt slope and rode away.

A thunderclap came from the sky, and the dark clouds soon covered the heavens and the earth, and then a light rain began to fall. A green frog crouches on a boulderstone jutting out of the dirt, enjoying this hard-earned bliss.

Not far from the frog, Huo Wuxian was lying on the wet soil. Raindrops fell on the surface of his chapped lips and flowed along the corners of his mouth into his mouth, as if the dry earth had been moistened, and he opened his eyes from his coma and raised his hands in front of him, covered in mud and dried blood.

"Hmm......" There was a tingling pain in his brain, and Huo Wuxian hurriedly grabbed his hair with his hand, as if doing so would alleviate the pain. The feeling of a heavy head made him very uncomfortable, and it felt like every nerve was squirming like a bug.

Quack, croack, the green frog let out a pleasant cry.

His skin was covered with cold rain, and the rain began to become more and more urgent, and Huo Wuxian couldn't help but shiver. His face was pale, his lips were bloodless, and his hair was so wet that it looked like weeds everywhere on the side of the road.

His eyes fell more than ten meters away, and the body of the second brother Huo Yunqi was lying in the mud. He immediately crawled over in pain, took a closer look, and was startled. It turned out that Huo Yunqi's corpse had been soaked in the rain and was swollen completely, not only unrecognizable, but even inhuman.

Quack, quack, croak, the green frog let out a carefree call.

There was only one dagger left on his body, and the flagpole he had held in his hand before had fallen somewhere. Huo Wuxian only paid attention to the environment around him at this moment, and found that he was actually on a river beach, and he could only see a few lonely trees in all directions, and the distance was covered by a large white fog, and he couldn't see anything.

He used a dagger to dig through the rain-soaked soil, until his arms were so sore that he couldn't exert his strength that he could just dig a pit that could hold the body of his second brother. It took a lot of effort to push the body of the second brother into the pit, and he picked up the soil with both hands in the rain and sprinkled it into it, tears and rain rolling down his cheeks.

Quack, quack, quack, the green frog let out a contented cry.

The stomach was hungry, and the wounds on his body were also dull under the stimulation of the rain. Huo Wuxian washed his mud-stained hands by the river, then took a big gulp of the river water. But that didn't fill his belly at all, so he turned his gaze to the innocent green frog.

The green frog didn't seem to notice the danger around him, and was still singing for the rain.

Huo Wuxian approached step by step, but he quickly gave up. How do you eat a frog yourself? This is simply ridiculous. In desperation, he could only sit cross-legged by the river, looking at the thick fog in the distance, and the indescribable sadness in his heart.

"Ah......h One thing that hit him in the back of the head fell on his leg, and it was an apricot.

Huo Wuxian immediately looked back and found that an old ape covered with white hair was sitting by the tree not far away, holding three or five apricots in its hand.

It was the first time he had seen the ape Huo Wuji, but this guy threw himself with an apricot the first time they met, which didn't leave a good impression. But in any case, the sudden appearance of the apricots pleased him more than anything else, and he wished that the ape would throw all the apricots in his hand.

Huo Wuxian ate the apricots in his hand in three or two bites, spit out the apricot kernels and threw them aside, regardless of whether the ape could understand it or not, so he opened his mouth and said, "Can you throw another one to me?" I'm so hungry. ”

The ape bared his teeth at him again, and literally threw another one. Huo Wuxian originally wanted to take it in his hand, but he didn't expect the ape to throw the apricot very fast, and this time the apricots hit him on the head entirely, causing him to lean forward and close his back.

Quack, croack, only the green frog continued to sing.