"Shh Outside the damp and dim cell, although he knew that Xia Shuanghan's surprised words were not loud, Ugal, who cautiously glanced at the cave on his right, still raised a finger to his lips and said in a low voice: "I'll come to see you to confirm that everything is okay with you." www.biquge.info Of course, I also need you to write a few words on this piece of paper with charcoal strips, so that I can take them back and give them to my brother. ”

Having said this, Ugar put the lamp in his hand on the ground, and then took out a small bag of oiled paper from his arms and handed it to Xia Shuanghan and said, "My brother is very worried about your current situation, so I must bring back the evidence that can prove that you are safe......"

With Ugar's next simple and clear explanation, Xia Shuanghan quickly understood the reason why he was here at this moment.

It turned out that after Xia Shuanghan was taken away by the criminals, Ugal, who quickly disguised the scene, deceived Baliya, who was simple-minded and not very observant, but failed to deceive his brother Umar.

Based on the time and place of Xia Shuanghan's disappearance, Umar can be sure that behind Xia Shuanghan's unexpected disappearance, there must be something to do with the criminals who made and sold red and white pills. So, after dusk and everyone in the village gave up searching for Xia Shuanghan, Umar pulled his younger brother and found a secluded place where no one was around, and made a gesture to make his words clear.

At that time, Ugal explained that although Umar believed that there was no need for the criminals to kill Xia Shuanghan, he was still relieved, but he still asked his younger brother to sneak into the mountain at night and bring back evidence from Xia Shuanghan that could prove that she was safe.

To be honest, if you think about the problem from Ugal's standpoint, you shouldn't have confessed to your brother the reason why Xia Shuanghan disappeared. What's more, he is on guard duty in the village on weekdays, and he is not qualified to enter and exit the mountain at will unless there are special circumstances. So at the beginning, in the face of his brother's request, Ugal was a little prevaricated.

However, Umar's cruel words "You can't bring back evidence that frost and cold are fine, I will denounce you tomorrow" made him have no room to escape and choose. So, in the dead of night, Ugal appeared in front of Xia Shuanghan.

It's just that, in order to avoid his own comrades and make things less complicated, Ugal entered the mountain this time, taking another entrance and exit in addition to the six entrances and exits that had been marked on the map drawn by Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun.

"You know another entrance and exit that no one else knows?" Listening to Ugal hastily tell the story of the summer frost and cold, he forcibly suppressed the surprise and surprise in his heart, and then tried his best to maintain the calm of his face, lowered his head and began to write hastily on the paper.

The map that Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran finally completed, Xia Shuanghan remembered very clearly. The criminals in the mountains only know about the six entrances and exits, and Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran have confirmed it many times. Therefore, for this seventh entrance and exit, which only Ugal alone knows, it is completely impossible for Xia Shuanghan to say that he doesn't care about it at all.

After all, if she could escape from the mountain through this exit where no second person knew her exact location before the encirclement operation began, wouldn't it be more likely that she would be taken hostage by the criminals and interfere with the entire encirclement operation than if she chose to seek a chance to hide after leaving the cell?

The charcoal pen in his hand scribbled across the paper, and while writing the letter of peace in the summer frost, he quietly and carefully looked at Ugal outside the cell.

Ugal's wet dripping hair, and the same damp oiled paper bag with letterhead and charcoal, all told Xia Shuanghan that he had just been in the water not long ago, and that the water should not be shallow. Otherwise, his hair wouldn't be completely soaked.

As for why the clothes on his body were not wet, Xia Shuanghan believed that it was not a difficult task to put all the clothes together, and then wrap them in oiled paper with the cylinder lamp and the fire fold.

At the same time, the location of the last passage that Ugar took when he came to the cell, as well as the crumbs of the ore needed to refine the red pill stuck to the soles of his shoes, and the small specks of fluorescent lichen rubbed on the hem of his clothes, all made Xia Shuanghan have a rough guess about the location of the seventh cave in Ugal's mouth.

Based on the clues that Xia Shuanghan had observed so far and the map of the secret passage in the mountain that she had memorized in her mind, she believed that the reason why many criminals in the mountain, as well as Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran, failed to discover the seventh entrance and exit was entirely because the seventh entrance and exit were hidden underwater.

Out of the cell, through the passage on the right-hand side, there is only one route that may be contaminated with fresh ore debris from the section and fluorescent lichen that has just left the rock wall. And at the end of that cul-de-sac passage, there is a deep pool that is a circle smaller than the size of the Naming Village Bathhouse.

Xia Shuanghan believed that anyone who could swim and hold his breath as long as Ugar could escape the mountain through the seventh entrance.

Xia Shuang, who pondered for a moment in his heart, neatly folded the letter of peace written in his hand, rolled it up with charcoal and handed it to Ugal outside the cell.

"Whew, that's great." Ugal, who wrapped the letterhead and charcoal back into the oiled paper, let out a long sigh and said, "Now it's okay, with this letter, my brother won't make a fuss about pressing me to Tongcheng Pass and surrender himself." ”

"Ugal," glancing at the young man outside the cell who had never harmed her from beginning to end, Xia Shuanghan smiled and said goodbye to him, "Thank you for pleading with your uncles and uncles for my sake, and take care of yourself in the future." "Even if, after tonight, you don't even have a chance to leave Naming Village, you will be captured and imprisoned by the defenders of Tongcheng.

"Well, take care, and thank you for not resenting me for being captured by them." Stuffing the oiled paper wrapped in string back into his arms, Ugar turned to leave, but at this moment he heard an unusual commotion coming from the cave where the culprit was resting.

"The encirclement operation has begun!" This is the judgment that Xia Shuanghan, who was kneeling in the cell, made in his heart the first time he heard the sound. So, not caring whether his current unlocking would arouse the suspicion of Ugar outside the prison door, he glanced at Ugal, who ran towards the cave as soon as the commotion sounded, Xia Shuanghan neatly and decisively pulled out the thin metal wire in the hairpin and inserted it into the keyhole.

"Bahamaiyi, what's wrong, what's wrong? What are you panicking about? Ugal, who ran to the entrance and exit of the cave with a lamp, raised his hand and grabbed the first person who ran out of the cave. In the process of anxiously inquiring about the development of the situation, he didn't notice at all that Xia Shuanghan had already opened the big lock on the chain of the cell door with his hands and feet.

"Ugal, why are you here?" Bahamam, who was pulled by Ugal, who should not have appeared in the mountains at this time, was stunned for a moment, and then reacted quickly: "Forget it, it doesn't matter. In short, the defenders of Tongcheng have been killed, and it seems that all six entrances and exits have been blocked! ”

As the summer frost clanged and unchained, the rapid conversation between Ugar and his accomplices continued.

"All six entrances and exits are blocked? Won't we be able to escape? ”

"Yes, that's why Georgette asked me to capture the girl in prison, saying that she could be the most useful hostage."

"Hostages? No, Xia Shuanghan is innocent. Ugal is still trying to argue with his case.

"It's come to such a critical juncture, who cares if it's innocent or not." Bahammaii's tone was mixed with obvious irritation, "Anyway, Georgette said that the bracelet on that girl's hand alone could save the lives of all of us. So, don't make a mess and get out of the way! ”

"Bracelet!" Xia Shuanghan, who had just unchained and opened the cell door at the door of the cell, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words of several people on the left hand. Then, reacting to what they were talking about, she stepped out of the cell without saying a word and rushed desperately towards the passage on the right.

The bracelet that the criminals said was obviously the one that Xia Shuanghan personally knitted and then put on Lu Shaoyun at the group wedding in mid-September. Xia Shuanghan believes that the reason why the criminals will say that she is the most useful hostage is definitely because the true identity and relationship between her and Lu Shaoyun have been discovered by them.

Although Lu Shaoyun and Lin Xuran took off the human skin masks on their faces outside the Tongcheng military camp and never put them on again, their real appearances, which have a great similarity with their faces, still can't guarantee that the criminals who quietly participated in the group wedding in September are not suspicious of them.

With a face with similar facial features, and a special husband and wife bracelet made by the Rong people on his wrist, it is indeed not surprising that after the encirclement and suppression operation begins, the criminals who confronted Lu Shaoyun will recognize him as her Xia Shuanghan's husband.

"You must not be caught by them! You must not cause chaos to Tingxuan. Xia Shuanghan, who heard the shouts of "She's running, hurry, catch her" from behind her, cheered herself up in her heart, and endured the faintly painful arrow wound on her calf, and ran lifelessly on the road leading to the seventh entrance.

The dark and damp passage reflected the brilliance of the full moon of fluorescent lichen, and Xia Shuanghan, who tore the wound on his left calf during the running, didn't know if he could get rid of the pursuers behind him with his current speed.

The soldiers who rushed into the mountain from the six entrances and exits were narrowing the area little by little, driving the criminals into the predetermined target cave. As a result, Xia Shuanghan, who ran into the culprit retreating from other directions while running, inevitably began to become more and more critical.

The shout of "Catch that woman, catch her and we will live" came along the stone wall, and soon the criminals who had just retreated from the other entrances and exits, and did not know the value of Xia Shuanghan's use, joined the team chasing after her.

"No, you can't go out through the seventh entrance." Xia Shuanghan, whose calf was gushing and bleeding outward, and the pain was unbearable but still insisted on running, looked up at the fork in the road that led to the seventh entrance and the other two entrances and exits in front of him, and after making sure that it had been seized by the criminals who had turned back and was impassable, he had no choice but to turn onto another fork in the road.

Running through the passage with his support for the uneven stone wall, Xia Shuanghan thought that the wisest choice for his current plan was to desperately approach the line of engagement between the criminals and the soldiers.

After all, the front-line soldiers handed over and the scene was chaotic, even if the pursuers behind them asked their accomplices for help and asked them to arrest her with them, the criminals who were busy resisting or fleeing would not be able to immediately respond to the request and catch Xia Shuanghan, who was slippery as he walked through the crowd.

Therefore, as long as there is no accident, with the self-defense moves that he has practiced for a long time, it is not impossible for Xia Shuanghan to take advantage of the chaos to escape from the enemy camp and cross the battle line to be sheltered by the defenders of Tongcheng. So, having made up her mind that it was better to fight than to tie up, she desperately pressed all her chips on the next action.

Relying on the complete map in his mind, Xia Shuanghan, who was panting and moving forward, switched between the passages in the curved corners all the way. As she runs, she dodges along the way, or after a brief encounter, she dodges several of them, trying to capture her criminals from the front or from the side.

In the passage where various voices were mixed, making it difficult to identify what others were shouting about, Xia Shuanghan vaguely heard the shouts of "Don't hurt her, catch her alive". Then, running out of the next passage, she walked on her calves that were almost unconscious, and came to the front line of a certain group of Tongcheng defenders and the criminals.

In the cave with the dome hanging high, beneath the stalactites as sharp as countless cones, there was a bottomless, dark ditch with the rattling of the river. Above the deep ditch, connecting the two banks of the deep ditch, is a natural stone arch bridge.

At the end of the deep ditch, the soldiers who rushed into the mountain from a certain entrance and exit were forcing the recalcitrant criminals to cross the stone bridge little by little, so as to move little by little towards the cave, the ultimate goal of the encirclement and suppression operation; At the end of the ditch, the criminals, who were resisting the soldiers while buying time for their accomplices, finally waited for their accomplices with gunpowder to come from another fork in the road.

In order to gain time to escape, some passages in the mountains were blown up with gunpowder packed in bamboo tubes to prevent soldiers from breaking inward.

Therefore, when she saw the criminals wielding weapons on the stone bridge begin to retreat towards the end of the stone bridge, and some criminals fumbled for the fire fold to ignite the fuse of the bamboo tube in their hands, and then threw it out again, Xia Shuanghan immediately realized her situation - if she couldn't run to the other side of the deep ditch before the stone bridge was blown up, then she would definitely be captured and become a hostage that threatened Lu Shaoyun.

Like a loach that entered a small river, it passed through the criminals in front of her who had no time to take care of her, and plunged into the crowd, and soon completely got rid of the pursuers behind him and ran to the stone bridge.

"Blow up the stone bridge! You must not let her pass", Xia Shuanghan, who had already run onto the stone bridge, only heard a few crisp bumps from the bamboo tube falling on the bridge deck behind her, and then, with a loud bang, the stone bridge under her feet broke apart, making her completely lose the strength of her pedaling......

Seeing that his sweetheart is in danger and may die at any time, what kind of feeling is it, Lu Shaoyun believes that among all the people he knows, no one knows better than him.

At dusk on February 14, together with Lin Xuran and Han Ling, they led the Tongcheng defenders to Lu Shaoyun outside Naming Village, and heard the news brought back by the seventh team responsible for controlling the village, which was like a thunderbolt from the sky.

There is a mixed-race Rong girl surnamed Xia in the village, who disappeared for no reason when she went into the mountains to collect her animal trap this afternoon. Judging from the traces left near the place of disappearance, it is very likely that she fell into the ice-free pool below the mountain because she stumbled into the air. It's just that the search and rescue team spontaneously organized by the villagers has been busy until the sunset, and they have not been able to find any trace of her.

Hearing this report, Lu Shaoyun, who knew all the escape and self-rescue skills that Xia Shuanghan had mastered, understood in an instant - Xia Shuanghan's disappearance was not an accident, and the real situation must have been that she was taken away by the criminals in the mountains for some reason.

Judging from the fact that the criminals captured Xia Shuanghan in the afternoon but have not fled the mountain so far, Lu Shaoyun can assert that the criminals do not know the true identities of him and Lin Xuran, and the encirclement and suppression plan can still be carried out as expected.

It's just that, unlike the original plan, no one can accurately predict the fate of Xia Shuanghan, who has been brought into the mountains by them.

The failure to find Xia Shuanghan's body in the mountains or in the ice-free pool means that the criminals should not take her life in a short period of time. After all, the act of bringing people into the mountains and then killing them is too troublesome. It's just that even if Xia Shuanghan's life is not in danger for the time being, after the encirclement and suppression operation begins, no one can say for sure.

Maintaining composure on his face, putting on a posture of impatience, together with Lin Xuran and Han Ling, Lu Shaoyun, who assigned tasks to a hundred elite soldiers according to the original plan, was actually panicking uncontrollably in his heart. In a panic, he didn't notice the bracelet on his left wrist, which Xia Shuanghan had woven and put on for him.

It wasn't until the beginning of the operation, when he and Han Ling led the main force to break into the mountain from the most difficult entrance, that a certain criminal who saw his bracelet shouted "Bring the woman in the cell" that Lu Shaoyun, who realized it later, reacted - this bracelet quietly revealed his relationship with Xia Shuanghan.

Carrying the sword in the narrow passage, Lu Shaoyun, who knew that Xia Shuanghan would be taken hostage by the criminals, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. Although, in the face of the hostages, the encirclement and suppression operation will inevitably be affected and become unsmooth, he still said silently in his heart: "No matter what, as long as the frost is fine." ”

Lu Shaoyun, who swung his sword neatly and attacked the limbs of the recalcitrant criminals, forcing one crime after another who fought with him to put down his weapons and lose the ability to escape because of his injuries.

Then, as he and the warriors behind him methodically advanced to the predetermined cave, and turned several times into different paths, he drove out the culprit who was trying to hide, and heard a cry not far away: "The woman opened the cell door and ran away, and Bahamai and they are chasing after her!" ”

"Frost is fine, the criminals can't hurt her anyway." Lu Shaoyun, who believed in his heart that even if Xia Shuanghan was caught by the criminals, he would definitely be brought to him unscathed, and while continuing to push forward, he paid attention to whether there was any other news about Xia Shuanghan in the noisy shouts around him.

So next, when Lu Shaoyun and the soldiers behind him arrived at the cave where they would reconcile with the other team, they shouted, "Blow up the stone bridge!" You must not let her pass", and his mind was instantly captured.

On the other side of the bottomless ravine, Xia Shuanghan ran desperately towards the stone bridge through the crowded and chaotic crowd. Behind her, the arms of the criminals were waving as they lit the bamboo tube in their hands and threw the explosives.

"Frost!" In the sound of three or four bamboo tubes exploding at the same time, Lu Shaoyun dropped his sword, jumped to the edge of the deep ditch, prostrate on the ground, and reached out to grab Xia Shuanghan's wrist that began to fall because he stepped on the air under his feet.

The force of the explosion threw several sharp rocks onto Xia Shuanghan's back. And just as she exhaled in pain because of the wound on her back, and was stopped by Lu Shaoyun, above the deep ditch, countless sharp stalactites hanging on the dome also began to fall down one after another because of the impact of the stone bridge fragments.

"Tingxuan?!" The moment she stepped on the air under her feet, Xia Shuanghan, who had the thought of "it's over, I'm going to die", flashed in her mind, and couldn't believe that the person who grabbed her wrist and saved her life would actually be Lu Shaoyun who was in her heart.

However, Xia Shuanghan, who didn't have time to climb up the deep ditch and even had time to thank Lu Shaoyun, didn't have time to be happy for long. Because, just when she was overjoyed by Lu Shaoyun's sudden appearance, a slender stalactite like a javelin that fell from above mercilessly penetrated Lu Shaoyun's left shoulder.

"Tingxuan!" The body hung above the deep ditch, and when he looked up, he could only see Lu Shaoyun's face and half of his shoulders lying on the edge of the deep ditch, as well as the summer frost of the small half of the stalactite, and he couldn't accept the blood that meandered down the craggy stone wall under Lu Shaoyun's left shoulder.

"Tingxuan, how are you?" The dripping blood dripped on Xia Shuanghan's pale cheeks covered with dust, and she couldn't care about the wound on her back at all, looking up at Lu Shaoyun, whose left shoulder was nailed to the ground, and only relying on her right hand to hold her, she only felt that her heart was so painful and anxious that she was about to breathe.

"It's okay, I'm okay with the frost." The stalactites on the dome were still falling downward, and Lu Shaoyun, who was hit in the left shoulder, was also injured in his waist and legs. However, like Xia Shuanghan, he also didn't care about the pain on his body. His heart is full of worries, all of which are the safety of his sweetheart. (To be continued.) )