Chapter 19: The Empty Village
The mountain guide knelt down to Si Ling: "I am reciting the prophecy of the gods. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoWhen the prophecy is fulfilled, the gods will wake up from their slumber. The destined will open the treasure to the world. ā
After Si Ling came to this world, it was not the first time he had received the "Mandate of Heaven", he was used to it, and he nodded at the moment and said, "This is very good." When you take me to the place where you sleep, you will not be afraid. ā
"Yes. Be! The mountain guide cried and laughed, dancing and running ahead. He took a hill, about twenty zhang high, which was considered short in the Renling Mountains. Si Ling walked with him, enjoying the steep mountains and rocks next to him, which was really rugged. Turning over the mountain, the things in front of me have changed, but there is a clear wave, and the water is beautiful. There is a cave next to it, with exquisite stone shapes. There is an empty village next to the cave. The village was extremely simple, and it didn't match the scenery next to it. It was hurriedly built by the sawmen after they fled.
Now they fled again, and the stockade was emptied. Si Ling and the others are here, let's see what they have to take. Nothing else, in the patriarch's room, I saw a suit of armor.
When the tail eagle saw that this armor was shining brightly, it was a treasure armor, and he wondered: "Why didn't he wear it at that time?" If he wears it, it won't be so easy for me to win him. Is it broken? ā
After inspection, the armor is really a treasure, where is it a little damaged? I'm afraid the Saw Patriarch is reluctant to wear it. In this way, it is lost because of things.
Si Ling handed the armor to the tail eagle: "You deserve it." Wear it! ā
The tail eagle couldn't put it down, and his mouth was modest: "How dare I? ā
Lingying couldn't help laughing: "Okay! You don't. I'll work hard, carry it, get tired all the way, go back and hand it over to the eldest brother for safekeeping. ā
The tail eagle hurriedly said: "How tired it is!" And it's a waste of things. Anyway, I'll put it on. When I put it back, I'll give it to my eldest brother. As he spoke, he really liked to wear it diligently.
But it's also weird, the armor looks loose, and the tail eagle is not fat, somehow it will not be able to enter the left and right sides, and he is so anxious that he is covered with sweat.
Lingying knows that this kind of armor is to adapt to generals of all sizes, and it will not be too narrow when it is made, and it has buckles, and it can be buckled onto the body after opening. How can you not wear it? It's weird.
"The buckle is rusty?" He asked, reaching out to help the tail eagle, but it didn't work.
"It turned out to be broken." Si Ling was stunned, "Then throw it away." ā
"How can it be broken?" The tail eagle looked at the shining armor and was really reluctant to lose it.
Si Ling saw that he was pitiful, took it and took a look, thinking that if she had good luck and repaired it, it would be good to make her generals happy. I didn't expect much if I thought so. As soon as she put her hand on it, the buckle opened. As soon as she put her arm together, the "click" closed.
After the arms were closed, the waist and legs were all pulled all the way up, smooth and smooth, like an automatic assembly line. Si Lingqi smiled: "How can you be difficult to wear? Look at me as simple as this. ā
Spirit Eagle looked wrong. You must know that no matter how easy it is to wear armor, there is no such easy way, it is simply not a person wearing armor, but armor on a person!
He said in a trembling voice, "Princess, please, can you take off your armor?" ā
Si Ling saw that he was in a mess, and he felt that something was wrong: just because this armor looked quite large, the size of a warrior like a tailed eagle. And now that she wears it, she also feels very appropriate.
Her figure is obviously much thinner than the tail eagle, how can she wear it like this? Things are weird. She wanted to take it off, but she couldn't.
It was as if the armor had been attached to her body, and it had become her second skin! Si Lingqi said: "Could it be that I will become a tin man in the future?" She can tell jokes, and Lingying and the others are going to cry!
At this time, Li Yan, who had been quiet, said: "Can the princess let the villain take a look?" ā
Si Ling opened his hands and let him see. Li Yan tapped his armor lightly, and even put his face on it and sniffed it. If it weren't for his good looks, this action would be simply obscene.
After looking at the question, Li Yan straightened up and said, "This really has traces of aura." ā
Si Ling let out an "oh": "Do you mean demonic spirit?" Like those goblins in the rampaging forest? ā
Li Yan said: "Demon energy, aura, this is a combination of different paths. ā
Si Ling understood: "It's all the power of another dimension after all." Isn't it? ā
Li Yan praised: "The princess is an excellent statement. "The Eagle wanted to beat him: is it time to praise? Find a way to get the princess out of this strange armor!
Si Ling also asked him with a smile: "You have a relationship with the fairy trees, maybe knock and knock, please remove this armor from me?" ā
Li Yan shook his head regretfully and said, "I don't have such skills." "Spirithawks, they're going to faint. Si Ling also paused. Li Yan comforted: "But I don't feel malicious here. ā
Si Ling sighed: "You still don't understand. What kind of malice does this have? For example, if a house is about to fall, what malice does it have towards the people under the roof? But who is to blame if someone is trapped under the roof and crushed to death? ā
In other words, if this armor is about to shrink, there is no malice towards the people inside it, but the people inside are squeezed into meat sauce, what can be done?
Lingying is really going to faint. Li Yan also looked miserable, but still insisted: "God let a person like the princess appear in the world, it is not used to be squeezed to death in vain. ā
He didn't say anything, as soon as he said this, Si Ling remembered Si Xiao.
Who would have thought that black-eyed teenager, dressed in a military uniform and smiling in the 1947 sunshine at Shanghai's Laoximen with his shoulders outstretched, would have thought that he was going to drown in a mudslide?
Providence is unkind! Providence is unkind to all things as dogs, where is there any plan, what is special?
If this armor really has to shrink. Si Ling was unfortunate in it, and he had no choice but to accept his fate. She said: "Now that it's like this, there's no way to do it." Let's go! ā
Lingying's face was still about to cry at any time. Si Ling comforted, "Maybe there is a way to save that sleeping place?" "It's really the only hope.
The group continued their march towards the sleeping place. Along the way, the spirit eagle asked the mountain people how many times: Is there any local legend about this armor? The mountain guide didn't know anything, but he felt that this was the fulfillment of the prophecy of "the lock is opened": the armor was originally closed, and when Si Ling touched it, it was opened and could be worn. It shows that Si Ling is destined to return to heaven and should go to wake up the gods.
And Si Ling is indeed quite comfortable wearing this armor. First of all, it's not heavy! Secondly, it's also breathable! It's like a second skin, not metal. In addition, when Si Ling moved his arms and legs to climb high and low, he didn't feel hindered at all - it seemed to be able to stretch and move at the joints, just like the outer bones of an insect, and it did not hinder the insect from jumping.
If she took off her armor one day, Si Ling thought, she would even feel pity. Because it's so easy to use.
When her group approached the sleeping place, Chenxing's Shangshu finally arrived in the capital. The founding emperor Wang Chen really didn't care. The prince is working hard, but he can't see many twists and turns. The way he does his best is to get a circle of trustworthy people to help with the day-to-day affairs and let him concentrate on the most important things.
The auspicious seal, and Chenxing's sparseness, were all sent to the upper study. The prince's trustworthy person is here to help him with the paperwork. Coincidentally, Shen Yiluo's fellow townsman Wu Kai is also one of the people the prince can trust. The upper sparseness of the star was what he opened to see.
Wu Kai looked at this letter, and looked very hard, and when he finished reading it, not only did he blush like a monkey's buttocks, but he also had sweat on his forehead.
He hidden: "This furnace is really burning strong." So he moved to the stove, trying to take advantage of the unpreparedness, and burned the envelope.
Suddenly, a man stopped between him and the furnace. Wu Kai looked at it, and it turned out to be Cheng Hejing in the imperial history.
In the upper study, it is known as "three princes and three scholars". Taiwei is one of the three princes, and Zhongcheng in the imperial history is one of the three scholars.
This He Jing not only stopped Wu Kai, but also reached out and took away Chenxing's Shangshu, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Xuanwu Duwei's pen can be called scathing!" ā
Wu Kai beat a drum in his heart, forced a smile, and replied: "I have heard that Captain Xuanwu has no door on his lips, and he speaks wildly. Now that I have read this letter, I believe that the symptoms of madness are real. ā
"Oh, that's right." He Jing smiled and shook the letter.
Wu Kai said: "Speaking of which, my family recently sent a few baskets of crabs, but they are fat. I want to invite He Zhongcheng to come to the house for a drink, holding a chela chrysanthemum, I don't know if Zhongcheng is willing to appreciate the face? ā
He Jing smiled and said: "Recently, the body has been cold, and the doctor said that you can't enter cold things anymore. Said so, but still handed the Shangshu back to Wu Kai.
Wu Kaizheng pondered in his heart, and He Jing said: "What's more, I heard that Taiwei recently got a ******, and he can poetry and sword dance, which is really enviable!" Presumably, the captain has no time to talk to us. As he spoke, there was another "hehe" laugh.
Wu Kai understood, it seems that this newly bought beautiful concubine can't be saved. When he turned around, he loaded the person into a sedan chair and sent it to He Jing! Both sides understand people, and they don't have to be like rogues in the market, they have to pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other. Laughing at each other, the deal has become a capital.
He Jing walked away with his hands behind his back, as if he had never seen this letter before. Wu Kai waited for a while, and Shen Yiluo's words also arrived. With this rhetoric, Wu Kai has the bottom in his heart!
Wu Kai said, this little fellow can't be a fool and let others attack? There's always going to be someone to fight back. With this counterattack, Wu Kai is easy to operate.
However, Wu Kai still has anger in his heart: a person who is too guarded can be scolded like this by the garrison captain, no matter who is right and wrong in fact, it always causes trouble for people, right?
Fortunately, Shen Yiluo's other big gift finally calmed Wu Kai's anger, making him feel that this little concubine was not wronged, and this fellow villager and party were not wronged.
The wind and clouds in the middle of the country are changing, and the green water in the mountains is quiet. When we reached the place of sleep, the mountain road was no longer walkable, and we had to go down the river in a boat to enter the valley in front of us.
According to the original intention of the mountain people's guide, send it to the river, and the task has been completed. After all, what will happen at the end of the river, no one knows. None of those who went to the end came back.
Even those who have received double the price and are willing to help them "enter" the sleeping place are just going to accompany them on the boat, go a little inside, just see that the scenery in front of them is a little unearthly, a little strange, and immediately jump on the shore and run back! Or jump into the water and swim back! I might be able to survive that way.
But now, all the miracles that Si Ling showed made them deeply believe that Si Ling was the person who was destined to be. They were willing to follow Si Ling for as long as she needed them.
They took wood from the side of the water and made rafts. They were experts at this, and soon they had built a raft that could hold 300 pounds of weight!
If one is done, they will do the second. It is estimated that three rafts will be enough to fit everyone. But on the second one, Si Ling stopped them.
Si Ling smiled: "It's very unnecessary. I'll just go myself. ā
As soon as these words came out, not to mention that the guides were surprised, Lingying and the others didn't do it!
The guides not only collected the money, but also sprouted a worship for Si Ling along the way. They didn't expect Si Ling to want them to follow! And Lingying and the others are not to mention. There's no way they can stay here by themselves and let Si Ling go into danger alone!
Si Ling reasoned with them: No one knows what will happen to the road in front of them, even if there are too many people, it is useless.
Lingying and the others argued: It's because they don't know what will happen, so it's better for them to help! The so-called large number of people is powerful.
"Not necessarily." Si Ling said, "Didn't you hear that so many warriors went in before?" There are more people than we do, right? Aren't they all missing? It shows that the number of people really doesn't make sense! ā
"Then let's not go in." The eagle pleaded, "Or let your subordinates in!" ā
The tail eagle hurriedly rushed with the spirit eagle to go in first. Si Ling interrupted their argument: "Don't you understand? If I don't go in, if it's not 'me' in, there's no point. ā
Her expression was so serious that the Spirit Eagle Tail Eagle and the Eagle-tailed Eagle were all silent, and they listened to her continue: "You are isolated from the world, living an inhuman life, and holding magical hopes. The hope is based on the legend that a phoenix will lead you into a new world. But what if the legend is wrong? ā
This questioning was like a slap on the head of the eagle. It is not unthinkable to them that if the faith is false...... No! They simply forbid to think about it!
If this legend is false, then their whole life, all their sacrifices, are ridiculous and useless.
"Exactly." Si Ling looked at the direction where the green water was flowing quietly, "I have to go there." Only when I went could I verify the authenticity of the legend. Or I will awaken the gods and open the treasure to the world. Based on this, we go to build a new world, a world that we prefer. Or if I fail, you know, I'm not destined to take you anywhere. ā
Lingying and the others were dumbfounded and excited when they heard this. Even when the High Priest gave his best speeches, they had never been so moved. This time, they felt that this heroic and noble girl did not just promise them any power and glory, but used her life as a price to explore a free direction for them. She turned around, perhaps not to verify a restoration, but to verify their release. These hands were put away, but they were more convinced than they were to listen to the high priest's teachings.
As for Li Yan, he nodded and climbed onto the raft.
"Uh......" Siling asked, "what are you doing?" ā
"As you can see." Li Yan raised the oar and said, "This raft can carry the two of us." ā
"I said I don't want anyone to accompany me!" Si Ling was crazy. Is this guy having a hearing problem?
"I heard you say, I completely agree with you," Li Yan said, "It's completely useless to have one more person to accompany you, so ......"
"So?" Si Ling had better he be able to give a reason! Otherwise, she wouldn't mind kicking him in the water.
"I think, if you really want to sleep forever, you are too lonely." Li Yandao.
He didn't intend to help her at all, he just wanted to accompany her to her death. Si Ling was silent: "Okay." ā
It's the Eagle Eagle's turn to go crazy! Ah, if they had known that they had said this, the princess would have agreed, and they should have said it in the first place! It's because their loyalty value is not enough, and they can't do it well!
Now they are all in a hurry to build a new raft in order to accompany Si Ling to "die". Si Ling stopped them: "Wait here for me!" This is my command! ā
Lingying didn't dare to resist the order, so they had to squat by the river sadly, watching Si Ling and the two go away.
The raft descended gently with the current. Without saying anything all the way, Li Yan pointed to the water and recognized different fish for Siling. Some fish have beards on their mouths and sway, which is very funny; There are also fish scales like roses, which are quite beautiful; There are also fish with spines on their dorsal fins, and the spines are poisonous; There are also fish that don't look small in size, but they are fierce and meaty. Who puts their legs in the water, they will swim and peck at your meat! Although it is said that it cannot be eaten for a while, it will inevitably cause human flesh pain.
Li Yan said all the way, and Si Ling listened all the way. When he had finished speaking, she said, "When these ordinary fish are gone, we will prepare to fight or die, right?" ā
Li Yan raised his head and looked at her, with astonishment, admiration, and pity, but did not deny it.
He has indeed been observing the scenery around him to judge if the space has mutated. Afraid that she would be too nervous and worried, he deliberately used gossip to cover it up.
He was amazed that she was so ice and snow smart, admired her for being insightful, and pitied her for such a character, how could she be happy in the world? And she didn't even need his sympathy, she raised her head and said, "Man is inherently dead!" I'm afraid I can't be afraid. If you have to die, today is a good day. You tell me? ā
Li Yan smiled, but a lamentation song sounded in his eyes: "The princess is right." ā
"I guess you finally don't have to keep up this time." Si Ling looked ahead and said. (To be continued.) )