28. You are my faith
Although Tilo aggressively told Sรน Cassiu that Shang Ke wanted to live in his mansion, Shang Ke finally happily followed Cassieu away, completely ignoring Tiluo's resentment that seemed to have been smoked.
On the way home, Kasiu looked at the young man beside him, his facial features were handsome, his eyes were like waves, and his long black hair was pouring down, with a silky luster. Every gesture is full of a refreshing charm. What's more, he has a pure character and a strong heart, and it doesn't seem strange that Tilo will like him.
"What's wrong?" Shang Ke tilted his head to look at Cassiu.
Puff also turned his head to look at him: What's wrong?
"No, nothing." Kaxiu hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and the glance just now made his heart beat a little faster. I was going to ask him about his relationship with Tiluo, but I couldn't ask anything. But as long as he thought that Shang Ke would one day be with Tiluo, he felt a little congested.
In fact, Tiluo was just as congested as him, and he couldn't feel better when he watched his favorite person go with another man.
Before they could sort out their feelings, the countries of the mainland responded to the call of the Shengya Empire and agreed to participate in the operation of sealing the Devil's Tree.
The task is set, and the seal sets off.
The warriors are gearing up and ready to head to the swampy abyss.
No one knew how dangerous the seal was, and although they didn't know the exact number, they could remember that almost all of the people who went deep into the hinterland were wiped out. Even if it is only into the fringe area, it is a huge loss, and most of the people who are alive have been left with a psychological shadow. So much so that by the time of the second operation, the number was reduced by two-thirds.
Therefore, Shang Ke was not very sure about this operation, he could only try to gather the warriors who had persevered to the end as much as possible, and use his advantage of absorbing demonic qi to escort them all the way to the hinterland of the abyss.
This time, Tillo also joins Cassiu's team and acts with them. Shang Ke also asked Tillo for two other people, one was Max, the captain of the guard who had provoked him before, and the other was Simby, the gardener.
It's understandable to look for Max, but what the hell is a gardener? Both Tillo and Cassiu expressed incomprehension.
Shang Ke said, "The power of faith is not divided into high and low, and sealing the Devil's Tree requires different beliefs, so the more variety, the better." โ
You don't have to choose a gardener! It's not that I look down on the profession of gardener, but the one in front of me is too devastating! He wears a shirt wallet on his upper body, a grass skirt on his lower body, and a pair of straw boots on his feet! Is it okay to be a whole performance art maniac?
With him joining, the painting style of the whole team is wrong!
However, under Shang Ke's arguments, everyone reluctantly agreed. The team ended up with twenty-three people, including Cassiu's companions Amy, Vidora, Fred, Youy, and Duru, and most of the rest were Tillows.
Everyone packed up and set off together at the appointed time.
Along the way, he deliberately distanced himself from Simbi, but Shang Ke didn't care. The ignorant public of these Exterior Drawing Associations would not have thought that this gardener was the first strongman to reach the center of the abyss in the two sealing hearts, and was also one of the last five warriors to return alive.
He believes in "nature", and although his behavior and aesthetics are a little eccentric, his psychological element is estimated to be stronger than everyone present. Well, so is the thickness of the skin.
"Shang Ke, this is really good for you, teach me." Simbi looked at the praying mantis that Shang Ke had bounced on, and his eyes lit up.
"Okay." Shang Ke smiled and agreed.
Two people with completely different styles get along strangely well.
Tilo just watched during the day, and at night would bring him and Plop into his tent. Cassius got in the way of them every time he set up his tent so that he could keep an eye on what was going on inside. As soon as he noticed something was wrong, he would rush over.
However, there is fluttering, no matter how much Tiluo thinks, he will not really do anything to Shang Ke.
The first few days were calm and nothing unexpected. On the way, I also met a lot of teams, some of them were more friendly, some of them were more distant, and everyone kept a short distance and walked towards the destination together.
It was not until the evening of the sixth day, that the crowd found a corpse less than thirty miles from the edge of the swampy abyss, and the peace of the days was finally broken.
There were nearly fifty dead, and the death was so tragic that the blood did not seem to have dried yet.
"It should have been done by a group of devil apostles, the other party is very strong, and they are ruthless." The guards check it and report back.
Tilo frowned, and didn't say much, just reminded everyone to be careful.
The bands marched a few more miles before they stopped and set up camp before nightfall.
At night, everything is silent, only the night wind blows.
At this time, Tiluo, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating his mind, suddenly opened his eyes and quietly got out of the tent, and came out with him, as well as Cassius and Max and others.
As soon as they were about to give warning, the camp was attacked.
Shang Ke was woken up by a loud noise, he walked quickly to the edge of the tent, opened a gap and looked outside, only to see Tiluo and the others fighting fiercely with a group of sneak attackers.
Just as he was looking at it, a small head suddenly stretched out, almost reaching out of the tent. Shang Ke hurriedly took the pounce into his arms and whispered: "Stay here obediently, don't run out, do you know?" โ
Seeing Shang Ke's stern expression, he also showed a solemn expression on his little face, nodded again and again, and remained motionless in his arms.
Shang Ke hid in the tent while holding the flutter while nervously keeping an eye on the movement outside.
He is now a sick and weak body that will wheezing if he takes a few more steps, and it is better to stay in the corner honestly and not go out to cause trouble. He believed that with Cassiu's "protagonist" aura and Tiluo's strength, it would not be a problem to deal with dozens of lower-level apostles.
"Quincy, over there." Tiluo's shout suddenly reached Shang Ke's ears.
Quincy? Shang Ke's face changed slightly, isn't this the traitor who plotted to kill Tiluo in the first place?
Strange, he knows everyone in the team, and there is no one named "Quincy".
Shang Ke lifted the tent and looked that way.
It turned out to be him, the head of the guard next to Tilo, Quincus, "Quincy" should be his nickname.
Luckily, it was discovered early! Otherwise, Shang Ke is likely to miss the opportunity to save Tiluo. In the original development, the truth of Tillow's death was a mystery in the end. Everyone didn't know that the second prince of the empire, who was once famous, had died at the hands of his most trusted friend and personal guard.
The two stars of the Glory Song Academy, one died unexpectedly, and the other threw himself into the darkness, I have to say that this is a great tragedy.
But Shang Ke is here, and he will never let the tragedy happen again.
At this moment, a "tearing" sound was suddenly heard, and the tent was cut open by a sharp blade, and the distance between the tip of the sword was still only a dozen centimeters.
Shang Ke hurriedly took a few steps back, and in a few seconds, the tent was cut several gaps.
Shang Ke frowned, the demonic qi in his body surged, the brilliance in his eyes flashed, and the coercion belonging to the king-level apostle on his body suddenly exploded.
One of the sneak attackers seemed to have spotted Shang Ke's cunzร i, and was about to storm the tent, but was shaken by the pressure and almost fell over.
Because Shang Ke had absorbed a large amount of demonic energy during this time, the coercion of the king-level apostle on his body had not disappeared, but had a more bluffing effect.
The attacker was so frightened that he took a few steps back, never daring to approach the tent again.
Tiluo and Cassius had already prepared for the rescue when they saw the sneak attacker approaching Shang Ke's tent, but who knew that the guy was like a juggler, pounced on it, bounced back, as if he saw something terrible.
Naturally, Tiluo and the others would not be relentless and took the opportunity to send him to hell.
"Shang Ke, are you all right?" Tilo stood in front of the tent and looked back inside.
"It's fine." Shang Ke asked, "What's going on outside?" โ
Tiluo looked around and replied, "It's been solved." โ
The attackers were all eliminated, and everyone began to clean up the scene.
Shang Ke walked out of the tent with a plop.
Seeing this bloody scene, Puff did not show a frightened expression. Shang Ke had already discovered this, although Pounce's intelligence was lower than that of ordinary children, but perhaps because of this, she had no fear of death.
Her world is very simple, only likes and dislikes, and there is no worldly perception of good and bad.
After a while, a few people from the other two nearby camps came out of each other, found Tiluo, exchanged their views on the sneak attackers, and finally decided to merge the teams. Unified management makes it easy to concentrate on the next crisis.
"Who is this, Lord Tiro?" A well-built female warrior looked at Shang Ke on the side, her eyes full of interest.
"Osari." Tilo put her hand behind his waist, which was obviously an ordinary gesture, but it seemed to be asserting sovereignty.
The female warrior was a rough nerve, and she didn't understand the deep meaning at all, so she said straight to Shang Ke: "I see that the food in your camp has been prepared by you in the past few days, and the aroma is too attractive, I don't know if it is inconvenient to provide us with some in the future, we will pay." โ
"No problem." Shang Ke smiled and agreed, "As long as you don't dislike it." โ
"Not disgusted, quite not disgusted." They can't eat for days after smelling other people's food, okay?!
The captain of the other team was quite defensive of Shang Ke, and his eyes were inquiring.
The next day, the group continued on the road, and in the afternoon they entered the boundary of the swampy abyss. The demonic aura here was obviously much stronger than in other areas, and everyone suddenly felt extremely depressed, everyone's expressions looked so bitter and hateful, only Shang Ke, Puff and the gardener were as usual.
On the first night in the swampy abyss, no one can sleep, and even if they force themselves to fall asleep, they will wake up in a nightmare.
The atmosphere in the team became extremely tense, and all kinds of negative feelings came one after another, and they couldn't stop it.
At this moment, a few staccato notes sounded in the night, and then they were strung together like beads, turning into a crisp and melodious tune.
The people in the tent came out one after another, looking towards the source of the song.
A man in a robe, sitting cross-legged by the fire, with a harp in his hand, plays softly. He had long black hair, hanging straight down on the carpet, his expression was gentle, his eyes reflected the brilliance of the flames, and the notes of his fingers danced in the silent night, as if by magic, all the surrounding demonic qi was dispelled, and the suppressed feelings in everyone's hearts were also eased, and the solemn atmosphere just now, unconsciously, disappeared.