Compared with the danger encountered by Meng Yao, Qu Hao's situation seems to be more sinister.

Ji Po pushed him into the water, and Qu Hao faced a severe test of life and death.

Although there are all kinds of harsh survival training in the special forces training subjects, there is really no survival training that is so passive that it is wrapped in fishing nets and sinks to the bottom of the river.

However, drowning training is a subject that must be passed. When pouring into the water, Qu Hao's first action was to inhale deeply, and then hold his breath.

The second movement is to keep the body straight. Qu Hao knew that if he panicked and moved his hands and feet at this time, it would only make the fishing nets more and more tangled and tight, and when he couldn't move his hands and feet, there would only be a dead end.

The third movement is to be able to stand after sinking to the bottom of the river, and if you can't stand, you have to lie down. Only then can you free your hands to take off the nets from the soles of your feet and throw them away.

Qu Hao completed these three actions very well, but the boatman tightened the fishing net after Qu Hao fell into the river, so that the fishing net opened very tightly, and Qu Hao failed to take off the fishing net for a while.

In the drowning training of the army, Qu Hao held his breath in the water for 5 minutes, which was almost five times that of ordinary people, but that was the result under the condition of preparation. Now it's a sudden, how long can you last Qu Hao has no bottom in his heart, and every second consumed is close to death.

After failing to take off the fishing net, Qu Hao quickly thought of a way to save himself.

The first method is the dumbest and most straightforward, and that is to lie down at the bottom of the river and roll to the shore. Because the feet cannot move in the net, they can only move effectively by rolling. However, there are four directions of rolling, and if the direction is wrong, there is no chance of remedy, and Qu Hao can't distinguish the direction of the river bank in the water.

The second option is to break the nets. Qu Hao once tore the fishing net with his hand when he was sinking, and the ancient fishing net was made of twine, which was extremely strong after being immersed in water, and could not be torn at all.

And the most frustrating thing is that after the fishing net is tightened, the copper sword inserted in the back clothes cannot be pulled out of it at all, and there is a large backpack to block it.

As the clock ticked by, death was approaching.

Qu Hao suddenly thought of taking out the copper flute from below, but there must be enough space for the sword to come out of the copper flute. Qu Hao tried hard to stand up straight at the bottom of the river, but it was not easy to do. Because the center of gravity shifts upwards after carrying a backpack, how easy is it to stand up straight in the flowing river without moving your feet?

Qu Hao struggled to pull off the backpack wrapped tightly around the fishing net, but when he stood up, the backpack fell down and pulled the net tighter, squeezing it around his head and shoulders. Qu Hao endured the pain, and finally took out the copper flute from his waist, and after popping out the sword, he let the copper flute fall and took out the sword.

With the sword in hand, the fishing net was quickly drawn to pieces, Qu Hao left the backpack at the bottom of the river, there happened to be a big stone in that position, Qu Hao pressed the big stone on the fishing net wrapped around the backpack, and swam up the river with the copper sword.

After going ashore, regardless of the condition that he was still soaking wet, the first thing Qu Hao did was to find a boat. Unexpectedly, this place was the base of the two fathers and sons to hide the boat, it was very hidden, and Qu Hao couldn't find it at all, so he misjudged that the two fathers and sons continued to move forward with Wu Mengyao.

Qu Hao ran along the river bank with his sword in his hand, but of course he couldn't find any trace of the boat. Qu Hao had no choice but to think that the boat had gone downstream, and then turned back to look for it, and after looking for a long time, he still didn't see a boat moving on the river.

As soon as he went, not to mention the consumption of Qu Hao's physical strength, the precious opportunity to catch up was lost because of the misjudgment of the direction. Qu Hao, who had never shed tears, finally couldn't control it at this time, and cried loudly at the sky.

He hated his own powerlessness and hated the sinister impermanence of the human heart. Meng Yao's disappearance caused him to suffer heartbreaking. He couldn't imagine what would happen to Meng Yao without his protection, and at this moment he would rather exchange his life for Meng Yao's safety.

But he found that he could do nothing, nothing.

In just a few minutes, the sky is still the same ---- the sun is shining, the wind is clear, the ground is still the same land---- the layers of forests are dyed, stacked green and golden, the river is still the same river---- the blue waves are vast and sparkling, but in Qu Hao's eyes, the earth has been turned upside down, things are wrong, under this peaceful appearance, there is an undercurrent, a lying wolf, and a bloody wind.

Qu Hao vented his emotions in the shortest possible time, because he knew that now was not the time to give up, and he must find Meng Yao.

Qu Hao returned to the shore position, walked up, carefully searched for spider horse tracks, and finally found traces of trampling in the grass.

Qu Hao's confidence increased greatly, and he quickly pursued forward. But this is a wasteland, there are no roads, there is not a pedestrian to ask for directions, the direction of walking is completely random, and the intermittent walking marks make him spend a lot of time and waste a lot of precious time catching up.

By the time he found the path where there were traces of walking, more than an hour had passed, and in which direction to catch up had become a difficult problem, and going in the opposite direction would only waste more time.

Fortunately, there was a high slope on the side of the road, Qu Hao quickly climbed up, and at the top of the slope, he saw a town in front of him, which gave him a glimmer of hope.

Qu Hao walked quickly in the direction of the town with a copper flute in his hand, secretly praying in his heart that he would be lucky enough to find Meng Yao. As he approached town, he finally met a passer-by who could ask: there was an old man selling pears on the side of the road.

Qu Hao stepped forward quickly, took out a few copper coins, and asked, "Uncle Jixiang, have you seen a man with a tall woman passing by?" ”

The old man was very zealous, and seeing that he was just asking for directions, insisted on not taking his money, and told him: "I haven't seen it." However, two men, one long and one young, passed by not long ago. ”

Qu Hao bought a few pears and continued to chat with the old man while eating.

The old man described the dress, height, and demeanor of these two people to Qu Hao, and when Qu Hao heard it, he was sure that it was the two boatmen, and the old man said that these two people had nothing in their hands, which made Qu Hao difficult to understand.

But why is there no Meng Yao? Qu Hao asked the old man again: "Are there any tall and beautiful women passing by?" The old man shook his head.

Qu Hao felt very strange, could it be that Meng Yao escaped by herself? But this is too unlikely.

Or was he sold by those two men? But I didn't meet a person or a house along the way just now, who did you sell it to?

The possibility that Meng Yao has been killed does not seem to be very large, if Meng Yao is killed, these two poor shipwrights who have done all the bad things will not be stupid enough not to want Meng Yao's property.

There is only one possibility: Meng Yao escaped from the control of these two boatmen with her luggage.

Qu Hao was unwilling, and continued to ask the old man who sold pears: "Uncle, is there a person passing by with a woman on a horse, or a carriage with a woman." ”

The old man told him, "There are no women on horseback, but there are several carriages passing by, and there are carriages pulling goods and people." ”

At this point, Qu Hao judged that it was very likely that Wu Mengyao would sit in the carriage.

Qu Hao asked again: "Uncle, have all those carriages entered the city?" What is the name of this city?"

The old man said truthfully, "This road is the only way into the city." This is Shucheng. ”

Qu Hao thanked the uncle who sold pears and strode towards Shucheng.

After Qu Hao entered Shucheng, he began to look for the carriage. Since it was impossible to determine whether the carriage was private or for passenger and freight transportation, they had to inquire from house to house in the city, but many families could not even knock on the door, and most of them only opened a crack in the door, and when they heard that they only asked about the carriage, they made excuses to close the door. This made Qu Hao very disappointed. In those big households, inns, and markets, Dao Shi also saw some carriages, but there was no accurate information.

In fact, Shucheng is not big, Qu Hao didn't expect such a big carriage to be so difficult to find, but he didn't give up because of the difficulty, almost everyone he met would ask, and even spend money to ask. But with so many carriages coming and going, who can tell where the carriage ended up?

Qu Hao suddenly thought of a stupid way, found a few children, and each child gave a few copper coins, asked them to call Wu Mengyao's name everywhere, and promised to give him a piece of gold if he found the Wu Mengyao he was looking for.

When these children saw that there were copper coins and high bounties, they ran very hard in all directions, shouting "Wu Mengyao, Wu Mengyao" as they ran. After a while, the streets and alleys of Shucheng were full of voices calling for Wu Mengyao.

But even then there was no response.

Qu Hao judged that he couldn't find it like this, and there were only three possibilities: first, Meng Yao was controlled by someone, and even if she heard it, she couldn't respond; the second is that Meng Yao was not in Shucheng at all, but went elsewhere or in the suburbs; The third is the worst possibility, that is, Meng Yao is no longer alive.

Qu Hao has no way to cope with and bear these three possibilities. Time passed minute by minute, the night was about to fall, Qu Hao was anxious, "Meng Yao, where are you?" His heart was shouting over and over again, and his grief and anger deepened inch by inch.

It seems that it is difficult to find it in Shu Cheng like this, and he only has to go out of the city to find it. But there are four directions out of the city, and it is not easy to ask for a carriage that you don't know the specific information about.

Qu Hao is a person who will not give up easily, he has to sift through the various useful and useless carriage information he hears, and find the most valuable information.

But the night came unstoppably, the ancients worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, and closed their doors one by one, making it difficult for Qu Hao to continue his work of finding Meng Yao. Qu Hao wandered alone in the dark night with the copper flute, and the pain gnawed at his heart violently.

He walked and walked on the avenue on the outskirts of Shucheng, walking, walking, walking, walking, and finally he was physically and mentally exhausted and couldn't support it and collapsed on the road.