Volume II: The Frontier Chapter 14: Divergence

Mu Chen and Jiayue waited anxiously for the villagers, but seeing that noon had passed, there was not even a figure, so they realized that they had been deceived, sighed, and got up to pack up.

"I'll go into the mountains to find Junyue, and you wait here. ”

"The people haven't come yet, so you can go in and find it yourself?"

"People shouldn't come, you just wait here, in case they come, you can arrange it. Cerberus. "The three-headed Cerberus came out from behind a stout tree.

"Then I'll go with you, what's the use of just waiting here. ”

"I'll just go with it, you saw the situation of the mountain road when you came, and you can only follow me with you, if you get lost again, it will be more troublesome, you just wait for the villagers here." ”

"But, I..."

"You see her clearly, go into the mountains to find someone who looks like her, and notify me immediately if you have a clue. Mu Chen touched the back of the Cerberus and explained the situation to it.

"Don't go anywhere else, wait for me here, I'll come out before dark. He didn't give Jiayue a chance to speak, and ran into the mountains on a Cerberus.

After Mu Chen left, the more Jia Yue thought about it, the more angry she became, but she didn't know who to vent to, blame Chunyue for being too reckless, she couldn't stop her sister's dream, blame Mu Chen for being unscrupulous, and she knew how much Mu Chen blamed herself and intentions for this matter, blame the two market brokers, they were not qualified.

"Chunyue, as long as you appear in front of me safely, I will not leave you in the future, my sister's trial is over, there is nothing more important than you, I have no lofty ideals except for chasing power, and I have no vision for life, I will follow you in the future, feel the life you want to feel, and see the world you want to see. The situation left her powerless and she could only pray silently in her heart.

Mu Chen rode the hellhound all the way, although the trees were intertwined and the branches were of different heights, but the three heads and six eyes of the hellhound observed all this in detail, except for the upward climbing posture, the rest were as fast as lightning when running on the flat ground.

When it was about to reach the entrance and exit of the forest path, Mu Chen ordered it to stop, got off its back, and looked at the surrounding terrain.

"The other end of the forest path is the wasteland, if according to my expectations, Junyue started to get lost from here, I just came from the right way, Cerberus didn't feel the breath of people around her, it seems that she should not be near the way down the mountain. Thinking of this, Mu Chen patted the Cerberus on the back and ran in different directions.

Jiayue had given up the idea of relying on the villagers to find Chunyue at the foot of the mountain, and sat there a little tired and blamed herself, blaming herself for being useless and not being able to help at all.

At this moment, she faintly heard the sound of complaining, and quickly turned to check, only to see several drunks in ragged clothes, walking staggeringly, and with red faces walking in the direction of the woods.

"What kind of work is this, I'm tired of Lao Tzu, I was thirsty and hot at noon and walked for so long. ”

"Who says it's not, and that someone is here to answer, and there is not even a ghost here. ”

"Who told us to owe money for wine, and if we don't come, we won't give credit when we don't come. ”

"We're in front of the border mountains, and we've done as told, so what's the matter now, go back." ”

"Go back, I can't walk anymore, let's rest in the woods, it's too hot. ”

A few drunks complained as they walked, all of them disgraced and sweating profusely, and they looked like they had come from a long journey.

"Are you here to help find someone?" said Jiayue, coming out of the woods, looking at the men.

"Oops, it scared me, there are really people waiting here. We're looking for someone, but we'll have to rest for a while. They walked into the shady part of the woods and sat down on the ground, shaking their clothes and wiping their sweat, and a large stream of wine-smoky Jiayue went straight back.

"Eh, I said this wasteland girl, we've also arrived, let's discuss how to give money, right?" asked a man who looked like a leader.

"Give money, give what money, I have already given you money to supervise the market. ”

"He is him, we are us, what you give him is the intermediary fee, our single calculation. ”

"Like, can he give us money, those two bastards. ”

"Be careful when you speak, and don't get yourself in trouble. The other drunkard pulled out the flask and prepared to take two more sips.

"Give me a sip, don't drink it yourself. ”

"Okay, you say, how much more?" Jia Yue looked at the appearance of these scoundrels and didn't want to say more.

"One gold coin per person, one, two, three... There are seven in total. "The leader didn't even know how many people came, but there were a few of them.

"Seven, give. Jiayue threw the gold coin on the ground, and then said: "Let you come at noon, but it will only arrive in the afternoon, and the reward that has been given is now increased in price, you human beings really have no credit." ”

When these drunks saw the money falling on the ground, they hurriedly got up to pick it up, obviously each of them only took one, but they still snatched each other and scuffled together.

"I said Wasteland Girl, no one told us to come at noon, and no one gave us money, don't blame us, go back and settle accounts with the tavern owner and Li Jackal. The leader took the gold coin, and he didn't raise his head to explain there, and the people here privately called Li Jackal Li Jackal, which was particularly in line with his usual style.

"Listen, go to the mountains and find a girl from the wasteland who looks and dresses like me, and tell her that her sister is waiting for her at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"Go to the mountains, the mountain roads here are criss-crossed and intricately connected, we will get lost when we go in, let alone find someone, do you have someone else to find, we will find it for you. Ha ha. ”

"Yes, you don't go into the mountain, let us in, isn't it too inhumane. ”

"I said the rich man of the wasteland, how can you come to us when you go into the mountains to find someone, you should find the hunters in the village, they are familiar with the mountain roads, do you need me to introduce you to a few, the cost is easy to say. ”

After taking the money, these drunks began to play scoundrels, everything you say and I don't care about, and they push it all away, and they have no intention of moving at all.

"Skeleton soldiers. Katsuki drew her wand and summoned nearly thirty skeletons.

When the drunks saw a skeleton in front of them, they quickly gathered together, curled up and asked, "What are you going to do, what are you going to do, you wastelanders will pay a heavy price for killing people here." ”

"I'll say it again, find a wasteland girl who looks and dresses like me, and give me a ride into the mountains now, I don't care if you know the way or not, anyway, if you can't find it today, you don't have to come out of the mountains. ”

"I tell you, I am a brother to the prison city, if you dare to touch me, I will let him kill you. A drunkard stood up and shouted timidly.

The two skeleton soldiers went up and grabbed him, cut off his legs with a knife, and carried him to a large tree, where they stabbed him in the chest and plunged into the trunk, and the man was hanged.

The whole process continued to scream until he was blocked by blood and coughed up a few mouthfuls, and he was out of breath. The ruddy faces of the other six people were instantly frightened and pale, and no one dared to look at Jiayue, holding their heads and trembling.

"If you go into the mountains, you can't find anyone, so you can decorate the tree. As soon as Jiayue gave the order, the skeleton soldiers picked up the drunk man and pushed him towards the mountain.

Each drunk man was followed by four or five skeleton soldiers, they were so frightened that some of them didn't even dare to change their posture after getting up, and their hands were still holding their heads. Some of them fell to the ground after taking two steps, and they had to rely on skeleton soldiers to pull him up. There is even one who has been carrying his pants from the beginning, and when viewed from the back, he is completely wet from the crotch down.

Jiayue doesn't know any black market rules, and she doesn't care about abusing and killing humans, years of experience in the wasteland have made her adapt to the world of the jungle, if it weren't for Mu Chen's constant telling her not to act rashly, she would have done it before giving money, and doing this step was already considered restrained in her consciousness.

Mu Chen and Cerberus kept looking for Chunyue, but there were too many branches on the mountain road, the terrain was complex and changeable, the vision of the forest was not wide, and the progress was slow, so it was really a drop in the bucket for such a large search range.

The drunks who enter the mountains are even more useless, they are not familiar with the terrain, and they have just experienced such a bloody scene, everyone is in a trance, just thinking about how to save their lives, how can they have the heart to find someone.

In this way, it was dark and Jia Yue gave up completely, she knew that Mu Chen just didn't want to sit still, the chance of finding Chunyue on his own was almost zero, or he wouldn't go to the black market to find someone to help. As for those drunks, she didn't want them to live at all, and let them go into the mountains just to be clean in front of them.

A few hours later, Mu Chen and Cerberus reconciled, but there was no progress on either side, and no clues were found, so they had no choice but to go down the mountain. On the way, he met a drunk man who was escorted by skeleton soldiers, and he probably understood what was going on, so he didn't stop and ran straight down the mountain.

"Jia Yue, Jia Yue. When she reached the foot of the mountain, it was already dark, and Mu Chen asked her twice to confirm her position.

"This, here. ”

"I see your skeletons, this... What's going on?" He got off Cerberus's back, just in time to see the corpse on the trunk.

"They're not here to find someone at all, they'reβ€”" Jiayue weakly recounted what had happened to him.

"This is not a wasteland, they are not monsters, they cannot be resurrected, you can't hurt people's lives like this. Mu Chen's tone was stern, accusing her of despising humans.

"It doesn't matter if it's a wasteland or not, they deserve to die, they are innocent. ”

"You, don't blame these people for Chunyue's affairs, this is the human continent, you can't kill people casually. ”

"Then who is to blame, do you blame you, they are obviously playing us, and you still excuse them, it's not time for you to kill us wasteland people, whether you can be resurrected is the premise or reason for killing, you say. ”

"It's different, humans only have a few decades to live, and they have to..."

"Why, human beings who live for decades are human beings, and the wasteland people who can be resurrected are not human beings, you are not human, you can't die, you are not like human beings than wasteland people, don't look for double standards here, they have to die if they deserve to die, love is what it is, love lives for a few years, and lives for a few years. Jiayue finally broke out, and there was always a voice in her heart reminding her not to say it anymore, not to say it again, but in the end she still didn't hold it.

It may be that these words are too hurtful, Mu Chen didn't answer, and went to clean up the body alone. Jiayue turned her head away from him, the two of them had differences in their views on human life, and they did not give in to each other, and they were destined not to spend the night peacefully.