Chapter Eighty-Three: The Fall of the Ghost Fang Clan
When I came to the outside of the Ghost Valley, I heard the noise of gongs and drums in the valley, and the voices of people were loud. The black vultures came out with five ghost people, and when they saw Yelena, the corners of the black vulture's mouth showed a subtle smile, as if he had expected to see the snow demon for a long time. The Black Vulture immediately ordered, "Take the snow demon down and wait for disposal." ”
The five of them pushed the shirtless, put a black pocket around Yelena, and carried it and left.
The black vultures whispered, "Warriors come in and have a bowl." He turned a blind eye to whether Tian Xu Wu was dead or alive behind Zhan Wuxian, and he didn't care about the life and death of other people, and he didn't say a word about the North Stygian Extreme Sea, let alone a word of thanks. The performance of the black vulture ghost at this time confirmed what Yelena said.
Things have to be done one by one, and in the end, there is no conclusion on which is true or which is false.
Zhan Wuxian said: "Please call that girl over, Brother Tian wants to see her." At this time, the black vulture ghost glanced at Tian Xuwu, laughed and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, please come with me." He turned around and entered the Ghost Fang Valley. Zhan Wuxian followed Tian Xuwu on his back, and on the way he saw that the lights in the Ghost Fang Valley were bright, and people were celebrating wildly, obviously the snow demon had already spread throughout the valley after being caught. The people of the Ghost Fang clan were dancing around the bonfire, dancing like a devil that Zhan Wuxian had never seen before.
The girl ran over, dressed in a strange costume made of animal skins, with bare limbs, sweating profusely, her hair already stuck to her slippery skin. She came to Zhan Wuxian's approach, breathing rapidly, and her excited eyes were a little wandering. Zhan Wuxian placed Tian Suwu on the ground and found that he was dead, but with a smile on his face. The girl glanced at Tian Suwu's corpse, her face was expressionless, and she turned around and left.
Zhan Wuxian stopped her and said, "Brother Tian never forgets you, and he wants to see you for the last time when he is dying, don't you have anything to say?" The girl smiled slightly, but did not speak, her eyes seemed to say: Haven't you seen this yet, there is nothing to say. Zhan Wuxian shook her head, she had never spoken since she saw this girl for the first time, could it be that this girl was a deaf person, but Zhan Wuxian still asked, this is Tian Xuwu's dying request: "What's your name?" Unexpectedly, the girl said, "He's dead, what's the point of knowing my name!" ”
Zhan Wuxian's head suddenly buzzed, everything he saw was contrary to what he thought, he couldn't believe that the girl who was so gentle and affectionate a few days ago suddenly became so ruthless. Zhan Wuxian was there, watching the girl run away and join the celebratory crowd, it seemed that Tian Xuwu's four had nothing to do with her, and that was exactly the case.
Is this Ghost Fang Valley still the original Ghost Fang Valley? Could it be that what Yelena said is true? The black vultures have been deceiving me and using me? The doubts in Zhan Wuxian's heart appeared one after another, and disappeared one after another. He wanted to ask, but he didn't know what to ask and to whom. At this time, the black vulture ghost is gone, is he trying to disadvantage Yelena? Am I going to save her? But isn't Yelena lying to me?
People are forgetful and fickle, and when they get a little benefit, they forget their previous sufferings and become greedy.
"Sir, take me away." A girl's voice came from behind her. Zhan Wuxian looked back, and it turned out to be Guisha.
"Why didn't you celebrate, the Snow Demon has been caught."
"I'm not a member of the Ghost Fang Clan."
Zhan Wuxian looked at Guisha with puzzled eyes and did not speak.
"My home is in Beidi, the ghost people killed my family and took me here, I don't want to stay here for a moment, Mr. take me away."
It's the same story again, at this time Zhan Wuxian really doesn't know who to believe. Zhan Wuxian got up and ran to the big tent of the black vultures, and when he saw that the tent was empty, he came out to ask others again, and none of the people of the ghost tribe answered him, as if they had never seen him before, and they were just celebrating wildly now. Zhan Wuxian went back again, picked up Tian Xuwu's body and walked out, Guisha followed him silently, and the ghost people saw it and no one stopped him. Zhan Wuxian walked like this, his mind was blank, as for which direction to go and where to go, he didn't know at all, and he didn't want to think about it.
The snow gradually stopped, and the ink clouds in the east lifted, and a red line loomed. A few sparse stars appeared in the sky, the light was dim and crumbling, and the sky seemed higher and farther. Just after a while, I saw a cloud of red light suddenly rising in the east of several acres of radius, colorful glow, uncertain, or white or orange, a spray and a dazzling, in an instant a big red wheel like the sun rushed out, illuminating the earth golden red ten thousand ways, the sky dawned.
Zhan Wuxian remembered that during this period of time, in the northern cold land, the sun had not yet come out, and today was the first time. As he walked, he found grass sprouts emerging from under the snow, and Zhan Wuxian's heart moved, and he couldn't tell whether he was sad or happy. He climbed a hill and looked up to see an endless prairie with green grass and unmelted snow, like white clouds floating in the sky.
"Spring is coming, and this is my home." Guisha ran excitedly towards the grassland.
"Could it be that the snow demon is dead?" Such a thought flashed, Zhan Wuxian didn't dare to think about it anymore, he buried Tian Xuwu's body on the hill, looking at the grassland in front of him and the sand in the grassland, like a dream.
Guisha ran freely on the grassland, her fingers ran over the tips of the grass, breathing in the fresh air that she had not seen for a long time, leaning down to kiss the little flowers on the grassland. She lay on the grassland, looking at the blue sky and colorful clouds, thinking of the cattle and sheep in her hometown. Guisha closed her eyes, and the thought of him riding a horse to pick her up came to her mind, Guisha's cheeks were filled with a happy smile, and gradually, she fell asleep, and heard the sound of horses galloping, getting closer and closer, and getting more and more urgent. It's not a dream, is it? If it's a dream, I hope I never wake up, so I keep doing it.
But the voice was so real, Guisha opened his eyes and saw a group of people galloping towards this side in the distance. Running in front is a tall horse with a red color, on the back of the horse sits a handsome young man, he is dressed in black, the collar and cuffs are dark red trim, looking from afar, the style is cool, up close, the look is vibrant, sword eyebrows and starry eyes.
"It's really him!" Guisha almost shouted out, but she immediately became frightened again and shouted, "Childe, be careful. Before he could finish speaking, he saw a hairy object the size of a cow burst out of the grass, and threw itself on the young man's side. The boy was caught off guard, and as soon as he pulled the reins, the tall red horse neighed, lifted his front feet off the ground, and stood up. The fur also pounced, and crushed the boy and the horse under him, and lay on the ground and did not move.
Guisha ran towards the boy like crazy, and stepped on the empty halfway, stepped on the mud puddle, and fell, and was covered with mud. Guisha got up, regardless of the pain all over his body, and ran to the young man's side, and saw that the hair had pressed the young man's whole body, revealing only one foot. Guisha cried bitterly, grabbed the fur of the fur and pulled it out, but he couldn't pull it at all.
The centaurs who followed the young man were shocked when they saw their master in distress, and they dismounted one after another, and went to push the wool in a panic. Why is it that the hair is huge, and more than a dozen people actually push it to move. At this time, Zhan Wuxian walked over, saw this scene, and then looked at Guisha crying, frowning slightly, the murdered young man and Guisha knew each other? Zhan Wuxian asked a retinue for a long ge, hooked the back of the hairy thing's neck, and pulled it with one hand, and the hairy thing and Changge drew an arc in the air, flew out several feet, and fell to the ground to smash a pit.
Look at the young man again, lying on the ground, sword in both hands, eyes closed, face covered with blood. The maroon red horse's neck was broken, and the one-foot-long mouth had its flesh open, and blood was dripping out. Guisha was frightened, knelt on the ground, and tried to touch the young man's face with both hands, crying: "Why did you leave when I just saw you, I don't even know your name." Guisha's tears dripped on the young man's face, scattering the blood on his face little by little.
At this time, the young man's entourage pushed away the return to the sand, some wiped the blood stains on the young man's body with a linen cloth, some checked whether the young man's body was catchy, and some people pinched the young man's middle point. After a long toss, the young man coughed dryly, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, there was a moist saltiness. He opened his eyes and saw a crowd of people looking around him anxiously. Guisha burst into tears and smiled: "Are you awake? The boy looked at her, his face full of scowling, as if he did not recognize her. At this time, an attendant came over, and his hands were about to be supported, and the young man pushed the attendant away, put his hands on the ground, and turned over.
"What's that, what's that, what about that ghost wolf?" The boy was unscathed. It turns out that the wool as big as a cow is called the ghost wolf, which is a unique wolf species of the ghost tribe, as big as an ox, ferocious and vicious, and is often released by the ghost tribe to kill and attack other tribes. This time, the young man went deep into the hinterland of the grassland, just to fight a ghost wolf, so that he could show off in front of people. When the ghost wolf pounced on the young man, the young man was quick and quickly pulled the reins of the horse, allowing the mount to block the attack of the ghost wolf first, and at the same time stood on the back of the horse with both feet and drew his sword, aiming at the throat of the ghost wolf and stabbing it with a sword. Because the ghost wolf was too violent, he directly pressed the boy and the mount under him, and at the same time, the ghost wolf also screamed for his life, but fortunately, the horse body was blocked, and the huge body of the ghost wolf did not suppress the boy.
An attendant pointed out the corpse of the ghost wolf outside the hand and said, "My lord, there it is." ”
"When did the ghost wolf run over there?" The boy was a little confused.
"It was this strong man who threw it." The retinue continued with his finger spread his fingers: "Because the ghost wolf is particularly huge and presses the lord, I didn't move it with all my might, but I didn't expect this strong man to throw that beast out a few feet away with one hand. ”
The young man stood up, stared at Zhan Wuxi, and saw that he looked handsome, extraordinary, not like an ordinary person, and he was recruiting celebrities, so he took a deep look and said: "My name is Zhao Ying, the son of the Zhao family of the Jin Kingdom, I don't know who your honorable name is?" Zhan Wuxian saw that the young man was speaking openly and uprightly, so he said: "Zhan Wuxian is in the next Zhan Wuxian." ”
"Zhan is shirtless ......?" Zhao Ying muttered, where did he seem to have heard of this name: "You are Zhan Wuxian?" The one who defeated Childe and defeated the enemy? I've heard of you, your martial arts are so good, and our brothers admire you very much, and they all want to see you. ”
Zhan Wuxian smiled, but he didn't expect that there were people in this northern cold land who knew about him.
"Aren't you in the Chu State? How did you get to Cyprus? ”
"Do something personal."
"What's the matter? See if I can help you, I'm still familiar with this area. ”
Because Zhan Wuxian had hit a wall several times before, he didn't have hope for this time, but he still told Zhao Ying. "I'm looking for the North Stygian Polar Sea, but I've never had a clue after asking for many things."
"North Polar Sea?" Zhao Ying pondered: "Isn't that Beihai, which is recorded in the classics of the Jin Kingdom." ”
Remove the clouds and mist to see the sky, and keep the clouds open to see the moon. Sometimes the less hopeful you are, the more hope is in sight.
"What you said is true?" Zhan Wuxian couldn't hide his excitement.
"Why should I lie to you?" Zhao Ying said: "What are you doing in Beihai, it's far away from here." ”
"Do you know where the North Sea is?"
"I don't know, there is no map in the book."
"Ghost Fang Valley, there are people there who know where Beihai is." Zhan Wuxian suddenly thought that Yelena was still in Ghost Fang Valley.
"Ghost Fang Valley? I'm going with you, I'm trying to capture a ghost wolf alive. ”
"You don't have to go to Ghost Fang Valley, now you can be captured alive." Zhan Wuxian pulled out the ghost sword and said, "Everyone be careful. "I saw the dust in the northwest, and dozens of ghost wolves roared towards this side.
Seeing the formation, Zhao Ying did not panic, and ordered: "Set up the formation." I saw dozens of his entourages taking off their coarse cloth coats, revealing tight armor, riding horses in two rows back to back, holding Changge, waiting for the battle, at a glance it was a well-trained Zhao clan soldier. The ghost wolf is cunning and ferocious, and it is lined up in a back-to-back formation to prevent the ghost wolf from sneaking up from behind.
Zhao Ying saw that Guisha was still looking at him, so he said, "Hey, you're not afraid of wolves eating you, come here." Guisha ran over and asked, "Where am I staying?" ”
"Sit in the back." Zhao Ying stretched out a hand to pull Guisha. Guisha smiled and grabbed Zhao Ying's delicate hand, got on the horse and rode behind Zhao Ying, and the little rabbit in his heart jumped more and more anxiously.
"You really don't know me?" Guisha asked.
Zhao Ying shook his head: "Have we met before?" ”
"Yes, you don't remember when you were a child when you went to Beidi to hunt, everyone else hunted cattle and sheep, but you only hunted wolves."
"I often go hunting in Beidi, which time are you talking about?"
"It was that time, when a wolf was chasing a little girl, you suddenly appeared, staring at the wolf with a blank face, and scared the wolf back several steps. Later, the wolf comes back to his senses and pounces on you, and is killed by an arrow from another adult. ”
"I remember, I was only ten years old at the time, and I didn't expect that little girl to be you."
"yes, it's me."
"But this time I don't need anyone else to come to my rescue." Zhao Ying said: "Sit tight." ”
At this time, the ghost wolf pack had rushed to the front, Zhao Ying rode his horse and held the sword, regardless of others, he rushed forward, and cut off the neck of a ghost wolf with a sword. When the others saw that the Lord Zhao Yan went out, they didn't care what the formation was, and it was important to protect the Lord Gong. The soldiers of the Zhao clan followed closely behind Zhao Ying, and Chang Ge stabbed at the wolves of the ghost side. There was a clan of soldiers who used too much force, and Changge directly stabbed into the body of a ghost wolf, and then pulled it back, but he couldn't pull it out. At this time, another ghost wolf pounced, and when the soldier saw this, he gave up Changge, and before he could draw his sword, the wolf threw him under the horse and bit off his neck. Seeing that his companion was killed, another Zhao clan soldier roared, and Chang Ge stabbed into the back of the ghost wolf, and picked it up, and due to the excessive force, Chang Ge broke directly from it.
The strange thing is that none of the dozens of ghost wolves attacked Zhan Wuxian, and when they saw Zhan Wuxian, they walked around from a distance to attack the others. Zhan Wuxian looked at the ghost sword in his hand and immediately understood that the ghost wolf did not dare to attack him, it must have something to do with this ghost sword. Zhan Wuxian saw that the others were attacked by the wolves, and the casualties were increasing, so he joined the battle group with a sword. I saw that every time Zhan Wuxian made a sword, a ghost wolf was killed. Some ghosts and wolves saw Zhan Wuxian coming, so they gave up attacking the others, turned around and ran, waiting for an opportunity to look for another opportunity. Due to the existence of Zhan Wuxian, the ghost wolf suffered more and more casualties, and he was about to be surrounded and annihilated by Zhao Ying and others. At this time, a larger ghost wolf appeared from the hillside in the distance, its whole body was black, only a few white hairs on the front face, like a scar on the face. The ghost wolf howled in the sky, one more terrible than the other. At this time, when the other ghost wolves were summoned to retreat, the wolves heard the howl, stopped fighting, turned around and ran, and looked at the ghost sword in Zhan Wuxian's hand from time to time.
Zhan Wuxian listened to the howling of the ghost wolf, and then looked at the ghost sword in his hand, and seemed to understand something, this sword did not belong to him in the first place. The ghost wolf was still staring at him, and he had no intention of leaving, so Zhan Wuxian threw the ghost sword at the wolf, impartially, and landed in front of the head wolf, and the sword body was half inserted into the hillside. The ghost fangtou wolf bit the ghost sword and pulled it out with all his might, until the blood in its mouth flowed out and soaked the sword body. The ghost square-headed wolf glanced at Zhan Wuxian, howled, and left with the other wolves.
Counting the number of people, the soldiers of the Zhao clan under Zhao Ying, four people died, six people were seriously injured, and eight people were slightly injured, and Zhao Ying's left shoulder was also scratched by the ghost wolf An inch-long wound, but it was not too serious, and someone had already given him gold sore medicine.
Zhao Ying said: "If it weren't for you, maybe I would have lost my wolf's mouth, Zhan Wuxian, I will remember you." ”
Zhan Wuxian said: "I'm about to go north, Miss Guisha will be handed over to you, you take good care of her." ”
"Don't worry, I will. If you come back from Beihai and pass by the Jin Kingdom, remember to come to me. ”
"Chances I have, I will."
"If you want to find something to do, you can follow me and help me realize my ideals, and I won't treat you badly."
"Ranger does not serve the master, but only lives in a narrow sense." Zhan Wuxian didn't care about fame and wealth at all, and he was very unaccustomed to Zhao Ying's somewhat arrogant attitude, but when they met for the first time, they couldn't say anything.
"What? I didn't hear you. ”
"Nothing."
"Well, I'll give you two horses as a leg to go to the North Sea. There will be a period after the exhibition, and I will leave. Zhao Ying took the corpses of Guisha, the Zhao clan soldiers, and the ghost wolf to the south. Not far to the south, there is the camp of the Zhao family, which can heal the wounded.
Zhan Wuxian returned to the Ghost Fang Valley, and saw the corpse of the black ghost hanging above the valley mouth, the whole body**, an ice pick pierced out of the chest, and the blood had coagulated and turned dark red.
"I've only been away from the Ghost Fang Valley for only three days, could it be that something happened in the valley, the black ghost ghost is the patriarch of the Ghost Fang tribe, and his martial arts are very good, who will kill him? This person's martial arts must be very good. If the black vulture ghost is killed, will the clansmen of the ghost tribe also be slaughtered, and whether Yelena is imprisoned in the valley will also be ....... Thinking of this, Zhan Wuxian didn't dare to think about it anymore, he went back to Ghost Fang Valley this time, just to ask Ye Lena where Beihai was, if Ye Lena was killed in Ghost Fang Valley, wouldn't he fight again.
Zhan ran into the valley and saw corpses all over the field, the white dead tree dyed red, the corpses piled up under the tree, and the blood washed the ground out of the ravines. If you look closely, these corpses are all smiling and smiling, and it is very likely that they were killed by a sudden attack without knowing it, and all of them are fatal with one blow.
A bright light flickered, Zhan Wuxian saw that there was still a light in the black vulture's ghostly tent, if the entire ghost clan was slaughtered, there would be no light in the tent, could there be anyone alive inside? It was Diana and Yelena, or the murderer. Zhan Wuxian escaped into the big tent, and saw that the layout in the tent had not been touched at all, it was still the same, and the brazier in the tent was still burning. Zhan Wuxian looked around, but didn't find anyone else, he still remembered that when the black vulture ghost feasted the seven of them in this big tent for the first time, there was a pool in the middle of the tent, and there was a golden cage made of gold in the pool, and Diana was locked in the cage, was Yelena also among them, that killer didn't find the mechanism of the golden cage when he slaughtered the ghost Fang clan, so why did this killer or many killers kill the ghost Fang clan?
Zhan Wuxian recalled with questions how the black vulture ghost ghost operated to release the golden cage, he walked to the middle of the desk to check, and found that there was nothing special around him, he stroked the wolf pattern on the desk with his hand, and suddenly thought of the white markings on the face of the ghost square-headed wolf, he carefully checked those patterns, and found that there were a few inconspicuous lines in the dense pattern that were extremely similar to the white markings on the face of the ghost wolf, if he hadn't seen the ghost wolf, he couldn't tell those lines.
Zhan Wuxian pressed his fingers on the stripes at the same time, and when he reached the middle of the lines, he pressed down hard, and he heard the creaking sound of the large tent pool, and a stone cabinet emerged from under the water. The slate opened, and what appeared was the golden cage, and there was a naked woman lying in the cage, her black hair was scattered all over her body, and she was stunned, and her heart was not good, it was not Diana, Diana's hair was golden, and who was the woman inside?
Zhan Wuxian jumped over, broke open the golden cage with both hands, flashed in, and helped the woman up to see that it was the girl, the girl that Tian Su had nothing to forget.
The girl opened her eyes slightly, and when she saw Zhan Wuxian, a subtle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "You're finally here." ”
"Who did that?"
"It's a snow demon."
"What?" Zhan Wuxian couldn't believe it, but when he thought about it, with Yelena's strength, it was not so easy to slaughter the Ghost Fang clan. "Could it be ......" Zhan Wuxian didn't dare to think about it anymore, and a terrifying premonition rose in his heart.
"The Snow Demons asked me to tell you that they are waiting for you in the North Sea."
"Where's the North Sea?"
"Purple ...... Small...... Wall. The girl said with difficulty.
According to legend, Ziweiyuan is the place where the Emperor of Heaven lives, and it is the inner courtyard of the emperor, in addition to the emperor, the queen, the prince, and the palace maid all live here. Ziweiyuan is the middle wall of the three walls, located in the center of the northern sky, with the North Pole as the center. "The snow demon told the girl Ziweiyuan, did he mean that as long as he walked towards the North Star, he would definitely be able to find Beihai." Zhan Wuxian's heart suddenly brightened, and he asked again, "What's your name?" ”
The girl smiled, just like the smiles of the corpses outside the tent, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and her eyes closed. Zhan Wushirt wiped the blood stains from the corners of the girl's mouth, and in the end he still didn't know the girl's name.
Zhan Wuxian buried the girl with Tian Xuwu. Life is like that sometimes, and you don't necessarily know the person you sleep with, and you don't necessarily know his name.
At this time, it was already late at night, Zhan Wuxian rode his horse north, looking up, the North Star hung alone in the sky. Along the way, the people I met and the things I went through were all different, ups and downs, difficulties and obstacles. Some people are dead, some people are alive, some people are true, some people are false, what you see is not necessarily what you think you see, and what you hear is not necessarily what you think you hear. Fortunately, he came over at the end, hoping that everything would go well in the future, and that he would find the Northern Darkness Essence Water as soon as possible and refine it into a sword.
Slowly, Zhan Wuxian fell asleep on horseback, he was too tired. I don't know how much time has passed, Zhan Wushirt but feels that the breeze is blowing, the fragrance of grass hits people, and I hear the sound of horses stepping on grass. Zhan Wuxian opened his eyes and saw that there was a green field in front of him, and it was an endless prairie. The snow in the Onifang Kingdom melted overnight, and a small stream meandered like a jade belt tied to a turquoise garment.
Zhan Wuxian jumped off the horse, let the horse run and gallop, he took out some dry food, ate it in the river, lay on the ground, looking at the blue sky and white clouds, he remembered Mo Wuya. I don't know if Li'er is good now, whether she has found the Southern Hellfire Divine Fire.