It's not the first time Li Xuanqing and Chen Yu have come to Helan Mountain. So the two of them took advantage of the fact that after entering the mountain before dark, they found the temporary cave that the two of them had found in the mountain before, as their accommodation tonight.

This is a naturally formed cave, which is about 200 square meters in size and has two entrances. One of them is towards the other side of the mountain. But it's been blocked by two people.

Chen Yu looked at the salt he left here last time, he smiled, didn't say anything, put down his things and went out with a bow and arrow, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that it was not dark to see if he could hunt a prey or something, which was also one of the few pleasures and benefits for the two of them to come to Helan Mountain.

Li Xuanqing stayed and cleaned up briefly and then walked out of the cave, but saw that the sunset had already set the curtain of the day, and in an instant, the sky and the earth were immersed in a twilight. Being in the mountains, only the sound of the wind, the sound of water and the sound of pine waves in my ears is very lonely and empty, and the long-lost freedom makes the tired body and mind relax at once.

The sky is wide, and it is really easy to forget your troubles. Li Xuanqing took a deep breath, silently felt this rare atmosphere, and began to pack up dry firewood and prepare to make a fire. Helan Mountain in the Tang Dynasty was an out-and-out primeval forest, and after dark, all kinds of fierce beasts began to return to their nests or come out to feed. Therefore, making a fire is an essential step to survive in this large forest. And at this time, it is already autumn, and the cold can already be felt in the wilderness of autumn in the northwest.

Fortunately, at this time, there was no concept of desertification in Helan Mountain, and this famous mountain in later generations is now inaccessible, except for those who go into the mountains to collect medicine or look for mineral deposits, almost no one wants to go in and out. So Li Xuanqing just looked around, and quickly found a large number of dead branches and trunks, enough to burn until dawn.

After Li Xuanqing lit the fire, he lit a pine branch and began to go to the stream not far away to fill the water bladder that he had drunk.

At this time, Chen Yu had also returned. I saw him carrying a hare and a pheasant and came over excitedly, shouting: "Xuanqing, look, today's harvest is good, we can have a good meal tonight." To be honest, what I hope most is that every time I come to Helan Mountain, I can improve my food. After that, the skilful ones began to peel, dehair, and clean, and then began to roast them on the fire.

Li Xuanqing looked at Chen Yu's prey upside down, smiled slightly, but was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Chen Yu, have you thought about what we will do in the future?" ”

Chen Yu was constantly flipping the rabbit, and was stunned when he heard the words, and the salt and spices in his hands were almost thrown directly into the fire, obviously stunned by Li Xuanqing's cold question, he paused when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Have you broken your cranky head recently?" What else can someone like ours do? Can you be a general? Or can you be a big official? I now thought that I could open a blacksmith shop, and then take all the business of our shopkeeper, and let him come to me and make me an apprentice. ”

Li Xuanqing was laughed at by his last sentence, and then he said: "If you have the opportunity, do you want to be a general?" ”

"Then who wouldn't want to be? The general can bring a lot of soldiers, you didn't look at the last time the festival was on patrol, that momentum, that battle, that is the life that a man should live. Chen Yu continued to spice the rabbit meat, casually talking nonsense with Li Xuanqing, and at the same time felt a slight strange in his heart, in the past, his companion was a taciturn guy, thinking about things all day long, how could he talk to him about these unrealistic things like today.

"That's right, if you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone." Li Xuanqing muttered to himself, no longer spoke, just stared at the firelight. The problems that have been bothering me for the past few days have finally become clear.

It's just that maybe neither of them knows that history has actually gone from this simple and unsimple answer, and it is also from this moment that a magnificent epic is written from this ordinary. A few years later, when the two of them were over the age of old, they began to look back on the past few decades, and then remembered this moment, they all laughed at it.

Perhaps, many miracles begin with a simple reality.

However, at this time, neither of them felt that the years to come would begin to change because of this night. At least what Chen Yu is thinking about now is to find the ore as soon as possible tomorrow, and then make time to find more food. Li Xuanqing, on the other hand, continued to think about what only he could understand.

The two of them had a beautiful barbecue, and they started to rest on the fire with satisfaction. Chen Yu fell asleep after a while, but Li Xuanqing was lying there, looking at the starry sky in a daze.

But at this moment, Li Xuanqing no longer bothered with the previous problems. Since he can't go back after all, from now on, he will be a Li Xuanqing of this era in a down-to-earth manner and integrate into this society.

Unconsciously, the sense of alienation that had always been in Li Xuanqing's body gradually disappeared, and a trace of anger slowly seeped out.

"Huh--" Just after Li Xuanqing figured out these things, suddenly, an abrupt roar resounded in the mountains.

"What sound?" Chen Yu, who was asleep, jumped up directly and asked Li Xuanqing in a daze.

Li Xuanqing shook his head and was about to speak, when suddenly a thought flashed through his heart like lightning, and he hurriedly said, "Oh no, this is the sound of a tiger's roar." After speaking, he quickly pulled out two burning pine branches from the fire, handed one to Chen Yu, and pulled him towards the cave.

"Tiger roar? It can't be a big bug, right? Oh my God, it must have been brought by the smell of meat just now, so hide it. Chen Yu was also taken aback by Li Xuanqing's words, and hurriedly stumbled into the hole.

"Damn, the entrance to the cave can't be blocked, what should I do?" After Chen Yu got into the cave, he immediately found that there was nothing blocking the entrance of the cave, and immediately shouted.

And at this moment, the whistling sound in the distance is getting closer and closer. It seems that Chen Yu is right, this big insect is indeed attracted by the aroma of their barbecue.

"Hurry up and move the rocks over there and block them, and we'll get out from that side." Li Xuanqing didn't have time to say more, and the two of them pushed a stone together to block the entrance of the cave.

The tiger roar outside was getting closer and closer, and the big insect really followed the fragrance to find the location of the two people. However, for the bones that had been thrown to the ground by Chen Yu, the breath of the living people coming from the cave obviously made this beast more interested.

Li Xuanqing listened to the sound outside and got closer and closer to the cave, and then felt that the stone in front of him that he used to block the entrance of the cave vibrated violently, and suddenly felt bad, he really wanted to do something, and he didn't have time to push Chen Yu to another hole, and yelled in his mouth: "Hurry up, I'll come to the top for a while." ”

Chen Yu was pushed to the ground, as if he was scared stupid, and he didn't react for a while, until he suddenly came to his senses when Li Xuanqing yelled, but he didn't listen to Li Xuanqing, but instead took Li Xuanqing's hand and ran towards the hole on the other side without saying anything.

The two of them could get out of the hole, and they heard a loud bang behind them, a "boom", and the stone blocking the door was pushed open by a violent force, and a colorful giant claw stretched into the cave.

"Whew", a huge tiger roar suddenly came from behind him, and a thick bloody aura made the two of them dizzy.

"Let's go separately, you to the right, I'll go to the left, scatter the target, and escape one by one." Li Xuanqing shook off Chen Yu's hand, retreated him to the right, and when he saw Chen Yu's figure, he immediately shouted: "Hurry up, if you can run one, one will count as one." As he spoke, he picked up a stone and threw it at the black shadow that was approaching quickly in the cave behind him, and scolded angrily: "Beast, you have the ability to chase me." ”

When Chen Yu saw Li Xuanqing turn around and smash the big insect with a stone, he immediately understood Li Xuanqing's thoughts, and knew that he was sacrificing his life to delay time for himself, so he hurriedly ran forward, "Xuanqing, you run, I will definitely come to you." ”

"Roar." Li Xuanqing's head was good, and the stone accurately hit the big insect's head. According to Li Xuanqing's hand strength at this time, this stone is tantamount to tickling for a big insect. But the big insect is the king of beasts, and Li Xuanqing's actions are simply challenging his dignity as a beast king. How can you bear your prey actually challenging yourself? With an angry roar, he decisively rushed towards Li Xuanqing.

Li Xuanqing saw that his goal had been achieved, so he no longer hesitated and ran desperately in the opposite direction of Chen Yu. At this moment of life and death, Li Xuanqing's thin figure quickly reached the extreme, and he forcibly jumped over regardless of the thorns and miscellaneous trees growing around him. It is estimated that the speed of running after living for two lives is not as fast as tonight, the sound of the wind whistling in the night is whistling in the ears, and a vague figure flickers in the firewood and grass under the cold moonlight, and even once threw off the big insect behind it for a distance.

However, for the jungle, humans are never the opponent of beasts, let alone the beast king at this moment. Li Xuanqing's speed only lasted for half a cup of tea, and the big worm behind him quickly narrowed the distance. Li Xuanqing could even feel that the gravel brought up by the claws of the beast that fell quickly could splash on his body.

If this continues, I guess I will really die in the mouth of the beast. It is better to be used as food for a large worm than to die without a corpse...... Several thoughts appeared in Li Xuanqing's mind like lightning, and he immediately stopped hesitating, his body paused, changed direction again, and climbed towards the top of the mountain quickly.

In fact, the cave that Li Xuanqing and the others were looking for was halfway up a mountain, and the road that Li Xuanqing pointed out to Chen Yu was the way down the mountain, but at this moment, his own direction was the direction of going up the mountain. It's just that his speed up the mountain is even slower, but the speed of the big insect has not changed, and the distance between the two has narrowed again, and Li Xuanqing has also reached the last moment of life and death.

"Here it is." Li Xuanqing ran to a gentle protruding place, this place is like a mountain peak stretching out of thin air, gentle like a square platform, on which two boulders that are strangely erected I don't know when they stayed, squatting on the edge of the cliff like a gate. This is nicknamed "Nantianmen" by the two of them, but below is a bottomless cliff. It's just that this cliff is basically impossible to find because of the existence of this Nantianmen, if you look at it from a distance. Li Xuanqing also inadvertently came here to rest when he was looking for medicinal materials.

Li Xuanqing roared angrily, his feet had already stepped on the edge of the Nantian Gate, and at this moment, the big insect finally caught up with the prey in his eyes, his hideous tiger claws were on the ground, and his body jumped up and grabbed Li Xuanqing.

"Right here" Li Xuanqing's figure suddenly slammed at this time, forcibly stopped his speed, and moved a step to the side.

"Huh" The big insect was blocked by Li Xuanqing's vision, and it didn't have time to react at all and flew out directly.

Although Li Xuanqing let go of the big worm, after forcibly stopping the speed, he could no longer stabilize his body, and he stumbled and fell headlong.

The man and beast flew off the cliff like lightning, and everything happened in the lightning. Li Xuanqing couldn't even think of anything, and he was already falling rapidly.

"Sure enough, I've been struggling for so long. But that's fine, maybe I'll be able to go back. This was Li Xuanqing's last thought. His body touched the ground, and the sharp pain took away the last shred of his consciousness in an instant.