The scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the golden autumn sun shone down on the earth, illuminating the smoke and dust that was billowing up like wolf smoke. The white smoke, like a strange tree, stretched its branches and leaves towards the sky, enveloping the entire blue sky. In the suburbs of Yangzhou City, in this season of crisp autumn and dry weather.

The bright red tongue of fire began to leap upward, accompanied by thick smoke, like a red devil following behind the smoke. The fiery breath can be clearly felt in the distance, the kind of temperature that seems to roast people, if ordinary people dare to approach, they will definitely sweat like rain, and then hide far away. But at this time, at the source of the fire, a figure was guarding the pile of raging flames without giving an inch, and beside him, a group of people were besieging, both sides were doing their best, and the long knife in their hands did not seem so real in the firelight. Faintly faintly visible, and looking beyond the steaming heat, their figures are all twisted, looking particularly hideous. Wisps of blood were scorched by the blazing air in mid-air, emitting a choking smell. But they didn't notice it, and they only thought about knocking their opponents down.

The long knife in Xue Wanche's hand didn't know how many times he had exchanged other people's weapons, he felt a strong overdraft in his body, and the exhaustion in his body coupled with the faint worry in his heart made him physically and mentally exhausted. But he was still firmly guarding the narrow doorway, not allowing the people on the other side to rush over and push away the fire.

"Xue Wanche again, who dares to fight?" Xue Wanche slashed an enemy on the opposite side to the ground with a single sword, and the long knife was drawn from the opponent's body. Blood splattered, and the blade stuck in his bones made it difficult for him to pull out. Coupled with the excessive consumption of the body, he almost didn't even pull out the long knife. In the end, he stepped on the other party's corpse before pulling out the long knife.

"Haha......" he looked up to the sky and smiled, but it was even worse than the screams of the night owl, because the battle in front of this flame, the fierce battle and the steaming environment, made him already sweat all over, plus blood loss, so he was already seriously dehydrated. The voice is no exception, it becomes hoarse and mocking, and it is difficult to hear it.

"Ahem......" Just when Xue Wanche raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar. The people in the pagoda were even more uncomfortable, the billowing smoke and blazing air rushed straight up, making the group of big people in the pagoda who had never suffered any crime feel extremely uncomfortable, the choking smell of smoke and dust, and the rolling heat wave, all made them feel that life was worse than death. At this time, none of them had the heart to find any heirloom jade seals, in their hearts at this time, what heirloom jade seals could compare to their own lives? Therefore, one by one, even if they have great ambitions in their hearts, they all disappear at this moment. I just thought about how I was going to escape.

"Master of the house, let's jump!" A dead soldier said to Cui Jing, the patriarch of the Cui clan in Qinghe, with the determination of death on his face, and death was really not something to be afraid of for them.

"This ...... It's on the third floor. Four or five feet off the ground, if you jump, you can't fall to your death? "Qinghe Cui went up to the third layer, but when he was looking for it, there was a fire underneath. So they were trapped here. At this time, although Cui Jing didn't have a flustered look on his face, his eyes were still smoky and couldn't help but shed tears. Or maybe he really cried. But at this time, everyone was smoked with tears, and no one knew.

"We can go one level further. Although the second floor is still more than three feet above the ground, it is also shorter, isn't it? Cui Jingti said, at this time, he didn't dare to act arbitrarily, because he himself was a burden, so his voice seemed very gentle, for fear that the dead soldiers around him would leave him and jump off the building to escape alone, so he would really be finished.

"My lord, no, my subordinates tried to break through just now, but the lower floor is full of smoke, and even tongues of fire have appeared in many places, it is absolutely unsafe, and you can only jump down from these three floors to have a chance!" The dead man's face was still firm, and he didn't even change much, they were the most elite sword soldiers of the Cui clan, and they had been trained by the most rigorous training of this great family, so they had an unparalleled say in these things, and his words were more authoritative than Cui Jing at this time.

"So, let's jump?" Cui Jing replied.

"Then Patriarch get ready!" The dead man bowed down, knelt on his knees, and then clenched his fists and said, "Patriarch, offended!" ”

"Brother Cui, how about I wait together?" At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps upstairs, and all the people on it ran down in an uproar, all of them were also unkempt, and the original gorgeous satin silk shirts on their bodies were almost like rags for wiping pots at this time, and their steps were frivolous, and it seemed that they had inhaled a lot of smoke and dust on them, which made their bodies unbearable. Behind them, a large group of dead guards followed.

"That's great, it's just that everyone jumps down like this, and the people behind are not allowed to crush the people in front of them into meat sauce?" As soon as Cui Jing's words came out, the faces of this group of bigwigs who saw hope twitched. It's true, if you jump down at this height now, you will definitely not be able to get up for a while, even if you are a skilled dead soldier, but when these families formed these secret teams, they didn't plan to let these people master many smart martial arts, because the dead soldiers with high martial arts skills are the most difficult to control, and if they don't pay attention to it, they will backfire on their masters, so they want an obedient army that gathers together with strong combat effectiveness, rather than a ranger or general with high martial arts. Therefore, the private soldiers and dead soldiers cultivated by the families are actually not very high in combat effectiveness alone, and those who are really skilled are only extremely individual, and they are specially cultivated as commanders.

And those specially cultivated dead commanders have already jumped off the tower at this time, and they are fighting with Xue Wanche at this time, and now these are just ordinary soldiers, so they can't save their masters in time when they jump, so the people behind are not only stoned to death? Because water and fire are ruthless, one more second of waiting on it will be more dangerous.

So a group of people began to scratch their heads again, if this problem is not solved, who will dare to jump? The one who jumps down first will definitely become a mat.

"Let the dead jump first? There are many windows in this tower, don't jump from one window, there is a group of dead soldiers underneath, and you may not be able to die! Wang An said loudly, but as soon as he said this, the dead soldiers with the largest number of people in the tower gathered their eyes on him. Under this knife-like gaze, he was like a stab in his back. The neck couldn't help but shrink suddenly, like a king. It's just that in this era, Wang Ba is still a symbol of longevity, a word of blessing, and no one has extended this thing to other meanings.

At this moment, they felt the ground begin to tremble, and the sound of rolling iron hooves could be heard in the distance, and the whole ground was trembling slightly, as if they were terrified.

"Look, who is that?" Zheng Xuanqing, the new patriarch of the Zheng clan, spoke up, his hand pointing out the window, where the rolling yellow dust was flying, and a powerful cavalry team could be seen approaching rapidly.

"Are there any flags?" Lu An of the Fan Yang Lu clan was already old, and his eyes were already dizzy with white hair, and he couldn't see the team that was rushing from afar, so he asked out loud.

"Yes, there is a big flag, but, forgive my clumsiness, I have never heard of this title!" Wang An also looked out the window and saw the team, a big skull on the flying flag was flying in the wind, but no matter how you look at this flag, it is so infiltrating, the black skull, the pair of black hole-like eye sockets, like two bottomless abysses, it is difficult for people to climb out once they fall into it.

"What is it?" Lu An asked, in his opinion, Wang An couldn't recognize it, it was because he was shallow and had never seen the world, this guy was a well-known ignorant and unskilled person in the family circle.

"It's a skull!" Wang An replied.

"This ......" The old pedant of the Fan Yang Lu clan was also dumbfounded, how could there be such a banner? Who would use the skull of a dead man as the banner of his own troops, is this simply self-defeating!

"Jump down, I'm afraid this team is not good!" Cui Jing let out a long sigh.

"But who's down there, who's up there?" Wang Yue asked out loud.

"Everyone chooses a window and jumps down, anyway, life and death are fate!" Cui Jing said.

But just as the group of big names decided to start acting, the raging fire finally burned up to the third floor. And Xue Wanche downstairs had already left the pagoda far away at this time, and after the fire spread, he began to leave, but he broke out of the encirclement of those dead soldiers, which cost him some effort.

But after breaking through the siege, the dead did not catch up, because they had to rescue their own masters in the tower, and if these people died here, then even if they survived, they would still face severe punishment when they returned to their respective families, and as for betraying their families, they never thought that they had been educated in loyalty for as long as they could remember. Loyalty to their family is so ingrained in their minds that they can't get rid of it, and they don't want to get rid of it. Because they all feel that this is a matter of course, and if they are not loyal to the family, they will have no meaning in existing, which is also the sorrow of these people. (To be continued......)