Chapter 5: First Encounter with the Cultists

Wei Zeng slept all night and his spirits improved, but he was beaten by the gangsters yesterday, and ran wild for half the night, and he was sore all over his body when he woke up in the morning. I wanted to get up, but I saw that Weizhen was sleeping soundly with him in his arms. I saw that Wei Zhen's eyes and face were still stained with tears, and his little hands were tightly grasping Wei Zeng's clothes, and his face was also a little painful. Wei Zeng thought that this little girl, who was only ten years old, had become an orphan overnight like himself, and the sympathy for the same disease made Wei Zeng love her even more, so he also hugged her, maybe tighter, so that Wei Zhen woke up.

Wei Zhen rubbed his eyes, then woke up, and looked at Wei Zengzheng looking at himself with some embarrassment. Suddenly remembering that her mother had gone and was homeless, only true sorrow flowed from her heart. Wei Zeng hugged Weizhen and comforted: "Weizhen, cry if you want to." Although your mother is gone, Brother Wei is still there, as long as Brother Wei is here, he will definitely protect you and not let you suffer any grievances. As long as Brother Wei wants a bite to eat, he will never let you go hungry. Wei Zeng said but didn't want to cry himself. Wei Zhen stopped his tears, but comforted Wei Zeng in turn.

Wei Zeng was thinking about his future itinerary, Shi Fengcheng couldn't go back because he had killed someone, and Guiwu was the destination of his itinerary. But considering the danger of Yushan, he didn't seem to be going anywhere with Xiao Weizhen now. Wei Zeng thought twice about it and decided to venture across Yu Mountain, as long as he was careful, he should be able to avoid the thieves. When you arrive in Guiwu City, you will really settle down there, and then you will start a new life with Xiao Weizhen. In addition, winter is coming, and you should be able to return to Wuwu before winter, otherwise you will be able to wander into the wild with Weizhen, and the cold of winter will definitely not be able to survive.

So Wei Zeng took Weizhen to the direction of Yushan. Passing by a roadside restaurant, I bought dry food for nearly ten days, and then took Weizhen into Yu Mountain.

Wei Zeng was born in the Yanbei Plain, he had never seen a mountain since he was a child, and now he saw the majestic and continuous Yushan Mountain Range, and his heart was extremely agitated. Xiao Weizhen has also experienced hardships since he was a child, although he could see a painful look on his face on the road, he did not see him complaining and crying, and silently endured the boredom and fatigue of the road. may have been suffering from the death of his mother for the first time, but his heart was still painful, and he said little along the way. Wei Zeng paid special attention to Weizhen's physical condition, and took a break when he was in pain and tired. Although the travel is slow, but slow also has the advantage of slowness, relying on Wei Zeng's flying stones, the wooden fork from time to time to catch wild beasts and wild fowl in the mountains, and make a fire to eat game also compensate for the appetite of the tongue.

Wei Zeng was extremely careful on the road, hiding in the grass on the side of the road at the slightest disturbance, and sleeping on the trees at night. In this way, he avoided several waves of thieves and spent five days unharmed.

On this day, just after breakfast, Wei Zeng took Xiao Weizhen over a small hill. Hearing the sound of a fight in front of him, Wei Zeng stood at the top of the slope and saw a few people fighting a hundred meters in front of him.

On one side were three men dressed in black, their faces covered by black cloaks, one with a sword, one with a spear, and one with a shield in his left hand and a nailhead staff in his right. The trio have white skull emblems on their weapons and chests. This is exactly what the merchants call cultist decoration.

The other group of ordinary samurai, dressed in leather armor and armed with long swords and swords, consisted of seven people, but five of them had fallen to the ground. I saw a cultist armed with a spear, and a shot in his throat killed a samurai. Another cultist, armed with a sword, stabbed the last warrior in the chest, and the samurai was stabbed through the temple with a nailhead staff by another cultist, and with a cry, the warrior fell to the ground.

The cultist with the long sword in hand found Wei Zeng standing on the top of the slope and shouted, "You, stop, come here." ”

When Wei Zeng first saw the cultists, he didn't expect that he would meet these people by his luck, and he was slightly stunned. Seeing the three cultists kill the last two samurai with lightning speed, their hearts were actually taken by it, and they stood there in a daze. When he was yelled at by the sword-wielding cultist, he suddenly came to his senses and remembered the old man's warning: If you encounter a cultist, flee and flee with all your might. So Wei Zeng turned around and ran away. When Wei Zeng reached the top of the slope, Wei Zhen was still climbing up, only to see Brother Wei standing at the top of the slope for a while, suddenly turned around and ran, picked himself up and ran towards the road, that is really called a coming and going like the wind.

The three cultists chased to the top of the slope, and Wei Zeng was left with only a distant figure, so he gave up the pursuit.

The man with the long sword said, "I didn't expect this little ghost to look stupid and run quite fast." ”

The man with the spear said, "If I bring a bow and arrow this time, and I will shoot him with an arrow, I will let him run away." ”

The man with the shield staff said: "Run, run, it's important to get down to business, there is a group of bounty hunters on the east road, and for some reason they know the whereabouts of the Holy Son, and they actually want to murder the Holy Son, is it really our black-clothed holy guard to be an ornament?" Go, go and solve them. ”

The cultists with swords and guns said yes one after another, so the three of them went to the east, and judging from the martial arts of the three, the bounty hunters on the east road were also more than lucky.

Wei Zeng rushed for nearly ten minutes, looking back to see that no one was chasing him, panting, his heart was beating rapidly, and he was about to faint as soon as it was dark in front of him, but Wei Zeng stood up and tried to move his feet, even if his legs were like lead. It took five or six minutes to get better, but my head was very painful. Wei Zhen didn't know what was going on, and kept looking at Wei Zeng worriedly, until Wei Zeng got better, and then asked.

Wei Zeng's heart was palpitating, the three cultists actually killed seven warriors, and in the end, the two of them didn't even have room to fight back. Could it be that cultists are so strong, no wonder the old man wants to warn himself that he will run away when he encounters a cultist. It seems that we must pay more attention to the information about the cultists, otherwise it will not be good if we can't run away next time. As soon as Wei Zeng traveled far away, he heard the news of the evil cultists from the old man. In Stone Wind City, I often heard the cruelty of the cultists in the past, and I was deeply afraid of them, but now I saw it with my own eyes, but I was really frightened. It can't be said that Wei Zeng is timid, he can only blame Wei Zeng for being the top warriors of the Death Sect when he first met the cultists, and these black-clothed warriors are worthy of the name of one as ten. If the first encounter is only some low-level sect members, it is not limited to this.

Hearing Weizhen's question, she said a little more about what she had just seen, Weizhen patted her chest and said that it was dangerous, it seems that she had also heard of the notoriety of cultists.

After this fright, Wei Zeng no longer dared to take the main road, and he planned to take a detour and walk for a few more days without encountering the cultists. He sharpened the sticks with a dagger and made only four improvised javelins, which he tied to the sticks to make improvised spears. Whenever he came to a corner where he was sheltered, he would throw stones and ask for directions. Carefully probe every hidden place for fear of being ambushed. After walking for ten days, when he left Yu Shan behind, Wei Zeng really breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that there was not much dry food, but there were more and more animal skins on his back, Wei Zeng thought that if there were no robbers and cultists, Yushan would be a good place for hunting.

As soon as the nature of the little girl in Yushan was exposed, she quickly ran into the distance, picking the remaining wildflowers in the autumn, weaving a wreath and wearing it on her head, and another one on Wei Zeng's head. These two unconventional little travelers, their coats have long been torn by thorns, but they are full of excitement, and their destination is not far away. It will take about three days to reach Guiwu City, and the two of them are not in a hurry. Walking slowly like this, Wei Zhen took a wild vegetable to Wei Zeng, saying that she saw a farmer picking this wild vegetable and wanted to ask Wei Zeng what the name of this vegetable was. Of course, Wei Zeng knew what the name of this wild vegetable was. He had eaten this wild vegetable for twelve years.

"Xiao Liu'er, Xiao Liu'er, where are you, come back quickly." A woman, carrying a basket full of wild herbs, shouted into the grass that the weeds were so high that no one could be seen when they entered.

Hearing the woman's shout, a six-year-old child emerged from the grass with a pile of wild vegetables in his arms. The child took a wild herb and said to the woman, "Mother, I know that this vegetable is edible, but what is its name?" ”

"It's called borage, and it's a great wild vegetable. When you get home, your mother will give you dumplings stuffed with endive and lettuce. This day is the child's birthday, and the woman specially bought a few catties of white noodles, and then went to the field to pick wild vegetables to make stuffing.

"Then I'm going to pick a lot of endive, and I'm going to eat enough today." So saying, the boy went into the grass again and went to look for endive.

"Give it all to you, let you eat your belly." The woman said with a smile.

The woman was afraid that the child would get lost, so she counted the time and called the child while picking wild vegetables. As the evening approached, the dew began to condense. So the woman took the boy and went home at the last rays of the sunset.

Looking at Wei Zeng, the twilight sun in the west, he returned to reality, only to see Xiao Weizhen looking at Wei Zeng eagerly, and kept asking: "Brother Wei, just tell me, I know you know." ”

"This wild vegetable is called endive, it is a very good and a wild vegetable, which can be used to make dumplings and vegetable soup." Seeing Xiao Weizhen swallow his saliva, Wei Zeng smiled and said, "There is still some time, let's pick some wild vegetables, go to the family in front of us to spend the night, and then I'll make you vegetable soup to drink, okay?" My brother's craftsmanship is very good. ”

Xiao Weizhen nodded hurriedly and went to pick wild vegetables, and Wei Zeng also picked them. After a while, a lot of them were picked.

"Enough is enough, enough to break your little belly."

Laughing and borrowing the night in front of the farmhouse, watching Xiao Weizhen happily running towards the farmhouse with wild vegetables, Wei Zeng looked back at the afterglow of the setting sun, and a little tear flashed away. He also smiled and followed.

When the last rays of twilight disappeared into the horizon, the distant figures of the woman and the child gradually faded away. I only heard the child's immature voice coming: "Mom, when I grow up, I will pick a lot of endive vegetables, so that you can eat enough every day." There was a burst of laughter from the woman.