Chapter 98: Coming without shins
"Great, you're still alive!"
Jun Aoyan quickened his pace, stepping on the ice with a creaky sound, which sounded nervous.
"yes, we have a big life." Bai Ya stood up and rubbed his frozen hands, shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not too far from death." ”
"How did you get down?"
Before Bai Ya could ask, Qi Huan interjected first. In addition to Liu Shenghan, there seems to be another person behind Ao Yan. Judging by the status quo, that person will not be harmful to them. Otherwise, Bai Ya might have drawn his knife and slashed people a long time ago.
"We had good luck too." Sheng Han said, taking a step to the side to make way for the unidentified shadow, "There is a kind person who is willing to help us. ”
Bai Ya looked sideways and muttered: "Good Samaritan? ”
The "kind-hearted person" in the cold voice clearly made him sense a trace of demonic energy. It was an aura he had never noticed before. Or, the owner of this breath was far away from them before, but why did it happen to meet this time? Or, it was this "person" who had previously hidden the demonic energy, and now he deliberately released it as a temptation. It seems that this youkai is very smart.
In the very shallow dim light, they saw each other's silhouettes. It's a woman, tall and tall, between arrogance and coldness. Her black hair was tied up with a long part of it. The hairpin in her hair didn't look extravagant or cheap, and her maroon robe didn't look like a bargain. It doesn't look like a youkai who has lived in the mountains for a long time, maybe it's from somewhere else.
"Hello."
She bowed slightly. Qi Huan followed the salute in a daze, only Bai Ya and Frost Moon Jun were indifferent.
"Who are you?"
"Can you be polite?" Ao Yan was a little angry, "If it weren't for her, we wouldn't even be able to collect your corpse in time." ”
Bai Ya opened his mouth again and wanted to say something, but he didn't bother to argue, so he shut up. Frost Moon took two steps forward, walked up to the banshee, and looked her up and down.
"Why are you here?"
Several people suddenly fell silent. It seems that Frost Moon Jun has met her. For some reason, it's a little more reassuring. Although Frost Moon Jun himself often found it difficult for them to understand, the people he knew were much more reliable than him after all.
"The Divine Bird is gone, have you heard of this?"
"Really?" Frost Moon-kun's reaction wasn't very big, "I don't think I've heard of it. ”
With that, he turned his head to look at the others. I don't know if it's because of the "lack of heart to be a thief", and the two girls who were helped didn't dare to speak. Regardless of whether Frost Moon Jun knew who did it, he wouldn't have to identify it on the spot, right? The woman ...... Isn't it a demon bird? If Bai Ya's judgment is correct, she should be a bird demon like Hong Yan.
"That's it, I have to go back over there. For humans...... Garuda-sama's subordinates can be regarded as evildoers. There should be no reaction at the moment, but once they realize that they are no longer bound by the law, my innocent compatriots will be implicated. I need to hurry back. ”
It seems that she is more concerned about the safety of her own kind than the life and death of the bird god. It's a lot easier to do.
"I see." Frost Moon nodded, "But...... Moon-eating Mountain isn't the way you have to go, is it? ”
"Indeed." The demon bird smiled, "But I know there are many useful herbs here. I called my friends to come and bring some back, and they should be able to use them. ”
She stretched out her finger and pointed to the sky, and several people looked up, barely seeing anything. The sky was so far away that it was like a cracked white opening, with only color, no light. Perhaps if they had sharpened their eyes, they would have seen a few birds hovering.
"Well, I didn't mean to bother you to catch up." Qi Huan clapped his hands to make everyone notice him, "It's just...... Why don't you take a look at what we've found? ”
The Demon Bird Girl leaned down and stared at the white bone carefully for a while.
"It's pathetic." "It's still a kid," she said. ”
"Could it be the little prince of the Song Shen Kingdom?" Aoyan asked, "Don't we have that ......?"
"Don't think about it." Bai Ya knew that she was going to talk about the soul returning incense, "Naturally, the task is the priority." What's more, many people have disappeared on the Moon Mountain, how can we be sure that this is the child? Don't lose your wife and break your soldiers. ”
"Bai Shaoxia is right."
Even Liu Shenghan echoed, and shook his head helplessly. The light dimmed a lot at some point, and the fireflies were gone. It seems that she left when she hit this girl, so is it possible that she is a natural enemy with birds?
"Don't waste time here. Go in the morning to the other side of the mountain. ”
"But ......"
"They didn't let us go to the little prince, they just said it was a colt, didn't they?"
Qi Huan wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Bai Ya mercilessly. delicacies
"But he's too pitiful here."
"Then you dig him out, take him up, and bury him properly. I don't know how many of the remains of the missing people are still in this mountain, and you have done a good deed. ”
"Well, I'll tell you about it."
The demon bird of the goose tilted its head, seeming to be somewhat interested in the topic.
"You mean Shenyin?"
"Ah, exactly."
"Humans must have thought that they were all eaten by tengu, right?"
"Perhaps. If you don't tell me, I'll forget that there are tengu here. Qi Huan subconsciously looked around.
"A long time ago, there was no such dark river under this mountain, and I have been here many times. It wasn't until Lord Kinnara put this vicious dog to sleep that this undercurrent was aroused. The tengu was suppressed deeper than here, under the river. But this river is said to be connected to the Yellow Spring, can you believe it? ”
"No, I don't believe ......"
"Hahaha, I think it's a joke too. But it's not a good thing to stay here any longer, because mountain streams steal people's spiritual power. Perhaps, there are more bones under the ice. You should leave quickly, I can ask my partner to help you. ”
Qi Huan sighed with emotion: "Oh, you are really a beautiful person. After that, Bai Ya glanced at him contemptuously for some reason.
"It's nothing, you just don't think I'm pure in motives. Only by doing more good deeds and forming more good relationships can it help in cultivation. ”
"Huh? What are you practicing? ”
"Spells for adults." Frost Moon Jun answered casually.
Suddenly, the others moved their eyes from the white bones to the goose girl. Strange indeed, most of the youkai are in pursuit of more powerful mana, and for this reason, they do not hesitate to kill each other, hunting and devouring their own kind and humans. Want to be a human youkai? The first time I've heard of it.
"Huh? How could you ......"
"Everyone has their own aspirations."
In the dark, she smiled softly and didn't say much.
Before she and the other geese help them get back, there's one more important thing. Using Liu Shenghan's compass, they also wanted to try to find the lost wood carving. Returning to the place where Bai Ya and Qi Huan "landed", the compass reacted. There are still a few geese guarding here, maybe the ones that sent Aoyan down for them.
They searched everywhere but couldn't find it. There is only one possibility: the wood carving has been frozen in water.
They lowered their heads and looked at the muddy ice, not knowing what to do. If all the ice is broken, not only will there be no place to stand, but there is no way to go, and there is no way to know where the wood carving will run. Moreover, if you wake up something sleeping in the Dark River......
"Alas, it's not for this thing that we're in such a mess." Qi Huan shook his head unwillingly.
That's why you don't make mistakes again and again. It's not cost-effective to put your life here for a thing that no one wants. We've done enough. ”
What Bai Ya said is right, you can't be demanding what you can't do, not to mention that this is indeed an extraneous category. When you meet noble people to help, you can count them as shit luck.
As there are more people, a few geese are naturally not enough. They craned their necks and chirped at the cracked sky. The sound was not loud or harsh, and it rushed straight up as if it had a sense of direction, and did not collide with the cliff, so that no echo could be heard. It didn't take long for the flock of geese above to sense the call of their kind. In less than a quarter of an hour, the ice was covered with a dense crowd of geese.
"We should ......"
As soon as Jun Aoyan asked, Miss Yan whistled. All the geese flapped their wings together, making them feel an irregular gust of wind. Immediately afterward, a special air flow surrounded them, gently lifting them up. Proud of her because her weapons were too heavy, it took a lot of effort.
Several people rose higher and higher, and when their feet left the ground, some geese flew below them, as if they were afraid that someone would not pay attention to it. Frost Moon Jun and Liu Shenghan were both calm and relaxed, and their bodies relaxed. Even Bai Ya, the bodies of the other three felt stiff to varying degrees. They tensed their muscles up and down, and they were very nervous. After all, this kind of posture of not being able to touch the ground with both feet would make any terrestrial creature feel uneasy.
Where's that banshee bird?
Qi Huan was looking around, and suddenly saw a figure breaking through the "cloud" in front of the wild goose. At some point, the goose girl's arms turned into a pair of huge wings and flew up flexibly, as if to guide the geese.
It must have been a very spectacular sight: first, a man with wings soared up from a mountain stream, unstoppable. Immediately afterwards, a flock of geese burst out of the valley, mingling with the sound of their wings, bringing a special vitality to the barren mountains. Among them, several humans also seemed to have wings, and as the geese left the darkness, they swooped down like a waterfall towards the other side of the mountain. The speed of the flock of geese was so fast that all the scenery on the ground was mixed and blurred.
When they returned to the ground, everyone felt that their feet were soft, as if they were standing on cotton. The first thing everyone did when they landed was unanimous: tidying up their hair like a bird's nest.
Miss Yan laughed for a long time. Then, she briskly said goodbye to a few people and hurried away. It's like this kind of life-saving event, for her, it's just a gesture.
Facing the sunset, the black flock of geese is gone.