Chapter 119: Into the North
Liu Chunfeng threw a machete at Hua Qilin and He Guozhong in the bushes respectively. After the two reached out to catch it, they all looked at Mulan suspiciously. Hua Mulan met their gaze and said, "Don't you understand? Chop down all the bushes and we're going to make a sled. ”
Hua Qilin and the others suddenly came to their senses and began to cut down the bushes. Although these bushes are very short, the width of the main branches of the bushes coincides with the width of the soles of the feet. Half an hour later, all the bushes were cut down.
All the soldiers began to gather around the bush branches, picking the branches that suited their size. After another half an hour, the eleven people in the group had their own wooden sleighs, and each of them had a pair of canes made of spliced together.
"With these sleds, even if they encounter demons, they won't be able to catch up with us." Hua Qilin Road.
"You're talking about downhill times, but flat and uphill sections are a different story." He Guozhong interjected on the side.
"Crow's beak." Xiaozi Road.
"Whenever you encounter a demon in an unfavorable place, everyone must take off their sleds as soon as possible." Mulan said loudly, and everyone agreed.
Gradually, the white crisp in the sky became smaller and smaller, until it disappeared, and the shy cold sun loomed behind the clouds, like a singer who was still holding a pipa and half-covering her face. The group walked like this, and walked through two days peacefully.
On the third day, the warm sun hung high in the sky, the howling cold wind was no longer strangely biting, the snow on the ground began to melt, and the bushes beside the road gradually emerged in their original outline.
"It's the third day, why haven't I even seen a shadow of the demons, let alone any cave settlements or something." He Guozhong was bored.
"It can only be said that this northern land is really vast, we have just walked a dime a dozen miles, and it is normal that we haven't met the demons." Liu Chunfeng said.
"If you save dry food, it's enough for a month, but there is no dry wood to boil water, and I make tea with snow every day, and I started to run loose last night." Hua Qilin Road.
"You're not adapting to the soil, how can we be fine." Xiaozi Road.
Just in the atmosphere of everyone's words, I am moving forward slowly. Mulan vaguely sensed that something unknown was flying in the high sky above their heads. She immediately stopped, put her hands on the pergola, looked up at the pale blue sky, her expression changed suddenly, and exclaimed: "It's not good, there are demons, everyone stop and don't move." ”
When the rest of the people heard the order, they all stopped, or looked at Mulan in a panic, or raised their heads and stared into the air. In the sky, I saw several demons wearing wings, galloping over them. Perhaps it was because they were so fast that they didn't notice the humans on the ground.
"There are demons appearing, and it seems that not far ahead, there is a demon settlement." He Guozhong said in a low voice.
It didn't take long for the demons to gradually disappear from sight. "From now on, no one is allowed to raise their voices." Mulan Road.
The group continued to march north, and there was a long downhill road ahead, and everyone began to glide on the snow as fast as the wind, like a hare running with ease. Unconsciously, the cold sun slanted westward, and where the horizon of the sky extended, a colorful and dreamy sunset began to swim.
"The sunset here is not the same as on the Great Wall." Xiao Zi suddenly spoke.
"Where it's different, it's pretty much the same no matter how I see it." Hua Qilin wondered.
"The sunset here is like a fairyland, not only red, yellow, orange, but also green, brown, and even the speed at which the clouds change shape, much faster than the city." Xiao Zi said intoxicatedly.
"It's a pity that this fairyland is not inhabited by immortals, but cold-blooded and ugly demons." Hua Qilin was defeated.
"Thank you for the reminder, you didn't say I thought it was a fairy." Xiaozi said sarcastically.
"You see, there's a light ahead." He Guozhong's eyes narrowed, staring ahead.
Not far ahead, the light of a fire that vaguely stretched for miles swayed in the wind. "Everybody stop, rest in place, and when it's completely dark, we'll get closer and investigate." Mulan ordered.
After about half an hour, the surrounding world was covered in darkness, and the land was plunged into endless desolation. However, for this isolated and weak group of people, the dark night is the best cover. The crowd began to cautiously approach the distant firelight.
The scene in the distance became clearer and clearer, there were large and small caves not far ahead, no less than a hundred, and there was a burning bonfire at the entrance of each cave, and each bonfire had three or five demons sitting around, as if they were keeping warm.
"Mom, why are there so many demon nests, it seems that this is a big settlement." Hua Qilin said in surprise.
"If each cave is roughly calculated according to thirty demons, that's three thousand." He Guozhong said.
"Liu Chunfeng, draw the location here, the number of caves, and the number of demons." Mulan Road.
"Okay." Liu Chunfeng took out a night pearl, squatted down and began to draw a map seriously.
"Captain, will we go into the cave later?" Xiaozi asked.
"Absolutely not, those demons sitting around the bonfire are too close to the mouth of the cave, and it is dangerous to probe rashly. After the painting of the flute is completed, everyone will detour to the east, and this place will not stay for long. "Mulan Road.
Sun Bin and the others, after leaving the place of origin, did not return to Jixia Academy to resume their lives, but went straight to the north. All four wore wings, and they traveled as fast as a bird.
"It's cold and snowy all year round, and it's so desolate, what do the demons live on?" Lian Po asked everyone curiously.
"I suspect they're different from us ordinary people, and we won't know until we look closely." Sun Bin said.
"I heard Su Lie say that Captain Mulan also brought someone here to investigate, and he set off long before us." Luban Road.
"Oh, is it? It seems that we are not alone. Zhong Wuyan said.
"Commander, how are things going?" The Bull Demon King asked faintly as he bit a roasted pork leg.
"Although Ming Shiyin severely reprimanded the Tang army not to send troops to help in the war, how could he expect that Gao Changgong on the Great Wall actually violated the military order and privately led troops to help, otherwise, Yang Jian's Origin Army would definitely be wiped out." Guiguzi hated.
"It's a pity that the snow has been drenched recently, and the cloudy days have been continuous, and the soldiers can't bathe in the full sun, breathe the sun, and replenish the energy shortage in the body, otherwise, I will definitely send a strange army to stab a knife in the back of the origin army." The Bull Demon King said.
It turns out that the demons of Proxima Centauri do not live on food, but like plants, they use their green skin to photosynthesize and replenish energy, they inhale carbon dioxide, and exhale oxygen, which is the opposite of humans.