Chapter 101: The Outpost

When the glimmer of the morning shone on the land again, the four good horses were already galloping like a wind on the official road between the two provinces.

Lingzhou County belongs to Lianxiang Province, and then galloping southeast for six days and six nights, you can reach the nearest Lizhou County to the front line.

Nanshan was not good at riding horses, but the situation was urgent, and she had to endure the discomfort of falling apart, looking at the three high-headed horses that were far away from her and running in front of her, she could only sigh helplessly.

She has always had no good impression of Zhu Yunfeng, but this time she is very grateful to Zhu Yunfeng for his decisive determination, just based on his description in a few words, that guy is really willing to leave a group of escorts, only took out four good horses from the queue, and embarked on a journey to the front line with her.

The horses had not been running smoothly on the rough road in the woods, but now the four horses seemed to have been holding back all night, and as soon as they reached the official road, they spread their hooves and ran very happily.

However, they may not have expected that they would have a demanding road ahead, and they would need to run for more than four hours until they reached the next scheduled outpost before they could rest.

This kind of rapid galloping often makes a good horse sick from then on, but I have also heard that some spirit horses that combine heaven and earth can cross mountains and mountains without sleep for up to twelve hours, but Nanshan feels that such a sacred object should only exist in legends, and it has long been extinct.

The bumps along the way made Nanshan's head dizzy, but she still didn't want to stop thinking, she was thinking about the dark star, she had only seen the description of the dark star in the classics before, usually in some grand astrological distribution, there would be one or two stars that would determine the direction of the entire fate, and at the same time, it would also determine the success or failure of all the people in this fate loop.

Zhang Yingying, who ran at the front, was not the best, but he was also holding his stomach, and when he met the master again in the forest before, he thought that he could at least say a few intimate words to the master, but as soon as Fu Hong saw him, he put the long knife on his neck on the spot. Not only that, but Fu Hong's words were also full of negative words against him, and the words "useless things, not self-sufficient" were like sharp knives, mercilessly inserted into Zhang Yingying's fragile heart.

He didn't quite understand why the old warrior who had been gentle and gentle in the past had suddenly become the thunderous he was now, after only a few hours of separation between the master and him.

"Ho-" Zhang Yingying didn't have any particularly clever means of controlling horses, but kept whipping the horse with the whip in his hand, and his horse galloped all the way and neighed all the way, as if he was constantly complaining and wailing.

In addition to Nanshan's concerns about the "Dark Star", there is also a feeling that she can't figure out, she feels as if she is not herself, and the people around her seem to be familiar and unfamiliar, speculating carefully, but she doesn't know what is wrong.

For example, Zhang Ying, three years ago, she brought her old father who was poisoned by Gu to ask her to help "exorcise evil spirits", because the people didn't know about this kind of witchcraft from other countries, and only thought that it was an evil qi invasion of the body.

Originally, as the high priest of the Temple of the Asking Stars, this kind of trivial matter was far from bothering her, but Zhang Ying relied on the recommendation of Zhu Yunfeng, who was already the chief of the army at that time, and entered her temple effortlessly, and she was not the kind of person who likes to reach out and hit the smiling face.

The so-called "exorcism" is just to use some psychic power to solve the Gu poison, and it doesn't consume much of her strength, the only regret is that Zhang Ying's father may have run out of oil and dried up after delaying it for too long, so even if Nanshan removed the Gu poison for him, he still lacked the skills to return to the sky.

But Zhang Ying regarded this matter as a kindness, she thought that Nanshan saved her father's soul, so that her father did not have to be suppressed by the "evil spirit" when he was dying, even if he could not escape death after all, but he died easily, and his soul was pure.

Recalling this incident, Nanshan didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the cause and effect, but she couldn't ignore a strange feeling, that is, she couldn't remember the details of this incident at all, how Zhang Ying brought her father here at that time, what kind of introduction Zhu Yunfeng made, and the details of her process of pulling out the Gu poison, this scene, she had no impression in her mind at all.

It's as if someone else told her about this matter, someone else chattered in her ear, telling such a past, and then she nodded, oh and said: "I see, it turns out that I have such a relationship with Zhang Ying......"

She struggled to search her mind again, only to feel like there were many fragments floating in the chaos, as if she were a little girl walking barefoot on the beach, and these memory fragments were shell oysters scattered on the beach that were constantly washed by the tide, and she had to pick them up all the time, or they would be swallowed up by the gradually manic waves.

What about Aozuk, who is the lord of a country? What kind of past did she have with this person, Nanshan was a little dizzy, and her chest was even more panicked, but she didn't take it to heart, from the beginning of the horse on the official road and began to gallop, one of her little hearts seemed to be pushed into the throat several times, she could only cover her mouth tightly, for fear that if she was not careful, she would vomit.

The dizziness became more and more intense, so that she really couldn't continue to think, facing the biting cold wind, she shivered and shouted forward, "Stop, stop......"

The icy wind poured into her mouth when she shouted, causing her to cough violently, and two of the three horses in front of her slowly stopped, and the tallest white horse, Zhu Yunfeng sighed.

"Nandian, with your body and bones, I'm afraid you'll have to die on the road......" Zhu Yunfeng's white horse was also as arrogant as its master, circling around Nanshan while spraying its hot snort onto Nanshan's face from time to time.

"We ...... When...... I can take a break. Nanshan hugged the horse's neck and asked weakly.

Zhu Yunfeng glanced at the lofty mountains and mountains in front of him from a distance, and pointed with one hand: "There is still about an hour, we can reach the foot of that mountain, there is a sentry post, originally I was also going to change horses there, in fact, this time I brought not many people, most of the cavalry and infantry are drawn from the garrison there......"

"No, no, no, I'm going to rest now, don't talk about it...... An hour, and now, I can't hold out even a quarter of an hour......"

Nanshan simply turned over and got off the horse, and sat directly on the flat dirt road, with a big posture of picking and not doing anything.

Zhu Yunfeng looked at it and felt funny, he drove his horse around Nanshan, every time his horse seemed to deliberately step on her, but he stepped on other places.

"Nandian, last night you were in a hurry to requisition my horse, what else did you say...... It's best to be able to run for a thousand miles without rest," Zhu Yunfeng leaned down and said with interest: "It's also what you said, our incomparably noble Supreme King, this time the fierce and unlucky...... Ah, I can't leave him alone in danger, I'm going to go to him anyway...... Tut-tut......"

Zhu Yunfeng shook his head, and began to learn Nanshan to speak with a sharp voice.

Nanshan immediately rolled his eyes, she couldn't stand being ridiculed like this, raised her eyebrows, and said angrily, "Shut up!" Believe it or not, I'm casting a spell to draw down a few fire thunderbolts and embroidering a few flowers on your heavenly spirit cover? โ€

"Ah......h

"Zhu Yunfengโ€”" Nanshan roared wildly and climbed onto the horse.

"Heh......"

And the tall white horse seemed to have sensed that the master had gone too far this time, and without waiting for Zhu Yunfeng to give the order, his front hooves were raised suddenly, and with a neigh, he strode forward and galloped away, which was really a ride.

Because the horses were chasing each other, and the light was abundant during the day, and the official road was flat and wide, it took only half an hour for several people to arrive at the outpost where they were scheduled to rest.

There are such outposts on all the official roads within a country, and they do not seem to be of great scale, with two towering lookouts on the left and right sides of the camp gate, and the camp is surrounded by a circle of wooden fences, more than a person high, tightly tied together, and interspersed with black and red poisonous thorns, each spike reveals a sign of extreme danger, this ring of protection is obviously set up to prevent some predators who occasionally descend the mountain to feed.

As Zhu Yunfeng rushed into the camp one by one, someone on the high lookout platform immediately whistled towards the big tent in the center of the camp.

Several sergeants in armor soon walked out of the tent, knelt on one knee in front of Zhu Yunfeng's horse very respectfully, and said in unison: "General! Hard work all the way! โ€

"Hmm." Zhu Yunfeng let out a response from his nose, turned over and dismounted and handed over the reins.

Seeing this, a sergeant quickly got up from the ground, took the reins and asked, "General, your horse ......?"

Zhu Yunfeng looked at him and smiled slightly: "It's meat-eating, don't feed the wrong thing." โ€