"What's wrong with you?"

Hua Mulan, who was eating noodles with chopsticks, couldn't help frowning when she saw Kai suddenly stop his movements as if he was stunned and motionless.

"I didn't ...... Nothing ......."

The feeling just now seemed to be just an illusion, he felt as if there was an electric current in his body, crispy and numb, and his heart was trembling, but it was not cold, nor fear, but an inexplicable sense of excitement. It's like seeing a wild wolf and cheetah of its prey, and the cells of the whole body are excited. But that feeling was only for a moment, and before he could react, that feeling disappeared again, so he was stunned.

"Don't overthink it."

Hua Mulan frowned, lowered her head to eat noodles again, and didn't forget to tell Kai, "We still have to go to Liu Xuange's side at night, and it's inconvenient to move during the day, so we have a little rest after eating, and we may not have time to rest tonight." ”

"yes, okay."

Kai nodded, subconsciously looked up at the sky in the west, they were now sitting in a very ordinary small inn, through the window, you can vaguely see the afterglow of the sunset blocked by the building, it is almost Shen Shi now, at most it will be dark in half an hour, and they can only rest for less than two hours after eating, at that time the night is deep, and Shangguan Yufeng and his party are almost resting before starting.

Liu Xuange, that is where Shangguan Yufeng and they settled, it is said that the owner there is a literati surnamed Liu, so the names are so poetic, but Hua Mulan and Kai guessed that the literati surnamed Liu was a subordinate of the Shangguan family nine times out of ten. But these are small things, and they don't have anything to do with them.

From entering the city to witnessing Shangguan Yufeng and his party pulling the huge suspicious carriage into the mansion, they were careful again and again in the whole process, because those guards were really like thieves, and they had to be guarded in every corner. On several occasions they were almost discovered. It was a pity that they didn't find anything, but they also got good news, although they didn't know what was on the cart, but at least they could be sure that there must be some ulterior secrets on the carriage, under the black cloth.

It's just that......

In fact, no matter whether Shangguan Yufeng has done bad things or not, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with them, right? Kai has been holding this question in his heart for some time, even if he finds out that Shangguan Yufeng is doing bad things? What's the matter with them? It's just that every time he wants to ask this question, he will think of Mulan's dislike for Shangguan Yufeng, so every time it is critical, he chooses to shut up.

Just ...... It's to let out a bad breath.

Kai convinced himself, then shook his head and began to concentrate on the bowl of food in front of him, as if all his reverie was just an illusion.

At night, the liveliness of Yancheng has not faded, the lights are still bright outside the window, the papier-mâché windows can't block the bright lights outside, there are lanterns hanging in front of the doors and yards of every house, or a small fire is lit, a few people get together to talk about their hearts and chat. A few streets around the inn, there are also a lot of small vendors selling sweet snacks and other things. It's very lively.

And this kind of scene is absolutely not seen at the edge of the Great Wall, and even if it is brightly lit at night, it is nothing more than a bonfire lit by those patrolling soldiers.

"What if...... How nice it would be to be able to live like this all the time. ”

Kai couldn't help but sigh, he had seen those who died fighting monsters in the battle to defend the Great Wall, and after seeing the bloody battlefield, he felt more and more the preciousness of life, maybe he once had such a feeling, but the trigger given to him by the battlefield a few days ago was too deep. He didn't know if it was because he cherished his life and cherished his friends and relatives, so he was angry because of Baili Shou's suspicion of him, so he felt a little close to Mulan, who was obviously not very familiar.

After all, even now, there are only a few people he knows in his memory.

Mulan, Uncle Su Lie, Baili Xuance, Zhao Ritian......

Even if you add a hundred miles to keep the covenant, it's only five, and he can't even name the others.

"There are only two hours left until the third watch, are you sure you don't sleep?"

Because they have to go out together at night, so for convenience, Mulan and Kai live in a room, there is only one bed in the room, but it is absolutely impossible for the two of them to sleep together, originally Mulan was going to sleep at the table, but in Kai with the reason of "I am a man", and threatened that if Mulan had to let him sleep in the bed, he would jump from the window. After threatening with such words, Mulan finally slept in bed, and Kai didn't sleep at the table. When he heard that the inn was not full, he secretly went to another empty room and got a futon and spread it on the floor.

Although the temperature difference between day and night at the border is very large, it is not a cold winter month, so it is not so cold, and the wooden floor and wooden bed actually have the same effect, so there is no need to worry about catching a cold.

"Sleep, sleep right away!"

How not to sleep? It's been a day, and the time has been spent on hurrying, even when they are in the city, they have spent a lot of time tracking Shangguan Yufeng and them, and it is only half an hour before the meal starts, and until now they have really rested during this time. And there is still physical work to do in the middle of the night, so it is necessary to take care of your spirits.

Closing his eyes, his mood seemed to become unusually calm all of a sudden, Kayla put on the quilt, isolating the slightest bit of coolness, and a trace of comfort slowly expanded in his sleepy mind. I've been sleepy for so long, even if I close my eyes and empty my mind, I feel unusually comfortable.

Wait, that's not right.

Maybe it's because of the empty mood, Kai's mind also becomes clearer. Mulan had fallen asleep since about twenty minutes ago, Kai had been in a daze, but he didn't make any sound, except for the very soft sigh just now, Mulan was already very surprised to hear his words, she actually knew the time now?

"You didn't sleep either?"

Knowing the time, it means that it wasn't she who woke her up, but that she didn't sleep at all.

"I can't sleep."

Hua Mulan did not deny it, and generously admitted that she did not sleep.

"Why? Aren't you sleepy? Or is there something on your mind? ”

Kai asked curiously.

"I don't know, probably ...... It's been a long time since I've been like this, and the war has been around for a long time, so ...... I'm not used to it. ”

Mulan's voice sounded a little tired, but she said she couldn't sleep, and she didn't know what was in her mind that made her so concerned.

"Do you have something on your mind?" Kai asked.

But this time, Mulan was silent, in the dark night, Mulan was lying on the bed, Kai was lying on the ground, he couldn't see what Mulan's expression was now, and he didn't know if she was asleep. So after waiting for a few minutes and not seeing Mulan answer, Kai thought she was asleep, stunned for a moment, and was about to close her eyes to sleep as well, but Mulan spoke.

"In the past, my life's pursuit was to be the commander of the Great Wall Guards, to guard the Great Wall, to protect every soldier of the Great Wall Guards, as well as their families, because this is the trust left to me by my father. So I always keep it in my heart, and I regard it as the only pursuit in this life. ”

Mulan's voice was soft, as if she was talking to herself, and if it weren't for the silence of the night, maybe Kai would have been unable to hear what she was saying, but ...... He still heard it, silently without saying a word, just listened quietly.

"At that time, my father was sick in bed, and I was only fourteen years old, and they said that my martial arts talent was very good, and I stepped into the silver two stage at the age of fourteen, which was a result that many commanders in their thirties in the army could not reach. I don't know what talent is, and I don't know what it means. It's just that one day, when my father, who was commanding operations on the front line, was carried by his subordinates on a stretcher from the martial arts arena, I suddenly had a premonition that maybe my boring and boring cultivation life was coming to an end, maybe I didn't have to get up early every day and run to the martial arts arena, I didn't have to run dozens of laps around such a large martial arts arena every day, I didn't have to hold a sword to the wooden stake that couldn't cry or laugh again and again, and I didn't have to bear the strange gaze of the soldiers when they looked at me every day. But when that thought came to mind, I slapped myself. Laugh and tell yourself it's just cranky. He smiled and told himself that he was only fourteen years old, and whether it was to go into battle to kill the enemy or anything else, it was not his job to do. Until ......"

At this point, Mulan suddenly stopped, but Kai just listened quietly, looking at the roof in front of him without focus, as if he hadn't heard anything, as if he hadn't seen anything. And Mulan, after a pause of a few seconds, began her narration again.

"It wasn't until that day when my father called me over, lying on the bed, his face pale, but still smiling and saying that he wanted to train me as the next commander of the legion, that I knew that my hunch was true. My father was attacked by a monster on the battlefield and was seriously injured, injuring all his internal organs, unless he could find a king-level demigod, he ...... There is no way to return to heaven. ”

When talking about the four words of Huitian Lack Technique, Mulan paused again, and her memory seemed to return to that moment, Kai still didn't speak, and after waiting for about three seconds, Mulan began her narration again.

"Among the demigods, no one in the three major temples has reached this level, how can the others be possible? So when they said this, I knew that my father might not be able to do it. But my father didn't tell me, and I didn't say anything. just obeyed his father's arrangement, and the next day he was disguised as a man by his father and sent to the barracks, starting from the bottom step by step. At that time, I still had short hair, and I have to say that Uncle Su Lie's disguise technique was still very good, and under my deliberate concealment, for three months, no one even found out that I was a woman. If it hadn't been for an accident that happened later, perhaps I would still be in charge of the guards as a man, rather than my current daughter, after all, there is no such thing as a woman leading the army on the battlefield. ”

"What accident?"

Kai couldn't help but let out a sound, just now he had been immersed in Mulan's inner world, with Mulan's narration, it seemed that a fourteen-year-old girl really appeared in front of him, watching her stubbornly wipe the sweat from her forehead, watching her not show a cowardly expression even if she was afraid, and watching her refuse to shed a tear even if she was sad......

"You haven't slept yet, have you?"

Mulan was a little surprised, but she didn't say anything, smiled, and continued.

"That accident came later, and then things were simple, my father was critically ill, and some uncles of military age in the army couldn't hold it back, so they blocked in front of my father's bed, and asked my father to choose a successor among them on the grounds that my father had no children under his knees and only one daughter. In order to fight for this position, they also fought and even fought in front of their father. My father regarded him as a brother all his life, and now he is critically ill, but he ended up with the result like this, and vomited blood on the spot. I was so angry that I stood up and made a promise in front of them that if anyone could beat me in the martial arts arena, I would make the decision for my father and give him the position of commander of the legion. ”

"And then?"

"And then? Hmph, when those uncles saw that I was only fourteen years old, they naturally signed up enthusiastically. ”

Although Kai didn't see it with his own eyes, he could imagine Mulan's sneering appearance at this moment, "Thirty people, there are thirty people who have signed up, they are crowded in the martial arts arena, and they are arguing with each other for the first place to appear, so I told them that if they can all beat me, the one who will let me fall to the ground the fastest will win." But they didn't expect that in those three months, I had just broken through from the strength of the silver 21 star to the gold 52 star. The difference between the first level is like two people, and the difference between the first order, hum, is like ascending to the sky. Even though I lacked actual combat experience, I was able to take their attacks every time, but when I didn't dare to touch them, they were still defeated. But failure, but it does not seem to curb their determination to seize power, the competition failed, but they used me as a woman, saying that there has been no example of a woman in power since ancient times, and still let my father make a choice among them. So...... I killed them. ”

Kill......

Kai's breath faltered.

"It's not just them."

Hua Mulan sneered, "All those who resist me, I will kill them." The monsters are about to attack the city, and my father has not yet died, but they are fighting for power and profit, and I don't regret killing them. I subdued my father's former subordinates by killing, but I knew that they were only afraid of my power, and they might not know how to kill me. So after enduring the monster siege that lasted for half a month, I withdrew them all and replaced them with a group of people who were really willing to guard the Great Wall. Although my father's family policy is good, I don't think it's suitable for this era, let alone me, the mainland is chaotic because of monsters, everyone is in danger, and the harmony that my father thinks about will not appear in this troubled world. Even if there were, it would only be possible until the monsters subsided and the continent really returned to peace. ”

Maybe it was these unpleasant moods that infected her emotions, Mulan has become very cold now, so cold that Kai didn't provoke her, but she asked Kai coldly.

"How? Now, don't you think I'm cruel? Think I'm unreasonable? Killing so many people, it's like an executioner. ”

"No!"

Kai shook his head, even though this action was impossible for Mulan to see, "I'm just thinking, obviously I'm just asking why you can't sleep, why are you telling me so much?" ”

"You ......"

Mulan was stunned for a moment, then her face turned blue, she sat up from the bed, flushed with anger, and gritted her teeth to look at Kai lying on the ground, through the light and moonlight outside the window, she could vaguely see the outline of Kai's body.

"You guy, you can't ...... you guy"

"And what do you want?"

Kai interrupted her, and in the darkness of the night, his eyes met the face he couldn't see clearly, "Kill a few villains who are selfish, greedy, inconsiderate, ungrateful, and unkind, and think you're an executioner?" Murderer? Then I tell you now, if it were me, those who pretended to give in out of fear, I would kill them all. ”

He didn't lie, he didn't say that he deliberately said this to comfort Mulan or anything, he just said what he thought in his heart, and Kai put himself in the environment that Mulan was in at that time.

Outside the city, there is a horde of monsters that are terrifying and eyeing each other, and inside the city, his father is critically ill and may leave him at any time, he was only fourteen years old at the time, and he was only a child, but his father's brothers, those so-called brothers of life and death, were killing each other for their father's position at such times. The kind of people who didn't care about the guards of the Great Wall, the people who trusted them, the soldiers, the families of the soldiers who endured their grief and sent their children or their husbands to the line...... Death is too good for him!

"You ......"

Mulan was stunned, this question has bothered her for more than three years, because of this problem, she refused to communicate with people, and devoted herself to the war, today is the first time she confided in the outside world, but she never thought that Kai gave him such an answer.

"If you think it's great if you kill a few people, you're wrong."

Kai sat up, also looked directly at Mulan in the dark, and said seriously, "I tell you, I won't worship you for this reason. As good as you may be, I feel like I'm going to surpass you in the future. ”

"You...... You idiot! ”

That moment of strange feeling was an illusion, right? Why did she think of the word touched? This idiot, she shouldn't believe that he would say any big truth, obviously his name was still given by herself.

Lying down angrily, Mulan tightened the quilt, leaving a sentence of "Lao Tzu is going to sleep, don't disturb me", and then closed her eyes, but the waves in her heart did not subside...... How can you just quit?

"This stupid woman!"

Kai chuckled and shook his head, the murmur in his mouth was not heard by Mulan, but in the middle of the night, he glanced at Mulan's figure covered by the quilt, smiled, and lay down to sleep.

The night in Yancheng gradually became dark, the lights outside the window gradually faded, the night lost the illumination of the lights, the lights lost the maintenance of the people, and were gradually swallowed up by the darkness, and Mulan and Kai were gradually invaded by the sleepiness, just when everything began to turn into silence. A dazzling firelight suddenly lit up not far away.

And the firelight was followed by a loud roar of rage.

"Roaring ——!"