Sitting on the hillside and gasping for a few breaths, Commander Guo turned his head to look at Zhang Zhao: "We are all border city defenders and nearby people, this time the beast tide came, the big and small cities along the way were closed, and we didn't even have a place to stay, so we had to go all the way to the east." ”

"No matter whose vehicle team comes, we have to flash to the side of the road to give way, and we have tossed dozens of times these days. So I'm really uncomfortable in my heart, I was disrespectful to the young man just now, please forgive me. ”

Uncle Yuan frowned slightly after hearing this: "The dozens of cities on the border have been used by the nearby people to avoid the beast tide since the day they were built, and there are heavy troops stationed in the blue sky outside the sky, how can they not even open the gate?"

Commander Guo snorted heavily: "Bullshit, our brothers look out of the border city against the wind and sun, and they have to pay a smile every six months to receive some silver." Hearing that the beast tide was coming, they all shrank in the city, Lao Guo and I would rather be gnawed by the beasts outside than go into the city to suffer those nests. ”

Zhang Zhao is still very unfamiliar with the matter of the beast tide: "Uncle, how big can the beast tide be, this place is already hundreds of miles away from the border city, why are you in a hurry?"

A trace of fear flashed on his face, and Commander Guo recalled what he saw in the city that day and felt shocked: "I see that you are still young, young man, and boldly say something that relies on the old and sells the old." This beast tide is not to be underestimated, thousands of times more than the beasts I saw at your age. ”

Inhaling hard, Commander Guo sighed: "I smelled this more than half a month ago, and I thought that the beasts would arrive in a blink of an eye, but these beasts didn't come for a few days, and those boys were still laughing at me for being old behind my back." Na Cheng thought that it wasn't that they were approaching at all, but that there were too many beasts coming, and my nose would be wrong with a hundred tried-and-tested spirits. ”

"You two have extraordinary skills at a glance, but it's best to listen to my Lao Guo's advice, you can hide as far as you can, you are really surrounded by the beast tide in the sky and the earth, even if you are injured, you really can't do it. ”

After saying that, Commander Guo staggered to his feet and shouted encouragement to the equally exhausted team of people: "Fellow villagers, we have finally walked so far, and we will persist until the evening and find a place to rest, but we can't cheapen those brutes." ”

Amid the laughter of the crowd, Commander Guo heard a voice coming from behind: "Uncle, where are you going now?" He replied loudly without looking back: "I don't know, where to go." ”

After hearing the sigh full of helplessness, Zhang Zhao finally made up his mind and shouted again: "If you really have nowhere to go, go along the southeast direction." I'm going to talk to the head of the house, and let you take refuge in the Lingxiao. ”

Commander Guo and those soldiers and ordinary people immediately cheered up, even though Lingxiao had been down for hundreds of years, it was still an untouchable place of cultivation in their eyes. What's more, Lingxiao's reputation has risen greatly this year, and there are many rumors even in the border city.

"Shaoxia is benevolent, Lao Guo has thanked you on behalf of everyone. After Commander Guo bowed to the ground, he shook his head helplessly: "It's a pity that we still have to live up to your heart......"

"Guo Tou'er, Shaoxia is kind enough to take him in, why don't we go?" The people and soldiers around who heard this shouted one after another, they had been turned away by several cities along the way, and it was easy for someone to accept it, of course, they didn't want to give up.

"Yes, this uncle, I think the head of the house should be able to agree, you won't run in vain. Commander Guo waved his hand at everyone: "Although Lingxiao is good, we are all hungry and tired, and we still have to walk for half a day for ten miles and eight miles, how many of us can travel thousands of miles to survive there?"

Commander Guo is not a cultivator, but he has been stationed in the border city for decades, and of course he knows everything about the surrounding towns and sects, and these people only woke up when they heard his words. It would take them at least a month to rub to the foot of Lingxiao Mountain like this, and at that time, the beast tide was afraid that they would have already chased after them.

"So we can only understand your kindness, everyone has their own life, everyone should rely on these two legs to survive. Commander Guo smiled bitterly at Zhang Zhao and beckoned his soldiers to get up and leave.

Zhang Zhao looked at the huge team of people dragging his family in front of him, and he couldn't help it, and if he got along with each other, he couldn't leave his relatives and escape alone. Turning around and seeing the huge scorpion dragon beast standing still, he suddenly had an idea in his heart.

"Uncle, wait a minute. Zhang Zhao stopped Commander Guo and asked, "You have many women with children here, plus those who are too old to walk, even if you don't go to Lingxiao, how far can you escape?"

How could Commander Guo not know that it was the women, children and old men who slowed down the team's march: "Shaoxia, no one can do anything about this, if we can run for our lives alone, wouldn't we have left them behind?"

"How many people are there?" Commander Guo saw that Zhang Zhao seemed to have other intentions, so he looked at the team in front of him: "There are hundreds of old ones, and there are even more mothers-in-law with babies, and I am afraid that there will be three or four hundred people together." ”

"Otherwise, tie the slowest walkers to it with ropes. Zhang Zhao pointed to the long tail dragged behind the scorpion dragon beast: "How can you bring one or two hundred people, so that the team can speed up a little, and it will be almost there in a few days." ”

His words rekindled the hope in the hearts of many people: "Guo Tou'er, there is something I have wanted to say for a long time, don't care about us old guys anymore, as long as these little ones survive, we can close our eyes even if we die." ”

Commander Guo originally planned to retreat into the city with everyone to avoid the beast tide, but who knew that he had escaped for hundreds of miles before he met this opportunity given by Zhang Zhao. The dry food he brought was about to run out of food, and everyone would not be able to support it if he continued like this, so he hesitated for a moment and finally made up his mind.

"Okay, you can bring as much as you want. Brothers, take the rope. "When the soldiers came with hemp ropes, the common people of those years stepped back and begged them to bring the women and children first.

After pushing for a long time, Commander Guo had to personally step forward and pull an old man, but when he wanted to tie the long tail of the scorpion dragon beast, he couldn't tie it tightly. While they were in a hurry, Uncle Yuan next to him calmly asked, "How many carts are there in your team?"

Commander Guo thought that Uncle Yuan was also an Elder Lingxiao, so he didn't dare to slack off and answer truthfully: "When each family left, they pushed some luggage and food, how can there be more than a hundred or ten racks." ”

Yuan Bo nodded: "Tell them to throw away all their luggage and push the intact car over." Commander Guo listened to it: "You want them to sit in the car, we are all wheelbarrows, how can we ......?"

"Zhang Zhao, you go and cut down some trees with thick bowls, remove the branches and leaves and leave the main trunk. Seeing that Zhang Zhao turned his head to cut down trees without saying a word, Commander Guo didn't dare to ask any more questions, and beckoned the soldiers to gather all the carts and carts in the team.

"Is there anyone who knows how to work as a carpenter, come out and help. Yuan Bo rolled up his sleeves and picked out a few carts, put the trunks sent by Zhang Zhao on the front of the cart and gestured a few times, took out the axe and chisel on his waist, skillfully chiseled out a few gaps, and nailed them into the wooden wedges to form a whole.

Although it looks rough, the flat plate made up of several carts is noticeably spacious. A few people immediately rushed out of the crowd, following the example of Yuan Bo, connecting the wheelbarrows with horizontal logs.

After tossing and turning for an hour, a strange huge board car with a width of two feet appeared in front of everyone. Uncle Yuan let out a long breath and shouted, "What are you still doing? ”

After hundreds of people were crowded in the car, the scorpion dragon beast stepped forward under Zhang Zhao's imperial envoy. More than 100 pieces of thick hemp rope tied to its waist were gradually straightened, and a huge board cart carrying tens of thousands of catties was pulled forward slowly.

"Haha...... You can do it, old man, you are really a god. Yuan Bo shook his head when he heard everyone's cheers and said to himself: "The materials are too bad, and the appearance is ugly." What kind of trick is this, it's just a child's thing at best. ”

The feet of the scorpion dragon beast in front of them gradually accelerated, but Commander Guo and those young people dragged their feet, and they took turns to climb onto the cart to rest, still feeling a little powerless.

"Good guy, this thing is really amazing, pulling so many people and running faster than us. The panting crowd in the back was all happy: "In another three or five days like this, we will be able to arrive." ”

Unfortunately, it turned out that their ideas were too optimistic, and after running for more than an hour, these people felt powerless. Seeing that it was getting late, I had to find a flat place to stop and rest, and after a while, there was already snoring all around.

Zhang Zhao didn't have a good rest these days, but seeing that Commander Guo planned to send people to take care of him, he still spoke out to take on the mission of the vigil, and sat by the fire with Uncle Yuan and talked in a low voice, and before he knew it, the night had passed.

At dawn the next day, everyone hurried away, and the scorpion dragon beast walked steadily, but the young people behind who had not even eaten enough to eat were running slower and slower. Zhang Zhao calculated the distance in his heart, and secretly sighed that he was afraid that he would not be able to reach Lingxiao in seven or eight days, and when he was feeling anxious, a figure suddenly appeared in the air in front of him.

"What's the matter, why don't you go back soon, why are you still doing the work of pulling a cart?" Shadow Demon stroked his goatee with an impatient expression: "It's been a whole day and a night, aren't you afraid that your father will worry?"

Hearing Zhang Zhao's simple words, the shadow demon's face was full of doubts: "It turns out that you don't know these people?

Seeing the slow speed of everyone behind him, the goatee under the shadow demon's jaw trembled: "I really obeyed you two people, your father and his neighbors are just left, and you kid even has a bunch of people he doesn't know...... , me off. ”

He shook his body and stopped the crowd running hard behind the scorpion dragon beast: "How long the hell are you going to run? ”

Seeing that his tone was not good, Zhang Zhao hurriedly stopped and shouted, "What are you doing?" Shadow Magician ignored it and stretched out his finger to the people in front of him: "You guys quickly stand up one by one, don't make Lao Tzu angry again." ”

Seeing his fierce look, Commander Guo hurriedly asked everyone to stop. He thought that the Shadow Demon must be an elder in Zhang Zhaomen, and was thinking about saying something kind and pleading, when his knees, waist, wrists and ankles were tightly entangled by several strands of filaments at the same time.

"Don't hurt them. Hearing Zhang Zhao's exclamation, these people realized that they and their companions were tightly entangled by the thousands of strands of silver and white silk released from the shadow demon's body, and Commander Guo saw this kind of thaumaturgy and hurriedly begged: "This uncle, if we don't go to Lingxiao, you will spare ......."

If any of you dares to use no force, Lao Tzu will throw him out. The shadow demon turned to look at Zhang Zhao: "Don't go quickly, I'm waiting to go back to drink." ”

Zhang Zhao was also skeptical when he saw this scene: "You want to take them with you?" Hundreds of people? Okay?" The Shadow Demon frowned and shouted: "You have to try to find out if it works, you go quickly, don't get in the way." ”

After the scorpion dragon beast pulled the huge cart and ran out for more than ten zhang, the shadow demon snorted in his nose, and thousands of silver threads shook at the same time. Hundreds of people, including Commander Guo, felt that their bodies were light, and they couldn't help but walk around with their feet apart.

"Left, right, left, right, run with Lao Tzu's strength, don't use your strength, okay...... , you guys aren't too stupid, that's right, everyone work together. Under the control of the Shadow Demon, these hundreds of people took neat steps, and one by one they flew up as light as a swallow.

As the cooperation between them became more and more proficient, the Shadow Demon could already use most of his spiritual power to reduce the weight of everyone's body, and in less than half a cup of tea, these hundreds of people could already keep up with the Scorpion Dragon Beast in unison.

"Hahaha......" accompanied by a smug laugh from the mouth of the Shadow Demon, and the hundreds of people behind him all burst into laughter. Under the leadership of a powerful cultivator, experiencing the extraordinary speed of the soles of their feet, these soldiers and civilians temporarily forgot the hard work of leaving their homeland to avoid the tide of beasts, and released this sudden joy from their hearts.

"Yours is the case. Zhang Zhao drove the scorpion dragon beast to secretly speed up, but found that he could no longer get rid of the shadow demon and the team of six or seven hundred people behind him, and after running for a hundred miles, he was actually overtaken.

Walking to a wide avenue, the Shadow Demon shouted and gave orders, and led the people behind him to pass by the scorpion dragon beast, seeing their indulgent appearance of shouting and screaming, the women and children and old men crowded on the wide cart also smiled and waved to them.

The whims of the Shadow Fiend not only filled the otherwise bleak fleeing party with laughter, but also made what they saw as an unattainable thousand-mile journey a breeze. However, for most of the day, the Lingxiao Snow Peak surrounded by clouds and mist was already close in front of him.

"Here's it, let's have one. One, two, ...... "Driven by the shadow demon, a scene that Wuxuan has never seen before appeared at the foot of Lingxiao Mountain. Six or seven hundred soldiers from different places, the common people shouted and cheered, jumped into the air, and after a few feet from the ground, they screamed and fell neatly.

As Zhang Zhao said, Chang Qingzi didn't hesitate too much and agreed to let these people go up the mountain to avoid the beast tide. A team of more than 1,000 people passed by the Lingxiao Hall like a long snake, attracting the attention of all the disciples on the mountain.

Lingxiao's strength has grown very rapidly in recent years, and the original narrow mountain road has already been much wider after several developments, but the huge scorpion dragon beast with a height of four or five zhang can only barely pass through. When everyone had finished, Zhang Zhao rode it on the steps.

(End of chapter)