Mountains and forests in trouble (2)
The rain stopped after two days in total, and Hei Lingmang walked through the forest for three days with his body rolled up in Ling Xiao, and finally came to bring a town outside. In the past few days, Ling Xiao had barely maintained his vitality by relying on the wild fruits that Hei Lingmang had shot down with his giant tail, but his body had become weaker and weaker.
The town is quiet and peaceful, with bustling pedestrians on the streets and shop flags dancing slowly in the wind.
"Look, that's ......"
"What a big python!"
"Look, there's a woman's ......"
"This woman was killed by a giant python, right?"
Some people at the entrance of the town were the first to notice the anomaly, and from a distance, a black python with a red mouth was swimming towards them, and there was a bloody streak lying on the python's neck, stained with blood.
What made them even more shocked was that there was a lifeless-looking woman imprisoned in the coiled body of the giant python, the woman's head was drooping on the giant python's body, and it was also covered with blood, there was a clear knife wound on the shoulder, and the tattered clothes were so stained with blood that they could not see the original color. A pair of jade feet# are exposed, and the tiny scratches on them are criss-crossed.
These people's eyes suddenly widened in fright, and the two trembled. Such a giant python is too terrifying, if it takes the initiative to attack people, who can withstand it for ordinary people like them. When they reacted, they all began to shout and flee in all directions, which was not small, and the peace on the street was broken, and they soon became agitated.
When Hei Lingmang was carrying Ling Xiao through a clearing, he was besieged and killed by a group of people, although he finally defeated them and escaped smoothly, but the price he paid was not small.
Hei Lingmang protected Ling Xiao's safety on the one hand, and responded to the enemy on the other, but as a result, she couldn't do a good job on both sides, not only could she not exert her combat power, she was outnumbered and stabbed by thieves, but Ling Xiao also suffered several minor injuries on her body, which made her condition worse.
The whole town was shrouded in a cloudy sky, and the environment was gloomy and gray.
Ling Xiao's breath was weak, and he had been in a coma today. Hei Lingmang led her down the street, not paying attention to the frightened pedestrians around her.
Some people fled far away and stopped when they realized that the python had no intention of attacking people. And some of the bolder ones couldn't help the curiosity in their hearts, and turned back and followed the python from a distance, wanting to see what it was going to do.
This incident quickly alarmed the town guards, and they rushed with a group of officials, but they could only watch from a distance, and did not dare to act rashly.
After walking through several streets, in the end, Hei Lingmang found a faint smell of medicinal herbs, and actually took Ling Xiao into a pharmacy, which immediately frightened the people inside, and some even collapsed to the ground, their faces turned pale.
The middle-aged shopkeeper in the store stood behind the counter trembling, his lips trembling with fright, and his eyes widened. Seeing that Hei Lingrecklessly put the woman on his body on the ground, he turned his huge head to scan the people here, spitting red letters, but he didn't mean to attack these people.
The shopkeeper glanced at the limp woman on the ground, wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, forced herself to calm down, thought of a possibility, and said casually: "Could it be that it is...... Do you want us to save this woman? ”
As soon as the words fell, the shopkeeper's eyes widened again, and he was shocked to see Hei Lingmang nodding at him with his mouth open.
"What a miracle!" The shopkeeper sighed, the panic in his heart disappeared a lot, and he hurriedly beckoned a guy with trembling hands: "Quick, quick, go and invite the nearest doctor in the town." ”
The man's face was pale, his legs were so weak that he stumbled out of the pharmacy by bypassing the black spirit from a distance. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and ran around the corner of the street. Although they run a pharmacy, they don't ask for consultations, so the shopkeeper only understands medicinal materials, not how to see a doctor.
At this time, a large group of people gathered on the opposite side of the pharmacy, all of whom craned their necks to look inward through the open shop, but they just didn't dare to approach. Such a giant python, they have never seen it on weekdays, it is too ferocious and terrifying, they have no bottom in their hearts, and they dare not take risks.
The shopkeeper saw the giant python sitting on the ground, and did not embarrass them, the color on his face finally looked better, and his heart was much calmer. He breathed a sigh of relief, and beckoned two more men to carry the bloodied man into the back room of the guest.
Black Lingmang didn't follow in, with it here, who could hurt its master.
This kind of Ling Xiao made the shopkeeper look moved, he was so young, and he didn't know what kind of hardships he had gone through, so he would be injured and die.
He sighed lightly, and after leaving the back room, he went to the backyard and instructed his wife and daughter to boil some hot water and help Ling Xiao clean up.
When Ling Xiao woke up, it was already the afternoon of the second day, and it was still gray outside the window, and there was no sunlight in sight. She felt much better, although her body was still weak, her head had regained consciousness, and she did not feel drowsy and dizzy a few days ago.
She moved her head and looked around, and found that she was in the middle of the house, not in the wilderness, and that her clothes had been changed into the most modest coarse cloth, and she was somewhat surprised to know how she had arrived here.
In front of the desk not far away, a girl in simple clothes sat sideways facing Ling Xiao, holding her cheek with one hand, looking out the window. This is the shopkeeper's daughter, staying in the room to take care of Ling Xiao, and waiting for Ling Xiao to wake up by the way.
Ling Xiao called the girl, and then after a brief exchange with the girl, he figured out the whole thing, and it was Hei Lingmang who brought her here. All she remembered was that she had been besieged, and she didn't remember anything after she fainted.
Even though Ling Xiao was unconscious at the time, he still recognized the group of killers, who were the people who flew through the cliff. It seems that Ke Tianxu has already seen the bamboo slips she left behind, and he is angry, so he has murderous intentions towards her.
This time, he was able to escape death and leave the area where the Flying Cliff was located, all thanks to the Black Spirit.
At this time, on the Feitou Cliff, Ke Tianxu just stepped into Gu Panman's residence, and Gu Panman was standing calmly in front of the window, his sleeves fluttering slightly. Ke Tianxu looked up and asked, "Did you do it?" The result? ”
"The man found it and did it, but it didn't work. Listening to the reports of the people who fled back, she was already dying, but there was a giant python around her for no reason, which bit many people to death, and she escaped. But presumably he won't survive, and it seems that he has been slashed a few times. Gu Panman frowned and turned around, his words were flat, but he was unwilling.
Ke Tianxu paused, a little surprised: "Giant python? ”
"Yes, Monty Python. I really wanted to let her go, but I never thought that she was so ignorant of current affairs. Since I'm going to run away from you, it's no wonder I'm not to blame. What about the princess, it's in my way, and it's right to kill it. Kemen Master shouldn't be reluctant, right? The person who chased and killed Ling Xiao was sent out by Gu Panman, and after learning that Ling Xiao had escaped that day, she felt faintly uneasy in her heart, because Gu Minluo had just set off for a long trip that day, and she was afraid that the two would meet.
Even in Gu Panman's eyes, she thought that the woman she thought had a skin-to-skin relationship with Ke Tianxu, but she was still worried that Gu Minluo would do anything for the sake of her beloved. Rather than this, it is better to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to eliminate future troubles forever and completely break Gu Minluo's thoughts. It's just because Ke Tianxu didn't explain this oolong incident to her, otherwise maybe she would have been eyeing another person a long time ago.
Ke Tianxu couldn't see any joy or anger on his face, he fought opposite Gu Panman from a distance, and said lightly: "I said, I will arrest that woman again." She killed so many of us indirectly, and it was too cheap to kill her. But now that you've done it, I don't have anything to pursue. It's just that she never thought that the giant python was also hers, so what happened under the sinkhole must have nothing to do with her. What a despise of her! ”
"In the final analysis, the subordinates we have cultivated are too incompetent, and they can be said to be vulnerable in terms of combat power." Gu Panman looked out the window with his hands on his chest, his face expressionless, and his eyes were a little fierce.
In fact, it's not that the subordinates they have cultivated are not strong, but they can't match the master-level characters at all, after all, the main combat power of Feitou Cliff is only five of them.
Ling Xiao stayed in the town for five days, and stayed in that pharmacy all the time. Five days later, she was on the road with her still unhealed body, no matter what, she wanted to leave Guilin County as soon as possible, which made her feel uneasy, and she always felt that she was not out of danger.
After leaving Guilin County, Ling Xiao would seek a way to find Lu Jingxing, or go back to Huizhou directly. She asked Hei Lingmang, and from Hei Lingmang's nod and shaking his head, she vaguely knew that it was Lu Jingxing who asked her to find her, and Lu Jingxing was separated from everyone after looking for her.
That pharmacy saved Ling Xiao's life, but Ling Xiao had nothing to repay and was penniless. Before leaving, he took off the pair of white jade earrings on his ears and handed them to the shopkeeper, which was regarded as the medicine money for the past few days and the gratitude to them for taking them in.
Of course, the value of those pair of earrings far exceeded the silver money that the shopkeeper had spent on Ling Xiao in the past few days, and they were bought when he was still in Qiantang that day and wandered around the street with Jiang Tingxue. What can make Jiang Tingxue look at is by no means inferior.
Although Jiang Tingxue is not deliberately extravagant, she grew up in a rich family, and some behaviors have become a habit, and Ling Xiao is the same.
In fact, for the shopkeeper, as long as Ling Xiao is gone, it is the best reward for him. In the past few days, the black spirit has been guarding the main hall of their pharmacy, and as a result, no one dares to buy medicine, and the store has not been open for five consecutive days, making him almost sad.
If it weren't for the black spirit, maybe the shopkeeper would have stayed for a few more days. Perhaps because he had a daughter of the same age as Ling Xiao, he felt moved and unbearable about what happened to Ling Xiao. At Ling Xiao's age, he thought that he should have been under the knees of Chenghuan's parents, but Ling Xiao was lonely and endured all the hardships alone, how could he move a person who was a father.
After leaving the town, Ling Xiao and Hei Lingmang walked along the ancient road all the way to the east. She asked the shopkeeper that going all the way to the east is the faster way to get out of Guilin County, otherwise the roads in other directions will be much farther than this, or even closer to the central area.