The mountains have been shrouded in darkness, in the far col, faintly revealing a little firelight, a bonfire is lit next to the huge rock, Shen Zhitang sits on the stones, adding firewood to the fire, Li Zhilian clasped his hands around his chest and leaned on the edge of the boulder, in a trance she saw her nine-year-old self picking wild fruits on the tree, and in the fog stood a young man about the same age as her, shabby clothes, with a faint smile in his eyes, slowly walking towards her...... As soon as the picture turned, she had stabbed the stinger in her hand into the young man's neck, and the young man's unwilling and incomprehensible eyes slowly became dull, and finally fell into her arms......

Li Zhilian woke up suddenly, and reached out to grasp the remaining scenes in front of him, but found that it was just a dream

Looking at the darkness of the night, she felt chills all over her body even when she was close to the fire

Shen Zhitang looked at her with a tongue of fire and said, "What? Having a nightmare? ”

Li Zhilian nodded: "Hmm~ Teacher, you can rest first!" I'll keep watch for the rest of the night."

"I'm old, I feel less~ Can I tell the teacher what dreams I had?"

"It's just that it's all about when I was a child, it's all in the past", she opened her eyes wide, listened to the wind outside, picked up the short knife left by Su Yun, and said to Shen Zhitang: "I'm a little hungry, students go outside to see, can they catch pheasants and hares or something"

There were many shadows in the surrounding trees, Li Zhilian followed the sound to a big tree, looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer, his body flew upside down, somersaulted in the air, his feet fell, and he put the short knife on the neck of the masked man at the head and said in a deep voice: "Who are you?" ”

The rest of the black-clothed people looked at each other, and then they all hurriedly swung their knives at her, and Li Zhilian kicked the black-clothed people led by him to the side, rushed into one of the four and turned around, and in an instant, everyone collapsed to the ground holding their necks

The black-clothed man led by him had already climbed a few meters away, and Li Zhilian followed behind him unhurriedly and said, "Do you know how they died?" Do you know how to kill people to leave the least amount of blood? Pointing to her neck and facing the black-clothed man who kept crawling back: "There is a trachea here, cut it, you won't be able to breathe~ Although you were cut in your throat, but in the end you were suffocated to death, how about this way of death is not new?" ”

The man in black suddenly stopped, knelt down reflexively in front of Li Zhilian and shook his head: "I ~ only know~ that someone came to report that the secret of Nianse Village was discovered by you...... You must die now for the sake of the master."

Li Zhilian trampled the man in black to the ground with one kick, leaned over and took the short knife, slashed from the neck of the man in black to his chest, and smiled into his ear: "I have thought of another way to die now, throw your heart out for you to see?" ”

"I~ I only know that the hall master needs time, and I really don't know anything else......"

With a knife in her hand, she used what she thought was the happiest way to die, and stabbed the man in black in the heart

As he put away his knife, he caught a glimpse of a pair of black boots behind him stepping on the messy weeds

She looked up at her boots, her breathing becoming rapid, like a child caught red-handed by a parent when she made a mistake

Shen Zhitang followed the misty moonlight, squatted down, and gently wiped the blood on Li Zhilian's face, his deep eyes were full of distress

Looking at Shen Zhitang's face melting into the dark night, Li Zhilian turned his face away and said, "This place is dangerous, let's hurry down the mountain!" ”

Shen Zhitang looked at her and said happily: "Seeing that you are good, I am also a lot relieved when I return to Lining City."

Li Zhilian raised her head and looked at Shen Zhitang puzzled, she thought that Shen Zhitang would ask and dislike it...... The best thing she could think of at that moment was that he would pretend that nothing had happened: "Teacher~I~"

Shen Zhitang gently stroked her head and whispered, "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it~"

Li Zhilian held back her tears, pounced on Shen Zhitang, and hugged his waist tightly, with a force that was almost rough

Shen Zhitang could feel her body trembling, her breathing was short and messy, and she collapsed like a prisoner who had been reborn after being tortured

Li Zhilian slowly relaxed her strength, put her face against Shen Zhitang's chest, and quietly let her tears be sucked away by the cotton clothes, and the person gradually calmed down

After a long time, Shen Zhitang gently patted Li Zhilian's back and said, "Okay~ It's time for us to go back, with my understanding of Jianqing, they should be on their way to find us."

Li Zhilian pushed Shen Zhitang away, wiped the tears from his face and said, "Su Yun will stop him, let's go back to Xilin City first, just now the man in black said that their hall master needs time, it may be to be unfavorable to Xilin City"

Shen Zhitang nodded, stretched out his hand to take her hand, but was dodged by Li Zhilian and said: "Dirty~" Shen Zhitang simply spread out his palm and hung it in the air waiting for her to hold it herself, Li Zhilian wiped the blood on his hand on his clothes, and smiled and reached out to hold Shen Zhitang's hand

Shen Zhitang smiled, broke the nearby weeds with his other hand, and led Li Zhilian all the way up the mountain road.

The moonlight was dim, the sky began to appear dark blue, the coolness was getting heavier, her hands were wrapped warmly, Li Zhilian looked at the generous back of the person in front of her, she began to be a little confused

Feeling that Li Zhilian's pace slowed down, Shen Zhitang turned around and asked softly, "What's wrong?" But tired? ”

Li Zhilian shook his head a little embarrassed and said, "No, the student is just thinking that if what those men in black said is true, let's assume that it is Xu Sen who reported to them, then the purpose of bringing the teacher here is just to trap the teacher in this mountain?" What are they afraid of? Or are they afraid of what the teacher will find after he goes to Xilin City? ”

Shen Zhitang suddenly remembered that Xia Huaixu had told him that the flying insects had attacked the two villages of Guhe and Gushan and Nahe County, and before Sentang Valley had gone there to recruit a large number of people, he hurriedly said to Li Zhipian: "It's suffered~ We have to hurry up and go back to Xilin City, otherwise it will be too late."

The sky began to show the white of the fish's belly, there was silence in the mountains, and on the top of the mountain, Su Yun put on Li Zhilian's mask and pointed to the dense fog under the mountain and said: "Nianse Village below, I really don't want to go to that place for the second time, you haven't been to it, you don't know, it's really not a place for people, it's smelly, and there are many insects ......."

"Shh~" Li Jianqing made a silent gesture to Su Yun: "You listen~ There seems to be a flute below"

"The sound of the flute~ You can't hear it wrong, right" Su Yun took half a step back, almost stepping on the air

The autumn wind is bleak, except for the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, there is indeed a flute sound, silent and long

Li Jianqing squatted down and said, "Let's go down~"

Su Yun's eyes widened and said, "Didn't you say that it is most taboo to go up and down the mountain?" Before his words fell, Li Jianqing had already begun to decline: "How can you be virtuous with Xiao Lianzi, are you all surnamed Li like this?"

The melodious sound of the flute sounded in his ears, Su Yun looked around, and hurriedly squatted down and shouted softly: "Hey~Li Jianqing~Brother Li~You wait for me~"