After a moment, the dark shadow at the corner of the eaves disappeared again.

Ding Ruoyu rubbed his eyes vigorously, but there was still nothing on the other side, as if he had just hallucinated.

Holding down the pounding heart, she closed the window and lay on the bed, intending to rest for a while and go out of the city overnight.

If she continued like this, she was afraid that sooner or later she would be driven crazy by that strange thing.

The third watch went out of the city of fire, and under the seat were ordinary horses, which did not travel quickly, and it took another four or five days to reach the edge of the desert.

There was not much luggage, she had sold her horse in the previous town, and at the moment she was walking on foot in the desert with the wind, plus using the wind spell, and her steps were like flying.

On the way, I looked around many times, but she was the only one who was empty, and I never saw the strange man in black again. The desert Hutian, the remnant sun is like blood, two days later, quickly arrived in the territory of Yuguo.

It wasn't the first time she had passed through the long mountains, and each time she was in a different mood. Across the mountain road, the inn of the cattle shopkeeper is still showing wine flags, and it has become the most common thing to welcome and send to the big inn in this border city.

After taking the account book, the shopkeeper Niu saw that she was covered with wind and sand and had a vague face, and couldn't help asking, "The girl is from the Western Regions?" ”

Ding Ruoyu saw that he was mysterious, and said in a low voice: "What's wrong with coming from the Western Regions?" ”

The shopkeeper Niu approached and whispered to her: "A few days ago, the officers and soldiers came to investigate and arrested a few young people who had come from Yanguo to stay overnight, saying that they were dead soldiers from the heavens and the earth, and they should be locked up and interrogated carefully. ”

Ding Ruoyu smiled: "Where does the shopkeeper look like I?" ”

After a closer look, the cow shopkeeper was able to see that there was a faint amount of greenery in the pupils of the girl in front of him, and he shrank back in surprise and said: "Snow, snow country?" ”

Without explanation, leaving his surname in the account book, Ding Ruoyu took the key and entered the guest room.

As soon as he cleaned up the wind and sand, he heard the voice of the officers and soldiers downstairs.

After checking the various rooms, they found nothing, these people sat in the lobby and asked for wine and food, and said while drinking: "It's been so long, do you think there will be any dead soldiers who fled to Yuguo?" ”

"There's no word from above, it's always right to keep watching." Another said: "Those people are so cunning that they don't take the road, and they don't know how to get out of that corner." The prince said that after they run for a few days, they will come to the only inn in the city to rest, and we will guard this gate, not to mention that there is a commander Duan, so that they will not escape. ”

Ding Ruoyu half-closed the door and heard their conversation clearly. There are not many people in the inn these days, and I don't know if there are officers and soldiers here.

After a cup of tea, the officers and soldiers in the hall got up to greet a young man who came to the door, and respectfully called the other commander Duan.

The footsteps were chaotic, and it was clear that the commander was not the only one outside. Ding Ruoyu looked through the crack in the door and saw that it was actually Duan Lianggong. With his fierce general, the rest of the dead soldiers battalion are not yet captured.

Behind him, officers and soldiers pushed and shoved a woman with her hands tied behind her back. Duan Lianggong sat down at the wine table, they also pushed the woman over, forced her to kneel, and as soon as she removed the rags from her mouth, the woman scolded loudly, and spat on Duan Lianggong's face.

The corridor was quiet, and the residents were obediently hiding in their rooms, not daring to come out and meddle in their affairs. Ding Ruoyu also got up to close the door, the woman in the hall below was eighteen or nineteen years old, her appearance was not good, but she was born with sharp teeth and sharp mouth, and she was extremely difficult to provoke at first glance, who else could it be if it wasn't Youlan?

She was such a shrewd and spicy person, but she didn't expect to be arrested as well.

Close the door and go to close the window, these days she has developed a habit of checking everywhere before locking the door and window, for fear of bumping into some monster again.

She was already more cautious, but now she has become even more cautious.

But she didn't know that the thing she was most afraid of seeing at this moment was lying on the rooftop of the inn, basking in the cold moonlight, motionless, like a pile of dry bones that would fall apart if they were touched at the slightest touch.

After the door closed, Ding Ruoyu continued to pay attention to what was happening in the lobby. Hearing the sound, the officers and soldiers had no intention of wanting Youlan's life, but just locked her in a guest room to prevent her from escaping.

Seeing that she can only resist by scolding, she must have been anesthetic. This brought back Ding Ruoyu's bad memories, and she decided to stay in the inn for a few more days and try her best to rescue Youlan.

The plan never changed quickly, and early the next morning, Duan Lianggong escorted Youlan to prepare to leave for Xiangyun City, and it turned out that the order was issued from above that they didn't have to wait for the rabbit like this.

Ding Ruoyu also hurriedly retreated from the house and bought a horse to hang far behind the officers and soldiers.

After a few towns, they came to a large city, and more officers and soldiers appeared, escorting a few dead soldiers together, and pushing them to the outside of an abandoned city god temple on the outskirts of the mountain.

Youlan was among them, and they knelt on the ground with the rest of the captives, forming a long strip.

Subsequently, someone entered the temple to report that a young man in brocade clothes came out of it, with a handsome appearance and bright eyes and bright teeth, which made people happy at a glance.

After seeing this person, Youlan immediately scolded and scolded, if it weren't for the powerlessness to resist at this moment, she really wanted to rush up and beat him hard.

Before Youlan could curse a few words, she was kicked down by the officers and soldiers next to her. The brocade-clothed young man stepped forward, lifted her up again with one hand, and when she got closer, she didn't know what to say, and the look on Youlan's face immediately became angry and frightened.

In order to humiliate these dead soldiers who refused to submit to him, regardless of the friendship of his former colleagues, he even came from Xiangyun City thousands of miles away to do it himself...... Yu Feiqiong has become such a person?

Even Ding Ruoyu, who was hiding behind a holly, sneered, and laughed in his heart, "It's so majestic".

After ordering the officers and soldiers to rearrange the prisoners, he took the bows and arrows handed by his subordinates, and while retreating dozens of feet with Duan Lianggong and several other commanders, he asked the officers and soldiers to count who had shot the most prisoners.

The arrow is on the string, and the danger is at stake, Ding Ruoyu was about to rush out to save people regardless of it, but his shoulder was held down.

A black-gloved hand touched a sharp stone everywhere and wrote in the clearing in front of her: "I come." ”

Ding Ruoyu was so frightened by the black-clothed man who suddenly appeared that his heartbeat was about to stop, and he didn't have time to react at this moment, so he saw him run out, rushing into the rain of arrows with his bare hands, and he didn't know what to do, blocked all the arrows, and took the opportunity to pull the ropes on the prisoners, and grabbed a few unlucky officers and soldiers as shields, covering them to run towards the jungle on the other side.

After a while, they were out of range of bows and arrows, and the officers and soldiers followed closely behind, and as soon as the man in black turned around, several arrows that he had caught in his hands flew towards them, and the officers and soldiers hurriedly dodged, hitting one by one, and tripping several groups of people one after another.

Seeing that the man in black succeeded, Ding Ruoyu didn't think much about being scared by him several times, so he helped Youlan, who ran last because of a kick, and led them to follow the man in black onto a rugged mountain road, and turned around into a spacious cave naturally formed on the mountain.

After learning that his life was safe, Youlan and the others hurriedly bowed and thanked them, wanting to learn the names of the two of them, and looking forward to repaying their kindness in the future.

Ding Ruoyu didn't plan to say it first, he looked at the man in black, and wanted to wait for him to speak.

Who knew that the man in black pointed to the position of his mouth under the mask and waved his hand, indicating that he could not speak.

She had to sigh helplessly and said to everyone: "My surname is Ding, and I don't know who he is." ”

The man in black looked at everyone's pale faces, turned around and walked towards the mountain. After a while, he came back with a pile of herbs from the mountains under the hem of his cloak, and gestured for each of them to grab a handful and put it in their mouths to chew.

After everyone took the medicinal juice, they quickly recovered their strength to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and they each moved in the cave.

The man in black stood on a stone outside the cave, slender and long like a pole. Ding Ruoyu seemed to have made a huge determination, clasped his palms and came behind him and asked, "Why do you always follow me?" ”

The strange man in black jumped off the stone and turned around, staring at her with two blood-red pupils, and succeeded in giving her goosebumps.

"Who the hell are you?" Ding Ruoyu couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to avoid his gaze, but his gaze seemed to be glued, and he couldn't move it.

The man in black retracted his gaze, picked up a dead branch, squatted on the ground and wrote two words.

"Lihong!"

Ding Ruoyu shouted.

After shouting, he realized that he was making too much noise, which caused the dead soldiers in the cave to look at him in horror.

She hurriedly covered her mouth, stretched out her foot to erase the handwriting on the ground, and dragged the man in black farther away.

Walking in the silent and uninhabited mountains and forests, Ding Ruoyu gradually calmed down. She leaned against the trunk of a cedar tree and looked at the black-clothed man who was following closely behind her, "You better stop following me." ”

The man in black looked at her in silence, and the red flame in his eyes suddenly dimmed.

"I'm afraid that as soon as I see your appearance, I will think of him......" He just helped himself rescue Youlan and the others, Ding Ruoyu was a little embarrassed, and when he spoke, he was embarrassed to look at him.

The man in black stood still for a moment, then slowly stretched out his hand, first taking off the cloak, and then removing the layers of black cloth wrapped around his head and neck.

Ding Ruoyu looked at his true face inch by inch, and wanted to retreat, but found that he was already clinging to the tree and could no longer move.

He no longer resurrected human form, but became a white dry bone.

Ding Ruoyu slid to the ground, not knowing whether it was frightened or sad, his heart ached sharply, his shoulders trembled, and he felt that he couldn't breathe in.

There were no tears, but she found herself crying.

"I'm not the same as him." Li Hong wrote on the ground.

As if afraid of scaring her again, he quickly rewrapped the black cloth and put on the hat of his cloak.

Ding Ruoyu didn't know how long he sat on the ground, and when he eased up, the sky had already begun to darken. Behind the boulder on the other side, Li Hong deliberately avoided her, holding a knife in his hand, and was carving a small bluestone.

She patted off the fallen leaves on her body, walked to him, and said as if she wanted to admit defeat but couldn't pull her face away: "It's dark, are you hungry?" ”

Li Hong glanced at her strangely, put away the tools in his hand, and walked with her towards the cave.

On the way, he met two homing birds, and he smashed two of them with stones, plucked their feathers, washed them in the hollow where the spring water was accumulating at the edge of the cave, roasted them directly with the magic fire in his palm, and threw them all to her.