However, when he avoided the girl's gaze, he saw his own black and rough hands, and his tattered military uniform covered with blood and dirt, and then smelled the strange smell of sweat, oil smoke and blood on his body, which contrasted sharply with the girl's neat clothes, fair face, and clean bun, ears, neck, and hands in the middle of winter in the sun shining into the hall.

A burst of shame arose, the so-called dwarfed and ashamed of oneself is like this, at this moment Ma Xiaozhen wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and he was also curious about what color his divine thought body had become at this moment.

"Vegetable green, hehe!" An ill-intentioned voice came from the spiritual platform, Ma Xiao knew that it was the octopus that was laughing at him, and he didn't answer, he almost finished the rest of the porridge with his eyes closed, and with the help of the girl, he drank a bowl of medicine with a strong medicinal fragrance, a warm feeling started from the stomach, and after a while, he swam away all over his body, and half a column of incense washed away the fatigue and soreness on his body in less than a moment, and even the wound on his head became cool, and the pain was greatly reduced, Ma Xiao was very surprised, if there was such a panacea, he would not be afraid of injury in the future.

The girl got up and left after feeding the medicine, and never came back, looking at the shadow that floated away, Ma Xiao's heart was stunned, and there was nowhere to put it, so she could only lie on the ground and sigh with other injured people, but others were in pain, but this bandaged teenager was because he inadvertently lost his heart.

"Senior brother, I checked it all just now, and the injured people in several halls didn't find anything abnormal, maybe he escaped again"

"Well, you go and tell Uncle Shi, it's already over here, we should go"

"Yes"

This conversation not far away was listened to by Ma Xiao, who was lying on the ground, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, these young people, teenagers and girls who were disguised as civilians all called each other brothers, it seems that they are together, and the "it" in their mouths is the octopus in their minds, and the fact that no abnormality was found means that he and the octopus successfully evaded the pursuit.

After a while, those people who were originally in the hall to help treat the wounded soldiers seemed to have received an order, and began to evacuate the hall and walk out of the door, Ma Xiao knew that they were leaving, turned over with all his might, stretched his neck through the door of the hall and looked at those who left, eager to find a person in the crowd, but everyone was almost gone and did not see it, disappointed he sighed again, the first time he sighed so much in a day when he was young.

"Your injury is not healed yet, don't get up yet" A delicate and tactful voice sounded behind Ma Xiao, as if a flame about to be extinguished suddenly ignited again, Ma Xiao quickly turned over, only to see the beautiful and elegant girl standing behind him, he didn't realize that his happy mouth was almost grinning to the root of his ears at this moment.

"Hehe" the girl looked at the little soldier in front of her and suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled, because it was the first time to follow the sect down the mountain, she had never bandaged the wound, when the senior brothers just carried the little soldier in, her head was full of blood, and in a hurry, she just learned to wrap his head around indiscriminately, just looked at nothing, now with a dirty face and grinning mouth, funny, the girl was born in the sect, and has been taught to behave since she was a child. They all have to be dressed appropriately, and all the brothers and sisters around them are the same, so when they saw Xiaobing's funny appearance, they couldn't help laughing.

The girl knew that she was a little rude, so she tried to put away her smile and squatted down, stuffed a small white handkerchief into Ma Xiao's hand, and said softly, "Your injury is too serious, there are too few healing pills just now, I can't cure you at all, here are four pills, you mix water and take one every three days, and after taking four pills, you will be fine" After speaking, he got up and followed the remaining teenagers out of the door.

Ma Xiaoben wanted to say something to her, but he knew that his mouth would only make embarrassing strange sounds, so he simply nodded and watched the girl leave slowly, disappearing into the white light outside after going out.

"What are you looking at when everyone is gone," the young voice of the octopus sounded in his head again.

"Alas----" With another long sigh, Ma Xiao turned over and looked at the white handkerchief in his hand and asked, "Are they chasing you?"

"That's right, it's them, it's making me miserable," echoed in his head.

"Who are they?"

"I don't know about this, it should be a child of a certain sect."

"Sects, are you saying they're from the sects that practice qi?" Ma Xiao asked excitedly.

"That's right, and it's a very big sect, what you see is only a small number of low-level disciples, this Heavenly King's divine power is too vast, they want to arrest me。。。。。。 ”

"Hey, Octopus, I'm going to ask you solemnly now, you said you could make me stronger, is it true" Ma Xiao didn't want to listen to him Rory, so he interrupted and asked.

The octopus was silent for a while, and his tone became serious: "Hmph! It is the instinct of all living beings in this world to want to be strong, but the avenue is ruthless, and there are very few people who can stand on the top and transcend the world. The person of great creation, although Suoben chasing the yuan is the road to becoming stronger, but it is also the road to elimination, countless people have not even touched the edge of the power has become the bones of martyrdom, if you make up your mind to take this road of no return, of course I will help you, I have signed a symbiosis contract with you, now I am as small as you, want to regain what I have lost, I am afraid that there is only this way"

seemed to be infected by the octopus's tone, Ma Xiao also put away the joke, "Well, I haven't thought about the difficulties you said, and I don't know what kind of road it is, I just, I don't want to live namelessly" Saying this, Ma Xiao stared at the leaf pattern on the handkerchief, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his eyes were full of yearning.

A few injured soldiers next to him had already found that the baby soldier was talking to himself inexplicably, and when they saw that he was hurting his head, everyone knew it, and when they saw him staring at the handkerchief stupidly, they all shook their heads, showing a look of regret, this baby, I'm afraid it's useless.

Ma Xiao didn't notice the eyes of the people around him, and still lay on the ground and said to himself: "I have seen a lot of magical things about you in my dreams, I think you have seen the world, but you look like a human or a ghost in the end? Can you do magic? Can you tell me about the immortals? Are all immortals immortal?"

The octopus, who had just been in a serious book, was suddenly annoyed by Ma Xiao's sudden series of boring questions, and reprimanded loudly in a childish voice: "This heaven and earth hides countless secrets and ten thousand heavenly opportunities, if you want to become truly strong, you have to find the answer and comprehend the true meaning by yourself, and you can't even rely on your own sense of qi to grasp the idiot, what do you think is cultivation? Is it the storyteller in the Goolan tile shop? Delusional peeping into the holy realm from other people's mouths, I think your path of cultivation is coming to an end today."

Ma Xiao, who was reprimanded by the octopus, seemed to recognize his short-sightedness, and in shame, he didn't dare to refute it, and he didn't dare to ask any more brainless questions, and a wave of exhaustion hit, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Someone kicked him awake in less than an hour, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was none other than Lao Wang, "I thought you died outside" Lao Wang said expressionlessly, Ma Xiao struggled to sit up, the healing medicine he drank before still had a little effect, and he was able to speak at this moment, but his voice was hoarse, "Brother Wang, you came to me"

"Hmph, can you still move, come back to the camp with me, there is a carriage outside, which is for transporting the wounded" Lao Wang squinted at Ma Xiao, and did not mean to come forward to help.

"Okay, I'll go back with you" Ma Xiao stood up with difficulty, a feeling of dizziness hit, and he almost fell to the ground, it seemed that he had lost too much blood. After standing for a while, the dizziness quickly subsided, Lao Wang walked in front, Ma Xiaohuang followed behind, and it didn't take long to get out of the yard and come to the street.

There were more than a dozen carriages parked outside the street, and many wounded soldiers came out of the surrounding yards one after another, some were supported by people, some walked on their own, and some were carried out.

The sky was dark, and the carriage walked for a while before the snowflakes fell, and the lower and bigger it became, and countless corpses were piled up on the side of the street along the way, including the Pei army, the common people, and the Chu army, and the blood flowing on the ground was turned into red ice, and it was obvious that there was a tragic battle in the city.

A group of handymen were slowly cleaning up the corpses on the ground, many houses were smashed and collapsed, and many were emitting black smoke, and the people were leaning on the wall or sitting on the threshold, their eyes were all empty, and they seemed to finally realize that the brief peace of the previous months was all false, and there were many people on the street, but the air was so quiet that even the sound of snowflakes falling was clearly recognizable.

Ma Xiao looked at the snow falling from the sky and asked, "Have we held Taizhou City?"

In addition to Lao Wang, there were seven or eight wounded people in the car, all of whom were as silent as the people sitting on the street, and after a long time, Lao Wang said, "It's okay to hold it."

A cold wind blew, Ma Xiao didn't understand what Lao Wang's words meant, but he didn't know where to start, so he only closed his clothes and stopped talking.

After a pause, a middle-aged wounded soldier next to him received "Chu army broke the east gate, tens of thousands of people rushed into the city, the cavalry came in and could not be stopped, everyone thought that Taizhou could not be kept, some people disarmed and surrendered, but who knew that there were thousands of grass locks in ambush outside the city, they were all light horses, come and go quickly, take advantage of the defeat on both sides of our two sides when they attacked the Chu army in the back, the Chu army suffered countless casualties on both sides of the enemy, and finally abandoned the city and dispersed, the grass locks did not come to attack the city this time, they robbed the Chu army's siege artillery, Captured the gunpowder division and left, fortunately we reacted in time, taking advantage of the battle between the two armies outside to seal the east city gate, and then closed the door and beat the dogs, although they killed tens of thousands of Chu troops in the city, their own losses were also very large, our defenders at the east city gate suffered the greatest casualties, and the Tongzi battalion from General Zhang above to the pawns below were almost dead" When the wounded soldiers said this, they didn't have any feelings in their words, as if this war had nothing to do with themselves.

While speaking, the carriage arrived at the garrison in the east of the city, the heavy snow had left a thick layer on the ground, Ma Xiao got out of the car, and was shocked by the scene in front of him, only to see that from the east city gate to the inward range of a hundred zhang square, the snow accumulated on the ground was pink, and his feet just landed with red blood coming out from the side of his feet, this is the most fierce place in the siege battle, not far away there are more than a dozen "small hills" that are several zhang high , all covered with snow, like the straw raised by the farmer, but Ma Xiao knew that it was not straw, it was the corpse mountain of the two armies, the snow on the top of the mountain was white, red from the middle down, and there were many outstretched limbs that were not completely covered by snow, and the city gate was blocked with straw, wooden planks, and all kinds of debris, and the entire doorway was stuffed, and there was no silence in the middle of winter, only the goose feathers of snow rustled to the ground.

After returning to the camp, Ma Xiao was arranged to recuperate in the infirmary, there was no task for the time being, Lao Wang checked his injuries in private and urged a few words of cultivation to be seen for a few days, as if there was something important to do, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the heavy snow fell for a few days, covering all the traces of the war in Taizhou City, Ma Xiao also lived in the infirmary for half a month, this half month he insisted on practicing the art of vomiting every day, and took the pill left by the girl on time, and was surprised to find that this pill was not only very effective in treating injuries, but also helped a lot in cultivating qi, and the accumulation of heaven and earth vitality in the body increased rapidly, and also had the function of aggregationIt seems that the more vitality that remains in the dantian and acupuncture points, the faster the speed of absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth, although it still grows little by little, but the effect of growth is exciting.