Chapter 305: Stealing the limelight
If it wasn't the prince standing in front of him, he would have been polite a long time ago, and he could still chat with him here?
In the face of Xu Shizi's attitude, he was not angry, but Xu Shizi was angry, and the prince saw Xu Shizi's face, and his head felt even more painful. He opened his eyelids and said, "I called you here today because I need your help to rebuild after the war. ”
"Got it. Where to start. Xu Shizi didn't embarrass the prince, and asked directly.
"Let's tidy up the city first, a lot of people have accidents." The prince frowned.
"Let everyone come to the base camp." Xu Shizi looked at Shen Yafei, Shen Yafei thought for a while, and then said.
"Okay. Hongu has already asked someone to inform. ”
"Then I'm out on business." Shen Yafei got up and bowed slightly to the prince.
Xu Shizi stood up with him. Shen Yafei went out, and Xu Shizi also followed.
"Well, you wait a minute." The prince stretched out his hand, wanting to stop Xu Shizi.
Shen Yafei and Xu Shizi both stopped, turned around, and looked at him in unison.
The crown prince crossed his shoulders and said helplessly: "Xu Shizi stays for a while, this palace has something to tell you." ”
"I'll go out first." Shen Yafei said with a smile.
Xu Shizi watched Shen Yafei walk out of the camp before turning around, returning to the chair just now, his body was casual, and he asked with half-squinted eyes, "What's the matter?" ”
If it weren't for the crown prince, they would have thought that Xu Shizi would have fallen asleep. The crown prince breathed a faint sigh of relief and said, "This palace wants you to take people to the bottom of the cliff in the suburbs and wipe out the remaining enemies." ”
"This should be done by General Shen and General Yang, they are the veterans on the battlefield, and it is not appropriate for this son to go." Xu Shizi's eyes flashed, and he refused directly.
"They'll go with them, too." The prince said.
"Wouldn't it be okay to have them go?" Xu Shizi grabbed the handrail with one hand and looked straight at the prince.
The prince replied in a deep voice: "I'm afraid there will be changes." ”
"Okay." He sat up straight and asked, "When are you leaving?" ”
"The old man thinks we should discuss the decision." Both of General Shen's arms were wrapped in strips of white cloth, and it seemed that the injuries were not light.
"The princess, the slave family was sent by the Queen Mother to take you into the palace." A sissy voice came out from the side, Shen Yafei noticed that there were outsiders here, Shen Yafei heard his voice and her eyebrows froze, a sharp light shot out of her eyes, and Gonggong Wu's gaze touched it, and she was immediately shocked.
However, horizontal is also death, vertical is also death, Shen Yafei will only see him when he leaves the palace, but the queen mother has to face it every day, Wu Gonggong stubbornly continued: "I hope the princess will not embarrass the slave family, the slave family is just acting on orders." ”
Looking at General Yang again, there are also a lot of injuries on his body. Xu Shizi looked down at himself again, only to realize that he was the least injured among so many people.
"However, this son feels that it is better to do it as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night. Winning and chasing is the best. Xu Shizi said.
"Hmm." The veterans and youngsters present all nodded in agreement, and they also had this idea.
"Then we'll leave in half an hour." The crown prince directly ordered, "You discuss it as soon as possible." ”
"I think it should be ······ way"
"The old man thinks so······"
The scene immediately fell into discussion.
Half an hour later, Xu Shizi and others came out of the tent, and when Xu Shizi came out and saw Cheng Fang, he asked, "Where is the princess?" ”
"Where?" Cheng Fang pointed to the right-hand side.
The crowd was crowded over there, and Xu Shizi didn't find Shen Yafei's figure, but he vaguely heard Shen Yafei's voice like a clear spring water from the crowd, and he looked at the crowd over there, as if he could see the person he wanted to see through the crowd. After a while, Xu Shizi withdrew his gaze, and he said to Cheng Fang, "You stay here to protect the princess." This prince has something to go out for, you wait to talk to the princess. ”
"Where?" Cheng Fang asked.
"You don't care so much. Let you guard here, and you will guard here. Xu Shizi whispered.
"But," seeing Cheng Fang's objection, Xu Shizi glanced at him, Cheng Fang hesitated for a moment, and said, "The princess said that her subordinates will follow you every step of the way today." ”
"What did you say?" Listening to Cheng Fang's words, Xu Shizi was a little surprised.
"What the princess said." Cheng Fang said with a smile.
Xu Shizi turned his head to look at the crowd over there again, and something seemed to be surging in his heart. He turned back to Cheng Fang and said, "Okay then, you follow." ”
Xu Shizi, General Shen and others took their tools and went to the edge of the cliff, and the soldiers surrounded the cliff. Xu Shizi glanced at General Shen, who turned to the soldiers and said, "Pour things down." ”
At this time, the soldiers stretched out a bamboo pipe filled with medicinal powder to the bottom of the cliff and poured the medicinal powder through the mouth of the pipe. When the powder was finished, General Shen instructed people to throw torches down. The raging fire burned from the bottom of the cliff, and the heat of the fire made the faces of the people on the edge of the cliff red, and the sweat wet their hair and clothes, sticky and uncomfortable.
While the fire was burning, the screams of birds and beasts were heard from the bottom of the cliff, and the sound made the listener's heart cool and slowed down the heat of the fire. However, Xu Shizi and the others knew very well that there was no sound in these voices that they wanted to hear.
General Shen approached Xu Shizi and whispered in Xu Shizi's ear, "Shizi, it doesn't look like someone is there when you hear this voice. ”
"Hmm." Xu Shizi folded his hands around his chest, his eyebrows slightly condensed, and he was engrossed in the fire below, but there was only fire under the cliff.
After about three hours, the fire at the bottom of the cliff slowly became smaller, and the bottom of the cliff became empty, and the field of vision was much wider and the space was much clearer. General Yang said, "The fire is out, should we go down now?" ”
With no plants blocking the view, one can clearly see that there are only small flames and sparks on the ground at the bottom of the cliff. Xu Shizi glanced at it lightly and said, "Go down." However, there are still some people left to guard it. ”
General Shen and General Yang decided to leave a dozen or so soldiers to guard the top of the cliff, while the others went down to the bottom of the cliff. Xu Shizi and the others went down to the bottom of the cliff and walked around the fire, but they found no trace of anyone, nor did they find the bodies that had been burned to death.
"Sure enough, there's no one down there." General Yang said.
"However, this place doesn't look like it's for people to live in." General Shen looked at his surroundings and frowned.
Xu Shizi, who was walking in front, stopped in an instant, and between the surprise of General Shen and General Yang, he walked in the opposite direction, walked to a place where the cliff stone recessed, and froze. General Shen and General Yang also walked over, and looked at the cliff with Xu Shizi's gaze, but they didn't see anything, and their faces were full of doubts.
"Step back." Looking at the look on Xu Shizi's face, soon a light flashed in the eyes of General Shen and General Yang, and General Shen immediately said to the soldiers behind.
The others all retreated a foot away according to General Shen's words, but Xu Shizi did not move. General Shen said to him: "Shizi, let's let Weichen do it." ”
Xu Shizi glanced at General Shen, did not make a sound, and then slowly stepped back. Cheng Fang grabbed the sword and blocked it in front of Xu Shizi.
General Shen took the scabbard in his hand to poke the sunken wall stone, and after pressing it hard, General Shen immediately dodged and withdrew. Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound, and the stone wall moved slowly, and soon a path the size of a door opened.
"You take it and stay outside, let's go in and have a look." General Shen said to his right-hand man.
"Yes."
Xu Shizi and the others followed General Shen in, it was dark inside, and a slight breeze blew in from outside the door, and the breeze seemed to have turned around in the stone room and came out again. There was an indescribable smell in the breeze at this time. It seems to smell of something rotting.
Suddenly, Xu Shizi felt that this stone room was gloomy, and a cool breeze rushed into his underwear, and everyone present shivered involuntarily. The soldier who opened the way ahead lit a torch and illuminated the surrounding stone walls, but saw nothing. Suddenly, there was a click, and the sudden sound broke the panicked string in everyone's hearts.
Suddenly, everyone's footsteps seemed to be filled with something heavy and couldn't move. The expression on the face of the little soldier who stepped on something just now was indistinguishable from laughter and crying, he moved his foot again, and there was another click, and the little soldier felt that he was about to cry. It's only his second month in the army, and he hasn't killed many people, so why is there something coming to him so early?
At this moment, the big guys looked at the place where the voice came from, and the little soldier froze completely. The soldier holding the torch turned around and held the torch up to the little soldier, and when he saw the death on the little soldier's face, he couldn't help but feel amused. The soldier moved the torch downward, illuminating the little soldier's feet clearly.
The little soldier glanced at it, and it was even more impossible. Because his feet were full of white bones, the little soldier immediately bounced to the side. This, where is this... It's just a hell of a thing.
The soldier pressed the torches further, and it was all white. Xu Shizi and the others' hearts were suddenly cold, and they felt like they were about to lose their rhythm. How many people are there, Xu Shizi closed his eyes for a while, and only then did he dare to look at the white ground again.
"How many missing people are there in the capital?" Xu Shizi's voice is hoarse, and the emotions hidden under the voice make people's hearts desolate.
"I don't know, but the old man can be sure that there will not be so many people who will go missing in a few years." General Yang exhaled deeply, and his flustered heartbeat was difficult to calm down.