Chapter 274
Su Jinyao shouted: "Brother Geng, you have to be careful, if you have something, call me." ”
"Good. Miss Liu, you also have to be careful not to keep going deeper. After Geng Bin finished speaking, he continued to walk inside.
After a few days of getting along, Su Jinyao knew that Geng Bin was a very reliable person. is not reckless and does not have the impulsiveness of young people, calm, restrained, and martial arts seem to be good.
And through the regularity of his breathing and work and rest, Su Jinyao was able to know that Geng Bin's internal strength was definitely very deep.
In addition, he usually does things without leakage, so Su Jinyao has no doubt that Geng Bin is a very capable, but deeply hidden person. So even if the two sides are separated now, Su Jinyao is not so worried about Geng Bin's (qíng) situation.
In other words, Geng Bin was sent by the second prince to protect Su Jinyao, does he still need Su Jinyao to add more (cāo) hearts?
Su Jinyao looked around again, but was worried that there were too few herbs she had collected.
After all, she is a healer, and she is more skilled in identifying herbs than Geng Bin. But look at the furoshiki she wears around her waist as a temporary cloth bag, there are not a few handfuls of herbs in it, and it is basically flattened.
At this rate, you won't get much out of it until it gets dark. And if there are fewer herbs, it may not meet the requirements of crossing the grass at all.
At the very least, the safety measures for the two horses must be taken well, but the amount is too small and too small now.
Thinking of this, Su Jinyao decided to go deeper and try it a little deeper.
After all, when she was training, there were also a lot of swamps in the vast primeval forest, and she had also been to the grassland. She walked through the meadows, looking for some herbs.
If you take 10,000 steps back, even if you are really stuck in the swamp, as long as it is not the kind that has no top all of a sudden, Su Jinyao can find a way to climb out.
Since she had the worst plan, Su Jinyao decided to move towards the biggest goal. She's going to have to collect a bag full of herbs.
The deeper you go, the grass at first just didn't reach your knees, then it didn't reach your thighs. As you walk through, move forward while pushing through the grass, and keep an eye out for any confusion of usable herbs in the roots of the dwarf grass clusters underground.
But finally where the grass grows luxuriantly, there are more and more herbs. There are several mint plants alone, and the plants are a little stronger than ordinary mint, and the leaves are thicker.
After walking for about half an hour, it was getting late, and the mosquitoes among the grass began to fly, ready for the "surprise attack" of the night.
The burden on Su Jinyao's waist was instead carried behind her back. Because the herbs were almost full, I couldn't hang them on my waist, so I had to carry them on my back. So Su Jinyao decided to go back.
But by this time she had walked very deep, at least a few hundred meters from the edge of the meadow. It seems like a distance of several hundred meters in a straight line, but it is only a matter of a few minutes to walk (qíng).
However, the grass in this meadow is waist-high, and the view is blocked, and the ground (qíng) cannot be seen a few steps away from the front and back, which is actually more dangerous. So to get out, it also takes more time.
Su Jinyao walked back and looked in the direction of Geng Bin to the south. For half a day, she was concentrating on collecting herbs, and she didn't bother to contact Geng Bin, not knowing what was going on with his (qíng) side.
Su Jinyao shouted, "Brother Geng, how are you doing over there?" I've picked a lot, and you're pretty much good on the other side, so it should be enough. ”
"Okay, I'll go back. The mosquitoes are all out, Miss Liu, you go back first. Geng Bin's voice came, and then he could be seen standing up straight (shēn) from the long grass, revealing a brain, and then waved his arm at Su Jinyao's side.
Su Jinyao also waved at him, and then walked back as soon as possible. She didn't want to be bitten by mosquitoes here.
However, because the burden she was carrying (shēn) was full of herbs, and although it had not yet been dried, it still had a strong smell, so the mosquitoes were just circling around her, and they had not yet pounced on her and swallowed them directly.
After walking more than ten steps, Su Jinyao saw a big puddle in front of her. If it is a small puddle hidden in the grass, this distance is not easy to spot. Now that you can see the condition (qíng), you can see that the puddle is very deep, and the grass can no longer grow in the center, so it is exposed.
Su Jinyao didn't see this puddle when she came, but when she came, she just looked down for the herbs, and she didn't pay attention to the direction, probably coming from a certain side.
Su Jinyao turned south, intending to bypass the big puddle. The grass here is really getting higher and higher, and the grass is already as high as Su Jinyao's shoulders more than twenty steps away.
And to get around that puddle, she has to walk some more distance, Su Jinyao really doesn't know if she will go to the future, she can't even show her brain, there is only a long grass in front of her.
If that's the case, it's the easiest to get lost. You may have taken ten steps and you have already deviated from the direction, and because you can't see the situation around you (qíng), you will go further and further into the depths.
Therefore, Su Jinyao paid attention to the position of the shadow cast by the sunset, so that even if she couldn't see the direction, she could walk back to the shore according to the direction of the shadow.
But just as Su Jinyao had determined the direction and was about to continue walking, she heard a dense "rustle" sound from the grass in front of her.
This kendu is not the sound of the wind and grass, but the sound of a man or beast moving quickly through the grass.
Su Jinyao immediately stopped, held her breath and listened carefully, carefully identifying the direction and distance from which the sound came, and at the same time distinguishing whether it might be the footsteps of a human or a beast.
It's people! And he is a person who walks very fast and has a lot of steps. But Kendu is not Geng Bin.
Su Jinyao has been on the same road with Geng Bin these days, and she can already accurately distinguish his footsteps. Even if the sound of walking in the grass is different from that on the ground, a person's shēn height and stride distance are fixed, which is related to the person's various habits. So Su Jinyao was sure when she heard that this person was not Geng Bin.
But, in such a vast meadow, who else is here? And it came in such a silent hurry?
Su Jinyao frowned, did not act rashly, and did not ask out loud. Instead, she gently brushed the grass behind (shēn) away, and slowly, slowly stepped back, exiting where she had just stood.
Because of Su Jinyao's slow movement, there was hardly any sound.
And the man who was rushing towards her suddenly lost his purpose, and immediately stopped and listened intently.
Su Jinyao was even more sure this time that that person was not only not Geng Bin, but also most likely to ambush her.
Su Jinyao was not in a hurry, but when the other party stopped to listen, she reached out and shook the grass in front of her right, and then slowly retreated again.
Just when Su Jinyao withdrew only five steps away, a person's brain suddenly popped up in the grass where she was standing just now. Su Jinyao hid in the dense grass, holding her breath and not moving. And the brain melon that suddenly appeared looked left and right, and then looked at the grass that was stepped on by Su Jinyao just now, and seemed to be stunned why there was no one here.
Five steps away, Su Jinyao could clearly see the other party's appearance. Tall, fierce-looking, and dark-brown in skin, not the skin color of the indigenous Africans, but the kind of swarthy face that can only be found after years of working under the head (rì).
Although she couldn't see the other party's clothes, Su Jinyao could tell from the person's hairstyle and earrings that this should be an alien. In other words, this tall and fierce man may be a Fanbang man from Qingfan.
Qingfan's man doesn't seem to have very good eyes, and his observation is average. I couldn't see anyone left and right, and I didn't know how to expand the search area to other places, so I was stunned for a while and then retreated.
Su Jinyao concluded that this person must be a small character, just sent to find someone. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so dedicated, and it wouldn't be so perfunctory.
The footsteps were far away again, and Su Jinyao moved (shēn) and was closely watching the situation around her.
A Qingfan person suddenly appeared here, which made Su Jinyao have to be more careful.
Su Jinyao was thinking about whether it was no longer safe to stay here, whether to discuss with Geng Bin to change places, or to break through this grass tonight. I heard a sudden scolding from Geng Bin from the south: "What person? Hmmm......"
Obviously, Geng Bin's side encountered the same (qíng) situation as Su Jinyao. But his condition seems to be even worse, and he should have been attacked.
Su Jinyao narrowed her eyes and began to think about whether she should go over to save Geng Bin now, or retreat to a safe distance first.
Just thinking about it for a moment, Su Jinyao felt that she would withdraw first.
Although she is no longer a cold-blooded killer, years of training, calmness in her bones, and thorough analysis of habits (xìng) have made Su Jinyao come to a conclusion: Now the situation of friend and foe (qíng) is unknown, the terrain is very complicated, and I don't know Geng Bin's specific situation (qíng), so it is not the best time to rescue at all.
In other words, in the worst-case scenario, if Geng Bin had already been killed, Su Jinyao's reckless running over would just send herself under the other party's nose.
But if Geng Bin can solve it by himself, rushing over by himself may also cause Geng Bin's accidental injury, or add some trouble to him.
So Su Jinyao decided to retreat to a safe place first, observe the terrain, judge the exact location of Geng Bin, and the danger index of his attack. Then think about what method to use to rescue.
This decision sounds very cold-blooded (qíng), but I have to say that this is the most suitable and safest way that Su Jinyao can think of after weighing the current form.
I don't know if it's because the enemy on the other side has already won it, or because Geng Bin's (shēn) has it, and he has solved all the other party's people at once. There was no other sound over there.
But Su Jinyao became more and more unoptimistic. Because Geng Bin's personality (xìng), he is a person with a great sense of responsibility, and if he is really attacked and is unharmed (qíng), he must be the first to ask Su Jinyao's (qíng) situation.
But until now, Su Jinyao has not heard Geng Bin's voice again, which can be seen...... He is afraid that he will be more auspicious and less lucky.
Thinking of this, Su Jinyao simply threw away the burden she was carrying behind her back, quickened her pace, and raised her vigilance (xìng).
At the same time, she did not move the long grass in front of her with her hands, but walked through the gaps in the blades of grass as fast as she could. Even if some sharp blades of grass crossed her face, and her face was hot and painful, she didn't go to remove the grass first.
Because Su Jinyao knew very well that pushing away the grass would cause greater movement, and it would be very easy for the other party to find the target. In her (shēn) form, if she only shuttles through the grass, if you don't look closely, you can only feel the waves blown by the wind in the grass.
Su Jinyao's (shēn) shape was slender, and she was a head shorter than the Qingfan person she had just seen, so Su Jinyao's (shēn) material was easier to hide in the grass.
Similarly, if the tall (shēn) green fan follows her, as long as she runs to Asakusa, the other party will expose the target before her.
Moreover, Su Jinyao also calculated that the effective (shè) range of bows and arrows is generally within 200 meters; Unless it is a particularly strong military commander with a specially made bow, the (shè) distance should be able to reach a distance of about 300 meters.
However, these people who came to ambush and sneak attack in the grass obviously did not look like the kind of warriors with superb skills and strong arm strength, so Su Jinyao was sure that the attack range of these people was within two hundred meters.
And if she can run back to the open space where they are going to camp safely, even if her target is clearly exposed, and the other party is hiding too far in the deep grass, it is impossible to (shè) hit her.
If she wants to fight in close (shēn), Su Jinyao is not afraid of anyone. Including a martial arts master.
Soon, the grass next to Su Jinyao (shēn) became shorter and shorter, reaching a waist-high height with her, and the grass that was taller behind (shēn) occasionally moved, but no Qingfan people came out.
It wasn't until Su Jinyao completely ran out that she found another serious problem...... Their horses were gone.
When she and Geng Bin went down to pick herbs, the horses were placed near this small slope.
Not all the grass here is the kind that horses eat. In fact, war horses are also very picky eaters, and the war horses that are always the best feed are at most gnawing on the turf and grinding their teeth when they have nothing to do, so they are unlikely to run far away to eat grass.
But if you look at it, at least you can't see the war horse as far as the eye can see. In other words, unless the horse ran into the depths of the grass on its own, it was very likely that it was taken away by those Qingfan people who sneaked up.
Su Jinyao stood here, her eyes deep and her eyebrows frowning slightly. On the surface, it seems that she has been (bī) to a Jedi.
Of course, this is also because she carefully avoided the other party in the grass, so she was lucky enough to escape. If she had been tricked just now, she might have been with her horse and Geng Bin now.
However, this (qíng) situation is not the worst for Su Jinyao, at least she is not injured, and the other party does not dare to come out.
The only thing to worry about is that it is getting dark, will the other party lie in ambush and wait until the night to surround them, or will they also leave here before it gets dark?
It can be said that every choice now will face the test of life and death. Su Jinyao seems to have not encountered such a truly dangerous moment for a long time.
A kind of bloodthirsty cells buried in the bones came out, Su Jinyao was never afraid of any danger, and even after a long time of comfort, she would miss the taste of blood.
Su Jinyao pursed her lips and smiled, coldly: "Hehe, come on, provoke me, it was your misjudgment." Su Jinyao stood alone on a small dirt slope, with a vast grassland in front of her, the highest point of which could be above her head; In the lower places, the puddles (shè) are full of dark sun, and the water waves are flushed, as if to indicate the coming battle.
烈 (rì) sloping westward, leaving a blood-colored cloud on the horizon, and the air is full of burning (rè) moisture. He was about to reach the realm of Qingfan, and it seemed that the breath of war was also permeating the scorching (rè) aura, and the depressed people couldn't breathe.
On a black war horse, outside Gu Xuebin's black brocade robe, was a silver battle armor. The huge contrast between black and silver white makes his (shēn) shape more and more slender (tǐng).
Gu Xuebin didn't expect that at the age of eighteen, he would spend time on the battlefield. He thought that after this palace dispute, it would be a meeting with Jin Yao. What kind of country, what kind of court, is really not as comfortable as her smile and comes.
If it weren't for being able to match her heart, if it weren't for the enmity of his mother and the entire Fang family, he would have taken the woman with his heart (ài) to the end of the world and lived a comfortable life.
However, when his nineteen-year-old life (rì) was approaching, the greatest gift of life to him was a battle of catastrophe. He had long heard that Qingfan was eyeing him, but he didn't expect it to come so suddenly.
Originally, there was no shortage of soldiers in the imperial court, and it was not his turn to go on the expedition under the crown prince (diàn).
But his uncle Tuoba Gao had already led his troops to Mobei a month ago, and now there was a sudden rebellion in southern Xinjiang, and he was personally ordered by the emperor to lead his troops to the battle.
The emperor's Chrysostom said that he could not disobey him, whether he was a son of man or a minister. He didn't even have time to say goodbye to Jin Yao, so he ordered his troops to go on the march.
"Woo woo...... a long wolf howl sounded, and a black wolf king flashed golden wolf pupils in the red sunset, raising his eyes to look into the distance.
Wolves have an extremely keen sense of smell and can smell from several kilometers away in normal conditions (qíng). If it is a tailwind (qíng) situation, and the smell of individual wolves is abnormally developed, it is possible to smell odors from ten kilometers away.
It was in this scorching air that the black wolf king smelled a familiar smell, so after a long howl, he ran back and circled around Gu Xuebin's horse, and suddenly ran in another direction.
"Ah Ye!" Gu Xuebin called its name loudly, trying to call it back.
Hearing Gu Xuebin's cry, the wolf king Ah Ye stopped, looked back at Gu Xuebin, and howled again, the distant wolf howl seemed to have unlocked a bloody curtain in the dark night.
"Chu Xiang, you give the order, and the army will camp here tonight; Chen Kuo, you are the supervising army, responsible for sending people to garrison and patrol the camp. You two will defend the camp tonight, and you must not lose anything. After Gu Xuebin finished speaking, he jumped off his horse and began to untie the straps of the battle armor (shēn).