Chapter 14: The Covenant of Life and Death (1)

After a pause of three or two days in Shouchun, Sun Ce's troops started again and marched towards Jiangdong.

Da Qiao was still dressed as a man and sat in the carriage, she held the picture scroll in her hand, her eyebrows were frowning, and she stared at the word "Xuzhou" in the seal for a moment. At this point, she can understand Sun Ce's hardships in forming an alliance with Cao Cao, but she still can't believe that he can protect his father in this troubled world.

After thinking about it, Da Qiao decided to take advantage of the chaos to grab a horse and run away when he camped tonight, and rushed to Xuzhou to accompany his father, and the only thing he couldn't let go of in his heart was Xiao Qiao, who went out with Zhou Yu.

Thinking of Xiao Qiao, Da Qiao's heart suddenly became worried, I don't know where the two of them have gone, whether they have found traces of the old times, Da Qiao's heartstrings are tense, and he can't calm down no matter what.

In the Huashan cave, the giant python's bloody mouth was close at hand, Zhou Yu held Xiao Qiao and retreated, being forced into a desperate situation with nowhere to hide, at the last moment, he put Xiao Qiao down and blocked him, stood with his sword, stepped on the jaw of the giant python, stood up and stabbed upward, the sword opened a long wound in the upper jaw of the snake, and the dark blood mixed with saliva flowed down, exuding a foul smell.

The giant python was greatly pained, and a spirit threw Zhou Yu down, twisting his body violently. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Yu picked up Xiao Qiao again and looked around to find an escape exit.

"Over there!" Xiao Qiao is small, but he can see the stone steps blocked by the stone tripod through the low gap. Zhou Yu didn't say a word, and galloped hard in the direction pointed by Xiao Qiao, and walked down the steps.

This ladder is built along the spiral of the high platform, with a total of more than 1,000 stone steps, which are long and far-reaching, as if connected to the eighteen-story netherworld. Before the two of them walked twenty steps, the stone steps in front of them were broken due to disrepair, and in the cracks, the tail of the giant python twisted back and forth, blocking the way, throwing out some gravel, Zhou Yu hurriedly took a few steps back, temporarily avoiding a safe place.

Thinking that the abyss under your feet is the lair of the giant python, as long as there are pedestrians who play in the mountains and rivers accidentally fall into the cave, they will instantly become the giant python's meal. Since it can maintain such a huge body in this dark cave, I don't know how many innocent passers-by it has swallowed alive, thinking of this, Zhou Yu's thin lips pursed, and his expression became more and more gloomy. Here he insisted on coming, even if he was buried here, he had no complaints, but how innocent Xiao Qiao was, how could he accompany him to die?

Before Zhou Yu had time to think more, he suddenly heard Xiao Qiao screaming: "It's coming!" ”

In the blink of an eye, the giant python stared at its slender pupils like a sharp sword, floating like a swimming dragon, this time it was not in a hurry to open its mouth, but spit out the letter, quickly curled up twice, and blocked the way of the two with its huge body.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu turned around and shouted to Xiao Qiao, "Hold steady", then took two steps back, struggled to run, and jumped into the air on the edge of the broken stone steps.

The giant snake was surrounded by a giant snake on his head, the abyss under his feet, and the strong wind was howling in his ears, only this person who was close at hand was so warm, Xiao Qiao's little head was on Zhou Yu's shoulder, and he completely forgot about being afraid.

In a trance, Zhou Yu had jumped over the broken steps and the snake body swimming back and forth on Xiao Qiao's back, and was about to land the steps. With a violent landing feeling, the two rolled down the stone steps, and the sky swirled down, and Xiao Qiao quickly lost consciousness in an instant.

In order to protect Xiao Qiao Zhouquan, Zhou Yu tightened his shoulders and completely wrapped her in his arms, but he was seriously injured. He didn't care about the severe pain around him, and struggled to pick up Xiao Qiao and escape. Although it has descended a long staircase, this level is no different from the previous one, it is still an abyss on all sides, except for a huge stalactite in the middle, and I don't know where it leads.

Zhou Yu didn't have time to think at all, when he saw the big snake swimming down the ladder pole quickly, spitting out a letter and galloping quickly. Looking at the only way to survive like a single-plank bridge in front of him, Zhou Yu had no choice, carrying Xiao Qiao on his back and stepping on the stalactite, but before he took three or two steps, there was a cracking sound under his feet, Zhou Yu couldn't wait any longer, and crossed the stone bridge in three steps and two steps. At the moment when he crossed the moat and reached the opposite side, the stalactite pillar made a crisp sound, broke in two, and fell into the abyss.

The catastrophe did not die, Zhou Yu was quite lucky, he tilted his head slightly, looked at Xiao Qiao lying on his back, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, who knew that he was going to turn around and leave here, and he heard a loud "bang", and the giant python actually took advantage of the momentum of the high platform, jumped down from above, crossed the moat, and pressed step by step.

Zhou Yu was seriously injured and carrying Xiao Qiao on his back, and his sword was thrown by the giant python, and he didn't know where to go, only a short knife and a hunting bow used to sound arrows were left on his side. If you rush to fight the giant snake, you will have more than luck, but if you run in vain, you may also encounter a dead end, and then everything will be over.

Just when Zhou Yu was in a dilemma, there was a sharp birdsong at the end of the cave corridor, from far to near, the noise was unbearable, making people's eardrums hurt, and the whole cave trembled. Before Zhou Yu could react, he saw thousands of strange birds whistling with their teeth and claws, hovering on the dome for several weeks, and converging in the shape of a dragon, swooping down towards the giant python like an eagle predatoring, and in an instant, the giant python was caught all over the body and bruised, and fled into the deep moat.

Xiao Qiao was awakened by the noise, and when she saw thousands of strange birds, she was so frightened that she exclaimed: "Zhou Lang, this is ...... This bird ......"

Zhou Yu took out the bamboo flute from his arms and put it to his mouth, but before he blew a few times, the bamboo flute was beaten out by the angry birds.

Xiao Qiao hurriedly climbed down from Zhou Yu's back, flicked his sleeves to block the birds, and ran to pick up the bamboo flute three or five feet away. The clinker bamboo flute hit the rock wall, I don't know what kind of mechanism it triggered, it caused a landslide and the ground cracked, the hole collapsed, and the sunlight poured in suddenly, Zhou Yu adapted to it for a while before opening his eyes, only to see Xiao Qiao lying at the entrance of the cave, three or five inches away, is the Huashan cliff.

The strange birds also hesitated for a moment, and when they regained their vision, they immediately stabbed at Zhou Yu like sharp arrows. Xiao Qiao picked up the bamboo flute despite being injured in many parts of his body, but was blocked by strange birds and could not hand it to Zhou Yu.

The birds hovered above the heads of the two like dark clouds, and Zhou Yu used a short sword to defend himself, gradually losing his strength. In the cave, the screams of the birds covered up the voices of Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't hear each other's voices, Xiao Qiao was so anxious that he had to put the bamboo flute in his mouth and blow it with great strength.

Thousands of birds in the cave fluttered their wings and stabbed towards Xiao Qiao. Zhou Yu couldn't care about being pecked all over his body, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and said hoarsely: "Don't blow it!" They're going to attack you! ”

There were so many birds, hundreds and thousands, and at the moment when they swayed upward, Xiao Qiao finally saw the handsome figure hidden under the black pressure again. If the birds are eliminated, Zhou Yu may still have a chance of life, it is better than both of them dying here, Xiao Qiao's clear eyes were full of tears, and he looked at Zhou Yu greedily, as if this was the last time he looked at him like this in his life. Zhou Yu saw some clues from her expression, and quickly stopped: "No! ”

But he was still a step too late, and when all the strange birds in the cave flew out and pierced her, Xiao Qiao jumped and fell off the cliff, but the sound of the flute did not stop, luring the birds to fall into the endless abyss with her.