Chapter 9: Escape from the Old World
The procession hurried in mournful silence, as the carriage could not walk on the steep and narrow mountain path, and Mon and Jane helped Hal out of the carriage. Meng ordered the carriage to be pushed down the valley leaving only the horses and supplies, in order not to expose the target, the team could only use the faint starlight to move forward on the rugged mountain road, the soldiers led the horses, and immediately carried the baby and the necessities of life, Hal carried a spear in his hand and climbed the mountain with the help of Meng and Jane.
Ascending a hill, Meng used Howl's artifact to look into the distance to the town of Ba, where the battle was over and the houses and camps burned in the town.
Meng said to Jane: "Jane'er, you take Brother Har and follow the prime minister's team to continue to the mountain, I will take some people to the town, if my father is alive, if he is killed, I will bury my father with my own hands." ”
After speaking, Meng led a hundred cavalry to run back to Ba Township.
Meng Chong went to the town to see that the houses and tents had been burned down, and only corpses were strewn across the field in the miserable moonlight. Everyone searched around the town and did not see the banner of King Ba, but someone found the banner of General Wang. The general was found on the ground not far from the flag, and he had several arrows stuck in his body and fell to the ground motionless.
Hu Mu stepped forward and touched the general's snort and said, "Prince, the general is still alive!" ”
"Save the General!" Meng said.
The military doctor quickly pulled out the arrows from the general's body, applied medicine and bandaged them.
"General! General! Blindfolded in the general's ear and whispered.
General Wang finally slowly woke up.
"General, what happened to my father?"
"Prince, there are too many Qin soldiers, and the king and I have been separated. I saw the king from a distance being knocked off his horse by several Qin generals, and I wanted to fight hard to save him, but I didn't go far before I was hit by a few arrows in the back, and then I was hit by someone again, and I fell off the horse and lost consciousness. The General's voice was very weak.
The crowd searched carefully inside and outside the town and still did not find the Ba king, but found more than 30 seriously wounded but still alive Ba soldiers.
Meng led his soldiers to bury the fallen Ba soldiers overnight, and then led the general and the wounded to catch up with the ranks of Hal and Jane, and finally spent the night in a valley.
Everyone only slept for an hour or two before dawn, and Hal observed with a telescope that neither the Qin pursuers were found on the mountain or on the river, and both Meng and Jian breathed a sigh of relief.
The team continued eastward, but fortunately it was autumn, the weather was not too cold, the mountains were full of ripe fruits, the dense forests were infested with wild beasts, and food was everywhere. The prince's ranks still consisted of more than six hundred able-bodied warriors, some of whom were leading the way, others assisting the adult women in leading the march of the children and the wounded.
The team walks during the day to round up prey, and at night in the valley to light a fire to roast game.
Wang Zimeng handed over the specific affairs of the team to Prime Minister Mei Cheng, and he and his sister Jane accompanied Hal day and night.
When the three of them are alone, Mon and Jane ask Brother Hal to tell them about the Outer World, and Hal is happy to tell stories to the siblings they met in the Earth World. Although they were on the way, they were accompanied by Howl, and both Mon and Jane considered the experience to be the best time of their lives.
I walked unhurriedly in the mountains for about ten days, and the weather was getting colder and colder day by day. Prime Minister Mei Cheng and General Wang proposed to Wang Zimeng: it is time to find a place to stay to spend the coming cold winter.
Standing on the top of a towering mountain, Hal and the prince siblings used binoculars to observe the landform of the interior north of the riverbank, and finally chose a place to spend the winter.
By this time, Hal had fully recovered from his arrow wounds, and he and his brother and sister led the team to leave the river bank and walk about thirty miles, and came to a beautiful mountain dock with an uninhabited radius of dozens of miles. The hills around the hill are covered with dense trees and bamboo forests, and a small stream flows through the hill.
The warriors and dolls were happy with the new home.
Prime Minister Mei led the soldiers to cut down bamboo and wood to build a temporary shelter, and some soldiers found a herd of wild boars deep in the dense forest, and Wang Zimeng immediately took Hal and Jian to lead a hundred warriors to hunt. It didn't take long for them to catch dozens of fat wild boars.
The dolls live in their new home and eat fragrant wild boar, all with big smiles on their faces.
But it was not enough to feed on the prey, because the weather was already cold, and the wounded soldiers and many women and children needed medicine when they were sick, as well as salt and cloth for daily life, which had to be purchased from the towns outside the mountains.
In search of the town, Hal and the prince climbed another high mountain, and with his telescope, Mon observed that about twenty miles to the southeast of the mountain was a plain, and that there was a small castle on the plain. So the three of them decided to immediately open a road to the plains beyond the mountains.
The soldiers were divided into two teams, one to cut wood and build houses, and the other to open the road day and night. The prince selected fifty able-bodied soldiers disguised as civilians, and led horses in several batches with gold and silver to the castle outside the mountain to buy food, medicine, and cotton cloth.
The shopping procession departs early in the morning and returns at sunset. The soldiers reported that the castle was well stocked, and that their horses were loaded with cotton cloth, grain, and much-needed salt and medicine.
Unexpectedly, the second group of soldiers who went down the mountain to shop brought back only a little food. They reported that the castle on the plain had just been occupied by the Qin, and that they did not dare to enter the city, so they could only buy a little food in the plain villages, and they heard the villagers talking that the Ba people and their sorcerers might have fled from the west to the mountains to the east. It is said that because the sorcerer shot the Qin people's hundred generals, the king of Qin offered a reward of thousands of gold, vowed to capture the Ba sorcerer, and then cut him with a thousand knives.
Fearing that the Qin people would send a large team of men and horses into the mountains to chase and kill, the prince and Prime Minister Mei decided to leave the place to find a safer place to move.
On this day, Hal and the prince siblings once again climbed the highest mountain in the mountains to look out at the surrounding landscape, and they saw a lake about thirty miles northwest of the peak, surrounded by large hills, and it seemed to be equally deserted.
Wang Zimeng said happily: "Brother Hal, it seems to be a good place to live in peace. We can dig holes in the slopes around the lake this winter, and there will definitely be fish and shrimp in the lake, wild boars in the mountains and forests to satisfy hunger, and when the spring flowers bloom, we can cultivate grain in the mountains on the shore of the lake, and it will soon become a paradise on earth. ”
Hal was also very happy, "If Brother Wang Zi thinks that this is the paradise on earth, when you get there, my mission will be completed." ”
But Jane was silent, her eyes were full of tears, although she had long known that Brother Hal belonged to that magical world outside the sky and would leave sooner or later, but when this day really approached, she still couldn't suppress the sadness in her heart. Brother Hal has shown her a new world and a wonderful life that she has always longed for, and Hal's departure will mean the disillusionment of her dreams.
Hal noticed Jane's sadness, and he was actually reluctant to leave this lively, lovable and understanding princess sister, and he also knew that she longed to see the developed human world he told about.
Jane was worried that Hal would see her crying and turned to walk down the mountain, and the moment she turned around, Hal suddenly had a question in her heart: "Why don't you take her with you?" ”
Hal made up his mind in an instant, and he shouted to Meng, "Brother Prince, if I take Jane back to Russ with me, what advice do you have?" ”
Jian was overjoyed when she heard this, she turned around and looked at Meng with teary eyes, how smart Meng was, he had long seen how obsessed Jian Er was with Brother Ha'er and his world, and Brother Hal also had a soft spot for Jian Er.
So Meng said loudly in a sincere tone: "Brother Hal, Brother Wang, I have entrusted Jian'er to you, I hope that when you return from the outer world to visit your relatives, we have already rebuilt the kingdom of Pakistan." ”
Returning to the station, Meng discussed the relocation with the prime minister's general.
The general said, "Prince, I and all the wounded soldiers have not yet recovered, and following you now will only affect everyone." There are already houses to live in, and I can stay here as mountain people for the time being, and I will go back to you when I am healed. It is better to keep this village of the Ba people in secret all the time, and if there is any news in the city outside the mountain in the future, the people who live here will report it to the prince in time. ”
Meng said: "The general is thoughtful, you stay here to recuperate with peace of mind, for safety, don't say to outsiders that you are Ba people, in order to facilitate communication in the future, this mountain dock is named Wangjiazhai, the highest mountain is called Xiba Peak, in the future, you only need to climb Xiba Peak and walk northwest for thirty miles, you will see a lake, we will live there." ”
Preparations for the relocation were carried out for three days, and early on the morning of the fourth day, the team headed northwest of Xiba Peak.
On this day, the weather suddenly became very cold, and the sky was full of dark clouds.
When the team finally crossed the Xiba Peak, a biting cold wind blew in the mountain, and then it snowed heavily, and nearly 6,000 people and horses crowded into a large valley waiting for the wind and snow to pass.
Because the cotton clothes have not yet had time to be made, everyone is thinly dressed, everyone is shivering with cold in the wind and snow, and the dolls are even more frozen and crying.
Surprisingly, the cold wind blew more and more fiercely, and the snow became denser and denser, and it did not stop at all. Hal and the prince soon realized that if they didn't get out of here as soon as possible, they would all freeze to death when night fell.
Hal did not hesitate to send a distress signal to the space sheriff, and after listening to Howl's report, the sheriff said helplessly: "Howl, I can come to save you and a few of your friends, but I can't save so many earthlings, not to mention that the laws of the Galactic Alliance do not allow us to do this." ”
Hal asks the sheriff for help so he can talk to his father, Mul, and the sheriff agrees.
Through the communication system of the sheriff's spaceship, Mul heard the voice of his son from the earth world, and he was very excited, but after listening to his son's report, Mul couldn't help frowning: "Hal, six thousand people can be transferred with a large cargo spaceship, but the sudden arrival of so many people in any inhabited area will cause large-scale turmoil. Wait a minute, I'll ask Mu Hong to check if there are any uninhabited planets near the Earth's galaxy space. ”
Hal and Meng Jian waited for half an hour with uneasy feelings, and finally Muer's kind voice came from the intercom again: "Hal has good news! Mu Hong found that there is an uninhabited asteroid between the earth and the space of the Russ galaxy, that planet is in a binary star system, the surface of the earth's crust has just undergone tens of millions of years of drastic geological changes have stabilized, because the surface of the planet is rich in gold mines, the galaxy alliance named it 'Golden Star', I will immediately rent a large cargo plane to teleport your Ba people friends to live on Golden Star, and then I will go through the relevant legal procedures through my friends who work at the headquarters of the Galactic Alliance. ”
Meng and Jane quickly spread the good news of the god's brother to the soldiers and civilians, and the valley was full of cheers.
Warm and bright divine light pierced the low and gloomy sky to illuminate the cold valley, and the divine light brought the people and horses that had been arranged in the valley in batches into the huge Shenzhou in the sky.
Meng stood in the wind and snow and raised his hands to the sky and called: "Divine Mountain Fangshi! Let's see if the miracles of my god brother are far beyond your prophecy! ”
In less than half an hour, all the people and horses in the valley were carried into space by the divine light, and the Ba people finally escaped from the war-torn old world and came to a heavenly new world.