Early the next morning, Hal rushed to the riverside pier to catch a large caravan.

There were less than ten passengers on board, and two boatmen, one old and one young, stood at the bow and stern and shook their oars. Although it was sailing against the current, the weather was sunny and the wind was beautiful, and the large caravan boat sailed west on the vast river under the vigorous rocking of the boatman.

Hal's mood was as clear as the sky, and he stood on the aft deck and watched the beauty of the river flowing on both sides of the river.

After leaving the capital of Chu, the two sides of the river bank that you first saw were plains or hilly areas, and the ground was scattered with large and small villages. But after the afternoon of the voyage, rolling peaks gradually appeared on both sides of the river, and the river became narrower and narrower.

At this time, only half of the passengers were left on the caravan, and the others disembarked at the pier on the way. Navigating through the crevices of the steep mountains that towered into the sky on either side, Hal suddenly felt a sense of divine awe.

When Hal asked the old boatman how far Ba Township was, the boat man replied with a smile: "Ba Township is about twenty miles away, and you can reach it before sunset today." Seeing that the little guest officer came from afar, may I ask if he went to Baxiang Town to do wine business or play? ”

Hal replied, "I've come from the East, and I've heard that Ba Township produces famous wine, so I'm going to take a look." ”

The old boatman nodded: "Yes, the world-famous Baxiang sake is produced there, and many of the guests who take our boat go there to do wine business or call friends to eat, drink and have fun there." However, because Pakistan fought with Shu in the west not long ago, there were very few passengers going to the west in the past two days. ”

Sure enough, as the shipman said, when the ship arrived in Ba Township, there was only Hal on board. Hal said goodbye to the boatman and got off the boat at the wharf on the north bank of the river, and then walked alone through the cold and quiet wharf to Ba Township, not far from the river bank.

As soon as he stepped into the streets of the town, Hal immediately smelled the smell of wine wafting in the air, and his somewhat tired spirit immediately lifted up, and at the same time the hunger welled up in his heart.

However, when he stepped onto the smooth cobblestone street, he found that the street was surprisingly deserted, with no one in sight from end to end, and the shops on both sides of the street were closed.

Hal couldn't help but look up at the western sky, where the sun had not yet set beneath the tall peaks in the west. Why did the people of this town close their doors so early? Hal pondered for a moment.

He followed the aroma of wine while looking left and right, and when he came to a crossroads, he saw a large flag with black characters on a red background fluttering on the roof of a house, and the door under the flag was opened, and the rich aroma of wine wafted out from that doorway.

Hal was overjoyed and quickened his pace towards the restaurant. When I entered the door, there was no palm lamp in the house, the light was a little dim, and a large group of people were eating and drinking and talking in the house.

Seeing Hal walking in from the outside, the people in the house immediately fell silent, and all eyes were on the uninvited guest. It was only then that Hal realized that the people present were all old men, and their costumes were very close to those of the musicians. More than a dozen old Ba people sat around a rectangular banquet made up of two large square tables, on which were placed several large plates of dishes and several pots of wine.

A tall old man stood up and walked up to Hal and said very politely, "Sir has come from afar, if you are hungry, please dine with us and others, I have the best Baxiang sake in the store to entertain Mr." ”

Listening to the words, the old man in front of him was the owner of this restaurant, and Hal responded politely: "Thank you for the invitation, I'm hungry, I see that other shops on the street are closed, why is the shopkeeper still open for business?"

The shopkeeper sighed: "Alas, it's a long story, please take a seat, and let me wait for me to speak slowly." ”

The seated old men stood up and politely gave up their seats to Hal, who thanked them and sat down. The shopkeeper brought Hal a set of clean cutlery, and the old man next to Hal poured him a glass of wine. The color and taste of the wine immediately reminded Hal of the wine he had tasted with the musicians in the capital of Chu.

The shopkeeper picked up his wine glass and stood up and said happily: "Friends, let's first toast to this guest who has come to my Ba Township at this moment!" ”

The old men immediately responded, and they stood up and saluted Hal, who took the glass and drank it with them.

Everyone sat down, and the shopkeeper said to Har with a worried face: "Sir just asked why there are few people on the street, and the door of the store is closed, because the Qin people launched a surprise attack on our country three days ago. The young people of the town all went to the barracks of Prince Ba stationed outside the town to serve as soldiers, and the prince was worried that the Qin cavalry would sneak attack the town of Ba to burn and loot, so he ordered the women, old people and children to flee to the countryside to hide, so now only I and others are left in the town. ”

Hal was very surprised when he heard this, "I have heard from the shipwright that Pakistan is at war with Shu in the west, so it is said that Qin took advantage of the chaos to attack your Pakistan country?" ”

An old man present said angrily: "Sir doesn't know, it was the Qin people who first pretended to help our Ba people fight against Shu, and just when our Ba soldiers were fighting with Shu people on the border, the Qin people suddenly dispatched tens of thousands of elite cavalry to attack our Pakistan country. First of all, they burned all the warships of our Pakistani navy, and then cut off the retreat route of the main force of our Pakistani people with a large army on one road, and directly attacked the land of Pakistan on the other road. Because of the suddenness of the treachery of the Qin people, our Ba people were not well prepared, so it took only three days for the Qin cavalry to occupy most of the cities of our Ba people. ”

Hal was surprised, it seemed that the Palestinians were in a bad situation. He had already seen from the map that there was a large country called Qin in the northern part of Pakistan. Hal thought to himself, what if the Qin cavalry suddenly entered this town?

However, when he saw the fearless expression of the old man sitting there, his panicked heart calmed down. On second thought, if he could observe the war between humans on Earth up close, his expedition report would be extraordinary. But if the soldiers of the Qin State who live here tonight really come to attack, wouldn't he and the old Ba people here be in danger of their lives?

Thinking of this, he looked at the shopkeeper and asked, "Shopkeeper, since your prince thinks there is danger and wants you to evacuate, why are you still staying here?" ”

The shopkeeper became emotional when he heard this, and he said generously: "Sir, I don't know, my old friend and I here have a deep blood feud with the Qin people, because our sons were killed by the Qin people!" We stayed here and waited for the Qin people to come and die!"

Hal looked over the shopkeeper's shoulder and saw a row of primitive farm tools and other iron tools leaning against the wall, which were undoubtedly the weapons that the old men had prepared to fight the enemy. But how could these dozen or so old men resist the attack of the enemy's cavalry with these primitive weapons?

Hal said worriedly, "Ladies and gentlemen, I understand your feelings, but ......"

Hal's words were interrupted by the rhythmic sound of iron hooves from far and near. The shopkeeper stood up and said, "I'll go and see, it should be the prince's men and horses that have entered the town!" ”

The shopkeeper walked to the outside of the door and looked at it for a moment, then turned around and ran back into the house and shouted, "It's Qin Bing here!" ”

The old men immediately stood up, rushed to the wall, picked up their weapons, and rushed out the door.

The sound of horses' hooves was close to the door of the restaurant, and Hal was the only one left in the house, although he was a little panicked but very calm-headed, he stood up, took out the gun from his pocket, turned on the energy switch, and held it tightly in his hand. Glancing around, it was clear that there was only one entrance to the house, and it was necessary to walk out through this gate anyway.

As Hal approached the door, he saw at least ten soldiers in armor riding tall horses around the exit of the restaurant, their broadswords gleaming chillingly in the setting sun. However, the old men of the Ba people were not afraid, and with a command, they raised their weapons and rushed towards the invaders.

However, although they were extremely brave, they had no chance of victory, and after only a few rounds, several old men were cut to the ground by the soldiers on their horses, and one of them had his head cut off.

Hal recovered from a moment of horror, and if he didn't make a move, the old men who had just sat down with him to drink and toast would be killed by all the enemies who came to him.

Hal raised his gun and fired at the cavalry on his horse, and as their faces flashed with flames, the soldiers on the horse screamed and fell off their horses, and the cavalry after falling off their horses was then beaten by the old man of the Ba people.

One of the horsemen, who was furthest away, looked up and saw Hal inside, and immediately understood that the sudden attack was coming from inside. He exclaimed, "Wizard! There's a wizard in the house! It's the hell fire he struck!"

The cavalry turned his horse around and fled, and Hal fired an energy bullet at him and hit him in the back, but instead of falling to the ground, the cavalryman threw himself on his horse and fled back on his horse.

The battle in front of the restaurant ended quickly, and Hal put away his gun and walked out the door.

Seeing the shattered corpses and bright red blood everywhere in front of him, he involuntarily sat down on the stone steps in front of the restaurant. Although Hal has always considered himself a person with a strong character, who can be calm and normal in the face of such a bloody murder scene for the first time?

The surviving shopkeeper and the old man fell to their knees in front of Hal.

"Fang Shi, please forgive me for waiting for the old man to be dizzy and blind, I don't know that it was Fang Shi who came to save my Ba people, please forgive me for being disrespectful!" The shopkeeper bowed to Hal with his hands together.

Hal stubbornly stood up from the stone steps, "Everyone, get up! Let's get out of here together. I'm just a passing tourist, not a monk. ”

Hal said and struggled to raise his weak legs and walked out, this place was too terrifying and he had to flee immediately, not to mention that the Qin soldiers would return at any time to take revenge.

The old men stood up and followed Hal, but no sooner had they taken than they were surrounded by a large group of cavalry that rushed like a wind from the crossroads. The cavalry numbered in the hundreds, and they surrounded the entire cross street. With a command, dozens of cavalrymen took their bows and arrows from their backs and opened their bows and arrows against Hal and the others.

The old men of the Ba people seemed to have received a hint from the gods at the same time, and they quickly surrounded Hal and tried to use their bodies to fend off the arrows for Hal .

However, the cavalry did not immediately open their bows and arrows. A man with his fingers surrounded by a banner shouted: "I have heard that one of you is a wizard who can make a ghost fire and killed many of Ben's soldiers, and I don't believe that there is such a strange thing in the world." Please stand up to the wizard, Ben will see with his own eyes how powerful your ghost fire is, the armor on Ben Jiang's body is indestructible, if you can use the ghost fire to penetrate Ben Jiang's armor, Ben will leave you a whole corpse for you to be a new person in the next life, otherwise, Ben will cut off your head, hands and feet, so that you will never be able to live forever!"

The shopkeeper whispered behind Hal, "Fangshi, set him on fire!" Even if he is killed by random arrows, he can still be a monk in the next life. ”

Hal calmed down at this point, thinking that he was going to die here today anyway. Before dying, he must teach the arrogant general in front of him and the murderous soldiers around him without blinking.

Although Hal never thought about what happened after death, at this moment, Hal really hoped that there would really be an afterlife after death, so that he could return to the world and live again.

Hal took out his gun and stretched out from the gap between the bodies of the two old men in front of him, aiming at the smug Qin general who was sitting on the horse, and shot an energy bullet, and then aimed the muzzle of the gun at the soldiers next to General Qin and shot one after another.

General Qin and several cavalrymen screamed and fell off their horses one after another, but the Qin general who fell to the ground did not die but shouted: "Hurry up and release the arrow!"

The shopkeeper behind Hal shouted, "Protect the Fangshi!" Then he grabbed Hal's body with both hands and pushed him to the ground.

Hal fell face down to the ground and heard "Whoosh! The sound of the arrows was heard, and he felt the people around him fall one by one and press on him.

Just then, Hal heard earth-shattering shouts and horses' hooves.

The earth trembled.