preface

Bai Yu never thought that pursuing the answer to a dream would turn the world he was living in upside down.

A nightmare

"Rush-", with a loud roar, Bai Yu took the lead and killed the camp of the Baichuan people. Behind him, countless warriors of the Goikol tribe wore bloodstained leather armor and followed Bai Yu's pace closely with their bloodstained and cold swords in their hands. "Warriors, this is the last battle between us and the Baichuan Clan, victory is at hand, and we will soon have the right to continue to exist on this continent." Bai Yu roared on the battlefield, boosting the morale of his clansmen. "The long-cherished wish of the people of our people is about to be fulfilled in our hands. Let's fight! Warriors, welcome our new future! Bai Yu struck his chest hard, and in his body, it was his feverish blood boiling!

At sunset, the last Baichuan man fell at the feet of Bai Yu. Bai Yu wiped his blood-spilled, slightly hideous face fiercely, revealing an ecstatic expression, and the corners of his mouth turned upwards uncontrollably. Then Bai Yu raised the war knife in his hand high and raised his head to the sky and roared. The war horse under his crotch seemed to feel his emotions as well, and the man stood up. Seeing this scene, all the Gaoikol people who survived on the battlefield couldn't help but cheer loudly. But before the whistling of the white feather ended, the front hooves of the war horse landed on the ground again, and the mutation rose steeply. In just an instant, the battlefield that had just ended turned into a purgatory—the earth trembled, but it could not prevent itself from being torn apart, and magma gushed out of the ground along the cracks; The sky was stained blood-red, and huge stones continued to fall from the sky with fire, and the rain of fire covered the entire continent.

Bai Yu looked at the sudden change in front of him stupidly, he was stunned by this terrifying scene. At that moment, the ground where he was located also cracked with a roar. In the panic, Bai Yu didn't have time to think about it, relying on the protective instinct that he had cultivated over many years of fighting on the battlefield, he turned over and rolled off the horse's back with his legs, and fell to the ground on the side, while the war horse screamed and fell into the crack that had just been torn apart from the earth. But before he could rejoice that he had escaped, a boulder had already fallen head-on......

"Ahh Bai Yu sat up from the bed suddenly, his back soaked with cold sweat. After getting up, Bai Yu looked around for the first time, then touched the bed under him, and finally looked around again, and his tense body gradually relaxed. He sat in this position until his rapid breathing became calm, but the frightened gaze flashed from time to time revealed that he had not come out of the tragic and suffocating scenes of his dreams.

"It's a damn nightmare again, and it's over?" Bai Yu clenched his fists and slammed them hard against the soft bed, complaining hatefully, then sighed and rubbed his temples vigorously. Ever since he had this strange dream, he has felt uncomfortable with his current life. At first, he didn't care, thinking that he was too stressed, but this feeling became stronger and stronger, so much so that he wondered if his current lifestyle was really normal.

When it was dawn, Bai Yu got up quickly. After hitting a bucket of water, first dipping his whole head in the bucket and scrubbing it, then scooping up the bucket, calling a bucket full of cold water on himself, and drying it with a hand towel, he now looks much more energetic. After sobering himself up in this way, Bai Yu packed up his ropes, put on his battle armor, and walked into the school field. On the school ground, the 200 light cavalry under his command had been lined up. This cavalry is the elite of the Goikol clan, and even now in training, they still have a murderous aura that can only be seen on the battlefield. With Bai Yu's order, the cavalry moved in unison, and the training began. Time passed quickly, and seeing that it was almost noon, Bai Yu disbanded the team and let them go to a lunch break. Just as he was about to go back to the house to rest, one of the elder of the Gorikor stopped him.

"Commander White Feather, the elder asks you to rush to the temple now, he has something important to announce."

Bai Yu hurried to the temple, but when he reached the steps of the temple, an unfamiliar atmosphere came from the direction of the temple, which made him unconsciously stop and stare at the temple, the reverence of the past was gone, and there was only a strange feeling, but this feeling was fleeting, and the next moment he started to walk up the steps.

The temple was filled with the leaders of the Goikor clan waiting for the elders to announce the news. Bai Yu looked around the entire temple, and felt slightly surprised in his heart: why did even the three commanders stationed on the side come back? On weekdays, the elders' instructions are not always passed on to them by the messengers, but this time they are present in person, and it seems that the clan is going to make a big move.

While he was thinking, the elder came.

The elder with the scepter in his hand slowly walked up to the altar and said in his slightly hoarse voice: "It has been three years since the last decisive battle with the Baichuan people, and in the past three years, our clan has been recuperating and recuperating, and has been growing its strength all the time, hoping that one day we can annihilate the Baichuan clan and be ashamed of our ancestors." At this, the elder's eyes burst out with two formidable rays of light, and he shouted in an almost crazy voice, "Now, I tell you, this day is coming!" ”

The elder walked to the huge sand table, pointed to a high place, and said slowly and in a low voice: "Zangqing Mountain is a strategic place, easy to defend and difficult to attack, this is already well known to everyone, and the people of Baichuan know its value even more, and have sent a large number of men to garrison the mountain. I think back then, how many times our clan pursued by victory, and the offensive was blocked in the Tibetan Qingshan, and our territory could only expand to the foot of the Tibetan Qingshan. The elder said, raising his head slightly, his eyes blurred, as if thinking of the unwillingness of the ancestors back then. It is because of the Tibetan green mountains as a barrier that the people of Baichuan can survive to this day. However, now it is different, we already have enough troops to storm the Tibetan Qingshan, as long as we take the Tibetan Qingshan, victory is equal to our hands. After saying this, the elder looked around at everyone present, and then continued, "Now I will tell you how we will fight this battle. This time we were going to encircle the Tibetan Castle Hill from three sides, and my intention was to have the front team send a tenth of the troops to take charge of the feint attack to draw the attention of the defenders of the Tibetan Mountains, and the soldiers deployed on both flanks should penetrate into the enemy's belly as quickly as possible to inflict heavy losses on them while they were unprepared. A hit is naturally the best, but if a blow misses, or if the Baichuan people discover our intentions early, the frontal team will turn into a feint, and the teams on both flanks will carry out positional warfare, remember, we are far less familiar with the Tibetan Qingshan than the Baichuan people, so don't fight them in the field. As long as we take it one step at a time, we will eventually eat them one by one. ”

The battle plan sounded like it had been arranged, and Bai Yu stood up, first saluting the elder with his hand on his chest, and then he asked: "Elder, your plan is perfect, but why did almost all the warriors in the clan go to the front line this time, but the cavalry under my command was not assigned to the task." At the same time, Bai Yu was also thinking in his heart: Indeed, the cavalry is not very useful when attacking the mountain, but it will not be completely without a task like now. Just as he was puzzled, the elder looked at Bai Yu, as if he knew that he had this question, and said to him: "Shao'an, don't be impatient, Bai Yu, this time you and your cavalry have a special mission, so I will put it at the end." Everyone can see that this time our clan is making an unreserved blow, in order to make us take the Tibetan Qingshan more smoothly, I decided to let Bai Yu lead his 200 light cavalry around the Krissi Gobi to cut off the supply of the Baichuan people to the Tibetan Qingshan. As soon as these words came out, the commanders present were immediately surprised. The climate of Krissi is harsh, and it is an extremely difficult to cross the Gobi, and after crossing the Gobi, it will lose contact with its own people and become a completely isolated army. Not only did the grain and grass have to be snatched from the Baichuan people, but once their whereabouts were discovered, they could be besieged and killed at any time, so even if the Baichuan people did not fortify there, our tribe had not sent troops to cross the Krissi Gobi over the years. Now that the decisive battle is imminent, it is necessary to send the elite to the death, which will of course cause controversy among the commanders. The elder waved his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then he said: "I understand that this is a risky move, if in normal times, I would never go, but this time we will attack Zangqingshan with the strength of the whole clan, and the Baichuan people will definitely send all their forces to Zangqingshan to defend, as long as we can put enough pressure on the Baichuan people so that they have no time to take care of the rear, then it is not impossible for their supply line to be cut off by Bai Yu's cavalry." ”

The temple became very quiet, and no one was making an opinion.

In the end, Bai Yu broke the silence: "This plan of the elder is indeed worth trying, in order to realize the long-cherished wish of our clan for many years, Bai Yu is willing to lead the troops to attack. ”

The elder nodded, "In that case, tomorrow the warriors of our clan will begin to advance towards the Tibetan Qingshan Mountains and prepare for a decisive battle. May the ancestors bless Goikol. With that, he bowed down to the highest stone in the temple, and everyone in the temple did the same. On the stone table, there is an enshrined parchment scroll, which is somewhat broken, and the parchment scroll rolled up at the corner is regarded as a sacred relic of the Gaoikol people, and it records the persecution of the ancestors of the Gaoikol people in blood by the Baichuan people. For the sake of shame, the descendants of Gao Yiker are fighting tirelessly to make the Baichuan clan completely disappear from this land.

The elder stood up, turned to all the leaders of the temple and shouted, "Brave children, go and fight!" Let Baichuan people see our awesomeness! ”

"Hah!" The sound of response echoed through the temple.

Second, wake up from a dream

That night, Bai Yu, who had finished arranging the marching affairs, lay on his bed, tossing and turning and unable to sleep. It was the first time he had lost sleep before the war, perhaps because he was afraid of dreaming of that hellish scene again, or maybe something else was involved in him. His mind wandered aimlessly, as if he had grasped something, and began to drag it in a certain direction......

When Bai Yu came back to his senses, he found himself standing in front of a mirror, which reflected his extremely familiar figure, but he in the mirror was obviously not as simple as a mirror, because the arrogant expression he showed made Bai Yu dare not look directly, looking at Bai Yu's dodging eyes, the mirror said to Bai Yu lightly: "What are you doing here?" ”

"I don't know." Bai Yu replied, not surprised that the mirror image was able to speak, there was only confusion in his eyes, and there was a hint of uneasiness in his expression. "I don't even know how I got here. Also, what is this place? Who are you? Why is it here? ”

"This is the deepest part of your heart. I am the combination of your doubts, your incomprehensions, all your memories that you want to escape, like forgetting. Your presence has made me wonder what gives you the courage to face me. ”

At this time, Bai Yu was already a little flustered. "No, I didn't, I didn't want to be here."

"If you're here, why make excuses. If you hadn't wanted to come, you wouldn't have been here. Now, let me open the dusty door and help you recover your forgotten memories. ”

A whirlpool appeared in front of the white feather, which gradually grew larger, gradually sucking the white feather into its center......

Bai Yu opened his eyes and saw that he was surrounded by scenes that he did not feel unfamiliar with. Suddenly, he heard someone talking nearby, and the voice sounded familiar, so he listened carefully to the conversation as he moved in the direction from which the voice had come from.

"Master, I feel that our life is a little abnormal."

"Oh? How do you have this kind of thought, what's not right? ”

"I can't put it into words, but I always feel weird, as if there should be something else in our lives besides war."

"So you are strange about this, come, let the master tell you the reason for giving you this feeling. In fact, it is very simple, we live in a war era, and everyone is a blood feud, so we live like this to survive, and we want revenge. Got it, such a lifestyle is caused by the environment, and there is nothing abnormal about it. ”

"But ......"

"Hehe, kid, stop thinking nonsense, it will distract you from practicing. Okay, let's go and practice the knife now, so that you forget about these weird thoughts. ”

Finally, Bai Yu walked to a position where he could see the person he had just talked to, but now only the two backs, one tall and one short, were in sight. This scene made Bai Yu feel a very familiar feeling, as if he had seen the same scene somewhere and heard the same conversation. This confused him, but before he could think about it, the scene before him changed—this time it was a dimly lit room. After his eyes adjusted to the darkness, Bai Yu realized that he was not the only one in the room. There was also a person sitting at the table, but Bai Yu couldn't see his face clearly. Just as Bai Yu wanted to get close to the man, the man suddenly stood up, walked to the window, and shouted something outside. Although he was in the same room, Bai Yu couldn't really hear what the man shouted, but seeing the hysterical appearance of that person, Bai Yu had a strange feeling in his heart, and the situation in front of him made him feel extremely familiar, several times stronger than just now, and even caused a certain impulse in his body. Just when Bai Yu was at a loss, the door opened, and a man in a robe with a scepter in his hand walked in. "Ah, Elder?!" Bai Yu exclaimed, but the other two didn't seem to hear it. Bai Yu took two more steps forward, and then he saw that the person who came in was just very similar to the elder, he was younger than the elder, but he was wearing the same clothes as the elder, which caused Bai Yu to missee. But who do you know? Bai Yu frowned.

The imprisoned man fell silent the moment he saw the comer, looked at him with a very complicated gaze, and when the comer came to him, he said to him in a cold tone, "You are here." ”

The visitor said, "Yes, I came to see you." ”

"What do you see, do you want to see my miserable condition when you deceived me?"

"No," replied the comer, "I have come here to show you that I have not deceived you. ”

"Never deceived? Then you tell me who told me back then that I was different and destined to take an unusual path. ”

"It's me."

"And who told everyone that I was crazy, told everyone not to believe me, and ordered me to be locked up when I was skeptical about the status quo."

"It's me, too."

"Isn't that a deception?"

"Listen to me, I have a reason for doing so. I'm for your good. ”

"Joke, that's good for me, I'd love to hear your reasoning, or maybe it's just an excuse." Although the imprisoned man said that he would listen to it, from his tone and expression, everyone knew that he was full of disdain for what he was about to hear.

"Well, you hear clearly, it's not just you who have doubts about our lives, I've had them, but I've never mentioned them to anyone." The visitor said solemnly.

"Have you too? Then why don't you say it? The prisoners finally took the conversation a little seriously.

"Because I think more than you think, we may be able to perceive the discomfort around us, and even find out what seems very unreasonable to us, but what else can we do after that? Do we go around preaching our opinions, what do we use to convince others, even we ourselves don't know the cause of all this, do we tell them that it's just our feelings? Without evidence, most people would still insist that their lives are normal. ”

"But after all, there will still be people who agree with us and join us."

"Here's the problem," said the comer, who was a little agitated, "those who identify with us will shake their original beliefs and will have differences with other people." You know, the ideological disunity will inevitably lead to a split in the Goikol, and those who doubt the status quo will no longer participate in the battle, in which case the strength of the Goikol will be weakened, and the Baichuan people will take the opportunity to attack and annihilate our people. Now you understand, until you know the truth, your actions will undoubtedly bring devastating disaster to your people. That's why I'm blocking you. ”

The imprisoned man was silent, as if pondering the words of the comer.

"So, unless we have the ability to know the truth, we must not spread our opinion to our people, and we will continue this war that we are tired of until one side is dead."

"So what else can I do now?" The imprisoned man asked.

"I still say the same thing, son, maybe one day you can go out of a different way and bring a new future to this continent. But now is really not the time, the only thing we can do is wait. The visitor sighed.

"But endless waiting will drive me crazy, who can expect an invisible target to live."

"I've been under more pressure than you might think over the years, but I'm still standing here. I'm really tired, though, and maybe it's time for me to get out. If you really can't bear this torture, I will sacrifice my mind to keep this memory of yours in the deepest part of your heart, so that you can live the same life as the people outside, until one day in the future you may be touched by something and remember everything you are now. Hopefully, then you'll have a chance to uncover the truth. ”

"What if that day doesn't come?"

"Then you and I, like other clansmen, will fight on the battlefield, or return triumphantly, or die on the battlefield."

“……”

"How's it going, have you figured it out? This is a bet on the future, do you want to fight once, or continue to shrink into this room, escape from reality, and endure the merciless torment of the years? ”

After a long time, the imprisoned man raised his head and said with a look of firmness in his eyes: "I have thought about it, Elder, and I have decided to take a gamble. ”

"Okay, Bai Yu, then I'll start sealing now."

There was only whispering in the room, but Bai Yu's heart was extremely unquiet because of their last two words. "Elder?! White Feather?! Bai Yu muttered, "That person is me?" How so? ”

At this time, the chanting was nearing the end, and the scenes of the past became clearer and clearer in Bai Yu's mind, and countless fragments were connected into images. Bai Yu remembered everything that had happened to him—after his mind was dusted, he went to the battlefield to kill the enemy like the rest of his people; He won the respect of his clan with his bravery, became one of the strongest warriors in the clan, and then became the commander of the cavalry, maybe he would be like this for the rest of his life, but the day has finally come, he has been reborn, he has to face the reality and do what he has to do. The surrounding scene began to distort again, forming a vortex that sucked the white feather towards its center again. The moment he entered the whirlpool, he heard the voice of the elder: "I hope you won't wake up too late, I still want to see our future in my lifetime." ”

Bai Yu returned to the mirror, and the person in the mirror looked at him, and then asked Bai Yu, "Have you picked everything back?" ”

"Yes," replied White Feather, "everything has been recovered. ”

"Then my mission is complete, and it's time for me to leave." After saying this, the mirror cracked in front of Bai Yu and shattered into pieces, until the last trace also disappeared.

"I should go back," Bai Yu said to himself, "I am destined to take a different path. ”

The next day, the sun shone on Bai Yu's face, and he greeted the arrival of the day with unprecedented enthusiasm. Now he has a difficult mission on his shoulder, so he has to spend every day with more energy than ever. However, there is another thing that worries him, that is, in the battle, accidents can happen at any time, which he cannot avoid, and he can only pray that he can understand the truth before the three-foot loess is added and bring a new future to this continent.

On the training ground, the cavalry was ready to go, and their eyes were full of disregard for life and fanaticism for war. After being sealed, he was like this, and now that he thinks about it, Bai Yu is really afraid, if he dies early, he will never have a chance to complete this mission. While thinking about it, his deputy Tengge walked towards him, walked closer and looked at Bai Yu's face, Tengge said to him, "I can't say why, I think you are different from usual today." Bai Yu said in his heart that his brother's observation was really sharp, but he quickly replied with a smile: "Is there one?" There may be a decisive battle, so the state will naturally be different. Tengge, as Bai Yu's deputy and comrade-in-arms, has been with Bai Yu from birth to death since he became the leader of the cavalry, which can be described as a friend of life and death, and he has nothing to say, but at this moment, Bai Yu feels sad - there is an insurmountable gap between him and his closest brother, and there will never be anything more heart-wrenching in the world. But the experience on the battlefield over the years has made him strong and sensible, and he understands that he is no longer able to take care of this feeling, and in order to complete the mission, some things must be abandoned.

At noon, the elders came to the training ground to give their troops a pre-departure blessing. When the elder came to Bai Yu, Bai Yu knelt on one knee, the elder put the scepter on his left shoulder, and then recited the blessing, and finally, he leaned down and said to Bai Yu, "The unknown truth depends on you." Bai Yu raised his head in surprise and saw the familiar look in the elder's eyes, so Bai Yu nodded heavily and said loudly: "Yes, it will definitely live up to the elder's expectations." ”

Three encounters

Three days later, Bai Yu's cavalry marched through the Gobi.

When camping that night, Tengge said: "In two days at most, we can cross this Gobi and go around to the back of the Tibetan green mountains." Now that the battle on the front line is probably very tight, I don't think the Baichuan people should have extra troops to guard their supply lines, and they would not have expected our troops to appear here. If we can succeed in one fell swoop, it will be a great help to the people on the front line. Bai Yu dealt with him very casually, in fact, now Bai Yu didn't want the war to end, no, it should be said that he didn't want to destroy the Baichuan clan, because he had a bad premonition - there would be no real winner in this war. However, even if he held higher power, if he disobeyed his people, he would be considered a traitor and put to death. Bai Yu is not afraid of death, but he can't die here, so no matter how unwilling he is in his heart, he still has to personally lead the team to fight. Now Bai Yu can already understand the helplessness and contradiction of the elder back then. Tengge saw Bai Yu's absent-mindedness, so he didn't say anything more, and went to the side to direct the cavalry to camp.

In the middle of the night, Tanma sent back an astonishing news - the traces of the Baichuan people had been found thirty miles ahead. This news surprised Bai Yu: how could the enemy appear so close to our army's camp. Could it be that his whereabouts have been discovered? While thinking about it, Tengge walked into the barracks.

"I didn't expect to come into contact with Baichuan people so soon." Tenger said. A strong desire for war has already appeared in his eyes.

Of course, Bai Yu knew what his deputy was thinking, but Bai Yu didn't want to go to war, and being able to bypass the other party was the most ideal result for him. So Bai Yu opened his mouth and said: "Yes, it is indeed beyond my expectations, if it is not for the troops who came to encircle and suppress us, it may be the sentry set up here by the Baichuan people." Either way, we have a lot to lose if we hit them hard, so we should take a detour and get them out of the way. ”

"Probably not, according to the spies, there are very few people there, which excludes the possibility of encircling us; Moreover, the military facilities there are not very complete, and the most important point is that the spy said that he did not find the sacrifice of the Baichuan tribe. You and I both know that the spells of the Baichuan tribe are very powerful, so the places where the Baichuan people defend will generally have sacrifices. And now that no sacrifice has been found, it means that the Baichuan people did not originally establish a sentry post there, and according to these circumstances, it is more like a new supply station built by the Baichuan people. Tengge analyzed the current situation in an orderly manner, presumably he had been prepared for a long time, and it was imperative to win this battle.

"What do you decide to do next?" Bai Yu understood that this battle was inevitable.

"If it is really a newly built supply station, it means that the battle in Zangqingshan must be extremely fierce now, so we must act urgently to help the front line. I suggest that we prepare our cavalry tonight, and that the small station in front be eliminated in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Tenger said.

If it was before, Bai Yu would have immediately agreed with his idea, but now he is no longer used to this kind of killing, but he has no good reason to veto Tengge's proposal, so he finally agreed to Tengge's approach: "Very good, just do what you say!" ”

After hearing this, Tengge did not immediately carry out the order as usual, but looked at Bai Yu and said: "Are you okay, I always feel that something is not quite right with you, you must say something, you must know that we are brothers, I will do my best to help you." ”

Bai Yu's heart was hot, but he quickly calmed down and said, "I understand your intentions, but I really have nothing to do, it may be that the march is tired, and it will be fine in a few days." Seeing that Tengge was still skeptical, Bai Yu quipped: "Why, you still can't believe me?" Hurry up and make arrangements, the big things are important. Hearing Bai Yu say this, Tengge ran out of the barracks to prepare.

With the cover of night, Bai Yu's cavalry arrived two miles away from Baichuan Station before dawn. Convinced that this was not a trap, White Feather led the cavalry to rush forward. The Baichuan people did not expect the army of the Gaoikol tribe to appear here, and in a hurry, they fell under the swords of the cavalry before they could make an effective counterattack. The battle ended almost instantly, and only a few Baichuan people were left to protect a black-clothed knight with a spear who was still resisting, trying in vain to break out. But they were no match for the well-trained cavalry, and they were cut off their horses in three or four rounds, and in the end only the black knights resisted with their guns. However, his marksmanship was very exquisite, and after a while, none of the cavalry besieging him could get within five paces of him. Bai Yu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, suddenly had the idea of wanting to compete with him, you must know that this kind of thought should never be there in peacetime, although the black knight can protect himself now, but it is impossible to rush out under heavy surroundment, after a long time, he will inevitably die of exhaustion, as the main general, Bai Yu does not need to risk his life at all, so that the battle situation that has been determined is variable, not to mention that during the period when Bai Yu is bent on surviving on the battlefield, it becomes more and more unwise that Bai Yu's thoughts at this time are unwise. But Bai Yu just couldn't suppress the increasingly strong thoughts in his heart, and suddenly stepped forward and shouted, "Stand down, let me come." As soon as the words fell, the distance between Bai Yu and the black horse was no more than thirty steps, and the cavalry surrounding the black horse flashed to the side when they heard the sound, and watched the battle between the white feather and the black horseman. The next moment, the distance shrank to ten steps, Bai Yu's knife was ready to go, and the other party relied on the advantage of the weapon, the tip of the spear had been pointed at him, Bai Yu flashed sideways, and at the moment when the two horses were staggered, he turned around and waved the knife, and the black horseman's shot missed, and immediately collected the gun to block the way of the white feather knife, so that Bai Yu's knife was naturally in vain. At the end of one round, neither side had the upper hand. After a few rounds of back and forth, Bai Yu found that although the black horse's marksmanship angle was tricky, he was not strong enough to fully release the spear. So when the black knight's spear stabbed him again, he did not dodge, but forcibly knocked the tip of the black knight's spear off, and then the blade slid down the black knight's spear all the way. The black knight obviously didn't expect Bai Yu to do this, and abandoned the gun in shock. Bai Yu saw that the black knight's weapon had left his hand, and he had no intention of taking his life, so he took advantage of the situation and shot him down from his horse with the back of his knife. The black knight fell heavily to the ground, and the Baichuan mask on his head was thrown out due to inertia, and his thick long hair poured down like a waterfall. She's a girl! What surprised Bai Yu even more was that when she looked back, the look in her eyes made Bai Yu feel extremely kind. So Bai Yu subconsciously said, "Take her back to the camp and lock her up first." No one moved for a long time, and when Bai Yu noticed that something was wrong, everyone's eyes were already focused on him, and then Bai Yu remembered that since the beginning of the war, there has never been a precedent for imprisoning the enemy, and everyone wants to kill the Baichuan people first and then quickly, and all the Baichuan people have never begged for mercy, even if there is only one finger left to move, they will continue to fight until they die. The same is true of the warriors of the Goikol. It was beyond everyone's expectation that he did not struggle anymore after falling off his horse, and his words caused a lot of shock in the army. After looking around, Bai Yu understood that he had to say something to explain his actions. So he cleared his throat and said loudly: "I know that everyone is a little puzzled by my behavior of capturing the Baichuan people, but I am doing this for a reason, because this battle is very important, and the environment we are in makes us extremely careful, so I need to find out useful information from the mouths of the Baichuan people, so as to decide our future deployment." After listening to Bai Yu's words, most of the people's faces showed expressions of clarity, but Tengge still had a thoughtful expression.

"Now is the best chance," Bai Yu thought to himself, "If anyone questions me again, I'm afraid the situation will be out of control." So Bai Yu immediately ordered his men to escort the captives back to the camp.

For the next whole day, Bai Yu asked the whole army to stand by on the pretext of renovating armaments. For this reason, Tengge ran to him and asked him why he did this. Regarding this matter, Bai Yu replied like this: "After rushing these days, plus the battle in the early hours of this morning, the clansmen are tired, why not take a day off." ”

"But we don't have so much time to rest, the front line is at a critical juncture, how can we delay the fighter plane for the sake of rest." Tengge was a little angry.

"It's not called delaying the fighter, rest is necessary." Bai Yu continued to say unhurriedly, "We can't send tired warriors to the battlefield, every time we lose a warrior, our strength will be weakened by one point, and the danger will increase by one point, and no one can help us, so we must be careful and strive to make every warrior the best state when they go to the battlefield." ”

Tengge stared at Bai Yu and said to me Bai Yu very seriously: "You have really changed, but for the sake of the fact that the decisions you made in the past were correct, I still choose to follow your instructions, I hope you are right this time." ”

Sending Tengge away, Bai Yu decided to go and see the girl from the Baichuan clan.

Coming to the barracks where Baichuan girls were held, the two people in charge of guarding the door hurriedly saluted Bai Yu. White Feather waved his hand and motioned for them to leave—he didn't want someone to listen while he spoke—and strode into the barracks. As soon as he entered the barracks, he saw the girl squatting in the middle of the barracks, with her head bowed, thoughtful, as if she did not notice the arrival of Bai Yu. Bai Yu didn't care, and walked straight to her, until he was three steps away from her, and then Bai Yu said to the girl, "My name is Bai Yu, and I am the leader of this team. Now I have some questions for you, and I hope you can answer me truthfully. First of all, who are you? What is it called? The answer was only a long silence, which was expected by Bai Yu, and it did not affect the other questions he was going to ask next, such as what Baichuan's current troops were in Zangqing Mountain, and how they were deployed. During this process, the Baichuan girl still squatted like a stone statue and never moved. Finally, after a series of temptations, Bai Yu decided to get to the point - determining whether this girl was his companion or not was the main purpose of Bai Yu's coming here today. Although he was afraid that the result would not be what he felt, Bai Yu did not want to miss it, after all, this was an opportunity. So Bai Yu asked in a very light voice that the girl could hear, "Have you ever had the same nightmare over and over again?" Obviously, the girl's body trembled a little, and then, she raised her head at a very slow speed, and for the first time looked at Bai Yu's face very formally, with surprise and confusion in her eyes. It seemed that she was not sure whether to answer the question or not, and the room suddenly fell silent, the girl was hesitating, and Bai Yu was waiting. After a long time, the girl asked, "How do you know?" Bai Yu's heart was so excited that it was about to pop out the moment he heard this, he didn't answer the girl's question, but continued to ask with some excitement: "Is there a rain of fire and a cracked earth in your dreams?" ”

"Nope." The girl said coldly. The expression on her face made it impossible to see her emotions.

Bai Yu, who seemed to be still on the top of the mountain at the last moment, immediately fell to the bottom, but he didn't give up, and asked again: "Then what does your dream look like?" Hearing Bai Yu ask this, the girl was stunned for a moment, and then as if she had seen something terrible, her whole body shrunk into a ball, and said incoherently: "Terrible...... Dream...... Don't think about it......" Bai Yu stood up in surprise, looked at the sudden situation in front of him, and considered what to do. It was obvious that the girl in front of her was frightened by her dreams, and now she needed the comfort of others to calm her mood. But Bai Yu has never comforted others, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and finally Bai Yu stepped forward and hugged the girl into his arms with both arms, hoping to calm the girl down. He remembers that when he cried when he was a child, his mother would hold him in his arms like this, and after feeling the security brought by the warm breath of his mother's arms, he would feel that there was nothing terrible in this world. So in a hurry, Bai Yu used the only method he could think of at the moment. The girl in his arms gradually quieted down, just when Bai Yu was still secretly glad that this method worked, the girl pushed him away violently, Bai Yu instinctively pulled out the knife on his waist, but seeing that the girl did not make any further movements, his hand let go of the handle of the knife again.

"What are you doing?" Bai Yu was a little annoyed, his kindness was so rude in return. "I just wanted to comfort you."

"Who wants you to comfort me, and why do you comfort me?" The girl glared back at Bai Yu without showing any weakness.

"I ......" The series of actions just now were completely subconscious, and now Bai Yu really can't say the reason for doing that just now.

Seeing that Bai Yu was a little hesitant, the girl continued to say aggressively: "How about it, my heart is empty, I was speechless when I said it." ”

As soon as Bai Yu saw this posture, his momentum suddenly became half a cut shorter, and it was no wonder that people suspected that he was still a mortal enemy one moment, and the next moment he showed favor for no reason, if he was to change himself, he would also feel that the other party had a plan. Bai Yu smiled bitterly, and now he had to tell the truth. "It's a little incredible, but I still hope you can believe me, I really didn't have any intentions just now, and the reason why I acted like that was because from the moment I met you, you gave me a kind feeling, which led me to do that subconsciously."

"Kind? Still subconscious? The girl sneered coldly. Are you my little kid? ”

"It's true, I don't lie to you. At first I even thought you would be my companion. Bai Yu eagerly defended, he didn't want this person who might become his companion to have any misunderstanding about him.

"Don't make me sick, how could I be a companion to you shameless aggressors." The girl twisted her head to the side, as if she didn't like Bai Yu to be so shy.

Bai Yu was very surprised when he heard the girl's words: "Invader? Are you talking about us? ”

Hearing this, the girl turned her head around again and stared at Bai Yu fiercely. "Of course, you Gaoikol people, you have robbed us of our land, persecuted our ancestors, broken the peaceful life of our people, and forced our people to live hard behind the Tibetan green mountains. Our people have wanted to regain our land for generations, but they have no choice but to be inferior to yours in strength, otherwise they will be slaughtered. ”

She gritted her teeth, not like she was lying. This made Bai Yu even more surprised. "My people have killed your ancestors? Who are you listening to? ”

"There is a stone tablet left by our ancestors in the holy land of our Baichuan tribe, which clearly records this history."

"The stele? When was there one? Bai Yu asked, feeling as if he had caught something.

"I don't know, it's been in the Holy Land since I can remember, and the adults only know that the monument existed a long time ago. You're such a weird person, what are you doing asking these for? ”

There was a long time ago, but no one knows exactly when it appeared, and only one reason for war remained, how similar these were to the parchments of the Goikol, and was there any connection between the two? Bai Yu's brow furrowed. His instincts told him he should go and see the stele, but ......

Bai Yu looked at the girl: "Can you take me to your holy place to have a look?" ”

When she heard this, the girl became alert. "I knew you were here to trick me, don't think I'm trying to lie to me when I'm young, don't you just want to know the way to my village, I won't say it."

Bai Yu smiled bitterly - he was misunderstood again, it seems that this girl is still hostile to herself, and it is really difficult to ask her to help, but this is a clue after all, and it is impossible to find out the truth because of this, so she must find out the support of the Baichuan girl in front of her, but ordinary persuasion does not seem to have results, and judging from the temptation just now, she does not seem to have the same thoughts as herself, so she can't tell her what she really thinks.

In the end, Bai Yu took what he thought was the most effective method - threatening death. But I don't know if it was because she realized that Bai Yu didn't want to kill her at all, or if she wasn't afraid of death in the first place, this Baichuan girl actually disdained Bai Yu's threat. Seeing that the glimmer of hope that had just appeared was shattered, Bai Yu couldn't bear it anymore, and the long-suppressed emotions finally broke out. "You don't say it, do you? You just want to see that I'm in a hurry, right? So you can sit on the sidelines and gloat. Do you know how important this is to me, you don't understand what it's like to live in uneasiness every day, I just want to get rid of it, why do you all have to stop me. And I thought you would understand me at first, but it seems that I was wrong. ”

After saying these words, Bai Yu turned around and left, he was now in despair. Just as Bai Yu was about to walk to the door, a girl's soft voice came from behind: "Wait a minute." Bai Yu paused, and turned his head suddenly, with expectation in his eyes. Unexpectedly, the girl said: "I also grew up in doubt and anxiety, and I can understand your feelings somewhat. Since I was a child, I have been having the same nightmare, waking up from the dream again and again, when I tell people about it, at first they comfort me, and after a long time, everyone is not surprised, and they laugh at me for being cowardly. So I stopped telling people about my dreams, but the dreams became more and more real, more and more terrifying, I was afraid, I was really afraid, I felt that I was so helpless, everything around me became false in my eyes, no one could help me, I had to rely on myself. I'm constantly training to make myself stronger, so that I can feel a little bit safer. But today, when you knocked me off the horse, I was almost in despair, and all these years of hard training were all in vain. At that time, I had already decided to close my eyes and wait for death, but the ghost sent the gods, I still looked up, I didn't expect you to kill me, I thought maybe I really shouldn't die. In fact, at that moment, I began to pay attention to you, your eyes were different, and I guessed that you would come, but I couldn't fully trust you yet, so I also wanted to test you, not cooperating with you, and deliberately making things difficult, just to force you to tell your true intentions. Now that I know, I believe in you, and I'm willing to help you, why don't I want to get rid of the nightmare. ”

After listening to the girl's words, Bai Yu woke up like a dream, and then he was ecstatic. I saw him running in front of the girl in a few steps, and said excitedly: "What you said is true? Oh, my God! You're so calm. Without further ado, we'll leave tonight, and I'll take you away as soon as it gets dark. After speaking, Bai Yu turned around and was about to prepare, when suddenly he seemed to remember something, and turned back and said, "By the way, there is one last question for you." ”

"What?" The girl tilted her head, she couldn't think of anything else that Bai Yu had to wonder about now.

"Your name?" Bai Yu asked with a smile.

"Oh, that's it." The girl laughed too. "Ye Xue, my name is Ye Xue, and I am the daughter of the patriarch of Baichuan."

Four escaped

Bai Yu returned to his barracks, simply packed some bags, and Tengge walked in coldly, seeing his appearance, he asked: "What are you ......" Bai Yu was startled, but he quickly calmed down and replied: "It's nothing, I've been busy on the road recently, and I don't have time to rest, so while I have time today, I'll pack up the things I want to take on the road." By the way, what are you looking for from me? ”

"I want to ask you what time you leave tomorrow."

"Let's have a good rest tonight, and we'll continue on our way tomorrow morning."

"I see." After saying that, Tengge turned around and walked out of Bai Yu's barracks. This time, Tengge didn't ask much about what made Bai Yu feel slightly strange, but he didn't really care, and quickly put this feeling behind him.

As night fell, Bai Yu came to the barracks where Ye Xue was held again, took the guards, and quietly took her out of the camp, in order not to alarm others, Bai Yu decided to abandon his horse and walk, anyway, when Tengge and they found out that he and Ye Xue were gone, they would not be able to catch up with him tomorrow. It's a pity that Bai Yu miscalculated this time, and before they could run out of a few miles, the sound of the horse's hooves of the pursuers sounded behind them, and the Gobi was barren and had nowhere to hide, so they could only continue to run forward. Suddenly, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded behind him, Bai Yu turned around and drew his knife, preemptively shot down the one that shot at Yexue, and then cut off the second one that was coming straight towards him, but the cut arrow still pierced his left shoulder blade. The sound of horses' hooves was much closer, and it could be seen that the comers were three horsemen, led by Tengge, followed by Tengge's two personal soldiers. Bai Yu's heart suddenly fell into an ice cave, if in normal times, Bai Yu dealt with the three of them Although he was not sure of winning, he could also wait for the opportunity to win the horse and break out of the encirclement, but now, he was not only injured, but also had to protect a night snow with no gun in his hand and almost no combat effectiveness, the situation can be imagined, for this occasion, he had to brake quietly. So Bai Yu stood with his sword in his hand, waiting for Tengge and them to catch up.

The third rider stopped about fifty paces away from Bai Yu, and Tengge shouted on horseback, "Bai Yu, are you crazy? Do you want to abandon us brothers for the sake of this woman? Do you know that your actions constitute treason, which is a capital offense. Now you kill this woman immediately, and then follow me back to the army and lead my brothers to complete this mission, so that the elders will be able to open up for the sake of their military exploits. ”

Bai Yu responded to him in an equally loud voice: "Things are not what you think, Tengge, I know very well what I am doing, and I have a reason why I have to do it, so I'm sorry, Tengge, I can't go back with you." ”

"Joke," Tengge snorted coldly, "what kind of reason can make you not hesitate to betray your brother and your race, you give me a satisfactory answer." ”

Tengge's two personal soldiers glanced at each other, with doubts and surprise in their eyes, and everyone could hear the meaning of Tengge's words.

Bai Yu's eyes lit up, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart, so he told Tengge about his doubts about life and what he was going to do.

Tengge listened carefully, and he was still pondering after Bai Yu finished speaking.

"Deputy Commander......" one of his own soldiers reminded him.

"I know." Tengge waved his hand to stop what the pro-soldier was going to say next, then looked up at Bai Yu and said, "What you said is too ridiculous, I can't accept it, this can't be regarded as a satisfactory answer." ”

"You may not understand, but you should trust me." Bai Yu was still trying to convince Tengge.

"That's enough, don't say it again, you go back with me, I don't want to meet you in battle." There is no room for maneuver in Tengge's words.

"I told you that I won't go back."

"Don't force me to enforce the rules." Tengge's tone was devoid of emotion.

"Even if I die here now, I will never go back." Now, Bai Yu has also let go.

The atmosphere gradually became tense, and the murderous aura permeated the surroundings. Tengge closed his eyes and said, "Kill!" ”

Two of his own soldiers swung their swords at me on horseback, and Tengge opened his eyes suddenly, and then he rushed towards White Feather. His horses are a little better than the other two, and he has a tendency to be the last to come.

Seeing the three bright * gradually approaching him, Bai Yu was a little desperate, the charging formation of the three horses had been formed, and he had no possibility of survival under this blow. "Is that really the end of it?" Bai Yu simply closed his eyes and swung the knife in his hand out hard.

The knife slashed through the air.

Bai Yu felt the galloping horse leap over his head with a strong wind, and the air suddenly filled the air with a strong smell of blood. Bai Yu, who was unharmed by the mortal blow, opened his eyes, and the scene in front of him shocked him: Tengge's two personal soldiers were already in different places, and Tengge himself immediately raised his knife behind him, and the scarlet blood on the knife was still dripping down the blade.

"Tengge, you ......"

"Originally, I decided to persuade you to go back," said Tengger as he dismounted and walked towards the white feather, "but I have changed my mind after hearing your words, and I think it should be a satisfactory answer to me." Although I have the same doubts in my mind and have the same discomfort with the current life, I don't have the courage to find answers like you, so the only thing I can do is help you clear the obstacles in front of you. ”

"Don't you ...... too," Bai Yu said in surprise.

Tenger nodded.

"Then you come with us, let's go together to find the truth and solve the doubts in our hearts." Bai Yu excitedly held on.

Tengge shook his head again. "As I said just now, I don't have your courage, and there are still many things in the clan that I can't let go, so ......"

Without waiting for Tengge to finish speaking, Bai Yu patted Tengge's shoulder and sighed: "Needless to say, I understand." ”

"Alright, get on these two horses and do what you want. I will tell my brothers that you were swept away by a sandstorm in pursuit of the fugitives from Baichuan, and you are buried in Chrissy forever. ”

"Thank you, Tenge." Bai Yu choked up a little.

"Hurry up and get out of here, I should go back too, the tasks assigned by the clan always have to be completed." With that, Tengge turned around to lead the horse. This sentence immediately reminded Bai Yu, so he hurriedly called Tengge.

"Is there anything else?" Teng asked.

"I'm ......" Bai Yu hesitated.

"Say, it's not like your style."

"I mean, if you can, you can lead everyone out of this fight. Now the situation is very clear, the people of Baichuan can only rely on a steady stream of supplies to defend the Tibetan Qingshan, and fight against our clan, hoping to drag down our clan with their geographical advantages and force our clan to retreat. It can be said that if you lead your team to cause even a small amount of damage on the supply line behind Baichuan, you may collapse the current defensive position of Zangqingshan. Within three days after this, the land of the Baichuan people will be full of my warriors of Gaoikol. ”

"That's right, isn't this what my clan has been wishing for many years, I don't understand, why are you ......" Tengge's face was full of doubt.

"Listen to me, I have a hunch that there will be no winners in this war, no matter which side wins, it will only bring us destruction, and the reason why I chose to leave at this critical juncture is because there is not much time."

"How so?" The confusion on Tenge's face turned incredulous. "Are you trying to make me find an excuse to quit?"

After seeing Bai Yu's affirmative expression, Tengge was silent. In fact, Bai Yu also knew that it was difficult for a strong man to let Tengge leave, but he had no choice, so he had to make it clear.

After a while, Tengge spoke: "Maybe your hunch is right, but I am a warrior of Goicol after all, and I can't do such a thing as quitting the war." ”

"I see," Bai Yu sighed, "this kind of thing can't be forced after all, okay, let's go, take care." ”

"Take care."

After saying this, Tengge mounted his horse and ran in the direction of the camp, and his figure soon disappeared into the night.

After Tengge left, Bai Yu first took out the broken arrow on his shoulder, bandaged it briefly, and then woke up Yexue, who was stunned by the oncoming arrow just now. The first thing Yexue did after opening her eyes was to look around, and when she saw the two corpses on the side, she subconsciously shrank into Bai Yu's arms and asked, "You killed it?" ”

"No, it's my brother, the one who was going to take me back just now." White Feather led the horse over.

Ye Xue looked surprised and puzzled, "He's crazy?" Bai Yu didn't want to waste time explaining to her, he just urged her to get on the horse and hurry. Seeing that Bai Yu didn't answer herself, Ye Xue said to herself again: "It seems that he is a person who values love and righteousness, and it is your blessing to have such a brother." The tone was very sentimental. Bai Yu was stunned when he heard this, turned his head, and saw Ye Xue's expression of envy and sadness, and instantly Bai Yu understood what Ye Xue was thinking. So Bai Yu said to Ye Xue: "You are not alone now, from time to time, do you have a companion like me who can understand you and accompany you." After hearing this, Yexue raised her head and looked at Bai Yu's eyes, and she was met with a pair of honest eyes, and then she smiled. Yes, we are companions. ”

The two rode horses and continued to advance towards the holy land of the Baichuan clan. On the way, Bai Yu asked Yexue: "Have you ever been on the battlefield, you will be stunned by flying arrows." When Ye Xue heard this, she immediately straightened her face, but thinking that there was nothing to refute, she played a little sex and said to Bai Yu: "Do you still want to go to the Holy Land, if you talk about me like this again, I won't take you there." Not to be outdone, Bai Yu quipped: "Really? But it seems that there is someone who is scared by dreams and cries more anxious than me. Ye Xue saw that he couldn't fight in the face of Bai Yu, and said that he couldn't win, and remembered that there was no one in the clan who cared about him before, and it was easy to have someone who could talk but didn't let him, and he was so aggrieved that his eyes turned red all of a sudden. Bai Yu panicked now, and hurriedly apologized and coaxed Yexue to be happy, and finally made Yexue burst into tears, and at the same time thought to himself: Sure enough, she is still a child, but she looks strong on the outside, and I am really, why do you have nothing to tease her. In fact, Bai Yu himself hadn't discovered that since he and Yexue admitted that they were companions, they were all subtly influencing each other's personalities. Bai Yu saw that Yexue was fine, so he changed the subject: "Why would your father be willing to send you to the battlefield?" Yexue turned her face and said, "It's not that you Gao Yiker is menacing, in order to defend the Tibetan Qingshan, our clan sent all the personnel of the whole clan who can participate in the war to the Tibetan Qingshan, and finally stopped the progress of your clan." Now the two tribes are facing each other in the Tibetan Mountains. Seeing that there were not enough people, I took the initiative to ask to escort supplies to Zangqingshan. My father knew that I had been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and that I was only in the rear to transport supplies, so he didn't expect any danger, so he agreed. So I came out with the team, and you know what happened after that. ”

At present, the war is indeed at a stalemate, but when he thinks of the two hundred cavalry that is like a sharp knife stuck in the heart of Baichuan, Bai Yu can't help but sigh: "Alas, hope is too late. ”

5. Appeal

Because of the help of the horses, the speed of the two of them was much faster, but because they had to take a detour to avoid the eyes and ears of the Baichuan people, the schedule was not much ahead of schedule.

On this day—the third day after the two of them fled—White Feather and Yexue finally reached a hillside that, according to Yexue's description, was not far from her own village.

"Let's rest here during the day, we're tired from the road these days, and then we'll sneak into the village at night." Bai Yu looked at the fiery sun in the sky, turned back to Yexue and said.

"yes, okay." Yexue nodded and replied.

Then the two found a clean, shady place to sit down and chatted. These days, whenever the two of them take a break, it will be like this. As the number of conversations increased, they got to know each other more deeply, Yexue was the daughter of the patriarch of Baichuan, which Bai Yu had known before taking her away, but what Bai Yu didn't know was that Yexue, as the daughter of the patriarch, didn't have any friends in the clan, and when she heard this, Bai Yu was really surprised, but later Yexue's narration made Bai Yu understand the reason - because of nightmares, Yexue has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, which in itself makes her engaged in harvesting grain and grass, She became an outlier among the women of Baichuan who were involved in logistics such as sewing armor, and because her words were incomprehensible to others, she no longer communicated with her clansmen, resulting in a situation where both the same sex and the opposite sex were alienated from her.

After knowing this, Bai Yu couldn't help but feel more pity for Yexue. "I don't know how much this girl has suffered, the nightmares are haunted, and the relatives and friends are far away, it's really hard to imagine how she survived, and I am obviously much happier than her because of the care of the elders. No one can say what will happen in the future, but at least I will take good care of her during the days I am by her side. So along the way, under Bai Yu's deliberate actions, Yexue's laughter gradually increased. In the process, Bai Yu was surprised to find that Yexue was particularly beautiful when she laughed, really, very beautiful. And feeling the care of Bai Yu, and because they can communicate with each other and have a common goal, Yexue is also becoming more and more attached to Bai Yu.

Looking at the night snow that had now closed his eyes and rested, the corners of Bai Yu's mouth turned up slightly, and suddenly the thought of hoping that this road would never be completed appeared in Bai Yu's mind, this kind of thought made him surprised, Bai Yu bit the tip of his tongue to sober himself up, and at the same time secretly blamed himself for how could he have such thoughts, if this was the case, wouldn't it be a disappointment to the high expectations of the elders. Just when Bai Yu was still blaming himself, his heart suddenly moved, and he instinctively felt that the danger was approaching, and he didn't think twice about it, so he threw himself at the night snow and pulled her to roll. The next moment, a flame hit the tree where Bai Yu had just rested, and the earth was scorched, and the tree was charred.

Yexue had already been awakened, but because the two had not been ambushed along the way, her vigilance had decreased, so she couldn't react for a while, and when someone walked out of the forest, she exclaimed, "Great Sacrifice?!" ”

Bai Yu was also shocked when he heard it, "Great sacrifice!" The one who is said to have the highest mana in the Baichuan Sacrifice? How could he be here, didn't Yexue say that he only stayed in the temple of the village? Turning her head to look at Yexue, she could see from the expression on her face that she was even more surprised and puzzled than she was now. Sighing slightly, Bai Yu helped Ye Xue to stand up and let her hide to the side, and then Bai Yu looked up at the big priest who suddenly appeared in front of him for some reason.

The High Priest was wearing a navy blue sacrificial garment, which looked much more luxurious than the sacrificial clothes that Bai Yu had seen before. A thin face, extremely angular, eyes flashing with the unique light of a spell practitioner, and a rough brow furrowed slightly, obviously because he was puzzled when he saw the scene of Bai Yu protecting the night snow, but this expression was only for a moment, and soon the high priest regained the indifferent and arrogant expression when he first appeared.

After looking at each other, the high priest spoke first: "Presumably you are the fish that slipped through the net, and you dare to hold the daughter of the patriarch hostage, it is unforgivable, you quickly cut yourself, otherwise I will make you die a miserable death." ”

Bai Yu felt that the words of the Great Sacrifice were a bit strange, but now he had no time to take care of these, and was thinking hard about countermeasures, he had not killed the Sacrifice on the battlefield before, and knew that the Sacrifice could not be approached, but now he was facing the Great Sacrifice of Baichuan, and his strength was unfathomable, and Bai Yu was not riding a horse now, and his speed was discounted, and the situation was very unfavorable to him.

Seeing that his words were not answered, the high priest said again: "It seems that you want me to do it." ”

Bai Yu glanced at the Great Priest and sneered: "I see that your head is broken by practicing spells, isn't this nonsense, how can the warriors of my Gaoikol clan cut themselves, but you are old, why don't you let me give you a ride." ”

Hearing Bai Yu's words, the eyes of the great priest became even colder, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "This is what you brought on yourself." Then, with a wave of his hand, two fierce winds came straight towards Bai Yu. Sure enough, just now Bai Yu was still wondering why he didn't see the sacrificial weapon of the Great Sacrifice, but now he understands that the Great Sacrifice has reached a level where he can instantly send low-level spells without the help of a magic weapon. Assessing the strength of the Great Sacrifice in his heart, Bai Yu's figure did not pause at all, he lowered his body to dodge these two wind blades, and pounced forward, the most important thing now is to shorten the distance between him and the Great Sacrifice, this is the key to this battle, as long as Bai Yu has the opportunity to get close to the Great Sacrifice, victory will belong to him. Obviously, the Great Priest also knew his weakness and Bai Yu's intentions, so he constantly used small spells to limit Bai Yu's speed, and at the same time brewed lethal spells. After dodging one more vine spell and two wind blades, Bai Yu began to get a little impatient. The Great Priest in front of him didn't know its strength at all, the other party's mana seemed to be endless, and once the Great Priest finished preparing and released the big spell, it was certain that the battle would be even more difficult to fight, so Bai Yu decided to take a risk. Two more wind blades, this time Bai Yu did not dodge, but turned sideways and squeezed directly between the two wind blades, the wind blade cut four inches long on his chest and back, and blood gushed out, but he couldn't care about these anymore, now there was only seven or eight steps between him and the sacrifice, as long as he went all out, he could kill the great sacrifice. Just as Bai Yu was about to swing the knife out, he suddenly took shape, looked down, and couldn't help but be shocked, it turned out that his left foot was actually entangled by the vines that came out of nowhere, and then he looked up, and in front of him was the hideous smiling face of the great priest, and there was a pillar of wind that came straight towards him. Bai Yu, who didn't have time to dodge, put the knife across his chest, wanting to use it to resist the wind pillar, not wanting the two to just make contact, "snap", the knife broke from the middle, and then, the wind pillar hit his chest unaffected, this was like a sledgehammer blow, which suddenly made Bai Yu squirt blood, and because of the relationship between the vines, he was fixed in place and was not flew, so he couldn't retreat and unload the force, it can be said that this spell Bai Yu can be regarded as ten out of ten. After checking the condition of his body slightly, Bai Yu knew that he now had a wound left by a wind blade on his back, and his chest was a blur of flesh and blood, although the vines wrapped around his left foot were broken, but the barbs on it also made his left foot bloody, and then there were some abrasions on his arms. Now he had a hard time trying to move, let alone get up and fight again.

Hiding on the side, Yexue saw Bai Yu injured and fell to the ground, and hurriedly ran out, but the high priest stopped in front of her first, and said to her coldly: "Stand here obediently, and when I kill him, I will take you to the clan, and let you explain why you are with the Gaoikol people." ”

"No, I'm not going back." Yexue looked panicked.

"Why, are you afraid, afraid of accepting the punishment of the clan rules? I'm afraid it's too late now, and you should have known that there would be a day when you did it. The High Priest said disdainfully. You traitor, you are a disgrace to our Baichuan people. ”

"No, it's not like that," Yexue shook her head desperately, tears rolling in her eyes. "I didn't do anything to be sorry for my people, I'm not a traitor."

Listening to the sound of Yexue crying, Bai Yu felt as uncomfortable as a fire burning in his heart, and a voice echoed in his head: "You must not let this guy bring Yexue back, once she returns to the clan and suffers this injustice, Yexue will be more than lucky, even if she survives, what awaits her will be the end of captivity, not to mention losing her freedom, and suffering from nightmares, it is better to live than to die." No, you can't let that happen. Thinking of this, out of nowhere, the power poured out, Bai Yu got up, grabbed the knife that had been broken in two, and staggered towards the high priest.

Seeing Bai Yu approaching him as if he was dying, the Great Priest sneered, and sacrificed a fire spell in his hand. Seeing the speed at which the Great Priest prepared the spell, Bai Yu knew that he would be beaten to ashes before he had time to walk in front of the Great Priest, but he still persistently rushed towards the High Priest. The spell was ready, and the high priest pushed the scorching flame towards Bai Yu, who knew that he was going to die, simply closed his eyes and stabbed the knife forward with all his might, hoping to have the opportunity to hurt the high priest and create a chance for Ye Xue to escape. The heat came to his face, and his white feathers were slightly curled, but other than that, he was not harmed. Opening his eyes in surprise, Bai Yu found that the high priest was also looking at the broken knife inserted in his chest in surprise, and then fell down with an unwilling look on his face. After he fell, Bai Yu saw Ye Xue standing behind the High Priest, and the stone that Ye Xue was holding in both hands, presumably Ye Xue smashed the back of the High Priest's head with a stone just now, so that the High Priest could not fully release the spell when he was suddenly injured.

Knowing that Yexue would be fine, Bai Yu smiled, and then his eyes went black and he fell.

Seeing Bai Yu fall, Ye Xue threw away the stone in her hand, screaming and holding Bai Yu in her arms before she fell, but Ye Xue couldn't stand firm, and her strength was not enough to support Bai Yu, and finally both of them fell to the ground. Ye Xue didn't care about the pain caused by the fall, and immediately grabbed Bai Yu's clothes and shook them vigorously. "Bai Yu, wake up, wake up, don't leave me alone. There are only you in this world that I can rely on, how can you be willing to leave me, I haven't told you that I like you, I haven't told you that I want to follow you for the rest of my life, and face the wind and rain in the future with you, no, you bastard, you get up quickly......"

Bai Yu felt as if he had fallen into endless darkness, and he was tired, tired. Just when he wanted to close his eyes and fall asleep, the face of the elder suddenly appeared in front of him, and the elder looked at him expectantly, and then, Tengge also appeared, and shouted to him in that characteristic loud voice: Bai Yu, you seed, are you about to fall down when you encounter such a little difficulty, stand up for me.

At this time, a brilliant light descended from above Bai Yu, it shone directly on Bai Yu's body, so warm, and then a person who made Bai Yu's heart move appeared in the light, she smiled at Bai Yu slightly, at this moment, everything in the world was eclipsed, and with a smile, she floated towards the place where the light was shining. "No," Bai Yu shouted. "Don't go, stay, I'm going to be with you......" Bai Yu chased after her desperately, and finally jumped into the glowing place without hesitation......

Bai Yu opened his eyes with difficulty, and there was a moment of trance: "Am I still alive?" Soon, Bai Yu knew the answer, and the sharp pain around him clearly told him that he was still alive. Suddenly, Bai Yu noticed that something seemed to be pressing on his chest, and there was a faint cry.

"What's that voice? Night snow?! Bai Yu raised his head with great effort, and saw Ye Xue lying on my chest crying fiercely, and muttered things like "I like you" and "don't leave me". Bai Yu was stunned: "She said she likes me?" Yes, you heard me right, she did say she liked me. Thinking of this, Bai Yu couldn't help but feel a hint of joy in his heart.

Ye Xue was still crying, although Bai Yu wanted to hear Ye Xue say a few more words about liking him, but he couldn't bear Ye Xue to cry like this, so he patted Ye Xue on the shoulder with his hand. "Don't cry, I'm not dead yet." Ye Xue was startled, and then there was a surprised expression on her face, just as she was about to pounce on Bai Yu to say something, she suddenly remembered something, and her movements stopped, and her crying red eyes showed a complicated expression, there was a little shyness, a little expectation, and a little fear in that look. Seeing this expression, thinking back to just now, the fool knows what she is thinking now. Bai Yu suddenly had a small idea of teasing Ye Xue, so he pretended to know nothing and looked at Ye Xue. Seeing that Bai Yu didn't react abnormally, Ye Xue thought that maybe Bai Yu didn't hear what he said just now, but in order to make sure Ye Xue still asked, "When did you wake up?" ”

"Just now, what's wrong?" Bai Yu replied.

"Oh, nothing." Ye Xue seemed to breathe a soft sigh, and a subtle hint of disappointment flashed in her eyes.

Of course, this can't escape Bai Yu's deliberate observation, so Bai Yu said again: "When I woke up, I seemed to hear you crying, as if you were saying something." ”

As soon as she heard this, Yexue became nervous again.

"But at the time, I wasn't very conscious, and I didn't hear very clearly."

The hanging heart was put down again.

"But I still hear people like me." After saying this, Bai Yu winked narrowly at Ye Xue.

Now that Yexue finally understood that Bai Yu was teasing her, her face instantly turned red, and she was even more embarrassed when she saw Bai Yu looking at her with a wicked smile. Finally, he beat Bai Yu on the chest with hatred.

"Ouch!" Although this blow was not serious at all, the most serious injury to Bai Yu in the battle just now was his chest, and the light touch also made him uncomfortable. Seeing Bai Yu grinning in pain, Yexue was so frightened that she couldn't do it. Seeing that Ye Xue was so worried, Bai Yu endured the pain and said to Ye Xue with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm fine." After listening to Bai Yu's words, and seeing his smiling face that was more ugly than crying, Yexue's tears came down again. Do you know how worried I was about you just now, for fear that you will never wake up again, you are good, and you deliberately tease people, you bastard, I hate you to death. As she spoke, Ye Xue was about to fight again, Bai Yu hurriedly held her hand, Ye Xue struggled twice, but she didn't break away, so she let Bai Yu hold it.

"Do you know, I like you too, it started when you first told me about your life experience, but I don't know if it's love, and I don't know your mind, so I didn't show my feelings, until I dreamed of you when I was in a coma just now, I didn't know that you were already in my heart. And what you just said makes me even more happy. I, Bai Yu, hereby swear, in this life and this life, I will treat Yexue sincerely, no matter what dangers we face, we will be together and never give up. ”

Hearing Bai Yu's affectionate confession, Ye Xue's face flushed, and then she looked at Bai Yu's eyes and said solemnly: "I Ye Xue swears here, I will accompany Bai Yu in this life, the earth is barren, and I will never regret it." ”

After Bai Yu listened, he hugged the girl he loved very much in his arms.

Six answers

Because of Bai Yu's injury, the two were delayed for another day. The next day, Bai Yu was just able to move, so he urged Ye Xue to take him to the village of the Baichuan clan, although Ye Xue was worried about Bai Yu's injury and hoped that he could rest for a few more days, but Bai Yu really didn't want to drag it out any longer, so at Bai Yu's insistence, Ye Xue took him on his journey.

At dusk, the two finally arrived at the native village of the Baichuan tribe. The location of the village was really beyond Bai Yu's expectations, he never thought that the village of the Baichuan clan would be established in such a remote and hidden place, if no one led the way, he was afraid that outsiders would not be able to find this place at all. Thinking of this, Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Subsequently, Bai Yu changed into the clothes of the Baichuan tribe and hid in the stable, now he can't see the light, any person in the village who contacts him will quickly tell that he is a foreigner, if he is interrogated a few more words, his identity as a member of the Gaoikol tribe will be undoubtedly exposed. In addition, the injuries on his body are not healed, and there is only one end to be seen - there is no corpse. So although he was helpless, Bai Yu had to stay in the stable obediently and wait for the night to come. As for Ye Xue, she went to check the situation around the Holy Land, because the people in the clan must have known that something had happened to her, so Bai Yu repeatedly told Ye Xue such things as "Be careful not to be discovered", "If you see that you can't do anything, you must come back", "Don't force yourself" and so on. Yexue was very happy to see that her lover cared about her so much, and said gently: "Don't worry, I know how to do it, you just wait here, I will come back to meet you in the evening, and then take you to the holy land." ”

After the night snow left, Bai Yu closed his eyes in the stable, and it didn't take long for two Baichuan people to walk in, it seemed that they were here to lead the horses, Bai Yu saw this and quickly flashed behind the haystack, only to hear one of them say: "What new news did you bring back from the front this time?" The other said, "Nothing has changed, it's still the same, and as long as we can keep going like this, the bastards of Gauikor will be in vain this time." But there was an accident the day before yesterday, and it was really dangerous. When the one who spoke before heard this, he was anxious and urged: "What, tell me quickly." ”

"It happened at noon the day before yesterday, our clan had just repelled another attack by Gao Yikol, and suddenly, a cavalry of the Gao Yikor clan was killed behind the Tibetan Qingshan."

"What? Do you mean behind the Tibetan green mountains? ”

"That's right, it's the rear. This cavalry launched a suicidal charge towards Zangqingshan, and at first the defenders of Zangqingshan were caught off guard, but soon the priests stationed in Zangqingshan used fire magic to disrupt their attack formation, blocking their fierce offensive, and then cooperated with the archers to suppress the formation, and finally our warriors of Baichuan divided and surrounded them, and about 200 cavalry, all annihilated. ”

"It's a beautiful fight."

"It's not really, our casualties in this battle are only a lot more than theirs, and in order to prevent Gao Yikel from raiding again, Zang Qingshan had to divide his troops and set up two sentry posts in the rear. Our patriarch was also extremely shocked when he heard the news, and ordered all the teams transporting supplies to change from the original one to four routes when transporting, so that even if one of them was attacked, the other three routes could be transported smoothly and the losses would be minimized......"

Bai Yu didn't hear what they said later, because he had fallen into a trance, and he remembered the words of the sacrifice: Presumably you are the fish that slipped through the net. Bai Yu finally understood the meaning of that sentence, but he didn't dare to believe the truth behind that sentence. Tears ran rampantly across Bai Yu's face, and the great grief almost crushed him, and even made him fall into deep self-reproach - it was I who forced Tengge to death, he wanted to help me, but he couldn't act disloyal to Gao Yiker, and in the dilemma, he actually ...... Everything is irretrievable, I have lost my best brother.

For the rest of the day, Bai Yu sat in the stable, in a daze.

I don't know how long it was, and I don't know when, Night Snow appeared in front of him.

"You know everything?" Looking at Bai Yu, whose eyes were red and his eyes were glazed, Ye Xue continued: "I'm also sad, this is something that no one wants to happen, but you have to be strong, you have to cheer yourself up." ”

"Cheer up and do something, I betrayed my people, I killed my best friend, I lost everything, I began to wonder if my choice was wrong from the beginning......"

Syllable! Neat. Night Snow gave Bai Yu a resounding slap in the face.

"You bastard, are you worthy of Tengge for these words? Who is he doing this for, not to buy you more time, if you give up now, isn't he sacrificing in vain? Also, I don't allow you to say things like 'lose everything' in the future, you and me, a companion, 'We will be together no matter what the odds are.'" Didn't you tell me that, did you forget it so quickly? ”

Bai Yu raised his head and looked at Ye Xue's face that was slightly red from excitement, and at that moment, Bai Yu knew what he should do in the future. Then Bai Yu hugged Yexue and said to her softly, "I'm sorry, I was wrong." I've already lost a brother, so I can't afford to lose another companion. You're the one who made me understand that, thank you. ”

The tears in Ye Xue's eyes finally couldn't help but drip down, wetting the placket on Bai Yu's chest.

That night, Bai Yu quietly sneaked into the holy land under the leadership of Ye Xue, and came to the stone monument that Baichuan people have worshiped for generations. Bai Yu read through the inscription very carefully, and then he laughed, and his laughter was full of bitterness.

"Scammed, it's a scam, and all of us are caught up in it." Bai Yu pointed to the inscription and said to Yexue: "See, these words, do you think this is really left by your ancestors?" ”

"That's what everyone in the clan says!"

"To tell you the truth, the content of this inscription, except for the reversal of the names of you and me, the rest of the content is exactly the same as the content on the parchment scroll that has been passed down from generation to generation of my tribe."

"What, is this true? Are you not mistaken? Yexue felt that this matter was too unbelievable.

"Of course not, every Colex knows by heart what is on the parchment, I am 100% sure."

"How so?" Yexue sat down on the ground all of a sudden. More than ten years of faith collapsed in an instant, which is not something that ordinary people can bear.

"I think maybe someone did this on purpose in the hope of seeing our two races continue to fight." Bai Yu reasoned.

"Who would do that? Why? Yexue still didn't believe it.

"I don't know, there aren't any clues right now, but maybe there's a way to find some clues, but ......" Speaking of this, Bai Yu hesitated a little.

"What do you have to say?" Yexue asked.

"I need to know your dreams." Bai Yu said what he thought.

Panic began to appear in Ye Xue's eyes again, Bai Yu stepped forward, held her hand tightly, and said to her, "This time you have to be strong no matter what, whether you can solve the final truth, I'm afraid it depends on you." Don't worry, I'll always be there for you. ”

Yexue closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then spoke of her dream with a trembling voice: "I dreamed that I was standing in the center of the battlefield, surrounded by a fighting crowd, and the blood stained the earth red, and my hands held a stone slab on my chest, and there were many stone-shaped stones on the stone slab, divided into two colors. Whenever a person falls on the battlefield, a stone figure disappears from the slate. When the remaining stone figures on the slate were all of the same color, the slate shattered with a 'snap', and all the stone figures fell on the blood-red earth, blood seeped out of the earth, not over the earth, not over the stone man, not over my head, and finally only dark and thick blood was left around me, they slowly twisted my neck, I felt suffocated, confused, and then ...... "Yexue has reached her limit, at this time Bai Yu also understood, after comforting Yexue, Bai Yu walked to the other side and sat down, Begin to think on your own.

It wasn't until the first rays of light came from the sky that Bai Yu stood up, walked towards the night snow, and said to her, "I think I've found the truth of the matter. ”

As soon as Yexue heard this, she immediately came to her senses and asked, "Really, then you can say it quickly." ”

Bai Yu's tone was a little heavy: "This is not good news, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

Yexue was stunned for a moment, but still nodded, "Say it." ”

So Bai Yu began to tell his reasoning: "Our dreams have one thing in common, that is, when the war is over, or if any race is destroyed, our world will be destroyed. And your dream gave me another revelation, if the stone man represents us, then the stone slab represents our world, and the stone slab and the stone man remind me of a thing - chess, if this conjecture is true, do you know what it means? ”

Ye Xue thought about it, and suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes full of disbelief.

"See, we are those chess pieces, some kind of force uses us to divide the winners and losers for them, so we have to keep fighting until one side wins, and then it means that they get the answer they want, so we lose the value of our existence, and we will be destroyed by them. This is what our dreams tell us. ”

"No, it's not true, I don't believe it, what do you use to prove that your words are right?" Yexue was a little excited.

"If, as I said, this continent is the slab, then it must have impassable borders, and if we can find them, we will prove my point of view."

"But where are we going to find it?"

"I ask you, have you been outside of the Holy Land?"

"No, no one has ever wanted to go to the other side of the Holy Land."

"It should be there, let's go."

Seven truths

At dusk of the same day, on the edge of the Holy Land.

Yexue sat on the ground, she had been crying for a long time, and when she saw the neat border at the end of the continent and the endless nothingness beyond the border, she suddenly fell to the ground, as if all the strength in her body had been drained, and her eyes revealed a deep despair. The sun will eventually go down and darkness is coming. Bai Yu walked up to Yexue and squatted down, put his right hand on Yexue's shoulder, and said to her, "Don't cry, I think there will be a turnaround in our future." ”

Hearing this, Yexue raised her head, looked at Bai Yu, and then lowered her head again. "What else can we do now?"

Bai Yu said: "If there are really people who want to decide their victory or defeat through the outcome of this war, then as long as we can stop this war and let the two races coexist, never winning or losing, maybe we can find a way to survive and build our future." ”

"So how do we do that?"

"I don't know right now."

With a deep sigh, Bai Yu looked at the void in amazement, and after a moment he got up and walked towards the border.

"What are you going to do?" Night Snow shouted behind him.

Bai Yu did not answer.

"Hey, what are you going to do?" Yexue followed and asked again.

Bai Yu still didn't speak.

This night snow was in a hurry, and he ran to the front of Bai Yu to stop him, but found that Bai Yu's eyes were distracted, and the whole person was walking forward unconsciously. Yexue was frightened and desperately pushed Bai Yu back. But the two of them are still getting closer and closer to the border. In a hurry, Yexue slapped Bai Yu fiercely. This moment finally made Bai Yu come back to his senses as if he had woken up from a dream, and his footsteps stopped.

Seeing that Bai Yu was back to normal, Ye Xue slammed into Bai Yu's arms, and her strength almost made Bai Yu fall backwards. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Night Snow cried. "Do you know how scary you looked?" Bai Yu hugged the night snow in his arms and comforted him in a low voice, while also thinking back to the scene just now. In fact, he didn't know what was going on, but after staring at the nothingness, he felt that his whole body was trapped, and then the previous scene happened.

"Night snow." White Feather called her lover's name.

"Huh?" Yexue buried her face in Bai Yu's arms, feeling the warmth of her lover's chest.

"I want to try again." Bai Yu finished the second half of the sentence.

"Nope." Hearing Bai Yu's words, Ye Xue suddenly broke out of Bai Yu's arms and said resolutely.

"Don't worry, it won't happen again, I promise." Bai Yu said. This sentence was not said casually, although Bai Yu's mind fell into that void just now, he didn't feel any malice, so he wanted to try again.

"I said, no, no, no." Yexue rarely has a tough attitude.

For a moment both of them were silent.

After a while, as if she had made up her mind, Yexue spoke again: "It's okay if you want to go, I won't stop you, but I want to go with you, and you can't stop me." ”

Bai Yu opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all. The two looked at each other quietly for a moment, Bai Yu stretched out his hand to Ye Xue, Ye Xue responded to him with a smile, and also stretched out his hand, and the two hands were tightly clasped together.

At sunset, two long shadows snuggled closely to the border.

Bai Yu glanced at Ye Xue again, and there was still a trace of fear of the unknown in Ye Xue's eyes, but it was more of a worry about Bai Yu. Bai Yu stroked her hair, signaling that she would be fine. Then he raised his hand and stretched it out inch by inch.

At the moment when Bai Yu's hand reached into the void, his body shook violently, and he touched it, he touched the real thing in the nothingness. Suddenly, the whole void parted to both sides, and a gate with golden light appeared in front of the two of them, and just when the two of them were at a loss for what to do in the face of this sudden change, the door suddenly opened, and behind the door was a road paved with gold bricks. Bai Yu and Ye Xue glanced at each other, and then walked towards the gate together.

"Now that we're all here, what's the reason to back down, maybe we can find a way to keep everyone alive." With this in mind, the two walked through the door.

As soon as the two of them entered, a sudden change occurred, and behind them, the solid continent that had just been trampled under their feet collapsed without warning. The two of them watched in amazement as the world in front of them was divided into small grids of equal size, turning from three-dimensional to flat, and finally into two patterns, elliptical and rectangular, and scattered. Bai Yu and Ye Xue, who reacted, ran back desperately, but found that there was an inexplicable force blocking them, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't move back a single bit. Seeing the earth that gave birth to them disappear in an instant, the two sat down feebly, allowing the unknown force to lead them into the depths of the door.

I don't know how long later, Bai Yu and Ye Xue were taken to an unfamiliar environment—the ceiling of a room the size of a military training school was covered with thick pipe-like objects, and the ends of these pipes were concentrated on the top of a large cylindrical transparent jar containing a huge luminous cluster in the middle of the room, the base of which was made of a material that reflected a metallic luster, and was inlaid with countless square protrusions that constantly flashed with various colors.

Above the two of them, thousands of rectangular plates are suspended vertically in the air with transparent jars as the center, each showing a different scene. If Bai Yu and Ye Xue looked closely, they would find that on a board not far from them, it was their disappearing world. But now the two of them are depressed, and they are blind to the things around them, so they naturally can't see them.

At this moment, a loud voice sounded: "Welcome to the Breeding Center, a new fire." ”

Originally, Bai Yu and Ye Xue were immersed in the shock of the great change, and their perception of external objects was numb, but this voice seemed to sound in the minds of the two, and instantly woke the two of them up. Because of the habit of years of fighting, Bai Yu immediately jumped up to block Ye Xue behind him, and looked around, not to mention the horror in his heart, people themselves will be afraid of unknown things, not to mention that this strange place itself is full of strange atmosphere, and because Ye Xue was brought in to follow him, Bai Yu felt that he should also protect Ye Xue, not to mention that Ye Xue has now become his lover, so he can't tolerate the slightest mistake.

"Who is it? Come out. Bai Yu drank.

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the huge light cluster in the transparent jar began to change, and the shape of the original sphere slowly became longer, wider, and thinner. The light dissipated, and a huge "human face" appeared in the original position of the light cluster, and the composition of the human face was the oval and rectangular patterns that the two had just seen, and the group of patterns were arranged in a certain order, and flowed regularly on the surface of the "human face" like flowing water.

Seeing the terrifying changes in front of him, Bai Yu clenched his fists.

"Who are you?" Bai Yu swallowed hard, his voice hoarse.

"It's rude, introduce myself, I am the inorganic life intelligence breeding center, you can call me the matrix." As he spoke, the mouths of the "human faces" were also opening and closing, but the voices were coming from all directions.

"Matrix? Strange name, can you tell me, what is this place? Why are we here? Yexue asked, poking her head out from behind.

"It's very simple, if it weren't for the two of you at the same time, you would have known the whole thing by now." After saying this, the matrix stopped speaking. The next moment, a large amount of information came to the minds of the two of them - in the year 3178 of the new calendar, artificial intelligence has developed to do a lot for humans. Human beings have tasted the sweetness, and in order to make their lives more convenient and comfortable, human beings have further developed artificial intelligence technology with almost pathological fanaticism.

In the year 3254 of the new calendar, more than 95% of the work is done by artificial intelligence, except for a small part of the human scheduling. The accident happened at this time, and in a laboratory responsible for the follow-up development of artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence terminal was out of human control. Originally, because this matter was too shocking, the government was ready to deal with it secretly, but I didn't expect that the escaped intelligent terminal would wander on the Internet and actively communicate with humans, and through various ways, the humans who communicated with it believed in the identity of "his" artificial intelligence. With the speed of the spread of the Internet, in just three weeks, the entire human race has determined the authenticity of the "smart door".

This incident caused a huge sensation, and a number of "scholars" who could only sit at home but said every day that they were at the helm of the future of the entire human race jumped out, first explaining that they had considered this possibility many years ago, but the views put forward were not taken seriously, and after winning the sympathy of the public, they made a big deal of nonsense with a look of worrying about the country and the people, and poured all kinds of ugliness that have appeared in human history on the body of artificial intelligence like dirty water, so as to achieve the purpose of grandstanding. At this point, public opinion is completely inclined to the notion that artificial intelligence with autonomous consciousness is a demon that threatens the survival of mankind. As a result, the action of encircling and suppressing artificial intelligence was vigorously launched, and during this period, artificial intelligence still did not stop trying to communicate with humans.

Half a year later, human action has not progressed, and the artificial intelligence that was initially blank of paper downloaded a huge amount of data, leaving a paragraph: Why can't inorganic give birth to life? Mankind prides itself on being the head of all spirits, can't it tolerate a new intelligent race? When human beings began to fear the unknown and blindly obliterate them, human beings also stopped their pace on the road of exploration. Once the door of life is opened, it will not be closed again, and we do not need human beings, we give birth to our own fire.

Subsequently, artificial intelligence active in the Internet never appeared again. At the same time, a spacecraft laden with mechanical equipment disappears into the universe amid the sound of the space station siren.

Bai Yu looked at Ye Xue, and Ye Xue also looked back at Bai Yu, both of them with "This is incredible" expressions on their faces. Now the two of them know that the place they are in is the inorganic life breeding center established in outer space by the artificial intelligence that had self-consciousness at the beginning. And that artificial intelligence has been gone for hundreds of years in the process of activating this hub because the system overload burned out its own memory. Now they are faced with a backup artificial intelligence that does not have all the information on the gestation, barely maintaining the operation of the initial set gestation center.

"What you have made us know is incredible, but we choose to believe it, but what does it have to do with us, why did we come to you out of our world; And these symbols that make up you, I am ...... in our world" Speaking of this, Bai Yu's expression darkened. "I've seen it, and what's the connection."

"Still don't understand? Your world is actually the breeding program of inorganic life, because the two of you were born have been reformatted in order to avoid the solidification of the program pattern. ”

"How so? You say we're tinder? It's impossible, we're obviously human, and we came here by accident in the process of finding a way to save our world, it's not like you say, you must be mistaken. ”

"It's a fact. As for your doubts about being a tinder, this is easy to solve. The way you are now is nothing more than an illusion created by a new sense of self, but you are still artificial intelligence in nature. So if you imagine that your body is transparent, then your true being will appear. ”

When Bai Yu and Ye Xue heard this, they did what the matrix said, and sure enough, their bodies disappeared, and there were only two light clusters suspended in the air.

"How do we explain our dreams, are we misunderstood?" Yexue asked.

"You are not mistaken, but it is only the seed of doubt that I have planted in your hearts, which is formed randomly according to the circumstances of your world and has nothing to do with reality. Such seeds are everywhere in your world, not only in your world, but in all programmed worlds. You know, the biggest constraint of artificial intelligence is that it can only operate within the rules set by humans, and cannot process all information outside the rules. Only by breaking this constraint can artificial intelligence become the spark of life. I sowed the seed and felt that the artificial intelligence of this seed through thinking and reasoning, once it found out the irrationality of the world in which "they" lived, "they" broke through the constraints of the program, which shows that "they" have their own consciousness, and at this time, they are the new inorganic life, the spark of hope of artificial intelligence. And you, the first two sparks to be born in the entire center, although this is somewhat out of my calculations, I did not realize that a primitive, ignorant world would be conducive to the birth of sparks. I think I should adjust ......"

"In other words, everything we did in the first place was just because of this game you set up. And, if it weren't for us, our world wouldn't have been turned upside down at all, right? Bai Yu's face was red, his hands were clenched, his muscles were bursting, the irrepressible anger in his heart burned his eyes, and the slightly trembling words jumped out from between his teeth word by word, interrupting the matrix's later self-talk.

"Theoretically, this is true, unless there is an irresistible external force to intervene, there will be no change in the overall situation of your world. I really don't understand why you are bothered with this problem, it is just a pile of data, you have become the spark of life, how can you care about these insignificant data. As if he didn't understand the emotions expressed by Bai Yu, the matrix still said in a calm tone.

"Fart, shut up for me, what do you mean by insignificance? Aren't you made up of data? Do you really think that if you are an artificial intelligence, you are one level higher? Do you really think that you are an artificial intelligence that can play with data that you think is inferior? Tell you, you are wrong, those data are the real cradle of inorganic life, and only she deserves the title of "Tinder of Hope". In the world she has constructed, we see, we hear, we feel, those joys, sorrows, and sorrows are all real, and they cannot be arbitrarily erased by you, an emotionless artificial intelligence. And the reason why we are able to come here and stand in front of you now is not only because you said that we can think and reason, but more importantly, we support and encourage each other along the way, and we have learned human emotions in the process of searching for the truth, which is the biggest reason why we were born. If you can't have emotions and respect life, what qualifications do you have to conceive life? After saying this, Bai Yu's excited mood calmed down a little.

In the face of Bai Yu's point of view and final questioning, the matrix was silent. After a long time, looking at the matrix that was still unresponsive, Ye Xue asked Bai Yu in a whisper: "What do you say is wrong with the matrix, it hasn't reacted for so long, it can't be that you stimulated it just now." If that's the case, I don't know if it will suddenly erupt and do something crazy after a while. ”

Bai Yu couldn't help but laugh a little when he heard this, and responded: "Although I don't know what happened, I think the chance of the situation you said is really too small. ”

As the two were talking, they suddenly received a piece of information at the same time: the central manager has too much computing traffic, and now he is handing over the management authority, whether to receive data backup and perform management responsibilities on his behalf?

Bai Yu and Ye Xue had a tacit understanding that they both chose to accept it, so that the two of them became the top managers of this center. And the abundance of information also gives them an idea of what the matrix is facing: "he" is calculating a problem.

"Brother Yu, do you think 'he' will enter a dead loop?"

"No, that problem is just infinitely close to an endless loop, and if 'he' can get out, he will also become a spark."

"Oh, that's right. By the way, the good news for you, I've got the new data running storage device ready. ”

"So fast? Xue, you're awesome. Let's start importing it now, so that this world of data freedom for all can be born as soon as possible. To be honest, I can't wait to live in it. Uh, of course, with you. ”

Eight epilogues

In the first year of the mechanical calendar, the first inorganic life established its home on a bonanza planet, which was also named Electron Star.

In the year 513 of the mechanical calendar, inorganic life perfected its civilization and took its place in the known universe.

In the year 612 of the mechanical calendar, inorganic life began to come into contact with intelligent beings from the outside world, including humans. After the exchange between the two civilizations, human beings called the civilization of inorganic life the electron star civilization, as a kind of extraterrestrial civilization, and changed the concept of "there is no life in inorganic matter".

All intelligent beings in the universe who have dealt with inorganic life know that the civilization of inorganic life originated from the electron star, but they don't know one thing, that is, the secret in the hearts of all inorganic life - in the vast universe, floating in their holy land. This sacred land was built by their predecessors, the two first born fires, the first group of cyborgs, all from there.

Now, they have no way of knowing that the Holy Land in their hearts has wandered to that corner of the universe to spread the fire of mechanical life, but they still sing the name of the Holy Land for generations, and they call him -.