The flames flew in the darkness with the scorching heat, and the sparks scattered like fireflies in the flames.

Yan Liqiang, like the other guards, stood outside the piles of rising flames, watching the piles of flames being ignited, watching the flying sparks and the bodies that gradually annihilated in the flames.

Like the people around him, Yan Liqiang's face was reflected red by the red light of the flames, and the piles of flames were not only burning on the hillside behind the Gray Family Market, but also burning in Yan Liqiang's heart.

The twenty-six piles of flames rising up were the last heat left in this world by the twenty-six battle-dead guards around Sun Bingchen.

The scene was silent, slightly depressed, and everyone including Sun Bingchen and Liang Yijie stood solemnly around the fire, but Yan Liqiang also faintly heard an irrepressible sobbing sound in his ears.

The crying was a young guard in his early 20s, not a few years stronger than Yan Li, and the reason why he was crying was because among the twenty-six piles of burning flames was his own brother.

The young guard's name is Hu Haihe, he and his brother are both from Dijing, because there is an uncle in the family who is on an errand in the Imperial Mabu Division, so when he was conscripted, his uncle entrusted the relationship, so he got his brother to the Imperial Mabu Division, in order to treat the Imperial Mabu Division a little better than other soldiers stationed in the Imperial Capital, and later Hu Haihe joined the army, and also joined the Imperial Mabu Division through his uncle's relationship, and also got together with his brother, so that the two brothers could take care of each other.

This time, Sun Bingchen was the patrol envoy, and the small banner where he and his brother were located was drawn out and came to the northwest with Sun Bingchen.

In that battle just two days ago, his brother was on the battlefield, and in order to protect him, he was shot in the neck by the Black Wind Thief with an arrow while fighting the Black Wind Thief, and he was killed on the spot.

Yan Liqiang didn't know that Sun Bingchen's guards had a pair of brothers before, and it wasn't until yesterday that he heard from the other guards and knew about it.

The farewell of brothers and sisters on the battlefield can be regarded as a human tragedy......

The beating flames flickered in Yan Liqiang's eyes, and the corpses in the flames also underwent a series of changes in the heat that made them not feel pleasant to watch.

Looking at everything in front of him, Yan Liqiang didn't know why, but suddenly remembered the scene of the sky burial that he and one of his good buddies saw in Tibet in the previous life, that time, he didn't have the courage to finish the whole process of the sky burial, when the person who wanted to be buried appeared on the sky burial platform, and a large number of vultures appeared in the sky, Yan Liqiang, who knew what was going to happen next, couldn't help but run away, and at this moment, looking at the corpses in front of him that were expanding and fissioning and decomposing, Yan Liqiang was calm, because in his heart, there was a voice surging and telling- If you were the one who died in the battle two days ago, then your body will also become ugly and ugly in this firelight, and finally turn into a charred dust and nothingness, so that your loved ones will grieve and your enemies will be happy, so in any case, never let yourself become a rotten carbohydrate burning on the firewood......

All dangers are unpredictable, death is always sudden, and the people you trust and rely on may lead you to the trap of death, so if you want to live, there is only one way, which is to become stronger, stronger, stronger.

Yan Liqiang's face was calm, but the fist of one hand was tightly squeezed in the sleeve.

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The piles of fires burned for two hours before they were finally extinguished and turned into curling smoke, and then Yan Liqiang, together with other guards, gathered some of the ashes left in the fire into clay pots with names written on them collected from the Ash Family Market, and dug pits and buried those remaining bones that had not yet been burned on the spot, and did not make tombs.

The twenty-six guards who had been riding together on the rhinosaurus horse a few days ago turned into a pile of ashes in a clay pot and held in the hands of a robe brother.

"The guards who died in this battle, after returning to the imperial capital, I will count Your Majesty as martyrs who died in the field of serving the country, double the pension, if they have children or brothers in their families, they will join the army in the future, or perform their duties in the public gate, they will be given preferential treatment!" Looking at the silent faces, Sun Bingchen opened his mouth, which can be regarded as a little comfort in the hearts of those guards who are still alive.

"Thank you, sir!" all the people saluted and thanked Sun Bingchen.

"Everyone have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow everyone cheers up and continues to ......hurry," Liang Yijie added next to him.

"Yes!"

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After completing this ritual, Yan Liqiang and the others returned to the inn.

Everyone was not interested, except for a few who were on duty for the night, almost all of them returned to their rooms after returning to the inn, and Yan Liqiang was the same.

Seeing Yan Liqiang return to the room, Huang Mao wagged his tail and walked over little by little with one foot.

Yan Liqiang touched Huang Mao's head, checked the injury on Huang Mao's leg again, and let Huang Mao lie on the side.

The imperial Earth Dragon Hundred Herb Paste that Sun Bingchen gave him was indeed extraordinary, just one day, Yan Liqiang felt that Huang Mao had recovered a lot, and the foot that was originally completely unable to move could now actually try to walk, although it still looked a little lame, but it was developing in a good direction, and it might not take much time to recover.

After experiencing this test of life and death, Yan Liqiang found that having such a dog as Huang Mao by his side is sometimes more effective than a person, and taking care of Huang Mao has become Yan Liqiang's unshirkable responsibility.

Yan Liqiang, who returned to the room, sat quietly for a while, calmed down some ups and downs, closed the doors and windows of the room, closed the windproof curtains on the doors and windows, and then took a stick of incense, lit it on the oil lamp in the room, and then inserted the incense stick into an incense burner in the room, put the incense burner on the ground, and blew out the oil lamp.

After extinguishing the oil lamp, Yan Liqiang's entire room suddenly fell into the darkness of his fingers, and in the entire room, only the incense that Yan Liqiang had just lit revealed a red ignition on the dark ground.

Yan Liqiang was lying on the ground, raising his head, staring at the little red incense in the darkness three meters away.

Yan Liqiang's posture lying on the ground is very special, like a tiger, and a bit like a plank he did in his previous life, the back of his feet fell on tiptoe, the whole body was like a bridge, stretched into a straight line, and in front, what supported the strength of his entire upper limbs was only the thumb and index finger of each of his hands, not only that, Yan Liqiang's eyes were also round, staring at the little red incense head a few meters away without blinking, and the attention of the whole person was on the only bit of light in the dark.

It is instinctive for people to blink their eyes, in order to relieve the fatigue of their eyes, but Yan Liqiang deliberately controlled his eyes, and held back when he wanted to blink, just staring at that little red light.

After a while, Yan Liqiang's eyes began to ache, but Yan Liqiang still endured it without blinking, still staring at the little red light, and then the fingers that were bearing the weight of Yan Liqiang's upper body also began to sore and tremble, but Yan Liqiang gritted his teeth and held on......

It was only a moment of effort, because Yan Liqiang's eyes didn't blink, his eyes were full of tears began to flow out, and on Yan Liqiang's forehead, drops of sweat continued to roll down......

This is a way that Yan Liqiang thought of in the past two days to let his body and eyes enter the extreme overdraft state at the fastest speed, especially the eyes, in this state, the eyesight of the eyes is definitely a test.

This pillar of incense burned for almost an hour, and when this pillar of incense was burned, Yan Liqiang's whole eyes were already red, hot, and even slightly swollen, for nearly an hour, under Yan Liqiang's control, he couldn't help blinking his eyes four times, and his two fingers were trembling as if they were about to break, and his whole body was sweating.

Yan Liqiang got up from the ground, closed his eyes, slowed down his breathing, and after resting for a while, he began to do the Yijin Washing Pulp Sutra.

Sure enough, it was still the same as yesterday, and the heaven and earth aura that entered his body began to pour into his eyes, making his eyes instantly cold and transparent, and a heaven and earth aura followed his two hands and began to nourish and strengthen the two fingers that he had just endured a great test......