Passing through the stone gate and running through the north and south of the heavenly street, Tian Ji lit the fire troughs used for lighting on both sides, and in the bright firelight, we found that the ground behind the stone gate was all red, and behind the stone gate was a dark trace.

We saw countless shocking scratches on it, and there was a thick layer of white ash on the ground, which I rubbed with my hands, and there were coarse particles of different sizes, which were not yellow, but ashes.

Yang Xun recorded in his notes what happened last, the soldiers who retreated from the Vientiane Divine Palace, because they wanted to ensure that all the things piled up in the Tianji Palace were transported out, so the No. 1 leader ordered the stone gate to be closed, and those soldiers who had not had time to retreat were all blocked behind the stone gate.

They could only try to defend themselves with the help of the crude oil in the fire trough, and in the end the raging fire engulfed everything, Yang Xun described in his notes, even through the thick stone gate, he could still hear the screams one after another, and the heart-rending wails, until the whole stone gate was hot, and those voices gradually disappeared.

Yang Xun clearly recorded that at that time, there were more than 1,000 people who entered the Vientiane Divine Palace, and finally retreated to the Tianji Palace, and it is difficult for me to imagine everything that happened at that time through those words, but looking at the terrible scratches on the stone gate, as well as the thick ashes on the ground, I can guess how tragic and bloody it was at that time.

We walked along the Heavenly Street, walked for about half a day, there was a sound of turbulent water in front, and we saw that not far away was a rushing underground river, across a stone bridge on the river, when we were almost to the bridge, we saw the stone tablet erected next to the Heavenly Street, on which there were ancient Western Regions characters.

Ye Zhiqiu stepped forward to identify it, saying that it was the Tocharian text of the Western Regions, and it took her a long time to translate it.

Only God can enter!

These four words are more like a warning, the road ahead can only be gone by God, the implication must be that everyone knows that trespassing will only be a dead end, maybe we will be indifferent to these four words in ordinary times, but thirty years ago, more than 1,000 people also passed through here, they should have also seen these four words, the result is ......

I thought of the crimson on the ground behind the stone gate and the shocking pile of ashes.

"Don't talk." Tian Ji suddenly raised his hand to signal us to be quiet, and he looked back with a stern face. "Do you hear anything?"

In the dead silence of the earth, any slight sound was exceptionally clear, and soon I could hear a dense rustle, and in the firelight, I could vaguely see countless pairs of bloodthirsty red eyes galloping towards us in the darkness behind me.

I was shocked in my heart, the black gold corpse armor and the strange poor who had been chasing after us all this time had actually chased here so quickly, and immediately from the Tianji Palace, they forgot to close the stone gate, and the hole in the palace that was blown open just allowed these monsters to drive straight in.

We hurriedly ran towards the stone bridge, and when we reached the middle of the bridge, the general suddenly said: "There is a flat river in front, there is no danger to defend, we can't outrun the group of things behind us at all, if we let them cross this bridge, we will definitely die." ”

"Blow up the bridge, as long as the bridge is broken, they won't be able to cross." I looked from the bridge at the chopping underground river below, which happened to be a natural barrier.

Bai Jin hurriedly turned back, and took his people and the general to guard the bridge, and the general asked us to immediately plant explosives on the bridge, the construction of the stone bridge is quite firm, and the explosives must be buried on the piers, and to prevent the black gold corpse armor and the poor from crossing, the entire bridge must be blown up.

I asked Ye Zhiqiu and Ling Zhihan to retreat to the other side of the bridge first, and I, Gong Jue and Tian Ji, turned over and got off the bridge to fix the explosives on the bridge piers, dragged the lead and tied them together, and when I returned to the bridge, I saw that the black gold corpse armor and Qi Qi Qi were already close at hand, and I shouted to the general to retreat.

Bai Jin's people were reluctant to stay behind, and when they heard my shout, they didn't look back and ran to the other side, and when the general and Bai Jin retreated to the center of the bridge, Tian Ji suddenly tied the lead in my and Gong Jue's hands together, but found that the length was not enough, and if you want to blow up the stone bridge, there must be someone who has to stay and detonate, which means that the people who stay behind will die with the stone bridge.

"You go!" Tian Ji shook the lead in his hand, and his voice was firm.

"According to the rules, the three of us will work together, I am the palm of the hand, and it is not your turn to carry the beam if there is something." I reached for the lead and found that the field chicken was pulling very tightly. "Let go."

"I don't care if you're the palm or not, when I was with you, my responsibility was to protect you, and now it's up to me to do this." For the first time, the field chicken got angry in front of me.

"According to you, blowing up a bridge is no different from opening a trap, and it should be my turn." The palace lord's hand also reached out.

"Life and death are together, enough righteousness." Bai Jinhao smiled heartily, and grabbed the lead with a big hand like iron tongs. "But what's there to fight about sending to death, a bunch of stunned young people, they don't think they live long enough, right, out, let Lao Tzu be a backpad."

Bang dang!

Our argument was interrupted, and the general, who had been watching the black and gold corpse armor at the head of the bridge and the strange movement, suddenly threw the gun in his hand, usually at this time, he would never let me put my life in danger, but this time the general actually said nothing.

There was a sense of relief on his face, he wiped the stubble on the side of his mouth, silently took out the cigarette, and the monsters on the opposite side were getting closer and closer to the bridge, but the general was much calmer, rolled up the cigarette and lit it with the corner of his mouth, took a deep breath and looked at Bai Jin.

"I saved your life, but remember." The general asked seriously.

"What nonsense, Bai Jin's hundred catties are placed here, Wei Zi, you want to speak."

"You, your life was also saved by me." The general's gaze fell on Tian Ji.

"Thank you for your kindness, Uncle Wei, you can say it directly." Tian Ji said honestly.

The general nodded, took another puff of his cigarette, took the explosives from his backpack, and nonchalantly wrapped them around himself.

"What do you want to do, old thing?" I was startled and asked out loud.

"You take Chaoge away, and our affairs will be settled." The general didn't look at me at all, the lead was already tied to him and the explosives on the pier.

"Wei Zi, our brothers were also born and died, what kind of character do I have, you should know, I can listen to you in everything, this matter is not discussed." Bai Jin didn't even think about it, shook his head and said. "Leave you here to die, even if I get out alive, my heart will not be at ease in this life."

"You're a fucking gravedigger, you don't want to be a hero in this life." I rushed over and grabbed the lead in the general's hand, and followed him for more than ten years, this man was like a cow, and no one wanted to persuade him to come back, but when my hand touched the general's waist, I suddenly found that there was a warm dampness, and I raised my hand and was surprised to see that my hands were full of blood. "You...... What happened to you? ”

The general gasped weakly, and his body was a little unsteady: "I was injured by Qi Poor in the Dizong Palace, I dragged it and didn't tell you, I guess it's really old, I ...... I can't walk anymore. ”

From the Dizong Palace to here, to say the least, there are more than ten days, the general was not lightly injured, and was stabbed into the abdomen by the spikes on Qi Poor's body, he has been insisting on the wound all the way, I know in my heart that he doesn't want to drag us back, recalling that night he and I were chatting at the vigil, I didn't actually hear what he said.

"Don't say it, let's go together, I'll carry you out." I clutched the general's open wound in a panic, blood gushing from between my fingers, and for the first time I felt a real fear, a hopeless helplessness.

Gongjue and Tian Ji also came around, Bai Jin wanted to support the general, he shook his hand hard: "My own body, I know the severity of the injury, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out." ”

"Even if you die, I have to carry you out." I don't listen at all.

Syllable!

The general slapped me in the face heavily, Gongjue and Tian Ji were stunned, I stiffened my head and stretched my face over, and said stubbornly: "Fight, you beat, beat me for more than ten years, as long as you can't kill me, I will never leave you alone." ”

The general's hand was raised again, the bigger he moved, the more blood gushed out of the wound, from childhood to adulthood, he hit me, I never hid, the kimono was not convinced, it seemed that I was used to it, but this time the general's slap stopped on my cheek, and the movement suddenly became gentle, and some trembling strokes on my face.

"Doing what we do, it's a business of licking blood from the knife's edge, it's not that I want to beat you, it's that I want you to grow up, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid that you haven't learned enough, and if you encounter danger in the future, I'm not around, what can you do alone......" The general's voice became weaker and weaker, and this was the first time I heard him speak to me with a pleasant face. "I can't beat it, no one will beat you anymore, and you have to walk alone on the way back......"

"Yes, I understand." My voice choked, tears can't help but flow out, more than ten years, I am used to his scolding, I have never respected him, always call him an old thing at will, but I know in my heart that I have always treated him as a relative, but I am the same as the general, are not good at expressing emotions, I hold down his wound hard, but the blood gushes out unscrupulously, from childhood to adulthood, he and those people in the pawnshop in the four directions, in my heart are men who stand up to the sky, with them, I will always feel solid and at ease.

They taught me to be strong and unyielding, and now I can face any adversity without giving up, but they forgot to teach me how to deal with parting, so that I never thought that this day would happen, let alone know that this was the biggest pain, which was far more unforgettable than the pain in my skin, and I felt that my whole heart was torn apart with the blood that kept pouring out from the general.

"Wei Zi is afraid that he will lose his trust this time, and he can't go back to Liaodong with you, and he dug a tomb for a lifetime, but he didn't expect to die underground in the end." The general looked at Bai Jin and smiled hard. "Do me one last favor, take them away, and I'll leave it here."

I said nothing and refused to let go of the hand that grabbed the general, he looked at me softly, tried to squeeze out a smile on his pale face, raised his trembling hand, and wiped the tears from my cheeks: "I have never seen you cry in my life, I can cry for me once, I am also satisfied, rescue the shopkeeper, help me tell him, Wei Hu tried his best to hold on to the last moment, let the shopkeeper not worry, I will go first, to the bottom, I will wait for him." ”

Bai Jin wiped his face, grabbed me from behind, looked at the bloodless general, I refused to let go, the general looked at the bridge with difficulty, and said to the palace lord with a solemn face: "Among the three of you, you are the most sensible, you should know that it is impossible for me to get out alive, and then rub it, once those things behind me go to the bridge, I will not be blind to death!" ”

Gong Jue's eyes were red, and he had been holding back tears, and after listening to the general, he stood up and grabbed me by the collar, and said loudly to Tian Ji: "Uncle Wei is loyal, don't let him down with his hard work, drag Chaoge away!" ”

I was almost in the midst of cursing and crying, dragged by them to the other side of the bridge, they held me down, no matter how hard I struggled, I was used to shouting old things, crying and scolding, using the most vicious language, using the weakness they despised the most, and at that moment I cried like a child, a child who had lost a loved one.

When the black gold corpse armor and Qi Qi rushed to the bridge, the general slowly turned his head to look at me with a cigarette in his mouth, he had a calm smile on his face, yes, he was just a vicious tomb robber, but in my heart, he has always been a hero.

I pounced and knelt on the ground, and Ye Zhiqiu next to me also knelt down with tears like rain, all the bits and pieces of the past ten years have appeared in front of me, the general smiled with relief in the heart of the bridge, and the moment when the black gold corpse armor and the poor devoured him behind him, the general was resolute and pulled the lead.

The bursting explosives were like fireworks blooming in the ground, and the bright flames were like seeing off the general, and beside me was the sound of the palace lord and the field chicken, and I slammed my head on the ground, and I couldn't help crying.