Chapter 274: Sanctuary Rift
The sense of crisis in my heart rose sharply, but the bird had already flown and could not see the shadow. At that time, my mind was messed up, and I thought nervously for a while, so I could only try my best to rush to the Sanctuary quickly to see if there was a chance to recover. The situation was urgent before, and I shot too hard, and several ordinary Sanctuary people died, and not a single one was left alive. I thought about it, hurriedly buried a few corpses under the snow, and knocked over a pony with a single punch.
I tied the dead pony to the back of the other horse, took out my knife, and stabbed it hard in the back of the horse, causing the pony to suffer pain and run forward with his companion dead. A short horse has to have at least three hundred pounds, that horse carries such a heavy burden, desperately not fast to run, I take Lao Fuba and Lianniang to chase behind, such a horse is the means of transportation for people in the Holy Domain to enter and exit the Snow Peak, you must remember the way back, as long as you chase it closely, you will definitely be able to find the Holy Domain.
The pony has a lot of stamina, and it is chased by us all the way, refusing to stop. Thus the whole day had been galloping, and at dusk the next day the horse had finally reached the limit of his strength, and staggered a few steps, bent his two front legs, and fell to the ground with a puff, foaming at the mouth. We caught up with him, but the pony refused to give in, could not stand up, and squirmed forward, and I untied the other horse from his back, and the burden was lightened, and he barely stood up, snorted, and limped forward slowly. After following for another four or five miles, the terrain in front of me suddenly changed.
It was like a small basin in a cluster of snowy peaks, born between two rows of towering snowy peaks, like a wide rift. I don't know how deep the rift is, but there is a layer of gray mist floating on it that seems to have not dispersed for many years, and through the faint mist, you can see that the rift is covered with snow. Standing in this place, the visibility is not very high, except for a boundless snow, it seems that nothing can be seen.
I looked up and over, and on the far other side of the rift, a spire peeked out of the gray mist. In this case, the spire that looms out of the fog undoubtedly indicates that there are people here.
Sanctuary? This is the legendary Sanctuary?
I'm not entirely sure, and I'm on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, and I can't afford not to be careful. I buried the pony in the snow, and then crouched on the edge of the rift and observed, and after about ten minutes, a little fire appeared in the gray mist, and the fire was moving, apparently in the hands of a man as a lighting tool. Seeing this, regardless of whether there is circumstantial evidence or not, this place, nine times out of ten, is a holy area. I couldn't describe the feeling in my heart, so I let Lao Fuba and Lianniang stay on it and hide, and quietly passed through the gray mist that hung over the rift, and went a little deeper into the depths. As soon as I saw through the gray fog, my vision became clearer. As soon as he appeared, the sporadic firelight below was wriggling like ants, densely packed. I heard the noise and the chaotic noise, and I was startled, and I subconsciously wanted to pull away, but after a few more looks, I realized that those people were not coming at me.
I don't know how many people gathered at the bottom of the rift, then split into two paths, and rushed towards the other side of the rift with torches in hand. I heard a rumbling sound, as if it was thunder, and it was also like a cannon fire. Immediately after, all the people with torches gathered in one place, pushing something, I couldn't see clearly, so I had to risk getting closer. There was a wide road to the surface of this rift, probably artificially constructed, and at least two or three hundred men pushed something from the bottom of the rift to the surface. With limited light, I couldn't see what they were pushing, and it wasn't until the crowd surged to the ground above the rift that I could see vaguely what it looked like a stone, a huge stone.
Immediately afterwards, an old and heavy cart was driven up by more than a dozen dwarf horses, and the crowd seemed to be ants moving things together, and put the strange-shaped big stone on the cart, and the big cart of stone pressure was very loud, and it was extremely heavy, and when the stones were loaded onto the cart, twenty or thirty people from the Sanctuary wrapped in animal skins were guarding both sides of the cart, and the wheels were rolling, starting from the rift valley and going along the road out of the mountain.
I didn't know what the stone was or where the men were going, but from what I had experienced the other day, I naturally remembered the bird that had come out of Three-Eyed. The bird flew so fast that it must have sent the message back before we arrived. I suspected that these twenty or thirty men in animal skins were driving the cart towards Jing'er Lake, but I could sense that there were at least four or five of them that I could not deal with. The disparity in strength is too great, and if you go over to block it like this, it is no different from looking for death.
After hesitating for a moment, the cart had rumbled into the snow-capped mountain roads near the rift valley, and finally came to the legendary holy area, I didn't want to leave like this without any results, I was in a dilemma, I could only take care of one end, I held back the uneasiness in my heart, and continued to watch in place. The group sent off the cart with the stones, and then returned the way they came, and when they were all deep into the rift, the ground was calm. A large rift valley is long and deep, and my destination is the Mountain of Life and Death, but standing on the edge of the rift, I don't know where the Mountain of Life and Death is.
We hid here for a day and a night, and the rift valley would occasionally be filled in and out, and the area in the rift valley was very vast, and I thought that it was impossible for the people of the Sanctuary to keep the entire rift tightly guarded, and there would be a hole in the defense, so after observing for a day, I found a deserted corner, and from where I walked through the gray fog alone, and really entered the rift.
The people of the Sacred Realm do not know how many years they have survived in the ice and snow in this rift valley, after entering the rift valley, you can see traces of man-made everywhere, the houses made of huge ice blocks are scattered around, and on the west side of the rift, there is an ice cave around the edge, which is the residence of the people of the Sacred Realm, and it is also the most densely populated place. I smelled a thick stream of blood, and the surrounding area of the ice cave was full of bones piled up in the snow, layer upon layer, all of which were the remains left behind by the people of the Sanctuary after eating the bloody food, which made people feel resentful and shudder.
"Pull over, pull over"
I clung to the stone wall behind me, and as soon as I turned my face, I heard someone shouting in the distance, followed by three or four Sanctuary people dragging a woman and a child who was only three or four years old out of an ice cave. The Sanctuary eats blood like an animal, and the woman tried to protect the child, but she couldn't, she was barefoot, grabbed by the hair, and stretched out her hand to hold the child next to her in her arms.
The three- and four-year-old child of the "mother" was skinny, opened her mouth and cried, and was also reaching out to her mother, but one step away was like a thousand mountains and rivers, the mother and son were about to be slaughtered, and the mother could not even touch the child's hand before she died.
The snow more than ten meters away in front of me was completely stained with blood, scarlet, it was probably the place where the people of the Holy Land killed people, and the bloody wind was blowing. The mother and son were pulled here and staggered to the ground. The woman struggled to get up, trying to hold on to the child, but as soon as her body moved, a long sharp knife had passed through the back of her heart. The tip of the knife came out of the woman's chest, blood splashed, and the face of the child in front of her was splashed with the blood on the mother's body, at that moment, she was stunned, stopped crying, and stared blankly at the corner of her mother's mouth that kept pouring blood foam outward.
"This little meat is tender, we are not blessed." The Sanctuary who had killed his mother pulled out his knife, swiped it on the sole of his shoe as if nothing had happened, and turned to walk towards the stunned child. The little girl was only three or four years old, her round little face was sunk by hungry cheeks, her big eyes were full of tears, she didn't resist yet, she didn't dodge, she couldn't even cry as she watched her step by step with a blood-dripping sharp knife towards her Sanctuary people.
I didn't want to expose myself, but at this moment, I couldn't hold back any longer, and I just felt a rush of hot blood from my chest to the top of my head. I think that people like me are destined to not be able to do big things, I am not patient enough, not deep enough, and I will be impulsive when I encounter such things that I can't bear.
I rushed out of hiding place in one step, the three Sacred Domain people didn't expect anyone to intervene halfway, so they were so stunned, I had already rushed to the front, and pressed the Sacred Domain man with the knife, and split his head and face was a punch, for this kind of person, there was no need to spare his hand at all, this punch almost burst his head.
"Are you still human!?" With a sense of anger, I turned around and rushed towards another Sanctuary person, these Sanctuary people who did chores were just ordinary people, and they didn't have much ability, so they couldn't stop my thunderous blow, and the second Sanctuary person's head was shattered by the beating, and he fell to the ground and convulsed twice before moving again.
Killing two people before and after, it should have been very smooth, but the old shepherd on my back was a heavy burden, which invisibly affected my speed, and the third Sanctuary didn't have time to kill, the other party sat on the ground with a butt, and issued a warning like a wolf, this is not far from the ice caves, the warning sound came out, and there was a movement there, I picked up the child who was already scared, flew up, and kicked the heart of the Sanctuary people.
The dotted torches lit up on the periphery of the ice caves, and I don't know how many people from the Sanctuary followed the sound, so I ran away with my child in my arms. The road behind him was cut off, and there was no way back, so he could only run straight ahead. I don't know anything about the situation and the terrain here, except that the front should be the west of the rift.
The road ahead in the dark, I don't know where it leads, there is only one road under my feet, and after running along this road for a while, my heart began to beat suddenly, and there was an indescribable panic. But behind that panic, there is a hint of excitement. It was a premonition from the depths of my heart, a very strange premonition.
I had a hunch that at the end of this road, it seemed as if there was a person waiting for me.