Chapter Fifty-Six: Misfortune
Chen Nian shook his head and smiled: "No, it's not yet, the chief manager and wait patiently, you also know that those are just weak women, how can you wait for them to go further and be safe." ”
The entrance to the "first line of heaven" was very narrow, Chen Nian and Lu Xiao were holding hostages and huddled inside, and the officers and soldiers outside were not allowed to secretly shoot cold arrows from both sides, and they couldn't bear it at all, and the scene was stalemate for a while. Chen Nian is not afraid of wasting time, just trying to spend an extra moment is a moment, so that the Lingque and other Qingfeng Village girls can escape farther. When she ran into the mountains with this Lu Xiao, these ordinary soldiers would definitely not be able to catch them.
Unexpectedly, just as dawn was approaching, things suddenly went unexpected.
Because everyone had not slept all night, and their spirits had been highly tense, the confrontation between the two sides was extremely tired at this moment, especially Yang Gui and Ju Deyuan, who were held hostage, were tired and panicked, and their emotions were on the verge of collapse. At dawn, the night was at its thickest, and the torches they had planted on the cliff wall had already burned out, and the light suddenly dimmed. Captain Xiang, who was in charge for the time being, had an idea, and when he saw this, he took the opportunity to say, "Both, I'll ask someone to go over and put on new torches." ”
After a while, a man who looked like an officer and a man in black came out from behind the crowd with a torch and walked towards the cliff gap, and the rest of the officers and soldiers gave way to it, and Captain Xiang, who had been standing in front, retreated back without a trace.
Chen Nian saw that there seemed to be something strange in it, and hurriedly shouted: "No need! ”
The two people holding the torches turned a deaf ear, staring at Chen Nian and slowly walking towards the cliff crack, and said: "This girl should not be too careful, we just want to change the torches for the two of us." ”
Chen Nian guessed that there seemed to be something wrong with the torch, maybe it was burning some kind of medicine, so he pressed the dagger in his hand to Yang Gui's neck in front of him, and shouted coldly: "Stop, throw the torch in your hand far away, and I will kill these two people if I take one step further!" ”
The man in black stopped when he heard this, but the officer Xu saw that Lu Xiao, who was holding Ju Deyuan hostage, had been silent, so he still took another step forward when others were better to bully. Who knew that Lu Xiao's silence was not because he was easy to deceive, but because he had already lost patience and didn't even bother to say another word. Before the officer's foot hit the ground, he heard Jude suddenly scream from there, and blood spurted out from the side of his neck, which had already been cut by the scimitar in Lu Xiao's hand.
The incident happened suddenly, and all the officers and soldiers gathered outside the cliff were stunned, and even Chen Nian was dumbfounded for a while. She was just a threatening word, she never expected Lu Xiao to be so "obedient", the other party took another step, and he really killed Jude Yuan with one sword.
After a while, the officers and soldiers were the first to react. The commander was killed in front of him, and all the officers and soldiers could no longer care about the life of the mysterious chief, and rushed over with a roar of rage. Chen Nian was shocked and didn't have time to react, Lu Xiao beside him had already given Yang Gui a knife neatly, and then grabbed her collar at the back of her neck with his hand, stepped the cliff with his foot, and took her to the ground to raise the height of the foot and hang it on the cliff.
The sharp arrows flew under the feet of the two of them, and Lu Xiao threw Chen Nian on his back with one arm, shouting: "Hold tight!" ”
Chen Nian didn't care too much in the panic, and hurriedly used his limbs to hold himself tightly on his back, and saw that he was still jumping left and right between the narrow cliffs like an ape, and seeing the situation, he seemed to want to escape along the cliffs, so he hurriedly shouted: "Can't go up!" Someone is going to be shot like a hedgehog! ”
If it is said that the other party has scruples because he is afraid of accidentally injuring his own people when he is below, and at this moment the two of them suddenly go up, then they will become a live target. Sure enough, I saw that the officers and soldiers below all adjusted their directions and drew their bows to shoot upwards. The scimitar in Lu Xiao's hand dropped a lot, and some of it slid by the sides of the two of them.
Chen Nian was almost shot by an arrow in the shoulder, and the sharp arrow pierced through the tightly grazed skin of his clothes, and if he deviated inward, he would see blood. She was annoyed that it was Lu Xiao who caused the two of them to fall into such a passive situation, seeing that he didn't listen to his own advice, he still wanted to climb up obstinately, and said angrily: "Lu Xiao, if you want to find death, don't take me with you, you can't go out at all!" ”
Lu Xiao was stunned, and took advantage of the night to temporarily hide his figure behind a protruding rock, then turned his head and asked Chen Nian, "Why?" Isn't climbing to the top of the cliff just going out? ”
Chen Nian was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, raised his head and pointed to the still swarthy "line of sky" above his head to show him, and said helplessly: "This place is a hundred feet high, the more you go to the top, the steeper it is, the rock wall is as smooth as a mirror, there is not even a place to stay, you are really an ape reincarnation and can't climb up!" ”
After such a short delay, the front line was already full of officers and soldiers, and even if the two wanted to, they could no longer go down. If it weren't for the kindness that he had come to save himself, Chen Nian would have the heart to strangle Lu Xiao to death.
Lu Xiao sneered in a low voice and said, "It's not up to you to decide whether you can climb up or not!" ”
After he finished speaking, he pinned the scimitar in his hand to his waist, found the narrowest part of the cliff, and climbed up quickly with his hands and feet supporting the two cliffs. Because the two of them had climbed high at this time, and the night was thick, they could no longer illuminate the figures of the two people by relying only on the torches below, and those officers and soldiers knew that these two people were somewhere on the cliff, but they couldn't bear the two of them for a while, so they could only block the exits at both ends, and stood at the bottom of the cliff and shouted and cursed one after another.
In normal times, Chen Nian would definitely refuse to suffer a loss on his tongue, but at this moment, he lost his temper and laughed at himself: "Listen, I have scolded the eighth generation ancestor, do you know what your ancestor is called?" ”
Lu Xiao paused slightly, turned his head and thought for a moment, and replied, "Taiwan." ”
Chen Nian was so angry with him that he was speechless, so he simply closed his mouth tightly and said no more. Lu Xiao didn't speak, just climbed up in a muffled voice. Chen Nian lay on his back, and suddenly remembered that Feng Junyang also climbed the low cliff with her on his back that day, although the situation was different, it was the same life and death danger, but I don't know how he is at the moment, but he is still safe. The place in Zhaobi Mountain is close to the Flying Dragon, and it has been specially cleaned up by Qingfeng Village, and large beasts rarely go there, as long as they are not discovered by the enemy, there will be no major problems with his safety this night. When the morning dawns, his people will find him, and then she doesn't have to worry.
She fell silent suddenly, Lu Xiao felt that her ears were clean at first, but after a while, she was a little unaccustomed to it, and couldn't help but ask her out loud, "What are you thinking?" ”