Chapter 44: The Center of the Storm
The scorching sun shone on the boundless desert, and the little black and red guy with a barbed weapon quickly shuttled through the sand, leaving shallow marks one after another. The wind rose suddenly, accompanied by the occasional, chilling hissing sound, destroying all tracks in the sand. The monotonous and uncomplicated Huang is the scene they watched all the way; The soles of the feet are hot, as if they can roast the shoes.
Beigong Han wiped the sweat that flowed to his chest with his hands, looked at Shen Wan, who was dressed in blue on his side, but had a gray face, and sighed: This trip is too difficult...... A few days ago, they found a dilapidated ancient book in the Fire Clan's underground library, which vaguely recorded the scene after the Great War. It is said that the remnants were split into pieces and fell to various corners of the four clans, and their whereabouts are still unknown. And to disarm the black spell, only by collecting the remnants can the maximum effect of the divine sense be brought into play. One of them is in the Phantom Clan to save Wu'er, and there is not much left of the divine sense. The rest of the pieces were scattered around the desert, but it is unknown whether they were later taken away by displacement. They can only go to the Wind Clan to understand the situation and try their luck first.
The scorching sun scorched the desert mercilessly, and the shadows of the two became shorter and shorter, and the sweat evaporated in the air as soon as it came out. Dou Da sweat slid straight from her face into her mouth, Shen Wan immediately licked her chapped lips, and suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, she shook it, and a hand held her in time. Beigong Han's worried voice came:
"Xiaowan, your father originally asked you to bring more guards out, so it would be good to have a response at this time."
Shen Wan swallowed her saliva with difficulty, and said stubbornly:
"Beigong, you also know that the Wind Clan has lived in seclusion and has not interacted with the Three Clans for more than ten years. What would they think if I brought dozens of Fire Clan guards to visit at this time? At that time, let alone tell us the whereabouts of the remnants, they will definitely bomb us out...... Besides, sandstorms are rampant in this area, and even if dozens of people go, it will not be useful. ”
Beigong Han sighed, put his arm around her shoulder, and said softly:
"I can't really talk about you. I know your considerations, but ......," he paused, "I'm distressed by you." When you're tired, take a break, don't be pushy. ”
When Shen Wan heard this, she endured the pain of smoke in her throat and the smell of iron, and said in a dumb voice:
"No...... If you rest now, you won't be able to get there before dark. We're spending too much water on the road, and we're going to die of thirst before we can find the BreezClan. ”
"If we walk aimlessly like this, we may not be able to get there. Xiaowan, listen to me, rest for a while, and drink some water. Beigong Han spread a layer of kraft paper on the ground, grabbed her arm without saying anything, and pulled it hard. Shen Wan sat on the sand, took the water bottle, took a sip, and handed the water back.
"Drink more." Beigong Han saw that she was holding back the urge to swallow saliva, and frowned slightly: What is in this girl's little head? He was a man, much stronger than her in terms of stamina and physical strength. If you are thirsty, endure it and it will pass. She's the one who needs water the most.
Shen Wan blinked and said, "I just drank it, and now I'm not thirsty, don't you ......" The soft lips with a hot domineering blocked her follow-up words. With the irregular siege of the city and the land with her tongue, the cool and thirst-quenching water flowed into her mouth, dispelling the heat like fairy dew elixir, and making her mind instantly clear. After she came back to her senses, she glared and stretched out her hand to refuse, her waist and hands tightened, and the whole person was tightened by Kong Wu's powerful arms. Shen Wan closed her eyes, wrapped her hands around Beigong Han's waist, and raised her head to respond to his kiss with a slight youth, but it just became the best catalyst. Beigong Han's breathing suddenly became heavier. The skin is close to each other, rubbing the starting point and lighting the flame, spreading all the way, and it seems that it is difficult to retract the momentum. The heat of the sun is nothing anymore.
After a while, Beigong Han grabbed the unruly hand behind his back and wrapped it in his palm. He looked at Shen Wan, whose cheeks were red, and chuckled lowly:
"I have to use this method." Shen Wan glared at him breathlessly, feigning anger at Beigong Han's chest.
He pulled her into his arms with a big hand. He covered it with his single coat, covering the hot sun above her head.
A slender hand reached out from the side seam and tugged hard at the top of his head, but he didn't move. A muffled voice came through the clothes, with a hint of irritation:
"Beigong Han, you big idiot! I'm going to be suffocated by you!! As soon as the clothes on his head were lifted, Beigong Han smiled:
"Didn't I help you be the sun, kindness is not rewarded."
"Alas...... Why is it so hard to find the Wind Clan, this princess can't find it!! Beigong Han rewarded her with a burst of chestnuts, frowned and said:
"Stop shouting, save some energy." Shen Wan instantly quieted down, muttered for a while, and suddenly said:
"Father said that the WindClan had been hiding in the desert since the scuffle. It only appears when performing sacrificial divination, which requires the desert as a medium to deduce spells. If we are unlucky and we really can't touch them, we will have to wait and find a chance to get in when the time comes. ”
"How often does this divination ritual take place?" Beigong Han raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Well, I want to think about it...... The sacrifice in the Fire Clan is carried out twice a year, in the first half of the year. However, my father said that the Wind Clan has no grass, the environment is harsh, natural disasters occur from time to time, and the frequency of sacrifices is much higher, so we don't have to worry. Beigong Han stretched out his hand and smoothed her blonde hair and nodded.
Suddenly, the sand dunes not far from them began to sink little by little, and at the same time there was a small grinding sound. Immediately afterwards, dense red and black dots poured out from the sunken sand pit, Shen Wan looked at it and exclaimed:
"It's a poisonous scorpion!" As soon as the words fell, he was pulled by Beigong Han and ran towards the sand that had not yet been affected.
"Whew-" The wind blew from nowhere, swept up a cloud of yellow sand and threw it into the air. Suddenly, fifty miles away, it was a blur, and it was impossible to see anything clearly.
"It's a sandstorm." Beigong Han secretly screamed badly, took off his cloak, blocked the top of Shen Wan's head, gritted his teeth and said:
"It's not a good place to stay for long, get out quickly!" Shen Wan held Beigong Han's hand tightly, for fear that a gust of wind would separate the two.
The sandstorm resumes, destroying everything in its reach. Their speed was far inferior to that of this invisible monster, and seeing that they were about to be overtaken, Beigong Han roared:
"Xiao Wan, use the Wind Fixing Spell quickly!" Shen Wan's face was scratched out of a few blood marks by the gravel in the wind, she flicked her hand and shouted in a dumb voice:
"It's not time yet! This is a treasure passed down from the ancestors, and the entire Fire Clan only has this one talisman, what should I do now after using it?! ”
"It's all like this, you don't need to use it when?!! Come on! Beigong Han yelled in a hurry.
Another gust of wind passed, and their bodies began to be uncontrollably slapped on the sand. Beigong Han looked at the gradually darkening sky in the distance, and another wave of sand and dust accumulated in the air fifty miles away, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and concentrated all his spiritual power in the silver ring. The ring emitted a burst of red light and then ceased to move. As soon as Shen Wan wanted to take out the paper talisman, he vaguely saw several shadows in robes in the center of the tuyere, seemingly walking towards them completely unaffected by the storm. Her eyes lit up and she put the paper back down.
"Little Evening ?!!!" Beigong Han was already anxious, and when he saw her give up using the talisman, his pupils shrank, and he looked at her in astonishment.
Shen Wan suddenly closed his eyes and said a silent sentence, his hands overlapped layer by layer, and a red mark was punched into Beigong Han's forehead, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out "wow". She covered her heart and said softly with a smile:
"Don't worry about me." These were the last words she said after she fell unconscious. The wind swept up in an instant, Beigong Han's eyes darkened, he felt that his five senses were out of order, the warmth in his hand disappeared, and he was so shocked that he grabbed the void, only the rough yellow sand. It was as if a hole had opened in his heart, and the wind poured in, and he struggled to open his eyes like a man in the mire, and at last he saw the blue robe in the middle of the storm, as mysterious and dazzling as when he first saw it.
……
Qi State.
"Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness has returned and is waiting outside the palace."
"Snap" The ink pen in Wei Chiyi's hand broke in response, he clenched his fists tightly, and the green tendons on his hands burst out. I don't know how long it took him to breathe a sigh of relief and command in a deep voice:
"Let him in."
"Father." A cold voice rang out.
Wei Chiyi heard his salty and non-salty tone, and thought of the raging rumors in the DPRK and China these days, and he was furious. He threw the pen in his hand hard, and the ink on the white clothes suddenly bloomed.
"Evil obstacles! How dare you come back! Do you know ......?"
"The son knows his mistake, and he hopes that his father will punish him." Yu Chixuan quickly interrupted Yu Chiyi's words, knelt on the ground, and said in a low voice.
Wei Chiyi didn't expect that his son, who had always been stubborn and unwilling to admit defeat, would admit his mistake so quickly, and the anger in his heart suddenly seemed to hit cotton, and he had no courage at all. He grimaced and said coldly:
"Since you sincerely admit your mistake, I won't say anything more. After all, you didn't do it on purpose. It's just ......" Wei Chiyi paused, and then said:
"Now there are rumors in the DPRK that 'the three princes don't love beauties, but only love their own brothers'! It's really ridiculous! I've lost all my face! ”
Wei Chixuan raised his head in astonishment, and then frowned: I didn't expect the prince to want to use such despicable means to pull him off the horse. Although since ancient times, ministers and officials have taken pleasure in keeping young people in captivity, but once a prince is named "broken sleeves", no matter where he is in the future, he will be dragged down by this. But...... Wei Chihui wouldn't think that he could be brought down by such a childish means, right? Still is...... He had a bad premonition in his heart, and Wei Chiyi's voice sounded in his ears:
"So I thought, you married Su Xuewu, the second lady of the Su family, as a side concubine, so as to block the mouth of Youyou. I don't know, what do you think? ”
Yu Chi Xuan frowned, and just as he wanted to refuse, he heard Yu Chi Yi roar:
"Xuan'er! Do you think that the theory of broken sleeves is groundless? If it weren't for the fact that you were twenty-three years old, not only did you not have a wife, but you didn't even have a concubine in the house, how could so many people believe this rumor? Even if you don't marry today, you will marry later! It's just a side concubine, what can hinder you? If you have a favorite woman in the future, you can marry her as a concubine, I have no opinion. ”