109 · Reunion
In the past three months, Chen Jian and Bai Yao talked about Wudang and the Gonglian team from the secret sect, and they almost told Bai Yao the secret that they were traversers, and the other party also confided a lot.
Bai Yao's skin has been almost transparent since he was a child, and he was scolded as a "white monster" by the villagers, which is the origin of the name "Bai Yao". She left her hometown at the age of five to practice in Di Zen Buddhism, where all the people accepted them equally, no matter what they looked like, even a woman like Bai Yao, who resembled a walking skeleton. She meditated in Di Zen Buddhism for many years, and finally achieved great success, and was recommended by the sect master to become a member of the Jinyi Guard, because she always acted with a black veil, some people called her "Yin Yang Wei". It didn't take long for her to make a name for herself by solving several mysterious cases that no one wanted to take on.
Those suspicious cases were all extremely brutal without exception, just listening to her description, Chen Jian had goosebumps.
For normal people, shattered corpses, miserable faces, pools of coagulated blood...... It will undoubtedly cause physical fear, but because of his appearance, Bai Yao is congenitally accustomed to this kind of terrifying corpse that often appears in horror movies.
She also laughed at herself for this, saying that her appearance was more disgusting than that of a rotting corpse.
Chen Jian doesn't think so.
He knows Bai Yao well enough and understands that she has a righteous heart, so he can get along with her with a normal heart. Moreover, when they met in this bloody purgatory, which was full of violence and cruelty, Bai Yao became a beautiful scenery that made people's hearts tranquil.
Bai Yao is not only eye-catching, along the way her sufficient survival experience allowed Chen Jian to avoid a lot of trouble, unlike the madman stumbling to the Yellow Emperor Mountain, their journey to the central mountain was almost smooth, Bai Yao was like a living map, she knew what to eat, which roads had to be detoured, everything was under control.
She told Chen Jian that there were not many travelers like her, no more than a hundred.
Chen Jian asked her how many people there were in Purgatory, and she only said that there were about 10,000 people.
If Purgatory were the size of Earth, how big would it be per capita? Chen Jian couldn't help but think.
The two talked all the way, and the central mountain was close at hand.
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Ye Liancheng was very busy during this time.
There are all kinds of signs that Emperor Shaohao, who has been silent for more than 200 years, has the momentum of making a comeback.
In times of crisis, it is necessary to lead the prisoners and natives to defend themselves against the attack of the interesting Bird Country, but in purgatory, where there is no sense of unity at all, the prisoners will never be enthusiastic about doing this, and everyone lives as they please, and freedom has become the greatest shackle.
Ye Liancheng, as the former leader of the Wudang Sect, is full of a sense of responsibility of "taking the world as his own responsibility", he supported Xu Zhongheng back then, that is, he took a fancy to the prince's rare ability to govern the country, but unfortunately the struggle failed and was seized by others. Later, he was sent to purgatory, relying on his survival instinct to find out the rules of survival in purgatory, and it didn't take long for him and a group of "like-minded" prisoners to form the "Ye Gang" to help every prisoner who first arrived in purgatory.
He still remembered Chen Jian.
He should have given the boy more shelter, but the Bird Country's fierce eyes made Ye Liancheng have no time to care about him, and he couldn't even spare anyone to guide him on how to survive.
In purgatory, there is a considerable shortage of manpower, and there are even fewer people who are willing to follow Ye Liancheng. The Ye Gang has been developing for three years, and there are only sixteen people so far, and some members' beliefs are not solid, and they are likely to be bewitched and leave.
Ye Liancheng could only wish him less pain.
Today, the sixteen members of the Ye Gang are all assembled in the center mountain, and the halfway point of the mountain has become a place for them to observe the bird country and gather.
Ye Liancheng raised his right hand to block his eyebrows, looking into the distance.
The darkened birds are hovering high in the sky, they control the altitude very well, and if they fly a little higher, they will be swallowed up by the clouds and fire.
It's as if it's a provocation and a declaration of war.
The chirping of birds began to hover around the central mountain a few months ago, and Ye Liancheng managed to shoot down a few birds and capture them alive, but these birds were only extremely low-level soldiers, and they could not speak human language at all, so they could only be solved and killed as an example.
However, these actions had no effect, and the birds continued to watch the south of the central hill day and night, just as they were keeping an eye on the north.
It was as if the birds were waiting for something, and once that happened, an overwhelming attack would sweep in.
How did Emperor Shaohao plan it...... Ye Liancheng sat back in his seat uneasily.
In the center of the open-air assembly hall, there is a huge wooden table, and there are some wooden carved mountains on the wooden table, which is used to show the terrain near the central mountain, which is a common way to fight in the world, Ye Liancheng used it in purgatory, he actually knows that for hungry birds who can cross mountains and mountains, it is useless to know the surrounding terrain no matter how clear, but at least it can give some psychological comfort.
"Gang leader, that man has been found!" a member of the Ye Gang hurriedly climbed the hill to report to him.
Ye Liancheng got up to greet the guests.
The current situation is that the Ye Gang left five people to garrison the central mountain, and the rest went to various places to find people who could help.
In just half a month, their camp has grown a lot, and they have even found the participants and aborigines of the last human-bird war, and Ye Liancheng has to spend a lot of effort talking to them every day, so that everyone can unite the front again.
Now, the members of the Ye Gang have brought back a reinforcement.
Ye Liancheng showed a happy expression—but it was only to reassure his partners in the gang, and he sighed inwardly.
Still too slow.
In recent days, the birds' actions have become more and more rampant, and more than a dozen birds have broken their oaths openly and flew south across the central mountain, and they were finally burned to death by cloud fire, but such a miserable fate did not shake the determination of the other birds, they still showed tigerish eyes, waiting for Emperor Shaohao's order.
On the way down the mountain to meet the guests, a miscellaneous man stopped Ye Liancheng, and he said, "Helper, someone said that they want to see you." ”
"Who?" Ye Liancheng asked.
He didn't say his name, he just said that he wanted to tell us the information about the bird country. ”
Ye Liancheng thought for a moment and felt that no one should make such a joke, so he let the man lead the way.
They soon came to the south of Center Hill, where a man and a woman were standing in front of him waiting for him.
Ye Liancheng didn't have these two people in his impression, he looked at it, thinking that it was an unfamiliar face, so he stepped forward tentatively: "I am Ye Liancheng, the gang leader of the Ye Gang, I heard that the two of you brought information related to the Bird Country?"
"That's right. Chen Jian was glad that Ye Liancheng didn't recognize himself now.
He is now in a dilemma, he used Ross as a fake name at the beginning, but he remembers very clearly that he used the real name "Chen Jian" when he introduced him to Ye Liancheng, and what is more troublesome is that Ye Liancheng is the leader of the Wudang Sect, and he recognizes the real Ross in the world.
Things became quite complicated all of a sudden, he had been with Bai Yao for so long, and he was embarrassed to admit to her that he had used a pseudonym, but the more it dragged on, the more difficult it was to tell the truth...... Chen Jian was so deadlocked, and he didn't tell Bai Yao the truth until he met Ye Liancheng.
Fortunately, Ye Liancheng didn't see that he was the lump of meat Chen Jian a few months ago.
Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We came from the Yellow Emperor Mountain, and there is a vulture who wants to steal the artifact hidden in it, and now it is trapped on the mountain. It tells us that Emperor Shaohao intended to attack the south. ”
When the people of the Ye Gang heard the news, they all gasped, and at the same time exchanged "sure enough" looks.
Ye Liancheng understood that the news brought by these two people was extremely important, he waved his hand to let the others prepare to meet the guests, and said, "Please sit down with me and take a closer look at the future." ”
"No problem. Chen Jian also wanted to find a clean place to rest.