Chapter 1: The Otherworld

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In the sixteenth year of Daxi, Li Guang, one of the two commanders, led 50,000 soldiers in brocade robes to cross the Wuding River, like wolves into the flock, approaching the capital of the king of Chu, unstoppable.

Zichun, the autumn wind is biting, and the water is cold like a knife.

Bai Thirteen narrowed his eyes and looked around blankly.

Leaky tents, half-dead on all sides, transvestites dressed in red leather, and loose straw mats beneath them.

"Uh...... Pls this is ...... Hiss ......"

Because it was freezing here, the sparse thatch under Bai Shisan's body was thicker, and he wanted to get up, but he was unexpectedly gasped by the sharp pain on his body.

The cold wind, like a sharp knife, ran down his throat and into his lungs.

"9527, you're seriously injured and don't move. ”

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his forties, who was sitting at the entrance of the tent with his arms crossed on his knees, and his slightly cloudy eyes stared at the flying snow outside the tent in a daze.

It wasn't until Bai Thirteen woke up that he tilted his head slightly.

“9...... 9527?" Bai Shisan was stunned, he was a little confused, what was going on with this group of people?

"That's right, we, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, can be regarded as a blessing from God to survive the Wuding River. ”

"Young man, rest more, tomorrow will be the march again. ”

Bai Thirteen didn't pay attention to their nonsense, just lowered his head and peeled off the armor leather on his chest, clenching his teeth tightly.

He didn't know about a cone-shaped wound on his shoulder, but with his medical school diploma, he should have known that he had broken his bones and that the wound was showing signs of infection.

"Is there iodine gauze?"

“?”

"Don't play stupid, there must be a limit to filming. Although I was drunk last night and agreed to come over and make a cameo role, you have to keep me safe even if I play tricks, right?"

Bai Shisan pointed to the wound on his chest, got up and lifted up the heavy cotton tent, and then was beaten back by a snowstorm.

He was already weak, but he was blown snow again, and his situation was not much better.

"You...... Alas...... "The middle-aged man wanted to hold Bai Thirteen, but he was pulled by the person next to him, and after making a look at each other, he didn't care about Bai Thirteen's stay."

It was dark early in the middle of winter, and because there were no electronic devices, Bai Thirteen had no way to tell what time it was.

Knowing this, he shouldn't have agreed to that scout in the first place.

He found that in addition to being a little unscrupulous, the other equipment and group performances were still extremely professional.

Beidou appeared in the sky, and the voice of Gu Yu's resentment was particularly strange in this wilderness.

Torches are not available in front of every tent, and some things can only be seen by the light of the stars.

Groups of soldiers in red cotton armor loomed through the night.

This kind of armor, also called cloth armor, is lighter in weight than iron armor and is cheaper in cost.

"This crew is a bit of a level. ”

I don't know if it's Bai Thirteen's illusion, since he left the tent, he has obviously been walking for some time, but he still feels like he is spinning in place.

Seeing that the sight in front of him was getting darker and darker, Bai Thirteen couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart. Anyway, in this deep mountain and old forest, he didn't plan to leave in the evening, he just wanted to find the unscrupulous director theory.

But when he was about to turn around and turn back, a sudden change occurred, and all the fires behind him were extinguished, and the world suddenly fell into extreme darkness, and even the starlight disappeared.

Quiet...... It was so quiet that I couldn't hear the sound of wind and snow......

By the time he turned his head, a miserable white face had already quietly suspended in front of him.

This human face was only two fingers away from Bai Thirteen's face, staring directly at him.

Bai Thirteen's brain immediately froze, and with a strange scream, he fainted.

When he woke up, he found that he was surrounded by people, the patrolmen.

The gathering of torches warmed Bai Thirteen, and as his consciousness slowly recovered, he also recalled the terrifying scene just now.

"You're awake. ”

Bai Thirteen nodded, and only then did he realize the young man who was the leader in the crowd.

The young man looks resolute, the heavenly court is full, the bridge of the nose is high, and the eyes are sharp and bright.

A silver chain mail glittered in the light of torches.

"Just ...... Just now!Run away!" Bai Thirteen swallowed, not knowing what tone and wording to use to describe the strange things he had encountered.

"Ghosts cover their eyes, also known as ghosts hitting the wall. Strictly speaking, this is not a ghost, but an obsession or a lot of obsessions. ”

The young man didn't pay attention to Bai Thirteen and said to himself.

"I don't know how many loyal bones, proud bones, and resentful bones are buried by the Wuding River. When these obsessions come together, ghosts arise."

The young man stopped talking, walked to Bai Shisan's side, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said coldly: "They specifically pick people with weak yang energy, as well as ...... Deserters!"

"You are very lucky, you encounter an obsession that can only mess with people's spirits, but you are not very lucky to meet me. The iron law of the army is that you can't walk around without being ordered, and you have half a foot outside the barracks. ”

"Someone! Hold him up for me! Behead him tomorrow as an example!"

"You say, are you weak yang, or are you a deserter?"

Bai Shisan, a modern college student, would be so frightened by this seemingly sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy that he couldn't say a word, which was even better than the face just now.

"Hey, hey, are you really fake? ...... Isn't this filming? Are you really playing?!" Bai Shisan struggled in the hands of a group of slot men, and he was a little confused.

"Hold it down!" The young man's words were undoubted, some of them were clever, and they also knew that their young general didn't like to make noise, so he plugged Bai Shisan's mouth with a cloth ball with his backhand.

"Come in, you!"

Bai Thirteen was pushed into the cage fiercely. The cage turned out to be the center of the barracks, where every patrol would pass.

Yuehua shone the snow-covered mountains miserably, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers fell down the gaps in the cage, dyeing his long hair with a shawl white.

"Long haired ......" Bai Shisan blew his nose, and the scalp that he pulled hurt.

In some chagrin, he resigned himself to his fate. Not to mention whether the cage made of thick wooden strips of an adult's arm could be destroyed, even if he escaped by chance, would he be able to defeat that group of soldiers?

What's more, there are some so-called ghosts outside the barracks. Bai Shisanguang stared at the abyss outside, and he felt a chill down his spine.

"If the traverser is the main character, then why am I like this?"

......

The night was surprisingly long, at least for Bai Thirteen, a person who was waiting for death, it was like a year.

When he calmed down, some fragments of memory poured into his mind.

The former owner of this body has a vague memory of his father, only remembering that he and his mother wandered the streets and begged for a bite to eat since he was a child.

If that city were to catch up with the war, they would have to live a life of exile. Even if you are lucky enough to escape the enemy's blade, it is difficult to escape the raids of those troubled bandits.

Everything that the boy experienced flickered in Bai Thirteen's mind like a movie.

Maybe the young man didn't understand how her mother, a woman, supported him in such a troubled world, but Bai Shisan understood.

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are regarded as dogs, and the poor woman ends up undressed and exposed to the wilderness.

The young man carried his mother into the city, and the thoughtful adults had long seen why his mother had died, and some were even old customers.

Fragments of broken memories completely poured into Bai Thirteen's mind, and at a certain moment, he seemed to not be so serious about tomorrow's life and death.

Bai 13 touched his waist and found an emerald jade pendant with the word Gongsun engraved on it.

In ancient times, the beheading of prisoners was generally at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the yang energy was at its peak, but if it was a night sentence, or in a place like the army, it was executed at dawn.

Yinshi, also called the fifth watch, is around three o'clock to five o'clock in modern times.

At this time, it was not yet dawn, and it was time for the prisoners to eat the execution meal.

It was the middle-aged man in the tent who sent Bai Shisan to the execution meal, and when he saw that it was him, Bai Shisan waved his hand in a friendly manner.

"Young man, you're really laughing. ”

The middle-aged man gently put down the basket for the meal, and the soldiers who followed behind also opened the door of the wooden cage.

"Eat. ”

Bai Shisan didn't say much, from the moment he smelled the aroma of the food, his stomach began to twitch.

They usually don't have the opportunity to have such a good meal, and sometimes they can't even eat a full meal.

"Brother Niu, would you like to have some too?" Bai Shisan, who had fused his memory, also knew the name of this honest middle-aged man.

"Forget it, how can I eat this meal? No, no. ”

"Oh, I know, it's unlucky, I know. ”

Bai Thirteen Hu ate Haisai, and smiled freely at the man surnamed Niu.

"Where is it unlucky, it's just that this meal is full, I'm sharing food with you, so what kind of person has my old cow become? ”

"Besides...... Haha, you probably don't know that we people may not be able to eat a full bite until we die, alas, I envy you. ”

Looking at the man in front of him, Bai Shisan was silent for a long time. Indeed, do you think that wounded soldiers or the old and weak on the battlefield will receive special care?

It is always those who are cared for by the strong forces that are alive. And the rest are either exhausted to death on the march, or they are used as cannon fodder to block arrows on the battlefield.

And in Bai Shisan's previous memories, they still volunteered to be cannon fodder.

They also hoped that if they could block one more sword and arrow, those healthy soldiers would kill one more enemy.

For every enemy who is less, the family behind them is safer.

It's no wonder that the young general will treat Bai Shisan as a deserter, after all, the cannon fodder battalion is all old and weak, and children like him are very rare.

The heart of a teenager is difficult to accept fate.

This night, Bai 13 chatted with the man surnamed Niu for a long time. As for why and who to fight, Bai Thirteen was very clear in the memory fragments he absorbed.

The only thing that is foggy is, what are the so-called ghosts?

Originally, Bai Shisan also thought that he had traveled to ancient times, but from the conversation with the man surnamed Niu, he felt more and more that this world was not as simple as it seemed.

In the darkness, there is something outside the human world.

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