Chapter 15 Dreams and Illusions
When he woke up in the middle of the ninth year, he saw a touch of red clothes and a tearful face, which was so pitiful that people couldn't help but feel sad together.
But what he didn't know was that somewhere, out of his sight, something even more cruel and sad was quietly happening.
Qiao He looked at Jiu Ban lying in her arms with tearful eyes, perhaps because of nervousness, her fingers grinded and she didn't know where to put it.
Jiu Ban sat up, looked at Qiao He, and said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Dusk, he ......"
Qiao He shook his head and didn't make a sound. Although she didn't speak, Jiu Ban could still clearly see the teardrops hidden in her lowered eyes, as if the stars were gone, and Qiao He's eyes gradually dimmed.
Jiuban's heart flashed with unbearability, and he slowly hugged Qiao He and comforted her: "Xiao Du is a good boy, he will definitely be fine." It's not that there are no bloodstains, what does a piece of clothing say, we will find him, and I will come back again and rebuild the negative one, definitely. ”
Qiao He's eyes flashed, and she quietly looked up at this person she had only met a few times but was always with her when she was hurting, and nodded. The corpses of the burdened citizens made it difficult for her to be at peace, and she couldn't help but hold a grudge against the distant country of Jair.
All things in heaven and earth originate from nothingness and will eventually return to nothingness. A fire burned the corpses up and down the tower, and the last tears of Nine and a Half tended to dry up. Looking at the raging fire in front of him, he didn't say a word, until the fire became smaller and smaller, and the unbelievable smell of burnt paste in the air became lighter and lighter, and Jiu Ban beckoned Qiao He: "Let's go." ”
On the way back to Xiaoyin Village, Jiu Ban didn't speak from the beginning. Halfway through the journey, he still didn't say a word, which made Qiao He's heart faintly have some uneasy thoughts. She was afraid that Twilight was no longer in this world, but she was also afraid that Nine and a Half would be depressed by the sight of the dilapidated and barren Negative Capital. Quietly, she gently pulled the corner of the nine-and-a-half clothes from behind.
Nine and a half sensed her movements, then turned around and forced a smile.
He stretched out his hand and touched her head, and said gently: "I'm fine, I'm the prince of the country of the subordinate, how can it be my style to be blindly depressed? At present, it may be that only with the help of the overlord can I have any hope of recovering the country. ”
Nine Halves' eyes flashed with fire, and the name of that flame was revenge!
Qiao He just nodded, and then followed Jiu Ban again. Only this time, when they hurried back, they found that they seemed to be not on the same road as when they came.
Gradually, the moon actually climbed into the sky. Jiu Ban climbed to a high ground and redetermined the direction according to the direction of the stars in the sky, and then he took Qiao He to set off again.
When passing by an unfamiliar hillside, inexplicably, Nine Half actually sensed the new life of another hillside, as if something was calling him somewhere. A throbbing flashed in Jiuhan's heart, and a voice urged him to go to that unfamiliar place to have a look.
It's as if when you get there, you can have a different opportunity.
It took half an hour, and Jiu Ban finally rushed to the top of another hill with Qiao He. Although they looked very close, it was like encountering a mirage, and the two of them walked a long way to get there.
Before reaching the hillside, Nine and a Half tried not to be surprised and kept calm. It's just that when he really got closer, he was really shocked.
"Oh my God, what the hell is this?" When Jiu Ban didn't speak, it was Qiao He who was the first to exclaim.
Standing on the hillside and looking down, what appeared in the field of vision of the two of them was a fairly vast small plain. In the middle of the plain, there was a meadow of considerable size that shimmered with an eerie light.
Why is it weird? Because against the backdrop of the night sky, the strange circular meadow is constantly changing color between black and white, which looks very unusual.
Jiuhan took a tentative step forward, but was immediately grabbed by Qiao He behind him. When he turned around, he saw a face that was almost crying. Qiao He, who couldn't speak, shook his head vigorously at this time, signaling that Jiu Ban was very dangerous and couldn't go over.
"It's okay, I'm the prince of the country of the minus. Touching Qiao He's head to signal her not to be nervous, she gently shook off her tightly held arm, and Jiu Ban resolutely went down the hillside towards the black and white alternating grass.
It's getting closer, it's getting closer, but why is the pungent smell of burnt paste getting stronger and stronger the closer you go?
Nine and a half puzzled. But when he stepped into the circle of grass, he found something he couldn't understand: the grass was black and white, but when the color turned black, there was a pitch-black behemoth standing quietly in the center of the round grass, and when the grass turned white, it would disappear. The black appears and the white disappears, and the two situations alternate back and forth, which is weird and abnormal.
And that black behemoth seems to be something that does not belong to its own civilization.
What could it be?
The black monster reappeared, but it seemed to have lost its life and had fallen into a dead silence. Nine and a half courageously stepped forward, stretched out his hand, touched, and trembled.
When he reached out and really touched the black monster's body, a feeling of fear gushed out inexplicably in Jiuban's heart, and there was also a faint feeling of familiarity. These two sensations collided together, and it seemed that there was some kind of inexplicable chemical reaction, constantly creating some memories in Nine-Half's mind that did not belong to him.
Or, not to create but to awaken;
In Jiuhan's mind, Qiao He was wearing some strange and very explicit clothes, dangling in front of him, his face was indescribably happy, and the roar in his ears continued, it seemed to be music but it was an incomprehensible rhythm of Jiuhan, and with the rhythm of the music, it seemed that everyone except himself could feel a different pleasure. Suddenly, the scene suddenly changed, and some people in strange clothes held something like a burning stick in their hands, shooting projectiles from it and shooting people around them.
The scene was splashed with blood.
The scene changed again, and a strange and old voice sounded in his ears, telling himself what kind of savior he was, and let him wait for his return. And it was obvious that he was sitting inside this behemoth at the time.
That familiarity can't be faked.
Jiu Ban held his head and looked at Qiao He not far away painfully, his eyebrows wrinkled together: "Xiao He..."
Then he lost consciousness.
This was the first time he had lost consciousness that he didn't know about it.
When the sky became brighter and brighter, Jiu Ban finally woke up from the previous pain and dizziness, and what he saw in front of him was Qiao He's happy and tired eyes. signaled that Qiao He had no problem with his body, and the two went on the road.
Along the way, Jiu Ban was still silent, he knew that no matter whether he said or not, Qiao He would never speak, but what he was worried about was that he didn't know how to open his mouth at all.
Nine and a half pursed their lips and didn't know what to say.
"I just saw some strange images in my mind that someone was trying to kill me. In the end, Jiuban still opened his mouth, he really couldn't stand the curious and worried expression that Qiao He beside him had been maintaining, so he simply said first: "Some people also said that they wanted me to wait for his return or something, and I also saw Qiao He's figure, but you were dressed very strangely, and you were very happy." ”
The latter's mouth opened wide, as if to express surprise but could not speak.
"Airplanes. I don't know how the word came to me, but I do know that it's called an airplane, even though I don't know how to write it. ”
Looking at Jiu Ban's slightly pale face, Qiao He closed his mouth and didn't ask any more, Jiu Ban had just regained his memory, if he rashly let him think about these things he had never seen before, he was afraid that Jiu Ban would be sick in bed again, Qiao He was very smart to stop Jiu Ban's thoughts and pull him back.
Compulsively making a person recall things he can't remember, and suffering this kind of gratuitous torture over and over again must be the greatest torture for a person.
I thought that when I returned to the village, I could see the happy faces of the villagers, and Jiu Ban and Qiao He also planned to use the communication with the villagers to gradually dilute the bad thoughts along the way, but when they arrived at the village, they saw the same scenery as the city tower.
Or rather, more terrifying than the one in the castle tower.
At least three miles away, nine and a half times asked about a disgusting smell of burnt paste. It wasn't your average burnt feed, but the smell of burnt trees mixed with the smell of burnt human flesh. The nausea from the mouth and nose into the respiratory system made him want to wash his internal organs.
Hurried back to the entrance of the village, but the pace of entering Xiaoyin Village became heavier and heavier step by step. After seeing that hellish scene, Qiao He, who had never seen such a picture up close, her already unstable nerves were directly paralyzed under this loose but tight impact, and then she fainted at the entrance of the village in an instant. Jiuhan could only hold her step by step, going deep into the whole hell on earth.
The entire Xiaoyin Village is extinct.
All the houses in the village were burned, and there was blood and a mess of scraps of flesh and incomplete corpses, all of them mutilated as if they had been gnawed alive by wild animals.
The tooth marks on those corpses were not huge, and they were obviously not made by the Fire Lion Tiger. There are traces of neat marching at the entrance of the village and on the roads in the village, and if the army fights collectively, then the army that attacked Xiaoyin Village will probably not be less than fifty people.
Raw food, army, I'm afraid only the troops of the country of the Kiss can do such a thing.
Jiu Ban looked at the tragic picture in front of him that was not the same as the negative capital city "Fucheng", and the tyranny that had just calmed down in his heart rose again.
Thief God, it's not enough for you to kill my father and destroy my burden, but also to wipe out everyone around me one by one?
found a fairly intact house, and Jiuhan settled Qiao He. Wait until Qiao He wakes up and confirms that he is fine. Only in the middle of the ninth day did he set off to look for the murderer's traces according to the unclear footprints at the entrance of the village.
After climbing over a mountain, it took almost half a day to finally find an army of suspected murderers.
He found an army near a stream in the valley, but there was no fire there. In the dim light, Nine and a Half can only be distinguished by the reflection of the moonlight and the pool water. In order not to expose himself, Jiuhan directly retreated after observing for a while. After all, if the patrol lurking nearby finds out, then it's fun.
After walking quietly through the mountains for a long time, Jiu Ban finally rushed back to Qiao He. Simply, it seems that after the army slaughtered the village, no one patronized Xiaoyin, and Qiao He had no accidents. Nine and a half stood at the door and exhaled a turbid breath, and then walked through the door.
"What kind of smell is this?" I couldn't smell it outside, but as soon as I entered the door, I could smell a faint fragrance in the air, which turned out to be the aroma of food.
Qiao He walked out of the stove room next to him, holding a bowl of freshly steamed rice in his hand. The woman's face was covered with blood-colored droplets, which seemed to be tears. Qiao He lowered her head, she didn't dare to look at the nine and a half. She was afraid of being reprimanded by Jiuhan, afraid of being reprimanded that she would still have the appetite to eat and have time to cook at such a dangerous time.
But her fear was in vain, and she thought that Qiao He, who would be scolded, ushered in the fingers stretched out by Jiuhan. Wiping the beads of sweat from her face with her fingers, Jiuban smiled and said, "Also, only when you are full can you have the strength to take revenge, can you eat now?"
After eating the food, Jiuhan's physical strength has also recovered a lot. He discussed the current situation with Qiao He very seriously, Xiaoyin Village was slaughtered, and all the villagers were killed in such a tragic form, and Jiuban must go to take revenge. Even if you can't kill the soldiers, you have to take off the head of the leader to pay tribute to the spirit of the villagers.
And he needs Qiao He's support and help.
I don't know why, maybe the tragic situation in Xiaoyin Village is very similar to the corpses of the people on the castle tower, or maybe the blood and broken flesh and bones that are rampant in the village make him really hurt in his heart, or he wants revenge in his heart, and wants to use these soldiers to make a good start for his oath. When he returned to the entrance of the village, his originally relaxed mood was once again stirred up by the bloody qi and cruel biting flesh.
Those bones were full of tooth marks, those eyes that had lost their spirit were full of despair, and most of those corpses were people he knew, his friends!
Jiuhan really couldn't imagine how those murderers could bear to do something to these villagers? They were innocent! He seemed to be able to imagine what it was like for the villagers to resist under the knives of the soldiers, and what kind of expressions the animals that ate the prisoners of war raw.
They love water, fear fire, and at the same time slaughter cities wherever they march, and only the army of the country of the Kiss is brave enough to eat raw prisoners of war. So when Jiu Ban and Qiao He explained what they saw and thought, Qiao He's anger made her directly slam the bowl on the ground, and she immediately rushed out to find those soldiers who kissed the army to fight to the death.
She's got her mind controlled by anger and wants to fight those beasts to the death!
Nine and a half hurriedly grabbed her and hugged him tightly, quieting her down.
Silly boy, what a splash you can make in their eyes as a weak woman, maybe you will still be tortured inhumanly by them and then buried in their abdomen, not even a single corpse, maybe not even an appetizer.
"If you really want revenge, listen to me!"
When Qiao He heard that Jiu Ban was going to avenge the villagers, he took two steps back and knelt heavily. She showed her attitude by kneeling down: Please help me kill the brutes who slaughtered the villagers of Xiaoyin!
Seeing that Qiao He's face was full of perseverance and pain, Jiuhan couldn't bear to refuse, and hurriedly agreed to help Qiao He up.
"Miss Qiao, hurry up, even if you don't ask me, I will go to avenge the villagers. You must know that I should have been a dead man, if it weren't for you and Twilight to rescue me, and the villagers to take care of me, where would I still be standing here. Only by sacrificing the blood of those beasts to everyone's heavenly spirits can we be worthy of the people who helped me in Xiaoyin Village!"
Of course, for Miss Qiao He's careful care and the act of replacing his memory with his voice, Jiuban was even more grateful, but he didn't dare to say it. Although Qiao He said that this was all to repay him for saving his life, he always felt that he was running away from something, especially the happy and smiling Qiao He woman in the wonderful picture in his mind, which made him always feel a throbbing in his heart that lingered for a long time, and it was almost completely indispersible.
After eating the food, Jiuhan dug a big pit at the entrance of the village, solemnly buried the bones of the villagers, and then burned incense to worship. Qiao He found some fruit nearby as a sacrifice and placed it in front of the wordless monument he had erected for the villagers.
Then, by the light of the moon, the two discussed how to kill the group of manti-kissed soldiers. If the soldiers heard it, it would really cause a shocking laugh. Two weak people actually dared to challenge their belligerent mantiquent, did they not want to live?
But Qiao He, who heard the combat method of the nine-and-a-half, was shocked.