Chapter 5: A Sudden Pursuit
Tang Ji regretted a little, out of Loulan City at night, I didn't expect that the temperature difference between day and night on the grassland was still relatively large, but he put on the ancestral tattered armor again, in order to increase the temperature of the body, in front of a dead wood forest, he didn't think about it and went in, at least he could avoid the swishing cold wind, found a thick and strong dead wood, tied the donkey, and then clumsily climbed up, it seems that tonight can only spend the night here, the dead wood forest in front of him is quite vast, and the air on the grassland is extremely fresh, it is really a different flavor。 The night was quiet, only strange insect chirping could be heard, after leaving home, Tang Ji felt a little lonely, looking at the two bright moons in the sky, suddenly a little homesick, Tang Ji was in a bad mood.
The night was deep, the moon was in the sky, the stars were dotted, except for the occasional roar or two of wild beasts and insects in the dead woods, which were silent at this moment, and Tang Ji was already about to fall asleep.
Suddenly, a low sound of horses' hooves broke the quiet night, the sound was getting closer and closer, a good war horse galloped by, not far behind there were five or six fast horses followed closely behind, it seemed that the people behind were chasing the people in front, the horses were like flying, raising the sky and flying dust, shrouding the night with a layer of tulle, the front one was dressed in a gold-inlaid light green light armor, the light armor workmanship was extremely exquisite and simple, the hollow pattern was matched with exquisite carving, very beautiful, and a hardwood longbow was carried behind him, the workmanship was also very fine, the waist was a short blade engraved with unknown words, the eyebrows and eyes of the people were full of anxiety, and they looked back a few times from time to time, If you look closely, you will find that this person has bright eyes and beautiful eyebrows, fair skin, cherry red lips, and soft hair, which is a little messy by the wind at the moment, this is obviously a woman, if there is anything unusual, it is the two pointed ears, which definitely does not belong to human beings, because human beings do not have such pointed ears, in addition, this woman looks like a country, placed in the human country, I am afraid that it is five thousand gold coins a night, men will also flock to it, at this moment I saw her eyebrows tightly raised the horse whip in her hand and whipped the horse under the crotch.
"Pilot, everyone, hurry up, catch up with the elves in front! Give this thing to the third prince, and we will definitely get the best piece of pasture." The leader of the five horsemen behind shouted loudly.
The mysterious woman saw that the distance between them was getting closer and closer, and then she reached out and took off the hardwood longbow and bow and arrow on her back.
With a snort, he shot a man who was chasing her, and the man snorted, and fell off his horse, and then there was no sound, and he was killed with one blow, this woman was so powerful.
The leader of the chase mysterious woman is a bearded man dressed in common clothes on the grassland, with a hideous expression, he saw that his companion was shot off the horse, he was furious, immediately took off the short bow hanging on the horse, pulled out the arrow and fired back, but although this man is a person from the grassland, but archery skills are limited after all, an arrow missed, immediately drew out the second arrow, and before it was shot, the mysterious woman shot another arrow, straight to the heart of the bearded man, the bearded man deserved to be the leader, or some skills, the body was slightly crooked, the arrow grazed the arm, did not cause a big problem, and the bearded arrow was also shot out, in the middle of the woman's horse, the horse screamed, and fell, The woman hurriedly jumped up from the horse, flipped her body in the air, landed steadily, and then pulled out the short knife at her waist, and several prairie men also jumped off the horse.
Tang Ji was woken up by the sound of metal crashing, rubbing his sleepy eyes, looking at the scene not far away, and then immediately opened his eyes wide, because he saw four strong men fighting to the death with a young girl.
Although there are many strong men, they do not have the upper hand at all, but the woman is at ease, the woman stabbed into the neck of a strong man, and the hot blood sprayed the woman's face, that scene made Tang Ji unforgettable for life, the woman seemed to kill the god in general, and was killing and killing, with the blood stain on her face, she was simply a female demon.
Tang Ji has never seen this scene, and he held on to prevent himself from fainting, at this moment the woman was physically exhausted, and was slashed into the shoulder by the leading man, but the knife cut into the woman's collarbone and was stuck, the strong man was stunned, no matter how hard he couldn't pull it out, at this moment the woman took the opportunity to cut his throat with a short knife, he covered his throat and opened his eyes wide in horror, and then let out a whining sound, and fell down unwillingly, so far all four great sweaters died, the woman seemed to have lost too much blood, her face was pale, and then her head was dizzy, her eyes narrowed and fainted, and the battle ended。
Tang Ji's heart was still pounding, and he couldn't help but be curious, Tang Ji slowly climbed down the tree, and then secretly groped the past, and he finally saw the woman's face, the woman was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a graceful figure and a delicate face, and now she was frowning painfully, her eyes closed.
Tang Ji looked at the woman and was surprised to see that her ears were pointed, not as round as those of humans.
"It seems that this woman is not human, such a delicate face, is it an elf? But isn't that an alien race? Why did she appear in the desert steppe? and was hunted down by the steppe people?"
"Whatever, let's talk about it first," Tang Ji said with a big heart, and then squatted down and picked up the woman.
"Ah, it smells so good."
At this moment, danger suddenly appeared, the woman opened her eyes with a brush, and then the short blade drove to Tang Ji's neck, and her eyes widened angrily, as if Tang Ji would cut his throat if he moved again, Tang Ji was also frightened, obviously he had fainted just now, why did he wake up suddenly.
The woman noticed that it was a little boy, looked Tang Ji up and down, and said something to him.
However, Tang Ji didn't understand, thinking that it was the unique language of the elf clan, although he didn't understand, but Tang Ji still knew that this woman was a murderous and unblinking person, so he quickly released a message of peace, and handed his hands to the woman, indicating that he was not threatening, the woman looked at him complicatedly and then took out the rattan rope from the leather armor, and then tied Tang Ji to Wuhuada, and then said a few words to him, Tang Ji still didn't understand.
What happened next made Tang Ji's eyes widen in surprise, because this elf woman actually untied her clothes in front of him, took off her leather armor, and then revealed her round chest with only a layer of tulle inside, and Tang Ji's eyes were straight, full of youthful breath.
The elf girl didn't pay any attention to Tang Ji's eyes, she probably thought it was a child and let her guard down.
After she took off the light armor, she tore off the clothes on her shoulders, leaking out the white and delicate fragrant shoulders, she methodically treated the wounds, and then said to Don Quixy in a particularly lame Ottoman language: "You...... Who is it?" seemed to exhaust all her strength.
"Well, I'm a resident of the Ottoman Empire, I'm here to travel the continent, and I want to see it for a long time. It's you, you're an elf, right?" said Tang Ji
"That's right, I'm an elf. After the girl had said this, she stopped talking. The atmosphere became silent.
At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the dead woods, and there were at least dozens of people, and when the elven girl heard it, her face became very bad, and Tang Ji also guessed that these people were estimated to be the same group as the few grassland people who were killed just now, but there were more of them.
"Quick! untie me! I'll take you out! You can't move now, and if you get caught by them, nothing good will happen, right? I can save you!" Don Guy shouted at the elf girl. Because Tang Ji also understands that this group of people is definitely not a good person, and there will definitely be no good fruit to eat if they are caught.
The girl looked at Donji, then looked back out of the woods, her complicated expression flashed, and then she untied the rope that held Tangji together.
Tang Ji saw that his hands were free, and he didn't care what the elf girl's expression was, he picked her up and ran to his donkey, the elf girl was taken aback, and then went with Tang Ji, but his face was a little red, and he seemed to be shy.
Don Ji put the girl on the donkey, rode it himself, and then gave the donkey a whip, and the donkey ran with joy.
While listening to the sound of the horse's hooves, Tang Ji discerned the direction and ran in the opposite direction, I don't know how long he ran, and finally got out of the dead woods, and I don't know if the gang chased after him, but Tang Ji didn't dare to gamble, so he continued to run forward, not daring to stop at all.
They continued to run for a long time, until dawn, the donkey's endurance was exhausted, and now they were panting, they came to a lake, the water on the grassland was crystal clear, and there were some small animals drinking here, and they were not afraid at all when they saw Tang Ji coming, and Tang Ji was sure that no one would chase after him, and the elf girl who had been lying on the donkey said weakly in a non-standard Ottoman language: "I won't chase it, let me down!" The words were still indifferent, although she and Tang Ji had just died, but she didn't seem to have a trace of gratitude, she was still cold, and she felt high.
Tang Ji silently scolded his mother in his heart, originally thought that she would change her impression of him, and then in order to repay the grace of saving his life, he promised to do so, it seems that Tang Ji thought too much.
The sky is vast and wild, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep, the blue sky is like a grassland under the wash, there is an exotic flavor, at this moment the grassland is quiet and peaceful, at this moment the vision suddenly appeared, a black flame rose into the air, and then fell from the sky, the target is where Tang Ji is located, Tang Ji found the black fire for the first time, immediately knocked down the elf girl, rolled on the ground, dodged the black fire attack, and then the flame hit Tang Ji's donkey, the poor donkey didn't even scream, it turned into ashes, only Tang Ji's broken axe and helmet, jingling to the ground。 Tang Ji was shocked, he had never seen this scene, and he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants.
"Magic, there's a magician around here?" asked Don Ji to the elf girl beneath him.
The elf girl's face was full of despair, and she knew that this time she would not be able to escape no matter what.
"It's not magic, it's witchcraft, evil steppe witchcraft. She said weakly in Tang Ji's arms, and as soon as the words fell, two people dressed in the fur of unknown beasts appeared out of thin air not far from Tang Ji and them, both of them were fifty or sixty years old, dressed in animal fur, and their faces were full of ghost drawings, one of them was carrying a wooden stick in his hand, and the top of the wooden stick was a human head, which was lifelike, vicious, grinning, and extremely ugly.
"Witchcraft? What is that?" Don Guy only knew about magicians, but he had never heard of any witchcraft.
"Magicians use the power of nature, use themselves as a medium, borrow the power of nature to fight, the stronger their own spiritual power, the stronger the spell, and this evil wizard has long sold his soul to the devil, they use the living to cultivate, use other people's lives, to improve their own strength, today you and I are fateful, I am an elven clan, my name is Elisa, what is your name?" The elf girl estimated that she couldn't escape, and she was a little guilty about the child, so she wanted to know his name before she died.
"Well, my name is Don Quixote, Don Quixote. ”
"I've heard the name of this man, and there are books about him in our tribe. ”
The two of them actually chatted without taking these two wizards seriously at all, which made these two wizards angry, and the wizard released a black fireball in a rage, and flew straight towards Tang Ji and the two of them.
Seeing the black fireball fly in front of Tang Ji, his heart moved, his body fell on the spot, and he took the elf girl with him, lying down together, and repeated the action just now, but he didn't expect that luck was good, he dodged the second blow again, although the fireball was amazingly powerful, but the speed was not fast, just after the fireball, Tang Ji felt a heat wave pass over the scalp, and then hit the lake behind him, making a huge explosion sound, it was really dangerous.
At this moment, Tang Ji suddenly heard a faint sound of horses' hooves not far away, there seemed to be dozens of horses, and the two wizards seemed to hear it, one of them took out his wand and waved it lightly into the sky, and a puff of black smoke rose into the sky, as if to tell the group of people their location again. Sure enough, in a matter of moments, nearly a hundred steppe cavalry came to them. This group of people who came was dressed in the unique leather armor of the grassland, although the style was not uniform and very messy, and the weapons were also varied, because the iron ore was very scarce on the grassland, and the heads of this group of people were full of ornaments of all kinds of beasts, although they could not be compared with the Ottoman cavalry in appearance, but at first glance they definitely belonged to the elite warriors, because each of them was full of red light, burly, high-spirited, and a fierce feeling, and the horses they rode were also tall and mighty breeds。 The huge golden skull battle flag for the first horse is the symbol of the grassland royal court, the golden skull flag, with this big flag, the various tribes of the grassland will not dare to disobey the order, otherwise there will only be exterminated. The leader of the hundred horsemen bowed deeply to the two wizards on his horse, and then the grassland dialect exchanged words with the two wizards, pointing at Tang Ji and them from time to time.