Chapter 031: Danger Within Danger
The two looked in the direction of Du Xiaobai's finger, only to see that about a few kilometers away from them, in the upper reaches of the north of the Lechuan River, a large area of unusually majestic gray-black clouds suddenly appeared, mixed with several lightning bolts in the middle of the clouds, and below the clouds, two pillars of waterspouts were like twin dragons roaring in the sky, one left and one right, one in front and one behind, with huge waves dozens of meters high behind them, slowly driving in their direction.
Liu Liang and Xiao Yuyao were both stunned, the Lechuan River has been as calm as a day for hundreds of thousands of years, when have they ever seen such an earth-shattering scene of ghosts and gods.
Du Xiaobai, who had just experienced a month of strange weather in the world, had countless floods and earthquakes in his mind at this time, he used all his strength, his eyes were instantly full of bloodshots, and he shouted: "Everyone run back, the people on the boat come down quickly!!"
Liu Liang reacted when he heard Du Xiaobai's shout, only to see that his feet sank into the fine sand, the clothes on his calves instantly cracked, and the person was like a missile, and it was shot out with a "tom".
Liu Liang shouted along the river bank as he galloped rapidly, "Hold the formation, retreat back!" In the blink of an eye, Liu Liang was already submerged in the crowd, and only his voice of command echoed in the air.
When many of the Fire Dragon Clan's soldiers received the order, they all quickly came back to their senses, shouting and leading the group of souls to retreat backwards, while those who had already boarded the ship jumped off the edge of the boat like dumplings and continued to run towards the shore.
Du Xiaobai grabbed Xiao Yuyao's arm, didn't care about the fish that continued to fall from the sky, and ran desperately in the direction he came.
The souls resting in the rear, seeing the large army in front of them retreating backwards like a tide, although they did not know what was happening in front of them, they also guessed that something bad must have happened, and they got up and ran backwards.
These groups of souls have also experienced a long period of strange weather in the human world, as well as the disaster survival rules that are looped on the TV station, plus the souls along the way are a single team, and the number is relatively sparse, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the overall retreat.
The well-trained Fire Dragon soldiers were also calmly directing the team, letting the older souls hold the younger ones, the male souls pulling the female souls, and the young souls supporting the old ones, and everyone retreated very smoothly together.
In less than ten minutes, all the crowd had withdrawn from the distance of almost two kilometers back, and the boats on the shore were already empty.
Du Xiaobai pulled Xiao Yuyao, turned his head backwards as he ran, and looked back from the position where they arrived at this time, and could no longer see the river, only moving waterspouts and black clouds. And the waterspout has reached the location of the ferry.
"You don't have to run, you should be safe here, right?" Xiao Yuyao slowed down.
"No! It's not the waterspout, it's the tide that comes up after that, and the fork in the road is flat, so you don't know where the tide will go. Run, don't stop!" Du Xiaobai tightened Xiao Yuyao's arm and continued to run in the direction of the intersection of Xuehua Valley.
At this time, on the almost vertical stone wall on the left side of the road, Liu Liang was like a wall creeper, kicking on the wall, running back and forth about four or five meters from the ground, directing the group of souls below not to stop and continue to retreat.
"Good skills!" Du Xiaobai said secretly in his heart as he ran.
When the group of thousands of souls retreated to a distance of nearly four kilometers from the ferry, the waterspout had disappeared from a distance, and the flood behind them gradually poured in, but when the flood reached the crowd, it was like the end of a strong crossbow, not to the knees.
The crowd gradually stopped, and they all looked back, and the sky had cleared in the distance, and they knew very well that they had escaped a catastrophe. After experiencing the death of the human world and the bite of the Soul Eater Flower Zone, they who were already desperate to go with the flow, once again felt the tenacity of life.
As the tide receded, the blazing sun began to shine on the earth again, and people began to scatter to find a place to take refuge from the sun and sit down. Du Xiaobai and Xiao Yuyao found a small hole recessed into the wall, which was just enough to resist the sun, so they sat side by side in the small hole to recuperate.
Du Xiaobai felt that his physical condition was a little better, and this time he pulled Xiao Yuyao to run several kilometers in one go, and he didn't have the fatigue of running when he came to report the news just now.
Xiao Yuyao sat down next to Du Xiaobai, panting and using her brain.
The bystander was clear, Xiao Yuyao clearly felt the changes in Du Xiaobai's body, and drank the Holy Mother Lotus Liquid while being poisonous, Du Xiaobai's body did the opposite, not only did not collapse, but developed in a positive direction. The instant capture of the young soldier, this time, the not too strenuous run, is extremely powerful proof.
Moreover, in the face of such a big disaster, the reaction is surprisingly fast and the thinking is clear, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
This man, you must try your best to stay! Xiao Yuyao secretly made up her mind.
It's just that Uncle Liang has already seen him with me, and when he returns to Fire Dragon Castle, Angel will definitely know the news and know that this man is by her side, and at that time, if she comes to ask for someone, how should she reply......
"Miss Xiao, why are those birds still there?" Du Xiaobai's voice interrupted Xiao Yuyao's train of thought.
"Huh?" Xiao Yuyao looked into the sky, and the flock of roentgen rotting birds that had disappeared for a while just now reappeared above their heads.
"Strange...... The tide has receded, what are they still doing here? Is there anything else going to happen?" Xiao Yuyao wondered.
At this time, Liu Liang was standing at the end of the team, giving instructions to the soldiers, intending to lead the soul group back to the crossing of the Lechuan River again.
In an instant, the stone walls on both sides of the road fell apart, boulders rolled down from the heights, and after a burst of dust, the entire northeast fork leading to the crossing of the Lechuan River was silent.
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At the same time, Meng Xiaoshuang was sitting on the steps outside the gate of the stone elephant castle, nibbling on a piece of dough in her mouth, her eyes scanning the crowd of people coming and going. In her arms, she carried the small bag of the Quartet that Pei Qingqing ordered to send.
Coming out of the Feiyi Flower Courtyard, Meng Xiaoshuang took a shortcut that only she knew, went down the mountain along a hidden and dangerous path on the back of the Lanshan Mountain, took a night wolf clan carriage that was going to the stone elephant clan to transport grain, and got off at a distance of several hundred meters from the stone elephant castle.
After thanking the coachman sweetly, Meng Xiaoshuang changed into a suit full of patches, smeared a few handfuls of dirt on her handsome little face, dressed as a little beggar, and sat at the door of the stone elephant castle, waiting for the appearance of the stone elephant castle's big butler grouper.
The master really couldn't let go of that woman in his heart. Meng Xiaoshuang took a big bite of the dough cake and thought hatefully in her heart.
In her opinion, Pei Qingqing has not been married so far, which is the responsibility of this Liu Pei.
Back then, the master devoted all his resources to pursue that woman, but she was unmoved, and was bent on marrying into a wealthy family and becoming a broad wife. It's okay now! Let's be deceived! This kind of woman, it's better to be killed as soon as possible! The master can also completely die! When the time comes, let Sister Yaoyao find him an old wife, maybe he can grow old and have children, and then I can bully him, hum! Who told the master to always bully me, and always let people do things they don't like to do......
Meng Xiaoshuang thought nonsense, a smug smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
The crowd walking by the side saw such a small person named Hanako, squatting in the corner of the wall, with a half-pulled baked cake on his lips, and a strange and unpredictable smile on his face, and they all moved away from her.
At this time, from the gate of the stone elephant castle, a small group of five or six people walked out. And the thin middle-aged man in the black robe who walked in the front had a fist-sized birthmark on his right eye.
"Yoh! It's really effortless!" Meng Xiaoshuang said happily in her heart and stood up suddenly. I didn't take two steps before I stopped.
"Master's bag must be a high-grade bone-setting medicine, and it is really a waste to give it to this woman!" Meng Xiaoshuang frowned, gritting her teeth and thinking.
The crowd walking by saw such a small man named Hanako, standing in the middle of the road, with a half-pulled baked cake still on his lips, and a fierce expression on his face, and they all moved away from her.
Meng Xiaoshuang looked at the grouper that was gradually moving away, shook her head slightly, and sighed faintly: "Alas! Since ancient times, the red face has been so thin, the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, and the people are haggard for Yixiao, this hatred is not about the wind and the moon." ”
After groaning, Meng Xiaoshuang kicked her calf and chased after her.
A middle-aged man with a grain bag walking by next to him said bitterly to the six-year-old boy who was also carrying a small grain bag and was slightly rickety: "So, Xiaohu, those cram schools must go, we can't lose at the starting line, if you don't open your eyes, now in this world, you have to be knowledgeable when you call Huazi!"
The little boy listened to his father's earnest teachings, nodded ambiguously, he looked at the figure of the little beggar who had just been singing poetry, as if he saw a ray of light out of the difficult life, and couldn't help but straighten his bent and thin little body.
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Spirit Butterfly Castle, Feather Flower Pavilion.
"Yun Yun, go and pour tea," Xiao Yunfei commanded, "Come on, Pei Lao, please sit down, please sit down, I haven't seen you for many days, it looks like your body is still tough......! What's it called?"
"My name is Meng Xiaocang. Xiao Cang said with a smile, his eyes were like a mountain spring, and he didn't care at all.
"Yes, yes, it's Xiao Cang! Xiao Cang, Uncle Xiao is old, he has too many things to do, and he can't remember many things, don't blame Uncle Xiao!" Xiao Yunfei said with a smile.
"No!" Xiao Cang still sat quietly in the chair with an innocent smile, like a little adult, without any sense of restraint.
Ye Ci looked at Xiao Cang, his eyes full of soft gaze. She knew that Xiao Yuyao secretly set up an orphanage, and she also knew that Xiao Yuyao sent two children to Pei Lao's house, she knew a lot of things, but Xiao Yuyao didn't know.
When Ye Ci was young, he gave birth to two daughters and a son for the Xiao family within five years. Among them, the second daughter Xiao Yushan married into the Shixiang clan two years ago and became the wife of Shi Kang, the third son of the Shi family. The youngest son, Xiao Yuteng, was originally cultivated as the future heir of the Spirit Butterfly Clan, but when her husband asked him to fall in love with Wu Yingying, the youngest daughter of the Ice Moth Clan's martial family, and engage in a family marriage, he was never seen again every day. Either perfunctorily said that he went to see Wu Yingying, or simply went to the mountains to hunt, in short, he didn't care about his family business anymore.
In any case, the two children seem to have set the trajectory of their lives, but the eldest daughter is left.
The eldest daughter, Xiao Yuyao, is smart and studious, and her mind is exquisite, but now that she is in the period of marriage, she does not enter the oil and salt, and she pushes all the marriage proposals of the big family cleanly, and no one gives face, which makes her husband Xiao Yunfei, who has always pursued a neutral policy, feel like a pins and needles.
Ye Ci, who was suspicious, sent someone to secretly find out if her eldest daughter already had a crush, but inadvertently found out that her daughter secretly founded an orphanage and took in homeless children. Knowing that her daughter's mind was not on marriage now, Ye Ci was relieved, and then persuaded her husband to let her eldest daughter do whatever she wanted and no longer interfere. Because, if the youngest son Yuteng is really unwilling to take over the family business, then it can only be passed on to the eldest daughter Xiao Yuyao, and in terms of ability, Xiao Yuyao is indeed more suitable to take over the Lingdie family business.
The Lingdie clan has a big career and is widely respected, and Xiao Yuyao has outstanding talents, and she is not worried about getting married.
"Pei Lao," Ye Ci said to Pei Qingqing, who was in the dust, "You and I know each other, don't talk much, the matter is urgent, after a while, let's start to do the main body poison test, what is needed, just say." ”
Pei Qingqing was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Madam, to be honest, I have tested the water of this Lechuan River before, and I am not too sure about the detection of the main poison. It's okay to talk about flowers and plants, but what I have learned about poison is really limited. If you talk about testing equipment, then the Spirit Butterfly Clan must be the most perfect, but when it comes to poison research, the most authoritative is someone else, if he helps, I believe you can get twice the result with half the effort. ”
Ye Ci and Xiao Yunfei glanced at each other, had a guess in their hearts, and said, "Pei Lao, do you mean ......?"
Pei Qingqing saw that the couple had guessed it, and nodded: "That's right, it's An Qiye, An Nanshan." ”