"Ida - Ida ——!"

Two voices shouted in the midst of a tribe of roundhouses, one deep and the other clear. Their voices were carried away by the wind and drifted across the steppe, and after several calls went unanswered, two horses soon trotted out of the tribe.

Lin Yuqing and Stuka didn't expect that they just didn't look at it for a while, and Ida, who was seriously injured and unconscious, was actually gone. There were no inhabitants left in the vicinity, let alone strangers, so the two of them discussed a few words, mounted their horses, and searched separately around the tribe, expanding their range little by little.

"Ida!"

Lin Yuqing sat on the back of the horse, shouted again, and searched again and again. It was covered with half-man-high grass, which obscured his vision, and he had to break a branch and bend down to peel through the grass as he went, so that he could see the ground among the thick grass.

It was for this reason that when the boy parted a clump of grass again, his gaze and the horse's hooves beneath him almost fell on the man who had fallen to the ground.

Lin Yuqing hurriedly pulled the reins and hurriedly pulled the horse back, so that he didn't step on the man, and the grass closed again, and he didn't see for a moment whether it was Ida or not—but the man was too small, and must be a woman!

His eyes lit up and he immediately jumped off his horse. Just as he was about to step forward to part the grass, he heard Stuka's voice cut through the air in the distance: "I found her!"

Hey?

Lin Yuqing was stunned for a moment, looked in front of him, and then looked in the direction where the voice came from - Stuka's shadow in the distance was waving at him: "Ida is here! She should have come out of her delirium, and now she has fainted again, I will take her over to you immediately!"

Ida is over there, so who is this person in front of you?

Forgetting to answer, the boy then used a branch to pluck the grass.

Stuka is not a gentle and attentive person, so his movements are also very fast: he threw the soft Ida on the horse's back, he followed the horse's back, grabbed Ada's collar with one hand, held the reins with the other, and ran close in the blink of an eye - as soon as the horse's hooves approached, Lin Yuqing immediately stood up from the grass and called out with a pale face: "Stuka!"

"What are you doing? It's like a dead man. ”

"It's really dead!" Lin Yuqing exclaimed urgently, separating the grass in front of him, "Look!"

A strange woman in the costume of a fang country was lying quietly in the grass, her skin looking as blue as a dark cloud in winter against the white cloth, and the fatal wound on her chest had turned black. It didn't take much combat experience to tell that she wasn't one of those who left the tribe to fight - her belly was slightly rounded, and she had neither leather armor nor weapons on her body.

The only thing she held in her hand, as if she was about to take it back into her arms to protect, was a human leg as small as a toy. It took them several seconds before they finally realized that it was a torn stump of a baby.

"Who...... Who?" Stuka turned pale, his throat rolling, and his temples froaming. "What's going on? Who did this?"

Lin Yuqing was about to shake his head, but when he saw his face, he immediately knew that something was wrong, and immediately pounced on him and held him down—"Calm down! She's been dead for a long time, no matter who killed her, that person must have been around for a long time." Look, what tribe is she from?"

"This is a mother of a fang, and she has a child!" Stuka didn't listen at all, and lifted him away, and the roar echoed far away on the grassland: "Which dog mongrel did it, stand up!"

The boy sighed. Stuka's roars were tingling in his ears again and again, and when his anger finally subsided, Lin Yuqing asked softly, "Is she from the tribe behind us?"

Stuka's eyes were red, and he gasped for breath for a while, but he still nodded: "Yes, it's from the White Springs tribe." ”

He turned over the corpse, looked at the wound on his back, and said angrily, "Someone pierced her from behind with a spear!

All the people of one tribe disappeared without a trace, and one of them, in a miserable death, fell not far from the tribe...... Even Stuka, who was furious, couldn't help but feel that something was wrong.

"There may be some scattered alien races here," Lin Yuqing said with a frown, "Didn't you say that they have never crossed the frontline defense zone and the barrier mountain range......?

"What about the rest of the White Springs tribe?" Stuka immediately retorted.

"Maybe they all answered the call and set off to hunt down the aliens. When Lin Yuqing said this, he also felt a little unconfident.

Stuka snorted heavily, noncommittal. After thinking about it, he raised his head: "We can't delay, let's go immediately, no matter what happens here, I have to go and report to the high priest first, confirm the whereabouts of the Baiquan tribe, and then come back to find someone." And-"

When he said this, his voice lowered, as if he was deliberately controlling his anger: "You help me keep an eye on it, and once I find aliens, I will peel them all and hang them on the tree!"

Lin Yuqing nodded silently, hugged Ida to his horse, and the two set off in the direction of Valhalla again.

However, along the way, they didn't see even a single alien. After moving away from the sound of the gushing water of the endless river, the tracks of the alien race also sparsely scattered, and finally disappeared completely after crossing the White Spring tribe - as if those alien races were washed down by the river.

However, they also found no trace of the White Springs tribe, whether it was a corpse or a living tribal warrior. The closer they got to Ulu Mountain, the calmer the heavens and the earth became, as if the fangs and the aliens were silently following a covenant and avoiding the battlefield far away from Valhalla.

After a whole day's walking, when the scorching red glow of the burning clouds dissolved into the sky, Lin Yuqing, who had not closed his eyes for a day and a night, could not stand it anymore, and seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the mountain road was difficult to walk at night, Stuka proposed to rest by the mountain pass trail for the night, and then enter the mountain when the day was light.

During this time, Ida woke up a few times, fed some water, and then fell asleep again. The bumpy ride was a huge burden on her body after her serious injuries, and after a day of traveling, she looked as white as a dead man, in Stuka's words, "a ghost when hung up".

Now that he can finally rest, Lin Yuqing also breathed a sigh of relief for Ada. He wrapped her in the only hide, and fell headlong into the clearing, intending to sleep in the open.

Stuka still wouldn't let him go. This Fangguo warrior climbed a high boulder, and while looking at the night in the distance, he spoke to Lin Yuqing with a worried face: "You say, have they finished hunting down the alien race? Where did the people from Baiquan go?" "This time I killed less, and no more than twenty people really died in my hands." "Could it be that the god of war means that he wants me to die on the battlefield before taking away my fallen spirit?"

Don't look at him tall and mighty, when it comes to tribes, wars, aliens, glory and other topics, he chatters more than the aunt at the entrance of Ellington Village; Lin Yuqing still hummed a few times at first, but later, he could only use his deep snoring as the only response.

After he went to sleep, he missed a lot of Stuka's introduction to Ulu Mountain, but that was okay, because Lin Yuqing experienced the dangers of Ulu Mountain the next day.

The trails here are narrow and steep, winding and rugged, and horseback riding is a completely unrealistic fantasy, and you are thrown off halfway. The whole mountain seemed to be heaped with countless boulders hewn by knives and axes, and sometimes it was almost impossible to find a place to put your feet, and in many places you had to move step by step against the cliff and sideways—not to mention carrying Ida tied behind her.

Although both of them are Fallen Spirit Messengers, one Falling Spirit does not agree to be used as a mount at all, and the other Falling Spirit will only cheer and shout on the sidelines, which cannot help, but is so noisy that it is annoying. So they gritted their teeth and slowly moved forward one hand at a time.

"Why is your Valhalla in such a difficult place?" Lin Yuqing complained, "Don't say anything else, what does this high priest rely on to eat? ”

"Just climb yours, what's there to call for this little road? I can pass with my eyes closed. ”

Lin Yuqing was frightened by him, and observed him for a few minutes, and found that he didn't dare to close his eyes - after all, under the toes of the two of them, there was a cliff.

Trembling and tredgerly crossed the half-suspended mountain road, when the two of them stepped on the solid and steady road again, Lin Yuqing's body was weak and almost fell to his knees. After a few minutes of rest, he picked up Ada on his back and headed for the mountain again.

As we passed through the last forest, the sun set in the west, the clouds were lit up with red glow, and countless boulders and foliage receded from view, revealing Valhalla, perched atop a peak.

Lin Yuqing looked at it in a daze, forgetting for a moment the exhaustion that seeped into the bone marrow.

He had never seen anything like it.

As if growing out of countless rocks, Valhalla sits majestically under the red sun. Its entire body was dyed golden red by the setting sun, and the glittering giant beast totem was reflected in the sky, as if it was about to burst through the clouds with a roar.

When the initial shock subsided, Lin Yuqing realized that Valhalla was not as large as it seemed at first glance, and it was not even as elaborate and ornate. It is as rough as a mountain stone, magnificent and empty, not like an artificial carving, but like a broken place when it fell from the sky on the top of the mountain—

Somehow, the word "miracle" came to the boy's heart.

When the two walked up to the stone brick square in front of the main hall, a figure happened to come out of a row of gray and white stone pillars. A wisp of orange-red sunset brightened half of his white robe, outlining a slender red edge, and as soon as Stuka looked up, he immediately shouted in a high voice, "Yue Kai!"

This man is the high priest?

Lin Yuqing's heart jumped and he hurriedly followed.

Out of the temple was a pale young man who was astonishingly young. The High Priest didn't look at all like a Fang in the standard sense of the word—he was thin, his broad white robe curled in the mountain breeze, and it looked even more empty, as if a gust of wind could blow away the soft and thin young man.

"I was wondering who it was just now," the high priest said in a soft and polite tone, and when he said this, he looked at Lin Yuqing with a pair of smiling black eyes, "I didn't expect that old friends and new friends came together." ”

How did he know someone was coming?

Lin Yuqing said hello a little stiffly, and then glanced at Stuka suspiciously—the latter didn't pay attention at all, just laughed, and rushed up and smashed the high priest's chest: "Long time no see! I heard that you became the high priest, but I didn't expect you to still have this virtue, and you don't have two taels of flesh all over your body! ”

The high priest coughed twice, and a wry smile and a blush appeared on his face at the same time: "Your hands have grown again! I don't think this girl is in good condition, come, let's go in and talk about it carefully." ”

Stuka nodded, raised his feet and walked towards the main hall, and took out the white fox in his pocket: "That little girl, you can definitely be cured, mainly this." A few of them have helped a lot this time, this fallen spirit is still injured when I fought with me, let me tell you......"

When he spoke, he didn't seem to realize that his fingers were like steel, and with such a pinch, Baijiu's neck almost became a thin piece, but fortunately, the high priest answered the words and carefully took the white fox, and Lin Yuqing breathed a sigh of relief.

The group entered the main hall, and their eyes suddenly darkened. The oil lamp had not yet been lit, and the stone pillar at the entrance cast a long shadow in the hall, blending into the darkness of the depths. Even the wind in the hall was darker and cooler than outside, and it swept through the air silently, as if it did not want to disturb the sleeping souls here.

According to Stuka, no one knows how many ancient fallen spirits live in Valhalla.

It's just that the main hall is lonely and empty at this moment, except for a one-person-long stone platform in front of it, you can only see the huge and thick branches of the sacred tree in the middle of the main hall in the distance, and the crown of the tree is so high that it extends out of the dome, and the open roof is also tightly covered. In the huge Valhalla, it seems that there is not even a single servant except Yue Kai.

Under the command of the high priest, Lin Yuqing laid Ida flat on the stone platform. Ida thought he was leaving, and weakly reached for it, and the boy shoved his sleeve into her fingers and whispered, "Here I am." Baijiu is also here, and you will all be fine. ”

Ada uttered a muffled syllable and fell asleep again, so she didn't hear Yue Kai's next words—"With my five-colored maple healing powers, her physical injuries are not a problem. But as Stuka said, it was her fall that was the crux of the problem. The host is connected to the body and soul of the falling spirit, and now the falling spirit is on the verge of death, and she naturally suffered collateral damage as a host, although this injury can be raised, but it is based on the premise of the recovery or death of the falling spirit, otherwise it cannot be recovered. ”

"That'...... Can that Baijiu be saved?"

The high priest gave Lin Yuqing a gentle look: "I can try my best." ”

Although he did not make any guarantees, his eyes were kind and sincere, like a pool of gentle water, which made people unconsciously feel at ease when they saw it. The young man hurriedly made a salute of the Holy Alliance to him, and his voice trembled a little: "Please, High Priest." ”

Saving Baijiu and Ida didn't happen overnight, and at Yue Kai's invitation, Lin Yuqing and Stuka landed in Valhalla together.

Perhaps because he was a friend for many years, Lin Yuqing found that the high priest had quite a lot of experience in dealing with Stuka - when Stuka asked to go down the mountain to join the battle, Yue Kai took out a piece of paper brought by the letter harrier and told him that the battle under the mountain was over; when Stuka asked to sacrifice his fallen spirit to Valhalla, Yue Kai smiled and said, "This falling spirit is not good at fighting, except for you, the most brave and fierce warrior, whoever takes it to the battlefield is in danger", so he sent him back lightly.

Stuka felt that something was faintly wrong with this statement for a moment, and then he was proud of this compliment, and the matter was so vague.

Only the White Springs tribe was silent.

"I haven't received any news from the Baiquan tribe in the past few days," after a while, he cautiously made his only statement: "I will send a letter to investigate this matter." ”

"So how did the aliens pass through the Barrier Mountain Range?" Lin Yuqing couldn't help but ask, "Did you catch them alive?"

"This matter has also been clarified. Don't look at Yue Kai living alone in the mountains, but the news is far more well-informed than the two who have just entered the mountain: "When searching for the remnants of the alien race, the front-line defense area found a small group of aliens who tried to sneak in in the middle of the night at the mountain pass checkpoint. Although they are not fluent in mainland Chinese, after torture, the truth also came out. They go out day and night, acting sporadically, taking advantage of the mountains and forests, and even putting on the costume of the fang country, which only then has they crossed the mountain pass checkpoint. ”

"It's that simple?" Lin Yuqing blurted out, only to realize that this sentence didn't sound very respectful. However, the high priest didn't care, just nodded: "The alien race is simple-minded, and in the past, as soon as it appeared, it would attack and rush to kill, even if there was a rain of swords and swords in front of it, it would also crash upwards as if it were dead." Our warriors have always had to push the attacking aliens back to defend the level, and they never thought that those bugs could come up with other means. ”

"I think I'm scared of being beaten, and I don't dare to resist head-on!" Stuka laughed loudly, "Which tribe's brother is in the front line defense area now? ”

Lin Yuqing withdrew the gaze cast on the high priest's face and glanced at Stuka again.

On Yue Kai's always calm and soft countenance, when he talked about "those bugs", a strange emotion seemed to blow the water surface in a flash—it was the same disgust and contempt as any Fang Guoren.

Even if he doesn't look like it on the outside, this high priest is still a fangguo in his bones.

"The insects are intellectually retarded, and they can't get the Fallen Spirit," he smiled gently, "and their struggles are nothing before the force of force." It's not early, you're running all the way, it's time to rest. ”