Chapter 13: Celestial Thoughts

In the process of regaining the territory, Ada didn't expect that the first difficulty she encountered would come from a few bird eggs.

Lin Yuqing didn't say that wild fruits and nectar can't be eaten at all. No matter how many "ribbons" on the tree she rolled, how many handfuls of fruit and sweet saffron she picked, it seemed that she was just fooling her stomach, and when she swallowed it, it turned into water. She hadn't eaten for half a month, and the more wild fruits she ate, the more she craved something heavy, solid, and heavy.

After a few days, Ida had learned to go up trees to dig birds' eggs, and when there was nothing on her body to make a fire, she broke her shell and drank the egg liquid—and that night, after she had drunk the eggs again, she began to feel faintly uncomfortable.

Maybe just get some sleep. Ida was curled up under a tree, exhausted, but unable to close her eyes. She always felt that when she rolled her eyes, there would be an extra circle of fallen spirits chasing her in front of her. In the end, she went to pick a handful of cat leaves and hid them in her arms, and finally settled down and slowly closed her eyes.

I don't know how long it took for Ada to wake up to the sound of her teeth tapping.

She was so cold that she shivered uncontrollably, and her bones hurt. As she struggled to stand up against the trunk of the tree, she felt like a stick on the back of her head, and the places next to her hot skin were surprisingly cool—Ida had unknowingly started a burn.

Every step is like stepping on cotton, swaying and not landing. In a drowsy state, she remembered that when she had a fever as a child, the old mother in Chongsenburg sat on the edge of the bed and told her that letting this fire burn her head all the time would burn people into fools—if she didn't want to become a fool, she had to drink the medicinal soup in her hand one by one.

Ida had never missed the potion so urgently.

It took her a long time to make out the direction of Jiying Ridge. Ada stumbled in that direction. Forgetting all plans, the fire had scorched her sanity, and the only one remaining, still clear, had left to carry her forward, and she had gone somehow far before she softened and rolled down the hillside into the wet grass.

The world spended, spinning vaguely before my eyes. Vaguely, Ada felt as if she had been dragged up by someone, scribbling through the grass, the stones grazing her legs. But this consciousness quickly drifted away again, and the cold darkness struck his mind.

Confused, she thought she must have been dragged back to Chongsenburg.

Someone picked her up and put her on a bed—whether it was her own bedroom, Ida didn't know, but she vaguely felt the old mother beside her, her hands were so wide and thick, and her hot body always smelled of sour sweat.

This smell of sweat, mixed with a faint smell of medicine, makes people feel so relieved for no reason.

Then, someone pinched her nose.

Ada's breath faltered, and when she opened her mouth, she immediately felt a spoonful of hot soup being poured in and slid into her trachea, and she choked on it, and suddenly coughed violently, and regained consciousness—

"Oh, wake up. A strange woman's voice said.

Finally stopped coughing, and Ida saw it clearly. To her relief, and to her faint disappointment, she was not in Chongsenburg—a cramped room with only a straw underneath.

The smell of the animal oil lamp filled the room with the dim glow. A fat country woman sat on the edge of a straw bed with her light on her back, holding a bowl of medicine in her hand: "Do you want to drink medicine?"

Ida stared at her stunned, "I...... Where am I?"

"You're in my house. ”

The woman's fat and heavy breasts hung on the edge of the bed, and the skin on her chest was shiny. She was a little old, her lips were still red, and when she handed Ida the medicine bowl in her hand, a sour, sticky feminine smell came to her nose, like an overripe plum.

"You fell at my door, and I brought you in. The fat woman looked at Ada and said, "My name is Monroe, what's your name, and where are you from?"

"Ai ...... Amy. Ida replied and took a sip of the medicinal soup. She didn't have time to control herself, and she couldn't help frowning. "What is this?"

"Oh, I've gathered together what little is left of the house and boiled it, maybe it will almost get rid of the heat. Monroe noticed her look, shrugged his shoulders, and added, "Anyway, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor." ”

"Where is this?" Ida put down the medicine bowl, "How far is it from Jiyingling?"

"This is the farm outside Jiyingling City. You're not going into town, are you?"

Ida was silent.

Monroe immediately snorted, "No, it's not peaceful in the city right now." If I didn't have nowhere to go and no home, I would have wanted to go. ”

"Why?"

"The Earl of Jiyingling is dead, and I don't know what happened, and there is no heir—this has already spread, and everyone knows about it, don't you know? I heard several men say that this is going to be a mess. They don't know a single word, I didn't expect the fart to be a little reliable this time, and there have been many Holy See soldiers and knights in waves in the past few days, and they don't know what to do. ”

Ida suddenly felt her heart skip a beat. The Holy See jury is here, and Romandan still hasn't been able to cover up the news of Jiyingling!

Monroe sighed and said, "Actually, it is not safe to go into the city. It was raining the night before yesterday, and I was sleeping when I suddenly heard a loud movement outside...... And guess what? There was a fallen old man fighting with the Papal soldiers outside the city. It's the first time I've seen a fallen spirit, those big wings—"

Ida was stunned. She never expected that she had only escaped for a few days, and the situation had taken a turn for the worse, which made her a little unable to figure it out. The alliance between the lords and the Romantan is broken, but how can they be enemies of the papal inquisition?

The hateful thing is that she got sick at this juncture.

Tomorrow morning—as soon as I wake up, I have to hurry into town...... Thinking of this, Ida couldn't help but think of Baijiu who dragged her into the farm, and she looked down at the spiritual weapon on her waist, but she was taken aback: "I, where is my thing?"

"I'll take it down, well, on the table over there. Monroe had barely said half a sentence when Ida hurried off the bed, threw herself on the wooden table, and clutched the artifact. Seeing that there was still a slight white light flowing in the spiritual weapon, she breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel her head dizzy.

"This ...... This is what my family left me," Ida felt that her gaffe just now, perhaps a little rude to Monroe, explained softly, "This is the only ......"

Monroe looked at her for a few seconds, then suddenly interrupted her with a wave of his hand, and opened his mouth to yawn without hesitation. She doesn't hide her yawn with a handkerchief, so that people can see the red root of her tongue: "I see that you are much better, I am going to sleep, look at the sky outside, what time is this." ”

Ida looked through the crack in the leaky door of her house, and it was still dark outside. When she turned around again, she couldn't help but be stunned.

"What do you see me doing?" the fat woman asked, "You don't sleep?"

"I ...... Where do I sleep?"

"On the ground," said Monroe, raising her fleshy chin, "do you want me to build you another bed? I have slept with old Flo for so many years, and he has not built me a kennel. ”

Ida was speechless, spread Lin Yuqing's coat on the ground, and lay down.

Through a wooden door, there was a deep, endless night. The lights in the room were actually dark, but with such a vulgar and vigorous woman as Monroe, it seemed that even the darkness was warming and lightening.

"Thank you for saving me. Ida said softly.

Monroe let out a breath from his nose, "You ate several of my things." ”

"I ...... I'll find a way to return it to you then. ”

Monroe was silent. After a while, her heavy breathing gradually sank, as if she had quickly fallen asleep. Ida thought she couldn't be sleepy, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep involuntarily.

Once again, the dream came as scheduled. The memories of the past month have become fragmented and messy, fleeting fragments: tree branches, blood stains on the corners of skirts, rain, Lin Yuqing's knife, horse ...... She drifted in her dreams with the pictures, unable to break free, and the sound of horses' hooves knocking on her brain—

"Wake up!" Monroe's voice suddenly rang out, and Ida was pushed twice by her, and opened her eyes in a daze.

The sound of hundreds of horses' hooves still shook the ground and eardrums, and it grew clearer and stronger—it wasn't a dream.

"What's going on?" said Adaten, sitting up. "Is it the Holy See's legion again?"

Monroe held the oil lamp and opened a crack in the door, and Ada's heart beat and she scrambled around her to look out, and then their faces froze.

Countless torches tore apart the night in the distance, and the flames joined together in the hands of thousands of figures on horseback, as if they were about to burn up the sky and swallow the stars of the night sky. The hordes of cavalry galloped under the shadow of the fire, stirring up a cloud of dust and mist, and the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer.

Farm after farm was like a shaken ant nest, scattering frightened figures, but there was no way for them to escape, for the strange, disheveled cavalry spread like a raging flood over every inch of the farm, and flowed wildly towards Jiyingling behind them.

The shadows of swords, spears, and maces, along with the shouts of the people on horseback, rushed to the front in an instant. In the midst of the galloping, a few sparks streaked across the night sky and fell on the haystacks outside a few houses in the distance, and the fire immediately lit up in the wind, jumping brightly and brightly, reflecting half of the farmhouse.

"It's Leah—" Monroe exclaimed in a low exclamation, then reacted suddenly, slamming the door shut, blowing out the oil lamp. This time, the darkness that suddenly came down was trembling with the brighter and brighter fire outside the window, as if she was very unconfident, and Ida stood next to her, and when she saw that the people were dressed differently, she asked in a low voice, "Who are those?"

"I don't know, if they rush in, you'll hide under the bed!" As soon as Monroe's gasping voice fell, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves had already rushed in front of the door of the house, and the two of them were just startled, only to hear a shout suddenly sounded in the distance outside: "Tianxiangqu is the first part of the army, prepare to attack the city!"

The man seemed to be in charge of shouting and shouting, and his voice echoed loudly, and as soon as the words fell, hundreds of voices roared together in response, and the voice was so deep and thick that it almost burst the night sky.

?“ Monroe was lying by the window, her figure stained by the firelight, "He...... They're rebels! Why did they come here all of a sudden? Don't make a sound—"

Before she could finish speaking, a gust of wind swept in with the oil and gas, and Monroe looked up to see that the wooden door was ajar, and there was no shadow of the little girl in the room.

She rushed to the door to see that one galloping horse after another galloped through the night, and the earthquake trembled and spread dust and mist, which had already swallowed up Ada's tracks.

"What's the use of saving her, sending her to death!" Monroe sighed, and was about to close the door, when suddenly he heard a sharp whistle from afar, and a red light rose from among the black-pressed rebels, and pulled a dazzling blood-red line of fire in the night sky;

The rebels were boiling, and wave after wave of cheers resounded at the foot of the city walls - "Open the gates!" "Your earl is dead, don't resist!"

"******, they have fallen spirits!"

In the rising smoke and dust, the guards shouted and ran at the top of the wall, and the bowstrings tightened again and again, sending a rain of arrows into the distance, trying to stop the rumbling horses from the opposite side.

However, they only lasted until the third red ray appeared, and the city was broken.

The Jiyingling city wall collapsed like a wooden plank that had been broken in half by the waist, and the encouraged rebels suddenly rushed towards the broken wall like flowing water. A commander-like man waved the command flag in his hand, tore his throat and shouted at his subordinates to retreat - only his orders had already been drowned out in hundreds of cheers, and instead he was coerced and rushed towards Jiyingling.

The Tianxiangqu group did not seem to have made any preparations for the Holy See Inquisition stationed in the city.

When the city gate was broken, the knight corps also happened to pounce. At this time, the night faded, the sky was white, several family flags of different patterns fluttered in the wind, and the silver armor shone in the cyan morning light, merging into a silent river of steel, and striking the rebels who had just poured into the city head-on, and took them by surprise.

"There are knights! There are knights of the Order in the city!"

As the rebels were alarmed, screams, fights, blood splashed everywhere, and the sound of swords and spears clashing pierced people's hearts almost into a ball.

Even Ida was amazed that she had saved her life from the hooves of the rebellious horses—she had almost been trampled by the galloping horses several times, and she cried out in a panic, and the white fox was quite angry this time, knocking down a cavalryman and stopping the galloping horse. By the time Ida came to her senses, she had already entered the city on her horse, mixed with the army of Tianxiangqu, and her heart had already hit her chest.

Arrows slashed through the sky above her, and Ida jumped off her horse, avoiding the burning streets, running past the crowd and into the path—her hands and feet were weak, and her vision was blurred for a while, but she had only one goal in her eyes, and it had never been so clear.

Mesoko estate.

But she must make her way through the two warring armies and break through the Inquisition's defenses to reach the Mesoko estate. As the sky grew brighter, the battle grew more and more intense, and when a red light lit up again outside the city, a large shadow immediately rose from the inquisition, and collided with the red light in the sky.

The earth-shaking noise almost caused Ada to fall on her head.

The snow-white rope that swirled in mid-air like a coiling dragon strangled and instantly snuffed out the little red star, and a string of screams immediately rolled through the sky, and the falling spirit in the Tianxiang Qu army seemed to be injured a lot, and leaped into the air, revealing the appearance of one of its brass horns.

Ida hid at the mouth of an alley, looking up at the battle between the two fallen spirits in the sky, and was a little stunned for a while. The horns of the Celestial Hope seemed to be inferior to the snow-white ropes of the Knights, and after several encounters, the crushed stars splashed red all over the sky, and the houses and roads that were stained a little by them were burned red, as if they were about to melt.

Seeing the brass horn swaying in midair, at that moment, a sharp shadow pierced the air, dispersing the thick black smoke rising from the city, and hit the snow-white rope from behind—

It turned out to be another fallen spirit that jumped from within the inquisition.

The long rope was suddenly attacked by the enemy, and it writhed and smashed to the ground, which immediately provoked an uproar below, and the two sides of the fierce battle fled one after another. Ada's breath froze, and before she could understand what was going on, her eyes froze—

Followed by more than a dozen guards, a silver-white Roman Danyang spurred his horse, fought a bloody path from the rear of the judge, and ran in the direction of the city gate. No one in the jury expected that there would be a fallen spirit by his side, and several papal knights who came back to their senses and hurried to meet them were quickly stabbed with spears by Romandan and picked off their horses.

Immediately, he whistled, and the streamlined pointed metal pendant behind him jumped up, and with the sound of the horses' hooves of the Romandan group, it flashed past Ada's eyes, and in the blink of an eye, it was far away.

Ada's face was almost whiter than the fox on her head for a moment.

"How could he have fallen spirits? how could he ...... Quick," she gasped and rushed into the main road of fighting, almost being slashed in the back: "Help me grab a horse!"

"It's fallen again," Baijiu grunted as Ida bit a horse that had lost its owner—Ida didn't have time to say a word, she lay on the horse's back, clamped her legs hard, and chased her out in the direction of Romandan.

The battle in the city continued, and when compared to the regular army, the Tianxiang lineup looked in disarray, as if it was about to retreat. However, since the Fall Spirit, it is no longer humans who decide the outcome of a battle—in the distance, a man in red climbed the half-collapsed city wall under the protection of a group of guards, and at the sound of a whistle, the brass horn rushed to his raised right hand.

"Friends of Tianxiangqu, the new Fallen Spirit Envoy is here to surrender!"

Ada's roar shocked Ada, who could barely believe her ears.

His shouts rippled through the city streets, and as soon as the sound fell, the metal falling spirit shaped like lightning leaped into the air, stopping the attack from behind him for Romandan.

"Oh, this kid is really powerful. Baijiu's sharp mouth hung down from Ada's forehead and said softly. "The jury may not have given him good fruit to eat. ”

"I-I will never let him-"

Ada's voice was trembling by the horse, and before she finished speaking, she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. She bit her lip and chased after Romandan's group, and in a few breaths, she had already rushed out of the city again.

Most of the soldiers of Tianxiangqu were still outside the city gates, and before they could enter, they were suppressed by the inquisition, and the battle was more fierce than in the city. Unarmed and nearly hit several times, Ida narrowly escaped being hit, and with the help of a timeless Baijiu, she dangerously followed Romandan into the army of Celestial Thought—the red-clothed spirit envoy had already jumped off the city wall to meet Romandan, but in the midst of the scuffle, she lost the trace of the group in front of her in the blink of an eye.

"What about the others?" Ida panicked, rode her horse a few laps, and even her voice changed tone: "Where has he gone!"

Baijiu's mouth smacked on her head: "I didn't pay attention." ”

"You—" Ada didn't have time to reprimand it, her eyes swept away, stunned.

At the same time, Baijiu put one of her big ears over hers.

Suddenly a faint voice sounded behind him, and the tide broke through the barrier and reached Ida's ears: "There are nearly three thousand inquisitors in the city, you can't fight for a long time - retreat is the best-"

She turned her head sharply, her gaze crossed the layers of people, and she could discern the distant silver white from the shadow of the sword and sword.

Ada also had a handful of cat leaves in her arms, and if she turned back at this time, she was sure that she would be able to kill Romandan from behind him by surprise. Yet she turned her head again, and her face was pale and she didn't move.

In the other direction, Monroe's fat shadow was staggered by the impact of the rebels, and somehow became involved in the battlefield, when several horses were rushing in a line towards where she was, and seeing that there were people in front of her, but before he could stop his horse, a rebel soldier waved his long knife high, and the blade lit up in the rising sun.

"He's leaving!" Baijiu cried out over her head, "I hear their horses' hooves!"

Ida turned her eyes and looked at Romandan's back from a distance.

She gritted her teeth, and a tear rolled out of the corner of her eye.