"Good, it's so late, and you're still writing letters to your family, and you can't send it out!" a soldier who had lost his arm limped over, patted Xi's shoulder fiercely with his remaining hand, and said with a smile. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Yes, but there will always be a way! Brother Tiger, you should rest early!" smiled honestly, touched the back of his head, and smiled a little unnaturally.

"Eh, you too!" the man, who was nicknamed Brother Tiger, nodded, and slowly sat down next to Xi. Curled up, there was a dark river flowing not far away, and it seemed that the sound of ghosts could be heard here.

"Hey, are you homesick?" asked Brother Hu, looking sideways at the unusually tall shadow under the fire.

"Yes, of course!" Xi, who was already about to write, suddenly paused with the pen in his hand, as if waiting for Brother Hu's next words.

"Good, what's on that side of the river?"

"It's still a river!" replied with bewilderment.

"Wrong, it's Ma Shoudan!" Brother Hu said in a hoarse voice.

Ma Shoudan?Xi repeated these three words slowly, as if he was in deep thought, "Yes, Brother Hu, you are right, it's Ma Shoudan!" Xi choked his throat, nodded vigorously, and looked at the other side of the dark River Styx again. There are only a few boats that exude oily green ghost fire floating slowly and lonely on the river, unless it is early in the morning, otherwise these boats will never dock, Xi said almost without hesitation. They came out of here a few months ago, for status, for money, for a better life.......

When Brother Hu heard a soft snoring, Xi was able to come back to his senses and continue to write this family letter.

At this time, the night was already deep, and although it was summer, Xi could still feel the murderous aura that permeated the air. It was so solemn that it was breathless, and occasionally he would suddenly wake up from his dream with a quiver, and suddenly pick up his weapon and look around, wondering if the cavalry of the Black Horse Empire had pursued it again. There was an empty area around Xi, and there were only a dozen or so soldiers in Maguruo who were unclothed, and each soldier couldn't hide the tiredness, sleepiness, and depression that he couldn't hide before, and he was not full of energy and morale at all a few months ago. A bleak atmosphere hung over the sky. Holding a cut branch in his hand, stained with watered charcoal, he wrote this letter on a piece of cloth that looked fairly clean:

Brother, how is the family? Mother is still in good health? Everything is fine in the army, don't read it, maybe in a few days we will have to withdraw to the first layer of purgatory, and then we will be able to sit down and eat together as before. Last time you wrote that you were going to marry your sister, congratulations! I finally have a sister-in-law, and I hope to give birth to a little nephew as soon as possible, so that my father can be completely blind under Jiuquan.

Writing this, Xi couldn't help but wipe the corners of his eyes, added some firewood to the fire in the middle, and lit up the fire in front of him, the flame burned and crackled, but accidentally made a lot of noise, Xi glanced at the sleeping comrades around him with some worry, fortunately did not wake up others, Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to write on the cloth:

I don't know if the news of the defeat of the Sword Slaughter Emperor has been transmitted back, although the front-line war is tight, but we have never given up, but we are unwilling to lose, and it is a little inexplicable.......

Half a month ago, there must have been an army back to the first layer of purgatory, and now the Black Horse Empire is in full swing, it is really difficult to resist, I didn't think it before, I always thought that the army of the Black Horse Empire was nothing more than that, but after seeing the other party's knight troops, brother, you can never imagine how terrible those knights who will become chivalrous are, in order to win the battle, even at the expense of their own lives, and they will be defeated with our husband.

Now even the third layer of purgatory, the Sword Slaughter City has completely fallen into the hands of the enemy, the one who originally took the path. At first, we didn't know that the third layer and the second layer had also fallen, and once again fell into the encirclement of the enemy, I can't count how many times it was surrounded, but fortunately, General Jiuge and General Gu Lilu were killed together.

Oh, that's right! I'm the same as the little tiger brother in our village, I take the same path, you must rest assured, the rumors just now are only what I heard from him, I heard that the Sword Slaughter Emperor who took the big road has successfully attracted the firepower of the Black Horse Empire, in order to protect the troops withdrawn from the path. Originally, when we were separated, we still had the strength to fight, but General Vaughn had already defected to the enemy, he knew the strategy of our Sword Slaughter Emperor, and saw through the strategy of the Sword Slaughter Emperor many times, so that they were imprisoned.....

When you passed through the third layer of purgatory, Heyang City, brother, do you remember the Heyang City mentioned in the letter I wrote to you at the beginning? It was the city where the Sword Slaughter slaughtered many people in order to suppress it, and even used the civilians here to make blood ointment! Because of these few things, the people of Heyang City, the second layer of purgatory, were full of hatred for our Maguruo army, and this time it was the same, knowing that we were defeated, the local Haoqiang and the descendants of the White Water Country actually colluded with the Black Horse Empire to rebel against us recklessly, and the Sword Tu Emperor had no choice but to immediately withdraw from Heyang City, which had not yet entered Heyang City. We have been coming to the border between the second and first layers of Purgatory, and at this time we have completely no way out, either to return to the first layer of Purgatory, or to die in the second layer of Purgatory. Of course, it was the Sword Slaughter Emperor, and now we are all worried about them, and now that I have reached Seremiag, I may be able to go home tomorrow....... Brother, I will not disgrace anyone in Magok, if there is only standing and dying in Magok, there will be absolutely no one who lives on his knees.

After writing all this, I thought about it, and then nagged a few more words and added a few strokes. After carefully checking it three times again, the cloth was carefully folded, placed on the inside of the clothes, put it in his arms, and fell asleep again with a desire for home.....

In his sleep, he didn't know who was pushing himself, so he opened his eyes in a daze and found that it was Brother Tiger!

"Good, hurry up!"

"What's the matter? Brother Hu, it's not dawn yet!" Xi glanced at the sky, estimating that there was still an hour before dawn.

"You take this!" Brother Tiger stuffed the boxy folded things into Xi's palm.

"What is this?" looked at each other suspiciously!

"Hey, I know it's you! You're here instead of your brother! Your brother's body will never survive for so long!"

"I ......."

"But it's not important anymore, you help me with this, I'll help you keep it a secret!" Brother Hu sighed in his heart, it was a secret forever, "This is my message, please bring it back when you go back....."

"Brother Hu, what are you talking about? If you want to go back, we'll go back!" Xi said anxiously.

"Shhh........h

"You understand? There's no time! You take it! Remember to live well! Tomorrow today, remember my words, remember to burn more paper money.... Brother I...... Thank you so much!!"

Without saying a word, Brother Tiger stuffed the things in his hand into the other party's arms, then took the sword, limped to the other side, and looked at the bustling soldiers like Brother Tiger who were physically disabled and walked outside.....