Chapter 378: The Sleeping Place
When the team caught up with Han Feng, they saw that the emperor of the Western Dynasty had dismounted and was sitting on the ground staring and pondering. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Night stood quietly beside him, motionless and looking due west.
The sky in the distance was clear and cloudless, but the color of the sky was not a clean and clear blueβit was covered with a layer of gray.
Langba raised his head slightly, he faced the distant sky, although his eyes were clouded, everyone forgot that he was blind at the moment, and some people were even convinced that the pair of blood holes on his face really saw something through this white cloth.
"We're running out of time. Langba was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said such an ominous sentence.
If it weren't for the fact that he was the emperor's honored guest, the centurion who accompanied the team would almost scold. Everyone's faces were uncertain, only Han Feng was still pondering with his hands on the ground, while Qingqiu asked with a smile: "Uncle, what you said is misunderstood, and if you don't make it clear, otherwise it will be chaotic." She smiled and was slightly coquettish, and immediately rushed away the anger of the people around her. The centurion hurriedly put on a smiling face and said, "Where, where." Miss Qingqiu's words are really unbearable. β
Lang Ba laughed dumbly, and said, "Don't you smell it?" The smell from the west is getting bigger and bigger, and Tianma can't stand this smell, I'm afraid he will flee east in a big way. That's why I say that the days are short, which means that we have met them. β
At this time, Han Feng finally opened his eyes, and saw Lang Ba smiling at himself with deep meaning - no matter how cheerful that smile was, it couldn't hide the bitterness and worry in it.
Han Feng sighed to himself, he thought that Lang Ba didn't even want his own eyes, presumably there was nothing in this world that could disturb his heart, but he didn't expect that the changes in the depths of the earth still made him worry after all.
Since Langba's heart is in turmoil, then time is indeed running out.
Han Feng got up and ordered: "This trip to find horses must end within five days." Even if we can't find the horses in five days, we're going to be back here and back home, do you understand?"
"Five days?" the hundred-man team looked at each other, but no one dared to question the order given by the supreme ruler, of course, many people were slandered in their hearts, after all, the laborers and laborers came by trekking through mountains and rivers, and they thought that they would not give up until they reached their goal, but when they came to victory, they were restricted. I don't know how far the road to the west is, and the so-called "five days", the ghost knows if he will be able to see the Pegasus.
Thinking that it might be in vain, many people sighed secretly, and some people's originally straight backs were unconsciously half shorter.
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The low morale is lifted in the night, but the triggering event scares everyone.
The wasteland at night is like a sleeping beast, it is so terrible that in addition to the accident of the hundred-man team on the back of this "giant beast", even the birds and beasts have been extinct within a radius of several miles. The wind whistled over the "giant beast", crying like a ghost and howling like a wolf, giving everyone goosebumps, and in such an environment, only the partner next to him is a reassuring "medicine", as long as they get together and feel each other's presence, it is enough to be warm.
Because of the daytime, Han Feng had some difficulty sleeping. Although he has passed countless life and death crises, he still can't control his nervousness at this time, so that it is difficult to close his eyes. The oil lamps in the tent had long since been extinguished, and the black roof of the tent was like a sky completely covered with dark clouds, and no light could seep out. The endless darkness seemed to be able to suck in all the souls of people, and at this moment, many ghost and god legends that I had heard when I was young came to my mind.
He remembered the terrible stories his father told him when he was in a good mood when he was a child, and it was a rumor about the Far West that had been passed down among the elders of Lidu. That story is completely different from the historical facts of the Yi people's so-called Far West Behemoth, although it is also related to a giant beast.
The beast was just below him, and beneath everyone.
Legend has it that it is not a dead thing, but a huge monster that has fallen into a deep sleep, huddled into a mass and allowed all things to multiply and grow on it, and all living things seem to be nothing more than flies, insects, and mosquitoes. And since they are living beings, they always breathe. It is said that in the far west of this place there are two bottomless caves, which are the nostrils of the giant beast, one for breath and the other for breath. The inhalation vent opens every day, the vent opens every day at noon, and when the breath flows, all creatures within a radius will disappear completely.
This place is desolate, at this time.
I don't know why I remembered this absurd story, and I don't know why I used this story to scare myself, Han Feng smiled self-deprecatingly, and was about to force himself to sleep, when he suddenly heard a scream from outside the tent.
The cry came very close, at the door of his tent, and the night watchman was one of the two tens, each of whom was on shift.
The scream pierced the sky and woke up all the soldiers who were still sleeping. Han Feng swept out of the camp tent in a few steps, and saw that the person who fell to the ground and kept rolling with his head in his hands was indeed a member of a ten-person team.
Due to Zhang Lejin's previous experience, the current ten-person team deliberately kept a distance from him, and Han Feng also tried to avoid direct communication with them, so he didn't know the name of the person on the ground. All he knew was that this person seemed to be the "Six" of one of the teams, and the "Six" of the other team was on duty with him.
And while this person was wailing, the garrison of the ten-man team also remembered the shouts one after another. Han Feng looked at the helpless "Six" who was standing aside, and the young man hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Holy Lord, villain...... The villain didn't do anything. The villain stood at the door with him as before, but for some reason, he suddenly ......"
Han Feng hadn't listened to the man's explanation, and had already rushed to the camp of the ten-person team.
The big tent was opened, and a soldier handed in a torch to illuminate it, only to see that the ground was full of people rolling in pain, but after careful counting, Han Feng only counted seven people, plus the "six" guarding the tent door, then there were two people missing.
There are no obvious scars on the eight people in the army, and no one will attack the ten-man team with amazing force and tacit cooperation, so it must be the two who left the camp without permission and something happened.
The screams of several of them were mixed with muffled words, and the soldiers with pointed ears made the difference, and finally confirmed that they were saying the word "hot".
The guard of the battalion had also been called by the centurion at this time, and as soon as he saw Han Feng, he knelt on the ground and said, "I have seen the saint." Is it small...... The little ones let them out. They are the people next to you, saying that they are the same as before, and they have been ordered to go out to inquire about the news, and the little ones don't dare to ask more. β
Han Feng didn't have time to get angry at the ten-person team for falsely transmitting the holy oracle at the moment, and from the guard's mouth, it was not the first time that these ten-member members had done such a thing, he looked at the other ten-person team who was kneeling on the side with a pale face, and asked, "Do you know where they went?"
The leader of the ten-person team was shocked, and replied in a trembling voice: "The little ones dare not do anything unfaithful to the Holy Lord. Even if you leave the camp, there is no one in this radius of a hundred miles, and you must not be able to go to the enemy. β
Han Feng was so angry and funny by his words, secretly wondering when this was the case, this leader was still trying to exonerate himself. This was not the answer he wanted, so he held back his anger and asked, "You see, I am asking you if you know what they are doing, and I have not yet asked you about your sins." β
The leader breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The villain doesn't know...... Just guessing...... Guess maybe they went to the lake they passed by during the day......"
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