Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Prisoner of War Camp of the Zhixu Country
When I was a child, the children of the nearby hills often came to me to play, these friends are very enterprising, it is inevitable to compete when they get together, one said that his grandfather was a famous rich businessman, and the other moved out of his official residence in the court of the second grade of the father, one drank tea with the ancestral dragon pattern jade cup, and the other put on the pendant gold and green fox fur coat...... At this time, I am invisible, I can't say that my father was a peerless master, and my mother was a peerless beauty, because these two names are worthless in such a competition, not to mention that I have never even seen their appearance. Since I can't fight my father, I once pinned my hopes on my identity in my previous life to win over them to save some face, such as in my previous life, I was the emperor and they were all eunuchs, or I was a butcher and they were all piglets.
Now that illusion is shattered - I don't have a past life.
Master explained, "This should be your first life, and before that, you were in chaos and in the void. "Master's words are as unfathomable as ever, and when I hear them, I feel a little higher than others.
It is also worth celebrating that I have found another strange person, and I have taken a big step towards the goal of saving the common people. The fly in the ointment is that this Lan Zhige has no attack and lethality at all, except for being a shield to block arrows, I don't see any greater use for him for the time being.
Speaking of blocking arrows, I think of the golden-armored girl, who also seems to have special abilities. I told Master about her, omitting the details about her slender and beautiful legs, and Master muttered: "As far as I know, the Five Strange People are all from the Chaos Country, if this person is a wise person, he is naturally not a Five Strange People, but with such ability, I am afraid that he will become your fierce opponent in the future." ”
I said, "That's troublesome, I just wanted to use my magic skills against her, but I couldn't do anything." ”
Master glanced at me, "She must be extremely beautiful, you can't concentrate, or you are in the wrong place." ”
The girl reminded: "It seems that after she found out that Lan Zhige was not an immortal, she withdrew from the army, what should be the connection here." ”
Master nodded: "You can cross the river now." ”
I was shocked: "That's the territory of the wise and void people." ”
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. After the master finished speaking, he disappeared, and I didn't even have time to ask what kind of "tiger" we were going to get.
According to Master's words, we will immediately get on the boat and set off. In order to avoid encountering the girl who can shoot arrows from the air again, I recommend going downstream first, bypassing the Zhixu camp. Lan Zhige looked at the dragon-like lights on the other side and said, "Let's go to the Zhixu camp first." ”
I snatched the oars from the boat: "You're addicted, aren't you?"
Lan Zhige said: "A few days ago, some of our brothers were captured by Zhixu and locked up in a prisoner of war camp, and I am going to rescue them. ”
The girl persuaded: "Then you can't just swagger in, at least make a rescue plan first." ”
Lan Zhige said: "It's too late, the Zhixu people will escort the captives to the rear every seven days, and tomorrow will be seven days." ”
The girl asked, "What are you doing when you transport it to the rear?"
"There are various theories, some say that it was rushed to mine, some say that it was sold as a slave, and some say that it was sent to be eaten as food. ”
"Eat?" I shuddered, "and they have a famine?"
Lan Zhige explained: "There are many small islands around this land, inhabited by cannibal tribes, to whom the Zhixu people often give living people as gifts. ”
The girl's eyes widened: "Then let's not go and send three snacks for nothing." ”
"I won't take you to the funeral, I'll go by myself. Lan Zhige said that he was about to jump into the river.
I grabbed him: "What do you think of us, Master said that we will save the world together, you are not afraid of death, of course we will fight side by side with you." ”
Lan Zhige showed a rare smile and shook the oar hard. He can't die, it doesn't matter how he rampages, and I have to think of a suitable attack plan for myself: always hiding behind Lan Zhige is obviously too cowardly, killing people when he sees them is too bloody, and talking to puppets about the truth of being a human is obviously not going to work.
She let us park the boat in a secluded place, sneak to the back mountain alone and set a fire, and then sneak up with us on the three lone Zhixu soldiers and change into their costumes, but those silver-white masks seemed to grow together with the head, and we couldn't take them off, so we had to cover our faces with white cloth and sneak into the Zhixu camp from the side.
When I entered the door, I saw a wooden sign with the words "prisoner of war camp" written on it, and an arrow indicating the direction, and following the arrow, there was another wooden sign and arrow of the same kind not far away, so that we were connected by a ring, and we easily found the prisoner of war camp in a place near the mountains and rivers. This house is very magnificent, the doors and windows are open, unguarded, the lights are bright, there are bursts of laughter, and it looks like a restaurant. In the center of the room was a circle of long wooden tables, filled with wine, fruits, and delicacies, and hundreds of captives sat or stood without any shackles or shackles, enjoying it all to their heart's content.
If it weren't for Lan Zhige greeting them, the girl and I wouldn't have believed that this was really a prisoner of war camp, and Lan Zhige said, "It's great that you're all okay, come with me!"
A fat-headed and big-eared man nibbled on a leg of mutton and said lazily, "Where are you going?"
Lan Zhige said, "Go home." ”
"Go back?" Prisoner B smiled coldly, "Ha! If you are full, go back and be captured again to recharge the army, and then be captured again?"
The captive C shook the wine cup, drunk and hazy: "There is food and drink here, and there is no need to fight, so the fool will go back." ”
"Have you forgotten your promise to your sister-in-law?" Lan Zhige frowned and grabbed Captive B's arm, then turned to face Captive C, "You don't care about the old mother, what's wrong with you?"
"I haven't forgotten, please take her over and reunite with me, I promise she'll love it, hahahaha!"
Prisoner C shook off his hand: "Save it, this is a war with no chance of winning, everyone will die, even if they are not killed, they will starve to death." ”
The girl remembered the rumors mentioned by Lan Zhige: "Tomorrow you will be transported to the rear, aren't you afraid of being eaten by cannibals?"
Captive A smiled disdainfully: "Only those who are useless will be eaten, and those who have the ability to go are living a happy life." ”
I didn't understand the meaning, Lan Zhige still wanted to persuade, there was a commotion in the distance, Zhixu people may have found us, the girl said: "This place is not suitable for a long time, they have already chosen the way to go, we should also rush our own way." ”
Amid the laughter of the crowd, we left our cells, sneaked out of the barracks, and escaped into the mountains. After walking south for three hours, we entered a forest, and we found out the patrol range of the Wise Void before we stopped to rest.
Master has already introduced the vagaries of Desert Egg Island, but we feel that the environment of Zhixu Country is even worse than that of Taiping Prefecture, since the south of the Yiyi River, all kinds of strange and extreme climates often catch people off guard, and there will be completely different scenes in places separated by miles. Just now the river was still cold and windy, but in this unknown forest, it was like the middle of summer, the heat wave was steaming, the thorns were like hemp, the branches and leaves were flying colorful mosquitoes and flies, and the air was sticky like syrup. After two hours of hard work, a small stream runs through the forest in front of us, and it is a good choice to camp near the water. Lan Zhige and I cleared out a vacant lot a few zhang square, found some branches, took out the "Returning Tears", built a bonfire, and then sacrificed the jade screen.
For the three lying people, the safe area seemed a little crowded, and the girl poured a scoop of water on the "tearful cup": "Well, this thing is only so big to feed as much water as you want." ”
I think of the situation when I fought against the Fire Wing Scorpion before, it seems that the capacity of the Jade Lan Screen is set in stone, but fortunately there were not many of us at that time. I understand this limitation very well: "It can be as big as it wants, and then it doesn't fit the whole world." Although this space can be extended with the position of "returning tears" in height, the width is always only enough for two people to lie flat, and I want to install more unless everyone sleeps like stacking Arhats, so I said to the girl: "This way, you and Lan Zhige are inside, and I will sleep outside." ”
Lan Zhige waved his hand again and again: "It's not suitable, it's not suitable, I have an immortal body, I'm good to sleep outside." ”
I joked, "If you are torn to pieces by a tiger or leopard and eaten in your stomach and digested, will you still be able to resurrect yourself?"