Chapter 80: Three Heroes
Lantern Ke was amused and grateful for their actions, but he didn't know what to say when he faced Legus alone, and Legus looked at him in silence.
"Are you alright?" said Legus.
Deng Ke shook his head, "It's okay." I'm as strong as I used to be. ”
Legus smiled and sat on the edge of the bed with his head down, just staring at the sheets. He didn't know where to put his eyes, and finally he chose the futon that covered his legs.
"You, don't you have anything to tell me?" Legus still stared at the sheets.
Deng Ke's heart twitched, he clutched the futon tightly, choked for a long time.
"Legus, thank you for coming to see me, I'm fine, you can go back. ”
Silence, and that suffocating silence.
Legus stood up, walked out slowly, and closed the door. Lamp Ke listened with bated breath as the familiar footsteps faded into the hallway.
Near the quagmire, the grotto soldiers were cheering. They sat around the quagmire and raised their glasses to celebrate the victory. At the same time, the guardians of the Ulla Temple, who had just heard the news, were shocked by the collapse of the Ten Thousand Walls. But it did, and he had to respond immediately. He sent three letters with the dragon's tail, one to the island king, and two to the twin cities on the east and west sides of the land mud pool, and handed them to the city protector Kanqiu of Suodin City on the east side and the city guard Hu Tanmu of Shanhai City on the west side, so that they could take advantage of the demon's victory in the first battle to attack the demon camp at night when their defense and spirit tended to be lax, and they could attack from both sides. The Guardians will send Gern to support them on the north flank, and try to wipe out all the demons in one fell swoop.
While Kanqiu and Hu Tanmu read the letter, the Grotto Army was happily toasting the three heroes. One of them is called Tanle. One is called Gree and the other is called Wall Panel. They stood up and drank their wine in front of everyone. There was thunderous applause below, and they all expressed their admiration for the free and easy work of these three heroes. After a few rounds of funding. The atmosphere is getting stronger. Qiu Wei, the commander of this battle, took the wine bowl and toasted the three heroes and said:
"If it weren't for you this time, I wouldn't have been able to get in and out of the quagmire. In the white book given to us by the wallboard warriors, we only know that this wall will fall, but we don't know how it fell, so let's tell us all about this great feat. ”
"Yes, yes!" The other two generals, Uchi and Qu Shin, who were sitting next to Qiu Wei, were also anxious to know the ins and outs of the matter, and Qu Shen diligently poured wine for the three heroes.
"Even I don't know about this. I'm just helping to pass the message between you. The rest is the work of the two of them. The wall panel said and looked at Tanle and Gree.
"If you hadn't passed the news to the Grotto Army, we wouldn't have been able to occupy the quagmire in and out of the land even if the wall fell. Tanle and Gree put the credit on the wall panels again.
"Three heroes. Let no more humility be you. Tell us about it. Qiu Wei couldn't wait any longer. Tan Le and Gree glanced at each other, and decided that this glorious story would be told by Tan Le.
"It was a coincidental thing, as if someone was helping in the dark. Tanle took a drink and began. "That day, it was Gree's turn to guard the quagmire in and out of the Lu Mire, and both of us were Grotto Army soldiers who blended into the stone men of the cold mountain to do scouting, but we didn't know the details of each other.
A boy was caught up in a depression, and Gree and I were jointly responsible for crushing him to the mine. The boy was weak and fainted when he reached the top of the wall. It was raining heavily, so we carried the boy to the cliff and waited for the rain to stop and then wake him up.
While I was waiting, I couldn't help but wander around the wall of the lonely post. For I know that there is a hidden crack in the wall of this watchtower, through which I can enter into the wall. My father told me in a letter when he was dying in the battle to capture the pool, and he said that there was a secret in the wall that could make the wall collapse. So I've always wanted to come here and find out.
Now was the time, and no one but me knew the secret, so I thought Gree wouldn't guess what I was doing. But I was wrong, Gree understood my movements perfectly, he was the one who gave me my father's letter. So, he risked his life to fight me, and in the battle we both shed black blood, and we immediately understood each other's identities. At the time, I felt like I was in a dream, and this was a godsend, and the seizure of the quagmire was just around the corner. After we had negotiated, we reached an agreement to find the magical crack together, and at dawn, Gree and I walked into the wall together. ”
"Hahaha, how can there be so many coincidences in this world, these must have been premeditated by Gree, he applied to me to be a spy, find you, and complete a secret mission together. I didn't expect it to be such a big task!" Qiu Wei boldly took the wine and saluted everyone, so that Qu Shin and Uchi, who were dumbfounded on the side, also took the opportunity to ease their minds.
"Yes! If Gree hadn't prepared, there wouldn't have been this day!"
Tanle put down his cup and continued his sermon:
"As soon as we entered the wall, we saw a long staircase, and the walls on both sides of the staircase were lit with dim fire. We walked down the stairs for a long time and came to a fork in the road. While he was hesitating, Gree stumbled upon an arrow carved into the wall, and we knew that it must have been left by his father, so he continued to walk in the direction of the arrow. As we walked, we came to a large empty house, with grain piled up on both sides of the house, and large and small mills all over the house. ”
"Grind?" Uchi, surprised, couldn't help but shout.
"Yes, grind. Tanle motioned for him to continue listening, "We were also surprised, so we watched everywhere. I found the largest mill in the center of these mills of different sizes, and the words were engraved on the grinding discs: 'Grinding turns ninety-nine, digging the ground three three, black dragon dies, cliff collapses.' ’
At first, we didn't understand the meaning of this and didn't believe that we had reached the end of the road. So, we went back to the fork in the road and took another path. The road led to the black dragon's lair, and we managed to survive and return to the mill-ridden house. Once we were safe, we began to take a closer look at the room and study the meaning of those two sentences. Gree seemed to understand a little, and he walked around the mill, and as expected, he found that there were exactly ninety-nine mills here. So he said to me, 'Let's turn them all around and see what happens.' I thought it made sense to turn the mill with him, but we found that not all mills can turn, only one of the ninety-nine mills can turn, and it must be turned at a certain angle before there will be a second mill that can turn. The next ones are the same, they have to be tried little by little, and these mills are becoming more and more difficult to turn. It took us a lot of time to search and grind, but luckily there was enough food to survive.
When we turned the last grinding mill together, there was a creaking sound in the wall, as if something had changed in the structure of the wall. A wide door spread out on the walls of the room, revealing a long staircase. We walked a little further down and found thirty-three stone shovels and a pair of stone axes neatly arranged at the turn of the staircase. We ignored it for a moment and continued to walk down, but the stairs extended into the water. There is the outlet of Wanzhangbi, the Black Dragon River.
At this time, I thought of one thing, we have been missing for so many days, the Lengshan people will definitely investigate, it is better to throw the clothes and shoes we are wearing into the river, so that the Lengshan soldiers on the shore can find out. They will definitely report to the Guardians that they think we have been eaten by the Black Dragon, so that they can let their guard down against us. Gree agreed so much that he threw away one of his shoes and said to me, 'We should go into the water and see, maybe we'll find something.' So we dived in, but we didn't expect to run into the black dragon, and we fought to the death against it, but it was no match for it. Gree was bitten by a black dragon in order to protect me and almost died. I grabbed him and got rid of the black dragon and returned to the millhouse.
After that, we stopped all operations, and I told Gree to recover from his injuries, and when we were ready, we would continue to investigate. It was during those quiet days that we gradually realized the meaning engraved on the millstone. The next thing we have to do is to kill the black dragon, and Gree has also found a powerful weapon to kill the black dragon, which is the pair of stone axes. After his injuries healed, we got ready, and one of us took a stone axe and went to the Black Dragon River to fight the black dragon to the death, and finally it died under our stone axe.
Taking advantage of the situation, we dived to the bottom of the river and found that there were thirty-three stout trees growing at the base of the wall. All at once we remembered the thirty-three stone shovels that were neatly arranged. We swam out of the water and came to the spade, probably to dig out the roots of these trees. So we reached for the spades, but we couldn't hold them at all, and each spade seemed to be nailed to the wall, and we couldn't take it off. We couldn't do anything for a while, just stared at the spade in a daze.
Gree is still highly perceptive, and he said that maybe these thirty-three stone shovels can only be taken down by thirty-three people. We could only hold on to this hope and hand over the news to the wallboard, because we were afraid of leaking the secret, and only said that you should send sixty-six people down the river without making the matter clear. When you led a large group of men and horses to attack Wanzhangbi, and secretly handed over sixty-six men to us, as expected, thirty-three of them took down the stone shovels together. After continuous diving and diving, replacing and alternating, two days and nights finally dug out all the big trees, and the wall collapsed in an instant. Entering and exiting the quagmire is also ours. ”
At this point, several people raised their glasses together, and their joy was louder than words. (To be continued......)