Volume 1 The Covenant of Life and Death Section 4 The Rising Sun
Xiao Xiao and the three of them soaked in the well water overnight, Li Tan's internal skills were superb and he didn't feel anything, but Xiao Yi's lips were purple from the cold, Xiao Xiao's arm was injured, and cold sweat kept breaking out on his forehead. Yi Xiaoxiao saw that he was working hard, and couldn't help but stretch out her little hand to support him, and asked softly, "Isn't it painful?" ”
Xiao Xiao shook his head, the secret way is not painful to see the hell! Yi Xiaoxiao understands that she can still hold on - people's conjectures will be tilted towards her expectations.
The sun is rising, the warm sun is shining all over the town, the rat tide is receding, and the town still looks so calm and peaceful. The three people hiding at the bottom of the well did not dare to come up rashly.
"Come on, you guys." Shen Feng's voice sounded at the mouth of the well.
Xiao Xiao and the three of them were like being amnestied, and Li Tan held one in one hand, and lifted the two of them to step on the crack in the well wall and rise to the sky.
Lao Yizuo and others have evaporated from the world as imagined.
Tong Ling is dressed in a pink long skirt, green silk bun, her eyes are like autumn water, her skin is like condensed fat, under the morning sun, the pink carved jade, the beauty is better than the peach blossoms, stunning all beings, Li Tan and Xiao Xiao are of course one of the sentient beings. She blessed Xiao Xiao and said apologetically: "The little boy is frightened. "The voice that excludes emotions such as fear, resentment, and sadness is like a fairy sound, confusing people's hearts.
Shen Feng also bowed his hand to Xiao Xiao and said, "You are very good. ”
"I was frightened." Xiao Xiao smiled and said, "I'm flattered." ”
Yi Xiaoxiao slandered, and when she saw a beautiful girl, she was flamboyant.
Tong Ling smiled faintly and said, "Everyone, please come with me, I will show you something." ”
As Tong Ling and Shen Feng walked through the courtyard, they came to the inner room at the back. Pushing open one of the rooms, the bookshelf paper case, the furnishings look like a study. Tong Ling fumbled around the bookshelf, and the door of the secret room slowly opened with the heavy sound of the mechanism.
Go down the stairs and divide it into two lanes, left and right. Judging from the area, this underground chamber actually encompasses most of the underground space of the town. At the end of the left are cells. Tong Ling said: "This is where the Black Dragon Society trains the dead. Groups of strong men with excellent qualifications were transported from outside, supplemented by secret medicines, special exercises, and tempered. This is a hell on earth, most of those people can't stand the howl of pain when they die, and those who don't die can't live day and night in pain. ”
Looking at the empty cell, Xiao Xiao and the others imagined the tragic situation at that time, and they were terrified.
Tong Ling didn't take Xiao Xiao and them to see what the passage on the right was, but explained: "After these dead soldiers died, they transported the corpses to the blood pool at the end of the right side and melted them, but there were too many dead people, and the corpse blood pool was full and overflowed. Rats began to run rampant. Rats gnaw on carrion corpses, and the people of the Black Dragon Society are lazy, so they don't have to worry about the disposal of corpses, right? ”
Yi Xiaoxiao was nauseated for a while, and grabbed Xiao Xiao hard.
Then the rats grew more and more numerous, and these ghouli-eating rats were very large, fast-moving, and short-tempered. As the multiplication increased, the supply of corpses was insufficient, and they began to attack the dead who were locked in dungeons with nowhere to escape. Tong Ling continued, "My father said that if this continues, it will cause a catastrophe sooner or later, so he began to study drugs to exterminate rodents. But the drug was not fully researched, and one day, we woke up to find that the dead man in the dungeon had disappeared, and our neighbors and neighbors were all gone. ”
The mystery of the ghost town is revealed, but the truth is too cruel.
Tong Ling took everyone out of the secret room and said, "My grudge with the Black Dragon Society and its financial supporter, Sihai Qianzhuang, is over, and the feud of the residents of the town is barely avenged. Now he plans to go with Brother Shen to rescue his mother. Get out of here, too. ”
The sun was shining on the earth, and a mile away from the town, Xiao Xiao looked back at the town, which had been submerged in raging flames. The images of the firelight swelled like a curtain of water, and it seemed that a man and a woman waved goodbye to them, and it seemed that they were just standing still, and gradually, it was impossible to determine whether there was really anyone or not.
"Little junior sister, let's go." Li Tan said, "You have made Master and Master worry about it, we have to rush back immediately." ”
Yi Xiaoxiao looked at Xiao Xiao, her eyes were full of reluctance, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
Xiao Xiao stretched his waist and said, "Wherever you go, you are there." ”
When Yi Xiaoxiao heard him say this, her eyes immediately turned red, and she thought to herself, he was alone in the rivers and lakes, he was young, his body was thin, and he didn't know how much suffering he had to endure. So he said, "If you don't have a place to go, it's better to go back to the sect with me, and I beg my father to take you as an apprentice and teach you martial arts." ”
Xiao Xiao was ecstatic in his heart, and said secretly, there is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.
Li Tan thought to himself, this person's origin is unknown, don't bring it back to make the master and mother angry. So he said, "Senior sister, Master hasn't accepted apprentices in recent years, I'm afraid it's not so easy." ”
Yi Xiaoxiao said: "I went to ask him, and he would naturally answer." ”
Xiao Xiao said with a worried face: "If you are embarrassed, forget it, I am a low-ranking Hanako, which makes you lose face." ”
The more he said that, the more difficult it was for Yi Xiaoxiao to ride the tiger, and she didn't intend to shirk the blame, and said stubbornly: "This matter is on me, you follow us." ”
Li Tan didn't say anything more, but his face was a little uneasy.
The most active gangs in the Lingnan region are the world's first beggar gang, Shushan Sword Sect, Qingcheng Sword Sect, Nanhai Sword Sect, Shuzhong Tangmen, Black Dragon Society Southern Branch, Green Forest Alliance, etc., these gangs are constantly fighting for their own interests, and the three major sword factions of Shushan, Qingcheng and Nanhai are even more powerful and endless. The Xiaoxiang Sword School pays attention to the practice of swords, and is good at itself, and rarely participates in the battles of the rivers and lakes.
But the Xiaoxiang sword faction to the sword to establish the sect, the sword to go sideways, martial arts tricks to be spicy and vicious, and strive to win in the most concise way, long in one enemy more, since the Xiaoxiang sword faction founder Liu Tian a sword to swing the enemy over a thousand, Xiaoxiang swordsmanship is famous in Kyushu, people who practice martial arts flock to it, have thrown themselves into the sword faction, after a hundred years of painstaking management, without suspense won the first major faction in Lingnan.
It is conceivable how proud he is to be a member of the Xiaoxiang Sword Sect, and Li Tan is very proud. He has a prominent family background, a smart mind, handsome and golden, and is even more expensive as a disciple of the head of the family, so he naturally has the capital to be proud. So he was ashamed to be in the company of an inferior person like Xiao Xiao who made a living by waging his tail and begging for mercy. Xiao Xiao is naturally very clear about his thoughts, but he must be cheeky to rely on Yi Xiaoxiao, in this troubled era, without a prominent background, everything has to be fought for by himself.
The sun shone on the earth, and the three figures faded away.
In ancient times, Kwafu wanted to pluck the sun, so he raced with the sun and chased it until it went down. He felt thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he went to the Yellow River and Weishui to drink water. The water of the Yellow River and Weishui has been drained, and I want to go to the big lakes in the north to drink water. Before he reached the Great Lake, he died of thirst halfway. Thinking of the story told by his sister, the dog thief's eyes were half-narrowed, looking at the sun gradually fading, he thought, has Kua's father caught up with the sun? And where did it fall?
"Dog leftovers, it's time to eat." A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl with a yellow face and thin muscles walked into the house, with two bowls of crystal clear porridge and a few sweet potatoes on a tray in her hand.
As soon as he heard about eating, Gou Yu immediately pulled back the boundless thoughts, grabbed the sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth. The little girl touched his little head and said, "Slow down, don't choke, drink some porridge." ”
"Well, sister, you eat it too." The dog's mouth was full of stuff and said.
"You eat first, it's not enough." The little girl said softly.
The dog left to eat two sweet potatoes, then grunted and drank the porridge, and said, "I'm full, sister, you eat." Although he was young, he also knew that his sister must be hungry after a day's work.
The little girl stuffed another sweet potato for him and said, "Eat more, my sister can't eat so much." ”
Gou Yu slowly chewed the sweet sweet potato, looked at his sister's tanned cheeks, and said with a serious face: "Sister, when I grow up, I must work hard, earn a lot of money, and buy you a lot of sweet potatoes to eat!" ”
The little girl laughed loudly, daring that he had not eaten anything else delicious, and that sweet potatoes were the most delicious food in the world.
After a simple dinner, they went to bed early, because they could not afford to use the oil lamp. The dog is clamoring for his sister to tell a story. My sister wanted to tell him the story of Kua's father's day by day, and he said that he had told him the story of Chang'e running to the moon, and he said that he had said it last night. If you want to tell him the story of Hou Yi shooting the sun, he said that he told it with Chang'e to the moon, and these stories have been told many times. My sister had no choice but to tell him the story she heard when she was doing work today: "There is a small village, and there is a pair of siblings who depend on each other for their lives, and although they live in poverty, they are very happy. My sister earns money by doing laundry and cleaning chores for the people in the city to support her younger brother, so that my sister has to go out early every day and come home late. One night, my sister came back very late, and my younger brother sat at the door of the house and waited for my sister, waiting, and fell asleep against the door unconsciously. I don't know how long it took, but my younger brother suddenly felt that someone was pushing him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was his sister standing in front of him. When the elder sister saw that he was awake, she suddenly began to cry, and the younger brother was frightened and cried too. The elder sister saw her brother crying, and hurriedly hugged him into her arms, and the younger brother felt that today's sister was so strange, she didn't speak but cried, and her body was very cold, but this hot day made her brother shiver. ”
The younger brother was so sleepy, crying and crying, his eyes were so sleepy that he couldn't open them, and in a daze, he felt his sister carry him to the bed, and after a while, his sister suddenly grabbed his neck violently. The younger brother was out of breath and shouted, sister, don't pinch the dog, the dog is good, the dog is not crying - by the way, the younger brother is also called the dog leftovers - the sister's tears fell on the younger brother's face, cold as a knife. Then the younger brother gradually lost consciousness. ”
When the neighbor woke up his brother, he was still waving his hands and telling his sister not to pinch him. The neighbor told his brother with a sad face, your sister won't pinch you, because she met a thief on the way back, and the thief saw that her sister was beautiful, so she insulted her sister, and then brutally killed ......"
Gou Yu trembled with fright, involuntarily moved his body, keeping a distance from his sister, he asked, "Then why did my sister die and come back to pinch my brother?" ”
My sister said, "Maybe I'm afraid that my brother is too pitiful to live alone in the world." But in the end, I still can't do it. ”
Gou Yu thought about it, and leaned on his sister again, her sister's body was soft and warm, and he said, "If my sister dies, I will also be with my sister." ”
My sister saw that his voice was trembling, and she seemed to be frightened, but fortunately she stopped in time and did not finish the second half of the story.
It was getting late, and the dog was still asleep, and in the dream, my sister also became a ghost, crying to him constantly, and the dog was going to chase him, but he couldn't catch up. When the dog woke up in a cold sweat, his sister was not around.
Through the window, it was as bright as day. Before the sun rose, the light was full of flames, and the whole village was in flames. No one shouted for flight, and there were mutilated limbs and rivers of blood all over the place. The old man who often pinched the dog's face next door was tilted up, staring blankly at the dog's leftover, but the old man's body didn't know where it was left.
Gou Yu saw a familiar thin figure, cloaked in hair and covered in blood, standing not far from the window with a knife, and Gou Yu shouted, "Sister." The man turned around, a strange smile on his pale face, and walked slowly towards the dog, blood dripping from the tip of his knife.
"This is not a story!" "Nowadays, every night, people passing by that village often hear a child's voice shouting, 'Sister don't, sister don't .......'"
"It's either a story, or you're talking nonsense!" Another bare-chested man at the same table said, "How can a little girl have the ability to kill everyone in the village, won't anyone else resist?" ”
The men at the same table also agreed, and the short man hurriedly said: "I didn't say that my sister did it, that person may look like a dog's sister, he admitted it wrong." ”
There is a lot of noise in the wine shop built near the river, because there is a wharf nearby, and most of the people who come here to eat, drink and rest are men who do hard work on the wharf, and there are also passers-by who come and go from the south to the north. Seeing that the short and stout man was talking energetically, a middle-aged man sitting next to him couldn't bear it, and said angrily: "The whole village has been slaughtered, and it is miserable, you still have a hunting mentality, and use this disaster as a talking point to help the wine!" ”
The short man at the table saw that although the man had a rough face, he spoke extraordinarily, with a long robe and jade, and he was dressed very gently. Everyone couldn't see where he came from, and although his words were not inferior, he had a certain reason, so he hurriedly lowered his head and drank awkwardly, and stopped making loud noises.
"Senior brother, the world has really changed in recent years, this little man around us speaks and chews words, and now there is a thick man who speaks in a crepe." Yi Xiaoxiao joked with a smile. Her voice was not loud, and it was difficult for the neighbors to hear her in the noisy wine shop, but the middle-aged man turned around and glared at her with disgust.
Li Tan hurriedly clenched his fists and signaled, and the middle-aged man saw the saber he placed on the table, and was slightly stunned, then ignored them.
Xiao Xiao turned a deaf ear and buried his head in dealing with the food on the table, he was still in tatters, but he had been cleaned up, revealing white skin, thin cheeks, sharp and angular outline strokes, sword eyebrows, eyes like Shen Xing, but he had a pair of Danfeng eyes, charming and moving between the eyes, he liked to raise the corners of his mouth unilaterally when he smiled, and the evil spirit was awe-inspiring, even if the clothes were shabby to the extreme, the movement still had the charm of bewitching all beings.
Yi Xiaoxiao pinched Xiao Xiao fiercely and said, "Hey, you starve ghost reincarnation." ”
Xiao Xiao stopped thinking about it seriously and replied, "Who can be sure that it's not?" ”
Yi Xiaoxiao smiled happily, since Xiao Xiao revealed his true face and changed from an ugly boy to a handsome boy, she felt that this person was very interesting, and after a few days of getting along, this kid's laughter and scolding, frowning and indifferent, can pull her heartstrings. Yi Xiaoxiao said: "The things here are not delicious, I will invite you to eat delicious food when I get home." ”
Xiao Xiao nodded with happiness on his face, and he didn't know if it was because Yi Xiaoxiao's words made him look forward to it, or if the food in his mouth was too delicious.
At this moment, it was lunchtime, and the wine shop was already full, and some people even asked for food or sat on the threshold, or squatted by the door to eat. When Li Tanzheng was surprised by the good business of this broken shop, he suddenly heard several loud noises in a very rhythmic manner, like a thunderbolt cutting through the sky, and his color suddenly changed.
Footsteps sounded on the roof, and the people around the wine shop fled in panic, only to hear a crowd shouting: "The rivers and lakes have grudges, and the idlers avoid them." The shouts came and went, and the crowds surrounded the wine shop, and the number of people became more and more uniform. Li Tan was secretly depressed, and it was a fucking Black Dragon Society again.
The door was already a forest of swords and swords, the cold light covered the sun, the diners got up one after another, trembling and retreating out, the restaurant fell softly in the corner, how dare you call the guests to meet the money. Li Tan pulled Yi Xiaoxiao and said, "Little junior sister, come with me." Yi Xiaoxiao was also frightened by Sen Ran's knife light, and dragged Xiao Xiao to follow Li Tan out of the crowd.
Xiao Xiao squinted and glimpsed that the middle-aged rugged man just now was still calm and unmoving. He held a cup in his right hand, slowly but uninterruptedly sending water and wine to his mouth, and his left hand was placed on the table in a very comfortable position, Xiao Xiao noticed that his hands were quite well maintained, his fingers were slender and soft, and his skin was white and delicate. When passing by the man's side, Xiao Xiao's nose was slightly frowned, slightly distracted, and then he quickly chased after Li Yi and the others.
"Duanmu Yu, you killed my Black Dragon Elder for no reason, and you still dare to swagger through the market!" The leader of the Black Dragon Society shouted at the middle-aged man.
Duanmu Yu drank the wine in the cup, looked at his hands lightly, and said as if to himself: "Little man, how can you let your hands get dirty!" Okay, let's see that I don't have to use my hands to clean up this piece of garbage! ”
Xiao Xiao secretly smacked his tongue, this person was so domineering, he couldn't help but look back. Li Tan also stopped for a moment, and secretly said that there is no shortage of masters in the Black Dragon Society, and he can only be caught with his hands tied, this man is so arrogant.
The leader of the Black Dragon Society glared at Li Xiao and the others and shouted: "If you don't retreat, the sword has no eyes, if there are dead or injured, you will not be responsible!" The words fell, and with a dozen gestures, he led the Black Dragon Congregation congregation to Duanmu Yu. Li Tan hurriedly used light skills to take Xiao Yi and the others away from the wine shop more than ten meters away, and in this way, they would be separated from the battlefield, and the number of people in the Black Dragon Society was really outnumbered.
"Duanmu foolish, you bastard!" The roar of the leader of the Black Dragon Society came from inside the room, "Didn't you say you didn't need to use your hands? You liar! Hack him to death for me. ”
"Say you believe it? There's a heads-up. Duanmu Yu said coldly.
Xiao Xiao is desperate, it seems that the way to pretend to be forced is a mountain and a mountain high. Putting away his curiosity, he caught up with Yi Xiaoxiao, who patted him gently.