The night was very dark, the loud noise was getting closer and closer, and the giant thing finally appeared, it was very dark and could not be seen clearly, but it was a big thing to hear the sound of moving, it went to the side of the water and drank the water, and for the time being, it did not find these people hiding next to it.

If the giant hadn't noticed them, they wouldn't have been reckless, and now they've all learned to be less arrogant than before, especially after the death of the Thunder Tiger, they try not to get into physical fights. The giant thing turned out to be just coming to drink water, and just as it turned around and was about to leave, suddenly a blue light rushed over from the side of the mountain stream, and the Star Soul General rode a snow lion with a demon slaying sword and galloped over.

The faint blue light emitted by the demon slaying sword illuminated half of the mountain stream, and the black giant in front of him showed a bit of appearance under the light, very similar to the monster that the Star Soul General had slashed in the thousands of city walls before, it was very big and weighty, but it was a cloud of black, and Xiao Qingqian's side had a light here, and a few of them were naturally exposed.

In fact, the monster can smell different smells, and it has already discovered Xiao Qingqian and the four of them, and it didn't move them because there are more powerful monsters around it, but it is difficult to give up the delicious taste that is about to reach the mouth, so drinking water in the past is just for temptation, but the star soul general who specializes in hunting monsters suddenly appeared, and this matter is not so simple, so this huge monster chose to flee stealthily.

Xiao Qingqian was still a little panicked, how to deal with it, but before he arrived, this huge thing suddenly disappeared in front of him, was it because of the appearance of the Star Soul General? It is said that this star soul general is wearing armor and carrying a sword and riding a snow lion galloping, it is majestic, coupled with the dense water vapor floating above the water flow, misty, and with the faint blue light, it looks quite cool.

The Star Soul General jumped off the snow lion and walked straight towards Xiao Qingqian and them, "I knew that I could find you here in the Frozen Spring, you really have the courage to go out of my thousands of city walls." ”

"How can you come out and mix if you don't have the guts." Xiao Qingqian also walked up head-on, "Don't say that you're here to arrest us back, you also know, no one can stop us from moving forward." ”

"Hahaha, how can I stop you all when you all come here, but this road is really dangerous, I have to give you a ride."

"Don't be so polite, it's going to be indefinite anyway."

"In that case, I won't be a mother-in-law anymore." The Star Soul General said as he untied the demon slaying sword at his waist and handed it to Xiao Qingqian, "It's very dangerous to cross the city wall, those monsters are afraid of light, so I'll give you this demon slaying sword." ”

Xiao Qingqian shook his head and said he didn't accept it, "Without this sword, how can you protect your thousands of city walls?" ”

"You don't have to worry about that, just take it."

"No, none of us here know how to use swords, so you might as well keep it for yourself."

Xiao Qingqian said that no one on their side would use a sword, but General Guo disagreed, and immediately stood up: "Whoever says it, I will use a sword." ”

As soon as General Guo said this, General Star Soul immediately handed over the sword to him, "Since you know how to use it, then this sword will be kept by you in the future, and use it to slay demons and eliminate demons, and overcome thorns and thorns." The sword was handed to General Guo, but he didn't take it, not because Xiao Qingqian said no, he was embarrassed to take it, but he didn't think about asking for this sword.

Everyone didn't take it, and the Star Soul General didn't either, "Don't do it, don't blame me for not reminding you that there are many demons in the domain here, you should be careful in everything." ”

"Got it, we're all cautious now." At the end, Xiao Qingqian asked again: "You came out to find us, who is guarding the city wall now?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own arrangements, okay, I'll send you up the mountain, this valley is the coldest, you can't stay up here until dawn." The Star Soul General said as he rode the snow lion and led them up the mountain.

Under the guidance of the Star Soul General, the monsters hidden nearby did not dare to act rashly, the black gas emitted from the mountains became thicker and thicker at night, and the miasma on the mountain was also heavy, so heavy that it made it difficult to breathe, and the mind was heavy, Xiao Qingqian faintly felt that something was tearing her and gnawing her, and there was a harsh sound echoing in her ears, anyway, it was a feeling of discomfort all over her body, a nameless fear hit her heart, she clutched the blind man's arm tightly and did not dare to let go, the darkness in front of her was like an abyss, every step forward was like going to the abyss of hell.

Suddenly, the blind man stopped and let out a painful moan, his head was in severe pain, so painful that he had to squat down, and then rolled on the ground in pain, "Ahhh......h What happened to you? Blind! Seeing that the Star Soul General was still walking forward, General Guo and the Evil Devouring Monarch were following him, Xiao Qingqian shouted loudly to stop them, but they didn't seem to hear it and continued to walk forward.

"Blind man, cheer up, it's okay, it's okay, we'll be fine." Xiao Qingqian comforted the blind man and helped him to sit up, the blind man was still in pain, he leaned on Xiao Qingqian's arms weak and weak, breathing heavily, and gradually calmed down after a while. General Guo, the Evil Devouring Monarch and the Star Soul General had disappeared, the surroundings were dark and barren and silent, Xiao Qingqian helped the blind man to stay in place, and they had to wait for dawn in the same place.

According to the degree of cold and warmth at the moment, Xiao Qing estimated that she should be halfway up the mountain now, as long as she didn't freeze to death, she squatted for a while and decided to change her position and sit down, the blind man's shoulder was still leaning on her arms, and now she didn't know what to do, so she had to do it first, but she still looked forward to General Guo and the Evil Devouring Monarch to find out that they had fallen behind and turned back to them.

After calming down for a while, the darkness around Xiao Qingqian made Xiao Qingqian fall into the uncomfortable feeling just now, as if she was torn apart, scratching her heart with a hundred claws, her whole heart was so uncomfortable, as if she had fallen into the abyss, she couldn't struggle, she couldn't shout, she seemed to go back to the night when her mother died, that night was also very dark, in the second half of the night before dawn, her mother's painful moans woke her up from her sleep, in the dim light, her mother's expression was hideous, the wound was swollen and black, the snake venom invaded her mother's nervous system, she was vomiting blood, Xiao Qingqian was still very young at that time, but this scene seemed to be engraved in her heart, and it often surfaced in her heart at night.

I remember that night my father only invited the village doctor to come and see him, and he was too late to send him to the hospital in the city, but there was no antidote to snake venom in the village at that time, and he waited until a little dawn to ask a neighbor with a motorcycle nearby to send him to the county seat, but it was too late.

After her mother left, Xiao Qingqian always hid and cried, not daring to let her father see it, her father's temper became more and more irritable, she would only be beaten by her father more and more fiercely when she cried, and she was originally an extrovert but became more and more reticent. Later, her father was always nowhere to be seen, and he didn't care about her, Xiao Qingqian could only cook and eat by himself after school, boil water by himself, and the neighbor next door saw her pitiful, and often called her over to eat when she got out of school at noon, and in return Xiao Qingqian would watch the children for the neighbor or chop wood for the neighbor on the mountain during the weekend or winter and summer vacations.

Fortunately, Xiao Qingqian's academic performance has been good, and the head teacher also takes care of her, there is one thing that impresses her the most when she was in elementary school, because no mother will inevitably have someone to bully her, she remembers that the road to and from school has to pass through another village, there is a little boy in that village who should be in the lower grade at that time, Xiao Qingqian will verbally abuse her all the way by the boy, Xiao Qingqian walked by with his head down every time, and then the boy became more intense and began to hit her with stones, every time she hurriedly ran away in order to dodge.

It wasn't until later that she couldn't stand it, and on an evening after school, the boy came to provoke her again, she was so angry that she picked up the stone on the side of the road and smashed the boy, chased the boy with the stone and beat him to the point that his head was bleeding, and then she was criticized by the whole school, and her father beat her hard after learning about it, but she never felt that she was wrong.

Later, when she went to junior high school, Xiao Qingqian was admitted to the key class, and learning suddenly became her most important thing, because the key classes are all students with excellent grades selected from the primary schools in various towns and towns, and they are the objects of the school's key training, plus they have to learn seven or eight courses, and the learning pressure is very high, and the competition is also very great. The whole school is overnight, Xiao Qingqian goes home very rarely, and the hard study every day makes her forget some pain, and some newly learned knowledge also opens her horizons, and she looks forward to going farther away.

The relationship between her and her father is still not very good, the only little more communication is to ask for living expenses and material expenses, at that time she was very stubborn, and even secretly vowed to work hard to get ahead and never ask her father for money in the future. It wasn't until the third year of junior high school that she had a slight change in her opinion of her father, it was a late autumn night when winter was about to begin, the weather was a little cold, the wind blew shivering, she hadn't been home for two weeks, and she didn't bring any thick winter clothes.

At that time, she couldn't believe it, it was nine o'clock, and her father came to see her what to do so late, and before she reached the guard's room, she saw her father's back from a distance, his back was a little hunched, and he was sitting on the bench smoking and talking with the doorman, and his dilapidated bicycle was parked next to it.

"Dad."

Seeing Xiao Qingqian coming, he stood up and threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, because Xiao Qingqian didn't like him to smoke, he took a big bag from the handlebar of the bicycle and handed it to Xiao Qingqian, "It's getting cold, and I don't know how to put on clothes." ”

It turned out that her father was here to give her clothes, Xiao Qingqian took the bag and replied, "I want to go back and get it this Sunday." Xiao Qingqian didn't finish saying this before the bell rang, she originally wanted to say that she would go back to get the quilt, but she didn't continue, she just said: "It's class, I'll go to the classroom if there's nothing to do." ”

Her father didn't say anything, and just as she turned to go back to the classroom, her father stopped her, took out a wad of things from his trouser pocket, rummaged through the maximum currency, and then handed her three hundred yuan, and said, "Food." ”

Xiao Qingqian returned to the classroom, but did not review seriously, she had been hating her father for a long time because of her mother's affairs, and she had always thought that her father didn't care about her and didn't care about her, but when she remembered that her father was so thin in the guard room just now, but she still remembered to give herself thick clothes, thinking that he had not remarried and was alone all these years, and thinking of his busy work...... Although I didn't understand him all the time, I felt that it was not easy for him for a moment.