The green waves roll the white sand, and the wind caresses the hair.

In the past few days, in order to make up for his mistakes, Ah Yun has been personally serving Situ Jing, after all, her daughter's body is not convenient at times, and the toxins in Situ Jing's body have to be slowly eliminated, which is inconvenient, so she can only lie on the wooden bed.

Looking at Ah Yun's hard-working appearance, staring at her scabbed hands after cracking, Situ Jing looked at her calloused hands again, although both of them are still girls, it seems that they have the same rough skin, but they are two different lives.

Situ Jing was able to get up slowly, but he couldn't move around casually, and the toxins of the jellyfish could be regarded as a good rest. She doesn't like to be served, and when she was in the county government, every time the personal maid helped her fetch water and change clothes, she would be driven away, and she always felt awkward and uncomfortable.

After being able to move a little, every time Ah Yun insisted on putting the spoon in her mouth, Situ Jing tried her best to refuse, and Ah Yun was also very stubborn, and finally relied on his younger brothers and sisters to break the siege, and the "service" of the little guys, Situ Jing was still very useful, not so awkward.

In the morning, the sun slowly drilled out from the sea level, and the waves not far away were crashing on the beach, Ah Yun deliberately went to the kiln man's side, brought two buckets of water, and then washed Situ Jinghuan's hair, and he hadn't washed it for several days.

Situ Jing lay on the bed, watched Ah Yun busy with his work, and said, "Ah Yun, thank you these days." ”

Ah Yun looked at her, smiled, and didn't speak. After all, he was "at fault first", and he felt guilty in his heart, Liang Zongli also felt that he might have been too impulsive these days, he was careless, he shouldn't have lost his temper with Ah Yun, and he didn't come here again, but took the butterfly army and ghost dwarves to the four surrounding islands to get some clear water, wood and stone or something, Zhu Yu has no news for the time being, and he may have to stay here for a long time, and he has to plan for life.

Two days ago, the kiln people who were still helping seemed to have heard some call and were helping Liang Zongli on the island, and suddenly jumped into the sea and disappeared. The ghost dwarf explained that they might have returned to Qinglang Palace, and that it was like this when they lived with them before, nothing serious. Liang Zongli didn't take it to heart, and continued to scoop water into the bucket.

Now in the forest, there are almost three or four thousand ghost dwarves plus Li Minqi's people, and the daily consumption of fresh water is almost as much as that of a town. Liang Zongli, who is accustomed to living by the river and Huaxi Valley, never felt that drinking water was a problem before, but now she realizes how important it is.

The butterfly army can be regarded as temporarily escaping from Situ Jing's clutches, even if they climb up and down the island every day to collect water, it is better than training.

Two guards, one named Yu Yongqiang, was a foot soldier in the city defense battalion of Andong City, and his family was quite passable, relying on his own military salary to support his younger brothers and sisters to study in the school. One is named Zhao Daqing, his hometown is in Renzhou, his ancestors are farmers who farm, he doesn't want to be like his father, most of his hard work has paid rent to other people's families, so he joined the army, and when he has saved enough money, he went home and bought a few acres of land, so that his father and brothers can also enjoy the blessings, and later followed Jiang Quanliang to Andong City. The other Butterfly Soldiers are also from poor backgrounds like these two guard captains who were promoted by military merits, and they are about the same age, and they have never read, but they are simple-minded, especially when they see that those captains like Situ Jing have such a good family background and are so desperate, and they all put life and death out of the way.

The two men are five or six years older than Liang Zongli, but they usually obey Liang Zongli and the others. Liang Zongli usually calls them Brother Yu, Brother Zhao, and they have said to the two of them several times, like them, they also came out of the village, now it is not on the battlefield, don't be so polite to him, Captain Liang, who is open-mouthed and closed-mouthed, just call Xiao Liang or Brother Liang, but the two of them just don't obey here, and they also told their brothers, who dares to be disrespectful, and catch one is a small pot of butts. Liang Zongli saw that he couldn't move, so he gave up.

When Liang Zongli just landed on the island with everyone, he thought that since this place was so remote, there should be no birds and beasts, but the reality was not as cold as he imagined. Among them was a kind of multicolored long-feathered bird, which, although its call sounded very penetrating, could speak human language, and was not afraid of them, and always followed them in flocks, and whispered something that they did not understand.

Liang Zongli asked if the ghost dwarf understood what to say? The ghost dwarves don't know very well, guessing that it may be the Hanyuan Continent in the east, and they have never seen it in Mudong Island before.

Yu Yongqiang wanted to shoot with a bow, but Liang Zongli pressed his arm, shook his head, and ordered that not a single beast on the four islands should be harmed.

There is also a kind of wombat, which has a small arm on the belly of the male, which is the size of a fist, gnawing on the fruit, and screaming whenever someone grabs the food from the bear child's hand, and the cry makes people's ears tingle. Often after Liang Zongli and they passed by a clump of trees, they unceremoniously fell into a pile, hugged their necks tightly and did not let go, fortunately, it did not hurt people, but they liked to rely on them. So every time they panted and climbed to the clear water bubble on the top of the island mountain, as soon as Liang Zongli and they bent over, the wombats would climb down and grab water, and then lie on the stones and turn their bellies, lazily basking in the sun.

On the way home, Liang Zongli looked at the wombats on his face and quipped, what would you do without us? Die of thirst? The wombata seemed to understand his words, so he actually made a teasing expression, kicked his legs and climbed the tree, and then a fruit fell on Liang Zongli's head, and the wombata fell on Liang Zongli fiercely. He picked up the fruit, and he was not polite, the pale yellow fist was the size, and he took a bite full of sweet juice, and the wombata saw this, and howled, and then Liang Zongli also gave it a bite, and just walked while eating it with the wombat.

On the four islands, the birds and beasts on each island are different, neither the ghost dwarves nor the high people have ever seen them, let alone Liang Zongli.

Every day before noon, the people would return to the woods in the middle of the four islands with buckets, large and small water bags, and some juiced fruit. There is a butterfly army smiled and said, it should be weight-bearing training, and it can play with those rare beasts, but it is much happier than the days in Andong City, and then I don't know who got up and started singing: "Brother, I rode on a tall horse, and broke into my sister's house overnight......" Someone joked, what are you doing breaking into someone's house? The man raised his voice and continued to sing, "Compare how high those two peaks are!" The crowd couldn't stop laughing.

As soon as he returned to the forest, the sea area, which was originally still a clear sky, immediately changed his face, and the dark clouds overwhelmed the storm and rage, but after only a while, the forest returned to calm.

Liang Zongli heard the ghost dwarf say that there was a hurricane before, and the forest was messy after that, this time it was strange, why didn't there move? Liang Zongli keenly noticed that it seemed to be very similar to the barrier of Gao Guo at that time, and there was something to isolate the forest from the intrusion of hurricanes.

Liang Zongli didn't alarm Li Minli and them, but just reminded dozens of butterfly armies to get ready, there were strange things around. Then hurriedly ran to Ah Yun and the children, looked at Ah Yun with an apologetic face, and Situ Jing who actually smiled at her, Liang Zongli said hesitantly, you pay attention to safety, I will take someone to see, this hurricane is not normal, and then turned around and ran.

Ah Yun hurriedly called the children to his side and sat on Situ Jing's bed, Situ Jing held Ah Yun's hand tightly and comforted him and said that it was okay, they had all seen a battle bigger than this, it was nothing. Ah Yun smiled at her, and then stared at the dim sky, Situ Jing only felt that Ah Yun's whole body was trembling, holding her hand, and constantly exerting force.

In order to divert Ah Yun's attention, Situ Jing asked, "Are you and Liang Zongli childhood sweethearts?" ”

Ah Yun looked at Situ Jing suspiciously, and she immediately changed her words: "That's it, you grew up together, right?" ”

Ah Yun nodded, and then began to talk to Situ Jing about how they met and how they spent their childhood happily together.

Situ Jing listened to Ah Yun's whispered eloquent words, and inexplicably thought of Liang Zongqing and them, and when she listened to them, she silently burst into tears. Ah Yun had heard Liang Zongli say before that she knew the relationship between Situ Jing and Liang Zongqing, she had never read a book, and she didn't know anything big, but she silently helped Situ Jing wipe her tears and cry.

Situ Jing said thank you, then looked at the trembling children, and quipped, You have followed your sister all the way, what have you never seen, and you are still so scared?

Ajie and Ajiang chattered and began to talk about them and Liang Zongli, the thrilling journey along the way, and cheered themselves up. Liang Zongli didn't tell Ah Yun about those things, for fear of reminding her of her own experience. At this time, listening to the children, although it was not very complete, Ah Yun also roughly understood the journey and extraordinaryness of the Butterfly Army, as well as the dangers involved, so he understood why Liang Zongli was angry with her like crazy that night. They have experienced a series of life and death tests together, Situ Jing and them, for Liang Zongli, are already more important than relatives, from more than 2,000 people, to the only few people left, just like Shan Yuanming's feelings when he was in Baishaze, beyond family and friendship, anyone who has an accident, each other will take care of life and death.

Thinking of this, Ah Yun cried even more, and Situ Jing began to wipe her tears again. Suddenly, a thunderclap fell from the dark clouds, frightening everyone in the forest and hugging their relatives tightly.

Li Minqi took the guards and immediately ran to the source of the thunder, and found that Liang Zongli and dozens of butterfly troops were facing a monstrous wave, and one of the huge black shadows was rising from the sea, giving people a terrifying sense of oppression.

Wei Yi, Yi Houpeng and the rest of the butterfly army didn't know how many days they had been walking in the underground Green River channel, but after climbing over several wet cliffs one after another, they could feel that the terrain was slowly rising.

It wasn't until the rations on his body, when he was about to finish eating, that he finally heard the rumbling sound of falling water, and then a light appeared in front of him.

Yi Houpeng reminded everyone to walk slowly, staying in the dark for too long, and seeing the sun at once, the eyes couldn't stand it. Then everyone slowed down, walked for a while, stopped and looked slowly, and after getting used to it, they continued to walk, close to the mouth of the waterfall where the green river fell.

When everyone finally saw the semi-circular waterfall clearly, they found that it was simply a moat, fifty zhang wide and more than twenty zhang high, fortunately, the river channel like a step was stacked, and the waterfall was divided into several sections.

Everyone tied each other together with ropes, Yi Houpeng took the lead, and behind Wei Yi, who was stronger, dozens of people carefully walked into the turbulent river, holding on to the stones, and slowly climbing.

At the top level, there was just a huge stone that was exposed to the water, and Yi Houpeng, who had already climbed halfway up, saw the opportunity, circled it with a horse rope, pulled the rope fiercely, and then looked behind him, Wei Yi was still sitting on the ground, waiting with a few people.

Yi Houpeng held on to the rope, exposing half of his body, while grasping the surrounding stones on or under the water, he focused on the corner of the river and slowly climbed up. From entering the river and waiting for him to climb the top "steps", it took about an hour, and he looked back at Wei Yi before he started to set off.

Yi Houpeng looked around, found a few strong stones, tied the rope a few times to ensure that it would not slide, and then threw it down, so that the rest of the people could save some effort.

Then Yi Houpeng looked at the waterfall, thinking about how to turn it up, only to see that in the waterfall, a few big fish suddenly appeared, swimming up and jumping out of the waterfall, and soon "flew" up and disappeared, Yi Houpeng thought about it, untied the rope, and walked straight into the waterfall.

In the waterfall, it is a particularly open karst cave, Yi Houpeng lit the butterfly knife torch, obviously there are traces of artificial carving, because of the years, many notches on the cave wall have been blurred, come to a place that seems to be carved with various beasts and giant eyes, and wipe away the moss and sediment that covers it, and follow the butterfly soldiers who came in, and they are also busy after seeing it.

When Wei Yi finally climbed to the top "step", why are there no cashbackers? Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the waterfall, startled him, and he followed him into the waterfall and stood behind everyone to look. Inside the cave, there is an artificial steps, the sunlight slowly penetrates into the cave, and with the movement of light, Wei Yi found that in front of him, there are carved murals, describing the fierce battle between the demon beast and the giant eye.

Suddenly, the mountain shook for a while, and the butterfly army who climbed out of the cave along the steps shouted loudly outside the cave, I rub, you come out and see.

Everyone in the cave came to the outside of the cave along the steps in turn, only to see a dark and deep giant eye appear in the sky of the high country in the east, just as Jiang Quanliang saw.

"Go down! Hurry! Yi Houpeng found that the red mist not far away was spreading to this side, and the turquoise on the ground turned into black charcoal in an instant, and the wetlands with water were also evaporated and dried up visibly.

When everyone returned to the cave again, they found that the giant eyes in the mural had also begun to emit golden light. Outside the cave, the red mist suddenly stopped in a zhang away, a man waved his hand lightly, with the green river as the boundary, from the green sea to the southernmost point of Bozhou, from the east again erected a gray barrier, not to let the red mist commit another inch. He looked into the cave, sighed, and then looked at the northeast two positions, pinching his chin, not knowing what he was thinking.

Yi Houpeng looked at those golden giant eyes, his head became heavier and heavier, and the picture in front of him instantly distorted, as if he was twisted and sucked to the center, and he was dragged in.

When he opened his eyes again, he came to a dark world, first saw Shan Yuanming and Tan Qianru, and they both found each other, but no matter how they ran or shouted, they couldn't shorten the distance and couldn't hear the sound. Then the picture turned, and he saw Liang Zongli and Situ Jing again, who also found each other, but couldn't get close and couldn't hear the shouts.

Immediately afterwards, the picture disappeared, Yi Houpeng felt that he was suddenly pushed by something, half-bowed forward, and after stopping suddenly, he saw a stone last wall towering on the mountains of Jiangxi, and saw the puppets and hideous beasts that were densely clinging to it, as well as countless bully ugliness, and huge monsters with three sides and six arms. There were explosions around from time to time, and the red flames scorched those monsters, and following the reputation, he saw Mao Shaojuan and Jiang Quanliang, and was about to run towards the stone wall, he saw himself again, and then in the picture, a golden light flew out, and then rippled, returning to darkness.

When Yi Houpeng opened his eyes again, he was still in the cave, he looked at Wei Yi, as if he had experienced the same thing as him, and his face was incredulous. The other Butterfly Army looked as if they had just entered the cave, staring out of the steps with fear on their faces, but nothing continued to happen. A bold man went out to take a look, and immediately came back and said that a barrier seemed to have been erected on the east bank of the Green River, and the red mist did not rush over. When everyone heard this, they not only breathed a sigh of relief.

Yi Houpeng walked up to Wei Yi and asked, "Just now, you also saw it?" ”

Wei Yi nodded, and then asked, "Why, I met Shan Yuanming, Tan Qianru, Liang Zongli and Situ Jing, what about the others?" In fact, he knew in his heart and had a premonition, but he still wanted to get comfort from Yi Houpeng's speculation, so that he would not believe in the unacceptable consequences.

Yi Houpeng just patted him on the shoulder and just asked, "What did you see later?" ”

Wei Yi said that he saw him messing around with Situ Jing when he was a child, until he set out from Dustpan Village, and then he couldn't tell clearly, as if he had seen something and as if he hadn't seen anything, anyway, he was sure that he had seen some unusual pictures, and that feeling was indescribable.

Yi Houpeng only thought that he was the same as himself, and he also saw the stone wall and the battlefield that made people's hearts cold.

Looking at those giant eyes that had lost their golden light and were just as high as the sky, everyone decided to leave this place of right and wrong immediately, and hurried back to Dustpan Village along the Green River.

The cave that was supposed to collapse and bury Yi Houpeng and Wei Yi in this place has not changed in the slightest, and not even a single stone slag has fallen.

In the distance, a red figure glared at the man, and just said, "Don't take it as an example!" And he vanished in his place. The man smiled and thought, this girl is really ruthless, then I, no!

Compared with Yi Houpeng and Wei Yi, in the "upstream" of the Green River, Shan Yuanming and Tan Qianru, who had just entered the remaining veins of Jiangxi Mountain, and the remaining seven butterfly armies, were even more dangerous.

A few days ago, everyone sorted out the robes and weapons of Xia Weifeng and Xing Baoyan, as well as the other butterfly army, and continued to set off north towards Jiangxi Mountain with a sad mood.

Since they were divided into three teams, they had long forgotten how many days they had walked, and they finally saw the remnants of Jiangxi Mountain in front of them. At the foot of the mountain, there was still a village with smoke, and when the nine people saw this moment, they fell to their knees one after another, hugged each other, and cried.

After a while, after sorting out their mood, a few people came to a nearby house, sold some food, and asked how to climb the route of the mountain by the way.

This family is a middle-aged couple, and there are two girls who are about their age. The man looked at their costumes and didn't say anything, but asked the children who had come out to see the excitement to hurry back to the house, and closed the door himself and looked out through the crack in the door.

The hostess was hospitable, looking at Shan Yuanming's embarrassed appearance, she didn't ask them what they were doing, she quickly took out some dried meat and corn from home, and apologized again and again that the hospitality in the poor countryside was inadequate. Shan Yuanming didn't think much about it, maybe he was too hungry to pay attention to what the woman said, it was so "in tune" that was completely inconsistent with his identity.

Hurriedly begged for water to drink, and then let go of the choked food, Shan Yuanming took out two coins of silver and handed them to the woman, and asked by the way: "Auntie, do you know how to go over this back mountain and return to Bozhou or Rouzhou?" ”

The woman said inexplicably: "Little brother, isn't it good to live here?" Although we are located in the middle of nowhere, we can live and work in peace and contentment without being disturbed by the outside world. ”

Tan Qianru replied with a smile: "Thank you Auntie for your kindness, but we still have family in Bozhou, and we still have to go back." ”

"What are you going to do? Filial piety? Or is it for ......" The woman's next words obviously opened her mouth to say something, but Shan Yuanming and the others didn't hear it, thinking that she was tired for days and was in a trance. After the thought was over, it was urgent to hear the woman say, "Well, forget it, since you insist on going back, why don't you stay a few more days before leaving?" ”

Shan Yuanming looked at everyone, and his eyes revealed the urgency and expectation of returning home, so he politely rejected the woman's kindness, and insisted on asking, how to cross the back mountain and return to Bozhou faster.

The woman sighed secretly, pointed to the northwest side, in the direction of a cloudy halfway up the mountain, and said, "You have gone up that mountain, there is a sheep intestine path, keep walking, after wading through the green river, you will see two forks in the road, take the left one, you can return to Bozhou, and the right one can go to Jozhou. After saying that, he didn't care about them anymore and went back to the house.

Without further delay, they packed up the rest of the food, put two pieces of silver on the lid of the water tank, and ran happily to the other side of the mountain.

In the room, a red figure was hidden in the darkness, and said quietly, "Are you a little wide?" ”

The woman, along with the man and the two girls, suddenly became a man and sneered, "What? Not happy, a fight? Anyway, I don't think you're upset for a day or two. ”

The figure snorted, and didn't bother to deal with the man.

"I'm surprised, what are you thinking about so for? Won't your heart hurt? The man said to himself, "Could it be that you want to get it back, no, do you want to regenerate the troubles?" Haha, yes, yes, you suffered a lot in this at the beginning, but it's not right, there are many ways, why bother so much? You make me think about it again. ”

The man paced, pondered, and finally didn't understand much, and looked at the figure with a pleading gaze.

"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, anyway, when I saw that the situation was not good, you Terrans ran faster than anyone else, and you are not qualified to judge my actions."

"They are them, I am me, besides, I was not born at that time, and if I were here, I would definitely not be so miserable later."

"Hmph, Hao doesn't dare to say this, bragging about this, you are indeed invincible in the world."

"Have you really figured it out? Don't feel distressed, don't feel uncomfortable? The man asked.

"I just had to do this because I would feel distressed and uncomfortable."

The man raised his head and nodded to the southwest and east respectively, revealing a questioning expression, which was self-evident. The figure didn't speak, but slowly disappeared into the darkness. When Shan Yuanming and the others completely walked into that cloud, the village under the mountain also disappeared, as if there had never been fireworks here.

As far as the eye can see, on both sides of the path, there are trees hanging from the corpses of various animals, and the further you go up the mountain, the more and more you will see, and even occasionally you will see the shriveled corpses of the human race.

"Ah Ming, that aunt, it can't be that you deliberately led us astray, right?" Tan Qianru asked.

"Maybe this road is the closest but also the most dangerous, don't you notice that when she talks to us, she always sighs inadvertently, and still keeps us, I guess this road is not easy to walk, remind us."

Shan Yuanming reminded everyone to cheer up, there is a smell of blood in the mountains, and they are about to go home, but don't turn over the gutter here.

Outside the mountain, the sun was still shining, but at this time, they felt that the mountain was getting darker and darker, and the strange atmosphere made people feel chills in their hearts.

Not far away, a red figure slowly appeared behind the tree, and on the tree was a huge flying blood rat hanging upside down from the trunk of the tree. It didn't even notice a large living person out of thin air under its head.

She just looked at the few of them, and her heart kept fighting, and just as they were about to come out of the clouds, she seemed to have finally made up her mind, wiped her eyes, kicked the flying blood rat, and then disappeared.

I thought that I was going to walk out of the mountain fog safely and soundly, but I didn't have time to be happy, but I heard a terrible scream coming from the surroundings. Then, with a bang, a butterfly army seemed to have been caught in the air, and after a while, it fell from the sky, and it had already become a shriveled appearance, and its mouth kept making the sound of drinking, and then it swallowed.

Everyone lifted the butterfly knife and immediately continued to run forward, watching the air vigilantly as they ran. I saw a huge figure, hidden in the middle, constantly flying above their heads.

After running for a long time, they really couldn't run, and the remaining six people were panting, still not forgetting to stare at the air.

"Quick, there's a cave here, come in!" I don't know who shouted. Shan Yuanming and a few people found that a dim hole suddenly appeared on the side of the road, listening to the whistling sound that was getting closer and closer, regardless of whether there was danger there, first avoided the sky, took Tan Qianru's hand, and the four people got in, the flying blood rat landed at the entrance of the cave, and unwillingly hissed loudly inside.

The man was on a tree not far away, snorting peanuts, and he didn't look at the person next to him. It's just that after hearing her words, the man also fell silent and decided not to mess around anymore. just looked at her with pitiful eyes, and then kept throwing peanuts at her.

Coming to the cave, Shan Yuanming and Tan Qianru, as if they were like Yi Houpeng, experienced similar things, saw the murals on both sides of the cave, and the giant eyes flashing gold, and then in the dark, they saw Yi Houpeng and Wei Yi, Liang Zongli and Situ Jing, but the picture seen later, both of them were the same as Wei Yi, as if they had experienced their childhood again, and then until the day they set out from Dustpan Village with Zhu Yu, there were still some pictures that were indescribable, vague and hazy.

Back to reality, after a simple exchange between Shan Yuanming and Tan Qianru, they continued to speed up their pace through the cave, and when they came out again, they found that the sun was already setting outside, and while they were glad that they had escaped the catastrophe, they couldn't help but feel sad for the butterfly army just now, obviously they were going home soon, how could it be like this.

After that, the road was much easier, but what they didn't know was that the flying blood rats were watching their prey with scarlet eyes open not far away, just waiting for the night to come.

From the beach, a tower that seems to be made of black reef emerges, and with the lightning and thunder, the black reef slowly fades away from the dirt attached to the years, revealing the tragic murals of the Great War, and on it, there are huge eyes that shimmer with golden luster. As a ripple spread around, then Liang Zongli and Situ Jing felt a headache and came to the dark world.

The two of them also saw Wei Yi and Shan Yuanming, waving their hands and shouting loudly, but they couldn't get close or hear the sound. Situ Jing was the same as a few others who saw it, while shedding tears, he looked back at the naïve and naïve days of nonsense in the past, and the high-spirited expedition from the dustpan village to the south of Gaoguo. In the end, I was also confused, unable to say what I saw.

And after Liang Zongli sobered up, she just silently walked to Situ Jing's side, threw away the butterfly knife, and hugged Situ Jing tightly in front of Ah Yun.

With a crying voice, he whispered softly: "Don't go, don't go......"