Chapter 288: The Three Paths of Heaven, Earth and Man (4500 words)
The appearance of the "snowman" brought a moment of turmoil to the march.
I don't know who shouted "There are assassins"!
"We are a 'brotherhood.'"
"We hide in the night, we yearn for the dawn."
"All things are false, all things are allowed."
Pei Gaoya first looked stunned, then ecstatic, muttering in his mouth, slapping the head of one of the snowmen and slamming it on the ice.
After quickly eliminating an assassin, Pei Gaoya jumped up and burst into flames, the flames were like a gauze coat, turning into a hooded cloak and draping a thin layer over Pei Gaoya's body. After a moment's pause in the air, he quickly leaned down, like a fireball, centered on him, and the ice and snow around him melted in the blink of an eye, turning into snow water.
One punch at a time, extremely efficient.
The monk was also targeted by the assassin, only to see that the monk's face changed drastically and shouted "Don't come", this cowardly tone made the assassin's movements sudden, never expected. But what was even more unexpected was that the monk changed his face with instigation, killed a horse pistol, and punched out with a cruel smile, smashing the assassin's chest into a terrifying pit, with a click, the internal organs shattered, and the assassin's mouth spewed frozen blood foam and flew out.
"Ahh Wait, don't do too much killing! ”
The monk would say don't kill anyone, and in a blink of an eye, he killed more than anyone else.
Such a strange behavior made the soldiers look sideways, staring at the monk with perverted eyes, and unconsciously stayed away, for fear that the strange monk next to the prince would kill crazy and even kill his own people.
Feng Bei took off his gloves faster than he imagined, revealing his white palms like jade in the blink of an eye, gently smashing a "snowman" beside him, and was looking at Zheng Xiu worriedly, only to see Zheng Xiu unhurriedly raised his arms, and two blood-stained chains shook out of the long sleeves of his hands, and with a bang, the two chains tied up an assassin.
The bound assassin didn't struggle for the halfest, his face that was not yet fully formed showed a sneer, and he opened his mouth to spray white mist at Zheng Xiu's face.
Zheng Xiu wanted to stay alive, but the other party didn't seem to want to live. After a few steps back, Zheng Xiu pulled and pulled with both hands, and the huge force smashed the assassin's waist alive.
"Tsk, no accident, sure enough, there was an accident."
Qing 13 didn't know when he came to Pei Gaoya's vicinity, and the cigarette stick secretly rubbed Pei Gaoya's side.
"The fire fold can't be hit, Lao Pei borrows a fire!"
Qing Thirteen Bar Clicker Smoke, finally came to the feeling, and the figure gradually disappeared in the thick fog.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"
Violent coughing sounds were heard from different directions.
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
Qing Shisan's eyes narrowed, and he moved when he heard the sound, shuttling through the dense fog like a ghost, killing ten people in one step. In the end, the posture freezes, still smoking a cigarette, as if it has never moved.
"Do it!"
In the chaos, several snow-white figures killed Huo Yu, Huo Yu smiled coldly, shouted, and raised his knife to block.
Not far away, Shen Shizong snorted, and was stabbed painlessly under his ribs, but the next moment he stabbed out with a backhand spear, and the fluttering figure was like a straight red line, running through the battlefield, and when he stopped, there were three white-skinned barbarian corpses on the spear.
Huo Yu's "move" was not for the soldiers to meet the assassins, but for ......
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstand! ”
Samba shouted in horror, and the next second a knife was on Samba's neck.
As soon as the fifteen barbarians who had followed the Great Cadre Army all the way got up, they were held down by the soldiers around them and pressed to the snow and could not move.
As for Zheng Xiu.
Bang Dang!
The heavy shackles made a sound on his wrist like a clash of gold and iron, and after he easily eliminated an assassin, the other assassins were solved by others without even snorting a few times, such an efficient counter-kill made Zheng Xiu have nothing to do, looked around, and soon he took the current situation into his eyes.
Zheng Xiu narrowed his eyes and looked at the corpse of the dead assassin.
They were covered in simple white fur and their limbs were bare. Strangely, their skin was as white as snow, and when they died, there was a faint ice mist on their bodies.
Reaching out, the Assassins' body temperature was frighteningly low, unlike humans.
Zheng Xiu pinched the assassin's face without anyone else, and looked at the pupils, mouth and nose, tongue, and ears.
"Everywhere else, it's no different from ordinary people."
So the question is: what kind of gateway are they?
Zheng Xiu step by step, stepping on the corpse, melting snow, and riverbed.
With every step, a person died in the riverbed.
With each step, the riots subsided a little.
Until he came to Yue Linglong.
It was quiet.
Pei Gaoya dissipated the flame gauze on his body with great satisfaction, and wandered on the riverbed with stagnant water, looking down here and there, kicking there, and seeing if he could pick up the one that was still alive.
"Don't look at it, they're all dead."
Qing 13 was speechless to dissuade, took a hard puff, and went out.
In order to go further into the doorway, he put a shackle on himself.
At this moment, Qing Thirteen's face was full of the word "self-discipline".
"Princess ......"
The riots caused by the assassins did not affect the old man Samba, who walked towards Yue Linglong with his legs trembling in anxiety, but was stopped by Kei 13 on the way. Qing Thirteen cigarette stick lightly in front of him, squinted and smiled: "Old man, don't worry, let the prince and their little two talk a little quietly." ”
Samba's face turned blue.
Shen Shizong and Huo Yu had already lightly killed and wounded on the riverbed, examined the corpses, and ordered the soldiers to remain vigilant in case there was a new attack.
"General Huo, your hand?"
Shen Shizong noticed that Huo Yu's arm was covered with a layer of white frost, and the skin under the soft armor was bruised, which was actually frostbite.
Huo Miao's 1234 made a warm-up action on the spot, and exhaled hot air with a single injection, condensing into a white mist. He scolded as he moved his body: "These barbarians are a bit evil, just now Lao Tzu's knife touched them, and they were frozen in the blink of an eye, and I don't know what thaumaturgy they used, which is unheard of." It seems that in the past 20 years, the barbarian has also learned some new tricks. ”
As Huo Yu swaggered through the broadcast gymnastics, the chill in his body dispelled little by little, and his frozen arm returned to ruddy at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Zheng Xiu came to Yue Linglong with questions.
In the chaos, a small world seemed to be cleared between the two, and it was extremely quiet.
Yue Linglong covered her face with a big curtain, and in the face of Zheng Xiu's somewhat questioning gaze, she raised her head fearlessly, and her clear eyes calmly met Zheng Xiu's eyes.
Zheng Xiu looked at Yue Linglong's eyes that were not a little weak and even showed a little stubbornness, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
"Explain."
Zheng Xiu's words.
It's not "you owe me an explanation," or "you don't have anything to say," or "you can't explain."
It is not a declarative sentence, an interrogative sentence, or a rhetorical question.
Rather, it is a "command".
The barbarians let out a croaking roar from their mouths, and the green tendons on their foreheads were exposed.
But he was put around his neck with weapons by the soldiers of Daqian, pressed to the ground and did not dare to move.
"It's noisy."
Zheng Xiu made a gesture.
Qing 13 just wanted to move, Pei Gaoya didn't have a lot of fun, he moved faster, stepped forward with an arrow, stepped on the neck of a barbarian, clicked, and his neck broke.
In an instant, the noisy barbarians were stunned, stopped breathing, and remained motionless as petrified.
In their impression, the cadres follow the rules and are polite; They believed that the Great Qianren would follow the diplomatic relations between the two countries and not kill them to make that set. No one expected that this seemingly handsome Red King would do it without saying a word. They suddenly remembered the "Damiba" who gave away a blood for recklessness in the Xiangmanlou, "Damiba" had a crush on Yue Linglong since he was a child, brave and energetic, and was deeply loved by the Wolf King, and many people in the clan thought that he and Yue Linglong were a couple - until the Wolf King ordered Yue Linglong to go to Daqian and kiss.
Zheng Xiu didn't know that he had inadvertently taken away the favor of others, so he ordered to kill a person lightly, his ears were clean, and the Red King was satisfied, his deep eyes were blazing, and he looked at Yue Linglong.
"They are the people of the Snow Clan."
Yue Linglong heard the crisp "click" sound, closed her eyes, her heart was like ashes, and she said indifferently: "There are ten clans in the wasteland that are the strongest, and once the wolf king dies, the next generation of wolf kings will be selected from the ten major clans." ”
"Oh?" Huo Yu's eyes lit up, he keenly caught some clues from Yue Linglong's words, glanced at Shen Shizong, and nodded secretly.
Zheng Xiu groaned, taking the eye contact between Huo Yu and Shen Shizong into his eyes, he didn't break it, and continued to ask quietly: "What are the ten major clans?" ”
Yue Linglong replied truthfully in a tone that could not hear joy and sorrow: "Wind, flowers, snow, moon, thunder, fire, swamps, forests, mountains, and beasts." For many years, it has been the ten major clans that have taken turns to choose the best successor to succeed the wolf king.
"You're lying." Huo Yu suddenly sneered: "More than twenty years ago, when General Zheng entered the wasteland, we sent people to inquire about the distribution of your forces and clan culture, and there were no ten clans you mentioned at all. ”
"No, she wasn't lying."
Zheng Xiu suddenly said in a very low voice, and then his voice was a little louder, his brows furrowed, and he gestured to Yue Linglong: "You continue." ”
Huo Wei snorted, didn't refute again, closed his mouth, and listened quietly.
Yue Linglong still had that indifferent expression like a corpse: "For a long time, we have lived in this wasteland, enduring famine and severe cold, and our ancestors have lived tenaciously and multiplied to this day. We have always been in awe of the wasteland, and gradually, the thunder in the sky, the snow on the ground, the violent winds, the earth on the mountains, the moon among the clouds, the stench of swamps, the endless jungles, the beasts that walk in the forests...... Our ancestors were in awe of these things, and we still believe that if we fear them, we can live in peace on this land......"
"Gradually, the bad weather in the wasteland, the barren soil, and everything that our ancestors endured became our faith and our clan totem."
I have to say that Yue Linglong has learned the Daqian language well, even if her voice does not have the slightest emotional color, from her tone, Zheng Xiu seems to have seen a group of barbarians, living more and more ignorant in the fight against natural and man-made disasters.
"About twenty years ago, the first 'Swamp Witch' appeared, and his piety was exchanged for the mercy of the wasteland, and he was able to use the power of the swamp."
Yue Linglong looked at Zheng Xiu's eyes: "We later changed the clan to the name of our totem, my clan is 'Yue', we who are in awe of the full moon, under the light of the full moon, we can get the protection of the full moon." ”
As she spoke, Yue Linglong lowered her head, as if the scorching sun in the sky made her feel uncomfortable, and she trembled slightly. Zheng Xiu vaguely saw patches of red spots appear on her face. Zheng Xiu sighed in his heart, he wanted to be tougher, but then he relented, and drew an umbrella casually to shield the moon from the scorching sun in the sky.
Yue Linglong took the blood-colored painting umbrella, and she watched Zheng Xiu bite her finger and squeeze out the blood, and the handle of the umbrella seemed to still carry the warmth of Zheng Xiu's blood.
"So, there is no doubt that it must be the people of the Snow Clan who attacked us."
On the side, Shen Shizong, who had been listening quietly, curiously touched the realistic umbrella, his heart was outrageous, and he sneered when he heard this: "You are all in a gang, aren't you deliberately assassinating my Great Qiandongliang Red King in the name of marriage, so that our emperor will lose his important right-hand man?" ”
"Uh...... Not. Hearing Shen Shizong's words, Zheng Xiu, who was thinking about the barbarian thaumaturgy, blushed, and hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, no." ”
Shen Shizong was Zheng Haoran's fan brother, and his words seemed to fall on Zheng Xiu's head, saying that the assassination they suffered was all due to King Chi.
At this time, the monk, who had not spoken, scratched his bald head and said with a puzzled expression: "Didn't you propose to marry?" This is not what our eldest brother is willing to, the little monk and the eldest brother have no shortage of wives. The monk almost told him what he had seen and heard in the Red King's Mansion that he was afraid that others would not believe him, but after seeing that the others nodded vigorously in agreement, the monk continued: "People from your other clans, don't you agree to this marriage? ”
Swish!
All eyes looked at the monk.
The monk rubbed his scalp at a loss: "The little monk said something wrong?" ”
Shen Shizong slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "Ah! ”
Huo Yu nodded: "Hit the nail on the head." ”
Zheng Xiu wondered: "Did you just see it?" ”
This time, even Huo Yu couldn't help but laugh dryly.
They did just see it.
They thought it was a trap and had come to them.
"It seems that the road ahead is not easy."
Huo Yu sighed, counted the manpower, let the subordinates rest for a while, and then returned to the road.
Zheng Xiu's mood at the moment was inexplicably complicated.
The change in Beiban must be related to Baili Village, the cause of everything he did twenty years ago. He stopped the ritual of the candles, and the pillars were incomplete, so that all kinds of strange events began to occur throughout the world. But after thinking about it, Zheng Xiu secretly gritted his teeth, everything he did was absolutely not wrong, and no one died because of the so-called "peace in the world" as a matter of course. If his father was also because of this incident back then, then ......
Recalling the thaumaturgy of the Snow Clan, Yue Linglong's words made Zheng Xiu peel off the cocoon and gradually understand one thing. That's about the large blank space under the [Prisoner] in the doorway diagram.
He couldn't imagine what that blank space was.
Now Zheng Xiu vaguely understood.
Ten clans: Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon, Thunder, Swamp, Mountain, Forest, Flame.
And the "beast".
"Heaven, Earth and Nature ......"
"People can't 'play'."
"Only Reverence and Worship ......"
This awe allows them to gradually integrate into nature, infinitely ...... approached them. ”
"Heaven, earth, man! Three Ways! ”
"Natural landscapes, ferocious beasts, and ...... Eccentric! ”
"This is the original face of the forty-nine rays of light when I glimpsed the prisoner!"
After pondering for a long time, Zheng Xiu suddenly came back to his senses: "Sure enough, it's a candle." ”
Zheng Xiu was almost certain that the true body of the candle was hidden in the Northern Barbarians.
Yue Linglong held the umbrella, and the handle of the umbrella was as warm as ever. Taking advantage of Zheng Xiu's inattention, she quietly raised her eyes and looked at a few small flowers painted on the umbrella, dotted with the blank, and the corners of her mouth curled.
In fact, there was one thing that Yue Linglong didn't tell Zheng Xiu.
At the same time, this is also something that Yue Linglong has never been able to understand.
From the very beginning, Yue Linglong knew that her future husband was not a prince or the son of a high-ranking official.
His future husband can only be a "descendant of the Zheng family".
After she arrived in the capital of Daqian, Yue Linglong was surprised to find that Zheng Xiu, who was just a wealthy businessman in her father's mouth, had become the prince of Daqian. As a result, the two people who are the right people make this political marriage a little more justified and natural.
There was no opposition, no hindrance.
The princess married the prince, as if it should be so.
Yue Linglong's curved eyelashes trembled slightly, the shadows were colorful, and her thoughts floated out, as if she had returned to what her father said in the tent before she set off.
"Twenty years ago, my father promised an old friend that if you are a boy, you will be a brother, and if you are a girl, you will be a woman."
"Dad has done many wrong things in his life, and he can regret everything, but this is the only one ...... No. ”
"Go, my baby."
(End of chapter)