Dark clouds cover the moon, and the cold wind howls.

The mountains of the Guangxing Mountains are continuous, like undulating waves, and the cold winter ice wind blows, mixed with snow and frost 'whining', which is particularly terrifying in the dark night.

Even if it is dozens of miles away, the sky-high fire can still be faintly seen.

"Help, help—"

At night, the village, located on the mountainside, welcomed dozens of fleeing figures. These people, almost all women and children, were ragged and frightened, like frightened birds.

After a while, the entire Jingjiazhai was alarmed.

"Kui Ye——, Kui Ye!"

"Got it!"

Sitting up from the bed, Jing Kui touched his head. The wife next to him had woken up and was tiptoeing up, Jing Kui looked back at the child who was still asleep, and smiled casually.

Outside, the fire was getting brighter and louder.

Jing Kui got dressed with the help of his wife, and was about to turn around and go out, when he suddenly stopped again, turned around and said, "I'm afraid I won't be safe tonight, you watch the children in the house, don't run around." ”

"Okay, you have to be careful, too."

"Hmmm......"

When I opened the door, the cold wind blew on my face. Jing Kui blocked the door, glanced back at the child again, and then glanced at his wife behind him, smiled at each other, and then left with confidence.

Since the founding of the Great Xing Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, and the world is quite passable, so most of the residents who live in seclusion in the Guangxing Mountains have moved to the outside world, and there are not many villages left. But more does not mean that there is none, especially the indigenous people who have lived here for generations, they have long been accustomed to the environmental life of the Guangxing Mountains, and there are still many who are unwilling to leave their hometowns. Jingjiazhai is one of the largest indigenous settlements still existing in the Guangxing Mountains. However, due to the outflow of the population year after year, there are now only three or four hundred people left.

When Jing Kui came out, there were already a lot of people gathered outside, in addition to the vigil, there were many people who woke up from their sleep to join in the fun, and the torches lit all over the village were noisy.

"What's going on?"

"It's all people from the Liangzhai next door, saying that they are fleeing for their lives, so let's open the door and hide."

"I'm asking Liang Zhai what's going on?" Jing Kui climbed the gate tower of the village, did not look at the wailing old and weak women and children outside the gate of the village, but raised his eyes to look at the mountain fire that came out in the distance.

"I don't know yet."

"Didn't the stockade on the other side of Shuishan be taken up yesterday? Could it be the same group of people who did it? ”

"Are the officers and soldiers coming?"

"Impossible, at least a hundred people have to come to this matter, if it is officers and soldiers, can we not know?"

"Who else could have done it?"

……

Jing Kui didn't say anything about the discussion of his subordinates, but just looked at the red light rising in the dark night in the distance, and his face sank. Although Liangjiazhai is not as crowded as Jingjiazhai, there are also one or two hundred people, which seems to have been burned down and wiped out. Usually, if the New Year is not good, there will be some conflicts between the village, but it is also a point to stop, because everyone understands that everyone is an aborigine, everyone is just trying to survive, and when necessary, they have to be consistent with the outside world, as long as they can live, they will not. Therefore, I haven't heard of this slaughter for several years. What's more, this kind of slaughter of two stockades in a row? Jing Kui had only heard of it from his ancestors.

"Where's the chicken?"

"I saw the movement and passed, and I haven't come back yet."

"How long have you been there?"

"It's almost an hour."

"Why don't you call me?" Jing Kui asked angrily.

"Yes, it's too late for Master Ji to let everyone stay in the village just in case."

“……”

Jing Kui frowned, his face slightly pale. In this way, it also makes sense, after all, dozens of miles apart, when you see the fire, whether it is good or bad, it is basically over. He glanced at the restless remnants of Liangjiazhai below, groaned, and waved his hand, "Open the small door, give me one by one to carefully check and then put it in, temporarily place it in the front altar, and give them something to eat and wear." ”

"Yes."

Someone took the order and hurriedly went down.

Jing Kui looked in the direction of the wildfire again. By this time, the fire had already fallen, and only a little red light was reflected, and the rising smoke could be faintly seen. He withdrew his gaze and looked down at the women and children who had fled, and vaguely felt that something was wrong. But after a while, when the dozens of people were let in one by one, except for a few young adults who were in charge of escorting them all the way, there was really no abnormality. Jing Kui was still not at ease, and ordered the following to let them take strict care of the few men they only had.

It's been so busy for a while, and it's all right. Jing Kui breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to ask a few people to clarify, but suddenly heard a sharp night bird cry from outside the gate of the village.

"It's Master Ji, Master Ji is back, open the door, open the door quickly."

Someone shouted from the other side of the watchtower, and then someone from inside echoed, and the door was opened.

Jing Kui looked over, but saw an old chicken in a night suit with five or six figures swept in one after another, looking embarrassed and flustered. If you look closely, you can see that they are all bloodied and more or less injured.

"Old Chicken ......"

"Inside says ......"

The old chicken removed his mask and turned pale. Unable to deal with the injury, he raised his hand to interrupt Jing Kui and motioned to go to the walled hall. When Jing Kui saw his solemn face, he knew that something was wrong.

Sure enough, the events that followed were beyond everyone's expectations.

When Jing Kui called the few people in the village who could talk, and was about to discuss countermeasures depending on the severity of the situation, as soon as Lao Ji spoke, he let everyone take a breath of cold air, and he didn't know where to start for a while, "There are one hundred and ninety-two people in Liangjiazhai, except for those who escaped, and the few I rescued, all of them are gone......"

Everyone looked at each other, but they were all speechless.

"Who did it?"

After a long time, Jing Kui calmed down first.

The old chicken took a sip of hot wine, wiped the remaining blood on his face, and looked solemn on his thin face, "The people of Wolf Ditch." ”

"What?"

"How is that possible? No way! ”

"It's too much......"

……

The hall suddenly exploded, some people scolded, some people were indignant, and some people were skeptical, expressing disbelief, and in an instant, they were in a mess.

"Shut up!"

Jing Kui shouted, looked around to calm the scene, and then turned to the old chicken, "You go on!" ”

The old chicken nodded, and scolded gloomily: "When I came back, I caught two people and asked, they don't know where to get a batch of ordnance, they have swept away all the stockades in the east end, and now there are only a few stockades left in the east, all of them belong to the wolf ditch, adding up to thousands of people, and there are two or three hundred sneaking over tonight." ”

"How, how could it be ......"

"Shut up!"

Jing Kui drank again, his eyes swept across the hall like a knife, and no one dared to take it. After a pause, Jing Kui took a breath and looked at the old chicken suspiciously, "Are you sure?" ”

The so-called east head is the east side of the Guangxing Mountains. The Guangxing Mountains stretch for thousands of miles from west to east, and are split into two sides by an official road in the middle, and the locals regard it as the dividing line between the east and the west. Although it is in the same Guangxing Mountains, Jingjiazhai is in the west, and the wolf ditch is in the east, separated by hundreds of miles from each other.

The old chicken's face did not change, and his expression was cold, "I personally caught it and asked, it won't be wrong, and besides, their next target is us, and they also let it go, either open the village and surrender, or, slaughter the village!" ”

Bang.

Jing Kui smashed his fist on the table, smashing the tabletop, and the table legs broke with a direct 'click'. Everyone was so frightened that they swallowed back what they were going to say. Jing Kui was like an angry wolf, his eyes glowing a little red, "What do they want to do?" ”

"Robbery."

The old rooster responded closely, making the audience silent.

Jing Kui was also stunned.

The old chicken cursed for a few sentences and continued: "I don't know where they got their ordnance from, but I look at the number, it is estimated that it is enough to equip a flag, and there must be someone behind it, they want to rebel!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was even more confused.

Jing Kui stared, and his mind couldn't turn for a while.

The old chicken was unusual, stopped swearing, and said calmly: "Lao Kui, this time it's not a joke, we have to prepare early." ”

"What to prepare? Fight with them! ”

"Yes, girl, we are not even afraid of officers and soldiers, are we still afraid of them?"

"Don't make noise, don't make noise, there are so many of them, if they really want to fight, we will also die a lot of people......"

……

The quarrel in the village became a pot of porridge.

Jing Kui didn't say a word, just looked at the old chicken. The latter's eyes were a little erratic, but his face was quite calm.

"Master Kui, you can say it! What to do? ”

In the end, everyone didn't make any noise, and they still turned to Jing Kui.

Jing Kui didn't answer directly, but asked Lao Ji, "What do you think?" ”

The old rooster looked at him and shook his head slowly, "You can't vote." ”

Jing Kui frowned, "Why?" ”

Lao Ji said unusually calmly: "Whether they rebel or not, we all have to suffer, find someone to notify the government overnight, we will stay for a day, and there is hope to keep it safe." ”

Jing Kui's gaze softened a little and nodded slightly.

The old chicken tightened his blood-stained coat and stood up, "You stay in the stockade, and I'll take someone for a run." Sui Gong is there, an hour back and forth is enough, and it will be dawn if it is late. ”

"Nope."

Jing Kui shook his head, "If you go like this, the people in the military department believe it or not, according to their urine nature, even if they believe it, it will take half a day to send troops." ”

"What then?"

"I'll go, there are a few people in the stockade on duty at the sentry post, I'll go there personally, don't say anything else, it's no problem to pull dozens of people over first." Jing Kui squinted his eyes, his eyes shining, "With these dozens of people at the bottom, it is not possible for the sentry camp not to send troops!" ”

The old chicken was silent for a moment, agreed with the plan, and nodded coldly, "Okay, I'll stay here and guard, as long as there is still a breath left, they don't want to step in!" ”

"That's right! Fight with them! ”

"Just do it!"

"That's it!"

Jing Kui slapped the table and pressed the audience, and looked around again, "There are our parents, our women, and our children in the village, and the village is our home, our roots, and our lives!" We're going to have to keep it for our lives! Listen, cheer me up, if they don't come, forget it, if they dare to come, let them know what it means to come and not return! ”

"Whew-"

Everyone only felt that the blood was on their heads, and they roared in unison.

"I'll leave it to you."

"It's still the same sentence, I'm here, the village is there."

"Oh, I know, I believe in you."

After a brief discussion, Jing Kui explained a few words to Lao Ji, who was extremely quiet, and had already revealed a kind of profundity that looked at death as home. The two walked out of the gate of the village hall together, and the rest of the people followed behind, with different expressions. The other side of the village looked fine, but most of the people in the village couldn't sleep anymore, and both men, women, and children came out.

Jing Kui looked at the expectant eyes gathered around him, took a big step forward, and took a breath, "Everyone, ...... tonight" Before the words fell, a knife tip appeared in his chest.

The old chicken stabbed him through from behind.

Jing Kuiyuan's eyes widened, and he roared, his slap was like a tiger's claw, and his fingertips carried the wind and swept back.

"Huh-"

The old rooster had already prepared, jumped back, like a big bird flying upside down, jumped on the top of the door of the walled hall, and jumped to the roof again. The whole process was done in one go, without any mud and water.

At this time, everyone woke up like a dream and reacted one after another. But the next moment, the scene got out of control, some people roared and screamed, some people screamed, some people wanted to chase and kill the murderer, and some people wanted to save Jing Kui......

"Ahhh

In the chaos, there was another miserable howl.

Jing Kui's eyes were red, clutching his chest, he had just settled down, and when he looked at it, his eyes immediately cracked. But I saw that on the other side of the walled altar, the young adults in the stockade were cut down to the ground one by one, and the blood flowed like a river. And the murderers are the few people brought back by Lao Ji. They were brutal, taking advantage of everyone's distraction, they killed them with one blow, and slashed more than a dozen people in the blink of an eye.

It must be known that there are only about 100 young adults in the entire Jingjiazhai, which is equivalent to removing one-tenth of them at once.

Jing Kui spurted out a mouthful of blood, pushed everyone away and turned his head and rushed to the top of the walled hall, roaring, his eyes were as violent as a beast, and the bloody mouth that opened in anger seemed to be about to be devoured alive, "Li Ji——"

The old chicken tore off the torn placket of his chest and threw it away. Although he retreated quickly just now, he was still blown by the claw wind, leaving a few bloody claw marks on his chest. He was secretly in his heart, and secretly said that he was not a master of qi training, but fortunately he did not choose to fight hard and be greedy, otherwise he would be either dead or disabled. Slowly, he looked at the crowd of people who were eager to cut himself down, but he smiled weirdly, "Lao Kui, I gave you a chance, but unfortunately, you still can't let go of this broken village and kill yourself." ”

"I will kill you, I will kill you!"

Jing Kui's teeth were cracked, and he pushed everyone away and stood up straight. Although he still has a short knife stuck in his body, he is like a god of war, his hair is agitated without wind, and the powerful cyclone makes others retreat.

The old rooster secretly guarded the embankment, but his mouth was disdainful, "Hmph, I advise you to calm down and take a good look around." ”

Jing Kui's face was hideous, and then he was shocked.

But listening to the screams around him, black shadows surged on the towers and towers, and dozens of black-clothed people jumped out from all directions, killing the resisters one by one and replacing them. On the other side, the few people below were unstoppable, and they had already emptied the gate of the wall, cut the noose of the gate, and opened the gate.

The old and weak women and children who had originally come out to join in the excitement were frightened by the sudden scene in front of them, and fled in panic screaming. As a result, there were several waves of random arrows on it, and the crowd fell in one piece.

"How dare you !!"

Jing Kui was furious.

Before he finished speaking, there was a 'boom' in the chaotic arrows, and an arrow wind struck him.

Jing Kui didn't think about it in anger, turned his five fingers into claws, and grabbed it directly. By the time he realized something was wrong, it was too late, and the only thing he could do was tilt his head a bit. With a 'snap', the arrow wind swept through his entire arm, shattering his shoulder, taking half of his neck and chest with him, and opening a large hole in his body. Jing Kui's burly body fell suddenly, his wide eyes were filled with emotions such as horror, despair, unwillingness, and resentment, and his gaze was finally fixed in the direction of his home.

The audience was in an uproar, and the people gathered in front of the walled hall dispersed. Most of these people were the core figures of the village, surrounding Jing Kui's corpse, but they were all frightened and completely blinded by the changes in front of them.

When the old rooster saw this scene on the roof, he was shocked in his heart and secretly rejoiced. Seeing that the gate of the village was wide open, and a group of people could be faintly seen rushing from a distance, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly jumped down, falling in front of the gate like a night bird, and joined the few people he had just brought. The leader was covered and could not see.

"Adult ......"

"You're doing well, and the rest is none of your business."

"Yes, but, my lord......" The old rooster lowered his head, respectfully, and did not dare to come out.

"Say."

"You said before, those who don't obey ......"

"It's yours."

"Thank you, sir!"

The old rooster shook up and retreated. When he turned around, he looked at the crowd, his eyes searching for something, his mouth cracked, his expression gradually distorted with excitement, and his eyes showed a greedy red light.