Chapter Eighty-Four: The Man Who Fell into a Dream
What does that mean?
Xu Yunhe was confused, tentatively stretched his feet in front again, and before he could land, the bird "cooed" again, its wings exploded, and a hot breath came towards Xu Yunhe.
Xu Yunhe retreated sharply, jumped back two or three meters away, and then looked at the bird, and regained its original round appearance, but those small eyes were still shining, and they looked in the direction of Xu Yunhe from time to time.
Don't...... This little thing is protecting Duanmu Feixue and not letting me get close to her?
Xu Yunhe suddenly had a bold idea in his heart.
In order to realize the authenticity of this idea, Xu Yunhe raised his feet again, and this time as soon as he lifted it halfway, the fiery red bird "cooed", its wings stretched out, and a pair of thin claws kicked the ground, and rushed towards Xu Yunhe.
Before Xu Yunhe could retract his feet, he first felt a fiery breath rushing towards him. This kind of aura Xu Yunhe couldn't be more familiar with, he didn't dare to be a tough enemy, turned his feet, jumped to the side and dodged.
As soon as Xu Yunhe dodged away, a crimson flame flew past from his original position. It slammed into the ground several meters behind it, and the flames exploded, splashing sparks all over the ground. Xu Yunhe saw that there were traces of melting on the ground.
"Phoenix, you are a phoenix!" Looking at the melt marks on the ground in shock, Xu Yunhe turned around and pointed at the fiery red bird and shouted.
As if it understood Xu Yunhe's words, the bird called "cooing", folded its wings and returned to its original state. Xu Yunhe was shocked to find that the bird actually rolled its eyes at him.
When will even birds be able to roll their eyes like humans?
In addition to the phoenix, which is known as a mythical beast, what other bird can reach this level?
Xu Yunhe immediately confirmed his judgment, although he still couldn't explain a question: that phoenix was a behemoth, why did it become such a little hen now?
"I'm good friends with your master, can I go over and see her?" Confirming the identity of the phoenix, Xu Yunhe squeezed out a smiling face and asked in what he thought was the most kind tone.
The phoenix rolled its eyes at Xu Yunhe, tilted its little head to the side, and didn't say yes or no.
"If you don't speak, I'll take you by default!" Xu Yunhe played a scoundrel, said this quickly to the little phoenix, and rushed in the direction of Duanmu Feixue.
But as soon as he moved, the phoenix, which tilted its head as if it looked disdainful, immediately flew into the sky at a faster speed than him, and crashed headlong into him.
Xu Yunhe immediately retreated in the opposite direction in the air, and the phoenix meteor swept past him like a meteor, hitting the rock wall headlong, shaking the entire rock wall and shaking it, and a lot of dust fell on the top of his head.
It didn't take long, and before Xu Yunhe could decide whether he should go and see this stupid bird, the little phoenix had already flown out of the hole it knocked out, and with the firelight all over its body, the little phoenix quickly landed in front of Duanmu Feixue, with flames all over his body, and a pair of small eyes, glaring at Xu Yunhe angrily.
"What is this for? I am really your master's friend, and I have no malice!" Xu Yunhe looked at this stupid but stubborn little phoenix with a smile and a helpless face.
There was no way, Xu Yunhe could only look at this little phoenix like this. He didn't think that he could beat this somewhat stupid divine beast, and besides, this was Duanmu Feixue's divine beast after all, and it was not easy to explain to her if he really fought.
But if he had no communication with this little bird, Xu Yunhe could only sit on the ground helplessly, holding his cheek with one hand, tilting his head to look at the little phoenix opposite who was also tilting his head.
"Huh!" a delicate and seductive hum sounded from behind the little phoenix.
Xu Yunhe looked behind in surprise, wanting to see if Duanmu Feixue had woken up. Who knew that as soon as his gaze turned, the little phoenix had already discovered it, and the two wings suddenly spread out and moved the direction, blocking Xu Yunhe's gaze tightly, so that he couldn't see the situation of Duanmu Feixue behind him at all.
"Hey, you're too domineering, aren't you?" Xu Yunhe smiled bitterly and stood up from the ground, thinking to himself, this phoenix grows so small, even if the wings are long enough, this longitudinal amplitude can't be blocked, right?
Xu Yunhe had a wishful thinking in his heart, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stood up and turned his eyes to the front, he found that he could only see a dazzling fiery red in front of him.
In addition to the fiery red, there were also a pair of round eyes looking at him again. These eyes have grown many times larger than before.
It turned out that when Xu Yunhe stood up, this little phoenix automatically grew up a lot. It grew until it was as tall as Xu Yunhe, and it spread its wings and blocked Xu Yunhe's sight again.
"I ...... Bow to the wind!" Xu Yunhe stroked his forehead with one hand and sighed helplessly.
"Who are you bowing to?" A beautiful face emerged from behind the wide wings of the phoenix, and looked at Xu Yunhe strangely.
"Hey, Duanmu girl, are you awake?" Xu Yunhe exclaimed in surprise, this time, the phoenix didn't have time to cover it.
"Well, I'm awake. As soon as he first came into contact with Xu Yunhe's gaze, Duanmu Feixue's snow-white cheeks turned red, bowed his head in response, and slowly walked out from behind the phoenix.
Seeing Duanmu Feixue walk out, the phoenix poked its head out and rubbed lightly on Duanmu Feixue's cheeks, a pair of small eyes squinted together, very attached.
Duanmu Feixue stretched out his hand and gently stroked the smooth head of the phoenix, and his expression was very intimate.
Only at this time will Duanmu Feixue let go of all the cold camouflage and smile so relaxed and natural.
"Who were you talking to just now?" "What is going on?" Duanmu Feixue patted the phoenix's head and turned his head to ask.
"It's with you, this little phoenix, I really admire it!" Xu Yunhe pointed to the phoenix that was enjoying it very much, and said with a wry smile.
"Fire kite, it can't speak?" Duanmu Feixue glanced at Xu Yunhe strangely.
"Coo!" Before Xu Yunhe could answer, the phoenix suddenly screamed, and a pair of small eyes looked at Xu Yunhe.
Xu Yunhe read a hint of threat in his eyes.
Why, now that you know that I am telling the truth, and want to threaten me to cover up the truth, you are afraid that your master will punish you?
Xu Yunhe immediately understood the deep meaning contained in this phoenix's eyes.
"It can't speak, but I think it can understand. I have never seen such a strange beast, and I lost my words for a while, which made Miss Duanmu smile. Xu Yunhe smiled and replied casually.
He doesn't have a small belly to the point of fighting with a bird, and Xu Yunhe still likes the appearance of this little phoenix loyal protector before.
Seeing that Xu Yunhe was so knowledgeable, the phoenix "cooed" again, but this time the voice was much softer.
"By the way, how did the fire kite get here, isn't it with my third brother?" Duanmu Feixue touched the phoenix's head and turned her head to ask.
"This ...... I didn't know! I turned my head and saw that it was here. At first, I didn't recognize it, I thought it was a little hen!" Xu Yunhe looked at the phoenix with a smile, generosity is generosity, but if there is a chance, if you save a little face, you can still say it.
The phoenix cooed, but there was no chance to threaten Xu Yunhe again. Because at this time, Duanmu Feixue had already hugged its little head, and asked urgently: "Fire Kite, where is my third brother? Aren't you with him? Where is he?"
The master asked, Huo Yuan didn't care about teaching Xu Yunhe, an impertinent person, a short beak, to Duanmu Feixue's ear, "chirping".
Before speaking, it deliberately glanced at Xu Yunhe with slanted eyes, making it clear that it didn't want Xu Yunhe to hear.
Xu Yunhe couldn't laugh or cry: Even if I hear it, I can't understand your old man's bird language!
"Twitter" didn't know what to say, anyway, when Duanmu Feixue raised her head, she said to Xu Yunhe with an anxious face: "Xu Gongzi, my third brother has an accident!"
"What's wrong, where is he?" Although Xu Yunhe and Duanmu Feiyu had a holiday, they had not yet reached the point of being enemies of life and death. What's more, there is also the relationship between Duanmu Feixue, Xu Yunhe's concern is not pretended.
"It's right ahead! Let's take a look, okay?" Duanmu Feixue asked.
Xu Yunhe nodded immediately, Duanmu Feixue glanced at Xu Yunhe gratefully, and gently patted the phoenix's head.
The phoenix got the order, and immediately twisted its body, and its body, which was taller than Duanmu Feixue, immediately shrank many times, and turned into the appearance of the little hen Xu Yunhe had seen before.
Without looking at Xu Yunhe, the little phoenix immediately rushed towards a dark cave. In the darkness, there was only a crimson flame, advancing towards the darker place.
Duanmu Feixue chased after her as soon as she raised her breath, Xu Yunhe followed closely behind her, led by the phoenix in front of her, and chased after her all the way.
Running all the way forward, the phoenix in front of it ran as fast as it could, and it didn't take long for it to stop.
As soon as Xu Yunhe landed, before he could see the situation in front of him clearly, he heard Duanmu Feixue shouting "Third Brother" loudly, and rushed forward regardless of it.
Xu Yunhe was afraid that she would make a mistake, so he ran after her. When he ran over, he saw Duanmu Feixue squatting on the ground, holding a person in his arms, and kept shouting "third brother" in his mouth.
Xu Yunhe walked over, and the phoenix next to him "cooed", but still didn't stop him.
What Duanmu Feixue was holding in his arms was Duanmu Feiyu. It's just that his eyes are closed now, his face is pale, and no matter how Duanmu Feixue shouts at him hoarsely, he still has no response.
"What's wrong with him?" Xu Yunhe squatted down and asked.
"I don't know......" Xu Yunhe had never seen Duanmu Feixue so out of shape, she shook her head in panic, "He was lying on the ground, no matter how I called him, he didn't answer me......!" Isn't it dead? I'm ...... I ......"
"Don't talk nonsense, how can you die so easily?" Xu Yunhe reprimanded, and then asked, "Brother Duanmu's breath is still there, how can he die?"
Hearing Xu Yunhe's firm answer, Duanmu Feixue's panic calmed down slightly, she trembled and stretched out her hand to reach the end of Duanmu Feiyu's nose, and sure enough, she felt a slight breathing sound, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
After the joy, looking at Duanmu Feiyu's pale face, Duanmu Feixue said worriedly: "But why has my third brother been unconscious?
"Let me see!" Xu Yunhe reached out and took Duanmu Feiyu's body from Duanmu Feixue's arms, examined his body slightly, shook his head and said, "There are no scars on his body, although the qi and blood in the meridians are slow, there is no sign of poisoning." ”
"Then what's wrong with him? He shouldn't be so unconscious all the time, right?" Duanmu Feixue suddenly turned from an iceberg to a weak and helpless little girl, looking at Xu Yunhe pitifully, completely lost half of her opinion.
Xu Yunhe shook his head: "I don't know either." ”
Duanmu Feixue lowered her head in disappointment, and Xu Yunhe's voice suddenly sounded again: "By the way, your third brother was with Xu Chengye and them when he disappeared, since he is here, where did they go?"
"Goo!"
The phoenix next to him suddenly turned up, and with a small head, a dazzling fireball rose up, dispelling all the darkness.
"This is Lu Youcheng! This is ...... Xu Chengye! This is ......" Xu Yunhe glanced around, and found that on the ground around him, there were those companions who had mysteriously disappeared. There are more than 20 people in the group, except for Xu Chengzhi, who died in the sea of no return, there are many of them now.
It's just that the strange thing is that Xu Yunhe has investigated them all, and they are all the same as Duanmu Feiyu, all of them are unconscious, but they don't see the slightest scar, and there is no sign of poisoning.
It was as if they were asleep, their eyes closed, their faces pale, and they did not see anything unusual at all, except that they were unconscious.
Giving up the act of waking them up, Xu Yunhe stood aside, the wrinkles on his forehead squeezing deeper and deeper.
Didn't these people disappear in front of the Sea of No Return? To enter Emperor Wu's secret vault, you had to pass through the camp of Xu Guohuang's group of people, but no one saw them coming.
How did they never return to the sea and come here? and they were so unconscious, but they couldn't see anything unusual?
When he was shipwrecked in the Sea of No Return, he also appeared in another place in a daze. However, the place where he appeared was the camp where Xu Chengfang was, and he woke up after only half a day. These are the people......
Could it be that they, like themselves, have entered into that kind of nightmare?
"Could it be that they are also dreaming?" Thinking in his heart, Xu Yunhe couldn't help but say it.
"That's right, they ...... It's a dream!" an old voice sighed, and replied with a slight sigh.
"Who?" Xu Yunhe snorted, this voice was obviously not Duanmu Feixue's, he didn't remember, besides the two of himself, there was any third party here. Especially when even the phoenix didn't notice anything unusual, the vigilance in Xu Yunhe's heart was raised to the extreme.
"Alas, are the young people of today so rude?
Xu Yunhe turned around suddenly, looked at the old man with a kind face in front of him, and asked in a deep voice, "Dare to ask the seniors where the sacredness is, why do you want to follow the two of us?"
"Stalking? You have wronged my old man, I have been standing here, it was you who broke into my place, and you didn't even say hello, I didn't bother you, it was already polite, and you still dare to talk to my old man like this? Alas! Are all young people nowadays so rude?
Xu Yunhe wanted to ask again, but he didn't expect Duanmu Feixue to look up and see the old man's appearance clearly, and suddenly shouted: "Grandpa Jingcun, why are you here too?"
Hearing Duanmu Feixue's shout, the old man turned his head to look at Duanmu Feixue, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the little phoenix of the Duanmu family? I didn't expect you to recognize my old face! It's not simple, it's not simple! I hugged you when I was a child! As a result, you peed on me as soon as you hugged me, and ...... at that time."
"Grandpa Jingcun!" Duanmu Feixue anxiously interrupted the old man's remembrance, eager to close his mouth without taboos.
Even if there is something embarrassing when I was a child, it is a childhood after all. Now he's so old, and he's still a girl, especially him...... He's also in ...... How can you say this kind of messy thing to your face?
"Okay, good, don't say it!" The old man was also open-minded, and did not think of it at all, and gently stroked the snow-white beard under his chin with one hand, and stopped talking with a smile.
The blush on Duanmu Feixue's face faded slightly, he turned his head to look at Xu Yunhe, who looked puzzled, and introduced him: "This is Grandpa Lu Jingcun of the Lu family in Shanyang, he is very good, but he speaks wittily, don't care!"
"Slow down, slow down!" Lu Jingcun was not satisfied, he waved his hand, looked at Duanmu Feixue with a smile, turned his head to look at Xu Yunhe, and sighed, "The little girl baby now is really amazing! Your grandfather Jingcun has hurt you for more than ten years, but you have clearly explained all my advantages to a man I just met! Tell me, how will I still be mixed in the rivers and lakes in the future? Alas! What a woman is not left behind!"
"Grandpa Jingcun, what nonsense are you talking about!" Duanmu Feixue's face turned crimson, and he glanced at Lu Jingcun with disgust, turned around, and stomped his feet heavily.
"Okay! The girl has grown up and knows that she is shy, so don't talk about this! Don't talk about this!" Lu Jingcun laughed, and then turned his gaze to the unconscious people on the ground, his eyes were condensed, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared.
"What the boy said just now is right, these little rabbit cubs are indeed in a dream. The illusionist hadn't appeared in the world for hundreds of years, but he didn't expect to appear here again. As Lu Jingcun spoke, his gaze shifted to Xu Yunhe.