Chapter 52: Withering
In the early morning of the next day, Shi Cheng and the three of them got up early before dawn.
After eating breakfast briefly, after Wu Neng finished practicing today's martial arts class under the supervision of Tie Mian, the three of them did not wake up the two little sparrows who were still asleep, and after saying goodbye to Mo Da, they quietly left the cabin where they had lived for three months.
When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, Shi Cheng suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Iron Mask asked.
"I....... I want to go and see the little military doctor again. ”
Tie Mian and Wu Neng glanced at each other, and the two nodded in unison.
As early as yesterday afternoon, Shi Cheng learned about the place where Ferrejo and the others were being held from the villagers who came to Aguer's house, so the three of them did not have much effort to find the temporary residence of the Batu soldiers in the village, where the members of the officers' league were being held.
Just as the three of them were about to reach the door of the temporary cell, a crisp slap and scolding came to the ears of the three of them.
Shi Cheng and the three of them rushed to the nearest place and found a detachment leader of Batu standing at the door of the small courtyard with angry eyes, reprimanding the two dejected soldiers in front of him.
"What are you all doing to eat! A little doll that smells like milk, you can actually let him run away! ”
"Judge, really...... It's really none of our business, and the brothers didn't expect the rope we brought with us to be so brittle that it could be cut through by the wooden nails on the table.
Another crisp slap in the face.
"Motherfucker, do you all have eyes on assholes! The rope is brittle, so what are you eating here with these rice buckets? ”
"It's called Ferrejo, hurry up and find it for me, if you want to see people dead and see corpses, if you affect Lao Tzu, see if I don't pick the skin of the two of you! Why are you still stunned, don't hurry up! ”
The two Batu soldiers resigned and crawled to the ground to beckon the rest of their companions to find someone.
"He fled!" Shi Cheng looked at his two companions, and the hearts of the three seemed to be tugged.
After standing there and scolding for a while, the team leader also ran away quickly, as if he was in a hurry to report the situation to his superiors.
Shi Cheng greeted the two companions, motioned for them to wait for him, and then his body flickered, and he flashed into the small courtyard unconsciously.
There were no Batu soldiers guarding the courtyard, which surprised Shi Cheng, who was ready to help people sleep, and he glanced around and found that the members of the officers' league were all separated and detained, and all the doors were closed, except for the northeast hut.
"This should be the room."
After entering the room, Shi Cheng was also convinced that this was the room where Ferrejo was imprisoned, because there were very fresh footprints and traces of climbing over the windows.
"Looking at the direction of the footprints outside the window, I should have gone to the hill to the west of the village......
I don't know why, Shi Cheng always had a bad premonition in his heart, and he kept telling himself in his heart that he had to find the little military doctor as soon as possible.
After leaving the hut, Shi Cheng found Wu Neng and Tie Mian, who were waiting outside, and beckoned the two to go to the mountain together.
When they came to the west mountain of the village, the soldiers of the Batu Kingdom had already begun to search the mountain at the foot of the mountain, and Shi Cheng and the three of them easily avoided them and entered the mountain.
After searching aimlessly on the mountain for nearly an hour, the three of them walked near a small stream, and Shi Cheng, who had been silent before, suddenly squatted down and said to Tie Mian and Wu Neng: "Old Wu, Tie Mian, look, there are footprints here on the river beach. ”
Iron Mask glanced at the footprints and said, "Is it his?" ”
Shi Cheng nodded and said, "It's a little military doctor, and the footprints are very fresh, he shouldn't have been away from here for long." ”
Wu Neng breathed a sigh of relief, "I hope he can successfully escape." ”
Shi Cheng was still frowning, he looked at the place where the footprints disappeared, and said, "Let's go a little longer and see if he has already crossed the mountain." ”
With that, he walked quickly towards the woods in the distance, and Wu Neng and Tie Mian also followed closely.
Finally, under a large tree, Shi Cheng and the three of them unexpectedly found Ferrejo.
Wu Neng covered his mouth and shouted in a somewhat changed tone: "Oh my God, Lao Shi! ”
Shi Cheng didn't say a word. With a blank face, he quietly walked under the tree, as if he was afraid of waking someone up.
Shi Cheng looked up, Ferrejo was hanging quietly under a thick branch, as quiet as if he had fallen asleep, a gray strip of white cloth wrapped around his neck, the young man's gray eyes were fixed in the direction of Kawa City, and on the ground beneath Ferrejo's feet lay a crumpled cloth hat like a soaked lychee grass.
Shi Cheng was no stranger to the white strip of cloth, which was a common identification strip used by rebel soldiers, and every time he saw Ferrejo in the past, this strip of cloth was tied to his left arm, but for convenience, two more wrapped cloths were tied to the left and right of the identification strip, so that the whole cloth rope had enough length to end everything.
"Put him down." Shi Cheng said softly.
The little medic was lowered to the ground.
"Lao Shi, is there any salvation?" Wu Neng was unwilling in his heart, he looked at Shi Cheng and repeated the question over and over again.
Shi Cheng carefully examined it three times, and then, as if he didn't want to give up something, he performed several first aids, and finally, he exhaled helplessly and sat back on the ground.
"He died, judging by the traces, it was a suicide."
"Yesterday morning, when we left the village to look at the well outside the village, he greeted us and smiled at us......" Wu Neng's hands trembled a little, and he still didn't want to believe what was happening in front of him.
In the sky where the three of them were, a predatory falcon was flying, and from time to time it let out a terrible cry.
Shi Cheng turned his head, looked in the direction of Xianyou Village with a cold gaze, and said, "Just let him sleep here, I don't want the Batu people to find him." ”
......
Shi Cheng and the three solemnly buried Ferejo, in order to prevent the Batu people from discovering the abnormality, the three did not give Ferejo a plaque, and even deliberately found branches and leaves to cover the top of the tomb, and after waiting in front of the tomb of the little military doctor for a while, the three found a path in the other direction and went down the mountain from there.
After descending the mountain, the three of them did not return to Xianyou Village, they said goodbye to this small village where they had lived for three months, and went to Kawa City.
Because they spent a lot of time on the mountain, Shi Cheng and the others did not arrive at Kawa City until the afternoon.
This is the first time Shi Cheng and Tie Mian have seen the city, but there is nothing new for Wu Neng, the current chaos in the city has only just eased, the scene at the south gate of Kawa City is still the same, and even the flag of the officer alliance hanging on the city wall has not been removed, the only difference is that there is a gap in the city wall that has been bombarded by cannonballs, and the soldiers guarding the city gate have been changed from Kawa people to Batu people.
After the three of them passed the interrogation, they successfully entered Kawa City, it seemed that for the sake of Wu Neng's face of the cold moon man, compared to other people who entered the city, Shi Cheng and the three of them were not subjected to any trouble, and they were not even blackmailed by the soldiers defending the city.
Affected by what happened in the morning, Shi Cheng and the three of them were very quiet all the way, even Wu Neng, who talked a lot on weekdays, was like a quiet wooden man along the way.
After entering the city gate, Shi Cheng looked around and said, "Is this the capital of the Kawa Kingdom?" What is that ruin in the distance, is it the palace where the former King Kawa lived when you told me before? ”
Wu Neng nodded.
Iron Mask looked at the big clearing in the distance and asked with some curiosity, "What are the people over there doing?" ”
Shi Cheng and Wu Neng looked in the direction of the iron mask's finger.
Military tents for soldiers still house large areas of clearing, but unlike before, tents have been removed in a small number of places, and a rather dilapidated wooden goal has been placed on the east side of the clearing.
"Oh, it seems to be called a big kemari field by the locals, and it used to be a place where the kemari teams of several chambers of commerce in the city competed against each other." Wu Neng said coldly, "I didn't expect that not long after the chaos happened, this goal was put back." ”
Shi Cheng and Tie Mian had heard Wu Neng talk about what he had seen and heard in Kawa City before, so they also knew very well that the so-called Keju team in the hands of these chambers of commerce was actually not a Keju team in the normal sense, but a group of special slaves who were forcibly bought from their hometowns for the entertainment of the powerful and citizens.
Shi Cheng stared at the Dajuju field for a while, then turned his head and said: "Let's go, let's find an inn to live in first, and go to the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow, the deacon named Xu Fengshi is in a hurry to leave here, their convoy will leave tomorrow, we still have things to do, get on the road early, and go to Lingzhou in Wei as soon as possible."
......
On the same day, somewhere in the Eastern Continent, in a dimly lit secret stone chamber.
There is a faint fragrance wafting from the dark stone room that seems to be overgrown with mold, and a glowing night pearl is placed in each of the four corners of the main room of the stone room, making the whole dim space look like it is not out of reach.
Directly north of the main house, a black shadow was levitating in the air, and on the right hand side of the black shadow, a tall, strong cloaked man stood silently.
After a while, an old man covered with dead vines walked into the main house, the old man's body was not thin, but when he walked on the ground, he did not make a sound.
The old man walked behind the black shadow, bowed respectfully, and said: "Lord Hei Ming, there is a letter from the General Altar, the treasure of the Rainforest Continent is about to be born, we can start to act, how the Black Hair Legion should act next, please show me." ”
"How's the preparation going, that mechanic?" The dark shadow asked in a relaxed tone.
"The layout has been completed." The old man replied.
"How was the previous accident handled?"
"The news has been blocked for the time being, but the chess pieces have spent a lot of financial resources on this, and the relevant responsible persons have been punished according to your instructions."
"The aftermath of the work makes it important for your people to keep an eye on it, and don't let me see a second mistake. As for the task of looting the treasure, Withered Vine, pass on my orders to get the receiving team ready, and after Seventeen takes the things out, the rest will be left to them. ”
"Yes, my lord."
"There you go. Replying to the general altar, I have already started to act. Don't forget to send a message to the rotting firefly, the gift for the wooden golem will be delivered, so that she is ready to receive it. ”
"Yes!"
After the old man left, a hand wrapped in black cloth reached out from the shadow and gently pressed it on the head of the tall cloaked man to the right of the shadow.
"Seventeen, go ahead and bring the things back."
As soon as he finished speaking, two strange green lights lit up in the darkness under the hood.