Chapter 1 My name is Su Qi and I am a swordsman
A bright moon hung high in the silent void, and the cold moonlight poured through the clouds, like mist, and the clear light shrouded the entire city.
The city in the city is the inner city, a remote courtyard in the yellow tile and red wall, the roots of the three old peach trees in the courtyard must be strong, the branches are pink clusters, brilliant as the glow, such as the flower crown canopy, the wind comes and the flowers are broken, and the falling flowers are scattered.
Suddenly, the lights in the courtyard went out suddenly, the insects chirped sharply, and then a small sound of footsteps entered the courtyard from far and near, only to see a few humanoid black shadows hurrying away, squeaking twice, into a certain room.
"Business as usual ......"
The branches of the three peach trees shook, shaking off the pink and shattering into a powder mist, and the windless automatically enveloped the entire courtyard, and the sound of talking in the courtyard dissipated.
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"Master, I'm coming down the mountain. ”
The ancient and mysterious Prison Mountain is one of the forbidden places in this world. Whether it is a rural villager, a strange person from the rivers and lakes, or even a land immortal, all the cultivation is imprisoned and turned into nothingness, no different from mortals.
How many masters of the rivers and lakes who came here in ancient and modern times coughed up blood, and how many magic cheats and magic weapons were left behind. The major families and sects talked about the change of prisoners, and warned the disciples of the children and sects in the clan not to enter here, but there are always some young and frivolous or crazy teenagers with a shit luck mentality who come here to try their luck, fantasizing about being able to pick up some relics and cheats that disappeared in the prison mountain masters, practice magic skills, and become a blockbuster from then on, and how many regrets and regrets are left behind.
In the depths of the prison mountain, the pine is like a sword, the forest grass is like a knife, and it goes straight into the sky. Occasionally, the wind blows, the forest and grass are squabbling, the pine sea is turbulent, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. There is also a waterfall pouring down, falling into the river valley and condensing into a stream, like a dragon and bending around.
In a certain place where the water flow of the stream is gentle, a young deer is drinking water by the stream, and when he is about to bow his head, he suddenly moves his ears, and runs away in a panic, only to see a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl in goose yellow light clothes lightly tapping the stream stone on her toes, fluttering like a frightening flood, graceful like a swimming dragon, a few moves, has jumped to the shallows on the other side of the stream.
Standing still, the girl looked left and right, rolled her eyes a few times, and took out a pair of embroidered shoes from her waist, which looked the same size as the girl was wearing. The girl put the embroidered shoes on the ground, and did not see any movement in her hands, as soon as the embroidered shoes landed, the two shoes jumped forward one after the other, and the girl's body moved, and she also ran in the direction of the shoes.
A moment later, the fawn just looked around, probed around, and after making sure that there was no danger, he returned to the stream, and after drinking a few sips of water, he suddenly whimpered, struggled for a while, and then fell weakly, and a fishing hook with a line between his neck was deeply submerged, leaving only the fishing line outside, and as the light in his eyes became less and less, his vision became darker and darker, and three figures appeared in the last scene in his mind.
Three people appeared where the girl had just stayed, a large middle-aged man with a wide face and square forehead, dressed as a blacksmith, carrying a human high-speed iron hammer, wearing a ragged gown, revealing eight strong abdominal muscles. On the side was a typical housekeeper peasant woman, with a floral apron in front of her and a spoon and spatula pinned to her waist, yawning boredly. On the other side is a thin old man, wearing a coat and a hat, with a turquoise fishing rod in his hand, the fishing line has been scattered, and it is this fishing old man who has just shot.
The middle-aged man glanced at the old fisherman and said, "Don't be sideways!"
The old fisherman pursed his lips and did not answer, but the disgust in his eyes flashed. Unexpectedly, the look that was inadvertently revealed was seen by the housekeeper peasant woman, and she frowned slightly.
Seeing that the old man was speechless for a long time, the man didn't care much, squatted down and took a closer look and continued: "There are only footprints here, looking at this depth should be a thousand miles from the Ink Palace, I speculate that the princess must have fled in the opposite direction of the footprints." ”
The old man took off the wine jug from his waist and took a sip of it, shook his head and said in a hoarse voice: "According to the little old man's intuition, the direction of her escape this time is the direction of the footprints." ”
The peasant woman was about to speak, but was stopped by the man with his eyes, and the doubts in her stomach had to be put aside for the time being.
"Since Mr. Guanhu trusts his instincts, why don't you and I divide into two ways, and the two of us go here, and then make a discovery and then converge, wouldn't it be more efficient?"
The old man, who was called Mr. Guanhu, glanced at the man and his wife meaningfully with triangular eyes, nodded and said, "It's okay!"
After speaking, his figure flashed, and he disappeared into the forest along the footprints.
Seeing that the old man was already far away and could not see his figure, the peasant woman finally spoke: "I obviously judged that it was the direction of the footprints, but why did I deliberately say something back?"
"Sandpipers and clam fight. The man pondered for a long time and finally spit out four words.
Seeing the man's appearance, the peasant woman frowned and said, "Do you know why you are the commander of the team this time?"
"I know, just vote for it, they don't believe me. The man looked up at the sky, first sighed, then looked at the peasant woman and laughed: "I never thought of being loyal to them, I just wanted to be for you!"
Hearing this, the peasant woman bowed her head and smiled, her cheeks crimson, and two shallow dimples appeared.
But he said that the old fisherman was on his side, and after walking along the footprints for a while, the footprints in front of him suddenly disappeared. The old man stopped, looked around, his eyes suddenly stopped on an ancient pine, sneered, and then waved the fishing rod with one hand, and a silver fishing hook was thrown out with the strength of the fishing line, shooting above the ancient pine.
There were a few crisp clicks, and several thick branches of the arms were broken by the silver hook, which showed the great strength of this force. But except for a few sounds of panicked birds fluttering, there was nothing to be found, the old man sighed lightly, sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at it carefully, and then said to himself: "It is said that the princess of the demon clan has been very smart since she was a child, and now it seems that she really deserves her reputation." ”
The old man's voice became softer and softer, his eyelids were lightly closed, as if he was asleep, and the fishing rod in his hand was not moving, only his ears were gently turning, which was really like a night fishing man by the stream.
At a certain moment, the old man's eyes widened, his eyes burst with fine light, the fishing rod in his hand flipped and shook, and the silver fishing hook drew a beautiful arc, like a rainbow cut to the back, only to hear a crisp sound of gold and iron clashing, hitting something. Only then did the old man turn around and look back, only to see a bright girl of thirteen or fourteen years old dressed in goose yellow with dark eyes, holding a few stones in her hand and throwing them leisurely.
"Old man, are you the only one?
"Your guard is very skilled, at this time, I guess I am hiding in a corner with his little daughter-in-law to watch the play!" The old man stood up, patted the dirt on his trousers and laughed: "But just to deal with you, the old man alone is enough." ”
I don't know if this sentence is to laugh at the man or the person in front of him.
"Then old man, you have to be careful, a lot of old bones are loose, don't lie to me when the time comes. The girl's face was still leisurely, but the movements in her hands were not slow, and her wrists trembled a few times while speaking, and several stones in her hands shot at the old man.
The old man's wrist shook slightly, and the fishing rod in his hand was swung, and the rod body blocked the stones at the same time, and at the same time, the strength was transmitted to the fishing hook through the fishing line, and the bright fishing hook turned into a silver lightning bolt and shot towards the girl's forehead.
The fish hook that shot at the shot was menacing, the girl's waist was twisted, the upper body was sideways, the silver fish hook just flashed in front of her, the girl frowned slightly, wiped her cheek with the back of her hand, and there was a thin blood mark.
The girl threw out the remaining few stones, her body was fluttering, and she took out a wisteria whip from her waist while the old man was dodging, and shook out a few beautiful whips from the wrist flying, and the long whip was like a purple dragon flying, swinging the fishing line around the fishing rod, only to hear a snap on the old man's wrist.
The old man had a pain in his hand, he almost couldn't catch the fishing rod, his body retreated, and in the blink of an eye, he had retreated more than a dozen steps, and he was out of reach of the whip. Looking down, there was a red whip mark on the wrist, and the surrounding flesh and blood were blurred, which was shocking. The old man took the flask with his other hand, put it into his mouth and took a sip, and sprayed it violently on the wound, so painful that the corners of his eyebrows twitched, but he did not make a sound.
After relieving a few breaths, he spoke: "This is the whip named "Shocking God"! Sure enough, it is worthy of its name, and it is worthy of its name!"
The girl threw her whip and rushed, and suddenly her heart jumped, and she rolled violently to the side. With a bang, a giant hammer fell from the sky and smashed into the girl's position just now.
"Mr. Guanhu is very knowledgeable and knows the famous weapons of our demon clan. ”
There were two figures in the forest, a man and a woman, the man showed his eight-pack abs, the giant hammer behind him was gone, the woman wore an apron around her waist, and held a spoon and shovel in her hand, and it was this woman who just spoke.
"Isn't this my loyal ape guard!" the girl rolled to the ground, and when she saw the comer, she sneered, but her whole body tensed. She knew the strength of this anti-water guard, and she didn't know which was higher or lower between this anti-water guard and Mr. Guanhu in their mouths, but in this, under the confinement of a body of cultivation, the body of this anti-water guard was extremely strong.
"Princess, I can't help it. The middle-aged man who was originally the princess's guard slammed his fists together, kicked his right leg back, and suddenly exerted his strength, and the whole person rushed towards the girl not far from the giant hammer like a cannonball.
The girl had just been shocked by the giant hammer, although she hadn't hit it, but the impact of the explosion that hit the ground still shook the ground, and the qi and blood in her body were churning. The girl's silver teeth clenched, and when the man's fist swung in front of him, a harrier turned over and could dodge, but the fist still swept her face painfully.
Without waiting to land and stand firm, the girl kicked out a leg in mid-air and slammed it to the man's waist, slammed, as if hitting the bronze bell, like beating the leather, the girl turned over and fell back, far away from the man whose muscles were like fine iron, rubbed his calf that was already blue, and gasped in his mouth.
That man is actually not comfortable, don't look at the girl's young age, slender figure, but there is a thousand jun hidden in the body, every move is vigorous, just now the leg was pumped on the waist, already red and swollen.
The man lifted the giant hammer in the pit with one hand, leaned forward, and the giant hammer swung around his side, slamming it towards the girl's Tianling Gai. Then the woman came behind the girl, holding a spoon in her left hand and a shovel in her right, striking at both sides of the girl's waist. The old man had already swung the rod with his other hand, and the silver hook flew far away towards the girl.
There is no way to avoid it.
The girl took two steps back, took the initiative to meet the woman's spoon and shovel, and blocked the shovel with the whip arm of her right hand, just avoiding the man's hammer, which struck the ground and flew away from the encirclement with the force of the impact.
The girl fell to the ground, and was hit by a solid blow to her waist, and she was unable to get up again in a short time.
"Three people bullying a child, what kind of hero. The girl gasped, hugged her waist and sneered, even at this moment, there was no consciousness of the victims, but she wanted to taunt the three of them, and suddenly thought of something as she spoke, and laughed out loud: "That's right, a guard who can devour the lord, an old man who walks into the coffin with half a foot, and a fox who can only seduce people, and the heroes can't get along." ”
The three of them didn't pay attention to this, holding their respective weapons and slowly surrounding them, although it was a foregone conclusion in front of them, but no one was sure what hole cards the girl had in her hand, and every step was taken carefully, striving to be safe.
When they reached a distance of five steps from the girl, the three of them suddenly stopped at the same time, and only heard a thud, and a figure fell from the tree and hit the ground, just in the middle of the three of them and the girl.
"Phew, bah, bah. Then the man got up from the ground, spat out the dirt that was sticking to his mouth, and patted the dust on his legs, and then the people saw the man's appearance.
This is a young man with a slightly dark face, fifteen or sixteen years old, his eyes are like ink, his eyebrows are like distant mountains, he is dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and on his feet is a pair of brand-new straw sandals, especially memorable is the sentence he said and a mouthful of brilliant white teeth: "My name is Su Qi, and I am a swordsman." ”
The man took a step and wanted to ask about the origin of the young man, but before he could open his mouth, the other party had already reported his name, and the man had to swallow back the words that came to his mouth, but he heard the other party say that he was a swordsman, and the man looked at each other with a strange face, and the remaining three people also looked at the young man with a strange face when they heard this.
As if accustomed to seeing this expression, the young man patted the green bamboo knife on his waist and shouted loudly: "I haven't seen a swordsman with a knife, it's rare and weird." ”
The man wanted to complain that he hadn't seen it before, but he heard the old man say in a hoarse voice: "Does the little doll have to do that hero's errand to save beauty?"
"If the road is uneven, of course you have to draw a sword to help. The young man said heartily: "What's more, you disturbed my dreams, which is unbearable." ”
When the old man heard this, his eyes lit up, the fishing rod in his hand waved again and again, the fishing line threw out a few graceful arcs, and the silver hook with his strength was like a snake spitting out a letter.
The young man's right hand named Su Qi stretched out diagonally upward, flicked his fingers, and with a clang, the silver fish hook was bounced off, and the young man's fingers became warm as jade after being slightly red.
What a strange young man, who claims to be a swordsman but is not worthy of a sword but with a knife, and with a knife but without a knife, it is strange.
Seeing that the fisherman had lost, the man tightened the hammer in his hand, his muscles tensed, he shouted, used his waist to exert force, and smashed the hammer at the young man, a hammer as fast as a hammer. This is the man's famous hammer technique, called the chaotic cloak hammer method, a hammer is as fast as a hammer, a hammer is heavier than a hammer, a full eighteen hammers, there seems to be a nameless suction on the hammer, so that people have to face each other head-on, it is really a god and Buddha to avoid, and the immortals and demons are unstoppable.
The boy didn't even pull out the knife, his hands greeted him, his body flickered left and right, up and down, a fist smashed on the hammer body, the next palm slapped on the side of the hammer, and the next hand bent his fingers on the hammer handle lightly, the chaotic cloak hammer method that should have been getting faster and heavier became slower and lighter and lighter, after five hammers, the boy directly punched the giant hammer, and then kicked at the man.
The man already felt something was wrong when he took off the second hammer, and at the moment when the hammer was released, his hands were staggered in front of his chest, which was able to block the boy, but he was kicked back more than a dozen steps by this kick.
Seeing this, the woman held a spoon and shovel, and her figure flashed, trying to break it with skill. When it was closer, the left scoop was propped up in front of the chest to make a defensive gesture, and the right shovel struck the boy diagonally. At this time, the old man closed his eyes and stared, looking for the wind and catching shadows, put away the fishing hook and left only a fishing line attached to the rod, and suddenly his wrist trembled, and the fishing line shot out, but it was three points faster than when there was no fishing hook.
The young man didn't pay much attention to the woman, but was cautious about the old man's almost transparent fishing line without a fishing hook, touched the bamboo knife on his waist, hesitated for a moment and put his hand down.
When the spatula was about to hit his waist, the boy bent his fingers and struck on the shovel handle, and the spatula was pulled to the boy's chest, and with a clang, the fishing line was pierced into the spatula, and the young man's fingers clamped the spatula, and he pulled and shook it hard, and the spatula was wrapped around an ancient tree in the distance with the fishing rod.
The young man slapped the woman's forehead with his left hand and knocked her unconscious, and the old man was carried by the huge force from the fishing rod and flew towards the young man, and the young man met the young man with a knife in his right hand. Before the old man could react, he was hit in the neck by the young man's palm, and he lost consciousness in front of him in an instant. After knocking down the old man, the young man exerted force on his legs, and his body rushed towards the man. It was only a blink of an eye from the fight to now, and before the qi and blood in the man's body had calmed down, he was punched in the forehead by the young man and fainted.
After doing everything, the young man clapped his hands and walked towards the demon princess.
The girl's eyes flashed, and she covered her waist and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't the little brother kill them?"
Hearing this, the young man paused, his face was slightly red, and he said with a little embarrassment: "I haven't even killed a chicken since I was a child, let alone killed someone." ”
The girl saw that the young man who had been so powerful before looked embarrassed, so she changed the topic and asked, "I just heard that the little brother claimed to be surnamed Su, is it a member of the Su family in the city?"
"The Su family in the city? Are you talking about the Su family, one of the four major families? I'm not, I'm the swordsman Su Qi. When he said the word swordsman, the thin black boy straightened up and looked confident.
With a pop, the girl covered her mouth and smiled, "I've never seen a swordsman like you." ”
At this time, the girl took her hand away from her waist and abdomen and let down the guard in her heart.
"Really, I'm good at swordsmanship, I don't lie to you. ”
"I believe, I believe. ”
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The boy picked up the girl and slowly left, leaving only the three of them lying on the ground.
The woman's eyebrows are slender and a crescent moon appears under her forehead, and the man is strong and spits a long rainbow in his chest.
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The woman woke up slowly, found herself lying on the ground, rubbed her forehead in slight pain, sat up and looked around, and saw that the man had not woken up, and a large bag bulged out on his forehead. Not far away, Mr. Naguanhu was holding a wine jug and sending it to his mouth one by one, when he saw the woman wake up, he made a gesture of cutting her neck with her hand.
The woman got up and retrieved her weapon, then returned to the man and sat down, letting the man's head gently rest on her lap, and then looked at the man in front of her who was single-minded to herself, and even did not hesitate to betray the princess of the demon clan just to get back her life card, the spatula in her hand was tight and loose, loose and tight, and hesitated.
The old man looked at the woman coldly, and did not urge her, but drank to himself, but kept his eyes fixed on that side.
After half a pillar of incense, the man finally woke up, saw the face he loved, and slowly said, "Wan'er, do it." ”
The woman gritted her teeth, choked back tears and made up her mind, and stabbed the shovel handle down into the man's heart. The old man did not withdraw his gaze until this time, and got up from the flask.
The man's eyes looked at the person in front of him gently, and a trace of guilt appeared in his eyes: "It's a pity that I still can't help you get back that life card." ”
The tears in the woman's eyes finally couldn't hold back the tears that came out of her eyes, shook her head slightly, reached out and pulled out the spatula on the man's chest, reversed the shovel handle and stabbed it into her chest.
"Wan'er, you. The man's breath became weaker and weaker, and he remembered the little face with yellow muscles, thin and weak.
More than 10 years ago.
"Big brother, are you awake?" the girl cried out in surprise, and hurriedly picked up a broken bowl from the side, a few mouthfuls of gruel in the bowl, and the girl carefully brought the gruel to her mouth.
After drinking in one breath, I found that the girl was biting her lip and looking at the bowl in her hand, and then I vaguely heard the girl's stomach rumbling, I had never seen such a kind-hearted person in my life.
During that time, I took the girl up the mountain to catch birds and down the river to catch fish, and I never thought that life could be so comfortable and happy.
Until one day, the girl was sick and bedridden, and she went into the mountains to collect medicine alone, and when she went back, she found that the whole house was burned to ashes, and she didn't see the girl's figure, and she pulled it in the ruins for three whole days, thinking that she would never see the kind-hearted girl again in this life, and buried this time in the deepest part of her heart forever.
I didn't expect to see each other again in this life, the first time I saw the person in front of me, I thought she was the girl, and the crescent mark on her neck was exactly the same, at that moment, the man swore that he would do anything for the person in front of him.
"At this moment, I'm for myself. The woman hugged the man and said softly.
The man's eyes were getting darker and darker, and he hugged the woman tightly, and let out the last three laughs when he looked up to the sky, just as happy as when they first went down to the river and caught the big fish.
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In the yellow tiles and red walls of the inner city of Wangcheng, a young man was reading, loud and loud, and was suddenly interrupted by a crisp click.
The young man looked up at the lifeline on the case, and it was already torn apart.
"Heh!" smiled lightly, and with a flick of the sleeves, the already torn life card turned into powder.
Leave it alone and continue reading the book in your hand:
"The way of a saint is in Ming Mingde, in cultivating the mind, in being cautious, in self-discipline, in forgiveness..."
As the sound of reading aloud sounded, thousands of weather poured out of the book, the saint preached, the dragon spit fog, thousands of armies fought, and ten thousand beasts prostrated themselves...... One by one.
The branches and leaves of the three old peach trees outside the courtyard trembled, swaying like flames, and fell to the ground colorfully. Three of them floated out softly, shattering into a powder mist that obscured the myriad weather.
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"Brother Su Qi, are we lost!" the girl asked with a tangled expression.
"It doesn't exist, what kind of person is I, Su Qi, how can a person with such a strong sense of direction get lost, it doesn't exist. Su Qi said confidently.
"But... But—" The girl struggled for a long time, pointed to a tree, and couldn't help but speak: "But we have just walked this road five times, and look at this tree, I have already made five markings." ”
Hearing this, Su Qi stopped, looked carefully at the tree that the girl pointed to, and sure enough, five marks were marked. nodded and said with a serious face: "I said how to become more and more familiar, and I thought I was on the road to acquaintance." ”
Hearing this, the girl rolled her eyes weakly, and decided that the person in front of her was a road idiot.
"Brother Su Qi, let me lead the way. The young man nodded awkwardly, his face slightly depressed.
I saw the girl take out a thumb-sized silver mouse from her arms, and a gold wire on the back of the mouse extended from the forehead to the tip of the tail, and she was probing her brain and looking left and right.
Seeing that Su Qi was puzzled, the girl opened her mouth and explained: "This is a man-seeking mouse, which can smell the breath of people within a radius of thousands of miles, but if you want to distinguish the breath of a certain person, the range is only a hundred miles." As he spoke, he put the man-finder rat on the ground.
The man-seeking mouse turned back and forth, left and right, the tip of his nose trembled slightly, and the strings of the silver whisker on the side of his nose trembled continuously, and suddenly stopped in one direction. Seeing this, the girl knew that the man-seeking mouse had smelled the breath of the person, put her fingers together, put it to her mouth and whistled, and the man-seeking mouse received the signal and swished away in one direction.
"Brother Su Qi, let's follow. ”
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Inside the Demon Emperor Palace.
Above the imperial throne sat a burly middle-aged man, his temples were slightly white, not angry and arrogant, and he was holding a jade slip in his hand with his brows furrowed.
The man solemnly finished browsing the jade slip in his hand, handed it to a graceful and luxurious beautiful woman next to him, and said calmly: "Let's talk about it, what happened." ”
Listening to the man's unwavering voice, the civil and military generals standing below were all trembling, having been courtiers for so many years, they all knew that the people on the throne were now trying their best to suppress their anger, and no one dared to open their mouths to touch their moldy heads.
"Humph!"
Seeing that no one responded, the man snorted coldly, and just as he was about to explode, an old minister led by the Wenchen team hurriedly stood up.
"What did the ape master say?" The man saw that it was the old minister, and the expression on his face softened slightly.
"Your Majesty, the princess was secretly plotted by the guards on the way back from the royal city, and used the space charm to transmit it to the prison mountain, and there were three people who were passed away, namely the traitor ape guard and his wife, and an old fishing man known as Mr. Guanhu......" The old minister opened his mouth to tell the story, and the intermediate process was no different from the facts, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
"Well, let's stand down, and the ape master will stay for a while. After listening to the ape master's story, the man nodded and waved everyone away, leaving the old minister alone.
When everyone retreated, there were only three people left in the hall, the man on the throne, the beautiful woman on the throne, and the ape master who had just spoken.
"What does the ape master teach?" the man's brows were still tightly locked, and just now the ape master frequently made him realize that things might be more complicated than he imagined.
"Your Majesty, the drunkard doesn't mean to drink!"
"What does the ape master mean?" Hearing this, the drunkard did not mean to drink, and the beautiful woman on the edge of the emperor's throne asked with a worried face.
"Presumably the queen also thought of it. ”
In this incident, the Twelve Demon Kings don't know how many ways they are involved, and how many of them are ready to move, and whether the dynasty also has this intention, or is there a deliberate bureau set up by someone with a heart.
"I need to go to the royal city. The man stood up and said.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, no!"
The queen and the ape master opened their mouths to stop at the same time, knowing that this is like entering the tiger's den in Longtan, and there are nine times out of ten.
"I had to go this time. The man waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, he Meng V can't help me." ”
After speaking, he slowly disappeared in the worried eyes of the two.