CHAPTER XXII

The cave where the main body was stored had collapsed, and the smoke had settled, revealing the locust tree wrapped in the enchantment. The transparent enchantment covers it in a semicircle, preventing it from taking a single damage. The main body seems to sense the danger, and secretes green balls of light from the trunk and roots, floating up and down. As soon as someone approaches and touches it, the ball of light will quickly devour that person and become nourishment for the land.

Shaodian walked between the balls of light, and they didn't seem to notice her, and she didn't move until she reached the main body. She looked up at the tall trees, her clear eyes still faint, no different from before.

She pulled out a black talisman bag from her waist and threw it into the air, the mouth of the bag instantly became larger, covering the mountain god's body, and it didn't take long for it to be included in the talisman bag. The talisman pouch shrank and landed in her palm, and she looked down at it, then took it into her arms.

Shaodian walked back and suddenly stopped, looked up at the sky, and exhaled a turbid breath. She looked at the sky, as if to look through the clouds and mist to the other side of the sky, where a tiny figure was shivering.

As night fell, the main body had been collected, and the soldiers in the tent were packing their bags, and they would set off early tomorrow morning to return to the royal city. Without a doubt, now is the best time to escape.

Hujiang was not in the tent, only a small oil lamp was lit on the wooden table, and Jialan was placed in a lacquered box next to the oil lamp. She sucked up the aura in the hookah jade, which means that she has recovered some spiritual power, and naturally has the ability to compete with the human race. But despite this, she still doesn't want to venture to the Terran stronghold too soon. It's only been half a month since she came to the human world, and everything has happened too fast.

On the one hand, the Protoss asked her to do something, but on the other hand, she didn't want to let her remember all her memories, she was unwilling to be at their mercy like this, not to mention that it was about her life, you must know that she valued her own life more than anything else, and the Protoss's behavior obviously made her repulsed. To this day, she still feels that God is playing tricks, and God is manipulating all this behind her back.

Under the faint orange light, a girl in blue gradually showed her figure, she stretched out her slender fingers to close the box, quietly retreated to the door curtain, and opened a corner to secretly look out.

The campfire outside the tent was bright, and from time to time there were patrolling soldiers walking back and forth, and two motionless black figures were reflected in the tent, presumably the soldiers on guard. In this way, if she goes out rashly, she will definitely be discovered, if it is just an ordinary soldier, it is easy to deal with, but I am afraid that if she encounters those two god puppets, it will not be a good thing for her if the battle time is extended. However, something happened to the god puppet called Xumo, and only the one named Shaodian was left, so it seems that according to her current spiritual power, she can break through.

Without hesitation, she pulled out the moon silk from her waist, and the silver-white slender moon silk wandered on the ground, climbed onto the back of the soldier, and instantly strangled the necks of the two of them, tightened them, and strangled them. The two soldiers' eyes widened, motionless, a blue shadow quickly flashed out of the curtain, the curtain fluttered, with a cold breath, the next second, red blood gushed out from the neck, the two soldiers fell to the ground with a bang, and there was no breath between their noses. Some of the people around noticed that something was wrong and rushed to the scene, but only to find two corpses and splattered blood, the torches began to shake, and the camp became chaotic.

After Jialan got out of the tent and ran out according to her memory, into the forest, she thought she was fast enough, but she didn't expect to be caught up, she didn't understand when she alarmed these black-armored soldiers, and those ...... It's not like people.

In front of her stood a row of soldiers in black armor, each with a black saber at their waists, and a string of white jade bells hanging from the saber, which were dumb when they moved. They wore black masks with a narrow character engraved on the side of the mask, and only a pair of dark eyes appeared behind the mask, like a danger lurking in the darkness. These are the puppet armor of the Astrology Palace, they were made for combat use, and the soldiers of the Astrology Hall are all this kind of puppet armor, these Hu Jiang mentioned some of them to her, she remembers.

Jialan stopped her movements and watched them warily.

"Doll?" asked Jialan, but no one answered her. She didn't mention the kind of puppet to her when she was in the sea of stars, but she knew about it in the human world, and she hadn't seen it, so she was vigilant. Everything that is unknown is dangerous until you understand it, so you have to test it slowly to know its abilities and weaknesses.

Jialan watched their every move closely, and took a tentative step to the side, and in an instant the puppet closest to her drew a knife and slashed at it. Jialan smiled, jumped sideways, and the long moon silk was thrown out, wrapped around the blade, and twisted the knife in half, the saber was stabbed by Jialan to the other dolls, but amazingly, the broken knife was bounced off as soon as it touched their armor. They have spells on them that are used to protect against damage from external forces and increase the attack power of the puppet.

After the puppet was swung away by Jialan, the other puppets followed closely and attacked with their swords, and Jialan hurriedly used the moon silk to resist the attack, but it was not easy to pierce their armor. She is still inexperienced, and at this time she has been defeated and retreated. She gasped and leaped onto the trees, the figures seemed to be unbound by the heavy armor, and jumped to the treetops on tiptoe with ease. The two faced each other, and Jialan was surrounded at this time, but it was still not easy for them to catch her. She continued to jump and run between the trees, dragging the puppets behind her with the moonsilk, and she found that the idols did not feel tired, but her physical strength began to decline a little.

Having just dodged the doll's saber, she hid behind a tree and looked up in the direction of the camp, there were many torches moving rapidly in their direction, it should be the doll that transmitted the message there.

Looks like we have to hurry.

She frowned and jumped off the branch, gathered away the moonsilk she was using as a defense, and ran towards the empty field, several dolls following closely behind. The sound of the wind in her ears irritated her eardrums, she could even hear her own wheezing, and the sound of her heartbeat, fast, violent, how long had it been since she had run and spun like this? how long had it been since she had felt her breath like this? her life was flawed, her memories of light and shadow and her past were always binding her now! She didn't want to face death, because she now knew that she was born to kill, and after this only decisive killing, there would be a never-ending escape, and in the end she would not be able to escape the end of death, how ridiculous, to be born again for the sake of death, "she" was so stupid! And the origin of everything comes from the human race!!

Jialan's eyes gradually became cold, and she suddenly turned around and stopped, facing the puppets that were coming one after another. Now that the strength of those puppets can be determined, a light smile bloomed on her face, and she raised her right hand to slowly push out her palm, she looked at them sideways, and a sharp light flashed in her eyes. The puppet in front of him jumped high, the silver blade flashed a cold light in the night, starting from the tip of the knife, light blue ice crystals quickly spread and swam, covering the entire surface of the puppet. The dolls, leaping or carrying knives, were frozen in blue ice and became ice-sculpture-like objects.

She looked at them, and a white chill surrounded them, like a slow-dancing veil. The scene under the moonlight is quite beautiful. She snorted and turned to leave.

The footsteps suddenly stopped, and it was Shaodian standing in front of her.

Jialan remembered her, it was this puppet who trapped her in the hookah jade, but Jialan is not sure whether her behavior was intentional or unintentional now, after all, from the results, Jialan is the one who benefits the most.

"Where are you going?" Shaodian was dressed in white, walking through several puppets that had been frozen into ice sculptures, and slowly approached her.

"Stop. Jialan shouted, squeezing the moon silk tightly, making an attacking gesture to stop her from moving forward.

Shaodian stopped when he heard this, and looked at Jialan with some confusion. "We'll be back to the royal city tomorrow. ”

Jialan didn't dare to underestimate this puppet, she frowned, and said, "Where do you go back to what do you have to do with me?"

"What do you have to do with it?" Shaodian looked at Jialan for a while, as if she understood something, her eyes became firm, and she said lightly: "I know." As he spoke, his right hand was spread out, and the flames in his palm condensed, and suddenly elongated, and a red sword appeared in the firelight.

She didn't know what she was doing, but her heart sank a little.

Shaodian held a sword in one hand, stood upright, and said to Jialan: "Come." ”

As soon as Jialan saw Shaodian's posture, she knew that if she wanted to leave, she would definitely start fighting. She wrapped the moonsilk in her hand, her eyes sank, and there was a sharp light in her eyes.

On the other side, Xu Mo was lying on the bed, his eyes were empty, looking straight at the top of the tent, Zhao Han and Wei Po were guarding outside, and only two puppets were left inside to take care of. Suddenly, his face began to sweat, the dark lines in his body gradually appeared, and quickly retreated, his body began to tremble slightly, his eyes gradually moistened, and his amber eyes became brighter and brighter.

The two puppets noticed his abnormality, and hurriedly went out to tell Zhao Han and Wei Po, but when the two entered the tent, they saw Xu Mo panting and sitting on the bed. His left hand was propped up on the side of the bed, his right foot was propped up, his right hand was on it, his head was lowered, his hair was slightly messy, and his sweaty hair was sticking to his pale cheeks. This kind of preface is like just waking up from a nightmare, sensitive and fragile, but also very dangerous.

"Order?" Wei Po called him cautiously.

Zhao Han looked at Xu Mo and found that he didn't seem to be quite right, but he couldn't say what was wrong with him. Compared with the previous preface, Zhao Han was afraid of him in addition to an inexplicable closeness, but now that sense of fear, the sense of obedience that arises spontaneously from the bottom of his heart has disappeared, is it because he also has the body of a god puppet?

"Order?"

After a while, Xumo recovered, and he lay on his back on the bed, sinking into the soft quilt, and looked at the top of the tent with wide eyes, as if he was reminiscing, as if he was thinking, and for the first time his young face showed such a weak expression. It was a long time before a deep thud came out of his throat.

"Hmm. ”

Shaodianhao did not back down, there was no expression of fear and emotion on her calm face, she was determined to take Jialan to the royal city.

In this moment of tension, a voice broke the oppressive silence.

"What are you doing?" said Hu Jiang poked his head out from behind the frozen soldiers. He touched the cold ice on the soldier's body, and some ice crystals climbed on his hand instantly, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly reached out and slapped it, but the ice seemed to be stuck to his hand, and he couldn't shoot it off.

"Come here. Shaodian said. Hu Jiang hurriedly ran to her side, and she took his hand and used the fire to melt the ice crystals.

"Don't touch things you shouldn't. Shaodian warned him lest he die next time out of her sight.

Hu Jiang nodded hurriedly.

Jialan couldn't help but roll her eyes, and had a new understanding of Hujiang's ability to send people to death. How can a person live so stupidly that he dares to touch those dangerous things casually, or is this person too well protected?

"Are they all right if they're frozen like this?" he looked at Shaodian and Jialan. It's just that no one answered him.

He still has the leisure to care about others. Jialan tightened Yuesi, and her eyes rolled around to see if she could find a time to escape, after all, as soon as Hujiang came, her chances of escaping were greater.

Shaodian pushed Hujiang behind him, raised his crimson sword and pointed at Jialan. "Hurry up. ”

No matter how stupid he was, he could see that the two were fighting. As soon as he saw that something was wrong, he stepped forward and walked to Shaodian's side, glanced at Jialan with his eyes, and asked curiously, "Shaodian, who is she?"

At this time, the soldiers around had already arrived, and the leaping fire dragon signaled the difference in manpower between the two sides, and at that time, the orange fire illuminated the forest very brightly. In the crowd, Xumo, who had regained his senses, was dressed in black, his eyes were sharp, and the scimitar in his hand glowed with cold light. Jialan obviously saw Xumo, and immediately lost her strength and stood up straight. She sighed to the sky, knowing that she couldn't escape, so she decided to save her strength and run away again in the future.

She searched through the crowd and finally locked on Hujiang, and it seemed that this person was safer. She put away the moon silk, walked up to him and said to him, "Hujiang, I'm Jialan." ”

"Huh?" Hujiang couldn't believe it. But in the next second, he saw Jialan turn into a piece of jade and fly into his sleeve. "Hey?" he hurriedly tugged at his sleeve and rummaged up and down, but was held down by Shaodian's hand.

"Take it and bring it back to the royal city tomorrow. ”

Hu Jiang looked at Shaodian and nodded stunned.

Xumo had already approached, and when he saw that Jialan had been subdued, he put away the scimitar. He walked up to Shaodian and stretched out his hands to ask her for cold light, Shaodian understood, took out the jade pendant and handed it to him, she instructed: "Be careful." ”

Xumo sniffed, waved his hand impatiently and said, "Long-winded." ”

"Hey, how are you?" Hu Jiang said with a gloating smile as he stood behind Shaodian.

Xumo looked at him and sneered, and took the jade pendant into his arms. "There are a lot of fierce beasts in the mountains, so the prince should be careful, don't meet it and call Shaodian when the time comes. ”

"Tsk, how can you say that the master is also your friend, doesn't this care about you. Hujiang laughed and quipped, automatically omitting the mockery in his words. He is indeed happy that Xumo can recover, no matter how the two have been fighting for decades, he still has some feelings for Xumo, if Xumo no longer beats him, maybe the relationship will be better.

"Friend, I don't have a friend like you. Xu Mo sneered, dismissive of Hujiang's words.

Hujiang was also accustomed to Xumo's cold words, so he didn't care. He turned to Shaodian with a smile and asked carefully, "Shaodian, can I follow your car tomorrow?"

Shaodian thought about it seriously and said, "That's the location of Xumo." ”

Hu Jiang swallowed his throat, lowered his head and thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said again: "What about behind Xumo?"

At this time, Xumo raised his eyebrows and said, "That's the position of Zhao Han." ”

"That ......" Hujiang people are still unwilling.

"Hujiang Shizi, how can you get in the team of the Astrology Palace. Xumo stretched and left. He stopped as he passed by the frozen dolls, opened his palms and ignited a fire, and then several flames smashed on the dolls, and the ice began to melt as soon as it met the flames, and after a while they all thawed. It's just that the thawed puppet is only left with a pair of black armor, and several strings of white jade bells fall from the air, making a crisp sound of "jingle bells" after landing. Once the puppets die, the bells that match them are no longer dumbbells.

Xumo picked up the strings of bells, put them in the talisman bag, and handed them to Zhaohan on the side.

"Find a place to bury it. Xu Motou left without looking back, and Zhao Han followed behind him. The soldiers behind them also followed behind them in an orderly manner, and in the end, only Shaodian Hujiang and the two were left.

The fire gradually dissipated, and the cold wind in the forest made Hujiang shiver.

Hu Jiang was a little frustrated, and looked at Shaodian pitifully, Shaodian noticed his gaze, glanced at him, and then turned to leave. She turned her back to Hujiang and said, "Don't come out alone after dark, you know you can't protect yourself." ”

“......”

Although Shaodian didn't want to go with him, at least she still cared about him, didn't she, she really didn't dislike him, really not, no......

He hurriedly took out the cold jade and shouted angrily: "Jialan ......"

Jialan helplessly plucked out her ears, turned over, and was in a daze.

It's just that he doesn't know what to say. I had no choice but to turn around and go back. However, he had only walked a few steps when he met King Antin on the path.

King Anting's tall body almost occupied the entire path, and he was dressed in purple and hidden in the night, and Hujiang almost didn't see it.

"Father?" he was a little surprised. "Why did you get here. ”

"I heard some movement, so I came over to take a look. King Anting turned and walked forward, while Hujiang followed.

Hu Jiang nodded, he knew in his heart that his father came here because he was worried about him, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

"Thank you father, I'm fine. The tone couldn't help but be a little respectful.

"Hmm. ”

"You are not well yet, so you don't have to come out at night in the future, and when I return to the royal city tomorrow, I will send some more people to help you recuperate." ”

This is...... What does it mean to be confined again?

"Well, father, I'm cured. Hujiang whispered.

King Anting stopped, turned his head to him and said in a low voice, "Your illness is not yet cured, so you must recuperate in peace." His face was hidden in the night, and Hu Jiang felt a little frightened when he looked at it.

He hurriedly replied, "But my father ......."

King Anting sighed and said in a serious voice: "Son, the holy woman is not suitable for you, why bother chasing her?"

Hu Jiang lowered his head and was silent, he also understood that he couldn't be with Shaodian, but he just missed her and wanted to see her. Although they were not optimistic about him, the people of the astrology hall thought that he was not worthy of her, and his father would not let him get close to her, but he was still unwilling to give up, so let him follow her like this, is it not good to be by her side, he has never asked too much.

"Hujiang, have you clearly distinguished what love is?"

Hujiang was stunned for a moment, he seemed to ...... I don't quite understand. He only knows what it is like to like it, thinking about her day and night, laughing when he thinks of her, laughing when he thinks of her, and smirking when he sees her, is he like it like this?

"I, I can tell the difference. Hujiang said firmly. It's true that he's still young and doesn't quite understand what "love" is, but that alone makes him angry that he can't tell the difference.

King An Ting shook his head, he knew what Hujiang's feelings for Shaodian came from, from obedience in the blood. Hujiang is a doll's child, and his body has the blood of a doll and a doll in his body. And the children born of the combination of dolls and people are born with a sense of worship and admiration for the dolls, and it is obvious that Hujiang, who was taught to grow up as a person, takes this feeling as a liking and love for granted.

However, King An Ting never thought that this kind of relationship was Hujiang's so-called love at first sight, and he would not marry. If you like it, it's okay, but it's just that it's been twenty years, and Hujiang's enthusiasm has lasted too long, which has made him more and more uneasy.