Chapter 462: Night in the Forest
Qin Ke was slightly stunned: "How do you know?" At least he didn't know anything about these place names, and many things were known by talking to people in the army.
"Of course I do. Cai Yan lay on the mattress made of hay and said with a slight pride: "I did a lot of homework when I was at home, maps or something, and I can recite most of the place names of each house." ”
Qin Ke knew that Cai Yan had always wanted to leave Ding'an City, but he didn't expect her idea to be so strong, and she had even done such a hard job for this vision, and said with a wry smile: "I'm not as good as you, I said that I would take you to travel the world, but I didn't even know the way, so it seems that I'm really a bit embarrassed as a guide." ”
"Of course, you are a big fool, if it weren't for Miss Ben's wisdom and martial arts to pity you, you would still be used anywhere, out of Ding'an City, you can go wherever you want. Cai Yan giggled, but inhaled a breath of cold air and immediately coughed.
Qin Ke helplessly patted her on the back, trying to soothe her cough: "It's all like this, and you're still in a bad mood, you better get sick first, just like you are now, even if you are wise and martial, it's useless, who dares to let you lead the way." ”
Cai Yan coughed for a while, but his smile did not decrease at all, he just lay on the car and said, "When will you take me to your house again." ”
"My family, you said Daoxiang Village?" Qin Ke looked at her strangely: "Why do you want to go, there is nothing interesting there." ”
"Are you going to take me with you!" Cai Yan opened his big crystal eyes.
Where would Qin Ke object, he always tried his best to meet Cai Yan's request: "Okay, okay." If we have a chance, let's go back, we only talked to Uncle Ji and them quietly before, and there are several families who haven't come over to hang out......"
Speaking of this, he muttered: "I don't know if Uncle Ji has helped me take care of those morning glories." ”
Cai Yan nodded slightly, sleepiness came up again, and quietly closed his eyes: "Then say okay, pull the hook." ”
Qin Ke slowly pulled the hook with her, and then said the childish sentence "It's a puppy that deceives", and then helped her pull the blanket, watched her fall asleep slowly, and then smiled slightly and turned over on the horse.
In the next few days, Qin Ke can be said to be not very comfortable, he went to Daming Mountain to cross the mountains and mountains, and he was in a hurry, but he couldn't sleep well, although he said that his qi and blood cultivation was good, so he couldn't hold on, but the Mo cavalry under his command was greatly inferior.
Because of exhaustion, many people's expressions were a little sluggish, and even the war horses looked a little sluggish because they kept walking. On the night of the third day, Qin Ke stopped his team, determined to let all the Mo cavalry stop and camp and rest for a good night.
"There's no way to do it. Qin Ke looked at the Mo family cavalry who responded in an uproar and looked very happy, and shook his head, "If you go on like this, you won't be able to hold it sooner or later." ”
Abu nodded, but thought of the details of Gao Changgong's eight thousand Qingzhou ghosts riding in the Tang Dynasty back then, they were also one person and three horses, but they were able to do seven days without sleep, traveling six hundred miles in a row, and approaching the capital of Tang State.
It was also because of this that the Tang State was shocked and finally recalled the army of the Southern Expedition to defend itself, but in the end it was defeated by Jing Wu.
If you don't reach your limits, you don't know that you have infinite potential.
But Gao Changgong later said something else: "It's time to rest and rest, maybe Ding'an City can be broken for him...... Li Qiuhuang's cultivation is not bad, but there are few people who have been able to see it so far, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”
Even if there is a Qingzhou ghost riding a pearl in front, it does not mean that there are no inconspicuous pebbles by the river in this world. Even if the Qingzhou ghost cavalry marched for seven days, they could still fight with their horses and swords, but obviously the group of Mo family cavalry behind them did not have such ability.
The tent was built on a hillside, perched high above the hill, just in time to observe the surroundings.
Abu stood on a high place, a mountain wind howling, blowing his hair and making his eyes narrow slightly.
The moonlight was draped over his shoulders like frost in the night.
There are only less than 100 miles left from Daming Mountain, and you can probably reach it the day after tomorrow.
But the closer he got to Xingzhou, the more unsteady Abu became, and he always felt that one day he would suddenly bump into a large force of the Tang Army and cause trouble.
Having said that, what if you get to Daming Mountain? Can you ensure safety?
And suddenly a hand appeared in front of his eyes, blocking his gaze.
Qin Ke stood beside him, holding a branch with leaves in his hand, and said with a smile: "Why do you keep being bitter? ”
Abu raised his hand, took the branch, and joked, "I don't know how to peel it off for me first." ”
Qin Ke rolled his eyes: "You have hands and feet, don't ask too much, when will you be on par with Lao Gao's shameless person?"
Compared with the last camp, this time it was much more presentable, after all, they had robbed a lot of supplies from the Tang army, and now everyone had a place to sleep, and they didn't have to wrap themselves in blankets at night to withstand the biting mountain wind.
Qin Ke woke up in the middle of the night, stroked his stomach, and muttered, "Sure enough...... You really shouldn't have finished that big pot of broth before bed. ”
He glanced at Cai Yan, who was breathing slowly, her condition had improved a lot in the past few days, but the root of the disease was always stubbornly attached to her body, and it had not been cleaned up for a long time.
So Qin Ke didn't want to disturb her sweet dream, but carefully lifted the tent and drilled out like an agile ape.
The mountain breeze is slightly cold, and the thick fallen leaves under the feet make a creaking sound under the feet, which is enough to make people feel that the autumn is getting deeper, calculate the time, the wheat in Daoxiang Village should have been cut, right?
There were a few sounds of birds fluttering their wings in the forest, he frowned, his ears moved slightly, the art of wind vision unfolded invisibly, and the whistling mountain wind and the chirping of birds and birds were suddenly magnified several times in his ears.
After solving the problem, he fastened his belt, looked into the depths of the dark forest, and subconsciously stroked his waist.
The Bodhisattva sword was not brought out, and it was still in the tent.
Qin Ke thought for a moment, pulled out the sharp dagger left for him by his master from the strap on his calf, and slowly walked towards the forest.
His chest shook for a while, and Xiao Hei, who had not been awake for a long time, came out at this time, jumped onto his shoulder, as if he had found something, and kept raising his head to observe the front vigilantly.
"You also feel it?" Qin Ke asked in a low voice, "Is it dangerous?"
Xiao Hei didn't move, just continued to hold his head high, with a little doubt in his eyes.
Although Xiao Hei couldn't answer, his keen senses won Qin Ke's trust, and since he also sensed that there was something wrong in front of him, it was enough to prove that his spontaneous sense of depression and anxiety was not groundless.
Qin Ke clenched the dagger in his hand, looked at the dark jungle, hesitated for a moment, and walked forward slowly.
The woods in autumn were full of fallen leaves under his feet, and when he stepped on them, he would make a creaking sound, and as Qin Ke continued to move forward, something suddenly jumped up under the pile of fallen leaves less than ten steps away in front of him.
Qin Ke's eyes froze, and he suddenly stopped, and the dagger in his hand had already been raised between his eyebrows, as if it would stab out violently at any time.
Under the fallen leaves, an obese squirrel came out with a shy belly, its cheeks bulging, it seemed that it had a lot of pine nuts in its mouth, its big and soft tail shook gently, and its eyes looked at Qin Ke, looking both a little curious and a little afraid.
Qin Ke stared at it blankly for a moment, finally put down the dagger, and let out a long breath: "It turned out to be you." ”
Of course, the squirrel didn't know Qin Ke, it just tilted its head slightly, and when it saw the little black on Qin Ke's shoulder, it was inexplicably more afraid, and immediately fled backwards in a panic, and slipped into the fallen leaves.
Qin Ke stood up straighter helplessly, turned his head to look at Xiao Hei, and said, "It seems that when you were in Jingwu, Hei Feng was also afraid that you were scared to death, you are such a 'little man', why do they look at you as if they have seen a ghost?"
Xiao Hei ignored him, holding his head high, looking very arrogant.
Lightly, a gust of wind blew towards Qin Ke from behind him, bringing a chill in the night, and a few leaves fell from the air, so light that it seemed to have no weight.
It's just that Qin Ke's eyes suddenly bloomed with infinite edge in the next moment!
Almost in the blink of an eye, his qi and blood exploded, and it was suddenly excited to the peak, and the blade of the dagger cut through the sparse moonlight that was thrown in the forest, and with one of his turns, it had already stabbed out towards his back!
Of course, this dagger was not his temporary idea, and with his hearing, he could naturally hear that the rustling sound was the sound of a pine tree gnawing something, but another voice hidden in this sound was his real goal.
He pretended to be lax, just to make the most violent of stabs.
In this stab, he has even used the sword intent of the Seven Advance Sword, perhaps the dagger is more than one cut shorter than the Bodhisattva Sword, but this does not prevent him from having the momentum of "advancing without retreating, like a broken bamboo".
Just behind him, a shadow shrouded in a black robe was like a ghost, about three inches away from his back, the black shadow was silent, and even his breath and heartbeat were hidden in the night wind.
I didn't see any movement from the black shadow, but Qin Ke seemed to have hit a wall, snorted, and as his legs cut a deep mark on the ground, his whole person retreated a full ten steps back.
But the moment he stopped, his complexion changed suddenly!
What's going on? The dark shadow...... It's gone!