Chapter Seventy-Eight: Tangled
My heart is cold.
But what I have to do still has to be done.
"Where is the striker?" I sat down, picked up a cup of hot tea soup handed over by Hu Yunniang, drank it all, and shouted suddenly.
"So-and-so!" A junior brother who was squatting on the ground in front of the cloud carpet and gasping for breath staggered to his sword and bowed his head in response.
"You lead a group of knights and go fifty miles forward. I pointed to the map in front of me, and without raising my head, I just threw a word.
"Uncle..." That junior brother was a little embarrassed.
"No, this bottle of elixir continues. This Black Wind Banner is also lent to you, don't die casually. "I picked up what I had prepared and threw it away.
"Uncle Shi!" the junior brother's face turned red, but he stopped arguing, picked up his things and turned around and retreated. Next, I heard him shouting outside, and pulled a group of warriors to ride on the "Jiama Fu" and went north.
"Where is Danfang Cao?" I called for another one.
This time it was one of the two women sent by Senior Sister Wang Gui. I remember that her name was Wang Juan, and she used to be contemptuous of me. But after the war, the feng shui flows, and now she bows down in front of me, but she is happy and convinced, and her eyes are full of obedience when she looks at me.
"My lord, there were fifty more wounded soldiers just now, that is, counting the seventeen wounded soldiers who died in the chaotic battle just now, we now also have one hundred and thirty-seven wounded······
Words don't need to be spoken.
"Senior brother, twenty-one more died just now. Pan Ha Ying whispered beside her.
I know.
The samurai below were carrying the thirty-eight dead corpses to a distant place where they were in the limelight, and asked the Qi Cultivator to take action, light the fire talisman, and cremate them into ashes. Then they were gathered one by one, put them in boxes, labeled with their names, and handed them back to another retainer named Wang E under the cloud blanket.
Now I have only thirteen Qi cultivators, two hundred and fifteen warriors, and one hundred and thirty-seven wounded. There are still two hundred and seventy miles to return to Taishan City in front, and there are six walled cities in the middle. The goblins that swarmed out of the swamps in the south kept biting me behind me, but I was so chilled by them that they dared to stop out of my sight.
"Senior brother, should we go first? These warriors will stay here first, and when we go to Taishan City, find Uncle Ni and then come back to save them, how about it?" But that's it, she still pinched her fingers, lowered her head, and didn't dare to look at me.
What do you mean?
The warriors looked at me, numb, silent, pleading, grief, gloomy.
Those practicing qi looked at me, longing, impulsive, suppressed, resentful, pleading.
Even if he has been bold and unscrupulous, he is now like a wounded little squirrel, huddled there and did not speak.
"Deng..."
I tapped on the desk in front of me, and my finger tapped on the map "Taishan City".
Indeed, leaving all the warriors below, the remaining thirteen Qi cultivators squeezed into the cloud carpet, galloped and galloped, bypassing all the walled cities in front of me, going straight into the wilderness, and swimming north, I only need four or five hours to return to Taishan City. Even if Taishan City falls, it will only take me two or three days to rush to Lianyun Peak.
Now that the world is in turmoil, my generation of monks does not return to the sect and huddle together to keep warm, but instead implicates the lives of hundreds of mortal warriors below, lingering in the swamps of the Southern Wilderness, fighting bloody battles to the death, and overcoming suffering, for what?
"I say, have you all really figured it out?" I glared at the crowd, only a sneer in my heart.
"Senior brother, you make a decision. "It's still Xie Baoqin, who was arched in front of him and made a bird, but he only knew that he was ashamed.
"Senior brother, you haven't noticed that this world is very wrong by now, right?" But Lin Shijiu couldn't help but glance at her gaze, and shouted angrily: "I don't believe it, you Chen Guanshui was so smart before, didn't you think that we have been here for many days, why did you even see a Jindan real person?"
I sneered, in fact, what you want to say is: "Obviously, your master Lin Beihe appeared in front of him once, why didn't he come to save you? The Lin family has a lot of Jindan Zhenren and Zhuji monks around here, why didn't they show up? As the master of Lianyun Peak, why didn't Xie Daoqing appear? As the latest support, why didn't Lin Keya appear?"
I sighed, changed the topic, and continued to point to that Wang Juan and asked, "Danfang Cao, I asked you to pay attention to the things collected in the morning, are you all ready?"
"My lord..."
"Uncle..."
"Senior brother..."
Speechless tears, two look at self-condensation, what are you going to make trouble?
But it was the samurai who were trapped on the ground around them let out a long sigh, the wooden man had a little more soul, the robot had a little more intelligence, and the stone man had a little more vitality. Although he was still silent, still cold, and still numb, he always spontaneously formed a team to clean up the corpses and potholes on the road ahead.
"Senior brother" Lin Shijiu pressed to my ear, his slight voice was like the chirping of insects, but the words he said were cold and cold: "You don't have to pretend." ”
Why?
"I've already read about such things in books. ”
Actually, I guessed it.
"My master can't interfere in the current matter, and Patriarch Xie Hongqi can't do anything. Now it's not that you can be appreciated by the Jindan real people hiding in the sky under the love of the people. Whether it is a Dao Qingzhen or a Hongwei Zhenren, I am afraid that they will not be able to protect themselves now, and it is impossible for them to come to save us. ”
So?
I clarified that I was staring at Lin Shijiu, and her little face gradually turned red.
"Qingyun Mountain and the Heavenly Bird Sect, there may be other sects, and they have joined forces to do something, this is not a battlefield for us to stay in. Senior brother, please, take us away quickly. Now the turbidity aura overturning has just begun, and the monsters that come out are all newly changed. You have Patriarch Yaoqin in your hands, it's so easy to kill. But senior brother, when those old demons adapt to the changes in the aura of heaven and earth and go out of the mountains, it will be too late for us to leave. ”
Oh, I didn't expect this, but sure enough, the real cultivators of the sect valve know a lot of the inside story. Now like this, Lin Shijiu just said a few words, and I can already deduce a lot of things.
It's a pity, Lin Nineteen, you have a ladder to heaven, and I also have a golden finger!
Is it true that I've been on the road honestly for so many days, and I've done nothing?
It has been the fourth day since the spirit membrane withdrew northward, and it has taken me all the time and computing power after entering the Golden Finger Space for three full nights to deduce a problem:
"What is the fundamental logic of this cultivation world?"
Is it chaos and darkness, or is the avenue ruthless, is everyone like a dragon, or is the common people like mustard, is it the charming eyes of the three thousand avenues, or is the heaven and earth repeated in my heart?
What is it?
Thanks to the super power of the Golden Finger Space, I have solved a lot of troublesome problems and learned one thing.
Tao spells, mental behavior, the distinction of six characters, honesty does not deceive me.
The word Dao Xin can torture many, many people to death.
So I understood a truth, what am I cultivating for? Am I trying to let those powerful cultivators above lower their heads and take a closer look? Am I here to blend in with the cultivator sect? Am I here to fight with swords and laugh proudly?
"Nineteen, they were brought out by me, and naturally I brought them back. If you're scared, you can go first. ”
Lin Shijiu was stunned, and I smiled very calmly.