Despite the summer months, the nights in the wilderness are chilling.

Maybe you are silent in the crickets one moment, and the next you will be awakened by the wolf howl.

Seven days and nights have passed since the slaughter of the Yellow Mansion in the Imperial Demon City. In the past seven days, for Ji Menglan, every day and night has been spent in fear.

However, tonight was no exception, she was not worried about her own safety, but was afraid that the young man next to her, who had been in a coma, would suddenly stop breathing. In her opinion, she can die, but the boy in front of her must live.

For seven days and nights, all she did every day was to carry the boy on her back, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, the road she chose was a rugged mountain road that few people passed. When you are thirsty, you drink the dew of mountain springs, when you are hungry, you eat rats, ants, snakes and insects, and when you are tired, you will rest according to the hole.

Fortunately, the emperor lived up to his wishes, although he was frightened all the way, but he finally arrived at the border north of the Central Plains Continent, which is only a three-day trip from the destination Hongmen, and the hanging heart can finally be put down.

She didn't understand why her master Huang Hongjin asked her to take her junior brother to Hongmen to look for Hong Nanyang in the secret room of the Huangfu in the Imperial Demon City that night, because she had long heard that Hong Nanyang's teacher ancestor had disappeared twenty years ago and was missing, but she believed that her master must have his intentions in explaining like this.

Since it was what her master ordered, she would complete it even if she lost her life.

As early as twenty years ago, the Demon Cult burned and looted everywhere, and one evening, the Demon Cult members suddenly broke into her village.

When she was only four years old, she watched her younger brother, who had just reached the full moon in the arms of her parents and mother, be brutally murdered by the Demon Sect, but fortunately, her master Huang Hongjin and others arrived in time to save her from the sharp blade of the Demon Sect.

After the master brought it back, under the witness of the master, he was able to worship Huang Jichong, the son of the master, as his teacher, and the master Huang Jichong treated him like himself, took care of him in every way, and taught him what he had learned all his life.

When he became an adult, Master made himself one of the important members of the Tiger Hunting Hall, and he was entrusted with important responsibilities.

Through his own efforts, he became the head of the thirteen hunters of the Demon Empire.

The brutal training he received since he was a child and the dozens of demon hunting missions he has received, it stands to reason that he has long been a cold-blooded and ruthless killing machine, but performing tasks outside and returning home are two different things, because what the Huang Mansion gave him, in addition to his skills, also had the warmth of home.

She already has everything, but not long ago, everything she has was taken away in an instant, how can people accept it.

Recalling that night, when she returned from a mission alone, she found that there was a faint sound of swords colliding and screams from the attached middle, and she noticed that the situation was not good, so she quietly sneaked towards the master's study.

However, when she arrived at the study, she saw that her master, Huang Jichong, was already lying on the ground and dying.

"Master, are you okay Master, Master ......", she held Master in her arms without crying, looking at Master with a bloody face, she was angry except for helplessness.

In Ji Menglan's incessant call, Huang Jichong finally opened his eyes slowly, and said to Ji Menglan with his last strength, "Lan'er, go to the secret room from the secret passage, leave with Zhan'er, remember not to trust others easily, including the people of the Demon Empire, go to ...... Go, poof......" A mouthful of blood spat out, and before she could say a good word to Master, Master stopped breathing.

"Master, you can't die, Master... Master..."No matter how she called, Huang Jichong's closed eyes never opened again.

At that moment, she seemed to have returned to the twilight twenty years ago, when she witnessed her relatives die one by one. At that moment, her world was instantly devoid of any color.

She was even blaming herself, "Why, why?...... Why didn't I die, ahh...... Master......"

For the first time in twenty years, she cried. No matter how Master punished her before, she never shed a single tear, because he knew that Master did it for her good.

But at that moment, the master was lying quietly in his arms, and his body temperature was dissipating little by little, which made her world refill with colors, and once again only left gray space.

Wiping away her tears, she sobbed and got up and walked to the master's desk, twisted the inkstone on the desk, as the twisted inkstone stopped, the bookshelves behind the desk slowly moved to both sides, and after a while, an entrance appeared in front of her, turned her head and took one last look at the master, and then a boast flashed in.

As soon as I arrived at the secret room, I happened to see the senior brother and the junior brother sitting on the white tiger skin carpet one after the other, the master was healing the junior brother's luck, and the junior brother closed his eyes tightly, and large drops of sweat dripped down from the junior brother's forehead, and it could be seen from the junior brother's tightly frowning brow that the junior brother was seriously injured.

"Master, Master, Master...... Master, he ......"

"Lan'er doesn't need to say much, Shigong already knows. ”

She ran to her master's side, and before she could finish speaking, her master, Huang Hongjin, interrupted her next words.

Seeing blood coming out of the corner of her junior brother's mouth, she couldn't help but worry, "Master, is my junior brother okay?"

"Your junior brother was hit by the Seven Wounds Fist, and now the meridians of the whole body are broken, fortunately, at the moment of crisis, your master used his body to block part of the strength for him, so he did not hurt the internal organs, but your master 。。。。。。 ”

Shi Gong transmitted his true qi to his junior brother's back while explaining that he did not go on when he mentioned his beloved son Huang Jichong.

When his beloved son died, except for fortitude, Ji Menglan did not see any trace of sadness on his face. It's just that Ji Menglan knows very well that Shigong's heart is actually broken, but the enemy is currently there, and he has no time to take care of it.

After a long time, Shi Gong put his hand up and pushed it down, as a way to calm the qi of the dantian. And the junior brother also slowly fell down with the hand withdrawn by the master, seeing this, Ji Menglan hurriedly reached out to help.

"Master, are you okay?" Seeing that large beads of sweat were appearing on Master's pale face, Ji Menglan asked worriedly and eagerly.

"Lan'er, Master Gong has passed on all his life's internal strength to your junior brother, and this is the only way to save your junior brother at present. ”

Master Huang Hongjin slowly opened his eyes, turned his head and looked at Ji Menglan cordially, and said unhurriedly.

"What should you do, Master?"

"Lan'er doesn't need to be too sad, Shigong has been severely injured in the battle with the demon cult villains before, and he knows that there is not much time left. What you have to do now is to take your junior brother and leave quickly. ”

Shigong Huang Hongjin closed his eyes slightly and said weakly.

"No, Master, we have to go together. ”

"Silly boy, take the master, none of us can leave. Remember, don't trust anyone. After escaping from the Yellow Mansion, he went to Hongmen to find Hong Nanyang. ”

"But Master, Master Hong didn't ...... twenty years ago"

"Ah......h

Ji Menglan was about to say that she was interrupted by a scream outside the door of the secret room, and along with this scream, there was a cold air that was enough to suffocate.

When the screams came, Ji Menglan immediately became vigilant, holding her junior brother with one hand and the crescent scimitar pinned behind her with the other.

"A few brave people dared to break into the gate of my Tiger Hunting Hall at night. ”

Ji Menglan looked up at the master who suddenly spoke, and asked the master to command, if the master looked or gestured, she would rush out of the door and kill.

However, Shigong did not give her any instructions. Instead, he shook his head at her and waved his hand heavily at the secret passage where she came.

Ji Menglan pursed her lips and looked at her master with tears in her eyes and shook her head.

"In the world, there is no threshold that my Qi Dao Sect does not dare to cross. ”

The voice from outside the door interrupted Ji Menglan's tears that were about to fall. When she looked at Shigong again, Shigong closed his eyes, but waved his hand again at the mouth of the dark passage.

This time, she was no longer melancholy, but wiped the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, bowed over the back of her junior brother lying on the ground, and then left towards the dark entrance without looking back.

Not long after, in the dark passage, at a fork in the road, her footsteps were interrupted by a loud noise from the secret room behind her.

"No, no, Daddy......" She stopped, and was about to turn around and walk back, when she was stopped by the voice of the junior brother behind her, so she lowered her head and continued to run.

Although seven days and nights have passed, looking back on that night, Ji Menglan feels like yesterday.

"Master, Master, if you can hear it, please bless the junior brother to be safe and sound, one day Lan'er will be the enemy of the sword, in order to repay the kindness of the second elder and comfort the second elder and even the entire Tiger Hunting Hall more than 100 souls in the sky. ”

Ji Menglan knew very well that the real enemy was not the Demon Sect.

A murderous aura flashed in Ji Menglan's eyes, and in this cave, she secretly swore in her heart.

"Ahem... Ahem..."Two slight coughs sounded, and the murderous aura on Ji Menglan's body disappeared in an instant.

"Ah Zhan, Ah Zhan, how are you, Ah Zhan. ”

"Ah Zhan, don't scare Sister Lan, open your eyes and look at Sister Lan. ”

Ji Menglan gently shook the young man lying on the ground, and called eagerly.

"Hot... I'm hot. ”

Hearing the young man lying in front of her shouting heat, Ji Menglan immediately picked up a sunflower fan beside her and fanned it against the young man's flushed face.

Looking at the slightly childish but delicate face in front of her, Ji Menglan fell into deep memories.

She remembered that when she was sixteen years old, when she was locked up by her master because she couldn't recite the sword mantra explained by her master, it was this boy who threw apples at herself from the roof, and it was this boy who was six years younger than herself.

She remembered that when she participated in the Heroes Conference held in the Central Plains Continent for the first time, it was this young man who gave her a string of rock sugar gourds.

She still remembers that time...... This teenager who was taking a shower in the room and suddenly broke into her room. In the lecture hall of Shigong's internal strength and mental method, when the first menarche hit wet his skirt and he didn't dare to get up, it was this teenager who poured water on himself at the risk of being punished.

This teenager who looks at the stars and the moon with her, this teenager who has appeared in her life every day since eighteen years ago.

This teenager, her junior brother, Huang Linzhan.

Ji Menglan was immersed in good memories, and at some point, a flush appeared on her face.

"Cold ...... I ...... cold."

The young man's body on the ground trembled, and the slight call pulled Ji Menglan, who was immersed in memories, back to reality.

Stopped the Kwai fan in her hand, shook her head, and after thinking about the young man's words just now, she was just a little melancholy, and then quickly put down the Kwai fan in her hand, and gently lay down next to the young man, and then stretched out her hands and hugged the young man tightly in her arms.

Feeling the slight warmth from her neck, Ji Menglan had a worried look on her face, almost covered by the flush on her face.

"Where is this, where am I?"

"It hurts, it hurts, am I going to die? Why am I in pain all over my body? ”

"No, I'm injured, I got hit with all the power of a black-robed man, and then ......"

"Daddy, Daddy......"

In a cave located on the mountainside of Jihong to the west of Hongmen, Huang Linzhan, who was lying in Ji Menglan's arms, woke up.

"Ah Zhan, are you okay, great, you're finally awake!"

Ji Menglan, who hadn't really closed her eyes for several days, was awakened by Huang Linzhan's voice, and when she saw Huang Linzhan who had opened her eyes in her arms, she said excitedly, "Ah Zhan, are you okay, great, you finally woke up, I thought it would ...... I thought ......"

As she spoke, Ji Menglan hugged Huang Linzhan, and the tears that instantly overflowed in her eyes also fell down with her actions.

That's right, during the time when Huang Linzhan was in a coma, she was looking forward to this moment all the time, and sometimes when she looked at Huang Linzhan's tightly closed eyes in a daze, she even hallucinated, those eyes opened gently, and then looked at her gently, as if to say "Sister Lan, I miss you so much".

In the past period of time, she has closed her eyes and rested every day, but she has been in a state of anxiety, she is gently closing her eyes and resting, as long as the slightest wind and grass, she will open her eyes in the first time, and then become alert.

However, just last night, when she gently put Huang Linzhan in her arms, she fell asleep unconsciously, if she hadn't been awakened by Huang Linzhan's shouting, she... I don't want to open my eyes yet.

Tick... Tick... In the empty cave, water droplets fall rhythmically from the tips of the inverted stalagmites on the roof of the cave.

And along with the rhythm of this droplet, there were tears that slipped down from Ji Menglan's face, although these tears fell on Huang Linzhan's face, but Huang Linzhan felt that they were dripping in his heart, and every tear made his heart tremble.

In the afterglow of these tears, he finally came to his senses in the true sense.

"Sister Lan"

After a call, Huang Linzhan wanted to sit up, ah...... As soon as he exerted his strength, a sharp pain came from all over his body, causing his half-straight body to fall down again.

"Ah, Zhan, don't move. ”

Seeing this, Ji Menglan hurriedly got up and supported Huang Linzhan's body.

"Sister Lan, tell me, apart from you and me, who else in the mansion survived?"

Huang Linzhan endured the severe pain all over his body and looked at Ji Menglan with a serious face.

He remembered that night, he was in his father Huang Jichong's study, asking his father to explain to him the places in a secret book that he couldn't understand, which was an internal skill method that his grandfather had asked him to recite since he was a child.

Just as he was listening to it, he suddenly heard a strange movement in the courtyard, so he leaned over to the crack in the door to find out.

In the courtyard outside the gate, dozens of black-clothed people were carrying sharp knives and were scattering in all directions, and lying in the center of the courtyard were several night watchmen from the Yellow Mansion.

"Daddy, ......"

When he suddenly saw this situation, his first thought was to inform his father of the situation, but just as he turned around, he suddenly felt a chill hit his back.

"Zhan'er be careful. ”

Before Huang Linzhan could react, his father had already jumped behind him with an arrow, and then tried to block him with a swift momentum.

"Bang Dang"

A black-robed masked man broke into the door and punched him twice, one in his father's chest and the other in Huang Linzhan's back.

"Poof..."

With the sound of the black-robed man's fist, the father and son spat blood from their mouths almost at the same time, and then flew out and smashed on the desk.

Father Huang Jichong is the strength of the Great Heavy High Realm, this person can seriously injure his father with one punch, and his strength is set to cultivate above the Great Heavy Realm.

But Huang Linzhan, who ate this person's punch, vomited blood and was unable to move while lying on the ground.

After seeing his father Huang Jichong, who was knocked away, stood up, he immediately moved to his father at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and punched out again.

Before his father could stand still, facing the fist in front of him, he knew that it was too late to dodge, and in desperation, he had to cross his hands and try to take the punch.

Boom... There was a muffled sound, and before he could see the result of the battle between the two, Huang Linzhan fainted, and in a daze, he felt that someone was holding him and moving.

"Zhan'er, you hold on, grandpa will heal your wounds. ”

After hearing this, Huang Linzhan completely lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, I was in the cave of Jihong Mountain.

"Ah, Zhan, are you hungry, Sister Lan will go find you something to eat. ”

Facing Huang Linzhan's inquiry, Ji Menglan prevaricated. Because she didn't know if her junior brother would be able to withstand the heavy blow of being slaughtered, or that she didn't want to mention it at all.

"Sister Lan, grandpa, dad and other people in the mansion have all encountered accidents, right?" Huang Linzhan still looked dull, his face was expressionless, and he asked lightly.

Under Huang Linzhan's questioning again, Ji Menglan still did not reply, but cried silently.

What she had been worried about finally came, that is, when Huang Linzhan woke up, how to explain to him whether he could withstand the pain of being wiped out.

Feeling a tremor from Ji Menglan's body, Huang Linzhan looked up at her.

Ji Menglan's pale and haggard face was covered with several striking scratches, but despite this, it still couldn't hide her delicate face. The willow-like eyebrows are dotted with a pair of big teary eyes, and the melon seed face seems to be born to let the tears flow, so that the two streams converge at the pointed chin, and then merge, making people love and pity.

After getting along for eighteen years day and night, he didn't expect the first time he took a serious look at it in such a situation, but this look made him feel extremely heartbroken.

He wanted to raise his hand to caress this face, or rather the scar, but he was already a person whose meridians were broken, and he couldn't do anything.

"Sister Lan, and me, I will definitely get better, and then avenge the people of the Huang Mansion, believe me. ”

I don't know if it was out of comfort or something else, Huang Linzhan had the urge to stand up at the moment, he looked at Ji Menglan with a firm face and said.

"Well, I believe in you, and I believe that you will one day be able to get back on your feet and fight with me. ”

While speaking, Ji Menglan excitedly hugged Huang Linzhan tightly.

Ji Menglan originally thought that after Huang Linzhan woke up and faced the reality, he would be in pain, and he would languish from then on. But after hearing his firm and resolute words, she breathed a long sigh of relief, and at the same time, she also saw hope in Huang Linzhan.

It's just that this hope is not like Huang Linzhan recovering his health, and then fighting the enemy with her, after all, Huang Linzhan has broken all the meridians in his body, and it is completely impossible to recover completely.

The hope she saw came from Huang Linzhan's determination to live. As for the search for the enemy, she had silently shouldered it all in her heart.

"Sister Lan, I don't have anything but you. Trust me, I'm going to get better. ”

Leaning on Ji Menglan's shoulder, Huang Linzhan secretly made up his mind.

(Not much to say, the younger brother is silently diligent)