"Are you awake?" Nian An took out a towel from behind his back and stuck sticky sweat on Qiuqiu's head, and then went outside to bring in the rice porridge that had been cooled.

Seeing that Qiuqiu's pale little face was full of tiredness, Nian An tried to squeeze a smile on his face.

"What time is it now?" Qiuqiu rubbed her eyes, trying to stand up, but found that her body was so sore that she couldn't lift her strength at all.

......She struggled a few more times, but found that her head was also dizzy, and she had to lie down again.

The young man probed her forehead with his hand and said, "It's noon." ”

As if to cater to Nian An's answer, a high-pitched insect chirp sounded outside the window.

"No, I'm asking what day it is? Every day in bed, sleeping more and waking less, this day is dizzy. Qiuqiu coughed as she covered her mouth with the futon, and a strange flush appeared on her face.

Nian An leaned down, carefully turned up the quilt with a towel and wiped it, and said in the tone of the little girl: "Chirp, you are seriously ill now, you have to pay attention to keep it in a hurry." ”

The girl looked up at him and pouted, "You care about me?"

Nian An picked up the cold porridge in his hand and fed it a spoonful.

......

"Nian An...... I woke up in the middle of the night yesterday and listened to the commotion outside, but what happened?"

The young man's hand holding the spoon paused for a moment, but it still did not tremble. "I don't know, it seems that a pregnant woman is happy in the middle of the night. ”

Qiuqiu looked at the scenery outside the house, swallowed the last few mouthfuls of cold porridge with difficulty, put the bedding on her head, and turned over and closed her eyes.

......

The boy sat down on the chaise longue as usual for a while, until the sound of a sound sleep came from the girl's side, and then he stood up and gently lifted the bedding from the girl's head, leaving her a place to breathe.

......

Where are the pregnant women?

The boy clearly heard two explosions from the direction of the south of the city last night, and then the officials and city guards patrolling the city on the north street changed wave after wave.

The young man listened to Qiuqiu's calm and pleasant breathing for a while, and walked to the outside of the courtyard to look in the direction of the layman's building.

He didn't tell Qiuqiu about the headless fat shopkeeper he saw in the Jushi Building yesterday.

He didn't tell Qiuqiu the sharp and weird smile that still echoed in his ears today.

He didn't tell her that headless bodies were found in many places on South Street yesterday.

After reporting the matter of the residence building to the official messenger, Nian An almost trotted all the way back to the courtyard, grabbed the iron sword beside him, and stayed at the gate of the courtyard of the house, staying awake all night.

......

......

"General, are you awake?" said Dourie, who was carefully pounding a bowl of herbs with a few pieces of gauze on his face.

Li Jingyu wanted to smile smugly on his face, but found that the right half of his face was wrapped in thick gauze, and the corners of his mouth moved uncomfortably.

He shook his limbs a little more, and found that his chest was covered with bandages and gauze, and his body was pulling and aching everywhere.

Li Jingyu was still happy in his heart, although it hurt, but in the end he still picked up a life and came back!

He glanced at Durry's back, and a voice twitched out of his throat: "What...... What...... Return...... As soon as this voice came out, Li Jingyu found that his throat was burning hot, and his tone was even more hoarse.

"The monster was hit by a rocket and exploded, and it rolled down to a wine jar on the second floor with the general and exploded again. ”

"I know, I'm asking how your brothers are?" Li Jingyu squinted at Du Rui.

The captain of the pro-soldier turned around and put the medicine bowl away, stood up, and solemnly stroked his right fist on his chest.

"The ironclad is here. ”

The look on his face was a little dim: "The brothers who were close to the second floor walked four, plus those who began to be attacked by monsters, a total of six." ”

"What about the rest?"

"It's all burned. ”

"What's wrong with that monster, but there's still a corpse?" Li Jingyu shook his head wrapped in gauze uncomfortably.

Du Rui turned his head to catch the terrifying burn behind the gauze on the right side of the general's face, and quickly lowered his head.

"Scorched by the fire, only a dried corpse remained, but some human bones were found in its belly. ”

Li Jingyu struggled to pinch his index finger and thumb together and rub them, and sighed.

"Changdu County brought the military attache to see you last night, when the general was asleep, our side asked Chen Chong to discuss with Changdu County, and put the whole city under martial law overnight. One is to search for the culprit who released the rocket, and the other is to continue to search for the monster in the city. I saw this morning that they had put up the portrait of the monster all over the city, and were hunting it down.

Li Jingyu nodded, and asked Du Rui to summon the goshawk who delivered the letter, and he wanted to quickly spread the news of this monster to the border of Huiri, so that Feng Shuai and they could make a decision as soon as possible.

"Du Rui, have you ever heard of this kind of monster with a snake head and a human body before?" asked Li Jingyu, looking at the ceiling.

"Unheard of, I wonder if it could be a branch of the demon clan that has taken refuge in the Yong'an Rebellion. ”

Li Jingyu squinted at him and shook his head, "There are a total of twelve branches of the demon clan, and the world is clear, and after thousands of years of civilization evolution, except for some special body parts, they are not much different from us humans.

But this monster is not like this, although it seems to be intelligent, but it is extremely ugly, and it is obviously not like the manifestation of civilization.

"I feel more like a beast than a man. ”

Li Jingyu has been smart since he was a child, but he doesn't like to read the books on governing the country and the world, but he is quite involved in those strange and miscellaneous skills. He remembers finding a copy of the Naturalist Chronicles in parchment in his father's library when he was a child. This book is based on ancient books, including the knowledge of mountains and rivers, the legends of historical figures, but the most is the description of strange birds and animals.

According to this book, a hundred years ago, someone saw a monster with a snake head and a human body in the southern wilderness, with infinite strength and ability to tear a yak by hand. At that time, a night watchman stationed nearby by the army, Chief Liao, was very interested when he heard about this, and specially organized a team of only a few hundred people to search for this monster.

Chief Liao's men circled the monster in the hilly terrain for several days, wounding more than a dozen people before they caught it. It's a pity that when Chief Liao's monster was sacrificed back to the capital, he crashed into the prisoner cart and ran away.

Zi is silent and weird, although Li Jingyu liked it when he was a child, he always looked at such strange things with a critical eye.

You must know that this world has been stable for a hundred years, and all races have explored almost all corners of the world, but they have never found the human race, the demon race, the feather race, and the intelligent species outside the wilderness.

But last night's fight made Li Jingyu muttered a little in his heart. This snake-faced monster actually knows how to deceive himself, so he must be wise. If it weren't for an intelligent creature, could it be that some snake spirit that had been cultivated for a hundred years had evolved?

......

"General, the short-tailed arrow was found yesterday, and the appearance of the forked arrow should be from the Black Armor Army. As he spoke, Du Rui took out a small piece of paper from his bosom with the pattern of the arrowhead of the early Black Armor Army and handed it to General Li.

Li Jingyu frowned, and a possibility suddenly popped up in his heart.

What if this monster was domesticated by the rebel thief of Yanwen Dao?

One is fine, but what if there is a tribe of these monsters? they are agile and powerful, and if they could be driven away, they would turn into a terrifying knife!

The more Li Jingyu thought about it, the more frightened he became, last night the monster must have filled his stomach with wine first, deliberately showed his head on the roof to lure himself over, and then found a way to kill himself in the chaos. In the end, when it was about to fail, the chaotic party directly shot rockets to burn the jade.

Li Jingyu was so angry that he slammed the bed board.

Then he called Durry and told him to quickly gather all the soldiers and prepare to assemble outside the camp in the southern city.

Du Rui nodded, and led the military doctor in to apply General Li another good condensing grass.

"General, you have the power of the wood element to protect your body, and this grass has a strong calming and anesthetic effect, so you won't be in pain now, but after tomorrow, the large burns around your body will definitely produce severe pain, please pay attention to your body when the time comes." As he spoke, the old medic tore off the gauze and applied the herbs to the wound.

Li Jingyu looked down at the wound where his flesh was turned open, and suddenly felt a strong sleepiness invade.

......

When he awoke, the sky in the north was faintly burning red.

Li Jingyu looked around at the empty tent and shouted in pain.

A soldier immediately pushed the door and ran in, his face was happy at first, but soon he became a little anxious, and his voice was very anxious: "General, there is a large army in the wilderness to the north. ”

Li Jingyu was stunned for a moment and asked, "It should be the people and horses that Feng Shuai came to support, how many are there?"

"They didn't light torches, they couldn't see them too far away, but there were at least a thousand of them. ”

Li Jingyu felt strange in his heart, and was about to say something more, but he heard a noisy shouting outside, and then his door was opened, and Du Rui walked in with a team of personal soldiers, with a somewhat solemn expression.

"General, there is a large army of unknown origin from the north. ”

"Help me up to town. ”

Du Rui glanced at Li Jingyu's gauze and shook his head.

Li Jingyu glanced at him, his tone was calm, but it was full of irresistible taste.

"Dory, I'll let you help me up to the city. ”

The captain bit his lip and nodded.

......

Several men helped the general wrap the wound with gauze again, and at the same time found a wide green robe and draped it over him.

After a while, a sharp banging sound suddenly sounded around Qu Baicheng at the same time.

Someone was pulling a bell and running down the street shouting.

"Changdu County ordered that all the people should stay at home and not move rashly, and all the officials, officials, and city defense troops in the city should immediately assemble at the head of the northern city. “

This was followed by a surging and eager thunder drum from the side of the Dujun Ya.

Li Jingyu was carried into a carriage by everyone. There was a commotion and noise everywhere in the streets, and the people were stunned to look at the blood-red sky burning in the north, and some people raised their feet to go back to the house, while others gathered together to discuss.

Officials wearing jujube red official uniforms drove the crowd around the street with burning sticks, "No noise, and those who violate the order will be sent to the capital county government for heavy punishment." ”

A good man ran around telling that the enemy was going to attack the city, but he was beaten by several officials with burning sticks and his nose was bruised.

Li Jingyu knew that something should have happened, and Changdu County gave such an order, which meant that there must be something wrong with the army that drove in.

He raised his hand, and more than a dozen carriages escorting him rushed to the head of the northern city.

Along the way, more and more officials and city guards were running around with torches and sticks, "Everyone take strict precautions, curfew tonight!"

Li Jingyu looked at the sky in the north again, only to feel that the air was filled with an unsettling moisture, and there was a strange heat flow stirring in his chest and abdomen.

......

Nian An locked the courtyard door of himself and Qiuqiu's house. But he didn't think it was enough, so he came into the house and found two long wooden tables to press in front of the courtyard gate.

The young man at the gate of the courtyard was blocking the door, and the soldiers at the gate were marching.

Nian An's house was very close to the north gate, so he could clearly hear the sound of armor clanging as the columns of sergeants marched in a neat formation not far from the courtyard gate.

About a quarter of an hour ago, the sergeants began to assemble at the north gate without stopping. Nian'an looked out through the gap in the courtyard gate, there were city defense troops wearing leather armor, Xiuzi troops of the northwest battalion wearing green armor, officials and officials, and even the government soldiers of the county government and embroidered birds in red cloaks gathered.

The voice on the street was so monotonous, Nian An seemed to be able to smell an indescribable depression from it.