Chapter 20: Colder (II)
The two armoured soldiers did not dare to approach any longer, so they retreated some distance in different directions, changing their bodies between the large trees, and maintaining the firing limit - a distance that could not penetrate the heavy armor of the captain, but it was fatal to the enemy who was already unarmoured. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"I remember—you heard about the raid, and you rushed out...... Not here, let's go out into town...... Haha......"
Ji Lun silently took out the small round mirror in his pocket, and whispered in a faint voice.
"You little mouse is finally ...... Huh?"
Then came a dance on the blade, a reversal between life and death.
In the guarded eyes of the armor sergeant, the warlock who always wandered away to dodge arrows from the tree, at this moment, attacked with an amazing confrontation, sword exchange, clanging a spark, and a hard top long knife, and burst into the captain's knife circle!
Only the lieutenant knows what is happening, and the enemy's close-quarters swordsmanship is simply growing rapidly in the confrontation!
And at the last moment of breakthrough, a small round mirror was suddenly raised in his hand, reflecting a certain refraction, and a strange red glare instantly shook through his eyes, and the light and dark gap between light and shadow was staggered, and the other party's trace was lost in close proximity!
When he reacted, he had bypassed the blade, burst into the defensive circle, and stabbed straight with his sword.
The lieutenant felt that it was not good, and instinctively turned his body to deviate the angle, but when he was in the middle of the sword, his face turned pale, and he woke up again...... The sword was inserted into the captain's chest, and it was the long knife that hit the dent, but the sword was only half an inch into it, and it broke.
"Hah! Heaven is going to kill you—a warlock!"
The lieutenant breathed a sigh of relief, ignored it no more, and went on a rampage.
Ji Lun's body flew out upside down, vomiting blood in mid-air, the big tree swayed, and the last two crossbowmen lost their vision again, and couldn't help but change their direction and catch up on both sides.
"Humph!"
The lieutenant stretched out his hand and pulled out the broken sword and looked at it, and threw it on the ground casually, the cuirass was shattered, and the metal fragments wrapped in the silk lining it, and it shook out with a slight shake, without hurting the heart and intestines, but on the contrary, the opponent Wujia was brutally impacted, and the loss was not small.
There was a moment of life and death on the battlefield, and there was no sympathy, so he immediately rose up: "This is the end of the thief, God will not help you-"
"It's a pity, if the sword texture was better...... But it's not bad now......"
Ji Lun rolled to the ground, held down the corpse of a soldier, pulled himself out on his forehead and threw a long knife, dizzy, making his vision a little blurred...... Severe pain in both arms, possibly dislocated?
What a brute cow.
He stretched out his hand and groped on the quiet grass, a small orange flower came into view, his fingers stopped groping, and he held it, this familiar feeling was clasped on his fingertips.
Wow -
The long knife split the branches and leaves and mist, and the pitch-black heavily armored man swept it at a glance, his eyes flashed with vigilance, judging the state of the enemy, he put his mind at ease and exhaled: "It seems that you insist on being an imperial thief?
With a wave of the knife, it easily knocked away the rickety long knife in Ji Lun's hand, and the blade grazed Ji Lun's neck.
Ji Lun's legs could still move, kicking the ground, until his back was against the tree, as if he was afraid of instinct, his body retreated to dodge the blow, and at the moment when the knife light did not return, he took out a hand behind his back and raised it: "Goodbye." ”
When the lieutenant heard this, his instinctive reaction was to laugh: "I want to play tricks ...... tricks."
The voice paused, and blood spilled out of his mouth.
He looked down in disbelief, and the first thing he saw was a small yellow flower, inserted in the lookout of a crossbow, the crossbow was close to the breach in his breastplate, the bowstring was still buzzing and rebounding, and the end of the steel crossbow was exposed to the fracture of the breastplate, faint and cold.
Ji Lun pulled the trigger and released his fingers: "This time, it's true." ”
"I'll kill you—"
The captain's sword light couldn't be chopped down again, but he pulled it out, blood splashed, and the captain shook his body, and his whole strength disappeared, leaning against the trunk of the tree.
"Lieutenant!"
The two armor soldiers were shocked, the captain was tenacious, and he was not dead for a while, but he was already bleeding from his trachea, his strength was disjointed, and he only made a vague voice in his throat: "Don't come...... Go back and report to the Lord......"
This is not realistic, the imperial military law is strict, and when they see that Shangguan is in danger and does not save them, the two of them have to die and pounce on themselves.
But there was no chance of shooting at all.
Ji Lun is not tall, which is very practical on the battlefield, silently crouching between the back of the black tower giant and the trunk, and meticulously turning the wheel with both hands to wind the crossbow, in the usual easy action, at this time it takes a little effort.
The two armor sergeants threatened: "Let go of the lieutenant, I will let you leave ......"
Ji Lun stood up a little swaying, raised the crossbow and put it on the captain's shoulder, the crossbow was very stable.
Under the cold light of the metal, the two armorers separated, outflanking and approaching from different angles.
Ji Lun tugged at the stiff lieutenant, making his body form a good diagonal to the trunk of the tree, covering the angle of a soldier outflanking, but this pulling made the lieutenant spit blood in his mouth, and he couldn't see it alive.
The soldier who lost his shooting perspective was furious: "Let go of the people, the lieutenant is dead, and you don't want to live!"
Ji Lun listened but didn't listen, raised his crossbow, and aimed it at a side armorer.
They were only ten steps apart, and the armor shook and pulled the trigger.
Whoosh -
Ji Lun turned his head sideways to avoid it, his short body shrunk behind the arm armor of the dying captain, and the armorer on the opposite side snorted, and was hit by an arrow in the chest...... Slowly falling.
"Hmph, how many points is off, don't dare to hit your superiors?"
Guillon broke away from the angle between the dying lieutenant and the tree, which was a dead place, and staggered around the tree, turned the wheel again, and looked at the tree with a small round mirror in his hand, a bit of a periscope...... Wait, what is a periscope?
A soldier pounced on him, threw himself into the air, and held the captain's body, and the captain coughed up blood: "Kill the enemy quickly." ”
"Yes!"
The armor went around the tree, and Jilun also walked around the tree...... The two of them were circling in circles, and the armor warriors who had awakened this point counterattacked, but they didn't see the enemy, life and death, and the usual hide-and-seek, blended into a permeating atmosphere.
On the side of the big tree, there is only the sound of creaking strings, gasps, and intermittent singing: "Find, find, find friends...... Find a good friend, salute and shake hands......"
The singing voice was soft, the fog was thick, and it seemed to be fighting against invisible foreign objects, and the armor soldier had a cold back and roared: "Get out of here!"
"We are ...... Good friends......"
Everything was quiet.
The armor priest held his breath and turned to raise his crossbow, but there was no one, and a mirror flashed in front of him...... The vision is instantaneous, and the instinct senses the danger and pulls the trigger.
Syllable!
The mirror shattered.
The cold was put on the back of his head, and when he pulled the trigger, the armor instinctively threw himself forward, and there was a sharp pain in the back of his head, and the whole world darkened.
The whole army was annihilated, and the eyes of the dying lieutenant were not closed, but he was the last to see the whole process, and the young man was coughing up blood when he stumbled over, and the captain's eyes began to dim.
Ji Lun stretched out his hand and pushed: "There are some things I want to ask...... Have you ever seen a woman, oh, here's a picture of her......"
On the blood-stained photo, it was a young and gentle mother, the captain looked blankly, the light in his eyes dissipated, and the iron tower slowly slid down the trunk: "Warlock...... Great courage, why not ......"
Bang -
The tower fell, the ground shook a few times, and Ji Lun was still a little distressed: "Hey, don't die, have you seen her......?"
The lieutenant closed his eyes, his lips trembled and muttered, "Why don't you ......"
Ji Lun squatted down and listened.
The breath of "serving the ...... empire" is cut off.
“......”
Ji Lun sighed, put away the photo of his mother, and put it in the back of the small round mirror to hide it, he shouldn't have seen it...... Otherwise, the enemy's first reaction will not be at a loss, the mirror is turned back to the front, the glass is broken, the cracks in the shiny mercury coating are not real, there is no strange streamer, and it is broken.
"I don't know if I can fix it......," muttered.
The woods were quiet again, and the sound of birds chirping made the hollow seem lonely.
If I listened carefully, I couldn't make out the name of the bird, and it didn't call it gently, but it was nice in the twilight...... This was remembered by Guillen until a long, long time later.
At this time, I turned my head to look at the fog outside the forest, the red light was faint, and the fog might be behind it...... Sunset.
Looking at the sky like this and being silent for a moment, there was another hot current, this time there was no special effect, just a slight swelling and pain in his chest, he took a few deep breaths to calm down, rubbed against the big tree and endured the pain to recover his dislocated arms, and turned over the body of the deputy captain.
The iron armor is strong, and it is still so heavy when it is dead.
Ji Lun had nothing to complain about as a living person, and he silently took out a small bag of food on the waist of the corpse and opened it.
Wrapped in green leaves, there are four glutinous rice dumplings that have cooled down.
At this time, he peeled off the dumpling leaves and ate one, but he didn't know the taste, there was no expression on his face, and he sat alone without any words -- this young man with memory impairment was accustomed to loneliness.
If you have enough time, you can even enjoy the sound of the wind blowing on the ground alone.
But now that time is running out, the remaining pursuers don't know when they will catch up, replenish their physical strength, and if they can move a little, they will identify the direction and look for a few corpses.
"There should be seven more bags, plus the nine bags hidden at the gate of the town, a lot...... Or there are corpses that can collect food, and other useful things......"
The sky was dark, and in the chaotic fog world, the sunset could not be seen, but anyone could feel that the sun was indeed about to set.
What follows will be a long, cold and dark night, and no one can change it.
The lieutenant who had just said that until his death and did not reveal new information, when he threatened Ji Lun, he said: "You are scarred, tired and tired, the sun is going to set again, the night here is very dangerous, you must want to go home." ”
The boy with memory impairment didn't know that it was dangerous at night, but he was really tired and tired and wanted to go home.
Stripped off a soldier's clothes and put them on, didn't see the pursuers when he went out, found the big tree that remembered the location, and put the bags of food that he had hidden before into a big bag, so that the bag was very heavy, and it was a bit difficult for Ji Lun now, but after eating the food, his strength was still slowly recovering.
For some reason, there was no instant recovery......
Outside the town, the light was dim, and when you dragged your bags into the town, the streets were plunged into darkness.
"Huh?" Ji Lun's gaze swept over, and he was stunned.
Not long ago, he led people to fight with the Imperial army, and there was blood everywhere, and he was embarrassed, but now, the streetlights on the main street were a few on, and the streets were clean, there were no corpses of the Imperial army, no rebels and townspeople, and there were not even traces of blood, everything was quiet again, but it was more deserted.
"Yes, the only change is that there are fewer houses with lights on the side of the road. ”
"The whole town has become more deserted. ”
"Mom, are you back?"
The young man was worried and worried, a little homesick, and went to the house in silence all the way, only passing by the rebel camp in the east of the town, the door was closed, hesitated, looked down at the heavy food bag in his hand, took out three bags, and put them on the steps of the door.
Turning around and descending the steps, I heard a creak behind me.
The door opened.