Chapter 18 Self-Surrender
Shi Tianyou cried loudly, carrying Zuo Zhongcheng to the top of the mountain, he wanted to bury Uncle Zuo in the highest place, so that his soul could feel the first rays of sunshine and rain in the morning, let him see everything he wanted to see in a higher position, and let him better see how he grew into what he expected......
After choosing the burial place, Shi Tianyou ploughed the soil by hand...... After the burial of Zuo Zhongcheng, at this time, the sky was already slightly bright. Looking at the golden morning glow in the distant sky, it was a golden declaration that the morning sun that was about to burst out of the sky...... In the vast world, I am so small that I am only a speck of dust, my parents are gone, Uncle Du is also gone, Chang'an can't go, where can I go? The world is so big, but it can't accommodate my tiny speck of dust.
His own rings are still so small, and there are so many people who want to kill him, and they have no relatives and traps everywhere. It seems that he can only go back to the "Nameless Valley" for the time being, thinking of this, he bowed to Zuo Zhongcheng's grave three times, and turned around and walked down the mountain.
When he reached the foot of the mountain, he was afraid of being recognized, so he scratched his clothes, stretched out his hand and smeared the dust on his face, and rolled on the ground a few times.
Penniless, Shi Tianyou had to beg along the road. At that time, the country was peaceful, most of the people had enough food and clothing, and there were still few beggars. Sometimes Shi Tianyou doesn't need to open his mouth, and when he meets a kind-hearted person who sees him in ragged clothes, he will take the initiative to give him food, and he didn't go hungry all the way.
At noon on this day, passing through a small town called "Shigu Town" in Hebei, Shi Tianyou was hungry in his belly, standing at the door of a small restaurant as usual, as long as he stood for a while, the shopkeeper would take some coarse grains and fine food for him to eat, and when he was lucky, he would meet a kind shopkeeper, and he would give a chicken leg or a piece of lamb chops and other good things. But this time it was very strange, Shi Tianyou stood by the door for nearly half an hour, no one entered outside, and no one came out, it was lunch time, and it shouldn't be so deserted.
Just when I felt strange, a person suddenly walked out of the store, dressed in a cyan overall, and arrived at the door, not looking around. Suddenly saw Shi Tianyou by the door, his eyes lit up, and he greeted Shi Tianyou cordially. Jinyi said: "Little beggar, there is meat to eat in it, come in! Come in!" said and pulled Shi Tianyou with his hand.
Shi Tianyou was hungry in his belly, and thought to himself: "I'm a little beggar, what kind of conspiracy does he need to use against me?" Even if he has bad intentions, I don't necessarily have to be afraid of him, and I will talk about it after I have eaten enough!" At this time, Shi Tianyou's martial arts were in his body, and his courage was inevitably much greater, so he let the people in the strong clothes pull him in. When I got inside, I saw four people sitting on a table, dressed in green clothes. When the four of them saw Shi Tianyou, they couldn't help but be overjoyed.
The five of them were very generous to Shi Tianyou, a little beggar, and ordered a plate of vegetables and a plate of beef. As soon as the dish was served, he urged Shi Tianyou to eat it quickly, but Shi Tianyou didn't speak, he devoured it, and ate the two plates in a while.
Seeing that Shi Tianyou finished eating, the man in Tsing Yi who pulled him in suddenly stretched out his hand and patted the "Lingtai Acupoint" on his back, as soon as his hand touched the acupoint, Shi Tianyou knew that his martial arts were commonplace, and he wanted to see what they wanted to do, so he pretended to faint, and at the same time, he secretly used his internal force to rush through the "Lingtai Acupoint" with true qi and easily unlock the sealed acupoints.
I only heard one of the five people: "It's really good luck today, the last place has finally been completed, and when the people are sent to the training camp, everyone will go and drink a few cups of it!" After speaking, "Hahaha......" laughed.
Another said: "Now it is becoming more and more difficult to search for suitable people, and large families are not allowed to search, and farmers have already hidden their children when they hear the news." Beggars are of course the best, they don't take risks, and they don't have any consequences, but there are fewer beggars, and even fewer meet the requirements of "dead soldiers". Hey, it's much more difficult to find a candidate for the "dead man" than it is to find the yellow flower girl!" everyone laughed when they saw his ingenious metaphor.
When Shi Tianyou heard the word "dead soldier", he thought to himself: "What is the word "dead soldier"? Is it a "dead soldier"? What are they searching for and arresting on a large scale?
How did Shi Tianyou know that his current martial arts would not be too low no matter whether he was placed in the temple dynasty or any force in the rivers and lakes, how could these few errand runners compare with him?
I only listened to the person who was holding his hand just now, "Why hasn't Zhang Liu arrived yet?" Liu Er is waiting for him here, and Ma San, Zhu Si, and Hou Wu will go back with me on an errand!" Shi Tianyou thought to himself: "It seems that they should be a "dead soldier" search group, and their names are also called according to the ranking of their surnames, and the person who pulled themselves should be the leader of this six-person team.
Everyone agreed together, except for the one named Liu Er who continued to stay in the restaurant and wait for Zhang Liu, the other four took Shi Tianyou and rode north.
Shi Tianyou still pretended to be unconscious, and rode with the leader of the group that pulled him into the house, and heard Ma San call him Hu Tou, and sure enough, he was the leader of the six-person group.
The four of them walked all the way to the northeast, and Hu Tou urged the other three to hurry forward. After running for about four hours in a row, Hu Toule stopped the reins, and Shi Tianyou peeked and saw a city wall in front of him, and the two big characters "Fan Yang" were written on the wall.
Hu Tou showed the official order to the gatekeeper, the four of them ran towards the city, walked through a few streets, four dismounted, Hou Wu carried Shi Tianyou on his back, and the four of them zigzagged through a few alleys and stopped in front of a house. Hu Tou knocked three times on the door of the house with the door knocker, and then tapped it three times with the palm of his hand, the door of the house opened inside, and the four mermaids entered, crossed the corridor and passed through two doors, and came to a small living room, an old man with a wrinkled face bowed his head and sat on a low chair, Hu Tou bowed forward and saluted, "Old Lack, the person has been delivered, farewell! Farewell!" After speaking, the four turned around and left.
The old man who called Lao Que picked up a notebook and wrote something with a pen, and after he finished writing, he raised his wrinkled face and looked at Shi Tianyou, and suddenly grinned, only to see that his mouth was full of teeth and missing one by one, like Zhu Bajie's nine-toothed nail palladium. Lao Que smiled and stretched out his dry hands to squeeze Shi Tianyou's body hard, and then nodded, obviously extremely satisfied.
Lao Que then sat back on the low chair, his waist was forced, first three times on the left, and then three times on the right, front and back, only to see the floor parted to both sides, revealing a tunnel, Lao Que carried Shi Tianyou down the steps, the tunnel was very deep, obliquely down to the ground. I don't know how long I walked, I finally got out of the tunnel, and my eyes suddenly lit up, Lao Que put Shi Tianyou off his back, handed it to a person who looked like a leader, and said with a leaky mouth: "Hu Tou searched for it, let's join his team" After speaking, he "kicked and ......tapped" and left.
This person "unlocked" Shi Tianyou's sealed acupoint, but in fact, Shi Tianyou had already untied the acupoint by himself. Although Shi Tianyou is young, he has a super strong mind that is not commensurate with the annual rings. Since I came to the mansion, I have carefully written down all the details of my arrival from the time I knocked on the door, knocking on the door knocker and shaking the chair...... Even the tunnels have a total of one thousand and eight levels, and they can be counted clearly.
Shi Tianyou opened his eyes and saw that the lights were bright in front of him, and a huge square could not be seen at a glance. There is a bunch of bonfires burning in the square a few zhang away, obviously the bonfire is added with pine oil, only burning "crackling" sound, next to each pile of bonfires is placed a huge iron cage that is seven zhang long and three zhang wide and two people high, the iron cage is cast with thumb-thick iron bars, and the edge of the iron cage is drawn out with yellow paint to create a square training ground of about ten zhang in length and width, and there are more than ten people training in each training ground. At a glance, as if he had come to an ancient Colosseum, Shi Tianyou was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him.
The leader of the sect led Shi Tianyou to a training ground in the southwest corner, and after Shi Tianyou entered the training ground, he took out a black semicircle from a wooden barrel next to him and threw it at Shi Tianyou, the thing rolled on the ground and stopped beside Shi Tianyou, Shi Tianyou picked up this black cow-like thing, his eyes swept around, and he saw that the rest of the people were holding the same thing in their hands and were gnawing violently, as if they were eating mountain spirits and sea food, Shi Tianyou looked closely, everyone in the field was about the same age as himself, and he was just ten people.
I saw one of the children with two green snots on their upper lips after eating the black cow in their hands, and then looked straight at the head of the god, seeing this, the head of the head grabbed another one from the barrel and threw it to him, and the green snot child grabbed it in his hand and gnawed wildly.
Shi Tianyou also felt hungry at this moment, and when he saw that everyone was eating deliciously, he also ate it, and he only felt a bitter taste in his mouth, but he would be able to eat it, so he ate it slowly.
After everyone finished eating, the head of the sect shouted: "Get up! Stand up for me!" When everyone heard this, they all stood up, and the well-trained ones stood in two rows, Shi Tianyou didn't know how to stand, only to see the green snot man in the back row beckoning to him, signaling Shi Tianyou to stand next to him.
After everyone stood up, the head of the sect said sharply: "When you come here, don't think about going out! For you, there are only two endings: one is to be killed by others, and the other is to kill others, get ahead, and be the vanguard of the battle on the battlefield!" Shi Tianyou faintly understood, it turned out that the "dead soldiers" were those who were brutally eliminated by you to the death, and the people who remained in the end were sent to the battlefield to charge into battle.
Everyone on the field quietly listened to the "encouragement" words of the head of the sect, and their immature faces were either panicked or confused, angry or desperate. Shi Tianyou's group is composed of children with annual rings from ten to twelve years old, maybe Hu Tou indiscriminately reported Shi Tianyou's annual rings in order to complete the task, or this team is only to make up the number of ten people because there is one less person, in short, Shi Tianyou was overage and incorporated into the group.
The next is training, the training program is very simple, first practice the next plate kung fu, stand for an hour horse steps, you don't stand on the line, the head of the coach will never care about you, your life is your own, if you don't practice well, you will wait to be someone else's ghost. Therefore, everyone is practicing very hard, of course, the green snot child is no exception, practicing very seriously and hard, seeing that the two green snots are about to fall off, I saw his nose inhale, and the green snot returned to the upper lip and nostrils, which made people worry and laugh. Shi Tianyou also pretended to be very attentive, but he was not practicing horse steps, but practicing the internal strength and mind method taught by Gongsun Xian.
After the next plate of kung fu is practiced, the head of the sect distributes a three-inch sharp knife to each person, and teaches some knife techniques such as piercing, stabbing, and wielding. I practiced for another hour, and then practiced fighting in a free combination, and the fighting training was not to eliminate and kill, but to point to the end. After practicing to the third watch, it was time to rest, and ten people entered the designated iron cage of each group to sleep, and the iron cage in the original hall was used for both killing people and sleeping at ordinary times.
After a tiring day, I was about to close my eyes and fall asleep, I saw a dark man tiptoeing over to his side in the dark, Shi Tianyou's body was motionless, but he didn't notice it, the black shadow came to Shi Tianyou and squatted down, stretched out his left hand to shake Shi Tianyou's right arm, and said softly while shaking: "Are you asleep?" Shi Tianyou turned sideways to the black shadow, and in the darkness he vaguely identified that the person was a snot child, and replied: "No!" The snot man reminded: "Be alert when you sleep, beware of injury!" After speaking, he tiptoed away again.
The iron cage was huge, and the ten people sleeping in it were far apart, and it looked very empty. Shi Tianyou thought to himself: "You don't know me, why do you want to remind me? It won't have another purpose, right?" Zuo Zhongcheng told him before he died: "I'd rather trust heaven than trust people!" Shi Tianyou has experienced hardships and dangers during this period of time, and has seen too many sinister human natures, so he can't help but be wary of this kind of kindness for no reason. After thinking about it for a while, he fell into a deep sleep.
There was nothing to do all night, and he was awakened by a sharp whistling sound in his sleep, and it turned out that the head of the sect urged everyone to eat breakfast, and the breakfast was black cow, and after eating, it was to practice horse walking. Shi Tianyou thought that he would end up with another day's training in "practicing horse steps-playing sharp knives-free fighting". But after only practicing for about half an hour, the head coach loudly signaled everyone to stop training, and shouted excitedly: "There will be a knockout battle between the sixteen and eighteen-year-old group later, and the opportunity is rare, you can watch carefully and see how others kill each other and become the last one." After speaking, he led everyone to an iron cage in the center of the field.......