Chapter 44: The Choice
A heavy snow flutters down, the winter of the great wilderness is always very short, often a heavy snow is summer in a blink of an eye.
For some, the snow was just in time. For example, Qin Fan and Qin An and their party.
The horseshoe prints left one trip after another on the smooth white snow, sometimes deeper, sometimes shallower, indicating that there was a man on the horse's back, and a seriously injured man, and along with the horseshoe prints there was a row of small footprints, equally deep and shallow.
The cold wind blew a few snowflakes, this is a wild land, there is no village in front of the village, there is no land behind it, there is recklessness in all directions, only an ancient road slowly extends into the distance.
In the dark night, the night sky was very bright, illuminating the snow on the ground, and the snow that also shimmered white also illuminated the people on the snow.
"How many days is this?"
"It's the sixth day. ”
A brief question, but with a heartfelt tiredness. In fact, I don't know how many times the two of them have spoken to each other in a few days, and this long journey seems to have no end.
Qin Fan and Qin An, the two of them, escaped from the pursuit of the officers and soldiers, rangers, swordsmen, and walked all the way in the mountains and fields, the porridge was not fragrant, and the steamed buns were as hard as a stone, but Qin An smiled very happily, and stroked the long ears of the old wine, where the hair fell out, revealing a piece of black, and it was not clear what it was.
"Hui Hu Hu" Lao Jiu screamed comfortably, changing the state of malaise in the past, but from time to time there were always hairs falling out, which made it a little upset, but there was something growing under those hairs, but some hairs were hidden and couldn't be seen clearly.
In the past few days, the pursuers of the Great Wilderness Imperial Court did not come as quickly as expected, and Qin An only hid in the mountains and fields to watch the officers and soldiers hurrying by a few times, and then never found it again.
But she always had to observe the surrounding environment nervously, which made her face a little pale, and when she looked up at Qin Fan on horseback, she was satisfied, but when she saw the cloth on his eyes, she frowned, worried about him.
In the wilderness, snow fell heavily, and in a short time they were drenched with snowflakes. Here all the way to the west, it was almost out of the scope of the Great Wilderness Zhongzhou, and seeing Qin Fan's face pale, looking at the cold and heavy snow, the light in the distance, occasionally revealing a little light, hesitated for a moment, she finally bit her lip, made up her mind, and rushed towards the place of the light with Qin Fan, who was seriously injured and blind.
This is a wilderness shop, and it is really good for Qin An to be able to find such a place where he can spend the night in this desolate land where the snow is falling, but Qin Fan frowned. Ever since that incident, he had always been a little suspicious, and now the shop in the wilderness appeared in time and luckily, but he was never lucky.
"Dangdang Dang"
There was a knock on the door, a creak, and the door of the shop was opened. A gust of wind and snow swept into the door with a whistling sound, and the shopkeeper hurriedly welcomed the two into the small shop, and called a small second runner to tie the old wine to the horse pen on the side, and then obeyed Qin An's instructions and prepared meals for the two of them.
It was very calm and normal, but Qin Fan always felt a faint bad premonition.
And at this moment, in addition to their group, there were also several warrior rangers who had settled in this small shop, Qin An subconsciously looked around, one of those few ranger warriors dressed as warriors, seemed to be scolding the impermanence of the weather.
"Okay, don't say it!" At this time, among those few people, an older ranger drank him, and then turned his head to look at Qin Fan and them, but he only stayed on them for a moment before looking away.
He snapped the long sword he was wearing at his waist and slammed it on the table, looking extremely angry. Several ranger warriors glanced at each other, and heard the man sigh: "Alas, the world has become more and more chaotic in the past few days, and I can't imagine that once Your Majesty is dead, the world will become chaotic so quickly, and wars and thieves are everywhere. ”
He was about to say something, but when he heard an "ah", an exclamation came, which seemed to come from the mouth of a man and a woman who had just entered the inn, and the man whose eyes were injured and tied with cloth, immediately frowned with some displeasure. Probably noticing that Qin Fan was a disabled person with eye problems, he immediately ignored it, but continued: "Since His Majesty the Emperor died unexpectedly on that night six days ago, the already chaotic wilderness has suddenly become more complicated and chaotic, with wars and flames raging endlessly, just like a fuse, but they are fighting for them, but it has hurt us rangers who lick blood on the knife edge. ”
Another person shook his head and sighed, took a sip of wine fiercely, and then said: "It's not just us, which of those merchants and people is not victimized, this army is in chaos, and human life is the most worthless!"
Several people sighed with emotion for a while, and it took a while before it gradually subsided. And Qin Fan was already stunned when he heard that the emperor died unexpectedly, his face changed several times, but in the end he didn't say anything, but he sighed in his heart, and the woman's beautiful face appeared in his mind, thinking that she should be so sad and in pain.
As soon as he thought of this, there was a faint happiness in his heart, but more than that, there was an indescribable feeling of sadness, bitterness and incomprehension, and he was reluctant to speak.
Finally, after half an hour's effort, two bowls of porridge, a few steamed buns and a plate of pickles were served. The shopkeeper said: "Wilderness shop, coarse tea and light rice, I hope you don't dislike it." With that, he bowed down and retreated.
I don't know how long it was, maybe because the long night was really unbearable, those warriors and rangers gradually began to chat again, and finally talked about the night of the Jiuhua Mountain Incident six days ago.
These ranger warriors don't know where they heard about it, but after a few people, three sentences or two sentences, that big battle was actually said to be a ** not far from ten.
As he spoke, his voice grew louder, and only one of them was heard to speak: "That huge white shadow that fell from the sky turned out to be a big fox like a mountain, that is a big monster! The monster is naturally terrifying, and there are three huge tails behind it, each tail is better than thousands of troops and horses, and finally the disturbing Jiuhua Mountain is broken, and Your Majesty died in the chaos." ”
"Fortunately, there are righteous old immortals who make a move, and the old fairy Guanglingzi, the national teacher of Longhu Mountain, is the master of those little immortals, and his means are naturally powerful, and he knocked the monster from Jiuhua Mountain down to the abyss with one hand. ”
"Nonsense, it is clear that the Lafayettes of Tianlong Temple took action to knock the white fox monster back from Jiuhua Mountain, and they had mercy to let the monster live!"
"What? You are talking nonsense, it is clearly the real person of Guanglingzi, the national teacher of Longhu Mountain, who knocked that monster down to the abyss of Jiuhua Mountain!"
There was a lot of noise, and several ranger swordsmen were about to draw their swords without saying a word. And at this time, Qin Fan suddenly felt a great increase in alarm, and his heart was agitated, and he couldn't help but pull Qin An's hands and shouted: "Run!"
A white sword light under the light of the candle flame actually filled the entire small shop with white dazzling light, which made people unable to open their eyes for a while, and it was really cold.
"Bang", the back kitchen position exploded, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er rushed out with a sword in hand, and united several warriors and rangers to faintly form a circle, although Qin Fan is blind, but his ears are much sharper than before, although he is not clear about the current situation, he also sighed in his heart, and the secret way is not good.
Even if they can deal with these few unpopular rangers, they are also exposed, and soon there will be an endless army and those powerful righteous monks who have the means to deal with them, the human beings who collude with the monsters, and at the same time, many killers and evil people will also flock to the world, and the purpose will be the strange treasure he carries.
At present, whether to fight or flee will be an embarrassing situation from which it will be easily and impossible to recover.
......
The imperial capital of Zhongzhou.
At the foot of Jiuhua Mountain.
It's late at night.
Fu Ling was dressed in a white mourning dress, and his face was haggard. The cold wind was cold at night, mixed with snowflakes slowly falling on her body, but she didn't realize it, so she stood silently next to the Wanmin Palace at the bottom of the peak, looking up at the Jiuhua Mountain that was no longer towering, especially the missing part of the edge was particularly conspicuous, and it looked a little shocking from a distance.
Footsteps suddenly sounded, it was a relative she was familiar with, and it was the only one she had now. An Le Wang's voice sounded from behind him: "Princess Fuling, it's late at night, be careful of catching a cold." ”
Fu Ling didn't speak, and only after a while did he slowly speak: "It shouldn't have been like this, it shouldn't have been like this!" She seemed to say to Fu Nian, and seemed to be talking to herself.
King Anle Fu Nian seemed to be silent, and only said softly after a while: "You are not wrong, the fault is that you were born in this royal family, the mistake is that you were born with a good and righteous heart, and the fault is only this era." ”
With that, he sighed, turned and left.
"I want to replace my father and succeed the next emperor. ”
Fu Nian's voice was calm and emotionless, and he suddenly spoke something amazing. King Anle's body trembled, and his steps paused.
The night is as cool as water, and the cold wind is miserable. I don't know how long it took for King Anle's footsteps to pause, continue to sound, and gradually fade away.
"If you make up your mind and decide to withstand all the pressure, then I support you, but you need to improve your strength, the Great Wilderness World is respected by martial arts, and this strength is not a force, but your own strength. ”
There was a sudden voice in the palace of all peoples, and the voice was very familiar.
"How to improve?"
"Bloodline!"
After asking and answering, the night fell completely silent.
......
"Ready?"
A sea of clouds churned, a tall man stood among the clouds, looking at the stars in the sky, I don't know who to speak, but as the words fell, the black light flashed, and a black shadow flashed away, the speed was extremely fast, it was a black cat. And between the clouds and mist, the three big characters of "Tianji Pavilion" like dragons flying and phoenixes dancing were revealed......