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The grass was slippery, the thorny lotus gauze was full of crystal dewdrops, and the moisture was all over the body, and the chill increased without feeling it, and slowly hit the heart.

Lian'er shrugged her shoulders and folded her arms, curling up as if she was stingy with a little residual warmth of her body. The bruise on the ankle was not gone, the lump was eye-catching, and it was already numb and unconscious, but after sitting here for a long time, it seemed that the senses had awakened out of place, and it suddenly felt painful and itchy.

The Phantom Forest was silent in the wind, like a dead body, showing the imminence of death. Lian'er silently muttered in her heart: "I'm not afraid of you, I'm not afraid of you, Lian'er is the bravest, the strongest, the great monk will be back soon......" She pouted, hoping that the night would pass soon.

It was as black as splashing ink, and from time to time there was the sound of reptiles in the grass, mixed with the sound of mosquitoes and moths shaking their wings. Lian'er felt that she was not lonely, at least she was accompanied by these little creatures who were ignored, as if she had been waiting for a long time, just for the moment when she was in tune with nature.

Lian'er's heart was as clear as a mirror, and her fear had disappeared, and at this moment when she relaxed her vigilance, she suddenly saw a crowd of people in the depths of the phantom forest, and three or five people came out, and they were slowly walking in her direction.

Lian'er was not surprised, and covered Dan's lips with her bare hands, fearing that she would make a half-minute sound. She deliberately slowed down the rhythm of her breathing, and wanted to pull the flag flower, but she saw people coming to help the old and the young, and there were all kinds of large and small bags, and they were in a hurry, obviously fleeing to this point, and they were not bad people.

Lian'er saw that the person was getting closer and closer to her, and she could vaguely see an old man in front of her with white hair and a slight lack of physical strength, supported by the woman beside her, and her mouth was full of admonitions.

Lian'er lowered her head and meditated, and said secretly: "The great monk once said that bypassing the Phantom Forest is to enter the main road of Yuncheng, it seems that these refugees are coming from the direction of Yuncheng, isn't there something wrong in the city?

The old man was so thin that he was already covered with bones, and he barely had a breath, and suddenly heard a woman's cry from the depths of the grass, although it was behind his ears, he was still so frightened that he trembled, and he almost died.

The woman beside her exclaimed in fright, swallowed her saliva and shouted, "My dear mother, who is ...... Who's there?"

Lian'er felt that her question was indeed a little abrupt, and said apologetically: "The little woman is a human being, not a ghost, but she has an ankle injury and can't walk, so stay here, Madame can rest assured." I wonder if Madame came from Yuncheng, but something went wrong in the city?"

The woman was about thirty years old, her head was wrapped in a coarse cloth linen scarf, the hem was low, covering her eyebrows, and the skin between her ears was faintly exposed. The slave family is the servant of the Li Mansion, this is the father-in-law of the slave family, and we have indeed fled here. Yuncheng couldn't wait, just now, the city was captured by the Jin army, and the soldiers in the city were in chaos, and there was no place to stay. It's really like that day of the soldiers, it came suddenly, the city gate opened inexplicably, look at the battle, there are tens of thousands of people, mad dogs generally kill people when they see them, and burn them when they see houses. Thinking that the Li Mansion entered the courtyard four times, and all the family wealth was burned in the fire, but I took pity on my husband, and I don't know whether it is life or death. Now that we are homeless, we have become this depraved person, and we have no choice but to flee to other places to avoid the limelight for a while. ”

Lian'er exclaimed: "What, kill people when you see them in the city, what ...... What about the soldiers of Yuncheng, they are all dead?"

"There are many Jin soldiers, and they are extremely cruel, not to mention the soldiers of Yuncheng, even the Jiedu envoy is afraid that it is difficult to protect himself, Yuncheng is already a dead city, and the blood can be parked. The woman sighed, and there was a faint cry.

Cold sweat oozed from Lian'er's forehead, and she said in her heart: "In this way, Miss must be more auspicious." The Jin army slaughtered the city, with Miss's temper, how could she sit idly by? What's more, Miss went here to find Xue Chong's revenge, or interrogate to find out the truth. How can the Jin army attack the city and let the festival make it leave safely, it will definitely be surrounded and intercepted, Xue Chong will fight with heavy troops, and Miss is invisibly involved in the dispute between the two armies, how can this be good?"

The woman stood in a dim place, unable to distinguish her face, and could only see a thin and graceful silhouette, and said slowly: "The Valley of the Wolf and Tiger is really a forbidden place, and the slave family is also hearsay. If you want to leave the country, you have to take a detour. But where did he care about these things at the moment of life and death? The slave family did pass through this forest, but there was nothing unusual about it. It is not impossible to think that the Yan Gang bandits erected this stone monument to confuse the public, and it is not impossible to form this moat to block the troops of the Liang State, or to prevent the living from entering. ”

Lian'er said in her heart: "Miss is in trouble, even if the sword mountain is in flames, Lian'er is also breaking through today! Great monk, Lian'er can't keep her promise, don't blame me." ”

She staggered towards the depths of the Phantom Forest, her toes touching the ground, and there was a sharp heart-wrenching pain from the wound, and she gasped unconsciously.

She walked with great difficulty, and when she passed by the old man, she felt an inexplicable coldness, and she didn't have time to think about it, and said: "Thank you Madame for telling the truth, if you have the fate to see you again, you will definitely be rewarded with a lot of money." ”

The old man was still coughing, his eyes were sunken and he couldn't see his pupils, his wheezing was heavy, and his throat rustled, as if he was hungry.

Lian'er and the woman looked at each other for a long time, silent, as if everyone around them was looking at them with strange eyes, as if mocking, as if disdainful, with a faint scarlet in their eyes, wooden and ruthless. I don't know why, I was drowning in the torrent of eyes, and my whole body was numb and suffocated.

Lian'er couldn't help but shudder, feeling that the phantom forest was quite yin, and it was difficult to distinguish between people and ghosts for a while. She quickened her pace of departure, as if she wanted to flee quickly, with Wan'er in mind, and only wanted to pass through the phantom forest.

She groped around and found that the flag flower was missing, the only straw that had been lost, and she felt that this trip was lifeless.

She jumped on one leg, in pain, and fell, and got up, and fell again, and then struggled to get up again, and when she was late, she crawled with her bare hands.

It was as if everyone was smiling behind them, as if they had stepped into the forest of death. The nails were deep in the mud, the grit grinded into the palms of the pain, Lian'er gritted her teeth and survived, the tears were strong in her eyes, and finally they slipped down.