12. Chilling Sword
The map in Li Shuxiu's hand is old and mottled, if it falls into the water, even if it is fished up immediately, I am afraid that it will be unrecognizable and difficult to see clearly. With such a large scale in the palace of the Barbarian King, there must be countless traps in it, and if this map is missing, the hope of this treasure hunt is extremely slim.
Everyone stared at Li Shuxiu, seeing that her eyes revealed unusual stubbornness, but her slender hands trembled slightly in the mist, which showed that she was emotionally agitated and would throw away the map at any time.
When the goshawk saw her unproductive appearance, he couldn't help but be angry, strode to Rapp's side, and shouted: "The girl looks like this, she looks so angry and depressed, if the girl can't do it, why don't you do it for the girl?"
As soon as the word "He" came out, his long sword trembled, like a poisonous snake piercing its teeth, like an eagle falcon swooping down, stabbing Rapp into the throat.
Li Shuxiu was so frightened that he jumped out of the water, pounced on him, and threw his long sword at the goshawk vest. The goshawk had already taken precautions, waved his sword, blocked Li Shuxiu's flying sword, and then jumped backwards, walking like flying, and came to Li Shuxiu's side in a moment, taking advantage of her flustered, full of flaws, a light touch on her wrist, she was weak for a while, the map fell, she reacted, used a little acupoint kung fu, and went straight to the center of the goshawk's eyebrows, the goshawk rolled in the air, dodged her moves one after another, took a few steps back, and confronted Li Shuxiu from afar.
Li Shuxiu gasped, only to see the goshawk holding the map in his hand, his eyes staring at him, full of disdain. She was so distraught that she couldn't hold it anymore, so she fell to her knees beside Rapp, covered her cheeks, and began to cry softly.
The goshawk stuffed the map to Li Linhong, walked to the opposite side of Li Shuxiu, sat down cross-legged, and stared quietly, Li Shuxiu cried for a while, couldn't help but look up at him, and said hatefully: "You already have the map, what are you doing to provoke us? Why don't you leave quickly! Let me be quiet for a while!"
Goshawk sighed and said: "I was born in the barracks, I fought on the battlefield at the age of ten, I have seen countless bloody scenes, and I have experienced many disasters in my life, but I have never seen a girl so skillful and weak in heart, she is curious in her heart. ”
Li Shuxiu said angrily: "Even if I don't use it ten times more, it has nothing to do with you at this time, why do you want to make mockery? Lapu once had a life-saving grace for me, how can you understand my mood at the moment?"
Goshawk said, "I have encountered something much more difficult than you are now. ”
Li Shuxiu sneered, wiped away his tears, and said, "Don't be ashamed!"
"When I was seventeen years old," said the goshawk, "I was compelled to kill my beloved girl and live on the flesh she ate. ”
Everyone only felt a cold air piercing their backbones like daggers, their teeth colliding, and they suspected that something was wrong with their ears and that they had misheard what he said.
Li Shuxiu looked at the goshawk with frightened eyes, and saw that this person's expression was numb and empty, as if he had been detained by evil ghosts.
Goshawk said: "At that time, the enemy soldiers came to the city and surrounded us, and the grain and grass in the city were exhausted, so we had to feed on the soldiers' families, and there were even soldiers and civilians exchanging daughters to fill their stomachs and continue to go into battle to kill the enemy." We have been defending for several months, and finally we are looking forward to reinforcements to help us out of the siege. ”
Before he finished speaking, the county lord of Jiuhe vomited with a whin, Li Shuxiu felt his stomach rolling, and couldn't help but avoid the goshawk far away.
Goshawk said again: "Earlier, the enemy poisoned arrow in the body of the next teacher, and he was in great pain, and life was worse than death, but even so, he still wanted to live. He was only fourteen years old at the time, and seeing that he had little life, he could only drag down the march and put the army in danger, and when he was confused at night, a sword slit his throat. When it was morning, the companions around him saw that he had already swallowed his breath, and although his face was sad, he was all relieved. ”
Li Shuxiu held back his nausea and said in a trembling voice: "That's because you are too cruel, it's just *** inferior! I would never make such a disobedient and perverse act as you!"
Goshawk laughed, and he said: "At the age of fourteen, I was just a little doll, but I was more cowardly than you, even if the puppy died, I would cry for three days and three nights." As he spoke, he pulled up his trousers and exposed his calves, only to see that there was a portrait of an old man carved on his calves, the scars were extremely deep into the flesh, and the carvings were fine, which showed the ruthlessness of the person who started the work, and the mere look at it made people's scalps tingle.
He said: "I still cannot forget the kindness of my master to raise me, and after I killed him, I carved his portrait on his leg in a blur of my mind, and carefully preserved it to this day." ”
Li Shuxiu lowered her head tremblingly, covered her mouth, and her eyes were full of confusion.
The goshawk said: "The lizard breaks its tail and lives, the praying mantis eats the puppet to live, the earthworm body is cracked and does not die, and the maggot and fly corpse burrows into the camp." If you want to take care of the overall situation, so that you can survive in a desperate situation, you can't look forward and backward, mother-in-law and mother-in-law, hesitating, suffering from gains and losses. If it is a matter of life and death, it will require the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, imagine that if the poisoned person is me today, and I know that this poison is easy to infect others, and there is no cure, I will not hesitate to cut myself off in order to protect my companions. ”
As he spoke, he threw the long sword in his hand, which happened to fall beside Li Shuxiu, Li Shuxiu looked at the long sword sadly, tears flowed down like broken pearls, and after a long time, she screamed, clenched the long sword, stared at the unconscious Rapp, pursed her lips, her chest rose and fell, and she gasped loudly.
Then, she closed her eyes tightly and pressed down the long sword, who knew that before she touched Rapp's body, she felt a tightening of her wrist, and the long sword in her hand was snatched away, she hurriedly opened her eyes and found the goshawk standing beside her, the corners of her mouth full of approving smiles.
Her mind went blank and she asked numbly, "What do you do?"
The goshawk smiled and raised a hand and said, "I was also bitten by that hyena in Xia, didn't the girl see it with her own eyes?"
When everyone heard this, they were all shocked, Zhao Sheng was panicked, and asked with concern: "Brother Goshawk, what about you...... Will you be like this?"
Goshawk smiled: "Girl, I ask you, what did you think of the moment your long sword stabbed down just now?"
Li Shuxiu gritted his teeth and said, "After he died, I committed suicide immediately." ”
Goshawk asked, "Are you really so determined? If you die, won't your relatives be sad? What about Rapp's relatives? Who should go back and tell them about Rapp's death?"
Li Shuxiu's mind was a mess, he shook his head, and couldn't answer anything.
Goshawk said: "If you hesitate for a moment, you are not a pedantic and helpless mediocre, nor is you a ruthless villain. Remember, Miss Li, keep in mind my words today, you must know that the world is sinister, people's hearts are ghostly, this chivalrous word, which is very knowledgeable. ”
Li Shuxiu was a little sober, thinking carefully about the goshawk's words, she felt that it was difficult to understand, but it made her have a hidden understanding.
The goshawk knelt beside Rapp, took out the muddy piece of flesh taken from the spiked monster from his bosom, cut off a slice, stuffed it into Rapp's mouth, stabbed blood in all the acupoints of his body with his long sword, helped him sit up, massaged him for a while, and Rapp spat out fishy water with a wow.
Rapp looked up with a sad face and asked, "I...... I just had a terrible nightmare, I dreamed that I met Ah Xiu, and I ...... I also ate the flesh of her corpse. ”
He was still a little confused, and he didn't care if others knew who Ah Xiu was, and he told the dream without hesitation.
Goshawk glanced at Li Shuxiu and asked Rapp, "Brother Rapp, who is Axiu?"
Rapp choked up and said, "Ah Xiu is a Han girl I met when I was a child, she ...... She's dead. I didn't even get to see her one last time. ”
Li Shuxiu hurriedly stepped forward and massaged at the acupuncture points on the Lingtai on Rapp's body, Rapp's spirit was already sluggish, and he slowly fell asleep. She looked at the goshawk and whispered, "Thank you, thank you for saving him." ”
Goshawk smiled and said, "If you can't make up your mind to kill him, I will never save him." ”
Li Shuxiu's heart was shocked, and he wanted to ask him why he was like this, but he couldn't say the words when the words came to his mouth.
Xuan Jing laughed loudly: "Since Brother Rapp is all right, I think we might as well rest here for one night, and then continue to rush after he wakes up?"
Before the words fell, only a strange noise was heard in the mountains and forests, and countless cyan deer came out of it, their eyes shining with annoyance, and they surrounded the crowd and remained motionless.
Xuanjing pulled out his long sword and asked, "Brother Goshawk, what's going on?"
Goshawk frowned and said, "I don't know, these fawns are peaceful by nature, and the last time I came, I didn't provoke them. ”
Li Linhong shouted: "I think these little guys don't have good intentions, let's think about it." ”
Everyone nodded again and again, Li Shuxiu carried Rapp on his back, and just got up, those deer chirped in unison, and rushed towards everyone in a swarm.
Everyone was startled, and hurriedly ran towards the barren mountain where the palace of the barbarian king was located, a small deer rushed to them, roared angrily, jumped up, and went straight to Li Shuxiu, Li Shuxiu did not dare to slack off, the long sword was horizontal in front of her, the deer kicked on her long sword, she only felt a strong force, and the long sword almost came out of his hand.
The goshawk had a brute attack and shouted, "Slaughter these little ones!"
Li Shuxiu shouted: "No! If you annoy them, I'm afraid that there will be more trouble!"
Xuanjing shouted: "I'm already scorched right now, but I can't manage so much!" Saying that, the long sword stabbed like a storm, and the three deer originally surrounded him, unable to dodge, and were hit hard by his long sword, and they all screamed and fell to the side of the road.
Coincidentally, the blood of the fawns stained the mountain wall, only to hear a boom, as if the machine was activated, these fawns had a few unwilling wails, turned their heads and fled, and fled quickly. Everyone followed the prestige, only to see a huge hanging basket slowly descending overhead, and after a cup of tea, it fell in front of everyone.
Xuanjing looked at the hanging basket suspiciously, and asked the goshawk, "What's going on?"
The goshawk had a confused expression on his face and said, "I don't know below, probably because the blood of this fawn happened to activate the mechanism on this mountain, and this hanging basket is the vehicle that picks us up." The last time I came here, I didn't clash with these fawns, so I never entered the palace. ”
Everyone was shocked, and after looking around the hanging basket for a while, Xuanjing asked, "What does it say on the map?"
Li Linhong flipped out the map, took a closer look, slapped his thigh, and shouted: "That's right, there is a pattern of a hanging basket painted on it, if we want to enter the palace, we have to follow this hanging basket up the mountain." ”
Everyone still had some doubts in their hearts, but when they looked back, they couldn't help but be frightened, and they saw that those deer had not dispersed, and they were staring around everyone, and they didn't know what to do. Everyone had no choice but to climb onto the hanging basket, and after waiting for a while, the hanging basket began to slowly rise.