The remnants of the soil faded, and several shallow ladder pits hung on a steep slope that appeared on the walls of the pits.

Zhao Yun bent his somewhat numb little body and looked up, still some distance away from the trap mouth, or maybe God had mercy on him, unwilling to let the two young lives fall, a gust of wind blew, and a shrub branch stretched down, stood on tiptoe, and just touched it.

Zhao Yun jumped down excitedly, carried Ling'er on his back, and shouted loudly: "The road to heaven is endless!" and crawled up with his thin body.

The warm sun shone on their bodies, Zhao Yun and Ling'er closed their eyes and took a big breath, at a young age, they had already tasted the taste of hovering on the edge of life and death.

"Brother Yun, shall we go to the inn now?"

"No, it's been so many days, let's go straight back to the village, grandpa and they may be waiting for us." ”

On the way back, Zhao Yun was familiar with the road, as if it was a common way home, Zhao Yun grabbed a handful of green leaves and stuffed them into his mouth, grabbed a handful and handed it to Ling'er, the two chewed and swallowed it tacitly, and then looked at each other and smiled, all the hunger and hardship were swept away in an instant, and there was only the eagerness to return in his heart, and the excitement and joy of escaping death.

Stepping on the familiar back mountain path, he could already see the scattered houses in the village, Zhao Yun carried Ling'er on his back to speed up his pace and ran forward. The houses on both sides were silent, and there were no villagers in sight, not even the domestic animals that usually walked around.

When Zhao Yun ran back to his courtyard in a panic, there was a mess in his eyes, the door was wide open, and the house was chaotic, but he didn't see the old man Zhao.

An ominous premonition suddenly welled up in Zhao Yun's heart.

"What about my sister and grandpa, did they go out to look for us?" Ling'er asked anxiously on her back.

Zhao Yun didn't reply, but his face was already sinking like water, he turned around and ran to the entrance of the village, as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, there was a fishy smell coming to his face, Zhao Yun's face changed greatly, and he quickly put down the Ling'er on his back and covered it into his arms.

Zhao Yun's eyes widened and looked at everything in front of him, the scene in front of him, impacting his eyes, his heart was like an ice pick blunt thorn, trembling all over.

Sensing Zhao Yun's reaction, Ling'er forcefully opened the arms that were holding her, turned her head to look ahead, and the next moment, she quickly buried her head in Zhao Yun's arms and began to cry.

There were several corpses lying in the open space at the entrance of the village, and the smell of fish emanated from the corpses.

Zhao Yun trembled and put Ling'er down, and walked towards the corpse with a dull expression, every step was as heavy as a thousand pounds, Ling'er cried and crawled towards Zhao Yun behind, the voice was heartbreaking, Zhao Yun had never heard it, and there was only grief and a trace of expectation in his heart.

Walking to the corpse with difficulty, Zhao Yun endured his grief and stretched out his immature hands to probe over, there were four corpses in total, but none of them were from Old Man Zhao and Fu Feng.

Zhao Yun shouted a few times with red eyes, but did not receive any response, and rummaged around like crazy, only to find a golden broken arrow stained with blood, and a broken sleeve that was solidified by blood.

The raging fire burned until night, and the ragged Zhao Yun knelt beside the fire in a daze, and the flickering firelight reflected on his dusty face, making the originally childish face a little more dignified that did not belong to this age, and a trace of hatred in the bottom of his eyes.

"Where did Grandpa and the villagers go? Could it be that something happened to them? But why didn't they see other corpses, could it be that they fled elsewhere?" Zhao Yun thought more and more in his heart, and only hoped that the answer would be the latter.

When the last bit of fire dissolved in the ashes, Zhao Yun finally reacted, exhaled deeply, and slowly stood up from the ground.

"Brother Yun, where are we going now?" Ling'er asked with a crying voice.

Zhao Yun never thought that his grandfather would leave him one day, let alone that the village where he grew up would suffer such a disaster, and now he doesn't know where to go.

He grabbed a handful of soil ash from the burned ashes, put it in a bamboo tube, knelt on the ground and kowtowed ten times, got up and held Ling'er's hand tightly.

"Ling'er, where is your home, I'll send you home. ”

There was no sadness in the tone, but with a kind of determination, Ling'er suddenly felt that the person in front of her was so strange, but very familiar.

Stunned, Ling'er replied, "My sister once told me to let me find a nearby grain store and tell them my father's name, and they can send me home." “

"You can't go to the grain shop now, those who are chasing you may be there to guard, and I'll send you home directly, so it's safe." ”

"My family is in Elysium, and my father is the owner of the abundant grain store, but it is the first time I have gone far away, and I don't know the way home. ”

"It's okay, I know. ”

"Brother Yun, have you been to Elysium?"

"No, but someone else has been, let's go. ”

The night was miserable, the young man carried the girl on his back, and walked towards the place where the lights were gradually brightening under the mountain, and the Fengnian Village behind him, with a faint cloudy smoke, was hidden in the deep expanse of Qingyu Mountain.

The night in the town was reduced by half of the merchants' lights, and the two thin figures were vaguely pulled for a long time, Zhao Yun pulled Ling'er into the Xilai Inn, and the shopkeeper saw that the people staying were two naïve teenagers, and he had great doubts in his heart, but when he saw that the other party took out the copper beads without hesitation, he didn't have the heart to ask.

"Two guest officers, this is your guest room, if there are no other orders, the little one will go and get busy first. The guy nodded, didn't treat the two of them as children at all, and pointed to a silk rope hanging down from the side of the door and said, "If you still need anything later, just pull the small rope and you'll know." With that, he smiled and retreated out the door.

"This big brother, I want to ask you something. Zhao Yun called out to the man.

"I wonder what the little brother wants to inquire about?"

"I want to know how to get to Elysium. ”

"I've never been to this city of bliss, but I've heard that it takes more than half a month to take the fastest carriage from the town. ”

"It's going to take so long?" Zhao Yun frowned, and looked at Ling'er with an expectant face.

"It's not out of the question, but it's more expensive. The guy added.

"Is there any other way to go?" Zhao Yun hurriedly asked.

"There is a newly opened Xuanji Pavilion in the town, which sells all kinds of clever and strange objects, they rent and sell a kind of flying machine called Yunshuo, which can go to the sky and enter the sea, travel thousands of miles a day, and a hundred gold beads let the little brother you can reach the Elysium City tonight. ”

"One hundred gold beads!" this price surprised Zhao Yun.

"Actually, the price is not expensive, after all, it is not bad to be able to afford to sit, if the little brother is not in a hurry, he can take a carriage, as long as thirty silver beads." ”

Zhao Yun touched the package, shook his head again, and said, "Thirty silver beads... Forget it, I'd better think of something else. ”

Grandpa's disappearance made Zhao Yun toss and turn and couldn't sleep, and he didn't fall asleep until the starlight faded.

A little light suddenly flashed in the endless darkness, the light was getting closer and closer, gradually showing the outline of the old man Zhao, Zhao Yun waved happily at the old man Zhao, and the old man Zhao also waved and shouted Ah Yun, Zhao Yun was just about to run over, when he saw the lights flickering in front of him, a group of people in black appeared out of thin air to surround the old man Zhao, and then the cold light appeared, and the old man Zhao only snorted and fell to the ground.

"Grandpa!"

"Brother Yun, what's wrong with you?" Ling'er was woken up by Zhao Yun's shout, and at this moment, she was pushing Zhao Yun with soft eyes.

Zhao Yun opened his eyes, recalled Fang Cai's dream, and looked at Ling'er next to him, and suddenly hugged Ling'er, sobbing slightly, in the face of the life and death of family affection, the young man's heart was fragile after all.

The countries of the Bright Continent measured the time at twelve hours, and now it was the hour of the hour, and the streets were full of people, and from time to time there were the shouts of street vendors and the smell of fireworks on the roadside through the entire street.

On the street, a young man dressed in a white hanging brocade robe, was staring at the red iron furnace burning not far away in a daze, the young man had a high nose and slanted sword eyebrows, a black hair was tied in a bun on the top, and the rest hung down behind his head, about ten years old, but quite stylish, and next to him was a girl dressed as a maid in a coarse cloth dress, who was two years younger than the boy.

Next to the iron stove, a shirtless man was busy putting the spread meatloaf into the pot, the meatloaf was sizzling in the iron pot stained with grease, and the aroma came straight to the door, the girl swallowed her saliva, but the young man's eyes were full of crystalline light, stunned and silent.

"Brother Yun, I'm hungry. ”

Feeling that his sleeves were being tugged on, the young man quickly came back to his senses, wiped the tears on his face, and then quietly looked around, shook off his sleeves and said loudly:

"Ah Ling, young master, I'm hungry, go buy two meatloaf and come back. ”

The girl was stunned, but when she saw the young man make a look, she suddenly remembered something, and walked towards the big man with two sounds.

"Boss, I want two meatloafs. The girl whispered.

The big man looked up at the girl, then at the brocade-clothed young man not far away, wiped the sweat on his face and said, "Two meatloaf and one copper bead, no credit!"

The young man clenched his fist to his mouth and coughed dryly twice, "Young master, I never buy things on credit, take a copper bead!" As he spoke, he threw a copper bead lightly, and it happened to fall into the dough on the board.

Dahan stared and buckled the copper beads out of the dough, and replied unceremoniously: "Take the meatloaf yourself in the pot!"

The girl glanced at the oil pot with oil flowers rattling, and then turned her head to look at the boy aggrievedly.

"You maid is too timid, this little thing has to be done by myself, young master!" said that, he stepped forward, rolled up his sleeves and neatly grabbed two meatloaf from the oil pan, and the girl watched with wide eyes.

"What are you doing there, let's go!"

The girl came back to her senses and followed closely behind the boy, muttering in her heart that this maid was really not good.

These two people are Zhao Yun and Ling'er, it turned out that the two were afraid of meeting those killers, so they discussed changing their identities to hide people's eyes, Zhao Yun became a rich son, and Ling'er pretended to be a maid.

"Young Master, where are we going now?"

Food and clothing can still be solved, but how to rush to the City of Bliss, Zhao Yun couldn't think of a way for a while, remembering what the innkeeper said last night, Zhao Yun suddenly had the idea of going to the Xuanji Pavilion to see, he had heard his grandfather say it before, there are some strange treasures hidden in the Xuanji Pavilion, like a letter bird with an empty stomach, killing people in the invisible iron worm, although he has no money to sit on the cloud shuttle, but he wants to see it.

"Let's go, go to the Xuanji Pavilion and have a look! There are a lot of people there, maybe you can get a few recommendation tickets." ”