Shi Liang, who woke up from his dream in the middle of the night, sat up suddenly and patted his chest hard, trying to calm his still trembling heart. "The viaduct collapsed? This dream is really a ghost!" Muttering in his heart, the man put his hands on the corners of his eyes and looked around.
"Oh my God!" The huge environmental difference made the heartbeat that had just calmed down a little suddenly feel at a loss again. Shi Liang got up hurriedly, pushed open the door, and rushed outside, only to find that the world was completely dark at this moment.
Through the dim light of the not-so-bright stars in the night sky, he knew where he was currently, which seemed to be in a farmland. He walked around the unfamiliar house in a circle for less than fifty steps. It was only as big as a palm, so I was probably dreaming. Thinking of this, he returned to bed and closed his eyes.
As the rooster crows and dawn breaks, some cold sunlight that comes from unknown sources untimely breaks through the cracks in the rough wooden door. The breeze carries the cracked fine sand on the rammed earth wall, and rolls it up without knowing when it was left behind. The already shriveled leaves that entered under the narrow bed turned around and sneaked away along the gap between the wall and soil.
It was already the second day after Shi Liang woke up. After being startled, he couldn't tell whether he had had an absurd dream that was too long, or whether he had really become a time traveler in a strange story. The bits and pieces of life that are intertwined with dreams and memories seem fake and real. Everything seems like yesterday, but it is so far away from the facts in front of you. I couldn't sleep with my eyes closed all night, but thanks to the faint light that sneaked in early in the morning, after illuminating the originally dark room, I seriously reminded the confused man on the bed: "Well, a new day has begun."
After getting out of the narrow doorway, Shi Liang realized that he was staying in a small warehouse with not much thatch piled up at night. The wheat field outside the door is orange, but the wheat ears are far less bulging than I remembered. He lifted up his sleeves and smelled the plain cloth on his body. Although the clothes were old, they were still strong. He couldn't tell what material they were made of. They must have been worn for a long time. It's pretty neat and doesn't smell bad, the man thought to himself.
"Brother, you got up very early." The yellow-faced man who came to say hello was his good friend and lived in another warehouse not far from his room.
"Well, I had a weird dream yesterday. When I woke up, I couldn't fall asleep."
"Oh, you are so timid. Look at your depressed look. Don't think about it. Let's go and have breakfast." The man said, grabbing Shi Liang's shoulders and pushing him along the field ridge toward the distant wood. Go to the shed.
"Yang Hao, you two came quite early today." Shi Hua's loud voice can always be heard from far away.
"No, I'm very hungry. Get us some nests quickly."
"Understood, brother, you can take a bowl and serve the porridge yourself."
"Um"
"By the way, Shi Liang, is there any news about the job you asked your second uncle to do some time ago?" Yang Haofu stepped on the leg of the chair as soon as he sat down and asked while taking the bowl.
"They said they would let us register today. I guess it won't be a big problem." Shi Liang mentally calculated the time.
"Go find my father and remember to ask him when he will come back!" Shi Hua interrupted.
"Okay, after we finish our work, your brother and I will go for another trip and we will definitely convey, um, Lao Shi, hurry up and eat." As he said that, Yang Hao picked up the chopsticks and started snoring quickly.
Shi Liang also stopped chatting and concentrated on the first meal of the day.
The work of a farm man is always accompanied by a lot of blood and sweat. Once the work of cutting wheat with a sickle begins, it must not be free until the scorching sun at noon. The repetitive mechanical movements numb Shi Liang's body and freeze his mind. The remaining fragments of memory.
After finishing today's farm work, the two young men in their early twenties jumped into the ditch at the head of the village as if they were running away. They took a bath with the water belt connected to them. The water washed away the dust on their bodies and seemed to wash away all the dust. Exhausted all morning.
"Shi Liang, do you think you can have meat if you follow our second uncle from now on?" As soon as he climbed onto the opposite river bank, Yang Hao became interested.
"It shouldn't be a big problem." The man took off his wet clothes and twisted them hard, his eyes full of yearning. "After all, you are begging for food on the edge of a knife. Without meat, you can't have any strength."
"We have a good relationship. As long as we join the army, we will no longer have to live in this miserable life of not having a meal. If we two brothers have to suffer for another seven or eight years, maybe we can still be like your uncle. It's like being an official."
"Then Mr. Yang, how many concubines can you marry?" Shi Liangwu stood up straight and bowed skillfully, his face full of teasing.
Yang Hao was not polite, pretending to be polite, patted his shriveled belly and said: "Eight, eight rooms, eight is a good number, auspicious!"
"Hahaha, I really have you, Mr. Yang." While joking, the two of them approached the official road.
The state-owned laws of Huazhou are strict: the official road is a road prepared for war, and citizens are not allowed to pass unless necessary. There are steel wire fences on both sides of the road. However, in order to facilitate daily maintenance, the craftsmen of Nanhuahui built an auxiliary road more than one foot wide on each side of the iron fence. Although it is far less wide than the official road, it allows civilians to pass. In the first few years, some people might still call it the official auxiliary road. As Huazhou Kingdom settled down for more than fifty years, the official road in the mouth of the common people naturally recognized these two walking auxiliary roads for road construction.
Shi and Liang walked north along the official road for about a mile. The octagonal sentry tower that originally appeared slightly above the tree is now clearly visible. The red-armored soldiers on the tower post were fully armed, like a ball of blazing fire. They stood upright, probably on the lookout. Next to the sentry tower, a row of flat-floor public houses extends to both sides along the road. The flaming flags at the soldiers' training camp behind the public house waved in the wind. The destination was not far away, and the two couldn't help but speed up their pace.
Boom, the ground suddenly shook.
"Woo~" the watchtower siren sounded, the beasts of burden on the official road knelt down, the birds and beasts scattered in all directions, the crowds crowded together, most of them fled into the wilderness and bushes, and the prosperity of the village and town collapsed in an instant.
"Army!" From the middle tent of the military camp, a muscular and bearded man wearing a plain shirt walked out. A ribbon inlaid with red crystal stones on his waist was particularly eye-catching. Behind him was a uniformed soldier holding a metal plate in his hand. Without stopping, he hurriedly walked into the second tent near the middle tent.
Outside the camp, eight columns of black-clad teams quickly gathered together, and another column of warriors in red armor filed out, aiming straight for the government office under the tower.
The reckless man stood up in front of the formation. When he saw that the square formation was completed, he shouted: "Put on your armor!" After saying that, all the soldiers stepped forward and stepped on a metal-edged stone brick hidden under the dust in front of them. . All movements are smooth and uniform, and practice must be perfect after long-term practice.
Then, the "shushing" sound of the wheels in the originally empty martial arts field was heard. As the ground shook slightly, where the eighty-one people were standing, dark red metal square covers were raised quickly. After a few breaths, all the soldiers were already there. shrouded in it.
A blue light flashed next to the middle tent. After a while, the regular soldier from before hurried out holding another stack of metal plaques and stood outside the square cover where the man was. At this time, the dark red metal cover was slowly falling. Eighty-one Liejun warriors are fully armed. On the Liejun mecha, which is more than one foot long, the flame-gilt pattern is printed with the scorching sun and the sun shines with the afterglow, making the martial arts field seem like eighty-one balls of fire.
"Report, the formation has arrived, Yujieyi West 35, South 29, there is a key to arrive, speed 95. Three divisions have been prepared, permission to attack!" the messenger shouted loudly, holding the formation sign high.
I saw the leading Liejia Army general raising his hand forward and grabbing a foot-long flame-patterned ax gun rising in front of him. The muzzle of the gun was pointed downward. red spar. It was exactly what the officer originally carried on his waist.
"Listen to my general's orders and form an armor formation!"
"Wearing fierce armor, we will never give up!"
"Wearing fierce armor, we will never give up!"
"Wearing fierce armor, we will never give up!"
During the team training call, flames erupted from the leg armor of all the flame mechas. The phalanx quickly rose into the air and assembled into two hexagonal flame shields at the designated position above the camp.
Just as the shield array was formed, a silver light flashed across the distance, "Bang!" There was another loud noise, and the first shield armor that had just been formed in the sky was already pierced by a group of cone-shaped dark gold missiles, and more than ten clusters of flame stars appeared. It quickly disappeared, and then the second shield was also hit and deformed. The military formation was broken and the flames quickly dispersed. Immediately afterwards, the fire ball in the air combined with the remaining soldiers of the first shield to form a circle of fire wheels.
The cone-shaped dark gold fluid in the round formation also began to spheroidize the moment it was blocked, and then the core purple light flashed. In just a moment, the dark gold sphere seemed to sprout tens of thousands of steel needles, rushing towards the newly formed flame array!
"Boom!" A red laser burst out from the martial arts arena, aiming at the point where the purple light disappeared from the ball, and instantly penetrated it. The dark gold ball thorn had not fully expanded, but instantly shrank back to its original shape. The battlefield was frozen, and after a short three-breath pause, before the fire array could close in, the sphere suddenly exploded again, exploding into a dark purple pink mist. At this time, there seemed to be a cloud of purple smoke in the air, but before the fog dissipated, the fire wheels in the air immediately expanded to form a hollow fire net that enveloped the purple cloud, and then strips of smoke were sprayed out from the soldiers' armors. Slender tongue of fire. The sky was filled with flames, which soon disappeared.
