As night falls, the stars dot the sky, and the moonlight shines on the quiet village, like a layer of silver frost.
Roosters crow and dogs bark, everything seems so peaceful. However, suddenly, a shrill cry broke the tranquility.
On the sentry tower at the entrance of the village, the old man on guard suddenly opened his dim eyes. He saw a group of black shadows wandering on the edge of the village.
The villagers woke up from their sleep. When they heard the old man's warning, they immediately grabbed the weapons around them. Some of them were wearing coarse clothes, and their eyes were full of determination and determination.
At the edge of the village, a group of black shadows were approaching, their eyes fierce, flashing with cunning and cruelty.
They have no language, only greed and murderous intent.
On the front line, the warriors of the village stepped forward. They waved their weapons and faced the black shadows with their most determined eyes. They roared with such fervor that they seemed to swallow up the entire darkness.
Under the moonlight, swords and swords flickered, blood dyed the earth red, and every breath was filled with the breath of death.
Despite facing a life-and-death battle, the residents of the village did not back down. They firmly believed that as long as they united, they could defeat the darkness no matter what it faced.
This is the peaceful border village. In the face of the sudden attack, they showed resilience and unyielding.
The battle continued, and the black shadows hit the village's defenses one after another, but the villagers were not dominated by fear.
They responded to the attack calmly and skillfully dodged the shadow attacks. They have only one goal in mind: to protect their homeland.
In the night, the war was raging, and the burning flames illuminated everything in the darkness.
Every attack made the earth tremble, and every resistance was full of power.
The fighting continued until dawn, when the first rays of sunlight shot out from the east, illuminating the blood-stained land.
Everyone in the village knew that other villages had been massacred before, so everyone was on alert at all times.
It is precisely because of this that everyone was not wiped out by the whole village.
When Luo Jinyu and his team arrived at the village, they were shocked by the scene in front of them. The entire village was no longer peaceful, but became dilapidated.
Houses collapsed randomly, some with only ruins remaining, while others were burned by the fire until only black skeletons were left. The air was filled with thick smoke and dust, and the unextinguished embers flickered in the breeze, as if telling the story of not long ago. disaster.
Some domestic animals wandered helplessly along the road, seemingly searching for their owners but finding only chaos and destruction.
The village became miserable, everything was destroyed and in a mess, clothes were scattered everywhere.
Luo Jinyu and the others walked carefully through the mess, trying to find survivors.
Their hearts were heavy and they could not imagine the harm this disaster had brought to the village.
After they went deep into the village, they found some villagers hiding in dilapidated houses, looking in horror, their faces full of exhaustion.
Luo Jinyu and his team tried their best to comfort the villagers, search for food and water, treat the injured, and comfort the survivors who had lost their families.
However, facing this destruction and chaos, Luo Jinyu kept blaming himself in his heart. If it had been earlier, many fewer people might have suffered this.
Meng Haowen on the side saw his expression and immediately understood what he was thinking.
He walked over and said meaningfully: "General, you don't have to blame yourself too much. This is not your fault. Even if we came earlier, we might not be able to stop this."
Luo Jinyu understood what he said, but he still couldn't let go.
Luo Jinyu saw a child in the corner, with a trace of fear in his eyes.
He slowly approached the child, and their eyes met, revealing a sense of helplessness and loneliness. He asked gently: "Child, are you alone?"
Tears fell down the child's face. He sobbed and recounted fragments of some messy memories.
After Luo Jinyu heard this, his heart tightened. He could not imagine the pain and fear this child was going through.
His hand gently stroked the child's head, comforting him, and at the same time prayed silently, hoping that the child's parents would be safe and sound.
However, deep down in his heart, he began to worry that the child might have lost his parents.
He didn't want the child to suffer any more pain.
Meng Haowen looked at Luo Jinyu's back with a trace of doubt in his heart.
He keenly felt that Luo Jinyu's inner world seemed to have undergone subtle changes. It was an indescribable feeling, like deep thinking.
He walked forward and reminded softly: "General, let's go to the front and take another look."
After hearing this, Luo Jinyu stood up and nodded, "Let's go and find someone to find out what happened."
"Yes, General."
Meng Haowen walked toward the crowd and saw an old man who asked, "Old man, I want to know what happened here?"
The old man told Meng Haowen in a panic: "The night before yesterday, a group of men in black armed with weapons suddenly rushed into the village and killed everyone on sight without any warning."
Meng Haowen's expression changed and he stood up immediately. He could feel the old man's trembling and fear. This fear spread rapidly in the village like a virus.
"They..." the old man swallowed, obviously having difficulty believing the scene he described, "they also set a fire when they left."
Meng Haowen's heart was deeply touched.
He seemed to see fire rising into the sky in the night, and a corner of the village was engulfed in a sea of flames.
When Meng Haowen rushed to the scene, he only saw a mess.
He came to Luo Jinyu and told him what he had just heard from the old man.
"The man in black? Are you sure? Not a soldier?"
Meng Haowen shook his head in the face of Luo Jinyu's question, "No, it's the man in black. I also felt a little surprised, so I asked many people, but the answers I heard were all the same."
Luo Jinyu seemed to be very surprised when he heard such an answer.
"General, do you think this was done by people from Xiling? But why are they all men in black?"
"Perhaps, they are not the people appointed by the Lord of Xiling Ridge."
When Luo Jinyu said these words, his mind was extremely clear.
At that moment, Luo Jinyu felt a faint pain in his head, as if spiderweb-like filaments were wrapping around his nerves.
Strange pictures appeared before his eyes.
Those pictures made him feel strange and familiar at the same time, as if they were scenes in his dreams, but they were so real, as if they were part of his memory.
His headache became more and more intense from the obsession of trying to decipher it, and he knew he needed to find answers, needed to find the meaning of these images.
However, as he tried to grasp these memories, they slipped through his fingers like water, leaving behind traces of pain and deep confusion.
Meng Haowen noticed something strange about Luo Jinyu. He walked forward quickly and asked with concern: "General, what's wrong with you? You look uncomfortable?"
His voice was full of warmth and care, and he immediately wanted to find the box that Lu He had given to him before.
Luo Jinyu gently grabbed him and shook his head, "It's okay, I'm fine."
Meng Haowen gently supported Luo Jinyu, slowly walked to the seat beside him, and asked him to sit down.
He looked tired and his body was shaking, as if he would collapse in an instant.
After sitting down, Luo Jinyu closed his eyes, still trembling, as if enduring great pain.
Meng Haowen stood beside him, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Finally, Meng Haowen decided to take out a small white bottle from the box, opened it gently and handed it to him.
Luo Jinyu glanced at him, took it, raised his head and drank it.
After a while, Luo Jinyu felt as if his whole body was surrounded by a warm force, and a sense of relaxation came to his heart. His muscles were no longer tense, but instead seemed to be gently brushed by gentle waves, a kind of A soothing feeling of relaxation spreads throughout the body.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he could feel the energy.
His thoughts gradually settled, like tranquil lake water, smooth and peaceful.
Meng Haowen asked hurriedly: "General, how do you feel now?"
Luo Jinyu nodded, "I'm fine, let's go and check again. By the way, Haowu went to check, why haven't you come back yet?"
"General, do you want me to go take a look?"
Luo Jinyu blocked him, "No need, I believe he does things in a measured way, just wait for him."
Meng Haowen nodded, "Well, by the way, General, why did you suddenly..."
He did see Luo Jinyu feeling uncomfortable before, but he didn't expect this to happen suddenly.
"Some fragments just flashed through my mind, and they felt very strange. I'm not sure what they were."
Meng Haowen frowned slightly, thought for a moment and then asked: "General, do you think it could be some memories from the past? Are you about to start to recover your memory?"
After hearing what he said, Luo Jinyu suddenly felt a bit like it.
He wanted to ask something, but when he saw the melancholy look on Meng Haowen's face, he suddenly didn't know what to say.
"General, I still don't understand why you want that girl to go back to the general's mansion first? Aren't you afraid..."
"Afraid? What are you afraid of?"
Luo Jinyu didn't understand what he meant for a moment, and felt as if he had something he didn't say.
"General, do you really not remember at all that there is a general's wife in the general's residence?"
This sentence made Luo Jinyu suddenly fall into thinking.
At that moment, he didn't say anything, and it seemed that he didn't know how to reply to him.
