February 15th.
The trail going south is full of potholes, passing single trees and flowing through streams. Two ragged wanderers were riding on two thin horses, and they were carefully riding the horses across the bridge.
One of them was wearing a dirty monk's robe, with a bald head and a thick curly beard on his chin.
The skinny horse riding under him had a large hairless bald spot on its butt, which seemed to have been removed by life. It was red and swollen.
The two were clearly a macho man and a monk in disguise.
Zheng Xiu and Ruchen continued south, avoiding Ye Weiyang's sphere of influence.
When approaching the area of Numazhou, Zheng Xiu and Ruchen each rode a horse and did not encounter another raven.
Zheng Xiu never heard the murmuring-like footsteps and breathing again.
If nothing unexpected happens, Zheng Xiu will stay away from the crow farmers.
Of course, there is another possibility that if there is no accident, there will be an accident soon. Zheng Xiu did not dare to be careless, so he took the trouble to travel two thousand miles south.
"Brother Zheng, do you want to take a rest?"
Ruchen felt bad when he saw Zheng Xiu's haggard expression and his precarious appearance on the horse.
"It doesn't matter, I have countless advantages, and there is no doubt that I am brave and unparalleled. It's great!"
Zheng Xiu smiled and waved his hand, answering the monk's questions and worries with a lighthearted joke.
After all, Zheng Xiu hadn't had a good night's sleep in a month.
Zheng Xiu breathed a sigh of relief without encountering the pursuit of Raven and Ye Weiyang for more than ten days, but he also felt puzzled.
Does this push them away?
Zheng Xiu knew that Ye Weiyang had initially guessed his route to the north.
Immediately after killing Xiaxian Lu Hu Yilang in Guichou Forest, Zheng Xiu deliberately revealed his intention to head west into the desert under Raven's nose.
He hurriedly left the Devil's Weeping Forest and felt a little scared. There were almost every raven in his hand. At night, the raven could be said to be covered in protective colors and extremely hidden. Later, Zheng Xiu thought about it and realized what Kui Lang was up to. Delay time or kill, kill two birds with one stone.
All in all, Zheng Xiu fired two smoke bombs, "Northward" and "Xiangxi" respectively, to confuse Ye Weiyang and delay their pursuit of the two.
The Daqian Dynasty covers a vast territory, and it is obviously not easy for Ye Weiyang to find Zheng Xiu and Ruchen in the vast sea of people.
The key is to keep a low profile.
This is also the reason why Zheng Xiu and Ruchen dressed up in disguise after entering the boundary of Mazhou.
At this time, Ruchen was completely different from her former beauty. There was a black horse hair on her chin that should have been smooth. Her face was deliberately smeared with mud. With her bald head, which was barren of grass, she looked like a completely different person. Like a wandering wild monk.
Zheng Xiu has disheveled hair and ragged clothes. Now he can pretend to be a blind beggar on the street just by covering his eyes with a piece of black cloth.
"Brother Zheng, do you really plan to be eaten into the scroll and sacrifice your life to rescue the benefactor of Fengbei?"
"Bah!" Zheng Xiu squeezed out a smile on his tired face and cursed with a smile: "Go to your raven mouth and remove the words 'sacrifice one's life for righteousness'! I have no intention of sacrificing myself."
"But the picture scroll is dangerous..."
"How could I not know?" Zheng Xiu interrupted Ruchen. Ruchen didn't know that Zheng Xiu had the skills to conquer ghosts, so he was so worried. It was understandable.
But conquering ghosts is the strength of [Prisoner]'s method, and it is also the secret of being [Prisoner]. Zheng Xiu naturally cannot reveal it to Ruchen. Faced with Ruchen's worries, Zheng Xiu could only respond vaguely: "Don't worry, I have a certain degree of confidence. Now I only need to find a secret place that Ye Weiyang can't find before I can safely conquer two... Ahem, I It means rescuing Feng Bei with peace of mind."
Zheng Xiu quietly looked away from Ruchen's reflective head.
Along the way, Zheng Xiu got to know Ruchen more and more deeply.
Ruchen does have "inner demons" from time to time, which is when his secondary personality emerges. But every time the sub-personality appeared, it was mostly just a few words. Ruchen would come back online soon. Even he himself didn't know what he said and did when he was "troubled by the demon".
This short few breaths of crazy nonsense is quite interesting once you get used to it.
For example, one night, Ruchen, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly got up, walked up to Zheng Xiu on cat steps, looked resentful, and said something scary:
"You heartless man! Why do you turn a blind eye to my beautiful face all day long?"
Inexplicably, a monk pointed his nose at him and scolded him for being a heartless man, but he still managed to show off his beauty to the world. Zheng Xiu was so angry that he laughed and raised his middle finger towards Ruchen: "Get out! I don't like men!"
"I am a yellow-flowered girl~"
Zheng Xiu knocked Ruchen unconscious with one punch and threw him aside.
The next morning, Ruchen pointed at a swelling the size of an egg on his forehead and screamed in pain, feeling puzzled.
All in all, Ruchen's "inner demon" is harmless.
If we treat it as "intermittent illness" or "normal convulsions" like Chen, the problem doesn't seem to be big.
The climate in the south is completely different from that in the north, and there is also a certain gap between it and Shuzhou.
At this time, it is still cold and snowy in the north, but it has warmed up in the south, and the climate is humid and irritating.
They were riding horses, struggling through the dense forest. The century-old trees in the dense forest blocked the sky and the sun. The shadows of the trees under the horses' hooves were colorful, vines were entangled, and snakes, insects, rats and ants were breeding and growing in nests.
Walking in the forest, Ruchen could even clearly hear the sound of groups of venomous snakes spitting messages.
Hiss... hiss... hiss...
"Snapped!"
Ruchen slapped his neck with his palm, and when he opened his palm, he saw a giant mosquito as big as half a fingernail lying in his palm. He was currently lying in Ruchen's palm, vomiting back the blood he had sucked not long ago. In Ruchen's palm.
"Snapped!"
There were two more fat mosquitoes on the bald head.
Ruchen could only keep slapping himself to drive away mosquitoes.
Halfway through the dense forest, Ruchen's head and neck, wherever exposed, were covered with large and small bumps.
On the other hand, for Zheng Xiu, the mosquitoes were not hungry along the way, but it was quite comfortable.
"Why do mosquitoes treat you like nothing?"
Ruchen is dissatisfied.
"Oh, we can't generalize about people's physiques. Maybe your flesh and blood smells better. Many years ago, I read a story about a monk named Tang Xuanzang who had thin skin and tender flesh. Legend has it that monsters and evil things ate his flesh. , you can live forever and stay young..."
Finally, I finally got out of the dense forest, and my eyes suddenly opened up.
The vast wilderness is dotted with villages and towns, and the mountains in the distance are lush and dense with jungles. Even further away are the lofty snow-capped mountains.
With the cold wind blowing on his face, Ruchen scratched the bun on his head while listening to the "well-informed" Brother Zheng telling the story of "monk meat". He finally got through it, shook the reins, and hurriedly ran out of the mosquito hunting range. , turned around and asked: "Brother Zheng, now that we have entered the boundary of Zhuzhou, where are you planning to go?"
Zheng Xiu took out a map from his arms.
A few days ago, when the two of them were climbing over a mountain, they happened to meet a strong female hunter who went up the mountain to hunt. However, she was hunted and forced to climb a tree by a tiger. After Zheng Xiu drove away the tiger and rescued the female hunter, the female hunter enthusiastically invited the two saviors home for a full meal to repay her life-saving grace. There was even a vague hint in the words that a great kindness could not be repaid without repaying it, but rather by committing oneself to it.
The macho man refused: "No need."
The lost huntress learned that the macho man and the monk wanted to go south, so she gave them a map, which recorded the main roads of the four southern states and some mountains, rivers, towns and villages. In the end, the strong female hunter reluctantly watched the macho man leave with tears in her eyes, hoping that the macho man could leave a map so that he could remember the things he saw.
When Zheng Xiu took out the map, Ruchen's serious expression suddenly changed, and his facial expressions became a bit fiercer, but he poked Zheng Xiu's chest and teased: "Hey! He is so infatuated that he can be cruel. I really want to I don’t understand, the ancients said that marriage should flow as it should, but you are so pretentious and pretend to be benevolent and righteous that you can spit out any meat that comes to your mouth."
As Zheng Xiu became more and more familiar with Ruchen, Zheng Xiu could even distinguish several of the sub-personalities.
He gave each of the "inner demons" he knew aliases, mainly to make them easier to distinguish.
"Rough bandit", "naughty kid", "scholar", "oiran", etc.
Now the "violent bandits" are appearing in Ruchen's body.
This is the one among Ruchen's "inner demons" who is vicious, unscrupulous and deserves a beating.
"Is your skin itchy?"
Zheng Xiu raised his fist as big as a casserole and squeezed it hard, causing veins to appear on his fist.
Ruchen returned to normal in an instant and looked at the map in Zheng Xiu's hand as usual.
Zheng Xiu didn't take Ruchen's "inner demon" embarrassment to heart at all, and pointed to a mountain in the southwest of Naozhou with an annotation written underneath.
Ruchen said in shock: "The highest peak in the world, Tianyin Mountain? Legend has it that the snow there never melts all year round, making it difficult to go up and down the mountain. The terrain is so steep that even the most outstanding craftsmen cannot repair the hiking trails on Tianyin Mountain! If it happens, The avalanche is so deadly, how could you even think of going there?"
Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "The lack of people is just what I want. Ye Weiyang will appear where the murder occurred, and the ravens will build nests in groups around the bustling city. I don't mean to climb to the top of the mountain, just Find a nook and cranny nearby and hide for ten and a half months. Even if the raven detects the aura, it will be difficult to come in a short time. It takes a certain amount of time for the raven to gather, and one or two ravens alone cannot attract them. Come raise the arakkoa, or he would have appeared.”
This is the conclusion Zheng Xiu came to after killing Kui Lang.
"That's it! Brother Zheng is really thoughtful! You can't tell people by their appearance!"
The destination was very clear. Zheng Xiu and Ruchen rode around on horseback, avoiding towns and official roads. A few days later, Zheng Xiu kept alert for the traces of the raven, and finally arrived in the southwest of Naozhou, where the towering snow-capped mountains were right in front of him.
After Ruchen lost his memory, his activities were almost limited to the Jiangjun Town area. Although the journey with Zheng Xiu was mixed with the embarrassment of being on the run, the customs, customs and various snacks he had never heard of along the way opened his eyes and made him feel very satisfied.
Tianyin Mountain is the natural moat of Daqian. No one can cross Tianyin Mountain. The vast area of Zhaozhou is adjacent to other countries, but there are no Shenwu troops stationed there. This is one of the reasons why Zheng Xiu chose to go south.
Approaching Tianyin Mountain, the terrain rose up layer by layer. Zheng Xiu found on the map that the nearest town to Tianyin Mountain was called "Jingtang Town". Zheng Xiu planned to prepare some clothes and dry food in Jingtang Town.
"We encountered rough roads on the way and saved a lot of money, which should be enough for us." Before entering the city, Zheng Xiu seriously warned Ruchen: "Remember, we must act low-key, low-key, low-key, and we must not attract anyone's attention!"
"Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng!"
Ruchen raised his head in shock and looked towards the direction of the city, pulled Zheng Xiu's sleeve, and unknowingly pulled off Zheng Xiu's entire sleeve, and exclaimed: "Look, there seems to be a fire over there!"
Zheng Xiu followed Ruchen's gaze and saw that there was indeed a billowing black smoke rising from the city. They looked at it from a distance before entering the city but did not see it. It was obvious that the fire had just started not long ago.
"Hehe hehe..." Ruchen's mouth suddenly burst out with an innocent laughter like a child, he lay on the ground, clapped his hands, and saw a handful of yellow mud squirming strangely, reorganizing, and turning into a slap. Small clay figures. The little clay figurine danced and made strange movements.
Ruchen chuckled strangely, asking and answering questions to himself as if he was having a conversation with the clay figurine: "Xiao Nini, tell me, what happened before?"
"Huh?" Ruchen stretched out his hand and raised it to his ear, staring: "Huh? You said there is a smell of death in front of you? Are you burning people to death? It smells so stinky, so smelly of death?"
Snapped.
The dancing clay figures turned into yellow mud again, Ruchen stood up, and when he turned his head, the smile on his face disappeared without a trace. Ruchen was surprised and said: "It seems like someone was burned to death in front of you? Huh?" After being surprised, Ruchen scratched his head in confusion: "How did the young monk know?"
"Okay." Zheng Xiu patted Ruchen's shoulder and said calmly: "Don't forget what I said before. We need to keep a low profile and don't use random magic." Zheng Xiu stepped on "Ruchen's little Nini," he emphasized again: "Low-key, don't attract attention."
Ruchen lowered his head, with a bit more struggle in his eyes. But soon, Ruchen smiled casually: "Brother Zheng, it's time for the two of us to go our separate ways when we get here. The young monk will go take a look first. Brother Zheng doesn't need to follow. Everything is based on the overall situation! Brother Zheng, you go up the mountain first. , find a secluded place, and quickly rescue Fengbei’s benefactor, it’s important!”
After saying that, Ruchen turned around, waved his hand towards Zheng Xiu, ran quickly in the direction of the rising black smoke, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Ruchen ran and laughed, his laughter flying, as he entered the city.
Zheng Xiu stood there for a while, turned around and wanted to leave.
But as soon as he took steps, Zheng Xiu subconsciously tightened the straps on his shoulders, stood there for a moment, and then turned around and entered the city again.
As soon as he entered the city, Zheng Xiu noticed something strange. There was no one on the spacious streets. There are three or two houses scattered in an orderly manner, but the doors and windows are all closed. There are faint sounds of people talking and breathing in low voices, and the voices of adults scolding children in low voices.
strangeness.
Zheng Xiu looked around, and his keen intuition immediately made him aware of the strangeness of the atmosphere in the city. But this was not a reminder that the crisis was approaching, it simply made Zheng Xiu feel that the atmosphere was weird.
"Yes!"
Zheng Xiulong walked like a tiger, walking like the wind. After walking a few more steps, he suddenly woke up.
There's someone in the house! This is the weirdest thing.
Thick smoke and fierce fires were burning in the city. Ruchen said that people were being burned to death in the front, but other people in the city were hiding in their homes with their doors and windows closed as if they didn't know?
Unless the people in the city knew that a fire would be set off today.
In the blink of an eye, the billowing black smoke was not far away.
Although one of Ruchen's personalities walks the "walking" method and walks like lightning, the muscular strength of the macho man is not fake, he is only a few steps slower than Ruchen.
"Eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
The hoarse voice hummed and changed its tune, as if singing a strange song. Zheng Xiu saw a stooped guy with a feathered mask on his face, strange clothes, bells on his body, and a drum around his waist. , while shaking his body, making bell sounds, and at the same time beating drums in response, and dancing to the rhythm.
It's a magical witch!
"Let that woman go!"
Ruchen rushed into the crowd, and several people rushed forward to stop Ruchen with curses.
After a few moments of effort, Ruchen was pinned to the ground by several strong men holding pitchforks, unable to move.
Zheng Xiu's pupils shrank and he was suddenly shocked. What shocked him was not the Divine Adjustment Witch, nor was it the fact that Ruchen was knocked down.
Instead, a high fire was piled up in the middle of the open space in the city, and it was burning brightly. There was a wooden pillar standing on the fire. A beautiful woman in ordinary clothes, holding a bright red swaddling clothes in her arms, was suffering from the burning fire.
She hugged the baby tightly, held it in her arms, and used her body to protect it.
"Wow--"
The cry of a baby came from the swaddle.
This scene made Zheng Xiu's scalp numb instantly.
The townspeople are...burning people alive!
One big and one small, two living people.
This scene is like a cruel human blood sacrifice!
I work the night shift, so I took the time to write this on my mobile phone... Sorry for being late.
(End of chapter)
