Seeing Meng Ran lying on the sword with a frown on his face and his lips still opening and closing unconsciously, Li Qiang felt a little distressed.
In fact, whether it was Meng Ran in front of him or other teammates, in Li Qiang's mind, he felt that they were still inexperienced or even ungrown children.
In addition to the fact that Li Qiang is the oldest one in terms of age, it is more because of his sense of responsibility as a captain for his teammates.
This even includes Qi Zhen.
Don't look at the fact that he usually communicates with the team members on an equal footing. That is the respect that an elder has for the children.
In fact, in his heart, these young children are really just children.
Holding Meng Ran's body lying on the same spot, Li Qiang walked to the edge of the cliff and looked at the raging mountain fire not far away, frowning slightly as he wondered what he was thinking.
In fact, the waiting time was much longer than Li Qiang expected. According to his thinking, if a forest fire of such magnitude broke out and burned in such sunny weather, it would be noticed by practitioners within a radius of dozens of kilometers in an instant. arrive.
According to the speed of Shushan Feijian, even if the organization gathers manpower, it may not take more than a cup of tea to get here.
Unless there's something holding it back.
If other sects arrive first, it can only prove that there is indeed something going on in Shushan. If Shushan arrives first, then nothing happens. Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for no one to come here to check on such a huge mountain fire.
When Li Qiang saw the turbulence caused by flying swords crossing the sky from a distance, as well as the familiar sword robe, he knew it was someone from Shushan.
Fortunately, he is from Shushan.
It won't be that difficult to explain this way.
It seems there is no need to fight anymore.
The first Shushan flying sword was followed by the second, and then seven flying swords appeared directly above the mountain fire.
Under such thick smoke, it is easy for people to ignore the inconspicuous Li Qiang and his two men on the cliff. From the sky, they look like two white spots of different colors on the coal mountain.
Meng Ran was sleeping, so Li Qiang would not call Feijian back to look for them.
Then let them come down.
Li Qiang took out his M249 on the edge of the cliff, pointed at the sky and pulled the trigger.
Da da da da da…
The crisp sound caused by the bullet alerted the seven people, and within a few breaths, they came to Li Qiang with their swords.
And he took a stance that looked loose but was very elegant.
Li Qiang didn't know that this position was the famous Seven-Star Sword Formation, but he could tell that the opponent seemed to be facing a formidable enemy, so he said, "Uncles and brothers, we are disciples of Shushan."
After saying this, Li Qiang felt a little regretful.
During those days in Shushan, he spent most of his time fighting crickets with the leader Xuan Ye. To say that he knew very little about these Shushan fellow disciples.
He didn't know them, and they certainly didn't know him.
Judging from their attire, there were two second-generation disciples and five third-generation disciples among them, and it was not known which elder's disciple they were.
So looking at Li Qiang in front of them, they were a little confused for a moment. The leading second-generation disciple even frowned and asked, "Which elder's disciple are you from? Why don't you wear my Shushan sword uniform?"
"We have only been here for a short time, and we haven't received Shushan's sword robe yet." Li Qiang replied.
"We are Wu Tian's disciples, I believe you all know that." He continued. The seven people suddenly realized and finally remembered who the person in front of them was.
First of all, Wu Tian never accepted disciples. The only disciples he accepted were the five who came to the mountain last year. Those five disciples made life in Shushan more than a little exciting. Even after a year, they are still fresh in people's memories.
Secondly, Shushan has not accepted any new disciples in the past year, and these five youngest are naturally particularly impressive.
What's more, they also gave two spiritual beads to Shushan, although the result was that all the elders of the first generation lost their fighting power and could only slowly recover in Shushan.
However, the two leading second-generation disciples were still a little worried. After all, they couldn't just come and say who they were, so they had to recognize Li Qiang's face, so they were still a little wary when they looked at Li Qiang's face.
"How do you prove it?" one of the second-generation disciples said.
Li Qiang frowned.
At this moment, a delicate flying sword appeared between the two sides, making a soft buzzing sound.
"Captain, your gun is making so much noise." Meng Ran's slightly weak voice sounded from behind, and he seemed to be awake.
If the people of Shushan can still be fake, then the swords of Shushan are certain and cannot be faked.
When the seven Shushan disciples saw Feijian, their expressions finally softened, and they cupped their fists and saluted Li Qiang.
"I'm sorry, nephew, it was a misunderstanding." said the leading second-generation disciple.
"It's okay, as long as there's no fight." Li Qiang said with a smile.
"My name is Qing Ge, and this is Qing Ning. We are both disciples of Elder Xuan Ying." The second-generation disciple introduced himself.
It was at this time that Li Qiang and his two men discovered that the other of the two second-generation disciples was actually a woman.
The other party only introduced the names of two second-generation disciples, which proved that only these two second-generation disciples were likely to have a subsequent impact on the mission in the future.
There are many things he knows, but he just hasn't had the chance yet, or it's not time to explain them to Qi Zhen.
Li Qiang nodded and said, "Li Qiang, this is Meng Ran."
A smile appeared on Li Qiang's face, not for any other reason, but because when he heard the name Qing Ning, he thought of Siyou, the little girl on the old road in Shushan.
Is it a homophonic joke? Yu Liang always does it in such an inappropriate way inadvertently.
Immediately afterwards, Li Qiang's expression returned to its original state, neither sad nor happy.
Naturally, the other party didn't know Li Qiang's mental journey, and thought it was Li Qiang's polite behavior.
The politeness between each other may represent recognition of each other's identity, but it does not mean mutual trust.
Li Qiang knew this very well, so when the other party asked what happened here, out of self-protection, he just replied lightly: "We also arrived here after seeing the mountain fire, and we don't know what happened." What."
Perhaps it seemed to the other party that Li Qiang didn't need to conceal or deceive, so he didn't ask further and just expressed concern about Meng Ran's injury.
It can be said that Meng Ran's injury must not have much involvement with what happened here.
So Li Qiang told the other party in detail what happened in the Western Regions, and how the immortal cultivators in the Western Regions would take this opportunity to cause trouble here, and then invade the geomantic treasure land of the Central Plains.
Qing Ge and Qing Ning frowned when they heard this. They also realized that this matter was indeed not simple, so they proposed to go to the gathering place of Shushan disciples to discuss it together. At the very least, they must explain to Wu Tian that they still have to listen to this second senior brother on how to behave. of.
Li Qiang and Meng Ran naturally had no objections and even hoped to go there quickly.
However, Qing Ning's words caused some changes in the plan to set off.
"We'd better put out the mountain fire before setting off. If we don't care about this mountain fire, it will definitely lead to a disastrous outcome. God is good at saving lives, and Shushan disciples cannot just sit idly by and ignore it."
Naturally, everyone had no opinions, but it would be difficult to put out the fire with just these few people.
But soon, many other people appeared around him.
People from other sects also arrived.
The mountain fire broke out on the cliff, and then spread instantly. Now it has spread over an extremely wide area, and the relatively weak areas of the fire happen to be around the cliff where it first burned.
Judging from the first reaction of these sects, they are not concerned about the spread of the wildfire, but to find out what happened here.
Perhaps to these immortal cultivators, forest fires and the like are really not important.
Besides, the other party only showed up after the Shushan disciples came here, so it was too coincidental.
Both Li Qiang and Meng Ran frowned.
Regardless of whether they are good or evil, their senses towards these Central Plains cultivating sects appearing here are not very good.
Qingge calmly cupped his fists and said loudly: "Qingge, a second-generation disciple of Shushan, in order to prevent the Miao people from being devastated, I also ask all my comrades to help Shushan put out the mountain fires and never let the mountain fires spread."
Those sects may be forced by the power of Shushan, or they may really be close friends with Shushan. Regardless of their status, this face will always be sold to Shushan, so they stood around and agreed.
A vigorous fire-fighting operation began under such circumstances.
Whether it is Shushan or other sects, they all have a tacit understanding. They each choose the mountain fire in the direction from which they came to extinguish the fire and do not interact with other sects. Perhaps only the sects who are very familiar with each other or have good friendships will work together to put out fires. .
Shushan was responsible for a large sea of fire near the center.
The further areas are left to other sects.
Li Qiang and Meng Ran were ordered by Qingge to rest aside, as long as they watched them put out the fire.
Li Qiang took a rest as he should.
Resting does not mean being idle. He stepped on the flying sword and took Meng Ran to do the work of walking and patrolling.
He didn't help the other party put out the fire, nor did he talk to the other party. He just led Meng Ran to carefully observe the other party's every move from a distance, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Li Qiang did not avoid the other party in a sneaky way, and the other party naturally easily discovered the big sword at Li Qiang's feet.
Some people nodded friendly to Li Qiang and the other two, while others deliberately ignored them, but no matter what state they showed, Li Qiang didn't care. Together with Meng Ran, they really looked like two tourists on a sightseeing trip.
It has to be said that the methods of extinguishing fires in various sects are very different. Some of them obviously use the water and earth techniques of the Five Spirits to directly extinguish fires, which is quite impressive.
Li Qiang is more interested in those cultivating sects with fire and thunder techniques, and wants to know how they put out fires.
It really opened Li Qiang's eyes.
