Chapter 432 Savages vs. Ghost Soldiers
My heart was shaken when I thought of this.
My life experience has been the biggest mystery that has troubled me for so many years.
If my biological parents have been here, then, would they have left some clues here?
The desire to go in and find out the truth became stronger and stronger. I almost subconsciously took a step and walked towards the fork.
But at this moment, Huang Jiu, who was walking in front of me, suddenly stopped. Seeing that I was still standing there, he asked, "What's wrong?"
"No, nothing." I shook my head, but my eyes were still staring at the fork in the road. Then he asked, "Where does this fork lead to?" "
I don't know." Huang Jiu shook his head and said, "The person who drew the map for me said that of the three forks here, only the middle one can lead to the top. He has never been to the other two forks, but... he once heard a terrifying sound in these two forks."
"Terrible sound? What could it be?" I frowned. Huang Jiu saw that I was hesitant to move, so he asked in confusion, "Is there any problem?"
"No, let's go." I shook my head, took a deep breath, and walked forward without paying attention to Huang Jiu's puzzled look. The
reason why I didn't choose to go in was because I suddenly felt a palpitation at that moment.
It was as if there was something in that fork, hiding in the darkness and staring at me.
The breath it exuded was wild and dangerous.
Moreover, the purpose of my coming here this time was to help Huang Jiu find the Pearl Snow Lotus. As for what was hidden in this fork, it would not be too late to go in and find out after I helped Huang Jiu find the Pearl Snow Lotus.
Entering the fork, I clearly felt the temperature rising, and the further I walked, the higher the temperature became. In the end, I even took off my mask and goggles because the temperature was too high, and there was a layer of light water vapor all around. It felt like entering a bathhouse.
After walking for about half an hour, I suddenly heard the sound of gurgling water coming from the front, and the source of the water vapor seemed to be in front.
"We're here." Huang Jiu said and took two quick steps. I hurriedly followed him and saw that there was indeed a hot spring about two meters in front of us.
The spring was not big, only the size of a basin. At this moment, it was gushing out water, and a shallow lake had formed around the spring. However, the water did not flow out in the direction we came from, but gathered together and flowed to the left.
"Does this spring water flow into the fork on the left?" I frowned.
At this time, I saw Huang Jiu exhaled a long breath, and then said, "Let's rest here."
After that, she took off the backpack on her back and sat cross-legged next to the spring.
She took out a thermos and a pack of instant coffee from her backpack, then filled a cup of hot spring water and brewed it. Seeing that I was staring at the spring water in a daze, she said wearily, "The temperature of the spring water here has reached about 70 degrees, and its clarity has reached edible level. The person who drew the map for me often comes here to get spring water and sell it back, and he always gets a good price."
Huang Jiu smiled after she finished speaking, then picked up the cup and took a sip.
"Huh!"
After taking a sip of coffee, she closed her eyes, raised her head and took a long breath, then turned to look at me with a smile, handed the cup to me and said, "Here, take a sip to warm yourself up."
"Uh, this... isn't good?"
This cup belongs to Huang Jiu, and she just used it. If I use her cup, a goddess-level woman like her, she will definitely dislike it.
"We are girls of the world, so we don't care about trivial matters. Just drink it." She said with a smile.
This woman, when we first met, gave me a feeling of... coldness and rejection.
The second time we met, we ate fish together in Lijiang.
Although she seemed to be much more enthusiastic, she actually kept a distance that people dared not cross. She might smile at you and talk to you, but that was just because of her good upbringing. You could even feel that she smiled at you just out of courtesy.
However, at this moment, her smile was extremely sincere and clean, making people feel like they were bathed in spring breeze.
Since Huang Jiu said so, I didn't refuse anymore and took the cup and drank a sip.
Huang Jiu brewed the coffee very strong, and it tasted bitter and astringent when I drank it. I coughed lightly, then returned the cup to Huang Jiu, and said with a wry smile: "This is too bitter, I'm not used to it, I like sweet food."
"I have liked bitter taste since I was a child, so I especially like drinking coffee and eating bitter melon. Oh, by the way, there is a kind of wild vegetable, which seems to be called... mother-in-law in the northeast region. It tastes bitter, and I like it too." She said with a faint smile.
"You can't eat wild ones this season. The ones sold on the market are all raised in vegetable greenhouses, which lack a little taste. If you like it, I will send it to you next spring." I said with a smile.
"Okay." Huang Jiu smiled and said, "Then you have to send more, I have to eat it for every meal."
The two of us smiled at each other, and then fell into silence again.
"You take a rest, I'll call you in two hours." I suddenly said.
"Okay." Huang Jiu nodded, and then he lay down next to the hot spring, and took a nap with his backpack as a pillow.
I took a deep breath, then sat next to the spring, and looked around.
The scenery here is very strange. It is obviously warm, but there is a thick layer of frost on the surrounding rock walls. There are still a lot of icicles above my head, and from time to time, water droplets drip along the icicles.
Then, I looked at the stream again.
According to common sense, this stream should flow to a lower place, but it did not. Instead, it flowed to the east, directly passed through the rock wall, and finally no one knew where it flowed to.
Time passed by, and after about ten minutes, Huang Jiu had fallen asleep, and the sound of even breathing was heard.
I, on the other hand, sat cross-legged on the ground, forming a seal with my hands, and began to practice the Yin-protecting Sutra.
"Hey, Zhang Qianyu." Xiao Qi suddenly crawled out of the backpack, climbed onto my shoulder, and said, "Let's go. I feel that the group of Yin soldiers seem to be not far ahead. If we are targeted by them, we will be in trouble."
I glanced at Xiao Qi and saw that Xiao Qi was pouting and staring at Huang Jiu with dissatisfaction.
I shook my head, wondering what was wrong with this Xiao Qi, why did it feel like she... seemed to be hostile to all women?
"Hey, did you hear me?" Seeing that I didn't say anything, Xiao Qi immediately became unhappy and said, "I'm hungry."
"I'll treat you to a big meal after we get out, so don't make a fuss first, sir?" I said helplessly, Xiao Qi snorted when she heard it, and then flew into the backpack.
I thought Xiao Qi had calmed down, but she didn't. After a while, Xiao Qi actually flew out holding two frozen hard strawberries, looked at me with a sneer on her face, and then snorted, and then flew over the hot spring, and as soon as she let go, she threw the strawberries directly down.
The hot spring gushing out of the spring is not high. At this moment, after the strawberry was thrown in, it did not fall into the water, but was dragged up by the hot spring and jumped back and forth on the water column.
After seeing this scene, Xiao Qi danced excitedly and whispered, "Zhang Qianyu, look, it's so fun."
"Be quiet, don't disturb Huang Jiu." I lowered my voice and said.
"Humph, you are just thinking about her. I haven't rested either. Why don't you care about me?" Xiao Qi pouted and muttered with dissatisfaction.
"I'm afraid she will find you." I said with a wry smile.
"Tsk." Xiao Qi rolled his eyes at me, then flew to the hot spring and reached out to take the strawberry.
"Oh, it's so hot." Xiao Qi exclaimed, and then blew his hand vigorously. I hurriedly looked at it and saw that Xiao Qi's white and tender palm was actually red from the heat.
"Be careful, the water is a little hot, I'll help you." I said as I took out the strawberries.
The strawberries had already thawed and were soft in my hands. Seeing this, Xiao Qi's eyes lit up and said, "You still have some conscience, huh! Oh, I'm so hungry, I can finally eat it."
After saying that, he hugged a strawberry and ate it in a very unpresentable way.
After eating the strawberries, Xiao Qi patted his stomach and then flew back to his backpack to take a nap with satisfaction.
Seeing this, I shook my head helplessly, thinking that for a foodie, eating seems to really solve 90% of her little emotions.
Another hour later, I wanted to wake up Huang Jiu, but Huang Jiu slowly opened her eyes, then sat up, and asked while fixing her hair: "Did I oversleep?"
"No," I said, "It's just the right time."
"Eat something, and then go." She said without a word, took out a compressed biscuit, soaked it with spring water, and drank it directly.
I did the same, and after eating, the two of us set off again.
This passage is much narrower than the previous one. The previous passage was about as wide as a football field, but here, it can only accommodate a carriage.
"With the number of ghost soldiers, if they want to pass through here, they will inevitably disrupt the formation and stretch it. Although they don't need to rest, if we walk faster, we should be able to catch up with such a long team." Huang Jiu said in a low voice while walking forward.
I didn't say anything when I heard it, because at the moment Huang Jiu spoke, I seemed to hear footsteps vaguely.
The footsteps were like drum beats, not only very neat, but also very rhythmic, obviously coming from the group of ghost soldiers.
"The group of ghost soldiers is just in front of us." I said in a low voice.
"Let's catch up and see." After Huang Jiu finished speaking, the two of us quickened our pace and walked forward quickly.
After walking for about another hour, Huang Jiu and I suddenly stopped and hid behind the stone wall.
We saw that about a hundred meters in front of us, there was a team of ghost soldiers moving slowly forward. This group of ghost soldiers were not moving very fast, and some of them needed the support of other ghost soldiers to move forward.
Although they were already rotten, their bodies were incomplete, and even their souls were no longer complete, their strong resentment and instincts in life still supported them to follow the team of ghost soldiers.
But at this moment, those ghost soldiers were obviously unable to hold on, and from their state, they seemed to be attacked.
But, with such a large group of ghost soldiers, what kind of thing dared to attack them?
"Could it be the wild man who ambushed Huang Jiu before?" I frowned.
"Is there a fork in the road here?" I suddenly looked at Huang Jiu and asked.
Huang Jiu shook his head and said, "No, we can only follow them."
In this way, Huang Jiu and I followed behind this group of ghost soldiers, walking and stopping for about a few hours, and suddenly we heard a chaotic sound in front of us, and then there was a roar, and a very cold and cold breath burst out from the group of ghost soldiers.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
An extremely wild roar sounded, and then I saw several ghost soldiers with broken bodies being suddenly beaten away. Their broken bodies instantly disintegrated and fell apart in the air, and even the remaining souls were scattered with the explosion of their heads.
This was just the beginning. As the roar fell, a gust of wind suddenly swept from the center of the ghost soldiers. The gust of wind was extremely violent, mixed with countless ice particles. After it exploded, I heard a continuous "crackling" sound, and countless ice particles hit the ghost soldiers fiercely.
The bodies of the ghost soldiers had long been broken and could not withstand the beating of ice particles. Coupled with the raging wind, their bodies fell apart in an instant.
As these ghost soldiers were dispersed, I immediately saw a tall figure wearing white animal skin and disheveled hair standing in the center of the passage.
He was nearly two meters tall, with extremely strong bones. When he stood there, he looked like a brown bear, exuding a wild and violent aura.
Huang Jiu and I hid in the dark, all of us widened our eyes, watching this scene in horror.
It only took a few seconds to beat dozens of ghost soldiers to death. This method and strength were too terrifying.
"When he attacked me before, it seemed that... he held back." Huang Jiu murmured in a low voice.
She was right. Judging from the power that this savage had just exploded, if he had used all his strength and added a sneak attack, Huang Jiu would definitely be doomed.
At this time, a horse neighed, and then the ghost soldiers who were originally blocking the passage immediately separated into two sides.
Then, the flag guard riding a warhorse with a battle flag in his hand rushed over.
He held a flag in one hand and a sword in the other. With a neighing sound, the warhorse he was riding suddenly leaped up and passed over the heads of countless ghost soldiers.
Then, there was a sound of "swish", and a sword light suddenly exploded and rushed straight to the throat of the savage.
[Author's words]
Two chapters in one.
I got off work a little late today, so I didn't post it in chapters.
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