Chapter 211 The Only Hope
"Brother Yun."
"Brother Yun."
"Brother Yun."
The hollow and desolate calls woke Yun Chen from his nightmare.
She licked her lips, which were so dry and cracked, but not a single saliva could moisten them.
I didn't eat for five days and didn't drink water for three days.
She began to feel dizzy, her ears rang and trembled, her whole body was limp and she had no strength at all, and she kept having hallucinations.
She always heard Miaomiao calling her "Brother Yun" and the old grandmother's old and loving voice calling her "Little Yun".
Dankou's brother always fell down with his hands covering his bleeding neck, and Dankou waving his two snow-white, bare, bony broken arms around.
But when we looked in the direction of the sound, we saw only densely packed Black Scale Cavalry tents that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Countless black armors moved back and forth around, making a "crunching" sound as they stepped on the snow.
The snow in the south is bone-chillingly cold, but it melts easily and quenches thirst.
But she was locked in a large iron dog cage. The snow around her had been cleared clean, and even the grass had been stripped away. There was nothing to eat or drink.
Her mouth was dry, and her whole body was itchy and dry, making her feel like going crazy, but she didn't even have the strength to yell.
She fell into the cage, the bright sunlight shining on her eyelids.
In the blur, she saw a dark figure approach and place a bowl of steaming food next to the cage.
The aroma of moist, steaming food filled her nose, and the intense hunger lured her to muster up the strength to crawl to the cage step by step.
A bowl of hot broth appeared before her. Jiao Zuotai squatted down and looked at her. He didn't have the usual viciousness or sinisterness. Instead, he had a concerned and kind expression on his face. He advised her gently:
"Eat something. Without life, you can't do anything. Staying alive is the most important thing."
Staring at the broth, Yun Chen swallowed hard.
She felt like she had never smelled such delicious food in her life. She really wanted to forget everything, forget all morality, and just take a bite of the juicy, steaming meat...
Seeing her staring at the broth like a hungry wolf, Jiao Zuotai lifted the bowl, brought it closer to her mouth, and gently coaxed her:
"Eat it. It's just like eating cattle and sheep. That's how the world works. If you eat it today, no one will blame you. This is known to heaven, earth, you, and me. You just want to live. You're not wrong."
Jiao Zuotai's voice seemed to have magic, which bewitched Yun Chen and made him feel a strong impulse, and he almost pounced on him.
She leaned over the cage, stared at the bowl of broth, licked her lips with difficulty, and finally, under Jiao Zuotai's gaze, she stepped back step by step.
She collapsed to the ground again, pressed her face against the ground, took a deep bite of the smelly soil, and swallowed the mud and sand one grain at a time.
My mouth is as dry as a dead tree.
The mud bit my teeth and eardrums and scratched my throat.
She slowly stopped swallowing and her limbs went limp and weak.
Outside the cage, Jiao Zuotai lowered his gaze and his expression became very complicated.
"What's there to be proud of? You're not a hero. In order to protect yourself, you watched so many people in Yancheng die. Have you forgotten? No, you must never forget it in your life."
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Late at night, the Black Scale Cavalry camp fell into silence, and the bonfires gradually died down.
Yun Chen lay motionless on the ground, sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious, struggling to wake up from one nightmare after another, quietly waiting for the last moment of her life.
It seemed that Jiao Zuotai had no intention of interrogating her, or forcing her to reveal any information, or negotiating with her, or giving her the opportunity to say, "Huo Gannian is willing to exchange all his wealth for my life." It seemed that he just wanted to let her die.
She didn't have the energy to think deeply, not even the strength to miss Huo Gannian.
She just lay there, the moonlight gently shining on her face, the cold white light made her feel inexplicably warm and sleepy.
Just as her consciousness was about to blur again, she felt a slight chill touching her lips, melting into a drop of water that flowed into her dry mouth.
Acting purely on instinct, she bit down on the coolness and swallowed it whole.
Not enough, absolutely not enough.
She opened her mouth greedily, wanting to take another bite of ice and swallow a sip of water, but she didn't have the strength to sit up and look for the source.
She turned her head with difficulty and saw Momo running lightly and nimbly to an open space not far away, picking up a piece of snow with his two little paws.
Its black fur blended into the night and did not attract the attention of any Black Scale Cavalry.
Momo's small body passed through the cage again and came to her face with a piece of snow.
She buried her nose in the warm, furry texture and swallowed snowflakes one after another.
Like the cracked and dead earth finally welcoming the drizzle, she began to feel more conscious, her limbs could move, and her mind was no longer so dizzy.
I don’t know how many snow cubes he ate, until Mo Mo was so tired that he was panting and raised his little paw to protest, Yun Chen forced a smile and raised his hand to touch Mo Mo’s little head.
Not knowing how Momo found him, Yun Chen looked at the very smart little guy in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and began to tear his clothes.
She just quenched her thirst and didn't eat anything, so she still didn't have much strength.
The clothes that she could tear off easily at ordinary times were now impossible to tear off no matter what. In the end, she had to rely on Momo's small fangs to cut a hole in it, and then she could tear off a large piece of cloth.
She held the cloth, closed her eyes, and began to carefully recall the defense map that was burned by Jiao Zuotai.
After making a rough sketch in her mind, she placed her finger on Momo's lips and whispered:
"Little coal ball, bite me and make sure I bleed."
Momo blinked his two small green bean-like eyes, looked at her in confusion, and took a step back.
"It's okay, I asked you to bite it, don't be afraid." She said again.
But Mo Mo refused no matter what. He took a step back and shook his head, showing an attitude of "firm refusal" in a very human way.
Helpless, she had to bite her fingertips, using great force, and repeated this several times before she finally bit through them.
Blood dripped onto the cloth, and she drew the outline of the defense pattern bit by bit.
But the blood was too little and too thick, so it coagulated quickly. She had to bite the place on her finger that had been broken once again.
Perhaps it was because she hadn't eaten for too long and had no physical strength. Normally, she could endure the pain of being cut by a knife or burned by fire, but now she was just biting her finger, but she was shaking with pain and her head was dizzy.
Seeing her like this, Momo squeaked twice, anxiously spun in circles, then pounced on her hand, trying to stop her movements with his two little paws.
She pushed Momo away and continued to draw carefully and attentively.
He drew each stroke tremblingly, and when the wound solidified, he bit it again.
Just write it down and it will break.
It was not until she had written down all the information about the distribution and defense of the Black Scale Cavalry Camp in her memory that she realized her fingertips were rotten and almost horrible.
Although it was not a complete defense map, it was about 70% to 80% enough for Huo Gannian to deploy his troops and launch a favorable attack.
She rolled up the protective cloth, tied it tightly to Momo's back, and touched Momo's head:
"The rest depends on you, bring people to rescue me..."
She didn't know how this clever little guy had come all the way here, and whether he could go back the same way and bring the map here.
But this is the only hope right now.
The only hope.
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