Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 3 Old Dreams
total darkness.

"Young man, you said, you will not regret it?"

"I--"

Ye Ziqi was about to answer, but when he opened his mouth, his throat was choked.

Strange, what do you want to say?

When he came back to his senses, he found himself curled up in a familiar study building, among the bookcases exuding a calming smell of camphor and old books, and there were layers of demon books piled under his feet.

Ye Ziqi suddenly realized that he was dreaming again.

I can't remember the content of the dream clearly, I just feel that there seems to be a burnt smell in the dream.

Ye Ziqi shook his head and smiled, how is it possible?If there was a fire in the library, Dad would break his own leg.

It must have been reading for too long that he fell asleep unknowingly. He thought he should read two interesting monster stories to wake up.

But at this moment, the falsely concealed building door was slammed open with a loud bang!

The glare of the sun suddenly shot into the dark bookstore.

Ye Ziqi looked up in surprise, and saw the girl he was most familiar with standing at the door of the study building.

"Brother, I knew you were here!"

A smile spread across the girl's face, it was Ye Ziqi's cousin, Ye Lingsha.

Because she came here in a hurry, Ye Lingsha's well-developed and healthy breasts rose and fell with her rapid breathing, her jet-black hair stuck to her lily-like white oval face, and her soft brocade clothes outlined her in a well-proportioned blue color. curve.

"Let's go, brother, my aunt asked me to take you home for dinner."

Ye Lingsha stretched out her hand to him, but Ye Ziqi didn't grab it.

He fixed his eyes on Ye Lingsha's bright brocade clothes, and recognized that the clothes were made of precious green woven gold and flower phoenix and song brocade, which was completely incompatible with the poor and poor Beishan Town.

"Your clothes, are they sent by the Tang family?"

Ye Lingsha twitched her fingers uneasily: "Hmm...does it look good?"

"It doesn't fit, it's ugly."

Ye Ziqi stood up, passed Ye Lingsha's body, and walked out of the study, every step was as heavy as lead.

"But it's good to be warm, it's cold."

He kept walking with tears in his eyes, the people and scenery around him were constantly changing, he didn't realize it, only the pain in his heart lingered, and when he came back to his senses, he only saw a sword slashing towards him!

"Snapped!"

He fell to the ground, the weapon in his hand was blown away, and saw a resolute boy standing in front of him.

It's Gu Feng.

Ah, by the way, I was competing with Gu Feng.

"You're distracted again." Gu Feng looked very angry: "You haven't held your sword steady this month, so how can you practice your swordsmanship well?"

"I'm sorry." Ye Ziqi apologized and said, "But I can't calm down. Gu Feng, why do you say that? That Tang Zhao, a few good clothes can marry Lingsha. Lingsha and I know each other well. It has been more than ten years, five years longer than our days of practicing swords!"

The "Tang Zhao" that Ye Ziqi said was a rich and young man who came to Beishan Town to play in the mountains and rivers. He happened to see Ye Lingsha's beauty, so he brought many gifts to propose marriage a month ago. Ye's parents had already agreed This marriage.

Since then, Ye Ziqi has been depressed.

Gu Feng said indifferently: "It's Ye Ling who loves her father, and she has made up her mind to get engaged, but she can't help it."

"But, Lingsha promised to go out with us in the future..."

"Things in the world are not in accordance with one's wishes." Gu Feng thought for a while, and said, "Yezi, let me ask you, do you know why the horse thieves from Qianzhou come to our country of Ju every year?"

"Ah?" Ye Ziqi exclaimed, he didn't expect Gu Fengfeng to mention the word "horse thief" suddenly, obviously this word is a taboo in the hearts of all the people in Beishan Town.

"Why are you asking this!"

"I asked you." Gu Feng said seriously.

Ye Ziqi had no choice but to look into Gu Feng's eyes, and those disturbing memories related to the horse thief also rolled in his heart.

All frontier people are most afraid of foreign aggression.Beishan Town of Ju State is located in Leizhou in the extreme north of Pingyao Continent, and the Qianzhou mentioned by Gu Feng is a big state in the north of Leizhou. A continent.

It is said that Ganzhou is a vast and boundless prairie. The barbarians living on the prairie are people on horseback. They often cross the river in winter and come to Ju to plunder. They are called "horse thieves" by Ju people.

"Horse thieves came to our country of Ju, of course to rob things! This is because the Qianzhou thieves are not educated by saints, they are greedy and savage by nature, and they only rob other people's things..."

"It's wrong, it's because they lack a meal in winter!" Gu Feng snapped back sternly.

Ye Ziqi's face changed when he heard the words, this was a shocking statement that had never been written in the book.

Gu Feng pressed again and said: "In winter, the grass on the grassland is frozen to death, and there are fewer cattle and sheep. The barbarians in Qianzhou have no food to eat, so they kill their own cattle and horses, and use cowhide to make rafts. Cross the Jiuwanmu River and come to our country of Ju to kill people and rob food.

Half of them will drown in the river, and half of them will die in the country of Ju, and will never return to Ganzhou, so we usually sing "The long river is ninety-nine thousand long, and if you don't see the bones, they will become old." '.But they kept coming.

In our eyes, of course they are robbers and devils!Looking at Kyushu, the law of the jungle is a natural way of survival.Monsters cannibalize people, and people cannibalize people. If you are weak, let people eat you. If you are powerful, you can eat others!

Now because you are too weak, your cousin was eaten by the rich people in Hanye City!What's the use of you crying here?Can you cry Ye Lingsha back by crying? "

"Gu Feng..." Ye Ziqi's eyes stared straight, Gu Feng's words made him feel like he was blocked in his heart, and he didn't know how to vent it.

"We practice martial arts so that we don't become weak people who are plundered at will!" Gu Feng took the sword back to Ye Ziqi's hand: "Let me ask you, do you still remember the first essence of our Gu family's swordsmanship?"

"Tian Xingjian, the man is self-improvement."

"As long as you remember."

Ye Ziqi stared blankly at Gu Feng for a while, his eyes suddenly glowed with a strong light, he remembered the morning when he saw Gu Feng for the first time, the other party practiced swinging a sword in the faint morning light, his heart suddenly had longing , I also want to be such a strong and powerful person.

"Okay!" Ye Ziqi cheered up: "Gu Feng, let's continue practicing—"

But suddenly, a pillar of fire rose from the villages and towns below the mountain!

Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng looked at the town together in surprise, and the second and third pillars of fire started burning in succession!

The faces of the two of them changed drastically, and each pillar of fire was not close to each other. It didn't look like an accidental fire!
So he hurried down the mountain and reported to their respective families.

As he ran closer and closer to the center of the town, Ye Ziqi heard more and more indistinct hisses and shouts of killing.

"Boom!" With a sound, Ye Ziqi saw the door of Niu Blacksmith's house by the roadside, and was blown out, and a man wearing animal skin came out from inside.

This person has the appearance characteristics that are obviously different from those of the Ju people, with a big and round head, except for a bunch of hair on the top of the head, the rest of the head is shaved.

Broad face, thick eyebrows, almond eyes, high cheekbones, wide nose, knife in hand, eagle tattoo on the back.

It's barbarians!The barbarians have entered the mountains!
The first time Ye Ziqi saw the barbarians, he understood why they were called the most fierce and warlike people in Kyushu.

Fortunately, the barbarian didn't pay attention to him, and rushed into another house, busy looting property.

Ye Ziqi continued to run towards home, while running, tears flowed from his eyes.

Nothing to do, nothing to do, just thinking about it, tears kept falling.

Finally running to the alley of Ye's family, Ye Ziqi felt that his body was weak due to lack of strength, he leaned on the brick wall and turned in, and was instantly stunned.

In front of them were five Ganzhou people in animal clothes.

The horse thieves all saw him and swung their knives.

However, Ye Ziqi didn't run away, and didn't even look at them.

He stared straight at the piece of clothing that the horse thieves were fighting for.

A piece of clothing that is absolutely unique in Beishan Town, and he will never mistake it.

Green woven gold wears flowers, phoenix and Song brocade.

"Ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Ye Ziqi opened his mouth and screamed wildly, his voice piercing the sky piercingly, piercing the sky.I can't see anything, I can't hear anything, only the demon whispers in my ear:

"Look at Kyushu, the weak will prey on the strong!"

"Now because you are too weak, your cousin is eaten!"

Miserable and troubled times, hell on earth.

Because there were still a few townspeople who were closer to resist, the horse thief hadn't been able to step forward and slash him.

Ye Ziqi's hand was suddenly pulled up and dragged away. He didn't feel it at all. After being dragged for a long time, he finally turned his head and cried, "Father..."

The person who came to pull him up was his father, Ye Yuan.

This short and stout man kept repeating in his mouth: "It's okay, follow your father, follow your father."

The number of times is so high that he can't even tell whether he is saying it to his son Ye Ziqi or repeating it to himself.

He tightly gripped his son Ye Ziqi's wrist, which made Ye Ziqi's wrist hurt, but he didn't realize it at all.

"Father, where's mother?" Ye Ziqi asked in a hoarse voice.

Ye Yuan coughed violently twice, then continued to walk forward, without looking back, he said:
"Your mother is gone."

Ye Ziqi opened his mouth wide, but before he could even say a word, his father suddenly threw away his hand, roared, and rushed forward.

A barbarian appeared in front of their road at some point, and raised his knife towards the father and son, but before his knife could fall, Ye Yuan threw him down.

The two men were entangled on the ground, the machete pierced Ye Yuan's back, and Ye Yuan tightly hugged the barbarian's waist, turned around and shouted:
"run!"

Ye Ziqi suddenly collapsed on the ground, crawled towards Ye Yuan.

Until Ye Ziqi crawled to Ye Yuan's side, the barbarian couldn't stand up, because Ye Yuan hugged him too tightly.

Ye Ziqi knocked on the barbarian's face with an elbow, and kept hitting the barbarian's face with a stone picked up from the ground until the face was smashed to pieces.

Ye Yuan stared straight at his son, and said, "Go and hide in the basement of the library, and hide there when you find your sister."

Ye Ziqi nodded, and Ye Yuan swallowed his breath.

Of course Ye Ziqi will not tell his father that Ye Lingsha has been arrested.He didn't run away either, but picked up his father's body.Because a horse thief had already run towards him.

but--

Another hand pulled him up from behind.

"run!"

Holding the sword, Gu Feng, covered in blood, roared at Ye Ziqi.

So, they fled towards the library again.

In daylight, there are many dead bodies.Houses collapsed, screaming endlessly.

The two teenagers ran desperately in such hell.

After killing the barbarian who was chasing him, the book building finally gradually appeared in sight.

Gu Feng's face brightened, and he hastened to step up.

However, Ye Ziqi suddenly stopped and stood still in place.

"What's wrong with you?" Gu Feng yelled anxiously.

"No, Gu Feng." Ye Ziqi said softly to Gu Feng, at this extremely urgent moment, his expression was sad and stable, and two lines of tears slowly flowed from his clear eyes.

"Go any further and you'll die too."

This sentence is really inexplicable, and the flames are raging everywhere, and the barbarians are close behind, and it is really frightening for him to stand still.

However, upon hearing this sentence, "Gu Feng"'s face suddenly turned cold, as stiff as a dead person.

No, not only him, but the whole world has cooled down.

The darkness covered everything, the sound of killing, burning, screaming... all disappeared in the boundless silence.

Ye Ziqi fell to his knees on the ground, he remembered it, and knew it was a dream, it was time to wake up.

But another woman's voice sounded behind him.

"Xiao Qi, where are you? Go home and have dinner."

Ye Ziqi trembled all over.

"Wait... Mom, I'll... play outside for a while."

He said.

"Okay, then you must take good care of yourself when you are outside alone in the future." Mom's voice said.

Then, there was no response from the darkness.

Gradually, "crack, crack", the sound of fire sounded.

Ye Ziqi wanted to see more clearly, but when he wanted to open his eyes, he realized that his eyelids were heavy. He shouted and raised his eyelids desperately.

"Crack, crack..."

There was a fire in front of him.

There was a man by the fire.

Ye Ziqi looked at this person silently for a long time, and then suddenly turned his head and figured out that this person was Gu Feng.

Glancing around, the sky was very dark, the solitary moon was hanging high, and there were shadows of trees all around, and he was also leaning on a tree stump, sitting on the ground covered with weeds, and there was a fire in front of him, Gu Feng added firewood to the fire .

Ye Ziqi lifted his body forward, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in his body.

"Forehead!"

pain!
But pain is fine, pain means that the dream has woken up.

Gu Feng turned his head abruptly: "Are you awake?"

While speaking, Gu Feng took a deep breath.

He knew that when Ye Ziqi was in a coma, he kept crying in his dreams.

But he still didn't expect that the eyes that were swollen from crying could be so terrifying. The overflowing red threads spread from the corners of the eyes to the eyeballs, and the blood threads were like knife-cut.

"Gu Feng", the owner of the blood eyes stared straight at him and said, "One day, we will avenge the horse thieves in Qianzhou!"

(End of this chapter)