man sanctified in death row vest

Chapter 209 The Gone Rivers and Lakes
The three of them cursed "the dog emperor".

But in fact, Zheng Xiu, Fan Yao, and Xie Yunliu all know that now that there is a lot of turmoil, the only way for the new emperor to do this is the most correct way.

There is nothing wrong with defending the country named Dagan at the smallest cost.

Even Fan Yao, Xie Yunliu, and the thousand soldiers traveling west were all victims of this move.

After Zheng Xiu settled Xie Yunliu and more than a hundred soldiers.

Xie Yunliu later told Zheng Xiu that after he became General Pingxi, he met Chu Chengfeng and Bai Xiaosheng once.

Chu Chengfeng is no longer what it used to be, his words are domineering, and his ambition to win the world cannot be concealed.

However, Bai Xiaosheng gave him a piece of news for free: Beiman colluded with the Shache Kingdom, and the Shache Kingdom is mobilizing an army to invade Dagan from the west.Big work, danger.

The "river and lake" that Xie Yunliu is familiar with has long existed in name only, with things changing and people changing.After he had a drink with Bai Xiaosheng, he joined Fan Yao and set foot on the westbound road of no return.

A few days passed in a blink of an eye.

Every day, the sky is cloudless, the wind and sand are silent, the air in the distance is distorted, and the sun is hot.

Every time I breathe, it seems that the surrounding air seems to be filled with lead, stuffy and heavy.

The soldiers were just walking around the town in armor, and soon they were covered in hot sweat.

Many soldiers simply took off their armor, and under the military order of General Xie, they assisted the Lieyang tribe, with only a few hundred people, and wanted to complete the feat of guarding the frontier.

Zheng Xiu, who is familiar with the desert climate, speculated that a rare sandstorm is brewing in the desert.

one night.

After dinner.

Zheng Xiu found that Fan Yao was gone, so he looked around, looking for Fan Yao's figure.

Madam pointed to the distance.

Under the bright moon, the silver light swayed.A lonely figure toasted to the moon on the eaves.

At this time, Fan Yao no longer had the usual gloom and self-confidence. Under the moonlight, his body exudes a tranquility that seems to have read the prosperity of the world and savored the coolness of the world.

For a moment, Zheng Xiu seemed to see the old monk from Fan Yao.

Huh~
Zheng Xiu shook his head and chuckled.

They are the same person.

It's just that it's cracked.

Zheng Xiu made a big hand out of sand, he stepped on it calmly, let the sand support him, and easily climbed up to the roof.

Fan Yao drank a cup, heard Zheng Xiu's footsteps stepping on the mud tiles, and asked calmly, "Come to kill me?"

Zheng Xiu smiled: "I can't wait until now."

Fan Yao nodded calmly: "Yes."

Zheng Xiu sat beside Fan Yao, "Can I ask something?"

"Why don't you...ask, ask another question."

Fan Yao smiled slightly.

"Success." Zheng Xiu readily agreed, and he, who has never suffered a disadvantage, took the initiative to ask first: "What kind of place is the Incomplete Building?"

Fan Yao turned her head and glanced at Zheng Xiu.He was very curious why Zheng Xiu would ask an outside question in this hypocritical place.Now that Fan Yao didn't seem to want to hide anything, she paused for a moment and replied, "A place where countless poor people gather."

Zheng Xiu frowned.Fan Yao didn't seem to intend to use this casual answer to perfunctory the past, and continued: "You should know Ye Weiyang, Lord Ye?"

Zheng Xiu nodded.

"In the underground of the palace, there is a huge secret room, in which many... people with extraordinary talents were locked up. In order to 'sew' a new crowman, we just used it to piece together a 'crowkeeper'." The flesh and blood of the arakkoa, nothing more."

"Sewing?"

"Well, the thaumaturgy unique to the mortician can sew corpses together, but he used it on each living person. In 20 years... oh, it should be about 200 years later, during the war, the mortician There are so many. After sewing, the remaining "us" becomes disabled people. It's just ridiculous that this kind of "disabled" allows us to escape from that place and see a new doorway, which is independent of The alley beyond the avenue—the side door."

"So that's how it is." While Zheng Xiu was shocked, he suddenly realized.At this point, he finally understood why there were all disabled people in the disabled building, and it turned out to be the reason.

"But why did the Lord of the Night sew 'Crowman'?"

Fan Yao smiled, but didn't answer.

Zheng Xiu was taken aback for a moment, then closed his mouth immediately, and stretched out his hand to signal: "Please".

Fan Yao thought for a while: "According to the thaumaturgy you perform, you are indeed a 'painter'? But I have met several famous Danqing masters, and with all due respect, you are definitely not anyone I have met. "

"Is it a question?"

"Calculate."

Zheng Xiu replied: "Now I am indeed a painter, but I am unknown."

"So that's it." Satisfied with the answer, Fan Yao nodded and took the initiative to answer Zheng Xiu's second question: "I don't know why Yezhu is so obsessed with sewing the 'Crowman', but the first crowkeeper is still there." Living in the incomplete building, he can't speak, can't understand human language, just like a real...crow. In my personal opinion, the existence of the "crowman" is to raise more for him The ravens, the ravens, are the 'eyes' of the Lord of the Night."

Eye?

Zheng Xiu subconsciously glanced in the direction of Sunset Mountain.

The night master is the candle, and the candle is the sun chaser. He lived many years ago, and he saw the "scorching sun" at the end of the chase.What does he need so many "eyes" for?
Then Zheng Xiu and Fan Yao asked and answered quickly.

Zheng Xiu: "Are you an ascetic monk?"

Fan Yao: "Yes. Who are you?"

Zheng Xiu: "An ordinary small wealthy businessman is not worth mentioning. Who is your landlord?"

Fan Yao: "Heh. Wei Chen. Do you know my demon?"

Zheng Xiu: "Well, I don't know. My friend. How to solve the crowman's thaumaturgy?"

Fan Yao: "Eating the never-blind eyes of the crow-keeper can solve the 'spell of death', provided that the person who has been subjected to the technique has not died completely. Oh? You got hit?"

Zheng Xiu: "...not completely hit. What thaumaturgy did you use to catch Xie Luohe's arrow?"

Fan Yao: "Heh. It's not thaumaturgy, but the real Lou Mengkong's martial arts, the Yin and Yang Reversal Sutra. If you want to learn this skill, you must first go to the palace. Do you want to learn it?"

Zheng Xiu: "I'm not interested. You know the situation here, why did you go to great pains to destroy the 'Wulin'?"

Fan Yao: "Looking for you. Bai Xiaosheng didn't want to say anything, he refused to say anything, so I told him that if he didn't say anything for a day, I would kill a martial artist. Gradually, no one dared to claim to be a martial artist Man, it's ridiculous. Do you still want to go out?"

The quick question and answer between the two came to an abrupt end.

Zheng Xiu opened his mouth, but fell silent in an instant.

He hesitated.

"I understand." Fan Yao smiled helplessly: "In ten years, the original intention has been lost."

Zheng Xiu turned his head and looked in the direction of "home".

There is a home, a bed, a table, a chair, a well, a cat, and... his wife.

Fan Yao got up, faced the bright moon, turned her back to Zheng Xiu, and said softly: "Five years ago, I was still looking for you, and wanted to ask you if you knew the way to escape. But one day, Fan suddenly woke up, and here Fan I have lived for 50 years. 50 years are fleeting, and things are changing around me. Everything in the past has gradually become strange and indifferent. What is true? What is false? I can’t remember for a long time. Whether I am Fan Yao, or It's Lou Mengkong. Life is too short, how many 50 years? I have lived here as Lou Mengkong for the rest of my life. I have enjoyed all the glory, wealth, and delicacies. I have no regrets. So why not be real, and why not be afraid of being fake? "

"And you,"

Lou Mengkong let out a long laugh, and like a wild goose, he floated lightly into the distance, and his voice came back: "How can you be sure that you are Gongsun Mo, or who you think you are?"

"Life is young and beautiful, is it a big dream or nothing?"

"Since you have lived here for 50 years, why not spend your whole life as Lou Mengkong?"

When Zheng Xiu returned home, the room was dark.

Two gloomy green eyes stared at him in the darkness.

"Meow~"

With a meow, Xie Luohe, who was hiding behind the door, hugged Zheng Xiu forcefully from behind.

"You guys, what did you say?"

Xie Luohe asked.

"Can't you hear?"

Xie Luohe was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't want to hear it."

"He said that everything in front of him is just a big dream. But I can't believe him."

Zheng Xiu smiled.

Xie Luohe's embrace suddenly tightened, she saw through her husband's thoughts.

Zheng Xiu paused for a moment, knowing that he couldn't hide his thoughts from his wife, so he sighed lightly: "Even so, I will accompany you through this dream."

"En." In the darkness, Xie Luohe smiled: "Okay."

After ten days.

"coming."

To the west of Sun Cicada Valley, beyond the horizon, the black army is in a line of heaven and earth, pressing towards Sun Cicada Valley mighty and mighty, stretching as far as the eye can see.

When Riding spread the news to the tribe, the Lieyang tribe was full of sorrow.

It is roughly estimated that after a lapse of one month, the ambitious "Brake King" gathered troops from 36 countries, numbering in the tens of thousands.

"Obviously, a dead end."

Fan Yao said firmly.

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "Not necessarily. The Richan Valley road is narrow and can only accommodate ten people side by side. No matter how many of them there are, we will stick to the entrance of the valley and fight with bow arrays. With the help of the terrain, we should be able to withstand one or two. If it is not possible, we will retreat into the desert. With the help of the Lieyang tribe's familiarity with the desert, it may not be impossible to swallow an army of ten thousand people."

Xie Yunliu shook his head with a bitter face: "Brother-in-law, you have never been on the battlefield, so you don't know the horror of an army of ten thousand people. Just stick to the mouth of the valley. When you go to the open desert, the fine sand is weak. The camels here are weak and have nothing to do with the war camels in the Western Regions." Bi, I caught up in a short time. An army of [-] people rides on a camel and charges, even if my sister's archery skills are against the sky, it is difficult to stop the might of a [-]-strong army."

Xie Luohe didn't speak.

Ridi gritted his teeth: "We will stick to Sun Cicada Valley! Boss Mo, Mr. Xie, when the time comes, the two of you will flee back to the Central Plains on camels, so don't worry about us!"

Zheng Xiu was stunned for a moment, listening to Ridi's tone, he was obviously mentally prepared to live and die with Richangu.But he couldn't figure out why Ridi was so stubborn and would rather die with the whole clan than retreat into the Central Plains.

"Why?"

Hiji showed a difficult smile: "This is our root!"

After the discussion, Japan and Earth began to prepare for the battle before the army from the Western Regions came.

……

An army of ten thousand people entered Richan Town three days later.

The leader was not Atulu, but a strange general.He first used rockets dipped in boiling oil to shoot at the Sun Cicada Valley from a distance.

A wave of rockets came down, forcing Zheng Xiu and the others to hide behind rocks.

But everyone in the Lieyang tribe has learned the fur of Xie's bow technique, and the arrows can turn.Strange arrows were shot from Sun Cicada Valley, but they were all blocked by the strange "fan shields" of the Western Regions.

Xiao Feng stood tremblingly on Xie Luohe's shoulder, Xie Luohe held a longbow in his hand, bit his lower lip, and did not make a move.

Xie Yunliu was wearing iron armor, and stood in an army formation with a hundred-man army, guarding in the valley, standing uneasy.

Zheng Xiu cut his wrist, blood gushed out, and he directly drew countless ghosts on the rock wall.

"Spirits and ghosts... Soul-destroyer!"

The moment Zheng Xiu completed the painting, countless illusory ghosts roared and rushed into the army. The color of the sky and the earth changed instantly, causing thousands of people in the Western Regions army to look at the sky at the same time. The stern ghosts passed through their bodies, and the practitioners fell down one after another.

Seeing this, a gleam of light flashed in Fan Yao's eyes.

"Black magic! Black magic! He knows black magic!"

In the army of the Western Regions, some people were frightened.

Zheng Xiu took away a small area in the blink of an eye with this hand. The general of the Western Regions saw this, waved the military flag, and the army retreated.

"Win... win?"

The sun and the earth said in surprise.

"No." Zheng Xiu looked pale and stared into the distance.I saw that the retreating army of the Western Regions did not retreat completely, but set up their shields in the dilapidated town, maintaining their formation, defending but not attacking.

After a stalemate for a long time, at dusk, Xie Yunliu finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched a charge.

"kill!"

However, the camels under their command are only used for ordinary transportation, not for use on the battlefield.Seeing Xie Luohe charging, the opposite side waved the flag again, and the rumbling drums sounded, and the frightened camels suddenly refused to obey, disrupting the formation of the Hundred-Men Shenwu Army.

After disturbing the camels, they shot a rain of arrows at Xie Yunliu's army of hundreds.Xie Yunliu gritted his teeth and flew up, slashing his sword like a dragon in the air, and the air currents swirled, hitting a wave. His heroic posture was comparable to that of Xie Luohe who shot with all his strength.

It's just that even if Xie Yunliu is so brave, it is still difficult for him to block the rain of arrows by himself.During the retreat, six people were killed and more than ten were injured, and the Hundred-Man Army retreated back to the valley in desperation.

The army of the Western Regions was stationed behind Richan Town, and they were not in a hurry to attack.The opponent's generals seemed to know that Richan Valley was dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack.

However, the empty streets of the town are very suitable for a large army to charge and kill. Xie Yunliu's hundred-man army lost their mounts, and it was difficult for the infantry to play a big role on the enemy's stable battlefield, so they could only live in a dilemma.

There was a stalemate.

This deadlock lasted another ten days.

Sunrise and sunset.

Since yesterday, there have been thick gray clouds drifting far away from the desert, as if a huge cover had been added over the desert, overwhelming the sky.

The Lieyang tribe is now clearly facing two problems.

One is that the sandstorm in the desert is approaching, and the Cicada Valley is usually used as a natural barrier, so they are naturally not afraid of the sandstorm.But once the Sun Cicada Valley is breached and a sandstorm hits behind them, they really have no way out.

The second is supplies. In terms of water sources, although they can send people to the nearest oasis to replenish them, in terms of food, they have already started to run out and it is difficult to continue to maintain.

The Western Regions Army sent troops to harass them from time to time. Once the resistance of the Lieyang tribe was fierce, they retreated immediately and never wanted to fight.Now this war has fallen into a strange situation, the side with fewer people would rather die than surrender, but the side with more people is outrageously cowardly.

"They want to consume us."

While being vigilant about the movement of the Western Regions army, Xie Yunliu expressed his thoughts with a straight face during the night's discussions.

Zheng Xiu, Ri Di, Xie Luohe, and Fan Yao all looked at each other.

At the same time, he looked at Xie Yunliu in surprise.

Fan Yao was surprised: "You... just noticed it?"

Zheng Xiu was helpless: "Isn't it obvious?"

Xie Luohe was a little depressed: "They seem to be waiting for something."

Since the start of the war, Xie Luohe has not fired a single arrow, and I don't know why.He usually seems taciturn, completely different from usual, like two different people.Now that he spoke suddenly, Zheng Xiu seemed inspired and thought of a possibility: "Wait for Artulu?"

Hiji wondered, "Is he still alive?"

Fan Yao asked, "Artulu? Who?"

Zheng Xiu twirled his beard and muttered to himself, "What are you waiting for? No, it's very possible. Atulu said 'Buddha reincarnated' at that time, and the Western Regions seemed to call 'foreigners' 'Buddha reincarnated', ah If Tulu is still alive, he will naturally know the power of aliens. Their goal is not just a Richan Valley. They want to break through here with the least cost and go straight to the Central Plains. After all, after Richan Valley, they have to face the boundless The desert, and the stubborn resistance that may be encountered in the Central Plains. If I were the king of brakes, I would also find a way to win here with the smallest price."

Fan rumored that although Zheng Xiu didn't answer, he probably knew that Atulu should be a stranger from the Western Regions. He had met Zheng Xiu and his wife, and he was probably disabled.Thinking of this, Fan Yao showed a strange smile: "Use a different person to deal with a different person? Oh, it is very possible."

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, the more they thought about it, the more likely it was.It's just a moment, and I can't think of a way to deal with it.

Either retreat or fight, but both are close to death.

Another ten days.

Ridi ordered someone to cook a few pots of leaf soup in the back, and there were a few thin slices of meat floating in it.

The gray clouds in the distance of the desert are closer.

The wind and sand actually walked in the direction of Sun Cicada Valley.

There is still a stalemate inside and outside the valley, and the two sides have lost each other.If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the Lieyang tribe is wiped out.

But on the tenth day, something changed.

A group of people came from the Central Plains and arrived here as if being chased by wind and sand.

Now the Lieyang tribe is in turmoil, and Ridi and others immediately noticed that there was another strange team coming from the Central Plains and crossing the desert.

There are hundreds of people in the team, walking on the back of the camel at the front, with the flag flying.

The word "Chu" is written on the flag.

"Hahaha!"

The moment Xie Yunliu saw the flag, he twisted his bare head hard, chewed the leaves in his mouth, cried and danced on the spot, and waved to the distance.

"Old Chu! Old Chu! It's Old Chu!"

After a while, the team that crossed the desert came to the mouth of the east valley.

The first person lifted off his cloak, his dark skin was covered with wind and dust, his thick beard was twisted into a knot, his dry hair was as messy as a chicken coop, under his tired expression, he had a pair of resolute and bright eyes.

Chu Chengfeng at this moment doesn't have the demeanor of the "Three Young Masters" back then, he looks like a beggar on the street.

Chu Chengfeng grinned, got off the camel, looked around the crowd, hugged Xie Yunliu heavily first, then saw Zheng Xiu, his expression froze for a moment, he patted Xie Yunliu's bald head angrily, and said angrily: "Why don't you tell me that brother Gongsun is here?" here?"

Xie Yunliu said embarrassedly: "This is a secret, we can't betray my brother-in-law, can we?"

"You fucking treat me as an outsider. I would have known better and wouldn't have come!" Chu Chengfeng kicked Xie Yunliu away, and wanted to embrace his younger brother Gongsun who had been away for more than ten years, but Xie Luohe stood silently by the side with calm eyes.

Chu Chengfeng stopped in his tracks, rolled his eyes, and cupped his hands towards Xie Luohe and Zheng Xiu.

"I'm handsome...cough cough, I don't change my name or surname when I go down, the third young master of Plum Blossom Villa, the ranking of the weapon spectrum... Bah! There is no weapon spectrum for a long time. However, it is still called 'Looking for the blue sky in the world, a little plum in Cangshan'" Of... Chu Chengfeng. Have you all been safe and sound all these years?"

This sentence reminded Zheng Xiu suddenly of the first time he met Chu Chengfeng.

After Chu Chengfeng, the group got off their camels and took off their cloaks.

There are many faces that Zheng Xiu is familiar with, many people, Zheng Xiu can't name them, but they have met once at the martial arts conference in Dugu Mountain Villa.

Xiao Qinshou who was once a fellow prisoner, Chu Chengfeng's wife Wen Shishan, several knights who were hammered by Zheng Xiu in the martial arts conference, and the Iron Lady who once used scissors but was cut back on Zheng Xiu, and another who competed in lightness kung fu on the mountain road Brother Simon and Brother Gu.

Iron Lady is now in her bun, looking at Xie Luohe and Zheng Xiu who are like a couple of gods, she first shows regret, and then smiles relievedly.That scissor kick ten years ago silently left a faint silhouette in her heart, which lasted for ten years, and now it is gone.

"Long time no see, Brother Gongsun! You are really blessed!"

A little old man with gray hair and beard who was fatter than ten years ago suddenly jumped over and smiled at Zheng Xiu who was staring blankly.

"Jiang, fat Jiang."

Zheng Xiu didn't know them, but they knew Zheng Xiu.

When Zheng Xiu participated in the martial arts conference with the vest of "Xiao Buping", he left a deep impression on them.Not to mention the invincible Xie Luohe.

"Stay safe."

"Hey! It's a good meeting, and we're very excited. When we meet in the world today, let's have another drink and talk!"

"Ahem, Qingshan will not change... No, what should I say?"

"Hahaha! Our great country, how can we let this group of outsiders ruin it!"

"It's been hot for half a month, and it's finally cool here!"

The knights exchanged pleasantries one after another, speaking the polite words that were popular in the Jianghu back then.It's just that talking about it now is a bit unfamiliar, and some people can't help laughing out loud as they talk, as if thinking of their young self ten years ago.

The knights of the past have long retreated to the mountains and forests, but now they are covered with smoke and fire from the world.Some became cooks, some worked in agriculture, some had gray hair, and some became wives.

They used to be all-powerful in the martial arts world, but they didn't care about world affairs after retiring.

The imperial court treated them unfairly, and the secret factory destroyed the martial arts world.

First, Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe lived here in seclusion, Xie Yunliu came here because of his older sister, and Chu Chengfeng rushed to the desert because of his relationship with Xie Yunliu. Together.

Walking silently at the end of the line, he took off his bamboo hat, showing a pale complexion.

Under the shabby cloak, he still wore a light blue gown, with a black scabbard hanging from his waist.This person's hair was disheveled and loose, and there were two distorted characters printed on his face like birthmarks.

"Cheng Xiao!"

With a pale face and a black scabbard, Cheng Xiao is the same as before.It's just that there are more words on the face and more creases between the eyebrows.And those eyes were no longer empty and dull, when he saw Zheng Xiu, he smiled slightly, always felt that Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe looked very kind.

Without waiting for Zheng Xiu to ask, Cheng Xiao took the initiative and said: "The big revenge has been avenged, and there will be no regrets in this life, so I came to the desert to meet my old friend."

There wasn't much grievance or hatred, just a simple thought brought Cheng Xiao here, free and easy.

Now in the desert, Zheng Xiu inexplicably remembered a word for this group of knights who had aged and lost their charm.

——"Jianghu".

Although the rivers and lakes are small, there are always people there.

"Ha ha."

Deep in the crowd.

Fan Yao looked at the bustling crowd, smiled low-key, showed relief, and whispered.

"Done."

(End of this chapter)