Chapter 102 Act Thirteen Star Flow Transforms Part Two
Jiang Yan and Tu Ya galloped far away on horseback. When they slowed down, they suddenly realized that they had left the dense virgin forest and entered a barren mountain Gobi. Looking back, they no longer saw the shadow of Tiezhong Mountain behind them.
I just breathed a sigh of relief.
There is a narrow passage between Shuozhou and Zhangzhou, which was called Linxi Corridor in the old days. This passage stretches for hundreds of miles between Lancang Mountain, connecting east and west. Although it is called a corridor, only some of it passes through the stone path.
The rugged trails are passable only during the short two to three months of summer. During most of the rest of the year, the weather is unpredictable and there are continuous snowstorms.
Because of this, even the most experienced travelers do not dare to pass through this place. Over time, even the herdsmen on the grassland rarely visit, and the population becomes increasingly sparse. And every year, thousands of people die due to straying.
Those bones, no longer buried, just fell on the glacier, maintaining the posture before death, and gradually became a human-shaped tombstone that made the intruders' hair stand on end. The name Linxi Corridor was gradually forgotten and replaced by
It is the dead man who the world talks about.
Jiang Yan looked out on his horse and saw a huge black shadow in the northern sky from a distance, almost blocking half of the night sky. When he took a closer look, he realized that it was actually a 10,000-meter-high mountain that was completely covered by clouds.
!
"Is that the white light? It's really - so high!" The black-eyed boy couldn't help but admire.
"Yes, that is the white light, transformed from the remains of the Great God Pangu, the white light that towers over the sky. But I didn't expect that in such a holy place, there is still a lingering smell of blood... How could Eda bear it?
, to actually do such a thing to the benefactors of the Muyun Department?"
Tuya, who was sitting behind the young man, suddenly became choked with sobs.
"Benefactor? You mean those people from the Yimu tribe?" Jiang Yan turned around and asked.
"Yes. They are the most unusual among the prairie people - the five Shuodi tribes. Oma, Qingzi, Muyun and Chuoluo occupy the most fertile pastures. Cattle, sheep and horses are the maintenance
Although Yimu also makes a living by grazing, what he raises is not ordinary cattle and sheep, but a kind of giant deer called Zhuojiao. Its name even takes the meaning of Yimu as home, and does not chase
Live among water and grass."
"I remembered - when I was on duty in Mulu City, I once saw the imperial doctor saw off small pieces of decoction from a huge deer antler and used it to treat the health of the princes and nobles. But I didn't expect that this thing would actually
It comes from here.”
"Yes. Although the Shuobei Tundra is bitter and cold, it produces many precious medicinal materials."
"But where do you start talking about the so-called benefactor of the Muyun Department?" the black-eyed boy asked again.
"In the decisive battle at Suoyang Pass sixty years ago, the soldiers of Guan Ning defeated the Iron Mountains, so that the last elite of Shuodi collapsed overnight. Even my grandfather Hongji, who was Tianhehan at the time, was retreating to the Dannan Plain.
Later, he was outnumbered and almost captured."
"So it was the people from Yimube who saved your grandfather?" Jiang Yan seemed to realize something.
Tuya nodded as expected: "Indeed. In the past, all the princes had regained all their lost lands in just a few months, but almost all the young and strong men of my Muyun tribe died in the battle. They were defeated like a mountain.
When the other three tribes abandoned me, only the Yimu tribe stayed loyally with my grandfather and negotiated peace with the Great Sheng Dynasty. And the conditions they proposed were the antlers of these giant-antlered deer."
"A mere antler can actually make the Great Emperor retreat his troops?!"
Jiang Yan seemed to be unable to believe what he heard. Princess Di Ren did not take it seriously and continued to explain:
"The Emperor Dasheng suffered from a rare and strange disease. Once the disease occurs, all the bones in the body will feel like being broken, and the pain will make people want to live and die, until he is seriously ill and bleeds from seven holes and dies. In this world , only the antlers of Yimubu can alleviate the worsening of this strange disease. Therefore, the two sides quickly reached an armistice agreement, willing to use Pinjin River and Zangdaoling as the boundary to permanently end the war."
"It seems that Yimu not only saved your Muyun group, but also saved all the people on the grassland! How could your brother do such a thing to repay a favor with a grudge today!"
Finally understanding the cause and effect of the incident, the black-eyed boy couldn't help but feel indignant at Tiechhong Mountain's act of killing the defenseless people of the Yimu tribe.
But while the two were talking, they suddenly heard a crisp "click" sound in their ears. Immediately, the horse sank suddenly under its crotch, and fell heavily forward!
Fortunately, the ground was full of snow and the two children were not injured.
Jiang Yan got up first, hurriedly walked around the war horse to check, reached out his hand and gently touched the bridge of its broad nose, and sighed in a low voice with some sadness:
"I'm sorry, I shot you out of one eye earlier to protect myself. That's why you couldn't find the hole in the ground in time. Don't break the foot pole..."
The war horse was very humane and stretched out its tongue to gently lick the boy's palm, as if it had accepted its fate - after all, once it went to the battlefield, it would never be able to escape the fate of injury and death.
From the young man's tone, Tuya could also tell that the situation was very bad. She also understood that in this vast wilderness, if there were no horses, 90% of the possibility of survival would be lost. However, before Jiang Yan could say more, What, she had already walked to the side of the mount first, pulled out a protective dagger from beside her boots, and stabbed it into the side of its neck, ending the horse's pain early.
"Wait a minute - well, why are you in such a hurry to kill it?"
The black-eyed boy pushed the girl away sadly. When he looked at the war horse again, the surrounding snow had been melted by the hot horse's blood.
Tuya did not answer, but walked back to the horse corpse, struggled to untie the saddle and armor tied to it, then picked up a ball of white snow and wiped her hands full of horse blood, and wiped the horse's blood on her head. Hair tied back:
"Its front legs are broken and one eye is blind. There is no way it can carry us out of here safely. There are wolves in Lancang Mountain. If I don't take action first, it will only die even more when the wolves find out. Painful. Besides, there will be a snowstorm soon. In this wilderness, it may be our last hope of leaving alive. Do you want to come and help me?"
After all, she was a Di Ren girl who had grown up on the grassland since she was a child, so she no longer hesitated about what she decided to do. Although horses are the best friends of the grassland people, the cruel laws of survival forced her to make this difficult decision.
Seeing the undisguised sadness on the other person's face, Jiang Yan apologized a little embarrassedly, and then hurriedly knelt down and helped the girl to cut open the skin on the horse's spine with a dagger, removing as much as possible from it. Slender strips of meat were cut off from his body and placed on the snow beside him.
It was freezing cold, and the blood on the ground quickly solidified, and the cut horse meat was frozen hard. The two children kept rubbing their hands, which were almost frozen, and stuffed the meat strips one by one into their pockets.
The horse meat in their luggage can provide them with the strength they need for the next journey, and this is the only preparation they can make at the moment.
Just as Tuya expected, just as the two of them were squatting in the snow and busy, heavy snow fell in the sky. The strong wind on the wilderness suddenly rose, rolling up snowflakes and ice particles and hitting people's faces.
It hurts like a knife.
However, the more the weather is like this, the less he can stay in the unsheltered wilderness for too long. Jiang Yan no longer cares about being reserved, hugs the girl next to him tightly, roughly determines the direction, and then steps deeper and shallower.
My feet trudged through the snow.
The blizzard came quickly and fiercely, and soon it dyed the already pale Qi Ye even whiter. The snow under the feet of the two of them had already reached their knees, making it very difficult to walk. The stronger the wind, the stronger the snow.
Sick, they only feel that their physical strength is rapidly losing, their bodies are becoming weaker and weaker, and they may collapse almost at any time.
"No, look at the snow. I'm afraid it's going to rain all night. We have to find a shelter from the wind first, and wait until the snow stops before continuing on the road. Otherwise, if we fall into a crevice on the glacier, we'll be in trouble.
I can’t climb up anymore!”
Even in Tuya's memory, such a terrifying snowstorm was extremely rare on the grassland. At this time, her legs had been frozen to the point of losing consciousness, and she could only nestle in the boy's arms, shivering.
Jiang Yan also knew that what his companion said was correct. However, when he raised his eyes and looked around, he could only see a vast expanse of white. It was even difficult to distinguish the direction. He wanted to find a suitable place to hide.
Easier said than done?
"Look, there is something moving in front of you, it seems to be a yellow sheep!" In the wind and snow, Princess Shuodi suddenly raised a hand and pointed to a mountain col not far away, "In such weather, the wild
The sheep will seek shelter from the wind and huddle together to keep out the cold. We must follow them quickly and we must not lose them under any circumstances!”
Jiang Yan squinted his eyes and saw a group of shadows running vertically in the vast snow. Suddenly there was new hope. Tuya and the boy also gathered their last bit of strength and took big steps to think.
They wanted to catch up with the sheep. But soon they discovered that the sheep suddenly changed their direction and rushed towards them. After a while, even if they no longer tried to catch up, they could already see the sheep clearly.
The appearance of a group of wild sheep.
"etc!"
Seeing the yellow sheep running past her eyes, the girl suddenly stopped and stopped abruptly. Jiang Yan was pulled by her and staggered. He held a breath in his chest and his face turned crimson:
"Why did you stop so suddenly?"
"The leading sheep have a strong sense of direction, especially in such weather, and will never change their route rashly. There is indeed a good place to take shelter from the wind in the previous mountain col, and the reason why the sheep abandoned it must be because
We encountered a danger more terrifying than a blizzard!"
Before the girl finished speaking, she saw a black shadow suddenly appear among the sheep. The shadow looked obviously twice as big as the strongest sheep. As soon as it landed, the sheep around it began to run away in chaos.
There was no formation at all.
The two people standing in the snow were also frightened by the scene in front of them - it turned out that the black shadow was actually a giant wolf with shoulder height that was almost as high as an adult! The ferocious beast was more than ten feet long from head to tail.
A pair of wolf eyes reflected the dim light in the snow, like two green will-o'-wisps in the dark night.
"It's Chilang!"
Jiang Yan couldn't help but exclaimed in a low voice. Fortunately, the blizzard covered up his voice. The giant wolf that was almost close at hand did not notice the boy and girl retreating slowly in the snow, but pounced on one
The yellow sheep tore its neck open in one bite.
"I thought only Shuodi people in the world still remember these terrifying giant wolves, how come you recognize them too?" Tuya looked extremely surprised after hearing what the young man said.
"Three years ago, I had dealings with these beasts in the mountains of Wanzhou. But it's a long story. Now we have to run away before we are discovered by them!"
The black-eyed boy said, but his right hand had already touched Xiao Tianmo's long handle. He understood that it was only a matter of time before these giant beasts noticed his and Tuya's existence, and before that, all he could do was
It is to keep a certain distance so that there is enough time to prepare for an attack.
Sure enough, just as the two of them were getting more and more panicked, several more galloping wolves emerged from the white snow mist. The wolves soon discovered these two living creatures that ran much slower than the yellow sheep.
, all turned around and surrounded him.
"Run quickly, follow the sheep!"
In front of Yan Hengdao, he pushed Princess Shuodi towards the sheep, and he opened his stance facing the giant wolf's bloody mouth. In an instant, a wolf roared and rushed towards him. The young man's hand
He raised the knife and lowered it, avoiding the fatal fangs, and cut him in two with a knife at the waist.
Xiao Tianmo's power temporarily frightened the wolves. Perhaps it was because they had never encountered a weapon sharper than their own claws in this wilderness. However, Jiang Yan knew clearly that if a group of wolves were to attack at the same time,
He launched an attack, but he was determined not to be able to stop him even if he had three heads and six arms. So he stopped when he saw the opportunity, and immediately turned around and picked up Tuya, who had already been frightened. He dragged the knife into the sheep, and ran away lifelessly on the vast snowy field.
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The bloody killings continued with the blizzard. The numerous yellow sheep dispersed the wolf attack for the two children. Several times, the huge giant wolf brushed past the two bodies and carried them away.
The fishy smell of wolf smell is nauseating even in the wind and snow.
"bring it on!"
There was a sudden loud shout in Tuya's ears, and before she could react, she saw a galloping wolf rushing up from behind, biting Jiang Yan's shoulder, and dragging him with lightning speed.
Out of sight.
The girl felt a buzzing in her ears, but she couldn't hear anything. She staggered and chased after the galloping wolf, only to find that she had arrived on a cliff.
The giant beast that had left its companions had long since disappeared.
"Jiang Yan! If you hear this, Jiang Yan, just respond!"
She stood in the wind and snow and roared regardless. The sudden change had completely defeated Tuya's courage to continue struggling. Hot tears had covered her cheeks before she knew it, and the wolves
The encirclement has also been closed, and the last dozens of yellow sheep and her have been completely blocked in this desperate situation!
Gradually, yellow sheep began to leap up next to the girl, and jumped off the cliff one after another. It seemed that they would rather fall to death than be torn into pieces by the wolf's teeth.
The tears on Tuya's face were quickly frozen into hard ice flakes and peeled off. She finally stopped crying and threw the dagger in her hand towards the galloping wolf closest to her.
Then, the stubborn Shuodi girl turned around, stepped, ran, and accelerated, like a swift that could soar into the sky, soaring off the cliff without hesitation, and then plunged headlong into the hazy white snow at her feet.