After struggling all night, a red-gold morning glow finally appeared in the eastern sky. The sun shone on the sunny side of the mountain top, coating the bare rocks with a layer of yellow color.
The two children, who had finally escaped from the hell gate, were now preparing to leave the hill. Unexpectedly, the little white fox that had been hiding in the grass beside the hole came out again at some point and sat down a few feet away. Two round little eyes glanced at the two of them with some fear, but they refused to leave.
"Look, this little guy can't bear to leave us." Ning Yue stopped, not knowing what to do with this pitiful little guy.
"If you like it, just take it with you and go back together."
"Is it okay? I, I have never raised a small animal before, I don't know if I can do it!" Even though she said this, Ning Yue's bright blue eyes were already flashing with excitement.
This brought a smile to Jiang Yan's always solemn face:
"Legend has it that the white fox is a rare mountain spirit. If it recognizes you as its master, it will never forget you for the rest of its life."
"Really? Then I will call you this little guy Xueling from now on."
While the young man was talking, Ning Yue had already knelt down and smiled at the little white fox on the ground. The little white fox actually seemed to understand the words, stretched out its pink tongue and gently licked the girl's finger. Jian jumped into her arms very obediently.
Soon the little white fox fell asleep in Ning Yue's arms, while Jiang Yan carried the broken bones wrapped in the wolf skin and embarked on his return journey.
When the two of them reached the entrance of the village, it was already high in the sky, and most of the day had passed.
However, the atmosphere in the village became obviously gloomy - they were greeted by the horrified faces of the villagers. The other party did not seem to expect that the two children could come back alive, and turned around and hid in the village, screaming as if they had seen a ghost. , and shouted something vaguely, as if he had seen the god of plague and was afraid to avoid it.
Soon, more and more villagers were alarmed and poked their heads out from behind the door. Some people saw the huge and ferocious bird head with Yan tied around their waist. After exclaiming in surprise, one by one He was so frightened that he quickly hid in the house and locked the door as if facing a powerful enemy.
Ning Yue couldn't help but feel confused when she saw this, and immediately shouted:
"Hey, who are you hiding from? There is no god on that hill, only a strange man-eating bird. It has been killed by Little Stutter now, and will never harm anyone in the village again. Why don't you guys? Come out and thank him!”
"You two outsiders are the real scourge of the village!"
The sharp voice of the witch woman came from a distance accompanied by the sound of the cane. With the support of several villagers, she walked to the boy and the girl. Brother Cui, who was supposed to go hunting in the mountains, did not know where he came from. He got out, the hunting bow in his hand was drawn to the full string, and the two sharp arrows on the string were pointed directly at Jiang Yan's back.
"Little Stutterer almost lost his life last night, so he got rid of this harm for you. After all, you are also the elders of the village. Is this how you thank him? What exactly does he owe you?"
Even though Ning Yuedang was about to step forward to argue, Jiang Yan suddenly dodged and blocked him behind. Immediately afterwards, a peasant woman next to the witch woman also started shouting, with angry eyes that could kill people:
"Of course he owes us! It was the arrival of him and You Orion that caused several children in the village to disappear inexplicably! Yesterday, after you, the red-haired witch, appeared, Brother Cui finally found the children by the shallows near the Pheasant River in the southwest. Bones! All the misfortunes are due to the intrusion of damn outsiders like you, which brought misfortune to our village! Without you, our children would not have died, and the blood debt must be paid with blood!"
"Yes, give our children back! Only when all the outsiders die can our blood feud be avenged!" Upon seeing this, several other village women also started yelling and cursing.
Ning Yue's anger immediately rose from the bottom of her heart: "How stupid! The child was lost, why didn't you go find someone to save him at that time? Now that the child has passed away, you blame us?"
As she was speaking, she suddenly felt Jiang Yan's hand holding her tighten so hard that she almost screamed out in pain. When she turned to look, she saw that the young man's whole body was shaking uncontrollably:
"Could it be that - could it be that from the very beginning, you knew that there was no god on the hill, and you never really intended to let Yue'er stay?! The so-called attracting people, the so-called widening the net, are just Are you trying to find an excuse for me to throw myself into a trap so that the Gu Eagle can get rid of me, an outsider you can't stand?!"
Jiang Yan's words suddenly made the girl feel a chill running down her spine. Brother Cui, who was standing behind the two of them, did not make any refutation of the young man's accusations. Instead, he sneered as he completely turned his back:
"That's right, you should die on the hill like You Orion."
The other party's words suddenly made Jiang Yan roar hysterically:
"How did you know that Uncle You was dead? Could it be that his disappearance was also framed by you?!"
The emotions he had been trying to suppress finally completely lost control. With a swipe, he pulled out the still bloody Baipi from his waist and stared fiercely at Wu Nu and the surrounding villagers, his eyes so sharp that they could almost kill someone.
"The guy named You is an outsider just like you, so naturally he can't stay! In the few months since he came to the village, he often relied on his martial arts skills to go his own way, deliberately going against everyone in many places! The man in the swamp The trap was originally prepared for the wild deer on the mountain, but he is looking for death!"
Brother Cui's words made Jiang Yan almost bite all the teeth in his mouth to pieces - he already knew that this isolated small village and the people in it had all fallen into unreasonable madness. But he I still can't imagine that people can become so insane and crazy because of selfishness.
Before he finished speaking, two screams were heard in the air. The arrow in Brother Cui's hand shot out of the air, and he struck preemptively, intending to kill the boy and the girl on the spot!
The iron arrow came quickly and swiftly. In desperation, Jiang Yan had to shout loudly, turned around and slashed in the air with his sword, splitting the arrow that had hit Ning Yue in two pieces. But this also caused his own chest pain. The door was wide open, and with no way to escape, he could only watch helplessly as another feather arrow struck.
"Don't hurt my friend!"
A girl's exclamation suddenly sounded in Jiang Yan's ears. Just when the arrow was about to hit him, a whirlwind blew up around the two of them without warning. The wind became stronger and stronger, blowing people's eyes open. Without opening their eyes, the fallen leaves and dust on the ground were instantly rolled up, forming a wind wall several feet high in front of everyone's eyes, visible to the naked eye.
The whirlwind immediately blew away the arrows in front of Jiang Yan. And standing in the whirlwind that rose out of the sky was Ning Yue, whose hair was as angry as a ball of fire!
"Witch! This red-haired bitch is really a witch!"
The villagers suddenly became panicked and retreated behind the witch woman. Brother Cui, who was in front of the two children, drew a new arrow from his back and drew his full bow again to aim at Ning Yue, but he could not hide the fear in his voice. Uncontrollable trembling:
"You, are you a human or a ghost? Stop casting spells quickly, or I will shoot you through the head with an arrow!"
However, the red-haired girl was not moved by the opponent's threat at all. She closed her eyes tightly as if she had lost her soul. She allowed the wind around her to blow stronger and stronger, and directly swept Brother Cui into the air with his arrows. And the hunting bow in the opponent's hand was He took off his hand in an instant and was crushed to pieces by the strong wind.
"Put me down, please put me down quickly!"
Brother Cui was completely frightened. He waved his limbs feebly in the wind and screamed, looking as embarrassed as a drowned dog.
Jiang Yan, who was also standing in the eye of the wind, was stunned by everything in front of him. It took him a long time to react, and he raised his hand to pull his companion beside him. But as soon as his hand touched the girl's arm , but it was like touching a red-hot iron, extremely hot.
When Ning Yue was touched by someone, she suddenly opened her eyes as if waking up from a dream. The whirlwind in the air immediately died down, causing Brother Cui to fall back to the ground heavily from a height of more than ten feet. The extent of his injuries was unknown.
"What...just happened...little stutter, how did you subdue this guy?"
The red-haired girl opened her mouth and murmured.
"Yue'er, wasn't it you who caused the whirlwind that saved me just now? I also want to ask you what happened!"
"What...whirlwind? How could I...save you?"
Ning Yue had a puzzled look on her face, but her handsome little face was so white that she seemed to have no memory of what happened just a moment ago.
The black-eyed boy responded, but he was afraid that Brother Cui, who was lying on the ground and couldn't stop begging for mercy, would try another trick. He quickly walked up to him and put the tip of the knife in his hand against the other person's neck:
"I'll kill this damn bastard right now and avenge Uncle You!"
Unexpectedly, a woman's voice also sounded in the crowd at the same time: "Please don't hurt him, don't harm my man! He is the father of two children!"
The young man was startled, and when he looked back, he saw a young woman leading two children, a boy and a girl, desperately squeezing forward from behind the crowd, not caring that General Yan in front of him was the only one in the whole village who had a sharp blade. people.
"Don't come here! Otherwise I will kill you too!"
Jiang Yan roared angrily. At this moment, he only felt a buzzing in his head, as if he could hear the blood all over his body pulsating in his veins, driven by his obsession for revenge.
"Stop little stammer!"
Just when the situation was about to get out of control, Ning Yue's voice was like a beam of light that pierced the darkness, reawakening the young man who was almost swallowed by anger. Jiang Yan only felt a soft little hand pressing his Baipi down. , then the face of the companion gradually became clear from blur, and it was full of fear:
"These villagers have given up on the basic moral principles of life and have just embarked on the path of madness. But if you kill someone today, you will be no different from them!"
The girl's words made the dark-eyed child suddenly wake up. He turned around and looked at Brother Cui's wife and children who were kneeling on the ground and crying. Suddenly, he felt that a certain part of his heart seemed to have been cruelly beaten.
He squeezed hard. Although he didn't know what caused his intense grief, when he looked at Brother Cui lying under the knife again, he could no longer take action:
"A long time ago, someone seemed to have told me that half of the evil in the world is caused by greed, and the other half is caused by fear. Uncle You taught me martial arts so that I can protect myself, not for
Bullying the weak. If he had a spirit in heaven, he would probably persuade me to let these miserable people go..."
Jiang Yan tried his best to calm down the anger in his chest, but he still shouted at the man on the ground, biting the flesh on his cheek, "But if you do bad things, you have to be punished, right? Otherwise, some people will not grow up."
memory!"
"As long as I can spare the little one, Mr. Cui will listen to whatever requests you two have!"
Brother Cui, who was holding his head, was already scared out of his wits, and his crotch area became wet at some point.
"From today on, one person in the village needs to burn three sticks of incense for Uncle You every day, and kowtow on his head three times, so as to take care of the dust. From today on, if anyone comes to the village for help, no one can make things difficult for me for any reason. If
Anyone who dares to disobey should stand up for me now!"
As Jiang Yan spoke, he glanced fiercely at the crowd, scaring the other villagers to shivering. Cui Ge secretly glanced at the witch woman, who also had a bloodless face, and nodded his head as if pounding rice:
"You two have great hands and eyes. We will do whatever you tell us personally and we will never slack off in the slightest."
"Remember your promise today! If I find out that you have broken your promise in the future, I will settle the old and new accounts together without mercy!"
The black-eyed boy stared into everyone's eyes, and finally put the Baipi in his hand back into its sheath for a long time.
As soon as the dagger was pulled away from the back of his neck, Brother Cui immediately rolled on the spot and hid far away from Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan didn't bother to look at him anymore, but looked up thoughtfully at the blue sky above his head.
, and let out a long sigh:
"Yue'er, let's bury Uncle You as soon as possible. This is the most important thing right now."
As the young man spoke, he bent down and picked up Uncle You's bones wrapped in thick wolf skin again, and gently brushed away the dust on it. Under two thick eyebrows like lying on silkworms, his white bones were
Shui Wen's ink-colored pupils became calm again under the sunlight.
Seeing that he had given up his thoughts of killing, Ning Yue breathed a sigh of relief, followed closely in his footsteps, and walked towards the woods outside the village. At this moment, in this lifeless and gloomy village full of frame-ups and killings
Here, it seems that only the two children have the last trace of kindness left in them.