Chapter 160 Scene 21: It’s impossible to escape the trap 3
The man who led the army out of the customs was a captain wearing a golden feather. He was standing in front of the formation, loudly issuing an ultimatum:
"Listen up, all the untouchables in the village! You must hand over the murderous witch immediately, otherwise the whole village will be slaughtered, leaving no chickens or dogs behind!"
"Please forgive me, sir! What happened to the witch has nothing to do with us, it was done by Old Jintou and his wife!"
After hearing the news, the villagers who felt sorry for the young girl and the old peasant couple rushed out of their houses, nodding and bowing to those who came to them. However, the captain opposite did not believe it at all:
"It has nothing to do with you? Could it be that our army specially chose to come here today to collect food because we happened to meet that witch? You untouchables must be colluding with her and want to resist paying the land tax. How can you quibble!"
"We are really unjust! The witch just came to the village today. We don't even know her name, so how can we resist her? If you officials still don't believe it, follow the common people to Lao Jintou.
You’ll know when you look at your home!”
"Do you really think that this captain is a fool and will fall into your trap so easily?! Everyone in this village is now an accomplice of the witch, and their rebellious intentions are obvious. If you won't surrender, then let me go.
arrow!"
The visitor seemed to have heard about the tragic situation of the captain's death from the mouths of the surviving soldiers, and he did not dare to enter the village. After hearing what the villagers said, they immediately concluded that this move was a trap by the opponent, and ordered his subordinates to
The crossbowmen bent their bows and nocked arrows, pouring countless iron arrows onto the low thatched houses in the village.
The arrows of the iron arrows were tied with match ropes, which instantly ignited several thatched huts. In an instant, half of the village was turned into a sea of flames, and the villagers were driven out of their houses by the soaring flames and fled in all directions.
The captain took advantage of the situation and led his troops to kill the generals. They would kill everyone regardless of gender, age or child, and they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go. They soon approached the door of the old farmer's house.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I am responsible for all this. I will go out and tell them to stop killing people!"
Although she had been criticized by the villagers before, Ning Yue understood in her heart that they were just ordinary people who wanted to protect themselves in troubled times. Seeing the originally quiet and peaceful village being burned to the ground, something bright suddenly appeared in her eyes.
Turned around.
But the old farmer behind her still reached out to hold her down as she was about to break out of the door:
"Girl, if you go out at this time, not only will it not help, but you will risk your own life in vain! Now the officers and soldiers are very wary of you, and they dare not break in easily to take someone. We, husband and wife, hold them back, and you leave quickly through the back door.
That’s the best policy!”
"But what should you do? The officers and soldiers are coming fiercely and killing each other. There is no way they can stop easily. I can no longer harm you because of my ignorance and impulsiveness. Don't you want to see your son again?"
The girl still shook her head vigorously and refused to leave like this. However, before she could finish her words, she saw that the old farmer opposite had already picked up the sickle he usually used when working, and rushed out of the door without hesitation!
"Don't go!"
Ning Yue just wanted to speak to stop her, but it was too late. She couldn't help but feel regret and guilt in her heart. She regretted that she acted impulsively, which not only failed to help the other party, but caused a greater disaster. She felt guilty that she only knew the old farmer and his wife.
In just two or three hours, the other party didn't even ask his name, but he risked his life for her.
Even though the old farmer could beat ten with one when he was young, in his old age, he was already stumbling and his eyesight was dim. He was seen waving the sickle in his hand vigorously, as if he had already had the intention to die. Soon after rushing out of the house, he was shot by several The burning arrow hit the chest!
The old farmer slowly knelt down on the ground and watched the soldiers in armor swarming towards him. Once, he was one of them, but today, these younger generations who should have been in awe of him have become Deadly enemies facing each other.
And the reason for all this is simply that he has not yet wiped out the last trace of humanity in his heart, and he does not want to be coerced and assimilated by this chaotic world where conscience has long been lost and everyone is for themselves.
Seeing that the old farmer fell from an arrow, the peasant woman in the house could no longer live alone, so she rushed out regardless, holding her husband's bleeding body and crying loudly. The officers and soldiers showed no mercy, actually in front of Ning Yue. He cut off the heads of the two men in front of them and hung them high on the tip of the knife like trophies!
The captain leading the team came forward on horseback, followed by villagers covered in bruises:
"This is the home of old Jintou? He is really a traitor. Since he entered the village, this old guy is the first one who dares to swing a knife at Wu Wei. He really thinks he has a long life!"
"Yes, yes, I hope the captain can spare my life——"
The villager leading the way was so frightened that he wet his trousers and his whole body was shaking like chaff. However, before he could finish his words, the captain raised his knife and killed him on the spot. Then he ordered the crossbowmen to aim at Ning. The room where Yue was hiding launched a wild and intensive volley.
"In this way, the demon girl will have no way to escape, right?" Seeing that the hut was engulfed in flames in an instant, the captain seemed to have finally settled his worries and burst into laughter.
But the orange flame in front of him gradually turned from orange to light purple amid laughter, and then turned into blood-like red. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a figure slowly walked out of it!
That shadow was none other than Ning Yue, who had been hiding in the house. At this moment, all the clothes on her body had been burned, and the curves of her body could be vaguely seen in the fire. However, the girl seemed to be protected by divine power. Not only Half of the hair was not burned by the fire, but it seemed like a phoenix reborn from the ashes:
"Why do whenever I start to care about someone, why do whenever someone is really nice to me, a group of villains like you always appear? Why do you have to destroy the only beauty I can feel in this world? !What do you want, what do you want from me?!"
The red-haired girl has lost her anger. Although her voice is not loud, her words are like ringing a bell and ringing gold, and every word is deeply rooted in her heart. At this moment, there is no trace of timidity on her face, nor does she raise her hand to cover herself shyly. The naked body and red hair danced in the fire, as if they were integrated with the deadly flames around them.
"Come on, come on! The witch is not dead yet, kill her with random arrows!"
Seeing this situation, the captain became a little overwhelmed, and immediately ordered the crossbowmen on both sides to continue firing arrows. But before they could put the iron arrows on the strings, they saw Ning Yue in the fire suddenly spread her arms and fired. He yelled loudly:
"Unrepentant! Is killing someone as common to you as killing pigs and sheep? Everything in the world has spirit. Your hands are stained with the blood of innocent people. Do you think you can do it? Just leave?!"
As she spoke, the girl's lowered eyes suddenly raised, and a fierce light that had never been seen before shot out from her blue pupils, which seemed to be able to kill people's hearts! Now there was only a blank left in her mind, even the instructions taught by Granny Cen
She has also forgotten all about the Breathing Technique. But the sadness and pain in her heart seem to be together with the anger that can swallow everything, and as the flames around her become stronger and stronger - she just wants these hands in front of her to hold her hand.
The sinner of weapons must pay with blood!
Dense arrows rose into the sky like raindrops, but before they hit the ground, they were all wiped out in the fierce fire. Suddenly, the beating flame seemed to have life, and countless life-threatening tongues of flames emerged from the girl's body, like
It was whipped towards the surrounding crossbowmen like a long whip!
Wherever the flames passed, gold and iron were burned. When the crossbowmen saw that something was wrong, they immediately wanted to escape, but before they could turn around, they turned into charred corpses. They were like humanoid sculptures.
As usual, it still maintained the expression and posture of struggling before death, and then was gently blown by the wind brought by the girl as she passed by, and instantly turned into an unrecognizable pile of ashes on the ground!
"Witch, you, don't come here! I, I was wrong, I shouldn't have ordered the killing! Please, for the sake of my mother, wife and children at home, please spare me this time! I promise that when I go back
Change your past mistakes and become a good person again!"
When the captain saw that there were no less than a hundred troops in the army, he was the only one left in the blink of an eye. He immediately fell to the ground with his knees weak and begged with tears streaming down his face. He was just as arrogant and domineering as before, wielding a knife to kill people.
They look completely different from each other.
However, Ning Yue was not shaken by this. She bit her lower lip tightly and walked slowly in front of him. Blood seeped out between her teeth:
"Now, can you understand the helplessness and despair that those innocent villagers who died under your sword felt before they died? No matter whether you change your ways or not, those who died can no longer come back. Since people are
If you kill them, you must personally ask for their forgiveness!"
The anger in the girl's heart burst out again. The captain felt a scalding heat wave coming towards him. Even with every breath, he could feel the severe pain of burning his flesh and blood from his throat to his chest. The flames instantly burned him.
The whole body was wrapped, but it did not kill him immediately like other soldiers.
Just like a cat teasing its prey, Ning Yue opened her eyes and looked at the opponent who was screaming and struggling and falling to the ground in the fierce fire. The corners of her mouth unconsciously raised slightly, revealing a faint smile.
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Gradually, the flames around the red-haired girl gradually extinguished, and the spine-chilling fierce light in her eyes also dissipated. The girl staggered back to the corpses of the old peasant couple whose heads had been removed.
Next to him, he couldn't say a word, so he fell straight down.
When Youyou woke up, Ning Yue found that she had been tied tightly with straw mats and thrown into a bullock cart. The moon was setting and the stars were setting, and she could only vaguely see a few figures pulling cattle beside the cart.
And not far ahead, there are swaying lights on the tall city wall of Suoyang Pass.
“Where are you—ahem—taking me?—ahem—let me go!”
The girl felt that her throat was so dry that smoke was rising, and she started coughing just after saying a few words.
Suddenly, in the darkness, someone slapped her hard on the face and cursed fiercely: "Young lady, please be honest!"
Ning Yue immediately struggled hard: "Why do you do this to me!"
"Why, don't you remember what you have done? Now the whole village is homeless, and even the autumn harvest has been burned down. It was you who brought the trouble to the village. Now we are kidnapping you to send you to the official, but we just want to get some silver reward for your life back!"
"The village was burned down?!"
Ning Yue felt something was wrong in her heart, but she didn't remember at all that she had killed hundreds of officers and soldiers before. She vaguely realized that maybe the terrifying power in her body had once again burst out uncontrollably. .The damage caused was obviously much more serious than the previous times.
Suddenly, Kun Jie's appearance appeared in front of the helpless girl's eyes again, and the words that the demon in human skin once said to her echoed in her mind:
"Admit it! In fact, the blood flowing through your body is the same demon blood as mine!"
She suddenly felt that she hated herself like this so much that she burst into tears: "No, I don't want it!"
The villagers never paid attention to her again.
I don't know how much time passed before the ox cart staggered to a stop under the city gate of Suoyang Pass. The city defenders gave the villagers some scattered silver and sent them away. Then they tied the girl up. Under the tall flagpole of Wengcheng.
After hearing that they had captured the witch who was causing trouble and hurting people, several wounded soldiers who had managed to escape from the village and returned to the pass immediately came with sabers and wanted to take revenge with their own hands. However, just when they were about to succeed, the girl suddenly heard that the city A loud voice sounded from above:
"Stop it! I didn't give the order, so who gave you the courage to deal with the prisoners without permission?"
The person who spoke was the general who guarded Suoyang Pass, Zhu Lin. This man was highly regarded by Gao Li, the eunuch in charge of the imperial court. There were even rumors that he had already recognized him as his adoptive father, which was why he was able to thrive in the great Sheng Dynasty. At that time, he was entrusted with the important task of sitting at Suoyang Pass and monitoring the movements of the vassal states in the south.
Several sergeants immediately expressed their dissatisfaction, blushing and arguing: "General, this witch has killed many of our brothers, can we just let it go?"
Zhu Rong snorted: "When did I, the general, say let it go? It's just that Master Gao Ligao in the capital is very concerned about the long-rumored witchcraft and curses among the people, and strictly ordered all ministries to investigate in detail. Now. Since this witch has fallen into our hands, she should be locked up in an iron cage and escorted to the capital, where she should be dealt with personally by the Lord!"
"General, what we have captured now is not an ordinary prisoner! The reason why the imperial court has banned witchcraft and curses for thousands of years is because there has been a precedent of witches causing trouble. Aren't you afraid that she will suddenly act in front of the adults and cause trouble? What happened?"
"It doesn't matter. Look at the appearance of this witch. If she could cast spells at will, would she still be willing to be tied up like this by the unarmed villagers and sent to the pass? Lord Gao Li has the ability to penetrate the heaven and the earth. He certainly has it. We don't have to worry about finding a way to deal with her."
Zhu Run said and grinned. It seemed that for him, being able to dedicate Ning Yue to Gao Li was simply an unrewarded achievement that came to his door.
Accompanied by the rumbling sound of wheels, Ning Yue was once again put into a cage and set off on the road, heading towards the northwest of the Imperial Capital Highlands. It was already getting dark, and the girl suddenly found out in the grass hut on the roadside that she had been tied up and sent to the official. Those villagers were lying on the roadside with their bodies covered with arrows. They had been dead for a long time.
With the rising sun, Tuori Peak in the east was dyed with a touch of color by the morning glow. However, the light today was not brilliant golden, but like the flame that swallowed up more than a hundred lives last night, it was full of color. A daunting, blood-red color.
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