The sound of Lao Lu startled the guests who were having a drink together.
Most of these guests were Lao Lu's former colleagues. After hearing the reputation, it turned out that basically all the veterans in the army knew the Tong Lao Gui at Lao Lu's intersection.
Seeing his appearance, everyone stood up and gathered around him.
Before the boy could respond, Lao Lu said urgently to Zhang Sui: "Second Master, please help me find out what's going on with my friend."
Zhang Sui didn't refuse and stepped forward directly with a medicinal skill.
Seeing the anxious look of Lao Lu and a group of people, the old ghost pulled the corner of his mouth and forced a smile, and said slightly vaguely: "It's okay, I won't die!" Although he was smiling, he looked like he could scare people to tears.
Child.
Lao Lu ignored what he said and just stared at Zhang Sui's expression.
Zhang Sui pondered for a moment and said: "This old man has been cursed by a flesh and blood curse, and the flesh and blood vitality of half of his body has been swallowed up. The situation is not good."
When everyone heard this, they became even more anxious.
However, Tong Laogui didn't care very much. Hearing this, he said: "Compared to those brothers who died instantly, I am much luckier. I can at least live for a while, which is good!"
Lao Lu kept holding his hand, his face full of gloom, and asked Zhang Sui: "Is there any help?"
Zhang Sui nodded and said: "Yes, but if you want to restore it to its original appearance, there is no way for the time being."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Even Tong Laogui, who didn't have much hope at first, was greatly moved after hearing this. After all, if he could live, who would be willing to die just like that.
Lao Lu hurriedly said: "Then please save this old guy quickly. Looking at him like this, I'm afraid he will die at any time!"
Zhang Sui nodded and was about to speak when Tong Laogui said: "Since I can't die, I'll finish the matter first and then talk about it."
After saying that, without waiting for Zhang Sui and others to respond, he turned to the two sergeants who were following behind him silently and said, "Give me the stuff!"
A sergeant behind him took a dusty package from his back and handed it to Tong Laogui.
Tong Laogui took it with his intact hand and held it in his hand. Looking at Lao Lu, he sighed and said: "Lao Lu, today is your big day, and I am also happy for you after hearing about it. But this time
The matter is indeed urgent and I can’t help but feel sorry for it.”
Seeing that he looked very guilty, Lao Lu comforted him: "Even if you didn't make a special trip to congratulate me, catching up today is the best surprise for me. If you have anything, just tell me."
Tong Laogui nodded, looked at the group of old brothers around him, shook out the package in his hand, and inside was a broken military flag. It was full of the smoke of war, with holes, scratches, and dried blood stains, which made this military flag...
It looks dilapidated.
But when the veterans present saw this military flag, they all stood upright and stared closely at the flag that they had followed.
Tong Laogui said in a deep voice: "Tong Yin, the fifth battalion of the Red Flame Army, pass the general's order!"
All the veterans stood still and straightened their backs. The banquet room instantly turned into a school ground.
Tong Yin glanced at the veterans, was silent for a moment, and then issued an order again: "General Feng Mang of the Red Flame Army sent an order: Tell those old boys that the Red Flame Army is almost gone now.
Those new melons are useless, but the old guys are more reliable. Tell them that if they can still carry swords and guns, and climb on horseback, they can come back and help me, a general who is about to become a naked man. Otherwise, I will see you when the time comes.
Those bastards, I have no face at all!
Also, those of you who have already started a family don’t need to come over to join in the fun, just live your life well.
This instruction is not an order, but a request, so that the stubborn ones among you will not be able to evade it. Hahahahaha, you must laugh four times, otherwise I will appear guilty!"
Tong Yin was not so much giving orders as he was repeating the words of the Red Flame Army Feng Mang, even imitating the last few laughs.
But look at the expressions of those veterans, none of them have a strange look on their face. It seems that this general has this style of delivering orders.
Lao Lu pulled Tong Yin to sit down at the table and asked him, "What happened over there?"
Tong Yin said: "There was a big change in the black forest in the southwest three months ago. At first, I thought it was an ordinary earth dragon turning over, but later I found that it was not that simple. Do you remember where the mass sinkhole is?"
The faces of Lao Lu and the surrounding veterans became a little ugly, and they all nodded.
Tong Yin said: "The Hengduan Mountains in that place actually stood up overnight. Some hunters who were making a living in the dark forest discovered the situation. As a result, only three of their group of hundreds of people escaped, and two others finally escaped.
Crazy.
The hunter who still had sense ran to the government office and reported what he saw and heard to the magistrate. As a result, they were thought to have encountered a ferocious beast that frightened them into silence, and they were laughed at. The hunter was so angry that he went straight to him.
The troops stationed there.
The person in charge there at the time was an old brother who had participated in the Barbarian War. After hearing about it, he felt something was wrong and immediately led the team to that place in person, only to encounter those people."
When he said this, Tong Yin's cheeks twitched. It couldn't be said to be fearful, but the hatred revealed was something everyone could hear in his tone.
Tong Yin continued: "That old brother had a group of fifty people, but only five of them came back in the end, and everyone was cursed like me. After they came back, they went straight to the camp to report to the general, and then in our camp
Under the eyes, the flesh and blood of the five people were swallowed up, leaving only a piece of human skin!
The general was furious and sent 5,000 elite troops deep into the area. However, he encountered an even bigger earth dragon and the terrain changed drastically. The sky was dark for three days and the troops scattered.
Because I was in charge of the firearms with the fifth battalion, and I had enough lighting items in my hand. After being separated from the main force, I relied on the lighting items and some old brothers in the team who had participated in the Battle of Hengduan Mountain to reach that place all the way.
The sinkhole that was once sealed.
The cement cover of the pit had long been destroyed, and the smell around it was very unpleasant.
We didn't encounter those monsters at first. It wasn't until a soldier threw a torch into the sinkhole that we discovered that it was densely packed with humanoid monsters.
Those monsters had no ears or noses on their faces, their limbs were pale and thick, and they were covered in various coverings. They didn’t make any sound from their mouths. They just looked up at us in the pit. Those green eyes are so scary to think about now.
Scalp numbness.
It wasn't until a sharp roar came from the sinkhole that the monsters quickly crawled out along the wall of the sinkhole and began to attack us.
We had a big battle with them. Although they had no weapons and their fighting power was average, there were too many of them. Although we killed a lot of them, they continued to run out of the sinkhole.
And there are many of them who can do magic. My curse was caused by killing a guy who can do magic and then being attacked by another one.
We fought and retreated, and finally encountered the support of our separated large army, and the monsters retreated, but we also lost more than half of them.
The disciples of the Mengshan Sect who accompanied the army gave me an elixir and performed some kind of ritual on me, so that I was not completely swallowed up by the curse, which only swallowed one of my arms."
Having said this, Tong Yin glanced at Lao Lu and blinked. He only had one eye left, and the hint of blinking was too obvious. Many veterans who were familiar with Lao Lu had a look of surprise, but Lao Lu himself was still a little bit confused.
baffling.
Lao Lu saw many people winking at him and asked inexplicably: "What are you looking at me for?"
Tong Yin coughed dryly, attracting everyone's attention, and continued: "After that war, the imperial court sent many offerings and asked the general to send people to seal the entrance to the Black Forest and prohibit anyone from entering.
As you know, the general is a man who cannot afford to suffer. Although the court said that it would send someone to deal with it, there has been no movement after waiting for two months.
The general couldn't help but want to avenge his dead brother, so he contacted four or five spiritual sects, and after promising to divide the obtained spiritual objects in half, he led his army into the black forest.
But this time, they returned in vain. The area around the Hengduan Mountain that was erected turned into a natural chasm, making it impossible to cross. The original sinkhole also disappeared. In the end, we had to return to the camp, but sent people to monitor it at all times.
Follow the movement inside.
I thought that as long as the Black Forest was sealed off, it would be peaceful for a while, but seven days ago, what was supposed to come came!"
Tong Yin said with a ferocious face: "At that time, the earth dragon turned over and completely turned the two state capitals near the Black Forest into ruins. There were countless casualties. There were also a large number of humanoid monsters that broke through the defenses of the Black Forest and directly occupied the ruins of Dingzhou.
Mansion.
According to people who escaped from Dingzhou Prefecture, those monsters were caught on sight and eventually thrown into a huge blood pool dug out of Dingzhou Prefecture. They also saw gorgeously dressed humanoid monsters drawing huge patterns there.
Later I heard that the monsters might be offering sacrifices to their gods, and the people who survived the ruins were their sacrifices.
And this was also the main culprit that led to the heavy losses of the final army.
The general led 50,000 Red Flame troops to Dingzhou Prefecture and fought against those monsters many times. The monsters also had a very strict organizational structure and did not lose in the confrontation with the Red Flame Army.
It was also because some of the monsters were those who could cast spells, causing many incredible injuries. Some young recruits in the Red Flame Army were afraid and had low morale.
On the second day of the battle, five behemoths five feet tall appeared among the monsters. The behemoths were extremely powerful and invulnerable. The recruits directly bombed the camp and were killed by the general's orders. More than a hundred of them were killed.
Fortunately, there were people from the sects who accompanied the army, and it took a lot of losses to kill those giant beasts.
But at night..."
Tong Yin's face darkened, and the veins on his fists bulged, and he gritted his teeth and said: "At midnight that day, huge rocks and fire rained down from the sky, directly covering the general camp. There were 50,000 troops, but in the end, less than 10,000 survived.
The remaining people were also surrounded by those monsters. Under the leadership of the general, we broke out of the siege and were chased by those monsters for three days. It was not until we met the Shanshan Army, one of the ten divine armies that came to support, that we
Stop and cooperate with the Mountain Shaking Army to return and kill the monsters that are chasing us.
My current appearance was also caused by another curse during the last battle.
In this battle, the Red Flame Army existed in name only, and all its elite troops were lost in the rain of boulders and fire. The imperial court asked the general to reorganize the Red Flame Army.
The general was very dissatisfied with the recruitment of new recruits because of the performance of those new recruits, so he ordered us remaining old guys to take his military orders and go to various places to summon those old subordinates, hoping to use the old guys as the backbone to rebuild the Red Flame Army!
"
When Tong Yin said this, the group of veterans around him couldn't believe it. Fifty thousand Red Flame Army! They were wiped out overnight? The feeling in his heart was hard to understand. There was confusion, but more of it was anger.
Luo Fang, who had lost an arm, threw the wine glass in his hand and cursed angrily: "Feng Mang is such a reckless man, so many old brothers were lost in his hands overnight? What a waste! How can he give it back?
What kind of general do you think you are? What a piece of shit!"
The other veterans had sad expressions on their faces and agreed with his words. A few of the grumpier ones even wanted to overturn the table in excitement, but luckily they were stopped by the people around them, and then they remembered that this was a wedding banquet on the old road.
Lao Lu also had an ugly expression on his face and sighed: "General, this time... ugh!"
Tong Yin also sighed and said: "Who can imagine such a thing? You all know that the general is impulsive and reckless at times, but he is not sloppy at all when it comes to marching, and he is even more cautious when fighting, but
Who would have thought that they would be facing those huge boulders and rain of fire falling from the sky?
After the battle, the general locked himself in a solitary hut without food or water for seven days. When he came out, his hair was full of white.
But I heard from one of the followers of the army that after this great change, the general has entered the door of spiritual practice. Under his leadership, the Red Flame Army may become the next divine army of the imperial court."
Lao Lu sighed: "What if I become the next divine army? My dead brother will not survive."
Tong Yin said: "The shroud in horse leather is the destination for people like us. Now that you have a wife and children, Lao Lu, you have become sentimental!"
Lao Lu nodded and sighed: "Yes."
After speaking, he looked at Aunt Liu who was looking worried, showed a gentle smile, and said: "You don't know how I felt when I heard that I was going to be a father. I felt that the whole world was so beautiful!
I used to have bloody hands and thought that was the end of me. I never thought that I would have a day like today."
Seeing him like this, Aunt Liu leaned over and took Lao Lu's rough big hand.
The veterans around them are full of envy. Why don't they want to live the same life as they did now?
It's just that the long life in the military camp and the constant fighting have made it difficult for them to return to this seemingly normal life, which also seems like a luxury to them.
Tong Yin looked at the look between him and Aunt Liu, and was silent for a long time, sighing: "I shouldn't be here today!"
Hearing this, Lao Lu looked at him, shook his head and said, "Brother Tong, you don't have to be like this. I know you have a duty and have to be like this.
Although what you brought is not good news, I am still very happy that you can come. Most of the people here today are my colleagues from the old road, and they are also your brothers in life and death. Basically, the people you are looking for in Kunzhou Prefecture are
It's all here.
As an old brother, I just want to ask you on their behalf, is there a return date from this trip?"
When Aunt Liu heard Lao Lu's words, she couldn't help but hold his hand tightly.