Chapter 157 Looking for Strange Fragrance, Miss A-Zhus Tears
The most common scene the two of them have seen.
At the entrance of some houses, women, children, the elderly and the infirm, put on armor to see off the men in their families.
Xu Taiping, who was walking on the street, could see from time to time some fish farmers who were not even well-dressed in armor, walking towards the tower with a harpoon and a shield made of a pot lid.
What made Xu Taiping particularly emotional was that although these people had crude armor and weapons, they all had bright eyes and straight bodies when walking, without the slightest hint of fear.
If it's one or two, that's okay. After all, in such a big city, there can always be a few brave people.
But the problem is, almost every fisherman who passed by Xu Taiping and rushed to the battlefield had this look and attitude.
In Xu Taiping's mind, words ridiculing the people of Tianhai Town from other places appeared inexplicably - "Barbarians who don't know whether to live or die." .??.
"Sister, after we take Brother Xu to find something like that, I will also go to Chijia Camp!"
After coming out of another spice shop, Ahu suddenly turned his head and looked at his sister Azhu with firm eyes.
"Don't worry, it won't be too late for you to go after my sister is dead."
A Zhu, who was looking around at the shops on the street, said without looking back.
"Sister...don't just talk about death..."
Ahu curled his lips, his face full of reluctance.
Xu Taiping on the side wanted to comfort the siblings, but he still held back his words.
"If we can't find the great general's destiny, not only these two siblings, but everyone in the city will die, including me."
He murmured in his heart.
"Dad, as long as you are old enough, don't join in the fun. The child can go alone!"
At this time, a quarrel between a father and his son on the street attracted the attention of Xu Taiping and others.
I saw a man who looked about thirty years old, trying his best to stop an old man with gray hair and wearing an old armor from moving forward.
"Joining in the fun? You and I are here to slay demons!"
Although the old man was a little hunched over, his voice was extremely loud when he spoke.
"Dad, that's what we young people should do. You can just wait at home."
The man said a little anxiously.
"Do you think you and I are blind or deaf? I also spent time in Chijia Camp when I was young. I have never seen the battle last night in my entire life!"
"Three thousand red-armored knights died, and only eight hundred, eight hundred were left."
"Those are not ordinary monsters at all. The manpower of the Red Armor Battalion is simply not enough. If we want to keep Tianhai Pass, we can only rely on human lives to fill it."
"What's the point of staying at home? If you stay at home, your home will be gone. What's the use of staying at home?"
"What are you doing standing still? Let's go together!"
The old man's voice sounded like thunder in the silent street.
In the end, the middle-aged man who couldn't resist had no choice but to accompany the old man and walked towards the Chijia Camp.
Looking at the backs of the father and son side by side in the distance, Xu Taiping felt inexplicably that this scene was even more cruel than the tragic fight last night.
"Azhu, Ahu, it's still too slow for us to search like this."
Xu Taiping turned to look at A Zhu and A Hu who were still in a daze.
"Brother Xu, do you have any good ideas?"
A Zhu frowned and looked at Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping didn't waste any time, he directly created a clone, and then made arrangements while the two of them were stunned:
"You and your brother, take me and my clones separately to search the city."
…
Two days later,
early morning.
On the same street.
Xu Taiping and A Zhu were waiting for A Hu to bring his clone to join them.
"Brother Xu, are you really sure that the items with special aromas we found earlier are not the original ones?"
A Zhu asked Xu Taiping with a solemn expression...??.
"I am sure."
Xu Taiping nodded.
He had promised the old general Kaitai and the Azhu siblings before that as long as he could smell the fragrance, he would have the means to find the natal object.
And this method was naturally the strange fragrance that Lian Tong made him smell.
Because this point is very similar to the description in the last words of Zhang Tianze's daughter Zhang Xiaoman, that's why Xu Taiping was so sure.
"But in the past two days, we have searched everywhere we should find in the city. Where should we look next?"
A Zhu frowned.
"Let's wait until Ahu comes back."
Xu Taiping said.
After searching for two days in a row, the Red Armor Cavalry also repelled the monsters twice in a row. However, according to the news from Xuanzhi, even with the help of the spirit horse he enlightened, Tianhaiguan could only last for another day at most.
During the communication process, Xu Taiping once handed over the bracelet of equality of all living beings to Xuanzhi for use. However, in the battlefield where thousands of people were fighting, the power of creation that he had gained through alms for a year was consumed in only ten breaths.
Empty.
I simply can't hold on for long.
"Pap, tap..."
At this moment, a group of soldiers who had withdrawn from the battlefield were slowly walking past Xu Taiping with heavy steps.
Among this group of people, there was one person whom both Xu Taiping and A Zhu both knew.
It was the middle-aged man who quarreled with his father in the street early that morning because he didn't want his father to wear armor and fight.
But this
When he came back for the first time, the old man was no longer beside him, only holding a blood-stained armor and a broken arm.
"Pap, tap..."
The man's eyes were dull, and his steps were extremely heavy, almost dragging on the ground.
"boom!"
Just when he was about to reach Xu Taiping and the others, he accidentally tripped over a raised tile on the road and fell to the ground.
The armor and the severed arm in his hand were suddenly thrown far away.
"Dad...Dad!"
The man who had been in a daze suddenly woke up, crawled to the ground and rushed to the severed arm, holding it in his arms.
"Dad...the child is useless, the child is useless, the child is useless..."
The man was sitting on the ground, holding his severed arm tightly, banging his head constantly, and the passers-by on the side couldn't hold him back.
Xu Taiping stood motionless.
But the bones in his body began to "crack" uncontrollably, and the muscles were also squirming constantly. The body of the python dragon suddenly changed into an angry dragon state as if it was out of control.
But at this moment, a strange fragrance floated from his side.
The moment he smelled the aroma, Xu Taiping's head froze as if he had been struck by lightning.
Because this fragrance was exactly the fragrance that Lian Tong let him smell after he had been searching for it for a long time.
Xu Taiping looked for the place where the aroma came from and slowly turned his head.
What caught his eyes was A-Zhu's dark but very delicate face, and on this face, there were two lines of tears rolling down uncontrollably.
"Tears? Smell?"
After being stunned for a short time, Xu Taiping suddenly came to his senses.
Although it was a bit unbelievable, he was sure that what was emitting this fragrance was A-Zhu's tears.