"The sand in the desert is like snow, and the moon in Yanshan Mountain is like a hook. Why should I be like a golden man, and walk quickly to enjoy the clear autumn."
Du Wei was riding on a camel, looking at the vast desert, and couldn't help but hum in his mouth.
Chishui Duan next to him naturally didn't know that what Du Wei was singing was an ancient Chinese poem from his previous life. He didn't understand it, so he frowned and asked, "Are you reciting some magic spell? The pronunciation looks really weird to me."
After hearing this, Du Wei just smiled indifferently and did not answer.
Looking back, I saw that stubborn figure dozens of meters away, still following him step by step, staggering occasionally, but getting up unyieldingly.
Seeing this, Du Wei sighed in his heart.
It's been two days since I left.
Originally, Du Wei was restrained by Chishui Duan and could not speak. However, the next day, Chishui Duan suddenly felt that walking with such a boring gourd made him sulky, so he released Du Wei's restraint and allowed him to speak.
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Du Wei was restrained by others. When he started to speak, he naturally couldn't help but irritate Chishui Duan. For example, Chishui Duan was dressed in black, and Du Wei made some comments about it: In the desert, wearing this kind of black
Dressing up makes it easier to absorb the heat from the sun.
It's just that you should keep these words in your heart. Du Wei will not really say them out.
Chishui Duan, on the other hand, casually talked to Du Wei about some things on the Snowy Mountains many times, but Chishui Duan himself was talking and Du Wei didn't interrupt. It could be seen that Chishui Duan seemed to be severely hit by Gu Lanxiu's suicide note, and his emotions
During the transformation process, I always like to talk out my troubles.
Although judging from the target of the complaint, Du Wei was really not a good candidate. However, when Chishui Duan complained, his attitude was quite kind, which saved Du Wei a lot of suffering.
"It seems that that girl is not planning to leave." Chishui Duan looked at Du Wei's silent look, smiled softly, and looked behind him: "I'm just curious, how could her injury recover so quickly? Could it be that she recovered so quickly?
Were you the one who did it?"
Du Wei still didn't answer.
On the fourth day, the three finally walked out of the desert.
Seeing that the ground was no longer covered with yellow sand, occasionally some patches of fine grass could be seen. Du Wei, who was tired of seeing all the golden colors in his eyes in the past few days, couldn't help but feel relieved.
Chishui Duan seemed to be very familiar with this place. That night, he found a tribe where herders gathered, and then bought some food and water. Du Wei originally thought that Chishui Duan would start a killing spree, killing people and robbing horses.
But I didn't expect that this guy just negotiated with the herdsmen in a pleasant manner. Of course, the gold coins he spent were taken from Du Wei.
And seemingly on purpose, after buying food and water, Chishui Duan actually bought three good horses!
After he and Du Wei rode each other, he deliberately left the last horse behind and threw it to Qiao Qiao.
Du Wei saw this and just sighed: "Chishui Duan, what do you want to do? If you want to leave her, we just need to speed up and take me away with your ability. She will definitely chase me."
Not available!"
From the bottom of his heart, Du Wei didn't want Qiaoqiao to continue following him.
"I do." Chishui Duan replied calmly: "Now I suddenly feel that it would be good to have this one following you. Du Wei, of course I know what you are thinking. That little girl also knows. You don't want her to follow you because of her.
Okay. But she wants to follow, and you understand why!"
After saying that, Chishui Duan sneered and said: "I have lived a long time, and this kind of thing rarely happens. Now that I have encountered it, why not appreciate it?"
Du Wei couldn't help but feel angry: "Huh, what you are doing now is not like the General Lugao I know!"
Chishui Duan's expression changed, and he took a deep look at Du Wei: "I am Chishui Duan now! A Chishui Duan who only lives for myself! I can do whatever I like! And I suddenly discovered that this feeling is very good."
Du Wei naturally has no ability to challenge this moody guy now.
After walking in the grassland for two days, Chishui Duan actually became more and more aggressive. Every time he changed horses to buy food or slept in the open, he deliberately left some daily necessities for Qiao Qiao.
In the end, he would even sleep on the grassland at night and light a fire. He would go directly to the back and, regardless of Qiaoqiao's reaction, he would grab her and throw her next to Du Wei, and then sneer: "Good job."
To my lover, let’s just spend some more time together! Because... I’m afraid there won’t be many opportunities!”
At this time, Du Wei just looked indifferent, looked at Qiao Qiao, and whispered: "Do you know, following me like this will not do you any good! It will not be of any use to me either!"
"I know." Qiaoqiao's answer was simple.
Du Wei was stunned for a moment: "Then what else are you doing?!"
Qiaoqiao looked into Du Wei's eyes, her voice was a little soft: "Then let me ask you. When that dead demon wants to catch me, do you know that you can't beat him at all? Do you know that as long as he suddenly
If I'm so cruel, I can kill you casually?"
"...I know." Du Wei sighed.
Qiao Qiao suddenly smiled sweetly: "But you still took me to escape with you... So, I will follow you now!"
Du Wei couldn't help but be speechless. After a while, he pointed in the distance: "Then do you know that you might die there if you go up to the snow mountain? This Chishui Duan will definitely kill me in the end, and you... too
die."
"Then die."
When Qiao Qiao said this, she looked at the fire and gently fiddled with a piece of firewood with a small hand. Her tone was soft, and there was even a faint smile in the corner of her eyes.
Du Wei was really speechless for such an answer. He held his head and thought distressedly for a while, and finally looked up and sighed: "Oh... If I had known this, we might as well have been caught by that dead demon.
!”
Qiao Qiao said quietly again: "If he catches me, I will commit suicide! Even if I die, I will never leave you!"
It was not that Du Wei never tried to escape. He also thought of poisoning.
Although he didn't know whether Chishui Duan, a saint-level powerhouse, had the ability to be invulnerable to all poisons, but... if he was allowed to drink "Time Passage", Du Wei didn't believe that he could really withstand it!
But Chishui Duan is an old man after all. Along the way, he seems to be quite friendly to Du Wei, but he is very cautious in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. When it comes to food and drink, he only eats what he can afford to buy, and he will never let Du Wei have it.
Opportunity to intervene.
Du Wei even thought of some tricks and took the initiative to get some meat to barbecue, hoping to trick Chishui into eating it.
However, Chishui Duan didn't care at all about what he did a few times. He only ate some water and pasta he bought himself every day. Once he entered the grassland, this guy stopped eating meat.
No matter how good Du Wei was at barbecue, Chishui Duan just pretended not to see him.
At the end, Du Wei couldn't help but asked him: "Do you know that I poisoned the food?"
Chishui Duan grinned and looked at Du Wei with mocking eyes: "Du Wei, others don't know you. But I know you too well. You are full of tricks, so I'd better be careful. And...
I think you don’t know, right? I have to fast before going up to the Snow Mountain! Although I have been down the mountain for many years, I am Chishui Duan, after all, I am a disciple of the Snow Mountain lineage.”
Fast...fast...
Du Wei sighed.
Going north in the grassland, Chishui Duan was not in a hurry these days. He passed several tribes on the way, and he kept a low profile and did not interact too much with others.
At this moment, the situation on the grassland is that the southern part of the grassland is almost conquered by Saladin, while some tribes in the north have united to vaguely fight against Saladin.
As Du Wei and others passed by these days, they could feel the fierce military strength in those tribes, a kind of tense atmosphere before war, rushing towards them. All the men in the tribe who could mount a horse had already picked up weapons.
In addition, I heard that many tribes have sent envoys to the Snowy Mountains, hoping to get support from the Snowy Mountains. After all, on the grassland, only with the support of the Snowy Mountains can they be recognized as orthodox.
The deeper into the grassland, the stronger the sense of urgency for war becomes.
Du Wei and his party were all dressed as ordinary herdsmen and were strangers. When passing by some large tribes, they would inevitably be questioned about their origins, and they were even regarded as spies twice.
Although Chishui Duan was not afraid of these things, he would always get bored if there were too many. Later, everyone simply avoided the settlements of some large tribes and specifically chose remote places to walk.
This walk lasted eight full days in the grassland.
"The Roland Empire's strategies on the grassland in the past few years were all stupid. The only thing worthy of praise is the elimination of the 20,000 cavalry that had no effect in the past two years!" Chishui Duan looked at the tense scene on the grassland with cold eyes and couldn't help but feel
made an evaluation: "When Longbottom was here in the past, that guy was indeed a talent. He also knew how to use differentiation to win over. But the successors were all idiots. Originally, the 20,000 cavalry stationed here were just
It's just a deterrent. Those guys who came later have no brains, so they should withdraw! So as not to waste money and food. Moreover... after the empire's troops withdraw, some people will be ready to take action."
Du Wei snorted: "From your tone, it seems that you are on the side of us Roland people?"
Chishui Duan was silent for a while, with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes. After a long time, he slowly said: "My goal in life is to take revenge on Bai Hechou... I have long stopped thinking about other things. After so many years, I have settled down.
In the empire, I have gradually become accustomed to being a 'Rolandian'."
On this day, a small stream appeared in front of the three people. The water was extremely clear, only about a few dozen steps wide. The gurgling water had a long source. From a distance, it looked like it was flowing all the way from the north.
"We're almost there." Chishui Duan pointed into the distance.
At this moment, on the vast grassland, you can already see the vast white mountains in the distance on the horizon, like a row of jade pillars holding up the sky.
"This stream is formed by the melted snow water on the snow-capped mountains. The locals regard this stream as a sacred river." Chishui Duan looked into the distance, a faint strange light flashed in his eyes, and suddenly whispered, as if he was talking to himself
He said: "Back then, Lan Haiyue and I were chased by Bai Hechou, and we escaped along this creek..."
As he spoke, he pointed to a high slope in the distance and suddenly smiled: "I remembered... It was on that high slope that Lan Haiyue and I had a big quarrel, and then the two broke up."
Du Wei looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance. The grassland stretched as far as the eye could see. The snow-capped mountains were covered with ice and snow all year round. He looked at the top of the mountain where clouds and mist were lingering, and there was a faint white air floating...
This scene is really refreshing.
It seemed that the closer he got to the snow-capped mountains, the fierceness in Chishui Duan's expression gradually faded away. The eyes he occasionally looked at were peaceful.
Finally, in the evening of that day, the three of them arrived under the snow-capped mountains. They saw the steep peaks of the mountains and the sparse vegetation on the blue-black rocks.
Occasionally, you can see one or two blue sheep living here, jumping back and forth on the steep cliff rocks, with strong and flexible postures.
And looking up, about a thousand meters above, it starts to become completely white...
Looking at the huge snow-capped mountains in front of him, Du Wei suddenly had an idea in his mind:
That Bai Hechou has been stuck here all these years!
"Let's go up the mountain." Chishui Duan seemed to sneer, and patted Du Wei's body gently, releasing the magic restriction on his body. Du Wei immediately felt his body relax, and his body was free again!
It's just that he couldn't even meditate after being restrained for so many days. At this moment, he tried to concentrate his mental power, but found that his mental power was pitiful. I'm afraid he had to find a chance to take a good rest and meditate before he could regain his strength.
"When are you going to kill me?" Du Wei looked at Chishui Duan.
"Don't worry, I will give you a chance to fulfill the teacher's last wish first and let you bring the words 'no regrets' to Bai Hechou. Then... I will kill you." Chishui Duan seemed to be smiling.
He looked at the Snowy Mountains and suddenly whispered to himself: "It's not bad to die here as a destination."
He seemed to be talking not just about Du Wei, but also himself!
