At ten o'clock in the afternoon, the cicadas kept chirping, and the sweat dripped down the neck into the soil, and it dried up in an instant.
The child on his back was crying for thirst just now, but now he was silent. This made the man particularly anxious, and his pace became faster and faster.
Behind him followed a woman, leaning on a wooden stick, limping, with chapped lips and dull eyes.
The man who fled from the Southern Wilderness passed by Suzhou and originally planned to take a detour to the Central Plains. Later, he heard that the leader of the Eastern Wilderness Alliance was in Yangzhou, so he turned back here.
As soon as they left Gusu City, the sky, which had been cloudy for ten days, cleared up, and heat and thirst, together with the evil beast Gesni, caught up with them.
Most of the companions who were traveling with them had already entered the mouth of the monster, and they only escaped with the help of Scholar Yini.
However, the clay scholar was not a good person and actually asked the woman who was traveling with him to sleep with him all night.
The woman was unwilling, but she didn't dare to disobey, so she had no choice but to give in. Later, the man took advantage of Scholar Ni's absence and escaped with the woman.
But because of this, the food and water he had with him were not taken out, so he became in the current state of embarrassment.
"Brother, I really can't walk anymore." The woman stopped and breathed heavily.
She was originally pretty, but now her face is covered by dust and nothing can be seen.
"If we hold on a little longer, we will be safe when we reach a populated place," the man said.
The woman sat down holding on to a tree nearby and said, "Let's go, I can't walk anymore." At this moment, she even felt happy sleeping with Scholar Ni.
"Sister, don't give up. I asked when I left the city that Yangzhou City is coming soon." The man was confident, but he was unsure in his heart.
But now, the only way to survive is to keep walking.
Hearing this, the woman stood up and was about to take steps. The child on the man's back suddenly pointed forward and shouted: "Monster, monster!"
"Plop", the woman fell to the ground and could not get up completely.
Now, let alone a monster, it was a beast, and she didn't want to resist.
She was completely unconscious now, her eyes were still glowing with stars, there was only a glimmer of light in her pupils, and the rest was darkness.
The dog ran happily on the road, heard people calling it a monster, and followed the sound to see people coming.
That's not to say it's ugly!
As an inn dog, the little white fox once told him to welcome guests from all over the world with a smile, so the dog was particularly affectionate, barked "woof, woof" twice, and ran towards the visitors happily.
A visitor in the distance heard the dog barking. The man turned around and said happily to the woman, "This is a dog. There must be someone in front of us. We are saved and have water to drink!"
"Dog, water?" The woman who had just fallen to the ground and couldn't get up immediately stood up.
She didn't despise Gouzi for being ugly either. When she saw a relative, she would run towards Gouzi, but to say running was actually more accurate to say moving.
Even so, Gouzi was flattered.
I have been shunned for being ugly all my life, but I never thought that one day someone would welcome me.
But before the dog could reach him, the woman who was moving forward stopped and a sword was held at her throat.
"He ran pretty fast." A handsome scholar came forward from behind the motionless woman.
Seeing that the man was about to run away, he pulled out one of the four swords on his back and pierced the man in front of him.
"I sincerely saved your lives. Is this how you repay me?" the scholar said.
The man did not dare to act rashly while carrying the child on his back, "My lord, my lord, I am in a hurry, so I didn't have time to say hello to you."
"Really?" The scholar said softly, "You think of me as a three-year-old child!"
He patted the woman's face with his sword and said, "Look, why did you bother to torture yourself like this? It's just a waste of your little face."
The woman was too cowardly to speak, "It's too late to repent now." The scholar took out a water bag and shook it, and there was a sound of water inside.
The woman's exhausted eyes immediately showed a look of longing, but she looked at the dog. By then, the dog had already arrived, proving that the village was not far away.
"Woof woof", although I didn't know what happened, but having a sword across my neck must have been bad, so the dog barked twice at the scholar.
"What is this thing? It's so ugly to me." The scholar was frightened when he saw the dog and kicked it away.
The dog made a somersault with a "wow" sound, moved far away from the scholar, barked at him again, and at the same time retreated towards the way it came.
"Woof woof", it walked a few steps and turned back, seemingly letting the scholar wait, and quickly disappeared at the end of the woods.
The scholar didn't care about the dog. He turned around and touched the woman's chin frivolously, "It's okay if you don't want to go back. Let's go to the woods and relax for a while?"
"Young Master..." Just as the man was about to speak, the scholar stabbed the man in the back with his sword, "I'm going to make you troublesome!"
"You!" The man hurriedly put down his son on his back, and saw the sword stabbing his son's back. The son who was dying just now was completely lifeless.
"Gouzi, Gouzi", the man shook his son, but his body became increasingly cold.
"Dog!" The man cried out in pain. His wife became a mummy, and his daughter became a mummy. He finally escaped, but his son died again.
The world is so big that there is no place for him.
"I'll fight with you!" The man jumped up, grabbed the stone at his feet and rushed towards the scholar.
However, what lay in front of him was a sharp sword with a blade like water.
Just as the scholar was about to stab the man to death, the woman shouted, "No," and the sword stopped immediately.
The woman said to the scholar: "I promise you, you will let him go."
"Yo, yo", the scholar patted the woman's cheek with his sword with his left hand, "Do you feel bad? It's not up to you whether I kill him or not, but..."
He pouted and said, "If you agree with him being there to see how we get along, I can consider sparing his life."
"You..." The woman looked at the man angrily, and finally nodded helplessly. Just as she was about to say yes, there was a voice from the end of the woods.
"His grandma, even if you beat a dog, it depends on the owner. Who bullies my dog?" Yu Sheng shouted, followed by, "My mother is the most beautiful in the world."
"Woof woof", the dog leads the way, and calls back from time to time to ask the dog to follow.
When he saw the scholar, his screams immediately became louder.
Yu Sheng took the city lord and walked a few steps, looking at the corpse lying on the ground in the distance and the sword on his back, and frowned.
The scholar was also stunned, not for anything else but because the alluring appearance of the woman next to Yu Sheng was stunning.
Compared with the women beside him, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.
The dog rushed up to the scholar, barked "woof, woof" several times at the scholar, and wagged its tail very proudly.
"Did you hit my dog?" Yu Sheng came to the scholar, pulled the city lord behind him, and asked displeasedly.
"Kill my dog!" The man stared at the scholar angrily, but no one paid him any attention.
The scholar tilted his head to look at the city lord, but Yu Sheng blocked him from all angles. He said very unhappily: "I was the one who hit him, what's wrong?"
"That's good." Yu Sheng nodded. In an instant, before the scholar had time to react, Yu Sheng had already punched out.
The scholar was like a kite with no strings, hanging directly on the tree trunk, with an extra hole in his chest.
"Oh, why do you dare to be so arrogant? It turns out he is a monster." Yu Sheng suddenly realized when he saw that there was no blood on his chest.
"Humph", the scholar hanging on the treetop was not afraid. He stepped on the tree trunk and flew down directly to chop at Yu Sheng with two swords.
For the rest of his life, he refused to retreat but advanced. He slashed the scholar's neck with his palm and said, "This time, let me see if you die!"
"Bang", the scholar's head was knocked off, a handful of dust came out from his neck, and his head rolled on the ground.
Just when Yu Sheng thought it was solved, he saw the scholar's head smile, and then a body grew out of the soil and directly held up his head.
As for the scholar's body in front of Yu Sheng, it turned into dust and fell to the ground.
"If you want to beat me to death, this brute force is not enough." Scholar Ni said proudly.
Yu Sheng showed a fearful expression, "I am blind and can't see Mount Tai. I don't know who the master is. I will stay away from him in the future."
The scholar was a little surprised and thought to himself that this person gave in like this?
However, it is better not to fight if you can. The scholar raised his head and said: "I'm here, Scholar Ni..."
"Clay scholar? I think I've heard of it before. Wait a minute, is it these three words?" Yu Sheng took out a page of book and pen and ink and wrote the three words "clay scholar".
"Yes, that's my name." Scholar Ni nodded.
"That's good." Yu Sheng was overjoyed, and he finally had a chance to show off his unique skills.
I saw Yu Sheng throw a page of the book into the air, and the three words "Mud Scholar" floated in the air.
Scholar Ni felt something was wrong and was about to dodge when Yu Sheng snapped his fingers and three words fell on him in the blink of an eye.
The mud scholar was immediately unable to move.
Yu Sheng then took out a seal card, threw it at Scholar Ni, and shouted: "Seal!"
The seal card suddenly appeared with silver light, covering the clay scholar. Then the silver light flashed and disappeared, and the clay scholar disappeared on the spot.
The seal card fell lightly to the ground.
Yu Sheng picked it up and saw a clay statue of a scholar appearing on the seal card, with the scholar's vague shadow behind it.
"This monster is a special one, let's count it as a two for now." Yu Sheng was very satisfied with his operation and marked a two of grass on the seal card.
He turned back to the city lord and said: "There are more and more monsters and more and more cards. I will get you a deck of cards later."