At this time of winter in the wilderness of Jinzhou, even a blind man with thick fur like a bear has accumulated enough fat to nest in a cat's winter night. Birds and beasts are reluctant to come out and walk around at this time, let alone humans.
Lu Jiu ran away without looking back for an unknown amount of time. He couldn't breathe for the last time, and his legs stumbled on one spot. He stumbled and fell into the densely packed needles under an old pine tree. He turned around and didn't see anyone chasing him.
My heart was relaxed and my whole body seemed to have lost all strength. I couldn't help but cry.
She really thought she was going to die before, when the knife hovered just a millimeter away from Lu Jiu's neck.
How painful it is to just wait for your own death. When Lu Jiu collided with Wei Changpan's blade, all she wanted was relief after being extremely frightened. But for some reason, Wei Changpan withdrew the knife and retreated, so that she could save her life.
Come and seize the road and escape.
The ironed black clothes had previously made two gaps with Wei Changpan's blade. Along the way, Lujiu panicked and got caught on branches and thorns countless times, so the secret black clothes of Gelutai were already in tatters.
The inner armor that protected her life was tied tightly to her skin by straps woven from gold wire. Her black clothes were made of a very rare material that was warm in winter and cool in summer. There were only those in Taichung who were responsible for this in the world.
Only those who work know how to make it. It takes at least three years to select the materials and make it into a ready-made black garment. It can also withstand the chops of ordinary swords.
However, the sword in Wei Changpan's hand is not an ordinary sword. It is a knife that can be said to be as good as cutting iron like mud. It did not encounter any obstacles when cutting through the black clothes that the deer cutting platform spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to make.
After a while, I was slightly frustrated when I came to the inner armor which is also ranked among the top ten in the Kaolutai collection.
She wanted a warm room with a big soft bed so that she could change out of the tattered black clothes that made her slim figure slightly visible when she moved around. However, it was different from having more than ten maids and servants walking in and out of the deer-cutting platform.
With the help of some unorthodox methods in Jikuo and Qi Men, they were able to erect a hut on the ground for her to dress and rest in less than a cup of tea.
This will undoubtedly be regarded as a treasonous and unethical act by the orthodox successors of Qimen. The reason why no one cares about it is because in terms of Qimen attainments, Lu Jiu's attainments in Qimen formations have undoubtedly surpassed that of Gaolu.
Elder Tai's method means that she is the only orthodox inheritor of the Qi Sect in the world.
Ragged clothes were not a big deal. The most important thing for Lujiu now was the means of keeping warm. She did not carry a fire stick with her and did not know how to make a fire.
It is unimaginable for the killers of Fulutai not to touch Yang Chunsui with ten fingers, but Lujiu is an alien among the aliens in Fulutai. Those children collected from all over the world will be thrown into the world before they start killing people at the age of ten.
In a deep mountain forest in Huizhou, they only had the clothes on their bodies and a short protective knife. They had to survive alone for ten days in this forest where many hungry wolves, tigers, leopards and insects and snakes were released from the deer platform. Then they
Only those who have not been frightened and turned into bones or excrement will be brought out by the teacher.
Even among children who have survived five years in the Cutting Terrace, one of the five will die from the mouths of jackals, tigers and leopards, one will die from the bite of an insect or snake, and one will die because the killers of the Cutting Terrace do not know the truth.
In this way, the world disappears, and only two people will survive the final trial and then become a cutter.
Shikadai Killer.
Lu Jiu had never entered the old forest in the mountains where countless children were buried. Even if the elder who taught her the strange formations intended to do so, the killers of Gelutai still unanimously stood on the opposite side of him, even if
The elder who had a very high position in the Cutler Platform was not willing to go against the wishes of almost all the Killers in the Cutler Platform. However, she knew that Uncle Xizi agreed with the elder's opinion.
The voices of the top ten Kaotai Killers, who were full of effort and indignation, expounding the pros and cons were all silenced.
"Xiao Lujiu will always grow up. She will go to places other than Cutting Deer Terrace in the future. What should I do if something goes wrong if she doesn't have access to these means..."
Xizi tried his best to explain to the killers at Kalutai why Lujiu should go to that deep mountain forest.
"Lujiu is the daughter of all of us, and everyone in Gelutai will protect her!"
"But even if we protect her for a while, we can't protect her for the rest of her life..."
"But if she is sent to that dangerous forest like this, if something goes wrong, how many of your Xizi brains can bear it?"
When the words came to this point, Xizi had no way to answer the man's words at that time, so he had to suppress the unhappiness in his heart and talk to Lu Jiuyan privately about how he had escaped from the tiger's mouth countless times in the deep mountains and forests, looking for hiding places and identification.
Experiences on what kind of fruit can fill your stomach without making you die.
However, at that time, Lu Jiu was obsessed with Qimen's formation skills, and Xizi was not a killer who knew how to tell stories, so he just relied on his talent and intelligence to memorize a few, and used this to cope with the two exams afterwards. Xizi also
She didn't notice anything strange, and finally felt a little relieved, but she didn't know that after a few days, she completely forgot about it.
There was no Huozhezi... Lu Jiu's white and chapped lips were pursed, and there was no color in his entire face, but he was trying his best to think of how to make a fire without Huozhezi.
She remembered that Uncle Xizi had told her this more than once, but she had always brushed it aside indifferently and other things that Xizi had tried so hard to force her to remember.
If she, Lu Jiu, was frozen to death in the winter night of Jinzhou, he would probably be so angry that he would blow his beard and stare when he went to see Uncle Xizi who had taken the first step...
"Uncle Xizi has an excellent temper..." Lu Jiu showed a relaxed and comfortable smile on his lips, his eyes were blurred, and his frozen body seemed to be gradually warming up, and he murmured, "He shouldn't be angry."
I’m so angry…”
Fatigue gradually came to Lu Jiu's mind, and warm sleepiness swept through her body. She seemed to have returned to the deer cutting platform, where she was sleeping lazily in the courtyard as she had grown up in those bright-eyed days.
If I just fall asleep and never wake up, it doesn't seem to be a big deal...
"No, Xizi will be brought to life by you, give you a violent shock, and then scold you for why you can't even make a fire to warm yourself up." Just when she was about to fall into a boundless dream and never wake up again, there was a cold feeling.
A female voice without any emotion said from a short distance beside her, "Obviously, even the Qimen Zhen book that I have read can be reproduced, why is it that the simple method that Xizi has said so many times
Can’t even remember?”
It was such a simple sentence that made Lu Jiu wake up from her brief drowsiness for a moment. With blurred eyes, she raised her voice slightly and didn't know who she was asking, "Aunt Shen? This is Jinzhou, and Aunt Shen is not far from Gelu Terrace. Why did you come all the way here? You must have heard wrong..."
A pure black cloak covered her whole body. The woman who still had the charm still had a frosty face just now. When Lu Jiu spoke, the coldness on her face melted away like ice and snow. She leaned down and got under the old pine tree, squatting until Lu Jiu He put his palm against her forehead and found that it was hot, "Silly boy, if Aunt Shen doesn't have a big quarrel with those old guys she just brought with her and leave the deer-cutting platform, who will take care of you under the tree, Xizi?" A coward knows how to use poison to kill people. It is better to fight face to face until the blood dries up. If the boat capsizes in the gutter and makes us Lujiu suffer like this, we deserve to die..."
The more the woman spoke, the more angry she felt. She couldn't help but plan to punch the old pine tree. Fortunately, she just punched and realized that there was a frail and sick Lu Jiu next to her. If this was the case, She blasted the tree into pieces and left branches and leaves all over the sky. There was something like this that scratched our Lu Jiu’s little face. What should we do?
"Stop talking about it Aunt Shen, Uncle Xizi died because of me. If I could have escaped faster, Uncle Xizi wouldn't have died at that man's hands because of his ability. It's all my fault. I didn't learn Qimen's formation skills well." We still have to find the fault with the people in the formation. If we had trapped and killed the people in the formation at that time, nothing would happen next..."
"The deceased is gone. Xizi was the one among us who treated you most sincerely as his daughter. Xiaojiu, you don't have to be sad about his death. Life and death on the Gelutai are not easy. Xizi himself has already seen through it." The still charming woman put Lu Jiu's head on her lap, took out a small clear white jade bottle from her arms, poured out the pills inside and fed one pill into her mouth, "You can only live a lifetime. After all, I hope to leave some traces in this world, and don’t want to be forgotten so quickly. You are the person he regards as his daughter, and he has never married a wife in his life..."
"I understand, Aunt Shen. From now on every Qingming Festival, I will burn some paper money and offer wine to Uncle Xizi." After swallowing the pill, blood suddenly appeared on Lujiu's cheeks, and her words gradually gained some strength, but With a miserable look on his face, he said, "I forgot, how could Uncle Xizi forget?"
Life and death, year after year, come and go, in a hurry.
In Lu Jiu's eyes, life and death are no small matter. Even the old man who died of cold and hunger on the roadside should be remembered by someone.
"But my child, you have to go through too many things in your life. One day, maybe when you are old, you will forget some things that you don't want to forget, such as knowing that you have lost something important. When I went to look for it again, I couldn't find it." The woman used the energy in her body to flow to her fingertips, and massaged several key acupoints on Lujiu's body to prevent her limbs from becoming necrotic due to frostbite. She also looked dazed at the same time.
She thought of the man who always carried a straw handle. She always laughed at him for carrying the straw handle like he looked like a candied haws seller. Then when he went to Jinzhou, he actually made the candied haws and inserted it into the originally bare straw handle. superior.
Lu Jiu was drowsy and before going to sleep, she felt a drop of warmth fall on her face, and when it fell on her lips, there was a clear bitterness.