Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1001
The firewood on the flame crackled and burned, a drop of water fell from the cave, and a plume of smoke rose with a hiss.

The man sat quietly by the fire, and after a moment of silence, he said lightly, "It's easy."

smoothly……

Looking at the pile of seaweed on the ground, Ying Baoyue was a little speechless, and went into the sea twice in a row. Does he call this a smooth ride?
"Is saving people in the middle-level ceremony also called Shun Shou?" She closed her eyes and asked.

"Why do you ask?"

Li Ji didn't look back, just stared at the fire quietly, "If you were floating in the water and happened to see me sinking into the sea, wouldn't you give me a hand?"

If this can be called saving, does she know how many people she has saved?
Ying Baoyue's expression was a little subtle upon hearing this.

Practitioners should indeed take saving lives and healing the wounded as their mission. Ever since they met Li Ji in the former Qin Dynasty, they had helped each other many times, but this time it was different.

This is the battlefield of the middle-level ceremony, and they are opponents competing for the same goal.

"Are you already half an hour behind the Xirong people?" Ying Baoyue looked at the wind and rain outside the cave, and glanced at the mask on Li Ji's face, "You are lying to me."

Li Ji paused while holding the wooden stick to warm his hand.

"I fell asleep not only for half an hour, but almost an hour?"

The man's back was stiff for a moment, then he glanced sideways at her, and nodded silently.

Even though there was no sun outside, she could still feel the passage of time. If she hadn't seen her life-and-death appearance, Li Ji would have suspected that she was just pretending to be unconscious.

"Why did you lie to me?" Ying Baoyue stared at his profile and asked softly.

"Dark clouds cover the sun, I can't see the sun, and my judgment of the time is not so accurate," Li Ji said, "So I will talk about it."

Of course, there are also reasons why she doesn't want her to feel guilty, but he won't do that next time.

It is more difficult and costly to hide from her.

"Really?" Ying Baoyue was silent for a moment, she guessed why Li Ji said that.The longer the delay, the more nonsense his "smooth" claim seemed.

"Then it's an hour late now, why don't you leave?" Ying Baoyue looked at Li Ji who was still sitting by the fire grilling skewers, and asked quietly, "How do you get to the top of the list like this? "

Even if he finds her in the water and picks her up, he can leave her here alone, she will wake up on her own, there is really no need for him to guard her here.

Looking at the man sitting by the campfire, Ying Baoyue couldn't say a word.

That is.

Why are you being so nice to me?

Li Ji is someone who knows that her life is not long, so she doesn't think too much about it, but she is a little contradictory.

She took a deep breath, looked at him and asked calmly, "Aren't you going to take Shao Siming's sword for your sweetheart?"

Li Ji was silent for a moment, then finally turned his head and looked into her eyes, "I said, since I said that you can live for a full year, I won't watch you die within this year."

It was originally just a death prophecy, but it became a promise for him.

Ying Baoyue stared at him blankly, then smiled helplessly, "I owe you a favor."

"I owe you a favor first," Li Ji handed her a shell, which contained boiling hot rainwater, "I said in Nanchu that I owe you my life."

She paid a greater price for helping him climb the steps, and he didn't understand why she did it at the time.

"But you've paid it off a long time ago," Ying Baoyue frowned, whether it was the final battle against Ji Mo in the primary ceremony, or accompanying her and He Lianyan in the cloud forest, or even three days ago Jianzhang played the role of an assassin in the palace, and along the way, if he wanted to pay back the favors, his accumulated life would have been enough.

"These are nothing," Li Ji said lightly.

Ying Baoyue wanted to say something else, but looking into his eyes, she knew that none of them could convince the other, but she had already secretly planned that if Li Ji found out her true identity and wanted to take revenge on her, she would definitely Let him chop three more knives.

"You don't have to mind too much," Li Ji watched as Ying Baoyue drank hot water, "Although we are an hour late, we are not far behind."

Ying Baoyue looked up at him.

"It's evening now," Li Ji said calmly, "The tide has started to ebb on Xiaoyao Island."

Ying Baoyue was startled, "You mean..."

"The tide will pull practitioners into the sea," Li Ji said quietly, "Even if you swim to the shore at this time, it is not easy to get ashore."

this person...

Ying Baoyue instantly understood what he meant.

He had already calculated the time. According to the tidal force, it was indeed the time for low tide. If it was a downwind for the practitioners to swim east in the morning, it was completely against the wind at this time, and it would be half the effort to go ashore immediately.

The tidal force is mainly caused by the gravitational force of the moon. When the moon is in the mid-heaven, this force will weaken, and this is the best time to go ashore.

No wonder Li Ji was not in a hurry.

Seeing the man sitting beside the fire as motionless as a mountain, Ying Baoyue smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to know the sea so well."

People in this world don't know the existence of gravitation, and they must have a rich experience of living by the sea if they want to understand the tides.Thinking of Li Ji's skill when he swam to her in the waves, she asked curiously, "You... did you grow up by the sea?"

"No," Li Ji turned to look at her, "I grew up in the mountains and forests."

Although it was only a short year, this year he was free.

In his life before that, although he did live in a seaside city, he was always spent in captivity, which cannot be called growth.

"Then you know enough," Ying Baoyue praised sincerely, and the next moment she thought of something, her eyes froze.

"But this..." She looked at Li Ji inexplicably, "Didn't you tell Jiashu and them?"

Speaking of which, didn't Ji Jiashu and the others run into an ebb tide when they left early?
However, Soochow and Southern Chu were rivals, and Li Ji did not tell Ji Jiashu their obligations.

"No need," but Ying Baoyue didn't expect Li Ji to turn the wooden stick in his hand, "Mr. Chunhua should be able to go ashore smoothly."

"He wears water-repelling beads around his neck," he said lightly, "that also has the effect of warding off the tide."

Uh……

Ying Baoyue found out that she seemed to have accidentally cheated on Ji Jiashu...

It might be unfair to others, but she doesn't regret it.

Li Ji glanced at her and knew what she was thinking, "You don't have to worry about fairness. When Yinglong God appeared, it was decided that this duel could not be fair."

If there were no water-avoiding beads, Ji Jiashu, who was targeted by the Dragon God like her, would have been buried in the bottom of the sea.

It also shows how lucky she is.

"Mr. Chunhua and the others go first, and they will definitely encounter and intercept the Xirong people on the shore of the island, and fight will break out first."

Li Ji looked at the girl sitting with her knees hugged by the stone, and Ji Jiashu chose to take the first step amidst the storm. It seemed that she had given up looking for her, but in fact, he was probably trying to get ashore first to deal with the difficult enemies.

Take yourself as the vanguard, and kill a bloody road first.

The boy buried in his heart, if he didn't know her, did he know it?
(End of this chapter)