twin moon

Chapter 102 No.13 Act [-]

Jiang Yan and Tuya rode their horses for a long distance, and when they slowed down, they suddenly realized that they had already left the dense virgin forest and entered a barren mountain Gobi.Looking back, he was relieved to see the shadow of Iron Heavy Mountain behind him.

Between Shuozhou and Jizhou, there is a narrow passage, which was called Linxi Corridor in the old days.This passage stretches for hundreds of miles between Lancang Mountains, connecting east and west.Although it is called a corridor, there are only a few rough paths through the stone path.In a year, only two or three months in summer can be passed.For most of the rest of the time, it was unpredictable and the blizzard continued.

Because of this, even the most experienced travelers would not dare to use this place easily.Over time, even the herdsmen on the grassland seldom visit, and the population becomes less and less.And those bones that died every year due to mistaken entry, no one buried them, just fell on the glacier, maintaining the posture before dying, and gradually became human-shaped tombstones that made the intruders stand on end.The name Linxi Corridor was also gradually forgotten, and replaced by the dead field that the world talked about.

Jiang Yan looked over from his horse, and saw a huge black shadow in the northern sky from a distance, almost covering half of the night sky.When he took a closer look, he realized that it was actually a ten thousand-ren high mountain completely covered by stratus clouds!
"Is that the white glow? It's really—so tall!" the black-eyed boy couldn't help but admire.

"That's right, that's the white awn, transformed from the remains of the Great God Pan Gu, the white awn that stands up to the sky. It's just that I didn't expect that in such a holy place, there is still a lingering bloody smell... How could he bear it? , to do such a thing to the benefactors of the Muyun Department?"

Tuya, who was sitting behind the boy, suddenly became a little choked up.

"Benefactor? Are you referring to those people from the Yakibe?" Jiang Yan turned around and asked.

"Yes. They are the most unusual of the prairie people - the five tribes of Shuodi. The four tribes of Wuma, Qingzi, Muyun and Chuuoluo occupy the most fertile and large pastures. The cattle, sheep and horses are the mainstay. Although Yimu also makes a living by grazing, what he raises is not ordinary cattle and sheep, but a kind of giant deer called Huojiao. Living in aquatic plants."

"I remembered—when I was on duty in Mulu City, I saw the imperial doctor in the palace saw off a small piece of decoction from a huge antler to recuperate the bodies of princes and nobles. I just didn't expect that this thing actually From here."

"That's right. Although the Shuobei Tundra is bitter and cold, it produces many valuable medicinal materials."

"But where does the so-called benefactor of the Muyun Department come from?" the black-eyed boy asked again.

"In the decisive battle at Suoyang Pass 60 years ago, the soldiers of Guan Ning broke through the iron mountain, so that Shuodi's last elite fell apart overnight, and even my grandfather Hongji, who was in charge of Tianhehan at that time, retreated to the Dannan Plain Outnumbered and almost captured."

"So it was the people from Yakibu who saved your grandfather?" Jiang Yan seemed to realize something.

Tuya nodded as expected: "Indeed. In just a few months, the princes from all walks of life have regained all the lost land, but almost all the young and strong men in my Muyun tribe died in battle. The army was defeated like a mountain, When the other three tribes abandoned me, only the Yimu tribe remained loyal to my grandfather and won peace with the Dasheng Dynasty. The condition they proposed was the horns of these horned deer."

"A mere antler can make Emperor Dasheng retreat?!"

Jiang Yan seemed a little unable to believe what he heard.Princess Di Ren didn't care about this, and continued to explain:
"Emperor Dasheng suffered from a rare and strange disease. Once the disease broke out, the bones all over his body would feel like being smashed, and the pain was so painful that he wanted to die, until he became terminally ill and bleed to death from his seven holes. In this world , only the antlers of Yimubu can relieve the deterioration of this strange disease. Therefore, the two sides quickly reached an armistice agreement, willing to use the Jinhe and Zangdaoling as the boundaries, and stop the swords forever."

"From this point of view, Yimu not only saved your Muyun family, but also saved all the grassland people! How could your elder brother do such a thing of revenge!"

Finally understanding the cause and effect of the incident, the boy with black pupils couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation at Tie Chongshan's act of killing the unarmed tribe of Yimubu.

But while the two were talking, they suddenly heard a crisp sound of "click" in their ears, and immediately the war horse under the crotch sank down suddenly, and fell heavily forward!

Fortunately, the ground was covered with snow, and the two children were not injured.

Jiang Yan got up first, hurriedly looked around the horse, stretched out his hand and stroked its broad nose, and sighed sadly:
"I'm sorry, I shot you blind in one eye to protect yourself, which prevented you from discovering the hole in the ground in time, don't break the pole..."

The war horse was quite human, sticking out its tongue and gently licking the boy's palm, as if it had accepted its fate - after all, once it went to the battlefield, it would never escape the fate of injury and death in its life.

From the young man's tone, Tuya could also tell that the situation was very bad, and she knew that in this vast wilderness, if there were no horses, [-]% of the possibility of surviving would be lost.However, before Jiang Yan could say anything else, she had already stepped forward to the side of the mount, pulled out a protective dagger from the side of her short boots, and stabbed it into its side neck, ending the horse's battle ahead of schedule. pain of.

"Wait—oh, why are you in such a hurry to kill it?"

The black-eyed boy pushed the girl away with heartache, and when he looked at the war horse again, the surrounding snow had already been melted by the hot blood of the horse.

But Tuya did not answer, but walked back to the horse corpse again, tried her best to untie the saddle and iron armor tied on it, then took a ball of white snow to wipe her hands full of horse blood, and wiped her head full of blood. Hair coiled behind her head:

"Its front leg was broken and one eye was blind. It is absolutely impossible to carry us out of here safely. There are wolves in Lancang Mountain. If I don't do it first, it will die even more after the wolves find out. Painful. Besides, there will be a blizzard soon, in this wilderness, it may be our last hope of leaving alive, do you want to help me?"

After all, she is a Di Ren girl who grew up on the grassland, so she no longer hesitates to decide on the matter.Although the horse is the best friend of the prairie people, the cruel law of survival forced her to make this difficult decision.

Seeing the undisguised sadness on the other party's face, Jiang Yan apologized in embarrassment, and then hurriedly squatted down to help the girl cut the skin on the horse's spine with a dagger, removing as much as possible from the rest of the horse's spine. Slender strips of meat were cut from his body, and he laid them on the snow beside him.

In the cold weather, the blood on the ground quickly solidified, and the cut horse meat was also frozen hard.The two children kept rubbing their hands that were about to be frozen, and stuffed the meat strips into their carry-on bags one by one—horse meat can provide the strength needed for the next journey, and this is the only thing they can do right now get ready.

Just as Tuya expected, when the two of them squatted in the snow and were busy, a heavy snow fell from the sky.The strong wind on the wilderness rose in an instant, rolling snowflakes and ice balls and hitting people's faces, which hurt like a knife.

However, the more the weather is like this, the less it is possible to stay in the open wilderness for too long.Jiang Yan couldn't care less about being reserved, he hugged the girl beside him tightly, and after roughly distinguishing the direction, he trudged away in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The blizzard came fast and fierce, and it didn't take long to dye the already pale Deathland even whiter.The snow under their feet had already reached their knees, and it was very strenuous to walk.The wind is getting stronger and the snow is getting worse. They only feel that their physical strength is rapidly losing, and their bodies are getting weaker and weaker, and they may fall down almost at any time.

"No, looking at the momentum of the snow, I'm afraid it will last all night. We have to find a place to shelter from the wind and wait for the snow to stop before continuing on the road. Otherwise, if we fall into a crevice on the glacier, we will be killed." I can't climb up again!"

Even in Tuya's memory, such a terrifying snowstorm was extremely rare on the grassland.At this time, her legs had been frozen to the point of losing consciousness, and she could only snuggle into the boy's arms, shivering.

Jiang Yan also knew what his companion said was right.However, when he raised his eyes to look around, he could only see a vast expanse of whiteness as far as he could see, and it was even difficult to distinguish the direction. How easy is it to find a suitable place to hide?

"Look, there's something moving in front of you, it looks like a gazelle!" In the snowstorm, Princess Shuo Di suddenly raised a hand, pointing to a mountain not far away with difficulty, "In this weather, the wild The flock will seek shelter from the wind and huddle together to keep out the cold. Let's hurry up and not lose it no matter what!"

Jiang Yan squinted his eyes, and really saw a group of shadows scurrying in the boundless snow.Suddenly there was a new hope, and Tuya and the young man also gathered up the last bit of strength and took big strides to catch up with the sheep.But soon they discovered that the sheep suddenly changed their direction and rushed towards their own direction.After a while, even if they stopped trying to catch up, they could already see the appearance of the wild sheep clearly.

"and many more!"

Seeing gazelles rushing past, the girl suddenly stopped and stopped abruptly.Jiang Yan was staggered by her, holding his breath in his chest, his face flushed red:
"Why did you stop all of a sudden?"

"The leading sheep have a strong sense of direction, especially in such weather, they will never change their route hastily. There is indeed a good place to shelter from the wind in the previous mountain depression, and the reason why the sheep gave up there must be because Encountered a danger more terrifying than Blizzard!"

Before the girl finished speaking, she saw a black shadow suddenly jumping up from the flock of sheep.The shadow seemed to be twice as big as the strongest head sheep, and as soon as it landed, the sheep around it began to flee in all directions, so chaotic that there was no formation at all.

The two standing in the snow were also startled by the scene in front of them—it turned out that the black shadow was actually a giant wolf whose shoulder height was about to reach that of an adult!The ferocious beast is more than ten feet long from head to tail, and a pair of wolf eyes reflect the bleak light in the snow, like two green will-o'-the-wisps in the dark night.

"It's Chilang!"

Jiang Yan couldn't help exclaiming in a low voice.Fortunately, the blizzard covered his voice, and the giant wolf, which was almost close at hand, did not notice the boy and girl retreating slowly in the snow, but pounced on a gazelle, tearing its neck open with one bite. .

"I thought only Shodi people in the world could still remember these terrifying giant wolves, how come you also recognize them?" Hearing what the young man said, Tuya was extremely surprised.

"Three years ago, I dealt with these beasts in the deep mountains of Wanzhou. But this is a long story. Now we have to escape before they find us!"

The black-eyed boy was speaking, but his right hand had already touched Xiao Tianmo's long handle.He understood that it would only be a matter of time before these giant beasts realized the existence of him and Tuya, and before that, all he could do was to create a distance so that he would have enough time to prepare for the attack.

Sure enough, when the two became more and more panicked, several other galloping wolves sprang out from the white snow mist.The wolves soon discovered these two living creatures that ran much slower than the gazelle, and they turned around and surrounded them.

"Run, run with the sheep!"

Putting Yan Hengdao in front of him, he pushed Princess Shuodi towards the flock of sheep, while he opened his posture facing the giant wolf's bloody maw.In an instant, a wolf roared and rushed towards him.The young man raised the knife and fell, avoiding the deadly fangs, and cut it in two with a knife down the middle.

Xiao Tianmo's power temporarily frightened the wolves.Perhaps it was because they had never encountered a weapon sharper than their minions in this wilderness.However, Jiang Yan knew that if a pack of wolves attacked at the same time, even if he had three heads and six arms, he would definitely be unable to stop it.So he stopped when he saw it, and immediately turned his head and pulled Tuya who was already frightened into a fool, dragged his knife and mixed into the sheep, and ran desperately across the wild snowfield.

The bloody killings continued with Blizzard.And the large number of yellow sheep dispersed the attack of the wolves for the two children.A few times, the gigantic giant wolf brushed past the two of them, and the stench of wolf that it brought up was disgusting even in the wind and snow.

"bring it on!"

Suddenly there was a shout in Tuya's ear, and before she could react, she saw a galloping wolf rushing up behind him, biting Jiang Yan's shoulder tightly, and dragging him with lightning speed out of sight.

The girl only felt buzzing in her ears, but she couldn't hear anything.She staggered and chased after the galloping wolf just now, but found that she had come to a cliff.And the giant beast that snatched away its companion earlier disappeared without knowing where.

"Jiang Yan! Jiang Yan, if you hear it, respond!"

Standing in the wind and snow, she roared loudly regardless.The sudden change has completely defeated Tuya's courage to continue struggling.Hot tears had already covered her cheeks at some point, and the pack of wolves had closed the encirclement, completely blocking the last dozens of gazelles together with her in this desperate situation!
Gradually, yellow sheep began to jump up beside the girl, jumping off the cliff one after another.It seemed that they would rather fall to their death than be torn to pieces alive by the fangs.

The tears on Tuya's face were quickly frozen into hard ice flakes, which fell off.She finally stopped crying, and threw the dagger in her hand at the galloping wolf closest to her.

Afterwards, this stubborn Shodi girl turned around, took steps, ran, and accelerated, like a swift that could soar into the sky, flew up from the cliff without hesitation, and plunged into the hazy white snow beneath her feet. In the fog!

(End of this chapter)