twin moon

Chapter 12: First Acquaintance Part [-]

After tossing and tossing for a whole night, a golden glow finally appeared in the eastern sky.The sun shone on the sunny side of the mountain top, coating the bare stones with a yellowish color.

The two children who had finally escaped from the ghost gate were preparing to leave Piqiu now.Unexpectedly, the little white fox that had been hiding in the bushes by the cave came out again at some point, and sat down a few feet away. Its two small round eyes glanced at the two of them fearfully. But he refused to leave.

"Look, this little guy can't bear to part with us." Ning Yue stopped, not knowing what to do with this cute and pitiful little guy.

"If you like it, take it with you and go back together."

"Is it possible? I, I have never kept small animals before, so I don't know if I can do it!" Even though she said this, Ning Yue's bright blue eyes already sparkled with excitement.

This brought a smile to Jiang Yan's always dignified face:
"It is said that the white fox is a rare mountain elf. If it recognizes you as its master, it will never forget it for the rest of its life."

"Really? Then I'll call you this little guy Xue Ling from now on."

While the young man was talking, Ning Yue had already squatted down and smiled at the little white fox on the ground.The little white fox seemed to understand the human words, stretched out its little pink tongue and gently licked the girl's fingertips, and jumped into her arms very obediently.

Soon the little white fox fell asleep in Ning Yue's arms, and carried Yan Ze to the broken bone wrapped in wolf fur, and set off on his way home.

When the two reached the entrance of the village, the sun was already high and most of the day had passed.

However, the atmosphere in the village became obviously gloomy—they were greeted by the terrified faces of the villagers.The other party didn't seem to have thought that the two children would come back alive. They turned around and hid in the village, screaming as if they had seen a ghost, shouting something indistinctly, as if they had seen a plague god and were afraid to avoid it.

Soon, more and more villagers were alarmed and poked their heads out from behind the door.Some people saw the huge and ferocious bird head tied around Yan's waist, and after exclaiming in surprise, they were so frightened that they quickly hid back in the house, and even locked the door as if facing a formidable enemy.

Seeing this, Ning Yue couldn't help feeling puzzled, and immediately shouted loudly:

"Hey, who are you hiding from? There are no gods on that hill at all, only a strange man-eating bird. It has been killed by Xiao Jieba now, and it will never harm anyone in the village again. Come out and thank him!"

"You two outsiders are the real scourge in the village!"

The witch's sharp voice came from a distance accompanied by the sound of "duk duk" on the crutches.With the support of several villagers, she walked up to the boy and the girl, and Cui Ge, who was supposed to go hunting up the mountain, came out from nowhere. The sharp arrow pointed directly at the back of Jiang Yan's heart.

"Little Stutterer almost took his life last night, so he got rid of this harm for you. After all, you are also the elders of the village. Is that how you thank him? What does he owe you?"

Even though Ning Yuedang wanted to go forward to argue, Jiang Yan suddenly blocked her behind.Immediately afterwards, a peasant woman next to the witch also yelled, and her angry eyes seemed to kill people:
"Of course he owes us! It was the arrival of him and Orion You that caused several children in the village to disappear inexplicably! After you, the red-haired witch, appeared yesterday, Brother Cui finally found the children by the shoal near the Pheasant River in the southwest All the misfortunes are caused by the intrusion of you damn outsiders, which brought bad luck to our village! Without you, our children would not die, and blood will be paid!"

"Yes, return our children! Only when all the outsiders are dead can our blood feud be avenged!" Seeing this, several other village women immediately started yelling and cursing.

Ning Yue's anger suddenly surged from the bottom of her heart: "It's so stupid! The child was lost, why didn't you go to find someone to save him? Now that the child has passed away, you are blaming us instead?"

Just as she was talking, she suddenly felt that Yan Yan was holding her hand tightly, and she almost cried out in pain.When I turned my head to look, I saw the young man trembling uncontrollably all over his body:
"Could it be--could it be that from the very beginning, you all knew that there were no gods on that hill, and you never really planned to let Yue'er stay?! The so-called attracting people, the so-called lenient, it's just Want to find an excuse for me to throw myself into a trap, so that the Gu Eagle can get rid of me, an outsider you don't like?!"

Jiang Yan's words made the girl suddenly feel a chill down her spine.Brother Cui, who was standing behind the two of them, did not refute the young man's accusation, but sneered completely after turning his back on him:

"That's right, you should die on the hill like You Orion."

The other party's words suddenly made Jiang Yan roar hysterically:

"How did you know that Uncle You is dead? Could it be that his disappearance was also framed by your design?!"

The emotions he had been trying to suppress finally completely lost control, and he pulled out Baipi, which was still bloody, from the back of his waist with a swish, and stared fiercely at the witch and the surrounding villagers, his eyes were so sharp that they could almost kill.

"The fellow named You is also an outsider like you, so naturally he can't stay! During the few months he came to the village, he often relied on his martial arts skills to go his own way and intentionally fight against everyone in many places! In the swamp The trap was originally prepared for the wild deer on the mountain, and he courted his own death!"

Brother Cui's words made Jiang Yan almost gnaw all his teeth into pieces - he already knew that this isolated village and the people in it had all fallen into an unreasonable madness.But he still didn't expect that people would be so frenzied because of selfishness.

Before the words fell, there were two consecutive screams in the air.The arrow in Brother Cui's hand pierced through the air, and it was a pre-emptive strike, intending to kill the boy and the girl on the spot!

Tie Shi came fast and fast, Jiang Yan had no choice but to shout loudly in desperation, turned around and swung his knife to slash across the air, splitting the arrow that had already shot in front of Ning Yue into two pieces.But this also opened the door in his own chest, and he had no choice but to watch another feathered arrow strike.

"Don't hurt my friend!"

A girl's exclamation suddenly sounded in Jiang Yan's ears.At the moment when the arrow was about to hit him, a whirlwind blew up around the two of them without warning.The wind blew harder and harder, blowing so hard that people couldn't open their eyes, and it even stirred up fallen leaves and dust on the ground in an instant, forming a wind wall several feet high and visible to the naked eye in front of everyone's eyes.

The whirlwind immediately blew away the feather arrow in front of Jiang Yan.And standing in the whirlwind that rose out of thin air was Ning Yue, whose hair was as angry as a ball of fire!

"Sorceress! This red-haired bitch is really a witch!"

The villagers suddenly became flustered, surrounded by the witch and retreated.Cui Ge, who was in front of the two children, pulled out a new arrow from his back, drew his full bow and aimed at Ning Yue again, but couldn't hide the uncontrollable trembling of fear in his voice:

"You, are you a human or a ghost? Stop casting spells, or I will shoot you in the head with an arrow!"

The red-haired girl was not moved by the other party's threats at all, she closed her eyes tightly as if she had lost her soul, and let the wind blowing around her become more and more fierce, directly dragging Cui Gelian into the air with an arrow.And the hunting bow in the opponent's hand was also taken off in an instant, and was smashed to pieces by the strong wind.

"Put me down, please let me down quickly!"

Brother Cui was completely frightened, he waved his limbs feebly in the wind, screamed, like a dog in the water.

Jiang Yan, who was also standing in the eye of the wind, was also stunned by everything in front of him. It took a long time before he realized that he raised his hand to grab his companion beside him.But as soon as his hand touched the girl's arm, it felt as if he had touched a piece of red-hot iron, which was extremely hot.

When Ning Yue was touched by someone, she opened her eyes suddenly as if she had just woken up from a dream.The whirlwind in the air died down immediately, causing Cui Ge to fall back to the ground heavily from a height of more than ten feet, with unknown injuries.

"Just...what happened...Little Stutterer, how did you subdue this guy?"

The red-haired girl opened her mouth and murmured.

"Yue'er, didn't you cause the whirlwind that saved me just now? I still want to ask you what happened!"

"What...whirlwind? How could I...save you?"

Ning Yue was puzzled, but her handsome face was so pale that she didn't seem to remember what happened just a moment ago.

The black-eyed boy responded, but he was afraid that brother Cui, who was lying on the ground and begging for mercy, would play some tricks, so he quickly walked up to him, and put the tip of the knife in his hand against the back of the opponent's neck:
"I'll kill this damn bastard right now, and avenge Uncle You!"

Unexpectedly, a woman's voice also sounded in the crowd at the same time: "Please don't hurt him, don't hurt my man! He is the father of two children!"

The young man was startled, but when he turned around to look, he saw a young woman leading a man and a woman with two babies, desperately pushing forward from behind the crowd, not caring that Jiang Yan in front of him was the only one holding a sharp knife in the whole village at the moment. people.

"Don't come here! Otherwise, I'll kill you too!"

The flames roared.At this moment, he only felt a buzzing in his head, as if he could hear the blood pulsating in his veins driven by the obsession of revenge.

"Little stammer, stop!"

Just when the situation was about to get out of control, Ning Yue's voice pierced the darkness like a beam of light, awakening the young man who was almost swallowed by anger back.Jiang Yan only felt a soft little hand pressing down his Baibi, and then the face of his companion in his eyes gradually changed from blurred to clear, full of horror:

"These villagers have given up the basic morality of being a human being, and have just embarked on the path of madness. But if you kill someone today, you will be no different from them!"

The girl's words made the black-eyed child wake up.He turned his head and looked at Brother Cui's wife and children who were kneeling on the ground, crying to the point of tears, and suddenly felt that a certain part of his heart had been pinched hard.Although he didn't know what caused his intense grief, but when he went to see Brother Cui lying under the knife again, he couldn't do anything anymore:
"A long time ago, it seems that someone once said to me that half of the evil in the world is born of greed, while the other half is born of fear. Uncle You taught me martial arts so that I can protect myself, not to protect myself. Bullying the weak. If he had a spirit in heaven, he might persuade me to let these pathetic people go..."

Jiang Yan tried his best to calm down the anger in his chest, but he still yelled at the man on the ground, biting the flesh on his cheek, "But if you do something bad, you must be punished, right? Otherwise, some people won't grow up. memory!"

"As long as the little one can be spared, Cui will listen to whatever you want!"

Brother Cui, who was holding his head, was already scared out of his wits, and his crotch got wet a lot at some point.

"From today onwards, one person in the village needs to offer three sticks of incense and three kowtows to Uncle You every day for me, so as to clean up the dust. From today onwards, if anyone comes to the village for help, they must not make things difficult for any reason. Whoever dares to disobey, stand up for me now!"

As Jiang Yan said, he glanced viciously at the crowd, making the rest of the villagers tremble with fright.Cui Ge secretly glanced at the same bloodless witch, and immediately nodded like pounding rice:
"You two have hands and eyes, and we will do what we have told you, and we will never slack off in the slightest."

"Remember your promise today! If I find out that I broke my promise in the future, I will settle the old and new accounts together, and I will never show mercy!"

The black-eyed boy stared into everyone's eyes, and it took him a long time to finally put the Baipi in his hand back into the sheath.

As soon as the dagger was pulled away from the back of the neck, Brother Cui immediately rolled on the spot, hiding away from Jiang Yan.Jiang Yan didn't bother to look at him anymore, but looked up at the blue sky above his head thoughtfully, and sighed:

"Yue'er, let's bury Uncle You as soon as possible, this is the most important thing right now."

As the young man said, he bent down and picked up Uncle You's skeleton wrapped in the thick wolf fur again, and gently brushed off the dust on it.Under the two thick eyebrows lying like silkworms, his black pupils with white water lines became calm again under the sunlight.

Ning Yue was also slightly relieved when she saw that she had put away her killing intentions, and she followed the opponent's footsteps closely, and walked towards the woods outside the village.At this moment, in this gloomy, lifeless village full of framing and killing, it seems that there are only two children with the last trace of kindness left in them.

(End of this chapter)