twin moon

Chapter 16 Act Two

The pouring rain made the mountain road ahead muddy and difficult to walk, and quietly concealed the footprints and smell of the two children.The rain did not show any sign of stopping, and they could only rely on the flickering torches in their hands to illuminate them, and climbed to the top of the mountain step by step with difficulty.But right now, the clothes of the two of them were completely soaked, and they were cold and tired, so they had to stop for a while.

"Little stammer, you just said, what kind of wolf is chasing us?"

Ning Yue was out of breath, panting while leaning on a big tree, her face was full of panic and bewilderment, obviously she had never seen a real wolf.

"Yue'er, do you still remember the skin I was wearing before? It was just an ordinary mountain wolf skin. In fact, the size of the wild wolf in Leiyin Mountain is already one of the best in the four southern states. But it is said that thousands of years ago However, there is also a larger and more ferocious giant wolf on this continent—that is the galloping wolf."

Seeing that the beast behind him hadn't caught up for a while, Yan explained this, but still seemed worried, "This kind of wolf is more than seven feet long, standing on the ground is almost as tall as an adult, and it can easily kill a leopard, even Even tigers and bears would shy away from them when they saw them. Fortunately, they are solitary by nature, and rarely appear in groups like ordinary mountain wolves. Otherwise, how could we have escaped so easily just now? It’s just—”

"Just what?" Hearing what the young man said, Ning Yue looked at the way she came from with lingering fear.

"It's just that I remember that this kind of giant wolf should have been slaughtered as early as when the dynasty was established. Even if there were a few surviving fish that slipped through the net, they were all expelled to Shuo by Emperor Baijiang's troops." How could it suddenly appear in Wanzhou after hiding in the insurmountable white awning of Wanren Mountain in Wanzhou?"

While the young man was speaking, the torch in his hand suddenly jumped a few times without warning, and the light quickly dimmed—although there was pine resin to support the combustion, this weak flame struggled feebly for a long time, and finally came to an end. However, the icy rain was completely extinguished.

Before his eyes could adapt to the sudden darkness around him, Jiang Yan heard a muffled sound beside him. It seemed that Ning Yue, who had fallen into the darkness, lost her balance and slipped on the hillside.The boy immediately bent down and wanted to help his companion up, but when he stretched his hand halfway, he froze in front of the girl, and then shouted two words:

"Flash!"

Hearing that her companion's voice had changed, Ning Yue didn't dare not listen, and immediately twisted her body and rolled towards the darkness beside her.At the same time, she clearly felt a living creature rushing up from the dense rain curtain, and its paws landed heavily on the place where she fell just now.

Even in the torrential rain, the girl could clearly smell a strong stench from that thing.She struggled to prop up her upper body in the slippery mud with her two arms, and when she turned her head a little, a huge black figure appeared in the corner of her vision, shaking less than a foot away from her, it was a huge wolf's head!

The behemoth twitched its nose and turned towards its narrowly escaped prey.Now Ning Yue can finally see clearly - the long, red wolf tongue is drooping at the corner of her mouth, and liquid, whether it is rain or saliva, is constantly dripping down the tip of the tongue.She wanted to run, but her body didn't listen at all, and she couldn't move at all.

The girl knew that it was absolutely impossible for her to be able to compete with this fierce beast that was ready to go.Just when she thought she was about to die in the mouth of the wolf, the little white fox in her arms came out with a bang, and jumped onto the shoulder of the owner to protest the galloping wolf opposite.

Chi Lang had probably never seen a white fox before, so he couldn't understand why such a little guy dared to provoke him so presumptuously, and the bloody mouth that had already opened did not bite Ning Yue immediately.

At this moment of lightning and flint, the giant beast was pushed from the side and fell to the ground suddenly.The force was so great that it hit it on the hillside and rolled several times in a row, completely away from Ning Yue's side.

The one who came out of the slanting stab was Jiang Yan who was dedicated to saving people.The black-eyed boy didn't know how he had erupted such amazing power, but he had no time to think about it.Before the galloping wolf got up from the ground again, he jumped onto its back, put his body close to the wolf's body, wrapped his legs and feet around the slender waist of the wolf, and grabbed the giant beast's head tightly. There are two ears that are bigger than the palm of your hand.

The galloping wolf spun wildly in the mud, but it couldn't bite the two legs of the young man on his back that were close at hand.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Yan roared loudly like a fierce lion, strangled Chi Lang's neck tightly with his left arm, clenched his fist with his right hand, and slammed down on the side of the beast's head.After several punches, Chi Lang couldn't help feeling a little dizzy, and was unexpectedly knocked to the ground by the young man forcefully, and couldn't get up after struggling several times.

Jiang Yan didn't relax because of this, instead he kicked his feet hard on the ground, quickly pulled out the shining Baipi from the back of his waist, and pointed the blade directly at the exposed soft belly of the wolf.

The dagger that cut iron like mud sank under the wolf's skin effortlessly.Chi Lang screamed in pain, stretched out his hind legs in an extremely weird posture, and kicked on the boy's chest.

Jiang Yan didn't dare to let go easily, so he had no choice but to accept the kick.Although he was not kicked away by the giant beast on the spot, the dagger still fell out of his hand.He suddenly felt a burning pain in his chest, looked down, and saw that several layers of clothes had been torn to pieces, exposing four claw marks several inches long and dripping with blood.

The fighting opportunity was fleeting, and the giant wolf struggled more violently after being stabbed.Seeing that the giant beast under him was about to break free, Jiang Yan immediately shouted at his companions:

"Help me get the knife back!"

Ning Yue, who had been frightened for a long time, just came back to her senses, and hurriedly found the fallen Baipi in the mud in the dark, and hurriedly threw it over following the voice of her companion.However, because she was too nervous, the girl couldn't control the strength in her hands at all.Although Jiang Yan caught the short knife in the air, he couldn't hold it on the handle.But at this moment, he couldn't care less about that, and directly clenched the only weapon in his hand, and slashed hard at the wolf's neck, which was bound by his left arm.

A hot liquid gushes out from under the sharp tip of the knife.This time the young man exerted [-] percent of his strength, and even pulled out a big gash half a foot long on the neck of the giant beast.

Under the severe pain, Chilang's needle-like mane exploded.It suddenly tightened its muscles, and stood up on the hillside again, trying to break free from Jiang Yan's arms.But soon, that huge body suddenly stopped struggling, and fell down like a hill.

Jiang Yan rolled on the spot, taking advantage of the situation to avoid the heavy body that Chi Lang was pressing down on him.He still had lingering fears, until the red-haired girl came to the side and tried her best to help him up, only then did he notice that Baipi had already cut a deep bone-deep gash in his palm.The knife wound on his back also burst open again during the fight, dyeing his whole body bright red.It is not known whether it is human blood or animal blood dripping from the corner of the clothes at the fingertips.

"Little stammer, it doesn't matter if you want it!"

Ning Yue's trembling voice wanted to stop Jiang Yan's bleeding, but he refused.The boy washed the wound on his palm in the rain, snorted again and tore off a piece of rag from his cuff, wrapped it up indiscriminately, his tone was still full of uncontrollable tension:
"What I killed just now was just a young wolf cub. The cub is here, and the mother wolf will not be far away. The air is full of bloody smell, and it will definitely follow the smell to find it! If we meet again, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the two of us to fly with wings. We must not stay here for long!"

Ning Yue also knew what her companion said was true, so she hurriedly picked up the blood-stained Baipi from the ground and put it in her arms.Then, supporting each other with the young man, he continued to climb to a higher place along an ancient road that had long been abandoned on the ridge.But Jiang Yan's injuries caused his remaining physical strength to rapidly drain, his legs were as heavy as if poured with lead water, and he walked more and more slowly.

I don't know how long it took, but the continuous sound of water finally reached the ears of the two children.Under the heavy rain, the mountain stream rose steeply, and the flowing water clearly reminded them of their position.

The Zhihe River, the second largest river in Wanzhou, originates from the Leiyin Mountain, rushes all the way to the east, joins the Lishui in the south into Qinmengze, and then flows northward into the Yanjiang River.Jiang Yan understood that as long as he followed the roaring stream down the mountain, he might be able to find a settled village for help.

However, things are not that simple.The two finally followed the flowing water to the east side of the mountain, only to find that what lay in front of them was a bottomless cliff.The stream, more than ten feet wide, fell straight down at the end of the cliff into the deep dark valley below. The sound of the water reverberated for a long time, and even talking face to face required all the effort to shout out.

As the saying goes, good fortune never comes singly, just as the two were about to turn back and find another way to go down the mountain, several figures appeared from the darkness in front of them.The opponents were several warriors wearing Xuanjia.In the darkness, Jiang Yan could only see the faint skylight reflected from his armor, and the long blade shining white like a torch in the night.

Perhaps it was attracted by the light of the fire that was lit in the mountain before, or maybe it was because they heard the roar of the man-wolf war before, the Ye cavalry who had been following behind them these days unexpectedly found the traces of the two children again , and blocked their only escape route!
"This brat is quite capable, and he actually killed that wolf cub with his bare hands."

The warriors discussed in low voices, but they seemed to be afraid of the black-eyed child in front of them because of the galloping wolf corpse they saw on the hillside.Ye Guang also cleverly concealed Jiang Yan's injuries, making the other party afraid to rush forward to attack easily.

The young man reached out again to touch the knife behind his waist, but suddenly realized that Baipi was still with his companion.But even if he had a knife in his hand at this moment, he didn't even have an idea how to fight the opponent next, and how to get out if he lost.

Ning Yue also realized that the situation was dangerous, so she closed her eyes tightly again in a hurry, trying to concentrate on arousing another whirlwind to help herself and her companions escape.It's just that the power in the helpless body is out of control at all, and hard work just makes people more and more desperate.

"Little stammer, what should we do?"

The girl with six gods and no master stood beside her companion and trembled.

"I will never let them hurt you!"

Jiang Yan just gritted his teeth and comforted him, but he didn't ask the girl for his dagger.Because the simple breathing right now also caused the wounds on his body to burn like fire.He clearly knew that he and Ning Yue had become fish on the chopping board, if a miracle did not happen, they would have to be slaughtered.

However, just as the two sides stood in a stalemate in front of the waterfall, a thunderstorm suddenly sounded in the sky.In the dazzling white light that lit up the sky, the young man suddenly saw a black shadow with a body as big as a bear, with pointed ears and long tail, covered in fur, and a pair of eyes that reflected terrifying fluorescence.

"It's the she-wolf! It found it following the bloody smell left on the road!"

Jiang Yan drank in a low voice in panic.Before the words were finished, Chi Lang had already rushed towards the crowd!
It wasn't until this time that the Xuanjia warriors noticed the strangeness behind them, and they all turned their heads to look.But the giant beast was so fast that it scattered them all in an instant.The wolf's claws easily crushed and tore the iron armor on one of them, and then disemboweled him.Seeing this, the remaining few had no choice but to temporarily leave the two children behind, and swung their knives at the she-wolf's body.

The Xuanjia cavalry in front of him was in full swing with the Chilang, but Jiang Yan regained his vitality.Without saying a word, he held his companion's hand, intending to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

However, the darkness where you can't see your fingers makes it difficult to tell your way.Even the sound of roaring water rushed into the ears from all directions, making the already flustered two even more dizzy.In a panic, they ran towards the cliff.When he felt that the solid ground under his feet was suddenly empty and he wanted to stop his pace, it was already too late!

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