twin moon

Chapter 252 No.30 Scene Four Under the Ice and Snow IV

Just as Qi Ziyin and the others stopped to rest, Yu Li and Zi Yuan, who were blocked by the falling ice and had to find another way, were still trapped in the area woven by large and small subglacial rivers. It is difficult to find a way out of the maze.

What made their situation even worse was that in this underground labyrinth, in the ice layer of unknown thickness, there were several layers overlapping each other, and countless forks like spider webs.Now, even though there is a way out to the ice in a place close at hand, there is a thick layer of mysterious ice between it and everyone, and it is impossible to pass through it, and it is even more afraid that it will go to a deeper and more elusive place. Deep in the maze, but dare not go around easily.

"Damn it, I don't believe that I can't get out of this ghost place!"

Yu Li slammed the broad-backed saber in his hand to the ground, and the ice shards flew, but there was nothing he could do.

Zi Yuan at the side took her heart into consideration, and leaned into her ear to offer advice:
"It's better to start from now, and each brigade in the army will rotate in turn with a long knife in hand. When passing through each fork in the road, carve the surname of the brigade commander, the name of the capital, the name of the captain, and the number of rounds on the ice. Then change to The next team, and so on, are better than running around like chickens without their heads!"

"Good idea! You are really my lucky star!"

Yu Li's furrowed brows quickly relaxed following the girl's soft voice, and he immediately passed on the order.However, what he waited for was not the Peng Guojun who lined up neatly after taking orders, but a dozen junior officers who huddled together in front of him, flying around in chaos.

"What? What about the rest?"

Yu Li immediately opened his eyes and looked behind those people, but he saw that the rest of the Peng army was standing at a fork in the road fifty paces away, refusing to step forward to take orders.He faintly sensed something was wrong in his heart, and immediately scolded:
"Not to be ordered, are you trying to rebel?!"

One of the low-ranking lieutenants was pushed forward from left and right, bowed his hands and bowed, but he didn't dare to look up at the ferocious face of the young general, he just lowered his head and said to himself:
"General, I——I came here on the order of the brigade commanders to tell the general that I have traveled a long distance to the north, and now I have lost troops and generals, and it is the end of the road..."

"Stop talking nonsense, what do you want?!"

Before the other party could finish speaking, Yu Li had exhausted his patience and interrupted him sharply.The captain was frightened on the spot, and knelt down with a plop:
"General, calm down, this - this is what the brigade commander ordered us to say - we, brothers from the Peng Kingdom, will never...will not listen to the general's orders..."

The voice in the captain's mouth became weaker and weaker, and he didn't dare to raise his head anymore.Seeing this, Yu Li didn't step forward to be violent as everyone had guessed, but suppressed his anger, trying to maintain his last bit of dignity in the Peng Army:
"Do you know that this action is a mutiny? This general can now order you to be punished, so as to warn others! To be honest, what is the reason why you acted like this?"

The lieutenant on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, wondering why this young and tyrannical general suddenly changed his mind.However, he still didn't dare to look up, but he didn't realize that the reason why Yu Li was so restrained was because Zi Yuan beside him tightly held his hand.

"Right now, all the dry food we have left has long been exhausted. There is not even much dry firewood and tinder left to keep warm and melt snow to quench thirst. Now turn around and go back, maybe there is still a glimmer of life. And if we continue to follow the general Running around aimlessly, maybe everyone will be trapped to death on this ice sheet..."

"This general can promise that we will be able to find some food tonight. If you give up on this, the rebellious words just now will be forgotten. But if you continue to be obsessed, this general will never let you leave alive!"

Hearing what the lieutenant said, Yu Li still said coldly, but he took a step forward, using the scabbard to push up the opponent's chin, forcing him to raise his drooping head and look behind him.

And behind the young general stood a total of [-] half-grown children holding fire bolts and staring at them.As long as Yu Li gives an order, they will kill without hesitation.

The captain hastily lowered his head, and after bowing in salute, he backed away ten paces away with his buttocks pouted, and ran all the way with his companions, and fled back to a group of Peng Guo soldiers in the distance.

"The method you taught me really works?"

Only then did Yu Li turn around, looking at the girl who was always in his ear giving advice, and asked.

Ziyuan smiled slightly: "You only know how to intimidate, but you don't understand that under extreme despair, no matter how much you frighten people, it's useless. Now these Peng Guojun's hearts are just worried about the lack of water and food, and they will not escape. The end of being killed here is because there is no way out to make such a bad plan. Now for them, both advance and retreat are death, but you suddenly promise that there will be food tonight, and a fool should be able to clearly distinguish the pros and cons of it."

"But now it's less than an hour before sunset, if I can't bring out food tomorrow, and the soldiers on the opposite side still insist on leaving, what should I do?"

Yu Li couldn't help shaking his head.But the girl next to me kept it a secret: "You don't have to worry about this matter. If there is no new food for supplies tomorrow, I am afraid that even the [-] 'orphan army' behind us will soon kill you and me. People are being eaten alive."

The young general didn't ask any more questions, but just looked at the Peng Guo army in the distance, which sparked a heated argument.

Half an hour later, the sergeant who sent the message returned to the young general again, but he changed from his worried appearance before, and instead smiled all over his face, as if he was afraid that the other party would go back on his word and said:
"General, after discussing with us, the Commander-in-Chief decided to continue to follow the general. I hope the general can ignore the past and lead the brothers out alive!"

Yu Li snorted heavily noncommittal, waved his hand to signal the other party to back off, then turned his back, and grinned at Zi Yuan.Unexpectedly, the girl in front of her frowned intently, signaling him not to be too happy too early.Then she took half a step forward, wrapped her hands around the back of the opponent's neck, and whispered in the young general's ear:
"Tonight, I still need to borrow you, and use it with the [-] 'orphan army' under your command to prepare for tomorrow's dry food..."

Soon, it was getting dark.The originally bright moonlight became dim after passing through several layers of black ice.In the dimness, one can only vaguely see the human figures curled up and sleeping in the river under the ice, but it is still easy to distinguish where are the remnants of the Peng Kingdom, and where are Yu Li and the eight hundred soldiers under his command. Orphan Army".

Yu Li, who was drowsy with his broad-backed saber in his arms, was awakened by a light hand on his face.

"It's past midnight, hurry up and call the selected children. It's time to go to the Penguo army for a walk!"

When Ziyuan spoke, her breath sprayed on the young general's face, immediately making his mind flutter, and he lost all sleepiness.Amidst the constant snoring, a group of people tiptoed into the narrow section of the river where the Peng Guojun was resting, and by virtue of the difference in their armor, they found the brigade commander who instigated the mutiny during the day and the one who delivered the message for him. Several mid-level officers.

During the day, after quelling the attempted mutiny, Yu Li and Zi Yuan began to carefully select a dozen of the more than [-] children who were born strong and with light hands and feet.Right now, these children all have a palm-length but extremely sharp dagger in their mouths.And their goal is to get rid of those officers in the Peng Guo army who dare to take the lead in provoking trouble.

As Yu Li's raised hand swung down from mid-air, the "Orphan Army" who were tens or even hundreds of steps away from each other stabbed the sharp blade in their mouths accurately and mercilessly into the sleeping man at his feet. In the side necks of Peng Guo's brigade commander, as well as the capital and the school lieutenant.

Under the severe pain, the stabbed person immediately woke up and struggled desperately.However, their mouths and noses were tightly blocked by the thick cloth strips wrapped around the palms of the "Orphan Army", and they could not make a sound at all.Blood began to gurgle out of the blood veins on his neck cut by the knife, and soon gathered on the ground, soaking the armor.

In the cold, the steaming blood quickly coagulates and freezes into ice, and the breath of the wounded also quickly weakens.

Seeing that he succeeded, Yu Li immediately waved his hand again, and the "Orphan Army" teamed up in twos, lifted the corpse and left the Peng Guo army without a sound.

The next day, when it was just dawn, Yu Li immediately sent a few more people to the Peng army, and he took with him more than ten kilograms of fine meat that was finely chopped into strips, skinned and deboned.

According to the "Orphan Army" who delivered the meat, the meat came from a lost horned deer found during the day yesterday.I don't know how it survived in this barren land of ice and snow, but in the end it became the food that everyone used to satisfy their hunger, and it was worth dying.

But what Yu Li didn't expect was that among the more than [-] Peng soldiers, none of them opened their mouths to question such an unreliable explanation.It seemed that after eating the meat, an invisible hand grabbed their tongues and stuck their throats.

Soon, the mighty army set out again and continued to march forward in a rather neat formation in the underground river.Even if there was a night watchman who was lazy last night in the team, he had faintly noticed a strange thing around him when he was dozing off; let alone someone who saw clearly identifiable bright red blood stains where the missing person lay; even in the army After setting out, in the section of the river where Yu Yuli and the "Orphan Army" went to sleep last night, several human bones still stained with blood and not fully peeled off.

However, all the Peng Guo soldiers were indifferent to the disappearance of their comrades, as if what they swallowed whole before was really the unknown horned deer that the general said.

Ziyuan's wayfinding method soon proved to be quite effective.Although this labyrinth under the ice seemed complicated, after leaving a mark at the fork, the army quickly found a route around the obstacle.After a while, the air in the river ahead gradually became warmer, and the sound of rumbling water excited everyone even more.

Another day and night passed, and everyone finally found the location of the underground hot spring, and continued upstream against the spring.The sergeants who had been starving and freezing for many days cheered and jumped for joy, reaching out to scoop up handfuls of warm water from the spring to moisten their faces and lips that were blown apart by the knife-like north wind.Some even took off all their clothes and jumped into the water, as if they hadn't been able to relax so comfortably for a long time.

Zi Yuan also squatted down in a secluded corner by the spring by herself, silently looking at her hazy reflection in the water.All the delicate facial features on the face were hidden in the shadows, but they exuded a ruthless killing intent uncontrollably.

"This time, thank you."

Yu Li walked slowly behind the girl, but he was startled by the girl who was deep in thought.She reacted immediately, and hurriedly put a sweet smile on her somewhat bewildered face:

"Thank me for nothing, it's not all about the general's courage and insight."

While speaking, the girl suddenly turned her body on her back, raised her hand to untie the belt on her chest, and then opened the front, allowing the clothes to slide off her shoulders, revealing her round fragrant shoulders and fair back, and said shyly:
"I haven't had to wash and wash for many days, and my body is really uncomfortable. Can the general fetch some water for the little girl, and wipe her back and neck?"

As Ziyuan said, she threw a small handkerchief with deodorant behind her.Even with her back to the other party, she could still imagine that the expression on Yu Li's face at this time was no different from those lecherous people she had served in Shi Hua Pavilion.And even just thinking about that appearance would make her feel extremely disgusted and hated.

But even so, for her who wanders among men all the year round, acting every now and then is as common as breathing, and she won't be easily seen through by the five big and three thick generals behind her.

Yu Li couldn't believe what he heard at all, he was a little bit shy while excited, he was holding the small handkerchief in his hand tightly and dared not move forward.Seeing this, the girl by the spring turned her head and covered her mouth with a smile:

"Didn't they already promise to marry you when they go back? They are already yours, so why be shy?"

Yu Li nodded, and finally stepped forward to dip in the water, and wiped the girl's back carefully, but still didn't dare to glance at her.

The young general didn't know what to say, he hesitated, and suddenly smelled a fragrance in his nose.Turning around, I saw that several Peng Guo soldiers had set up a bonfire by a distant spring, and they actually put the sliced ​​meat that had been distributed before on the fire and grilled it, eating it with the spring water was extremely sweet.

He was eager to find something to continue the conversation with the person in front of him, so he said without thinking:

"Miss Ziyuan, apart from drinking some boiled water these days, you haven't eaten any grains. Do you want to eat some meat later?"

"I'm not a beast, I don't eat human flesh."

Before she finished speaking, Zi Yuan frowned, stood up and put the clothes back on her shoulders.

The atmosphere suddenly became extremely awkward.Yu Li knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, but he didn't know how to resolve it, so he just kneaded the wet handkerchief in his palm.

At this moment, the human flesh was roasting by the spring, and those Peng Guo soldiers who were feasting on it raised their heads one after another, pointing to a bright place upstream and whispering.

Yu Li and Zi Yuan also sensed a slight abnormality, and without caring about comforting each other, they immediately looked in the direction pointed by the soldiers.On the ice above their heads, a large group of black shadows were marching forward. It was Qi Ziyin and his party they were looking for so hard!It wasn't until this time that they realized that there was a looming towering city standing in the hazy mist in front of them!

"Get up, get up quickly! The Ancestral City is in front of us, we must not let that kid from Ye Kingdom get there first!"

Yu Li shouted loudly, then exchanged glances with the girl beside him, picked up the broad-backed saber at his feet resolutely, and followed closely the footsteps of the figure on the black ice above his head.

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