Chun Feng Du Jian

Rubbling rocks, dust blinding his eyes, Wen Heng curled up in a small recess at the bottom of the cave, listening to the heavy stones rolling down one by one against his shoulders, kicking up billows of smoke and dust at the bottom of the pit, a moment later Many clods of earth crackled and fell from the top of the cave, mixed with withered grass and broken branches. After the muffled sound of the giant stone sealing, this thrilling night attack finally came to an end.

The surroundings fell into deathly silence, Wen Heng silently counted his own heartbeat in the dark, and waited until there was no other sound from the surroundings for a long time, then slowly moved out of the hiding place, sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Fortunately, there were no wounds on his body, otherwise, in this closed cave, the blood would be drained dry.But he was in severe pain from being hit head-on and from the internal injuries caused by the fall. If it were someone else, he could use his energy to adjust his breath and repair his internal injuries, but all internal energy methods are useless to Wen Heng. Apart from silently reciting formulas in my heart and exhaling and chatting for comfort, there is no other way to save myself.

The entrance of the cave was blocked, and Wen Heng was completely trapped here to death, but even if he was not blocked, he would never be able to climb up by himself, so he could only sit where he was and wait for others to rescue him.But after thinking about it, he was actually lucky to be trapped at this time - although the cave was dark, it wasn't too cold, so he wouldn't freeze to death. With his current physical strength and state, he could survive three days at least .Within these three days, my senior brother should have discovered that he was missing. If he acted quickly, he might be rescued within three days.

His worries eased a little, and the darkness is not so annoying at the moment, at least it is safe here.When the pain subsided, he groped to find a slightly flat place, leaning against the mountain wall and fell asleep.

This sleep was not as stable as expected, Wen Heng woke up several times in the middle of the journey, his eyes were opened and closed in darkness, creating an illusion that he couldn't wake up from the dream.Perhaps because of his internal injuries, his body was slowly repairing itself, and he slept longer than usual.After waking up from the long dream, the cave was still pitch black. He was sure that the night had passed, but there was no light above his head.

It seems that the man blocked the hole very tightly, but he slept in the hole all night, and he didn't feel stuffy. Could there be another exit from this hole?

This conjecture immediately cheered him up. Wen Heng stood up and walked around the cave wall carefully. He found nothing except a handful of soil. He didn't give up, and went around twice more like a fool. Finally, he had to face it. In fact, sitting down on the ground again, the old monk was thinking about ways to save himself as if he had settled down.

In the darkness, it is impossible to distinguish between morning and evening, and I don't know how long it has passed, Wen Heng caught a slight movement in the silence, it seemed to be the rustling footsteps of someone walking through the grass, so light as a hallucination.

He listened attentively for a moment, his heart suddenly started beating wildly, and he was about to shout for help, but at the moment he opened his mouth, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind-was the footsteps coming to save someone, or was it the one that harmed him? The person who came back deliberately came back to check whether he was dead or not?

The vocal cords trembled and uttered a short syllable, and then fell into silence immediately, as if the person calling for help was suddenly strangled by the throat, and could only grit his teeth and swallow a mouthful of cold air tremblingly.

Wen Heng clearly felt the blood rushing around his body cool down rapidly, and he suddenly realized a problem that he had neglected for a long time: the people who can find here are not only here to save him, but may also come to kill him.

When the two fought last night, he had no time to think about it, but from one night to now, it was enough for Wen Heng to figure out all kinds of information behind this confrontation.One of the certain points is that the masked man must be one of the guests who sneaked into Yueying Mountain during this ceremony, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bypass the Chunjun Sect's investigations and go deep into the forbidden area of ​​Linqiu Peak.

A few small soil clods hit his shoulders, the boulder above his head became loose, a beam of sunlight passed through the gap, and lightly shone into the cave, and then the darkness was completely torn apart, and the light was like a clear spring gushing out of a well, gurgling and illuminating the cave. This dead and closed place.

Wen Heng didn't expect him to come straight to the entrance of the cave, and his doubts grew deeper. Just as he clenched the hilt of his sword tightly, a hoarse and eager young voice floated down from the ceiling: "Senior Brother? Senior Brother Yue Chi! Are you in there? Can you hear me? Say something!"

Wen Heng's whitened knuckles suddenly relaxed. He never expected that the first person to find him would be Xue Qinglan.

But at least he can rest assured that the person who fought against him last night will never be Xue Qinglan.

"It's me!" Wen Heng cleared his throat, let go of his heart completely, raised his head and shouted towards the entrance of the cave: "This cave is very deep, go ask someone to fetch the rope—"

When Xue Qinglan heard it was his voice, he couldn't listen to anything else. He didn't care what Wen Heng said, looked at him with his head, and shouted: "Get out of the way!"

Wen Heng: "What..."

Before he finished speaking, a black figure descended from the sky, smashing straight at him with the sound of howling wind and dusty breath.

Wen Heng was almost frightened mad by him, and immediately threw his sword, kicked away the stones at his feet, took a step forward, and stretched out his hand to catch the person who fell in mid-air.

Xue Qinglan jumped in a hurry, not to mention performing lightness kung fu, he didn't even think about how to buffer it, he had to go to Wen Heng's side first if he tried hard, but who knew that Wen Heng didn't dodge or dodge when he lowered his head, and opened his hands in front of him. Wait below.He was in mid-air at the moment, and he had nowhere to draw his strength. In desperation, he moved his hands and slapped several palms towards the wall of the cave. The backlash directly hit the wall of the cave, like a kite with a broken string, stumbling to the ground. roll down,

Wen Heng rushed forward immediately, Hao Xuan caught him, but was still shaken by the momentum, and fell to the ground with Xue Qinglan in his arms.

"Are you crazy?!" Wen Heng hadn't gotten angry at anyone for several years, but now he couldn't suppress his anger at all, and said sharply, "What are you jumping around! There are stones all over the ground, you don't want to die!"

Xue Qinglan curled up in his arms, with one arm clinging tightly to his back, she didn't look up after being scolded by Wen Heng, her whole body was trembling slightly.

Wen Heng was close to his skin, and could clearly feel his trembling. As soon as the monstrous anger was burning, he was extinguished by a scoop of worry. He hurriedly pulled Xue Qinglan's shoulder and asked, "Why, where did you hit? Or where does it hurt? ?”

Xue Qinglan's lofty arrogance that he jumped up just now was gone, and he refused to answer or look at him.So Wen Heng put his arms around him with one arm, and forcibly lifted his away face with the other hand. Xue Qinglan's bloodshot eyes and tear stains, which had not faded, were so clearly and straightforwardly exposed in front of him.

Wen Heng was stunned, for a moment he even suspected that he had a ridiculous dream.In his eyes, Xue Qinglan has always been a young man who is a bit withdrawn and indifferent, unwilling to get close to others. Such a person is rare even in sorrow and joy, why did he shed tears for him for the first time?

"you……"

Looking at those flushed eyes, he suddenly understood the countless silly actions of "Ken loves his daughter to smile lightly" since ancient times. As long as he can coax this solid-eyed silly child well, let him give Xue Qinglan a smile, let alone things outside of him. Neither is a problem.

"I just scared you, didn't you?" Wen Heng pressed the back of his head and took him completely into his arms, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay. Thanks to you coming in time, I shouldn't have scolded you just now, Senior brother made a mistake, can I give you an apology?"

Xue Qinglan's shoulders trembled, and Wen Heng was afraid that he would cry, so he immediately ran along his back to scare him: "Oh, I can't cry, I'm covered in dirt, I'll rub your face later, and you won't be able to meet people when you go out .”

Patient persuasion and warm embrace finally eased his fear, and Xue Qinglan gradually stopped shaking.He took a few deep breaths, and sat up straight from Wen Heng's arms, but he didn't withdraw his arms, still holding onto his clothes tightly, as if he was afraid that he would disappear if he let go.

"Brother." He murmured as if he had woken up from a long nightmare, "I thought..."

Wen Heng let him catch him, but didn't let go of the hand around him, and calmly comforted him: "It's okay, isn't it good?"

"Do you know what time it is?" Xue Qinglan looked into his eyes and said, "Today is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. You have been missing for a day and a night."

Wen Heng was taken aback: "How come?"

Xue Qinglan continued: "Yesterday, there was a major incident in the Chunjun faction. Someone stole the pure Jun sword, the treasure of your township faction. The head of Han ordered the closure of the mountain, and all the sects quarreled on the mountain. At this juncture, you Missing, do you know what that means?"

Wen Heng frowned. According to this, the masked man he ran into the night before should be the sword thief, but it would be a bit presumptuous for one person to steal the Chunjun sword under the heavy defense of the Chunjun faction.Moreover, as far as Wen Heng saw in the sword competition with him, that person's martial arts is at most a master, but not top-notch. For such a person to steal the sword, the risk must be extremely high. What is he trying to do?

"The head and they suspect me?" Wen Heng wondered, "I don't know martial arts, so the suspicion should be very small."

Xue Qinglan shook her head: "It's not small."

"I heard from your Senior Brother Liao that they found your broken scabbard in the bushes outside Linqiu Peak, where the Chunjun sword is worshiped."

After his reminder, Wen Heng just remembered that the scabbard had indeed been chopped into pieces when he was fighting with that person the night before. He didn't pay attention at the time, and he didn't want the scabbard to be used to make a fuss.

Seeing his face change, Xue Qinglan also became nervous with him: "What happened the night before? Why were you locked up here, and why did the scabbard appear outside the Hidden Sword Pavilion?"

Wen Heng gently pinched the back of his neck like carrying a cat, signaling him not to be nervous, and told him everything that happened that night.Xue Qinglan frowned after listening, nodded and said: "So you were planted by that person, as long as you are rescued from this hole, you can be cleared of suspicion?"

"It should have been." Wen Heng looked down at him, and said with a leisurely smile, "But the person who could save me is now trapped here with me. Junior Brother Xue, what do you think should be done, huh?"

Xue Qinglan finally realized the consequences of her impulsiveness, Shuang Qingxue's cold mask cracked, revealing a look of embarrassment.He coughed dryly, and turned his face away guiltily, not daring to meet Wen Heng's gaze.

Wen Heng originally just joked and wanted to tease him, but when he said it, he suddenly understood one thing: Before discovering this cave, Xue Qinglan knew the same information as other senior brothers, and had no idea that he was trapped. Here, the only evidence points to him as a sword thief with ulterior motives.

What kind of thoughts did Xue Qinglan have in order to rummage through the back mountain without sleep in this day and night, and finally found this place?

The moment he confirmed that it was Wen Heng in the cave, he jumped down without hesitation, not afraid that he had ulterior motives, but afraid that others would find this absconding "sword thief" if they heard the sound and found him.

Because of this deep thought and conviction, he shouted hoarse, but when they met, he didn't mention a single word to Wen Heng.