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It's a sleepless night.Amidst the shouts of killing from all directions, the residents of Changyi City closed their doors, huddled in their homes and shivered, praying for the frontline troops and their own uncertain fate.

The largest house in the city was quiet and devoid of popularity.The lake in the back garden suddenly boiled violently as if boiling.

With the sound of splashing water, Ye Cang stood up from the lake, but the part of his body away from the water was dry and clean, without any water stains.

In the darkness, the expression on his face was unpredictable, and finally froze in trance.

"I see."

After such an inaudible mutter, he bent down and took out his long knife from the grass on one side, straightened up and turned his head to look at the direction where the fighting sound was the most intense, snorted coldly, and casually moved With the knife on his shoulder, he rushed out quickly, climbed over the wall in a few jumps, and disappeared on the other side of the wall.

Outside Changyi City, the huge Brute Force Demon ignored the sporadic arrows shot at it, slowly raised its arm, and smashed it on the thick city gate with a bang.Every time there was a strong impact, the city gate would be shaken, and a lot of dust would be squeaked and screamed, which also made the hearts of the soldiers who were stubbornly resisting inside the city gate sink more and more.

On the city wall, the monsters have already occupied half of the territory, and they are entangled and fighting with the soldiers. It seems that the situation is difficult and slowly expanding the occupied area.

In the air, without the restraint of the bows and arrows of the disciples of Yinyu Tower, the death-reporting owls howled and circled very actively, their greedy yellow eyes fixed on the crowd below, and they roared when the wounded soldiers were negligent. Swoop down and grab a piece of meat from them.

At this moment, the sword light as bright as a horse fell straight down from the city wall, skillfully using the huge body of the Brute Force Demon to jump up and down, turning over in the air, and before anyone had time to react, cut open When he touched the Brute Force Demon's neck, it was as easy as cutting tofu.

Dodging the blood pouring down like a waterfall, Ye Cang withdrew his knife, took advantage of the moment when the Brute Force Demon's body fell to the ground, he dodged and jumped into the monster.

The offensive of the monsters on the city wall suddenly weakened a lot for some reason, but the soldiers who were fighting against them didn't care so much. Gaining the upper hand, the demons retreat steadily.

And the general quickly realized something was wrong during the fight, and after flipping a jumping monster away with his backhand, he staggered a little, stood up straight with his chest, and focused on the battlefield.

It's not an illusion, the people in it may not be able to find it for a while, but looking at the overall situation, the strength, reaction speed and sensitivity of the monsters have obviously been greatly reduced.

He smelled victory keenly.

No matter what the reason is, if this situation lasts longer, maybe... it can survive!

If the two parties in the battle raised their heads, they might be able to notice that above their heads, at some point, it seemed that a large piece of dark cloud floated, which seemed to almost merge with the dark sky.

Ye Mu sat on Jia Luo's back, looking at the map in front of him, which showed that Ye Cang was right below them.And the shocking belligerent statement below told him plainly that this was a battlefield.

When he saw the green dot on the map rushing into the large red dots, his heart skipped a beat in shock, and he almost made Jialuo just rush down without hesitation.But then the red dots around the green dots disappeared quickly, like winter snow that had encountered a scorching sun.Wherever the green dot passed, strange blank areas appeared.

"It's been almost three days..." He Liang looked at the battlefield below, "Brother Ye, if you want to pick up someone, you'd better hurry up. Judging from the situation, Changyi City may not last long."

Ye Mu turned his head and said slightly apologetically, "He Liang, I'm going down for a while, and I'll probably be here for a while."

He Liang's expression could not be seen clearly under the mask, he tilted his head, his tone was still calm, without any surprise: "The person Brother Ye is looking for is on the battlefield?"

"Yes." Ye Mu took a deep breath, his tone was calm, but for some reason it sounded like he was gnashing his teeth, "I have to catch him back."

He asked Ye Cang to find a place to hide, but he was lucky and ran directly to the battlefield.Is it fun where two armies go to war? !This careless brat!

"Swords have no eyes, Brother Ye, your injuries are still unhealed. Once you get involved in the chaos, it will be difficult to get out." He Liang pointed out this point bluntly. He said, "Since this is the case, I have a plan. Brother Ye, what do you want?"

Taking advantage of the darkness, they quietly and swiftly sneaked into the demon camp from behind.

Facing the enemy head-on is not the director of the Palace of Seven Kills, but ambushes and assassinations are the old line of the Palace of Seven Kills.

All that needs to be done is to find out the target and then kill it.

Putting away their weapons, the two looked at each other, and then disappeared into the darkness again.Only the corpses of the demons who had died were left, and they fell there unwillingly with their eyes open.

When the news of the assassination of the demon's high-level generals spread here, coupled with the fact that the frontal attack on the city was frustrated and no results were seen for a long time, the low-level generals lost their minds. Calculated after the figure.

Ye Cang, who was having a good time killing, found that the demon was about to withdraw his troops, and chased after a few steps rather unhappily, but suddenly sensed the approaching aura behind him, and suddenly turned around and swung his saber to strike——

The monster that was trying to sneak attack froze on the spot, and Ye Mu's expressionless face appeared behind him.

Looking at each other, Ye Cang blinked, his expression turned into 12 joyful in an instant.

"Father!" Shouted, he strode forward and gave him a bear hug.

"Great! You're fine!"

The strong arms tightly wrapped around him trembled imperceptibly.

Ye Mu originally made up his mind to discipline this daring guy, but seeing this situation, he had no choice but to swallow his words first, put the knife back into its sheath, raised his hand and stroked his head soothingly, and said, "Don't worry! , Dad is fine."

"If he hugs him so hard, something will happen." He Liang reminded kindly after killing the fleeing monsters nearby.

The wound on Ye Mu's body had been bandaged with medicine, but it didn't recover well after running around, and because the previous poisoning was slow to heal, a careless force could cause the wound to burst open.

Hearing this, Ye Cang quickly let go of his hand, observed Ye Mu's complexion carefully, and asked, "Father, are you injured?"

Ye Mu shook his head: "I was caught by a monster, it's nothing serious." He looked at Ye Cang with the light of the burning fire on all sides to confirm that the other party was intact, and then asked, "Cang'er, why are you here? On the battlefield?"

Ye Cang didn't answer right away, he looked around and said, "Father, let's go to the city first."

Turning his head to look at the high city wall, Ye Mu asked: "Cang'er, do you have anything to do in the city? If there is nothing else, we will set off to cross the river as soon as possible. Dad found a transport mount in the air."

During the period of war, if one enters the city, there may be another twists and turns.

Under the firelight, Ye Cang could be seen showing a very tangled expression, hesitantly said: "There are indeed some things to tell Dad, and I can't explain it in a few words here."

"Brother Ye, let's go into the city." He Liang said suddenly, and also looked at the city, "It just so happens that I also have some things to do here."

Since both of them said this, Ye Mu put aside his worries and did not raise any objections.

On the city wall, seeing the demon recede, the soldiers who breathed a sigh of relief sat down on the ground with all their strength, and stood up with some strength to help the wounded. However, there was no man to collect the dead robes for a while.

The general stopped beside the corpse of a soldier, knelt down beside him on one knee, and gently closed the other's wide-open eyes with his hand.

That is his messenger, the other party always conveys and implements every order of him brilliantly, and this last order, he still executes it completely and perfectly.

A soldier ran to his side and reported: "General! There are three people outside who are about to enter the city." After a pause, he added, "One of them just killed that brute force demon."

He frowned, stood up leaning on the gun, came to the wall and looked down.The light from the torches on the city wall projected far to the ground, and the faces of the three people could not be seen clearly, but their outlines and clothing could be vaguely distinguished.He watched from afar, with a flash of thought in his eyes, turned around and walked down the city wall, and ordered:

"Let them in."

A small door on the city gate for pedestrians to enter and exit creaked open, and the three of them entered in a file. After passing through the deep and dark gate of the city wall, standing there was the current supreme ruler of Changyi City.

Holding the gun, the young general clasped his hands together and bowed to the three of them.

"The following brief preface, the left general of the Zhennan Army, the seventeenth generation disciple of the Beidou Camp, thank you three for your help."

Ye Mu clasped his fists in return, and replied: "Besides Ye Mu, we just meet at the right time, the general doesn't need to be too polite."

Jian Xu asked: "I don't know why the three of you came to Changyi City on this occasion, why?"

Before Ye Mu could answer, He Liang raised his hand to take off his mask, and asked abruptly, "This general, I have something to tell you, can you take a step to speak?"

Jian Xu's eyes turned to him, without changing his expression, he nodded and said, "Yes."

He Liang then turned to Ye Mu and said, "Brother Ye, forgive me, I have something to discuss with this general."

"It's okay," Ye Mu said, "I'll find a place to chat with this one first." He patted Ye Cang's shoulder and said.

"That's it, I don't need to bother you both." Jian Xu immediately waved for a soldier and ordered, "Help these two young heroes arrange a place to stay."

"Thank you." Ye Mu calmly accepted this care that was both a thank you and a surveillance, and after talking to He Liang, he and Ye Cang left with the soldier leading the way.

Jian Xu and He Liang walked into the temporary command post one after the other.Apologetically asking He Liang to wait in the living room, Jian Xu first forced himself to be busy for a while and dealt with various matters after the war, then waved away the crowd and turned into the living room.

The moment Jian Xu just stepped into the room, it was as if Jian Xu was a different person, his whole demeanor changed, revealing a kind of casual and careless laziness.

Ignoring He Liang who was on the side, he started to rummage through boxes and cabinets, found out the bandage wound medicine and threw it over, sat down on the bed with a tired face, took off his armor to reveal the hideous wound on his upper body, and said, "It's just that you help me bandage it first , I can't reach the wound on my back."

He Liang approached with a bandage and wound medicine, looked at the twisted wounds on Jian Xu's body, and really began to bandage them up without stopping.

Patting the powder on the bloody wound, he smiled and said, "I thought you should be dead."

The voice is neither fast nor slow, and the movements are neither fast nor slow.

Taking a deep breath, Jian Xu closed his eyes sleepily, and protested: "Take it easy, Mr. He, I didn't offend you." How could this general die so easily, A Yao is still waiting for me to go back and marry her."

He Liang wrapped the bandage tightly around his body, and said gently: "I remember, in the letter I received last time, someone cried to me that Miss Wen Chuyao treated him with no false words, but she treated another' rogue-headed mouse." , the guy in it has a really good smile."

"Well, after I thought about it, Ayao smiled very nicely at everyone, but she only showed me the same nonsense, which must be love." Jian Xu said drowsily, "Speaking of it, I When was the last time I sent you a letter?"

"Two months and three days ago." After tying the bandage in a knot, He Liang withdrew his hand and said, "Okay."

Lie face to face on the bed, Jian Xu opened his eyes and looked up, and said, "Two months... I always feel that it was a long time ago."

When he said this, the tired and cynical temperament faded from him, and he became the self-disciplined, calm and firm general again.

He asked: "He Liang, if you don't return to your flowery capital as soon as possible, why are you still staying in this land of right and wrong?"

He Liang played with the black mask in his hands, and said, "I encountered a little accident."

Jian Xu closed his eyes and said, "Let's leave early. If you meet me, send me a letter to the capital later. No matter what the people in the court plan, I will guard Changyi City for as long as I can. Let them figure it out."

The voice of the words gradually became inaudible, and he soon fell into a deep sleep, snoring a little.

Looking at the sleeping face of his childhood friend, He Liang whispered, "Okay."

Taking the thin quilt beside him and covering him, He Liang turned and left the room, under the flickering candlelight, his expression was calm and unwavering.

Two months, to him, was indeed a long time ago.

On the other side, Ye Mu confirmed and asked repeatedly:

"Cang'er, you want to stay in Changyi City?"

"Yes, Dad." Ye Cang still nodded his head firmly.

"Can you tell me the reason?" Ye Mu asked.

Ye Cang closed his mouth, avoiding Ye Mu's gaze for the first time, and said, "I'm sorry, Dad, I can't speak."

Without pressing for an answer, Ye Mu continued to ask: "So, did you do it voluntarily?", while staring closely at the other person's eyes.

Ye Cang turned his gaze back, looked at Ye Mu frankly, and said, "I did it voluntarily."

"Can you guarantee your own safety?"

"Father, I'll be fine."

"Cang'er, answer me," Ye Mu said quietly, suppressing the rising anger, "Can you guarantee your own safety?"

Ye Cang paused and said:

"--I can."

"Cang'er, give me the answer to the next question after you think carefully about it." Ye Mu said.

"Can you survive surrounded by the army of demons, surrounded by demons in all directions, inexhaustible to cut and kill, with no way to go to the sky, no way to go to the ground, and alone and helpless?"

After a long silence, Ye Cang answered firmly in a clear voice:

"I can."

This sentence ignited Ye Mu's anger. He clasped Ye Cang's shoulders, ignoring the pain in his left hand, and asked loudly:

"You can? You let me leave you alone in such a precarious lonely city. No matter which direction is outside, there is an army of demons. The enemy is the enemy in the sky and the earth. Under such a situation, you let me leave you here with peace of mind." Leave? You still say you can survive? Do you think someone can survive in this situation?" He was so angry that he didn't know what to say. He couldn't beat his fist no matter what, and he punched the wall beside him bitterly. up, with a loud bang.

"Father!" Ye Cang cried out in surprise and anxiously grabbed his hand to check, but he pulled it back.

"Father." Ye Cang called him again, and said, "...Father is fine."

"What?" Ye Mu didn't respond.

"I said, even in the siege of the demon army, in the isolated and helpless situation, Dad still survived and came to me, didn't he?" Ye Cang said calmly, "Cang'er believes in Dad, and Dad also tries to believe in Cang. Once in a while, okay?"

"This and that situation are fundamentally..." Ye Mu wanted to say that the two situations were fundamentally different, but stopped when he saw Ye Cang's calm and firm red eyes.

He was very familiar with the look in his eyes that had clearly made up his mind and would not be shaken by anything.

The room was silent for a while.

After a long time, Ye Mu closed his eyes and said, "You have grown up."

No longer a little one who needs to be taken care of and protected from time to time, but also has his own ideas and persistence.

Exhaling slowly, he said:

"Do what you want, remember your answer."

Do you believe...?

It was a heavy word for him.