ghost city

Wei Ling's face was still so cold, but under the calm expression, there was a deliberately concealed anger, which seemed to tear off the mask at any time and explode.

The Kunshan jade was still covering the center of his brows, sending out a hint of coolness, and Ziyou lay down peacefully at this moment, silently waiting for him to speak.

That night, she was hurt by the cold air of "San Soul Song", and she fell unconscious.

Although he has been in a coma for the past few days, he has also heard the news that the ghost army of the Xiongnu has been wiped out in a trance. Now that Wei Ling is unscathed at the moment, it is probably true.

It's incredible to be able to escape from nearly ten thousand Xiongnu troops and take the opportunity to wipe them out. Wei Ling did it!

Ziyou slowly withdrew her thoughts and waited for Wei Ling to speak. She could vaguely guess what Wei Ling wanted to ask.

He looked down at her, and said slowly: "That night, you ran to Yanmen Pass alone, did you do it on purpose?"

The girl's whole body shook, and she opened her eyes suddenly. She never thought that Wei Ling would ask such a question.

He had already taken off his battle robe, and put on a deep lake blue coat, and his hair was tied with a jade crown, which made his face even more handsome and desolate.But the expression on the face is still so unapproachable, the long and narrow eyes are slightly narrowed, and there is a cold light in them, even if Zi You has known him for many years, looking at these eyes, there is a shudder all over.

The girl's eyes swept across his face, then she looked back, took a breath, and replied lightly: "Yes."

"You knew that I was laying an ambush in the deep ditch, so you wanted to use yourself as a bait to deceive the enemy, didn't you?"

The girl was shocked again, but her tone was calm: "Yes."

"Actually, you have planned this for a long time, so every time the Xiongnu attacked, you would personally meet the enemy and fight to the death, just to let the Xiongnu regard you as an enemy that had to be eliminated, right?"

A chill passed through the girl's heart, and Wei Ling had a clear insight into her own thoughts.

"Yes." She replied quietly.

Wei Ling stared at her, silent for a long time, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and asked slowly, "Why did you do this?"

"Training troops day and night, conducting multiple investigations, setting up an ambush in the deep valley, isn't everything you have done to lure out the main force of the Xiongnu and annihilate them in one fell swoop?"

"That's right." Wei Ling replied.

"But you lack a chance to lure the enemy into battle."

Wei Ling's face changed slightly, and he asked tentatively, "You did this, could it be...?"

"The Xiongnu army fought against my father many times before they were alive, and they are well versed in his tactics. Now they are all attacking in small groups. If they were not pushed to the extreme, they would never have launched the main force." The girl said lightly.

"You know that I will follow General Li Mu's tactics, so from the very beginning, you have a plan, right, Xiaoyou?"

"Yes..." The girl's tone trembled slightly.

"Every time you fight the Xiongnu army to the death, you have to send out the main force just to push them to a desperate situation?

"Yes."

"Going alone at the Yanmen Pass and luring the enemy out of the battle is your last move, isn't it?"

"Yes."

Wei Ling stopped asking, but let out a chuckle, which was full of sarcasm: "Although your plan is watertight, how do you know where I am laying an ambush? Are you sure that I will rescue you?"

This time, the girl lowered her eyes and remained silent.

"If I don't come, you will be a dead soul under the knife. Is it worth dying like this?"

"Heh," the girl couldn't help sneering, and anger gathered in her black pupils again, "Wei Ling, what right do you have to speak sarcastic here? Didn't my actions play into your hands? You just took advantage of this opportunity , Lure the Huns to the ambush circle."

Wei Ling's eyes trembled, his face turned pale, and he said coldly: "Knowing that I will be used, knowing that life and death are unpredictable, but still risking your own life, even if you die, is it worth it?"

"Oh, of course I want to live a good life, but if you don't come, I can't help it." The girl said lightly, she was a little tired, and her voice was tired, "In fact, it is not a bad thing to die under the hands of the Huns. To shed blood on the battlefield. It is much better than dying without knowing why, as a victim of someone else's struggle for power."

"You think so!?" Wei Ling was shocked, his face was panicked, his eyes were full of disbelief, and deep despair was imprinted in his green eyes, "You still hate me for what happened three years ago? Even if I How to do it, is it useless?"

The usual cold expression no longer exists, Wei Ling's face is full of shock and pain, as if a single sentence can knock him down.

"Oh, I do thank you for saving me several times. If it is to express guilt, it is enough." The girl squinted at him with a thin smile on her mouth, "I also said that I will not hate you anymore. You Why are you so persistent, what else do you want?"

"What do I want?" Wei Ling murmured, his eyes were full of complicated and painful expressions, he lowered his eyes, and said lightly, "I just want us to stop confronting each other coldly, and swords are on the verge of breaking out; I think we can still Just like before... Xiaoyou, why do you torture yourself so hard?"

Looking at his face, the girl lost her mind for a moment. She never thought that the indifferent and arrogant young master Ling also had such a side, and he would speak in such an almost pleading tone.

His eyes were full of confusion and pain, as if he had been entangled in his heart for a long time, like a wraith that could not be freed.

Seeing such an expression, the heart was stabbed, and the girl couldn't bear to speak.

She stopped looking at him, with a wry smile on her lips: "Why don't I want to? But Wei Ling, are you still worthy of my trust? If you had to choose again, you would still kill me without hesitation. You value it more Yes, it’s your future and the lives of your soldiers.”

Wei Ling clenched his hands tightly and pursed his lips tightly, but he couldn't say a word.

If he could go back to the beginning and let him choose again, would he save Xiaoyou's life?

He really couldn't make a promise to her.

"So, why do we have to entangle so hard? You have saved me many times, and it can be regarded as offsetting the revenge of killing me. Let's just leave it at that."

The girl closed her eyes, exhausted. She didn't see Wei Ling's lonely back when he left, nor heard his words:

"But, I'm not reconciled."

Now that fate has pushed you to my side again, how can I be willing to let go again?

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It was almost winter, the cold was getting worse every day, the grass was dying, the yellow sand was raging, and the frontier was bitterly cold, and the winter was extremely difficult.

Zi You became more and more reticent.

Due to the severe cold, the herdsmen seldom go out to graze, and they have already fed the cattle and sheep with the hay accumulated in the weekdays.But she still went out of the city often, and sat by the flooded water for a whole day.

After using his spiritual power that night, the phoenix Gu broke out more and more frequently.She knew very well that if there was no antidote, she might die soon.

She was lucky enough to escape from the Huns, of course she wanted to survive.She was unwilling to die from poisoning, otherwise years of hard work would have been in vain.What's more, the family feud Weixue, she is ashamed of her parents after all.

But what can she do?Going to find Xinghun, wouldn't that mean committing suicide?

What can she do?

The northern ghost army has been eliminated, Wei Ling and others have discussed returning to Youwang City, and Sima Shang naturally wants to follow him.

Sima Shang asked the girl several times in private, but she never agreed to go to Youwang City with him, nor did she explain her future plans.

Anyway, it's a dangerous place after all.What's more, there is Han Cang who is in charge of the power, and if Xiaoyou is gone, Han Cang will definitely plan in every possible way.

However, he was still worried about leaving the girl alone.After the Bolangsha incident, the entire Mo family disappeared, and Ziyou was still hunted by the empire. Now, staying at the Yanmen frontier is the safest choice.

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A layer of ice had formed on the flooded water, and the sky was full of snowflakes. The long frontier fortress, thousands of miles of cloud mountains, were all shrouded in a piece of silver.

Ziyou was sitting by the river bank, thinking about her own way out, while she was avoiding something.

Being so hesitant, it's not like the cold and decisive A Zi in the empire.

There was a "da da" sound of horseshoes behind him, but it was Chang Sheng riding a horse and riding on the snow.

"Young Master and General Sima are going back, don't you want to say goodbye?" The young man hastily jumped off his horse and yelled, "I didn't expect you to come here alone, it made it hard for me to find you." His face was frozen His face was flushed red, and when he opened his mouth, he breathed out a puff of white air.

"My uncle and I have already said goodbye. They just leave." The girl said calmly without looking at him.

"Hey, where is the young master? Don't you give me a gift before parting?"

The young man ran a few steps, rushed up to her, squatted down, looked her up, his eyes were full of resentment, "Are you really stupid or fake, young master treats you well, can't you see that?" Huh, I haven't seen such a cold-blooded woman like you, Xiao Chunhua is hundreds of times better than you."

"Have you forgotten what I said to you?" The girl looked at this boy who was a few years younger than herself, her eyes became cold again, as if there were eternal ice and snow in her eyes.

"You still dare to be nosy?" She raised her hand slightly again, as if threatening.

The boy recalled the shudder back then, held back his anger, and instinctively shrank back. After a moment of silence, he suddenly leaned forward again, with a death-defying expression on his face.

"Smelly woman, even if you beat me, I will tell you! That night you acted recklessly and ran to Yanmen Pass recklessly. If the young master hadn't risked his life to save you, you would have fallen into the hands of the Huns. You don't know what happened to him How many injuries did you get? When he returned to the city, he passed out. And when he just woke up, he went to see you. Now he is leaving, but you don’t even send him away. Is your heart made of stone? "

The young man pointed to her nose, and the more he spoke, the more angry he became, his little face flushed red, it was unknown whether it was because of the cold or emotion.

"He got hurt because of me?" Zi You was taken aback when she heard the words, and murmured, "Still passed out?"

She slowly put away her cold expression, and her complexion became complicated.

She didn't reply to the boy's words, she was silent for a while, her eyes looked at Pingchuan on the other side without blinking.

"Hey, come back with me quickly. Or it will be too late." Seeing that she stopped retorting, the boy hurriedly urged.

The girl still looked into the distance, and said perfunctorily, "Go back to the city first."

She stared at the other side, the boy's words kept lingering in her mind.She just looked ahead silently, until a dark blue shadow appeared on the silver-white wilderness, and her face began to turn pale inch by inch.

"Hey," the boy saw her suddenly change color, as if he saw something terrifying, and couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong with you?"

"Go!" The girl pushed him away and stood up.

"Ouch!" The boy struggled to stand up, but saw a figure appearing on the opposite side at some point, and exclaimed: "He, he is...?"

"Go!" Zi You shouted.

"Do you want to leave? It's too late." The blue-clothed boy who came on the ice smiled, and the air blade condensed in his hand, hitting Chang Sheng from the air.

"Chang Sheng!" Zi You yelled in surprise, and went to check his breath.

"He can't die." Xinghun lightly jumped and came to her side.

"I wandered around for a few days, and finally waited for you to come out alone." He looked at Zi You coldly, and smiled.

The girl became cold all over, put down Chang Sheng's body, and slowly met Xinghun's eyes: "Master's spiritual power is so powerful that he was able to find my whereabouts. Are you here to arrest assassins for the empire?"

Xinghun pinched her chin, with an evil smile in his eyes: "The ghost army of the Xiongnu in Yanmen was wiped out, and the only thing that can be done is the young master Ling of Youwang City. So I expect you to be here .”

Zi You didn't have time to make a move, the big acupoints all over his body were already locked by him.

Xinghun picked her up and walked towards the bronze cart parked in the distance step by step.

He walked and said: "If I don't come, you will die of Gu poison sooner or later. I really don't want to be a teacher."

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Seeing that Chang Sheng and Zi You hadn't returned home, Wei Ling, Sima Shang and others went out of the city to look for them, but they only found a half-frozen young man on the bank of Liaoshui.

"Chang Sheng, where is Zi You?" Sima Shang woke him up and asked eagerly.

The young man was injured, but Zi You was not here, it seems that he was robbed by someone.

"I... I don't remember... I don't remember anything... my head... my head hurts!" The boy woke up, covered his head and rolled all over the floor.

Wei Ling didn't speak, but looked around carefully. After walking for a few miles, he didn't find any trace of a fight.

The ghost army of the Xiongnu has been wiped out, but the possibility of remaining forces is not ruled out, but one or two ghost soldiers are no match for the girl at all, how could she be taken away so easily?

This place has reached the frontier fortress of Qin State, and few people come here.Besides the Huns, who else could it be?

He lowered his head to search, and inadvertently, he had already walked a long way, only to find a set of footprints.

Only one person can take the girl away, who would it be?

Could it be someone from the empire, but how could the state of Qin send a single person to take the girl away?

He continued to walk forward, and suddenly found two shallow yore marks on the snow. He bent down and roughly measured it. The width between the two yore marks was six feet.

Six feet, six feet?I was startled suddenly, that was exactly the vehicle shape of the Qin Empire!

He had predicted that this matter was not done by the Huns.

But how could the Qin Empire discover Ziyou's whereabouts?If Fusu sent troops, it wouldn't be just one person.

Then who wants to hunt down Ziyou?Who is her stake?

He slowly thought about everything that happened since the girl came to Youwang City to find him until now, and his heart gradually became clear.

"It's him." Wei Ling murmured.

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A few days later, Xianyang, Guanxing Tower.

"Master, catch me back, instead of handing me over to the empire, you are hiding here. I don't know what you want?"

"How can such a good sharp weapon be given away easily, you are still of great use to me." Xinghun's eyes flickered, and there was an unpredictable smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Master, are you still determined?" She vaguely guessed Xinghun's intentions.

"I remember that you still have the poison of the Phoenix Gu on your body. If this matter is done well, I can give you the antidote."

"Hehe," the girl let out a series of crisp laughter, and looked at Xinghun coldly, "Send someone to do the same thing twice, no matter whether it succeeds or not, you will take the opportunity to blame Mr. Su, right? Is there any way out? Master is very scheming. But what is the purpose of such painstaking efforts? Oh yes, you are Mr. Hu Hai's inner teacher..."

Before she finished speaking, someone grabbed her neck suddenly, the girl couldn't catch her breath, her face was bruised from suffocation.

"Don't be too arrogant in front of me, if you don't want to die so early?" Xinghun tightly locked the girl's throat with one hand, his body was full of evil spirits, and the purple pattern on his face also showed a strange luster due to anger.

"Crack!" He raised his hand and threw the girl to the ground hard.

"Heh, I haven't refused yet, why are you angry?" Zi You struggled to stand up, and sneered, "It's just that I've been deeply poisoned at the moment, and I'm afraid I'm powerless."

"This can temporarily suppress the poison and restore spiritual power. The antidote must be given to you afterwards." Xinghun barely suppressed his anger, took out a yellow pill, and threw it to her.

"Okay." Ziyou stared at the pill in her hand, and answered in a low voice.

Xinghun looked at her with his hands behind his back, and the anger on his face gradually dissipated, with a half-smile expression on his face.

"I think you'll enjoy killing your enemies. Don't let me down."