[Sword III] Seeking Wings

Just as Tang Xiaoyi's fingertips were pressing on her wrist, Chi Xiao suddenly pushed her away with a flick of his sleeve, turned around and jumped off the grain truck.

"Don't touch me." He stood on the ground with his backpack in his arms, his eyes still closed, but his brows were furrowed deeper. Hearing the voice, he seemed to be angry.

It was the first time Tang Xiaoyi saw Chi Xiao so restless...or rather awkward.

She had just taken the opportunity of contact to carefully confirm his condition, except that the pulse was a little weak, there was no abnormality - especially no sign of being infected by poisonous gas.

——So, he is sleepy and having trouble?

Tang Xiaoyi suddenly remembered that her little brother Chunyang had a similar temper.Although she is gentle and considerate most of the time, if she intentionally interrupts him when he just woke up from a nap, she will also get a bunch of frowning and confused "Hey, don't make trouble."

——However, even if the little brother is awkward, he is much more majestic and cute than the bastard in front of him.

Looking back on the beautiful past, Tang Xiaoyi tolerantly forgave Chi Xiao's attitude.

Instead, she squinted her eyes and rested her chin, watching him maintain a standing posture, hugged the backpack in his arms as a pillow, and then continued to sleep with his head tilted.

According to what she saw, Chi Xiao usually wrapped the broken sword behind his back, or hung it on the frame, but since he started to sleep in the afternoon, he has always held it tightly in his arms.

...it's weird.Tang Xiaoyi thought.

"Hey, there is no grocery store on our way, and you seem to have no place to practice swords, but are you unhappy about it?" She first guessed the good place, "I know a little bit about casting—don't worry, it's more reliable than my mechanism skills Much more—I'll help you fix the sword during the night, so you can cheer up and work?"

This time, before she stretched out her hand, Chi Xiao had already flung herself dozens of feet away with the package in her arms.

"Hey, don't touch it." He said in a daze, with strange words, and jumped onto the branch beside him with his eyes closed. When he leaned against the trunk and sat down, the hairpin got caught on the branch and leaves, and he almost fell on his back. go down.

Tang Xiaoyi clenched her fists, clearly feeling that her patience was exhausted.

Just when she was about to get angry, she saw Modin timidly tugging at her sleeve beside her, "That... Miss Tang, let Dao sleep forever... I, I can stay on duty at night, I am very timid, if there is any trouble You can find it, really!"

—— Modin hesitated for a long time and beat himself up several times before finally deciding to volunteer to take on the first night watch job in his life, so as to rescue the two enemies who, in his opinion, would fight until dawn in the next second.

The three discussed it, and finally decided to give Modin the mechanism and aura as assistance, and let him be on duty for the first half of the night.

Tang Xiaoyi parked the grain cart under the tree, set the floating light device on it, and brought Modin to the big tree where Chi Xiao was.

——High places are always safer and have better visibility.

— Another important point is that she absolutely cannot tolerate Chi Xiao being in a higher position than her.

—she had to be up there looking down at him.

Tang Xiaoyi jumped onto the branch directly above where Chi Xiao was, and chose a seat to sit down—it was just not far above his head, where he could swing his legs freely.

She nodded in satisfaction, and at the same time glanced at the little sentinel Modin who was really doing a good job, and fell asleep peacefully.

An hour later, a burst of colorless and odorless gas with a density much higher than air passed through near the ground.

The three people on the tree were not touched at all, so they didn't feel it at all.

The chaotic Shence and Spike Army in the distance stopped fighting immediately as if they were summoned, and swarmed away along the direction of the gas transmission.

Modin saw the abnormal movement and was about to report it when he saw that Chi Xiao had woken up.

"It's okay, don't worry about it, they won't come over." Chi Xiao whispered in Modin's ear—to avoid waking Tang Xiaoyi, and then went back to sleep.

***

Early the next morning, the three continued on the road.

Before going to bed last night, Tang Xiaoyi deliberately confirmed the safety of the official road, but when I looked at it today, it was just a few miles away, and a whole section of the road was in ruins.

——About Chou last night, the berserk legion affected by the poisonous gas passed through there.

It is easy to draw inferences from the magic tricks and the corpses of the spike soldiers lying on the ground.

"...Did they all enter the dense forest of the mass graves?" She saw the distribution of the corpses to the southeast, and looked around, but she didn't see any living soldiers, and there were no strange sounds.

Only in the dark forest in the mass grave area in the southeast, many branches and leaves are rustling with the wind.However, no matter how the blade shakes, it can't uncover any corner of the shadow of the forest that is as thick and wide as the abyss.

"Let's go." Chi Xiao turned in the direction of the locomotive and drove towards the official road.

"But the official way is broken? It seems that no one cares about it." Modin asked next to him.

——After the heroic duty last night, Modin felt that the significance of his existence in the team had been greatly improved, and he seemed to have become a hero who can take care of things, so he became more and more active in participating in the itinerary discussion.

"Someone is in charge, we will fix it when we arrive, don't worry." Tang Xiaoyi said beside him, and at the same time patted Modin on the shoulder to express his encouragement, "If you have any ideas in the future, please tell us the same way."

——According to what Tang Xiaoyi saw, the mysterious man who poisoned the Shence barracks had a very planned plan.Therefore, the tens of thousands of civilians who were affected by the poisonous gas at that time should not be useless.Now, those coolies who were originally repairing the official road should be led to the vicinity of the break, and then under the influence of toxic psychological hints, continue to undertake the work of repairing the road like walking dead.

Hearing this, Chi Xiao glanced at her and Modin, only nodded without making a sound.

***

Two quarters of an hour later, thick fog was suddenly visible in the road fracture area.

After a while, many vague figures emerged from the depths of the mist.

Their walking posture can be seen to be abnormally stiff, and they have the same symptoms as the previous berserk soldiers, but they all lower their eyebrows and look quietly, they only lined up in an orderly line to pick up tools, and then they were led by the same poisoned foreman. Next, the road was repaired clangingly.

Thousands of people focused on nothing else and moved quickly. The ruins that had spread for two miles were cleaned up in less than a quarter of an hour.At the same time, the brand-new road is spreading forward at a bizarre speed. If you look at it from the sky, it seems that there is an invisible hand holding a huge pen, constantly drawing gray lines on the blood-soaked ground.

Separated from the mist and the civilian husband by a long distance, the grain truck passed the corpses that had been cleared aside, and walked slowly on the brand new official road.

Seeing that Modin was so frightened that he couldn't even scream, and his pedaling was stiffer than the poisoned person in front of him, Tang Xiaoyi quickly patted him on the shoulder to comfort him:

"Don't be afraid, those are the road builders who were affected by the poisonous gas in the Shence camp earlier. They were bullied by the bastards and ruffians so badly. Even after being poisoned, they only knew how to build roads. They would not be violent or hurt us... …well."

Mentioning the situation of the civilian husband, she couldn't help sighing, and then continued to change into a comforting voice, "Now they won't be beaten and scolded anymore, the situation is actually a little better than before, you see now lunch time, they will still Line up for dinner——

When we get to Luoyang, the Taoist priest and I will try to find an antidote for them, so don't worry about anything, just drive carefully for now. "

Modin shrunk into a ball and nodded, pulled the corner of his mouth at Tang Xiaoyi, tried to open his eyes and continued to look forward.

Then literally scream.

"—Oh my god! Why did they divert!!!"

Following Modin's trembling fingers, Tang Xiaoyi saw the situation ahead.

The official road from Fenghua Valley to Luoyang should extend to the northeast, but the folks ahead suddenly turned it to the southeast when the road was about to be repaired until it was close to the intact section—even started to demolish the intact section in the northeast .

"Wait, if you turn this way, the road is..." She vaguely saw it, and immediately went to her pocket to find the old version of the map from a year ago.

Before she could dig it out, Modin discovered it first, "This direction is the official road in the Pingding Village section a year ago! I was working in the post station there at the time, and I know this road!"

A year ago at the post station in Pingding Village, the official road was damaged by the battle between the two camps for the glass bottle, and it has not been repaired until now.

That's because Shence delayed the road construction project for a whole year-to extort more compensation from the camp, and at the same time, it can also make the civilian men recruited in the name of road construction do more private affairs for them.

It wasn't until nearly a month ago that the superiors discovered the problem with this section of the road and sent people to ask for accountability. Then Shen Ce hurriedly started to build the road—of course, forcing the peasants to work as fast as possible.

——So, before the poisoning, the peasants were repairing the road in the Pingding Village section. After being poisoned, although they were led to other places by the fog, they obviously continued the previous project.

There are mountains in the area of ​​Pingding Village. The official road is a curved parabola. After going southeast for a while, it will turn back to the northeast. Although it has taken a long detour, it still leads to Luoyang.

"So no problem, let's go to Luoyang, shall we follow?" Tang Xiaoyi asked Chi Xiao.

"Let's go." Chi Xiao turned to the new road in the southeast, ready to move on.

"No!——No way!" Modin suddenly yelled with a trembling voice, and hugged Chi Xiao's arm, "I can't follow! If the direction of the Pingding Village section is moved here, it will go directly through the mass burial Gang!"

——The Mass Burial Mound is the most terrifying restricted area in the folklore of Fenghua Valley. It is said that it is full of ghosts and illusions. Anyone who enters will become a lost ghost and cannot come out again.

"It's okay. With me here, no evil spirits can get close."

Chi Xiao waved the package containing the broken sword in his hand, and tried to move Modin's claws away, but he still held tightly and couldn't break free for a while.

"——No! Please believe me! I'm an employee of the post station! It's a long detour to the southeast. It's better to overcome a section of ruins and go directly to the normal northeast Luoyang section! Really! The instructions tell you to go to Luoyang as soon as possible. quick!"

Modin was clinging to Daoist Priest like a koala, but his voice gradually gained confidence and became high-pitched.

"It's okay, little brother, I have been in the mass grave, and I lived there for half a month to spy on the enemy's situation--behind it is Fenghu Village, the stronghold of Haoqi, where we often fight and defend. Through the woods. We're all doing well."

When the two were arguing, Tang Xiaoyi supported Chi Xiao from the sidelines, as if to emphasize the ease in her tone, she fiddled with a passing tree branch, and the shadow of the branch just blocked the back of the grain cart.

"Plus, the little brother is getting more and more imposing now—as long as you maintain the momentum of arguing just now, no monsters or ghosts will dare to get close to you, really."

Using Huatou, she stood up and approached Modin's ear, stretched out her hand to rub his hair, "—there are masters chasing us, speed up!"

Modin was startled by Tang Xiaoyi's unprecedented stern voice, before he could react rationally, he stepped on the pedal fiercely to do so.

The moment the grain truck accelerated, a small stone flew from behind.

Tang Xiaoyi turned around and hit it with a dart.

——But I was surprised to see that this blunt weapon with strange inner strength just smashed the dart she shot with ten successes, and it still flew towards it impartially in the air wave that almost turned into substance.

Tang Xiaoyi hastily dodged with all his strength, the stone barely passed her neck and hit the frame of the frame, penetrating three points in an instant.

Before she could stabilize her figure, the second stone had followed her closely.

This time Chi Xiao had set up his defensive aura, and finally successfully blocked it completely.

But at the next moment, three parallel rounds came, and one blow shattered the thick aura that had persisted for at least 10 minutes even in the fiercest camp battle into nothingness.

... This is by no means a character that he can deal with, not even the Taoist leader.

Tang Xiaoyi's heart trembled, and he waved his hand and shot the only smoke/mist/bomb left on his body, and threw several bags of grain out of the car, further accelerating forward.

Now, with no choice of turning, the grain truck roared along on the southeast road to the mass grave.

"——The front is coming to the foggy area, is it poisonous? What should I do?" Seeing that the grain truck was about to catch up with the area where the peasants were building roads, Modin screamed and asked anxiously.

"Rush over!" Chi Xiao replied, while continuing to block the rear attack with his aura, he had already held the talisman paper in his hand.

The author has something to say: 1. There is a famous mission in Zhanluan Maple Valley Mass Burial Mound called Recalling Beauty. Most of the fantasy weapon settings in this article are derived from it. Of course, it is the kind of explanation that is close to science