The Melancholy of the National Teacher

The next day, the caravan was on the road again.

The slaves were feeding the snow goats, while the merchants were sighing, checking the ropes repeatedly, complaining that the steel crossbow was freezing, and the warmth brought by the campfire had completely disappeared, but the wind in the tunnel was better than the wind in the tunnel. The outside is smaller, and the road is much smoother. You don't need to worry about the flames being extinguished, and you don't need to use your hands and feet to climb the mountain. The merchants and guards happily dismantled the remaining bonfires into torches and held them up high.

The tunnel is wide enough for four carriages to run parallel, so these people no longer walk in a thin line like when climbing a mountain. The people in front have already started on the road, and the people behind have not packed their goods. The caravan master who set off together smiled, and glanced back at Uren, who was stiff all over.

He led the snow goat that was temporarily his, pointed to Uren, and then pointed to the goat beside him.

Uren, who understood what he meant, widened his eyes, "My lord, this is not..."

Helian Yu didn't listen carefully to what Ulun said. He grabbed a small piece of meat on the back of Ulun's neck with one hand, lifted the little slave like a kitten, and put it directly on the sheep's back. .

Uren's eyes widened, and he forgot even struggling. The hand stretched out from under the cloak was as thin as a new branch that just grew in spring. It looked like it could be broken with just a little force. How did this man get so big? The strength to lift him up?

But Uren couldn't express his doubts. The caravan master was standing behind the wild witch, glaring at him fiercely. If he continued to talk nonsense, the caravan master might give him a whip.

The witch who caused this scene seemed unaware of the undercurrent in the air. He changed his hand to hold the reins of the goat, and aimed his huge beak at the caravan master.

"Thank you, I'm ready and I can go now."

The caravan master's smile made his whiskers tremble.

"Be careful, my lord, don't fall behind."

Helian Yu pretended not to feel any malice, while Wu Lun shuddered on the sheep's back.

The owner of the caravan didn't say anything more. After confirming that Helian Yu was on the road with them, he returned to the front of the team.

Wu Lun sat tremblingly on the back of the sheep, Helian Yu secretly laughed in his heart, and brought up a topic to divert his attention.

"The people in this caravan seem to hate Da'an Guoshi very much?"

It took a while for Wu Lun to realize that Helian Yu was talking to him. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Boss Lin's caravan belongs to the Sun Salutation Church."

Helian Yu: "Sun worship?"

Wu Lun: "You don't know? They worship the sun and the great sun witch. Didn't the former sun witch, Na Rennv Khan, die at the hands of Da'an Guoshi? This is a big grudge, and Da'an Guoshi was originally a barbarian , but went to help the current emperor conquer the world, the Sun Salutation Church hates him to death."

Helian Yu: "I see."

Wu Lun: "However, if you want me to say, the Da'an National Teacher was not expelled by the Qinglu Hu people themselves? It's a bit shameless to hate the National Teacher for such a thing."

Helian Yu raised the corner of his mouth: "It's also the same reason."

Wu Lun: "And isn't the national teacher and the emperor a pair? If he doesn't help the emperor, who will he help?"

Helian Yu: "Ahem... yes."

They had already gone deep into the tunnel, and under Helianyu's deliberate guidance, Ulun spoke with a lot of confidence. At this moment, Fengling came roaring with a message from afar. Rein, stop.

"Boss Lin—"

In front of the team, the caravan owner turned his head, a vicious light burst out from the small eyes squeezed by the fat on his big face, leaving only two slits.

It was too late, the louder rumbling sound and the tremor of the ground had reached the level that ordinary people could feel. The snow goats rubbed their hooves restlessly on the ground, and everyone who was walking stopped one after another. Racks, guards who don't feel right hold knives by the hilt.

"Where is the avalanche?"

someone asked.

As soon as the man finished speaking, the silky sky light leaked from the top of his head to his eyelids. He blinked, raised his head, and saw a slit suddenly opened on the top of his head. In just one breath, the slit changed from as thin as a silk thread to as thin as a thread. He is also thick.

Like a torrent, snow larger than a person fell from the crack, and the screams of the person were mixed with the bleating of the goat. Without thinking, Helianyu held Ulun in his arms, and with the other hand His fingertips hurriedly swipe in mid-air.

The dazed Uren blinked.

He felt as if his eyes were dazzled for a moment, did black feathers float down just now?

The next moment, the number of people joining the screaming chorus doubled again, and the frightened goats ran wildly in the tunnel. Huge snow blocks are crushed, and the frozen snow blocks are smashed into fine snow powder. The snow powder is shining in the sky, glittering and translucent, and fluttering leisurely in the wind, like a pool of shooting stars gently rippling.

The poetic picture made Uren open his mouth wide.

In the next breath, this witch, who had never met before but was so friendly to him, had already led him into a pool of meteors, and the crystal snow powder was blown away by the breeze, or split because they were running too fast , the wild witch threw him high up, and at the same time shouted to the stunned crowd: "Jump up!"

In the chaos, only seven or eight people did what they said, and Helianyu released a whirlwind again, this time the wind was softer, but stronger, like a tough rope, holding those jumping people, falling them, not letting them fall. They fall.

Most people didn't notice that the tremors on the ground stopped at some point, but the re-accumulated strength was strong enough to get angry again. This time the ground was no longer trembling slightly and distantly, but like a bird being stabbed by iron nails. A snow goat that jumps up and down like crazy.

Such a battle is not enough to describe even ten thousand snow goats jumping up and down. Those who did not jump up in time felt as if they had fallen into the cook's frying pan. When they hit the ground until their heads were bleeding, the wild witch, who was only insisted by the caravan master to make them silently agree to join, saw the opportunity and released a third gust of wind.

This time the strong wind was not as gentle as before. They were thrown like balls towards the icy walls covered with stalactites and stalagmites on both sides of the tunnel. The first group of people who climbed the wall stepped on the folds of the stone wall that were narrower than the soles of their feet, and rushed to catch them. own companion.

Fortunately, the crazy goat Dadi no longer jumped like before, because Helian Yu had already caught the culprit.

It was really caught. Uren, who was lying on the stone wall and huddled with other slaves, watched his hand push the ground, and for some reason, the whole hand and most of the arm sank into the ground.

That scene looked like something underground opened its mouth and swallowed Helian Yu's hand in one gulp.

Before Uren could utter a terrified scream, the witch who frightened people to death had already pulled back his hand. It wasn't just the hand that came back, it seemed to be holding a thin sash in his hand. thing.

The familiar movements made the back of Ulun's neck ache, but he hadn't felt the same for the "thin belt" for a moment, and the witch had already thrown the "thin belt".

The brown "thin belt" flexibly stretched its body in mid-air, and the neat scales flashed by, and it was only after Ulun realized that it was a snake.

No hibernating snakes?

"It's Earth Dragon!"

The person who knew the goods let out a low exclamation.

The little thing called "Dragon" is only as thick as an index finger, not much longer than an arm of Uren. However, it just meanders across the ground, causing the tunnel to tremble again. Throwing it to the ground, the shattered stones and powder were attracted by invisible force, and attached to the little earth dragon, like armor, wrapping it layer by layer.

After a few breaths, when the earth dragon had erected its upper body, it was already taller than Helian Yu standing in front of him.

More earth dragons came snaking from the darkness, their hard bodies rubbing against the ground, making ear-piercing chirping sounds.

Thinking that they were advancing surrounded by this group of monsters, the businessmen lying on the stone walls on both sides couldn't help feeling dizzy and weak.

Helianyu, who was surrounded by earth dragons, stretched out his hand to straighten the bird skull above his head.

He wasn't flustered, he just felt a little weird.

No matter where the caravan owner found out his identity, no matter who dug this tunnel in the belly of Erlong Mountain, anyway, he was indeed lured away from the imperial capital and stepped into this trap.

The whole trap is not too rough, but... the appearance of the earth dragon is a complete failure.

"Earth dragon... it should be hibernating now." Helian Yu whispered.

Although earth dragons are called dragons, they are far from their distant relatives of monsters living in the sea. The reason why they are called distant relatives is that the earth dragons do have a trace of dragon blood—it is said that they are the sons of demon dragons and earthworms. Yu didn't want to know how the two were connected—but in terms of habits, earth dragons were closer to other scaled animals. They ate like snakes and hibernated like snakes.

Until April, you will never see earth dragons leave their burrows.

Now is not a good time to get to the bottom of it, Fengling has already brought down the urine smell of some people on the stone wall, for their sake, Helian Yu has to get rid of Tulong no matter what.

Helian Yu raised his hand.

The invisible wind spirit roared around him, and the snow powder that had already fallen on the ground fluttered up again, like a big snow-white flag fluttering in the wind. Others could only hear the howling wind, and it was easy to blow pieces of stone armor from the earth dragon. Peel off, revealing the soft real body inside.

He Lianyu pulled out the bone knife from his waist, pointing the blade at Qicun of the earth dragon.

The accident happened suddenly at this moment.

As if someone had turned on some switch, the side peaks passing through the tunnel roared angrily. Even the previous earth dragon turned over and couldn't compare to such a big battle. The air makes Fengling nowhere to exert force, everyone can only feel that the things supporting the body are collapsing and turning into powder, the tunnels with blocked exits on both sides are sunken downwards, and the zenith, the only way to escape, can only see the overturning And the falling snow stream.

The merchants and guards subconsciously searched for the location of the caravan owner. After all, he had led them to escape many times.

But this time it probably won't work. The caravan owner who was watched by them was lying on the pouring stone wall, holding a broken stalactite tightly in his bloody right hand.

At the root of that stalactite, the luster of steel is shining, obviously it is a mechanism.

The merchants never expected that the one who sent them to death was actually a reliable member of their own family.

"Boss Lin, what are you doing!"

The caravan owner didn't even look at them, but looked madly at the tunnel that had sunk into the ground, dancing and waving the stalactites.

"Traitor, die! Die under the tomb specially built for you by the Sun Salutation!!!"

"reject."

Someone said it below.

A person walked out of the billowing smoke and dust with bare feet. Where he walked, the ground that flowed like water suddenly solidified. Everyone held their breaths and did not dare to speak. fixed below him.

The caravan master had forgotten how to breathe.

"It can be found that when I left Beijing, I only brought the bird bone of this wind, and it was designed in the belly of Erlong Mountain, so that the wind spirit had nowhere to display it," Helian Yu said, "This is a sun worship that I have never heard of. Still smart, but you shouldn't have buried those earth dragons with me, should you?"

The caravan owner tremblingly pulled out the saber from his waist, pointing the blade at Helian Yu.

"You traitor who should go to the Styx..."

Helian Yu shook his head.

The earth dragon in his hand had been skinned and chopped by him just a moment ago, leaving only a spine connected to the skull. Helian Yu crushed its skull, turning the caravan owner who rushed over into a stone statue with a grim expression.

The next moment, the tunnel completely collapsed.