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Lei Zhe and Tunan Xiaya were imprisoned together in the cell of the Lantern tribe. It was said to be a cell, but it was actually an ordinary tile-roofed house remodeled. There were several such cells nearby. Others in Lan Aowen's convoy The survivors were also locked in different rooms. Lei Zhe observed it, and it seemed that there was one room for every three people.Although the prison cells are simple and simple, the Deng people guard their food reserves very closely, and it is not easy to go to the house and escape.

There seems to be only one way to get out of the Lantern clan's territory alive.

On the afternoon of the second day after they were captured, the cell door suddenly opened, and two Lantern clansmen with guns in hand gestured them out politely. Lei Zhe and Tu Nan looked at each other, and followed the guide out of the cell very vigilantly.

Lei Zhe reckoned that he was going to take them to the slaughterhouse, and anxiously planned whether to give it a go, but at the same time, the friends from other cells were also brought out, pulling out all the food reserves , it will never be to engage in a full banquet of Han and Han.

The group was finally led to the square of the Lantern Village.

A ring had already been set up in the center of the square. When they arrived, the ring was surrounded by excited Lanterns. A team member was pushed onto the ring in a daze, and a knife was coldly handed over to him. The team member took it. The knife was unknown, so, at this time, a man holding a machete stood up in a row of Lantern warriors opposite the ring. He drank a bowl of wine and stepped onto the ring naked.

Yes, this is the only way to get out of the Lantern clan's territory alive.The Lantern tribe respects strength and appreciates the strong. According to their tradition, each captured prey will get a chance to challenge. As long as they can defeat the opponent of the Lantern tribe and win the ring, they can leave alive. No one dares bar.

It sounds reasonable, but how strong the Lantern tribe is, and how can these hostages who are locked in cells without enough food or warmth be opponents of the Lantern tribe.

The first ring ended in less than half an hour, and the team members who fell unconscious on the ground with bloodstains on their thighs and arms were finally carried off the ring.

Lei Zhe's mood was hard to calm down. He had seen the strength of the Lantern tribe fighters in several confrontations when the convoy was attacked, but these Lantern tribe fighters in this arena seemed to be stronger than he had seen before. Lan Aowen's men By no means an ordinary person, under the full blow of the Lantern Clan, he couldn't even get up.

If I fight with all my might, do I have a chance of winning?It's hard for him not to ask himself, and Tunan and Shaar, what should they do?

However, the ring ended after only three rounds, and the rest of the people were brought back to their cells, each immersed in shock and anxiety.

This kind of arena will be played three times a day, which is a rare pastime for the "simple" folk customs of the Lantern Clan.Of course, none of the hostages won the three rings today, not only that, the hostages were either seriously injured or fainted deeply.This is the only way to get out of the place of the Lantern people alive, and it seems that they are just playing with them from the beginning to the end.

"Forget about that, let's eat."

Tunan's voice interrupted Lei Zhe's train of thought. He took the rice bowl from the young man's hand, watched himself move aside again, put the rice bowl on his bent knees, and Tunan, who was digging into the rice, couldn't eat it anyway. No more.

"Aren't you worried?" He put down his job, looked at the boy with only one hand, and asked in a deep voice.

Tunan raised his head, the corners of his mouth were still stained with rice, he looked sideways at his broken arm: "It is already a gift to live for so long," he said, smiling at Lei Zhe, "Honestly, listen I'm quite happy that there will be a group arena match, at least Brother Lei Zhe, you can get out alive."

Lei Zhe was speechless, he wanted to say that I was not sure, you think too much of me, but he couldn't bear to say that, because after returning from the group arena, Tunan really seemed relaxed At least, this kid really thinks that he can survive, and it's great in his heart.He picked up his rice bowl and glanced at Xia Ya who was eating silently in the corner. The black-haired boy lowered his eyelashes, unable to see the movement in his eyes.

With only one hand, Tunan has no chance of winning at all. Although Shaar's marksmanship is very strong, his swordsmanship is not the opponent of the Lantern Clan.

Lei Zhe suffered from insomnia that night and stayed awake until the next morning.It rained that afternoon, but the ring was not postponed, they were still brought under the ring, and forced to watch three unilaterally abusive ring matches.The more the Lanterns fought in the heavy rain, the more courageous they were. The higher their arrogance, the more psychological fear they left for their opponents.

When the food was delivered in the evening, Tu Nan suddenly stopped the person who delivered the food and asked, "Has anyone won that group arena before?"

Lei Zhe looked outside the prison door, and he really wanted to know the answer to this question.

The man who delivered the meal shrugged, only left an ambiguous sentence of "not without it" and turned to leave. Tunan hurriedly called the other party to stop him.

The light-haired boy pointed behind him: "He's still underage, can he not participate in the ring?"

Lei Zhe was also thinking about this question, anyway, he will die in the end, why bother to suffer this crime before death.

The man who delivered the food glanced at the direction of the light-haired boy's fingers from behind the door. The cat sat with his back in the corner of the cell. The boy in a black sweater looked like a wild cat in the rain, looking at him with gloomy reflective eyes. outside the door.

The man who delivered the food was looked at a little uncomfortable, and he glared at the innocent Tunan: "I think he is very precocious!"

Tunan couldn't call back the man who left on his own, inexplicably turned his head and looked at Shaar who had been silent all this time. The black-haired boy closed his eyes and folded his arms, sleeping with his head drooped, looking lonely and cold.Tunan couldn't help vomiting angrily in his heart: Where is the precocity?Can you guys have a little love!

Lei Zhe looked at Tunan, who was sitting a shoulder away from Xia Ya, and suddenly felt a bit sour in his heart. He really wanted these two teenagers to survive.

The uneaten rice bowl placed at his feet jingled, and Lei Zhe subconsciously lowered his eyes, and then jumped up in fright: "Mouse!! Mouse!!"

The little mouse slipped away from behind his bowl. Lei Zhe watched the mouse go into the hole in the wall with a frown. He didn't feel relieved until the long flesh-colored tail was completely submerged in the darkness. Tunan...

At this moment, Shaar got up from the ground, went to the mouse hole and lay down.

With lingering fear, Lei Zhe stared at Xia Ya, who was lying on the mouth of the mouse hole, stretching his paws in, and the next second, Xia Ya pulled the mouse out of the hole, then raised his head and opened his mouth to grunt. Chilling footage of tiny mice swallowing them.

Shaar dug in the hole for a while, finally sat up, turned around and said to the two, "There is something."

The young man handed the thing he was clutching to Lei Zhe, and Lei Zhe took it suspiciously, seeing that it was a roll of cloth strips, rolled into very thin strands.He carefully unfolded it little by little, the cloth strips hidden in the mouse hole should be some years old, he was worried that the cloth strips would fall apart if the movement was a little rough.

After fully unfolding the cloth, I saw that it was covered with thin red handwriting, which looked... like it was written with blood on a toothpick or branch.

Lei Zhe stared at the handwriting and slowly froze.

Seeing Lei Zhe's strange expression, Tu Nan also leaned over and carefully read the words on the cloth strip, the expression on his face gradually became unbelievable.

This piece of cloth was not left by the Lanterns.It was left by the people who were imprisoned here!

——I believe that one day someone will see my message. If you are watching now, you should know what will happen next. Tomorrow is my battle of life and death. I write this in the hope that if this is my last moment, someone can witness for me, and I also hope that those who are destined to find this roll of cloth will have a greater chance of escaping than me after reading my reminder .

The cloth strip was broken here, and Tunan saw that Lei Zhe rushed to the mouse hole desperately, digging in frantically, and finally found a few pieces of debris that had been gnawed by the mouse, and the three of them sat around In the corner, put these strips together, and finally saw the whole picture of the message:

——The Lantern people are superior to ordinary people in physical fitness. In addition to hunting and fighting all the year round, there is another very important reason. They drink a kind of herbal medicine before fighting. This medicine can stimulate the secretion of adrenaline. If you observe carefully, you will It is not normal to find that they are excited when they are fighting, but the duration of the medicinal effect of this herb is very limited, depending on the individual situation, the longest will not exceed one hour, so within this hour, all you have to do is Try your best to avoid the opponent's attack, save your energy and wait for the effect of the medicine to pass.After the effect of the medicine wears off, a large amount of adrenaline will be secreted, which will make the opponent's body extremely tired due to overdraft, and this is your chance to fight back.If your body is stronger than mine and your fighting skills are better than mine, you have a good chance of surviving, and I am not sure how I will end up, because there are still two fights waiting for me.Wish me luck, and even if I don't survive, I wish you good luck, someone with predestined relationship.

Tu Nan was overwhelmed with surprise. This message might be their life-saving magic weapon. Even if it could not save the three of them, it would at least give Lei Zhe and Xia a lot of chances of winning. He was so excited that he couldn't help saying: "No Do you know if this person escaped..."

"...He escaped." Lei Zhe said.

Tunan and Shaar were somewhat puzzled by Lei Zhe's affirmative tone. Lei Zhe squatted down and picked up the last scrap of cloth that fell at his feet. There was only a simple time and signature on it:

xx-12-27

blade

Tunan looked at Shaar, not knowing what happened, Lei Zhe just squatted on the ground for a long time, the cloth strip was clutched tightly in his hand, already wet with tears.

The former leader of the mad army was crying silently, like a child younger than him and Shaar.

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That night, after Tunan and Shaar fell asleep, Lei Zhe sat up again. He couldn't sleep, as long as he thought that Ren was here, maybe he would sit somewhere beside him and write those words on the cloth by the moonlight. If he said that, it was difficult for him to calm down, and he always felt that there must be other messages left for him in this cell.

That piece of cloth was in his arms, and he had read it over and over again, and finally after calming down, he found a strange place in the message——Ban said that there were still two fights waiting for him.

Why two games?Can't you leave after winning the next game?Could it be that the people of the Lantern Clan backed their promises?No, thinking about this, he shook his head, and said in the message that there are still two games to wait, which means that Ren knew in advance that he would play two more games. Di Yueguang started to dig out the mouse hole, and found that there was nothing in the hole, and then began to check the walls, not letting go of any place where the blade might leave clues.

He fumbled inch by inch on the wall resolutely, and suddenly touched a sunken notch on the mottled wall.

There are words!

He hurriedly approached the wall, but he still couldn't see what was engraved on it, so he squatted down again so that the moonlight could shine on the wall over his head, and finally he could make out the four tiny inscriptions that were about to be submerged by time——

Tian Ji races horses.

...Tian Ji's horse race?

Lei Zhe sat down along the wall, recalling this allusion, both excited and bewildered, excited because it just confirmed his guess, Ren really faced the same predicament as himself - he not only wanted to save himself, but also to save others.This shows that his previous idea - to replace Tunan and Shaar for three consecutive battles by himself - is largely feasible.

The reason for the confusion is that although he understands the mystery of the allusion of Tian Ji's horse racing, but now that he is one against three, what does the order in which the opponents enter the field, which is stronger or weaker, have much to do with him?What's more, these are all factors beyond his control.

Unable to think of a clue, he sat against the wall, took out the wallet in his arms and opened it.Looking at the serious and gloomy sword in the photo, his disturbed mood calmed down instantly.

How wonderful that I can still find you here.

The moonlight shone into the cold and narrow cell through the only window, and he seemed to be able to see the black-haired young man sitting against the wall. He was sleeping with his clothes on under the moonlight, looking calm and at ease even in prison.

…Sorry, I once misunderstood you as a knife without emotion, but you are not at all, you have always been a gentle person.I don't know who the person who was lucky enough to be saved by you made me feel a little jealous...

The Rulian moonlight seemed to freeze, and Lei Zhe felt as if he was sitting in a static time, only feeling safer than ever before, and then suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he sat up straight.

God, why is he so stupid?Of course, the opponent's order of playing has something to do with who is stronger or weaker!If he has to fight three games in a row, then it is simply too important whether the person he has to deal with in the first game is strong or weak!If the first opponent is so strong, even if he wins with all his might, he probably won't have the strength to deal with it in the next two games.Only when the first Lantern warrior to play is weak, can he retain his stamina to the greatest extent, and the worst battle must be left at the end to be the safest.

Because the ideal goal is to win three games in a row, but the worst situation must also be considered. Maybe even if he fights with all his strength in the best state, he still can't beat the strongest Lantern warrior, so at least make sure to win the first two games. Field, let Tunan and Shaar be saved.

This is the secret behind Ren's "Tian Ji Horse Racing"!

But... the young man with lace was grabbing his hair, how could he know the order of the Lantern warriors, he couldn't even determine the order of playing between him and Tunan Xia, let alone judge these Lantern warriors The fighters who are stronger and who are weaker.

So far, the group arena matches of the Lantern Clan are arranged according to the order of the cells. The cells of the three of them are at the most off-angle. They will be the last three people to fight the day after tomorrow, but whether Tunan will go first or he will go first that day. It is completely uncertain whether Shaar will go first or Shaar will go first.

If he wants to replace Xia Yatunan in the ring, then the best way is for him to fight for Tunan first... Yes!We must find a way to make Tunan the first to enter the ring among the three of them. It is expected that the Lantern Clan will not send the most powerful person to fight the boy with only one hand. Make sure that your first opponent is the weakest of the three games, and he can enter the second game in a good state!

However, the order in which the three of them will play is also random, and even if Tunan happens to be the first and Shaar is the second with such luck, he can't guarantee that he can win three consecutive games. win.

Blade calculated everything to the limit, and only won two games. Is it impossible to win three games in a row?

No, there must be a way!The young man in a dirty lace shirt sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes calmly, and began to think.

Tell me, blade, one last time, tell me what to do...