Strange Records of Xijing

Pei Jingxing stood in front of the ancient city, narrowed his eyes, and looked into the city from afar.However, the sun was getting higher and higher, and the scorching sun above the head shone down, and it was really hard for the eyes, let alone see the situation in the city clearly.

Pei Jingxing walked to Su Yan's side again, grabbed the camel's reins with one hand, and held the horizontal knife tightly with the other, and scanned around, but there was nothing but the continuous sand dunes.

"Do you want to go in?" Su Yan on the camel lowered his head and asked Pei Jingxing.

"It's useless to wait here." Pei Jingxing tightened his grip on the horizontal knife and replied, "It seems that the enemy wants us to go in."

Su Yan bit his lower lip, put his left hand on his chest, and quietly squeezed a formula.But to his disappointment, his efforts failed this time as well.

From the corner of Pei Jingxing's eyes, he caught a glimpse of Su Yan's small movements, turned his head to look, and it was rare to see a frustrated expression on Su Yan's face, even though he was in a dangerous situation, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The laughter reached Su Yan's ears, his face flushed slightly, but there seemed to be a clear stream flowing through his heart, which relieved his anxious heart at this moment.

Su Yan suddenly remembered the peach talisman that he had engraved for Pei Jingxing before, and lowered his head and asked, "Do you still have the peach talisman I gave you?"

Pei Jingxing pressed on his chest, nodded and said, "I'm carrying it."

Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Pei Jingxing understood what Su Yan said, and raised one eyebrow: "Aren't you going in?"

Su Yan shook his head: "I have all my abilities now, but I can't do anything. The inside is full of dangers, and it will be a burden for me to go in."

Pei Jingxing looked around, looked at the continuous sand dunes, felt the scorching heat on his body, and disagreed with Su Yan's opinion: "Let's go in together."

He was afraid that Su Yan would disagree, so he added: "Right now, the other people suddenly disappeared, what if we separate and fail to find each other? Besides, you are very skilled, even if you can't make spells and chant spells, you won't be a drag on me. "

Su Yan thought, yes, the whereabouts of other people are unknown right now. Fortunately, there is Pei Jingxing beside him. If the two are separated, they will not be able to find each other in the end. If they are alone in this endless sea of ​​sand, they may not wait for the enemy to appear. I am going crazy.

Su Yan was not a shy person, as soon as he figured this out, he simply jumped off the camel, which actually surprised Pei Jingxing who was beside him.

He took off his usual various small props from the camel and put them into the Qiankun bag hanging on his waist. Pei Jingxing led the camel and tied the camel to a stone outside the gate of the ancient city.

"This beast is not afraid." Looking at the camel obediently lying on the ground, Su Yan sighed after finishing dressing up.

"Go ahead and have a look, be careful." Pei Jingxing said, walking around to Su Yan's right hand - Su Yan can only see with his left eye now, and the right side has become his blind spot. Once the enemy attacks from the right side, Su Yan will be unable to defend against it. .

"Wait." Su Yan took out a red string with a small golden bell hanging on it.He handed the bell to Pei Jingxing: "Hang this up."

"What is this for?" Pei Jingxing held it in his hand and shook it a few times, but the bell seemed to be dumb and there was no sound at all.

"Master gave it to me before going down the mountain. It can be used as a warning." Su Yan reached out and fiddled with his waist, and there was an identical bell hanging on his waist, "Although I don't know if this situation will still take effect, but It’s better to hang than not to hang.”

Of course Pei Jingxing would not refuse Su Yan's kindness, and immediately hung the bell around his waist.

In the ancient city, there is no trace of people’s life. The doors of the houses on both sides are ajar. Through the openings on the houses that should be windows, you can see thick sand piled up in many houses, and the tables and chairs are crumbling. Most of it is covered by sand.

On the contrary, there are occasional sporadic and precious greens in the corners of the walls, which make the ancient city even more dead.

"This ancient city doesn't seem to have changed anything." Pei Jingxing and Su Yan walked for a while, their eyes lit up, they suddenly quickened their pace, and turned to another road.

"Look here, this is the way we came in that year." Pei Jingxing pointed to a stone statue that collapsed in the sand not far away, "I remember that the wind and sand were very strong at that time, but once we entered this city, they were chasing after us. The wind and sand behind him disappeared, as if being blocked by the city. It was the first time I saw the horror of the wind and sand in the desert, and I just wanted to find a place to hide. Now that I think about it, it is really strange."

"In that case, you have no choice." Su Yan knew that Pei Jingxing was deeply concerned about this past incident. After all, no one could accept it calmly while watching other colleagues eat the flesh of dead colleagues.This was Pei Jingxing's inner demon, which was deeply rooted in the depths of his heart, and he tried his best to hide it, but once a corner was lifted, it was out of control.

And stepping into this ancient city was the beginning of the tragedy four years ago.

Su Yan saw that Pei Jingxing's eyes wandered, his nose fluttered, as if his soul was flying out of the sky, he felt bad, and hurriedly blew into his palms, and wrapped Pei Jingxing's left hand in his own.

Pei Jingxing felt a burst of warmth spread from the palm of his left hand all the way up to his heart, his eyes became clear again, he looked at Su Yan with a little surprise, and then he turned his eyeballs, and he looked concerned again.

He walked frivolously to a place, and after standing still, he stared blankly at the city gate not far away, and murmured: "This is the place. Back then, I stood here and escorted them in one by one."

Pei Jingxing's memories flew back to four years ago. He remembered how difficult the group trekked all the way in the strong wind with huge gravel, his ecstasy when he saw the ancient city, and how he helped heal the injured man regardless of his mouth full of sand. His companions helped them into the ancient city one by one, and it was he who sent those people to the underworld with his own hands.

In fact, if we want to be more serious, although Pei Jingxing had some prestige among the prince's guards at that time, he was not someone who could really make a decision, and as Su Yan said, the situation at that time forced them, if they didn't hide in this weird ancient city, they would. Being swallowed by wind and sand is also death.

But ordinary people have emotions and desires in their hearts, which cannot be completely controlled by reason.It is also true that the so-called authorities are obsessed, but bystanders are clear.

Four years ago, Pei Jingxing witnessed the tragedy with his own eyes. After escaping from death, he was entangled by monsters from the Western Regions for more than three years.

At this moment, Su Yan was already aware of the danger here, he hurriedly grabbed Pei Jingxing's arm, and shouted anxiously: "Pei Jingxing, Pei Jingxing, we should go!"

"Hehe, it's useless, his inner demon has been awakened, and he can't escape anymore." In the corner where no one noticed, the old barbarian was closely watching Pei Jingxing and Su Yan's every move.His originally hunched body due to cowardice stood straight, his proud head raised high, and the kindness in his eyes was replaced by raging anger.

"It's a pity, it's a pity," the old man shook his head remorsefully, "It's because I'm getting old and I've become less courageous. If I used the Water Moon Illusion again, you would all be dead a long time ago!"

While sighing, Pei Jingxing had already followed the road back then, slowly walking towards the depths of the ancient city.Those dead colleagues seemed to appear in front of his eyes, they were standing beside him, supporting each other in twos and threes.Although they all had big and small injuries, they were pleasantly surprised to find a good place to avoid the strong wind. They all lamented that if they survived a catastrophe, there must be future blessings, and they were free to joke.

"My dear brother, hurry up and keep up, don't let your legs get weak at this time."

He seemed to see Wang Baoping standing not far away, smiling and waving at him, telling him to follow quickly.

"coming!"

He raised the corner of his mouth, shouted loudly, and trotted all the way to catch up.

Su Yan was right next to Pei Jingxing, and when he heard Pei Jingxing talking to the empty place in front of him, his heart skipped a beat, and he hurried to Pei Jingxing to stretch out his hands, and passed his hands under his armpit, trying to restrain Pei Jingxing.

"You are crazy, this is the enemy's trap!"

Pei Jingxing seemed to have never heard of Su Yan's warning, and his strength was much greater than Su Yan's. He only struggled left and right a few times before breaking free from Su Yan's restraint.

The killing intent in the old man's eyes became stronger, he raised his hands, and made a few gestures in front of his chest. There was a strong wind outside, rushing towards Pei Jingxing and Su Yan from all directions.

The direction of the wind was so chaotic, Su Yan didn't need to look carefully to know that something was wrong. He was blown almost unsteadily by the wind, so he simply hugged Pei Jingxing by the waist, gritted his teeth, and exerted all his strength to stop it.

This time, Pei Jingxing was forced to stop because of the resistance around his waist. He was not reconciled, and used his own strength to fight against Su Yan, but it was difficult to tell the winner for a while, and the two of them maintained such an unsightly relationship. posture, standing on the vent.

"What's going on?" The Hu people felt anxious when they found that Pei Jingxing was no longer moving.

Because Su Yan saw through the Water Moon Illusion previously set up on the mountain path, his vitality was severely injured, and with lingering fears in his heart, he chose another ambiguous illusion.The Misty Illusion is not as arbitrary as the Water Moon Illusion, which can produce various changes according to the thoughts of the people in the illusion, but as long as the core of the illusion is not destroyed, this illusion will never be eliminated.

Originally, he could use the hazy illusion to fight a protracted war with these people. As long as the hazy illusion is not broken, these people cannot escape.The desert lacks water, and the clean water brought by these people can only last for a day or two at most. After ten days, these people will undoubtedly die.

The core of the Misty Illusion needs him to maintain. Since he has been injured before, he cannot maintain the core for so long, so he has set up imperceptible traps in some places in this area in advance, as long as these people are lured into These traps, then they become lambs to be slaughtered.

His original plan was to use the hazy illusion to isolate these people one by one. In the strange extreme illusion, people who lost their companions were in a state of confusion, which was a good time for him to strike.But for some unknown reason, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan could actually see each other. Because of this, he decided to kill these two seemingly most dangerous and most unstable factors first.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, but the other party stopped at a step away from the trap, in desperation, the barbarian put aside his caution for the time being and approached quietly, intending to use some other means to lure them into the trap.

But just after he took a few steps forward, the situation in front of him changed instantly!

Su Yan let go of his hands, Pei Jingxing drew out the horizontal knife, with a single step, he ran towards the direction where he was hiding!

Hu Ren's eyelids twitched, and he gave up his original plan. Like a fish swimming in the sand, he turned around and backed away, using the two huge stone pillars to cover his figure.

But before he could be happy, he suddenly felt a strong wind coming from behind him, he turned around hastily, his waist twisted into an arc that humans couldn't do, and he retreated to the other side as if oiling the soles of his feet.

The person attacking from behind was Su Yan!

"Don't let him run away!"

With a roar, Pei Jingxing let go of the horizontal knife in his hand, making a fatal sound of piercing through the air, and chased after the fleeing barbarians ahead.Su Yan followed closely behind, stretched out his hand to grab the Qiankun bag, raised it, and sent out the mahogany sword in his hand, just hitting a few stones in the air.

The small stones caught up with Hengdao, and hit the Huren's back and thigh successively, and the Hengdao hit the Huren's back.The remaining strength of the horizontal knife was still there, only a scream was heard, and the barbarian staggered, and when he threw himself forward, he was firmly nailed to the ground by the horizontal knife.

"You, you didn't..." the barbarian said, spitting out two mouthfuls of blood.

"It was indeed hit at the beginning." Pei Jingxing held the horizontal knife on the barbarian's back condescendingly, and threatened, "Unlock the illusion, or I will pull out the knife."

As the Hu man was about to die, a strange smile appeared on his face: "Hehe, anyway... I'm going to die anyway, why not... let you... give me... to be buried with me..."

Pei Jingxing frowned, and was about to make a move, but heard a rush of footsteps from behind, it was Jin Yong who came!

"Pei Street Envoy? Pei Street Envoy!" When Jin Yong saw Pei Jingxing, he panicked and then was pleasantly surprised. He strode towards Pei Jingxing and hugged Pei Jingxing, "Great, I finally found you! General Zhang was injured Come on, Pei Jie quickly follow me."

Pei Jingxing only felt that something was wrong, when the golden bell around his waist suddenly rang, Su Yan subconsciously took a step forward and pushed Jin Yong away.

Jin Yong was pushed to the ground, revealing the sharp dagger in his hand.This dagger is very sharp, with a black head, obviously poisoned.

After his mask was pierced, Jin Yong's expression did not change at all, he still maintained that happy look, jumped up from the ground, and attacked Pei Jingxing!

Pei Jingxing was relentless, without looking back, he pulled out the horizontal knife from the barbarian behind him, and went towards Jin Yong!

Jin Yong had a smile on his face, but there was no mercy in his hands.Originally he suffered from the shortness of the dagger, but by relying on his weird movements that were almost incapable of human beings, he escaped from Pei Jingxing's hands again and again, and even took the opportunity to scratch two cuts on Pei Jingxing's sleeve.

Su Yan watched for a while, seemed to think of something, and suddenly joined the battle with a mahogany sword.

One to two, Jin Yong was at a disadvantage in an instant, he could only hold on hard, and could no longer take the initiative to launch an offensive.I saw that Su Yan was like a swimming fish, and under the cover of Pei Jingxing, he approached Jin Yong's back little by little.

"Break!" Su Yan yelled, and sent out the mahogany sword in his hand, stabbing directly at Jin Yong's back.

Jin Yong froze, standing on the spot, his mouth grew little by little, and finally a gear fell out of his mouth.

"It's a puppet!" Pei Jingxing immediately remembered the puppet that Li Laodao had driven in the old house in Dening Square, Xijing.With a heavy swing of the horizontal knife in his hand, Jin Yong fell from his waist to the right - it was cut in half by Pei Jingxing.

There was no blood, and no internal organs flowed out. Jin Yong's body was full of gears, large and small, which were making harsh friction sounds and slowly stopped turning.

The barbarian lying on the ground looked at everything in front of him, and a sense of death gradually appeared in his eyes.