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There were four horses in total, two of which died, leaving Yun Duo and Zhou Xingping's gray horse. The gray horse was frightened and kept pawing its hooves, very restless. When Zhou Xingping went to pull it, it even raised its legs to kick it. Him, he shouted loudly.

Yun Duo was still obedient, and spontaneously ran to Amu's side, looking at him with Shui Ling's eyes, and then rubbed his head against him.Amu hugged Yun Duo and patted his head.

Those masked men stood there like sculptures, neither shooting arrows nor leaving, and the eyes outside the masks were as cold as wolves.

Zhou Xingping spat, with a look of hatred, he gritted his teeth and said, "I have confessed to my best soldiers here, and there are still some of them alive, let's just kill them."

"Don't be impulsive." Qian Sheng patted him on the shoulder, whispered, then looked at Gu Lin: "What should we do next?"

Gu Lin didn't speak, looked at those masked people, and after a while, he said, "Go into the forest."

Zhou Xingping cursed and cursed, his calm and upright attitude at the beginning seemed to have been wiped away by blood, his eyes and brows were full of anger, but he didn't refute a word, but put away the knife and counted the remaining things.

Qian Sheng laughed there, his hand was injured, and the cuffs were stained with deep red blood, as if it should be the original color of his cassock. Wrapping the wound, he asked Gu Lin, "Did you see it?"

Without saying a word, Gu Lin hugged Amu's waist and let him sit on Yun Duo, then turned himself over, this time he sat on Amu's back, holding the rein.

Amu was still a little dazed, grabbed Yun Duo's mane, and asked Qian Sheng, "What?"

Qian Sheng squinted his eyes, and the arcs at the end of his eyes looked like a smile but not a smile. He said, "Your son has seen who those green cabbage heads are."

green vegetables?

Amu thought about the dark green clothes on those people, they really looked alike.

But he didn't have the strength to laugh, he just continued to wait for Qian Sheng to speak.

Qian Sheng got on the horse, and the horse went round and round, as if he hadn't recovered from his composure, and was very uneasy.He controlled the reins and said with a smile, "Those are from the Northland."

Amu was taken aback, Beiguo?Isn't what they're going to be the Northland?

"But why did you kill us?" Amu was puzzled, and the cold feeling of the arrow brushing against his cheek was still fresh in his memory.

"I guess the emperor of the Northern Kingdom first found a lot of assassins to ambush us on this road. He would kill us the best. If he couldn't kill us, he blocked us in this dead forest." He smiled terribly, his eyes Li Deguang was as gloomy as a black bead: "He probably doesn't want us to have a smooth journey to the Northland."

Amu couldn't speak. He could understand the meaning of every word Qian Sheng said, but he didn't understand when they were linked together. He still didn't understand why he wanted to kill them.

"What about those people in black?" Amu asked again.

"Bah." Zhou Xingping spat, and he walked beside Qian Sheng leading the horse, his messy and thick eyebrows were drawn into curved lines like steel knives: "The soldiers I hid for more than half a month died just like that. "

Those are soldiers?

Amu remembered the person who pushed him down the tree but also saved his life.

But he couldn't even remember his face.

He lowered his head, listlessly and sadly said: "There is someone inside who saved my life..."

For a moment no one spoke, only the sound of the horse snorting.

Zhou Xingping wiped the blood on the knife with his clothes, the coagulated blood stuck to it, it was very difficult to wipe off one layer after another, he wiped vigorously, and said to Amu: "If you didn't find out in time If those people are on the tree and break their ambush, we might not be able to get here.” He approached Amu, looked up at him, and patted his leg with his hand: “Boy, take his It’s true to live well.”

His hands are big, and the calluses on them are thick. Amu felt as if a rock had been slapped on his leg, and the pungent fishy smell went straight to his nose, and the blood on his hands soaked through. His pants.

"Let's go, find a place to stay before dark." Qian Sheng said, kicking Zhou Xingping's back: "Come up."

Zhou Xingping stretched out his hand and waved Qian Sheng's feet away, and said loudly, "What are you going to do? Two big men riding a horse, what does it look like?"

A Mu's face turned red when he heard that, he and Gu Lin were riding together.

Qian Sheng pursed his lips and smiled, leaned forward and stroked the horse's mane: "There is no girl here, you can't ride a horse with a girl if you want to." He half stretched out his hand and said, "I know you Can you still be jealous with my sister-in-law, come up, I don’t know when I can go out, save some energy.”

Zhou Xingping hesitated for a while, then cursed in a low voice and got on the horse, sitting upright, looking very awkward.

Because they are not familiar with the road, they walk slowly and always cautiously.

The more he walked, the more strange it became, and even Amu felt a strange feeling.

There was no sound at all in the forest that was supposed to be full of vitality. The bright green trees grew crooked for some reason, with rough and crooked gray lumps from the root to the top, and dark dead leaves on the branches. The ones that are not withered, showing a crimson color that is about to die, are clinging to the branches and crumbling.

It's summer, but I don't feel hot at all, my body is chilly.

Amu looked up at the sky, but he couldn't see the sun. There were several layers of dense clouds, which couldn't penetrate the light. In the windy weather, the clouds moved very fast.

"Why is it getting dark all of a sudden?" Zhou Xingping asked Qian Sheng.

Qian Sheng has never loosened his brows since he entered the woods. His hand was stretched out in the air, and he moved it occasionally, as if feeling the direction of the wind: "A sign of heavy rain." He said, shaking his head again: "It's not like It looks like it’s going down, find a place to rest, the sun is about to go down.”

Amu has smelled a strange smell since just now. It smells very bad. It seems to be the smell of rotting corpses piled together and then burned with fire. The air is full of particles of that smell, which can be smelled from time to time. arrive.

However, the further they walked, the more ethereal the smell became, becoming a kind of sweet and greasy fragrance, light and almost melting into the air.

Amu only regarded it as the fragrance of flowers, but he didn't think there was anything wrong.

The road in front of me gradually widened, and there were fewer and fewer crooked trees with brown knots, and more leaves on the treetops. When the wind blew, they swayed, and the horseshoes were covered by the long grass lying on the ground, bringing vitality The greenness gradually increased.

Qian Sheng, who was riding in front of them, stopped suddenly and remained motionless.

Yun Duo twirled his ears, and spontaneously trotted up to stand beside the gray horse.

Amu looked at the things in front of him, but didn't speak for a long time.

It was a small lake, a small lake that seemed to be flowing with fine nectar and jade dew, a scene that only immortals could leave behind.

The water of the lake is an indescribably strange dark green. The roots of the trees on the surface of the water are covered with a thick layer of black and green moss. The roots of the trees buried in the water are like knives piercing deep into the bottom of the lake, as if they have exhausted their spirituality. This wonderful color is created by the gradual soaking of the lake water.

The extremely huge towering tree stands quietly in the middle of the lake, its roots are twisted and ancient, the scattered leaves are floating on the water, and the withered lines and veins are prominent, as if the color has been washed away by water.

All the wind stopped, Amu didn't feel anything, only the ancient cang tree standing in the middle of the lake in his eyes, the leaves on the branches suddenly slid down quietly, and fell on the lake, wiping a circle of ripples, gentle And quiet.

Even Yun Duo pricked up his ears, and stared there with pitch-black eyes motionless.

"It's so beautiful..." Amu said softly, he couldn't imagine such a beautiful scenery in such a forest where life was almost withered.He turned around in disbelief, and asked Gu Lin softly, "Is this... a dryad?"

Qian Sheng let out a chuckle, the corners of his eyes curled up, and he shook his head: "Spirits and monsters are all conjectures of the world, and there is no proof, and if it is really a tree spirit, why would it stay in such a dying forest and run away so early?" gone."

Amu blushed at Qian Sheng's words, lowered his head and stopped talking, Gu Lin reached out and stroked his head.

"The tree is big enough, so you don't have to be afraid of the rain. Go down there and spend the night." Zhou Xingping seemed to be shocked by the scenery, and he said after a while.

Qian Sheng shook his head: "Wait a minute." After finishing speaking, he got off the horse, walked to the side of the lake, and poured some of the horse blood that had been poured into the kettle.

The bright red blood smeared on the surface of the lake and melted into it little by little.

After half an hour, there was nothing unusual on the surface of the lake.Qian Sheng nodded to them: "Come here, there are no living creatures that eat meat in the lake."

They just walked over. To go to the middle of the lake, they had to step into the water. It was different from the sticky feeling in Amu's imagination. The water was very clear and cool.

The horse had been running for a long time and was already thirsty. The gray horse lowered its neck to drink when it saw the water, but Zhou Xingping pulled it up.

He looked at the lake water and clenched his teeth: "Mother, why is this water so green, can you drink it?"

Qian Sheng was already in the middle of the lake. He grabbed the soil there and looked at it. He replied, "Tie the horse to the tree, and don't eat or drink anything here."

Amu remembered that they hadn't drank water all day, so he quickly took out the water bag next to the saddle, grabbed it and shook it in his hand, but it was still full, he hurriedly gave the water bottle to Gu Lin: "My lord, drink some water. "

Gu Lin took it, moistened his mouth, and handed it to Amu.

Amu also took a sip, and the sweet water instantly calmed down the dry burning feeling in his throat.

He went to pick another big leaf, and was going to pour water on it for Yun Duo to drink.

Zhou Xingping hurriedly shouted: "What are you doing?"

Amu was taken aback. After getting along for a long time, Amu had already realized Zhou Xingping's upright and violent temper. Although he was also stable and reliable, Amu was still a little scared.

"I'll give Yun Duo some to drink."

"We don't know when we can go out, let's save some water." Zhou Xingping said.

Amu was not convinced, if it wasn't for Yun Duo, how could they have escaped so quickly.Holding the kettle for a while, he dared not pour water, because he felt sorry for Yun Duo if he didn't pour water.