The master said not to judge people by their appearance

Xie Yunlan: "..."

As soon as Shen Fan said this, he remembered it, and he said that the cat looked very familiar. Isn't this the same as the wooden sculpture he saw in Wei Chengzhi's room during the day?

At that time, he compared Shen Fan with the kitten in his mind, and felt that the two were very similar, but he never dreamed that his idea would be directly expressed in the dream.

No, it was because he was dreaming that he showed his inner thoughts. Not only did he look like a kitten, but even the three words "Shen Fanfan" that he secretly shouted in his heart turned into a silk scarf tied around the cat's neck.

Xie Yunlan and the white cat looked at each other, guilty and speechless.

Suddenly there was a chaotic sound outside the house, and someone shouted in panic: "Yuanrong people have attacked the city!"

Xie Yunlan's expression froze, and he didn't care about other things. He picked up the kitten and looked around him. He couldn't find a place to put it, so he stuffed it into the light armor on his chest, and then ran towards the tower. go.

Shen Fan couldn't resist. After turning into a cat, his strength also became the size of a cat, especially this cat was only a two-three-month-old milk cat with short hands and feet. It took him a while to get out of Xie Yunlan's clothes. It got out again, paws on the iron armor on Xie Yunlan's chest, and stretched out his furry head to look outside.

Xie Yunlan had already run to the top of the city tower at this moment. He saw the wolf eagle flag flying in the distance, and the Yuan Rong cavalry came from the end of the glacier riding on the snow and dust in the sky.

"Thank you, sir! The Yuanrong people have attacked, what should we do now?" A soldier shouted.

This was discussed by Xie Yunlan and Huang Yaowu during the day, and all the soldiers in the dream obeyed Xie Yunlan's orders.

"How many people do we have?" Xie Yunlan first asked about his own situation.

"About a thousand... cats..." The soldier was attracted by the fluffy cat head on Xie Yunlan's chest, and said something wrong for a moment, but he reacted immediately and corrected, "About 1000 people, the same as before, Five more people fell asleep tonight!"

The number of people entering the dream is increasing every day. It is difficult to count how many people among the common people have newly entered the dream, but in the strictly disciplined army, the statistics are very clear.

"Then according to the plan during the day, the ministries will act according to the orders, and stop the Yuanrong people from the city gate!" Xie Yunlan ordered.

"Yes!"

The soldiers on the city tower went back to the place they were in charge of guarding according to the arrangement during the day, and stood ready.

In the past month, it's not that they haven't tried to fight back against the Yuanrong people. Although Huang Yaowu didn't fall into a dream, he heard the soldiers talk about the situation in the dream, and tried to arrange countermeasures for them during the day, but the results were all failures. , Yazhou City was slaughtered again and again.

But the situation will probably change tonight, because Xie Yunlan came to the dream, no matter how strong Talgu's king master is, they are just Xie Yunlan's defeated opponents.

Everyone's morale was shaken for a while, even though their defensive strength hadn't changed much, but Xie Yunlan stood guard on the tower with them, which was enough to encourage people.

Thousands of horseshoes stepped on the ice, like thunder and thunder, and the Yuanrong iron cavalry that was getting closer and closer, like black clouds overwhelming the city, came surging with a threatening aura.But the soldiers of the Xia army were not afraid, and they did not launch any counterattack at the same time. They did not immediately draw their bows and strings as soon as they saw the Yuanrong people as usual. Their arrows were on the strings at this moment, but they were not fired.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Xie Yunlan's order.

Xie Yunlan looked at the Yuan Rong cavalry outside the city. He estimated the distance. After arriving at the same position as yesterday, the Yuan Rong forwards also set up their crossbow arrows like yesterday. .

Xie Yunlan shouted, "Squat down!"

Everyone immediately squatted down and hid behind the wall of the tower. Xie Yunlan couldn't hide enough by himself, so he pushed back the cat's head on his chest.

He looked at the scene below through the cracks in the bricks of the city wall. As he expected, this repeated dream, and the Yuanrong people attacked the city in the same way every time.

Waiting for the gap between the first round of arrow rain, he gave another order: "Let the arrows!"

The tensed bowstring was suddenly loosened, and the situation was reversed. Several Yuan Rong's forwards were shot off their horses, and the sound of arrows kept coming. pouring.

The attacking trend of the Yuanrong people was blocked, but only temporarily, those cavalrymen who were shot down fell to the ground for a moment, then stood up again, like immortal ghosts.

Xie Yunlan knew yesterday that there was nothing in these black armors, and at the same time, they were also unkillable. He is defending the city now just to delay time and find clues related to the dream owner in the dream.

He continued to direct the soldiers to attack and defend, while looking for an opportunity to ask: "Can you see the traces of the demons?"

Shen Fan said that yesterday's sleep time was too short to judge, and there should be enough time tonight.

But Xie Yunlan didn't wait for a response, he just felt something moving in the clothes on his chest. He looked down and found that Shen Fan had just been pushed back into the clothes by him and hadn't used his short claws to get out again. .

He hurriedly took the kitten out. The cat had no expression on its face, maybe it did, but Xie Yunlan couldn't see it. He only heard Shen Fan say in an unhappy voice: "If the demon is on the dreamer, then it will definitely be on the dreamer's body." It is reflected in the power of dreams."

"How do you show it?" Xie Yunlan changed his mind and said, "Is it Yuan Rong cavalry?"

The white cat nodded its head. The Yuanrong iron cavalry is a phantom transformed by the power of the dream master. From them, it can be judged whether there is a demon involved in this dream.

He broke free from Xie Yunlan's hand, stepped on Xie Yunlan's shoulder, and jumped onto Xie Yunlan's head. Looking down at the overall situation of the battlefield, he saw a Yuan Rong soldier fell down after being shot by an arrow, and the helmet covered with iron rolled off, and the inside was empty .

When Shen Fan fell into a dream last night, Talgu had already put his head back, so it was the first time Shen Fan noticed this scene, and it was also the first time he saw the scene of the armor that lost its head recovering by itself.

Xie Yunlan and the others couldn't see anything, but Shen Fan could see the silk-like black air that affected the armor's recovery.

"It's demon energy." Shen Fan said.

"It really is a demon." Xie Yunlan said in a deep voice, he took the kitten off his head and stuffed it back into the front of his chest.

This time, he thoughtfully left Shen Fan's head exposed, and asked at the same time: "Is there any way to find the dream owner?"

The dreamer is in the city, but Xie Yunlan looked back at the city, hundreds of people were fleeing in all directions, how difficult it is to find the dreamer among them, especially they have to face the constant attack of the Yuan Rong army.

"It's hard to find the other party directly." Shen Fan also said, "The dream master may not be in human form, he may transform into any form according to his own consciousness, just like..."

He looked down at his paws, and then looked up at Xie Yunlan.

Xie Yunlan hurriedly turned his gaze away, not daring to meet those faint eyes.

He coughed lightly and said, "Is there any way?"

"We still have to find clues from the way the dream is expressed. The dream will reflect the true heart of the dreamer. Even if the massacre is just to use the fear in people's hearts to enhance his own strength, some details of this dream must also represent his self. Thoughts, including his feelings of hatred, fear, and love." Shen Fan once again turned his gaze to the battlefield below, "For example, the glacier, the glacier has no meaning in increasing the fear of the people, it must reflect the dream owner's Inwardly, what does this represent?"

Xie Yunlan looked over, and saw that the glacier was huge and wide, but also cold and barren. Standing on the tower, he felt that the glacier was boundless, and the chill was so huge that it would overwhelm people.

What does Binghe represent? Xie Yunlan couldn't think of it for a while, but he thought of another thing based on Shen Fan's thinking. Why is there nothing under the armor?

The appearance of the Yuan Rong cavalry was to arouse the fear in the hearts of the people. Targu’s face would only intensify this fear. The empty armor, like the glacier, is meaningless in this dream, and it must represent the dreamer’s thoughts.

Xie Yunlan's thoughts turned, and while he was thinking, the fallen armor stood up again, and the Yuan Rong cavalry launched a new round of charge. This time, the iron armor with the shape of Talgu personally led the team. With the wolf's first sword on its back, Yiqi is unstoppable and charges forward.

Xie Yunlan didn't care to think about it anymore, he took a big bow from the soldier's hand, bent the bow and set an arrow, aimed at the dark eye hole in the Talgu iron face, he suddenly let go of the string!

Arrows whizzed out. Although Talgu was galloping fast on the royal horse, Xie Yunlan was so good at archery that he could pierce through the throat of even wild geese speeding through the air.

However, a sudden gust of wind blew across the glacier, impartially, and it deflected the arrow by a few inches. It passed against Targu's iron armor, and finally fell into the empty ice.

He misses.

Xie Yunlan was taken aback, and he murmured, "Why is this happening?"

He discovered it last time. In this dream, he seemed to be particularly unlucky.

"Because the owner of the dream doesn't want you to win." The kitten lying on his chest said, "The power of the dream owner is not only the Yuan Rong cavalry, but also affects this dream all the time. He can change some things that cannot be changed in reality. Rules are like the direction of the wind."

"Then why didn't he just kill us?" Xie Yunlan was puzzled. If the rules were changed directly, a hurricane would be blown down, saving time and effort.

"Because your consciousness will also affect the dream realm." Shen Fan said, "I told you earlier that this dream realm is composed of the consciousness of the dream master and all the people who enter the dream. The dream master constitutes the core of this dream realm. Most of them, but your power will also affect this place. Your knowledge of the rules of reality prevents him from changing the rules in his dreams at will. At present, he can only slightly increase the wind to make your arrows miss. His strength is getting stronger and stronger..."

"The greater his ability to change the rules of dreams." Xie Yunlan continued.

Shen Fan nodded.

Xie Yunlan rubbed the cat's head, and said to himself: "So we can't let him deepen the fear in the hearts of the people, we have to stop him from massacring the city."

The kitten shook his head, as if he didn't want to be touched by Xie Yunlan, but he couldn't get rid of his current strength, so he could only shake his ears dissatisfiedly after Xie Yunlan's hand was removed.

With a sound of "Boom", the tower was shaking, and the cavalry led by Talgu was already charging at the city gate, and some troops were setting up ladders, trying to climb up the city wall.

Xie Yunlan drew his sword out of its sheath, and shouted at the soldiers: "Pour oil on the fire below! Never let Yuanrong people enter the city!"

The soldiers answered in unison.

The sound of killing on the glacier was loud, and the fire oil was poured on the armor of the Yuanrong people, but they still couldn't stop their siege.

They were burning with flames, like ghosts crawling out of hell. The arrows and fire oil were gradually exhausted, and the two sides began to fight hand to hand.

The Qianxia army guarding the city is already brave enough. They stabbed their sharp blades into the chests of the Yuanrong people over and over again, but these unkillable armors were revived again and again, and their own casualties increased. Even Xie Yunlan was also covered in blood. .

There were many wounds on his body, the hilt of the sword was covered with blood, and it was almost difficult to hold it. There was only one place, the chest where the kitten was placed, which was firmly protected by him, and there was not even the slightest scar.

The flames burned all night in the heavy snow, and there were countless casualties on the tower, but they insisted on using their flesh and blood to stop the Yuanrong people from attacking the city.

Finally, the flames burned out and the sky gradually turned white.

wake up.