At night, the ground was still extremely hot, so much so that Ma Xiaoyu had to spread a thin blanket on the ground to feel a little more comfortable.
She and Yin Xiu leaned against the fire, drinking sip after sip of the sweet potato soju they brought back from Malaysia.
Yin Xiu threw a handful of firewood into the fire from time to time.
After drinking a bottle of wine, Ma Xiaoyu's face inevitably turned red.
"What method did you use to get Bai Fenghuang to reveal those secrets?"
Yin Xiu said curiously: "I feel that she is not the kind of person who speaks easily."
"Do you know her well?"
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him sideways, "I just didn't hit her anyway."
"Of course you didn't, you even let them go."
"Huh? Don't you still want to kill them?"
Ma Xiaoyu smiled and said: "It's not necessary, is it? There are just two girls who don't understand anything and haven't caused us any trouble. Why bother with them so much."
"Then what method did you use?" Yin Xiu was still curious.
"That's it..."
Ma Xiaoyu's face turned red again, and she finally turned the topic back to the Taoist temple in Jiaozhi.
"Tell me, is what Bai Fenghuang said true? In that Taoist temple, is the secret to becoming an immortal hidden?"
"Well..."
Yin Xiu lowered his head and thought for a while, and then answered cautiously: "Maybe it's true, or maybe it's another fantasy about Kunlun."
"Kunlun..."
Ma Xiaoyu thought about what she had experienced in Kunlun before, and felt that it was just like what Yin Xiu said, it was just a dream after drinking.
However, the jade pendant hanging between her chest was hanging inside her clothes.
Everything about Kunlun is real.
So becoming an immortal in this era does not seem to be impossible.
Or to a certain extent, Yin Xiu and she both have the chance to become immortals at a certain moment.
As long as the two of them nod, or make a request, such as: "Please let us stay in Kunlun!", the guardian priests will definitely agree to them.
Because "immortality" is the most basic reward for those who enter Kunlun, even if you stay in Kunlun, you can be separated from all cause and effect, separate yourself from the long river of time, and no longer be affected by birth, old age, illness and death. .
Although it was a pity in everyone's eyes, neither Ma Xiaoyu nor Yin Xiu regretted their decision.
Leaving Kunlun made them become ordinary people again, falling from the clouds back to the ordinary ground.
But there seems to be nothing wrong with all this.
As long as you feel satisfied, where is the blessed land and cave heaven?
But there is definitely no reason for Yin Xiu and the others to go to that Taoist temple first.
The first priority right now is to find Liu Banxian and the others.
Thinking of the paper man who was almost reduced to ashes, even a person like Yin Xiu couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
So after knowing that they were going to Jiaozhi, the two of them hurried almost non-stop. Only in the evening did they have the opportunity to sit together, drink some wine and chat.
Ma Xiaoyu gradually felt that Yin Xiu's serious side seemed to be becoming more and more obvious here.
In contrast, Yin Xiu, who was previously relaxed, cheerful, and unrestrained, seemed to be deliberately hidden and suppressed by him.
Could it be that this trip made him feel a lot of pressure?
Is it because Liu Banxian and the others are currently alive and dead, or is it because he is by his side?
No matter how he convinced himself, Ma Xiaoyu still clearly realized that the reckless and reckless adventures he had taken before gradually disappeared after Xiandu emerged from the bottom of the water.
The Immortal Capital turned into a huge shadow that shrouded everyone, and a heavy stone weighed on Yin Xiu's heart.
If you want to get everything back on track, what needs to be eradicated is not the control of the imperial court, but the Immortal Capital, because the Immortal Capital is a behemoth with a longer history than any other dynasty.
In other words, it is history itself. The recorded and unrecorded history are all related to them.
They hide somewhere, often acting as spectators, watching the changes on the chessboard.
But more often than not, at those critical moments, they will take over the chess player's position and make the winning move on the chessboard themselves.
This is the terrible thing about Xiandu.
Only by asking Xiandu to completely retreat behind the scenes can there be room for dragons to fly freely.
If Yin Xiu took this path, he was destined to become not only the great enemy of the imperial court, but also the enemy of the Central Plains orthodoxy.
Even with so many people around him, Yin Xiu will be the loneliest person in the world because he is the enemy of the world.
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoyu couldn't help but feel sorry for him and worry about him.
When Yin Xiu was looking at the fire, Ma Xiaoyu's head gently nestled on his shoulder, making Yin Xiu feel the weight on his shoulder.
"Are you sleepy?" Yin Xiu turned around.
Ma Xiaoyu didn't respond, just raised his head and closed his eyes.
Yin Xiu couldn't help but feel moved. She gently put her chin with her hand and lowered her head.
At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves, which seemed to be a horse team.
Yin Xiu looked over there and saw that the horse team did not light torches or carry other lighting objects, which meant that they were completely relying on natural light sources to find their way forward in the dark.
If a team does this at night, there is only one reason, and that is that someone has lit a light ahead to provide them with direction and coordinates.
This is - night attack!
Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu immediately separated and stood up on both sides.
The moment she stood up, Yin Xiu kicked the fire away and plunged the surrounding area into darkness.
The cavalry did not hesitate or stop, but still rushed here.
The sound of horse hooves was mixed with bursts of low moans, like wild beasts.
At the same time, the smelly wind hit Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu's faces.
It was a familiar smell, and both of them reacted instantly.
Coming towards them are zombies!
And there’s more than one!
The wind howled and a horse hit Yin Xiu.
Yin Xiu punched the horse on the head.
Just a crisp sound was heard, which spread from the horse's head to its neck, back, buttocks, and then its limbs.
The horse's tendons and bones were shattered, and all the muscles in its body were torn. It died before it could even cry out.
The cavalry followed the horse and fell on Yin Xiu together.
At that moment several horses rushed towards him abreast.
Yin Xiu rolled to his side to avoid it, and while he was rolling, another horse rushed towards him. The "cavalryman" on the horse opened his mouth at him and exhaled a breath of white air.
After another roll, Yin Xiu hooked his foot on the saddle, used the strength of his waist to get on the horse, and sat behind the cavalryman. As soon as his hand was put on the other person's shoulder, Yin Xiu pulled off a piece of rotten meat.
Feeling the movement, the zombie's head turned 180 degrees and bit Yin Xiu's neck.
"I'll beat you up!"
Yin Xiu pushed her shoulder against the zombie's jaw, and the zombie's upper and lower rows of teeth collided, causing green water to spray out.
Immediately afterwards, Yin Xiu reached out with both hands, reached out, grabbed the zombie's head, twisted it to the right, and turned the zombie's head back.
When he controlled the zombie, two zombies on the left and right rode horses and collided with Yin Xiu.
Judging from this posture, it seemed that Yin Xiu was going to beat him and his horse into meat cakes, and his bones and flesh would break apart.
At this time, Yin Xiucai saw clearly the reason why these zombies could be used as "cavalry".
Because the lower half of their bodies have been cut off and they have no legs.
Only the upper body is connected and fixed on the horse's back.
An extremely vicious and malicious design turned these zombies into terrifying and twisted monsters that could come and go as fast as the wind on their horses.
Yin Xiu stepped on the saddle, put his hands on the zombie's shoulders, and flew high.
Bang! !
Three horses and three zombies collided together.
Zombies are dead creatures, but horses are living creatures with vivid flesh and blood.
After colliding together, the horses whined, and the zombies also made a tragic sound of collision.
Yin Xiu turned over like a kite in the air and landed, kneeling with his feet, riding on the zombie's shoulders, so much pressure that the already broken bones of the horse finally broke its legs, and he knelt heavily on the ground.
Yin Xiu opened his hands, one in each hand, grabbed the heads of the other two zombies, and smashed them together.
At the same time as the muffled sound came, Yin Xiu bumped his knee, and the zombie's head, which had already rotated 180 degrees twice, twisted exaggeratedly again.
This time, Yin Xiu relied on strong strength to pull out its head.
Red, yellow, and green lights reflected in Yin Xiu's eyes. Ma Xiaoyu lit up the three-color ruler in her hand, held the talisman paper in her other hand, and was picking a zombie off the horse.
Yin Xiu only glanced over there and then dealt with the zombie in front of him again.
He had one hand in each hand, and no matter how hard the two zombies struggled, they could not touch him.
"Damn."
Yin Xiu's hands were covered with green and white dragon and tiger aura, and he squeezed hard. The heads of the two zombies made a series of noises, and cracks appeared on their heads. Finally they sunk in, and they opened their mouths to spit out black aura, and there was no movement at all.
After eliminating the three zombies, Yin Xiu jumped up again, opened his cuffs, and shot a single-molecule silk thread from his sleeves, hitting the zombie between the eyebrows.
Then he pulled it and used the force to rush towards the zombie.
When the zombies saw the "living things" coming to the door, they screamed excitedly, waved their hands up and down, opened their teeth and claws, and clawed in the air.
However, Yin Xiu didn't let the excitement last too long. He kicked out a powerful and heavy kick in the air, hitting the zombie in the heart.
The force of this kick was so great that the zombie, which was originally tightly connected to the horse beneath him, broke the iron chain and flew backwards like a rag bag, landing on the ground.
Instead of chasing the zombies, Yin Xiu seizes the horse first.
Turn the horse's head and run towards Ma Xiaoyu.
When Ma Xiaoyu saw Yin Xiu, she also went over to him and stretched out her hand.
Yin Xiu reached out and grabbed Ma Xiaoyu. Ma Xiaoyu took back the three-color ruler, got on his horse, and was sitting in front of Yin Xiu, making magic formulas with both hands.
"Those who are approaching, fighting, and fighting are all arrayed in front to punish evil!"
The golden light on her body flashed, and a huge amount of mana was mobilized as she chanted.
Those zombies had no fear at all and just drove the horses under their feet to come here.
The zombie with only half of its body left, its claws digging ravines on the ground, came quickly towards Yin Xiu.
Ma Xiaoyu could no longer see this in her eyes. She just gently stretched out her hand forward, and a golden dragon leaped out with her as the center.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
With a series of explosions, the zombies' bodies were torn apart, as if a bomb exploded inside their bodies, completely destroying them.
"Oh!"
Yin Xiu restrained the horse's neck and forced the frightened horse to stop.
Ma Xiaoyu threw a piece of talisman paper into the firewood aside. With a soft hiss, the flames burned again, illuminating the surrounding area.
Wrecks all over the place, horse carcasses, internal organs, zombie bodies, and body fluids all mixed together to emit a strange and extremely foul smell.
Even a battle-hardened butcher would probably vomit when he smells this smell.
Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu used the Dragon and Tiger Qi to protect their hearts, and each lit a Heart-Cleaning Charm, which made their faces look better.
Yin Xiuxian was not in a hurry to see the zombies, but instead pulled out a knife from a horse's bag.
He drew a spell in the air on a horse lying on the ground, gasping for breath and in pain, and then inserted the knife into the horse's heart.
The horse didn't even struggle, its pupils quickly dilated as blood flowed out.
After killing the injured and panting horses one by one to reduce their pain, Yin Xiu dropped the knife in his hand on the ground.
"You've done what's best for them."
Ma Xiaoyu said seriously: "Instead of watching them struggle in pain, with each struggle causing wounds and increasing the pain, it is better to just end them like this. This is not a good thing, but it is kind enough."
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"Don't worry."
Yin Xiu's heart was like Pinghu, "I haven't seen anything, don't worry that I will be affected so much."
Seeing him like this, Ma Xiaoyu felt relieved.
He handed over a blood-stained token that was taken from a zombie.
The four characters "Jiaozhou Inspection" are written in block letters on the token.
Looking at the clothes of these zombies, they are not wearing burial shrouds, but the clothes of "living people".
These people seemed to be soldiers before they turned into zombies, and judging from the military uniforms of these people, they were not the uniforms of the Central Plains army.
Judging from the tokens, it is obvious that these zombies belong to the officers and soldiers of Jiaozhi, and they probably all died recently, rather than being manipulated and turned into zombies after death.
Ma Xiaoyu found the familiar bite mark - two small holes - on the neck of one of the zombies.
No need to ask, other zombies must have such scars on their bodies.
A zombie bit these soldiers, causing the corpse transformation.
Later, someone used special techniques to tie these transformed soldiers to horses, turning them into monsters as fast as the wind.
And he put them into this uninhabited wilderness and told them to chase and bite strangers.
What kind of person has such disgusting, perverted ideas and then imaginatively puts them into practice?
A bad premonition emerged in Ma Xiaoyu's heart. (End of chapter)