The bells sounded the signal to go home,
In the rainforest,
Figures in green clothes were walking around.
Different ages,
But most of them are young people.
A glance over,
Most of them have childish faces.
They came from all over the world, spoke their own dialects, had their own eating habits, and more than 70 years ago, they joined the army together and came to a foreign country.
For thousands of years,
The court of flowing water,
The iron-clad military spirit,
For them, it is the best testimony.
Zhou Ze walked in the first place, and tens of thousands of military souls, taking him as a beacon, all followed behind him.
If we say that Zhou Ze was just ignorant and impulsive at the beginning,
Because of the appearance of this thick fog, there was a possibility that these tens of thousands of military souls might be taken away and used inexplicably, so they stood up.
So now,
He was truly fully awake.
This mountain is still a mountain, and this tree is still a tree.
However, when people change, the mountains and trees they see will naturally become different.
Zhou Ze still held the rusty military water bottle in his left hand, and his ghost catcher certificate in his right hand. It wasn't that Zhou Ze took it out deliberately and was impatient.
It was because after he awakened tens of thousands of military souls, his ghost messenger certificate began to heat up and floated out, as if it was sensing something.
Let's look at Zhou Ze himself.
The fangs on both sides of the lips are looming.
The clothes on his body were torn a lot from the running around these days, and it seemed as if ancient runes were flowing on the exposed skin.
If Lao Dao and Lao Zhang were here and saw this scene, they would definitely be touched.
Because when facing the local god in Tongcheng, the resurrected Ying Gou directly turned the two tomb robbers who were tied in the trees into zombies.
Although Zhou Ze did not do anything to these tens of thousands of military souls, nor did he change anything,
But the two seem to have something in common.
Yingying had been following behind Zhou Ze, watching him carefully. She knew that her boss had just recovered from a serious injury and had been through so much, so she was really afraid that he would suddenly collapse.
In fact,
Zhou Ze was really a little tired.
I was so excited in the moment of emergency that I didn't feel anything.
But now,
As I woke up,
The pressure and the energy required for each step are enormous.
Fortunately, he had the experience of walking out of Naihe Bridge with Ying Gou a while ago.
Although it seemed as if a heavy burden was hanging on his back, every step he took was solid.
The white fog had completely dispersed. Before, Zhou Ze just rushed forward with his head down, not caring about anything. But because he was in the torrent, he did not expect that the momentum of tens of thousands of military souls gathered together would be so terrifying.
But after that,
All that's left is to go back step by step.
After walking for half a day,
Lawyer An and Xu Qinglang followed.
Xu Qinglang took out some food from his backpack and seemed to be preparing to offer it to him, but was grabbed by Lawyer An.
"what?"
"Send some food."
"Why don't you go get him a Kuomintang flag and let him wave it while he steps on the line?"
“… …”Xu Qinglang.
"It's okay to be hungry for two days. What I'm most afraid of now is being interrupted. If the feeling I have now is affected, it will be difficult to get it back."
Lawyer An took out two cigarettes and handed one to Xu Qinglang.
Hearing Lawyer An say this, Xu Qinglang took the cigarette, squatted down with him, and prepared to take a break.
Around them,
The military spirit is everywhere.
A few thousand people could fill up a middle school playground, let alone tens of thousands.
Blow out a smoke ring,
Lawyer An stuck the remaining cigarettes in the box on the ground and lit them.
"Brothers, let's go home. Those who pass by, take a puff. Soft Zhonghua, it's a good cigarette!"
These seven or eight cigarettes burned very quickly.
In a few seconds,
It burns directly to the filter tip.
Xu Qinglang looked at the approaching soldiers with some surprise.
“There are female soldiers here?”
"Nonsense, is it weird to have female soldiers in the army?"
“Not surprising.”
Xu Qinglang shook off the cigarette ash.
Lawyer An rubbed his hands, looked at the row of female soldiers walking past him, and said slowly:
“When we entered Savage Mountain, there seemed to be more than 300 female soldiers coming in together, but it seems that only one female soldier walked out alive.”
Xu Qinglang was silent for a while and sighed.
immediately,
As if he felt that this atmosphere was not good, he looked at Lawyer An beside him and said, "Is this matter considered a success?"
"It will be considered a success only after we send the soldiers home. At least we have to cross the border or the Nujiang River first."
"I always feel it's a bit strange." Xu Qinglang said.
"What's strange about that?"
"The appearance of this fog is a bit strange, it's just a coincidence."
This is not a Hollywood blockbuster. In order to show various conflicts and contradictions within two hours, many "coincidences" are deliberately created. This is reality.
But in this reality, leaving aside the two unknown identities of Ying Gou and Lord of Mount Tai, Zhou Ze is just a ghost messenger.
"Hey, who knows."
Saying,
Lawyer An stood up and patted Xu Qinglang on the shoulder.
"Let's go, the boss has gone far away."
… …
Zhou Ze has never been a sports or fitness enthusiast. He is very lazy and is disgusted by anything that requires movement.
But this rainforest hike,
He walked for two whole days and two nights.
Not only did I not sleep or rest,
Even the steps under my feet have not stopped.
Although I'm not running, the frequency of walking has never decreased.
At first I was tired, at first I was hungry, at first I was thirsty,
But slowly,
As time goes by,
Any senses are wrapped in numbness.
You can't feel it at all.
Just treat yourself like a machine on an assembly line.
go ahead,
go ahead,
Move forward again.
It's not that I don't want to stop and rest,
Instead, Zhou Ze could clearly sense the eagerness and desire of the tens of thousands of soldiers behind him to return home.
Although none of them urged Zhou Ze,
But tens of thousands of people are following you,
You can feel tens of thousands of eyes on you.
You will have a feeling,
At this time, even if you stop and delay for one more second,
It is a crime and blasphemy.
It’s not bitter, at least I’m willing to do it in my heart.
finally,
The Nu River is right in front of us.
Because it is winter, the water level of Nujiang River is not very high unlike in summer. Except for a short period of time in the morning and evening, there are no particularly big waves. But even so, it is still an insurmountable natural chasm that stands here.
More than seventy years ago, on both sides of this river, the Chinese and Japanese troops engaged in a very bloody battle, and the entire river was dyed red with blood.
"Boss, can I go find a raft?" Yingying asked.
The nearest bridge was still very far away. Because of Lawyer An's strange way of leading the way, Zhou Ze naturally did not take the tourist route when he walked back, and there was no possibility that there was a bridge waiting for him ahead.
If it were in the past, she wouldn't worry about her boss not being able to swim across, but now, she was really worried about something unexpected happening.
Zhou Ze pursed his cracked lips.
No sound,
Keep walking forward.
Ahead,
It's a cliff.
"boss!"
Yingying was shocked when she saw Zhou Ze stepping down, and immediately reached out to hug her boss. She would rather hold her boss herself and have her as a cushion before falling down!
However,
When Yingying's hand just grabbed the boss's shirt,
But he found that his boss's feet were standing upright on the cliff.
Keep walking.
Going down.
Yingying didn't dare to exert any strength and let go of her hand.
I looked down.
Forehead,
The female zombie felt that her brain was not enough.
The cliffs were dangerous, but Zhou Ze walked on them as if they were on flat ground.
Beside him,
Tens of thousands of military souls followed closely behind.
Someone was singing a military song.
Some people are singing the tunes of their hometown.
Xintianyou, Huangmei Opera,
It's messy but seems very lively.
In Zhou Ze's sight, sometimes there was a cheerful team, and sometimes there was the desolate Nujiang Gorge.
Yingying found a place that was not particularly steep to slide down. Not long after she came down, she saw her boss walking down the cliff steadily step by step.
Then he continued to walk step by step into the river,
It wasn't as exaggerated as the river being blocked to allow Zhou Ze to lead his men across.
Yingying saw her boss was quickly submerged in the river water.
The military souls around him also walked into the Nujiang River.
Yingying felt that she was worried sick. The boss was in a daze, like a naughty child who liked to kick the quilt when sleeping. She immediately dived into the water, but saw that the boss's feet were on the sand and rocks at the bottom of the river.
Step by step,
Still the same pace,
It is still the original frequency.
The debris and aquatic plants below were unable to stop their boss in the slightest.
Tens of thousands of soldiers sank into the Nujiang River.
The originally calm Nujiang River suddenly became turbulent, as if it was suddenly injected with vitality and suddenly began to surge!
"puff!"
Zhou Ze's head emerged from the water.
Next,
It is the body below,
The river water completely soaked his clothes, making the runes on his upper body more obvious. At this moment, he looked like an ascetic or a person who had attained enlightenment.
From the forest,
Coming up from the cliff,
From the bottom of the water.
At this moment,
In the clouds above,
Suddenly there was a suppressed roar!
Like a heavy drum,
Yingying's face trembled with a very clear look of fear.
Ordinary people may not think anything of it when encountering thunderstorms, but for some beings that are not tolerated by heaven, thunderstorms are like the gates of hell!
Zhou Ze also raised his head.
Looking silently into the sky,
Open your mouth.
Baring his fangs,
"roar!"
This is a provocation.
As if to say,
Come on,
You're gonna kill me.
Come on!
If you have the guts, chop me to death.
Chop!
Tens of thousands of dead souls gathered together, and their aura attracted strange phenomena in heaven and earth, which naturally attracted the attention of the sky.
However,
Following Zhou Ze's roar,
The tens of thousands of military souls around and behind him also raised their heads.
Roaring and roaring at the sky!
Home is right before my eyes.
After crossing the river, I went home.
Whoever dares to stop me will be my enemy!
Countless shouts and roars made the Nujiang area full of ghosts howling and wolves howling, and cold winds raged!
Zhou Ze was a point, and the tens of thousands of military souls around him formed a surface for him.
The dark clouds in the direction became thicker and thicker, and in the face of the pressure from the sky, they did not retreat but advanced!
“Buzz!!!!”
There seemed to be thunder brewing in the sky.
The heaven and earth have their own rules, which cannot be violated. Otherwise, the tentacles of the underworld would have completely covered the entire world of the living.
And the tens of thousands of military souls below were led by Zhou Ze and did not give in at all, confronting each other head-on!
I would rather let the lightning turn me into ashes,
No longer a lonely ghost!
“Buzz!”
“Buzz!”
"Buzz..."
at the same time,
The boundary markers on the nearby border line began to tremble together at this time. Several of the boundary markers were next to the checkpoints, which even caused surprise among the border guards stationed there.
The statues and tombstones in the nearby Martyrs' Cemetery on Songshan Mountain also trembled.
One after another, human figures appeared in the distant valley, among them was the old man Sun who had just died.
It was as if a breath of air was swept into the air.
Thunder,
Slowly dissipating,
The oppressive air,
It seems to have been resolved.
Yingying breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, she really felt that she would be struck to death by lightning in the next second.
Zhou Ze raised his hands.
Keep going.
Until,
His feet,
Finally I reached the shore,
then,
His whole body trembled.
Kneeled directly on the ground,
Blood was oozing out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and his entire face turned frighteningly pale.
My chest heaved.
Zhou Ze opened his mouth.
“Back…back home!”
“Plop!”
Zhou Ze leaned forward.
He fell heavily to the ground.
"boss!"
Yingying was very anxious. She didn't want her boss to sacrifice himself for doing a good deed. However, just as she was about to rush forward, she stopped.
The boss's ghost messenger certificate floated out.
It was suspended above Zhou Ze's lying body.
Continuously emitting a soft light.
The military souls that followed Zhou Ze all the way lined up in an orderly formation.
They walked past Zhou Ze one by one.
He saluted Zhou Zejing who was lying on the ground.
It's him.
Brought them out.
Ending their seventy years of loneliness and desolation,
Although "one inch of land is stained with blood, one hundred thousand young men are one hundred thousand soldiers",
However, there is also: Birds fly back to their hometown, and foxes die on the hill where they were born.
As more and more military souls passed by Zhou Ze,
The ghost messenger certificate is undergoing a subtle change.
After these military souls passed by Zhou Ze,
Or go in groups of three or two to find fellow countrymen,
Or find your own comrades and your own team,
Some walk alone.
Laughing and joking.
On the cliff on the other side of the Nujiang River,
Lawyer An bit his fingernails hard, and it was obvious that he was very nervous.
"What's wrong? Didn't we cross the river?" Xu Qinglang asked.
"No, if tens of thousands of military souls were to disperse, do you know what the consequences would be?"
It is equivalent to tens of thousands of evil spirits, whistling out, and even if you try to catch them, you can’t catch them!
Not to mention tens of thousands, even if there were thousands, it would definitely be an irreparable disaster!
"I say, you prepared so much before, why did you only think of this now?" Xu Qinglang paused, "Also, I don't think it's necessary."
On this side of the Nujiang River where Zhou Ze is,
Tens of thousands of soldiers crossed the river one after another.
They stood densely on this side of the river bank.
Thousands of troops and ghosts are passing through the border!
A figure squatted down beside Zhou Ze.
It’s a pity that Zhou Ze is unconscious, otherwise he would be able to tell that this is the “captain” who possessed him.
The leader took a look at Zhou Ze's condition and saw that his life was not in danger, so he stood up.
Shouted:
“Home!”
Tens of thousands of soldiers cheered together:
“Home!”
“Home!”
“Home!”
In this cheer,
Tens of thousands of military souls,
Collective dissipation,
No one will continue to stay in the world of the living to cause chaos!