If Xie Jingwen could cooperate with me and attack at the same time, both of us would be fine, and it might even be possible to severely injure the Wolf Soul. However, Xie Jingwen's first reaction was to protect his head with both hands, crouch forward, turn upside down several times, and land in the crowd.
It was not until he mixed in with the warlocks that he stood up and shouted, "Xiaoying, don't move. I will deal with the wolf demon."
I didn't even need to look to know that the wolf soul had already hidden behind me. Unless Xie Jingwen shot me through with a crossbow arrow like he did to Wang Jin, there was no way I could hurt the other party at all.
Xie Jingwen shouted anxiously: "Xiaoying, don't be afraid, it can't hurt you, protect your neck with your hands, don't move, don't look back, look at me..."
I no longer had the energy to analyze what Xie Jingwen was trying to do, and reached out to touch Lu Xiaoying's Longkou Sword. The Longkou Sword was a heavy sword, and its weight was almost the same as my Luosha. It was not only good at stabbing, but also could be used for chopping.
However, the Longkou Sword is not a Rakshasa Knife after all. Even if I force the sword to leave my hand, I am not sure that it can fly to the predetermined position. However, if I don't save myself, can I still expect Jie Jingwen to come and save me
I gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, held my breath and looked behind me quietly, when suddenly the voice of Old Lady Dong rang in my ears: "There is nothing behind you, the old wolf is over there."
After a moment of surprise, I let go of the sword and turned around to look behind me. There was nothing behind me. The wolf spirit that was hiding behind me disappeared without a trace.
When I saw the situation behind me clearly, I ran up the mountain without stopping. Xie Jingwen was obviously confused by me: "Xiaoying, what are you doing? Stop running, stop quickly..."
I turned a deaf ear to Xie Jingwen's words and just rushed forward. Before I ran far, I heard a scream from behind. When I looked back, a Mirror Master was lying on the ground with his bloody arm. The blood-stained leaves stuck to him like stickers. After just a few turns, the man was wrapped in the red and yellow leaves...
"Save people... Retreat quickly..." Xie Jingwen saw something and turned around and ran towards me. The warlock they abandoned was quickly dragged into the bushes by a black shadow. I saw the other party's feet, which had been kicking on the ground, hanging weakly to the ground, and then turned around and ran to the top of the mountain again.
I ran aimlessly for more than ten minutes before I stopped. While Xie Jingwen was away, I took out the ghost eye coin and told a fortune on the ground. Although only one of the three ghost eye coins still had a ghost, its power was still there. After I saw a rushing river through the hole in the coin, a whip suddenly sounded behind me. After the punishment of heaven hit me hard, Xie Jingwen, who was fleeing with Hengfei, also caught up from behind.
The first thing Xie Jingwen said when he saw me was, "Xiaoying, why didn't you inform us when you found danger? This time, we lost another brother. Do you know how difficult it is for Xuanjing Division to train a warlock?"
I looked at Xie Jingwen coldly: "When you found danger, did you inform me?"
"I was trying to protect you!" Xie Jingwen said angrily. "Also, you are a government official, you should know what it means to put the overall situation first. Aren't we supposed to be in the same boat now? Why didn't you notify us in advance when you found danger?"
I looked at him coldly: "I didn't notice anything, I just saw a wolf hiding in the crowd."
"You..." Xie Jingwen suppressed his anger and said, "You guys retreat and keep watch nearby. I want to talk to Xiaoying alone."
After the warlock of the Xuanjing Division retreated, Xie Jingwen walked straight over to me and stretched out his hand to hug my shoulders. I raised my hand and slapped his hand away: "Don't touch me! Get out!"
Xie Jingwen sat down next to me and said, "Xiaoying, listen to me. You know the situation was critical, and I had to run away! You've never met a wolf, have you? Wolves are cunning and timid. There is a saying in Northeast China: dogs are afraid of bending over, and wolves are afraid of holding a knife. That is to say, when wolves feel threatened by the enemy, they will not attack easily, they will only attack those who are not dangerous."
"Think about it, were you ready to draw your sword at that time? If you were prepared, the wolf demon would not attack you easily. I rolled forward, wasn't it to lure the old wolf away?"
I looked at Xie Jingwen in confusion: "Really?"
Xie Jingwen said gently: "When have I ever lied to you? You may not believe me, but I had only one thought at the time: even if I was torn to pieces by the wolf, I couldn't let it hurt my little Ying. Who knew it didn't come after me."
I lowered my head and tried to hold back my nausea, whispering, "I wronged you."
"It's okay!" Xie Jingwen said, "Who doesn't have a little temper? It's just a misunderstanding, we can talk it out. Can you tell me where our chance of survival lies?"
Xie Jingwen was already planning to find a way out, and I pretended not to know and said, "Before you came here, I had already calculated that our way out is by the river."
Xie Jingwen said happily: "I knew Xiaoying was a good sister who took the overall situation into consideration."
As Xie Jingwen was talking, he wanted to come over and hug me again. I dodged him lightly: "Someone is watching us!"
Xie Jingwen laughed and sat back down. I changed the subject and said, "But many of us will die. I'm afraid..."
Xie Jingwen said, "Xiaoying, I know you are soft-hearted, but sometimes, as the leader of a team, we have to make necessary sacrifices. Just like in a war, sometimes someone has to come to cover the rear, even if you know they will die, you have to send them to the front line. Sacrifice is for a greater victory."
Xie Jingwen said with tears in his eyes: "But their sacrifice today will be remembered and cherished by everyone forever. Xiaoying, don't hesitate any longer."
I don't know Lu Xiaoying very well, but I don't think she is the kind of person who can be cruel at a critical moment, so I had to choose to remain silent. Xie Jingwen said: "Xiaoying, to be honest, I want them to make sacrifices, not without selfish motives. Because... Because there are still many agreements between us that have not been fulfilled, I think..."
I waved my hand gently and said, "The two people standing over there are the most vicious. They should be the first to die."
"Understood!" Xie Jingwen stood up and said, "Come here, Xiaoying needs to calm down and calculate, come here to protect her. You two go to the east, you two go over there... Be alert outside, if there is any accident, give the alarm immediately..."
Xie Jingwen deliberately placed the two people I mentioned in the farthest place just to let them die.
I deliberately picked those two people, not because they really had bad omens, but because they had the highest skills. From these few encounters, I found that the warlocks of the Xuanjing Division were not strong in individual combat, but if they cooperated with each other, they could exert unimaginable combat power.
Only by continuously depleting the enemy's manpower can I wipe them out in one fell swoop.
I seemed to be calculating, but in fact I was quietly observing the situation outside. Xie Jingwen also knew that I was not calculating anything, so he deliberately stood near me to cover up for me.
The warlocks of the Mirror Division standing on the periphery had no idea that I was conspiring with their leader to send them to the underworld, and they were still carefully observing the movements nearby.
Soon, I saw the warlock I named seemed to have noticed something. He walked a few steps to the front of the bushes and used a knife to push away the weeds on the ground. A child of about six or seven years old appeared underneath.
"Be careful and alert!" As soon as the man shouted, everyone took out their weapons and coordinated with each other to get ready.
The sorcerer said in a deep voice: "Kid, what are you doing?"
The warlock clearly saw that something was wrong, but he didn't take action to capture the child right away. Instead, he followed the warlock's habit and slowly tried to get the other person to talk.
The child said in a baby voice: "Grandpa asked me to ask Dad to come home."
The man asked again: "Who is your father?"
"That's the man you tied up..." The child pointed at Hengfei with one hand, while keeping the other hand behind his back.
The sorcerer asked, "What are you hiding behind?"
"Food!" the child said cautiously, "My great grandfather gave it to me. It's delicious. Look..."
When the child stretched out his hand, there was a bloody human heart in his palm, with a gap at the tip. When the child raised his head while holding the human heart, a line of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth: "Uncle, do you want to eat it? It's delicious!"
"Die!" The sorcerer could no longer bear it and swung his knife straight at the child's head. But just as he raised the knife, the child's body suddenly rose several feet, and his forehead exceeded the sorcerer's head.
When I looked carefully, I saw that the child was riding on the neck of a wolf. It was the wolf that stood up and pushed him into the air. The warlock holding the knife might be horrified by the change in front of him, or he might not have time to react, so he stood there with the long knife in his hand. After just a few seconds, the man was pounced on the ground by the wolf, and the wolf mouth, which was breathing hot, bit the man's throat mercilessly...
"Retreat quickly!" Xie Jingwen threw down these two words, pulled me up, turned around and ran.
The sorcerers of the Xuan Jing Division, who had already prepared their positions, were all stunned. It was not until they saw Xie Jingwen running wildly that they realized they had heard correctly. They could only put away their weapons and follow Xie Jingwen into the forest.
We hadn't been running for long when we heard a rustling sound behind us—the old wolf was chasing us from behind, stepping on fallen leaves.
Not long after, a scream came from behind us. When I looked back, the other warlock I had targeted had been bitten by a wolf and dragged to the ground. He was desperately trying to push the wolf back while screaming, "Help! Commander, help!"
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