"It's just a little..." Hong Jun watched the big white clouds drifting by in the sky, and replied, "You must be confused."
"Me." Mo Zhigen thought for a while and replied, "I have to find the White Deer."
"What about after you find it?" Hong Jun said.
"In the future?" Mo Zhigen murmured, leaning on his arms, squinting his eyes, enjoying the warmth of the winter sun, "Marry her as a wife, and return to Shiwei when there are no more demons in Shenzhou..."
"Being the patriarch?" Hong Jun asked.
"No." Mo Zhigen smiled, "The patriarch should be my second brother. The wolf can't be the patriarch. We will live on the grassland, hunt, herd sheep, and have many children. When spring comes, we will take them with us. , let the horse run on the prairie."
"Take them to hunt in autumn and bring the best prey to their sweethearts." Mo Zhigen said with a smile, "When the children grow up and we are old, we will watch the migratory birds fly away by the shore of Hulun Lake. Waiting for the first snow in winter. Guarding the dreams of Shiwei in winter, the dreams of the Han people, the dreams of the Semu people, and the dreams of the whole world.”
"But you haven't even seen Bai Lu's face." Hong Jun said.
"She must be a beautiful girl." Mo Zhigen replied.
"Is it like the old general and his wife?" Hong Jun asked.
"Yes." Mo Zhigen laughed.
Hong Jun: "But you have never met, what if... she is different from what you think? What if you don't love her? What if she doesn't love you?"
Mo Zhigen: "..."
People in Shiwei say that the wolf and the white deer are the two guardian gods of day and night. The young man with the power of the wolf is destined to accompany the white deer from birth. Mo Zhigen had never thought about this, and after thinking for a long time, he said sincerely: "It is absolutely impossible."
Hong Jun didn't insist, he just raised this question, and Mo Zhigen's vision for the future filled his mind.
Li Jinglong was discussing the deployment of defense with Ge Shuhan. After several battles, combined with Liu Fei's words, the invasion route of the dead ghost army finally came out.
From Yadan to Yumenguan, bypassing Dunhuang on the Shazhou, the soldiers divided into two groups, took the northern line all the way south along the Great Wall of Han Dynasty, passed through three small counties such as Wulin and Suchao, and deliberately avoided the garrison camp.
On the other side, they went south along the Qilian Mountains, looting countless small villages along the way.
In the end, the two roads met outside Liangzhou City, forming an outflanking trend, and were finally defeated by Li Jinglong and Hong Jun in one fell swoop. The rebel army of dead ghosts left the city and headed north again.
"Two people." Ge Shuhan almost couldn't believe it, shaking his head and said, "Just broke the one hundred thousand army."
"To be exact." Li Jinglong replied, "Three people, plus a fish."
Hong Jun entered and saw that Li Jinglong was discussing the map with the generals. Li Jinglong glanced at him and motioned him to come to him.
Hong Jun said, "It's only useful against monsters. It's useless against mortals."
Ge Shuhan looked at Hongjun and said: "Now that I think about it, I'm glad that I couldn't catch up with you that day. Otherwise, compared to the ghost king who died in the battle, I wouldn't be sure whether I can catch your move."
As soon as Li Jinglong heard it, he knew how much fear was in Ge Shuhan's heart. Just as the emperor and the prince had instructed, he said casually: "The exorcist is bound by the exorcist. If you ignore the safety of life and participate in the mortal battle, you will attract thunder. Forever."
Ge Shuhan's face gradually calmed down, and he asked again: "Then, is it okay to defend the country and fight against the Turkic and Uighur armies?"
"No." Li Jinglong said without thinking.
Only then did Ge Shuhan nod his head slowly, and replied: "Then, the responsibility of hunting down the dead ghost and monster Zhang Hao will fall on you."
Li Jinglong nodded, and bid farewell with Hong Jun. After coming out, Hong Jun asked: "Why don't I remember this saying?"
"You lied to him." Li Jinglong replied casually, "Liangzhou City has sent scouts to follow up."
Hong Jun's heart trembled, and he asked, "Did you find the whereabouts?"
Li Jinglong said: "There was a snowstorm in the middle, and I lost it."
An ominous premonition vaguely appeared in Hong Jun's heart, and he asked, "Blizzard?"
"En." Li Jinglong raised his mouth slightly, looked at Hongjun, and said, "Blizzard." Then he looked at the warm sunshine outside the corridor, and said: "Every time the army of dead ghosts appears, it is accompanied by extreme cold weather and Feng Xue, do you think this is a coincidence or necessity?"
Hong Jun found that he was gradually able to keep up with Li Jinglong's train of thought.
"Go and check?" Li Jinglong said, "If you can really find the real body of another big monster, it will save a lot of trouble."
Hong Jun hurried back to his room, and spread out the books that Qingxiong had given him. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can win a hundred battles. Previously, Li Jinglong suffered from the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, which caused everyone to be in such a mess. This time, he will not dare to take it lightly.
"Look at this page." Li Jinglong said.
The book is quite old, and the pages are torn to pieces, apparently it was left by Di Renjie. The front is full of little monsters, and the more you turn it back, the stronger it gets. The words framed in black pen mean "" Already crouched", and the red pen circled means "dangerous".
This book seems to be very detailed, but there are too many missing pages. The previous page on the nine-tailed celestial fox was missing, but there are still dragons, but three of them have been dealt with. Hong Jun circled them one by one as "Have Fu", and when he turned forward, he found a monster named "Xuan Nu", dragging long black long sleeves, and his face was painted black.
"There is a snow god in the northwest, who lives on the top of Qilian Mountain..." Hong Jun saw that the missing pages were not far away, and there seemed to be three pages of the dead ghost king, but they were already incomplete.
"Not as powerful as the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox." Li Jinglong said.
"But no weaknesses." Hong Jun replied, "Many monsters, even Di Renjie himself has never seen it."
"Cold." Li Jinglong replied, "We must take precautions against the cold before looking forward?"
"Plague God!" Hong Jun found the mud-like monster, but he didn't expect it to be there!
The two of them got together to read the book. It was recorded in it that the God of Plague is extremely dangerous to mortals. He can devour flesh and blood to strengthen himself and spread the plague.
"This is the disease among the old lady." Li Jinglong said, "If you don't inhale much poisonous mist, you can use cold water golden pills to cure it."
Hong Jun replied: "Ordinary doctors will match, and the old lady's condition has stabilized."
"Besides that, the God of Plague is extremely weak." Li Jinglong said, "My heart lamp is not afraid of it, and you have demon power, just use a shovel to surround it and beat it. The key is Xuannv."
Thinking of Li Jinglong's heart lamp, Hong Jun reached out to untie his clothes, but Li Jinglong didn't avoid him and let him untie, revealing the tattoo on his left chest.
"There is still mana." Hong Jun replied.
"Where did it run out so quickly?" Li Jinglong said casually, "I really feel uncomfortable, and I will come to you."
"It just doesn't look good." Hong Jun looked at it for a long time, Li Jinglong put on the clothes again, got up and said, "I'm going out to do something, you stay here and think about it."
Hong Jun: "???"
Hong Jun was not very afraid of the wind and snow monsters. After all, he possessed the fire spell of the phoenix. If what Liu Fei said was true, the God of Plague probably fled back to Yadan and joined Xuannv, planning how to take revenge. And to go to Yadan here, you have to go to Shazhou and Guazhou all the way north...
It was almost dusk outside, when he heard the sound of armor, Liu Fei came slowly, and asked Hongjun, "Where's your brother?"
Hong Jun hurriedly stood up to greet him, but Liu Fei waved his hand and said, "I'm leaving now after receiving the report from the scouts."
"I'll find Chang Shi first for you." Hong Jun quickly replied, "I can't promise..."
"Just to tell you." Liu Fei's tone was calm, he weighed the wind sword that Li Jinglong gave him back in his hand, and replied, "It's my business to fight the dead ghost army, and it must be up to me." Solve it yourself. I can't trouble you any more."
After speaking, Liu Fei turned around and left. Hong Jun was afraid that he would go on foot, but Liu Fei replied: "There are many dead horses outside the city. I will go and get one up. It is windy outside the city at night, so there is no need to send it away."
Hong Jun couldn't keep him, so he had to watch him leave through the back door of the mansion. Liu Fei just drank some wine that he didn't finish last night, and went out with the wine in one hand and the helmet in the other. Hong Jun shouted from a distance: "You well enough?"
As the sun was setting, Liu Fei waved at Hong Jun. At that time, Hong Jun was still too slow to notice the emotion of the lonely, bachelor general. When he sat back in the hall, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. I thought Liu Fei wouldn't just go back and die, right? But isn't he already dead? Is there any way to kill Liu Fei
None of his subordinates are gone, what method will Liu Fei use to go back and rule them? Do you rely on the wind sword in your hand? Hong Jun was not sure if Liu Fei could regain control, even with fifty thousand troops in hand, would he be able to defeat his immediate boss
The more Hong Jun thought about it, the more dangerous he became, and Lu Xu came again.
"Hongjun." Lu Xu said.
Hong Jun gave up a seat for Lu Xu, and patted him casually. He still liked Lu Xu very much. First, when Mo Rigen was sick, Lu Xu almost kept guard; second, Lu Xu would only say "" "Li Mingxing" and "Hong Jun" had known each other for less than ten days, and Hong Jun had already been called by his name countless times. From childhood to adulthood, even Chongming usually spoke directly and did not call him so repeatedly.
"Are you hungry?" Hong Jun asked.
Lu Xu shook his head, it looked like he had just taken a shower, and he kept digging out the water in his ears.
"Let me pick out your ears." Hong Jun said.
Lu Xu lay down and pillowed on Hong Jun's knee. Hong Jun took a stick and wrapped it in a soft cloth to clean his ears. After digging and digging, Lu Xu began to tremble, and Hong Jun was proud, and said, "It's comfortable. Qingxiong likes me to clean his ears the most."
When he was talking, he suddenly felt wet on his knees, and Lu Xu was choking up and crying!
"What's the matter?" Hong Jun asked him to sit up quickly, "Lu Xu, are you okay?"
Lu Xu stood up and left the hall, Hong Jun said: "There is another side."
Lu Xu turned his head and glanced at Hong Jun with sadness and melancholy in his eyes. Hong Jun stared at Lu Xu in a daze, wanting to ask why, but Lu Xu couldn't speak at all, and could only speak simple words when asked.
"Wait for me." Hong Jun said, "I'll go find Mo Rigen."
Lu Xu turned around and left the hall, and went back to his room along the corridor. Hong Jun quickly went out to look for Mo Rigen, in such a large general's mansion, but he couldn't find anyone, and when he looked back for Lu Xu, Lu Xu was gone.
"Lu Xu?"
"Lu Xu!"
Hong Jun wrapped his coat and came out, and asked the guard, but the guard said that the scout had left the mansion. The carp demon was soaking its feet in the corridor. Hong Jun grabbed it, stuffed it into a cloth bag, tied it in a knot, and rushed out.
"Hong Jun! What are you doing again!" the carp demon shouted.
"Lu Xu ran away! It's too bad! Hurry up and get someone to deliver a letter to Li Jinglong..."
"I'll go, I'll go."
Hong Jun didn't let the carp demon leave at all, and took it on his horse to look for Lu Xu. The carp demon jolted behind Hong Jun's back and cried out incessantly, "Please forgive me!"
In the military tent, the lights were bright, and Li Jinglong was sitting in a barracks with his upper body bare, while Mo Zhigen stood aside, watching a tattoo master give Li Jinglong a needle. At that time, tattoos were popular in the Tang army. Soldiers often had totems of generals and ranks tattooed on their backs and shoulders. First, they were protected by the totem patron saint;
The acupuncture technique is very complicated, it has been stabbed for nearly an hour, and the location is extremely small, just right on the bruise on Li Jinglong's chest.
Mo Zhigen looked at it for a long time and said, "How did you clean up in the past?"
Li Jinglong replied: "I didn't like it at the time, and I cherished my skin very much. Now that I think about it, I have scars, so it's not bad."
Mo Zhigen smiled and said, "Why do I think there are other meanings, huh?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Li Jinglong replied casually, "I don't know where Hongjun learned strange things, and it's not all taught by your nonsense."
Mo Zhigen moved the wooden pier and said, "Take me one too." Then he handed the leather deer in his hand to the tattoo master, and said, "Let's take it."
The tattoo master tattooed Li Jinglong's left chest and said, "Be careful in five days, don't get wet." Then he changed a few needles, burned them on the fire, and took out the paint. Mo Zhigen unbuttoned his robe, exposing his arms and shoulders, and asked his master to tattoo them on his arms.
Li Jinglong picked up the deer, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "Did you engrave it?"
"Lu Xu." Mo Zhigen said.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Mo Zhigen: "?"
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and said: "The 'deer' in Lu Xu's mouth is because you heard it wrong. He just never forgets his surname."
Mo Zhigen nodded, but Li Jinglong held the leather sculpture with two fingers and asked, "Then...how do you explain this stuff?"
Mo Zhigen's eyes widened in an instant, realizing that he wanted to get up, but Li Jinglong held him down and motioned him to sit down. The master just opened his head and said after the stabbing.
"I've wanted to ask a question for a long time. Is the wolf inherited by blood, or reincarnated?" Li Jinglong looked at the newly completed tattoo on his chest in front of the mirror, and casually tapped the table with his fingers.
Mo Rigen fell into deep thought, and Li Jinglong glanced at Mo Rigen, and said, "Don't mind, I don't care if it's inconvenient to answer. I promised every member of the Exorcist Division that I am willing to help Artai restore the country, and for Qiu Yongsi. Looking for his black flood dragon, I am also willing to help you find your white deer."
Mo Zhigen hurriedly said: "No, Chang Shi, everyone is like family, there is no inconvenience to say, but I... I don't know much about it."
Li Jinglong nodded and said with a smile: "Although I'm not strong enough, sometimes if I try to do something, I may not be able to help much."
Instead, Mo Rigen smiled and said, "After three days away from you, you should look at him with admiration. Hong Jun has changed you a lot, Chang Shi."
Li Jinglong's face was slightly red, and he replied: "Don't say that some of these are missing, is it blood inheritance or reincarnation?"
"Maybe it's reincarnation." Mo Zhigen said, "The elders of the clan said that this technique of transformation does not appear in every generation, and it may only be born every hundred or hundreds of years."
"Reincarnate in the designated clan?" Li Jinglong raised his brows and asked.
Mo Zhigen frowned and thought, and finally said: "It is said that they are all reincarnated in the Shiwei clan."
Li Jinglong asked: "It must be a girl?"
Mo Zhigen replied: "According to past records, they are all girls."
Li Jinglong pondered, and said: "Then when the wolf is not reincarnated and turns into a human, what form will it appear in and where will it appear?"
This is difficult for Mo Zhigen, he has never thought about this question, but Li Jinglong's speculation is well-founded: since the wolf and the white deer are reincarnated every few hundred years, and they go to reincarnate separately, then they should have a temple —Or maybe each has its own temple, and it makes sense to stay in the temple when there is nothing to do.
"Assuming that the power of the wolf and the white deer are usually on the murals when they are not reincarnated." Li Jinglong played with the stag skin carving over and over between his slender fingers, and said, "When the demon is about to come to the world, each go to find a family to reincarnate , is this okay?"
Mo Zhigen hesitated: "This...is a conjecture."
Li Jinglong said: "The power of the wolf came to your house and threw it into you, so you have magical powers."
"Yes." Mo Zhigen nodded.
Li Jinglong said again: "Suppose the power of the white deer also went to a family, but was stopped by the long-awaited monster clan."
Mo Zhigen: "..."
Li Jinglong: "I don't know if this is in line with speculation. After all, I know very little about demons and ghosts, but I have heard stories from old people about reincarnation and reincarnation when I was young..."
Mo Zhigen murmured: "If the white deer was interrupted when it was born, and then taken away..."
Mo Zhigen was shocked, and exchanged a glance with Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong said: "The old people say that if the reincarnation is interrupted halfway, and the three souls and seven souls are disordered and incomplete, it will..."
After the tattoo master finished tattooing, Mo Zhigen hurriedly pulled on his robe, paid the money and ran out. Li Jinglong chased after him and said, "Stop!"
"Liu Fei might know." Li Jinglong said, "Ask him for proof first! Let's go!"
The two hurried back home.
At this time, Hong Jun was looking for Lu Xu everywhere, and he had arrived at the gate of the city. When he asked the soldiers, Lu Xu really left the city!
Where is he going? !
Hong Jun then sent someone to find Li Jinglong and Mo Rigen and report the letter, and chased them out. It was dark and there was nothing to see, and the footprints on the ground were messy. He happened to meet another group of patrolling guards and saw a white-clothed scout walking to the northwest. Running, he has already left the suburbs of Liangzhou.
"Where did Lu Xu go?" The carp demon yelled, "It must be Mo Zhigen who didn't take responsibility for what happened to him, so he ran away—Hong Jun, my feet are so cold, hurry up if you are about to get frostbite!" Get me..."
Hong Jun rode his horse like the wind, leaped over the stream, wrapped the carp demon up a few times, and rushed out like a gust of wind.
At the same time, Li Jinglong and Mo Rigen returned to the General's Mansion and looked for Liu Fei first, but the guard told him that Liu Fei had left.
"Leaving?!" Mo Rigen said.
Li Jinglong signaled that it's okay, Liu Fei asked him to return the sword this morning, and Li Jinglong knew that he would definitely go back and take back his soldiers.
"Where's Lu Xu?" Mo Zhigen hurriedly looked for Lu Xu.
The two went to the room to look for them, but there was no one there. Mo Zhigen went out to ask, and learned that Lu Xu had also left.
"Leave?! Impossible! It's all my fault..." Mo Zhigen was about to lead the horse to find someone.
Li Jinglong said: "Don't panic, calm down!"
Mo Zhigen said while getting on the horse: "If Hong Jun is the one running, I don't believe you can calm down."
"Hong Jun didn't run away!" Li Jinglong said, "Ask him first before we talk about it!"
The two went to look for Hong Jun again, and the guard said, "Master Kong? Chase that fool, and let's go together."
"Don't panic." Mo Zhigen calmed down instead, and said, "Hong Jun is very capable. Now that he has chased him out, Lu Xu will not run too far. We just need to..."
Without saying a word, Li Jinglong rushed to the backyard, got on his horse, and left Mo Zhigen in the blink of an eye.
Mo Zhigen roared: "Wait for me!"