Strange Tales from the Northern Qi Dynasty

Chapter 2 Eat Fish, Eat Fish

Liu Taozi turned and rushed towards the dense forest on the side of the road.

His legs took huge steps, his thighs under his skirt were thick and powerful, and the muscle lines were trembling constantly. He seemed to break through the wind in front of him and was swallowed by the dense forest.

The two knights roared in anger.

"krγayn!!"

The warhorse stretched out its limbs and swept past like a hurricane. The fallen leaves on the road flew up and were shattered in mid-air.

Two hurricanes broke into the dense forest.

The tall trees twisted their bodies to attack, whipping their branches and thorns at the invaders.

The armor made a series of dull sounds, but then the branch was broken, and the hurricane swept away all obstacles in front of it. No matter what they were, they were crushed and smashed in the galloping of the warhorse.

The distance between the man and the two riders was shortened in a moment.

The knight raised the iron spear in his hand high and threw it out with a roar.

The iron spear flew out with a sound of breaking through the air. Liu Taozi turned sharply, and the iron spear bit his arm, tearing open his flesh and blood. It managed to bite off the small piece of flesh, and continued to fly out, nailing it to the big tree in front. The tree began to tremble, and large pieces of leaves fell off.

Liu Taozi continued to run wildly, blood splattered everywhere and fell to the ground. He kept changing the direction of his advance and squeezed through the gaps between the big trees.

He did not look exhausted at all. He was very familiar with the place and did not even need to look forward. The direction was clear from the beginning.

The war horses stopped in front of the gaps, and the knights reined in their horses and took a detour to the side.

The dense forest began to become dense, the twisted shadows of the trees were entangled with each other, the trees became taller and taller, almost covering the sky, and the air was filled with the smell of decay and rebirth.

The two knights galloped wildly on both sides of Liu Taozi. Under their masks were a pair of crazy and bloodthirsty eyes, staring at Liu Taozi.

In the gaps between the flickering shadows of the trees, the iron man and iron horse appeared from time to time.

The warhorse on the left missed its front hoof and, unable to stop its legs, fell headfirst into the pit with the knight on its back.

The knight on the right saw his comrade on the left suddenly disappear, so he hurriedly reined in his horse, turned his horse around, and went to rescue him.

There are many pitfalls here.

The knight's horse on the left had its head tilted, several wooden thorns had lifted up its saddle armor, and a wooden thorn was sticking out of its neck. It was dead.

As for its owner, his head was twisted into a terrible angle, completely drooping on his neck. He was clearly lying in front of his warhorse, but the mask was facing his comrades.

The full body armor protected him from the wooden thorns, but he broke his neck when he fell from his horse.

The last knight also became uneasy at this moment.

Even his warhorse began to rub its hooves and make anxious snoring sounds.

The knight raised his head and looked around.

There was no trace of Liu Taozi around.

It was especially quiet in the dense forest.

He could even hear his own heavy breathing.

Suddenly, the sound of birds screaming was heard in the distance, and a large flock of birds was seen leaping into the sky.

The knight looked sharply in that direction.

The warhorse took a few steps forward, but refused to move forward any further.

There was another strange cry in the distance, a miserable sound. The knight was horrified and looked in that direction hurriedly. The ring-handled sword in his hand trembled slightly.

He didn't know how many similar pig traps there were around.

He drove his horse carefully and decided to return the same way.

There seemed to be some dark shadows flashing around.

The warhorse was restless, shaking its head, becoming more and more violent.

The knight looked at the dense forest around him, searching for traces of trampling and damage, and walked back little by little.

"Why don't you chase after?"

Someone asked from behind the knight.

The knight's hair stood on end, he roared angrily, raised his sword, turned around and started to chop.

But there was nothing behind him.

The knight's breathing became heavier and his back felt cold.

Suddenly, the knight felt his fingers were warm and wet.

He looked at his hand, which was holding the weapon, and was covered in blood.

He looked up and met eyes.

Liu Taozi's face was ferocious. He stood on the tree trunk with his head lowered, staring at the knight below him angrily and violently.

The next moment, he flew down and hung his whole body on the knight. The powerful force caused both of them to fall to the ground together.

The knight's heavy armor fixed him to the ground. Liu Taozi lay on top of him. He pressed one hand on the other's neck, raised the dagger in his right hand, and stabbed it into the other's smiling eyes.

The knight screamed and punched Liu Taozi.

Liu Taozi became furious and stabbed wildly. The dagger left several marks on the mask and made an unpleasant friction sound. As the dagger stabbed again and again, blood mixed with unknown liquids of various colors seeped out of the knight's mask.

Finally, the knight stopped moving, and Liu Taozi struggled to tear off his mask.

He was a very young boy, about the same age as Liu Taozi. Half of his face was covered with tears and blood. His right eye was full of fear, and his left eye had been poked out.

Liu Taozi slit his throat, blood spurted out, and Liu Taozi's face instantly turned red, like a bloody man. Liu Taozi picked up his ring-headed knife, stood up again, and looked at the warhorse beside him.

With the wailing of the warhorse, it dragged its heavy body and fell heavily to the ground.

Liu Taozi gritted his teeth, cut open his clothes, tied his left arm to stop the bleeding, and then staggered out of the dense forest.

On the road outside the dense forest, the warhorse lowered its head and kept pushing its master with its head.

His master lay on the ground, the harpoon erected.

When it found Liu Taozi at the edge of the dense forest, it began to breathe out angrily again and ran towards Liu Taozi.

The ring-handled sword made a sound of breaking through the air, and the warhorse's front hooves were chopped off. The warhorse fell heavily into the ravine, and the warhorse continued to spew out thick fog. In the reflection of its eyes, the cold ring-handled sword was raised high.

"Pfft~~"

The crow landed on the thorny date tree and groomed its feathers gracefully.

Under the jujube tree, Liu Taozi was struggling to take off the heavy armor. He gritted his teeth, trembling as he lifted the armor, his legs shaking.

He walked towards the dense forest step by step, and every step left a bloodstain on the ground.

This happened several times, and the sky gradually became dark.

Liu Taozi finally carried the body on his back and walked into the dense forest again.

Now it was the turn of the stripped warhorse.

Liu Taozi stepped forward several times, and no matter how hard she pushed or pulled, the warhorse did not move at all, staring at Liu Taozi in front of it with cold eyes.

Liu Taozi gave up, stood up and looked at the ring-handled sword in his hand.

The crow flapped its wings excitedly and flew away.

Liu Taozi collapsed beside the trap.

Around him were armor and fragments of human and animal remains.

He slowly closed his eyes and breathed steadily.

On one side were empty eyes, on the other was a severed horse head, both calmly staring at the murderer in front of them.

Liu Taozi got up from the mud and pushed them into the trap with great effort. The trap was already full.

The young face looked at him like that. Liu Taozi thought for a moment and stuffed the fish from the fish basket into his mouth.

He looked around vigilantly and left the place quickly.

Back on the road, Liu Taozi began to cover up the traces of blood and fighting.
Going forward from the Wild Boar Forest, you can see a stream and a simple bridge made of stones.

Liu Taozi walked into the stream and washed herself carefully, and the clear stream water became turbid.

Liu Taozi looked at the water surface and saw her reflection shaking strangely.

He did not cross the bridge, but walked west along the stream.

After walking for a long time, I finally saw a few blurry figures. As I got closer, their appearance became clearer.

"Brother Taozi!!"

Zhang Erlang hurried forward, he looked at Liu Taozi in front of him, and breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm glad you're okay, we thought..."

"Brother Taozi, how did you get out? My mother always said that if you encounter these masked knights, you must run away, otherwise you will be eaten by them."

"Brother Peach"

Everyone was chattering.

"We can't tell anyone about what happened today, otherwise those knights will catch up and eat us."

"Then if my mother asks why I came home today, what should I say?"

"Just say the fish is not clean and you dare not eat it, don't say anything about knights."

He looked at Zhang Erlang again and said, "You should stay in the village today and don't go back."

"it is good."

"Everyone go back!"

Liu Taozi waved his hand and everyone dispersed.

This path leads to their village, but Liu Taozi's house is not in that direction. He walked around it for a few times, then dragged his heavy steps towards the peach forest on the south side of the village entrance.

Through this dense peach forest, you can see the simple and lonely courtyard in the distance.

Liu Taozi walked around a few more times and finally came to the back of the courtyard.

He took a deep breath, climbed up the wall in one step, and jumped down.

He raised his head and looked forward.

A knight stood in the backyard of his house.

fully armed.

Wearing a mask on his face.

smile.

ps: Wenxuan received the throne and made many innovations. The people who moved to the six prefectures were more concise, and each person had to be a hundred men, and they had to die in battle, and then they were taken, so they were called: Baibao Xianbei. ——"Book of Sui·Volume 19"

(End of this chapter)