Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 288 The Ghost Child
"The beautiful mother has disappeared."

The little girl hadn't even opened her eyes when she blurted out those words.

Yun Ce didn't answer, he just looked at the little girl and smiled.

"My little brother who loved to nurse is also gone."

The little girl rubbed her sleepy eyes and said that Yun Ce felt her six senses were very sensitive.

"They went back. Your mother's name is Shen San Niang?"

After rubbing her eyes, the little girl seemed to have woken up. She looked at Yun Ce and said, "You're so silly. Mother is mother, and Shen San Niang is Shen San Niang. Mother only told me to tell others that I am Shen San Niang's child."

Yun Ce rubbed his nose and said, "I am indeed quite silly. What's your name?"

"My name is Huo Wudi!"

"Wow, that's a really powerful name."

"You're being silly again. What kind of girl has a name like that? It's not the 'enemy' in 'enemy,' but the 'di' in 'di flower.' Mother said that when the reeds bloom in autumn, they are pure white, just like snow covering the ground, pure and flawless."

"Oh? So your name is so beautiful. But there's no such flower as reed here in the Han Dynasty. Your mother was just kidding you."

The little girl wrinkled her nose and pondered for a moment before saying, "An old man said the same thing."

"Oh, who is that old man?"

"He's a bad guy, a bad guy who hit me on the head with a hammer!"

Do you know where he is?

"Up in that building."

How did you manage to escape from that building?

"I pretended to be dead, and they left me there."

Yun Ce glanced at the hundred-meter-high Panxing Tower through the hole in the roof, then looked at the little girl. He felt that the little girl was lying to him.

"Are you stupid again? If I fell from the roof, I would definitely die. I was thrown from a not-too-high place. There were many children's corpses below. I landed on the corpses and didn't die."

Yun Ce took out a whistle from his pocket and said to the little girl, "I'll blow the whistle, and tell me if you feel uncomfortable."

Huo Wudi looked at the whistle and shook his head, saying, "I won't listen, it gives me a headache."

Yun Ce asked, "Is it just a headache?"

"There was something else. Someone in my head told me to stab my palm with a knife. I'm not stupid, of course I didn't. Then my head started to hurt."

After saying that, he looked at Yun Ce's mouth, which was holding a whistle, and said, "I don't want to sleep."

Yun Ce took the whistle off his mouth and said, "If you're not going to sleep, what do you want to do?"

"I need to pee."

"Then go pee in the open space downstairs."

"I can't urinate."

"What?"

"You need to blow the whistle."

"Me, bragging?"

"I'll blow it!"

Yun Ce laughed upon hearing this. He handed the whistle in his hand to the little girl, and then saw the little girl run barefoot down the stairs to the back of the house, where she found a secluded spot and seemed to be urinating.

The little girl took a little longer to urinate, and considering that defecating also takes time, Yun Ce leaned against the window and watched the chestnut horse standing under the withered tree getting soaked in the rain.

Suddenly, Yun Ce heard a little girl scream coming from behind the house. He quickly went to the back window, peered down, but didn't see the little girl. He then hurried to the front window and saw the little girl riding on the back of a chestnut horse, kicking the horse's broad back with her muddy little feet, as if she wanted the horse to carry her and run faster.

Then, the chestnut horse carried the little girl into the house, shook itself, and threw her upstairs.

Yun Ce reached out and caught the little girl, laughing, "Finished peeing? Now you want to ride a horse?"

The little girl said with a smile, "The horse is beautiful."

Yun Ce found a piece of charcoal that had been burned black and started drawing on the wall. At first, the little girl was just curious, but when she was halfway through the drawing, the childlike qualities on her face almost disappeared.

After Yun Ce accurately drew Heng Ji's appearance on the wall, the little girl looked at Yun Ce and said, "Give me a pancake."

Yun Ce smiled and said, "In Chuyun City, right?"

The little girl asked, "Do you still remember me?" Yun Ce shook his head and said, "I don't remember, but when I see your eyes, they feel so familiar. Weren't you with your mother? How did you end up like this?"

The little girl wrinkled her nose again and said, "Could you help me kill a few people?"

Yun Ce said, "What, you want to order me around? Even your mother couldn't do it, do you think you can?"

The little girl lowered her head and thought for a while before saying, "I can call you Father."

Yun Ce pouted and said, "I don't want a daughter born to a woman from the Ghost Fang clan."

"You really hate the Guifang people that much?"

"Yes, it's really annoying."

"why?"

"For no reason, I just really hate it, I really hate it."

"Alright then, my mother is from Guifang, I'm leaving."

"Put your shoes on before you go."

Huo Wudi obediently put on her shoes, looked at Yun Ce as she went down the stairs, and kept looking back at Yun Ce. When she reached the front door, she looked up at Yun Ce who was standing on the second floor and said, "I'm really leaving now."

Yun Ce smiled and waved to her, while the chestnut horse poked its head out from the first-floor entrance to watch Huo Wudi leave.

Huo Wudi did not turn around. He opened the gate and walked into the dilapidated city of Chang'an in the drizzle.

After Huo Wudi left, Yun Ce turned his gaze to the Panxing Tower not far away. He was now very curious to know what kind of slaughterhouse the Panxing Tower had become.

Although there is little difference between entering the Climbing Star Tower during the day and at night for experts, Yun Ce still felt it was better to go in at night, at least to make some noise. Otherwise, what if that damned He Junnian really focused his attention on his son?
This bastard dared to harm even Huo Qubing's daughter, so harming the son of the Prince of Changsha should be no problem for him.

When it comes to his two sons, Yun Ce would rather overthink than let any doubts slip by. The only question is whether he can defeat He Junnian. Otherwise, Yun Ce would definitely make killing He Junnian his top priority. As for whether he might kill the wrong person, Yun Ce felt that exploring that question was pointless.

Tonight, Yun Ce plans to burn down the Panxing Tower.

Although there weren't many incendiary bombs left to make from the juice extracted from the bodies of those insects that could burn intensely, Yun Ce still planned to use them all tonight, one bomb per floor, which would only burn up to the eighth floor.

In Chang'an, once the rain starts, it will continue until dawn the next day. Whether it's to add a romantic atmosphere or something else, this light rain falls slower than the rainwater soaks the earth. Especially the rain in early spring, people like to call it the apricot blossom rain that wets clothes but doesn't soak the flowers.

As soon as it got dark, Yun Ce changed into his bodysuit and even shrunk his height by three inches, making him instantly more robust and even giving him a rougher voice.

Such an unbridled man naturally used a horse-chopping sword, specifically a three-pointed, double-edged one. The advantage of this type of sword is that it can injure people whether slashing, parrying, or retreating. One cannot wield this sword well without considerable strength.

There weren't many people around the Panxing Tower to begin with, so after it got completely dark, Yun Ce made his way around the dilapidated houses to the Panxing Tower.

When he arrived at the foot of the Panxing Tower, he discovered that the building was already on the verge of collapse. The once magnificent first floor was now dilapidated and looked like a ghost town. He had originally planned to break through the defenses on the first floor and climb to the second floor, but there was no one on the first floor, and no one on the second floor either.

Fortunately, the stairs looked relatively clean, so Yun Ce climbed them straight up.

The third floor was extremely spacious, with a bonfire burning inside, and seven or eight people standing around the fire warming themselves.

Yun Ce originally intended to kill these seven or eight people, but then he accidentally saw a small body scurrying along the corner of the wall towards the fourth floor, just like a mouse.

Now Yun Ce was intrigued. Without disturbing the guards on this floor, he climbed out of the broken window and used his hands to pry open the cracks in the stones outside, slowly lifting himself up to the fourth floor.

After waiting for a while, Yun Ce saw Huo Wudi arrive at the fourth floor like a mouse. Her limbs were extremely agile. Although she was crawling, her speed was not slow. Seeing that she consciously stopped and walked, and deliberately avoided some hidden guards, Yun Ce knew that she often came to this place.

Yun Ce slowly climbed up the wall using the strength of his fingers to the roof like a giant gecko. He was right above the little girl's head. When she climbed, he followed; when she stopped, he stopped too. He would simply place a Molotov cocktail at the right spot.

After the little girl climbed to the sixth floor, she stopped trying to climb higher and instead skillfully climbed to the left. Yun Ce quickly followed.

For a tall building like the Panxing Tower, having enough lights is what makes it truly luxurious. Without lights, such a building is nothing more than a useless piece of junk.

Previously, Zhang Min told me that there was no need to climb to get to this building; there was a lifting device that could send people and things to the correct floors. Now, after being ravaged by war, climbing stairs has become the only option.

The sixth floor remained dark, with only a few rooms showing a sliver of light.

Huo Wudi huddled in the corner, put the whistle in her mouth, and Yun Ce felt a series of silent waves emanating from her. The previously quiet sixth floor was suddenly filled with a dense rustling sound. Yun Ce looked in the direction of the sound, and even though he was as strong as iron, he was still terrified when he saw a large group of little children crawling out of the dark rooms on all fours.

"What's going on? Why is all the dew coming out?"

As the commotion arose, Yun Ce saw Huo Wudi slip into the group of children and deliberately change positions several times. If Yun Ce hadn't been watching closely, the little guy might have escaped.

Many veiled women rushed out of the brightly lit house. They walked quickly but acted methodically, and in no time, they returned the children who had crawled out to their rooms.

Yun Ce followed Huo Wudi from the rooftop into a room. The ceiling was very high, and Yun Ce hid on a beam and looked down. He saw the woman stacking the children like bricks in a corner, then closing the door and leaving.

Yun Ce flipped over and landed on the roof beam, patting Huo Wudi, who was still pretending to be stupid, and asked, "Where is this place?"

(End of this chapter)