Pick up the Dragon

"Master!"

As soon as Qianyue supported him, the innocent copper coin fell to the ground pitifully wiping his fingers, rolled half a circle around his feet, and lay down unwillingly. up.

Severe dizziness exploded near the temples accompanied by stinging pain, and went straight across the eyes. Peng Yu felt his eyeballs were severely burned. The half-bright sky instantly faded to gray, and all the bright colors ebbed. It seemed to disappear from his field of vision, followed by boundless darkness.

He subconsciously held his breath, and the brief blindness lasted for a few seconds, and finally slowly recovered his clarity.Qian Yue's anxious look caught his eyes, he was stunned for a moment, he barely raised the corner of his lips and patted the back of her hand: "It's okay."

This situation will only occur when the fragments of the seventh unicorn horn are put back in place.

Peng Yu knew it well, but he didn't say anything, he just bent down to pick up the copper coin that fell on the ground, said goodbye to the little beggar, turned and walked towards the inn.

Qian Yue followed behind him step by step, just as the two entered the inn, Li Yi and the others came back.

Peng Yu nodded to the counterfeit shopkeeper and went straight upstairs, grabbed the teapot and poured two cups of hot tea, and asked without raising his eyelids, "It looks like you didn't miss out today?"

Li Yi took out something from his sleeve. It was thicker in one hand, slightly straighter than the horn of an ox, pitch black with fine lines, and the fracture was glued together by magic, forming a basically complete unicorn horn, with only a small point missing at the top. .

"Very good," Peng Yu took a sip of his tea, "The last one is in Huazhou, right? Let's go there after the sacrifice is over."

Li Yi didn't answer, just stared at him with complicated expressions.It was already dark, but there was no lamp in the room. He could see clearly into Peng Yu's eyes through his long eyes. Pupils, but not double pupils in the usual sense.

One of the reasons why Qiankun Eye is called Qiankun Eye is that it is divided into "dry eye" and "kun eye". When you go out, your dry eyes go out, and your night vision is normal.The double pupils rotate alternately, and usually look no different from normal people. Only at the junction of light and dark, when dry eyes are still there and Kun eyes are about to come out, can you rarely see the phenomenon of double pupils.

The root of night blindness is that Kun's eyes have not yet awakened, and the monk in Zhaoyun Temple only opened dry eyes. Since the unicorn horn gradually recovered, Kun's eyes finally regained consciousness.

But Li Yi couldn't be happy.

He would rather the Kunyan never wake up. If the Qiankun Eye does not reappear in the world, it will not be able to be made into a Qiankun mirror. In this way, Peng Yu can continue to be his idle master and live a leisurely and carefree life. This gave life.But he knew clearly that it was impossible, there were countless pairs of eyes staring behind him, they had already stepped into this swamp, and they could no longer be alone.

The only thing he can do now is to grab everything in his hands before everyone else, so that at least he still has the initiative to save that person to the maximum extent.

Just an ordinary mortal, just because the eyes of the universe are on him this time, he will suffer from this unexpected disaster for no reason, and be thrown into the absurd turbulent scramble.At least he is his half-savior, just like the man 2000 years ago, no matter who he is, he can't keep it.

He has been the Dragon King for so many years, and he has held countless winds and rains with his hands, but they can't hold the life of a mere mortal.

He looked at Peng Yu casually and ignored it, that face inexplicably overlapped with the image that had been portrayed countless times in his mind-it was obviously nothing like it, but this was the only point of detached "casual" that seemed to be drifting for 2000 years The fallen leaves of the soul returned to the roots, propped up an indomitable backbone, and occupied a corner of the new skin.

"Hey, can you stop staring at me like this, I really think you're interested in me." Peng Yu said suddenly.

The banter was almost scorching, which made him withdraw his gaze in panic.Li Yi tightly clutched the horn of the unicorn, and felt that his palms were covered with sweat.He only felt that he had never been so shaken as today, but his person seemed to be split in two, half of him was restless in the turmoil and panic, and the other half was immobilized by the responsibilities on his shoulders, he could only act like his back. Holding on to the underside of the stele to support his own hard shell, he kept moving forward with his limbs.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, opened and closed his lips, and finally said nothing, then turned around slowly, and almost fled out of the room.

I didn't see Peng Yu slightly raised the corner of his lips, evoking a half-bitter smile, which fell down heavily in an instant, turning into a silent sigh.

This morning, the whole of Anping suddenly became lively. Peng Yu was awakened by the noise. He pushed open the window and saw the people leaving the city with their families. After asking, he found out that today is the fifth day of July. Anping is the day of offering sacrifices to the river god this month.

He yawned, cleaned himself up briefly, and a group of four left the inn, following the flow of people towards Weishui.

Anping is located on the south bank of the Weishui River, and when you reach the Weishui River, you have almost left the territory of Anping.There is a ferry by the river, and the river bank has already been crowded with people. Peng Yu looked far away with his excellent daytime eyesight, and saw a group of strangely dressed people slowly walking up the ferry. Everyone had different masks. But without exception, the face was covered tightly, and the specific appearance could not be seen clearly.

Li Yi clasped his wrist, using some kind of enchanting technique, to squeeze his way out of the crowd.Several people stood by the river near the ferry, Jiu Yuan whispered in his ear, "King, these are all mortals."

Li Yi nodded, motioning him to keep quiet.

On the ferry, people who looked like "priests" faced the river and performed complicated etiquette, chanting words, making it seem like the real thing.The Dragon King raised his eyebrows in disdain, he didn't understand what the etiquette meant, but he saw those people suddenly took a step back and bowed towards the heart of the river, as if they were "please" something.

The time has come, five-leaf boats slowly come from the upper reaches, and the punters also cover their faces with masks. Each boat carries a pair of boys and girls, who seem to be less than one year old, but very well-behaved. Kneeling and sitting, not crying at all.

Li Yi frowned, only felt that the hand he was holding struggled a bit, so he had to clenched it with greater strength.Peng Yu said in a low voice: "Are these people just watching the children die like this? Are the parents of those children also in the crowd?"

As soon as the words were finished, the onlookers fell to their knees and respectfully bowed to the boat, murmuring words such as "begging for peace" and "begging for a good harvest" in their mouths.

For a while, only the four of them were left standing. The two dragons naturally had no reason to kneel down, and Young Master Peng never believed in Buddhism, religion, or pie in the sky. In an instant, he received countless glares.

He gladly accepted many angry "attention gifts", and he was not ashamed at all, but proud of it.Fortunately, eyes can't kill, otherwise this young master who is afraid of chaos in the world will be killed three thousand times, and the land of Anping will be stained with blood.

The five-leaf boat slowly passed by, at this moment, a sixth boat appeared on the upstream river, and at the same time, there was a commotion in the crowd behind, and a childish voice shouted: "Let me go! Why do you I want to catch my sister! Isn’t there already ten of them? Let my sister go!”

The sixth boat came steadily from the river, and there was only a lonely little girl on board, who looked older than the others.She stared straight at the source of the commotion with wide, bewildered eyes.

Li Yi narrowed his eyes instantly - this child is not a body, she is a normal person with a soul!

The people were all prostrate on the ground, and the source of the commotion was particularly eye-catching.Peng Yu turned his head and saw two masked people twisting a seven or eight-year-old boy from a distance. The boy seemed to be a little beggar, with disheveled hair and ragged clothes, which made him feel very familiar.

He touched a copper coin in his sleeve with his finger, and he remembered it instantly—it was the person who "followed" them in the collection that day!

No wonder this kid wants to take three buns from him, he actually has a younger sister!

Peng Yu turned his head abruptly, before he had time to communicate with Li Yi, he felt the people around him suddenly move.Bai Ying blew towards the center of the river like a gust of wind, and landed firmly on the sixth boat. He stretched out his five fingers and grabbed a stone from nowhere.

The whole process didn't take more than five seconds, and the people around - the boatman, the people and even Qian Yue didn't show any strangeness, as if they didn't see his movements at all!

Peng Yu's eyes widened, and he really didn't know what kind of supernatural power this was from the Dragon King. Li Yi nodded at him, showing an inscrutable smile, and stuffed the child into his arms.

Young Master Peng has never hugged a baby at such a big age, when suddenly a soft thing was stuffed in, he was so frightened that he almost threw it out of his hand.The little girl has a pair of big eyes very similar to her brother, staring at him in black and white, neither crying nor fussing, just quietly sucking her own fingers.

Peng Yu looked at her for a while, leaned into Li Yi's ear and asked, "You just fooled them with a stone? Can't they see it?"

"Blindfolded."

"Then why doesn't it hinder me?"

Li Yi raised one eyebrow: "I really want to, too, but unfortunately I can't stop you."

Peng Yu was puzzled.

The sixth boat had already caught up with the first five boats, and slowly passed the ferry, heading for a further direction.The boatmen chanted incomprehensible words and phrases, which coincided with the rhyme of the priest on the ferry, and gradually became some kind of strange tune.Ten boys and girls plus a stone were all thrown into the river. The priests raised their heads and shouted, and the people rejoiced.

Peng Yu felt goosebumps all over his body, and the breakfast in his stomach turned upwards.Li Yi gave Jiuyuan a wink, and the latter instantly turned into a small gray dragon the size of a loach, and plunged into the river with a "plop".

Peng Yu: "..."

The boy's hoarse cries were drowned out by the jubilation, and no one cast a sympathetic look on him. After all, compared with people's living and working in peace and prosperity, the life and death of an unknown little beggar is obviously insignificant.People pay respectful gifts to the "priests", thanking them for taking away some children who have been cumbersome since birth, and bringing them a safe, prosperous and happy life.

The sacrifice was over, and the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed. The dirty little beggar finally escaped, and rushed straight towards the rippling river. His two thin legs ran as hard as he could, as if he wanted to catch up and disappear. The boat at the end of the line of sight.

The calm surface of the water is shining brightly in the sun, and no one would know that the river has just swallowed up several innocent young lives if they had not witnessed the inhumane sacrifice with their own eyes.The little beggar finally knelt down on the ground, tears washed away two white tear stains on his dirty little face, carried away the dirty dust and mud, and fell into the river.

Peng Yu looked at him for a while, then sighed softly, and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder.