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Bald high cliff.

The only high point that can be regarded as the commanding height sixteen miles outside the city, Tang Yuan led his horse up here, and turned his head to take a look at Gubei City.Gubei City has shrunk to a small square, standing upright on the snowfield, like black spots on a piece of white cloth, both conspicuous and obtrusive.

Gubei City is Dawan's confidant, and Dawan is thinking about pulling out this unsightly nail all the time, but Gubei City is also the gateway to the Central Plains, and everyone in the Central Plains guards in front of this gate. Take another step forward.

Whether it is Zhou Fu who is eager for success, the emperor who is fighting for power, or the princess Heshuo who thinks highly of himself, Tang Yuan believes that they must be the backing of Gubei City, let alone at this point, he has to believe it.

With a movement of the rein in his hand, the horse suddenly realized something, broke away from Tang Yuan's hand, ran forward two steps in a rattling manner, and turned back to snort at him when he saw that he hadn't followed.

Tang Yuan followed the horse for a short distance, and found something strange on the snow.

It has been seven days since Yuan Xiao's accident, and there has been more than one snowfall in Gubei City. Even if there were any traces of fighting left that day, it should be buried by the snow now.But what Tang Yuan saw was not just the traces of a fight, he saw a corpse, a corpse that had been frozen to the sky.

The moment he saw the corpse, Tang Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and the blood all over his body froze as if he had fallen into an ice cave.After watching for a long time, he forced himself to hold down his trembling hand, comforting himself and said, it's impossible, it's impossible for Yuan Xiao to lie in the snow waiting to die.Trust him.He walked slowly in front of the corpse with trembling hands, squatted in front of the corpse, and looked at the person carefully.

Just now in the distance, Tang Yuan was concerned and confused. For a moment, he misunderstood and thought it was Yuan Xiao who was buried in the snow. When he got closer, he really didn't look like it. The difference was too great.This man was tall and tall, but he was kneeling, and half of him was buried by the snow, so it looked like only his head and half of his body were exposed.His armor material is also very special, not seen in the Central Plains, on the contrary, there are quite a few armors made of this material in Dawan.

No matter what, this person must be the key person of the night.That day, all of Yuan Xiao's team returned to Gubei City except Yuan Xiao, so this person must belong to the enemy.

Tang Yuan went back and took the chessboard from his horse, sprinkled the chess pieces, and made a yin-yang formation with three left and five right.This yin-yang formation has no other ability, it can gather internal force, input internal force from the yin formation, and the internal force will be converted into yang energy and come out from the yang formation, and vice versa.Tang Yuan placed the yin formation on the chessboard and the yang formation on the ground, sitting cross-legged in front of the chessboard, pressing his palm on the chessboard.The continuous internal force was immediately sucked away by the yin formation, and a gust of warm wind began to blow from the needle holes of the yang formation. As the warm wind expanded, the snow gradually began to melt.

As soon as the snow where the body had been was melted, his body was exposed.He was dressed in black armor, with a black long knife supporting his body, his left arm was missing, and the incision on his shoulder was clean and neat.Tang Yuan immediately stopped, walked to the corpse, straightened the corpse, and carefully observed the incision.

It is really clean and neat, and there is no way for inexperienced people to do it so beautifully.

After carefully inspecting the corpse, Tang Yuan confirmed that there was only one fatal injury. This should be that the man had his arm chopped off with a knife or a sword during the fight that day, and then he failed to leave in time for unknown reasons to get medical treatment. Immediately afterwards, he lost too much blood and froze to death in this icy world.

I just have a little doubt. Cutting off an arm is not considered a minor injury for Jianghu people, but it is not fatal. You only need to seal a few big holes around your body, and stop the bleeding when you are in a safe place, so as not to cause blood loss Too much to the point of being unable to act.

Tang Yuan stood up, looked around in private, took a few more steps to the distance, and picked up the missing arm of the man in black in the snow, which was also covered with black armor.He took his arm back and placed it beside the man in black. The man in black fell to the ground with a "bang" because he didn't have the support of the black sword in his hand, forming a tall man with his arm.

Tang Yuan picked up the black sword, and with one stroke, pushed away the black helmet that was tightly covering the face of the man. After the helmet came off his head, it rolled twice, and finally landed beside Tang Yuan.He picked it up and looked into the helmet, and as expected, he found a symbol of three flames.

Sure enough, it was the Dawan Army.

Tang Yuan looked at his face again, for some reason, in just seven days, it was a world of ice and snow, his body hadn't started to rot yet, but his face was so rotten that he couldn't see it anymore.The teeth were turned out, and the flesh on the face rotted out holes with yellow water as if eaten by insects. The eyes were wide open, and the eyes were already cloudy, not like humans, but like crazy beasts.

Tang Yuan frowned, and threw away the sword in his hand with disgust. He didn't know what this man had done to make himself look like this.

The footprints left by this person can still be found on the ground where the snow has melted. Tang Yuan followed the footprints all the way to the place where he picked up that person's arm.He circled around there twice, but found nothing, and was about to turn around and find another way out, when his foot suddenly slipped.

With a "flutter", a piece of snow slipped down.Tang Yuan quickly stood up, put his hands on his feet, and his inner strength came out through his body, melting a small piece of it in a short while.

It was only at this time that Tang Yuan discovered that there was actually a narrow high cliff below, and there were thick layers of ice on the two walls of the high cliff.Tang Yuanqu tapped the ice layer with one finger, and the ice layer made a crisp sound of "ding ding".He brushed the snow on the ground again, and there were traces of blood and fighting under the snow, and even Tang Yuan saw the sword pattern of the green steel sword on the ice.

Appears to have stumbled and fallen.Tang Yuan lay on the ground and looked down hard. The high cliff was so deep that he didn't know if the people who fell from here would have a way out.

Before he had time to think about it, Tang Yuan turned around and picked up the chessboard, tied it around his waist, led the horse over, took out an iron rod and nailed it firmly to the ground, and tied the horse to the iron rod with dexterous fingers. superior.

He crossed his hands and groped behind him. He took out a dagger in his left and right hands, and tore a strip of cloth from the cloak to firmly connect the dagger with his own hand.Before going down the high cliff, he walked to the side of the horse, wanted to reach out to touch the horse, saw that the daggers in his hands were retracted again, and just leaned next to the horse's ear and whispered: "Don't run around, horse!" Ah, if you run around in this cold weather, I don’t know where to find you. There is dry food in the bag, and I left some for you.”

After ordering the horse, he tied up his luggage and walked down cautiously.

This high cliff was indeed high and steep. When Tang Yuan descended the cliff, all his strength could only be placed on his hands, and there was no point of strength on his feet. If he was not careful, he would slide down.Tang Yuan looked down at the bottom of the cliff, thinking that if he fell down, he might turn into meat sauce before he found Yuan Xiao.

The moment he retracted his gaze, he saw a foothold, which was a wound made by the green steel sword.Tang Yuan pulled out the dagger in his right hand, swung it up vigorously, and with a clever trick, the dagger he used as a flying knife was stably inserted into the ice.He let go of his left hand, slapped his palm on the ice and swung himself over.With a shake of his left hand behind him, the strip of cloth connecting his left hand and the dagger moved in the wind, and the dagger was put into his sleeve along with his movements.

Tang Yuan did the same, and soon came to the foothold. He put his toes there, and followed the foothold to look up.Above the landing point, there are little white ice damages, all of which are relatively small. Only the area under Tang Yuan's feet can only allow one foot to fall.

The light on the high cliff was too dazzling, Tang Yuan closed his eyes, his slender eyelashes danced on his skin, like a Feihong who was startled when Beidi landed on the snow.

He could almost imagine the scene of the night when Yuan Xiao had an accident. After fighting to the death with the man in black, he accidentally fell off the cliff.Before falling off the cliff, Yuan Xiao might have found the weakness of that person, that's why he chopped off one of the person's arms at the last moment.After falling off the cliff, with the last of his rationality, he held the Qinggang sword across his head. The Qinggang sword kept colliding on the ice surface, causing small white scars.

Until here, the Qinggang sword finally grabbed a piece of ice, so it left this mark, but Yuan Xiao should have been injured at that time, and he would continue to fall off the cliff when he was powerless.

Tang Yuan thought about all this, and suddenly opened his eyes, the sunlight escaped from his face like a startled butterfly, he continued to lower his head, pulled out the dagger, and flung it to the next place.

Moving down the high cliff step by step, Tang Yuan saw the messy sand and gravel as soon as he landed, completely different from the sand and gravel in the other direction.Following the disturbed traces of sand and stone on the ground, Tang Yuan also found traces of blood and green steel swords.

There are five in total.

He squatted down and stroked these five marks carefully, and could even feel Yuan Xiao's strength when he carved these five marks.

"Thirty of the twelfth lunar month." Counting the days, Tang Yuan stretched out his thumb to caress the fifth mark. After a while, he stood up on his knees and continued walking forward.

Since he can still walk, it means that his life is safe.

Let's hope he doesn't go too far.

Tang Yuan even used lightness kung fu along the way, but he still felt that it was too slow. The places he passed along the way gradually widened. Seeing that the search area gradually expanded, but he still couldn't see Yuan Xiao, he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.But he didn't dare to shout in such a place, if the snow fell from above, then the two of them might lose their lives.

The ice surface on both sides gradually thinned, and the earth and rocks of the cliff and the grass growing in it could be vaguely seen, and a narrow river appeared at the foot.In the distance, there was someone leaning against the cliff to rest, with a blue long sword propped beside him.

Tang Yuan called tentatively: "Yuanxiao?"

The man turned his head, his temple hair was drooping, his body was covered with blood, and one leg was stretched out, and he replied in amazement: "Tangyuan?"