Chapter 44: Life hangs by a thread
"Where are the cicadas?" Su Zhe asked anxiously.
"We don't know, we were in the car last night, and this morning it disappeared, leaving only this letter, we don't know how to read, and we don't know what is written on it." Ren's father cried and mourned, and a silk book with undried handwriting trembled in his hand.
Su Zhe took the silk book, lowered his head and glanced at it a few times, and couldn't help frowning.
It was really Diao Chan's letter, the content of the letter was very short, roughly that Diao Chan decided to sacrifice himself to save them, so he left alone and went to the outside of the valley, asking Su Zhe to take care of himself and take care of her parents on her behalf.
"Master Su, what did Hongchang say in the letter?" Father Ren asked eagerly.
Su Zhe sighed: "Cicada, she doesn't want to trouble us, so while we are not paying attention, she went out of the valley alone to find Na Lu Bu." β
"How can you do that, this stupid boy, it was so easy to escape from the fire pit, how can you jump back by yourself, this stupid child." Ren's parents were in a hurry, and tears flowed out.
Su Zhe remembered that at the end of the chat last night, Diao Chan's expression was obviously wrong, and he couldn't help but blame himself secretly, he should have beened her from doing something stupid.
Looking at the crying old couple of the Ren family, Su Zhe took another look at the book, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Don't worry, the ink of this letter has not dried yet, I think that the cicada has just left, I will go and find him back." β
After that, Su Zhe jumped out of the carriage, turned over and jumped on the war horse, and shouted: "Zhou Cang, you are here to protect everyone, wait for me to come back, Hu Che'er, follow me, let's go find the cicada." β
Before the words fell, Su Zhe rode out.
Hu Che'er didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly jumped to keep up, his feet were fast, and he didn't need to ride a horse to keep up with Su Zhe's speed.
Su Xiaoxiao watched the two of them gallop into the fog, and then suddenly remembered, and exclaimed: "Childe, such a big fog, where are you going to find her, you are not afraid that you will get lost and not be able to come back." β
Her voice echoed in the mist, but Su Zhe did not hesitate and disappeared into the vast fog.
Su Xiaoxiao was helpless, so she could only stomp her feet empty, and her brows were furrowed.
Su Zhe rode his horse into the mist, and Hu Che'er followed, one after the other, and soon moved away from the large army.
At this time, the fog was getting thicker and thicker, and it was impossible to see who was who three steps away, so Hu Che'er had to speed up his pace and follow Su Zhe for about two steps so as not to be thrown away.
"Huh~~" Su Zhe suddenly reined in the war horse, raised his eyes and looked at the fog, as if he was searching for something.
Hu Che'er stopped and said with a bitter face: "Childe, with such a big fog, how can we find that Miss Diao Chan, if we accidentally find the valley and bump into the Bingzhou cavalry, it will not be good." β
Su Zhe ignored his reminder, and suddenly closed his eyes, and actually became contemplative.
looked like this, and looked at Hu Che'er stunned for a moment, thinking that Gongzi was playing this again, didn't he come out to find someone, why did he close his eyes and doze off inexplicably.
"What is Childe doing?" Hu Che'er muttered in his mouth, touching the back of his head, looking confused.
After a while, Su Zhe's figure suddenly shook, and he suddenly raised his hand to support his forehead, his brows furrowed, as if he was in pain.
After a moment, he let out a long breath, and his frowning brow gradually loosened, looking relieved.
After taking a few breaths, Su Zhe opened his eyes, pointed to the northwest direction with the whip, and shouted: "She's over there, follow me." β
Before the words fell, Su Zhe rode out at a gallop.
Hu Che'er became more and more surprised, and hurriedly followed, seeing Su Zhe running all the way non-stop, as if the goal was extremely clear.
He couldn't help but secretly marvel at himself, and wondered: "What's the matter, it seems that Childe seems to be able to see where she is, how is this possible, such a big fog......"
The sound of horses' hooves shattered and disappeared into the depths of the fog.
On the other side of the fog, Diao Chan was like a blind man, groping around in the fog, anxious and at a loss.
Just half an hour ago, she took advantage of the dawn to leave the farewell letter, left the station alone, and went to Wanggukou along the same road as she came, wanting to surrender to Lu Bu.
At that time, it was actually foggy, but it was just a layer of mist, and I could barely see the path clearly.
Diao Chan never expected that this morning fog was getting thicker and thicker, and in less than half an hour, it was so thick that he could barely see his fingers.
The view was completely obscured, and the sable cicada deviated from its original path as it walked, lost in the valley where the forks in the road were crossed.
"How can this be, so decent, why is it suddenly foggy." Diao Chan's eyebrows were furrowed, and her beautiful face was full of anxiety.
She complained, and groped her way forward.
Suddenly, her feet stepped into the air, her body suddenly lost its center of gravity, and with a scream of "ah", she went out.
In a panic, Diao Chan suddenly saw a crooked-necked tree wipe in front of his face, and without thinking about it, he almost instinctively reached out and grabbed it.
Click~~
There was a cracking sound of the trunk cracking, and the roots of the crooked-necked tree were pulled out a few points, and they shook a few times but finally did not break.
Diao Chan's hands were tightly grasping the tree technique, but her body was already suspended in the air, she gasped for a big sigh of palpitation, looked down, and couldn't help but gasp.
At his feet, there was a deep ditch that was foggy and confused, and there was no bottom.
She couldn't help but secretly rejoice that she was fortunate to have this crooked neck tree, and she reacted quickly enough to catch it, otherwise she would have fallen into this bottomless ditch and might have fallen to pieces.
It's just that although she escaped, she was hanging in mid-air like this, her arms were weak, and she couldn't climb back, and it wouldn't take long for her strength to run out, and she couldn't fall down.
"Help, helpβ" Under the threat of life and death, Diao Chan instinctively screamed in fear.
The cries of terror echoed in the mist, echoed in the valley, but only echoes faded away.
Her strength was passing rapidly, and she felt that her arms were being pulled in sharp pain, and her ten fingers were getting looser and looser, and she couldn't hold on to them.
Diao Chan was desperate, she knew that this place was far away from the station, and it was impossible for anyone to hear her cry for help, and even if someone did, it was impossible for anyone to find out where she was in this foggy atmosphere.
She knew in her heart that she was only one step away from death.
She was certainly afraid of death, but what made her feel even more painful was that after she died, Lu Bu would kill Su Zhe, her father, and everyone in the valley in a fit of rage.
"Father, mother, Su Gongzi, it's all the cicada's fault, I originally wanted to save you, but I didn't expect to hurt you~~"
Diao Chan blamed himself in every possible way, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, and he closed his eyes with a wry smile.
The hands that were clenching the branches were finally difficult to support, but they still let go, and their soft bodies looked like they were about to fall.