Chapter 266: Ji Mo Encounters a Whirlwind at Night

A horse neighed loudly, and the dusty Ji Mo realized something was wrong. He immediately turned around and jumped off the horse. The horse under him staggered and fell to the ground with a loud bang.

Ji Mo spun down in mid-air, landed on his toes, and felt heavy-hearted as he looked at the horse on the ground, gasping for breath and covered in blood and sweat.

He closed his eyes, sighed, walked forward, knelt on one knee, reached out to hold the horse's head and stroked it gently, stroking the horse's mane again and again. The horse, which was extremely tired, finally couldn't withstand the call of death. It foamed at the mouth, and after a few spasms, it stopped breathing in Ji Mo's arms.

Ever since that day when he had unexplained heart palpitations, Ji Mo has been traveling like crazy. So far, four horses have died from running. Now there is no village in front and no shop behind. The situation here is not as good as that of Shuzhou which has not been plundered yet. The surrounding areas are all deserted villages after the ravages of the Hu Di people. It is impossible to find horses even if he wants to.

Ji Mo sighed, reached out his hand and stroked the horse's wide-open eyes. When the horse closed its eyes, Ji Mo stood up, glanced far to the northeast, stepped into the night and continued to move forward.

Fortunately, this place is already Fengzhou. From the information given by Uncle Dong, the disobedient little girl should be in Pengcheng now. With his full speed, after passing Fengzhou, he can reach Pengcheng in two days. Then he will definitely teach that little girl a lesson for being disobedient!
At this moment, Ji Mo still knew the content of the message sent by Uncle Dong through carrier pigeon. He had no idea that his own news had fallen behind.

Ji Mo rode non-stop all the way out of Shu and passed Xi'an Prefecture. He was about to pass through Fengzhou and go straight to Pengcheng. He relied on his legs to walk for another day. As night fell, he felt tired. Relying on his skills and courage, he randomly found the tallest tree in the woods beside the official road, jumped up the tree, chose a straight trunk, lay down on it, and fell asleep.

Maybe due to the fatigue from the journey, Ji Mo slept very deeply. It was not until midnight when he woke up to the sound of whispered conversation coming from the woods under the tree.

"Brother, where are you from?"

"Alas, where else can we come from? The damn barbarians killed my people and robbed my home. They couldn't defeat General Shen, so they dug up the embankment of the Zhuo River. All my homes were destroyed overnight. We finally managed to escape the war but couldn't escape the flood. We had no choice but to flee from Xingyang where we were hiding, with nothing to eat or drink, and prepare to go to the south to seek refuge with relatives. What about you, brothers?"

"We? Hey, brother, don't mention Xingyang. Our Fengzhou city is right below you. Xingyang has suffered a flood, and Fengzhou... let's not talk about it."

"Hey, that's not right. Fengzhou is a city with high walls. General Shen is there right now, and the court also has support. Why do you want to flee?"

"It's hard to put it into words, it's hard to put it into words! Although Fengzhou has General Shen in charge, the city is short of food after the flood closed the city. In addition, a big incident happened in Fengzhou. It is said that a man who made great contributions to the battle of Fengzhou and was General Shen's most caring benefactor was framed by thieves and fell into the water. His life or death is still unknown. The Shen family army is searching for him along the river, and the city is conducting a strict investigation. There is a panic and chaos is about to break out. I waited until the water receded a little, and then hurriedly left the place of trouble from the south gate, for fear that the Hu dog would take the opportunity to make a comeback."

"Oh? There is such a secret? Alas, life is really not peaceful anywhere!"

"Who says it's not true? In troubled times, people are like grass and worse than dogs..."

Even though he was some distance away, Ji Mo on the tree could still clearly hear the message brought by the night wind.

As he savored the information, Ji Mo inexplicably placed his hand on his chest and squinted his eyes in thought.

Now this information is obviously inconsistent with what I know, and Shen Yue is not in Pengcheng but in Fengzhou?

And, the person who fell into the water that he cared about...

No, that wouldn’t happen. The little girl was so clever, how could she be framed and fall from the city wall into the water, with her life or death still unknown?

Not sure!
Ji Mo kept comforting himself, but he was inexplicably uneasy, his thoughts were in a mess, sometimes he thought of the little girl struggling in the flood, sometimes he comforted himself that the little girl was carrying a huge treasure, so she should have no worries about saving her life. But no matter how much he comforted himself, Ji Mo couldn't fall asleep again, he simply got up, stepped forward, and didn't care about the fatigue along the way, and he stepped on the road again in the night.

This time he was more anxious and did not care about the internal consumption. He took a deep breath and flew in the night, changing his route to the north and heading straight for Fengzhou.

They attacked at night for nearly two hours, around the hour of Yin, when suddenly, two embarrassed figures appeared on the official road ahead and ran away at full speed.

In order to hurry on his way, Ji Mo didn't care at first. Not wanting to meddle in other people's business, he just jumped up, took a deep breath, and climbed over the treetops beside the road, tapping his feet lightly, ready to avoid the people on the road and hurry on from above.

Just when he passed by two figures, Ji Mo heard the sound of wind into his ears. His body suddenly stopped and he stood at the top of the tree, listening carefully to the conversation below in the darkness.

"Brother, second brother, I, I can't run anymore, let me rest for a while, just for a while."

"Shut up, you can't rest, you can't rest. That, that's a devil. If you rest, it's over. It's over, don't you know? Fifth brother, listen and think about your eldest brother and the others. There are more than twenty of us and now there are only two of us left. If we stop, we will lose our lives. Get up quickly, while the third brother is holding that beast back, let's run, quickly."

“Brother, wuwuwu, it’s not that I don’t want to run, it’s just that I really can’t run anymore, wuwuwu…”

Ouch, ouch...

During the struggle, in the dark night, there was the sound of wolves howling, and the face of the person in front of him changed drastically.

"Oh no, Xiaowu, that beast has caught up with us. The third brother must be finished. I just want to ask you if you want to run away. If you don't want to run, then you can hold that beast back for me. I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life."

In the darkness, hearing the howling that was almost at hand, the older brother was already trembling with fear. He regretted why he was so impatient to provoke the beast and wanted to kill it for his meat. Now that things had come to this, he could only apologize to his brother in order to save his life.

The older brother pushed his younger brother away, said this and ran away.

The younger brother behind him was first stunned, then desperate. Seeing the devilish green eyes with haze flashing again, the younger brother didn't care about being tired. He got up in a panic and ran away, saying desperately, "Brother, wait for me, don't abandon me, brother, brother..."

Of course, it was too late. How could two legs outrun four legs?
Ji Mo, who was on the top of the tree, saw clearly that the younger brother behind him had not even taken a few steps before he was knocked to the ground by a figure that suddenly jumped out from the woods beside the road.

When he was about to howl again, the figure bit the man's neck fiercely, ending his life instantly.

The person running in front seemed to have noticed the movement behind him. When he could no longer hear his brother's shouting, he ran even faster and more embarrassedly. However, the figure in front of him, after biting the man to death, suddenly raised his pair of green eyes and looked straight towards where he was in the tree.

Ji Mo couldn't help but sigh, "You beast are quite perceptive!", it was very similar to the one he had come into contact with... wait!
Upon closer inspection, it actually looks somewhat like Black Whirlwind.

But that's not right. Even if the little girl took Black Whirlwind to the north, he shouldn't be here at this moment. Moreover, although Black Whirlwind's name is Black, he actually has silver-white fur. He is a white wolf with a faint silver glow. How can he be as black as the pitch-black fur he has now?