"Are you a Protestant?"

The man walked up to Xiao Jiu and the others and looked them up and down with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Sir, these people are holding an initiation ceremony. Right now... they are not considered followers of our religion."

The thin disciple standing on the wooden platform came down from the platform, walked to the man's side and gave a hesitant reminder. In exchange, he was slapped by the man known as the Holy Messenger, "That's what I said. Why are you talking too much!"

The disciple was pushed directly to the side and took a few steps back to stabilize his body. He immediately shrunk his neck, lowered his head and did not dare to say anything. He could only grit his teeth secretly with hatred.

The man circled around Xiao Jiu and the others, as if they were looking at a piece of goods. They couldn't help but feel nervous and tried to keep their expressions steady.

After a long while, the man asked condescendingly, "Do you know who I am?"

He stood in front of Xiao Jiu and others. He looked like an iron tower, tall and strong. They could only look up at him and shook their heads honestly, "I don't know."

They really don't know the man's identity.

The man didn't get angry after hearing this, and he didn't care about their crudeness and ignorance. He casually carried the knife weighing several kilograms on his shoulder, his movements were very relaxed and casual, and his rough face was full of arrogance and air.

"Have you never heard of General Tan Yi of the Red Lotus Sect? He is the three holy envoys of the leader!"

Upon hearing this name, Xiao Jiu's eyes changed.

This person...he had actually heard of it.

It is rumored that this man is a powerful general under the leader of the Red Lotus Cult. He has extraordinary military power and is highly valued by him. He commands hundreds of thousands of followers and has fought many victorious battles.

It turned out to be him...

Xiao Jiu was just thinking about why Tan Yi appeared here, when he saw Tan Yi noticed the change in Xiao Jiu's expression for a moment, his thick eyebrows slightly raised, and the corners of his mouth raised even more, "It seems you have heard of me."

Xiao Jiu came back to his senses and began to speak with compliments, "Who knows the name of General Feihu? I only regret that I have never seen him with my own eyes before, and I don't know the general today."

"Hahahaha..." Tan Yi's laughter made his eardrums tremble, and he patted Xiao Jiu on the shoulder, "You still know how to talk!"

After saying that, he glanced at the thin disciple beside him pointedly, with obvious contempt in his eyes.

For some reason, Tan Yi seemed to look down on the person in front of him. Xiao Jiu observed that, with a thought, he suddenly took the initiative and said, "General, you said that we are also Red Lotus believers now. Can we follow you from now on?"

Follow me?

Hearing this, Tan Yi frowned. What would he do with a group of children who couldn't be beaten?

"We also want to become heroes as powerful as you!"

His face was full of reverence, and he almost wrote the words "Tan Yi is his idol" written on his face. The words "great hero" really hit Tan Yi's heart.

He has lived for such a long time. In addition to being proud of his own abilities, the most important thing he values ​​​​is is the word "righteousness". He is forthright and straightforward, and he also likes others to praise him for these two things.

Immediately he felt relieved, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but raise crazily, but after all, he didn't ruin his brain because of the two kind words. He looked at Xiao Jiu and the others' thin appearance, waved his hand and said, "Come and stay in my team, even if you do

It won’t be anything, but you can wait two years and practice hard before working for me.”

"Thank you, General!"

Xiao Jiu responded quickly, thinking that this person seems to be particularly tolerant of children? Or does he think they are not worth taking care of at all?

"Hey, Lord Holy Messenger...their initiation ceremony is not over yet."

Seeing that Xiao Jiu and the others were easily decided to stay by Tan Yi, but the initiation ceremony was only halfway through, what should they do?

The disciple who presided over the initiation ceremony had to speak, but the other disciples remained silent and pretended not to exist.

"This..." Tan Yi looked at Xiao Jiu and the others hesitantly. They all lowered their heads, as if they were frightened, especially Xiao Jiu, whose hands were still trembling.

"That's all." Tan Yi frowned, pointed at the person killed by Xiao Jiu and said, "I've already killed one person, let's forget about the rest."

"Even if they are like this, they can't go to the battlefield."

In his opinion, Xiao Jiu and his weaklings would tremble if they could kill anyone, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy.

Tan Yi was very capable and was willing to show off his abilities. He didn't force Xiao Jiu's half-year-old children to do anything. They just followed him and made a living.

The disciple was stunned, as if he wanted to say something but didn't dare.

Tan Yi can talk and do whatever he wants. He is used to being lawless. This is not the first time he has known this. The man swallowed his breath and stopped caring about this matter. He jumped directly to the third item and tattooed red tattoos on several people's arms.

They made a lotus pattern and gave each person a pill, saying it was a life-saving elixir.

When Xiao Jiu went back, he threw the medicine on the table without even looking at it.

Late at night, under the old tree at the entrance of the village, the young man was holding on to the trunk and retching in pain. The sallow face in the dark night was now pale.

"Cough... cough cough..."

After vomiting the acidic water in her stomach, Xiao Jiu's throat hurt and she slowly sat down against the tree.

It was obviously not the first time he killed someone, but for some reason, he was so disgusted that he vomited this time, and he could not forget the scene when he killed someone.

"Oh, sooner or later, you will have to live through this. Please be more open-minded." Hearing the very light footsteps coming from his ears, Xiao Jiu slowly opened his eyes and looked towards the other side.

It's Niu Kai.

It was late at night, and the cold autumn wind hit him, making it chilly. He wrapped himself tightly in clothes, but it was of no use. The wind could still pass through the clothes that were like a sieve.

There is no point in doing this.

Xiao Jiu thought, and calmly withdrew his gaze, no longer thinking about why he appeared here, and did not want to pay attention to it.

The man walked over to him, huddled up and sat down.

"When my eldest child was younger than you, he dared to pick things off dead people. He was quite capable."

The man complimented with a smile. His expression couldn't be seen clearly in the dim light, but Xiao Jiu could hear the pride and pride in his words, and he said without emotion, "Yeah..."

"Killing someone... It's not common for people to die these days." The man didn't care about Xiao Jiu's coldness and continued talking.

"People are dying every day."

Don't worry, the man seemed to be saying.

He retracted his hands into his arms to keep warm, and the wind blew his withered grass-like hair even more messy. A man in his thirties has been exposed to wind, rain, and wallowing in the mud until today, and he has seen many tragic deaths.

people.

"My family used to be in the north, but now I'm here."

He has escaped disaster, been a deserter, farmed, begged, and killed people, relatives and friends. The people around him who can still be seen today may be separated tomorrow or die, but it is not him who died.

, that is, someone else died.

Too many people have died, and the living have no time to feel sorry for the death of others and must continue to fight for their own survival.

"On the way, my eldest baby also died." Niu Kai said suddenly. Xiao Jiu was stunned, but he didn't expect that the person he just mentioned would turn to this ending.

"Once he went to dig something out among the dead. He was discovered and beaten to death."

The dead are the most important, and if you are disrespectful to the dead these days, it is not an exaggeration to be beaten to death if you are caught.

He still remembered that when he found his eldest child, the little child was beaten with a bruised nose and face, and was lying dying in a pile of dead people. He was covered in blood, with several broken ribs pierced into the internal organs. After struggling for a few days, he died.

.

They have no ability to save him, and they can't bring him back.

"Then I only have one child left." The man's voice was a little low, pretending to be relaxed, "It's more difficult to live than to die. Haha... Fortunately, my mother-in-law and I gave birth to a few more children, and now there is only one single seedling left.

, but it won’t cut off the incense.”

This is the advantage of having more children. Not all of them can be kept alive, but in the end some of them will be able to survive.

The man wanted to smile, but after tugging at the corners of his mouth, the smile on his face quickly fell away.

Several children are dead and only one son is left. Who can really laugh?

"How long have you been a Christian?"

The words of comfort were too pale, Xiao Jiu chose not to say anything, nor did she ask how many children the man had given birth to. Why was there only one left? Where were the others?

That was stupid, so he asked instead.

Niu Kai fell into deep thought and thought, "It's been two years."

"It's been two years and you're still just an ordinary believer?"

Xiao Jiu dropped his hands on his knees, and the back of his hands felt cold due to the wind. It seemed that his body had not felt such a biting cold for a long time, ever since he was able to support himself.

The words are meaningless, but they sound like contempt to men, as if they are saying that they have not become an official after two years of work, and they have no future!

Niu Kai turned his head and rolled his eyes at Xiao Jiu, then silently turned his head to look at the dark void in front of him, and said, "You think it's easy to get ahead?"

"Your uncle and I are just ordinary people. If we can save our lives in a war, that's good."

"Do you know what the battlefield is like? Chi--" He made a sound in his mouth, stretched out his arms to gesture, and whispered nervously and mysteriously, "A spear longer than a human was thrust over, and a bloody hole was poked, and

The sky is full of arrows, which can smash people into sieves when they fall! Countless soldiers, swords, and war horses... are all rushing towards us."

The man recalled the scene when he first went to the battlefield. He had no place to hide even if he wanted to. If he didn't want to die himself, he could only let the enemy die.

"Isn't there still a leader who protects us?"

Xiao Jiu's throat tightened, and then she said.

Niu Kai murmured in a low voice and looked away, "The leader will bless you wherever he can. There are so many people, he doesn't care who goes there."
To be continued...