Chapter 661
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The most common scene the two saw.
was at the entrances of some courtyards, where women, children, the elderly and the weak were seeing off the men in their families who were putting on armor.
And as Xu Taiping walked on the street, he could often see some fishermen who didn’t even put on their armor neatly, holding a fish fork and a shield made of a pot lid and walking towards the city tower.
What made Xu Taiping especially emotional was that although these people’s armor and weapons were simple, their eyes were shining and their bodies were straight when they walked, without the slightest fear.
If it was one or two, that would be fine. After all, in such a big city, there would always be a few brave people.
But the problem was that almost every fisherman who passed by Xu Taiping and rushed to the battlefield had such eyes and such expressions.
In Xu Taiping’s mind, the words that people in other places ridiculed the people of Tianhai Town suddenly emerged – “The barbarians who don’t know life and death.”
“Sister, after we take Big Brother Xu to find that thing, I also want to go to the Red Armor Battalion！”
After coming out of another spice shop, Ahu suddenly turned his head and looked at his sister Azhu with very firm eyes.
“Don’t be in a hurry. You can go after your sister dies.”
Azhe, who was keeping an eye on the shops on the street on the west side, said without looking back.
“Sister… don’t always talk about death…”
Ahu pouted, with reluctance all over his face.
Xu Taiping on the side, although he really wanted to comfort the siblings, but the words still came back to his mouth.
“If we can’t find the general’s life-long thing, not only these two siblings, but also all the people in the city will die, including me.”
He muttered in his heart.
“Father, at your age, don’t join in the fun. Just let your son go alone！”
At this time, the quarrel between a father and son on the street attracted the attention of Xu Taiping and the others.
I saw a man in his thirties trying his best to stop an old man with gray hair and wearing an old armor from walking forward.
“Join in the fun？ Your father is going to slay demons！”
Although the old man’s back was a little hunched, his voice was extremely loud.
“Father, that’s what us young people should do. You can just wait at home.”
The man said anxiously.
“Do you think your father is blind or deaf？ Your father also stayed in the Red Armor Battalion when he was young. The battle last night, I haven’t seen it in my whole life！”
”Three thousand Red Armor Cavalry, only eight hundred are left, eight hundred.”
”Those are not ordinary demons at all. With just the few people in the Red Armor Battalion, it’s simply not enough. To protect Tianhai Pass, it can only be filled with human lives.”
”Still talking about staying at home, staying at home. The home is about to be gone. What’s the use of me staying at home？”
”What are you standing there for？ Let’s go together！”
The old man’s voice, like thunder, rang out on this quiet street.
In the end, the middle-aged man who couldn’t resist had to accompany the old man and walk towards the direction of the Red Armor Battalion together.
Looking at the backs of the father and son walking side by side in the distance, Xu Taiping felt that this scene was even crueler than the tragic battle last night for no reason.
”Azhu, Ahu, it’s still too slow for us to search like this.”
Xu Taiping turned his head to look at Azhu and Ahu who were still in a daze.
”Brother Xu, do you have any good ideas？”
Azhu frowned and looked at Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping didn’t waste any words. He directly separated a clone and then arranged in the midst of the two people’s dumbfounded expressions：
”You and your younger brother, separately take me and my clone and search in the city.”
……
Two days later, early in the morning.
On the same street.
Xu Taiping and Azhu were waiting for Ahu to bring his clone to meet up.
”Brother Xu, are you really sure that those items with a special aroma that we found earlier are not the natal object？”
Azhu asked Xu Taiping with a solemn expression.
”I’m sure.”
Xu Taiping nodded.
He had previously promised General Zhang Kaitai and Azhu’s siblings that as long as he could smell that aroma, he would have a way to find that natal object.
And this method was naturally the Lotus Pupil, the strange fragrance that allowed him to smell.
Because of this, it was very similar to the description in Zhang Tianze’s daughter Zhang Xiaoman’s last words, so Xu Taiping was so certain.
”But in these two days, we have searched all the places in the city that should be found. Where should we look next？”
Azhu frowned.
”Let’s wait for Ah Hu to come back and talk about it.”
Xu Taiping said.
After continuously searching for two days, the Red Armored Cavalry had also repelled the demons twice in a row. But according to the news by Xuanzhi even with the assistance of the spiritual steeds he had enlightened, Tianhai Pass could at most hold on for one more day.
During the communication process, Xu Taiping had given the bracelet of All Beings Are Equal to Xuanzhi for use. But in the battle formation where thousands of people were fighting, the good fortune power he had obtained from almsgiving for a year was consumed in just over ten breaths.
It couldn’t last long at all.
”Patta, patta…”
Just then, a group of soldiers who had withdrawn from the battlefield were slowly walking past Xu Taiping with heavy steps.
And among this group of people, there was one that both Xu Taiping and Azhu still recognized.
It was the middle-aged man who had quarreled with his father on the street in the early morning that day because he didn’t want his father to go into battle wearing armor.
But this time when he came back, there was no longer the old man beside him. He was only holding a blood-stained armor and a severed arm.
“Patta, patta…”
The man’s eyes were dull, and his steps were extremely heavy, almost dragging on the ground.
“Bang！”
Just as he was about to walk to the side of Xu Taiping and the others, he accidentally tripped over a raised floor tile on the road and fell headlong to the ground.
The armor and the severed arm in his hand were thrown far away at once.
“Father… Father！”
The man who had originally been lost in thought suddenly woke up, scrambled and crawled to the severed arm and hugged it tightly in his arms.
“Father… The child is useless, the child is useless, the child is useless…”
The man sat on the ground tightly hugging the severed arm, his head kept kowtowing, and the pedestrians beside couldn’t pull him away.
Xu Taiping stood still in place.
But the bones in his body began to crack uncontrollably, and the muscles were also constantly wriggling. That python-jiao physique, uncontrollably, suddenly changed to the angry jiao realm.
But at this moment, a strange aroma drifted over from his side.
The moment he smelled this aroma, Xu Taiping’s head was stunned there as if struck by lightning.
Because this aroma was exactly the aroma that Lotus Pupil had let him smell and that he had been searching for for a long time.
Xu Taiping searched for the position from which the aroma was coming and slowly turned his head.
What came into his eyes was Azhu’s dark but very delicate face, and on this face, two lines of tears were rolling down uncontrollably.
“Tears？ Aroma？”
After a brief moment of stunnedness, Xu Taiping suddenly reacted.
Although it was a bit unbelievable, he could confirm that it was Azhu’s tears that were emitting this aroma.
