Chapter 21: First meeting

At the foot of the boulder, the two Lingxiaozong disciples who had been standing calmly on the edge of the stone steps raised their heads. At the same time, at the top of the towering boulder far away, there seemed to be a few figures flashing, stepping to the edge of the boulder and looking down. .
It's just that all these changes in the blink of an eye have long been out of Shen Shi's attention. At this moment, only the body that is falling is left in front of him. The sea breeze blows from the side of the boulder, with an icy coolness, which seems to remind you of the empty and dangerous cliff behind you; and the stone steps under your feet are so narrow and steep at the moment that they seem to be gone. The slightest foothold.
All the teenagers around, one by one, were frightened and fell tightly on the ground, for fear that they would be implicated. If one was not good enough, he would even suffer and roll down, but Chen Shi was unavoidable. At this moment, his heart even There was no room for yelling, because in a blink of an eye, the body of the fallen girl seemed to have reached him.
On the top of the huge rock, a tall body "whoops" up with the wind, rushing down.
Almost out of an instinct, or a dying struggle, the unlucky Shen Shi groaned subconsciously and opened his arms abruptly, making it too late to let go, otherwise he wouldn't mind letting this stranger The girl rolled down from her side lest she would be buried with her for no reason, but at this moment she couldn't help him. In a hurry, he could only do his best to maintain his balance, and then hugged the fallen girl's body while desperately The land wanted to be close to the stone steps, hoping to keep it by chance and not to fall off.
It’s just that on such steep stone steps, trying to maintain balance is a very difficult task. In addition, because of the long climb and tension, most young people, including Shen Shi, are physically exhausted. . So when Shen Shi just caught the girl and wanted to stand firm again, he felt a huge impulse from the girl, and he staggered under his feet. As expected, he couldn't maintain his stability and fell straight down.
"Ah..." At this moment, not only the girl who fell, but even the boys and girls around saw this scene, and many people shouted in fear.
For some reason, at this juncture of life and death, Shen Shi's mind suddenly seemed to be calmer. There was a lightning-like moment in his mind, and a strange idea passed through his mind: the animals he had killed before, Was it the same fear before dying?
He gritted his teeth and hugged his delicate body that had fallen into his chest with both hands. Both of them were sliding down at the same time. The original steep stone steps looked so ferocious at this moment, but Shen Shi did not give up the struggle. The thought of surviving, amidst the chaos, he desperately grasped on the stone steps with his hands, grasping every protruding stone that might support the body and the steps that could prevent the body from falling, and at the same time, his feet desperately stepped on the stone below. Even during these actions, he still remembered desperately pressing his body, including the body of the girl under him, to the stone steps at the same time. Otherwise, if he was really driven away from the stone steps by the momentum, it would be true. The catastrophe is over.
From a distance, Shen Shi at this time is like a monkey dancing with his hands, panicking and desperately trying to catch something, with a bit of comical meaning. But everyone who saw this scene didn't smile at all, they all looked at it dumbfounded.
One layer, one layer, one layer, another layer...
The huge momentum from top to bottom caused Shen Shi's body to slide down four steps directly. Several times in the middle, he almost seemed to have his whole body fly out of the stone steps and fall down the cliff-like huge rock, but in the end, he Unexpectedly, he clung to the stone steps abruptly, until his feet were finally on the fourth stone steps, and luckily stepped on a small raised stone.
A commotion erupted from the crowd below the boulder, and the tall figure at the top of the boulder also fell back to the boulder lightly after it suddenly stopped.
On the stone steps, Shen Shi, who had escaped from the dead, finally managed to regain his footing by the little hard rock fulcrum under his feet. His face was pale in shock, and only then did he feel healed. I feel deeply afraid, not to mention cold sweats all over my body, but my whole body feels soft and weak.
As for the girl under him, she didn't seem to be relieved from the shock until this time, her whole body was trembling, and she couldn't speak for a while.
Shen Shi gasped for a few times, and suddenly pushed aside the girl who was curled up next to him or maybe the girl who hadn't had the strength to walk away. At this moment, he only felt that the bottom of his heart was completely inexplicable and unlucky anger. The feeling of walking up and back again is really creepy.
"You have something wrong!" Shen Shi shouted at the girl, gritted his teeth and said, "You want to die by yourself, don't hurt others, OK!"
The girl's body was trembling slightly, her pale face was scolded by Shen Shi, and she suddenly seemed to be a bit white again, and she couldn't even see the slightest blood. Her lips trembled and she seemed to want to say something to Shen Shi, but she didn't utter a word for a long time.
At this moment, under the angry Shen Shi, a half-dead, feeble voice, which seemed to be extremely painful at the same time, faintly said:
"Brother, if you want to scold this stupid girl, I don't have any problem with it, but before you scold you, can you move your feet first..."
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Shen Shi was taken aback, and quickly looked down, only to see that on the stone steps under his feet, on the raised little stone that saved himself and the girl’s life, he did not know when there was a hand. Grabbing on it, and one of his feet is desperately stepping on it.
Looking along that hand, I saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy lying on the stone steps with a helpless and painful face, looking at him with a grin and bitter smile.
Shen Shi stayed for a while, and then came back to his senses. He quickly put his hands and feet away, and looked at a relatively flat platform just outside the stone steps on the left. At this moment, he was also unable to walk for a while, and he mustered his remaining strength. The sat on the small platform, and then slowly heaved a sigh of relief, slowly feeling that the soul didn't seem to fly back into his body until this moment.
An unexpected accident finally passed through dangerously and safely. All the young girls on the stone steps calmed down. After a while, many people also started climbing again. Only this time, everyone is more cautious, and at the same time, the distance between the front and back is invariably opened up, no one dared to stand too close behind the one in front.
The vast sea, the rolling waves, the blue sky and the clear sea form a beautiful view of the sea and the sky, and the sea breeze is even more refreshing. Sitting on the boulder, Shen Shi stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, silently, and then heard a sound of footsteps, a person came up from below, stopped on the stone steps beside him, and sat down beside him. .
Shen Shi turned his head and took a look. He was a little surprised to see that it was the boy who had stepped on someone's palm just now, and said, "Why don't you leave?"
The young man sighed, stretched out his hand and wiped a cold sweat on his forehead. Seeing that his brows are beautiful, he is considered handsome in terms of appearance, but his face is a little ugly at the moment, and he muttered, "Almost scared. I'm dead, my body is soft, I have to rest for a while."
Shen Shi said in an unpleasant manner: "It's not that you were hit by someone, so what is there to fear?"
The young man gave a wry smile and said, "Big Brother, if you didn't step on my hand just now, uh, no, if you didn't step on that little rock, then you would just hit me directly."
Shen Shi thought that it was true. In that case, he really couldn't maintain his balance and could only continue to roll down. If he hit the boy in front of him again, he was afraid that the situation would be like a snowball, and he would never be able to clean up.
Thinking about the dangerous situation just now, Shen Shi and the young man looked at each other, and they all saw the fear and fluke in each other's eyes.
After a while, Shen Shi settled down, glanced at the young man, and said, "Anyway, I stepped on your hand just now. I'm sorry, my name is Shen Shi. What is my honorable name?"
The boy grinned, stretched out his right hand and handed it to Shen Shi, saying, "Sun You."
Shen Shi smiled, and patted him gently.
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There was another sea breeze blowing, and it seemed that the wind was a little bit weaker. The two of them sat here for a while. I wonder if they have experienced the test of the moment of life and death just now. In the eyes of the two teenagers, Shen Shi and Sun You, this When I looked at the steep stone steps, I actually felt that the stone steps seemed to be much gentler than before, and even the didn't seem so steep, and it was no longer so scary.
But at this moment, from the stone steps not far away from them, a timid voice came from them, with a slightly faintly choked voice, whispered:
"Yes, sorry..."
Shen Shi and Sun You both turned their heads and saw that the person who was talking was the initiator of the matter. For some reason, the girl did not continue to walk upwards, and it seemed that she did not dare to turn around and sit directly on the steep. So from just now to now, she has always been like a frightened bird, lying on the stone steps with a little nervousness.
"Sorry, I, I didn't mean it..." She slowly raised her head, crystal clear tears seemed to swirl in her eyes, but she resisted and did not cry. Sun You frowned and did not speak. Shen Shi was almost killed by her. He was full of anger at the girl, but seeing such an expression, he couldn't say any other ugly words for a while. After a moment of silence , Shook his head with a wry smile, and waved: "Forget it, forget it."
The girl clenched her bloodless lower lip tightly, looked at Shen Shi as if she wanted to say something, and finally retracted her gaze, then took a deep breath, but gritted her teeth and started walking towards the top of the boulder again. .
Although Sun You hadn't spoken from the beginning, she had been looking at her from the side, and the girl had also looked at Sun You once, but after contacting him once, she immediately looked away.
After watching the girl walk a certain distance, Sun You suddenly said to Shen Shi: "Shen Shi, shouldn't you be a local?"
Shen Shi was taken aback and nodded: "Yes, I came from the southwest...Lanzhou."
Sun You said "Oh". He didn't seem to be interested in that small southwestern state. Instead, he approached some Shenshi slightly and said in a low voice, "No wonder you don't recognize that girl. You didn't see how many there are here. Are people far away from her?"
Shen Shi frowned, shook his head and said, "I really didn't pay attention. Is there anything to say here?"
Sun You glanced at the girl's back and said, "She was named Zhong, and her name was Zhong Qingzhu. She was an illegitimate daughter of Zhong's family, so she was not to be seen at Zhong's family. I heard that she was clumsy on weekdays. I didn't expect it to almost cause a mess today."
Shen Shi glanced at Sun You, and Sun You spread his hands and said, "Don't look at me. I didn't say this casually. The children of the aristocratic family inside and outside of Floating Cloud City almost know it."
Shen Shi let out a "huh", thinking that he was implicated by the innocent just now, but then he thought about it, but he thought of something again, raised his head to look at You Sun, and said: "Listen to you, for these The children of the family are very familiar, and your surname is Sun. Could it be that..."
Sun You waved his hand and said indifferently, "Yes, I am also from the Sun family of the Ling Xiaozong vassal family."