Chapter 157: Searching for a Strange Fragrance, Miss Azhu's Tears

The most common scene the two saw.

At the gates of some houses, women, children, the elderly and the weak put on armor to see off the men in their families.

Walking on the street, Xu Taiping could see from time to time some fishermen who were not even fully dressed in armor, holding a harpoon and a shield made of a pot lid and walking towards the city tower.

What made Xu Taiping particularly impressed was that although these people had simple armor and weapons, they walked with bright eyes and straight bodies, without the slightest fear.

If it was one or two, it would be fine, after all, such a big city can always produce a few brave people.

But the problem is that almost every fisherman who passed by Xu Taiping and rushed to the battlefield had this kind of eyes and this kind of expression.

In Xu Taiping's mind, the words that people in other places used to ridicule the people of Tianhai Town inexplicably emerged - "barbarians who don't know how to live or die."

"Sister, after we take Brother Xu to find that thing, I will also go to the Red Armor Camp!"

After coming out of another spice shop, Ah Hu suddenly turned his head and looked at his sister Ah Zhu with a very firm look.

"Don't worry, it's not too late for you to go after I die."

Ah Zhu, who was looking around at the shops on the street, said without turning her head.

"Sister... don't talk about death all the time..."

Ah Hu pouted, his face full of reluctance.

Xu Taiping, who was standing aside, wanted to comfort the brother and sister, but he took back the words when they came to his lips.

"If we can't find the life-saving thing of the general, not only the brother and sister, but everyone in the city will die, including me."

He murmured in his heart.

"Dad, you are old, don't join in the fun, the child can go alone!"

At this time, the quarrel between a father and son on the street attracted the attention of Xu Taiping and others.

I saw a man who looked about 30 years old trying to stop an old man with gray hair and old armor from moving forward.

"Joining in the fun? I'm going to kill demons!"

Although the old man had a hunchback, his voice was unusually loud.

"Dad, that's what we young people should do. You can just wait at home."

The man said anxiously.

"Do you think I'm blind or deaf? I was in the Red Armor Camp when I was young. I've never seen the scene last night in my life!"

"Three thousand Red Armor Cavalry, only eight hundred died, eight hundred."

"Those are not ordinary monsters at all. The Red Armor Camp's manpower is not enough. If we want to save Tianhai Pass, we can only rely on human lives."

"Stay at home, stay at home, my home is going to be gone, what's the point of me staying at home?"

"What are you standing there for? Let's go together!"

The old man's voice, like thunder, exploded in the silent 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 Camp.

Looking at the backs of the father and son walking side by side in the distance, Xu Taiping inexplicably felt that this scene was even more cruel than the tragic fight last night.

"Azhu, Ahu, we are still too slow to find it this way."

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, and directly split a clone, and then arranged in the stunned eyes of the two:

"You and your brother, take me and my clone separately, and search in the city."

...

Two days later, early morning.

On the same street.

Xu Taiping and Azhu were waiting for Ahu to meet up with his clone.

"Brother Xu, can you really be sure that the items with special fragrances we found before are not the natal objects?"

Azhu asked Xu Taiping with a serious expression.

"I'm sure."

Xu Taiping nodded.

He had promised the old general Zhang Kaitai and Azhu that as long as he could smell the fragrance, he would have a way to find the natal item.

And the means was naturally the lotus pupil, which made him smell the strange fragrance.

Because this point was very similar to the description in the last words of Zhang Tianze's daughter Zhang Xiaoman, Xu Taiping was so sure.

"But in the past two days, we have searched all the places in the city that should be found. Where should we look next?"

Azhu frowned.

"Let's talk about it when Ahu comes back."

Xu Taiping said.

After searching for two consecutive days, the Red Armor Cavalry also repelled the monsters twice in a row, but according to the news from Xuanzhi, even with the help of the spiritual horse he enlightened, Tianhaiguan could only hold on for another day at most.

During the communication process, Xu Taiping once gave Xuanzhi the bracelet of equality of all beings, but in the battle array where thousands of people were fighting, the power of good fortune he had obtained from begging for a year was consumed in just over ten breaths.

It can't last long at all.

"Patta, patter..."

Just then, a group of soldiers who had withdrawn from the battlefield were dragging their heavy footsteps slowly past Xu Taiping.

Among these people, there was one person whom Xu Taiping and Azhu knew.

It was the middle-aged man who had quarreled with his father on the street that morning because he didn't want his father to wear armor to fight.

But when he came back this time, the old man was no longer by his side. He was only holding a blood-stained armor and a broken arm.

"Patta, patter..."

The man's eyes were dull and his footsteps were extremely heavy, almost dragging on the ground.

"Bang!"

Just when he was about to reach Xu Taiping and the others, he accidentally tripped over a raised floor tile and fell to the ground.

The armor in his hand and the broken arm were thrown far away.

"Dad... Dad!"

The man, who had been in a trance, suddenly woke up, rolled and crawled to the broken arm, and hugged it in his arms.

"Dad... I'm useless, I'm useless, I'm useless..."

The man sat on the ground and hugged the broken arm tightly, knocking his head up and down, and the pedestrians on the side couldn't stop him.

Xu Taiping stood there motionless.

But the bones in his body began to "crack" uncontrollably, and his muscles kept squirming. The python body, as if out of control, suddenly changed into the angry dragon state.

But at this moment, a strange fragrance floated from his side.

The moment he smelled the fragrance, Xu Taiping's head was stunned as if it was struck by lightning.

Because this fragrance was exactly what he had been searching for for a long time, and the fragrance that the lotus pupils made him smell.

Xu Taiping looked for the place where the fragrance came from and slowly turned his head.

What came into his eyes was Ah Zhu's dark but very pretty face, and on this face, two lines of tears were rolling down uncontrollably.

"Tears? Fragrance?"

After a brief moment of daze, Xu Taiping suddenly reacted.

Although it was a little unbelievable, he was sure that the fragrance was coming from Ah Zhu's tears.