The pipe pot and the aquiline nose followed Wu Laoqi and others in the forest for half an hour. Wu Laoqi held up the torch and carefully recalled the place where the noise had just occurred, and finally saw the crooked-neck tree.
"You two, this is the place where the noise was made while we were waiting for the search just now. The crooked-neck tree is particularly eye-catching. I can remember it at a glance. It is unmistakable." Wu Laoqi said to the two of them firmly.
The aquiline nose did not answer coldly, but the pipe pot nodded to Wu Laoqi, knocked the pipe in his hand on the sole of his shoe, tied the purse with the shredded tobacco and the pipe with a rope, and inserted it into the back of his waist. , leaned down, surrounded the crooked neck tree, and carefully searched for clues.
After some investigation, Yandianguo finally found a clue under the tree. Although it was lying quietly in the snow, it was inconspicuous. However, after Yandianguo grabbed the stone and examined it, he found a corner of the stone. Stained with a trace of blood.
Although the blood stains have dried, from the perspective of Yantai Guo, there is no one around here. Looking at the stone in his hand, Yantai Guo's nose came closer and sniffed hard, then suddenly raised his head and ran towards not far away. .
Wu Laoqi and others were puzzled. They just stayed there blankly, looking at the pipe pot and looking left and right. However, their aquiline noses were used to their junior brother Chi Liang, who was proficient in tracking, and they had a cold expression. Follow the pipe pot.
Finally, the pipe pot found a place, stopped, looked back and nodded to the hooked nose who was following, and then the hooked nose stretched out its hand to signal to Wu Laoqi and others who were standing there in the distance.
Wu Laoqi walked reluctantly and whispered to himself as he walked: "I have searched these places carefully. If there is anything else I am worried about, I want to see what you find."
When I got closer, I discovered that there was a very inconspicuous blood stain at the root of the tree where the tobacco pot was lying. The blood had turned black. It seemed that a long time had passed. Maybe the blood stain had turned black and blended with the trunk of the tree. It is the same color and there is no snow to reflect it, so it is not easy to detect.
"This...this...can't be the blood of animals." Wu Laoqi saw the aquiline nose and the pipe pot staring at him, his face turned red, and he wanted to quibble.
Yantaiguo didn't want to waste any more time with the green forest bandit. He stretched out his fingers and rubbed the blood on the tree root vigorously. Although it was slightly black, it was not completely dry. Shen Yulou is still in Xiaolou Peak, so he must not be far away.
Raising his head, Yandianguo scanned the surrounding environment and looked at the towering small building. Yandianguo raised his head, seeming to say to the people behind him, and also to himself: "When you are trapped in a heavy siege, there are people in front of you." It’s better to be surrounded and pursued by troops... It’s better to go to a place where the enemy will definitely think that I don’t dare to go again.”
Thinking of something, Yandianguo's pupils suddenly shrank, he turned to look at Xiaolou Peak, and then said to the people in Hutou Village behind him: "He... Shen Yulou escaped back to Xiaolou Peak..."
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After giving instructions to everyone and sending Hu Bao away, Chi Qianren paced in the room that originally belonged to the village owner of Shen Yulou, thinking about the Mo Zhe Order, intercepting Wan Jun, summoning Chi Tianya, etc.
All these things were congested in his mind, and Chi Qianren was feeling depressed when he heard the roar of people outside Yuling Village. When I opened the door and looked out, I saw Yuling outside with brightly lit torches.
Everyone who was about to go to sleep thought that there was an attack. Chi Qianren and others walked to the village gate and saw that Lai Ren was the people from Hutou Village who were coming down the mountain to search for Shen Yulou's whereabouts. The leaders were Yantouguo and Yinghoubi. Two people.
"Master...Brother, Thirteenth Brother and I found traces of Shen Yulou at the foot of Xiaolou Peak. In my opinion, he was seriously injured. With so many people searching, it is impossible for him to escape from the Xiaolou. There is only one possibility for the boundary of the peak." Yandian Guo said to Shachi Qianren.
Chi Qianren smiled after hearing Yantou Guo's words. He originally thought that Shen Yulou was just a green forest bandit, but he didn't expect that this man still had some brains. But the people behind Shakuchenren, such as the pipe pot and the aquiline nose, saw their senior brother smiling, but their expressions became serious. They knew that Shakuchianren's smile meant that the senior brother wanted to kill someone.
"Search, turn Xiaoloufeng over, and find the person." Chi Qianren's smile disappeared, and was replaced by a fierce look.
Everyone in Hutou Village knew that this man was a master that neither the village leader nor the village leader dared to mess with. They also saw his ruthless hand in attacking Xiaolou Peak at night and did not dare to ask any more questions. The minions followed Wu Laoqi and Zhang Daer. , Liu Laosi and others scattered around, and soon the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came to mind in the small building.
The people accompanying Chichiren also scattered in all directions. Not long after, the small building was turned upside down. Just when everyone found nothing, Chichiren's cold eyes finally swept into the meeting hall. With a flash of uneasiness in his heart, Chichiren stepped into the meeting hall.
Everyone was puzzled that the hall had naturally been searched several times, and even the tables and chairs had been overturned. Why did the head of the family still go to the meeting hall to check? After all, he was a person respected by all the village masters, so everyone had no choice but to follow Chi Qianren and pour into the meeting hall.
I saw Chichiren pacing in the meeting hall, his eyes constantly scanning all the objects in the meeting hall. Until Chi Qianren's eyes rested on the village leader's chair, he jumped up to the village leader's chair, and called for the pipe pot: "You are usually the one who knows how to tinker with these things, check it out."
Yandian Guo leaned over to check, and found that the village chair was ordinary. He reached out and groped under the chair for a long time, but there was no mechanism. Just when he was about to return to the Chi Qianren, he saw that the chair legs of the village chair were slightly dented.
With a thought in his heart, Yandianguo called a few minions and worked together to move the chair away. The single-finger dent on the floor was revealed to everyone.
Yantai Nabe looked back and asked Shakuchenren with his eyes, and got a positive reply from Shakuchenren. Yantai Nabe signaled everyone to be silent, stretched out his fingers to explore the recesses, touched a bulge of the mechanism, pressed it hard, and there was a 'click' sound, and one person A wide tunnel suddenly appeared on the ground.
Wu Laoqi and others were stunned. Everyone looked at the dark entrance of the secret passage. For a while, no one dared to go in and check first.
Of course, Chi Qianren would not let his own people go in to check. No one knew whether there were traps hidden in this secret passage. He looked around and said to Zhang Da'er who stretched his head to watch the excitement: "Go and investigate. If Shen Yulou hides inside, I will go in and help you."
Zhang Da'er looked mournful and begged for mercy: "Brother, my martial arts skills are low. Among the brothers around you, which one is not a hero who can fight one against a hundred? I...I...just in case..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw murderous intent emerging in the eyes of Chi Qianbian.
Shivering, Zhang Daer swallowed back the second half of his evasive words. With the last hope, he looked back at his good brothers, Liu Laosi and Wu Laoqi had disappeared.
With despair, Zhang Daer took the torch from the gangster's hand and gritted his teeth and got into the secret passage.
Chi Qianren waited calmly in the meeting hall for news about Zhang Da'er. Not long after, he heard Zhang Da'er's voice coming from the secret passage: "There is no one in this secret passage, and it is a dead end."
The uneasiness in his heart gradually increased. Chi Qianren was convinced that according to Yandianguo's calculation, Shen Yulou had gone and returned and was hiding in this secret passage. Whether he and others talked with Hu Bao or later discussed the interception and killing of Wan, Jun's incident was most likely overheard by Shen Yulou.
The existence that used to be like an ant in his own eyes has now become a personal nuisance, and the expression of Shachisenren has changed from gloomy to bright.
Seeing Zhang Da'er crawling out safely from the secret passage, Chi Qianren summoned his pipe pot and his aquiline nose and came forward and said: "Then Shen Yulou, I'm afraid he heard something he shouldn't have heard. He escaped with his life, so there's no harm in doing so." . Now it seems that he must die, Chi Xin, you go down to the secret passage and see if you can find something for tracking."
"Chikusen, Chifu." Then Chichiren continued.
"Here." Hook-nosed and another person came out of the entourage and responded.
"You three, wait until Chi Liang uses tracking skills to find out the whereabouts of Shen Yulou. If you catch up with this person, you must bring his head back." Everyone in the meeting hall was shocked by Chi Qianren's murderous intent. He didn't dare to say anything, and even Zhang Da'er, who had just crawled out of the secret passage, kept his breathing to a minimum, for fear that he would offend this evil star and risk his life.
As soon as Shakuchenren finished explaining to the three of them, Yantai Nabei had already crawled out of the secret passage. Hookbi and the others stepped forward to help Chiliang out of the secret passage. Yantou Nabei cupped his fists towards Shakuchenren and said, "Brother, this is Shen Yulou must have been seriously injured, and there are a lot of bloodstains here. Based on the dryness and wetness of the bloodstains, I deduce that he could not have been gone for more than an hour."
"At this hour..." Chi Qianren thought for a while, and he and others agreed to intercept and kill Wan Jun. He was hiding in the meeting hall an hour ago, and he must have overheard this secret matter.
"The three of you are following Yantou Guo. Set out to chase him now. Although he has some martial arts skills, he is seriously injured and his feet are not fast. You still have time." Shachi Qianren said to Yantou Guo and the others.
"Brother, why should we get involved in this matter, and that... that person can be regarded as a hero of Qi Yun." Yandian Guo seemed to be hesitant. But looking at Chi Qianren's destructive eyes, he didn't dare to speak any more.
He had no choice but to clasp his fists towards the Shachi Qianren and then stand up.
Chi Chiren stared at the entrance of the secret passage with a large dark mouth, as if he was mercilessly mocking this wise but confused leader of the dead soldiers.
I saw Chi Qianren's chest rising and falling rapidly, and his face gradually distorted. Liu Laosi and others from Hutou Village who were hiding aside were about to step forward to ask for instructions whether they should return to Hutou Village.
The Chi Qianblade angrily slapped a palm towards the entrance of the secret passage. The palm wind was fierce and whistling, knocking all the Tiger Head Village minions to the ground.
There was only a "click" sound, and when the minions got up, the entrance to the secret passage had collapsed due to the wind of the palm, and the minions were stunned.
"Hmph." After releasing his breath from his palm, Chi Qianren turned around with a flick of his sleeves and headed towards the back village of Yuling Village. The other deceased Mo Zhe soldiers also had expressionless faces and silently exited the meeting hall, following Chi Qianren away.
The minions of Hutou Village looked at each other in confusion, not daring to say anything. Zhang Daer, Liu Laosi, Wu Laoqi and others quickly led everyone, rolled and crawled out of the meeting hall, and headed in the direction of Hutou Village.
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As Chi Qianren expected, Shen Yulou was seriously injured and escaped from Yuling Village without any danger. Along the way, Shen Yulou's wounds kept bleeding. In order to hide his whereabouts, Shen Yulou had to run for his life. , he used randomly picked branches to cover the blood stains dripping on the ground with snow.
After escaping for a long time, Shen Yulou couldn't escape anymore. He could only lean against a tree and keep panting. He struggled to sit cross-legged. Shen Yulou planned to do some exercises and adjust his breath before continuing to escape. If he kept trying to escape like this, he might have fainted before he could escape from Xiaolou Peak.
At this moment, Shen Yulou just hoped that the secret passage he was hiding would not be discovered by that group of people. Otherwise, with the skills of those people, it would not take long for them to catch up with him.
Without having time to think about it, Shen Yulou took out a Ningxi Pill from his body. This pill was extremely precious and was given to Shen Yulou by a passing merchant who was grateful for the life he saved from Hutou Village.
This elixir is said to be able to restore the internal strength of martial arts practitioners in a short period of time, making it an excellent healing agent.
The Ningxi Pill melted in the mouth and turned into a warm current rushing straight into the Dantian. Shen Yulou, who was originally exhausted, felt relaxed all over. The effect of the pill was very fast. Shen Yulou, who was originally looking haggard, couldn't take the pill to adjust his breathing after a cup of tea. By that time, his complexion had improved.
Exhaling a breath, Shen Yulou felt that the injury was not as heavy as before. He tore off some clothes, tore them into strips of cloth, and tied the wounds on his body tightly. Shen Yulou thought carefully, he could no longer go to Donglai Peak. , the current plan is to flee to Liangzhou and make long-term plans.
After making up his mind and not waiting any longer, Shen Yulou headed towards Liangzhou.
