Phew!
Li Haiqing just caught up with him up the mountain. The fellow apprentices behind him were about to catch up when they heard a horse neighing behind them. Everyone looked back and saw a man riding the thousand-mile horse, flying along the road as if heading north. And go.
"Fell into a trap!" The disciples of the Star Sword Sect suddenly woke up and turned around to chase the murderer on horseback. The disciple at the front was trying to follow Li Haiqing, but Li Haiqing's Qinggong was too fast and he had disappeared without a trace. At this time, he heard the disciple behind him say that the murderer was behind him. Those disciples wanted to call Li Haiqing back, but they couldn't find Li Haiqing at all. They thought that she would be fine because of her strong martial arts skills, so they turned back to chase the murderer.
These people had just come down from the mountain when they met Nangong Cheng who was also following them. Nangong Cheng asked, "Where is Junior Sister Li?"
"Still going up the mountain." One of the disciples replied.
"You guys, go up the mountain immediately and retrieve Junior Sister Li. The rest of you will follow me to chase the murderer." Nangong Cheng didn't think much about it, so he took the remaining disciples and chased the murderer.
Nangong originally thought that the murderer did not dare to escape along the avenue, but who knew that the murderer actually did the opposite, heading towards the north checkpoint along the avenue. But Nangong Cheng didn't think about it carefully, why did Li Haiqing chase him up the mountain?
Nangong Cheng was thinking this when he saw the horse's hoof prints suddenly disappeared on the road and headed towards the southeast mountain.
Nangong Cheng was afraid of falling into the trap, so he divided his troops into two groups. Most of them still chased on the main road, while he led a small number of troops to chase up the mountain.
Nangong Cheng chased up the mountain and soon saw the abandoned Chollima, but the murderer had disappeared. There are traces of someone walking in the grass, it seems that the murderer must be here.
At this time, after many twists and turns, the sky has gradually darkened, and it is difficult to see the faces of people in the deep mountains. Nangong Cheng became more and more anxious. If he could not catch the murderer, he might really let the murderer escape by night.
Nangong Cheng had no choice but to divide his junior brothers into groups of five and spread out to search. The murderer's martial arts skills are too high. If he didn't work in a group of five, he would probably be defeated individually. But if the search is not spread out, and everyone gathers together in the vast mountains and forests, even if the search lasts until tomorrow, the murderer may not be found.
It's just that Nangong Cheng still underestimated the murderer. Although he had asked his junior brothers to work in groups of five, they were still defeated by the murderer one by one.
ah! ah! ah. ． ． ． ． ． ．
There were several screams in succession, and the five junior brothers behind him had been knocked down by the murderer. Nangong Cheng was shocked and turned around quickly, only to see that two of the five disciples had been knocked unconscious and the other three had their acupuncture points tapped.
Nangong Cheng was curious, so he opened the acupuncture points of the three people first, then woke up the two junior brothers who had been knocked unconscious, and asked, "Did you see anyone clearly?"
"No." All five people replied.
Nangong Chengcheng saw that none of the five people were seriously injured, as if the murderer was deliberately showing mercy. He was wondering in his heart when suddenly the sound of a signal came from the opposite mountain, the top of the mountain where Li Haiqing chased after him, and it seemed that the murderer had been discovered. Nangong Cheng became more and more confused. The murderer was clearly here, so how could he run to the other side in an instant. Unless there is a possibility, the other party is not a human at all, but a ghost.
Nangong Cheng didn't believe in the theory of ghosts at all, but he had a vague feeling that the conspiracy to assassinate the master was far more complicated than they imagined.
As Nangong Cheng was thinking this, a bomb signal was immediately raised at the northernmost checkpoint, and it was clearly stated that the murderer was in the north.
"Oops! There is more than one murderer, we really fell into the trap." The murderer was discovered in three places at the same time, and Nangong Cheng finally realized that they were being led by the murderer.
Although there was indeed only one real murderer, there were already several murderers they later pursued. In other words, there is someone in the middle pretending to be the murderer to confuse their vision. At least, now that the murderer is found in three places at the same time, there are two fake ones disturbing the view.
The Star Sword Sect is now under tight security. It is almost impossible for ordinary people to escape from the mountain smoothly. Only by making the Star Sword Sect more and more chaotic and making everyone more confused about the situation will the murderer be more likely to escape.
Nangong Cheng vaguely felt that the person he was chasing was not the real murderer. Judging from the previous murderer's methods, he is a ruthless person, at least he will not show mercy to the people of Xingjian Sect. However, this person just now could obviously take the lives of his five junior brothers, but he didn't kill any of them. It was obvious that he showed mercy. Nangong Cheng didn't understand the reason for this, but he could conclude from this that this person must not be the real murderer, but a pretender to confuse his vision.
"Go back!" Nangong Chengqing knew that there was a deception, so he ordered.
"Brother, why?" The people who were injured just now were obviously dissatisfied and asked angrily.
"We were fooled. Someone deliberately led us here." Nangong Cheng replied.
"It's impossible. I just saw clearly that the man was dressed exactly like the murderer, but I couldn't see his face clearly." One of the disciples said with certainty.
"But, have you ever thought that there may be more than one person pretending to be a junior brother?" Nangong Cheng said, taking the lead to go down.
"Isn't the horse still on the mountain?" Another junior brother said.
"It is precisely because the horse is here that we are led here. The real murderer may have escaped from another direction." Nangong Cheng explained.
"It can't be so evil!" A junior brother still didn't want to believe it.
"Then think about it, the murderer who assassinated Master earlier was extremely cruel in his severed hand. But this man just now could clearly kill you, but why did he show mercy to you?" Nangong Cheng asked.
"Why?" The disciples were immediately confused and just looked at each other blankly and asked.
"There is only one explanation, he is not the real murderer." Nangong Cheng had already gone down the mountain before he finished speaking.
The disciples seemed to have understood, so they followed closely behind their senior brother Nangong Cheng. However, Nangong Cheng had just walked not far when he suddenly heard a scream from behind him: "Elder brother, save me."
The sound was not loud, but it was crisp and clear, somewhere not far behind him.
"Senior Sister Li, isn't she on the opposite mountain? Why is she here?" Several junior brothers asked in confusion.
Nangong Chengcheng also asked this question, but the voice clearly came from Li Haiqing, and even the charming tone in the voice was the same. Nangong Cheng really didn't want to believe that the person asking for help was Li Haiqing, but the crisp and clear voice made him have to believe it.
"Senior Brother, what should we do?" a junior brother asked.
"Yes! Senior brother, should we continue down the mountain, or go back and take a look?" Another disciple also asked.
"Even Senior Sister Li has been captured. It seems that the enemy is very powerful. I'm afraid that if we go back, we may not be able to save Senior Sister Li." When the other junior brother saw that the person asking for help was Li Haiqing, he felt a little timid.
Nangong Cheng was at a loss at this time and didn't know whether to go down the mountain or go back.
He thought calmly: "It is better to believe that there is something than to believe that there is nothing. If the person asking for help behind him is really Junior Sister Li, then he will be really bad if he doesn't go back. There are many elders at the foot of the mountain, and they will be there soon. I'll rush here, and if I go down the mountain a little later, maybe I won't miss the important event."
"Go back." After Nangong Cheng figured it out, he immediately led his junior brothers to rush up the mountain again. They went back and forth without catching anyone, so a lot of time was wasted.
