On an early spring night, the sky is cool and clear, and the hook-like moon is hidden behind the cumulonimbus clouds. The clear light is impenetrable, and the candlelights of thousands of families in Suzaku City are about to go out.
Behind the Willow Leaf Bookstore, Chen Zhuo, who was hiding under the shadow of the eaves, let fly the night cloud owls one by one.
This is a kind of bird that is only found in southern Xinjiang and specially domesticated after being captured by Hidden Valley. They can fly in the sky even in the dark night. They can travel three hundred miles at night and have excellent endurance. They are very suitable for transmitting information between their bookstores. .
A few quarters of an hour ago, Chen Zhuo had already taken the information from bookstores from various places from Ye Yunxiao's legs.
Among them, the information from Jinguan City in Qingchuan Prefecture attracted his attention.
"Deacon, Mu Qing has already left this morning, do you need me to go?" The figure that had been hidden behind Chen Zhuo moved and asked.
"No, as long as we in the Quanfu lineage do what we are responsible for, the Assassin lineage has never lacked such scenes, and they even have a supportive attitude. So when things develop now, we should not interfere anymore."
The moonlight shifted, and half of Chen Zhuo's body was exposed from the shadow. His droopy eyelids moved, and his eyes followed Ye Yunxiao in the sky.
"Then... what should we do with Elder Fenghua?" Li Fu, who was behind him, carefully asked his own question.
"Go and write her a letter. Just tell her the truth. After all, the lineage of pharmacists has a special status."
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Panjun Mountain is located fifty kilometers south of Stone City. More than ten years ago, it was a good place with steep rocks, strange peaks and lush trees. It got its name because a passerby found someone sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain, making tea and playing chess.
Today's Panjun Mountain is no longer worthy of its name, because of the mining of a special spiritual stone here in recent years. As the mining of the spiritual stone is exhausted, the beautiful peaks are no longer there, but a valley mouth that is easy to defend and difficult to attack has been formed.
According to the terrain characteristics of this place, a force that wandered nearby in the early years took root here and gradually grew stronger.
This force is called Tieguzhai, with more than 200 people. Their main business is to collect tolls from caravans passing through this place, and they bid based on the goods. The more valuable the caravan's goods are, the higher the price they charge.
Once upon a time, there was a leader of a large caravan who suffered a big loss at the hands of Iron Bone Village. He spent a lot of money to hire the defenders from the nearby Stone City to annihilate this force. However, the result was that the Stone City army suffered a disastrous defeat. Not one in a hundred can be saved.
Their leader Lin Pan, in that battle, showed a level of strength that was at the fifth level. This was even a general guarding the city in Suzaku City, let alone near Stone City with a population of less than 100,000.
Therefore, after this battle, Tieguzhai took the opportunity to show its great strength to the people passing by, and it was even more confident and merciless when collecting tolls.
At this time, in a spacious room in the village, a tall and burly bearded man was sitting next to a wine table made of rough wood.
At this time, his face was livid, his thick eyebrows were furrowed tightly, and large beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead. He covered his chest with his left hand, and his right hand trembled to seal the acupuncture points all over his body. Lin Pan, the leader of Tiegugu Village.
He put the two fingers of his right hand together, and after sealing the Shenque point above his Dantian, he sprayed a mouthful of black blood into the wine bowl he had just drank, and his face regained a trace of color.
"Come here!" He shouted to the guards outside the door with all his strength.
That night, among the many doctors who were arrested, an old man who was frightened and panicked said tremblingly: "I think this kind of poison should be the legendary blood-dropping cold. To detoxify this poison, I'm afraid it will take nine days." Take Zhuanyouyancao with a little blood."
"It's easy to find medicine like a bit of blood, but the Nine-turn Nether Flame Grass is an extremely rare medicinal material even in Suzaku City." A middle-aged man with a goatee looked at the man lying on the bed and was speechless. Boss, said worriedly.
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"ah."
Mu Qing followed Liu Weirui on horseback. When he saw Li Si flying up at the front, he punched a bandit in the chest with a heavy punch, and the other party's screams could be heard loudly.
The caravan passed through several places where it could easily be ambushed yesterday without incident. Unexpectedly, it just set off today and not far away, it met a group of bandits on the side of this unknown road.
At this time, from the bushes as tall as a person beside the road, there were scattered arrows shooting towards the place where they were bunched up in front. Considering that the other party was using a bow and arrow, he did not go up to help and stayed beside Liu Weirui. Next to it, in case there are hidden arrows shot unexpectedly.
The situation at the scene gradually became clear. There were more than thirty bandits in this group, but in Mu Qing's eyes, they were just a bunch of weaklings without any structure.
The other party just emerged from the bushes and started shooting arrows indiscriminately at the front of the caravan. He didn't care about the dense crowd concentrated in the rear and had no idea at all in blocking the road and robbing.
"Whoops -" A short arrow with green lines on the shaft quickly shot towards the vest of Li Si, who knocked down another person. When he was three inches away from his back, Li Si, who was being beaten to death happily, was shot. Si noticed that he quickly attached a mouthful of pure energy contained in Geshu's acupuncture point to the hollow of his vest, but the short arrow was still shot into his vest by more than an inch.
I saw him staggering forward two steps due to the impact of being hit by the short arrow. Regardless of the injury on his back, he became more and more courageous as he fought. The energy was flowing all over his body. Sometimes he could knock someone over with a single palm from the air. Little thief.
"It's a prick, retreat!" A cry came from the bushes where the short arrows had just been fired. The dozen or so people who could still move on the mountain road withdrew from the attack range of the battle in a methodical manner.
"Death to me!" Li Si saw that those people did not care about their backs and just ran away. Instead, he used his strength to catch up and knocked the two of them over. At this time, he was too energetic and immediately felt a pain in the pit of his stomach. The position was in severe pain, and stimulated by this, he pursued the bandits who had fled into the bushes.
"Wha—" Another arrow came. This time, he was on guard. He twisted his back to the right to avoid the arrow, but his pursuit speed was slowed down.
"Xiaochan, hurry up and tell Xiaosi not to chase him, and see how injured he is." Liu Weirui, who was on Mu Qing's right, saw that the situation was gradually becoming clearer, and said calmly to the maid beside him. It seems that Li Chan is the one who can He is her true personal bodyguard.
The kind of ambush and robbery she encountered this morning was really out of place in her eyes.
If Uncle Li Niu had been here, the man who secretly used a powerful crossbow to shoot arrows would have been captured long ago. It has always been the case to capture the king first before capturing the thief. However, this was also the first time that Li Si acted as the leader of a caravan guard. She would not blame Li Si for counterattacking in the same unorganized manner. Seeing that Xiaochan stopped Li Si who was still chasing after her, she didn't care about Mu Qing. So he rode forward alone.
"Xiaosi, is the injury on your back serious?"
At this time, Li Si had taken off his shirt, revealing his bronze upper body. He turned his back to his sister Li Chan and asked her to apply the medicine powder she carried with her on the wound the size of her thumb.
He suddenly heard his young lady's concerned inquiry, but he stopped applying the medicine to his sister, turned around and turned sideways to face Liu Weirui's wound, and said as if to show off his achievements: "Miss, this It's just some skin wounds, my sister has almost healed without medicine, and has no impact at all. It's a pity that the villain who was hiding in the bushes and shooting hidden arrows escaped."
After he finished speaking, he was still not relieved. He took a few steps forward and gave the thieves who had just been knocked to the ground a hard kick. Because the wound suddenly hurt, he gave it another kick to relieve his anger.
"Brother Li Si is indeed brave and powerful, but this arrow seems to be engraved with arrow patterns and tempered with poison. Little brother, you'd better be careful." Mu Qing picked up the short arrow that Li Si had just pulled out and threw on the ground. He stepped forward and said.
Mu Qing's current appearance is that he is in his thirties, and he just talked about the possible consequences with a calm face.
But in Li Si's eyes, Mu Qing became a coward who was greedy for life and afraid of death in times of danger. After he single-handedly defeated the enemy and the situation was safe, he came up and said some sarcastic words to show that he was knowledgeable and knowledgeable. Rich experience.
"Hmph! I know the extent of my injuries best. You greedy person, don't say another word in front of me." The young man who had just experienced a battle was at the climax of his emotions and expressed his dissatisfaction frankly.
When Mu Qing heard this, he smiled slightly. Seeing that Liu Weirui didn't say anything to stop Li Si this time, he knew that his image had dropped a bit, from a "four golds" who was originally regarded as useless to Someone who feels a little disgusted in his heart.
Mu Qing looked around at the guards who were surrounding him and were happy to have won a "big battle". He felt the unkind looks they were looking at him. He felt a little embarrassed in his heart and put the arrow he picked up back into his sleeve. I plan to detoxify Li Si next depending on his mood.
He was very familiar with this kind of poison tempered on arrowheads. It was the venom of the green rose snake, a common venomous snake in the Tiannan Marsh Forest.
During the survival training in the swamp forest, he had no idea how many green radish snakes he had eaten. The meat of this kind of snake was so tender that it melted with just one sip, and it was still sweet after chewing it. There wasn't a lot of food that he thought was palatable.
Of course, one drop of the green rose snake's venom can kill ten cows, but for people with more than eight levels of strength, no matter which mental method is used to run the path, it will first move the energy near the wound, so its venom will only It exists in the meridians and acupoints near the wound. The hidden danger is that the luck will suddenly change near the wound in the next period of time. This kind of harm can be great or small.
For Mu Qing, he can either use internal force to directly force the venom out of the acupoints and meridians, or he can prepare medicine to slowly offset the venom stored in the body.
Since Li Si thinks there is nothing wrong with him, he doesn't want to put his warm face on other people's cold buttocks and make more reminders.
"Well, you still can't forget that you are an assassin. Even if you are a novice, you should not be a bad person."
The little storm had passed, Mu Qing looked at the white clouds drifting back and shook his head.
