The boundary of Hanling City, the entrance to a certain valley
In the night, Qiye checked the symptoms of the bay horse, but still had no clue. While he was frowning and helpless, the faint sound of horse hooves came from the darkness in the distance. The sound is getting closer and closer, and the sound of hoofbeats is getting clearer...
Someone is coming! Qiye felt happy and looked up: at the corner of the valley entrance, two horses loomed out. There were two people sitting on the horse, holding bright and dim torches, and they were rushing towards this direction.
In a blink of an eye, the two people were already approaching. Qiye finally saw clearly that the people coming were two men, one fat and one thin. They were about to get up and go forward to ask for help.
"Hey...Boy, is this the kid Li Ergou is talking about?" A fat man with a stubble on his face, a rough voice, and a muscular body pulled the reins, pointed his riding whip at Qiye who was squatting on the ground, and pointed behind him Another thin man accompanying him confirmed.
"Well, that's right! Brother, it's this kid! Look, that's the bay-red horse." The thin man who was following the fat man also stopped and looked at the bay-red horse beside Qiye and confirmed.
"Who are you?" Qiye, who was still in joy after hearing the conversation between the two, suddenly felt something was wrong in his subconscious, and stood up suddenly and asked.
"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is to hand over all the gold coins you have on me!" As he spoke, the fat man jumped off the horse neatly. Taking advantage of the situation, he pulled out a wide, flat and bright saber, held the knife in one hand and a torch in the other, and stepped forward to threaten him fiercely.
"Yes, hand over everything!" Behind the fat man, the thin man also slid off the horse and stood beside the fat man with a sharp knife in his hand.
"I don't know what you are talking about..." Qiye frowned slightly and said neither humble nor arrogant. The two people in front of me have never met before, so why do they know that they have gold coins?
What is certain is that these two men are the robbers who are following him. But now that he has the strength of the 'Early Level 1 War Level', he is more than enough to deal with ordinary bandits. Therefore, Qiye did not panic and was confident.
"Damn it! You still want to pretend to be stupid!" Seeing Qiye pretending to be stupid, the fat man angrily threw out his right hand holding the knife handle and punched Qiye hard on the cheek.
I wanted to get over it by asking questions, but I never expected to be hit in the face by this sudden fist. Qiye instantly fell to the ground unstablely.
"Hmph! Brat, don't be disrespectful. If you don't hand over the gold coins, don't blame me for cutting you alive now." The fat man looked fierce.
"Boy, if you know the truth, please hand over the gold coins, otherwise don't blame our boss for being rude." Behind the fat man, the thin man was also adding fuel to the fire.
"Ahem... If I hand over the gold coins, you will let me go, right?" Qiye, who was knocked down by a punch, coughed a few times and wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, enduring the pain in his cheeks.
At this point, it seems that it is impossible to muddle through. If you can spend money to eliminate the disaster, it is also a way. Qiye thought about it in his heart...
"Hehehe... Boy, even if you give them all the gold coins, they won't let you go." In the Huntian Wheel, the Great Protector looked like he was watching the show with great interest.
"Then it depends on whether your performance satisfies me. If I am happy, maybe I can let you go?" Seeing Qiye's understanding, the fat man shook the saber in his hand and said in a slightly gentle tone.
"Okay, I'll give you the gold coins." Qiye ignored the Great Protector and agreed with calm eyes.
Then he stood up calmly, patted the dust, took out a heavy cloth bag from behind and handed it to the fat man.
"Hmph! You're a smart kid!" The fat man grabbed the bag and couldn't wait to open it and check it. Under the light of the fire, the countless gold coins in the dim cloth bag slightly reflected the golden light, which made the fat man's eyes widen and he stood upright.
"Brother, big brother... Now that I have the gold coins, what should I do with this kid?" Looking at the fat man who was lost in thought, the thin man quickly stepped forward and tugged on his sleeves and asked.
After waking up, the fat man checked the gold coins and then silently gave the thin man a look: Kill him to avoid future troubles! The thin man nodded understandingly, licked his thirsty lips, and slowly walked towards Qiye with sharp eyes.
"You said you would let me go?" Seeing that something was not going well, Qiye quickly asked.
"My eldest brother said he would let you go, but that doesn't mean I will let you go." The thin man swung the sharp knife and approached step by step.
"Hey..." Sure enough, as the Great Protector said, even if he had made the biggest concession, he could not make the other party stop, and instead it resulted in death.
Qiye sighed helplessly. It seemed that he was too naive to try to resolve the current predicament by losing money and avoiding disaster. I didn't want to do it, but I had no choice but to do it. Since the other party wants his life, there is no need for him to be merciful anymore.
As soon as he thought of this, Qiye put away his calm face, his indifferent eyes turned cold, and a killing intent filled the air. The thin man saw Qiye standing there, his breath was cold, and for some reason there were many cold hairs on his face.
"Ling Bu..." There was a whisper in the dark night. Before the thin man could get closer, Qiye's figure disappeared out of thin air in front of his eyes like a ghost, and flashed behind the thin man in an instant. Only this time, Qiye had a sharp knife in his hand that he had taken away from the thin man at some point.
The sharp knife was pressed coldly against the neck, and before the thin man could react from the shock, the knife sliced through it silently.
Chi~~ The sound of cutting was extremely crisp, and blood spurted out. The thin man didn't even utter the last trace of pain, and his breathing stopped abruptly, and he fell to the ground in an instant.
The fat man on the other side, who was about to leave, turned around when he heard the noise, but suddenly saw his accomplice dying like this in the blink of an eye. He was so surprised that his hair stood on end. In the midst of the chaos, Qiye suddenly appeared behind the fat man. A cold sharp knife came out of the dark night and touched the fat man's back.
"Don't move. Now I'm going to ask you. You answer my questions honestly, otherwise...he will be your fate." Qiye, who was hiding behind the fat man, whispered. The sound is like winter snow, cold to the bone.
"Gudu... Young Master, spare your life! If you have any questions, just ask, I will definitely tell you everything." At this moment, the fat man knew that his life was in his hands and was in danger, and he no longer had any questions. He was so arrogant that he was speechless for a moment. The torch in his left hand fell to the ground in shock, and his right hand holding the saber stopped in mid-air without daring to move.
"Who are you? Why are you following me? Do you know that I have gold coins?" Qiye asked three questions straight to the point.
"We two are little pony thieves in this area. It was Li Ergou, the waiter at the tea shop, who told the two brothers about you and made us fall in love with you halfway. That's why the two of us have been I'm following you here." Fatty said briefly.
"Did you poison the bay-red horse?" Qiye glanced at the bay-red horse, which was still collapsed on the ground and weak in strength.
"This is the medicine given by Li Ergou. He fed the 'poisonous flower juice' to the young master's horse in advance. This medicine has good latent properties and is difficult to detect. It usually takes five or six hours to take effect. However, this medicine is not very toxic. Big, it's just a temporary paralysis for a period of time. As long as you take the antidote, you can recover immediately." Now that the matter was over, the fat man no longer concealed it and spoke out in full.
"I see..." Qiye murmured. It turned out that his bold mistake actually made the waiter in the tea shop conspire to collude with the horse thieves to gain wealth and kill people. It seems that I am still too young, and when I first entered the world, I was secretly plotted by someone with ulterior motives. If I didn't have the strength today, I'm afraid I would have died on the roadside by now.
"It seems like this isn't the first time you have done this, right?" Qiye also gradually understood that nothing is ever such a coincidence.
"Both of us brothers were instigated by Li Ergou and did this without knowing the truth. I hope the young master will find out and spare my life." The fat man blamed all the fault on Li Ergou with an innocent look on his face. road.
"The antidote is with you, right? As long as you hand over the antidote, I can spare your life." Qiye was so calm that he couldn't see any mood swings.
"Here, here, here, I'll take the little one to the young master right away." As he said that, the fat man's hand that was dazed in the air gradually lowered it and stopped groping around his waist.
After a while, the fat man took out a delicate medicine bottle from his belt, held it in his left hand, then slowly turned around and made a handover gesture.
Seeing that the fat man calmed down, Qiye quietly removed the sharp knife from the fat man's back and was about to reach out to receive the medicine bottle.
"Go to hell! You little bastard!" The fat man who escaped from the restraint suddenly shouted loudly. He quickly turned around and swept the saber in his hand across the air behind him.
"Hmph!" Qiye snorted coldly, without changing his expression, he leaned down and suddenly got into the gap below the fat man. The broad saber swept past Qiye's head with the sound of "whirring" the sword wind. The unexpected attack failed before Fatty could recover.
Qiye was excited, like a fish leaping out of the sea, and jumped up from under the fat man. The sharp knife instantly penetrated the fat man's jaw, penetrated the tongue cavity, and penetrated into the brain, killing him instantly in one go.
The fat man held his bleeding chin tightly with both hands. Blood poured out of his mouth. After whimpering in pain for a few times, he fell to the ground and died.
"Actually, you could have survived. If you were kind..." Qiye said seriously, throwing away the murder weapon and looking at the corpses of the two horse thieves on the ground.
"Hahaha, 'kindness', I didn't expect that the Great Protector would hear such a new word from the mouth of a murderous little baby, hahaha!!!" From the Huntian Wheel, the Great Protector laughed without concealment. The sound seemed to be mocking Qiye for killing someone and yet speaking so righteously.
"What? Does the Great Protector think that no one is kind in this world?" The great Protector mocked. Qiye asked with an unhappy expression.
"Hahaha, kindness without strength in this world is stupid! It is not worthy of sympathy at all! You are kind, if you have no strength, then you will die today! So, what is the use of your kindness? It's just It's just a robber who is getting cheaper. I wonder which strong person didn't grow up in a bloody storm? The cruelty they experienced is beyond the imagination of a stinky little kid like you! Kindness is just the sorrow of the weak..." The protector said with great insight, his tone was like an elder reprimanding a junior.
"No matter how dangerous the world is, Ah Qi will still stick to his true heart! I will not offend others unless they offend me. Even if I cannot become a ruthless and strong man, I will not be ashamed of Master's teachings." Qiye said seriously. From the beginning to the end, I never dared to forget the last words of Taizu Hunyuan: live up to your heart, never stop.
"Hmph, in the future you will know how childish what you said today is..." As if he was too lazy to play the piano anymore, the Great Protector's voice gradually weakened.
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