The rain became more and more intensive, and the sound of water droplets bursting sounded on the leaves in the forest, and in this dense rain curtain, the new wolf king slowly walked up.

The wolf's eyes were the most keen, and it saw the red bead chain in Ah Xiao's hand at a glance, and after howling a few times happily, it trotted to Ah Xiao's side, without thinking much about it, and directly bit the bead chain with a mouthful of wolf teeth.

"Whoa!" The wolf king wailed, it didn't expect this thing to have such a high temperature, it howled in pain, and stretched out its tongue to lick the rain on the ground.

There was a clatter of feet stepping on stagnant water, and the wolf king looked at the forest suspiciously.

A young man with a long knife on his back approached slowly in the middle of the woods, and the wolf king looked at the man alertly, took a few steps back, revealing his sharp wolf fangs, and let out a low roar of warning.

There were people in the forest, and the young man with the knife didn't say anything, but he heard a bang, and the long knife was already out of the sheath!

A silver light lit up in the dense rain curtain, and the silver light shone with a dazzling light, cutting countless raindrops through the rain curtain, and then directly submerged into the wolf king's body.

The long knife pierced into the wolf king's body, but it was not a fatal injury, the wolf king roared a few times in pain, knowing the horror of the human in front of him, he turned around and planned to escape, and the wrist of the young man with the knife was just a slight shake, and the wolf king's internal organs were shaken into a mess by his strength.

The wolf king's eyes were full of incredulity, it had just ascended to the throne of the wolf king, the eyes full of fear used all the strength of the whole body to look back at the young man with the knife, the young man with the knife was standing in the rain, like a straight tree, the warm blood in the abdomen continued to flow out, but it felt colder and colder.

The young man with the knife pulled out his long knife and slapped it on the wolf king's body with the blade, and the huge force from the blade made a sharp whistling sound during the swing.

"Smack!"

A heavy slap sounded, and the long knife slapped on the wolf king's body, shaking the water droplets all over the wolf king's body into powder! The wolf king let out a final wail, and then, like a kite with a broken string, flew out and crashed into an ancient tree!

The young man with the knife put the knife into its sheath and stood quietly looking at the child lying on the ground.

He reluctantly bent down and carried the still unconscious child on his back.

......

On the official road out of Jianyi City, a team of dozens of people wrapped in cyan turbans was galloping towards Yushan on fast horses, and the heavy rain splashed on their robes, like soybeans stir-fried in an iron pot.

"Master, could it be that the Ghost-Faced Thief really died in our small city, but that one is just a headless corpse, not necessarily a Ghost-Faced Thief?" a young catcher asked the leader in front of him.

The leading official is called Xiong Xu, about forty years old, with dark skin and an extremely simple face. It was his apprentice Ding Yi who spoke just now, Xiong Xu has been a head catcher in Jianyi City for ten years, as an old head catcher, he has extremely rich tracking experience, and he is also the most powerful combat power in Jianyi City.

The national strength of Great Qin is extremely strong, and it is clearly stipulated that as long as it is a county and above the court officials, there is a body forging method given by the court, although the person who forges the body is not as strong as the monk, but after all, there is some capital to fight against ordinary monks. Although Jianyi City is small and does not have the army of the county town, there are also thirty heads in the establishment, and all of them have good strength.

Xiong Xu, as the leader of the head catcher in the small city, has the strength of forging Xiaocheng, his seemingly dark and ordinary skin actually contains extremely domineering power, coupled with his own experience, there are dozens of officials beside him, he firmly believes that even if he encounters a few bandit leaders in Nage Mountain, he has the power to fight.

"The strength of the Ghost Thief should not be underestimated, but he has an obvious characteristic, that is, he has a special tattoo on his neck. ”

Xiong Xu grabbed the reins with a "huh-" sound, looked at the rice field in the distance, and pointed to the overwhelmed rice in the distance, "Go to two people, there may be some traces there, and the rest of the people rest in place! Horses can't rush in this weather, take care of their horses!"

There happened to be a small shed on the side of the road, and Xiong Xu and a few people led the horses and crowded together in this not spacious space. He touched the Da Qin Qiang crossbow that he was carrying on his back under his robe, and breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed that it was still dry, and then he pulled out the standard horizontal knife issued by the government tied to his waist, and the blade of the horizontal knife was as white as the first snow, and he could vaguely see his own figure.

After carefully wiping the rain on the knife, he said slowly: "In the small city, he also died in Jiang Laosi's house, according to the child and the little girl of the Su family, there should only be one child in Jiang Laosi's family at this time, if there is really a fight in Jiang Laosi's house, and the person who killed the ghost-faced thief really kidnaps Ah Xiao, then this person's strength is extremely strong, then at least you have to ask the Tsing Yi head catcher of the six doors in the county town to have a chance of winning."

"How is it possible? What kind of master like this is doing in a small place like ours? Not to mention that Jiang Laosi's family doesn't have much money, so it shouldn't be for money, right?"

Xiong Xu looked at Ding Yi with a smile on his face, and said: "This road is the only way to go to Yushan, we asked the people who went out of the city, and they all said that there was a broken carriage that went out of the city yesterday, since they relied on this road all the way forward, then they will definitely leave clues, but it is raining so heavily today......"

Xiong Xu shook his head, indicating that this was also the most distressing place.

Ding Yi still wanted to say something, but at this time, the two catchers who went to explore the way shouted loudly: "Old Xiong!

"Sure enough, isn't this a clue?" Xiong Xu patted Ding Yi on the shoulder, motioning for him to put on a hat and go with him to check, while the rest of the people stayed here to take care of the horses.

Ding Yi hurriedly put on the hat and walked into the rain with Xiong Xu again.

"Old Xiong, it's these corpses, we found that they were buried in the overwhelmed rice, not too deep, it rained so heavily today, so the soil on the surface of the corpses was washed away, so we easily found the corpses buried underneath. ”

"Hmm. Xiong Xu nodded, "Is there just these two corpses?

The two catchers quickly lifted the straw that had just covered the two corpses, "There are only two corpses here, and judging by their clothes and faces, they should be either brothers or relatives and friends." ”

The two corpses were taller, and their skin had turned a little pale from the dead.

Xiong Xu stretched out his dark hands, pasted them on the faces of the two corpses, touched the heads under his hair, opened his eyelids, and carefully observed the situation under his eyes, and then muttered: "The faces of these two corpses are intact, their eyes have been cloudy, it seems that they have been dead for more than a day, less than three days, and one of them has a wound on the back of the head." ”

"Master, this should mean that they should be with the group that kidnapped Ah Xiao, right? But how did they die? Could it be infighting?" Ding Yi scratched his head and wondered.

"I don't know this yet, but now I can be sure that these two people should be practitioners. Xiong Xu pointed to the fist of one of the corpses and said, "This is obvious, both of them have extremely thick calluses on their fists, and they should also be practitioners of body forging." ”

"Master, here is the waist of this corpse...... It looks like he's hurt!"

Ding Yi's voice became a little surprised, "He, he was beaten to death with a fist!"

"There's another ...... Master, you said that there are marks of impact on the back of his head, I just turned it over, and there is mud and sand in this wound, and these sand and stones are embedded in his skin and flesh very deeply, and there can be no sand and gravel in the rice field, so it can't be glued when he was buried, and the sand and gravel will only be found on the road, so it should be ......"

He pointed to the side of the road, and then made a gesture of holding something and smashing it on the ground, "I should have been caught on the road and pressed down to the ground and stoned to death." ”

"That's true. Xiong Xu looked at the corpse, his brows furrowed more and more.

"That's not right!" His ears moved flexibly, he looked at Ding Yi and asked, "Are there still people from our county government who are coming here one after another?"

"Nope. Ding Yi looked at Xiong Xu blankly.

Xiong Xu pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist with a snort, "Then be careful, there is the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, since it is not our people, then-"

"It's about these two corpses. His tone grew cold.

Seeing this, Ding Yi hurriedly ran to the horse to summon the heads of the catchers and reminded them to get ready, he did not doubt Xiong Xu's words in the slightest, as Xiong Xu's apprentice, he naturally knew that his master would never make a mistake in this regard.

Xiong Xu's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the distance of the road that was not full of rain, fog and water vapor, and said in a low voice: "It's close." ”

Several catchers next to him pulled out their standard horizontal knives together, and the hands holding the knives trembled.

Not because of fear, but because of excitement.

The Great Qin people have always been a warlike people.

They have been comfortable in Jianyi City for so long that they have to forget that they are still a head catcher, and now that they finally have a case, the opponent does not seem to be weak.

"Da Da Da-" The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and on the visible horizon appeared a figure riding a red horse, he was dressed in the same thick hat as the head catcher, and his face was not visible under the double action of the hat and water vapor, and there was an extremely long knife soldier in the knife pocket next to the horse.

After the man walked in, he grabbed the reins, looked at the horizontal knife in the hands of Xiong Xu and several people, and said: "The knife body is three feet three feet long, and the handle of the knife is engraved with a bird pattern, this is the standard horizontal knife of Yi'an County, and there is a strong crossbow on your back, you are from the government?"

"You thief, just know, tell me where you took the people and children in my city, what is your relationship with the ghost-faced thief, and what happened to these two corpses?" Ding Yi took the lead and asked.

The rain was still falling, and showed no sign of abating, and the man sat on his horse, and the rain fell on the hat and bounced into countless small droplets.

With a bang, a silver light lit up in the rain curtain, and the silver light poured out, like a waterfall of the Nine Heavens falling into the mortal world, breaking through the raindrops along the way, and finally flashed in front of Ding Yi!

"Be merciful!" Xiong Xu felt the horror of this knife, the horizontal knife in his hand was rising, the strength between his waist and legs was mobilized by him to the extreme, the surging power under the dark skin surged, and he came to Ding Yi's side with one step, and raised the knife to slash towards the silver light!

"Smack!" The silver light was cut off by Xiong Xu, Ding Yi breathed a sigh of relief, this person's knife technique was too terrifying, and even the moment he came out of the knife, he felt that he was locked and smelled the breath of death!

Seeing that Ding Yi didn't have an accident, Xiong Xu's nervous heart also relaxed, he looked at the place where the man was, and wanted to say something, but found that the man had disappeared for some time, leaving only the horse he sat on isolated on the road, and there seemed to be a small figure immediately.

"Hahaha, Master, he must have been scared away by you, this guy, I thought he was so powerful. Ding Yi stroked his chest, a little proud.

But Xiong Xu was far from being so happy, but was a little worried, his sophisticated eyes looked at Ding Yi, "Touch your top." ”

Ding Yileng took a look, but still touched the hat on his head, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

A corner of his hat was cut off.