Chapter 383: Black Hand
Another pheasant landed nearby, expecting the tiger to be held back for a few seconds, enough for them to escape.
Jiang Lingqin didn't know how to ride a horse, and Shen Lanying's panda was a juvenile and couldn't run fast at all, so the two ran out of a hundred meters, and the tiger behind them caught up again.
"Wan'er, why is it still chasing us? Aren't the two wild pheasants enough for it to eat?" Jiang Lingqin turned his head back, looking at the blood basin mouth close at hand, and his pretty face turned pale with fright.
"I'm afraid it's trying to eat people. Shen Lanying glanced back at the tiger, estimated the distance, and planned to kill it with a horse pistol. "Eighth sister, you go first, I'll hold it back. ”
It sounds like an extremely tragic sentence, but in fact, Shen Lanying is just afraid that she will accidentally injure Jiang Lingqin when she shoots for a while.
Shen Lanying's plan was very good, but in the next moment, the tiger opened its bloody mouth and roared angrily. The sound was really deafening, very Beastmaster-style.
Herbivores have a natural fear of carnivores, coupled with the stimulation of blood in the air, both horses were frightened to varying degrees, but the difference was that the panda was just desperately fleeing in the other direction, while Jiang Lingqin's horse was completely frightened, raised its upper body, and directly threw Jiang Lingqin out.
Horses are easily frightened creatures, and when a horse is frightened, only a skilled rider can avoid falling from it.
Shen Lanying's frightened face turned pale. Now the panda has run more than 20 meters away, but the unarmed Jiang Lingqin is only less than five meters away from the tiger.
Jiang Lingqin's horse tried to escape, but was pounced on the back by the tiger and broke his neck from behind.
Although Shen Lanying was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, she did not rush to pull the reins of the horse, but gently stroked the panda's mane, repeated this action, whispered in her ear to reassure, praying that the panda could be psychic and quickly calm down.
When the panda was just brought back from the horse market by Fengshuang, when Shen Lanying communicated with her, she stroked her mane, so this familiar action really made the panda settle down, she gradually stopped, and finally stood on the ground.
When the mount stabilized, Shen Lanying immediately made a high-risk move, she directly took the saddle as a saddle horse, supported her hands on it, rotated her body one hundred and eighty degrees, and rode upside down on the horse, aiming her pistol at the tiger in the distance.
The tiger hadn't hurt Jiang Lingqin yet, it had bitten through the horse's throat and was sucking on the fresh, warm horse's blood.
At present, the tiger is about fifty meters away from Shen Lanying, and at this distance, Shen Lanying is not missing.
But here's the problem......
Tigers are really hard to kill with one shot.
What's even worse is that this tiger is concentrating on eating, and from Shen Lanying's point of view, it can't hit the tiger's head at all.
So Shen Lanying shot the tiger in the back of the neck, and then quickly turned around on horseback and carried the panda back to the battlefield.
The next shot was the tiger's hind legs.
The time between the two shots was only two seconds, giving the tiger no chance to react at all.
The tiger let out a dull roar, turned its head to look at Shen Lanying, and flew towards her.
Shen Lanying was afraid that the panda would be frightened again, so she would follow in Jiang Lingqin's footsteps, so she jumped off the horse without hesitation, aimed at the tiger's head and fired a third shot.
The last shot worked, and the tiger staggered forward two steps, then threw himself to the ground, and saw that he was dying.
Shen Lanying finally breathed a long sigh of relief, only to find that she had broken out in a cold sweat, her hands and feet were trembling, and she simply squatted in place and gasped. By the time she had recovered her strength, there were already shouts in the distant woods.
So Shen Lanying stood up strongly, took out the gunpowder from her bag, put it down in front of the motionless tiger, and then lit the fuse.
After destroying the tiger's carcass, no one could see the gunshot wounds on its body, but on the contrary, she could not find out the origin of the tiger.
After doing this, Shen Lanying quickly ran into the distance, a violent roar sounded behind him, and the tiger's corpse seemed to be no longer the same.
The nobles who heard the sound only saw the two princesses sitting on the ground, the corpse of a horse, and the little white horse guarding Shen Lanying's side.
"Ling Qin!" Wei Chi Gu shouted, turned over and dismounted, rushed to Jiang Lingqin's side, and asked urgently, "How are you?"
Jiang Lingqin suddenly woke up from his sluggishness, and stood up with the support of Wei Chigu, "I'm fine, Wan'er...... Wan'er, how are you?"
Shen Lanying is naturally fine, she just sits on the ground and pretends to be dead.
"I'm fine. Shen Lanying also stood up and shook her head at Jiang Lingqin.
Within a minute, a large number of officials and foreign nobles rushed over, looking at the battlefield in amazement, especially the unidentified creature with a scorched body in the middle of the battlefield.
Everyone thought that Yu Chi Gu used a special method to kill the tiger, but Yu Chi Gu directly denied it, and Jiang Lingqin clearly pointed out that it was Shen Lanying who did it.
"When I was passing through Jiangnan, I bought this gunpowder at Qianjimen, which was originally used for self-defense, but I didn't expect to use it here. "Shen Lanying pushed the supernatural phenomenon to Qianjimen, anyway, Qianjimen is selling these prohibited weapons privately. But wherever the Jianghu sects live, there are always a few small shops where you can buy high-efficiency gunpowder at sky-high prices.
Qianjimen is a fairy-like existence in the eyes of the court, so everyone is relieved and begins to run to tell each other that this hunting needs to be temporarily over, because there are tigers running out, and it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the reason and confirm the safety before the hunting ground can continue to be used.
Shen Lanying also followed most of the people to the resting place, and along the way, a large number of acquaintances came over to inquire about the situation, and Shen Lanying told them one by one with nonsense, and said with a smile that she was safe and sound.
When Fengshuang rushed over, she hurriedly pulled Fengshuang to a place where no one was, told him what had happened, and described the tiger's signs in detail. And nervously asked, "This won't affect you, will it?"
Feng Shuang frowned, "This is not a tiger prepared for hunting, the tiger used for hunting is still in the beast cage, and when the explosion sounded, I happened to be in the beast cage to check the tiger's situation." It can't be from the hunting grounds. ”
Shen Lanying nodded and said in a low voice, "I also don't think you can have such a mistake. I always felt that someone was deliberately plotting. ”
Fengshuang's face was solemn, he bowed slightly, and said, "I understand, I'll check it now, you be careful yourself." ”
Shen Lanying said goodbye to Feng Shuang, while walking along the lake, she thought about the person with the motive to commit the crime, and after several trade-offs, she locked on a person who was most likely to do it, and immediately decided to talk to that person to buy time for Feng Shuang's investigation.
And just as Shen Lanying was speeding up her pace, a hand slowly stretched out behind her back.