Chapter 571: Elder to Elder
At first, this situation really startled Jiang Ping, this obviously belonged to a woman's hand, but Lan Ke'er was guarding the gate, who was beside Jiang Ping? But Jiang Ping quickly thought that there was another woman in the villa, and the one he grabbed must be Li Hui's hand.
In fact, Li Hui has also been paying attention to the changes in the situation, and I don't know why she didn't go to her apprentice's side, but instead came to Jiang Ping to help.
Seeing that Jiang Ping knocked down an enemy with one arrow, the happy Li Hui didn't think much about it, and hurriedly handed him another arrow. It's just that what Li Hui didn't expect was that Jiang Ping actually grabbed his hand by chance, making the atmosphere embarrassing in vain.
Fortunately, Li Hui is not an untrained girl after all, and she still has some self-control when she becomes a mature woman. Li Hui barely allowed herself to let out an exclamation, and just whispered in Jiang Ping's ear: "I'm here to hand you arrows!"
In fact, both Jiang Ping and Li Hui knew that her explanation was just an excuse. After all, Jiang Ping put the arrow at his feet, and he himself couldn't reach it, so why did he want Li Hui to do more?
However, the two of them tacitly did not say anything about this matter, Jiang Ping nodded lightly to show that he understood Li Hui's help, and then he quickly remembered that in such darkness, the other party couldn't see him nodding at all, so he whispered "thank you".
Although Jiang Ping has repeatedly reminded himself not to make extraneous branches at such times. However, when Li Hui's soft and glutinous voice sounded in his ears, and the exhaled air gently sprayed on Jiang Ping's ears, it still made him a little itchy. So when he took the arrow from Li Hui's hand, Jiang Ping almost instinctively hooked his little finger and scratched it lightly in her palm.
Don't look at it, this is just an inconspicuous small action, but it has already made Li Huifang's heart tremble. She only felt that her cheeks were hot, but she was glad that she would not be seen by Jiang Ping at night, otherwise she would really be embarrassed.
And Li Hui found that she was not disgusted by what Jiang Ping did. On the contrary, there is still a little enjoyment. This made Li Hui also a little overwhelmed, not knowing what was wrong with her, why she was so dazzled by a man so much younger than herself.
In fact, Jiang Ping could roughly know her mood at this time only from Li Hui's trembling jade hands. But at the moment, after all, the enemy was present, so he didn't make any further moves, just quickly wound up and load the arrows. Shoot an arrow at another guy who is still riding on the wall.
"Whoosh!" With another sound of breaking the air, the guy also fell off the wall with an upside-down onion.
However, this time Jiang Ping did not hit the vital point of the target, so he fell outside the courtyard and screamed like a pig, which made the remaining three accomplices all feel cold.
If after the first accomplice was shot, these people thought it was just the other party's luck, then after the second person was shot, they all knew that they were facing an archer.
A sharpshooter who can accurately shoot his target in such darkness is undoubtedly terrifying. So the few people who were still hesitating no longer hesitated, and immediately decided to leave here as soon as possible.
However, Jiang Ping is not a soft persimmon to be pinched. His villa is also not a free park for others to come and go as they want. A few of these guys came uninvited, so it wasn't so easy to leave.
Jiang Ping took another arrow from Li Hui's hand, and quickly prepared, shooting down a guy who had just climbed over the wall and wanted to escape. Next, Jiang Ping and Li Hui's cooperation became more and more tacit, and the speed at which he shot crossbow arrows became faster. Before the remaining two fled back into the woods, they were all left near the wall.
One of them was shot in the chest by Jiang Ping, and after falling out of the wall, he didn't say a word, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive. The other was shot through the thigh. Lying at the foot of the fence and yelling in pain.
The five intruders had all lost their threat, and Jiang Ping was secretly relieved. Judging by the performance of these guys, though. That thief elder Li Cheng was obviously not among them. So Jiang Ping thought about it for a while, and decided to look nearby, and strive to find out the culprit and never suffer in the future.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ping no longer hesitated, and whispered to Li Hui beside him: "You and Ke'er stay in the villa, and you are responsible for monitoring the movements around you and informing Ke'er at any time." ”
"What about you?" I don't know why. Li Hui was a little worried about Jiang Ping.
"Li Cheng should be nearby, I'll find him out!" Jiang Ping whispered to Li Hui: "If this guy doesn't get rid of him, I can't always rest assured." ”
Li Hui also agreed with Jiang Ping's statement, and after a little hesitation, she reminded him in a low voice: "Be careful!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely come back alive to see you!" heard the concern in Li Hui's words. Jiang Pingkou's problem was made again, and he couldn't help but lean into her ear and whispered: "If I come back safely, you have to give me a reward!"
Jiang Ping's implicative words made Li Hui's heart beat violently. However, she was not unhappy in the slightest, but promised in a magical way: "Okay, as long as you come back safely!"
Getting such a promise from Li Hui also made Jiang Ping a little surprised while being happy. However, he didn't delay for too long, just said in Li Hui's ear, "Wait for me to come back", and then jumped off the terrace on the third floor and quietly disappeared into the darkness.
After being stunned for a while in the direction where Jiang Ping disappeared, Li Hui slowly came back to his senses. She shook her head lightly to drive some messy thoughts out of her mind, and then hurried to Jiang Ping's study. Next, it is up to Li Hui to monitor the surrounding situation, which may be related to the life and death of the apprentice and herself, and she does not dare to be negligent in this.
Jumping directly from the third-floor terrace may be fatal to ordinary people, but for Jiang Ping, it is only a trivial matter. He landed lightly to the ground, took advantage of the roll, unloaded the huge momentum, and in a blink of an eye came to the side of the fence to check on the situation of the people he had shot.
Jiang Ping, who was wearing a night vision device, was very accurate in his archery, and none of the five people ran away. Two of them were shot dead on the spot, and the other three were all injured and would not be able to run for a while.
Jiang Ping was very satisfied with his results, and easily performed a pulse amputation on the injured guys to prevent them from escaping, and then climbed over the fence and groped his way into the pitch black.
Since these guys are coming from that direction, their boss Li Cheng should also be in that direction. At present, Jiang Ping just wants to find out Li Cheng, and only in this way can he never suffer from future troubles.
Perhaps it is dangerous for ordinary people to go into a pitch-black woods alone. However, for Jiang Ping, who wore night vision devices, darkness became a factor in his favor.
Jiang Ping cautiously advanced along the way, trying not to make a sound, so as not to alarm Li Cheng, who might be hiding. At the same time, he also used night vision devices to observe the surrounding situation and find Li Cheng's whereabouts.
Under infrared night vision, everything with temperatures above absolute zero is hidden. Jiang Ping could see birds perched on branches, rodents searching for food near the roots, and sometimes even faint footprints—these were left by the guys who had broken into the villa before, and Jiang Ping was even more convinced that he was not looking in the wrong direction.
This made Jiang Ping very confident in finding Li Cheng, as long as Li Cheng remained nearby, Jiang Ping, who had infrared night vision devices, would definitely be able to find him easily.
However, Jiang Ping soon discovered that someone had found Li Cheng in front of him. And this person is none other than Xiang Sheng, who has been missing for the past two days!
In fact, it is easy to understand when you think about it, the reason why Xiang Sheng worked so hard to ambush around the villa was obviously aimed at Li Cheng. After all, both of them are thieves elders, and apart from Li Cheng, there is no one worthy of Xiang Sheng doing this.
Jiang Ping hadn't gone far before he heard the sound of a fight. He hurriedly quickened his pace and rushed over, and sure enough, he saw two people fighting with their lives.
This place was already close to the highway, and with the faint light shining on the other side of the kilometer, Jiang Ping immediately saw that these two people were Xiang Sheng and Li Cheng.
Don't look at Xiang Sheng and Li Cheng are both old, but the two of them are still vigorous when they move, and they are even more agile than young people. Of course, this has a lot to do with their perennial diligent practice, and it is definitely not a fluke that the thief can be passed down to this day.
Perhaps in the eyes of the layman, the two fought very lively, and it can also be said that there is no winner or loser. However, in Jiang Ping's eyes, this battle is nearing its end. Xiang Sheng has obviously gained the upper hand, although Li Cheng is still barely supporting, but it is only a strong crossbow wood, and he can't hold on for long.
It is true, although it seems that Xiang Sheng is still fighting with Li Cheng, but as soon as Jiang Ping arrived nearby, he noticed it, and immediately asked loudly: "Xiao Jiang, why are you here?"
"I'm just here to take a look. Jiang Ping shrugged indifferently and said, "I want to see what kind of virtue the thief elder who sold the tokens of this sect is, so as not to see only a dead man when it is too late, and then I will lose a lot of money." ”
Li Cheng was preoccupied with Xiang Sheng, and he didn't notice Jiang Ping approaching at all. It wasn't until the two started talking that he was surprised to find that there was one more person nearby, and he seemed to have a very good relationship with Xiang Sheng. Now Li Cheng is even more panicked, he can't deal with Xiang Sheng alone, and now that the other party has one more person, Li Cheng's situation is naturally becoming more and more difficult.
However, Li Cheng had no intention of giving up, and he pinned all his hopes on those men who attacked the villa. He believed that as long as his subordinates could catch Li Hui and the others and retrieve the tokens of the theft, he would still have the possibility of turning over.
However, Xiang Sheng seemed to have seen through Li Cheng's plan, and immediately asked Jiang Ping quietly: "What about the few who went to the villa?"
"Oh, you say those idiots. Jiang Ping shrugged lightly and said, "These guys are too vigilant, they squatted on the wall like ducks, and they were shot down by me with one arrow." (To be continued......)
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