Section 14 Doubts about the inn
The night road is longer and farther than the day, and after walking for less than two hours, Si Xue began to beat her legs, she really didn't want to stay up like this anymore, as a doctor, she knew the importance of sleep to a woman, especially a woman who had not yet married.
At her begging, everyone finally found an inn to rest. Although the inn is a little dilapidated, it can be regarded as the only one in this place, Si Xue picked a room in the northeast corner, and also lived in the seriously injured Lu Jin, next to Duan Shuai and Lu Yu, and then Zhao Nian and Nian Nu, Pan Chongyue, and several Tianshan disciples.
The northeast corner is often windy in this weather, and tonight's style is so big that it can blow open the locked window in the middle of the night. If the window is said to be blown open, then the wind is enough to blow the house down, so there is someone. Someone pushed open the window. Some people want to enter Sixue's room, and some people want to sneak in in the middle of the night.
Duan Shuai was still not worried about the situation tonight, he placed the man in white in Pan Chongyue's room, but he would still pace in the corridor from time to time, he couldn't sleep, even if he was tired, he couldn't sleep, he couldn't figure out everything that happened today. He combed through the whole context, and there were still no clues.
Si Xue's scream woke everyone up, and a man was beside the bed, touching her arm, just touching it quietly. Si Xue curled up in a ball after shaking off this person, but she didn't hit Lu Jin next to her, Lu Jin was already asleep, and even this scream didn't wake him up. Duan Shuai broke into the door as soon as possible, and came to Si Xue's bed like lightning, and there was a person squatting next to the bed, a thin old man.
His body was seen clearly, but he couldn't see his face clearly, Duan Shuai slammed his body, who knew that this time, the person actually fell down like this. When his face was revealed, everyone present was stunned. It's him! This person is actually the old man who wants to sell Niannu during the day, Niannu's grandfather!
The old man is already dead, the blood from the corner of his mouth has not dried up, obviously he has just died, who killed this old man in such a short time, and then quietly transported it to Sixue's room, and then left quietly? Duan Shuai fell into deep thought again. What is this man doing here? Is it just to show his ability in front of Duan Shuai? That's too low-level! There was nothing special in the room, except for the dead old man, and a small strip of cloth hung from the corner of the window.
People think of drinking when they are anxious, Duan Shuai often drinks, but tonight he won't, he suddenly thought of Pan Chongyue who appeared in the evening. Pan Chongyue had disappeared for a long time, and since that time when he went down from the Tianshan Mountain, Duan Shuai had never heard of him again, and this was the first time he had seen him in ten years.
His appearance didn't seem to have changed much, the only thing that had changed was his swordsmanship, he used the carefree swordsmanship, but this swordsmanship was much more proficient and powerful than before, just a few moves that Duan Shuai had glimpsed during the day were enough to make him staggered. Duan Shuai shifted his gaze to Pan Chongyue, the only one who suddenly appeared, and the only one here who had the ability to do so. Suddenly, Duan Shuai saw that there were scratches on the corners of Pan Chongyue's clothes.
Looking at the small strip of cloth that was torn off by Sixue's window, it was exactly the same color and fabric as Pan Chongyue's clothes, Duan Shuai's eyes were sharper, Pan Chongyue was a little uncomfortable by him, and said loudly: "This... Hey, Brother Duan, what are you looking at me for? Duan Shuai asked coldly: "Is it you?" Pan Chongyue replied stupidly: "I... What's wrong with me? ”
"What's wrong with you? Did you instruct those three people? Isn't it you who sneaked into the snow room tonight? Wasn't it you who killed Grandpa Niannu? Duan Shuai asked several questions in a row, each of which was as sharp as a blade. Pan Chongyue took two steps back at a loss, and said in a lost voice: "What... How could it be me! ”
Si Xue was also a little puzzled, and asked, "Didn't this big brother help us during the day?" How could it be him? Duan Shuai pulled the strip of cloth and said, "Is this on your clothes?" Pan Chongyue looked at the strip of cloth, and then looked at the clothes on his body, and found that at some point, there were many holes in his clothes, and the hole was not big or small, just the size of the small strip of cloth.
He took two steps back sharply, and Duan Shuai said again: "I have always known that Brother Pan uses his sword with his right hand, but you! Today you actually used your left hand, I always felt that something was wrong during the day, until Si Xue was arguing to shut the room on the left of my mouth, I remembered that your sword hand was actually reversed during the day! ”
Pan Chongyue sighed and explained: "Oh, I was just about to explain this to you, brother... Before he finished speaking, everyone was already on Duan Shuai's side, looking at him with suspicion. The beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down one by one, and he didn't know what to do in a hurry.
Just then, a sudden roar came from outside. Duan Shuai really heard the voice of the man in white, "It's not good! Hit the trick! Duan Shuai said and grabbed Pan Chongyue and rushed into Pan Chongyue's room, the man in white had indeed died tragically on the ground, the corners of his mouth, nostrils, ears, and eyes were bleeding, obviously he was shocked to death with a very strong internal force.
Everyone fell into confusion again, and Pan Chongyue, who had just suspected, had always been among them, so who would take advantage of this kung fu to kill people and kill people? This person is obviously not any of them here, so who is this person? Pan Chongyue sighed and said: "My left-handed sword skills have also been trained by a master in the past few years, and after practice, I found that this left-handed sword is much more flexible than the right-handed." So, I'm not going to use my right hand anymore! ”
He sighed and continued, "As for the corner of this coat, I really don't know when it was broken, and when this strip of cloth was hung in front of Miss Sixue's window. Duan Shuai saw that he had a real vision, and this incident had just happened, and he really couldn't think of any reason to question Pan Chongyue.
Duan Shuai sighed and slowly walked out of the door, he instructed a few Tianshan disciples to clean up the bodies of the man in white and the old man, and was about to go back to the room, when he suddenly heard Si Xue shouting again. This scream made Duan Shuai's nerves tense again.
The old man's body is gone, not only the old man's body is gone, but even Lu Jin is gone! Everyone shifted their attention to Pan Chongyue's room, but they didn't expect that just when everyone was suspicious of Pan Chongyue, this mysterious person actually killed a person in such a short period of time and took away the bodies of two people.
Duan Shuai's chest seemed to have a fire burning, and after countless life-and-death struggles, he was not afraid, but everything tonight made him have to be afraid, not afraid that the opponent is strong, just afraid that you don't know who the opponent is at all! At this time, Xiao Niannu suddenly walked out and said lightly: "That's not grandpa." ”
That's not grandpa, these words made everyone confused, Niannu continued: "Grandpa has a smell of smoke on his body, he doesn't." He has a scent. Duan Shuai suddenly realized, no wonder Nian Nu didn't look too sad, it turned out that he had long known that this person was not his grandfather. It's normal for a child to wake up and react a little slower, so who is this person?
The sharp-eyed Si Xue suddenly saw a note at the head of the bed, which read: "If you want to save Lu Jin, tonight, one person will come to the birch forest." Duan Shuai was convinced, completely convinced, this person's martial arts were not only so high that he couldn't imagine it, but all this carefully designed was seamless.
This man knows who is going to be taken and who is threatened. Anyway, the most important thing at the moment is to rescue Lu Jin. The night was very deep and deep, the wind at night was always so cold, and Duan Shuai, who was thorny, was exceptionally awake. Duan Shuai came alone, but he secretly followed Pan Chongyue and Tong Sixue.
Duan Shuai's footsteps were very light, but they still seemed to disturb the quiet birch forest. The cold wind blows, rolling up the fallen leaves and blowing the fragrance. The remaining leaves hanging from the lonely branches were like a heart hanging from them, and it was difficult to land. A voice whispered, "Coming?" Duan Shuai nodded: "It's here!" The voice asked, "Alone?" Duan Shuai nodded again: "Alone." ”
The voice continued: "Dare to come alone? Duan Shuai couldn't help laughing: "Only one dares to come!" The man was silent for a long time, and the wind whirred between the two, and he suddenly laughed, a laugh that was very familiar, but very unfamiliar. Duan Shuai narrowed his eyes, trying to see this person clearly, but the night was too deep for him to see this person clearly, just as this person couldn't see clearly that there were two people behind him.
The man finally said, "Since you're here, let's have a drink!" As he spoke, a smooth, gilded luminous cup was thrown from the air. The glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine has a light and hazy moonlight, and the wine in the glow-in-the-dark glass is as red as human blood. Duan Shuai wanted to take the glass of wine, but as soon as his fingers touched the glass, his whole body shuddered, and then the whole person flew backwards like a ball thrown by someone, and he stood firmly a foot away.
The hand holding the glass was still shaking, and the gilded engraving on the glass seemed to have scratched his fingers. A cold sweat began to break out on Duan Shuai's forehead, he would never have thought that there were still people in the world today who could make him suffer such a deflated, especially in the internal strength that he was most proud of. If there is one more person in this world who can achieve this kind of cultivation, it is Su Yuhan. But Su Yuhan is clearly a dead man, could it be that he faked his death in the desert back then? Could it be that he is back in the rivers and lakes again?
Duan Shuai quickly dispelled this idea, because the person opposite looked much younger and taller than Su Yuhan, and it was obviously impossible for him to be a cripple from his standing posture, and besides, his voice was much better than Su Yuhan's, but it was also much more indifferent. So who could this man be? Duan Shuai didn't dare to think about it anymore, he knew that he was no longer this person's opponent, and it was not a little bit worse, if he could save Lu Jin, it would be best, if he couldn't save her, then he could only accompany her to die, at least this would be worthy of the senior brother.