The cold wind is blowing, and the dart flag is flying.

Above the flag, embroidered with a lifelike bat.

Bats were originally cyan. But now, it's turned red.

What makes it red is not some dye, but human blood.

Based on the Fulin dart game, plus Zhenwei, Anyuan, Yongning, Changqing, Anfeng and other five dart boards, a total of 27 dart heads and dart masters, 84 executioners, and 18 coachmen, a total of more than 100 people's blood, the dart flag was dyed red.

Cheng Li stretched out his right hand, pulled up the dart flag that was obliquely inserted in the soil, brought it to his nose, and sniffed it vigorously.

Although it has been a full six days since the robbery. But the smell of blood is still strong.

Cheng Li put down the dart flag and looked around. I saw that this was a hillside land, surrounded by weeds and rocks. On the southeast side of the hillside is a flat, straight rammed earth road. On both sides of the road, Mianzhou City and Pearl Island are connected.

"Childe, this is Wolverine Ridge. This part of the ridge is both dry and sheltered from the wind, and it is also close to the water source. In addition, there are no other villages and towns within a radius of 100 miles. Therefore, merchants who come and go between Mianzhou City and Pearl Island will choose to camp here.

The person who spoke was called Bai Sheng, with a thin body, a pair of small eyes that were extremely bright, and he looked very capable. He is a dart master in the Fulin Dart Bureau, and his martial arts are just so-so. But when you see people talking about people, you can talk about ghosts, and you can do things in all directions. He is more familiar with geography, so he was sent to act as Cheng Li's guide.

Cheng Li nodded and asked, "Are there any robbers and bandits around here?"

Bai Sheng said with a little pride: "If you want to talk about the silks, in this place outside our gates, no matter where you go, you will definitely have them." Through the dawn, three knives, crashing into the sky, flying on the grass, a gust of wind...... And so on and so forth, too many to count.

But since the opening of the joint venture dart bureau, the dart flag, no matter what the hand, is only to flee from the wind. Especially on the way from Mianzhou City to Pearl Island, all the silkworms either escaped or were all wiped out. So it's very safe. ”

After a pause, Bai Sheng sighed again: "Don't hide it from my son, I have followed this road no less than seventeen or eighteen times, and I have never been safe and sound, and there have been no accidents." Unexpectedly, this time it would be ...... Alas~"

Cheng Li said indifferently: "That's your luck." If you go with you this time, you're going to die. ”

This is the truth, so Bai Sheng can't refute it at all. He only smiled bitterly, and secretly felt happy.

Cheng Li didn't say anything more. He knelt down again, almost all of his body on the dirt, carefully surveying the scene inch by inch. Although Bai Sheng felt that this was just a waste of time, he had no choice but to stand by and drink the north wind together.

I don't know how long it has been, just when Bai Sheng felt that his whole body was about to be frozen into a popsicle, suddenly, Cheng Li snorted lightly, and then used his hands as tools to dig up on the ground.

In winter, the temperature drops sharply under the north wind. At the same time, the moisture in the soil is frozen, forming an extremely hard frozen soil. Under normal circumstances, not to mention digging with both hands, even if you use an iron drill to dig and a shovel to dig, you often can't dig or dig. Not to mention, there have been several snowfalls. The snow and ice are stacked on top of each other, making the soil harder and harder like steel.

Therefore, in this area outside the Guan, whether you want to build houses and roads, you must start construction before winter. If it can't be completed, then it can only be continued when the spring flowers bloom next year.

But at this moment, Cheng Li's hands seemed to be some kind of divine weapon. Digging it down at once, and at the same time the solid frozen soil mixed with ice and snow was immediately dug up by him in a large chunk. As if it wasn't frozen ground at all, just tofu.

In a matter of moments, a large pit had been dug into the ground. Inside the earthen pit, there are only severed human hands.

The severed hand was grayish-white and completely shriveled. On the thumb of the severed hand, he also wears a jade wrench. Five fingers are folded into the palm, and something is clung to as if it were truly worthy of its name, and it will not let go.

Seeing this severed hand, Bai Sheng's complexion immediately changed. He exclaimed, "It's Zheng Dart's hand! Childe, you are too powerful." You can find it like this!"

Cheng Li didn't think there was anything difficult about this. Although the hand had been cut off for several days and buried in the dirt. But the strange smell of corpse smell mixed with human blood is very special. Even if the smell is weak, Cheng Li can smell it the same.

Picked up the severed hand and looked at it carefully for a while. Cheng Li raised his head and asked, "Who is Zheng Darthead, how do you recognize that this is his hand?"

Bai Sheng said without thinking: "Zheng Darthead is also a member of our Fulin Dart Bureau. This time, he also had a share. Zheng Darttou is the best at archery, piercing Yang in 100 steps, and hitting 100 shots. This wrench is also his beloved thing. We've all seen it well, and there's nothing wrong with that. ”

Cheng Li nodded. Then use the fingers of the severed hand to break it with force. I saw that the severed hand was pinched in the palm of my hand, and it was half a distorted bronze medal. The bronze medal is also engraved with a pattern. But it's a horse's head.

Cheng Li threw the half of the bronze medal to Bai Sheng. "Can you see something?"

Bai Shengcheng took the bronze medal and looked at it for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more he was sweating, his face was pale, his lips trembled, and he was trembling, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Cheng Li stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and asked, "How is it?"

Bai Sheng said in a trembling voice: "This ...... It's hard to say. Possible...... It's just that I was mistaken. ”

Cheng Lidao: "It's okay to admit your mistakes, say." ”

Bai Sheng said with a sad face: "That...... Then do I really say?" the Adam's apple slid up and down with difficulty, and then said abruptly: "This bronze medal...... It seems to be ...... The identity plate of the Iron Horse Gate. ”

"Iron Horse Gate?"

Cheng Li was stunned for a moment. He really couldn't have imagined that he would get such an answer.

The head of the Iron Horse Gate is the third young master of the Xia family, Xia Wuxing. and the head of the Fulin Dart Bureau, Xia Wuji, is a brother of a mother's sibling. According to what I heard from Ling Yushi, the relationship between the brothers and sisters of the Xia family has always been good. There is no conflict of interest. But why, at the scene of the attack on the dart team, the identity plate of the Iron Horse Gate was found?

Cheng Li stretched out his hand, took back the half bronze medal, and then asked Bai Sheng a word.

"Where is the mountain gate of the Iron Horse Gate?"

Bai Sheng was about to answer. Suddenly, there was another fierce cold wind, whistling and blowing. He shuddered, instinctively curling his neck.

At the same time, the dart flag planted diagonally on the dirt also flew in the wind. The bats on the flag flapped their wings as if they had come to life, giving people an unexpectedly ominous omen.

Immediately after, the last light of the setting sun slowly dissipated on this banner. Night then fell, drowning everything on earth into the depths of darkness.