Early the next morning, I inquired about the road with the villagers and hurried towards the Qiupu River. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's drizzling, the country road is deep and the road is slippery, and it can't be fast. Yesterday's residual poison was still there, and from time to time there were a few bursts of pain in the back of his head, Qiu Yinming was anxious, and even provoked inexplicable irritability, and went on a fork in the road several times, he was furious, and he was still sane and sober, and he could always curb the nameless karmic fire in his heart in time. And the dark horse also seemed to feel the abnormality of the owner, and jumped left and right in panic several times, and was angry. The journey was circuitous and difficult, and it was not until night approached that the river beach could be seen in the distance.

The four fields are desolate, the population is extinct, Qiu Yinming wanders by the river for a few days, but he sees the deep forest, the mountains are stacked, and the mountains in the distance are getting higher, and he thinks that he has entered the boundary of Jiuhua Mountain. Thinking that his father wanted to take Master Zhu Zhuang to Jiuhua together, so that Huo Zhonghui could lead away the masters of the Xihai Alliance, Qiu Yinming thought about it for a long time, and estimated that they must know that Heng Jingzhao would not go in person, so he set a trap for him. As for why this is so, he doesn't understand either, and now he can only find Heng Jingzhao's location as soon as possible. Looking up at the sky, it is gloomy and dim, several mountain streams are poured into the river, splashing a few rays of water, returning to the birds into the forest, the mountain flowers are falling, the night is suddenly caged, and the sound of apes is frequent.

Soon, the surroundings sank into a dark with no fingers visible, Qiu Yinming followed the sound of the water and walked downstream along the riverbank, and the gentle place of the river beach could slightly urge the horse to trot. I don't know how long I walked, but I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be light behind a hill in front of me. There was a sudden nervousness in his heart, but the tidal flats here were narrow and rocky, so he could only carefully explore the way in the dark step by step, for fear of hurting his horse.

Finally walking through this rocky beach, I heard the river gradually slowing down, and through the more conspicuous light ahead, I saw that the river was open and diverted into the hills. He quickened his pace and circled forward to take a look. After a day of walking in the rain, he was already hungry and poor, and the residual poison that was sometimes strong and sometimes weak also tortured him to exhaustion, and this light in front of him was enough to make people hope.

But when that light finally came into view, Qiu Yinming couldn't help but gasp, and his heart fell to the bottom of the pool. Looking across the river, I saw a boat in the center of the waterhole with a bright fire, the sky was cloudy and rainy, the fire was not fierce, and there were still several blazing flames rising along the broken panes of the cabin, reflecting the water surface, and more than a dozen corpses could be vaguely seen floating beside the boat.

The indescribable frustration hit my heart fiercely, if it weren't for the thought outside Yangzhou that night, I wouldn't have fallen into this situation! Qiu Yinming stood on the bank of the river for a long time, and suddenly had a spirit, pulled the reins of the horse and stepped into the river. The dark horse "Bang" screamed and struggled to move forward, but he was still dragged and coaxed to cross the Qiupu River.

A man and a horse climbed onto the opposite shore, Qiu Yinming tied the horse to the shore, and immediately jumped into the waterhole, swimming hard towards the boat where the fire was spreading, and soon approached the side of the ship.

There was a dead silence in the dark water, emerging from the water, and the surrounding hillside cliffs were shadowed by the firelight, and they were indescribably gloomy and depressing. Qiu Yinming pulled a floating corpse to take a look, the fatal wound was still bleeding, and it hadn't been long since he died. There was a crackling sound of fire in my ears, and I looked up, and a man on the side of the boat fell to the board, one hand hanging out of the boat, blood dripping down his fingertips.

Qiu Yinming took a few deep breaths, pressed the violent heartbeat, continued to swim to the side of the boat and turned over and climbed up, grabbed the collar of the lying man, turned it over and looked at it, and was shocked in his heart, it was Guan Chihu!

Guan Chihu suffered several wounds in his body, with two arrows stuck in his back, and his shoulder blade was pierced by a sharp weapon, and the blood flowed down his arm, his eyes were closed, and his body was still warm. Qiu Yinming reached out and probed his snort pulse, he was not dead yet! At this moment, the sight of a living person made him feel much more excited. First put Guan Chihu down carefully, relying on his soaked body and not afraid of the fire, he hid his face and rushed into the cabin.

The cabin was full of traces of a fight, messy, and although it was set on fire, the fire failed to ignite due to the rain all day, and the cabin was filled with black smoke at this time, and it was impossible to see it really. Qiu Yinming picked up the half-burned felt blanket on the ground, extinguished some of the flames, waved away the smoke, and suddenly saw a bloodstained corpse lying under his feet, looked down carefully, and couldn't help but be shocked and took half a step back, the corpse was Shi Lei! How could he be here? Before he had time to think about it, he coughed in the smoke around him, and hurriedly fluttered the felt blanket again. Stepping over the corpse, he raised his eyes and faced a chair on which a man slumped.

The sight pierced his eyes, causing a convulsion in his chest and abdomen, a low groan in his throat, and deep remorse burned from the soles of his feet to his heart like a blazing fire. Heng Jingzhao's eyes widened with anger, many arrows were inserted in his body, and the chair under him had also been burned, and the flames were rapidly rolling away at his robe.

Qiu Yinming didn't have time to think about it, stepped forward, quickly extinguished the fire on Heng Jingzhao's body, and carried him out of the cabin.

Heng Jingzhao is already dead. Qiu Yinming laid his body flat on the board of the boat and knelt in front of him to study it carefully. There were more than a dozen of them, all of them crossbow arrows, and judging from the depth of the shots, they should have been shot at a considerable distance. His eyes wandered away for a long time, and once again looked at Heng Jingzhao's dead and angry state, Qiu Yinming sighed gloomily. A generation of heroes was finally calculated and died. Suddenly remembered Heng Yu, Qi Mutian, and the innocent Heng Zining, a burst of sadness surged in his heart, followed by a helplessness, like an ant drilling his heart, he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and hurriedly reached out and closed Heng Jingzhao's eyes.

The mist on the pond was everywhere, adding a little bit of gloom, Qiu Yinming came to his senses, and suddenly realized that after borrowing a knife to kill people, presumably Huo Zhonghui would come back soon to pretend, and he couldn't stay here for a long time. He looked at Guan Chihu, who was seriously injured and unconscious, and then looked at Heng Jingzhao, thinking in his heart, Heng Jingzhao's corpse could not be settled by himself, since the rest of the masters of the Xihai Alliance were kept in the dark, then they would definitely deal with it properly, but Guan Chihu, regardless of whether Huo Zhonghui intended to kill him or not, since he was not dead, it was better to take him away, and it might be of great use in the future.

After making up his mind, Qiu Yinming very carefully held Guan Chihu on the water and swam back to the riverbank, wanting to take out the arrow for him, but he was afraid that he would meet Huo Zhonghui if he delayed for a long time, so he put him on the horse and continued to move forward in the night, and when he reached a fork in the road, he turned away from the riverbank.

In the early morning of the next day, with God's help, Qiu Yinming took the dying Guan Chihu to find a small town, fortunately he still had some money on him, found a hotel to settle down, and told the curious shopkeeper that he was robbed halfway. When people saw him despondent, they didn't doubt it, and enthusiastically helped to invite Lang Zhong. After tossing for a long time, the injuries on Guan Chihu's body were finally treated, washed and bandaged. During this period, Qiu Yinming found that Guan Chihu seemed to have been hit with a blunt object in the chest, which reminded him of Di Taifeng's lotus hammer. A few days ago, Long Shao and others pretended to rush to Wuchang, but in fact they sneaked back to assassinate Heng Jingzhao. He knew all this, but he was powerless to take it back, and every time he thought about it, he was like lead and iron falling into his chest, and he couldn't feel at ease.

On the evening of the same day, Guan Chihu woke up, panicked and incoherent, Qiu Yinming comforted him for a long time with good words, and Guan Chihu told him about the situation last night intermittently. As expected, except for Qiu Yun and Zhu Zhengyu, all the masters of Chunlin Villa came, including Du Yu. But when Qiu Yinming asked about Shi Lei, Guan Chihu didn't know it, and when he learned of Shi Lei's death, he became more and more frightened, and it took a long time to ease up.

After finishing speaking, Guan Chihu had palpitations in his heart, and shouted in a trembling voice: "What can I do!" Suddenly, he grabbed Qiu Yinming's sleeve again, struggled to poke his head up, and said to him anxiously and earnestly: "Thank you Master Qiu for saving your life!" Now that the leader of the alliance has been killed, only Brother Huo is in charge of the overall situation, please take me to him. I know that Childe and the people of Chunlin Villa are not in the same group, please save people to the end! With that, he couldn't bear the pain of the wound, and fell back on the pillow, gasping for breath.

Hearing this, Qiu Yinming was a little puzzled, looking at his miserable appearance, it didn't look like a fake, but he was Huo Zhonghui's right-hand man who interfered in the power of the family, didn't Huo Zhonghui plan to use him, or there was something else hidden in it. After thinking for a while, he pretended to be puzzled: "The alliance leader has always been meticulous, how could he send all the people around him yesterday without leaving a capable guard." ”

Guan Chihu sighed and said: "Originally, Brother Huo also said that he should leave people, but the alliance leader was bent on killing Qiu ......" Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that it was Qiu Yinming's father, and hurriedly changed his words, "Yes, I want to kill the old sect master, and let Brother Huo take a foot help." Qiu Yinming listened, unconsciously frowned, and was stunned in his heart, thinking that Heng Jingzhao really valued him, but he not only took revenge, but also knew Heng Jingzhao's temperament, and he must have tried his best to assassinate him in front of Heng Jingzhao. At this time, he listened to Guan Chihu and continued: "Originally, Brother Huo said that he could take me to practice, but the alliance leader said that it was too dangerous, so he let me stay, who ......knows."

Qiu Yinming seemed to understand a little, and was about to speak, but saw Guan Chihu pounding on the edge of the bed and muttering: "If the alliance leader listened to Shangguan Gongzi's words, maybe he wouldn't ......."

"Shangguan Gongzi? Shangguan Jing? Has he been here? Qiu Yinming's tone perked up and looked sideways.

"He came with Leader Shi the day before yesterday, saying that he was here to inquire about your whereabouts. also took the pulse of the alliance leader. ”

Qiu Yinming felt a lot of self-blame in his heart, it seems that he should go to them as soon as possible. Asked Guan Chihu: "The alliance leader was in poor health before?" ”

"Shangguan Gongzi said that his cultivation after the injury was not good, and the dampness and cold entered the body, so it was not suitable for tiring travel, especially not suitable to stay in a damp place for a long time, and also suggested that he go to Wuchang Mansion to recuperate for a while and go to the north by land."

Qiu Yin muttered to himself that it was difficult to return to the will of heaven, so he had to deal with the situation in front of him first, so he asked, "Do you know where Shangguan Gongzi is now?" ”

Guan Chihu thought about it for a while and said, "Brother Huo and Leader Shi have no news of you, Shangguan Gongzi stayed on the boat for a night, and he thought he had gone to Wuchang early yesterday morning. Young Master Qiu, Brother Huo, they must have known that the alliance leader was killed at this time, and I should go back to him as soon as possible. It's better to ...... tomorrow."

How do you know that Qiu Yinming's face changed in vain, and he said to him in a tough tone: "You come with me tomorrow!" ”

Guan Chihu was excited by his extremely unfriendly look, and said in horror: "Young Master Qiu, you, what does this mean?" ”

Qiu Yinming looked at him with a cold face and said, "Guan Gongzi, you can't go back to Leader Huo." You come with me, and I will save your life. ”

"You, what the hell do you want?" Guan Chihu glared and exclaimed, propping himself up to grab Qiu Yinming's sleeve.

Qiu Yinming sideways avoided, took advantage of the situation to point his acupoint, pressed him back to the bed, stopped speaking, turned around and went to the couch next to him to rest by himself, Ren Guan Chihu was startled and resisted for a while, and soon lost his strength and naturally stopped. Nothing was said all night.