Chapter 41: The Death of Jiang Xiong
The night is thick and the moonlight is long
On Hitomi Mountain, a group of people are riding horses on the winding mountain road and running unhurriedly.
This team is the seventh team of the Beijing East Factory.
Not long ago, Dongchang received a secret report that the people sent to Xiyi Fanbang to find Qiang and Wu Fern had entered Baishui Pass in Dayi.
Overseer Leng Qingtang has always been careful and cautious, and only after getting the final whereabouts of Qiang Wu Fern did he tell his subordinates about the strange poison in his body.
Jiang Xiong of the Seventh Team was ordered, and specially led his 20 men to travel day and night on a thousand miles of horses to a designated post near Baishui Pass to meet the medicine seekers.
After arriving at Baishui Pass, Jiang Xiong and his entourage successfully got in touch with the contact. When the Qiang Wu Fern arrived, they did not dare to delay too much, and took a break for half an hour to recuperate, so that they could change their horses and find their way back.
Before leaving, Jiang Xiong and his subordinates carefully explored the journey back to Beijing. Baishuiguan is separated from the capital on the road, and there are three places that must be passed:
Luoyantai, Tongguan and Xianren Stream.
No matter where you go, you can get to the capital, the only difference is that the time spent on the road varies.
When they came, the path chosen by the team was to take the plain with open and straight terrain and Luoyantai.
Now that he is back in Beijing, Jiang Xiong has decided to take the road to Tongshan!
Relative to Luoyantai, Tongshan Mountain and Xianren Stream are high mountains with steep terrain, and there are mostly cliffs and cliffs in between. One is a large river with turbulent currents and many vortices, not only the bottom of the water is unfathomable, but the water temperature is cold and eroding all year round.
Neither of these places is easy to navigate. If you have to go to these two places, you will have to take a certain risk.
However, Jiang Xiong is a very careful person.
He still remembered that when he made an appointment with his contacts at the post station and took the Qiang black fern from their hands, he and his men clearly noticed that there were a pair of extremely unfriendly eyes hidden in the crowd in the post station, staring at them fiercely.
Thinking about it in the past six months, the East Factory has indeed had too many ups and downs and tribulations.
Jiang Xiong could have a hunch that the road back would not be smooth. Just in case, he still decided to lead the team to Hitomi Mountain! Based on the current distance of the seven times, if you can rush non-stop after crossing the Tong Mountain, it will only take four days to reach the capital.
For the overseer of his own family, the Qiang Wu Fern is a life-saving thing, and the stakes are very important, and there is no room for loss.
Jiang Xiong believes that ordinary people have important things to do, and in order to get on the road unimpeded, they will inevitably choose a flat and wide place to take the road. If someone has bad intentions and wants to rob the drug halfway or engage in other actions, they will definitely set up heavy defenses there.
Therefore, in order to avoid risks and return to Beijing as soon as possible, the Seventh Team had to go the opposite way and choose the road "Tongshan"!
Hitomi Mountain, the mountain is high and steep, with many cliffs. From the foot of the mountain wall upwards, there are some winding mountain roads in the middle. The road is circuitous and narrow, not wide.
Halfway up the mountain, there are some rocks piercing through the air, and there is basically no normal road to walk.
When the team reached the foot of Hitomi Mountain, it was already dark. Lighting torches, they beat their horses and began to run up the mountain along the winding road. On one side of the mountain road is a straight up and down mountain wall, and on the other side is a cliff, except for the scattered trees, there is almost no shelter to support it. The procession must be cautious, and if you step on the air carelessly, even people and horses will fall.
Jiang Xiong planned that the team would run halfway up the mountain, and when there was no longer a winding mountain road to walk, they would scatter their horses and rest. At dawn, people climb the rock wall to cross the Tong Mountain, and after returning to the avenue, they will find a new horse at the next post to continue their journey.
The crescent moon was like a hook, and a few thick clouds were condensed on the deep blue dome. The whole mountain road is quiet, a few horses' hooves are trampling, the sand is flying, and the grass and trees are trembling.
Under the moonlight, the trees stretch their thick branches wantonly, and the dense shadows of the trees are strange and shapely, like monsters with teeth and claws hugging each other, and there is an inexplicable gloomy and terrifying in the dark night.
Along the way, the fog is filled, and occasionally night birds fly in the air, low and sad. The cold air was filled with a murderous aura, surging with an unsettling throbbing
Jiang Xiong was in the middle of the team, trotting on one wall and watching the surroundings on the other, carefully feeling the atmosphere around him.
"Ahead, watch the road!"
Out of thin air, he said to the ** person holding the torch at the head of the team:
"Speed up a little, rush to the mountainside in one go, and we'll rest there tonight!"
The head of the block had an order, and the subordinates immediately complied, and they all agreed, and kicked the horse's belly hard. Immediately, the running speed increased a lot.
Jiang Xiong also hit the horse and followed the team closely.
Directly in front of the vision, a muffled sound suddenly sounded in the mist.
"Flutter"
A black crush rose from the middle of the horizon and then scattered like countless ink-stained leaves soaring in the night sky.
Jiang Xiong's heart was terrified, and the two black pupils suddenly expanded to the maximum. If you look closely, it turns out to be a flock of black crows, flapping their wings and flying high into the sky.
This place is weird!
Wiping the dense beads of sweat from his forehead, Jiang Xiong shouted again:
"Everyone wake up, and you can ...... in a while"
The words are not finished, accompanied by "poof."
There was a strange noise, and the head of the team and his horse at the front of the guard were shattered as they ran.
When the blood mist was sinking and floating, two or three more horses seemed to have collided with a sharp weapon that was invisible to the naked eye, and in front of Jiang Xiong's eyes, his body instantly decomposed......
There was no time to rein in the horse, Jiang Xiong stepped on a double saddle and pulled onions on dry land, and the person jumped to the air and shouted loudly to the back:
"There is an ambush! Flash"
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xiong's body writhed in mid-air, and he leaned against the inner mountain wall. At the same time, a tragedy of flesh and blood is unfolding on the ground!
Jiang Xiong's body hung in the air, and the five fingers of his left hand grasped a protruding stone on the mountainside. Looking left and right at the mountain wall, fortunately there are still subordinates who survived, the number of less than ten people, at this moment, just like him, his fingers stubbornly climbed the mountain wall.
Just now, they followed closely and flew out, so they didn't hit the terrible murder weapon in front of them.
escaped a catastrophe, and at this time everyone was pale, terrified and confused.
Sniffing the bloody breath, he lowered his gaze by the moonlight and looked down.
A large section of the winding mountain road has become a sea of blood, and it is flooded with all kinds of wreckage, arms, thighs, and horse limbs.
The most terrifying are the heads of those who are soaked in blood, or their mouths are wide open as if shouting, or they are wrinkling their eyebrows and angry eyes, and their expressions are hideous, or their facial features are miserable and hateful...... In short, the scene was messy and unbearable.
The sea of blood was sticky, bubbling beneath the bare cliffs. The scorching afterglow was still there, and the night wind was blowing against the mountain wall, tearing at the mourning hearts of the survivors.
Even if they are not siblings, they are also brothers who have been born and died together for many years. Seeing that the person who had just been alive and alive disappeared in an instant, and the death was so tragic that there was not even a whole corpse left, how could the living not be moved?
After shedding a handful of tears, everyone looked at it again and was stunned to find something.
At both ends of the winding mountain road, between the steep rocks of the mountain wall and the tree trunks on the opposite cliffside, there are several thin vermilion silk threads, which stretch for a hundred meters in twists and turns.
Jiang Xiong's expression was shocked, and he half-opened his mouth in disbelief. In my mind, a rather terrible term suddenly came to mind:
Slay the dragon silk!
Dragon slaying silk, the silk spit out by the ghost-faced silkworm unique to southern Xinjiang, is as thin and colorless as spider silk, but the toughness and sharpness are beyond imagination.
Legend has it that with just a touch of skin, blood can be drenched in an instant, killing people invisibly. Therefore, it was given a relatively strong name, "Dragon Slaying Silk".
During the day, the colorless dragon-slaying filaments are unrecognizable to the naked eye, especially at night when the light is poor.
Although Jiang Xiong's team is not too fast, the dragon slayer is too tough after all, and if it collides with it, it will be fatal in an instant. With the help of the inertia of running, when the centaur touches the dragon slaying silk, it will naturally be cut into several sections. Lisi was stained with blood, and this was the red color.
A few filaments destroyed a squad of twenty people in an instant, which shows that it is dangerous!
At this time, the evil wind above the head is not good. Jiang Xiong hurriedly looked up, only to see countless cold rays falling down above the mountain wall, as fast as lightning, spectacular as meteors, causing rain to fall for nine days.
"Dodge"
At that time, Jiang Xiong's left hand was empty, one foot kicked the mountain wall, and his right hand had already pulled out the short silver spear on his waist, and his slender figure was close to the mountain ridge and turned a few degrees on the other hand, and at the same time he used the silver gun in his hand to dial the hidden weapon that was rushing from the sky.
Screams rang in my ears from time to time.
There is a secret weapon in the body of the guard who fell down the mountain wall, and then touched the dragon slaying silk,
The mortally wounded body was immediately shredded. There are also people who are fortunate to survive again with their strong martial arts and extremely fast adaptability.
Jiang Xiong and the others circled on the steep mountain wall for a moment, successively avoiding the range where the dragon slayer was located, and one by one they landed safely on the land of the winding mountain road.
The sound of the fight began, and a group of people appeared from behind the strange rocks and grass on the mountain wall, and in an instant, they came like a tide and surrounded Jiang Xiong and the others.
Each of them was armed with swords, all dressed in black suits, and the black veil on their heads wrapped their entire heads tightly, exposing only their eyes and nostrils. Those eyes are like wolves that have found a delicious food, bursting with greedy and hungry light.
"Who is coming! Dongchang is here for seven times, and you dare to stop it?! ”
Jiang Xiong stood tall in the encirclement, reached to his waist with his left hand at the door of the newspaper's door, and pulled out another short silver spear. With two guns across his chest, he scanned the surroundings with the afterglow of his eyes, and with himself, there were only five people left in the team.
With a flash of white light, the sharp blade swung towards Jiang Xiong's front door, and the encirclement suddenly shrank. Needless to say, the two sides immediately started fighting.
Jiang Xiong frequently danced his two guns, wielding brilliant brilliance in the deep night, like a few flowers, and the scorching edge went straight to the opponent.
The flash flashed in front of him, like a meteor lightning switch, meeting the silver spear in Jiang Xiong's hand. Jiang Xiong bent his waist to avoid it, took another step, and swept over with his other hand. The cold wind of "Huh" was rushing, and a sound of "Peng" was heard between the ear wheels, and the two masked people were swept over by the barrels of guns. The head of the gun fell hard, and blood splattered.
"Jiang block your head, you go quickly! We're broken."
Behind Jiang Xiong, Fan Wei shouted at him.
He knew that the head of the block had the Qiang Wu Fern urgently needed by the Overseer in his arms, and he must protect the head of the block!
The four subordinates lined up behind Jiang Xiong, and the horizontal knife forward.
Jiang Xiong's eyebrows darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"Brothers, brothers!"
A cold wind tore through the night fog, Jiang Xiong's eyes were cold, and he once again waved his gun and rushed towards the enemy. At the same time, his four guards swung their swords and fought with many masked men.
Silver rays pierced the night air, and a biting chill struck at the opponent. On the right side, a white blade slashed diagonally, Jiang Xiong bowed his body to the left, and his right foot retreated backwards.
The force is too great, and the heel shows a sense of emptiness. Jiang Xiong suddenly realized that he was on the edge of the winding mountain road at this time, with his back to the cliff, and only half of his feet were on the ground, which was really a momentous and extremely dangerous!
Jiang Xiong's eyes were like cold electricity, his lips were tightly closed, and his body suddenly spun around with dexterity as he competed with his opponent, changing his body shape to face the cliff, and his feet were firmly on the solid soil.
It was this action that made the masked man who attacked him fall out of sight, leaning forward with his upper body towards the cliff, unable to retreat backwards.
Immediately following the terrible shout, the man fell into the abyss.
Jiang Xiong, who had just escaped, did not stop with his feet, and galloped towards the top of the mountain road with light skills. Seven or eight masked men chased and intercepted, making the swing of the sword, and the dancing of the sword.
Jiang Xiong had no intention of fighting, his toes were raised on the ground, and he flew up to a higher mountain wall.
The screams below were heard one after another, and his subordinates died one after another. One or two were forced by their opponents to slay the dragon while fighting. I touched Liss carelessly, and my head was in a different place. The rest all fell off the cliff with their opponents.
Jiang Xiong only glanced down quickly, then endured his grief and continued to climb the mountain.
He wanted to get rid of the enemy and return to the capital as soon as possible. He has a heavy responsibility on his body, and he must hand over the Qiang Wu Fern to Imperial Doctor Jiang as soon as possible to refine the antidote to cure the Overseer!
The "boom" resounded, and several rocks rolled down. Jiang Xiong was frightened in his heart, and he couldn't dodge in a panic, he was hit in the left shoulder by a rolling stone, and when he rolled down with many rocks, his body was crushed and trampled by hard gravity many times.
Watching Jiang Xiong fall from the height of the mountain wall, many of the tightly covered black faces, the two eyeholes were flickering with the fierce light of the Yin Owl.
They quickly dispersed, hid in a safe range, and waited for Jiang Xiong to fall to the ground, then surrounded him and slashed him, directly chopping him into meat puree.
Jiang Xiong had been hit by a heavy stone, just a foot from the ground in his back, he endured the strong pain in the joints, unexpectedly twisted his body for half a circle, stretched out his arms and pierced the loess on the ground with the tip of the spear and then struggled to provoke it, and suddenly the yellow sand was overwhelming.
The masked men stepped back and threw their hands into the dust to restore a clear view as soon as possible.
When Jiang Xiong landed, he vomited blood, and he didn't care about wiping his mouth, so he ran up the mountain road.
The evil wind in his back was chasing after him, and the cold light was abused, and countless blood flowers were aroused.
Jiang Xiong was stabbed in the body, and his brows were furrowed in pain. At this time, two or three masked men rushed up to block the road ahead, and one peeked into the gap on Jiang Xiong's left side, and with a shake of his long sword, he stabbed into his ribs.
Jiang Xiong groaned sullenly, blood spilling out of the wound, and puddles seeped into the soil beneath his feet.
At this time, another person swung a knife horizontally, Jiang Xiong reluctantly raised his right arm in pain, and struggled to cross the spear to fight the opponent's short knife. Immediately, the fire flashed, and the two blades met. The knife-wielding man turned his wrist, and the sharp blade grazed the barrel of the gun and cut towards Jiang Xiong.
Jiang Xiong was shocked, and with a hint of messiness, he flipped his right wrist over, and immediately tilted the gun in his palm. At the same time, the silver spear in his left hand swept and slashed at the opponent's weapon.
After a piercing roar, the two sides held each other's blades, and each did not give in.
Jiang Xiong clenched his teeth and tried his best to prevent the edge of the opponent's weapon from hurting him.
At this time, he saw that there were several fierce cold rays, and they suddenly fell to the maximum in the opponent's dark and evil eyes......
In the back, the knife is deadly!
Behind Jiang Xiong, five or six masked people raised their knives and fell to the side at the moment.
When the evil murder weapons slowly drooped, the shiny silver blades were stained red with blood, and a faint triumphant roar sounded.
The moonlight is hideous
Jiang Xiong didn't feel the slightest pain in his body at the moment, but instead had an unusual sense of ease and etherealism, which made him taste inexplicable peace and pleasure.
Venus was chaotic in front of him, and his body was as light as fine smoke, slowly paralyzing.
He used a silver spear as a support, refusing to let his numb upper body go limp. The skull seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, so heavy that it could no longer hold on to his neck.
"I'm sorry, Overseer, Cloud Girl, ......"
Slowly lowering his face, his eyes were dilated, and he could no longer see the scene in front of him clearly.
A poignant and misty smile was always on the blood-stained face.
At that moment, Jiang Xiong thought of the Double Ninth Festival, when everyone in the East Factory drank wine and ate crabs around the table, and remembered that in the Chinese New Year's Eve night, they guessed boxing and shabu together......
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