"What? You said the guards were killed or wounded?"

Inside a carriage, the wealthy businessman of the Chen family, who just wanted to take a rest, suddenly shouted loudly, looking incredulous.

"Yes, sir. ”

The tall captain of the guard stood in front of the rich merchant with a gloomy face, his right arm covered with bandages.

"What do you eat! I usually tell you to train them well, eat well, practice well, why are most of them dead in a fight with a group of mountain bandits now, and usually practice on dogs?!"

The rich merchant looked angry and pointed at the captain of the guard and scolded.

The captain of the guard bowed his head, his face flushed.

After a burst of anger, the rich merchant quickly regained his composure and asked in a deep voice.

"What about the casualties?"

"Of the twenty guards, eight were dead, and the rest were wounded. ”

The captain of the guard said with a look of shame.

The rich merchant suddenly burst into muscles, and couldn't help but want to scold, but his instinct as a businessman made him not continue.

"I don't know about the others, but Ayang, I know your kung fu, those bandits are not your opponents at all unless they are besieged by three people. Why are you hurt?"

He gestured to the captain's bandaged right arm.

"I didn't know, I was fighting with a bandit, and when the man swung the knife at me, I tried to dodge, but my body froze in place and I couldn't move until the knife hit my arm. ”

The captain of the guard said indignantly, unconvinced.

"That bandit's martial arts are ordinary, logically speaking, I have no problem beating him three at a time, but at that time, my body didn't obey him. Later, I asked the other brothers, and they were similar to me. ”

"Oh. ”

The rich merchant's face condensed slightly, and a bad feeling surged in his heart.

"You say you've all been in this situation, have you ever been like this before?"

"There is no master, it only happened after the bandits appeared!"

"I see, you go. ”

The rich merchant thought for a moment and waved his hand to let the captain of the guard leave.

"Sir. ”

Mrs. Chen on the side leaned in, her face solemn.

"Master, I know that there are some medicines that do not change much in normal times after taking them, but once they want to run the qi and blood, they will exert their medicinal effect and block the flow of qi and blood.

If what he said is true, it means that someone has drugged us! It could be the bandits!"

"Impossible!" denied the rich merchant.

"Our food and dry food were all brought by ourselves and the dart company, and cooked in the camp, and there was no possibility that the mountain bandits would come to give the medicine. ”

"If it weren't for them, could it be that the dart shop did it?" the rich merchant's face changed, and then he shook his head again, and doubts appeared.

"No, it's not. The reputation of the Taiping Dart Company is considered good in Linchuan County, how could they cut off their future and take action against the hired customers? You must know that the Dart Company that violates this kind of regulation will be attacked by a group, unless they don't want to do it. ”

"It doesn't have to be a dart problem. ”

Mrs. Chen reminded.

"Madam, are you saying that Zhuo Yun Dart Master and the others have a problem?"

The wealthy businessman frowned slightly.

"I don't know. Mrs. Chen shook her head, not sure.

"But anyway, let the family be more vigilant. ”

Madame said again: "I think that Chen Gongzi's martial arts cultivation is not low, or we should discuss with him and ask him to protect us." ”

The rich businessman thought about it, but he didn't agree.

"I heard that the kid surnamed Chen is from Luoxia Villa, and he may not be so easy to talk to. ”

The other side.

"Lao Zhuo, how is Chenfeng's strength?"

In a carriage, Zhuo Yun and the three of them sat in it talking, and Lian Shan asked out loud.

"If I fight him, I'm less than 60 percent sure of winning. Zhuo Yun said lightly.

"Is it so powerful?" Lian Shan was startled, he knew Zhuo Yun's strength, and he once singled out the three masters of Black Wind Village.

It is said that each of the three masters is not weak and ordinary third-rate masters, and the big masters can fight with second-rate masters without defeat.

Zhuo Yun killed the three of them on the spot in full view of everyone, and his strength was unimaginable.

"It's not a fist with fist intent, he can kill the wolf's tooth with one punch, which means that you can't withstand a few punches. ”

Zhuo Yun glanced at Lianshan, lit a dry cigarette and took a puff.

Lian Shan said with an unconvinced face: "I don't believe it, no matter how hard his fist is, he is afraid of the sword, and his fist will never be able to resist my ...... of the Hundred Refining Iron Sword." ”

Zhuo Yun interrupted Lian Shan's words with a loud voice.

"With so many guards dead, I'm afraid that the rich merchant has already noticed something, and he is ready to do it at night, but don't wait for the kid surnamed Chen to hook up with the rich merchant, our winning rate will be a few points less. ”

Night soon came.

The convoy did not set off again, but found an inn to rest.

"Hee-hee, mother, you're chasing me!"

"Xiao He, don't run anymore!"

In front of the inn, a woman was panting after a boy in a loose gray shirt and looking at the woman from a distance with a smile.

"Xiao He, if you don't go back, I'll call the master to come to you!"

The woman rested for a while, leaned in her waist, and said angrily.

"Ah, Father!"

As soon as he heard the rich merchant, the boy's face suddenly fell.

"Mother, you're just letting me play for a while, just a while, I'll go back right away!"

The boy ran to the woman, grabbed his arm and shook it, and said with a pitiful look on his face.

"You kid, well, okay, you can play a little longer. ”

The woman also relented, and sighed and agreed.

"Yay, that's great!"

The boy jumped up for joy and shouted.

"But don't go to play in the woods, come back on time when you eat, and don't ...... clothes"

The woman feigned anger and said before the boy in front of her could finish speaking.

"This kid ......"

The woman looked helpless.

"Hee-hee, what am I going to play? Catch crickets, catch grasshoppers, or frogs......"

The boy ran about happily, completely oblivious to his mother's admonition to him.

It's just that when he was bouncing on the ground, the dim sun above his head was slowly setting towards the ground.

In the woods, the originally clear and unobstructed vision began to drift up a hazy fog at some point.

Gollum!

The sound of water rushing out suddenly came from a distance.

"What sound?"

The boy held a frog with a white belly in his hand and looked up curiously.

Gollum!

The sound of spring water came from afar again, this time clearer.

The boy walked curiously in the direction from which the voice had come from.

Gollum!

There was a heavier sound, like a hunter deliberately luring his prey to the bait.

As the boy advanced, the surrounding dense trees and grass began to thin out, and a large pile of scattered and broken rocks appeared on the ground.

The boy struggled to climb up a rock as high as him, the frog in his hand croaking as he pinched and clucked.

Not far away, a tall stone wall stood in front of the boy, about a half the height of the boy, and he walked up to the stone wall, and many messy scratches covered the entire stone wall.

"Are these left by the tiger?"

The boy touched the scratches on the stone wall and thought curiously.

Gollum!

The voice came again, this time unusually clear, as if it was behind the stone wall.

The boy searched around for a while, and finally came across a path, which he followed all the way to the top of the stone wall.

Behind the stone wall is a large open space, and a little rubble is released on the ground.

Gollum!

This time the sound did not go away, but continued to ring.

The boy climbed down the stone wall, looking for the source of the sound, and looked into the center of the clearing.

A half-broken stone tablet was silently inserted there, and it was from there that the gurgling sound came from.

"What is this?"

The boy walked curiously towards the stele, and the sound came from a small clearing in front of the stele.

Grunt, grunt!!

As if sensing the boy's approach, his voice became more and more urgent.

Burst!

The clearing suddenly caved in, and a hole several inches in size appeared.

Syllable!

A pale arm jerked up from beneath the dirt.

"Ahh

Croak.

The frog jumped forward on its own, but was grabbed by the arm.

Burst!

Flesh and blood splattered everywhere.

A bloodied baby crawled out of the hollow, let out a terrible cry, his eyes sunken into two hollows, glanced in the direction the boy had left, and then crawled forward unhurriedly.

Everywhere I passed, the smell of bloody decay came.