Volume 1 Northwest Wind and Cloud Chapter 15 Ten thousand arrows are fired together, and the flames are everywhere
The housekeeper outside the door smiled when he saw this, and then looked at the person in the room: "It's your turn - Xiang Beichuan!" ”
Hearing this, the four people in the room were shocked.
Xiang Beichuan slowly took off the hat on his head, revealing his face full of horror.
"It's you! When you first entered the villa during the day, I had some suspicions, but besides you Xiang Beichuan, who else would perform this play with this guy? The housekeeper pointed at Jiang Lan and said.
"So, not only do you know that Lao Xiang is not dead, but you also see that Xiao Ye is acting?" Jiang Lan said in a deep voice, his face became a little ugly.
"Can your acting skills be any worse?" The housekeeper glanced at Jiang Lan and said disdainfully, "I actually let the two of you escape a few days ago, and it can be regarded as your fate." But I didn't expect you two to actually send it to the door...... I've done a great job by killing you today! ”
"A great achievement? made a great contribution...... Are you, such as Luo Chen? ”
When he first entered Yanlai Villa, Jiang Lan felt that the housekeeper's voice was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it. It wasn't until the other party said what he said just now that he remembered that this housekeeper was very similar to the voice of "Ru Luo Chen"!
For example, Luo Chen was very surprised when he heard Jiang Lan's words, he glanced at Han Xi beside him, and saw that the latter was also frowning, looking puzzled.
"Boy, I don't care how much you still know, anyway, I can't let you out alive today."
"So, you're really like Luochen? You just said you were lurking for four years...... For the sake of this head, you really took great pains! ”
"Humph! How much do you think your life is worth? If I want to kill you, it won't be so much trouble! Don't be afraid to tell you that our purpose is this Northwest Green Forest Road! And your appearance just gave me an opportunity - to blackmail Xiang Beichuan to make him issue a killing order, and then rely on the blind Xu's eyeliner to find out your whereabouts, and finally our people will take your life, so as to gain the dignity of the chief scoop of the Green Forest Road, so as to control the entire Northwest Green Forest Road! Originally, this was a strategy to kill two birds with one stone, but I never expected you to come to the door by yourself and tell Yu Fengqiu those things that shouldn't be said - if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have killed this old thing in advance. ”
"Yu Jialing's interception and killing of Chen Zhongming that night is also related to this?"
"That's not what you should know!" Ru Luo Chen didn't answer this question, but took a knife from the ghost-faced man behind him and threw it casually to Jiang Lan's side, "It's not too early, and I'll give you a chance to cut yourself off, so as not to dirty your brothers' hands!" ”
Jiang Lan picked up the knife, the knife was about six feet long, the whole body was slender, the blade was cut on one side, and the end of the handle was cast with a ring with a snake pattern, but it was a long knife with a ring head.
Jiang Lan stroked the blade of the knife, as if he was looking at a lover he hadn't seen for many years. Then he stood up, held the knife in one hand, stood the long knife on his side, and glanced at the people outside the house: "Such as Luo Chen, such as Luo Chen!" It's a pity that you are so secretive that you dare to send the knife to the master! ”
Jiang Lan said goodbye and walked towards the group of ghost-faced people outside the door. He held a knife in his right hand, his upper body was naked, and he looked as if a martial saint was alive.
"Kill him!" Ru Luo Chen's face flashed, and he immediately ordered.
Hearing this, the hundreds of ghost-faced people behind him drew their weapons and rushed towards Jiang Lan. The person in the front held a long knife in his hand, and slashed at Jiang Lan's head with a swing of the knife. Suddenly, I felt a chill on my neck, and then I felt that I was flying higher and higher, and there was a headless man standing in place with a knife raised under him......
The headless corpse in front of Jiang Lan fell, he stopped, but the posture of holding the knife in his right hand did not change at all, only a little blood dripping from the tip of the knife.
"So fast!"
The group of ghost-faced people who rushed over saw that the first companion who tested the water had died on the spot, and they didn't dare to rush into it? They formed a circle and surrounded Jiang Lan in the middle.
"What are you doing, not killing him?" If Luo Chen also saw that scene, he was shocked in his heart, and ordered with a gloomy face.
Hearing the order, the nearest few people shot at the same time and slashed at Jiang Lan. They were extremely fast, and they wanted to directly hack Jiang Lan to death. Seeing this, Jiang Lan snorted coldly, and then slashed at several people with a faster speed.
Suddenly, screams and exclamations arose, and heads and severed limbs flew sideways. In the blink of an eye, they all lost their lives.
Jiang Lan's murderous intent was already rising, and as soon as he saw his footsteps, the whole person was like a ghost, and he quickly rushed to the crowd on the side, and with a wave of his hand, several more people fell to the ground and died......
In less than a cup of tea, the two dozen or so ghost-faced people who rushed into the house were all cut to the ground. Occasionally, a few who were not yet dead were lying on the ground screaming incessantly.
Seeing this scene, Luo Chen was in a cold sweat, and he turned his head to look at Han Xi beside him, only to see him looking at Jiang Lan with a surprised face.
"Twelve Styles? You're the apprentice of the Crazy Knife! Han Xi muttered, but the words that came out of his mouth made everyone present jump.
"Huh? Do you know my Master? Jiang Lan replied by default, and was shocked when he heard it, even Han Xi's lips opened slightly.
Who is Crazy Knife? As long as you are in the rivers and lakes, there is nothing you don't know.
Back then, when he fought on the cloud platform, the mad knife single-handedly repelled the forty-seven top masters of the three major sects. Later, it was rumored that one person had the record of destroying a cottage, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was the first in the world at that time.
But more than 20 years ago, the mad knife suddenly disappeared from the rivers and lakes.
Some say he died. Some people say that he retired because he couldn't meet his opponent. The most widely circulated theory is that because he made too many enemies, he had to flee to other countries...... Anyway, since then, there has been no trace of him on the rivers and lakes, only leaving all kinds of legends to the world.
Han Xi shook his head: "I don't know, it's just your sword technique...... The 'Twelve Styles of the Absolute Sword' of the Crazy Knife is also known for its speed, and I really can't think of any other knife technique that can be so fast. ”
"I thought you knew the old man...... Now that you know who the master is, and you don't know each other, let the master leave quickly? ”
"Who do I care you are? Leave? Think beautifully! Ru Luo Chen snorted coldly, and then raised his right hand and made a strange gesture, and when the group of ghost-faced people saw this, they all pulled out their short crossbows from their waists and aimed them at Jiang Lan in unison.
"Shoot the arrows!"
An order was given, and the arrows rained down.
Jiang Lan had already taken precautions, and with a knife in his right hand, he picked up a table not far away, and then immediately put it down, and the table was facing outward in front of him. At the same time, he quickly bowed down, and the whole person hid behind the table.
The short crossbows used by those ghost-faced people were different from those used to assassinate Jiang Lan's three people. This time it's a repeater, and its crossbow can be loaded with ten rounds of bolts, and it can fire continuously.
However, although its rate of fire is very fast, the weight of the crossbow bolt is much lighter, and the penetration power is much worse. Therefore, although the table where Jiang Lan was hiding was not very strong, it was also safe.
Jiang Lan himself was fine, so he looked to the side and saw that the three of them had also found cover.
Xiang Beichuan saw Jiang Lan looking at him, he suddenly thought of something, and said loudly: "Brother Jiang, they will have to reload the crossbow bolts after a few more rounds of shooting." Let's seize the opportunity and kill it together! ”
When Jiang Lan heard this, his brows furrowed: "Old Xiang, don't shout out!" ”
Sure enough, what Jiang Lan was most worried about happened, and he heard the sound of arrow rain, and Ru Luochen's voice came: "Brothers, you also heard it!" The ones in the front row, load their crossbows now, don't give them a chance! ”
"This ...... It's all because I was negligent for a while, forgetting that the other party was just outside the door. Xiang Beichuan's old face turned red.
Ru Luo Chen was also very anxious at this time, although the other party was suppressed by the rain of arrows and did not dare to show up, but he couldn't take the other party's life for a while. Not to mention that if the time drags on for too long, there will be changes, even the crossbow bolts will be exhausted sooner or later.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought of bringing people in to fight, but thinking of Jiang Lan's weird sword technique, he completely gave up this idea. Although he has some skills, if he is against Jiang Lan, I am afraid that he will not be able to make a few moves, and there is no one under his command.
"My lord, those people refuse to show up, what can I do?" Seeing this, a ghost-faced man asked.
If Luo Chen didn't answer immediately, he glanced around the house and had a countermeasure in his heart: "You take a few people to fetch the fire oil from the backyard and bring more hay." ”
"Your Excellency is trying to set the fire?"
"Don't ask so much, go quickly!" For example, Luo Chen's face flashed ruthlessly, since the other party didn't dare to come out, then never come out!
The subordinate received the order and immediately took four or five people to the backyard. It didn't take long to get a few pots of oil and a few stacks of hay.
"Boy, you could have left a whole corpse, but it's a pity that you resisted stubbornly, no wonder Lord Ben was very spicy!" Seeing that his men had piled hay at the door and had spilled the oil, he took out the fire fold from his bosom as he spoke, and as soon as he lit the fire, he threw it away.
"Whew-"
Because of the splashing of fire oil, the door instantly burst into flames. In less than a moment, the entire doorway was ablaze. The group of guards took a few steps back, and the crossbow in their hands stopped.
"Those dog thieves set fire to it, what a good thing about that!" Liu Chengshun was so smoky that he coughed, and he asked, "There is only one door in this room, and there are no windows on either side, how can we escape?" ”
Xiang Beichuan didn't say anything when he heard this, he took out a face towel from his arms to cover his mouth and nose, but he moved towards the wall inside.
When he reached the wall, he threw himself a punch at the wall. I saw that the surface of the wall was cracked a little after this.
Erhu and Liu Chengshun were overjoyed when they saw this: "Boss Xiang, you still have a way!" ”
Xiang Beichuan ignored them, and punched them in the same place several times in a row. The next thing made the faces of the three of them sink, and they saw that the masonry outside the wall had been smashed by Xiang Beichuan, but a gray wall was revealed in the broken place, and there was a layer of gray stone piled up inside the wall! Xiang Beichuan was shocked when he saw this, but the movements in his hands did not stop, and he kept smashing a big fist against the gray stone wall, but it had little effect......
"Okay, old item, save some effort. Come over here! At the same time that Beichuan smashed the wall, Jiang Lan on the other side made an unexpected discovery.
He suddenly remembered that Yu Fengqiu had pointed to the painting on the wall before he died. There must be an article on this painting!
Seeing that the rain of arrows outside had stopped, he immediately stepped onto the table by the wall, and then raised his hand to take off the painting hanging on the wall. Sure enough, an unfathomable hole appeared in the back of the painting.
"Brother Jiang, you don't want to get out of that hole, do you?" Xiang Beichuan looked at the palm-sized round hole and smiled bitterly.
Jiang Lan rolled his eyes angrily at this: "I really didn't wronged you at all when I said that you were a reckless man!" If I'm not mistaken, we're going to get out! ”
Jiang Lan said as he rolled the painting in his hand into a roll, and then inserted it into the hole. I only heard a "pop" sound, and the sound of the machine in the wall moved, and a stone slab on the ground turned over by itself. Beneath the stone slab, a stone staircase diagonally below appeared in front of several people.
"Haha, we're saved!" Seeing that the fire was getting more and more intense, several people did not dare to hesitate, and immediately went down into the tunnel.
It was pitch black in the tunnel, and several people took out fire folds and lit them in front of them. They didn't have long to walk before they entered a stone chamber. The stone room was the same size as the hall above, but it was extremely empty, and in the whole room, there was only one stone table, on which was placed a small wooden box, and on the top of the box was a letter.
"My son is also in person. It seems that this is a letter left by Old Man Yu to his son. Xiang Beichuan picked up the letter and muttered, but then stretched out his hand and tore open the envelope.
"Old Xiang, what is written in the letter?"
The letter said that this secret room was built ten years ago, and the existence of the secret room was only known to the Yu father and son. In fact, Old Man Yu had already sensed that something was wrong with the people under him. But he was afraid of startling the snake, so he didn't dare to make any moves, but just secretly left a letter. He instructed his son that if something happened to him, he would take this brocade box to the Central Plains to find his best friend, Mu Haichuan. ”
Jiang Lan heard Xiang Beichuan say this, he stretched out his hand and opened the brocade box, but saw that there was nothing in it, it seems that the box itself is a token.
He put the box in his arms, thinking that if he could really save Yu Yixiang, he would return this thing to him.
There was also a passage on the other side of the stone chamber, and there were stone steps leading up the passage, and when everyone saw that there was nothing left in the stone chamber, they all entered the passage......
In the Yanlai Villa, the fire burned all night, until the hall was burned to scorched earth and rubble!
At this time, Ru Luo Chen was standing in the ruins, and he looked at the hole in the ground with a grim face. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth: "Give Xu Blind an order to find Jiang Lan and the others!" When the news was released again, it was said that Yu Fengqiu was dead, and the murderers were Jiang Lan and Xiang Beichuan! ”