Chapter 18: The Bandits
The corpses and blood stains all over the ground are really terrifying, if it is daytime, it is fine, but it is a night in the wilderness, there is only one torch, Zhao Junsheng keeps oozing cold sweat on his forehead, and on such a hot July night, he actually feels a trace of coldness.
At this time, a cool breeze blew, and the flame of the torch was blown whirring, if the torch was blown out, Zhao Junsheng didn't know if he still had the courage to stay here to check, but he was afraid that he would be scared and run away, right?
He trembled and walked to the nearest corpse with a torch and squatted down, stretched out his trembling hand to pull the crawling corpse over, and under the light of the fire, he saw the corpse's eyes glaring at the boss, and he was so frightened that he screamed "ah" on the spot, and fell to the ground.
He gasped for breath, and it took a while to stabilize his mood, and he had the courage to reach out and close the eyelids of the deceased, and he was a little less afraid, and when he looked again, the corpse was dressed in a short suit, with a yellow scarf wrapped around its head, and looked like a bandit.
"Bandits?" Zhao Junsheng was puzzled, he immediately got up and went to inspect the other twelve corpses one by one, each of them was wearing similar clothes, these people should be the same group, but they were all killed.
Judging from the wounds on the men's bodies and the blood stains on the ground, as well as the swords and spears all over the ground, it is believed that there had been a fierce struggle at the scene, and eight horses were killed, three of which were shot by arrows, and the other five were hacked to death by spears or knives.
"Huh!" Zhao Junsheng noticed that there was a mark on the neck of a horse that seemed to have been burned by a soldering iron, and he squatted down to take a closer look at the torch, only to see a flower on the horse's neck.
"This is the horse in the herd of horses that Mulan took people to send to Xie Jiaji!" Zhao Junsheng was shocked, and he immediately got up to check on the other seven horses, all of which were branded with flower characters on their necks, and it was obvious that they were eight of the horses in the batch that Mulan transported!
Zhao Junsheng understood now, when Mulan and his party escorted the horses here, they were attacked by bandits, where is she now? What do you think?
Zhao Junsheng was anxious, he held the torch forward to look for the traces of the horses when they left, the torch stuck to the ground and found a large number of horseshoe prints and some fresh horse dung, these horseshoe prints and horse dung extended to the front, he immediately turned around and found the best steel knife from the ground, and unsheathed it from the corpse next to him and inserted the steel knife into it, and then hung it on his waist, and stepped on one of the horses to chase forward.
The horses had just run a few steps, and there was a shouting and footsteps from the front, as well as the sound of horses' hooves, Zhao Junsheng was shocked, he immediately extinguished the torch, led the horse to hide in the bushes on the side of the road.
After a while, Zhao Junsheng, who was hiding in the bushes, saw a fierce-looking strong man in his thirties holding a torch and riding a red horse with seven or eight bandits walking quickly, each of whom was holding a torch and the other hand holding a weapon.
The fierce man on horseback was obviously a bandit leader or bandit leader, and this man carried a spear in his hand, which was bright and shiny, and was larger and longer than the average spearhead.
"The second master, this is it, you see, that is the big master!" The minion leading the horse pointed to the corpses all over the ground and said to the vicious man on horseback.
The second master immediately jumped off the horse, carried a spear and quickly walked to a corpse, squatted down and cried: "Big brother, you died so miserably! ”
Zhao Junsheng, who was hiding in the bushes next to him, saw the corpse in front of the second master, and immediately remembered that the steel knife on his waist was picked up from the sound of the corpse, and the scabbard was also taken from the waist of the corpse.
"No wonder this knife is not an ordinary steel knife at first glance, it is the saber of the big boss of this gang of bandits, and it should be worth a few dollars!" Zhao Junsheng touched the scabbard on his waist and couldn't help but think.
The second master cried for a while, and shouted in the sky: "Hua Er, you kill my eldest brother, if I don't kill you, I will not be a man!" ”
Flower two? Isn't that my wife Mulan? Why, you, the leader of the dead bandits, still want to kill my wife? I'll kill you first! Zhao Junsheng muttered in his heart, and a burst of killing intent gradually rose.
At this time, the horse behind Zhao Junsheng suddenly snorted twice in a row, and it was particularly clear in this quiet field, Zhao Junsheng was not ready to fight, his face changed, and he secretly shouted in his heart: "Oops! ”
"Who?" The second master quickly got up and grabbed the spear to make a defensive gesture and shouted, his eyes kept scanning the surroundings.
The eight bandit minions were also facing the enemy at this time, and they all held weapons and stared at the dark bushes around them.
The surroundings are quiet, there is no sound, these two masters are also beating drums in their hearts, the boss has just died, and now there are people hiding around here, what is the origin? What is the purpose? Are you waiting for him to bring someone to cast a net?
"Who is the hero? Please also come out and meet my 'Optimus Prime' Qin Sitong! ”
Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but scoff when he heard this, and "Optimus Prime"? The bandit shouted quite loudly, but I don't know if I have real skills.
Still no one answered, Qin Sitong couldn't help but be a little annoyed and impatient, he opened his mouth and scolded: "Your Excellency hides your head and tail like this, I don't know if you disdain to talk to me Qin Sitong for a while, or is you as timid as a mouse and dare not show up?" ”
"I'll bear it!" Zhao Junsheng secretly warned himself that the other party was too powerful, and he was a single person, so it was naturally impossible for the other party to rush out with a burst of blood, that was not martial arts, but stupidity!
What's more critical is that Qin Sitong and his bandit minions are more than thirty meters away from him at this time, at this distance, his flying needle is not lethal at all, and he can only make a move if he gets close to the other party within twenty meters.
Qin Sitong saw that Zhao Junsheng had been hiding and couldn't come out, so he immediately ordered: "The four of you, two go to the left to search, two go to the right to search, go!" ”
The four minions were forced by Qin Sitong to search for the bushes on both sides of the road, Zhao Junsheng watched the two minions holding steel knives step by step slowly and vigilantly searching, he slowed down his breathing and waited quietly, until these two people touched him within ten meters, he instantly made a move, and the two embroidery needles in his fingers shot out silently, and the two minions covered their chests and fell into the grass without warning.
"Ahh A minion called out loud.
The two minions who went to search on the other side immediately turned around, and together with the four minions who were not moving, they faced Zhao Junsheng's side and made a state of alert.
"You two, up!" Qin Sitong instructed the two minions to force Zhao Junsheng over.
When the two of them approached Zhao Junsheng within ten meters again, he shot again, "plopped" twice, and two more minions fell into the grass with their chests clutched.
Silent and without any warning, Qin Sitong's face changed greatly, he didn't care about the enemy he faced, but this unknown enemy, a trace of fear rose in his heart.
He opened his mouth and scolded: "What kind of hero is a hidden arrow hurting people?" There is a kind of coming out to fight with me Qin Si Tongming for three hundred rounds! ”