16. Broken Temple
Burst!
On the sheep intestine path, Liu Ce shot a bandit leader who wanted to plot against the homeless, regardless of the frightened eyes of everyone, began to search for the materials on his body, and finally only found two sweet potatoes and a few taels of broken silver.
Liu Ce broke the sweet potato into two pieces and devoured it! The fleeing refugees who were cowering in a corner not far away swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely, if they weren't afraid of Liu Ce's superb killing methods, I am afraid they would have rushed forward to rob them.
Glancing at the disheveled refugees, Liu Ce took out a water bag and drank a sip of water, quickly eliminated the remaining sweet potato, and walked away.
For more than a month, Liu Ce has survived by intercepting and killing lone bandits and thieves to grab the food from them, and he has also robbed the fleeing homeless, but when he grabbed the food and saw them kneeling on the ground and begging for him, the soft side of his heart was touched, so he returned the food to them. Maybe it's because the owner of his body is kinder, Liu Ce found a reason to comfort himself by not being ruthless enough, and since then, no matter how hungry he is, he has never robbed the fleeing homeless.
Liu Ce walked to a ruined temple, looked up and saw that it was getting late, and planned to stay here for the night, and then continue to hurry at dawn. Pushing open the dilapidated temple door, a burst of ash fell above his head, Liu Ce patted the leather armor on his body and shook off the ashes, it seems that no one has lived in this temple for a long time, the incense burner on the desk has long been gone, the huge Buddha statue in the middle has irregular cracks, the body is covered with cobwebs, the paper windows on both sides of the wall have long been crooked aside, the window edge has been moth-eaten black spots, the ground is full of dust, and the broken tables and chairs have fallen to the side, a dilapidated scene.
Liu Ce found a corner by the window, took off the coarse cloth cloak he had taken from the bandits, and after flicking off the dust on the ground, he took a fairly smooth green brick from the side as a pillow, took off his helmet and lay down, put the spear on the side, and fell asleep like this.
In the middle of the night, Liu Ce was woken up by a cry from afar, and he immediately touched the spear next to him and squatted vigilantly at the window. It was pitch black outside, and I couldn't see my fingers, and I could only faintly hear the heart-rending cries of women and children and the shouting and scolding of a group of men......
Due to the effect of the thieves conquering Gaoyang City, the displaced people, bankrupt farmers, and some of the defeated soldiers and ruffians in the market gathered together to erect the banner of Tianxingdao to join the camp of the thieves or stand on their own, and the local law and order was even more chaotic than before, and heinous crimes such as murder, rape, and looting could be seen everywhere. Along the way, Liu Ce was full of ordinary people fleeing from the soldiers, and many people fell hungry on the streets, dragged into dark places by the "cannibalistic" brigade to make dried meat......
Liu Ce actually sympathized with them very much in his heart, but what could he do? If you can't live yourself, what energy do you have to help others? Of course, he didn't have a kind heart, and he saved a mother and son from the bandits half a month ago, but within two days, the mother and son were boiled alive in an iron pot by another team of thieves...... Since then, Liu Ce knows that what he does alone is in vain, in this world only strong, ruthless, and poisonous can live, his only bottom line is not to do anything to the common people, but I don't know if there is really a day when he can't live, whether he will abide by the last bottom line of human nature, and maybe he will also join the cannibal brigade and become a member of the beasts.
The cries outside the window gradually faded away, Liu Ce no longer paid attention to what the final outcome of those cries would be, leaned back against the window, held the spear to his chest, closed his eyes, and tried to make himself sleep......
Half-asleep and half-awake, the sky was already slightly bright, Liu Ce really couldn't sleep well, so he simply got up and prepared to continue the day's journey, when suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the door, and he was gradually approaching the broken temple. Liu Ce immediately picked up his gun and jumped into it, and hid behind the stone statue on the incense case, and after a while, three strong men came in from outside the door, all wearing iron leaf armor.
"Xiao Qi, go and carry things in, from yesterday to now, I haven't eaten a grain of rice, I'm starving." A big man with a bearded face ordered a relatively thin man, and the man answered and went out, and soon came in with a bag that looked to weigh 100 pounds, and by the way, he also closed the door that was half hidden. I saw another man with a scar on his face take down an iron pot from his back without saying a word, put it aside, found a few bricks to surround it into a fire, and then put some firewood and hay into it and lit it with flint, put the pot on, the thinner man untied the bag, and Liu Ce clearly saw that it was full of pure white rice......
The thinner man was just about to pour rice into the pot, slapped his head violently, turned back and took two water bags and poured them into the pot, and then poured in about four or five catties of white rice......
The aroma of white rice came to his nose, Liu Ce couldn't help but swallow his saliva, he hadn't eaten hot food for almost a month, especially such fine white rice hadn't eaten for a long time, Liu Ce resisted the urge to make a move, let his mind calm down and began to analyze the situation in front of him, these three people are either the elite of the rout or the thieves, the latter is the most likely, what are the chances of winning against these three people at the same time? Is it worth the risk for that bag of grain? Liu Ce's mind was quickly calculating how to minimize the risk.
At this moment, a group of mother and daughter timidly walked outside the door, trembling and sitting next to the bearded man, the girl snuggled up to the woman, her face was pale, and her eyes were full of fear.
About three or four quarters of an hour later, the rice had been cooked and there was a burst of white gas, and the bearded man took out a sea bowl full of rice and scooped up a big bowl of rice into the pot without fear of being hot, and directly put it in his mouth with his hands, and the scar and the "thin man" also ate nonsense, Liu Ce endured hunger and watched all this, and decided to wait for them to be distracted before making a move, and strive to kill one first.
After eating for a while, the bearded man glanced at the mother and daughter beside him, and glanced at the opposite scar, who sighed and put a big bowl of rice next to the mother and daughter. The woman thanked and hurriedly grabbed the rice bowl and gave it to the girl in her arms, although the girl was hungry and panicked, but she was still afraid to take it, the woman had to take out the wooden spoon from her arms, and fed him one bite at a time, the "thin man" on the side glanced at the mother and daughter, and also put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand, sighed helplessly, and was about to speak, Liu Ce behind the stone statue jumped with a gun and stabbed over......
"Be careful!" The bearded man picked up the ghost head knife on the side and blocked the fatal shot for the man named Xiao Qi, and the tip of the gun fell down the tip of Xiao Qi's nose. Liu Ce's elbow swept sideways, the bearded man stumbled and was shaken a few steps, his chest ached, and the little seven instantly waved out the chain hammer in his hand when he saw the situation, Liu Ce flashed on his back, dodged the fatal blow, and was about to fight back, when the opposite scar kicked in his chest, Liu Ce retreated backwards and the gun body hit the ground and flipped in the air to leak his strength.
"Officers and soldiers?" Seeing Liu Ce's dress, Scar asked coldly, and Xiao Qi next to him was also on guard, and the woman hurriedly pulled her daughter down the corner and shrank aside, looking at all this in front of her with a nervous expression.
Liu Ce's eyes were cold, he looked at the three people in front of him, knowing that the sneak attack had failed, but he also understood the number of these three people, and with a mention of the spear, he killed again.
The scar took out the two copper hammers on his waist, and pounced like Liu Ce with Xiao Qi and the bearded man, and for a while the temple was in a mess, and the remaining half of the pot of rice was also kicked to the ground.
The bearded man has a powerful knife, the scar double hammer pulls out the mountains and rivers, and Xiao Qi's chain hammer is haunting, but Liu Ce's marksmanship is sophisticated, the pace is calm and atmospheric, and the skills of the three people who are forced to perform can't be used, and there is a danger of losing the wind.
Xiao Qi roared angrily, the chain hammer in his hand spun in the air, and then found a flaw in Liu Ce and threw it at his back. Hearing the chain hammer flying behind him, Liu Ce decisively gave up fighting with the other two, stepped on the pillar with one foot, and stabbed Xiao Qi straight away regardless of the chain hammer that passed closely......
Just when the tip of the gun had been attached to Xiao Qi's body, and Xiao Qi was also bound to die, the ghost head knife blocked the fatal blow again, Xiao Qi had a metal sound of armor leaves hitting him, and the tip of the gun slashed upwards from his chest, taking away three or four iron leaves; Liu Ce turned the body of the spear and smashed it on the back of the bearded man, and the bearded man spit out a stream of blood, which squirted out together with the rice he had just eaten, and then the bottom of the spear stabbed back hard, and the scar couldn't prevent it from being concentrated on a certain acupuncture point in the lower abdomen! Immediately fell to the side weakly, and then held the gun head socket above his head and smashed Xiao Qi's left shoulder hard, and Xiao Qi also fell down under the pain, and finally Liu Ce kicked the bearded man to the ground......
Liu Ce kicked all the weapons on their bodies into the corner, and walked slowly towards the mother and daughter who were cowering in the corner, the woman held her daughter in her arms, and the girl in her arms showed frightened eyes, tears hung in the corners of her eyes, and her mouth couldn't help reading: "Mother, Bao'er is so afraid, Bao'er is afraid of hurt...... This pair is the mother and daughter who were ruined by thieves in Gaoyang City, the woman originally wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the well with her daughter in her arms that day, but she was really ruthless, so she escaped from Gaoyang City at night......
"It's a gentleman who comes to Lao Tzu, what kind of ability is it to bully other orphans and widows?" I only heard the bearded man who fell to the ground behind him and kept scolding, he really couldn't stand up.
"You can't die well!" The scar man howled fiercely, and the pain in his lower abdomen was scorching.
"There are still a few bags of grain at the door to take away, and four mules and horses, let them orphans and widows go!" That Xiao Qi was ruthless and slowly stood up, but his left arm couldn't be raised.
Liu Ce didn't say a word, ignored the scolding of the three people behind him, and walked straight away. The woman's face turned pale with fright, and suddenly she seemed to have made some decision to let go of her daughter and kneel in front of Liu Ce's feet, while ripping off the clothes on her chest, "Master Jun, I'm here to serve you, don't touch my daughter, I can do anything, please, Master Jun, she's still too young!" ”
Liu Ce didn't even look at the bare chest in front of him, and looked coldly at the girl who was cowering in the corner, and suddenly a spear stabbed out...... The three people behind him couldn't bear to close their eyes, and before the woman could scream, she saw Liu Ce pull out her gun and saw that there was a huge snake with a bowl thick hanging from the head of the red gun, which was writhing incessantly......