Chapter 80, The Fourteenth Man?
In the vast wasteland, a young man in a white costume was standing alone in it.
No, to be precise, he was not alone, because there were several corpses lying horizontally around the young man, and the black tights of these corpses were obviously the ones killed by Lu Nanyang and them before.
Flipping one of the corpses over with a kick, the young man's eyebrows moved, and his eyes looked into the distance.
Is it really a step too late?
While thinking, his steps also moved slowly and methodically, looking at his wandering gaze, it was obvious that he was searching for something.
After a moment, the young man stopped, looking at the ruts on the ground that had not yet been covered by the wind and dust, and a smile appeared on his lips.
As soon as his body moved, he was already chasing after the rut that could be found.
"Gu Beiwang, Gu Beiwang, you are really good enough to gamble!"
Long ahead, Lu Nanyang's inner anxiety has not calmed down for a long time, and he has a feeling that something big may happen next, and it is not conducive to himself.
"Steward Huang, please stop first!"
Finally, he couldn't hold back the suspicion in his heart, and shouted in the direction of another carriage.
At this moment, Huang Quan, who was sitting in the other carriages, looked a little listless because of boredom, when he heard Lu Nanyang's words, his eyelids raised, and after a little hesitation, he still signaled all the coachmen at the front of the carriage to stop.
As a horse whistle came to an end, Lu Nanyang had already jumped down and walked quickly in the direction where Huang Quan was.
Seeing the unusual look on the former's face, Huang Quan's spirit tightened slightly, and asked, "Little Brother Lu, I don't know what you are going to do here?"
Lu Nanyang looked directly at the former, and said in a cautious tone: "Steward Huang, do you know what the goods sent to you by the Chamber of Commerce this time?"
"Hmm......" Hearing Lu Nanyang say this, Huang Quan's face showed a strange look for the first time, because he found that he really didn't know what he was transporting to Green Ridge City this time.
"To be honest, the top didn't make it clear to me, anyway, as long as the goods are transported to the branch of Green Ridge City, and they don't care much about the goods, it is estimated that they are some ordinary medicinal materials and yuan stones, which are used to replenish the inventory!"
"Really?" Lu Nanyang glanced at him, and immediately walked around the various cargo compartments, and would reach out and tap on them from time to time, as if to verify something.
After a while, he had already returned to Huang Quan's side, but there was some inexplicable meaning in his eyes.
"Of the five cargo compartments that our group is responsible for this time, one is empty!"
Hearing his words, Huang Quan was so anxious that he immediately jumped out of the car: "How is it possible?"
"No, to be more specific...... It's almost empty!"
Lu Nanyang walked quickly to a cargo compartment, stretched out his hand and knocked it up again, and said: "You listen to this sound is definitely not something that a carriage full of goods can make, if it is filled with spirit stones and other items according to what you said, then this sound is too crisp and loud!"
"It's a strange thing that we're being targeted by a mercenary group, and with such a strange cargo compartment, I wonder if there's some secret hidden in it...... So I want to ask the yellow steward to open the cargo compartment and take a look, anyway, looking at your attitude on the top, I don't care much about the goods this time, just open it and close it immediately, there should be no big problem!"
Huang Quan's brows have been tightly locked into a Sichuan character, obviously hesitating whether to do what Lu Nanyang said.
Looking at Huang Quan's tangled appearance, Chu Qifan glanced at Lu Nanyang unconsciously, and asked, "Are you sure your judgment is correct?"
Lu Nanyang shook his head: "I never think that I won't make mistakes, but how can I judge whether I really made a mistake without actual verification?"
When the former said this, Chu Qifan didn't remind him of anything, he didn't want to think about anything about this kind of smart person's thoughts.
Before the two finished talking, Huang Quan over there had already walked to a cargo compartment according to Lu Nanyang's instructions, and the key was taken out of his arms, and then he only heard a click, and the wooden door behind the cargo compartment opened.
In just an instant, everyone present changed their complexions, and they gradually turned their attention to Lu Nanyang when they looked at each other.
"This!"
Looking at the dark space in the cargo compartment, Huang Quan's facial contours gradually became distorted, because all that came into his eyes were a few bundles of thatch.
These thatches are piled up in the cargo compartment, and from Chu Qifan's point of view, it is probably less than a quarter of the cargo compartment space, giving people a perfunctory sense of déjà vu.
"Anyway, you've been in the carriage with me before, how did you find out about this?"
Chu Qifan tilted his head and looked at Lu Nanyang, who was smiling on his right, and said what everyone wanted to say at the moment.
"It's not hard to guess, don't you notice that the two horses in charge of pulling this carriage have always been faster than the others?"
Under everyone's gaze, Lu Nanyang walked to the two horses in front of the coachman, and seeing this, the coachman also looked up at him, and then buried his head in his own thoughts.
Reaching out and touching the horse's mane, Lu Nanyang muttered in his mouth: "Sure enough, you have to be more energetic than other horses!"
"That's it?" Chu Qifan stretched his neck forward, although the other party's words were right, he still felt that it was a bit too presumptuous to judge that the cargo compartment was empty based on this detail alone.
"Of course not!" Lu Nanyang shook his head, his eyes signaling Chu Qifan to look behind.
It's just that they looked behind them for a long time, but they didn't find anything worth pondering.
"Although it is not obvious, it can still be seen that the ruts of this carriage are obviously shallower than those left by other carriages!" Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Lu Nanyang continued: "I have observed that the specifications of the five carriages this time are the same, but the ruts left by this carriage are shallower, which means that the goods in the cargo compartment must be strange!"
This guy is so terrible to observe!
At this moment, everyone's thoughts are the same, but what does this have to do with them being intercepted and killed by mercenaries?
"Nice reasoning!"
Just as the doubts in everyone's hearts rose, a man's scream resounded all around, and this voice seemed to have magical power, and it actually echoed above this endless wasteland.
Immediately afterwards, a young man in a white costume appeared among the crowd unconsciously.
Master!
Similar thoughts appeared in everyone's minds, and being able to approach everyone present silently, how terrifying was the strength of this young man in Chinese costumes?
"Boy, this person is very strong, his strength has reached the peak of the Earth Yuan Realm, even if I am now, I may not be able to defeat him easily!"
As soon as the young man in Chinese clothes appeared, Hua Impermanence's solemn voice had already entered Chu Qifan's heart, which also made the latter's eyelids beat uncontrollably, and at the same time, his body also took a step back.
The peak of the Earth Yuan Realm, this should be the strongest person he has encountered in these days!
Of course, the premise is not to put the impermanence of flowers inside!
Finding that the young man in Chinese costume was looking at him, Lu Nanyang temporarily pressed down the solemnity in his heart, and responded with a natural face: "Thank you for your compliment!"
"You deserve my compliment!" the young man's eyes lingered for a long time, and then he glanced around, his tone turning sharply and becoming strange.
"Since you're so smart, can you help me solve a small problem?"
Lu Nanyang shook his palm slightly, but he still pretended to be calm and said, "Your Excellency, please speak!"
A smile rose in the young man's eyes for a moment, but it looked a little flustered.
"Can you help me find the fourteenth person here besides you and me?"
The fourteenth man?
Chu Qifan looked around carefully, except for Lu Nanyang and the young man, there are only thirteen people counting the five horsemen, so the question is, what does the fourteenth person mean in the young man's mouth?
Firmly locked by the young man's gaze, Lu Nanyang's eyes were obviously a little erratic, as if he was secretly weighing something.
However, he soon knew that he had no need to think about it at all, because the strength of this young man was completely beyond his expectations, and it was better to be more direct in front of such a person.
In a somewhat quiet atmosphere, Lu Nanyang's finger was raised, and he suddenly pointed in a certain direction, and the place he pointed to was the cargo compartment that had been opened by Huang Quan.
"The person you're looking for is under that thatch!"
The young man nodded thoughtfully, then looked at Huang Quan on the other side and said, "You, go and lift all the thatch in there for me!"
Hearing the former's command, Huang Quan dared to hesitate for half a minute, and immediately curled up and got into the cargo compartment.
It's just that as soon as he entered the cargo compartment, Huang Quan's face instantly became a little strange, because in this gloomy space, he smelled a smell that he was very sure of.
Bloody gas!
To be honest, his heart was in a panic now, but when he thought of the immeasurable strength of the young man, he still had the courage to lift the thatch between them little by little with his hands.
Time didn't pass very quickly, but it made everyone feel a little long, especially for Huang Quan.
"Ahh
Suddenly, only to hear a panicked scream, Huang Quan's body fell backwards suddenly, and the whole person rolled out of the cargo compartment in full view of everyone.
Others may not be able to see what is going on in it, but Huang Quan can see it clearly.
Beneath the thatch was a horrible human face covered in blood, no, it should be said that he had only seen that terrible human face.
"Hmph, useless stuff!"
Just when everyone was still guessing what Huang Quan saw, the young man snorted lightly and walked towards the cargo compartment alone.
Seeing the young man gradually approaching the cargo compartment, Lu Nanyang's eyes had already glanced somewhere ahead, but he didn't see what he wanted to see for the first time.
At this moment, the sound that was close at hand suddenly sounded in everyone's ears.
"Liu Ziheng, if you dare to take another half step forward, I will kill you!"
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