Chapter Eighty-Eight: It's Not Lonely to Go All the Way East
It was late at night, and the caravans around had already fallen asleep, because they were under the Jianmen Gate, so they were all sleeping soundly, and few people patrolled the night.
Those Jianghu people made a fire by the side of the road, roasting game caught from nowhere, and the sound of drinking orders was incessant, and most of them were drunk and confused.
The stars twinkled in the night sky, and a crescent moon could not illuminate the earth, except for the light of the fire, and the surroundings could be described as dark.
Xu Mingyuan and Qi Haobo, who were lying in the carriage, had been talking softly, and just after Qi Haobo gave a warning, a long sword pierced from the roof of the carriage, and it was two feet in an instant, if it broke through the roof of the carriage directly, this sword stabbed at Xu Mingyuan's position.
Night Raid!
There were only these two words in Xu Mingyuan's mind, he didn't expect that someone had already been eyeing his donkey cart for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that the two of them hadn't fallen asleep yet, Qi Haobo was alert enough, and the two of them were probably going to have this weird sword.
However, since the two of them have been alerted, they will naturally not be restrained.
At the moment when the long sword stabbed into the carriage, the black long knife held by Qi Haobo came out of its sheath silently, and slashed at the long sword that stabbed straight down with the back of the knife.
There was a dull sound, and the long sword touched the long knife, and then at the same time it stood still on the roof of the carriage.
At the same time, Xu Mingyuan, who had been prepared for a long time, also came out of the sheath at the moment when the long sword pierced into the carriage cover, threw a sword out of the window, and at the same time pressed the wall of the carriage, his body rushed towards the outside of the carriage and lifted the curtain out.
The sound of a long sword piercing into his body was accompanied by a muffled snort, and Xu Mingyuan rushed out of the carriage just as he reached out and grabbed a man in black who fell from the carriage cover. His fingers were like a sword, and he slammed sideways into the throat of the man in black, shattering his throat bone to the ground, and he could no longer make a sound.
Then he fell straight backwards and poured into the carriage with the man in black who still had the blue frost sword in his chest.
Just when Xu Mingyuan poured into the carriage, a quilt was already laid behind him, and there were a pair of strong hands.
Xu Mingyuan bent his body slightly, fell lightly on the quilt, and raised his hand to suspend the man in black who had lost his breath in front of him.
Qi Haobo stretched out his hand and pulled out the green frost that pierced the chest of the man in black, and stuffed the clothes he had taken off before on the wound of the man in black, preventing the blood from remaining.
"Look at the sound over there, I seem to have heard the sound of weapons colliding just now!" A rough voice sounded, with a little drunkenness, it seems that the short fight before still aroused the vigilance of those Jianghu people.
"What's the sound, Tiger Boss, are you drunk, come, little brother will toast you again." Another neutral voice sounded, but it was the sound of a toast.
"Yes, we didn't hear it, maybe it's the sound of the wild creatures calling on the mountain, this deer leg is good, Tiger Boss, you can taste it first." Another person said that these two people's kung fu should be weaker, so they didn't hear it.
The rough voice before sounded again, and said with a smile: "It seems that I have indeed been poured too much wine by your virtuous brothers today, and the voice is wrong, when we catch the boy surnamed Qi, let's go to Shuzhou City to play a few oirans, I will treat you." ”
"Haha, the tiger boss said this, but the little brother remembers, Shuzhou City must go there to forget worries, the girls there are all water spirits." There was another burst of laughter, followed by an intermittent drinking order.
Qi Haobo stretched out his hand and slowly pulled the two-foot long sword down again, leaving only one hilt that should not be visible on the carriage.
Xu Mingyuan, who was lying down, gasped for breath, gently put aside the corpse that was starting to chill, and put the clothes away to prevent his blood from flowing to the ground.
Xu Mingyuan's body was still trembling slightly, with the panic of killing again, and the fatigue of reacting like this in a very short time.
This is the first cooperation between Xu Mingyuan and Qi Haobo, which can be called seamless.
This killer came without warning, or beyond Xu Mingyuan's expectations, he was able to react in such a short time and take the most appropriate countermeasures, even Qi Haobo couldn't help but look at him with admiration.
This killer's strength is not strong, but his light skills are superb, and his timing is also excellent. If it weren't for the two of them chatting softly for so long, I'm afraid it would really be too late to react.
It may not be difficult to kill this killer, but if the dozen or so Jianghu people hear the sound and surround them, the two of them may inevitably have a hard fight, and even if they are lucky enough to escape, sooner or later they will still be caught by the Jianghu people who have narrowed the scope.
Therefore, they can't fight this killer for too long, and they don't even dare to make a sound, and only instant killing can break the siege.
Qi Haobo stopped the long sword with the back of his sword, but he made a dull sound, and he did his best to restrain the sword.
And Xu Mingyuan shook out the sword from the car window with a sword of Wentian, and changed the direction in the middle of the road, Xu Mingyuan relied on the long sword that pierced into the carriage to roughly determine the location of the killer, and he was able to ensure that the sword hit.
Then Xu Mingyuan cut off the killer's life with one finger and dragged him into the carriage, which can be regarded as the solution to the crisis.
Fortunately, those Jianghu people felt that they couldn't get out of the Sword Gate Pass tonight, and they couldn't catch Qi Haobo anyway, so they drank a lot of wine, otherwise the sound was not slight in the ears of the third-grade masters.
"React fast enough, shoot hard enough, in fact, you are quite suitable to be a killer." Qi Haobo laughed softly, but he didn't panic because of the previous situation, and he didn't change color in the slightest because of the dead man in black.
Xu Mingyuan felt for the water bladder with trembling hands, opened it and poured a few sips, and then felt more comfortable. Presumably, when he killed Heshuo Sanxiong for the first time, killing this man in black today, Xu Mingyuan's reaction has been reduced a lot.
"Why did he come to the door so quickly? Could it be that they already know you're here? Xu Mingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, leaned against the carriage and looked at Qi Haobo and asked, just for a short time, his back was completely soaked with sweat.
Qi Haobo groped around the killer's corpse for a while, tore off a black rope from his neck, shook it in front of Xu Mingyuan, and said: "This should be the killer of the falcon, it is estimated that I killed those disciples of the Qingcheng Sword Sect before I was behind me, and I suddenly attacked when I came here to find an opportunity." If I'm not mistaken, no one but him probably knows we're here. ”
"Falcon?" Xu Mingyuan thought for a moment and hesitated: "But that mysterious killer organization Falcon on the rivers and lakes? ”
"Is there anything else besides that?" Qi Haobo threw the rope back on the corpse, took the water bladder in Xu Mingyuan's hand and poured it, and said easily: "Most of the falcons are coming for the things on my body, and I don't know how many killers they have sent, and whether there are killers who have come to the place." ”
"Will they contact the Qingcheng Sword Sect? If someone from the Qingcheng Sword Sect arrived, it wouldn't be good. Xu Mingyuan calmed down and asked softly.
"The Qingcheng Sword Sect is only able to show off its martial arts in Jiannan Dao, not to mention the four major sects, even the second-rate sects will not take it seriously. Even if Falcon knew that the two of us were here, he would never reveal the news to the Qingcheng Sword Sect, and he wouldn't look down on it at all. Qi Haobo shook his head with a smile and said.
Xu Mingyuan was also relieved when he heard this, but he frowned slightly when he looked at the body of the black-clothed man lying in the carriage, he must dispose of this corpse tonight, otherwise if he is found by the soldiers guarding the customs tomorrow, it will be difficult to get out.
"When they are resting, just throw the corpses on the mountain." As if knowing Xu Mingyuan's thoughts, Qi Haobo spoke.
Xu Mingyuan nodded, remembering that Qi Haobo couldn't see it in the dark, and hummed softly.
Tonight's night attack of this killer gave him a lot of shock, he had already heard of the name of the falcon, it was a big killer organization that was born ten years ago after the Cloud Machine Pavilion.
However, compared with the Cloud Machine Pavilion, the style of the falcon is much more low-key, and the mystery is not inferior to the Cloud Machine Pavilion, and it gradually has a place in the rivers and lakes.
Imitating the Cloud Machine Pavilion, the falcon also lists the killer as the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang, and the ground level corresponds to the killer who can kill the second-grade little grandmaster. The killer planted in their hands should be a Xuan-level, and he has just entered the third grade.
The rank of a killer cannot be measured by his own strength alone, and it is not difficult for a killer to kill a strong with weakness.
As long as it is enough to surprise, even a killer without martial arts can also kill the second-grade little grandmaster. This is not a duel, no one values the means and the process, and death is the final result.
Xu Mingyuan rested for a while, and waited until the sound of the drinking order outside gradually subsided, estimating that those people in the rivers and lakes were almost drunk, Xu Mingyuan got up and walked out of the carriage, pulled out the long sword on the top of the carriage, and dragged the body of the man in black towards the mountain.
The man in black was a little thin, so it wasn't heavy, Xu Mingyuan carried a long sword in one hand and the man in black into the dense forest in the other. He walked in the dense forest for a while, and just found a hole, so he directly threw the man in black and the long sword into it, hugged some dead leaves and dead branches and covered it, and after confirming that it was correct, he returned the same way.
On the way, he took off his blood-stained coat again, kicked some leaves to cover it, and then returned to the carriage.
Qi Haobo was already asleep, but when Xu Mingyuan entered the carriage, the slight snoring still stopped for a moment, as if it was confirmed that it was Xu Mingyuan, and then it continued to sound.
Xu Mingyuan fumbled and lit the oil lamp, protected the light with his hands, took out a cloth and dipped it in water, wiped all the blood in the carriage and on the carriage cover, and then extinguished the oil lamp and lay down.
Xu Mingyuan turned his head and glanced at Qi Haobo beside him, he should have been on the run for some days, I am afraid that the scene he faced before was several times more difficult than today.
And what the next two of them have to face is definitely not a smooth road, and a scene like tonight may become a daily routine.
Xu Mingyuan exhaled lightly, closed his eyes sideways and began to sleep, it seems that this road to the east is destined not to be lonely.