Ye Haotian retracted his mind, glanced at Wang Wu's slightly pale face, and then looked at the injury on his chest, and said suspiciously: "Why, this little injury hurts like this? ”

Wang Wu shook his head again and again: "It's not the injury, it's the horse thief who didn't die." ”

"What's wrong with him?"

"Just check it out. ”

Wang Wu's expression made Ye Haotian feel even more strange, and under his leadership, the two of them came to the side of the injured horse thief.

The horse thief lay on the ground, an arrow plunged deep into his back, and an arm-thick iron rod and a wolf's head mask fell into the grass beside him. After just one glance, Ye Haotian recognized that he was the kid who was shot down by himself.

"Help him up. ”

Ye Haotian said to the two soldiers holding torches on the side.

The soldier agreed, and picked him up from left to right.

Ye Haotian narrowed his eyes, wondering in his heart how to get something out of his mouth, how could a guy at the peak of the Qi Transformation Realm be a small leader, he must know a lot, maybe he could dig out some unknown secrets from him.

However, when Ye Haotian saw the other party's face stained with mud and blood, he only felt that the world was spinning, and his head buzzed, and he was suddenly stunned on the spot.

"Liu Datou!"

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Ye Haotian couldn't believe his eyes at all.

He stared blankly at the familiar face in front of him, and his brain was in a trance.

"Why, how could you get mixed up with horse thieves?" Ye Haotian trembled and spat out a voice from his lips.

Liu Datou slowly raised his head, and there was a sudden light in his dim eyes: "Ye Gongzi?"

"Why!"

Ye Haotian almost roared.

Liu Datou seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and he suddenly coughed violently, and the blood he coughed up dripped down the corners of his mouth and onto his clothes.

"If you didn't die, I knew you wouldn't die. ”

After saying this, Liu Datou slowly fell down.

Ye Haotian rushed forward and hugged him.

Only then did he notice that the arrow had pierced Liu Datou's body, revealing half of the arrow in front of his chest, and judging from the part where the arrow was inserted, it just pierced through the lobe of his lung.

This is a fatal wound.

Ye Haotian helped Liu Datou to sit on the ground slowly, his past experience had already taught him to bleed without tears, but at this time, he felt that something crystal was pouring out of his eyes.

"Why?"

Ye Haotian repeated these three words again, this time there was no longer anger in his voice, but became extraordinarily calm, just listening to Wang Wu's ears next to him, it was more frightening than the roar just now.

Liu Datou vomited another mouthful of blood, and said intermittently: "I have no choice." ”

"I know. ”

Ye Haotian wiped the blood from Liu Datou's mouth.

"Whoever forced you to come, tell me!"

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Quicksand City at night is as dark as ever.

In addition to a few special places such as taverns, casinos, and brothels, only the two red lanterns hanging at the gate of the city lord's compound still emitted a faint light.

Two guards in official uniforms and sabers at their waists leaned drowsy against the wall next to the door under the lantern.

said that it was standing guard, that is, putting on a show, who would go to the city lord's compound in the middle of the night to find trouble after being full?

Especially in recent months, the city lord Xu Heihu has listened to Ye Haotian's advice and played the slogan of 'get rich and don't shed blood', which has made those guys in the city who love to draw knives and guns at every turn have also converged a lot, and the direct beneficiaries of this slogan are those errand workers in the city lord's compound.

As the night deepened, the two guards finally fell asleep one after another, one of them snoring like thunder.

I don't know when, there was suddenly an extra person on the courtyard wall not far from the house gate.

The man was dressed in black, with a black hat on his head, and only two eyes were exposed, he leaned on the top of the four-meter-high wall and looked down at the two guards in front of the door, and after making sure that they had fallen asleep, he jumped to the ground, and his body was light and did not make a sound.

After landing on the ground, the man in black did not stop at all, and ran directly along the street into the darkness ahead.

There was silence all around, and the man in black moved quickly and quickly, like a tanuki flying by at night, through the streets, around the houses, and finally stopped outside a small courtyard next to the arrow tower in the south of the town.

This small courtyard is famous.

For the people of Quicksand City, it is one of several forbidden places.

Especially at night, there will always be more than a dozen wolf-like men patrolling nearby, and ordinary people dare not approach at all.

But tonight is different.

Because its master has been taken to Anyang City for trial, and only one death awaits him.

The master fell, and his subordinates immediately dispersed, and the interest relationship established by money could not withstand any test at all, so there was unprecedented silence outside the small courtyard.

The man in black was very careful, he first looked around, and only after making sure that there was no one did he take out a thin rope with a barb from his body, and threw it lightly, the barb hung on the wall, and he climbed up along the rope.

After going up the wall, the man in black easily passed through the iron net used to prevent theft, and then jumped into the courtyard.

Even if no one is guarding it, this small courtyard is still full of dangers.

The cultivation of the master of the courtyard is not high, but his ability to make traps has already spread throughout Quicksand City, and in some respects, even the Zhao family in the north of the city is ashamed of itself.

Everyone in the city knew that Ye Haotian's residence was a dense trap array, and there were more than 30 spies, thieves, and killers who died in the array a few months ago, and no one dared to break into the small courtyard at night for some days.

The man in black seemed to be very familiar with the situation in the courtyard.

He easily cracked seven or eight traps nearby, dodged a few waves of arrows, and then pushed open the door of a nearby room and walked in carefully.

After entering the house, the man in black took out a bead from his body, and he entered a trace of aura into it, and the originally dim bead suddenly emitted light, and the whole room was illuminated, and the layout and landscape in the house instantly became clear.

The room is small in size and has a simple layout, with no furniture except for a table in the middle, except for dozens of brass bells hanging on the wall next to it.

The bronze bells were of different sizes, and each of them had a thin silver wire leading to the opposite wall, and the man in black took a deep breath, trying to calm his nervous heart, he walked around a few silver wires and walked to the wall, stretched out his hand and began to carefully move the position of the copper bells.

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The frontier is not quiet at night.

In the barren wilderness, all kinds of heart-palpitating beast roars can be heard everywhere.

Night walking in the wild is extremely dangerous for humans.

Even cultivators, surrounded by wolves and poisonous lizards, did not dare to rush across that vast expanse of desert.

Ye Haotian rode on a horse, galloping wildly, and in the night behind him, more than a dozen wild wolves were following from afar.

It had been some time since he left the camp, and the grief in Ye Haotian's heart had not been alleviated in the slightest.

The words that Liu Datou said before he died always echoed in his mind.

Although he had gradually become accustomed to killing and death in the past few months, and although he had always thought that there would be no one in this world except Zhuzhu to make him sad, he still shed tears when he saw Liu Datou slowly closing his eyes in his arms, and his body gradually became cold and stiff.

Ye Haotian must rush back.

He just hoped it was still too late.

Since the other party is so anxious to attack him, some changes will inevitably occur in the city, and the small courtyard that took a lot of effort to build is no longer safe, and Zhuzhu is likely to be in danger.

As soon as he thought of Zhuzhu, Ye Haotian felt a tingling pain in his heart.

In order to save him, Zhuzhu was hit by the blood poison of the nine infants, and after two years of recuperation, she has just improved, and now she can't fight with people at all, otherwise the blood poison will attack her heart, even if the gods go down to earth, they can't save her.

Ye Haotian must not let Zhuzhu have an accident, Xu Heihu is right, Zhuzhu is Ye Haotian's forbidden belly, it is Ye Haotian's life, for her, Ye Haotian can do anything.

In the original plan, Ye Haotian felt that the opponent should not dare to attack Zhuzhu before he entered Anyang City, and he would secretly return within five days after leaving the city, but the appearance of Liu Datou completely disrupted his plan.

Ye Haotian only hoped that Zhuzhu had left the small courtyard.

Or, Second Sister Su can keep her, don't let her go.

The horses broke through the dry dirt road, raising a layer of invisible dust and rolling towards the quicksand city.

The dozen or so wild wolves that followed closely were also gradually thrown away, and let out a few unwilling howls and disappeared in the night.