Thinking about this clearly, Lu Jinping's heart was heavy. I just encountered such a danger when I stepped on Shu Road, it seems that this trip is only afraid of danger, who wants his life? Is it Empress Wei's remnants or who is it?

Lu Jinping thought about it carefully, he didn't offend anyone in his personal grievances, and after thinking about it, I am afraid that it can only be attributed to the battle between the palaces, and the most likely is Empress Wei's people.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the real purpose of his visit to the territory this time has been revealed, so some people who do not want to see themselves appear in this place carry out this ambush on the road.

This ambush made Lu Jinping more determined in his heart, and he must find out. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he prefers to go to the tiger mountains, see who it is, and what kind of interests do he not hesitate to kill himself to protect? And who poisoned himself? If an enemy is secretly trying to kill you, and you don't find out, then the only thing left is death. He would rather choose to take the initiative.

Continue to climb over the mountains, tread on the muddy mountain road in the torrential rain, and finally climb the steep mountain that twists and turns upward. Then it descends into the mountains and circles the mountain road.

There were no enemy ambushes along the way. Because the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the road is vigilant and careful, by the time we arrived at the next market town, it was already nightfall. The rain also stopped.

Xiong Zhutou led people to find Xiangzheng and asked him to arrange the best big family here as a resting place for Lu Jinping and the two Dali Temple Cheng and the personal plum blossom guard, while the other scribes who followed lived in the inn or the people's house, of course, all lived near the big family where Lu Jinping lived. At the same time, the two dead and seriously wounded were entrusted to the township to send local people to escort them back to Chang'an in a horse-drawn carriage.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, the group continued to set off for Bazhou.

Although the next road was rugged and bumpy, it was relatively easy to walk, and a few days later they came to Shu Road. Where it is really difficult to go to the blue sky, the sword gate is closed.

The Jianmen Pass area of the sword mountain is steep, like a sharp sword piercing the sky, the cliffs on both sides are steep, it is really a husband when the pass is not opened, so it is named. Between the Big and Small Sword Mountains. There are plank roads that stretch for hundreds of miles. These trails are built on top of cliffs, with steep cliffs or deep valleys below.

The plank road was built when the Three Kingdoms began, and the successive dynasties continued to repair and expand, and the maintenance was OK, after all, this is the only way for Chang'an to reach Shudi, and it can be regarded as a traffic artery. But after all, it was only made of wood, and it quickly decayed under the sun and rain, and once it was repaired, it could not keep up. It's dangerous.

Therefore, when Lu Jinping stepped on the plank road for the first time, he heard the sound of squeaking under his feet, and felt that the entire plank road was shaking, and he still had some drumming in his heart.

The boardwalk was so narrow that only one horse could pass, but fortunately they had the foresight to come this time, and they all rode on horseback.

Leading the horse. Walk cautiously up the boardwalk and look at the high cliffs on the other side. From time to time, there are goshawks hovering in the air overhead. At this moment, it is autumn, and under the crisp autumn weather, it does make people feel the comfort of infinite scenery in the dangerous peak.

Lu Jinping was even more nervous this time because he had encountered an ambush before, resulting in two deaths and one injury, and he had no leisure to enjoy these beautiful scenery.

Xiaoxiao made arrangements for vigilance. Sent two strong martial arts people to climb the mountain along the mountain road to the top of the mountain, and searched along the road from the top of the mountain to prevent the enemy from sneaking up from the top of the mountain and smashing it down with rolling wood and thunder stones.

Meantime. The men below were separated by ten paces from each other, stretching the battle line to avoid casualties from the enemy's concentrated attacks.

And Lu Jinping's clothes have been changed into the same black clothes as other catchers and plum blossom guards, and it is impossible to distinguish who Lu Jinping is from a distance.

At the same time, Lu Jinping's walking position was also arranged almost at the end of the line. Such an unsafe place becomes safer, because under normal circumstances, if the enemy sneaks up, they will think that the most important person must be walking in the middle, protecting the front and rear.

Step on the plank road and move forward slowly, the mountain becomes more and more precipitous.

At this moment, the front stopped, and the news quickly spread to the back, and Lu Jinping knew that there was an old man and an old woman with a child in front, carrying a very heavy package. The package was huge, almost filling the entire boardwalk, and was slowly moving forward.

The bear catcher who was exploring the way ahead wanted to get the old man out of the way, but they could get out of the way, and the big package on his back couldn't move the road, blocking the whole road.

Xiong Zhutou suspected that the other party was cheating, and immediately checked and found that the package was filled with all kinds of old clothes. I interrogated the two of them again, and learned that the two old men were collecting old clothes that they didn't want from outside the Sword Gate and carrying them back to be resold.

Xiong Zhutou carefully distinguished the two old and the young, and it didn't seem like he had martial arts. However, he was still vigilant and told the two catchers to control them, and then helped them carry their packages forward, hoping to find a slightly more spacious place to get out of the way and let them pass first.

The two old men and the children walked very slowly, especially the two old men, who were staggering, limping, and their legs and feet were very inflexible, and they didn't look like they were pretending.

The bear catcher was helpless, so he asked the two catchers to carry the two old and the young on their backs. The two old men were grateful again.

As he was walking forward, the little boy suddenly took out a round ball from his bosom, shook it at his back, and said, "Do you know what this is?" ”

This kid is also seven or eight years old, and it is still quite heavy to walk a long way on his back, and he is not angry, and when he sees him, he actually takes out something and asks himself, saying, "I don't care what you are, stay honest." ”

The child giggled and said, "I can't stay honest, you see, I'll play a trick for you." ”

With that, he smashed the ball hard at the pile of clothes in front of him. Just as I heard a bang, the ball suddenly exploded, flying out countless flames, and instantly ignited a large bag of clothes!

The raging flames stunned the people in front and behind, but the person on his back didn't feel it, because he couldn't see it, and the package was so big that it blocked his entire view. He only heard the front and back catchers shouting in unison to throw away the package quickly, and he found that the huge clothes bag on his back had ignited a raging fire, and quickly threw his package off the cliff.

But what they didn't expect was that under the cliff was a gentle slope overgrown with thorns. The huge package was thrown down and landed on the thorns, and it quickly burned and spread back and forth.

Apparently, the thorns were tampered with, sprinkled with fire-stirring things such as sulphur and crude oil. The fire quickly evolved into a long fire dragon and burned upwards, quickly igniting the boardwalk they were on.

And they were fortunate to distance themselves, so only about thirty percent of them were caught in the fire. The people behind quickly retreated, and the catchers who were surrounded by fire dragons on the plank road were on fire, and the screams echoed in the mountain streams, and many people jumped off the cliffs, but they couldn't extinguish the fire on their bodies, and would rather fall to death on the rocks than suffer from the burning of the fire.

After the whole plank road caught fire, Xiong Zhutou grabbed the two old men and rushed out of the fire, grabbed the front without fire, and dodged the fire, but, watching the raging fire engulf the plank road, he lifted the two old men into the air one by one, fell heavily on the plank road, and ordered the catcher who rushed out to tie up the two quickly.

Immediately, Xiong Zhutou pulled out a single knife and wanted to climb over to rescue Lu Jinping and them. However, the fire spread rapidly, engulfing the entire boardwalk, and he could not do it unless he climbed from the top of the mountain, or climbed down the cliff to bypass the bottom.

Xiong Zhutou decided to climb up from the cliff, and he climbed up, preparing to climb over the mountain peak and go around to meet Lu Jinping.

The boy who threw the ball stabbed a thin needle into the neck of the catcher who was carrying him, and the catcher fell to the ground and died. Like an ape, the child quickly climbed to the top of the mountain. However, he did not escape Xiaoxiao's pursuit. Xiaoxiao's dart caught up with him and shot him dead between the trees.

Lu Jinping walked at the back of the line, and when he saw a long flame burning in front of him, engulfing the entire plank road, he looked around to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the chaos to attack.

I couldn't help but be stunned at this look, because I don't know when, two strong men and a young woman appeared a hundred paces away behind them, and they were walking towards them unhurriedly.

Xiaoxiao, who was following Lu Jinping, saw this scene, frowned, and whispered to Lu Jinping: "Be careful, these three people's martial arts are extraordinary, especially the old man." ”

However, these three people were all wearing masks, and when they came closer, they didn't speak, and slowly showed the blades on their waists and pointed at Lu Jinping and them.

The black-faced strong man was the first to attack, rushed straight over, and slashed towards Xiaoxiao. Because the plank road is too narrow, there is no way to start a siege, so you can only fight alone.

The strong man took out the knife, but Xiaoxiao just dodged and didn't make a move, and his eyes kept staring at the old man and the woman.

Lu Jinping behind him has been protected by the plum blossom guards. Xiaoxiao found that the two old men and the young man didn't seem to have the intention of coming up to attack, and although the strong man in front of him was enough to be a first-class master, he could completely clean it up.

So, Xiaoxiao suddenly made a move, and the long sleeve in his hand snapped on one of the strong man's legs, and with a shake out, the strong man flew into the air like a kite with a broken string.

At the moment when Xiaoxiao made a move, the ghost-like figure of the old man activated, leaped up, lightly touched the cliff, and stabbed a sword at Xiaoxiao's face door from top to bottom. The speed is so fast that it is not enough to describe it with electric flashes and flints, and it was in front of Xiaoxiao in an instant.

Xiaoxiao had already seen that this old man's martial arts were super strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong. (To be continued.) )