If Bailu really wants to run, it is not an exaggeration to fly at a low altitude, and those BMW horses who travel thousands of miles a day and eight hundred at night can only crawl as slowly as a turtle in front of her. And she is not only fast but also very steady, even if she encounters sharp bends and ravines, An Ran and Fan Yuntian only need to clamp her belly tightly and will not sway and fall.

Out of the lame town, An Ran deliberately bypassed the emperor's large group of people, and with only three sticks of incense, they came from the lame town in the southernmost part of Pinghan County to the northernmost town of Jumping Gorge in Panlong County. If this distance is about more than 300 miles, if you use the fastest war horse to run non-stop, it will probably take more than half a day, if you walk by people - An Ran has not tried - it will take a day and a night, and there is no rest in between.

"I'll be a good girl!" An Ran couldn't help but smack his tongue and thought, "Even the car on the highway can only run at this speed, right?" And Xiaobai doesn't seem to have used all her strength, this little girl's heart is not beating and she is not panting, and she is a little leisurely. The journey from lame town to Jumping Gorge town is not short, the emperor and his party are not fast, and they have to pass through the county seat and post station in the middle, counting the emperor's rest time, it will take about two days to reach Hulu Gorge, of course, if he has to go to a certain palace to live on this way; Or if you go to Taiwang Mountain to see the scenery, you may not be able to get there in ten days and half a month. “

What he thinks is not unreasonable, this King Mountain is the middle mountain of the land of Jinguo, it is one of the three peaks of the Luling Mountain Range that runs through the east and west, it is majestic and beautiful, and there are Taoist sects on it, this Emperor Jinhui will not climb the mountain and look far away.

However, if the emperor delayed a little longer, it seemed more beneficial for them to act, at least An Ran would have more time to inquire and check whether Hulu Gorge was in danger, or who was secretly preparing to assassinate.

The mountain sect of Taiwang Mountain is called 'Taiyi Sect', which has the same word as the mountain name of Zhongyue in Jinguo, which is actually one of the five major sects of Taoism, and is good at the art of Fu Gong formation.

In short, there are many Taoist temples on the Taiwang Mountain, the pavilions are heavy, and the Taoist priests who wear Zhuangzi scarves and Xiaoyao scarves abound. Each peak on the mountain has the outstanding disciples of the Taiyi Sect in the past dynasties to sit in the Qing cultivation, and the ordinary people can only stop at the universal view of the mountainside when they pray for incense, as for the immortal masters and Taoists on the mountain, it is difficult for ordinary people to see it in their lives under the mountain.

Regarding the assassination, An Ran didn't think about this Taiyi Sect, of course he didn't know why he wanted to assassinate the emperor, but it seemed that only the Taiyi Sect in the vicinity had this strength. But he can't go up the mountain like ordinary people, and even if he does, what can he find? So I can only walk around the vicinity of Hulu Gorge to see if I can find something.

They crossed the Hulu Gorge, and in front of them came a small town built on the mountain.

"Beautiful girl has worked hard!" An Ran turned over, stood on the ground, scratched the fluff of the white deer, approached her ear, and whispered.

The white deer jumped on all four hooves and screamed softly, and seemed to be very happy.

"He lied to you," Fan Yuntian reminded himself with what he thought was kind: "The purpose of this idiot praising you is to make you take him to pretend to take him to fly in the future - ouch!" ”

Without warning, the white deer raised his hind hooves and kicked Fan Yuntian, and the NPC kid grinned in pain.

"! Lao Tzu's kindness is not rewarded! Fan Yuntian bulged his stomach and walked forward, leaving An Ran grinning.

They are going to Jump Gorge Town first, and they can inquire about the situation of the town first to see if there are a large number of strangers coming to this place recently; Second, to see the top of the cliff on the side of Hulu Gorge, you need to go up from a path into the mountain in Jump Town. Also, no matter what, Fan Yuntian, Xiaobai and their game characters have to eat something, and when it gets dark, you can also find an inn to let your game characters and Fan Yuntian have a good rest. Let your game character lie on the bed of the inn and then go offline the next day to be easier to control, this common sense An Ran knew long before entering Huaitao County.

The town is still the same kind of town, with a small street in the middle of the crowded and cluttered houses. Some are paved with smooth stone slabs; Some are mud roads full of potholes, and occasionally a large tree is left behind a certain house; Or maybe a small bridge will be built over a small river somewhere. There are children climbing trees and playing with stones, and there are also women who wash clothes in the streams under the bridge. I don't know how many of these towns there are in the world of Huaxia, it's not very beautiful and doesn't have any big skills, it's just very sticky, which can make a person never want to go out of here for the rest of their lives, or let those who went out think about it for the rest of their lives.

At this moment, An Ran and Fan Yuntian are walking on the streets of this kind of town, the costumes of the master and servant are not strange, An Ran's face-covering robe seems to have the skill of dressing up, which can make the clothes and pants he wears not gorgeous in itself look even more tattered. As for Fan Yuntian, in addition to the two unsheathed daggers on his waist, his top assassin professional suit doesn't look eye-catching, and the NPC kid's orange-yellow leather armor and dagger are the kind of gangsters who run around and sell herbs in the eyes of ordinary people.

Therefore, even though the master and servant had visited all the streets of the town, no one would look at them more. What do a down-and-out young man and a thug do? This kind of foreigner who occasionally passes by the town naturally has no good stories to talk about. Occasionally, some young Taoists and Taoist aunts who have come down from Taiyuan Mountain to experience will let the people of Jumping Gorge Town read for several days.

It's just that there don't seem to be any outsiders here at present, and there are no large numbers of officers and soldiers stationed there, and An Ran can't find out any useful information. It was not early, so the young man took Fan Yuntian to the only inn in the town to eat something to stay temporarily, and then went offline to eat and sleep again.

******

The moon and stars are scarce, and the frogs are bursting.

Ten miles away from the Jumping Gorge Town, there is a man and a woman stretching the path forward. The man was dressed in a white robe, his temples were slightly bulging, and his eyes were sunken, it was Tong Qizhen of the Imperial Sword Sect; The woman wears a scarf and wears a cyan robe, which is the female crown of Cuiping Peak of Taiwang Mountain, Xiao Wunian.

"Immortal Gu has thought about it," Tong Qizhen said slowly behind her hands: "Once you do this, you will most likely die, and even the entire Taiyi Sect will be affected." ”

"Humph! It's best if all the stinky Taoist priests in the entire Taiyuan Mountain are all dead. The woman with a graceful figure and a snow-white face in the moonlight spoke in a cold tone. Tong Jianxian, please rest assured, the poor road has made up its mind! ”

Tong Qizhen wiped his goatee with his hand, he didn't know why this female crown with the best cultivation qualifications and had been given a mountain crown by Xiao Jingbo, the head of the Taiyi Sect, was doing something to frame his own sect, why he didn't even care about his life. "This is probably thanks to that bastard brother of my own family!" He thought.

They walked to the path leading to the cliff on the right side of Hulu Gorge, and the female crown Xiao Wunian casually picked a bamboo leaf from the bamboo branch and rubbed it in her hand.

"According to the time, the soldiers of Panlong County will arrive here at dawn," Xiao Wunian said, "I will eradicate them one by one, what about your people?" Fairy Teacher. ”

"On the way," Tong Qizhen said, looking at the hillside in the night, "Guo Huai'an, the county guard, is a cautious person, and our people will only be noticed by him if they appear here too early, in order to avoid leaking the rumors, our people must be broken into pieces, and only when the emperor appears in the canyon will they appear on the cliff." ”

The female crown didn't say anything more, just put the bamboo leaf in her mouth and gently blew a tune, and then two lines of tears were left on her fair face.

Tong Qizhen was taken aback, because this song is called "Horseshoe on the Desert" and is the favorite song of the Northern Desert homeless.

"Now you know!" The female crown stopped playing the song and threw away the bamboo leaves in her hand, "Why did Poor Dao go to the Dog Emperor at the cost of losing his life, and by the way, let the entire Taiyi Sect follow the funeral." ”

"But do you know? Our people are actually here to protect the Emperor. Thinking of this, Tong Qizhen pursed her lips and clasped her fists in salute, and then the old man turned around and floated away.

The female crown looked at Tong Qizhen, who was drifting away, her eyes were confused, and she remembered a twenty-year past.

In some of the dilapidated cloth huts on the Gobi Desert in Kurso, her sister was being squirmed under a soldier's ride, her bare body shivering in the cold wind, everyone was laughing, no one cared about her sister's pleas and wept, until they had had their best time and hacked her to death. There was a lot of blood left on the ground, and Abba, Grandma, and relatives were killed. Hiding behind a bundle of firewood, he was pulled out by the ears of the black-armored soldiers because he only let out a sob, and they began to tear their clothes like wolves.

Then a white-bearded old man suddenly appeared, and killed the group of people with a few swords, and there were more than a dozen Jinguo soldiers in black armor lying beside her, as well as two Taoist priests in Taoist robes.

"You have to remember what these people look like," said the old man, touching the back of the girl's head with one hand and pointing to the corpse on the ground with the other, "that they killed your relatives, and one day when you grow up and learn your skills, you will kill all the people who wear these clothes to avenge your parents and family." ”

Then he was only six or seven years old and was taken away by this old man, and finally came to the foot of Taiwang Mountain.

"Do you see," the old man pointed to the towering King Mountain: "There are people who killed your parents on this mountain, you can go up the mountain now, as for whether you want to take revenge and die in vain, or learn from the enemy first, and wait for the opportunity to follow you." ”

After that, the old man left without looking back, and tried his best to starve half to death before he was rescued by a priest and went up the mountain to learn art. This old man is Ye Hong, the head of the Imperial Sword Sect, who saved himself and let himself endure the heart-wrenching pain of getting along with the enemy for decades.

"Maiti. Should Ana be grateful to you or hate you? Ye Da Benefactor. "But it doesn't matter anymore, what matters is that the opportunity has finally come—as long as the enemies don't die well." ”

******

In the early morning of the next day, a touch of fish belly white appeared in the east, and An Ran, who had entered Huaxia early, had already walked with Fan Yuntian on the path leading to the cliff above Hulu Gorge. Before entering the mountain, the road is wide and flat, and the leaves are swaying in the cool breeze all the way. Although he is not an NPC in the game, An Ran can also feel that it is another good weather today.

Suddenly, at the end of the other road in the distance, there were many soldiers with spears in their hands, the leader of whom wore black helmets and black armor, and he rode a clay-colored horse with an iron sword hanging from his waist and a majestic sword. The rest were pawns, marching at a neat pace and trotting with their horses.

"That's right!" An Ran and Fan Yuntian quickly hid behind a boulder and thought, "Damn, the emperor is traveling, how can the local government not take some protective measures?" Especially in this dangerous Hulu Gorge, once something goes wrong, don't those who are officials want their own heads? ”

If these sturdy soldiers find themselves and Fan Yuntian sneakily hiding behind the stones, then according to the current situation, these NPC soldiers don't have so much patience to ask themselves what they are hiding here for, and the most direct way to deal with it is to slaughter themselves and the surnamed Fan next to them. An Ran is very powerful now, but not so powerful that one person can single-handedly take on hundreds of people.

"We are on the way to the Huluxia cliff in Jumping Gorge Town, and hundreds of soldiers have appeared here." An Ran immediately sent a message to Da Desert Guyan. "Where have you been, Big Brother Lonely Smoke?"

"We just arrived in Jumping Gorge Town," Da Mo Guyanzhi replied with a message, "We disguised ourselves as ordinary outsiders and entered the town in batches, Tang Pei told us not to move for the time being and wait for news." ”

"Hmmm! I'm going to go ahead and have a look, and we'll get back in touch later. An Ran closed the message board and began to follow the ranks of soldiers far behind the trees and the long grass beside the road.

Suddenly, the procession in front of a glade stopped, and a group of men dressed in coarse cloth and animal skins blocked the way of the soldiers with knives and forks, and among the group stood a female crown in green clothes and holding a bell, and the women in green clothes were coldly looking at the team of hundreds of people.

"The people who are idle in the government should leave quickly, and you must wait for Hugh to get in the way, otherwise you will be killed." The man on horseback at the head shouted loudly.

There were only fifty or sixty men in coarse cloth and animal skins, and although they were poorly dressed, they did not take this team of hundreds of people seriously. Just stood up straight and waited for the order of the woman in Tsing Yi.

"Kill them all!" The woman in Tsing Yi said lazily, "Everyone, we don't have a lot of time." ”

"Presumptuous!" The horseback general shouted angrily and began to rush forward. The foot soldiers behind him also held their guns in both hands and ran quickly towards the man blocking the road opposite.

The woman smiled contemptuously and raised her snow-white arm, gently waved the bell in her hand, and a crisp bell that upset Fan Yuntian sounded in the air.

The sound of the bell caused the horse to neigh, and in the process of running, the front hooves suddenly knelt down, and the general on horseback was suddenly thrown off the horse. The footmen, with their spears clenched in both hands, threw down their weapons and shook them around on the ground as if they had drunk wine.

After seeing Fan Yuntian's strange appearance, An Ran tried his best to control his game character 'An Ran' to cover the NPC boy's ears with his hands, so that Fan Yuntian stabilized his mind a little.

Just when he felt that his game character was becoming more and more incessant, fortunately, the woman did not shake the bell again, but kept changing various postures with her hands and chanting words in her mouth, which seemed to be the seal of Taoism. Sure enough, in an instant, several white silk threads like morning mist floated out of the woman's hands, and after the floating white silk threads stuck to the bodies of the soldiers, the soldiers who had just woken up were restrained by something and could not move.

Men with knives and forks pounced on the group of soldiers, and some of them had their heads cut off with a knife; Some soldiers were stabbed through the chest by a trident; Some of the soldiers were bitten in the neck by these fanged guys. Damage and blood filled the glade, and the soldiers wailed like purgatory on earth.

The general on horseback was a little more capable after all, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he left his brother and turned around and ran. Just didn't wait for him to run a few steps, the woman in Tsing Yi had already flown up in the air, her graceful body flew over the top of the man's head, and she stood in front of the man gracefully after turning over her heels.

The man was sweating profusely and drew his knife violently to fight to the death, but the woman just flicked her fingers at his eyebrows, and the horseback general fell on his back with his eyes scattered.

"Put on their clothes, clean up this place, and we'll go up the mountain right away." The woman commanded.

An Ran saw with her own eyes that the female crown wearing a scarf took out the talisman from the yellow cloth bag the size of a sachet around her waist, and used her index and middle fingers to hold it in the air and draw a circle, and the dark blue flame rose in the air and turned into a butterfly with only blue wings and flew towards the corpse on the ground. The corpses that were already dead were burned and convulsed, each body squeaking and creaking, and finally disappeared in the bite of the blue butterfly that turned from flame to flame.

The blue butterfly disappeared, the corpse disappeared, and the woman left with the men who had changed into soldiers' clothes. As the sun rises through the morning glow in the east, the glade regains its former tranquility.

Fan Yuntian, who had been holding back for a long time and was a little dizzy, almost vomited the tofu he ate last night.

"What kind of sorcery is this, your grandma?" Fan Yuntian cursed: "Lao Tzu's head hurts so much! ”

"I don't feel it," An Ran shrugged.

"Of course you don't feel it! It would be good if Lao Tzu was an adventurer, and his brows would not be wrinkled when the knife was slashed on his body. ”

"Fan Yuntian, do you think something is wrong with this?" An Ran put her hand on the stone and wondered.

"What's wrong?" Fan Yuntian shook his head violently to try to make himself less dizzy, "This is clearly that the previous team of officers and soldiers wanted to go up the mountain from here to the top of the cliff to see if there was anyone on it who was ambushed to stand guard for the emperor Lao'er passing through the canyon, and then they were killed by another group of people and went to the top of the cliff, but this group of people should be regarded as killing the emperor Lao'er!" ”

"Makes sense, but that's not what I mean." An Ran said as he scraped his chin with his hand.

"And which one are you referring to?" Fan Yuntian asked.

An Ran wanted to say why the old bastard named Ye Hong was so predictable that there would be an ambush in Hulu Gorge, but when he saw a group of people rushing in the dust, he swallowed the words back into his stomach.

Wearing a golden lacquered tiger armor and a dragon lake *** on his waist, the desert lonely smoke walked straight to the front of the crowd, and the person walking side by side with him was the NPC Tang Pei wearing a white shirt and carrying a sheath long sword.

Today's Tai'an Gang has a helm hall in Xiliangcheng, Huaitao County, Luwei County, and even in Jiangkou County, the upper reaches of the Sleepy Dragon River, and there are hundreds of thousands of players and NPC gangs running in the southwest territory of Jinguo, and their strength is not to be underestimated, and their reputation is naturally outside. The brothers and sisters in Huaxia who broke through with Leng Wentai at the beginning, Gu Ping, Xiang Dong, Wang Wangcai, Guo Peiling, and of course, Qin Shufen, a mature woman who has always been in love with Xiang Dong, the game name is 'Casual Play', as the tide rises, they have all become the helmsmen of the Tai'an Gang. As for Leng Xue and Zhou Jiping, Leng Wentai's relatives, because they had no extra time to study, they had the same time as An Ran, but they became jobless idlers.

After seeing them, An Ran greeted them and greeted everyone.

"This outfit is a little handsome! Elder brother. The young man pounded the armor of the desert and said with a smile.

"Hungry?" The middle-aged man glared at him and said: "These equipment are all found in dungeons everywhere, and you always can't shirk the equipment when asked to go down to the dungeon with us on weekdays, have you already made up your mind to make some oil and water on my brother?" How about I give you a few cool clothes to wear - fast into the line. "The desert lonely smoke sent out a pop-up box inviting to join the team.

"Don't!" An Ran casually clicked to join and found a lot of strange Tai'an gang members, "Just this robe on my body, any good things will be covered up like tatters on my body." Beggars! You have to look like a beggar," An Ran sighed, "It's not that I don't accompany you to the next copy, first, those equipment have nothing to do with me, and I don't know what the system thinks, so I have to make some kind of 'wandering around' ghost task on Lao Tzu, let me pretend to be forced and begging for food for a while in three days, and make me look like a busy person." ”

"Do you have no need for equipment?" Fan Yuntian shouted: "Every day, I just fucking lie down in front of that kind of broken wall and stinky ditch, waiting for people's alms and white eyes to be annoyed or not?" ”

"Do you want your mother to take you to get equipment?" Everyone's ladies found the opportunity to say to Fan Yuntian.

"Okay!" The NPC kid laughed cheekily, "Mom has to coax your eldest son away before I can go." ”

His words made several players laugh, and An Ran took advantage of the situation to give Fan Yuntian a kick.

"That's it!" Tang Pei, who was walking slowly, interjected: "His Majesty the Emperor is about to enter the Hulu Gorge, we have to deploy quickly." ”

"Speaking of which," An Ran put away his smile and frowned: "Originally, we could go up the mountain to the top of the cliff of Hulu Gorge from this road, and holding the top of the cliff can prevent others from throwing rolling stones, pouring oil and setting fires, and shooting arrows from a high place. ”

"Oh?" The desert lonely smoke stopped and asked, "But is there something wrong?" ”

"Just before you came, there was a fight, no, it should be said to be a massacre, a Taoist woman with a bunch of people slaughtered a group of officers and soldiers. Moreover, these people have already gone to the top of the cliff and are ready to ambush the emperor passing by in the canyon, and we will definitely be stopped from going up. ”

"It doesn't matter." Tang Pei pursed his lips and spit out two words.

"Do you think we can easily attack the top of the cliff?" An Ran didn't have much affection for this indifferent Imperial Sword Sect NPC, "Tang Daxia is naturally superior in martial arts, but the female Taoist priest on the mountain is not a soft persimmon. ”

"No, I don't." The man in white with a sword on his back highlighted three words without panic, and sped up his pace and walked forward.

Looking at the backs of the people of the Imperial Sword Sect who were in the lead, An Ran had to look at the desert with doubtful eyes.

"I don't know," the middle-aged man shook his head and said, "We are all listening to Tang Daxia's arrangement for this operation." ”

So An Ran and everyone walked towards the path up the mountain, and the doubts in his heart at this moment were probably higher than the hill in front of him.