Chapter 20 Search
The carriage at the foot of the mountain remained where it was, but the men and horses were gone, and the wheels were empty, and the untied ropes were scattered on the ground, looking like entangled snakes. There was a carriage with its doors open and swaying and creaking in the cold wind.
The open carriage was the one that Mo Yunzi usually rides, and it had soft seats and many applications, which had obviously been turned over, and various items were scattered all over the ground, including clothes and some books.
Next to the carriage lay Wang Sheng's corpse, which was already frozen, and some inconspicuous little white spots appeared on his skin. The corpse's stiff hand still held the big golden knife, the blade was glowing with golden light, the master was dead, but the knife had not changed, and the brilliance was still the same.
In the pile of stones leading to the south, a path was carried out, which was narrow enough for horses to come and go freely, but not for carriages.
Zhao Zheng did not approach rashly, he stood on the branch of the tree, observed for a while, confirmed that there was no ambush in and around the carriage, and then thought about the current situation.
There are two possibilities at the moment, one is that Moyunzi returned here and fled on horseback with four servants, but they had to abandon the carriage due to the block of the stone pile. However, this speculation is not very likely to be true, and Mo Yunzi is now too busy to take care of himself, and even if he wants to escape, he will not bring his servants with him.
The second possibility is that Mo Yunzi did not return, and these four servants escaped without permission. One of the servants, probably motivated by wealth, got into Moyunzi's carriage and took some valuable goods with him. There were four of them, and two carriages were tied to four horses, one for each horse. Just enough.
The messy horseshoe prints have disappeared in the cold wind. Judging by the time. These people should have come a long way.
No matter which guess was correct, Zhao Zheng had to catch up with the four of them, he opened the other carriage to confirm that there was no one inside, and then opened the system warehouse and stuffed both carriages into it. He then stored Wang Sheng, who was holding a big golden knife, into the ice cellar warehouse, and Wang Sheng might have other valuable things on his body that he couldn't let go. It's just that he is pressed for time and doesn't have time to rummage through it for the time being.
He cleaned up the mess, pulled a sturdy white horse out of the empty stable storehouse, and rode it along the south. The white horse's coat color is very pure, and there is not even a single stray hair, almost blending with the snow under the hooves. He chased for a long, long distance and finally found some horseshoe prints. These horseshoe prints extend infinitely towards the white road from shallow to deep, and the short and messy horseshoe prints vaguely reveal the panic of the rider.
He put the white horse in the stable. Switching to a faster light move forward, I finally caught up with the people in front.
The second guess is correct. Moyunzi did not venture to find the carriage, and only four servants escaped. When they saw Zhao Zheng, they were all frightened, and the two timid maids immediately dismounted and begged for mercy, crying. They had seen Zhao Zheng fighting Mo Yunzi and thought that Zhao Zheng was very dangerous.
Failing to catch up with Mo Yunzi made Zhao Zheng a little disappointed, but fortunately, nothing happened to these four servants, which was somewhat comforting. If these four people were killed by bandits, then he would be the indirect murderer, and he didn't want that to happen.
"You don't have to beg for mercy, I won't hurt you, my target is only Mo Yunzi alone. He's not here, I'm going to go back and chase him now, you can choose to go back with me, or you can choose to keep running. Out of this valley, a little further onto the avenue, you will be safe there. Zhao Zheng gave these servants two choices.
The servants couldn't understand the meaning of these words for a while, Zhao Zheng repeated it twice, and then they began to make a decision, probably out of subconscious fear, they all chose to leave early, unwilling to turn around and return to the depths of the dangerous valley.
Zhao Zheng respected the choice of these servants, but before letting them go, he confiscated what the servants had taken away. He didn't look down on gold, silver and jewelry, but he was afraid that the servants would take away some of the things that the warriors needed, which were often useless to ordinary people, but were of great use to the warriors.
The servants did not dare to disobey the order, and obediently handed over the things they had taken away, among which was a book of martial arts secrets, and the rest were ordinary belongings.
Zhao Zheng picked up the martial arts cheats from the ground and looked at them fixedly, with a line of big characters written on the cover. It seems that these servants know Mo Yunzi very well, and directly took away Mo Yunzi's most precious cheats. This sword technique is a medium-grade martial arts, and the sword moves are very subtle, but the disadvantage is that it is too profound, and it requires learning a lot of calculation formulas. He won't learn this sword technique, but it doesn't mean that this sword technique is worthless, this sword technique will give him a lot of reference meaning. The Maha swordsmanship is inclusive, and it can integrate all the swordsmanship essences in the world, and you can learn anything from any swordsmanship at your fingertips.
Except for the "Zu Xuan Sword Technique", the rest were property, and Zhao Zheng didn't pay attention to it, but he still confiscated the property and only left one hundred taels of silver to each of the four servants. He did not do it out of the greed of money, but for the sake of the four servants.
If these four servants take too much money, not only will it not be good, but the seeds of greed will be planted. There may be people who want to make money and kill everyone else in order to monopolize the money, even if the four people are allowed to divide the money equally, this situation cannot be completely avoided.
Therefore, the money given to these servants can only be reduced, and when the money is less, they will naturally not have bad thoughts, although one hundred taels is not a small amount, but it will not make people move to kill people.
Zhao Zheng's move was done out of good intentions, but the four servants didn't feel like this, they all showed complicated eyes when they saw that there was only one hundred taels left in their hands, and there was a little bit of disappointment and a little hatred. Zhao Zheng didn't have time and didn't want to explain more, so he let go of these people, swept away the belongings on the ground, and rode back north on a white horse.
By the time we got back to the carriage, it was already dark. The rock walls on either side of the valley cut the night sky into a line that thinner and thinner as the eye stretches. The cold wind blew away the clouds, and the night sky was clear and clean, dotted with blinking stars, forming a winding galaxy.
Now the hope of finding Mo Yunzi is very slim, as small as the stars in the sky, but you can't just give up. Although Moyunzi was seriously injured, he was not fatally injured, and once he recovered, he would become as powerful as before, so he couldn't let it go.
Zhao Zheng searched overnight, centered on the carriage, looking everywhere, and he searched for most of the night on the slope of the hill with a slight slope, but found nothing but some blood stains. As the night deepened, and it was so dark that he could not see his fingers, he lit a candle and searched by the light. In the middle of the night, the candlelight in his hand is very eye-catching, which will reveal his position, but it can also serve as a scareless snake.
He also found nothing in the second half of the night, and when it was daybreak, he changed direction, carefully jumped up the steep rock wall on the right side of the road, climbed to the top of the mountain, and searched for it. He found some caves and the remnants of the bandits, but he couldn't find Moyunzi. He dealt with all the bandits he found and continued his search.
The search lasted for three days, but no trace of Moyunzi could be found.
Zhao Zheng finally had to give up, after such a long time, Mo Yunzi must have fled far away, and the possibility of catching up with Mo Yunzi is too low. And if he continues to look for it, it will delay his trip. Although he was not satisfied with the result, he could only choose to accept it.
From now on, he has one more potential enemy, and this enemy is more powerful than him, and once the two sides meet, a-for-tat situation will be formed.
Mo Yunzi is also one of the contenders for Zichu Sword, and the two will definitely meet again at that time. Fortunately, there is still plenty of time, and by that time, Zhao Zheng is already a five-fold heavenly martial artist, and there is no need to fear Mo Yunzi's revenge.
Zhao Zheng relaxed his heart and rode his horse to continue southward, and when he was about to leave the Broken Soul Dao, the cold wind behind him howled, like a ghost crying, as if the Broken Soul Dao was saying goodbye to him.
He began to take time out on the road to count the harvest this time, first examining Wang Sheng's corpse, and getting the big golden knife and some ordinary hidden weapons. This big gold knife is of good quality, but it's a pity that he doesn't use the knife, so it has no practical use for him, so he can only collect it or keep it for later. He then began to inspect Moyunzi's two carriages, one of which was for the two maids to stay and store daily necessities, and there were no good things in them. The other carriage was reserved for Mo Yunzi to ride, and it contained a large amount of belongings, as well as some books that Mo Yunzi had collected over the years. Some of the books are related to martial arts, while the rest are very varied, ranging from tea ceremonies to poetry and songs.
After taking an inventory, his biggest gains this time were only two, one was the big golden sword, and the other was the secret book of "Ancestral Swordsmanship", as for those belongings, he didn't have much attraction to him, and he had more than 200,000 taels of silver in his warehouse, which was enough to spend at present.
Zhao Zheng rode all the way to the south, out of the boulder pass built by the boulder, and then walked a little way out of the boundary of Beiju Province and arrived at Nangan Province. The further south you go, the warmer the climate becomes, even in the middle of winter.
In Zhao Zheng's road map, it includes many places such as Qishimen and Gujing Town. The next thing he arrived at was the Strange Stone Gate, this sect was very small, and it was not even counted among that sect. This sect was established in the mountains and controlled several nearby mines, which produced a variety of valuable minerals, one of which was Linglong Stone, a special stone that was necessary for refining Gengyang Jindan.
As long as the Gengyang Golden Pill was refined, Zhao Zheng would be able to greatly speed up the cultivation of the Nine Veins and Six Yuan Sutras, and get rid of the current embarrassment of almost stagnancy. (To be continued.) )