Chapter 23: The Snake Spirit Killer?
Lingnan Road, the jurisdiction includes today's Fujian, all of Guangdong, most of Guangxi, southeastern Yunnan, northern Vietnam, the area is very broad, but unfortunately the economic development is really not good, it is the worst state in the entire Datang economy, and now the economic center is still in the north, here is a real wild land, many places are still inaccessible primeval forests.
Originally, Huang Chong thought that he had lived in the forest of Dabie Mountain for ten years, and he still had any memories to keep, and it should not be difficult to move here, but it turned out that Huang Chong thought too much, two completely different types of forests, and the current Lingnan and the Lingnan in He Tishou's memory are not the same thing at all.
"It's better to stop the idea of cheating, and concentrate on practicing, otherwise if you don't find anything and your martial arts will fall, then the gains will outweigh the losses." Sitting in the barrel, Huang Chong said.
Huang Chong had been wandering around the deep mountains and old forests for more than a month, and he had made a lot of various poisons, but he had not found anything that could assist the Mixed Yuan Gong to go further.
Although in Dabie Mountain before, Huang Chong also used poisons to speed up the cultivation speed of Mixed Yuan Gong, but after Xiaocheng, he needed more rare poisons, so Huang Chong would leave Dabie Mountain.
After searching for more than a month without results, Huang Chong gave up, went down the mountain to find a city, entered an inn, asked for a bucket of hot water, and took a hot bath.
"Knock knock."
"Who?"
"Guest, do you think it's a small one to bring dinner to your room, or will you come to the restaurant to eat in person later?" The shopkeeper asked outside the door.
"I'll go eat by myself later."
"Okay."
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"Huh?" When Huang Chong came to the hall, his eyebrows raised slightly, because he saw eight people from the rivers and lakes carrying weapons, more precisely, three tables, two tables for three people, one table for two people, a total of eight people, but these three tables were not close together, as if they didn't know each other.
You must know that in this era, although there are internal skills and martial arts masters, there are actually not many people who practice martial arts, and there are few scenes often seen in martial arts TV series, where a large group of martial arts people sit in an inn.
Especially in the economically underdeveloped Lingnan region, this situation is even less.
So when Huang Chong saw three tables of martial arts people with swords eating in this hotel at the same time, he felt a little strange, of course, if it was just like this, it had nothing to do with Huang Chong, the more Huang Chong observed, the more he felt that there was something wrong with these people.
Huang Chong didn't attract the attention of these people because he was empty-handed, after all, the inn was full of people, and it was normal for people to come and go, and Huang Chong didn't have any aura that could attract people's attention.
Huang Chong seemed to randomly choose a position that was not very far away from them and sat down, originally thinking if he could eavesdrop on their conversation and get some information.
However, Huang Chong miscalculated, this group of people all buried their heads in quiet eating, and left after eating, not to mention different tables, even if they were at the same table, there was very little communication.
"Hehe, that's kind of interesting." Huang Chong watched the last table of three people leave, and smiled slightly.
If Huang Chong's expectations are good, these three tables are definitely all the way, don't look at the different clothes on their bodies, and their accents are also different, but some small movements are exactly the same, such as the way of holding the knife and holding the sword, the habit and posture of walking, and the size of the pace.
It is almost certain that these people should be cultivated by an organization, and it should be a tight organization, because whether they hold a sword or walk in a posture, they are ensuring that they can shoot at the first time, not to mention that everyone's pace is as accurate as if they have been measured, even the soldiers of this era dare not say that they can do this.
Another point is the position of these three waves of people, it is no exaggeration to say that they can deal with threats in any direction except up and down at the first time.
This is definitely not something that ordinary Jianghu sects or organizations can do.
And the most important thing is that they give Huang Chong a familiar feeling, just like those elite guards in the Lu family's compound back then.
"I didn't expect it, snake spirit, we met so soon." As soon as he thought of the Lu family's compound, Huang Chong could basically determine the identities of these people.
To be honest, Huang Chong doesn't want to confront the snake spirit, the horror of the snake spirit is by no means as simple as shown in the TV series, in order to add to the brilliance of the protagonist in the TV series, the performance of the snake spirit can be said to be ordinary, in fact, the strength of the snake spirit is very terrifying.
And Huang Chong's identity is special, once Huang Chong's true identity is known by them, then they will face a never-ending pursuit.
In the first part of the detective, even Li Yuanfang was chased and killed all the way and almost died, if it weren't for his martial arts being strong enough, and Jin Mulan's plan needed to use him, it is estimated that Li Yuanfang would have died in the hands of those people in the rivers and lakes.
The horror of the snake spirit can be seen.
But now that he has encountered it, Huang Chong naturally won't ignore it, not because of any morality, but because of the entanglement with the snake spirit.
In this world, only a few people such as Yuan Tiangang really know their identity, if Huang Chong doesn't want Wu Zetian to know his identity, then these people must die, and if you want to kill these people, you must first destroy the snake spirit.
So Huang Chong didn't hesitate to follow the last wave of the two who left the hotel to see what they were going to do.
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Changan.
Although Wu Zetian moved the capital to Luoyang, as the original national capital, Chang'an is still very prosperous, and even because the emperor is no longer here, Chang'an's economy and trade have become more developed.
The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place, no one could have imagined that the main altar of the snake spirit is in Chang'an.
"Mr. Lu."
"Don't dare, don't dare, just say what you have to say, there's no need to do this with an old man like me."
If Huang Chong saw Lu Cheng now, he would be very surprised, Lu Cheng at this time was much older, and he had a lot of gray hair, not at all like the well-maintained Lu Cheng at the beginning.
First, the only relative Lu Yan died unexpectedly, and then the owner Yuan Tiangang was accidentally arrested, the snake spirit was wanted by Wu Zetian, and even the Lu family compound was sealed, and then there was the snake spirit's infighting, these things made Lu Cheng a lot older.
As a veteran of the snake spirit, Lu Cheng has been basically overtaken by Xiao Qingfang, if it weren't for Lu Cheng's identity and skills, it is estimated that he would not be able to escape Xiao Qingfang's purge.
"Mr. Lu has followed the teacher for many years, Qingfang just wants to ask Mr. Lu, what is the secret of my little junior brother Li Shouxin?" Xiao Qingfang also knew that those polite words were useless to him, so he asked directly, but his tone was still very respectful.
"Oh, why do you ask?"