The crowd marched forward against the rising sun, casting long shadows on the yellow sand. The sun was dazzling, and after the previous day's trek, even after a short rest in the second half of the night, I still felt weak.

"Climb over the sand dunes in front of you and get out."

Seeing that everyone was listless, Ding Ruoyu hurriedly pointed to the road ahead.

"Little lady, you've said this three times." In the carriage, Lu Xianda couldn't help but poke his head out, and even the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes were filled with distrust.

Ding Ruoyu looked at Lou Xue and was speechless for a while.

"Hahaha...... So what, the desert is already changing, maybe it really comes to an end after turning over that sand dune? Lou Xue said casually.

"What you big girl says is less reliable than her." Lao Lu was merciless, if it weren't for the sudden sound of the wind and a large piece of sand, he had to close the small window and hide, he still wanted to say a few more words.

The sound of the wind gradually stopped, and the flying yellow sand also stopped dancing, sticking to the ground, and the surroundings calmed down, revealing a little weirdness for a while.

Ding Ruoyu, who was walking at the front, suddenly held the reins and paused.

At the end of the line of sight, there were traces of moving living creatures under the yellow sand. She reminded everyone to be on guard, holding her dagger in front of her, staring at the trails of the moving lines.

The sand in front of it returned to its original state, and a sand lizard came out, crawled in a small circle with its head stretched out in all directions, and burrowed back into the sand. Everything seemed to be uneventful, as if it was just her delusion.

The disciple of the Blue Dragon Pavilion behind him sighed and said to his fellow disciples, "We are too cautious here. No matter how fierce and fearless the people of the Yellow Cliff Gang are, they won't chase them into this desert, right? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a snake shot out like an arrow under the heavy yellow sand in front of him, opened his bloody mouth, and bit Ding Ruoyu's throat.

Ding Ruoyu stepped on the horse, jumped up with his strength, slashed the dagger, and cut the snake in half along the snake's belly, and a piece of blood with a fishy smell rolled into the gap of the fine sand, and after a while, even the snake corpse was buried under the sand.

She didn't notice that a pale red smoke spread out of the yellow sand, and in a blink of an eye, it hit the several Qinglong Pavilion disciples who were still talking.

The exclamation was only half uttered, and when she turned around, the faces of the five disciples surrounding the carriage suddenly distorted like demons, their limbs folded in an extremely uncoordinated manner, and an inhuman angle appeared between their heads and spine, and one of them was silently grabbing the nearest Duan Red Candle with his arms outstretched.

Ding Ruoyu shouted "Hurry up", and the dagger in his palm flew out and nailed it to the disciple's throat, causing him to trip back a step.

Duan Hongzhu reacted at this time, narrowly avoided it, and retreated to the other side with Zong Mingze, only to see that the five disciples surrounded the carriage together.

"Old Lu! Don't come out, it's dangerous outside! Duan Hongzhu said loudly, she could see at a glance that the five disciples had been poisoned and had become puppets, and there was no possibility of waking up.

Ding Ruoyu stretched out his hand, took out a dagger from his arms, and looked at Lou Xue, whose hands were empty.

"Oops!" Lou Xue slapped her head and said angrily, "I left the piano and sword in the car!" ”

Ding Ruoyu pulled the two horses together, forming a simple barrier, separating her from the outside, and turning around, Zong Mingze was already in the way, there was no sad look on his face, and he no longer had his gentle smile in the past, just looked at the junior brothers who had grown up together since childhood, and walked over step by step, weighing more than a thousand catties.

The puppet who had been repelled by Ding Ruoyu before tilted his neck, stretched out two fingers and pulled out the dagger, put it in his mouth and chewed it. With a few creaks, the sharp blade of the dagger turned into scrap metal, and the corners of his mouth spilled blood, accompanied by broken teeth, and slowly fell to the ground.

"Surnamed Duan, aren't you also good at puppetry? Hurry up and figure it out! "Lou Xue can't participate in the war, but his mouth can participate in command.

Duan Hongzhu cried and said, "I haven't even figured out when they were poisoned, how can there be a way to crack it?" ”

She shouted, suddenly remembered something, and shouted: "Old Lu, do you still have any gunpowder?" ”

Lu Xianda shrank in the carriage and said angrily: "Didn't they feed the group of puppets you made in the snowfield?" ”

During the conversation, Zong Mingze had already strode towards those puppets, shook off the folding fan, and stepped on the skillful footwork, pulling the sight of the five disciples like a flying white butterfly, and was surrounded by them.

"Be careful, they have poison on their skin!" Lou Xue couldn't help shouting loudly in the rear.

Ding Ruoyu saw the right time and also joined the battle, and the wind blade and ice blade flew out in a staggered manner, and drove them away with Zong Mingze.

A gap appeared in front of him, and Lou Xue swept out of the horse, pushed the car door, and took out his piano.

However, at the moment when she was about to get out of the car, her back was cold, and the sharp sword was against her heart.

Cold laughter sounded from inside the carriage, and Zhu Gan, who had already broken her tendons, threw her out of the car, walked down himself, put his sword on the side of her neck, and forced her to throw away the qin in her arms.

Through the half-hidden car door, Lou Xue found that Lu Xianda had also been restrained by a strong prohibition, kneeling next to Mrs. Lu, with only his eyes turning up and down.

Zhu Gan pushed her hard, controlled her to the sand in the middle with one hand, and rubbed open a small pill with the other hand, urging the internal strength to scatter the medicinal powder in the pill on the five disciples in the fight.

Ding Ruoyu and Zong Mingze saw that there was smoke coming, and they hurriedly dodged to avoid it. The puppets stopped as if instructed to see the situation.

"Lao Zhu, why?" Duan Hongzhu, who was the most difficult to calm down, asked first, his eyes full of disappointment. They have been friends for many years, and they have been fighting side by side for a long time, but they did not expect that one day, the trust between them would crumble.

Zhu Gan's laughter was cold and thin, and harsh. He laughed for a while, his voice suddenly turned low, and he said to Duan Hongzhu, "You want me to launch a ban now?" ”

Hearing this voice, the fear in Duan Hongzhu's heart was overwhelming, his teeth collided and rattled, and he couldn't even say a word.

Under the control of the long sword, Lou Xue suddenly thought of something, her face suddenly changed, and she looked at her little apprentice.

Ding Ruoyu also sensed that something was wrong, and Tongzong Mingze scattered left and right, narrowing the distance between him and the puppet, thinking about how to quickly rescue Lou Xue from the other party.

"Don't move!" Zhu Gan let out a loud shout, the blade of the sword entered the flesh, and a trace of bright red blood stained the snow-white collar.

Lou Xue nodded at them, and then her lips opened lightly, starting from nothing, and let out an ethereal chant.

She closed her eyes slightly, and her singing voice was like a trickle, moistening the arid desert, like green leaves, converging into a shade and covering the scorching sun overhead.

The melody continued with the sound of the wind, with an incomprehensible murmur, which touched the souls of all the listeners present, and gradually rose high, floating into the clouds, with some kind of shocking magic, as if at this moment, she was no longer an ordinary woman, but a fairy who led them to a mysterious and unknown realm.

Ding Ruoyu struggled to control the mental power flowing in his body, converging it into a pale golden vortex and gathering it in his palm to resist the invasion of this phantom sound.

She knew that if the music was performed by the piano at this moment, she was afraid that they would all be delirious.

Zong Mingze, who was on the left, lost his eyes, took a step, and slowly walked towards Lou Xue like a marionette. Ding Ruoyu hurriedly came to his side and slammed the golden qi into his back, shocking him to a big step forward, and the person slowly came to his senses.

Lou Xue is still singing with her eyes closed, and the beautiful melody echoes in the wind and sand, adding a bit of exotic style. Finally, Zhu Gan's hand unconsciously relaxed, and the long sword fell down her throat, sinking into the sand.

The singing continued, but she moved, picked up the sword, and stabbed Zhu Gan's chest.

The sound of the skin and flesh being cut was crisp in the ears, and when Lou Xue pulled out the sword again, the wound that should have been a transparent hole did not have a drop of blood flowing out.

She was startled, her singing stopped, and everyone woke up from their hallucinations. Before they could react, Ding Ruoyu and Zong Mingze also rushed over to Zhu Gan at the same time, wiping their necks and hitting the top of their heads, all of which were absolute killer moves, and they poured all their strength.

The top of Zhu Gan's head was deeply sunken, and a cut in his neck almost cut off his head, and he looked like he was going to die. His body stood motionless in the sand, and when everyone was about to help Lao Lu and his wife leave, those huge injuries healed quickly.

"How is it possible, this can't be ......" Lou Xue really panicked this time, holding the piano and swaying in the wind and sand.

With a "plop", Duan Hongzhu fell to his knees in despair.

"Help, helper, all the ideas are made by Red Candle alone, it has nothing to do with them, beg the helper to let them live......" The wind whimpered, she trembled and pleaded, and finally buried her face in the yellow sand.

"Helper?" Zong Mingze also became at a loss, and pointed at Zhu Gandao with a folding fan in his hand, "You are actually the leader of the Yellow Cliff Gang?" ”

In the carriage, Ding Ruoyu wasted all his strength to lift the ban on Lu Xianda, walked out with Mrs. Lu on his back, and came to him and Lou Xue.

"Same Door...... Cang'er ......" Ding Ruoyu gradually connected some information and sighed, "Transfiguration...... Now this face is fake, you are not Zhu Gan! ”

Zhu Gan, who was mortally injured and returned to his original state like a monster, laughed wildly: "No, you are wrong. From beginning to end, I am the leader of the Yellow Cliff Gang! ”

He bent down, lifted Duan Hongzhu, who had given up hope of survival, from the yellow sand, threw it to everyone's side and said, "I just put on the human skin mask prepared by Cang'er in advance at every gang meeting, and then come out as Zhu Gan after the meeting. ”

"No wonder Lao Zhu never participates in the rally every time, I only say that he is withdrawn and has to be connived at by the master......" Duan Hongzhu fell to the ground, unable to get up again.

"I didn't expect you to pretend to be so similar." Lou Xue lifted the cloth wrapped in the piano, held it in his hand, looked at the other party coldly and said, "You pretended to listen to Duan Hongzhu for everything, but in fact, you sent others to deliberately stagger the time to intercept Wen Shou and the others, and then blend in with us, so that we lose our vigilance against you, and then you can attack those five disciples, control them into puppets, and kill us by surprise!" ”

"Suwenlou girl Bing Xue is smart, and she really lives up to her reputation!" Zhu Qian clapped his hands and exclaimed, "It's a pity that when you guess, everything is a foregone conclusion." Today, don't even think about leaving! ”