This night, he had a lot of dreams, a lot of dreams that should not be made, he dreamed that he sometimes turned into a bird flying among the fiery red mountains, sometimes turned into a sea beast churning on the blue sea, sometimes turned into an unknown earth beast and shuttled in the black sand dunes, and even sometimes turned into nothingness, drifting in the darkness of nothing, and his mood was also followed by a moment of joy, cheerfulness, and loneliness. Sad, the scenes in the dream are becoming more and more real, he, a boy who grew up in a mountain village, has never seen the world at all, but these scenes in the dream are not only clear and abnormal, but also give him an extremely familiar feeling, as if all this is his own experience。。。。。。

"Whoa。。。。。。 A rooster crow woke up the sleeping Taizhou City, and also woke up Ma Xiao who was swimming in the dream, and after waking up, the bizarre dream that was still in his mind slowly became unclear, Ma Xiao only felt that the dream last night was magical, but the content of the dream was not clear, and he didn't care, and after washing his face, he started a busy day again.

After preparing breakfast, Lao Liu found the record and deputy general in the battalion, reported the death of the gang boss, and the medical officer went to the gang room to examine the body and recorded it, under the arrangement of a few old men who had friendships, everyone held a simple funeral for the gang boss and buried it outside the city, and some of the army commanders, even chiefs and even a few generals came to incense before the burial, which shows how old the gang boss is in the camp. It's just that after the death of the boss, Ma Xiaoshi felt that Lao Wang's eyes were a little different, which made him mentally guarded.

After the funeral, Ma Xiao found Wei Chao for the first time, and with his help, he bought a dagger from the barracks with broken silver and copper coins, the sergeants in the barracks have the habit of collecting enemy weapons and gold and silver on the battlefield, it is easy to buy a dagger, the front blade of this dagger is made of stainless steel, eight inches long, like a slender leaf, polished very sharp, the handle is made of copper, with strong twine entangled, there is a crescent-shaped gauntlet at the handshake, and the sheath is made of black leather。

From this day on, Ma Xiao's practice has one more item, that is, how to use a dagger in close combat, Wei Chao used linen cloth and straw to tie a puppet for Ma Xiao, adult size, standing on the ground with a wooden stake, and also using red paint on the surface of the doll to point out the eyes, throat, back of the neck, heart, waist and abdomen, thighs, tendons and hamstrings and other fatal points on the body, Wei Chao is telling Ma Xiao that the military skills in the army are completely different from secular martial arts, all are real moves, pay attention to fast and accurate, and the movements do not take any fancy actions, only thorns, piercing, picking, wiping, open, grid, Ripping, cutting, and bringing a few of the most basic and ferocious actions, and close combat to ensure that one hit must hit, as long as the dagger hits these points marked by him, even if the opponent is not dead, he will be seriously injured, and after speaking, he will begin to demonstrate the dagger melee moves one by one.

In this way, under the guidance of Wei Chao and the soldier who sold him the dagger, Ma Xiao began to practice several basic assassination actions of the dagger, and every day after that, in addition to bidding the gun, he practiced desperately against the puppet, stabbing a few points of the puppet thousands of times a day, and the puppet couldn't withstand his toss like this, and he had to re-pierce one every few days.

More than a month has passed in a blink of an eye, Peiguo has also entered the winter, after a few rains, the weather gradually became colder, Taizhou City has successively accepted some refugees from the outside and the soldiers and generals who came to defect, the soldiers of Taizhou are constantly sufficient, the city is more lively, the streets in the city are crowded, the streets have opened all kinds of shops, there are even artists who play and sing on the streets and the rivers and lakes who walk the streets and alleys, the original dilapidated houses are also full of people, the small merchants and hawkers are busy, I don't know how long the cries of selling have once again evoked the memories of the people's lives。 As soon as there were many people, they were mixed, and I don't know when there were notices of rewards circulating in the black market in the city, and the rewards were not others, it was Ma Xiao, and the silver money offered at this time had risen to five thousand taels.

The matter of the bounty notice is circulating in secret, Ma Xiao does not know, this afternoon, Ma Xiao, who was busy with the affairs of the gang, came to a school field set up in the city by the military camp, at this time there are thousands of soldiers in the school field are practicing the art of military formation coordination in a group of several people, a head on the high platform waved two flags in his hand, the soldiers changed their positions and movements in their hands with the movements of the head of the church, Ma Xiao did not bother them, and quickly resisted more than a dozen scarecrow dolls and wooden stakes in different postures from the grass, and placed them in the corner of the school field at will。

After setting up the dolls, Ma Xiao took out two daggers, one was the stainless steel dagger he had spent money to buy, and the other was a wooden dagger cut out of wood. In the lying and sitting postures, some puppets also simulated wearing armor, blocking several fatal points, and only stabbing a few key parts.

Ma Xiao has now mastered several basic movements of the dagger, and what he can do now is to keep practicing, and continue to be proficient, Wei Chao told him that after practicing too much, these moves have become an instinctive reaction, and you don't have to think too much about the enemy, when you are close to the opponent, you will know where to stab the dagger, Ma Xiao is convinced of Wei Chao's words, he can live so long in this school field of life and death, there must be something outstanding, and the ability to kill people must be first-class, so the practice is more and more hard, more serious, and after a long time, even the soldiers who are practicing the military formation next to him are impressed by this doll。

Wielding the dagger for an hour, Ma Xiao rubbed his sore wrist, just in early winter, the weather in Peiguo was cold and windy, but he could practice and sweat profusely. After putting away the dagger, Ma Xiao took out more than a dozen wooden sticks of the same length from the grass, which was used to practice the javelin, after more than a month of practice, he has been able to throw more than forty steps away, reaching the distance of an adult man in the barracks, Wei Chao said that this is already Ma Xiao's current limit, after all, he is still a ten-year-old doll, the next step is no longer to practice the distance of throwing, but to practice accuracy, Wei Chao gave Ma Xiaobian a straw ring, only the size of the bowl, starting from twenty steps to practice, as long as the javelin thrown can pass through the grass ring, after a period of practice, from the initial one does not enter, to the present twenty steps, ten throws can pass through five or six times, Ma Xiao finally understood in the hard practice that it means to get started in three or five years, and ten years to be able to move within fifty steps like Wei Chao, there is no shortcut in the world.

After the death of the gang boss, Ma Xiao could only cultivate qi and breathe alone, but there was no progress in the past month, he still had a comparison when the gang boss was alive, and now no one was there to explain and supervise, Ma Xiao even began to suspect that the cultivation of qi and breathing were all nonsense and deceptive things, just like the words of the fortune teller on the street, they were all ethereal and unverifiable, and after a long time, his heart of qi cultivation began to waver.

From the night after the death of the gang boss, Ma Xiao always had some fantastic dreams, in the dream he transformed into all kinds of birds and beasts, most of them were some animals that he couldn't name at all, sometimes with some talking monsters, the monsters looked strange, and the words they said were not human language, but in the dream he could understand, sometimes he didn't even have a body, he wandered around like a soul, and went to a strange place, some of which were similar to the scenery he had seen, and more of which were the scenery he had never appreciated, where the color of the sky and the flowers and trees on the earth were completely different from what he had seen, It seems to be a completely different world from the place he is in now, but when he is in the dream, he doesn't feel surprised and confused at all, as if those are the places where he has lived, fortunately, after waking up from the dream, Ma Xiao forgot most of the scenes in the dream, and can only remember a little bit, otherwise he must have wondered if he has hysteria, just like the youngest son of the fourth uncle of the village Yao, who went crazy.

And Lao Wang, this person Ma Xiao also secretly did an investigation, asked some of the old people in the barracks and the gang, but this person is like transparent, everyone's impression of him is basically blank, but I heard that three years ago, when the gang boss was in trouble, Lao Wang had saved his life, and then followed the gang boss into the barracks, the officers above saw that he was strong and strong, and wanted to make up for him in the cavalry several times, but in the end they all looked at the face of the gang boss, so Lao Wang has been a gang leader in the barracks for more than three years, and this person's usual behavior does not see anything special, and several people who are familiar with each other in the gang room also said that this person is busy with things in the gang room and no one is gone, I don't chat and drink with everyone, every time he has a job, he can rush back in time to help, and everyone gets used to it after a long time.

Knowing this information, combined with the vision he saw that night, Ma Xiao finally confirmed that Lao Wang was mysterious and secretive, and it was very likely that he was also a qi cultivator, and it must have something to do with the death of the boss, and there were too many missing links in it, and no clues could be found for a while.

After throwing the javelin for more than an hour, Ma Xiao put the props back in the grass, returned to the camp and began to prepare the camp for dinner, less than two months after the reinforcements entered the city, the comatose Thunder Battalion General Li Weiting was seriously injured and died, the Thunder Battalion and the Tongzi Battalion were officially combined in one place, the next day the boss died, the two battalions of the gang room were also in one place, plus the soldiers who came in later, now there are more than 600 people in the Tongzi Battalion, there are many people who eat, and the room has also added manpower, but unfortunately they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, either do not want to do it, or do not move, Either you can't do it, and every time it's time to prepare a meal, it's time for Ma Xiao to lose half of his life, which is more tiring than practicing javelins and daggers.

After dinner, the room was cleaned up, and Ma Xiao planned to continue to cultivate qi, but was stopped by Lao Wang just as he was about to go out. Seeing that everyone else was gone, Lao Wang opened his mouth and said, "Brother Ma, are you going to practice tuna?"