Chapter 22: The Crisis Is Approaching
Normally, there will be some panic when you accidentally injure an innocent, but this person's outfit doesn't look innocent, and Bai Bingyu is not the kind of delicate lady. I don't know if I have killed anyone, but I must have seen dead people, many dead people.
When Tianyou was still sighing, Bai Bingyu had already reached out and grabbed the man's wrist, turned it over and checked the palm, and then touched his arm all the way up, and found a small pocket in the inner bend of his upper arm, which contained several pocket portraits wrapped in waterproof oiled paper, and if you looked closely, you could vaguely identify that it was Ying Ying and their group of six, Qin Bo and himself were all excluded.
"It seems that he is innocent. Tianyou smiled and touched the person's waist, and sure enough, he found a cloth bag, reached out and poured all the things inside into the palm of his hand, all of which were scattered pieces of silver, about a dozen taels, and a string of more than 100 copper coins. "You don't care, do you?" Tianyou smiled and put the silver back into the bag of defective products. "Hehe, no windfall is not rich. ”
Bai Bingyu stood up and looked at Tianyou, "We're in trouble." ”
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Bai Bingyu's expression was not very good, Tianyou also put away his smile.
"Things get complicated. ”
"Huh?"
"This man is the killer of the Night Temple. ”
"The killer of the Night Temple?" Tianyou looked at the corpse again in surprise.
If it is an ordinary mountain villager, most of them will be ignorant when they hear the name of the Night God Temple, but Tianyou is not. In his early years, when he was wandering around with his adoptive mother Xiyan, he had heard of the name of the Night Temple more than once, and in the eyes of those who ran the rivers and lakes, the Night God Temple was simply a myth. But God Blessing has a different view, because he comes from another world, one that is just as dirty as here, but with greater transparency.
After crossing over, Tianyou collected the map of the land of Shenzhou under his feet, and found that the basic outline was no different from the land of China in the previous life, but the specific terrain was very different. Ten nations are scattered across the land, one after the other, forming a circle like ten men holding hands, and in the center of the ring is a large neutral area.
The periphery of this neutral zone is almost entirely mountainous and mountainous, with only a few fragments of flat land that can survive ordinary people, but this is not the reason why the Ten Nations have abandoned this land.
The reason why this neutral zone exists is because of the existence of the two religions of immortals and Buddhas. Completely different from the previous life, here, the two sects of the immortals and Buddhas are completely a transcendent existence, although they have not established a state, they are better than a state. The entire neutral zone is the territory of the two sects of the Immortal Buddha. Here, they are divided into sects and occupy some hills, and the large area around them is considered the sphere of influence of this sect. The people living in this area have to pay taxes to the sect to which they belong, and if there is a dispute, the person appointed by the sect will arbitrate, and in the case of banditry and the like, the sect will also send someone to arrest it.
It can be said that these sects are actually small kingdoms. The difference is that apart from collecting taxes and maintaining basic law and order, the sect never participates in local construction and does not plan anything. In this area, everything seems to be very casual, although the taxes are not less than those collected by the ten countries, but the people are very free. Of course, there is no shortage of dark sides.
The most direct reason why Tianyou felt that the Night Temple was not simple was that every time the assassins of the Night Temple were pursued, they would burrow into the neutral zone once they couldn't escape. The princes and princesses of Chu were killed again and again, is the king of Chu a fool? No, he is not, but the assassination continues. Although there was a huge price to pay each time, the Assassins were always able to succeed if they were willing to pay the price, and as long as the assassination was complete, the remaining Assassins would flee to the neutral zone.
According to the rules established between these sects and the nations, soldiers from the Ten Nations were not allowed to enter the neutral zone. It is said that the state of Chu had a large-scale conflict with the Buddhist sects in the neutral zone over this matter, but in the end, it was not resolved under the mediation of the Xianmen, but in fact it was the state of Chu that suffered a big loss. As for the Temple of the Night...... Still at large.
Once or twice is an accident, every time it's like this, it's absolutely impossible to say that the Night Temple has nothing to do with the neutral zone, and in this world, sectarian forces are vaguely above the state.
Tianyou believes that the Night God Temple is likely to be the national special forces that specialized in dirty work in the previous life, but the one or several sect forces standing behind the Night God Temple are not a superpower. This kind of thing has been played by the five hooligans in the previous life, and it is not new, but in this world, there are probably not many people who can see the clues.
Tianyou was surprised that the Night God Temple was also involved, but Bai Bingyu thought that Tianyou had never heard the name of the Night God Temple, so he began to explain. Tianyou hurriedly interrupted her. "I know what the Night Temple is for, and I'm wondering what to do now?"
"It is said that the killers sent by the Night God Temple are at least cultivators in the Tempering Stage, and they are by no means comparable to the rabble before. If there are only a few we can handle it, once there are too many ......"
"Don't worry, as long as we are still human, we can't suffer losses in this Qingyuan Mountain. ”
Tianyou said this, in fact, it is also a consolation component, they have encountered this killer until now, and it is still moldy, and they can't refer to it at all, so it's too early to say anything, but there is one thing that God bless them must do as soon as possible.
Together with Bai Bingyu, he lowered the corpse from the tree and pulled out the armor-piercing arrow, Tianyou found two small branches, and after simply cutting them twice, they inserted them into the trunk from the holes on both sides, disguised as two side-growing branches, anyway, the killer would not specialize in studying big trees.
After putting away the arrow, scooping up the blood-stained floating soil on the ground and loading it, the two of them carried the corpse outside the Valley of the Beasts and threw it into the river with the bag of dirt.
"Alright, I'll leave the rest to the shallow crocodile. We went back and called the others and moved quickly. ”
"Don't live in the cave tonight?"
"You don't want to sleep until midnight and be stuck in a hole, do you?"
Bai Bingyu nodded, understanding that he really couldn't live in the cave tonight, otherwise as long as others blocked the entrance to the cave, they wouldn't even have a way out.