Chapter 22: Injuries (Part 1)
Half a day later, Xu Mo stood on a hillside outside Qiuchi City, silently looking at Qiuchi City in the distance. At the head of Qiuchi City hung two hollow wooden boxes, which contained the heads of Gao Yan and Long Sheng.
On Gao's bloodstained face, the big eyes of the copper bell were still wide and angry, refusing to close. Long Sheng's face was gone, and the original pair of elegant eyes were now two deep blood holes, and some white maggots could be faintly seen wriggling slightly.
Hanging next to the heads of the two men were two bodies with severed limbs, entrailed, and straw-filled skins, which rippled left and right in the air under the slight blowing of the spring breeze.
"Yang Ye ~~~~~!" Xu Mo raised his head to the sky and roared, slamming his fist on the big tree beside him, the big tree shook violently, and the leaves fluttered down, and the birds in the forest were frightened by this and flew up one after another.
At this moment, Xu Mo felt a sharp pain in his heart that was eaten by insects and ants, and he even regretted why he didn't choose to live and die with those two people in Qiuchi City.
From the beginning of entering the Sword Transformation Pavilion, Xu Mo has always had the idea of using the two of them, even in the Blood Demon Cave, he also just wants to use the two to achieve the goal of killing the evil sword immortals.
However, he didn't expect that he was infected by these two people in just a few days of reunion with Long Sheng and Gao Yan, and it should be said that he was moved by the spirit of these two people who regard death as their home and the chivalry of "the one who is a confidant dies", and he was deeply immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself.
He hated that his strength was too weak, why he doubted and rejected Long Sheng, and he hated why he didn't choose to kill those apprentices when he was in front of the blacksmith workshop.
Although Long Sheng and Gao Yan both chose to die as a last resort, in fact, these two people were already determined to die before they were in danger, and Xu Mo's various arrangements only delayed this process.
Long Sheng was because Xu Mo and Gao gradually distrusted him, so he finally chose to die, so Gao gradually finally re-called "senior brother". And Gao Yan chose to be generous because of his misunderstanding of Long Sheng and protecting those escaped apprentices from being implicated in the future.
Unconsciously dripping blood from his hands, Xu Mo recalled the acquaintance he had with Long Sheng and Gao Yan when he first came to Qiu Chi.
"The way to get the horn? Okay, good! Come on, have two tricks with a certain family! ”
"If you rebel against the teacher, you will betray the teacher, even if you are pointed out by a thousand people, you will not regret it!"
"If you read the book of the saints, you will stop the chivalrous deeds of the two virtuous brothers!"
"Qingsheng, Brother Nie Li, Gao gradually sacrificed his life to accompany the gentleman!"
"The three of us live and die together, and if we want to go, we will go together!"
"Let's go! I can't support it! Our brothers will meet again in the next life! ”
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"They are not from the same world as me, they are just history, they are just two NPCs......" Xu Mo whispered in disbelief, walking in the opposite direction of Qiu Chi......
In order to avoid the pursuit of Yang's [***] team, Xu Mo tried his best to choose some remote paths to leave Yang Country and go to Jiang Kingdom. Jiang and Yang are the leading countries, and the territory of the two small countries is not large, and the capitals are also very close to each other.
On the third day after leaving Qiu Chi, Xu Mo had already arrived at the junction of the borders of Jiang and Yang, because of the long-term war, the border between the two countries was desolate and uninhabited, and there were ruins everywhere. The place where Xu Mo was a small mountain forest, the terrain was quite steep, and after he looked at the surrounding environment, a cold light flashed in his eyes that no one could see.
After walking a little further, Xu Mo stopped, because a group of people in Gebu shirts appeared in the small mountain forest, surrounding him back and forth. The men were yellow-skinned, their eyes were sunken, their bodies were thin, they were armed with spears and spears, a few of them had bronze swords in their hands, and in the distance there were several archers with crude longbows in the high ground, aiming at him.
At this time, a sturdy black man came out of the crowd, and his physical fitness was much better than those who surrounded Xu Mo. He carried a bronze sword in his hand, and he actually had a half-worn leather armor on his body.
The big man looked greedily at the Blood Demon Sword in Xu Mo's hand, even if he took a cursory look, he could see that this sword was extraordinary, and it was obviously not the same grade as the bronze sword in his hand.
Under the reminder of the subordinates beside him, Dahan reluctantly took his eyes off the Blood Demon Sword and looked at Xu Mo's face, and then smiled, and pointed at Xu Mo, who was covered in blood and ragged clothes, with his sword.
"A certain is Chiji Mountain to send Liao, the mountains and rivers here are the territory of Chiji Village, see that your figure is still strong, offer the sword in your hand, you can consider letting you join Chiji Village, and share life and death with us." The big man named Ji Liao shouted.
Bandits? Xu Mo was a little surprised, with his D+-level perception, he had long known that he was surrounded by people, originally thought that it was Yang Guo's pursuers who were ambushed around, but he didn't expect it to be a group of bandits dressed as hungry people.
When I heard the leader of the bandits say, let him join the so-called Chiji Village and share life and death with each other. Xu Mo couldn't help but think of Long Sheng and Gao Yan, who had really lived and died with him three days ago.
"You wait for these dregs who are struggling to survive, and you know what it means to be rich and prosperous with life and death!" Xu Mo raised his head, his eyes were as red as jewels, he stared coldly at the face of the black man, and the Blood Demon Sword in his hand slowly raised.
Ji Liao was startled by Xu Mo's hideous expression, and his body involuntarily retreated, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was frightened back by Xu Mo, and he couldn't help but be ashamed and angry, and he screamed wildly, and pounced with a bronze sword.
Ji Liao was able to become the leader of this group of bandits, not only because he was larger than ordinary manpower, but also because he had learned several fighting skills in the army by chance when he was a child, and his mind was quite flexible, so he stood out among the bandits and took the leading position.
Of course, this is also because there are really no capable people in this gang of bandits, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are kings. Under normal circumstances, Ji Liao is very timid and cautious, although this is the border between the two countries, in the two areas, but they do not touch small troops, do not touch large caravans, and do not even rob small caravans with more guards.
Ji Liao only robbed a small number of passing business travelers and single pedestrians. When robbing, Ji Liao will not do it himself, it is all done by his bandits, bows and arrows are scattered, spears and guns are pierced, ordinary people can't stop it, and the success rate of robbery is still very high.
It's just that the war between the two countries has made this place deserted, there are very few business trips in the past, and Ji Liao is too timid and picky about targets, so these bandits are all hungry and thin, and they complain. If it weren't for the fact that Ji Liao had been in charge for a long time, Yinwei was still there, they would have attacked him a long time ago.