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Half a month later......

"Do you know what kind of place this is? Do you see the mountain behind me? This mountain is called Bo Blade Ridge, and then look at the river that plunges straight down from Bo Dao Ridge, it is called the Heishui River! In the forest of the two realms, this is the place where our masters of the Five Horse Gang specially set rules, do you know how to make rules? Hehe, it is to take those stunned young people who don't understand the rules, are disobedient, and don't go to the Tao to Bo Blade Ridge, and then dig out their hearts and lungs and slowly torture them to death, and finally throw them into this river!"

"Li Cripple's words are wrong, how can they understand your explanation like this? Dissecting the heart and digging out the lungs is a river of blood, so it should be called the 'Red Water River', how can it become the 'Black Water River'?"

"! You Liu Banxian, you talk a lot of nonsense! Don't you see that I'm talking to them about our rules? If you don't say it, now you have to bother to say it for you, but you have dismantled my platform! What did the fifth master tell when we came out? Didn't you say that you are responsible for moving your mouth, and I am responsible for doing it? Gentlemen, I don't look down on your crooked energy, like a girl!"

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In the depths of the forests of the Two Realms, there is a mountain ridge shaped like a blade, named Thin Blade Ridge. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis thin blade ridge stretches for hundreds of meters from east to west, just across the two realms of the forest that runs through the north and south, and it is also a necessary place to pass from south to north, but it is not necessarily necessary to cross this ridge after passing through, after all, its east and west stretches for only a few hundred meters, and the steep mountain walls on both sides of it are extremely difficult to climb like a sharp blade, so most people choose to detour through this place, so there are many people who have seen the thin blade ridge, but there are very few people who really walk into the thin blade ridge so closely. The Thin Blade Ridge is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and it is said that the top layer cannot even fit a person's feet, and from a distance, it looks like a blade placed horizontally in the forests of the two realms, so the name 'Thin Blade' is quite appropriate.

There is a river that flows straight down on the thin blade ridge, about three zhang wide, it flows directly from the top of the thin blade ridge to the foot of the mountain, and a small pool with a diameter of about ten zhang is formed at the foot of the mountain, the pool water is turbid and black, and the bottom is not visible. The river is called the 'Blackwater River'. Because the forests of the two realms are rainy all year round, under the impact of rain day after day, I don't know when a water tank was washed out by the rain on the top of the thin blade ridge that is less than a foot wide, as if looking from the air, this water tank is like a bloodletting groove on a sharp blade, lifelike and vivid. The tank at the top of the mountain is actually the source of the Black Water River.

At this moment, it has been twenty-five days since Lu Yifan and the others entered the Two Realms Forest, and after meeting the old housekeeper of the caravan on the road, they actually walked more than 3,000 miles south for fifteen consecutive days, without climbing mountains, crossing mountains, or taking unjust roads, and the speed was much faster than their previous headless fly-like blind turn.

At this moment, it is the third pole of the sun, and there are twenty or thirty large and small caravans gathered on the side of the Heishui River in this Thin Blade Ridge, and the people in the caravan are trembling together, looking at the Thin Blade Ridge and the Heishui River in front of them with fear in their eyes, their chariots and horses have all been mixed together at this moment, and the people of each caravan together have more than two hundred. It's just that these two hundred people didn't know each other before, and they were all stopped by the Five Horse Gang in batches in the past three or four days, and then gathered here together. As for what they were going to do here, no one knows. However, these people knew that they all had one thing in common, that is, they were all caravans that transported goods from the Sanctuary to the Spirit Realm. That is to say, all of them go from north to south, and none of them come from south to north.

Around these caravans, there were now two or three hundred fierce and sword-wielding mountain bandits, all of whom were brethren of the Five Horse Gang. And among them there were two people, one was a lame man standing on the roof of the carriage yelling at the caravan below, this person was about forty years old, his left leg seemed to be shorter than his right leg and always stood uneven, and he was holding a mace made of pure iron in his hand as his crutch, this person's dark face was full of beard, and his eyes were as wide as a cow, this person was also a well-known big man in the forest of the Two Realms, one of the right-hand men of Zheng Xiaowu of the Five Horse Gang, nickname: Li Cripple

。 And when Li Cripple was impassionedly talking to the various caravans about the rules, it was a tall and thin man with a goatee who was tearing down the stage with sarcastic words under the carriage, this person looked plain in a gray robe, and there was a not very pure elegance between his speech and demeanor, which was more like a deliberate gesture. Holding an old yellowed folding fan in his hand, he shook his head and fanned the fan as soon as he spoke, this person was another person in Zheng Xiaowu's right-hand man, just because of his pretended to be a profound nervous appearance, Zheng Xiaowu gave him a nickname: Liu Banxian.

As for what the real names of Li Cripple and Liu Banxian were, I'm afraid they can't even remember clearly, after all, in the past few decades of the Five Horse Gang, these two nicknames are not only known to everyone in the forests of the Two Realms, but even they themselves are very useful for it.

They were ordered by Zheng Xiaowu to lead people to block the caravans from the Holy Domain to the Spirit Domain in the area of Thin Blade Ridge, and they could not let go of a single search one by one. It's just that the Forest of the Two Realms is really too big, and although there are not many places that stretch for hundreds of meters from east to west, there is still an unknown amount of space outside the Thin Blade Ridge? They can stop one or two, and it is difficult to guarantee that the second one will sneak away from another place when they inquire about the first one. Therefore, it is really a bit stretched for them to let them send people to intercept and search caravans one by one, after all, if there are fewer people in the business of blocking the road and robbing this business, they will not be able to scare other caravans, but if there are more people, these people under Li Cripple and Liu Banxian will not be enough.

Neither time nor manpower could be beckoned, so in a hurry, Liu Banxian came up with a way, that is, to send people to guard the major north-south arteries that caravans often take, and after stopping the caravans, they would not waste time to search but directly take them to Bojian Ridge, and then go out to intercept other caravans. These caravans gathered at Bojian Ridge were searched every three or four days, and for Li Cripple, this method was fast and convenient, and they didn't have to toss around, so they continued to use it for more than 20 days.

It's a pity that although the method is good, he has not been able to find the things and people Zheng Xiaowu is looking for. Seeing that the January period reached by Zheng Xiaowu and Yufeng was approaching, why couldn't the people of the Five Horse Gang be anxious in their hearts? After all, this was a big deal worth one million gold shells.

"Uncle, your brother has been stopping us here for several days, and he doesn't want money or death, what does this mean?" Some bold people in the caravan couldn't help but raise the doubts in their hearts, "According to the rules, don't we all use money to change the sign from the hands of the uncles?"

"The brand is going to be changed, but I'm not in a hurry for a while!" Li Lame smiled and continued, "Some of you have been waiting here for three or four days, and I am here to let you go today!"

"That's really good! If we delay the delivery, then our loss will be too great!" As soon as Li Cripple said this, a big stone in the hearts of everyone in the caravan also fell, "Then uncle, should we pay for the brand or ......?"

"Don't panic, don't panic!" Liu Banxian waved the fan in his hand lightly, shook his head and said, "According to the rules, your group of caravans will be released at noon, and we will wait to see if there are any other caravans coming over at this time!"

"That's right!" Li Cripple slapped his head with his hand when he heard this, and then stared at the people below curiously with a pair of bull's eyes, and asked loudly, "Which of you killed the Thunder Tiger in Lin Bei?"

The thunder tiger in Li Cripple's mouth was referring to the bandit leader who was pinched to death by Lu Yifan fifteen days ago.

Hearing Li Cripple's question, everyone present looked at each other for a while, everyone look at me, I look at you, and no one can answer the reason for a long time.

"Uncle, what you said about the Thunder Tiger...... Who is it?" asked a man who looked like a bookkeeper over half a hundred years old, cautiously retorting, "We don't know any of us!"

"Lei Lao Hu is also 'doing business' in the north of the Two Realms Forest. Liu Banxian replied in words, "Although he is a small character who is not in the stream, no matter how he says it, he was killed in the Two Realms Forest, and he and our Five Horse Gang are eating the same bowl of rice, today there are caravan people who dare to kill the Thunder Tiger in the Two Realms Forest, so tomorrow will someone want to use a knife on the head of the Fifth Master?"

As soon as Liu Banxian's words came out, everyone's mouths gasped, most of these are businessmen who do their duty, they can safely and steadily break their wealth and avoid disasters, they are already burning high incense, how dare they dare to dare to fight against the mountain kings in the forests of these two realms? Of course, over the years, there will be some wealthy rich people, who spend a lot of money to hire a group of masters to escort goods along the way, and there are often fights with these mountain bandits when passing through the forests of the two realms, but in most cases, it is a strong dragon that is difficult to suppress the head snake, and in the end they were beaten in vain

。 Occasionally, the mountain bandits will also run into some hard stubble, but at that time they will take the initiative to converge and avoid. Therefore, although there has been no shortage of swords facing each other in the forests of the two realms over the years, there are few fights with their lives, and even fewer mountain bandits will die.

After all, no matter how arrogant and domineering the mountain bandits are, they just want to make money in the end. In the forests of the two realms, now blocking the road and robbing has become a regular 'business', and the days of licking blood from the knife edge in the traditional sense are naturally not encountered by today's mountain bandits for a long time.

"Actually, it's just a trivial matter to die a thunder tiger, it's just that someone has broken our lord's rules, which is a fucking big deal!" Li lame shook the mace in his hand and danced the tiger and tiger, which frightened the honest businessmen below, and their faces changed, "To be honest, there are really no people among you who killed the thunder tiger?" I'm going to look at the brands you got one by one later, if I let you find out that some of you have seen the thunder tiger and deliberately conceal it, hehe......" Li Cripple suddenly showed a wicked smile on his face, then turned around and pointed to the Heishui River, and said in a convincing manner, "In the past few years, at least thousands of corpses have been piled up in that river, and few fresh people have thrown them into it in the past two years, and the fish in the river are dying, I think today is a good day to feed the fish!"

Some timid people were frightened and purple in their lips after hearing Li Cripple's words, the muscles up and down their bodies couldn't help but tremble, their chests were stuffy, their heads were empty, their eyes were dizzy, their breathing became more and more rapid, and even after looking at the Heishui River, their hands and feet were cramping.

"Master Li, Master Liu!"

Just when Li Cripple and Liu Banxian were looking back and forth at these businessmen who were already fainting with fright, they saw a man from the Five Horse Gang running briskly towards here from a distance, and after a while, he came to the foot of the Thin Blade Ridge.

"What's the panic, is someone coming again?" asked Liu Banxian with a puzzled expression.

"Yes......" replied the brother hurriedly, "it was a very troublesome bunch, about six or seven men and four carriages. This group of people does not understand the rules, our brothers just wanted to teach them a lesson, but then the other brothers passed by with another caravan, and as soon as they told us about blocking the road, the stubble who did not understand the rules did not look for trouble again, but obediently followed us to Thin Blade Ridge. ”

Hearing this person's words, Li Cripple couldn't help grinning: "That is a group of stunned young people who didn't know how powerful our Five Horse Gang was at first, but later they confessed to it when they heard what others said! This kind of person is everywhere, you see which of these people is not like an uncle when they first deal with our Five Horse Gang? Now it's not the same and stand obediently and listen to my lecture? That group of people changed so quickly and they were still sensible, and they were not affected by a meal of flesh and skin. ”

"Master Li, but I don't think those people are good stubbles who will admit it......"

"Okay, okay!" Li Cripple seemed to be very dissatisfied with being refuted, so he glanced up at the sky, and then waved his hand casually and said, "I see that the hour is almost up, you go and tell the brothers in the forest, leave a few eyeliners to watch the road, and the others hurry over, let's check this wave of caravans one by one." ”

As he spoke, under the 'supervision' of thirty or forty brothers of the Five Horse Gang, Lu Yifan's gang and another caravan of about seven or eight people slowly came to the foot of the Thin Blade Ridge, and when they appeared in everyone's sight, the people who were originally standing here couldn't help but whisper, speculating about who of these two teams was the troublesome stubble who had just collided with the Five Horse Gang?

"Register

Liu Banxian took the lead in stepping up to meet him, and at the same time, he also took out a smudged parchment roll and a fried pen from his arms, and while walking in the direction of Lu Yifan and the others, he stuffed the pen into his mouth and licked and spat indiscriminately, which was considered to be a moistening pen, "What is the surname, what are the names? How many people are there? Where are they going? How many cars are there? What are the goods in the car? How many brands have been changed along the way?" From beginning to end, Liu Banxian's eyes were all on his parchment scroll full of words, and he didn't look at Lu Yifan and the others with his eyes at all.

"We are the buddies of the splendid silk village, my family Master Hu and the fifth master of your gang have a relationship, and gave a piece of half-arm-long jade Ruyi as a gift, and the fifth master also said that he will take more care of our Lord Hu's caravan in the future......"

"Did I ask you this?" Without waiting for the butler of the other caravan to compliment him with a sycophant face, Liu Banxian scolded in a low voice without raising his head, and then said lightly, "You can answer whatever you ask, and don't say a word if it's useless!" As he said that, he glanced up at Lu Yifan slightly, and asked casually, "You say it first!"

"In Xia Lutian, the caravan came from the Southern County of the Holy Domain, a group of seven people and four carts, loaded with tea and spices, and planned to send it to Loulan in the Spiritual Domain, so far there has been no change to a brand!" Lu Yifan's answer was simple and direct, and his attitude was not distempered. As soon as he heard Lu Yifan's words, the scene quieted down suddenly, and even the whispering just now stopped abruptly, and everyone, including Liu Banxian and Li Cripple, looked at Lu Yifan with a look of surprise, which made Lu Yifan's heart startled, and secretly wondered if he had said something wrong just now.

"Entering the forest of the two realms so deeply, you didn't even change a sign?" Liu Banxian asked Lu Yifan suspiciously.

"No!" Lu Yifan seemed to understand something in his heart, but he replied without hesitation, "Not really!"

Hearing this, Liu Banxian did not continue to ask, but nodded suspiciously, and then lowered his head and scribbled a few strokes on the parchment scroll, and then turned his head to look at the people of the other caravan, and said lightly: "It's time for you to speak!"

"Yes, yes, the villain is the procurement of the Splendid Silk Village in the South County of the Holy Domain, named Hu Quan. Our group was eight people and five cars, delivering goods from Nanjun to Blackstone Town in the Spirit Domain, and the cars were loaded with pieces of fabric, and only one brand was changed along the way. Hu Quan said and hurriedly took off the sign hanging on the head car, held it in both hands and sent it to Liu Banxian, but Liu Banxian just glanced up casually, then lowered his head and quickly wrote a few strokes on the parchment roll.

But just before Hu Quan's words fell, Yulou, who was standing beside Lu Yifan, suddenly changed his face, and then reached out and gently tugged Lu Yifan's sleeve with a solemn face.

"Childe, we're in trouble this time!"

"How ......"

"It seems to be a coincidence!" Just when Lu Yifan just wanted to ask but didn't say anything, Liu Banxian suddenly stuffed the parchment roll back into his arms, and then looked at Hu Quan and Lu Yifan with a smile, and laughed aloud with interest, "Since they are both from the Southern County of the Holy Domain, it means that the two of you are fellow villagers, right?"

"This ......" As soon as Liu Banxian's words came out, Hu Quan and Lu Yifan were stunned for a moment, Hu Quan looked Lu Yifan up and down with a puzzled face, and took the lead in asking with a smile, "If Hu Mou, who is doing business in Nanjun, should know it, but this little brother I have a very bad face." There are only a dozen or so tea and spice businesses in Nanjun, and the ones that can deliver goods to the spiritual realm should be nothing more than the two time-honored brands of 'Fuxiang' and 'Jinyuan', but I don't know which of them you are from, little brother?"

As soon as Hu Quan's words came out, the eyes of everyone present focused on Lu Yifan, especially Li Cripple and Liu Banxian, and the scrutiny in their eyes was self-evident. And in front of everyone's eyes, a cold sweat broke out in Lu Yifan's palm.

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