Southern Xinjiang is humid and sultry, and when it rains, it is like a pour. It had just rained last night, and the rain was leaking through the dense foliage. At this moment, the ground was full of mud, Xiao Yilan walked in the mud one foot deeper, and complained: "The rain in southern Xinjiang is really heavy, and there is no place to hide from the rain. ”

Meng Lin laughed softly: "Xiao Gongzi has complained all the way, seeing that Senior Duan is so old, he didn't say anything. ”

Xiao Yilan muttered two sentences and stopped speaking. Duan Xinnan was indeed like a dumb man, he didn't say a word along the way, holding two swords in front of his chest with both hands, his clothes were wet and clinging to his skin, and the boots on his feet were also muddy and muddy step by step, obviously very uncomfortable, but he always looked ahead, and his steps were not hurried or slow. Xiao Yilan saw that he was older and offered to let him sit on the mule cart, but he actually walked over on foot along the way, and he seemed very energetic, which surprised Xiao Yilan.

In addition to him, Luo Yu, who opened the road in front, needless to say, hurried silently, although even Li Zheng was drenched in rain, even his hair was drenched, hanging down in front of his forehead, but he never said a word, holding his hands and walking behind Duan Xinnan, except for Xiao Yilan, only wood let out two low roars from time to time. Xiao Yilan felt bored and didn't talk much, but he still came to Meng Lin's side and whispered and laughed with her.

Li Zheng quietly looked at Duan Xinnan's face, but his face had always been like a stone, and it had hardly changed for several days. Even the expression of the tree spirit wood seems to be richer than him. Li Zheng thought to himself.

But Li Zheng found that Duan Xinnan's gaze occasionally moved towards Meng Lin, and there was a faint look of confusion and approval in his eyes. Li Zheng couldn't imagine that Meng Lin could have anything special about a little girl who could make a character like Duan Xinnan look at her differently, but he paid more and more attention to Duan Xinnan and even Meng Lin's every move.

"Senior Duan, junior dares to ask, why are you following us all the way south?Senior has a grudge with the Tree Spirit Clan?" Li Zheng tried hard to talk to Duan Xinnan.

Duan Xinnan walked on his own, as if he hadn't heard it. Xiao Yilan was also very curious about these questions, and tried to ask them several times in the past few days, but unfortunately every time Duan Xinnan cherished words like gold, Xiao Yilan had no clue, so he didn't ask them anymore.

Li Zheng still didn't give up, and continued to ask: "Did the seniors choose to walk with us because of this tree spirit?" or ......?"

Duan Xinnan interrupted him and said, "Do you have a holiday with the second young master of Benhai City?"

"I didn't ...... No, I don't. Li Zheng was stunned by the question, frowned and replied, but his eyes inadvertently swept Xiao Yilan not far ahead, but Xiao Yilan and Meng Lin chatted hotly, and they didn't notice Li Zheng and the two at all.

"Then why don't you go to talk to him to pass the time, but instead come and pester me?"

Li Zheng's mind suddenly appeared that Song Zhuo died at his hands that day. That day, Song Zhuo just scolded Li Zheng like a mad dog, saying that he was Xiao Yilan's dog, in fact, Li Zheng knew very well in his heart, Xiao Yilan never had this intention, but as a high-ranking little prince, he was a little arrogant and arrogant, but Li Zheng had long been used to it.

But since Song Zhuo mentioned it, Li Zheng didn't know why, like provoking a thorn in his heart, every time he talked to Xiao Yilan or did what he told him, he would be shocked in his heart, and silently asked himself whether his words and deeds were servile behaviors. Therefore, after many days, he still has a grudge against Xiao Yilan.

However, this matter is not an outsider, he just shook his head and said, "He...... He was chatting with Miss Meng, and I didn't want to be bored. ”

Duan Xinnan suddenly said quite mysteriously: "You need to be clear, some doubts will come true if you hide them for a long time." The thorn hanging in the heart will sooner or later pierce someone. ”

Li Zheng was very surprised, his heart moved, and his eyes lit up and said: "The junior remembers, the senior means ......"

Duan Xinnan snorted coldly: "I mean if you talk too much, go to someone else, don't nag here." I'm not interested in your business, the southern Xinjiang is dangerous, don't miss my business at a critical time. ”

Li Zheng was so disgraced that he had to keep silent. But he still involuntarily quickened his pace and followed behind Duan Xinnan.

After walking for another hour or two, Xiao Yilan's weak complaint sounded again, and even Luo Yu, who was opening the road in front, seemed to have a heavy pace. But Xiao Yilan was also stubborn and unwilling to show weakness, and didn't say a word about stopping to rest. Li Zheng also gritted his teeth and insisted silently, not wanting Duan Xinnan to look down on him.

The group walked more and more slowly, Xiao Yilan didn't even have the strength to complain, and supported Meng Lin beside him, moving forward slowly.

"Let's take a break here...... My feet are swollen from the water. Xiao Yilan smiled bitterly and sat on the ground first, regardless of the mud on the ground. Meng Lin smiled and was about to speak, but suddenly raised his head alertly, and then Duan Xinnan's flat voice sounded: "Someone is coming." ”

In the jungle in southern Xinjiang, there are all kinds of birdsong and beast cries, and Li Zheng and Xiao Yilan listened to it for a long time, but they still didn't find anything.

Suddenly, a sharp sound of breaking the air sounded from the front of the side of the group, Li Zheng only felt a flower in front of him, Duan Xinnan suddenly jumped up, his left hand was still held in front of his chest, but his right hand held the sword and waved it vigorously in the air, the scabbard flew out, and it was firmly rooted on the trunk of a tree.

Suddenly, Duan Xinnan swung his sword and slashed in the air, making a muffled sound of something breaking, but his expression changed slightly.

The tree spirit wood suddenly let out a low roar, as if it was provoked by something, and there was a slight sense of pain. Li Zheng and Xiao Yilan hurriedly looked back at the wood, only to see a dark cluster of arrows on his left arm, which had sunk into his trunk-like muscles, and there was a conspicuous smooth cut in the tail of the exposed arrow.

Xiao Yilan's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Be careful! It's that damn arrow and crossbow again!" That day outside Yangxun City, Song Wenzheng's arrow and crossbow left a deep impression on Xiao Yilan, if it wasn't for the crossbow arrow missing, they would definitely not have survived.

A familiar feminine voice sounded in the jungle: "I didn't expect any of you to have such skills, otherwise this sword would have nailed this tree spirit to the ground!"

Li Zheng looked at Duan Xinnan's face, and suddenly understood, the other party secretly attacked before, and Duan Xinnan noticed it, and swung his sword to cut it off, but he didn't expect that the power of this arrow crossbow was so powerful, after the cut, it only slightly deflected the direction, and the strength was almost not attenuated, and it still pierced into the left arm of the wood.

Xiao Yilan gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Shangguan Xiang!" In recent days, they no longer felt that there were maggots behind them, and they thought that they had thrown Shangguan Xiang away, but Shangguan Xiang was so old and spicy, he quietly went around to them and set up an ambush.

Duan Xinnan had no interest in the enemy's name, he jumped up on tiptoe, the sword in his right hand flashed, and stabbed in the direction where the arrow crossbow was fired, but in a moment, his body jumped forward.

Suddenly, another black shadow flashed, it was indeed in a completely different direction, Duan Xinnan's face changed, he forcibly stopped the posture of rushing forward, twisted his body, and jumped in the other direction. This time he had learned his lesson, and the sword had just hit the tip of the crossbow arrow, and a sharp metal crash suddenly sounded in the jungle. The arrow crossbow turned to the ground, and Duan Xinnan turned around in the air, removing the force on the crossbow arrow.

All this is between lightning and flint, Li Zheng can't see clearly, but he guesses probably. Shangguan Xiang realized that his own person was not Duan Xinnan's skill, so he tried his best to deliberately lay an ambush in front, and he laid two or even more arrows and crossbows, one or two may not be a big threat to Duan Xinnan, but it hurt the tree spirit. Shangguan Xiang expected Duan Xinnan to walk with Xiao Yilan and others, and he must have attached great importance to the tree spirit, so he wanted to use wood to contain him.

Li Zheng noticed that Duan Xinnan's face was becoming more and more ugly, but he couldn't do anything for a while. The enemy is in the dark, and he doesn't know how many people and arrows he has, and if it drags on for too long, even Duan Xinnan will not be able to retreat with his whole body.

Xiao Yilan also understood Shangguan Xiang's intentions, and couldn't help but scold: "Despicable acts!"

"Hehe......" accompanied by Shangguan Xiang's laughter, and there was a sound of chains pulling, and then, everyone saw a white figure appear from the forest, which was very abrupt.

In Shangguan Xiang's hand was the same chain as that day, which hung down naturally, like a dead snake.

Meng Lin frowned and said, "He has seen the skills of Senior Duan, and he even dares to show up, I'm afraid there is something to rely on." Xiao Yilan nodded lightly, his face solemn.

"You haven't seen you for a long time, don't come here to be harmed?" Shangguan Xiang smiled with a fist clenched. As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of Meng Lin, and for some reason, the muscles on his face suddenly twitched. Meng Lin just stared at him with wide eyes at this time, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a harmless girl next door, but he felt an inexplicable chill.

Before he finished speaking, he saw Duan Xinnan suddenly wave his left arm, and with a "poof", the scabbard of the sword in his left hand flew out quickly with a wave of force, and flew straight towards Shangguan Xiang like an arrow from the string. Shangguan Xiang didn't expect it at all, the smile on his face didn't even have time to react, but the whole person jumped downward, coupled with his own weight accelerating and sinking, the scabbard would pass over his head, and the bun would be knocked down, and then plunged into the trunk of a tree behind. If it weren't for Shangguan Xiang's foundation of internal strength, he was able to sink and fall, this one blow alone would be enough to kill him.

Shangguan Xiang, who was dismantled in his cloak, stood firm in shock and sneered: "This senior is so handsome!

Duan Xinnan sneered and didn't answer, Shangguan Xiang laughed angrily, but the soft voice sounded particularly weird.

"Attack!"

This was followed by two "poofs", but this time it was two arrows. Duan Xinnan held his sword in both hands, took two steps back and retreated in front of the wood, and then swung his two swords left and right, shooting down the arrow. Before he could react, and then two more arrows were shot from the other two directions, Meng Lin was the first to be alert: "Seniors beware!"

There were at least four crossbow platforms here, and he stupidly walked into the other party's encirclement, except for Meng Lin, who was already alert, the faces of the other people also changed.

Duan Xinnan swung his sword again to block it. In such a short period of time, he received the extremely fast crossbow arrows one after another, and even Duan Xinnan felt a slight numbness in his arm, which showed the strength of the crossbow arrows.

He was still hesitating to break the enemy, but he saw Li Zheng next to him suddenly rush out. Duan Xinnan held the sword in both hands, and he couldn't hold his hand to hold him for a while.

I saw that Li Zheng was not facing Shangguan Xiang, but ran out diagonally, plunging into the depths of the jungle, but it was not the direction in which the arrow crossbow shot before. Shangguan Xiang was puzzled, and after being stunned for a moment, he grinned and said, "Do you want to run away? Don't let him slip away." ”

Three black shadows streaked across the jungle and staggered towards Li Zheng. Xiao Yilan's face changed drastically, and he shouted, "What are you going to do!" Meng Lin bit her lip tightly and looked nervously at Li Zheng who was galloping.

Although Li Zheng ran between the trees and was not hit by these arrows, the arrow crossbow shook a burst of fallen leaves, and Li Zheng still stumbled, fell to the ground, and shouted in his mouth: "Senior!

Duan Xinnan suddenly realized that if the arrows and crossbows were fired in succession before, even he would not be spared, but after the arrows were fired, the arrows and crossbows were immediately shot from other directions, and the bows and crossbows that happened for the first time were silent again, until Li Zheng ran out a moment later, Shangguan Xiang didn't have time to command, they actually shot three arrows at Li Zheng without tacit understanding, for fear of letting him escape, and they were all in the direction that happened before, indicating that there were no other hidden crossbow platforms.

Li Zheng expected that after the launch, it would take time to launch again, which is why Shangguan Xiang did not want all the crossbow platforms to be launched at the same time. Even if Duan Xinnan didn't know the number of crossbow platforms, he was unwilling to take this risk. Li Zheng used this way to buy time for Duan Xinnan. This was only a few breaths, but it was enough for Duan Xinnan.

He ran in the only unfired direction of the four ballistas. Sure enough, when the other party was in a panic, he shot an arrow, which was unloaded by Duan Xinnan softly, and then jumped into the hiding place, the cold light flashed, and the crossbow platform became a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and there were a few screams.

Xiao Yilan also understood Li Zheng's intentions, nodded and said, "Li Zheng reacts quickly, so he can destroy a crossbow!"

Meng Lin frowned and said: "This is just a temporary cooperation mistake by the other party, and now that the other three planes have been loaded, I am afraid it will not work if this method is used again......

Before the words fell, Meng Lin watched in surprise as Duan Xinnan's body writhed vigorously, and suddenly pounced on Shangguan Xiang, who was advancing to the left. Shangguan Xiang was not far from the crossbow platform, and Duan Xinnan's sudden turn was also unexpected by him.

In a panic, he raised the chain in his hand and rolled up a circle to block it in front of him, but Duan Xinnan's sword was as fast as lightning, stabbing Shangguan Xiang's wrist through the gap in the chain. Shangguan Xiang's face sank, the chain was too long, and he didn't have time to take it back, the only thing he had an advantage was some surplus internal force, but he couldn't please Duan Xinnan at all. He had to let go of his hand and leap backwards.

At the same time, he pulled a dagger from his waist and hid it between his sleeves. Duan Xinnan swung his sword and slashed at the chain, and the chain was broken in response, but bursts of white smoke erupted from the fracture between the two.

Shangguan Xiang snorted coldly and stabbed out secretly while the smoke was in the air. But his dagger suddenly stopped as if it had hit some hard object, and before he could react, a cold light pierced out of the smoke and rested on his neck.

In the smoke, Duan Xinnan's figure was blurred, but his voice came out loud: "Tell your people to get out!"

Shangguan Xiang froze in place and did not dare to move. He was just seeking money, and he didn't want to take his own life, so he barely squeezed out a smile, swallowed his saliva, and said, "The skills of the predecessors are really extraordinary." ”

As he spoke, he brought his hand to his mouth and whistled. There was a sound of rustling around, but there was still no figure in sight. Duan Xinnan frowned and asked, "Withdrawn?"

"The most important thing for a person who seeks wealth is a letter. Shangguan Xiang said with a smile.

Duan Xinnan hesitated for a moment and took the sword back. He respects his identity and will not break his promise to kill him.

Shangguan Xiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, tidied up his clothes, and arched his hand to everyone: "The mountains and rivers meet, let's come to Japan for a long time!"

With that, he turned and disappeared into the jungle.