Chapter 34: Decision
"Two stays!" said the middle-aged leader of the caravan.
"What's the matter!, we still have to run for our lives!" Lin Si replied impatiently. He didn't know the origin of the good or bad of this group of people, and he had a fight inexplicably, and his heart was naturally a little unhappy, not to mention that there was no time to greet in front of him.
"The two of you have misunderstood!" the middle-aged man arched his hand, "If the two of you go over there, I'm afraid you will soon bump into Qingchuan reinforcements." β
"They don't know us!" Mu Zheping was also in a hurry to escape.
"They don't know the two, but they know the horses of the two! Your horses are the military horses of the Qingchuan Kingdom, and they are all marked! Not to mention that even if the two abandon the horses, they will also be regarded as suspects!"
The two were about to speak, when they saw hundreds of horses chasing this side in the distance in front of them, and they couldn't run away if they wanted to!
"Let's go, go into the forest!" the middle-aged man hurriedly turned his horse and ran towards the dense forest several miles away.
Lin Si and the others had no choice but to follow, it seemed that there was only one way to go in front of them, and they were not arrogant enough to kill all those hundreds of soldiers again with the strength of two of them. Even if you can run away, after your whereabouts are exposed, there will be so many troops in Qingchuan Country by then......
With that tragic end out of his mind, Lin Si rode his horse and galloped quickly towards the dense forest.
The reinforcements behind had apparently spotted the men in front of them as well, and immediately chased after them, and from time to time archers shot arrows in front of them while chasing.
Lin Mu and the others dodged the arrows while running for their lives.
Finally, when the reinforcements were still dozens of feet away, they retreated into the dense forest, only for the caravan to be shot down by four men with bows and arrows again.
The middle-aged man did not change his expression, but quickly dismounted and fled to the depths of the dense forest.
This dense forest was dozens of miles in circumference, and when the pursuers in the rear approached, they immediately dismounted and sent people to chase after them. The three archers in the caravan fled as they snorted and fired a few arrows back.
The pursuers were shot down by two people, but the pursuit continued.
Seeing this, Lin Si asked, "Is there a bow and arrow, borrow it from me!"
The leader of the caravan did not hesitate, and handed over an iron bow and a pair of quivers.
Since he started to learn cultivation and swordsmanship from Hua Susu, Lin Si hadn't touched a bow and arrow for a long time, and if he hadn't seen the bow and arrow in front of him fighting back and forth, he would have almost forgotten that he would still do it.
Skillfully pulling out the iron bow and catching the arrow, he soon found that this bow was much more powerful than the one he used in the Warcraft Forest, and it was just right to exert his strength. Especially now that he can use mystical power with both hands, and draw his bow with ease.
He bowed and continued to run, turning back and letting go of a quick arrow.
Phewββ
A soldier who was looking up dozens of feet away collapsed clutching his neck.
Mu Zheping gave him a thumbs up and praised him, but he didn't expect Lin Si to shoot arrows.
Lin Si smiled, then took out four long arrows from his quiver and put them on the bowstring, one tumbling and sitting down behind a giant tree, and glanced back at the pursuers.
Then he quickly released an arrow backwards, and the moment the iron arrow flew towards the rear, Lin Si pulled the longbow again, and an arrow on his right hand naturally put on the bowstring, and it was released again with a slight turn.
Then draw the bow again and release the arrow.
Despite the complexity of the process, the release of the four arrows was only a short moment, as fast as the blink of an eye.
Puff puff!
The four pursuers in the rear fell to the ground again.
Lin Si didn't look back, put away his bow and arrows and quickly caught up with the others.
The chase in the dense forest did not last long, and with the sneak attack of Lin Si and the other three archers, the pursuers finally did not dare to expose their bodies and chase forward.
Half an hour later, the group finally shook off the pursuers behind them and stopped by a small stream deep in the dense forest to rest.
Everyone drank and washed in the stream, and then Lin Si and Mu Zheping stared at the middle-aged man tightly, waiting for him to give an explanation to himself and the others.
"Thank you both!" they finally waited for the middle-aged man's words.
"Needless to say, we didn't plan to save you, but now we're all trapped!" Lin Si replied angrily.
Thinking of this inexplicable battle, he couldn't help but feel depressed, it was really a disaster.
"Where do we come from......" The middle-aged man looked hesitant.
"What, don't you want to say it?" Mu Zheping pouted, "Then say goodbye!" After that, he planned to leave.
"Wait!" the middle-aged man hurriedly said.
"What, you still plan to keep us?" Mu Zheping drew his long knife.
"The two of you misunderstood! It's just that now in order to capture us, this dense forest should have been fenced off! I'm afraid the two of you won't be able to leave. The middle-aged man raised his arm to show that he had no malicious intent, and patiently explained.
"Isn't it!" Lin Si exclaimed, "Isn't it just a few hundred people?
"Ahem!" the middle-aged man looked embarrassed, "I'm afraid they'll call more people to stay with us!"
"Who the hell are you!" Lin Si was as depressed as stepping on garbage, and said fiercely: "In order to arrest you, will they send thousands of people!"
"Well, it's okay to sue you! You have also made enemies with those Qingchuan troops!" the man seemed to have made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "We are from the Moon Country!"
After that, he stared at Lin Si's expression, and the others on the side also showed a look of vigilance.
But the expressions of the two did not change at all.
"Go on, the people of the Moon Country, and then what? Qingchuan Country won't kill the people of the Moon Country when they see it, right? Doesn't the Moon Country also have Qingchuan people?" Lin Si said impatiently.
"We are spies sent to Qingchuan Country by the Yue ** Fang!" The man finally told the truth.
"Oh! no wonder!" Lin Si nodded. It's easy to understand if it's a spy, and it's normal to be hunted down after being discovered.
Seeing that Lin Si and the others were still calm, the middle-aged man couldn't help but be surprised.
"Don't you have anything else to ask?" he said.
"What do you ask? Will you tell you military secrets? We are not interested in what you say! Now the top priority is how to escape!" Mu Zheping intercepted, knowing the identity of this group of people, at least they would not be confused about why they fought before.
"This ......" The middle-aged man nodded stunned, but still felt incredible. But then thinking about the age and skill of the two, it was not surprising that these two people might be disciples of the cultivation sect, and it was not surprising that they were indifferent to the struggle between countries.
"Dare to ask which sect the two young heroes are from?" he asked cautiously.
"Sect?" Mu Zheping was stunned, "We are not from any sect, we are also from the Yue Kingdom! β
"What, you are also from the Moon Country?" the middle-aged man and his party looked happy.
"Yes! What?" Although Lin Si was not sure of his origin, he also temporarily classified himself into the ranks of the people of the Moon Country.
"Great! Two young heroes, you must help us bring the information back to the Moon Country!" The middle-aged man did not doubt the truth or falsehood of the two of them at all, and in fact there was no need. If Lin Mu and the others had other plans, then as long as they hadn't saved them in the wilderness before, they would have been wiped out a long time ago.
"Why?" Lin Si wanted to say that this was about our, but he held back for the sake of his image.
"For the sake of the stability of the Moon Country, it is your duty to be a member of the Moon Country!" the middle-aged man said earnestly.
"This ......" Lin Mu and the others looked at each other, if they wanted to say that they were throwing their heads and spilling blood for the Yue Kingdom, with the two of them from this background, they really didn't have such a high consciousness for a while, but they couldn't think of any reason to excuse themselves.
Looking at the expectant eyes of the other party, the two thought that they were going to kill them, and they were going to help them anyway. So Mu Zheping said: "It's no problem to help you, but don't pin your hopes on us!"
"It's nature!" said the middle-aged man.
After a brief rest, the group continued to walk deeper into the dense forest.
The dense forest was not large, and soon they were on the edge.
Sure enough, there were human voices and horse neighing voices from outside the forest, and they were obviously surrounded. If they are killed like this, they will soon fall into a boundless encirclement, and when the time comes, it will not be comparable to this dense forest, there is nowhere to hide in the wasteland, and letting Lin Si and the two of them excel is also a dead end.
The group of people who knew the shape in front of them couldn't help but be at a loss, and slowly retreated.
"This can't work!" Lin Si, who retreated to the depths of the dense forest, looked at the middle-aged man, "This is basically catching turtles in the urn, although there are some beasts and fish in this dense forest, and we will not starve to death for a while, but as long as the other party narrows the encirclement layer by layer and slowly surrounds us, we will be a dead end at that time." β
The middle-aged man nodded: "That's right, do you have anything to do?"
Please, we are counting on you to give a builder, but you are asking us? Lin Si and the others rolled their eyes.
The middle-aged man sneered: "The full-time job of our group is to infiltrate the Qingchuan Kingdom to find out the news, not to march and command the battle, so we don't know much about this!"
Lin Si and the others couldn't help but sigh, it seemed that these people couldn't be counted on.
"If it were me, I would have burned this forest directly, we couldn't run away if we wanted to, anyway, what they needed was to extinguish their mouths, and they didn't need living people!" Mu Zheping suddenly said in a gloomy voice.
"You're really vicious!" Lin Si looked at him helplessly.
"It's not that I'm vicious, it's that this kind of thought is easy to think of, after all, this forest is not big. Mu Zhe said lightly, "I guess they will set fire to the forest when they are almost impatient." β
"What then?" said the middle-aged man urgently.
"I can only find a direction to quickly and forcibly protrude!" Lin Sidao, but he also knew that this was not a big deal, even if he ran out of the dense forest, he would be surrounded by many people.
Others naturally understand this truth, but it is obviously not good to sit back and wait for death at the moment.
"Actually, if there were more people, it would be nice to be able to divide into two roads, and the two roads would be divided into two opposite directions to touch the edge of the dense forest. Taking advantage of the darkness, he pretended to go north quickly, grabbed the horse and ran, and the pursuers would soon surround him. Mu Zheping spoke again, he seemed to have a good knowledge of the art of war.
"Then the people on that road will die, although the pursuers may not all be attracted away, but the pressure on the other way will be greatly reduced, take advantage of the situation to kill from the opposite direction, and the other party will not have time to surround it?" Lin Si said, he had read the "History of the War of the Six Southeast Kingdoms", and he didn't understand this at all.
"yes, that passerby is dead! Mu Zheping seemed to just say it casually.
But the middle-aged man and his entourage of seven or eight people stood still.
"Let's go and pretend to take the north road!" he said suddenly with a solemn face. "You two are better than us, you have a good chance of escaping, and you were originally involved by accident, I just hope that you can send the information back to the Moon Country on our behalf!"
"Mu Tou, you go with them!" To Lin Si's surprise, the others did not object to taking the initiative to be the bait, but hoped that their leader would go with Lin Si.
"No!" the middle-aged man intercepted, "My image has long been known by Qingchuan Kingdom, and they won't let go if they don't see me!"
The others hung their heads, seemingly acquiescing to what he said.
"You're going to die!" Lin Si couldn't help but say.
"Sacrifice your life for the country, die without regrets!" the middle-aged man said in a deep voice, everyone else around him had a sad face, but no one spoke out against it, and his expression slowly revealed firmness.
Lin Si was moved! This was a feeling that he couldn't understand now, and the seven or eight people in front of him didn't seem to care about the ending he was about to face.
Why do they take it so calmly? Is life so cheap? Even though it's a life of death, is that information so important?
He opened his mouth, unable to say anything. Looking at Mu Zheping on the side, Lin Si couldn't see the expression on his face.
"You take this information to Li City on the border of the Moon Country, where there is a garrison of the Moon Country, you give this letter to General Shang Hong of the General's Mansion in the city, and tell him that this is what Mu Lao Liu asked you to send. The middle-aged man didn't wait for Lin Si and the two to speak, then reached out and took out a brown envelope from his bosom and handed it to Lin Si, as if he was handing over a heavy mission to him.
Lin Si's fingertips trembled slightly, but he didn't raise his hand to pick it up.
Of course, he didn't want to die like this, if the middle-aged man went to attract the pursuers, it would naturally be the best result for him. But he can't reach out, and sacrificing others to fulfill himself is not his style.
Although he was innocent of being involved in this incident.
One hand took the envelope from in front of him, and Lin Si looked up, it was Mu Zheping.
He took the envelope and put it in his arms, and then solemnly hugged his fists to Dahan and his party: "We will do our best!"
The middle-aged man also clenched his fists: "Please!"
Then he suddenly turned around and walked towards the northern jungle, never looking back.
Lin Si stared blankly at their distant backs, and it wasn't until Mu Zheping spoke up that he woke up.
"Hey, don't be in a daze, hurry up, or they'll die in vain!"
"Did you say that on purpose, right?" Lin Si was not a person who dragged mud and water, and quickly turned around and ran towards the south, while asking softly to Mu Zheping in front of him.
"It doesn't matter if it's intentional or not!" Mu Zhe replied indifferently, "The important thing is that we have a chance to survive and not all of them die, and they also have a chance to complete the mission of sending back information!"
"Is that ......" Lin Si was silent. xh118