After the fire, the grass clippings turned to ash, and after the wind blew, the rock walls on both sides of the hill were steep, leaving traces of scraping, the trunk of the tree was burned, and on the bare branches, hung an emerald grass snake, entrenched in the branches, raised its flat head, calm and indifferent pupils, stared at the group in the middle of the road, the snake's tail hung in the wind and swayed, hissing and spitting letters.

The men in big gray robes squatted and stared silently at the tragic situation on the ground.

Some time has passed since the incident.

The blood had dried up, and only a faint trace of red could be seen, like amber and like red crystals that had been fired and smelted, embedded in the pits in the ground.

At the time of the incident, the carriage moved horizontally, leaving traces of knives on the ground, as if someone had been pushed on the ground inch by inch.

"The iron chain smashed into the pit on the ground, and there were some blood stains...... One person slowly stretched out his palm, stroking the ground under his feet, and he said softly: "The person who robbed the third highness of the goods....... The swordsmanship is very good, a sword smashed the iron chain of the bolted car, the chain is cast iron, the royal family will not use these inferior chains, and there is a group of people, it should be local horse thieves, they dare to rob this batch of goods, behind it must be the second prince of the east. ”

"The 'hand' stretched out by the second prince was cut off by this sword, and the iron chain is the best evidence. The gray-robed man stood up, licked his fingers, and said, "There is a third party to intercept the goods, and the cultivation is not high, but the sword weapon is very sharp, and the horse thieves are not his opponents, where did these horse thieves go?"

The others looked at each other, not knowing how to respond.

The gray-robed man led by him couldn't see his expression clearly, he turned his head, and not far away, streamers flew by, and someone stepped on the hanging sword, and said with a gloomy face: "Old Man Song is dead." ”

"Song Qiong is a cultivator of the tenth realm, and the second prince will cross the eastern and western realms at any cost in order to intercept a batch of goods, and let the people above the ten realms make a move?" ”

The man who stepped on the hanging sword did not look very good, he was the group of people who chased and killed Xu Zang in Qingbai City, from Xiao Wuliang Mountain.

"His Royal Highness will soon arrive in the western realm, this batch of goods is lost, the purpose of the second prince has been achieved, he doesn't care whose hands it falls into, but our face is lost. The gray-robed man said calmly: "We are standing in front of and behind His Highness, and we can't even do this thing...... Sword Lake Palace and Little Wuliang Mountain, how should they deal with themselves in the future?"

"Su Ku, this is the boundary of Shushan Mountain, and it is not easy to cause trouble. The man who stepped on the hanging sword took a breath lightly, in terms of seniority, he was only half a head lower than Su Ku, and between them, they were all law enforcement elders of Xiao Wuliang Mountain and Jianhu Palace;

"The thousand hands of Shushan are very powerful, the blind man is very powerful, and the gambling stick is okay. Su Ku gathered the big gray robe, his voice was extremely flat, and said, "Apart from the three of them, who else is there in Shushan?"

On Shu Mountain, there were only three cultivators who had broken through the tenth realm.

The little Wuliang Mountain Elder who stepped on the hanging sword frowned, and shook his head slightly, he knew that Su Ku had just broken through the tenth realm and arrived at Shu Mountain, and there was no one in his eyes, so he reminded him: "Su Ku, you and I are both doing things for the Third Highness, this trip is not to offend Shu Mountain, but to win over the confluence." ”

"What a confluence, who is it to woo, Shushan?" The gray-robed man was followed by a bunch of huddles, he raised his eyebrows, looked at the man who stepped on the sword, put his hands behind his back, and asked: "There are not enough people in your little Wuliang Mountain who were killed by Xu Zang?

The little Wuliang Mountain Law Enforcement Elder named Zheng Qi had a flushed face, his big sleeves swayed, his hanging sword trembled back and forth, and all the children behind him raised their eyebrows, looking at each other angrily, all of them were so angry that they couldn't say the last word.

Su Ku sneered and ignored it.

He walked along a whole road, looking for breath, followed by two groups of people, and there was a faint atmosphere of sabre-rattling.

The grass snake hanging on the trunk of the tree turned its head no longer to look, snapped, fell to the ground, and flowed along the rocks, dragging out a long gray line of traces.

......

......

"There was also a fight here, which was even more intense and fast than the previous ones. ”

In front of the two huge dead trees, Su Ku stopped, he stared at an iron arrow inserted in the trunk of the tree, spiraling into the body of the tree, the sawdust had already been wiped out, the main trunk of the big tree, most of it was burned by the flames, he slowly reached out, held the middle of the iron arrow, felt the cold temperature, the starlight slowly overflowed, wrapped around his wrist.

Su Ku closed his eyes, and he seemed to see the scene of that night.

The gray-robed man moved his head, closed his eyes as if he were in the dark, and aimed his "gaze" at a small mountain, far away.

He was able to "see" that someone was on that mountain, standing with arrows, confronting each other, shooting down.

On that hill, many men and horses accompanied the shooting of arrow feathers, drew their knives, and the tide rushed out, and the target was these two trees....... No, there was only one tree, and the previous one had been pierced by a quenched arrow, and it had burned to the ground.

Is there a man hiding behind a tree?

Su Ku slowly opened his eyes, he stared at the traces of rebellion on the ground, under the starry gaze of his eyes, a little bloodstain, even after forty days of drying, it was still eye-catching and obvious, there were arrows shooting, from that hill, a total of four arrows, five arrows, it didn't matter...... The important thing is that Su Ku saw two arrows that were extremely far apart.

was split by a sword, and the body of the arrow shot out at high speed, still cut by the sword, this technique is the same as the person who intercepted the goods...... Su Ku's face was expressionless, he raised his eyebrows slightly, the person at the time of interception, the sword posture used was to jump high and then cut down, unable to judge the shape, now this sword is from the bottom up, the starlight rolled in his mind, got up and swept over, a scene of swinging a sword and slashing arrows, slowly emerged in Su Ku's pupils, condensed and formed.

This is a teenager, a teenager who will not be more than sixteen years old, height and form, swirling in Su Ku's mind, when the cultivator breaks through the tenth realm, the power of the star light begins to become strong and comprehensive, the magic method of the Sword Lake Palace can expand the soul sea, so Su Ku's soul sea is extremely strong.

In other words, he has an ability to deduce things that are different from ordinary people.

Su Ku stood in place and thought silently for a long time.

There was no blood on the mountain, and what about the man who shot the arrow? ran away, escaped, and could he still catch it?

Su Ku personally went to the cottage of bandits and horse thieves, and did not kill anyone, but after showing his "cultivation", he easily got the support and obedience of these horse thieves.

The one who tried to steal His Highness's goods was the Money Gang, the largest gang of horse thieves in Fangyuan, and all of them had disappeared...... In fact, Su Ku vaguely guessed that the Money Gang might have died.

In the end, he got a very important message.

Last month, in the month of heavy rain, there was a young man, armed with an invincible umbrella sword, who went on a killing spree on the outskirts of the city, specializing in horse thieves.

Somewhat ironically, the teenager's surname is said to be Lee.

However, the trail was interrupted.

The people and horses of Jianhu Palace and Xiao Wuliang Mountain are inconvenient to exert their strength in the territory of Shu Mountain, and it has become difficult to obtain information, even if Su Ku personally took action, he searched in Grass Valley City for a whole day, and did not find any eligible teenager surnamed Li, all the information did not match, and it did not match.

In Su Ku's heart, the young man who killed people on the outskirts of the city on a rainy day and the figure who intercepted the goods of the three princes have overlapped and united.

The boy was cunning in using a fake name and a fake surname.

Shushan is 3,000 miles in circumference, and there are more than a dozen small cities near here, with a full 200,000 people.

The time for the carriage to arrive was getting closer.

Su Ku was stuck in the last step.

Until the end comes.

......

......

Su Ku greeted His Royal Highness with mixed feelings, Li Bailin did not get off the car, and a thin young man got off the carriage, his temples were a little white, and he looked a little sickly.

The people of Xiao Wuliang Mountain and Sword Lake Palace knew that this was His Highness's teacher.

Xu Qingke listened to Su Ku's words in silence, and it took about half a moment to know the progress of the matter.

"This shipment ...... Actually, it doesn't matter, but the occurrence of this incident is very important. The young man who got out of the car said this, and he said with a flat expression: "This batch of goods can be intercepted by anyone, anyway, we will settle accounts with Li Baijing, but if someone knows that this is our goods, they still dare to intercept it...... Then he deserves to die. As for whether he is surnamed Li or not, the ending is the same. ”

Li Bailin's carriage followed the road that Su Ku had walked, walked again, and finally stopped at the area of the small hill and two dead trees.

Li Bailin closed his eyes and recuperated.

Xu Qingke got out of the car and took a few fine iron arrows handed over by Su Ku, these arrows were either pulled out of the ground or from the trunk of a tree, rusty and bloodstained, he just glanced at them, and then handed them back.

These are important clues.

But these are not the most important clues.

Xu Qingke left for an hour, and when he returned to the carriage again, he was holding a feather arrow in his hand, an ordinary wooden feather arrow, which can be summed up in the arrow basket and is a commonly used arrow weapon for hunters.

Nearly shattered by the iron arrows.

He looked at the third prince, spread his palms, and said calmly: "Things in this world, as long as they happen, then they happen, and there is always a way to find clues." ”

Li Bailin stared at the feather arrow and said softly, "What is the clue?"

"The clue is ...... This feathered arrow. Texture, material, region, inscription, these are enough for us to find the source, and the source of goods means the region, which means a closer truth. Xu Qingke smiled and said, "It's a long process, and we may need to wait for a while." ”

Li Bailin said in a gentle voice: "We still have business. ”

"That's a shame. Xu Qingke smiled, stretched out half of his body from the window, ready to throw the feather arrow, looked at the trees outside that began to retreat, and muttered in his heart: "Count yourself lucky." ”

Then he saw a man standing up slowly in the bushes, extremely embarrassed.

The time of staring staggered, there was only a brief breath.

The man was carrying a red rope in his hand and a copper coin tied to it, covered in blood, miserable and resolute, and his eyes were fixed on him, as if he had already guessed that the carriage of the three princes would pass by here.

Money Gang is the only one who survives.

In these forty days, the second leader of the money gang deeply realized how terrible the will of the big man in the east is, after the failure to intercept the goods, the gangs and forces of all parties, stormy, chasing and killing his last remnant, he has no way out.

The man carried a rope in one hand and hung a copper coin, and the other hand held a dagger, against his throat, he took a deep breath, knowing that this moment was an important moment to decide his fate, so he looked at the carriage and shouted in a hoarse voice: "People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves." I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to survive, and I know something very important...... I just beg the Third Highness to give me a chance!"