Chapter 32: Ambush
Black Rock City seemed to be exceptionally quiet tonight, with the courtyards of the houses on both sides of the streets and alleys shrouded in hazy night, and the owners of the houses were already lying on their own or someone else's beds.
The night was like a wash, the stars were twinkling, the soft moonlight was sprinkled in the sky, and the black rock avenue in the middle of the city, which connected the north and south gates, reflected a faint green glow in the moonlight.
In a deep alley leading to Black Rock Avenue, with a creaking sound of the door opening, a carriage slowly drove out under the escort of dozens of black-clothed riders.
The carriage had a peculiar shape, with twice as many wheels as a third smaller than the usual four-wheeled carriage, a slender bronze carriage closed on both sides without windows, and no decorative roof on it, bare like a coffin.
The carriage was not big, but it was extremely heavy, which could be seen from the four black horses covered in horse armor that pulled it, if someone approached the carriage, they would find that there were constantly faint streamers flashing on the wheels and rotating wheels, and if that person was a soldier of Great Xia, he would definitely be able to call out its name at the moment he saw these streamers - Qingxuan Chariot.
Yes, this extremely bulky-looking carriage is not an ordinary chariot, but the Qingxuan Chariot, a war-killing weapon in the famous continent of the Great Xia Kingdom!
It's just that at this time, it was not the Great Xia soldiers who were driving, but a guard leader of the Xue Mansion, and it was not the commander of the three armies who was strategizing in the carriage, but Xue Sanliang and his two cronies.
The chariot moved forward quickly under the pull of four war horses, like a fierce beast hunting in the night, and the aura emanated from the runes on the chariot was even more like a sword, marking a chill in the calm night.
Thirty heavily armed black-clad horsemen in front of and behind the chariot were at a distance of about fifty meters, and as soon as they left the city gates, they sped up and rushed into the desert farther north, where the sound of horses' hooves could only be heard in the air.
There is only one official road out of the north of the city, which was built by Ge Tianbing when he proposed "to get rich and not to shed blood". At this time, on this road, you can see several still warm corpses lying upside down every few miles, and the Qingxuan chariot actually ran straight over the corpse, and the speed did not decrease at all, feeling the vibration and slight bone cracking sound from the chariot under him, and the faces of the three people in the carriage showed a cruel and smug sneer.
The chariot sped through the wilderness, and the silence of Black Rock was soon left behind in the distant night.
"Stop!"
At a fork in the road, Xue Sanliang suddenly shouted, and the chariot continued to rush forward for dozens of meters before coming to a steady stop, and the four horses stood silently, making a heavy snort.
Xue Sanliang pulled open the heavy door panel in front of him, got out of the carriage, and looked at the fork in the northeast under the moonlight in front of him, his eyes revealing a fanatical and fierce light.
"You should do it over there, right?"
"Almost. Du Dafu replied respectfully in the back compartment, "According to the time, Muyang should have turned into a pile of meat puree by now." ”
Xue Sanliang sneered twice, and said with some regret: "If it weren't for the fact that the Seven Volumes of Tianyan were too important, how could the opportunity to kill Muyang fall into the hands of those mongrel thieves, I hope they won't let me down." If Mu Yang didn't die, with his talent in star armor, sooner or later he would bring a lot of trouble to our clan. ”
"This kind of little person, how can it be worthy of an adult to go out in person? "Tianyan Seven Volumes" has arrived, my lord, let's go quickly. Sun Cripple shouted in the carriage.
"Let's go. ”
Xue Sanliang returned to the carriage, and the Qingxuan chariot turned around and drove towards the fork in the northwest direction, and after a while, it mentioned a faster speed than before.
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Muyang crouched on a sand dune covered with giant pillar cacti.
The giant pillar cactus is a special plant in the desert north of Black Rock City, which can grow up to five or six meters high, and the short one is about two meters, and the needles and branches all over the pillar body are enough to hide the figure of Mu Yang and others.
There was also a small but huge black shadow next to Mu Yang, which was covered with a black drape, blocking some bright moonlight.
"Mu Gongzi, it's half of the night, why hasn't the surnamed Xue come yet, will he change his route?" Qi Hu asked excitedly, holding the battle knife in his arms.
"Come on, don't worry, it'll come. ”
Mu Yang said lightly, raising his hand and making a few gestures into the distance.
On the other side of Muyang's ambush point, Ge Tianbing and Feng Sanniang waited quietly with seventy Black Rock City soldiers with helmets and armor, they knelt on one knee, and all the weapons and shields in their hands were put down at their sides, so as not to be leaked by the light reflected by the moonlight.
Less than a hundred meters ahead of the sand dunes where Muyang is located, there are nearly a hundred figures in various colors lurking, and they can't help but exude some bloody breath, this is the hunting team and mercenaries hired by Muyang from outside the city, they usually live a life of licking blood from the knife edge, this kind of ambush and murder in the dark night is familiar with it.
The crescent moon had risen to the middle of the heavens, and just when everyone was waiting a little anxiously, the earth suddenly shook slightly, and then a group of black shadows appeared on the sand road in the distance.
"It's coming!" Qi Hu excitedly grasped the hilt of the knife, looked at the horse team in the distance and said in surprise: "Why is it so fast? ”
"They wrapped cotton cloth around the horses' hooves. ”
Mu Yang narrowed his eyes, his gaze fell on the rapidly approaching horse team in the moonlight, and his thin lips pursed into a line, but when he saw the galloping chariot in the middle of the horse team, his face suddenly changed, and the palm holding on the giant pillar cactus couldn't help but tighten, and his five fingers were deeply buckled.
"Damn, how could it be the Qingxuan Chariot!" Mu Yang almost screamed.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves reached his ears.
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There was silence in the carriage of the chariot.
The three people sitting inside leaned on comfortable backrests, each thinking about their own thoughts.
Suddenly, Xue Sanliang, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, suddenly opened his eyes, and a cold murderous aura instantly filled the entire carriage.
"What's the matter, boss?" Du Dafu, who was sitting beside him, looked at Xue Sanliang in surprise, and Sun Cripple next to him also straightened up in surprise.
"Something seems wrong. Xue Sanliang looked at Sun Cripple, "Do you feel it?"
Sun Cripple was slightly stunned, stood up suddenly, pulled the car door, and a strong wind rushed into the carriage with a moist cold air, he squinted his eyes, and was just about to look around, when a black spot suddenly lit up in mid-air instantly attracted his attention.
"There's an ambush!"
Almost as soon as the black dot fell into Sun's eyes, his piercing screams came out of the front of the carriage, and then, as the open door slammed shut, a dozen sharp arrows shot at the place where he had just stood, making an aggressive metal crashing sound.
"How can there be an enemy attack!"
Xue San's hair was open, and two fierce lights flashed in his deep eyes, staring at Du Dafu like two sharp knives.