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The sunset is shining, and the mountains and forests are evening.

A horse gallops along the winding path of the mountain forest.

"Chu Qingxiao! If you insist on persevering, we will reach Black Tiger City after passing through Taixuan Mountain! ”

Chu Zhaozhao was sweating profusely, and she said this to the young man who was hanging on her back.

But Chu Qingxiao closed his eyes tightly, his face turned pale, and he couldn't respond to her words.

This is Chu Qingxiao's second coma after leaving Wuling City.

As usual for the first time, this time the coma came very suddenly, without the slightest warning.

And compared to the last coma, Chu Qingxiao's condition has obviously deteriorated, his breathing has become difficult, the blood on his face has subsided a lot, and the power of blood in his body seems to be being swallowed by an invisible force, rapidly weakening.

And what is even more troublesome than these is that Chu Zhaozhao's initial plan was to cross the Taixuan Mountain Range in one go today, if it was too late, he would rest overnight in the boundary outside the mountain range, and then set off until dawn.

But when Chu Qingxiao became ill, they had already walked for most of the day.

In the wilderness, there is no village in front of the village, and there is no store in the back.

And Chu Qingxiao's situation obviously can't be dragged on any longer, in desperation, Chu Zhaozhao can only take a risk, take the unconscious Chu Qingxiao through the Taixuan Mountain Range, which is full of bandits, and go to the Black Tiger City on the other side of the mountain range to find Langzhong for Chu Qingxiao.

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The complex topography of the Taixuan Mountains is indeed worthy of its name.

When she came before, she was traveling with the dart masters who traveled here all the year round, and it didn't feel complicated to have them lead the way.

But at this moment, when he took Chu Qingxiao through this place, he realized that it was difficult.

The narrow mountain road was winding, and from time to time she needed to slow down, or even dismount and lead the horses forward. And if you don't go a mile or two, you will encounter several forks in the road, and in the dark sky, it is not easy to identify the right intersection.

Chu Zhaozhao made mistakes in his busyness, so he chose the wrong path twice, once into the cliff mouth, and once to the dead-end road.

This has delayed a lot of time, and Chu Qingxiao's condition has become worse and worse.

Chu Zhaozhao didn't even bother to take a sip of water, pulled the reins tightly, and hurried again.

I don't know if it's because she's too anxious, or because the horses under her crotch are too tired from running all day.

When she reached a pass with dense mountains on both sides, the black horse under her crotch suddenly neighed, and the horse lost its front hooves and fell to its knees.

Chu Zhaozhao on horseback was caught off guard, and his figure was thrown high from the back of the buyer along with Chu Qingxiao.

Chu Zhaozhao didn't have time to react at all, but at the most critical point, he stretched out his hand and hugged Chu Qingxiao's body, turning his body in the air, and turning his back towards the ground.

Boast.

At this moment, her body fell heavily to the ground.

Even if she has cultivation, she still can't help but grin in pain, but fortunately, Chu Qingxiao has her human cushion as a buffer, and there is no big problem.

She pushed Chu Qingxiao's body away and was about to stand up, but she heard a sound of footsteps at this time.

"Boss! It's coming! A rough man's voice rang out, his tone very excited.

"Damn, those guys in the ghost crow village are a little more damn domineering, this Taixuanshan has only a few roads, and he has occupied six roads, leaving us with these few paths, we can only catch some small shrimps, and we have to have a good tone to touch!" Another voice sounded, compared to the former, the owner of this voice was a little hoarse, and there was obviously a bit of resentment in his tone when he spoke.

"It's good to have the goods, if it weren't for the boss to negotiate, we, I'm afraid we wouldn't have starved to death in Taixuan Mountain!" Another man spoke, his voice hoarse, but his tone was much calmer than the first two.

It's a bandit!

Chu Zhaozhao finally came back to her senses, she quickly identified the identity of the other party from the conversation between the comers, and also thought of the horse of her own horse that had just stumbled, I am afraid that these thieves were also hindering it.

Of course, she couldn't care about these at the moment, endured the sharp pain in her back, got up from the ground, and was about to help Chu Qingxiao who fell to the side, thinking about finding an opportunity to escape, but before she could walk in front of Chu Qingxiao, a group of people had already surrounded her.

They had torches and swords in their hands.

The light from the torches did not completely illuminate the dark mountain forest, but made everyone's faces look uncertain, which was a little more eerie and terrifying.

Of course, such an eerie horror is not all due to the atmosphere, but more because of the appearance of the group of bandits in front of them.

Headed by the three.

One is a tall fat man, holding a big knife in his hand, his face full of horizontal meat, the eyeball of his left eye is bulging, like the fat meat walking in the oil pot, the oil bubbles on the surface are raised, and you can vaguely see blood streaks sticking out of the eye sockets, connected with the eyeball.

One was a very thin man of the opposite stature, who was carrying a steel fork and had a large wound at the corner of his mouth that spread from the corner of his mouth to the right cheek of his face. The wound seemed to be rotting, and a faint hint of disgusting thick water could be seen.

And the last one, at first glance, is very normal, with a well-proportioned figure, carrying an ordinary long sword on his back, hidden in a sheath.

But when he raised his head, his whole face was full of as if he had been nailed through the gap by some sharp weapon, densely packed, as if he were some kind of ghost.

The group of people who followed behind them were probably like this, either with huge scars on their faces or with abscesses, and there was hardly a normal person in sight, with the torches of worrying quality in their hands.

The light of the fire danced, illuminating their faces in light and dark, and for a moment it seemed like a hundred ghosts walking at night.

"Huh? Why are there only two people!? The fat man said at this point, his tone disappointed.

"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's meat, and two people are better than no one." The thin man took over the conversation and said, after saying that, he looked at Chu Zhaozhao, and the wound on his face that ran through half of his cheek looked very terrifying as the corners of his mouth opened up.

The notoriety of Taixuan Mountain has already resounded in this twilight state, and with the appearance of this group of people who are not human or ghost, Chu Zhaozhao is a little stunned when he sees it.

"You ...... What are you going to do! She asked, and at the same time stood next to Chu Qingxiao's fallen body, with a vigilant face.

"The girl doesn't have to be afraid, it's true that we are thieves, but we are only for money, as long as the girl cooperates, we will never be embarrassed." The man with the sword spoke at this moment, and his hoarse voice was like the sound of a dead tree trembling as it was shaken by the night wind

It's not that Chu Zhaozhao judges people by their appearance, it's just that the group of guys in front of him really don't look like the kind of people who believe in their words.

She was silent, not responding to the other party, but secretly scanning everyone.

The qi around the three leaders was extremely condensed, and they could faintly feel some faint spiritual power fluctuations.

It was the qi that could only be exuded by the Three Realms Martial Artist Spirit Mansion Realm.

Although Chu Zhaozhao also has the cultivation of the Three Realms, her cultivation of the sword cultivation technique makes her combat power only rely on the long sword to exert her full strength, and her sword ......

She soon realized that she might not be able to accomplish the feat of defeating three on her own, and that was not counting the twenty or so minions who were also armed with swords behind them.

"Are you really just asking for money?" She asked in a deep voice.

"Naturally. If there is a desire to kill for money, when the girl falls to the ground, there will be no chance to get up again. The man with the sword said so, and then his gaze looked past Chu Zhaozhao to Chu Qingxiao, who fell to the ground unconscious behind her: "This friend of the girl looks ill, and if the girl delays any longer, I am afraid that he will miss the chance to live." ”

The man's words hit Chu Zhaozhao's weakness, Chu Zhaozhao frowned, and without hesitating for too long, he took out the money bag in his arms and threw it towards everyone from a distance.

The fat man with the knife caught the money bag and weighed it slightly in his hand, and suddenly his face was dissatisfied: "That's it?" ”

The thin man also squinted his eyes and looked Chu Zhaozhao up and down: "The girl won't be dishonest and hide valuable things, right?" ”

Chu Zhaozhao's heart froze, and he secretly thought that these thieves were going to rebel, and suddenly showed a defensive look: "This is all my belongings, are you going to rebel?" ”

"Whether it's all the belongings, we'll have to search for it." The man with the sword also spoke at this time.

The fat man's face suddenly showed excitement, and the bulging eyeballs seemed to tremble up and down obviously because of the excitement at the moment, and he was about to step forward: "Hehe, I'm doing this body search, let me go!" Make sure to search her clean and naked. ”

Chu Zhaozhao suddenly felt bad, her back was bent, her whole body was tense, and she was ready to fight these bandits for her life at any time.

At this moment, a slender hand stretched out from behind the fat man, and the index and middle fingers were bent, and the back of the hand knocked heavily on the fat man's head.

The fat man covered his head in pain, turned around and looked behind him, and wanted to be angry, but he saw that standing there was a pretty girl with a petite figure and wearing a clean dress that was completely different from that of the bandits.

The anger on the fat man's face instantly turned into a look of grievance at that time, he covered the top of his head with both hands, and said with a sad face: "Boss, why are you beating me?!" ”

The girl looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, with two ponytails and a little baby fat on her cheeks, and looked like a cute porcelain doll.

But at this time, a fierce color appeared on her face that was very different from her appearance, and she stood on tiptoe and grabbed the fat man's ear: "Hit you? It's good that I didn't cut you! ”

"How many times have we said that we are thieves, not thieves! If I want to hear this disgusting words from your mouth again, I will sew up your mouth and let Grandpa Xu weld it to death with the molten iron he used to forge his sword! ”

"You! Listen! See! No!? ”

"Ahh Don't dare, don't dare, boss, I was wrong. The fat man was pulled by the ear and begged for mercy in his mouth.

Seeing this, the group of vicious bandits around them were even more silent, and their cowardly appearance was as if the girl in front of them was a fierce demon god.

Chu Zhaozhao was also a little dumbfounded.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that this well-behaved and cute girl would be the leader of such a group of vicious bandits.

Just when she hesitated, the girl had already packed up and the fat man immediately walked to Chu Zhaozhao, and under Chu Zhaozhao's strange eyes, her hands stretched out and groped on her body for a while.

Chu Zhaozhao reacted only then that this was a body search.

Probably this girl's behavior of cooking the protruding-eyed fat man made Chu Zhaozhao not feel too bad for her, so she didn't resist, but her body was always tense just in case.

Soon the girl withdrew her hand, and muttered regretfully, "There really is nothing else......

Immediately, she looked at Chu Qingxiao who was lying on the ground, and also went down for a while, but still found nothing, but saw a few broken swords in his baggage, the night was too dark, she didn't look closely, just flicked the sword body lightly, probably felt that the color was ordinary, so she put it back with interest.

"There's nothing else, count how much silver is in her purse!" The girl said this, and walked back again.

The fat man didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly took back the hand that was still rubbing his ears that were already red, and then looked down and counted the silver money in his purse.

After a while, he handed over the money bag and said with a flattering face: "Boss, a total of fourteen taels ......."

The girl took the money bag and muttered, "It's a little little." ”

Immediately, she frowned again, and muttered while looking at the money bag: "Fourteen taels, half is four taels ......"

"Ahem, boss, half of fourteen, it's seven." The man with the sword on the side, the muscles of his face full of pits, twitched, and whispered.

"I know!" The girl was stunned when she heard this, and then her eyes widened, and she said angrily: "I mean, half of fourteen taels is four taels plus two taels equals seven taels!" ”

"Boss...... Four plus three equals seventeen ......," the fat man also reminded in a low voice.

The "......" girl's body was obviously stunned.

The entire mountain forest seemed to feel the embarrassment in the air at this moment, and fell silent.

And the next moment, the girl lifted the money bag, her eyes were full of anger, and she beckoned to the fat man's head.

The money bag slammed on the fat man's heavenly spirit cover, and while beating, the girl's mouth was still scolding.

"You're smart, aren't you!?"

"Just know how to count, don't you!?"

The sound of angry scolding and the wailing of the fat man resounded through the mountains and forests, and the surrounding bandits all glanced away in tacit agreement, as if they had long been accustomed to such a scene.

Only Chu Zhaozhao was dumbfounded......

After about a quarter of an hour, the girl seemed to have finally exhausted her anger, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and gave another kick to the fat man who was curled up on the ground.

After doing this, she glanced back at Chu Zhaozhao again, and the money bag in her hand was thrown by her and thrown at Chu Zhaozhao.

Chu Zhaozhao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously took the money bag, the silver in the money bag was still there, but it was about half of the weight.

"The bandits of our Goshawk Village, no matter how much money the guests have, they will only take half of it." The girl seemed to see Chu Zhaozhao's confusion, and said seriously at that time.

"It's like fishing with fishermen, and they'll put the little fish back in the lake."

"Hunters hunt and release young animals for a reason."

"This girl calls it sustainable and exhaustive......"

"Ahh

After saying this, her eyes lit up again, and she said, "So, next time you have to pass by here, remember to walk the road, we are more generous than the bandits on the other roads......

Chu Zhaozhao was the first time in her life that she had met such a childish thief, and she didn't know how to respond to the other party's warm invitation, so she could only ask, "Then can I leave now?" ”

"Of course." The girl snapped her fingers as she spoke, and the bandits behind her suddenly moved out of the way.

Seeing this, Chu Zhaozhao was overjoyed, although this accident made her worry for a while, but the loss of a few taels of silver cleared the trouble, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

She hurriedly put Chu Qingxiao on the back of the horse and was about to leave.

But the thin man on the side suddenly rolled his eyes and said, "Wait! ”

When he had said this, he looked at the girl and said, "Boss, although they have nothing else on them, this horse is worth at least thirty or forty taels of silver in the market, and according to the rules, she will either give us the silver at a discount, or she will have to keep half of it." ”

When these words came out, Chu Zhaozhao's face changed, but the girl nodded: "It makes sense." ”

"Girl, my friend has a sudden serious illness, and urgently needs to rush to the town for treatment, if there is no horse to travel, I am afraid that it will be too late in time, and I hope that the girl will raise her noble hand and be accommodating temporarily, and I will give all the difference in the price of this horse in the future!" Chu Zhaozhao hurriedly spoke.

The girl frowned, looked at Chu Qingxiao who had passed out on horseback, hesitated for a while, and waved her hand reluctantly.

"Forget it, I'll let you go today, but you have to talk and don't make me a laughing stock for my subordinates!" The girl said seriously.

When Chu Zhaozhao heard this, the stone hanging in her heart was immediately put down, and she hurriedly said: "Girl, don't worry, my disciple of Tianhang Mountain will do what he says, and he will never break his word." ”

But as soon as these words came out, the girl who had just moved her heart of compassion suddenly trembled.

Then there was a fierce light in her big black eyes.

She stared at Chu Zhaozhao in a daze, and asked in a cold voice, "...... are you?"

"The people of the Heavenly Hanging Mountain?"