Chapter 40: The Woods Under Attack
"Brother Wu! I'll leave it to you, I'll take care of the wound! After catching a glimpse of Zhang Wu coming over, Ding Li slowly took two steps back, turned around and stuck the short dagger at his waist, and searched the weeds on the ground. Survival in the wild is no stranger to Ding Li, and it is relatively easy to find some common pain-relieving and disinfecting herbs.
"Cao You! Didn't expect that, right? Today, I'll take your head to see the second master! Zhang Wu took heavy and powerful steps, the five fingers holding the war knife tightened again, his face was as cold as frost, and he slowly lifted the war knife.
"Zhang Wu, don't be too arrogant! Don't think that if you kill a few of my men, you'll be invincible! Cao You and Zhang Wu can be said to be old acquaintances, and they also know each other's strength very well, and they are not worried that they will be planted in each other's hands, but Cao You's eyes glanced at Ding Li, who was sitting under a tree and chewing herbs, intentionally or unintentionally, and added pointedly: "If I want to leave, you alone can't stop me!" ”
"Whether you can stop it, you can only know if you try it!" Zhang Wu replied coldly and didn't say more, he took a step forward, his whole body moved, and the blood-stained war knife in his hand drew a strange red light in mid-air.
"Good time!" Seeing this, Cao You shouted loudly and raised his knife to meet him, the momentum of the whole person was not weaker than Zhang Wu, and relatively speaking, although Cao You was in a crisis at this moment, he was much calmer than Zhang Wu.
"Scandium!"
The two knives collided hard, but Zhang Wu took the lead in flashing the knives in his hand backwards, but the whole person squeezed forward, slammed his left elbow away, and smashed towards Cao You's side face.
Originally, Cao You felt that there was no resistance under the knife and was slightly surprised, but suddenly realized that there was something strange in it, and hurriedly withdrew the knife as well, but the whole person was the opposite of Zhang Wu, and the steps under his feet retreated again and again, and at the same time, he was relieved in his heart, Zhang Wu's elbow hit almost wiped his nose, and even felt a hot friction at the tip of his nose.
With a miss, Zhang Wu stopped his left arm in time, and then twisted his waist, and the war knife that had just been withdrawn was chopped out by his backhand, but was parried by Cao You's easy horizontal knife. Closely, Zhang Wu kicked out a kick, but was easily dodged by the opponent's sideways, and at the same time, Cao You's withdrawn war knife was finally brought into play, and a tricky and weird counterattack stabbed Zhang Wu in the right rib.
Zhang Wu, who was supposed to retreat or dodge, made a move that exceeded Cao You's expectations, and did not dodge at all, allowing the opponent's knife to cut in his ribs, while Zhang Wu snorted, grabbed the back of the opponent's knife, endured the pain, and swung the Tang knife in his hand towards the other party.
"Huh?!" Cao You didn't expect his counterattack to hurt Zhang Wu, and when he felt that the war knife in his hand was in the flesh, Cao You's heart floated a sense of ominousness, and in a blink of an eye, the bloody Tang knife in Zhang Wu's hand appeared in front of him, and he was immediately frightened and exclaimed, wanting to retreat, but the war knife was firmly grasped by Zhang Wu with one hand, and in a hurry, Cao You, who had no time to retreat, had to raise his left arm to block the Tang knife that was about to cut off his neck.
"So ruthless?! It's too hard. Ding Li, who had just reapplied herbs to the wound on the side, was also stunned by the scene in front of him, especially when he saw the wound under Zhang Wu's ribs that was constantly oozing blood, Ding Li tightened the strip of cloth tied to his waist, spit out a few more mouthfuls of herbal crumbs in his mouth, and stood up with a Tang knife.
"Cao You! This knife is to pay you back for the second master! "The knife just now, because the distance between the two sides was too close, and the wound under Zhang Wu's ribs also drained a lot of strength, so Cao You was not too seriously injured, but the entire left arm was temporarily wasted, and Zhang Wu just frowned, didn't even look at his injury, snorted at Cao You with a cold face, and then swung the knife again and rushed forward.
"Fuck! What a mad dog! Cao You gritted his teeth, took two steps back, and smacked to the side, after listening to Zhang Wu's words, he said that he was very puzzled by the other party's approach, but in the face of the menacing Zhang Wu, Cao You had to meet it again.
In just a few rounds, Cao You, who was injured in one arm, was not enough to resist Zhang Wu who was holding a knife in both hands, especially Zhang Wu's strength, which simply increased with the number of attacks, completely like drinking chicken blood, each time it was more powerful and swift.
The injured Cao You felt more and more lacking in physical strength, and inadvertently, Zhang Wufei, who had taken advantage of the loophole, kicked him in the chest, and when he retreated again and again, Zhang Wu, who was in hot pursuit, slashed out again.
"Scandium!"
In a hurry, Cao You could only try his best to raise the knife to block, but he was shocked by this extremely powerful knife and staggered back, and without a few steps, he fell to the ground on his back, but Cao You still endured the severe pain of the wound, rolled on the ground a few times, and then stabilized his body next to a big tree, hiding half of his body behind the tree, gasping for breath, and there was a trace of panic in his surprised eyes.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Zhang Wu was gasping for breath and continued to carry his knife towards Cao You, the silence in the woods was pierced by a piercing whistling, and the scorching midday sun reflected the cold light of the dark arrow under the omission of the dense leaves.
"Brother Wu be careful!" Ding Li suddenly exclaimed, but the whole person dodged and hid behind a big tree, his eyes were sharp, and his expression carefully swept as far as his eyes could see, but Zhang Wu's muffled snort had already reached his ears.
"Brother Wu! What do you think? Where did it hurt? Ding Li frowned, his face was already a little worried, but in his eyes, he was more cautious, after all, there were killers who attacked secretly.
"No problem! Didn't hurt the bones! Zhang Wu, who was kneeling on one knee, gritted his teeth and looked at a blood-stained iron crossbow arrow that fell at his feet, and then lowered his eyes to look at the wound, there was a penetrating wound on the calf, although it was not fatal, but the pain was unbearable, and the bleeding wound was gradually draining the strength in his body, and in a short moment, Zhang Wu already felt a little dizzy, which was a precursor to excessive blood loss.
"Not good!" Ding Li, who had been hiding behind the tree and observing the surroundings, was suddenly startled, and at the same time seemed to hear the sound of a short crossbow hidden in the dark, and suddenly, Ding Li jumped out of hiding like a cheetah, and at the same time pounced a few meters away, his body rolled, and his left hand picked up a short crossbow brought by a dead man in black, and at the same time, his eyes turned rapidly, and the whole person jumped forward again, carrying a knife and pounced on Zhang Wu's location.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Ding!"
Two crossbow strings rebounded in succession, and then the Tang knife in Ding Li's hand was quickly swung out, and a blue light and faint crossbow arrow fell in response. At the same time, Ding Li did not hesitate at all, and rushed out in the direction where he had launched the short crossbow just now, and threw a word of advice to Zhang Wu behind him: "Brother Wu, take care of yourself!" ”
"Brother Li, be careful! I can do it! You must know that if it weren't for Ding Li's timely action, the crossbow arrow just now would probably be inserted in Zhang Wu's throat, at this moment Zhang Wu didn't dare to have any carelessness, stood up with a knife and endured the leg injury, let go of all the perceptions of his ears and eyes, and carefully watched out for everything around him, and at the same time he also needed to be wary of Cao You, who might launch a counterattack at any time.
"Zhang Wu, you just. . . Oops! Cao You knew that it was his companion who was secretly helping just now, especially after seeing Zhang Wu injured again, he felt that the injury on his arm was no longer so serious, and even the pain had decreased a lot, but when he just stood up from behind the tree, there was a sudden sharp pain under his ribs, and the edge of a short dagger was completely submerged in his body, and he immediately screamed in pain, leaned back against the tree, stared at the eyes burning with two clouds of anger, and slowly moved with Ding Li, who was moving in the woods on the side. The teeth creaked even more.
"Huh?" On a tree dozens of meters away, a black-clothed man with a black face and the same outfit as Cao You looked coldly at Ding Li running around on the ground, not understanding what Ding Li was doing at all, but he was extremely vigilant in his heart, because on the trunk of his face, a fine iron crossbow arrow had been submerged more than half, even if there was still an inch away, the man in black could still feel the cold air coming from the crossbow arrow.
Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit. Such a sentence suddenly appeared in the mind of the man in black, Ding Li in his eyes, from the initial hiding next to the tree to bandage the wound without being noticed by the man in black, to now the man in black has to focus his whole body's attention on Ding Li, this subconscious change makes the people in black can't help but feel a sense of worry, this feeling is a little stronger than Zhang Mingzhi who attacked the restaurant in Fuxu Town that day.
In just a few tens of seconds, Ding Li, who didn't have the slightest indication of any intentions, seemed to be running aimlessly, and when a ray of bright sun fell into the forest through the dense leaves, a dazzling light flashed in Ding Li's hand, although it was fleeting, it made the people in black suddenly startled.
In the next second, Ding Li's figure turned suddenly, and at the same time, the rewound short crossbow in his hand was raised, and the front end of the short crossbow, an arrow emitting a faint cold light, pointed directly at the black-clothed man in the tree.
"Boom!"
Without the slightest hesitation, although he had not undergone special training, the operation of the short crossbow was extremely simple, and for Ding Li, who had extremely high military talent, even if he was not skilled, he could still be trusted to do it.
"Huh?!"
Looking at the cold light that went straight to him, and even felt the coldness of the crossbow arrow entering his body, the man in black shook his body violently, kicked the tree trunk under his feet, and flew out obliquely, at this moment he realized that Ding Li just now was just deliberately diverting his attention, and at the same time secretly winding the short crossbow.
"Boom!"
The black-clothed man in mid-air also raised his arm without hesitation and aimed the short crossbow in his hand at Ding Li, pulled the trigger with his fingers, and then twisted his waist, and a shiny scimitar in his right hand slashed heavily on the thick tree trunk, unloading most of the falling force and falling steadily to the ground.
In the process of running forward, Ding Li deliberately flashed left and right, and after the sound of crossbow strings sounded in his ears, he threw himself to the side, and his whole body hit a big tree. The body was not stable, but he had already lifted his clothes, pulled out a cold crossbow arrow from his waist, and in a skillful movement that seemed to have been done countless times, he stuck the crossbow arrow into the crossbow groove, wound it, and once again held the Tang knife beside him
Leaning on the trunk of the tree behind him, he tilted his head slightly and closed his eyes, took a deep breath, jumped up suddenly, turned around the trunk where he was hiding, and raised the short crossbow in his hand again.