Chapter Forty-Eight: The Second Ambush
Tonight there is no wind and dark fire, and January is like washing, which is a rare good weather in the desert, and it also makes the boundless desert even more desolate.
Du Wenlin and the gold-clothed man, two peerless masters, both held daggers, simple weapons, and attacked each other with simple moves but incredibly fast.
In the face of such speed, any move seems redundant.
The man in gold was in his forties, his face was pale and thin, and his two deep eyes shone like eagle's eyes.
From the beginning of the fight to the present, he didn't say a word, just attacked desperately, and a new wave started immediately before he fell, and it seemed that he would never have enough strength.
Among the masters that Du Wenlin encountered, Wei Dongqing was relatively difficult, but compared to the gold-clothed man in front of him, Wei Dongqing's skills were inferior.
Concentrate all your energy on lightning attacks, which consumes great physical strength, and after a long time, you will be exhausted, and your physical strength will gradually become exhausted.
Du Wenlin felt like this now, his forehead had begun to sweat, and his wheezing was much heavier.
However, the man in gold did not show any fatigue, and the speed of the attack did not decrease in the slightest.
The more Du Wenlin fights, the colder his heart becomes: How many masters are there in the rivers and lakes? How high can their force be? Maybe it's always an unknown mystery.
Wang Ling and Rong'er fought against the two yellow-clothed men and had the upper hand.
The two girls were like cats and mice, and two sharp swords encircled them in silver light.
The two yellow-clothed men tried to fly out of the circle several times, but they were forced back to their places by Jian Guangsheng.
What they have practiced since childhood is surprise killing, and they are almost invincible.
Tonight's endless confrontation is not their forte.
Faced with the sword net woven by two sharp swords, the dagger in his hand had little room to fight back.
There is no hope of victory, but the training I received since childhood is to win or die, there is no second way.
Being teased by two girls like this made them feel that life was worse than death.
One of them suddenly let out a terrible howl, like a wolf howling in the middle of a desert night.
Both of them lunged at the sword net at the same time, trying to pierce the barrier and get out of the trap.
It's just that they themselves know that the hope of success is very slim.
Two silver swords strangled them in an instant, and two bloody bodies fell to the ground.
Wang Ling forgot to glance at the corpse on the ground, sighed lightly, and ran towards the battlefield on the other side.
The bloody corpse instantly stained the sand on the ground reddish-brown.
One of them's eyelids had been slashed by the sword qi, and two eyeballs protruded from their sockets, staring at the cold sky with emptiness.
Rong'er looked at them with compassion in her heart.
Scenes of parents being brutally murdered by thieves often appear in dreams, and when they wake up, they often burst into tears, vowing to avenge them when they grow up. But I didn't expect that killing people would be so difficult, and its bloodiness would make me suffer in my heart for a long time.
Because of Wang Ling's joining, the game between Du Wenlin and the Jinyi people immediately changed.
Wang Ling's fast sword speed and skilled Huashan swordsmanship made the Jinyi man feel pressured.
Du Wenlin went from a hard defense to a counteroffensive, and his spirits were greatly lifted.
Wang Ling's sword danced into a ball of silver light, blocking the attack of the golden-clothed man, and Du Wenlin took the opportunity to quickly attack, and the trick could not leave the gold-clothed man's vital point.
The gold-clothed man began to hurry, resisting Du Wenlin's continuous attacks, while constantly retreating, and was already at the end of a strong crossbow.
Du Wenlin suddenly shouted, Wang Ling's body spun violently, and the sword changed from defense to attack, stabbing straight at the vest of the golden-clothed man.
The gold-clothed man suddenly felt that the sword aura behind him was pressing, and he wanted to turn around and fight back, but Du Wenlin's dagger had already attacked his chest.
In the crisis, regardless of the threat of the sword behind him, the dagger in his hand stabbed straight at Du Wenlin's chest.
Seeing that the other party didn't care about life and death, and wanted to die with him, Du Wenlin reacted instinctively, and the offensive paused slightly.
The golden-clothed man kicked his feet on the ground and floated diagonally to the front right in an incredible way. Even if the speed of escape was extremely fast, the golden clothes behind him were still cut by Wang Ling's sword, deep into the flesh, and the blood immediately stained the back red.
Without a moment's pause, he turned and flew towards the dunes, where several take-offs had disappeared behind them.
Wang Ling wanted to pursue, but was stopped by Du Wenlin.
Rong'er walked over with a short sword, her face pale.
Du Wenlin looked at the bloody corpse not far away, and understood the shock in the heart of a teenage girl facing such a bloody scene.
Reaching out and gently stroking her head, he said with a smile:
"You two are really my lucky stars, if you come a little later, you will have to collect my body."
I wanted to ease the tension, but who knew that his words made people feel even more tragic and desolate.
Everyone couldn't help but look at the yellow-clothed people lying on the bleak desert, who of them was not born to their parents, and who would come to collect their bodies tomorrow?
"Why are you here?" Du Wenlin asked.
"Hmph, are we here to get in your way?" Wang Ling looked unhappy.
"In the evening, seeing you packing up, I guessed that you might be leaving tonight, so we kept an eye on your tent, and when you left, we followed after you." Rong'er explained.
"I have an important mission to go to Ningxia City, and it is probably not convenient for you to follow." Du Wenlin scratched his head.
"What's inconvenient, is it possible to go on a blind date for fear of us being an eyesore?" Wang Ling's eyes widened.
"It's always not appropriate for me to go on a mission with two big girls, right?"
"Brother Wenlin, don't worry. Tomorrow we will find a place where there are people, and we will spend money to buy two sets of men's clothes, won't we? "Don't look at Rong'er's young age, she has a lot of eyes.
Du Wenlin thought about it, and that was the only way.
In the moonlight, two horses kicked up dust and galloped away in a northwesterly direction.
Just after dawn, they came to a small town.
It is said to be a small town, but the scale is actually similar to that of the villages in the Central Plains, with a total of less than 200 households. The official road runs through the town, and there are several shops on both sides of the street.
There was a small hotel in the middle of the town, Du Wenlin looked at the two girls, ran all night, their dusty faces were full of tiredness, and they felt pity in their hearts, so they decided to stay in this small hotel and rest for a long time.
The owner of the hotel is a middle-aged couple, the man is stupid, cleaning and cooking and stir-frying, and the proprietress is quite decent and welcomes guests in the hall.
This is a Muslim area, so almost all the dishes are beef and mutton.
Du Wenlin asked for a pot of mutton soup and a large plate of braised beef.
Eating hot baked cakes that had just come out of the oven early in the morning and drinking mutton soup, the two girls were very happy.
"It's the best meal I've had in recent times." Rong'er said with a smile.
The meals in the barracks are relatively simple, and almost every meal is potato soup on flatbread, which makes people tired of looking at potatoes.
"Listening to the voices of a few guest officers, it seems to be from Kannai, right?" The proprietress asked with a smile as she leaned on the counter.
"Hmm." Du Wenlin bowed his head and answered.
"Where are you going?"
"Ningxia City."
"Since you have come from the south, don't you know that the imperial army is going to attack Ningxia City recently? It's not safe to run around." The proprietress said with concern.
Du Wenlin hummed again, which was a response.
When the meal was almost finished, the boss brought a pot of tea:
"After drinking the mutton soup and drinking a pot of our home-brewed milk tea, the heating of the mutton will go all over the body."
The aroma of milk tea is indeed very strong, sweet and delicious.
A pot of milk tea was drunk in a blink of an eye, maybe the tea was too strong, or because after running all night, the three of them suddenly felt sleepy, their eyes were foggy, and they fell asleep on the table.
The proprietress came over and pulled the shoulders of the three of them:
"Wake up, the guest officer will catch a cold if you sleep like this."
The three of them were drowsy, and no one responded.
"Alright." The proprietress turned her head and shouted into the kitchen inside.
The boss walked out with a kitchen knife:
"Tie them up first and take them to the back hall, and wait for the boy to deal with them."
The proprietress took out a bundle of hemp rope from the counter, and tied Wang Ling up first.
Then he went to tie Du Wenlin again, and just put the rope on Du Wenlin's back, Du Wenlin, who was lying on the table and was sleeping, suddenly stretched out his right arm, grabbed the proprietress's thin waist and pressed her upper body on the table.
The proprietress was caught off guard, and her pretty face slammed on the table, and she screamed in pain.
The boss, who was on guard with a kitchen knife, was stunned by this sudden incident, and immediately reacted again, raised the kitchen knife and slashed down at Du Wenlin, who had not raised his head from the table.
Perennial chopping has cultivated extremely fast knife speed and strong arm strength, and he is already standing at the table, such a knife, even a cow leg bone will be broken by the knife.
Seeing that the knife had fallen to Du Wenlin's back, the knife could no longer be cut.
Du Wenlin's head hadn't been raised yet, but his left hand suddenly stretched out, just grabbing the boss's wrist, not only could the kitchen knife not be cut, but the wrist holding the knife was also clamped as if it was clamped by a red-hot iron tongs, and the pain in the heart instantly spread throughout the body.
Du Wenlin stood up slowly, and pressed the boss and his wife on the table with both hands.
The proprietress knew that the plot had failed completely, and begged:
"Childe spare his life, we know it's wrong!"
The boss bared his teeth in pain, and he was obviously grabbed by one wrist, but his whole body couldn't move.
Du Wenlin suddenly flipped his wrist, flipped up his left palm, and slashed at the back of the boss's head.
With a muffled grunt, it slid limply under the table and passed out.
The proprietress exclaimed, and Du Wenlin said coldly:
"Don't worry, you can't die for the time being. But if you can't be honest, it's hard to say after a long time. ”
"Childe, what do you want to ask?" The face of the proprietress lying on the table was a little distorted, and she no longer had the charm she had just now.
"Who drugged you to kill us?"
"In the middle of the night, someone knocked on the door and gave us ten taels of silver and sweat medicine, saying that if the three of you come to sharpen it, it will overturn you."
"Really? Is it really that simple? ”
"That's all, indeed. We are well-behaved businessmen, and we have offended you by being obsessed with money for a while, so please spare us regardless of the villain! The proprietress wept bitterly, and her nose and tears flowed down the table.
Du Wenlin grabbed her vest and slammed it on the table, her forehead instantly turning blue-purple.
A pig-killing howl, crying incessantly.
Du Wenlin grabbed her hand in the vest and slowly pulled it up, and the proprietress cried anxiously:
"I said, I said it all."
"If you want to save both of you's lives, don't lie!"
"Good. Our husband and wife are obviously doing business here, but they are actually the eyes of Ningxia City, under the command of Gongzi Biyun. ”
"How did he explain it to you?"
"As I just said, someone came to inform us in the middle of the night that if you come to dinner, we will be blinded by you, and these are true."
"And then?"
"Then wait for the boy to deal with it."
Du Wenlin also thought that after the "Desert Zerg" missed last night, the other party set up a second ambush here.
"You've got the medicine for these two girls right away."
"Okay, the antidote is relatively simple, get some cold water and spray it and wake up."
Got cold water, sprayed it a few times in the face, the two of them sneezed, and woke up leisurely.
When he opened his eyes and saw what was in front of him, he seemed to understand that he was plotted.
"Were we drugged just now?" Wang Ling pointed to the proprietress and asked.
Du Wenlin nodded.
Wang Ling pulled the proprietress and pulled it with a big mouth.
The proprietress let out a heart-rending howl, and blood flowed from her nose and mouth.
Du Wenlin stopped Wang Ling and asked the proprietress :
"When will they arrive?"
"The people who came said that you should arrive in town early in the morning, and if you are overturned, you will be dealt with."
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything more, Du Wenlin tied them up, stuffed their mouths with rags, and threw them into the courtyard behind.