On the official road leading to Qishan Town, two officials escorted a group of prisoners one after the other.

In order to prevent the prisoners from escaping, they were made to wear metal anklets that were connected to each other, and because of this, the speed of their daily movement was extremely slow.

In the process of escorting prisoners, prisoners will have some basic physiological problems, and as escorts, they must be dealt with intensively at a fixed time every day. When dealing with physiological problems, there are too many variables and crises that can arise.

However, in order to deal with these emergencies, and also to deter these prisoners, the laws of the Holy Tree Dynasty clearly stipulate that in the process of escorting, there can be a certain amount of death consumption, and the power to kill these prisoners is completely in the hands of the escort officials.

But there are also some proportions of this death consumption, in a normal escort, it will generally be two or three tenths as the upper limit, if too many deaths, then these officials will definitely be punished.

Therefore, in such a line as an official errand, escorting prisoners is a relatively memorable job.

However, in this escort, these two "officials" are enjoying themselves.

Walking at the end of the escort procession, the older officer saw that there was no one around, so he said to the prisoners:

"You guys did a great job just now! It's not exposed, but it's okay if it's exposed, just let that group of pharmacists join you! However, on the documents we found, the total number of people was indicated, and if someone joined, naturally someone died! ”

The group of prisoners who were escorted did not respond, and slowly moved forward.

The old official did not blame, but still said to himself:

"As long as you help us get through Qishan Town safely, I will let half of you go, and I will do what I say! At the current rate, we still have three days to go! According to what I said before, I let go of one person every day, and I don't know who the lucky one will be today! ”

The group of prisoners obviously reacted to the word lucky, and everyone quickened their pace, hoping to use their positive performance to become the one who was released today.

An hour later, the official road gradually narrowed, and a small forest gradually appeared in front of the team.

The old official shouted:

"Come on, everyone, after this forest, we will choose today's lucky winner!"

The speed of the team increased significantly again, and everyone kept going into the woods at this speed.

But not long after entering the woods, such a neat speed was interrupted by a person.

In the ranks of prisoners, a man in his forties and fifties suddenly convulsed, fainted to the ground, and foamed at the mouth!

The older officer immediately stopped the procession to prevent a possible stampede, and walked over to the man.

This middle-aged man should have been physically weak, and the sudden acceleration caused the onset! It seems that this way of escorting prisoners is really a good way, and these people with underlying diseases can be screened out at once.

Immediately, the elderly official drew a steel knife and cut off the middle-aged man's head with one sword, and then chopped off all his front and back anklets. Then he shouted to the whole team of prisoners:

"You should be glad, glad that there is one less person to compete with you for the qualification of the lucky one. Seeing that it is almost dark, if you can't get out of the forest today, then we won't choose the lucky one today! Everybody's heard! ”

Speaking of this, the elderly official shook the steel knife out of thin air, pointed at the official road with the knife, and continued to say loudly:

"Then we'll continue to go out...!"

When the word "hair" has not yet been spoken.

In the woods, suddenly a cold light flashed!

Shout!

At this time! All the prisoners didn't know what was going on!

Bang dang!

The prisoners turned around en masse, only to hear the older officer at the end of the line fall to the ground.

The position of the official's heart, impartially, just inserted a dagger!

The officer, who was at the head of the prisoners' procession, immediately ran to check, but only saw the corpses of his companions.

"Sneak attack!"

The young official only said two words.

Another dagger flew out!

Right in the chest of this young official!

The two officials died together!

At this time!

In the woods, a masked swordsman in green clothes suddenly appeared. He flew up to the line of prisoners, first confirmed that the two officers were not breathing, and then quickly smashed the prisoners' shackles.

This group of prisoners naturally understood the situation in front of them, but the strange thing was that none of them took the initiative to thank the swordsman in Tsing Yi, but directly dispersed, and in less than half a cup of tea, this group of prisoners all disappeared into the woods.

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, the swordsman in Tsing Yi did not continue to stay, and directly pulled out the daggers on the chests of the two officials, and flew away from here.

This rescue was completed so simply and simply!

Time ticked by.

A cup of tea passed, a stick of incense passed, an hour passed, and the sky slowly darkened.

The two corpses on the ground began to speak!

"Lao Zhao, you said that the swordsman in Tsing Yi should have left just now!"

"It's almost, it's time to get up!"

The two corpses sat up directly from the ground, only to see the two of them pinching a spell at the same time! The fatal wound on the chest of the two slowly began to heal, and in just a moment, even the wound ceased to exist.

"Lao Zhao, who did you say was that Tsing Yi swordsman just now! I didn't even see a figure, I just held my breath and pretended to be dead! The young official asked.

"So, your experience is still too young, I just opened my eyes at the moment of your death and saw that the swordsman's figure is clearly the person who just gave you the tobacco!" The elder replied.

The young official stood up, patted the floating soil on his body, and said helplessly: "Why is the security of this Holy Tree Dynasty so poor!" In broad daylight, on the official road, there are people who plot to kill officials! What is the reason for this! ”

The older official also stood up, but he looked around vigilantly, and after finding that there was no abnormality, he responded: "First of all, you are not an official messenger, and secondly, the swordsman is not Diao Min. Kidnapping prisoners is something that ordinary rangers can't do. That swordsman must have seen some flaws in us! ”

The young official was a little frightened and said, "Could it be that our identity has been discovered by him?" ”

The older officer nodded, and then his gaze stopped on a large tree in the distance. At this time, his face was extremely ugly, but he could only helplessly shout at the big tree:

"That friend behind the tree! I see you, you don't have to hide, it's life or death, let's talk about it! ”

After a few breaths.

Beep!

A shrill whistle suddenly came from the woods, which was supposed to be some kind of signal.

I saw that in different corners of the woods, there were figures appearing.

The elder officer found out that the hiding place of these people turned out to be a siege network centered on them. From the time they pretended to be dead, an hour has passed now, and the discipline of this group of people is so high, it seems that they must not be good at stubble!

...

Rewind time to an hour ago.

In fact, the group of people from the Equality Sect came here a long time ago, and after settling the carriage, Chi Kaisheng immediately initiated a choice, and everyone voted whether to kill the two officials and rescue all the prisoners.

In fact, everyone knows that if this is just an ordinary official mission to escort prisoners, most of the prisoners are guilty people, and Chi Kaisheng will not initiate a choice at all. Although the Church of Equality and the Temple of the Holy Crown are mortal enemies, they are only a battle of beliefs and have nothing to do with the social order.

But Chi Kaisheng, the current leader of the team, initiated a choice, so it proves from the side that Chi Kaisheng believes that there is a problem with these two officials. Everyone's hearts carefully recalled all the details of what had just happened with these two officials.

In the case of making sure that everyone thinks for themselves, everyone voted.

Including Xu Yan, there were a total of nine votes, five in favor, two against, and two abstentions.

Even if the abstention was regarded as an inactive objection, more than half of the votes were cast in favour.

After everyone confirmed the next move, Xu Yan took the initiative to start the analysis, and he believed that the prisoner team just now had two obvious loopholes.

First, the wounds on the prisoners' feet were too new. This kind of walking with ankle chains must be the same wound on the foot that is constantly and repeatedly worn out. This will result in the wound not healing and will slowly begin to suppurate. The wounds on the feet of this group of prisoners were all brand new and did not appear to be suppurating in the slightest.

Second, after the official messenger in charge said Qishan Town, the reaction of the group of prisoners was very strange, and the prisoners who were escorted would be informed of their destination, an act called the last hope of the prisoners. This will allow the prisoner to retain the last vestige of motivation to live, thus ensuring that nothing will happen during the escort process.

Xu Yan boldly judged, he believes that these two officials are...

However, the true identity of the official is not the most important thing, but the more important thing is why they are here!

Everyone expressed their high approval of Xu Yan's analysis!

...

The resurrection of the two officials was completely expected by Xu Yan.

Beep!

Xu Yan heard Chi Kaisheng's whistle, which was a signal for the appearance agreed in advance.

According to the previous plan, the people of the Equality Sect slowly surrounded the two officials.

Seeing that these two officials had no intention of making a move, Chi Kaisheng made a gesture to Xu Yan.

In the previous discussion, since Xu Yan analyzed this suspicious point, most people agreed that Xu Yan would take the initiative to take the other party's information.

So, Xu Yan took the lead in saying to the older official:

"Just now your companion called you - Lao Zhao? So let's call you that! ”

This old Zhao responded calmly:

"Yes! A name is nothing but a code name! In the long river of time, there is no meaning! ”

Can't wait to identify yourself!

So for this old Zhao's such a frank behavior!

Xu Yan didn't have the slightest hypocrisy!

He said directly to the two officials:

"Two Infected! I don't know how you two want to die! ”

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