Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Puppet Attacks

As the saying goes: When the road is uneven, draw a knife to help.

There is a kind of person who never cares how he is doing, he can't help but care when he sees others in trouble, and then he will be covered in mud and bruises, and he will only smile freely, heh, it's really unlucky.

Luo Buyi is this kind of person.

He himself was already injured, coupled with the new injuries he suffered, Luo Buyi was in a coma for a long time, so long that everyone else was safe and sound, and he thanked him, so long that he himself was taken by Duan Lao and Jiuxiang in the snow for two days without the slightest sign of waking up.

Jiuxiang looked back at Luo Buyi, who was dragged behind Ryoma with reins and planks, and after thinking about it, she still took off the fur cloak she had bought from Youshi, turned over and dismounted, and covered Luo Buyi's body, even though he had been tightly wrapped in various blankets.

After she woke up, she already found that Luo Buyi was unconscious, and she blamed herself very much, she was able to walk in the rivers and lakes openly for the first time, which really made her emotions uncontrollable, and after being impulsive, she couldn't help but let go of the wreckage, so that the young master was in that kind of danger.

It's just a tour of the market, just a few of them just run into it, and there is also a yak herd to swagger through the market, especially the snow mountain that has not been avalanche for many years, if it is a coincidence, it is just a coincidence, otherwise it really needs to be investigated, so after she left the tavern, she immediately found a hidden place to release the conversation in a unique way in the dark, so that she could pay attention to the movements of the Snow Castle while looking for the treasure medicine, after all, according to what Duan Lao said to him, the Snow Castle people who appeared in the tavern later must have a problem.

Ryoma's steps were as steady as ever, and his four hooves stepped on the snow leaving only a shallow mark, which was much more clever than Duan Lao's light body exercises, and Luo was not easy to lie down on the plank calmly, and did not suffer too much bumps.

It's just that Luo Buyi, who only showed his head as a veteran general, looked at it in his eyes, not only sighing for his master's temperament of liking to be strong, but also ashamed that his personal servant, who was a prefecture-level master, couldn't help.

So much so that he had the idea of learning some other aspects of spells, and then remembered the sword formation that his master had set up under the avalanche at that time, and couldn't help but yearn for it, maybe he should really learn a sword formation or something.

Jiuxiang got on Ryoma's back again, and tried to move forward, because Ryoma's side was full of gifts from others, and there were two small bags of clothes, dry food, gadgets and the like, if Luo Buyi didn't want to be the young master of the palace that day, then he could barely satisfy him by becoming a small trader.

The three men and the donkey were heading in the direction of Snow Castle as planned, though they were walking at a very slow pace.

Suddenly, a giant eagle flew in the sky, and when its wings fanned, it set off a hurricane and rolled up a field of snow powder, but it did not stop, it turned over and swept into the air, and its talons threw down a token and a piece of oiled paper that fell on the token.

Jiuxiang jumped up from the back of the dragon horse, grabbed the falling object in his hand, and fell down gently.

"It's... "Jiuxiang checked the waist card, and sure enough, he saw that the two sides of the token were engraved with ancient Qin seals, one for the words of the Heavenly General Palace, and one for the words of the personal servant.

The one who can be qualified to serve in the Heavenly General Hall is not the hall master, or the future hall master, and obviously this waist card is for Duan Lao.

It's just that the general affairs side said that Duan Lao still has a situation that has not been resolved, so the waist card cannot be done for a long time. Why do you now let the spirit eagle domesticated in the shadows bring the waist card?

Jiuxiang was confused for a while, and couldn't figure out what was going on, so she hurriedly opened the oil paper and read it word by word, for fear of missing any confidential information.

So after Jiuxiang finally figured out what was going on, she kneaded the oiled paper into a fine powder and sprinkled it in the snow. Turning his head to look at Duan Lao, who pretended not to squint and couldn't bear it anymore, he threw the waist card to him, and at the same time hugged his fists and said, "Duan Lao, please take care of me in the future!"

Duan Lao, who couldn't hold it back for a long time, hurriedly took his own waist card, rubbed it on his body with great preciousness, and asked: "Didn't you say before that you want the old man to figure out the confusion before issuing the waist card? Why have you changed your mind now?"

"The general affairs department said that the young master had encountered accidents one after another, and he deliberately issued waist cards in case of emergency. Jiuxiang explained that her dark identity could not be revealed, so that if something happened and they needed to reveal their identity, they could only use the name of Duan Lao. This is still a special case in the history of the Heavenly General Palace, and I think it is because the elders are worried about the safety of the young master, so they are putting pressure on the general affairs side.

It's just that when will the young master wake up? She has checked the young master's injuries, and there are obvious old injuries on his body, coupled with the constant fighting and consumption along the way, the old injuries seem to have recurred, which is the most serious injury of the young master at present, and it must be the reason why he has been unconscious.

Fortunately, the power of the young master's divine soul seems to be recovering, and the sequelae of forcibly intercepting the avalanche with a sword array last time will gradually improve.

Of course, it would be best if he could persuade the young master to go back to the Heavenly General Palace, but unfortunately, the young master seemed to agree to Fang Yi to solve the change in Xueyingbao for him, and he didn't want the government army to intervene directly, so as not to give the government army a pretext to forcibly interfere in the internal affairs of Bingzhou. This undoubtedly adds a lot of trouble.

This is the main reason why they pretend to be grandchildren as soon as they get close to the sphere of influence of Snow Engburg.

After traveling for dozens of miles, the sky was already half dark, and there was already a shadow of a tribe in the distance, Jiuxiang compared the map, that tribe should be called Leng Feng, and they still had time to go to the igloo to live.

But at this moment, more than a dozen figures suddenly burst out of the snow on both sides of the snow road, each wearing snow-white animal skin, holding a bow and crossbow, and shooting short clusters of arrows at Duan Lao and them.

"Protect the master!"

Duan Lao shouted violently, raised his breath and drew his knife and jumped towards the comer, before the person arrived, the knife qi arrived first, and in an instant, the two figures were split into four sections.

And Jiuxiang's reaction was not unpleasant, and when the figure came out, he subconsciously threw a backflip on Luo Buyi, hugged him in his arms, and rolled a few times on the spot, just avoiding the arrows that hit the plank.

Jiuxiang gasped in fear, took out a few steel needles from the hem of his shirt with his right hand and threw them out, while his right hand felt out of nowhere to protect Luo Buyi with a delicate dagger.

But Jiuxiang's steel needles didn't play a big role, although they hit the thief, they were like a defeat, and they didn't affect his movements in the slightest.

"Duan Lao be careful, these are all puppet people, they are not afraid of pain, they must be cut off!" Jiuxiang reminded her, she has been in the shadows for a long time, and she has dabbled in some secret secrets, and when she saw the performance of the steel needle, she knew that it was a puppet man, and her hands kept moving, and she said: "Five Elements Escape Method, Golden Fire Escape Method, Explosion!"

"Poof"

The two puppeteers who had been hit by the nine-spice steel needle suddenly exploded two big holes, and their rushing footsteps came to an abrupt halt and fell to the ground.

Duan Lao was still wondering why this group of people was so fearless of death, and after cutting off his two arms again, he got Jiuxiang's prompt, only to know that this group of people were all puppets, and he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and shouted coldly: "Sword control technique!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw the dragon knife in Duan Lao's hand flying up and down between Duan Lao's hands like a butterfly, and instantly flew to the two puppets not far away, slashed over their heads in a blink of an eye, and turned back to Duan Lao's hands.

"Pounce" and "pounce" twice, and the puppet's head fell to the snow.

Compared with Luo Buyi's spirited sword, the sword technique that Duan Lao Fang just revealed can be called a secret technique of the sword path, and its subtlety is quite similar to the magic power of the sword path.

Jiuxiang saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but praise it secretly, no wonder the young master insisted on accepting him as a personal servant, this old knife technique is unique, and I heard that the young master also plans to let Duan Lao teach him knife skills, I think there must be something worthy of the young master's reference.

Catching a glimpse of another puppeteer raising his bow, Jiuxiang threw the dagger in her hand at his head without thinking, and ambushing them with such a puppet's reaction was already the limit, and it was not enough to avoid the dagger she thrown.

Sure enough, although the puppet man is not afraid of death, and has the lethality of a Xuan-level master, he can also endure ambushes in the ice and snow for a long time, but in the end, he is controlled by others, and it is limited to the material of the puppet, although the puppet man has dodging movements, but his body reaction can't keep up at all, and he was hit by Jiuxiang's dagger in the center of his eyebrows, passing through his brain.

After fighting a few puppets in a few breaths, Duan Lao also discovered this phenomenon after recalling, and after recalling the Dragon Sword, he cut off a cluster of arrows that shot at him, and the sword surged and instantly slashed out a few sword qi, and several puppets in the vicinity were slashed one by one.

Jiuxiang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, most of the puppets on the scene were killed or injured, and the rest of the few thoughts would definitely not be any more climate, so she hurriedly helped Luo Buyi, who was pressed under her, to help him up, and after checking his breath, he found that there was no big problem, so he had the leisure to look at Duan Lao, who was rushing left and right on the field.

This group of puppets is not a climate after all, because it has no human breath, that is, the ambush is used as a means of surprise attack, and it can still catch people off guard, how can it be the opponent of a swordsman like Duan Lao, whose sword skills have almost been perfected, and after a few ups and downs, they were killed by Duan Lao one by one.

Duan Lao returned the Dragon Knife into the scabbard, and was just about to talk to Jiuxiang but frowned, looked at a snowdrift behind Jiuxiang and Luo Buyi and said, "What kind of person is Your Excellency, it's better to come out, otherwise the old man can't guarantee that the next breath of this knife will not fall on your neck!"

Jiuxiang was startled, and her breath reached into the snowdrift not far away, and sure enough, she found that there was a living person hiding behind the snowdrift. I guess it was just when they were fighting the puppeteers that they hid there.

I saw a timid girl emerge from behind the snowdrift, wearing a common leather jacket in the snow field of Bingzhou, cotton clothes, cotton pants and cotton hats to protect it tightly, and a puppet played with a small doll in her hand, but she looked like an ordinary local resident of Bingzhou, although she was not as good as Jiuxiang, but she was much more agile than the Yabu she had met before.

And then her statement corroborates this, only to hear her say: "No... Don't kill me! I'm from the Cold Front tribe, come out... Come play!" This girl Xu witnessed Duan Lao's murder, and was frightened by Duan Lao's words, and she was a little choked up and stammered a little when she spoke.

Duan Lao's brows stretched a little, according to Jiuxiang's intelligence, there is indeed a tribe called Leng Feng ahead, and there is a high probability that this girl will not be a person with these puppets.

Looking at Luo Buyi, who was half-lying in the snow, Duan Lao said, "Since you are from the tribe, can you take the old man and the others to the tribe for a night?"

"Only... As long as you don't kill me, I'll bring... Take you there!"

The girl's eyes were full of tears, and the puppet in her hand was clutched to death.