Xining County is a county in the western part of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which belongs to Lingzhou and Sanchuan Counties.

The length and width of the county seat are only two or three miles, and the permanent population is only a few thousand.

The pace of life here is very slow, and it is not as good as the bustling counties in the hinterland of Dazhou.

It was already past midnight, and the sky was already bright, and some small stalls and vendors came out to do business on the streets.

Wang Cheng pressed his hat down and hurried down the street, passing an intersection when he turned left into another lane.

At a breakfast stall in the back, a bald young man flashed out, sloppy and sloppy.

He glanced around, saw no one, a hint of cruelty flashed on his face, and he followed the alley.

"Bang!"

Before the bald young man could see anything clearly, he was punched in the head, and his eyes were starry and dizzy.

"Uh......"

Then, a large hand grabbed his neck like pincers, and lifted him into the air like a dead chicken.

The trachea was choked, he couldn't breathe, his feet hung in the air and kicked randomly, and he said with difficulty: "Little Divine Doctor, it's me, Niu Er!" Niu Er! ”

Wang Cheng recognized this person, a well-known scoundrel in Xining County, but he didn't give Niu Er a good look, he hated being followed, and said, "Why are you following me?" ”

Niu Er said: "Hand ...... Take it away. ”

Wang Cheng frowned, but still let go of his hand.

Niu Er finally had a chance to take a breath and said, "Little Divine Doctor, I see that your head is not big, why are you so strong?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Wang Cheng's hands tightened, and a pair of eyes stared at Niu Er tightly, and Niu Er's heart was furious.

"Say! Why are you tracking me? ”

Niu Er felt that his breathing was bad again, and quickly said, "Yes...... It's ......"

At this moment, his face suddenly changed, and a pair of eyes were staring at Wang Cheng's back like a cow's egg.

Wang Cheng immediately noticed the abnormality, and at the same time, an alarm was born in his heart, so as soon as his hand was released, his body quickly dodged with a whirlwind.

"Whew!"

The next moment, a sound of breaking wind sounded in his ears, followed by the sound of his feet hitting the ground.

Wang Cheng's back was pressed against the wall, and his heart was beating "bang".

Feeling a coldness in his palm, he slowly calmed down.

He gripped the hard object hard, and his heart was very steady.

It is a sense of security that comes from the depths of the heart, and there is no substitute for it.

He looked down the street and almost instantly locked on to a figure in the crowd.

It was a man in black, with a black cloth over his face, and his eyes were sharp and cold.

Wang Cheng felt that his heart stopped beating for a moment, as if he had been stabbed in the air.

Killer!

This must be a killer!

He had come into contact with such a person before when he was on a mission, and although he did not belong to the same era, the temperament exuded from his body was the same.

The masked black-clothed man's gaze stayed on Wang Cheng's face for a moment, his figure flashed, and he disappeared into an alley.

"Stop!"

Wang Cheng hurriedly chased after him, but when he entered the alley, there was still a trace of the other party.

"Who is he?"

Wang Cheng was a little depressed, just a little bit earlier, he was able to ask from Niu Er's mouth who was behind the scenes to instruct Niu Er to follow him.

"Niu Er?!"

He secretly said "not good" and hurried back to the original alley.

I saw Niu Er sitting on the ground, his back against the wall, his hands pressed against his neck, and red blood gushed out from between his fingers, staining the clothes on his chest.

Wang Cheng looked at Niu Er, who was sitting on the ground, and his eyes suddenly froze, staring at Niu Er's neck.

There was a metal dart there, right in the throat of Niu Er.

What a dart!

From a distance of more than ten meters, he can hit the throat with one blow, and he will never be able to do it without ten or twenty years of hard work.

"Giggles!"

Blood poured into the trachea through his throat, and Niu Er's mouth kept spurting blood, and when he saw Wang Cheng, he became excited and said, "Save ...... Save ......"

As soon as Wang Cheng wanted to make a move, Niu Er's body stiffened, his two hands let go of his neck, and he hung down weakly.

He's dead!

Wang Cheng's face was ugly, at this time, how could he not see that the masked killer was clearly killing people!

He was afraid that Niu Er would confess the mastermind behind the scenes.

But who is the mastermind behind it? And why did you let Niu Er follow him?

Thinking of this, Wang Cheng had a big head for a while.

The disappearance of Mixi Town out of thin air has already made him anxious, and now that he has encountered this incident again, it is really a house leak that happened to rain overnight!

"No! This land cannot be stayed! ”

Wang Cheng realized that the current Xining county was like a swamp, and he would fall into it if he was not careful.

So he turned around and left, and soon left Xining County.

The town of Mixi is built on the side of the mountain, and behind the town is a long mountain range that runs from east to west.

A few miles east of the town, there is a low hill with a small farm yard at the bottom of the low hill.

Chen Fu lives here.

He is a well-known hunter in the vicinity, with superb animal hunting skills in Kanshan, and even archery skills in 100 steps.

Wang Cheng learned a lot of his skills in the mountains, and he also asked him for advice on archery.

There is another old wife in the family, a naughty eight or nine-year-old son, and a teenage daughter.

When Wang Cheng arrived, it was close to noon, and it was time for lunch.

The door of the small courtyard was open, because it was very close to Chen Fu, and after he called "Brother Chen", he walked into the courtyard by himself.

But in the next second, his face was full of horror, and then it turned into anger.

I saw that there were three people lying in a pool of blood in the courtyard, it was Chen Fu's wife and one of his children.

"Sister-in-law Chen!"

Wang Cheng hurriedly ran to Chen Fufa's wife, looked down and checked, and his body became stiff.

It's been a while since I've been dead!

He ran to the Chen family's children again, checked them one by one, and also died for a long time.

"What's going on?"

Wang Cheng's eyes were split, how could this good family be killed?

Don't even let the kids go!

He looked at the pair of siblings lying in a pool of blood, who were fighting with him a few days ago, but now they are separated by heaven and earth.

"Brother Chen!"

Suddenly, he remembered that he hadn't seen Chen Fu yet, so he hurriedly rushed into the room again.

After searching for a while, he finally found Chen Fu in the bedroom in the room.

He lay on the ground, his back clothes shredded by the sword.

As soon as Wang Cheng touched his wrist, there was still a faint pulse, he quickly turned the person over, took out a pill from his arms and stuffed it into Chen Fu's mouth.

After a while, a wisp of blood overflowed from the corner of Chen Fu's mouth, and his closed eyes slowly opened.

Seeing him wake up, Wang Cheng said happily: "Brother Chen! ”

When Chen Fu saw Wang Cheng, he was stunned: "You ...... Still alive? ”

Wang Cheng nodded, and told him about the fact that he was not there on the day he went to the mountains to collect medicine and Mixi Town disappeared.

However, only halfway through speaking, Chen Fu spit out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".

After this mouthful of blood was spat out, his face quickly turned a withered color, and his spirit turned sharply.

"Brother Chen!"

Wang Cheng was anxious, how could he not see that Chen Fu was on the verge of dying?

Suddenly, Chen Fu grabbed his hand and said vigorously, "Mixi Town...... Mask...... ...... in Black"

Wang Cheng kept these words in his heart, and when he saw that he didn't get out as much as he breathed, he hurriedly asked: "Brother Chen, who shot at you?" ”

Chen Fudao: "Mixi Town...... It's not a ghost, it's ...... It's ......"

Seeing that he was going to continue, Wang Cheng immediately stopped him and said, "Brother Chen, tell me quickly, who did the poison to you?" ”

However, Chen Fu was still muttering: "Mask...... ...... in Black"

Suddenly, he didn't know where he got the strength, raised an arm and pointed to the cabinet at the head of the bed, and said, "A...... A ......"

"A what?" Wang Cheng hurriedly asked.

Chen Fu shouted with all his might: "Lock...... Child...... A ......"

"Chain mail?"

Wang Cheng remembered that Chen Fu was talking about the ancestral treasure armor of his family.

According to Chen Fu, his ancestor had a military marquis, who was in charge of more than 500 people, and once shot an enemy soldier with an arrow, and was rewarded with a piece of Mingguang chain mail.

This Mingguang chain mail can't be cut by a knife, and it can't be pierced by a sword, it is a real high-grade treasure armor, and it can be sold for at least a hundred taels of silver when sold outside.

Chen Fu has always been reluctant to wear it, for fear that this treasure armor will be broken and dirty, and no one will touch it.

Wang Cheng had seen this Mingguang chain mail, but it was because Chen Fu had lost the fist and foot kung fu competition with him, otherwise he wouldn't even have seen it.

"A...... A ......" Chen Fu was still shouting.

Wang Cheng was in a hurry, it was time for him, and he still couldn't forget the chain mail.

Isn't it just a piece of chain mail, he really thinks it's more important than life.

Wang Cheng said urgently; "Brother Chen, tell me quickly, who did the poison to you?"

After repeating the word "A" twice, Chen Fu's head was crooked and he ran out of breath.

"Brother Chen! Brother Chen! ”

Wang Cheng used first aid again, but no matter what he did, it was difficult to wake Chen Fu up.

He slowly lowered Chen Fu to the ground, his heart was like holding a volcano, he wanted to vent but couldn't.

Chen Fu's dying words not only did not solve the confusion in his heart, but made it even more chaotic.

Masks, black clothes, what does that mean?

Who is the poisoner of Chen Fu's family?

He was out of order, like a yarn that was entwined together, and he couldn't untie it.

After a long time, he didn't think about these confusions, and picked up Chen Fu's body from the ground.

Since he came to Mixi Town for more than a year, Chen Fu's family has treated him like a relative, and the pheasants and hares they hunted are reluctant to eat at home, but give them to him to eat.

Without these meaty products, his body would not have recovered so quickly.

After all, he was so badly injured that day that even he didn't expect him to survive.

It is reasonable for him to bury this family of four well, and then find the murderer for them!

Holding Chen Fu's corpse and walking out of the door, but in the next moment, he was tense.

I don't know when, more than a dozen people came to the small courtyard, all of them were dressed in black, their faces were covered by a black cloth, and they were carrying swords and other weapons in their hands.

Black!

Mask?

"That's not right!"

Wang Cheng immediately realized that this group of black-clothed people was not the black-clothed people in Chen Fu's mouth.

His eyes focused on the swords in the hands of the men in black, which still had unwiped blood stains.

Suddenly, one of the knots in his heart was untied, and he said coldly: "Brother Chen's family was killed by you?" ”

"You're really going to be here!"

It was one of the men in black who spoke, and the only one who didn't have a weapon in his hand.

He was thin and thin, half a head shorter than the other men in black, and his eyes were as sharp as two ice knives, and an inadvertent glance could freeze a person's consciousness.

Wang Cheng's pupils shrank, he recognized the person, and said, "It's you!" ”