Shen Zhou pressed one hand to the top of the assassin's skull, and slashed his throat with his sword in his back. Not far away, there were seven or eight corpses, the thunder was bright and dark, and the fallen horses were punctured in the abdomen, gurgling and bleeding.

Luo Shuangyi stopped and threw a bamboo tube to Shen Zhou.

"Why are you here," Shen Zhou took the bamboo tube and didn't open it, "who does the head of the house want me to kill?" I have something else to do now. ”

"This is not the secret order of our family, it is the secret order of the Mountain Ghost Clan that we intercepted. Someone made a big deal with the Mountain Ghost Clan, buying the head of Chu Zhixia of the Chu Clan in the clouds, and offered a price of 100,000 taels of gold. The mountain ghost clan arranged the manpower in the south of the Yangtze River. Luo Shuangyi said expressionlessly.

Shen Zhou's pupils shrank suddenly, snatched Luo Shuangyi's horse, and ordered, "Gather our people over." ”

Unexpectedly, Luo Shuangyi did not entangle with him, but agreed cleanly. Maybe it's because it's a good time to eradicate the mountain ghost clan, or maybe it's because it's another order from the head of the family. But Shen Zhou's heart was in turmoil, he didn't have time to think, and hurriedly chased Chu Shixia and the others in the direction of sheltering from the rain.

——

Heavy rain is like a note.

Snow skulls run wildly among the dark mountain roads. This war horse trained by Chu Mingxiu himself had a keen sense of smell, and he even gave a warning when a group of Yulin guards were killed, broke free from the reins of the horse and rushed into the mountain temple to save people.

Chu Zhixia was drenched in the heavy rain, and said to Cheng Yuan in the torrential rain that almost drowned out all the sounds: "They are here to kill me, you don't have to die with me." If I can't come back, you must send tonight's news back to the clouds. ”

Cheng Yuan didn't have time to speak, and a fork in the road quickly appeared in front of him. Chu Zhixia directly took him off the horse and rode his horse to another road.

Chu Zhixia rode a snow skull and galloped in the mountains and forests, and after an unknown amount of time, he simply dismounted and cut the reins. Xue Cong's moist eyes stared at her, Chu Zhixia stroked its damp mane, smiled and sighed, "I don't know if you can find your way back to Tianhao Mountain." ”

Xue Cheng looked at her inexplicably.

"Let's go, don't follow me." Chu Zhixia pressed against its face, closed his eyes and said softly, "This time it was my second brother who did something wrong, he shouldn't have sent you to accompany me." A horse in the clouds, your home in the clouds......"

Chu Zhixia turned around and left, and Xue Cong habitually followed, and anxiously arched her shoulders with her head, asking her to get on the horse and flee for her life. Chu Zhi Xia showed a fierce light, and twitched it hard on its ass, and Xue Cheng was in pain, so he ran away.

Chu Zhixia trekked in the opposite direction to it.

A ray of silver light fell silently, cutting the branches and leaves above Chu Zhixia's head, and the rain fell unhindered. Chu Zhixia reacted in an instant, rolled backwards to dodge, and raised his hand to wipe the small wound on his cheek that was oozing blood.

Five or six black-clothed assassins looked at Chu Zhixia through the pale thunder light like ghosts who stood up from the rain out of thin air.

Chu Zhixia could easily identify that these people were not in the same team as those in the Mountain Temple.

"How many people did you send to kill me?" Chu Zhixia clasped the sword and said with a smile, "How did I not know that my head was so valuable." ”

The atmosphere of silence was broken in an instant, and the assassin who was facing Chu Zhixia suddenly moved, like a bird fluttering at flying insects. He held a serpentine long sword and slashed straight at Chu Zhixia's head, Chu Zhixia lowered his body and slid against the ground, drinking the stream snow and cutting his tendons.

Chu Zhixia stopped with one foot against the entrenched tree roots, and the stainless steel bracers were scratched by the silk thread as thin as a string. More threads cut her shoulders, ankles, and strands of her hair as she moved. Chu Zhixia twisted the silk thread with his wrist, and the blade-like silk thread made a tooth-sour sound on the stainless steel wristband. Chu Zhixia pulled hard, ripped off the assassin hiding in the tree, and cut his throat with a sword.

The threads around them fell apart like spider webs.

——

Mountain Temple.

Shen Zhou kicked open the door of the mountain temple, facing the slender and tall shadow in the upper courtyard. Her whole body was shrouded in black soft armor, and her body was straight and vigorous, revealing only a pair of gentle and gentle eyes. Shen Zhou looked at her for a moment, and then she took off her black visor.

It's a jade bead.

Yuzhu, who should have stayed in the imperial capital Akiba Mountain Curie.

Shen Zhou was stunned.

Yuzhu's slender and soft hands held the slender sword, slowly drawing it from the assassin's chest. In the eyes of everyone in the Autumn Leaf Mountain Residence, Yuzhu is always nagging, and whether Chu Zhixia eats or not is the most important thing for her.

No one could have imagined her like this.

"Where's the eldest lady?" Yuzhu was not surprised that Shen Zhou appeared here, and asked bluntly.

"I was entangled in the road." Shen Zhou shook his head, anxious and said, "The people of the Nine Shadows Mountain Ghost Clan took over this business and sent all the manpower they could mobilize in Jiangnan. There may be more than two teams. ”

Yuzhu calmed his face, thought for a moment and walked out, "There is a river on this mountain, and there is a waterfall on the top of the mountain. The eldest lady's snow horse is a war horse tamed by the second son, and she will instinctively look for water in the wild. We searched the river. ”

Shen Zhou didn't ask why Yuzhu was here, and Yuzhu didn't ask where Shen Zhou had gone during this time. The two of them soon met Cheng Yuan, who was lying in a pool of blood, with three or four corpses lying horizontally beside him. Yuzhu glanced at it roughly, and there were more than these people chasing out of the mountain temple at that time.

Snowskull hovered beside him, glancing incessantly down the other road.

"It's your ......"

Cheng Yuan was holding a knife, and he failed to stand up several times. He had small, deep wounds all over his body, and there were many joints. The Assassin kills with precision, and brute force can't fight the wall, so he wants to incapacitate him.

Cheng Yuan simply sat down in blood, tore off the armor in his throat, and said breathlessly: "The eldest lady went to another way, there are a lot of stabbing guests, and they don't want to fight with me at all." I can't hold them back, I'm sorry for the eldest lady......"

Before Cheng Yuan's words were finished, Shen Zhou tied him to Xue Yuan's back and rushed to the mountains and forests in the rain.

——

Shen Zhou was disgusted by the smell of blood for a while, then became excited when he smelled blood, and finally gradually became numb.

This is the requirement of the Nine Shadows for the assassins, only the dead who exchange their lives for their lives need to be bloodthirsty like wild beasts, and the assassins who drag the assassin to die together are not proficient in learning. Only those who don't care about their own or others' deaths are the best assassins.

The branches in the woods that had been broken by the snow skulls formed a path, and the sunken boat followed the path to find it, and easily smelled the blood in the rain.

But there was no sound in the woods.

Shen Zhou's heart beat wildly, pushing away a clump of branches that blocked his vision, and he saw blood and corpses all over the place, all of them were Mountain Ghost Assassins with golden skulls. Yuzhu followed, and when she saw this, she couldn't help but breathe, and then searched deeper into the jungle.

This forest is too dense to go forward without leaving traces. The two of them followed the trampled bushes and broken branches all the way to the top of the mountain. At the top of the hill is an open cliff with a rushing river and a cascading waterfall.

The corpse and the broken sword were lying on the ground messily, and there was no figure of Chu Zhixia.

Shen Zhou felt that his heartbeat had missed several beats, and the corner of his eye swept to a slightly twitching human figure, and immediately lifted the person up. It was a half-dead Mountain Ghost Assassin, looking at the two men in outfit for some reason.

"What about the Chu Zhixia people?" Shen Zhou pinched his throat bone and asked.

The assassin didn't speak, and Shen Zhou dislocated his jaw in the next second. The assassin, who was about to bite his tongue and kill himself, lost his strength and looked directly at the sinking boat. Shen Zhou picked up a broken sword and stabbed it into his patella, and the assassin let out a cry of pain.

"I ask you, where is she?"

"Shen Zhou, don't ask." Yuzhu picked up a scabbard from the river and whispered, "This is the scabbard of the sword that drank the stream of snow, and the eldest lady fell down." ”

Shen Zhou felt a wave of dizziness and almost fell to his knees.

"Even if it falls, it doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to be ......" Shen Zhou pinched the assassin's neck and stumbled to find his way down the mountain, "I'll go find her, I'll go down to find her." ”

Yuzhu hugged him, and her voice trembled, "Shen Zhou, calm down." ”

Shen Zhou shook his head, he couldn't cry at all, his heart hurt like his ribs were cracked one by one, "It's all my fault...... If I had known, I wouldn't leave, and if I had known, I wouldn't have said that to her. I always do it wrong, I always make her sad. ”

——

When Chu Zhixia woke up, he only felt that his whole body was broken and put together. She stared silently at the thatched roof, little by little groping for control of her body. The door creaked, and the sound of brisk footsteps approached her.

Chu Zhixia almost immediately rolled over and got up, elbowed against the other party's throat, and pressed her against the pillar.

The girl with freckles on her face was so frightened that she couldn't speak, and looked at her blankly. Chu Zhixia was also stunned for a moment, and looked at her a little at a loss.

After a long time, the girl timidly asked, "Are you awake?" ”

Chu Shixia suddenly relaxed, only to feel that the pain and fatigue were drowning her like a tide. She had just moved too much, and her ribs hurt for a while, so she sat down on the bed, pressed her temples and asked, "Where am I?" ”

"You're in Luojia Village." The girl handed her the gruel in her hand without any surprise, "My father went hunting in the prison mountain three days ago, and was trapped under the mountain by the heavy rain, and then picked you up by the waterfall. ”

The girl sighed, "Did you fall from the top of a cliff?" It's a big life, if you fall on the stone at the bottom of the waterfall, you won't survive. ”

Chu Shixia smiled and said, "Thank you." Excuse me, girl, have you seen my sword? ”

The girl said, "Just call me Madoka." Are you a charlatan? That sword does look like it's worth a lot of money, so I'll put it away for you. You wait, I'll get it for you. ”

Chu Zhixia rested on the bed and checked the injuries on his body. There were indeed a lot of assassins sent by the Nine Shadows, and she was forced to the edge of the cliff while fighting. In the end, she was knocked down the waterfall by an Assassin.

The rib should be broken, but fortunately, the hand is still intact.

Chu Zhixia felt weak inexplicably, she touched her forehead, and felt a little hot, maybe it was a cold and fever.

Xiaoyuan soon walked in with a straw mat and chattered: "You people who fight and kill, I can't figure it out." Don't be surprised that our family doesn't have the money to give you medicine for these injuries on your body—if it weren't for the good times recently, my father wouldn't have dared to pick you up. ”

Chu Shixia took the drink and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Unidentified people from the rivers and lakes, don't meddle in things in the future, it's easy to cause trouble." ”

Madoka was stunned by what she said.

"Why are things getting better lately?" Chu Zhixia chatted with her while sorting out her clothes.

"You're not from Binzhou, are you? Some time ago, those big officials and wealthy businessmen joined forces to harm the people, snatched food from the people who cultivated the land, and forced many people to death. I heard that a bigger official came to the imperial capital and arrested a big bully, and now those corrupt officials are all holding their tails. ”

Chu Zhixia was slightly relieved and said, "Really? That's a great thing. ”

Xiao Yuan nodded again and again, looking at Chu Zhixia who was ready to go, a little confused, "What are you doing?" ”

"Don't tell anyone that your dad has been to Prison Mountain." Chu Zhixia carried the sword on his back and pushed open the door, "If there is really an uninvited guest who asks about my whereabouts, just tell the truth." I don't want to drag down your family. ”

"Your injuries aren't healed yet!" Madoka was in a hurry.

Chu Zhixia left without looking back.