Shi Cheng suddenly turned his head to look at Wu Neng and said, "Do you remember what I told you about Zhang Erhei being attacked at night before?" ”

Seeing that Wu Neng nodded, Shi Cheng continued: "The two people who wanted to harm Zhang Erhei and his wife that night, Yu Wu and Sun Jin, were extremely well-trained full-time killers. Although their martial arts cultivation was not outstanding, their style of conduct was not comparable to that of ordinary assassins. ”

Shi Cheng shifted his gaze to Mu Tian and continued: "Therefore, I am extremely curious about the origin of these two killers, because in my opinion, there should be no one in this Redwood City who has the ability to cultivate such a professional killer, so at first I thought that they were transferred to the city from the outside by some force. ”

But my discovery later refuted this hypothesis, as the accents of the two Assassins were actually local. Also, I found some interesting things on their hands. Both men had calluses on their hands and fresh crumbs of herbs in their fingernails. Combining these two points, other people may not be able to see what these two people do for a while, but this is not unfamiliar to a Dan master like me, who is often in contact with medicinal materials. The calluses on the hands of these two people were left by processing medicinal herbs with a pestle in hand for a long time, and together with the crumbs of medicinal herbs in their fingernails, I was 90% sure that these two people were guys working in the pharmacy. ”

Wu Neng asked suspiciously: "But I remember that when I went to the south of the city with you to find these two people, their neighbor was the one named Zhao Dayong, but I said that these two people have been idle on weekdays, and it stands to reason that people with serious jobs generally don't do this, right?" ”

"Don't forget what I told you at the time." Shi Cheng said: "Night work. ”

Wu Neng suddenly realized, Shi Cheng looked at Mu Tian and said, "As far as I know, among the western cities of your Western Desert Country, few cities will allow the existence of night markets at night like those cities in the middle and east of the Western Desert that are far away from the frontier. The exception is drugstores, which are allowed to continue after curfew in many cities. So for the guys in the pharmacy, they can just hang out during the day and then go to the pharmacy at night to make a living. Coincidentally, I walked through so many places in Redwood City, and finally found that Renxin Pavilion was the only decent and regular pharmacy in Redwood City. ”

"But the Renxin Pavilion is just a medical hall after all, they don't have the ability to train such a professional killer, it is very likely that there are real professional killers who are secretly cultivating them. Therefore, since I found out the backgrounds of Yu Wu and Sun Jin, I have begun to beware of the professional killer who may be lurking in this city. Sure enough, the later fight with you in the dungeon confirmed this fact to me. The head of the Bai family was coerced by you four years ago and has been serving you since then, so I guess that the professional killer may have only come to Redwood City in the past few years. Such an excellent killer, it can't just be used to train the dead, he must have other tasks, out of the need to complete a variety of tasks, I think that killer's status in the city is probably not low. ”

"I don't have many hobbies, but one of my few hobbies is drinking tea in a teahouse while listening to other tea customers chatting from all over the world. In the process of collecting intelligence, I found that there were two people who had only come to Redwood City in the past few years, and they were both figures who were close to the head of the Bai family, and their status was not low. One is Wei Yuan, and the other is you, Mu Tian. ”

"But I don't have any evidence at hand, and even though I feel like your voice is familiar in the dungeon, I don't dare to determine your identity based on your voice alone, so I'm going to sneak in here tonight and try your skills."

"Hehe," Mu Tian couldn't help sneering, "I still remember that the old crow once told me that although Redwood City is very important to the employer, it is not worth putting too much power into here, but now it seems that we have made a big mistake. ”

"Crow?" Hearing this name, Wu Neng snorted, then his face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice, "You, are you?" ”

"Why, didn't Shi Cheng tell you my identity?" Mu Tian said with a smile.

Shi Cheng said calmly: "The members of the Blood Crow really deserve the title of the number one killer in the world, just this demeanor that is still unfazed in the face of a desperate situation is not comparable to these bull ghosts and snake gods of the Spirit Snake Society." ”

"Falsely praised." Mu Tian smiled slightly proudly. However, in an instant, a thick fierceness suddenly appeared on his face, and his right hand pulled out his short knife from a small pile of rubble, and the whole person rushed straight towards Wu Neng like an arrow from the string. Mu Tian's nightgown was lifted by the strong wind brought up by his body, and Shi Cheng clearly saw a light red crow tattoo on his right forearm, and a light red "feather" character was tattooed under the pale blood crow.

Wu Neng's brain hadn't reacted for a while, but Shi Cheng had already prepared, he flew up directly, kicking Wu Neng's whole person out, and then pointed out with his left hand, and the scorching Danhuo accompanied by a knife-like true qi went straight towards Mu Tian.

Mu Tian's sneak attack slashed the air, and when he was about to turn around, Shi Cheng's counterattack was already close, he knew that there was no way to escape today, and after blocking Shi Cheng's blow with all his strength, he hurriedly used his whole body's true qi, hedged up in his body, and roared angrily: "Blood crows only have killers who die with the enemy, you want to capture me for questioning, but don't even think about it!" ”

Shi Cheng saw that Mu Tian's body suddenly swelled, his face changed greatly, and he waved a palm to repel Mu Tian who wanted to pounce, and then he rushed to Wu Neng, who was getting up from the ground with a loud noise, picked him up with one hand, and rushed out of the house.

There was a "boom", and just as Shi Cheng rushed out of the door with Wu Neng, a huge explosion came from the room behind them. Shi Cheng protected Wu Neng behind him, and his whole body was really lucky, and a huge protective shield was condensed in front of the two. The shock wave that came from inside the house hit the hood like a tsunami wave. Shi Cheng's body was constantly shaking, and his expression was solemn, but the cover composed of True Qi was stronger than the rock on the shore.

It took a while for the explosion to cease completely. Shi Cheng withdrew his true qi, his body shook slightly, and he suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood.

Wu Neng had never seen Shi Cheng like this, and exclaimed: "You, are you injured?" It doesn't matter! ”

Shi Cheng waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, after all, this is a half-step grandmaster's self-detonation, not a joke." ”

He took out a pill and stuffed it into his mouth, and after swallowing the pill, Shi Cheng said to Wu Neng solemnly: "The movement of the explosion is too big, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's leave quickly." ”

"Okay," Wu Neng agreed, and then asked, "But where should we go now?" ”

"Go to the south of the city, it's more remote over there, so it's convenient for us to find a temporary hiding place, and then the two of us will disguise ourselves a little and sneak out of the city. Find a way to get to the Western Desert King City. Shi Cheng replied.

……

It's autumn and it's almost noon. Outside the south gate of the Western Desert Kingdom, there were two more sneaky figures, and one of them complained to the other: "I said Shi Cheng, your level of disguise is too rough, is it embarrassing to put a headscarf around your head and a few locks of beard on your chin?" ”

It was Wu Neng who spoke, and Shi Cheng beside him shook him a roll of his eyes and said, "Do you know how many things you have to prepare at one time?" Now it's enough for us to be able to disguise ourselves so that people can't recognize them at a glance. ”

"Then you don't need to put so many short mustaches on me, it makes me look like I'm more than ten years old." The dissatisfaction in Wu Neng's heart did not disappear, he raised his head and looked around, and asked Shi Cheng, "Didn't you just say that you were going to mix in a caravan and go to the Western Desert King City, then why don't we go to the east of the city, there are obviously more caravans over there than here." ”

"Do you only have enough brains for you to design mechanisms?" Shi Cheng glanced at Wu Neng with disdain before replying, "There are indeed more caravans gathered in the east of the city, but they are all under the Great Chamber of Commerce. If we go there, we will inevitably bump into the people of the Bai family, do you still want to catch up with them now? ”

As soon as the Bai family was mentioned, the atmosphere between the two suddenly became a little delicate, Wu Neng was silent and did not answer, and Shi Cheng did not continue to say anything. The two of them checked their luggage and walked straight to the caravan not far away.

There were not many caravans outside the south of the city, Shi Cheng took a fancy to a caravan with a relatively large number of people, and then he walked over to the merchant dressed as the leader of the caravan, and asked the man in a fairly fluent official dialect with some Wei Jinggi accent: "Brother, are your people going to the Western Desert King City?" ”

The merchant raised his head, saw Shi Cheng's face, and subconsciously felt a little disgusted, but after all, he was a businessman who had been in business for many years, and he was still very clear about the reason why he couldn't judge people by their appearance, and after adjusting his expression, he replied politely: "We are going to the side of Shali City in the south of the royal city, brother, do you have anything to do?" ”

"Sully, I know that place." Shi Cheng patted Wu Neng on the shoulder in front of the businessman, and said with a smile: "It's not far from the royal city, it's not a secret, my companion and I are from Lingnan County, and we want to make some small fortunes here, and we are planning to go to the royal city in the past two days to see if we can find some new ways to make money." Both of us brothers are small businesses and don't have anyone to hire. It's a long road, it's really not safe for the two of us to set off, brother, can you let our brothers join us in your side and go in the direction of Wangcheng together? ”

Speaking of this, Shi Cheng secretly stuffed a banknote with a denomination of Tongbao into the merchant's hand, and said: "This is a little bit of my brother's heart, and I hope you will accept it with a smile, brother." ”

"It turns out that my brother is from Da Wei." The merchant didn't want to bring two strangers with him, but when he heard about Shi Cheng's origin and took the ticket from Shi Cheng, he immediately smiled, forgot to ask the names of the two of them, and nodded again and again: "It's easy to say, but we are just a small caravan, and we can prepare limited water and dry food, so you brothers may have to bring your own food and drink." ”

Wu Neng secretly scolded in his heart that if Shi Cheng's money to the merchant was simply used as a travel fee, it would be no problem for the two of them to make a full round trip from Redwood City to Wangcheng, but the merchant didn't even want to share some dry food.

Shi Cheng was like a loser, he didn't seem to care about money, he just smiled and said, "No problem." ”