Chapter 260: The Watcher
On the hill on the west side of the battlefield, three people stood there quietly, watching the man-wolf battle at the foot of the mountain.
To be precise, it was two people, looking at the standing posture and dress, it should be the master and servant, and the remaining one was only half human, the other half was covered with irregular fleshy scales, and the back was high, which seemed to be a Luo pot.
The three of them were there, unsheltered, but the wild wolves around them were blind, and none of them noticed their existence, and when they walked nearby, they "consciously" took a detour, not realizing that their actions were strange.
Not only wolves, but also people.
Feng Zhiping and Zhan Qianwu's eyes swept over there many times, but they didn't see the slightest shadow, there were only wolves and no one in their field of vision, even if the battlefield moved to the vicinity of Xiaoshanbao, the two of them were unaware of the existence of the three of them.
Among the three, the person dressed as the master stood at the forefront, a snow-white tunic covered with a pale pink gown, embroidered with flower petals, and a black gauze hat tightly covered his face, and no expression could be seen, and those who did not know would think that he was a woman at first glance.
He put his hands behind his back, holding a short knife in his right hand and playing with it for a while, if Feng Zhiping could definitely recognize the knife at a glance, it was the one that Gou Anjie was stealth, and the monster standing behind him with his waist bent was Gou Anjie, who should have died.
"Guess they'll make it?" the man asked suddenly, his voice soft, like a whisper.
The servant behind him knew that the master was not asking him, so he stood motionless with his hands in his hands.
After waiting for a while, Gou Anjie replied sullenly: "That, woman, amazing, very." ”
His voice was extremely hoarse, as if mixed with three catties of sand, and he stumbled and stumbled as if he had just learned to speak, I was afraid that Gou Anjie was new, and it was difficult to hear that he was his own brother Gou Anjie just by listening to the voice.
The man was noncommittal, Gou Anjie glanced at him and asked, "You, why, no, personally, kill them?"
The man was silent, and the servant on the side suddenly slapped Gou Anjie in the face: "I don't know how to be polite, I dare to question my master!"
Gou Anjie fell to the ground, didn't dare to fight back, covered his face and said in a panic: "I, no, no!"
When the servant saw that he dared to fight back, he wanted to fight again, but the man waved his hand to stop him: "Okay, don't blame those who don't know, teach the rules slowly in the future." ”
"Yes, master!" the servant bowed his head and retreated to his place, staring at Gou Anjie with a cold expressionless face.
The man didn't care anymore, turned around, although he couldn't see it, Gou Anjie still felt a pair of knife-like eyes scraping on him, and quickly knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head.
After a pause, the man slowly spoke: "I, Huangquan, am the number one killer organization of Tian Yuan, half of the top 100 assassins in the Tian Yuan Continent in our heyday belonged to us, and the rest are also bent on joining us, and our customers know that our offer is at least three times higher than that of others, do you know why?"
Gou Anjie didn't dare to make a sound, and the man didn't want him to answer, he puffed up his chest and said proudly: "Because the reward we give is high, because our mission has never failed, and the two complement each other!"
"Anyone, as long as you can complete the task, we can meet any price you offer, and if you die, we will also pay your heir in full; every customer, as long as you can afford the price, we can also help you kill it! At that time, the people under the Huangquan Sect who served tea and swept the floor were the elite of the elite, and garbage like you didn't even have the qualifications to contact us, and those who didn't do their own power to waste our time, we usually killed them directly. ”
Gou Anjie shook into a sieve, he didn't dare to breathe, he could feel the man's servant looking at him colder, ready to help his master clean up his own garbage.
The man reminisced about the glory of the past, and sighed deeply after a moment, full of unwillingness and melancholy.
"It's a pity that there was a traitor among us, and the court caught our whereabouts. However, although traitors are hateful, they are not the point, and the biggest reason for Huangquan's suffering is failure! If it weren't for the failure of assassinating the Six Princes, how could we have ended up in such a field? If it hadn't been for the failure of that mission, how could Huangquan have been reduced to even accepting waste like you! What Huangquan hates most now is failure, and what is most intolerable is also failure, and we don't want to, but we must achieve a 10 percent success rate, as long as we take over the task, we must complete it, and we can't achieve death, and you, you haven't done anything!"
"Congratulations, Huang Quan's mission has only failed twice, and you are one of them. ”
Gou Anjie almost suffocated, stumbling and whispering: "Yes, it's a subordinate, wrong, please adult, redeem... Atonement..."
The servant's eyes were cold, and he was about to step forward to teach this thing that he didn't have a long memory, but the man waved his hand to stop him.
Looking down at Gou Anjie, the man's tone slowed down, and he said lightly: "For the sake of seeing that you are still alive, I will give you another chance to make up for your mistakes." I don't care if you pick up these stupid wolves or do it yourself, in short, I want you to bring Feng Zhiping back, whether dead or alive, and bring his body back as intact as possible. ”
"Of course, you can let me do it, but my fee is very expensive. You can also think about a free method, as long as you die, I will have to clean up the mess for you, how about it?"
Gou Anjie immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Please be big, don't worry, my subordinates are decided... Decide... I'm going to take his head back!"
"Wrong, wrong, it's a thing that doesn't have a long memory. The man shook his head with a headache, "I want you to bring his body back as completely as possible, understand? I want his physical body!
The man's tone was extremely fanatical, Gou Anjie was cold, and he felt in his heart that it was better to take Feng Zhiping back if he died.
Suddenly, the man let out a soft sigh and took out a mirror from his arms.
The servant looked at him from behind, his face changed, and he approached: "Master, do you want to go down and intercept them?"
"It's okay, just try the new medicine I refined. ”
The man put away the mirror, took out two medicine bottles from his sleeve, one green and one red, and threw them in front of Gou Anjie along with the short knife.
"When a guest comes, you go to the upwind and wait for the arrival to spread the incense in the red bottle. Another bottle you know what it is, the best record of my medicine slave at the moment is twice, you have used it twice, if you can survive this time, and bring Feng Zhiping to me, you will be my medicine boy when you go back, I will help you detoxify, and I will help you recover your appearance. ”
Gou Anjie raised his head excitedly, then tremblingly picked up the medicine bottle and put it away, kowtowed heavily, and then grabbed the short knife and turned away.
He left with the dagger, and the wild wolf who was close suddenly noticed it and looked at him suspiciously.
The man unhurriedly took out a box of medicinal powder and looked around, and several wild wolves sneezed in unison and avoided in disgust, without looking at this side again.
The servant hesitated for a moment and approached: "Master, forgive your subordinates for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, according to what your subordinates have seen, that waste may not be able to succeed this time, it is better to directly let your subordinates go over and bring back the sword Hou Shizi!"
The man slowly put away the powder box, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, and said lightly: "You are not Zhan Qianwu's opponent, and Huang Quan can't withstand further exposure." Thanks to the 'blessing' of these garbage, now some people are beginning to suspect that I am not dead at all, so it must be done by these garbage, and neither you nor I can directly intervene, lest Si Tianjian's old immortal break another hundred years of Yang Shou and start a hexagram, his 'red dust map' is not easy to mess with. ”
The servant was not convinced: "Master, the subordinates are confident that they will kill Zhan Qianwu and leave no traces!"
The man laughed: "Mai Dong, Mai Dong, what is good about you when you tell me, you are also a person who experienced the battle back then, you don't know what kind of divine thing the 'Red Dust Map' is? Once the traces are exposed, there is no need to listen to the prison every day, Feng Moxiu alone can make me and I unable to eat and walk around, not to mention the old fox of King Zhan. ”
Mai Dong was puzzled: "In that case, then why do you have to risk coming here in person? ”
"For him, of course. The man looked at Feng Zhiping, and could feel the burning of his gaze through the black veil, "A heavenly cripple with no medicine can suddenly cultivate, and he enters the realm so quickly, I must see with my own eyes whether this is true or not! Today, when I saw it, it was true, I must find out the secret of this person, it can help me heal the damage of my body, and it may even allow me to reshape my soul form and return to the top! I have been incognito for so many years, and I can only hide behind the scenes like a mouse, I have long had enough of such days!" I won't let go of any opportunity that can help me recover my cultivation, Ming Shichen's palm, I will have to return it sooner or later!"
Mai Dong stood silently, not daring to speak, no one knew better than him how aggrieved his master was.
One of the eighteen guests of Huangquan, ranked third, ranked ninth on the Tianyuan assassin list, and the generation of poison master Xiangjuke who had achieved tangible merit, was attacked by Ming Shichen, the king of Cang Gu, in the decisive battle of that year, and almost died.
Over the years, he has tried countless methods but he has not been able to recover, and he has only barely recovered to the strength of the early stage of Shenzang, how can he be as arrogant as he is?
All along, their master and servant have been cautious, and each mission is at least three times handed down, just for fear of being discovered by the Heavenly Hearing Supervisor or other intelligence organizations, but today he has appeared here unusually, you can imagine how urgent he is to regain his strength.
Mai Dong felt the same and did not dare to disturb, until the mirror in his arms gently vibrated that the Xiangjuke broke free from his fanatical emotions and returned to wisdom and calmness.
"Let's go, it's not good to be discovered. Glancing at the mirror, Xiangjuke said to Mai Dong.
Before leaving, he took one last look at the direction where Gou Anjie was, and muttered, "Don't let me down, otherwise even if I can survive three counterattacks, I will definitely cut you with a knife." ”
Feng Zhiping didn't know that he had been stared at by a terrifying figure for a long time, and he didn't know that on the grassland more than 20 miles to the south, a cavalry team of more than 200 people was rushing towards him.
The cavalry team has a clear banner, and it is the defender of Dongping County, different from the general local troops and private troops, they are directly under the military headquarters of the imperial court, and even the regular troops of eight hundred, the main force stationed here by the emperor's order!
The young general dressed in the captain's armor walked at the front of the team, followed by a brocade-robed boy, it was Han Zhixing, the young castle master of Qiyun Castle who had fought with Zhan Qianwu and had a "two-sided" relationship with Feng Zhiping!