Chapter 8: Into the Enemy's Lair Cave
At the entrance to the dimly lit ravine, four horse bandits walked to the watchtower with a flickering sheepskin lantern. The horse bandits on the tower climbed down with a roar, complaining that they had come too late, and that no one was paying attention to their surroundings for a moment.
"Fat Tiger, remember what I just said. Shin Chikari jumped over the boulder, his body close to the ground, and with only the muscles of his chest and abdomen contracted, he writhed like a snake through the grass and quickly swam to the edge of the cliff.
It is one of the several body methods in the jade slip given by Qingfeng - the grass snake gray line technique.
The changing of the guard horse bandits, holding a lamp in one hand and a thick wooden ladder frame in the other, began to climb towards the two watchtowers, and the first four walked towards the ravine. Where the lights were difficult to reach, Zhi Hunt Zhen opened his mouth to bite the broken sword, pressed his palm against the rock, and performed the gecko wall swimming technique, and ran up the cliff a few times, approaching the sentry tower.
Several horse bandits climbed to the halfway point, and Zhijia Zhenye had already climbed the sentry tower, crouched in the corner, and aimed his broken sword at the mouth of the ladder.
The crunch of leather boots on the crossbar grew louder and louder, and a horse bandit grabbed the fence of the watchtower, leaned over, and stepped up with his legs raised.
Zhi Hunt pounced with a broken sword, piercing the bandit's sheepskin vest and piercing through the heart. This broken sword is thin and sharp, and the broken objects are silent, like the shadow of a fish sliding through the deep water.
The horse bandit fell forward, and Shin Zhikari grabbed the corpse with his left hand, pulled it towards the fence, hooked the falling lantern with his toes, and moved to the side. The other bandit climbed up, and as soon as he came out, his throat was cold, and he was immediately pierced by the tip of his sword, and his upper body fell on the watchtower. Zhi Kajin dragged the horse bandit up, also leaned against the fence, assumed a posture of sitting opposite each other, and hung the lantern with his hand.
Zhijiazhen slid down the watchtower at a rapid pace, sweeping towards the other, and the two horse bandits were still climbing on the ladder. It was only when they climbed the watchtower, hung up the lanterns, and habitually looked around that they caught a glimpse of the backs of their accomplices leaning against the fence from the watchtower.
One of the horse bandits muttered a few words, and the other horse bandit shouted at the opposite side, and seeing that his accomplices did not react, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled out his horse chopping knife.
Zhi Hunt Zhen climbed the watchtower and swung his sword straight at the horse bandits. The horse bandits didn't have time to shout, so they hurriedly swung their knives to block them. The horse bandits on the side ran to the pillars and reached for the horns. A heavy whistling sound came after him from behind, and the huge axe blade swirled past, and the horse bandit broke off at the waist, and half of his body flew out with the big axe.
Zhi Hunting's forearm suddenly sank, and the tip of the sword slid cleverly under the blade, provoking an upward arc through the throat of the horse bandit. The horse bandit fell with blood splashed, and Zhi Hunt Zhen made a gesture to the fat tiger in the distance and rushed down the sentry tower. The fat tiger ran over, picked up the big axe, and grabbed the oiled paper bag in his hand.
Zhijia really walked to the mouth of the ravine and looked down. A deep trench with long twists and turns could not be seen, and the faint light of the fire swayed, forming a writhing shadow on the rock wall, and the laughter and scolding of the horse bandits were faintly heard.
"Slow down and follow behind, don't let the bandits escape. Zhi Kari leaned sideways against the stone wall, his body flattened, like a gecko scurrying lightly.
The deep ditch detours all the way down, extremely spacious, and Zhi Hunt really sees a section of pine torches inserted on both sides, sizzling. Two horse bandits leaned against the rock wall, guarding the front.
Zhi Hunt Zhen's body swam, slid silently across the rock wall, and the moment he approached the other party, the two horse bandits noticed at the same time, and were just about to shout a warning, when two crimson sword lights moved forward and one behind, like a spiritual rhino jade scissor, staggering and cutting through the neck of the horse bandit.
Blood splattered, and the two terrifying-looking heads flew up, and the broken sword of Zhijia Zhen swirled in mid-air, easily catching the falling heads, preventing them from landing on the ground. This time he killed the horse bandits, and he still responded with the sword style of the Snow Night Palace banquet map. The Three-Killing Machine Sword Qi will drain the opponent's flesh and blood, and the corpse will be examined afterwards, which will cause trouble.
Zhijiazhen went further down, and a wide and flat stone lawn came into view, and the exposed ore was bright white and shiny, reflecting the light all around. The horse bandits gathered in groups of three or five, barbecued meat and drank around the bonfire, guessed and cursed, and threw their sabers on the ground.
Zhi Hunt really felt tricky, this empty and bright hall, once killed, it would inevitably fall into the siege of horse thieves, and it would be difficult to break through each like before. His gaze swept around him repeatedly, and to the north of the stone flat sat a dense row of grottoes, covered with thick soft fur, where the horse thieves rested. On the east side are bulging sacks, like granaries. At the west end is a rock ditch that winds down and there is no bottom in sight. There was a sudden movement in the heart of the hunting, what about the horse thief's horse?
He clinged to the stone wall, slid upwards at first, then went around to the west, and while no one was looking, he swooped into the ravine, and fell down.
He heard the murmuring of water in the distance, and as far as the eye could see, the entire rock gully was sloping into a slope, like a giant fan covering it downward. The bottom of the slope leads to a large flat area, scattered with glowing blue-green ore. In the distance, a sparkling underground river flows, with a wide and gentle wave, dense with moss and weeds and dwarf fern wildflowers on the riverside. There are countless vertical and horizontal ditches extending on both sides, like an intricate underground labyrinth. Some passages are deep and unfathomable, huge enough to accommodate galloping horses, and some are as narrow as holes and dense as beehives.
Zhi Hunt really took a look at it, and went straight to the underground dark river. A hundred or so horses gathered by the river, drinking water and grazing. A teenage pony bandit with a horse brush washes the horses one by one. There was also a bearded horse bandit squatting on the side, and the leather whip in his hand was whipped on the little horse bandit from time to time, and he cursed in his mouth.
Zhijia real cat bent down, and with the help of the blocking of the horses, he quickly approached the horse bandits. The pony bandit turned sideways to pull the reins of his horse, just in time to catch a glimpse of Zhikari's figure passing by. The two looked at each other, and the pony bandit's dark blue pupils blinked, flashing a strange light.
With a flick of his wrist and about to throw his broken sword, the pony bandit turned around casually, bent down, and soaked the horse brush in the river to scrub it.
Zhi Hunt Zhen was slightly stunned, and the bearded horse bandit swung out a whip, causing the pony bandit to stagger forward, and plunged into the river, splashing everywhere. "Little bastard, he's fucking lazy again! I can't finish my work, I'll eat up my shit tonight!" the bearded bandit scolded viciously, grabbing a handful of weeds and wiping his buttocks.
The pony struggled to his feet, turned slowly, and stared straight at the bearded bandit, water and blood running down his broken forehead.
"Little bastard, dare to stare at Lao Tzu, are you going to rebel?" The bearded bandit raised his leather whip angrily, and his heart ached, and he looked down to see the tip of a sword exposing his chest. Zhijia Shin pulled out the broken sword behind him, blood splattered, and the horse thief "pounced" and fell to the ground.
"Don't kill me. The pony bandit held his head in his hands, looked at Zhi Kari Zhen calmly, and said as quickly as he could, "I know where the horse bandits' treasure is, I can take you there." I also know that there is a secret way out of the Eagle Sorrow Gully. β
Zhi Hunt Zhen's wrist shook slightly, and the tip of the sword pointed at the pony bandit: "Why should I escape?"
"If you kill all the bandits, you won't sneak over. There must be horse bandits up there, you slipped in. You can't get out from above with the horse thief's hidden treasure, you need a secret passage, and I can lead the way, as long as you let me go. The pony bandit looked directly at Zhi Hunting Zhen and talked eloquently, "If you have a grudge against the horse bandits, then I will do the same." I was captured by horse bandits a year ago, and I had to raise horses for them, and I suffered so humiliation that I wanted to kill them all!"
Zhi Hunt Zhen groaned for a moment and asked, "Where does the secret path lead?"
The pony replied cheerfully, "From here, you have to walk along the river, through some dark holes, and the exit is under a lake outside the sheep slaughterhouse. β
"Since you hate horse thieves, why don't you find an opportunity to escape from the secret passage?" Zhi Kari Shin sent his hand forward, and the broken sword was pressed against the other party's neck.
The pony bandit didn't look at the blade, and there was no fear on his face: "I don't know how to fight, and if I escape, I will be chased by the horse thief." What's more, I have suffered so much, how can I pat my ass and leave? β
Zhi Hunt Zhen frowned and said, "What chance?"
"Like now," the pony bandit grinned, revealing his white tiger teeth, "a chance to do a good job!"
Zhi Kami re-examined the other party, the pony bandit's hair was unkempt, his face was angular, the bridge of his nose was high, his eye sockets were deep, and his pupils were a deep cyan like a mountain. He wasn't tall, but he was quite strong, and his wheat-colored arms and calves were covered in scars and bruises.
"Are you a Yan person?" Zhi Hunt Zhen used to hear from the foot merchants that most of the nomadic people in the northern part of the Great Yan Dynasty had high noses and deep eyes, and their complexions were tan. They are good at horse taming, love spirits, and chase water and grass.
The pony bandit was silent for a moment, but did not answer.
Zhi Zhenzhen withdrew the broken sword and said slowly: "I want to kill all the horse bandits above, but I don't want to be besieged by them, do you have a way?"
The pony bandit's eyes lit up: "Follow me!" He ran a few steps, turned back, walked to the corpse of the bearded bandit, grabbed a stone, and slammed it down. "Bang-bang-bangββ" The dull crash sound was like a beast roaring, the horse bandit's face was sparse, the blood was splashing, and the skull was dented and deformed. The little pony bandit gouged out the horse bandit's eyeballs, threw them into his mouth, and bit them squeaked: "It's a pleasure, let's go!" He wiped a handful of blood from the corner of his mouth, smiled, and ran towards the dense ditch opposite.
"This is the stable, this is where the leader of the horse bandits, Wang Hezi, lives, and at that end is the prison cell...... Look, this is the treasury where the horse bandits hide their money!" The little horse bandit led Zhi Kari through several holes, walked to a large iron door with a padlock, took a thin wire from his hair, burrowed into the keyhole, and stirred it a few times. With a click, the latch snapped open, and the pony pushed open the door, obediently retreating to the side.
Zhi Hunt Zhen caught a glimpse of several black and heavy iron boxes inside, and suddenly, the eight-winged golden cicada in his soul vibrated and was restless, and let out a chirp that seemed to be eager and fearful.