Chen Tu shrugged his shoulders and replied, "This is not simple? If the matter of the so-called Nine Evil Islands is just a trick for these people in Qingzhou from beginning to end, then their real purpose is nothing more than to deal with us." Even so, the worst outcome is that they will ambush us in Yunmengze. Either drive a boat to fight a water battle with us, or set up ambushes waiting for us on some deserted islands in the center of Yunmengze, or secretly find someone to scuttle our ship...... With their little bit of fancy intestines, all they can come up with is nothing more than that. The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, with your and my ability, are you still afraid of this ghost trick?"

Hong Chen was stunned when he heard this, thought carefully in his heart, and felt that what Chen Tu said really made some sense, but he always felt that things might not go as expected, and said worriedly: "But ......"

"Where did you come from so much?" Chen Tu directly interrupted Hong Chen's words, "You are a person, you have a lot of ability, but you always love your mother-in-law, looking ahead and looking ahead, when you encounter something, you will babble about it for a while, not out of caution, purely because you have no bottom in your heart - not like a young man at all, just like an old lady." ”

Hong Chen didn't argue with Chen Tu, and just went back to the cabin to lie down. In the more than a year since he left Taoyuan, with the growth of experience and the accumulation of experience, Hong Chen has made a lot of changes in his way of dealing with the world, such as being polite and polite to the most people in the rivers and lakes of the martial arts sect, and he has long been dismissive in his heart, and he has no guilt for taking advantage of them, and he can solve it with his hands and talk less.

But on the other hand, I think more about things than before, and I always like to think again and again to make decisions.

Compared to Chen Tu, who is really brave and diligent, Hong Chen seems to be a little timid. But the two have been getting along for many days, and they already know each other's personalities, even if there are differences, they don't care, just take one step at a time. After all, both of them have rare skills, even if they really encounter something, it is nothing more than opening a road in the mountains, stacking bridges in the water, and no matter how high the hurdles, they can always get through.

The wooden boat has been sailing to the depths of Yunmengze, and during the day, Chen Tu and Hong Chen will look at the distant part of the lake, as if they want to pierce the fog shrouded in the water, to see if there is any trace of Jiusha Island. Sometimes, when the sun rises in the morning and the sun sets in the evening, the lake is dyed red, and Chen Tu toasts to the scenery and sip the old wine that the owner has left in the cabin.

Eight hundred miles of cloud Mengze is enough for the two of them to explore for a long time. Hong Chen asked the owner of the boat to drive the boat around Yun Mengze with all his might, so that even if he couldn't find Jiusha Island, he waited for a big circle, returned to Qingyue City and went ashore, and rode a horse to continue southward in the direction of Manzhou. Chen Tu was thinking about the divine weapons of the various martial arts sects in the Qingwu League, and said to Hong Chen: "When the time comes, you can ride my horse to the south first, and I will ride your fast horse to grab their weapons, and then chase you." ”

On this day, when the wooden boat sailed to the middle of Yunmengze, two large ships suddenly appeared in the fog, and the people on them raised their bows and shot rockets at the wooden boat. The owner of the boat thought that he had encountered a lake thief, and shouted to the big boat: "We are a fishing boat, and we have no possessions. But the people on the big ship didn't seem to hear anything, and the rockets whizzed down like rain.

The wooden boat caught fire, and the owner of the boat hurriedly let the boatmen and Hong Chen Chen Tu flee for their lives. Chen Tu dismantled a plank from the cabin and threw it into the water, picked up a broadsword, jumped onto the plank, and used the sword as an oar to row towards one of the big boats. Hong Chen directly picked up the light work, tread the water, and ran to another big ship.

In a moment's time, the two large ships each dropped a few small sampans full of people and rowed off into the distance. Hong Chen and Chen Tu each occupied a large boat, stood on the side of the boat and shouted to the owner of the boat to come and start the boat. The owner of the ship was too frightened just now, but at this time, he got his hands on two big ships in a rage, and he felt like he was dreaming. However, the two big ships could not be driven away with the manpower under him, so they could only call for the one occupied by Hongchen, and as for Chen Tu's ship, the damage was more serious, so he abandoned it.

"You're right. Hong Chen said to Chen Tu, "We've only been on Yunmengze for a few days, and we ran into a group of inexplicable water thieves. "Judging from the situation just now, the people on these two big ships are not like ordinary water thieves, who almost did not resist when they saw themselves jumping into the boat, one slipped faster than the other, and ran away on the small sampan.

Chen Tu sighed: "It seems that everything is just a bureau, there is really no place for Jiusha Island - we don't need to find an island to land on the island, we will go back after wandering around in this Yunmengze." I have to eat better these days, after all, when I get there, I have to work hard to visit them one by one and ask them to go. ”

The small wooden boats of the past have been replaced by the larger ships of today, and the sailing speed is slower than before. After all, for such a large boat, the boatmen who rowed wood before were obviously not manpowered, even with the help of Hong Chen and Chen Tu, they could still only swing in the lake and could not row quickly.

Therefore, when Hong Chen and Chen Tu circled around most of Yunmengze and returned to Qingyue City, it was already October 14 - a full four days later than the 10th day of October.

The first thing Hong Chen did was to go back to Qingyue Tower to get the horse, while Chen Tu went directly to the city from the dock, planning to visit a certain gang in Qingyue City first, and ask Jiusha Island if he really came to the door to take the head, and by the way, grab someone's knife.

Outside Qingyue Tower, Hong Chen settled the money with the groom who watched the horses at the stable, and took out the horses that tread the snow and Chen Tu. Just walked a few steps, but saw Chen Tu running over with a shocked face. Hong Chen faintly felt an ominous feeling in his heart, and asked him, "What's the matter, what happened?"

Chen Tu ran to Hong Chen, panting and said, "I just arrived at the Bamboo Branch Gang...... Just see their whole gang...... They were all hung with white cloths, they should have been dead, and the battle was still very big! When they inquired again, they found that it was the people of Jiusha Island who had killed their gang leader, and in the middle of the night, they died next to his sleeping wife, and they didn't even make a sound of resistance. ”

"What? Is the Nine Evil Islands really here to kill someone?"

Hong Chen always thought that Jiusha Island was just a lie, but he never thought that someone really died in the hands of Jiusha Island. Immediately, he said: "How can it be the Nine Evil Islands? Maybe this gang leader provoked some enemy before he was assassinated." ”

Chen Tu smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe we thought wrong-the dead are not only the Bamboo Branch Gang." In Qingyue City before, everyone who received an invitation letter from Jiusha Island, every gang sect had died! either the head of the sect who died, or the great elder who died, in short, all of them were the most important figures of each faction. And everyone dies differently. On the night of the tenth day of October, in addition to the leader of the Bamboo Branch Gang who was broken by a palm, there were two other people who were pierced through the chest with a sword and had their heads shattered by a blunt object. It can be seen that it is not one person, but many people. ”

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