Chapter 38 Returning Home
Blood flowed all over the ground, and the thick snow that had accumulated on the ground was dyed bright red, and then faded again.
Maybe Lu Shen's shot was too lacking in fireworks, or maybe the scene in the field was too weird, and several big men didn't react.
Murder is not terrible to them, because what they do is the sinister business of killing people and taking money.
They slaughter a lot of people from out of town every year, and the success rate is amazing.
In addition to this is actually a very simple game, the most important guarantee is this woman in red who practices qi in the eight realms.
Not to mention ordinary people, there are countless old rivers and lakes who died under the sneak attack behind her.
It's just why did she die so easily?
Seeing this scene, everyone's faces turned pale, and their hearts were even more frightened.
Because this terrifying method reminded them of a cultivator whose identity --- identity.
And is a cold-blooded and ruthless practitioner.
Some people were the first to raise their legs and run to the rear, and then the rest of the people also reflected and fled in all directions.
Lu Shen didn't speak, and four golden rays of light came out of his sleeve, chasing those people away.
In the silent alley, only the sound of hard objects breaking could be heard, and everyone was dead in just one or two breaths.
Poof.
The bald man, who was the boss of the group, fell to the ground, his legs were no longer strong, so he could only kick the ground with his feet, trying to stay away from the man in front of him, but water was gradually falling to the ground in the crotch of his pants.
Naturally, he didn't die because he dodged the flying sword, but because he was scared stupid and didn't run.
I saw the bald man say in a trembling voice: "I.. I am... It's the nephew of General Zhang in Xinsha Town!
Lu Shen realized that there was still someone at this time, and with a random wave of his hand, the bald man's head fell.
Blood spilled on the mottled walls, a mess and gore.
Lu Shen put the four small swords back into his sleeve, and then turned his head to look.
There was a little girl in a tattered cotton jacket with a dirty face standing in the corner, holding a large string of sugar gourd sticks on her frostbitten hands.
Lu Shen walked over.
The little girl looked at Lu Shen, did not scream or run, her small mouth opened slightly, and her weather-beaten little face was full of sadness and confusion.
She was very young, but she had been through and seen a lot of hardships, so she knew she might die.
The man in the hat crouched down and said, "You saw that?"
The little girl with the sugar gourd pursed her lips and said timidly, "Are you going to kill me?"
Lu Shen thought for a while and said, "I won't kill you, but I bought your sugar gourd, don't tell anyone else, okay?"
The little girl didn't have any compassion, smiled sweetly, and said, "Okay." β
....
The little girl held a piece of silver the size of a sugar gourd in her hand, and then quietly stuffed it into her arms, and after making sure that nothing was unusual, she jumped and ran outside.
Lu Shen turned around and continued to walk deeper into the alley, finally stopping at the back door of a dilapidated mansion.
Judging from the size, the owner of this house should have been one of the largest families in the town during his lifetime.
And that's exactly what happened.
Lu Yuanyou is the name of the owner of this house, and he is also a well-known local good man.
Every year, grain will be given to the poor people in the town, a Confucian protΓ©gΓ©, gentle and approachable but also aggressive, over time the voice is loud, ordinary ruffians dare not provoke.
It's just a rainy night ten years ago, and the family didn't know what disaster they encountered, and the whole family of 36 people, including the martial artists who had achieved cultivation, all died, and none of them were left.
Some people say that it is because of the monsters on the side of the Endless Demon Domain, and some people say that it is done by cultivators with bad bones, and there are different theories.
It's just that after so many years, it is still an unsolved case.
Lu Shen looked at the house quietly, and his eyes flashed a little unprecedentedly.
The main reason why he went out of the mountain this time was that he wanted to come back and see, after all, this was the place where he had lived for many years since he was a child, and it was not very far from the Sword Pavilion.
It's just that he's never told anyone about it.
Lu Shen bent down, picked up a key from under a light-colored brick, and inserted it into the keyhole.
Babble.
The wooden door that had already decayed was slowly pushed open, and Lu Shen walked in.
The yard was overgrown with weeds, covered with snow and deserted, with occasional long-tailed lizards crawling over the earthen walls and burrowing into the deep grass on the other side.
Lu Shen seemed to be wandering, he walked through the garden, the bedroom, the backyard, then room after room, and finally came to the lobby.
There is a plaque hanging under the eaves of the lobby, and you can vaguely see the four characters of Gao Feng Liangjie.
Lu Shen placed a large string of sugar gourd sticks next to the pillar at random, took out a large basin from a grocery pile in the corner, and then sat cross-legged on the ground.
"After thinking about it for a long time, I thought I should come and see you. β
Lu Shen faced the air and said, "After all, you have taught me the most important lesson since I woke up. β
Bang.
The plaque above his head exploded, shattered into many neat wooden blocks, and fell to the ground one after another.
Lu Shen casually threw a piece of wood into the basin, and then a flame magically rose.
Outside, the night was getting darker, and the firelight lit up the entire lobby.
Lu Shen threw in a wooden plank every hour or two to ensure that the flames did not stop.
The young man's eyes were surprisingly quiet at this time, but there was some indescribable sadness.
A cold light flashed in the center of the boy's eyebrows, and then an ethereal red-haired woman appeared in the air.
Yun Wei looked around and said curiously, "Where is this?"
Lu Shen said: "The Lu family's mansion. β
"The anger here is so heavy, and the demonic spirit of the Endless Demon Domain is too strong, I don't like it. β
Yun Sheng looked around, frowned slightly, and said, "I still like places with a lot of spiritual power." β
Lu Shen nodded and said, "Just stay for a day or two, and leave soon." β
"You're not in a good mood?"
Yun Sheng felt Lu Shen's emotional ups and downs, and asked curiously.
Lu Shen closed his eyes and said quietly: "If you are in a bad mood, you are naturally in an unstable mood, so you have to hone more." β
Yun Sheng sighed and said, "You're such a boring guy. β
Lu Shen opened his eyes and said seriously: "It won't be boring after a while." β
It's been a long time, and it's late at night.
The sound of slight footsteps finally sounded outside the lobby.
A figure stepped out of the darkness.
It was a young man dressed in a tiger's skin beast suit, with dark skin and a muscular body, and there seemed to be endless strength under the tight muscles.
He casually looked at the scene in the lobby, and finally leaned on the pillar with his arms around his chest, looked at Lu Shen and said with a smile: "Say hello first, I'm here to ask for your life." β
...
Lu Shen put his hands in front of the brazier, his face unchanged.
He had known that he would be in trouble when he came back today, because he had spared a little boy in this lobby many years ago, exactly the same as the little girl who sold sugar gourds today.
Lu Shen obviously knew that she would be interrogated from the beginning, and then finally told her characteristics and traces in the coercion and temptation of the other party, but he still didn't kill her.
If you kill them all, maybe you won't have any trouble today.
But Lu Shen did not regret this choice.
....
Four hours ago.
Several bodies in the secluded alley had been moved to a heavily guarded barracks outside the town.
Zhang Kui, who held the highest military position in Xinsha Town, looked at the headless male corpse, and his face was extremely gloomy.
Because he is the uncle of the bald man Zhang Hun, he serves as a miscellaneous general here, the lowest kind, and there are only more than 100 people under his hands.
It's not very good on the outside, but it's a kind of earth emperor in the town.
A henchman glanced at Zhang Kui's face and said, "Why don't I send troops to encircle and suppress him now?" The general situation is clarified from a little girl who sells sugar gourds anyway, even if she looks like a cultivator, but if you regard my Datang law as nothing, you can still kill him!"
"No hurry, I'm thinking about something. β
Zhang Kui squinted his eyes and was silent for a while, and then said, "Do you remember the tragedy of Lu Yuanyou back then?"
"I naturally remember this event. β
The henchman was a little puzzled, what was the point of suddenly mentioning this matter.
Zhang Kui said: "Looking at these sword wounds, if my guess is correct, this murderer is from the Sword Pavilion. β
The henchman whispered in response and said, "Then?"
Zhang Kui said in a deep voice: "When Lu Yuanyou was old and had a son, I heard that the child was born extremely smart, he didn't cry or make trouble since he was a child, he learned everything and knew everything, and he was known as a prodigy who was rare in a thousand years, and he also liked to practice swords..."
The henchman heard the meaning of the words, and felt that the general was too suspicious, and the two things were not connected at all, and said with a smile: "The general is too worried, there are so many people in the world who practice swords, take 10,000 steps back and say, what if it is Lu Yuanyou's son?
"No, he's not dead. β
Zhang Kui exhaled lightly and muttered, "The Lu family actually has thirty-seven people, and there was no him in the death list that year. β
The henchman's eyes widened, and he said puzzledly: "Didn't the top say that the whole clan was wiped out? β
"Because the things at that time were too weird, the people sent by Chang'an City had a speculation, and they didn't dare to announce the matter for this speculation. β
Zhang Kui looked at the corpses under his feet, and said with a solemn expression: "As a result, I found out that this matter may really come true." β
The henchman asked, "What is the matter?"
Zhang Kui looked at his henchman, his expression was complicated, and he said word by word: "There was a great cultivator in Xinsha Town back then, and there were no other cultivators who could come in that night. β
"Everyone in the Lu family died, only the son of the Lu family did not die, and disappeared out of thin air. β
"Of the thirty-six people who died that year, eight of them had sword wounds on their heads and sword wounds on these corpses... It's the same. β
"In the end, the man who broke out and killed people today went to Lu Zhai. β
The henchman was stunned at first, then his pupils shrank, a cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he shouted in a lost voice: "General... The general is saying that today's sword cultivator is the son of the Lu family back then! He also killed thirty-six members of his family with his own hands?!"