Chapter Seventy-Eight: Notorious One
The shouts of killing echoed in the four fields, and when I looked back, I saw the figures on the hill on the culvert slope, mixed with the sound of gold and iron fighting. We squeezed all the way through a narrow crack in the underground cavern, but we were far away from the culvert slope, but the shouting and scolding there were as close as our ears and could be heard clearly.
The disciples of the Qingcheng faction and the people of the White Tiger Altar were fighting, and we didn't feel anything when we ran underground before, and only when we went underground could we feel the fierceness of the battle between the two sides. I looked at the culvert slope in the distance. From here, I could barely see anything, but Rao was so far away that I could smell a strong smell of blood in the air.
When He Erniang also squeezed out of the crack in the stone wall, the red-tailed strange man followed and poked out half of his head from the crack in the stone wall, and said: "Zheng Daxia, I can only send you here, you go east along this slope, you can reach Tiezui Lake in less than half a day, and then walk for another day to Nasha City." ”
Zheng Dongsheng nodded and said, "I'm still familiar with the roads in this area, Brother Chen, go back quickly, don't be seen, I will notify Master Dong Zhuang as soon as possible and let him come here." Leave. ”
The red-tailed monster opened his mouth, as if he had something else to say, but when the words came to his lips, he only said the word "farewell!" and after saying that, he retracted his head into the crack in the stone and disappeared without a trace.
The stone wall was clinging to a small hill, and the crack above it was very low, not very large, barely squeezing through a person's body, and although the stone wall was overgrown with weeds, it was not hidden. The woods in this area are already very sparse, except for the hill where the culvert slope is located, there is still a mountain, and the surrounding area is full of such low hills, which can be seen in an unobstructed view.
The fact that this crack leads directly to the cave in the ground was a bit unexpected to me, and if I hadn't come out of this crack, I would have thought of it as an ordinary gap in the stone wall.
Bidding farewell to the red-tailed weirdo, He Erniang and I followed Zheng Dongsheng and ran towards a hill to the east.
The sky was already a little green, but the clouds lingered in the sky, and the rain was still falling.
Stepping on the damp shallow puddle, I gradually moved away from the culvert slope. Although I didn't look back, it was just that I was irritable in my heart, and my ears always seemed to echo the killing cries on the side of the culvert slope.
This time, I don't know how many people will die again. I was running around thinking in my head.
The bones of the dead will be left forever in that place called the culvert slope, right? Maybe their bones will be picked up by the beasts of the forest, or maybe no one cares about them until they turn to ashes. The grievances between the two realms seem to be getting deeper and deeper, and I have seen more and more, and I can now deeply understand them.
After turning over a few hills, we hurried forward seven or eight miles, rounded a high ground, and suddenly a muddy swamp appeared in front of us.
The swamp was not very large, only a few feet in size, and the pond was covered with dead grass and black silt. Because it was still raining, there were no flying insects in the swamp, only a few white bones floating in the middle of the pond.
There was a low dead tree on the edge of the swamp pond, and as soon as we approached the dead tree, Zheng Dongsheng in front of him suddenly stopped under the tree, turned his head to look at me, and said, "You saw everything that happened underground before, right?"
He Erniang and I also stopped, I glanced at He Erniang, raised my hand and hugged Zheng Dongsheng, and said, "Go back to your predecessors, I saw it." ”
Zheng Dongsheng smiled and said, "I saw you when you were chased by Ban Huailing to the culvert slope, and I also heard what you said by the waterhole. ”
What did he mean by this? I didn't react for a while, and said, "Senior, what's the matter?"
Zheng Dongsheng paused, suddenly put his hands behind his back, turned his head into the distance, and said after a while: "Actually, the disciple named Guan Wenlu was not killed by me, but committed suicide by taking poison, I just restrained him." ”
His words were very strange, and my mind was a little confused, and he said, "Senior, is that person really a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect?"
Zheng Dongsheng said slowly: "It is indeed a disciple of the Qingcheng faction, and he is a disciple of Ban Huailing, I was ordered by the owner of the village to secretly investigate the secret organization, and I only found this clue four months ago, but I didn't expect that if I tracked it down to this place, the clue would be broken." ”
It turned out that Guan Wenlu was a disciple of Ban Huailing. I was slightly startled.
But I didn't think it was strange to hear him say that Guan Wenlu committed suicide. I don't know what kind of organization this is, but I also know that this secret organization has always been cautious and cautious, when Cheng Fuhai found out Yang Caizhen and Zhang Shengde, even if the two were dead, they were unwilling to reveal the slightest bit of information about the organization, and the degree of caution can be imagined.
It's just, what is Zheng Dongsheng telling me to do with this?
I thought about it for a while and said, "Senior, although Guan Wenlu is dead, fortunately, there is a Zhu Shuangyan now, and the clues are still there." ”
Zheng Dongsheng smiled suddenly and said, "What you said is good, so this time I don't want to miss my hand again, and I don't want to see the news of this place leaked by others." ”
As he spoke, his right hand suddenly put his four fingers together, and he turned his palm upward, and he didn't see any energy bursting out of his body, but he saw the clumsy knife on his calf as if he was being guided, and with a "poof" sound, it suddenly bounced out of the scabbard, and the handle happened to fall in his right hand.
As soon as he held the handle of the knife, Zheng Dongsheng raised it with one hand, and the tip of the knife suddenly pointed at He Erniang.
He wanted to kill He Erniang!
It dawned on me. He talked about it for a long time, and in the end, it turned out to be the idea. He Erniang is a person from the Immortal Hall, he may be afraid that He Erniang will leak out the affairs here and disturb the people in the secret organization, so I am afraid that Zhu Shuangyan's clue will also be broken.
He Erniang was startled, and her hand reached into her waist, already holding her golden ghost head knife in her hand. She only drew the big knife now, a little later than Zheng Dongsheng, that is, she pulled out the big knife, where is Zheng Dongsheng's opponent? Probably she also knows this, although she holds the big knife in her hand, the blade of the knife trembles non-stop.
I knew that the situation was wrong, so I held down the big knife in He Erniang's hand, and said hurriedly: "Senior Zheng, what do you mean!"
Zheng Dongsheng glanced at me, but the clumsy knife in his hand danced, and said slowly: "Gu Tian, the stakes are very high, this woman is a member of the Immortal Hall, not my clan, in case she leaks this matter after she goes back and is known by Boss Jin, I'm afraid Boss Jin will never send someone here to get medicine again." ”
Zheng Dongsheng also didn't want to spoil Cheng Fuhai's big thing. Boss Jin acted cautiously and secretively, Cheng Fuhai had been unsuccessful for many years, and it was easy to find a clue, where was Zheng Dongsheng willing to let go easily? I hurriedly hugged him and said: "Senior, this person has a life-and-death friendship with Zaixia, and I hope that my predecessor will give Zai Xia a few thin noodles and let her live." ”
It's a bit perfunctory, but I can't do that much. Although I came to the culvert slope with He Erniang, in terms of friendship, it was pitiful. We've only met twice in total, and we don't even know each other very well, so there's no reason for me to be so protective of her. It's just that in my heart, I don't want to watch her die.