Chapter 2: The Hunt

"Lao Li, go quickly! Protect the young master! I'll stop them!"

Li Qihu looked at it with tears in his eyes, turned to meet Du Hui, the good brother of the chasing soldiers, and stiffened his heart and ran forward. He knew that this group of pursuers was only the vanguard of the enemy, used to cast a net to find them and slow them down. After they are discovered, they will quickly notify the masters behind them and come to encircle and suppress them.

This has happened several times, and it was the good brothers who gave up their lives to meet the enemy, trading their lives for time to escape. When they first started to escape, there were still ten people, but now, apart from themselves and the unconscious young master on their backs, only Du Hui was left. And just now, Lao Du also went backwards to meet the inevitable fate, and helped himself to buy another hour or so.

Li Qi ran forward for another two quarters of kung fu, calculating the time, Du Hui should have been surrounded by the masters who caught up, Du Hui's kung fu was second only to himself, and he could probably hold on for a quarter of an hour under the fight, that is, at the latest, his last brother would die in a quarter of an hour.

Li Qi knew that he would die eventually, but he must hide the young master before he died, and he must keep the last trace of the master's bloodline!

Rushing forward again, a turbulent river suddenly appeared in front of Li Qi's eyes, and at the same time took away his last shred of hope!

Li Qi thought desperately, without a bridge or a boat, he really couldn't safely take the young master across the river with his peak cultivation. And the pursuers behind him will come in half an hour at most, and the other party has a master who is proficient in tracking, and this time he will definitely not be able to dodge if he is fallen.

Li Qi, who had no master of the six gods, could only go upstream along the river, hoping to find a way to cross the river. After walking less than a mile, I saw a dilapidated wild temple standing by the river. At this time, Li Qi was already like a walking corpse, and when he passed by the wild temple, he glanced inside blankly, and was ready to continue looking forward.

But this glance made Li Qi nailed to the spot, because he saw a little beggar lying on the ground in the broken temple!

Li Qi's expression was uncertain, he looked at the beggar, and then at the young master, hesitated for half a cup of tea, and finally felt ruthless in his heart: "Let's go, I, Li Qi, have received great favor from the old man, and I can't repay it." Now that the old lady has been killed, I can't let the last of their blood be cut off. Beggar, I will replace the young master with you today, and I hope you will bless the young master to live safely. I, Li Qi, will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and I will repay your kindness!"

Having made up his mind, Li Qi walked into the temple, came to the beggar's side, and saw that he was motionless, so he stretched out his hand and turned the beggar over, and then his breath was relieved. But it turned out that this beggar had just died, but I don't know whether he died of illness or starvation. Although Li Qi has made up his mind to take the beggar to death, it is better not to harm people or not to harm others.

Li Qi compared the figures of the two, and was pleased to find that the difference was not far away, so he quickly swapped the clothes of the beggar and the young master, looked at the palm print on the young master's chest, and pressed one of the gourds on the beggar's body in the same way. He is proficient in all kinds of palm techniques, and it is still possible to disguise an ordinary palm print. Then he took out all the silver money and dry food on his body, wrapped it into a small bag and stuffed it into the young master's arms. looked at the Buddha statue in the wild temple that was missing half of its head, and after carrying the young master to the Buddha statue, he secretly prayed: "Buddha, Buddha, don't blame me for breaking your statue, saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, you save my young master!"

After saying that, Li Qi was lucky, and with a 'click', he made a small hole in the back of the Buddha statue, which was too big for adults to enter, but the young master was only eleven years old, and his body had lost a lot of weight because of his injury, so he could get into it.

Li Qi put the young master inside safely, and took off his coat to pad the bottom for him. Then gently cover the hole with several large pieces of mud. Quickly picked up the beggar and came to the outside of the temple, found a stone and shone it on the beggar's face, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and the shape could not be seen.

Li Qi nodded with satisfaction, threw the stone into the river from a distance, broke a large branch on the roadside tree, first returned to the broken temple to sweep away all the footprints, and then walked towards the road, by the way, he used the branches to sweep away the traces on the side of the road, covering up the fact that he had been to the broken temple.

Slowly walking to the river at the bend, Li Qi threw the branch into the water, watched the branch go down the river, began to think about his life, and then burst into laughter.

"Think of a fart, Lao Li, I was a bastard before I met my master, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, cheating, and living a chaotic life, and then I got into trouble and was almost beaten to death. Fortunately, the old man rescued me, lived my dog's life, taught me martial arts, taught me to be a man, ate and drank well, and married me a good daughter-in-law, although I did not give birth to a boy and a girl, but the life is comfortable. Now that the lord is in trouble, I can save his bloodline, and even if I go to the Nine Springs, I can see the lord, the lady and the dead brothers with my face raised. Alas, it's just a pity that it has affected my daughter-in-law. That's it, it's a big deal that I will serve her as a filial son and grandson in the next life, which can be regarded as the love of husband and wife in this life!"

Li Qi was thinking about it, when he heard a commotion in the distance, he knew that the enemy was chasing him, he looked at the beggar in his arms, and said with a smile: "Boy, you were already dead when I saw you, so what I said before about being a cow and a horse doesn't count." But I borrowed your corpse, and I owe you a favor, in the next life, you will be reincarnated later to be a son of Lao Tzu, and I will raise you for a lifetime, and you will no longer have to suffer from sleeping in the open and begging along the street, how about it?"

Then when he looked up, he saw that someone had already turned around, and when the man saw Li Qi standing by the river with a beggar in his arms, he immediately shouted excitedly and beckoned the people behind him to hurry up.

Li Qi smiled coldly, and the luck under his feet flew out three feet, and he fell into the river with a thud, and then was covered by the swift river water.

Several pursuers were stunned and hurriedly ran to the river, but where could they still see Li Qi's figure?

I was at a loss for what to do, when I suddenly heard someone behind me ask, "I said I caught up, but what about people?"

Several people hurriedly turned around and saw a big man walking over with a team of people. What a big man, I saw him in his thirties, eight feet tall, his eyes were bright, his eyebrows went straight into his temples, his nose was like a gall, and his temples were like knives.

Seeing him, everyone hurriedly bowed down and shouted together: "I've seen the rudder master!"

Then the leader replied: "We just turned the corner in front of us, and we saw Li Qi jumping into the river with that kid in his arms. ”

The helmsman glared: "Jump into the river, jump into the river, and fish him out for me! You go down the river to find him." If you want to see people in life, you must see corpses in death!" After speaking, he waved to the people behind him, "You go together." ”

After speaking, he groaned for a while, and then pointed to the two people and said, "You two go upstream to take a look, prevent him from going ashore from upstream, and don't fall for that golden cicada's plan to get out of its shell." ”

The two looked at the turbulent river in front of them, and didn't think that anyone could go upstream, but the boss asked them to find it, then go and find it, anyway, it's safer over there, after all, the few big men in front of them also killed a lot of them, it is said that this last Li Qi kung fu is the most powerful, in case he is really alive, the possibility of appearing downstream is always greater than that of the upstream, and it is not fun to be slapped to death.

Half an hour later, the two people who went upstream came back to report: "Helmsman, we went up to see, less than two miles up is a waterfall, seventeen or eighteen zhang high, no one can climb it." There are no traces of the Venerable Master on either side of the river. In addition, there is a ruined temple less than a mile away, we went in to see, and there was no one in disrepair. ”

"Broken Temple?" the rudder master's eyes narrowed, "Are you sure there's no one?"

"Sure! I've rummaged inside and out, there is not the slightest human population, and the ground is also a layer of floating soil, as if it has not been a human being for a long time. ”

"Well, okay, then I'。。。。。。 Just as the rudder master was about to speak, another person rushed downstream.

"Helmsman, helmsman! Found! Both of their bodies have been found!"

"What! Well done, take me there!" The helmsman didn't care about the upper reaches for now, and hurriedly picked up the light work, and ran down with the guy who had just run over.

On the way, this guy also explained to the helmsman that fortunately, a tree fell in front of him and stopped the bodies of the two, otherwise it would be really difficult to find such a rapid current.

As soon as the incense was burned, the helmsman rushed to the side of the fallen tree. At this time, the two bodies had already been recovered, and because they had not been soaked in the water for a short time, they were not swollen and foamed.

The rudder lord went over and looked carefully, well, it was really Li Qi's house, hey, this Li Qi is known as Feiyun Zhang, and he is also well-known among more than a dozen large and small sects within a radius of hundreds of miles, but he doesn't want to be drowned in the end.

After reading Li Qi, he turned his head to look at another corpse, and then the rudder lord frowned and asked, "What's the matter with his face?"

"Back to the helm, that's it when you catch it, maybe you hit a stone in the water. ”

The rudder lord snorted coldly, thought about it, and tore the clothes on the corpse's chest, only to see a palm print on his chest. The guy next to him glanced at it and said, "It shouldn't be wrong, the little cub of the Zhang family was slapped in the chest by Liu Duo before, you see that he is thin, it is estimated that he has not been well in the past few days, I think even if it is not drowned, the little cub will not survive tomorrow." ”

The Helmsman nodded, agreeing with the other party's statement in his heart. So he said loudly to the surrounding subordinates: "Okay, after five days, we finally cleaned up the remnants of the Zhang family, well done, everyone's efforts are in my eyes, and the rewards in the gang are indispensable." The dead and wounded brothers also had their own bereavement. Now come back with me to help eat meat and drink wine, and Lao Tzu will invite you to Hongyinglou for one more night. ”

"Oh! The rudder lord is wise!" This group of gangsters did suffer a lot in five days, and there were many casualties on the way, and they were originally quite resentful, but the rudder lord said two words, which made them grateful to Dade, and the resentment was gone, and I have to say that there are some means.

The rudder master glanced at the dead corpses on the ground again, said "take away", and led the way to come.