261. Serendipitous encounters
After descending the mountain, the two returned to the thatched hut, cleaned up casually, and set off.
Before leaving, Luo Xiang specially worshiped his parents. Growing up in this place, thinking that he was about to go to the land of Kyushu, Luo Xiang's heart was full of melancholy.
The place Lu Chen went to this time was Youzhou, which is close to the Far Eastern Prairie.
It is more than 1,600 miles away from their current place, and if you walk there alone, it is estimated that you will not be able to reach it in half a month with Luo Xiang, a kid.
On a desolate path, Lu Chen and Luo Xiang walked slowly, neither of them spoke on the way, as if they maintained a tacit understanding. It wasn't until after dark that the two lit a bonfire in a valley that Luo Xiang couldn't help but ask each other.
"Master!"
Lu Chen looked up at the other party and said with a light smile: "You seem to have a lot of questions for me?"
"En!" Luo Xiang nodded.
Lu Chen fiddled with the dry firewood and said, "If there is anything you want to ask, just say it, let you know, I will let you know!"
"Master, I don't know your name yet!" Luo Xiang scratched his hair and said a little embarrassed.
When Lu Chen heard this, he smiled dumbly: "My name is Lu Chen!"
"Oh, got it!" Luo Xiang nodded, he had been with Lu Chen for nearly two months, Luo Xiang rarely cared about the identity of the other party, and only thought that he had saved an ordinary person.
He didn't expect that it was the person he inadvertently saved that quietly rewrote his fate.
It's funny that the two have been together for so long, Luo Xiang doesn't even know each other's names.
If it weren't for Lu Chen's appearance, maybe he would still be the poor boy who was sloppy and sloppy, and wanted to work hard and change his fate.
So Luo Xiang was very grateful to Lu Chen in his heart.
"It's inconvenient to reveal my identity to you now, I'll tell you when the time is right!" Lu Chen said.
Luo Xiang nodded thoughtfully: "Well, I know!"
"So where are we going now?"
"Youzhou!"
Lu Chen looked up at the east, his heart full of confusion. When you take revenge, where will you go from here?
Luo Xiang looked puzzled and said, "Where are we going to do something?"
"I have something to do, you follow me for the time being!" Lu Chen said warmly.
"En!" Luo Xiang nodded, full of trust in Lu Chen. As soon as the morning dawned, the two set off.
The mountain was high and the water was long, and the two men had no horses to hurry, and the speed of progress was very slow.
When the two happened to pass by a canyon, they encountered a group of bandits robbing them, and Luo Xiang was very nervous at that time.
Forty-five bandits surrounded them, one by one, they were fierce and vicious, threatening them to hand over their money, and ordinary people were not nervous when they saw the tense scene.
Luo Xiang grew up in Luoyan Valley since he was a child, although he was often bullied and embarrassed by his peers, but at least his life was stable, where had he seen this kind of scene, he was stupid at that time.
Lu Chen looked like a down-and-out vagabond, who knew that he shot like lightning, the purple soft sword was like a reaper of death's reaper, everywhere he went, countless purple sword shadows lit up, and those thieves fell one by one, corpses were all over the field, blood flowed like a river, and the scene was very bloody.
If Luo Xiang was only shocked when he saw Lu Chen's strength before, this time he was completely conquered by his master's terrifying strength, and his heart was full of admiration for Lu Chen.
After killing most of the bandits, some of the little minions were so frightened that they saw that the situation was not good, and they scattered and fled.
Lu Chen didn't care about this, the Kyushu continent was based on martial arts, the world was turbulent, and ordinary people could only rely on the blessing of some sectarian strength if they wanted to survive.
But when you get to this mountain outskirts, it is the world of bandits and rogues, so when you wander around the Kyushu continent, you are most likely to encounter this kind of bandits who block the road and rob them.
These bandits died innocently, Lu Chen was ruthless, and found a lot of money on the dead bandit leader, and finally took a careful inventory.
There were more than 1,000 taels of finely broken silver, 38,000 taels of silver tickets, and some gold and silver jewelry, which totaled nearly 40,000 taels.
"The bandits robbed the passing merchants, I came to rob these bandits, the money is fast, interesting!" Lu Chen looked at the gold and silver on the ground, shook his head and smiled.
Luo Xiang stood aside, his eyes stunned.
He swore that he had never seen so much money in his life. A pile of money lay in front of him, and his mouth was dry for a while.
He instructed Luo Xiang to pack these gold and silver finely and softly, and set off in the direction of Youzhou again, with this money, there is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and when he entered the nearby county town, Lu Chen planned to buy two fast horses to hurry. After a long day's journey, the two entered
I entered a county town called Stone Town, spent some money to change my outfit, and then found a tavern for a full meal.
In an inn, Lu Chen gave Luo Xiang some small pieces of silver: "Take this money and use it to buy some daily necessities, we still have a long way to go!"
"Oh!" Luo Xiang nodded, took the silver and went out. Lu Chen stood in front of the window, overlooking the streets of Stone Town, and fell into thought in his heart.
Youzhou is located in the northeast border of Kyushu, the people are fierce, it is the territory controlled by the Vulcan Sect, it is deep-rooted, powerful, as one of the eight major sects in the world, it is even more powerful.
Even the spies of the Seven Killings have infiltrated it, and this mysterious force seems to be weaving a net, what is the purpose behind it? Lu Chen has always been puzzled by this.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Chen and Luo Xiang set off, each riding a fast horse to Youzhou.
With horses, the speed is faster than walking I don't know how much, and the two soon left the border of Jizhou and came to the border of Yangzhou.
After rushing for a long time, the road was calm and there were no accidents. When rushing to a canyon that must be passed, he happened to encounter a group of bandits robbing the caravan.
This caravan numbered about 200 people, and was organized by a number of small merchants, and many valuable goods were transported in the caravan. The place where the robbery was encountered is called Sunset Canyon, which is the only way to go to Youzhou, the mountain road is tortuous, and it only takes three more days to walk around the road. These merchants obviously did not know the complicated situation here, and hurriedly walked in, and the bandits who were ambushed near the canyon had already prepared an ambush, and pulled out a tripwire on the way, tripping most of the caravan's horses, and spilling some silk, bricks, tea and other goods on the ground.
Immediately afterward, a barrage of arrows rained down.
On the spot, some of the good guards shot down a dozen, the blood stained the canyon red at once, and the screams rang out one after another, seeing this scene, the merchants in the caravan turned pale with fright one by one, and they were miserable.
Walking outside, the merchants are most afraid of encountering bandits. But these bandits obviously came prepared, and the caravan was already relatively chaotic, and at first they didn't even have any precautions, and fell directly into the trap.
The scene was chaotic, with screams and angry scolding intertwined.
More than 100 bandits rode out of the canyon on horseback and sabred in hand, and rushed into the caravan to slash and slash with lightning speed, and the guards were cut down to the ground by the ferocious horse thieves one by one, without the power to resist.
In the caravan, there were a pair of young brothers and sisters standing in the crowd, without saying a word, looking coldly at the ruthless horse thieves.
"Big brother, these are horse thieves, what should I do?" said a young woman in a purple suit.
Fang Tianhao held a long knife to protect his sister Fang Yurou, looking at those wanton killing horse thieves, his eyes were full of murderous intent: "Don't worry, hide the things, wait for those horse thieves to kill them, I will cover, you take the opportunity to escape!"
"Big brother, how can this be, let's go together!" Fang Yurou said eagerly.
Fang Tianhao said coldly: "There are only two of us left in the Fang family, that thing must not fall into the hands of outsiders, my father explained, even if we die, we must escort that thing out of the Central Plains, once it is known by the people of the eight major sects, the world will be in chaos!"
"But our Fang family is finished, where else can we escape!" Fang Yurou said with a sad face.
Fang Tianhao scolded in a low voice: "What are you crying about, what if the Fang family is finished, with such a thing, our family will definitely have a chance to make a comeback in the future!"
"No, I have to be with my eldest brother even if I die!" Fang Yurou's eyes were filled with tears, and she grabbed her eldest brother Fang Tianhao's arm, and said with a reluctant expression. Fang Tianhao saw his sister's sad appearance, his heart ached inexplicably, he reached out to help her wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and comforted her with a smile: "Don't cry, the second uncle still has some forces in Youzhou, and you can take refuge in them when the time comes!"
"Don't go, don't go, big brother, I'm not going anywhere!" Fang Yurou said desperately, biting her head.
Fang Tianhao's face turned cold, and he shouted: "Hurry up, the bloodline of the Fang family must not be cut off in our hands, if you don't leave, I will never recognize you as a sister in the future!"
"Big brother!" Fang Yurou looked at her eldest brother Fang Tianhao and cried bitterly.
At that moment, a horse thief rushed over on a fast horse like lightning, and slashed at him with a large ring-headed knife.
"Let's go!" Fang Tianhao was in a hurry, and pushed Fang Yurou away suddenly, his body jumped up, and with a bang, the cold sword light flashed away.
The horse under the horse thief had two thighs cut off, blood rushed to the sky, the horse thief fell to the ground, and before he could get up, Fang Tianhao cut off his head.
"Big brother, help!"
Fang Tianhao had just hacked a horse thief to death here, and as soon as he turned around, he saw several horse thieves surrounding his sister Fang Yurou.
"Yurou!" Fang Tianhao was shocked and wanted to rush to the rescue, but he was unexpectedly entangled by a horse thief who rushed to support.
Seeing that his sister was about to encounter the poisonous hands of horse thieves, Fang Tianhao's eyes turned red all of a sudden.
Not far away, Lu Chen and Luo Xiang looked at this messy scene indifferently.
"Master, it's a horse thief!" Luo Xiang said with a nervous expression. Lu Chen nodded: "Well, the horse thieves are robbing the merchants, this kind of thing happens from time to time!"
"What should I do?" Luo Xiang asked, looking at the falling merchants in the caravan, the shocking scene filled his heart with pity. Lu Chen sighed and said, "This world is in turmoil, sects are divided, the world is in turmoil, bandits are rampant, and it is the people of Li who suffer! This kind of thing has happened too much, and with our ability, we can't control it at all." ”
"Let's help them, this kind of thing has happened, it's impossible to stand idly by!" Luo Xiang said with some righteous indignation.
Lu Chen turned his head to look at him and said with a smile: "You are young, but you are full of chivalry!"
"My father said that when the road is uneven, we should draw a sword to help, isn't it just to protect ourselves and protect others?" Lu Chen laughed when he heard this: "That's right, although it can't be too wide, but now that you have encountered it, you can't stand by and watch!"
"That's right!" Luo Xiang snorted.
"Stay where you are, come when you go!" Lu Chen grabbed the horse's belly and urged him to rush forward.
The slaughter in the caravan continued, and the horse thieves were still killing frantically one by one, ignoring the merchants' pleas for mercy.
When a horse thief saw Lu Chen, who suddenly rushed on the official road, he immediately raised his long knife and pointed at him and shouted: "Ghost Head Village is doing things, if you don't want to find death, just get out of the way!"
"Hmph, what a big breath!" Lu Chen sneered and jumped into the air.
"Brush!" a poignant purple sword light lit up.
Before the horse thief could react, he was immediately split in half with his men and horses.
Poof! Blood spilled all over the ground.
The horse thieves who were still slaughtering the merchants were stunned for a moment when they saw Lu Chen, who suddenly broke in, and then the leader of the horse thieves shouted angrily, and dozens of horse thieves turned their heads one after another and rushed towards Lu Chen like a swarm.
"Kill him!"
Lu Chen jumped into the air, and rushed into the group of horse thieves in a flash, and the whole person was like a tiger entering a flock, and he instantly opened a killing ring.
Brush! Brush!
Purple sword lights continued to light up, and those horse thieves fell down one after another like wheat straw like paper paste, all of them sealed their throats with a sword, and they died extremely cleanly.
A ghostly figure flickered, and everywhere it went, clouds of blood mist continued to explode on the horse thieves.
After killing thirty horse thieves in one go, Lu Chen was covered in blood, like a god, holding a dragon soft sword and frantically harvesting the lives of the horse thieves.
The body is fast, the sword is faster, and killing these ordinary horse thieves is simply easy and effortless for him.
Almost in the blink of an eye, almost half of the horse thieves who rushed over were killed by him, and it was a completely one-sided trend.
Seeing this crazy scene, the leader of the horse thieves suddenly felt very shocked, thinking that he had met a top master, so he hurriedly shouted, led some of the remaining horse thieves to turn around and run, and soon disappeared into the canyon and disappeared without a trace.
After so many years outside, the leader of the horse thieves also has a strong eye and knows who can and can't mess with.
Obviously, this mysterious master who suddenly appeared belongs to the kind of people who cannot be provoked.
So he chose to retreat without hesitation.
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