Chapter 19: Pursuit and Escape
Within a few days, the whole river and lake were fried.
Jianghu martial arts is such a strange place, you ride a fast horse, from the south to the north of the land of Shenzhou, it will take more than half a month, but once there is any big news, it seems that in just a few days, everyone in the world knows about it, and I don't understand how these news spread so fast.
In the blink of an eye, the news that Leng Qianqiu and his mysterious accomplices murdered Xiao Lianghui and killed hundreds of fish and dragon guards in Yancheng spread all over the world, and everyone in Xiangnan Wulin was in danger, and many people quietly disappeared and ran away.
At the same time, I heard that another pharmacist, who was originally on a mission near Hunan Province, had come to Yancheng to investigate the matter with great fanfare, and in just a few days, hundreds of people had been arrested and dozens of people had been killed, and I didn't know whether he was here to investigate Xiao Lianghui's death or something else. After this battle, the reputation of the murderous pharmacist Hong also spread more and more, of course, this is all a later story.
And now, Leng Qianqiu, who was supposed to be at the center of this storm, didn't know about it at all, he was in the dense forest of Shonan, dealing with two guys who were more than ten years younger than him.
Leng Qianqiu, who was seriously injured and quickly healed by using the mysterious technique, walked through the forest covered by branches and leaves, he did not have a sword in his hand, but his whole body exuded a cold aura, and even the fierce beasts in the deep mountains and old forests saw it and fled. Looking for someone in this kind of place is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, but Leng Qianqiu is a person who has been crawling in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, because of his appearance, he has encountered a lot of unnecessary troubles, so this kind of chase and escape trick is very familiar to him.
And in this regard, Ah Jue and Ning Wushu are much more tender. Although the two of them are resourceful, there are things that are experience, not wisdom that can fill in. In just a few days, they were caught up by Leng Qianqiu twice. The strange thing is that Leng Qianqiu didn't seem to want to kill them like before, but tried to capture them alive, which gave the two of them a chance, both times they caused some trouble for Leng Qianqiu, and then narrowly escaped from Leng Qianqiu's men.
At this time, Leng Qianqiu suddenly jumped onto a big tree, stretched out a hand like lightning, and pinched the seven inches of a big snake on the tree with great precision, and then shook it hard, and the big snake broke off its muscles and bones, becoming a dead snake. Leng Qianqiu was very satisfied with this lunch, jumped from the tree, and did not start a fire, but stripped off the snakeskin and ate it bloodily. He knew that lighting a fire at this time would only tell the two people who were being hunted down his whereabouts, and as for eating raw meat, it was just a common thing in his wandering life in the past so many years.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he reached out to remove the ground full of fallen leaves, revealing the dirt. The dirt showed signs of renovation, Leng Qianqiu pulled out a small dagger from his waist, and turned the dirt open, only to see a piece of charcoal and some small skeletal remains of animals buried underneath. Leng Qianqiu smiled and said, "You guys are really unlucky, you and I chose the same place to eat." After speaking, the internal energy in his body urged, and the wind around his body was fierce, and a whirlwind rose from the ground, and suddenly blew away the fallen leaves everywhere.
After the fallen leaves were blown away, the mud ground below was revealed, although at a glance, they were all indistinguishable dirt and stones, but in the eyes of Leng Qianqiu, the traces left by Ning Wushu and Ah Jue could be regarded as not covering up in the slightest.
He crouched there and munched on meat, his eyes constantly wandering around, and he soon determined his general direction. After a while, he threw most of the snake corpse that he couldn't finish eating, and chased after him briskly along the traces left by Ning Wushu and the others.
And less than ten zhang away from the place where Leng Qianqiu had just stayed, in the hollow of a hundred-year-old tree, Ning Wushu and Ah Jue were hiding in it.
The hole in the tree was covered with bushes by the two of them, and some animal droppings were scattered to mask the smell. The two of them hid in the hollow of the tree, breathing extremely slowly, and only breathed less than three times in a pillar of incense, which was the breath-holding method that Ah Jue had just taught Ning Wushu. As Leng Qianqiu's footsteps gradually faded away, the two glanced at each other and cautiously crawled out of the tree hole.
"Can you fool me?" Ning Wushu asked in a low voice.
Ah Jue stretched his ears, listened carefully for a while, and said, "It's hard to say...... Let's take advantage of his idea that we don't know how to hide our tracks and lead him in the wrong direction, but I don't think it will take long to fool him, and he will find out soon. Let's be careful and run away. ”
"The main thing is that we can't even see the sun in this forest, we can't tell the direction, we don't even know where we are, if we keep spinning in the forest, sooner or later we will be caught up by him. Ning Wushu raised his head, but there was only a large canopy of trees above his head, and he could only see beams of fine sunlight cast down, becoming jumping spots, but there was no way to judge its exact position.
"Or ...... it. A decisive light appeared in Ah Du's eyes, "You have tricks and arrows, and I have Xiaocheng's all over the world, so I may not be able to fight for a glimmer of life!"
Ning Wushu shook his head and said calmly: "No, it's too dangerous." In my opinion, my life is more precious than anyone in this world, and it is not worth it for me to use my life to fight for this life!"
When Ah Jue heard this, he smiled slightly, and no longer said anything dead, but changed his words and said, "In this case, let's still outwit." I thought about the layout you told me for a while, and it was able to divert the attention of Yulongwei and drag Leng Qianqiu at the same time, but at this time, we couldn't even go out of the forest, and this advantage couldn't be brought into play. If we want to outwit, we have to expose Leng Qianqiu to the eyes of the fish dragon guard, otherwise your layout will be empty. ”
"Reasonable!" Ning Wushu nodded: "I originally thought that I would be able to get out of this forest in one day, but I didn't expect to get lost." In the past two days, we have been pushed too hard, and we only have escape in our minds, which is not possible, we have to find a way. ”
"Two ways. Ah Jue didn't talk nonsense, the light flashed in his eyes, he raised his right index finger and middle finger, and said quickly: "Either take Leng Qianqiu out of the forest and take it in the direction of Yancheng, or, let's bring the fish dragon guard and let them meet Leng Qianqiu!"
Ning Wushu's eyes narrowed, and the speed of his speech became faster: "We can't take Leng Qianqiu out of the forest at present, we can only choose the second method, but we don't have the ability to find them directly, so we can only take the initiative to let Yulongwei find us!"
Ah Jue nodded, put away his outstretched middle finger, and only raised one index finger. His index finger lit in the air, and said: "In terms of tracking, Leng Qianqiu and Yulongwei are both experts in this area, we are too far apart, and if we play with our hearts in this area, it is very likely that we will play ourselves to death." I thought about it for a while, the best way is to take the risk of making a big move, leading both of them to the same place, and now the Ichthyosaurus Guard will investigate near Yancheng, when we ran all the way into the forest, and also left a lot of traces, most likely there are also a lot of Ichthyosaurus Guards not far away at this time, this move should be the most successful. ”
"But the most important thing is not to put ourselves in it. Ning Wushu took Ah Jie's words and said, "If Yulongwei or Leng Qianqiu discovers us before they find each other, then things will become very complicated, so we must stay out of this matter." To sum up, what we have to do now is to make a big move, so that Leng Qianqiu and Yulongwei can find the same place, and the two of us are not at the scene, so once they are entangled, we can get out safely. ”
An excited expression appeared on Ah Jue's face, and he smiled: "It's difficult, but I like it." The two looked at each other and smiled, remembering that when they were in the Lingjing Gate Tibetan Sect Pavilion, they were talking about Yun Feiyu's questions like this every day.
However, while it is easy to talk on paper, the difficulty of actually getting things done rises in a straight line. For Ning Wushu and Ah Jue, even if they had a plan now, there was no way to start acting immediately—it was not easy to escape from Leng Qianqiu's sight for a while.
"Oh no, we seemed to be talking too loudly just now......" Ah Jue was suddenly stunned, and his face became very bad: "Leng Qianqiu, he may ......"
Before the words fell, I saw a figure not far away coming with a very clever light skill, who was it not Leng Qianqiu? In just an instant, Leng Qianqiu stood on the big tree not far from the two, looked at the two of them condescendingly, squinted his eyes and said: "I didn't expect that Xuanyuan Jinyu turned out to be a woman, and she hid it really deeply. ”
Without a trace of hesitation, Ning Wushu's bow and arrow, which was originally hanging behind him, quickly set up, aiming at Leng Qianqiu's eyebrows, while Ah Jue exerted his strength with both feet, rose from the ground, like a cannonball, and pounced on Leng Qianqiu without hesitation with the dagger in his hand.
No matter how perfectly planned it is, if you meet it directly, you can only fight first.
Leng Qianqiu looked at Ah Du, in fact, his interest in Ah Du now was higher than Ning Wushu. What Ning Wushu showed was a strange and changeable trick, but Ah Jue was able to tell the mysterious Nine Lives Xuanmao Dafa on his body in one bite, and he could also find the cover door of his Youfeng Sword Technique in an instant. In Leng Qianqiu's view, of course, he is a person who knows everything in martial arts, and it is more important to come.
Therefore, in the face of Ah Jue, who rushed with a strong momentum at this time, Leng Qianqiu still decided to capture him alive. With a slight touch of his toes on the branches, his figure rose a few feet taller, and he jumped upward, easily dodging Ah Du's blow, and stretched out a hand to grab an arrow that Ning Wushu took advantage of to shoot.
Ah Jue slammed into the air, immediately retracted his body, stepped on the surrounding trees a few times, and turned back to Leng Qianqiu again, and Ning Wushu since breaking through the realm, he could already initially control the release of his internal strength, and the sound of wind and thunder between his breaths was loud, and one arrow after another shot towards Leng Qianqiu, and the trajectory of each arrow was carefully calculated in an instant, sealing every step of Leng Qianqiu.
However, after all, peerless masters are not something that they can compete with as a fledgling shrimp, although Ning Wushu's Storm Arrows are powerful, and each arrow has the strength of opening a stele and cracking stones, but Leng Qianqiu's internal strength is high, and every arrow can be caught or blocked with his bare hands. As for Ah Jie, who was constantly harassing back and forth around him, it was Leng Qianqiu who felt a little headache. Ah Jue's own martial arts can only be regarded as slightly better, and his skills can also have a foothold among ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, but Leng Qianqiu can't look down on it. But Ah Jue has been in the Tibetan Pavilion for so many years, and after reading through the world's martial arts, he can often find flaws in Leng Qianqiu's moves, which is something that many masters who have been famous for many years can't do, so it has brought Leng Qianqiu a lot of trouble.
Of course, this is also because he is unwilling to kill the two on the spot, otherwise how could he be entangled by the two juniors for so long?
Ning Wushu was running under the tree, constantly picking up the arrows that had been shot down by Leng Qianqiu, and at the same time constantly shooting arrows from all angles. Just as Leng Qianqiu took one of her arrows again and threw them away, Ning Wushu's heart jumped suddenly-this is not reasonable at all! Before she broke through, she could shoot a tiger with one arrow, and when he received an arrow with his bare hands on the island, his hands would hurt, and that night in the broken temple, he broke the door first, then broke the Buddha statue, and killed another person, even if Leng Qianqiu's martial arts were high, it would never be possible to connect more than a dozen arrows and be unharmed!
Ning Wushu's mind was racing sharply, looking at his performance during this time, the purpose was to capture the two of them alive, why did he capture them alive? Of course, it was because he was interested in them, and his performance at this time was more like seeing how many hole cards they had. Leng Qianqiu didn't attack at all at this time, just simply defended and dodged, presumably waiting until he and Ah Jue ran out of physical strength before taking it, and with Leng Qianqiu's strength, even if Ning Wushu and Ah Jue really had any hole cards, they would never be his opponents. So now Leng Qianqiu is dealing with Ah Jue on the one hand and Ning Wushu on the other, because even if he spends a lot of internal strength, he has to see how far they can go, and he has this confidence.
Therefore, although Leng Qianqiu now looks fluttering and chic, and he is still calm and comfortable in the face of the crazy offensive of the two, but in fact it is not as easy as he behaved, after all, he was seriously injured just now, and Ah Jue also said that the Nine Lives Xuanmao Dafa only saves lives, and it is impossible to completely repair the injury in such a short time! And Leng Qianqiu has greatly shortened the time for treating injuries in order to prevent them from escaping, so the current Leng Qianqiu is very likely to be fighting with the two!
But Leng Qianqiu's approach undoubtedly has a good effect. Although Ning Wushu figured out this joint, after more than a dozen arrows in a row, her mental operation had begun to lag, the meridians were torn and painful for a while, and her physical strength gradually declined, and Ah Jue had already gritted her teeth and sweated from her forehead in the extremely fast attack at close range, and her movements were obviously not as precise as at the beginning. If the two of them didn't notice Leng Qianqiu's intentions and continued to fight like this, within a while, they would inevitably be exhausted, even if they could use some amazing small means, they would eventually be taken down by Leng Qianqiu.
What to do, is it to retreat or to advance?