Volume 9 Chasing the Murderer
"You came from downstream, and I came from upstream, then the only place for them to go is the forest next to them!" Hearing Ming Xuan say this, Zhang Zhixiong immediately stopped his grief and indignation and calmly analyzed.
"The forest is not conducive to speed, not long time has passed, it should be too late to chase now!" Ming Xuan looked at Lin Zhong and said thoughtfully.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's chase after me! My horse is tied to that side! Do you have a horse?" Zhang Zhixiong was a resolute person, and he immediately started to move after speaking.
"I have it too! Hurry up!" Ming Xuan also made a quick decision.
Ming Xuan raised his hand to summon the dark clouds, and the two immediately got on their horses and chased after them! The trees in the forest were not too dense, and the horses could also run, so the two quickly disappeared into the forest.
"What Demon Sect did you talk about before, what is going on?" While chasing, Ming Xuan was still thinking about some details of the matter.
"Your master should have told you about the Demon Sect, do you need me to explain?" Zhang Zhixiong asked rhetorically.
"In order to get stronger power, the people of the world have tried all kinds of methods, some follow the way of heaven to obtain strength, pay attention to the law of nature, so there are three doors of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism; of course, there are also new paths, like the three major families; although the methods are different, but there are always within the moral law and there is no transgression, but in the continuous groping forward, there are also some people who have fallen into a crazy situation for their own strength, they keep trying, as long as it is an effective method, they will use it recklessly, even if it is the kind of thing that loses the anger of the conscience and the gods, and over time this kind of person is spurned by others, and is regarded as an evil crooked way, everyone gets and is punished, because they can't see the light and are even hunted down by others, but they didn't choose to give up because of this, but gradually accumulated together, and the power became stronger and stronger, which is the origin of the Demon Sect. "As a righteous person, Ming Xuan still knows these basic common sense.
"That's right! The people who slaughtered the village were the people of the Demon Sect!" Zhang Zhixiong said through gritted teeth.
"How can you see that?" Ming Xuan didn't find any relevant basis in the village.
"Our Nanhua faction is not too far from here, so we are more familiar with this area, a long time ago on the rivers and lakes began to spread the traces of the Demon Sect here, and the more it spreads, it has caused a certain amount of panic, in order to find out the truth, I sent the head of the sect to send disciples to investigate around, and I was in charge of this area, when I first came, I didn't find anything, but then there began to be a looted village here, at first I thought it was the robbers who did it and didn't care too much, but later there were more and more such things, and every time the village was looted, not only the property was gone, but even many people were gone, and the bones were not leftAt this time, I felt bad, and began to investigate carefully, and finally I found the traces of these people!" Zhang Zhixiong said eloquently.
"A bunch of people, what the hell is going on!" Ming Xuan immediately asked.
"I also learned about the situation from the mouth of a person who escaped by luck, he said that there was a group of people who ransacked their village, led by a bald strong man, with a skull tattooed on his chest, and this is one of the marks of the Demon Sect! So I immediately began to sound around, because the bald strong man is also relatively conspicuous, after some investigation, I locked on the target! There are about 20 people in this group, all of them are full of murderous face and martial arts are not weak, and the leader is a bald man! Since I was weak and didn't do it immediately, I followed them and wrote back to ask for support, but at the moment when I arranged to send the letter, a tragedy happened in the village!" Zhang Zhixiong said with great annoyance, and nearly 100 lives were lost in a blink of an eye.
"Alas, the world is unpredictable, even if you were here at the time, I am afraid that you will not be able to help much, and if you can't get your own life, you have to take it. Ming Xuan said with relief.
"At least I have a clear conscience! When I first saw you, I was so angry and regretful that I couldn't help myself, so I did it to you indiscriminately, in fact, I also have uncertainty in my heart, because I haven't seen you in that gang, but I was really angry at the time, I want to vent it well, and I ask Brother Gu for being so reckless. Zhang Zhixiong said apologetically.
"Brother Zhang doesn't need to apologize, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to control it. When Ming Xuan saw the corpse by the stream, he was so angry that he rushed into the village with his sword.
"I hope we can catch up with them, and when the time comes, we will kill them without leaving a piece of armor, and pay for the debt with blood!" Zhang Zhixiong said through gritted teeth.
"What is the strength of their gang, and what are our chances of winning?" At this time, Ming Xuan was quite calm, wanting to know more in order to confirm his next move.
"None of them are weak! Although I haven't found out the bottom of them yet, according to my estimate, the two of us together are not their opponents, and this revenge will not be avenged for a while," Zhang Zhixiong said with some frustration, and he was pessimistic to find that even if he caught up with the people of the Demon Sect, it would be useless.
"That's not necessarily, let's see the situation when the time comes, but we have to make them pay for the evil deeds they have done!" Ming Xuan also hated the villagers who hung on the tree and bled to death!
"But don't worry! I've already made marks along the way, and if my senior brother understands the situation, he will definitely be able to rush to help!" Zhang Zhixiong is also a careful person.
"Why did the people of the Demon Sect slaughter the village? Those are all ordinary people!And where are the others?" Ming Xuan still had a lot of questions to answer.
"I don't know about this at the moment, I'm afraid that I won't have an answer until I catch up with them!" Zhang Zhixiong said and squeezed the horse's belly fiercely, and accelerated forward!
This forest grows in the col, there are high mountains on both sides, and after passing through the forest, there is another avenue, because the villagers often pass back and forth in the forest, so the trees appear to be relatively sparse, and there are no weeds, and the two horses have been maintaining a relatively fast speed, while chasing, the two are also carefully observing the surrounding movements, especially Ming Xuan, his usual vigilance has begun to play a role again.
"It's strange, why haven't I seen any trace of them until now, and the clues have been broken?" Ming Xuan couldn't help but stop and said to himself.
"If the missing villagers were taken away by them, they would not have been able to move faster, and with the speed at which we were chasing, we should have caught up, but after so much time has passed, why is there still no one left? Zhang Zhixiong said, looking at the dark clouds with envy, because the dark clouds are not only flat and stable when running, but also very light when the horse's hooves land, and the running sound is almost entirely made by the horse sitting down, and even if the speed of the dark clouds is not very fast, it never dares to overtake the front, and it has obviously been convinced.
"It should be right to be based on time, but we may be wrong. Ming Xuan said with a frown, looking thoughtful.
"Oh, why?" Zhang Zhixiong immediately stopped his mind and asked.
"When we first entered the forest, we could still see some footprints, which looked very messy, and there should have been many people walking by, indicating that they did enter the forest, but after arriving here, there was no trace, not even a trace of people passing, I guess they did not come here. Ming Xuan said as he looked around.
"Huh, is there such a thing? Why didn't I see anything at all?" Zhang Zhixiong also learned to look around, but he couldn't see anything unusual at all.
"Oh, I've lived in the mountains for a long time, and I know a little bit about this environment. "People have roads, beasts have beasts, these can't escape Ming Xuan's eyes.
"That'...... So what should we do now? Won't it just leave it at that!" Having lost the target of tracking, Zhang Zhixiong said with some unwillingness.
"From the beginning, we thought that the people of the Demon Sect would flee through this forest, but now it seems that we may have thought wrong. Ming Xuan was still pondering.
"Isn't that so?" Zhang Zhixiong was a little confused by Ming Xuan.
"No, we can't continue to go like this, we're going to go farther and farther!, we have to turn around quickly!" Ming Xuan suddenly turned around and said categorically.
"What's the matter? aren't we chasing?" Zhang Zhixiong was a little puzzled.
"If I'm not mistaken, these people didn't go through the forest, but went up the mountain!" Ming Xuan said lightly.
"Go up the mountain, what do you mean ......," Zhang Zhixiong seemed to understand.
"I'm not sure yet, but I'll figure it out. Mingxuan raised his horse and ran back.
There were roads leading to the mountains on both sides of the forest, and Ming Xuan took a closer look, and found another clue on the road on the right!
"I'm sure now, they're going up the mountain!" Ming Xuan said with certainty.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's continue chasing!" Zhang Zhixiong immediately became excited again, and his horse was ready to gallop up the mountain.
"Wait a minute! we can't go on horseback!" Ming Xuan stopped Zhang Zhixiong.
"Why? We've been delayed for a long time, how can we catch up without riding horses?" Although they were running faster, it would consume a lot of body, and they would be powerless to fight when they encountered the people of the Demon Sect.
"You'd better listen to me, let's be careful!" Mingxuan smiled confidently and walked up the mountain on foot.
Zhang Zhixiong looked at Ming Xuan with some suspicion, Ming Xuan's rich observation methods along the way had already convinced him a little, so he didn't say anything more, and followed Ming Xuan's footsteps up the mountain......