Chapter 15: Exogenous Branches

Seeing Shan Xiong climb over the hill and leave, I went over and picked up the soft sword he had dropped, and carefully examined the sword that had hurt me. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that its whole body was bright white, with a circular hilt, the sword body was soft, and it was open on both sides.

This soft sword is really a good sword!

Receiving this soft sword to my waist, I smiled slightly, and it was not in vain that I fought hard with Shan Xiong, and I also suffered two wounds.

I'm not good at using soft swords, but with a little practice, I can use it as another big hole card after the Frost Sword!

"By the way, they should catch up with all their lives!"

With that in mind, I started walking back. As long as you meet with Wansheng and go to the direction of Tianshui City together, this task will be over. After being killed like this, the Blood Knife Bandits must not dare to make any more random moves.

But a lot of times, things are often different from what people expected, like this one now!

When I walked back, I walked a considerable distance to the place where I had killed Manxing's group before, but I still didn't see Wansheng and his group.

At this moment, an inexplicable panic came over me, as if I had missed something.

I didn't see any bloodshed or mass fighting along the way, and even here it was no different from before. The blood on the ground was still the same, and there was no trace of the wheels.

If that's the case, there are only two possibilities:

First, for some reason, Wansheng did not follow me.

Second, after the Wansheng group separated from me, they encountered some kind of force majeure before they arrived here, causing them to be taken away by those people unconditionally.

"Force majeure?"

Suddenly, two words popped into my mind,

"Green Forest!"

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but curse secretly, how did I forget this stubble!

This was originally the sphere of influence of the Green Forest, even if the Blood Knife temporarily invaded, it was still impossible to compare with the Green Forest that had been operating here for many years on the news network.

Thinking of this, I made up my mind, it seems that I am going to go to the green forest again! Another bandit, I am afraid that this time there will be a fight.

I then walked along the road in the direction of Jishui Town, and sure enough, not far from Jishui Town, I found a large amount of blood remaining, as well as a lot of overlapping wheel marks.

"It looks like it's really the hand under the green forest!"

Looking at all this in front of me, I smiled coldly. Without stopping too long, I followed the mark of the wheel towards a fork in the road.

This fork in the road was relatively narrow at first, but after walking a short distance, after turning a big bend, a wide road appeared in front of you.

The road seems to have been forcibly carved between the two mountains, and there are still traces of knives and axes on the walls on both sides.

Looking at all this, I couldn't help but wonder a little: Is this the work of the Green Forest Bandits? This kind of project is only the Green Forest Bandits that have been entrenched here for many years and have the manpower, material, and financial resources to complete this kind of project.

But they are a bandit, what are they doing to build roads in the mountains? Do they want to build a big city?

When this absurd idea came to my mind, I immediately rejected it with a smile and shook my head. No bandit would have the foolish idea of transforming their own den into a big city!

A city, although its defense capability is strong, but for a bandit group with strong mobility, this is completely waiting for the imperial court to send officers and soldiers to come to encircle and suppress, isn't it self-defeating?

When we reached the main road, the carriage began to speed on the road, and the marks left on the ground became deep and straight grooves, and I kept up my speed while maintaining my strength, and I was afraid that if I went too late, their lives might not be guaranteed!

The road was really long, and I walked for about an hour, but I still didn't see the end of the road, and I passed several roads that pierced through the mountain.

"What the hell are these bandits trying to do?"

Seeing this, I realized that this group of bandits is definitely not simple!

There are countless mountains blocking the middle of Jishui Town and Tianshui City, but these bandits have opened up such a big road in the direction of the west in the front section from Jishui Town to Tianshui City.

And in order to keep the road straight and smooth, even at the expense of digging a road through the mountains, such a plot is absolutely extraordinary, and the leader of the green forest is definitely not an ordinary person.

At this point, my original anger towards the Green Forest bandit turned into curiosity, and I wanted to know what kind of organization this Green Forest was, no matter what, it definitely couldn't be a simple bandit!

After a long walk forward, a fork in the road appeared in front of me. This fork in the road leads to two roads, and there are traces of tracks on both roads, apparently because of the fact that the pedestrian is divided into two groups.

"Which one should I take?"

I hesitated for a moment and stepped onto the right path. There's no reason for this, it's just a matter of intuition. This time, my instincts didn't disappoint me.

As I walked along the road on the right, I saw the lookouts built on the mountainsides on both sides, but they were still in their rudimentary form and no one was stationed in them.

Looking at it this way, I underestimated this green forest. They must really be building a big, impregnable city full of guards in such a place.

This is the remote area in the southwest of Great Qin, where it is difficult for the tentacles of the imperial court to stretch, and here it is close to the alien Rong tribe in the west, so it is impossible to say that it will be harassed by them, and it is not a good place at all.

In this way, the intention of building a big city of such specifications here could not be more obvious, this is to rebel!

It looks like I'm about to get into some sort of chaotic battle again......

As I continued to move forward, I came across a large number of lookouts, and not only that, but they were also inhabited by people.

It's just that for some unknown reason, none of them came out to stop me from moving forward. And I was happy to move on without distractions.

After walking forward for a long time, I was completely shocked by what I saw.

A huge 100-foot-high pass was built along the mountain, and the pass was made of gray-white stone bricks, which contrasted sharply with the earthy yellow mountains here.

Above the pass, there are several solemn pavilions. At the female wall on the side, there are many soldiers holding apricot yellow flags and armor stomachs standing guard and guarding, and there are dozens of large crossbow machines displayed aside, half of the bow body is exposed from the female wall, and the best crossbow arrows are facing the bottom of the pass.

Beneath the pass was a large open, iron-embedded gray wooden gate, which was guarded by soldiers with swords, none of whom walked.

Above the door opening, there are three big characters in the seal body, the sky pass.

Now, I probably understand why such a road was dug out! How many large stones would have to be brought in to build such a pass, and how many stones would be needed to build the big city after the pass?

Without good transportation, I am afraid that a building of this specification will not be able to be built well in hundreds of years!

After taking a look at the door, I strode straight to the pass. As I approached the gate of the passage, several soldiers stopped me.

Maybe it's because my blood-stained outfit is more eye-catching, and I always feel that they look at me strangely.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

When the leader of the soldiers asked, his hands were already pressed on the hilt of his sword, and the soldiers behind him also clenched their weapons in their hands and waited for them, while staring at me with burning eyes, as if if I had answered a wrong word or made any unusual move, they would immediately face each other.

"Uh......"

I was embarrassed for a moment, could this really be a bandit's den? Although I had long denied the idea that Green Forest was a simple bandit, the situation at the moment still shocked me.

Who the hell spread the lie that there are two bandits here, Green Forest and Blood Knife, and this Green Forest organization and the bandit group have nothing to do with it, okay?

"Speak quickly!"

When the soldier saw that I was struggling, he drew his sword halfway out at me, and exclaimed.

"I'm an idle swordsman, come here to see!"

By the time I said this with no confidence, I was ready to fight these soldiers.

Unexpectedly, after listening to my words, the leading soldier seemed to be relieved, put his waist knife back into the sheath, looked at me and smiled: "Haha...... I'm scared to death, I thought it was someone from the court! Okay, brothers, it's not a person from the court, let's disperse!"

With a wave of his arm, all the soldiers scattered and returned to their places, each performing his duty.

Looking at the stark contrast between before and after, I didn't react for a while. So you believe what I say? These people are too simple, aren't they? Aren't they afraid that I'm lying?

"Okay, this brother, since you are not from the imperial court, then hurry up and get through the customs!"

The soldier also patted me on the shoulder as if he was very familiar with it, and said with a smile, "After the Tiankou Pass passes, there is only one way to go, and that is to go to Tianfu!"

"Tianfu?"

When I heard this name, I had a strong sense of weirdness in my heart, Tianfu?

"Tianfu is a great place to go, the city is very safe, and there are no fights...... I can't tell you now, you can see for yourself!"

"Out of Tianfu, and then to the west, there will be two or three passes, the west is Rongguan, the south is Linguan, and the north is Yeguan, I don't know much about things there, and I can't say anything!"

After he finished speaking, I looked at this inexplicably enthusiastic man and gave him a fist salute, whatever his reason, at least what he said now is of great use to me.

"Thank you!"

"It's okay!"

He looked at me and said with a smile, "By the way, look at your brother, you are bloody, you must have experienced a lot of things, and I don't ask about it, but I'm afraid it's inconvenient for you to act like this in Tianfu, why don't you wash and rest here before continuing on the road?"

I thought about it, and looked at myself again, only to find that my body was indeed too dirty, and I didn't pay attention to it when I rushed to find Wansheng before, and now I can't stand it anymore.

"Then I'll be disrespectful! By the way, I don't know what to call my brother?"

"Me, my name is Li Hou, what about you, brother?"

"My name is Li Longchen. ”

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To be continued......