Chapter 149: Faceless and Thousand-faced
Why were the bandits' water bladders poisoned? Why were the bandits themselves not poisoned? Who poisoned them? Or were the bandits someone else?
A series of questions popped up in Ding Yu's mind one after another, but he forcibly put the doubts behind him and focused on healing the poison first. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoTong Luoxing stayed by the side without saying a word, but he kept blaming himself in his heart: Tong Luoxing, Tong Luoxing, why are you so stubborn? If you had promised him to leave the Vulture Palace early, wouldn't you have been able to make sufficient preparations on the way? As long as you have a free Baijie Pill in your hand, why are you afraid of seeing the light and dying? If Monk Ding Yu is a ...... Bah, bah, with his internal strength, where can he hurt him when he sees the light and dies! Calm down! Calm down! Think about it, who poisoned him......
The poisonous water came from the sand bandits, and when Ding Yu grabbed the water bladder, each water bladder was not full, which showed that the sand bandits had drunk the poisonous water inside, but the sand bandits showed no signs of poisoning.
There are only two possibilities: either the bandits have been poisoned for too short a time and have not had time to produce poison. This is not only possible, but the oasis of Yimari is surrounded by a flat river, and it can be seen that the horseshoe prints of the sand bandits extend out of sight, and the time spent on the road is toxic enough;
Tong Luoxing is more inclined to the second possibility, that is, the sand bandits are able to ignore the toxicity of seeing light death for some reason, for example, taking an antidote beforehand. It's just that it's likely that even those sand bandits themselves don't know that they have taken the antidote.
Poisoning one's own drinking water, and then inducing the opponent to take one's own poisonous water through twists and turns, the people who can use this method are mostly scheming poison masters. If Sha Kang's group of sand bandits had this scheming, they wouldn't have seen Ding Yu and couldn't wait to kill him before they figured out the depth of his strength. Therefore, whether it is poisoning or antidote, most of them have someone else. The purpose is to borrow the hands of the sand bandits to deliver the poisonous water to the two of them.
It's just that if there really is such a poisoner, then this person's poisoning ability can really be called perfect. First of all, he/she had to unknowingly poison the water bladders and dry food of Sha Kang and the others, and let them unconsciously take the antidote; more importantly, he/she also had to calculate that he and Ding Yu were in a hurry to replenish the water, and at the same time, he or she had to accurately deliver this group of sand bandits to the two of them. Each of these things may not be difficult to do, but it is very human to complete the whole plan just right.
As soon as he thought of this, Tong Luoxing suddenly woke up: since this person took great pains to poison Ding Yu, then he would never let Ding Yu die of poisoning in the desert, and let hundreds of thousands of taels of silver be buried in the yellow sand. Perhaps, this person is waiting for Ding Yu to be poisoned!
Thinking of such a poison master staring at himself and Ding Yu in secret, Tong Luoxing couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, but more of it was anger: Grandma, when I shook the Central Plains of the Western Regions, you clowns all ran away from the wind, and now you dare to bully me! She clenched her silver teeth and said with hatred in her heart: If the monk makes the slightest mistake, I will let you know what a life and death talisman is!
She suppressed her anger, paid attention to the movements around her, and made a "poof" behind her, she looked back, only to see Ding Yu's face like gold paper, a smear of black blood hanging on his lips, and a large pool of black viscous blood on the sand in front of her.
Tong Luoxing was shocked and asked, "How can this be? With your skills, how can you be injured like this?" But she immediately thought that Ding Yu had carried her on her back for hundreds of miles before, and had a few tricks with Li Qiushui and others in the middle, and there were not a few true qi that were lost, could it be that because of this, the toxin was allowed to enter through the gap?
Originally, Tong Luoxing read the martial arts and medical classics of the Vulture Palace, and the high level of medical skills was rare in the world, but now he is in the desert, and he talks about herbs, even if he has a sip of clean water, he can't use any means. She pondered for a while, gritted her teeth, and walked towards the way she came.
"Wait...... Wait," Ding Yu said weakly: "You...... Where to go?"
Tong Luoxing paused and said as calmly as possible: "You must hold on." I'll grab two horses and take you to the nearest town, and as long as there is no shortage of medicine, I can solve it when I see the light of day. ”
At this time, Tong Luoxing's skill has fallen to the level of nine and ten years old, which is of course almost nothing compared to herself, but on the rivers and lakes, there is still a second-rate level, if it is an ordinary time, it is not a problem to snatch two horses from the hands of ordinary horse thieves. It's a pity that her current appearance is too special, but whenever she shows up in front of people and chases after her, it must be more than just ordinary horse thieves.
"No, ......" Before Ding Yu finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded: "Little girl, what a big breath! It's just that this monk has been dead for an hour after seeing the light, and even the gods can't save him, so why do you lie to him? If you want to escape alone, just say it." ”
"Fart!" Tong Luoxing was furious, turned around and looked in the direction where the voice came from, only to see a man and a woman dressed in brocade, riding a horse slowly, both of them were veiled on their faces, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, but looking at their clothes and demeanor, they didn't look like they were in the desert, but like a scholar and his wife going on an outing.
There must be a demon when things go wrong, and the timing of the appearance of these two people is too coincidental, Tong Luoxing calmed down at this juncture, retracted his hands into his sleeves, buckled two stones each, and asked, "Who are you?"
The man said proudly: "Since you know that 'seeing the light dies', can't you guess the identity of my husband and wife?"
"Faceless, a thousand faces?" Tong Luoxing said in a deep voice. It is rumored that the death of the light was first circulated in the hands of a couple who called themselves Faceless and the woman called Qianyan, both of whom were proficient in poison and disguise, and no one had ever seen their true faces. It is said that the two were traitors to a killer organization in the Far West, and after escaping to the Western Regions, they returned to their old jobs, and although the asking price was extremely high, they almost never missed. It seems that this time I was also moved by Li Qiushui's 500,000 taels of silver.
Qianyan Jiao said with a smile: "The little girl is not badly informed, she is beautiful and smart, I really feel pity, even I want to spare your life, but I can't bear the 300,000 taels of silver." Faceless, what do you say?"
"Isn't that simple?" Faceless took out a small silver knife and threw it in front of Tong Luoxing, and said: "Little girl, my wife is kind enough to spare your life, you picked your own hands and tendons, and I will take you alive to exchange for silver." Otherwise, it will be a small matter for you to die, and it will be a big matter to make my wife sad. When my wife is sad, I will be sad too, and when I am sad, I can't help but want to find someone to torture me so that I can be happy. Believe me, it's more comfortable than dying at my hands for a few days and nights, and having your enemy's head cut off. ”
Tong Luoxing glanced at the knife on the ground and said, "You want me to cut off my tendons?" It's not impossible, but in exchange, I want to know how you poisoned you. ”
Faceless and Qianyan glanced at each other, and couldn't help but laugh secretly in their hearts: how could they not see that Tong Luoxing was deliberately delaying in order to buy time for Ding Yu to force the poison. The two of them were originally born killers, but they didn't have the habit of talking nonsense with their targets. But this time, Tong Luoxing's delay was exactly what they wanted. (To be continued.) )