Chapter Ninety-Seven: Blood in the City
What Lao Cao said was exactly what Ding Yu thought in his heart. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The outflow of the info treasure map, the chaos in the Jiangnan martial arts, and the alliance competition, the time of the three is so close that it is hard to believe that it is just a coincidence.
On the contrary, if the outflow of the treasure map led to the chaos in the Jiangnan martial arts, and then triggered the five major sects, this assumption is more reasonable.
However, for Ding Yu, whether the root of this alliance competition is the treasure map, or the chaos of martial arts that Chang Tianshu said, there is not much difference. At the beginning, he made a deal with the Twelve Docks, with three spiritual energy beads and the priority to buy spiritual energy beads in the future, in exchange for Ding Yu's sale. The eldest husband is hard to chase after him, as long as the Twelve Docks do not intend to plot against him, he will not easily break his promise. What's more, what he pursues has never been worldly possessions, so treasures and other things don't have much attraction to him at all.
Seeing Ding Yu's calm face, Lao Cao was surprised and said: "Monk, you are really good at bearing, you can still be so casual if you are deceived." ”
Ding Yu picked up the teacup, took a sip lightly, and said leisurely: "I'm afraid it's not that I'm indifferent, but Lao Cao, you're moved, right?"
Lao Cao looked up to the sky and said, "Yes, little Lao'er can't compare to your monks, and the four major monks are empty, and the wealth is current, so naturally I am a little excited." However, the old man has been mixing in the rivers and lakes for decades, and he finally has some self-knowledge, since this treasure has the intervention of the five major forces, I will not dare to pull out the teeth of the tiger.
However, in the final analysis, Chang Tianshu was not authentic first, and he coaxed us to fight this ring for him, originally said that it was to seize one of the main rights of the Jiangnan Wumeng, but there was a lot of money in the back. It's no wonder that all the people I found are lonely people like you and me, and it is clear that they are deceiving me and have no power behind them, and even if they find a treasure, they are powerless to deal with him.
Monk, I know you don't value money. But you and I and that Meng Jingyun are in the end the characters of the rivers and lakes, and he spreads it out day by day, saying that we are waiting for the life and death of the twelve serial docks for some petty profits, and we dare not squeak when we find out that we have been deceived, and you will say that we are broad-minded?
What Lao Cao said is not unreasonable. The rivers and lakes have always been a place where the weak eat the strong. And this so-called weakness not only refers to personal strength, but also includes reputation in the rivers and lakes. Once someone or a certain sect has a reputation as a "good bully", it is natural that someone can't wait to come over and step on a few feet. Even if your own strength is not weak, but there are many people who step on it, it is inevitable that you will still be stepped on, so Lao Cao has to bump into Chang Tianshu whether it is for the treasure or his own reputation.
However, Ding Yu still didn't pay much attention, and at his level, the reputation of the rivers and lakes had long been ignored. What he cares about is only aura and martial arts, if anyone who doesn't open his eyes thinks he's a bully and wants to come up and step on it, stretch one and chop one.
He thought for a moment and said, "The poor monk is not really empty, but what he asks for is not money. As you just said, this time it was Chang Tianshu who was not authentic first, and it was natural for us to go to him for bad luck. It's just that we know too little about the treasure. Whether the treasure is true or false, what is hidden in it, and even whether this alliance competition is really about the treasure, you must always figure out these before you can confront Chang Tianshu. ”
Lao Cao patted his thigh and said, "Ah, the old man can't wait for a long time, and wants to go out to visit again, so let's go!"
Thinking of this old man's so-called "visit", Ding Yu's face turned dark and said, "Excuse me, let's go our separate ways." Lao Cao, you continue to visit the green building, and the poor monk goes to the teahouse tavern in the city to take a few turns. ”
Lao Cao Xi said: "I heard the little girl in the Qinglou say that the most lively place in Gusu City is on both sides of the Shantang River in the center of the city, where there are many Qinglou restaurants, just go together. ”
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About a stick of incense passed, and the two walked from the quiet southeast of the city to the bustling city center. As soon as he walked out of an alley and stepped into Shantang Street, there was a hurried figure passing by the two with his head down. The breeze brought a faint smell into Ding Yu's nose, and Ding Yu's heart sank: it was the smell of blood!
At this time, there were bursts of exclamations not far ahead, and a group of people surrounded them, pointing at the center. Ding Yu and the others stepped forward quickly, squeezed into the crowd, and saw a man lying motionless in a pool of blood in the open space in the middle of the crowd. This man was handsome, dressed in fine clothes, and wore a simple and shabby long sword at his waist - "Meng Jingyun!" Lao Cao exclaimed.
He rushed forward, stretched out his fingers under Meng Jingyun's nose, but could not detect a trace of breath, and then turned him over, and found a deep, narrow wound in his vest, from which the pool of blood on the ground flowed.
Lao Cao turned his head to look at Ding Yu and said hatefully: "The body is still warm, the wound is oozing blood, and the person who started it hasn't gone far yet!"
Ding Yu immediately remembered the smell of blood he had just smelled, and didn't care to say more, throwing down a sentence "It's the guy at the entrance of the alley just now, chase after it!" and squeezed out of the crowd, stretched his feet and ran, Lao Cao also jumped up from the ground and chased after Ding Yu.
When the two chased out of the alley one after the other, the man was about to turn into another street, and in the afterglow, he saw two figures running towards him at a rapid speed, and immediately accelerated under his feet, flashing into the street, and his body was also very fast.
Without saying a word, the three of them quickly chased and fled through the streets and alleys of the city. Although Ding Yu's light skills are much better than that person, his terrain familiarity is far inferior to him, and he almost caught up several times, but was thrown away by that person using the terrain. Seeing him approaching again, the man in front of him repeated his old trick and turned around and didn't enter a small door.
But this time Ding Yu had expected it, and it seemed that he couldn't hold his feet, but in fact, he flew up, kicked his feet on the wall, turned in the air with his strength, and crashed into the door, and the figure of the person was already close at hand - suddenly, a snowy knife light protruded from behind the door, cutting through the air flow, and pointing directly at Ding Yu's throat!
The timing of this sneak attack can be described as wonderful, Ding Yu chased the person in front of him for a long time, and saw that he was about to succeed in taking down the person, and put all his mind in front, who would have expected that a fellow party would appear out of thin air and swing a fatal knife at this time? If it was someone else, even if it was a super-first-class master, it would be nine deaths when encountering this knife.
However, Ding Yu's aura over the years has not been collected in vain, his spiritual sense is far greater than ten years ago, and as soon as the person behind the door makes a move, he perceives it. His left hand originally condensed two finger forces, used to deal with the murderer in front of him, at this moment, a finger force shot out first, hitting the body of the knife that was sneaking in, taking advantage of the slowing down of the knife, he lowered his head and opened his mouth, and with a sonorous sound, he bit the blade to death. At the same time, a second finger force came out of his hand, hitting the attacker's wrist.
The sneak attacker snorted, couldn't hold the knife with five fingers, and was turned around by Ding Yu and snatched the blade away. (To be continued.) )