Chapter 3: The Cold Moon Frost Knife
Moon God Wu Duan is the second eldest disciple of the Nine Palaces of the Divine Capital, the senior sister of the divine doctor Duanmu Rong, who specializes in poison arts, and everyone knows it, but few people have seen her true face for many years. Anyone who has seen her true face has probably not survived.
Since she left Shendu Mountain, in order to further study poison arts, and to compete with her junior sister Duanmu Rong every two or three years, Wu Duan, like Duanmu Rong, often looks for people to give medicine.
The difference is that Duanmu Rong specializes in looking for patients and dead people to study, but Wu Duan always finds healthy and healthy living people as test subjects, and I don't know how many innocent people, or heroes who have no grievances with her, are all inexplicably killed at her hands. Because she often haunts the moonlit night, it didn't take long for her to get the name of "Moon God", and she became famous in the rivers and lakes.
Three years ago, she suddenly disappeared from the rivers and lakes, and no one knew that she had come to this northern desert, living in a simple place, and being in the company of drugs. Hudu'er recruited Wu Duan for his own use, and used her poison skills to solve many stumbling blocks.
Because Wu Duan has always been uneasy about political power, it is Hu Duer who is not only extremely courteous to Wu Duan, but even more and more trusting. As for Wu Duan, as long as Hu Du'er continues to hand over her subordinate prisoners to her and let her use them, it is a trivial matter to ask her to kill a few more people for Hu Du'er.
The other people who followed Hudu'er didn't know much about the origin of Wu Duan, but they all knew how ruthless she was, and the cruelty of poison was because everyone was afraid of her and helpless, although everyone felt that it was inappropriate for Hudu'er to use a woman of unknown origin so much, but no one dared to say anything.
At this time, he volunteered to send the Cold Moon Frost Knife to Qin State for Hudu'er, and everyone present frowned and looked at each other. This is a treasure knife that is unparalleled in their clan, how can it be easily handed over to an outsider? Unexpectedly, when Hu Du'er heard that the moon god Wu Duan was willing to give him a knife, he immediately looked full of joy and said loudly.
"Great, among you here, you are the most familiar with the Central Plains, if you escort the treasure knife, then I will be greatly relieved!" Hu Du'er turned around and took out a brocade set of more than a foot from behind his seat, which contained the legendary Xiongnu treasure - the Cold Moon Frost Knife. For many years, there has been a saying among the Huns: this knife is alive.
Hudu'er handed the brocade sleeve wrapped in the treasure knife to Wu Duan, and a retainer saw it and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My lord, this matter should be considered in the long run. 」
This person is Hudu'er's old minister, named Yan Zhen, who has a lot of status and weight in the clan, and has always been very decent in dealing with advances and retreats, he looked directly at Hudu'er, and said loudly: "This important matter is related to the survival of the fourteen tribes present, and this heavy responsibility should be shared by us and Lord Wuduan. I suggest that thirty warriors be selected from the clan, led by me, and go to the Qin Kingdom with Lord Wuduan. 」
Hudu'er looked at Wu Duan and asked, "What do you think?"
Wu Duan was still expressionless, and replied lightly, "Okay. 」
Hu Du'er nodded, and said to Yan Zhen, "Okay! Just do it! Without further ado, we will select people tonight and leave for Xianyang tomorrow morning. Everyone held their breath for a long time, and then they were finally able to secretly breathe a sigh of relief and feel much more relieved.
In fact, in addition to not worrying about handing over the treasure knife to Wu Duan, the reason why the old minister Yan Zhen put forward the suggestion of his peers was actually for other purposes. Due to Hudu'er's excessive trust in Wudu'er, the patriarchs of other tribes were very dissatisfied in private, and Yan Zhen was also worried. Yan Zhen secretly decided that on this trip to Qin, he would definitely wait for an opportunity to get rid of this bane.
The next day, there was an envoy group composed of 30 Xiongnu warriors, and they set out on the road in a mighty way. They crossed the grasslands and deserts, and as they gradually stepped into the Central Plains, the scenery on both sides also changed. Yan Zhen was on guard against Wu Duan all the time, fearing that he would disappear halfway with the treasure knife, and at the same time, he carefully calculated all the way, planning when to attack Wu Xuan.
In the evening of that day, when the people came to a river valley and camped up, and when the tent was nailed, Yan Zhen called two deputies into the tent, and told them to secretly inform everyone to start tonight.
As soon as Yan Zhen heard this, he immediately jumped up from his chair, and rushed straight out without saying a word, and his feet had just stopped when he ran out of the camp, and his eyes were wide open, and his face was bloodless.
In front of him, seven or eight corpses fell to the ground, their faces turned black, and there were about twenty helpless Hun soldiers left next to them, all because they were on duty and lined up for the next round of meals, so they escaped.
Yan Zhen was cautious along the way, and he had already told his subordinates thousands of times, but he didn't expect to find an opportunity to poison Wu Duan, he stared at the corpses all over the ground, his mind was spinning quickly, and then, as if he thought of something, he suddenly rushed to the river, and sure enough, even the horses stationed by the river to drink water were all foaming at the mouth, dying, and convulsive.
Yan Zhen was so angry that he trembled, and he couldn't speak for a long time, he originally expected that it would be difficult for him to make a lonely palm, and he would not dare to easily be their enemy, but for the moon god Wu Xuan, it was effortless to knock down seven or eight people at a time. His eyes were bloodshot, and he asked angrily, "What about the Wuduan?"
"Lord Hui, she was originally waiting for a meal at the camp, but she didn't see anyone after the incident, probably taking advantage of the chaos to run. 」
"Run? How many people are left? How many horses are left?"
"Lord Hui, I just ordered, there are still twenty-three people and five horses left. 」
"You rice buckets, all follow me to chase people! If you don't have horses to ride, give me all the ones to run!" Yan Zhen roared loudly as he quickly got on his horse and led the few remaining soldiers straight out of the valley. I was worried that Wu Duan didn't know how far he had ridden a horse, but as soon as he came out of the river valley, he saw a woman in black, leading a horse and sitting on a big rock.
The evening night and the glow of the setting sun divided the sky into two pieces, and also divided the black white face into two sides, one side was bright and the other was dark, and she was quietly looking up at the sky, a bright moon that had just risen
Yan Zhen grabbed the horse and scolded through gritted teeth, "Stinky woman, hand over the sword!"
Wu Duan didn't look at him, maintained a posture of looking up at the sky, and asked lightly, "Hand it over?"
"Don't play stupid with me!" said Leap Zhen loudly, pointing at Wu Xuan, ". You didn't plan to send the sword to Xianyang for the king from the beginning! You just killed seven of my brothers, and you want to fly away with the sword!"
"You've misunderstood, Lord Yan Zhen," Wu Duan said, raising an arm high and flipping her wrist to open it to the sky, as if to fill the palm of her hand with both the sunset and the moonlight, she continued, "The corpses of the people I have taken the Golden Moon Pill will soon emit a foul smell, and I can't stay there for the night, so I want to stay away. It just so happens that the scenery here is very beautiful, so just stay here to watch the sunset and watch the moon. 」
Yan Zhen saw that Wu Duan didn't pay attention to them at all, he was so angry that he smoked, took out a big knife and brandished it and shouted: "It's been a good month, and you can't even run?
After saying that, the men and horses on his left and right sides immediately drew out their waist knives and rushed forward to kill, only to see Wu Duan sitting on the big stone, not moving, the four soldiers who took the lead in the killing fell to the ground with men and horses, and the four people hugged their bodies and let out a miserable wail, rolling all over the ground, and their faces turned black in less than two strokes, and they died of blood through seven holes. As for the four horses that fell to the side, it seems that they will not survive.
At this moment, several Hun soldiers who were originally following behind them were so frightened that they stopped, and even Yan Zhen was so surprised that he opened his mouth. How did Wu Duan poison four people and four horses in a short period of time? Could it be that this woman not only poisoned, but also demonized?
Seeing that the soldiers showed frightened looks, Yan Zhen scolded: "What a daze! If the Cold Moon Frost Knife is robbed by this woman, we will die if we go back, so why don't you give it to me quickly!"
Having said that, but at this time, who would dare to approach Wuduan easily? The soldiers each look at me, I look at you, hesitate and slowly approach, several of them nodded to each other, and then shouted in unison and raised their knives and rushed forward, running without two steps, but suddenly fell to the ground, threw down their weapons and rolled on the ground, the state was the same as the person who had just been poisoned, frightened the other soldiers turned around and ran, who knew that it was okay not to run, so that they all fell down one after another, their faces were black, and the seven holes bled to death.
In the blink of an eye, the twenty-three Hun warriors around him all died violently, and Yan Zhen stayed on the horse's back, chilling all over, muttering: "Demon girl...... Enchantress ...... You're not human, you're a ghost......
Wu Duan slowly stood up on the big stone, stared down at his palm, and said, "This medicinal powder is quite difficult to use, it must be baked by a little sunlight, not too much, and then it must be exposed to the moonlight for a while, so that the toxin can really volatilize, melt into the air, and spread to a radius of hundreds of miles. It is colorless and tasteless, once inhaled into the internal organs, it will immediately run away the blood veins around the body, if you stand quietly and do not move, it will take about a quarter of an hour to die, if you run, the qi and blood will speed up, and you will be poisoned to death in two or three snaps of your fingers. 」
Speaking of this, a white face that was originally expressionless instantly seemed to be a frozen river water, and a sweet smile appeared, she raised her head and looked at the stunned Yan Zhen, but she didn't seem to see Yan Zhen, but looked at a very distant place, and said leisurely: "It took me ten years of work to make this medicinal powder, and it was finally concocted not long ago, and today I experimented with it on a living person for the first time, but I didn't expect it to succeed, it's really good. Lord Yan Zhen, I sat here and thought about it for a long time, and finally helped it find its name, this poison needs a little sunset, a little moon light to shine, from now on, I will call it [the sunset moon has light]. Do you think it sounds good, Lord Runzhen?"
At this moment, the sunset had completely disappeared, the night covered the earth silently, the valley rocks reflected the moonlight slightly, and the originally godless eyes gradually and slowly, slowly, condensed, and shot a cold gaze, staring straight at the Hun general sitting on the horse.
I saw that Yan Zhen's face was a mixture of shock, fear, anger, and a complex expression of extreme pain, but it was still quiet, bleeding to death through seven holes.