Chapter 4 Murder

Seeing that the pursuers stopped, Wu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, he felt dry mouth, he was too nervous just now.But he knew that he couldn't stop, he wanted to expand the advantage of distance, people did not stop, Wu Xiao rode the black horse and continued to run forward. Wu Xiao jumped into the waist-deep lake and threw the water on the horse to cool it down.

After a while, he also felt tired, sat on the edge of the lake and took out a bun and devoured it, while eating while thinking about what he should do next, he knew that he couldn't afford to delay, the chasing soldiers behind him soon caught up, the time seemed to be very urgent, Wu Xiao didn't dare to leave the official road, because he was not familiar with the road, leaving the official road would be lost, and he couldn't enter the city, the pursuers must have already flown pigeons and passed the book to the state capitals along the way to arrest themselves, Wu Xiao felt that he couldn't sit still, and a chill appeared in his stubborn eyes, He stood up and turned over his horse, and continued to run in the direction of Shangyang, on the way he met a market, there were many Tufan merchants who also set up stalls here, Wu Xiao got off the horse to make some supplies, bought some soybeans, cloth, dry food, saw a weapon stall, bought a short knife, and bows and arrows, he didn't dare to stay too long, came to Shangyang City in the afternoon, Wu Xiao didn't dare to enter the city, bypassed from outside the city, ran in the direction of Wanzhou, and went out of the boundary of Shannan Road to Wanzhou, and the Yangtze River was Jiangnan Road on the other side, It's just that there are more than 100 miles from Shangyang to Wanzhou, and I don't know what dangers are there along the way, but Wu Xiao knows that there is no way back, he can only move forward.

At night, Wu Xiao found a dense forest to rest, he didn't dare to make a fire, so he could only eat some dry food with water, soybeans fed the horses, and his clothes fell down in the grass to rest, he didn't have any sleepiness at all, and he didn't dare to sleep too hard, thinking about what to do later, and he fell asleep in a daze in the second half of the night.

In the morning, Wu Xiao was woken up by the horse licking, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the enlarged tongue of Ju Da Ma licking his face with saliva on his face, and the tongue was rough like a cracked bark licking the spicy pain on his face, Wu Xiao immediately jumped up, pushed away the horse's head, and glared at the black horse, but he immediately realized that the black horse had saved him, because he had felt that the earth was vibrating slightly, and there was a horse team rushing to this side, it was estimated that it was only ten miles away from here, Wu Xiao jumped on the back of the horse and urged the black horse to run quickly.

Sure enough, an hour later, Wu Xiao saw the smoke and dust billowing behind him, and there were as many as forty or fifty horses rushing towards him, they must have a tracking master, looking for the black horse's feces and horseshoe prints to find their own route, it has not rained in the past two days, it is easy to find traces.

The leader of the chasing soldiers behind is Eagle Eye Ye Tianming, who is a master of tracking, he chased all the way, and finally caught up with which child the next morning, this time the master let go of the dead words, and he couldn't catch the head to see, and he had a future all in one fell swoop, so he was very attentive and didn't stop for a moment.

Ye Tianming shouted: "Xiao Wu, iron head, go to the right wing, press him, hook, Dasha go to the right wing, everyone abandons the spare horses, the knife is out of the sheath, which piece in front is open to surround which little rabbit cub", I saw that everyone untied the reins of the spare horse, drew the knife out of the sheath, and rode to Wu Xiao on the left and right.

Wu Xiao looked around, he knew that he must not be intercepted by them in this open land, he nervously looked at the surrounding terrain, the thatch on the open land is very high, there is a densely vegetated mountain range in front of the right, and a dry riverbed in front of the left. And he is still nearly ten miles away from the mountains and forests, the black horse is already running at full speed, but the speed is obviously slower than the military horse behind, the distance is getting closer a little, Wu Xiao kept his legs balanced, and withdrew the bow and arrow in his hand, and the pursuers behind noticed his action, and laughed loudly: "Shoot, little mongrel, have you been weaned, come and show the uncle an arrow". The difference is only whether the cat wants to play with the rat for a while longer.

Wu Xiao ignored them, he was calculating the distance intently, he tried this bow, he could only pull half of it, he didn't have enough strength, all, attacking too early could only be futile, he could only find the right opportunity, the more the enemy despised himself, the greater the chance of winning, his father said so.Fortunately, the black horse ran very smoothly.When Wu Xiao was two miles away, Wu Xiao raised his bow and raised it to a horse closer to the right, who heard the sound of the bowstring "collapse" and immediately leaned down and made an evasive action, but then he heard "collapse" At the same time, Wu Xiao shot one or two arrows to the left, one arrow hit the horse's chest, and the other arrow missed, which completely surprised the enemy, forcing the tightest four horsemen to fall behind, Ye Tianming was angry when he saw this situation, Cursed Fei Wu and then ordered the archers to shoot back.

Wu Xiao stuck to the black horse's back, controlling the black horse to constantly change direction and run, only to hear the whizzing arrows behind him flying over his head, fortunately he didn't shoot.Ye Tianming saw Wu Xiao's evasive action, and put away his contempt, because he found that this child was very unusual, and the veterans in the organization did not necessarily have his ability. But at this time, Wu Xiao had already approached the woods, and he got into it and ran towards the mountains, because he knew that in the mountain forest, he was in this kind of mountain forest with dense trees, The speed of the military horse immediately loses its advantage, on the contrary, it is fighting for equestrianism and the endurance of the war horse.

Sure enough, when Ye Tianming chased them into the woods, the speed immediately slowed down, it was very dangerous to gallop in the woods, and it was possible to be hung by branches at any time, and the consequences of hitting the branches at high speed would be broken bones and death. This mountain is not too big, we scattered to search, formed a circle on the mountainside, searched to the top of the mountain together, forced which little ghost to the top of the mountain, ears up, which little ghost has a bow.", everyone called out to know, agreed to find the whereabouts with the smoke of the sky, and then scattered and closed the circle.

This mountain originally had several secondary veins connected, but now the cavalry gate has been chased to the middle of the mountain, after the encirclement is equivalent to cutting off the possibility of escaping to other mountains, although the number of cavalry is not much, the distance between the two is far, but if anyone can slip away from the gap between the two, this possibility is quite small, they are all veterans of tracking for many years, and the two use a zigzag search, intersecting each other, there will be no omission, and the more up the gap is smaller.

It was slowly getting dark, Xiao Wu was an iron head on the right, and a hook on the left, and he had been looking for an hour or two since he got off the horse, and he had advanced a lot, but he didn't even find the shadow of a child, he slowly became irritable, chopping horses, knives and pulling weeds indiscriminately, and his face and hands had already been scratched by thorns Many openings, although they were only scratched a little skin, but it was also strange, and there were many insects on the mountain, "If you catch any little ghost, you must give a few more knives, if he is not now in the Spring Breeze Courtyard with the girls happy". Just thinking about it, he suddenly felt a sinking under his feet, followed by the pain of his heart, he felt that his feet were pierced by something, the pain was almost numb, he screamed, leaned down to check, and found that several slender bamboo skewers pierced the soles of the shoes and inserted them directly into the footboard, one of them even wore out of the upper of the shoe, piercing the whole foot, Xiao Wu was so painful that he immediately sat on the ground with his feet, howling in his mouth, he was ruthless, pulled out with both hands, and wanted to pull his feet up from the bamboo sticks, but the bamboo sticks were pulled out of the ground, and it was a pain in the heart, Iron head heard Xiao Wu's howl, ran over, he dragged Xiao Wu to the edge of a tree to lean, Xiao Wu howled and cursed, "shut up" Iron head roared, he took a knife to cut off his shoes, only to see the situation on Xiao Wu's feet, four bamboo sticks were deeply inserted into the flesh, one of them pierced out of the foot. The three of them suddenly felt a cold feeling in their hearts, they felt that the little ghost they were chasing and killing was not simple, and they shuddered even more when they remembered who the child's father was.

They cut off the bamboo sticks on Xiao Wu's feet and wrapped them in cloth, helped him lie under the tree, and then continued to search upwards, quickly find which child, the only way to prevent further accidents here. He didn't even have time to make a sound before he fell to the ground.

A pillar of incense time torch extinguished three more, here is still five miles away from the top of the mountain, Ye Tianming got the casualty statistics is that three people fell into the trap, lost their ability to move, and were killed by arrows, plus the big fool who was shot in the leg is still at the foot of the mountain, they still have 12 people now, two people gathered around him, waiting for him to issue a follow-up order, but Ye Tianming found that he never felt that this order was so difficult, he completely lost the arrogance at the beginning, and his mood was extremely bad, It's like being slapped in the face a few times for him, and he has no way to vent." Put out all the torches, do you want to be a live target, keep your eyes bright, continue to search", soon everyone received the order, and the mountain was pitch black.But from time to time there were birds startled, flying towards other mountains, everyone's heart became heavier and heavier, they didn't know which little ghost was where, although they used to be wolves chasing prey, but now they had a feeling of being targeted by wild beasts.

Xiao Wu was lying under the tree, his right leg was no longer conscious because of excessive blood loss, and his brain was a little confused, he was waiting for his companions to catch a little ghost, and he could take him back to heal his injuries when he came down the mountain, he didn't want to spend the rest of his life on crutches.

"Don't move, don't bark, I can leave your dog alive", a very calm and cold voice sounded in his ears, Xiao Wu turned his head slightly, through the faint moonlight that came through the branches and leaves, he saw a cold, but delicate face like a porcelain doll, this face has no expression, very calm, Xiao Wu did not dare to move, because he knew that such a person was the most terrifying, he even forgot that this face belonged to a seven or eight-year-old child.

"Answer my question, just slow down and cut your throat"

"Don't kill me, I say"

"What did you do to my parents?"

"There is an order from above, destroy the door, now only you are still alive" Xiao Wu didn't dare to directly say that he killed all Wu Xiao's parents.

"But I didn't participate, I was from the Eagle Group, and I was only in charge of intelligence", Xiao Wu added.

Although Wu Xiao had been mentally prepared, he almost fell down when he heard the news, but he endured it, because he knew that now was not the time for him to be sad, he had to live, and only by living could he have a future.

"How do you know my whereabouts?"

"We found Zhangjiaji, found your jade pendant from an old man, and learned your route to Jiangnan Province"

"I am wanted in the state capital along the way"

"There is no sea fishing document yet, and this thing cannot be done on the surface, so only the people of the organization secretly patrol the important intersections along the way"

"Who gave the order to kill my whole family?"

"I don't know about this, we just accept the orders of the organization to act, the real master above, we haven't seen it at all, we really haven't seen it" Xiao Wu emphasized, he was afraid that Wu Xiao would not believe that a knife would kill him

Wu Xiao didn't speak for a long time, he was silent

"Let me go, I'm just ordered to act, I'll tell you the truth, you have to talk about it" Xiao Wu was pleading, but as soon as the voice fell into his throat, he was cut by a short knife, and blood poured into his throat, he tried to make a sound, but he could only make the sound of Bubu, accompanied by blood bubbles splashing to a back.

"Do you still need to talk to the enemy?" was the last voice Xiao Wu heard.