Chapter 56 Anping Bridge
Towards dawn, when the east had just turned white, a party of twenty men, ragged, dusty, and exhausted, came from the southeast, and among them seven or eight women. The two people in the lead were chatting as they walked.
"Team Leader Xue! It seems that we are really wrong, this big bend is too bad. ”
"Team Leader Wang, yes! I didn't expect this mountain to be so long, and I met the hungry and difficult black sand cat, and I was scratched by it and injured a few disciples. ”
"Fortunately, there are only two, and this barren place is mainly difficult to distinguish the direction, and it has taken a few forks in the road. ”
"Leader Wang, look, there are many tents on the dirt slope in front, and it should be the polder slope. ”
"Yes, that's them. ”
"I'm worried that, alas, it's already morning, how can we cross the Anping Bridge, and now it's really a ghost gate for us. ”
"Isn't it? I don't know if the girl in your team was eaten by a python or has already come?"
"I don't know, do you say that such a huge and terrifying python is really just an ordinary beast?"
"Alas, if I had known that I would have fought with them, I would not have made such a mess and fallen into such an embarrassing place, I am afraid that they would have avoided us far away now. ”
"Yes, we have become the focus of their defense, but we do need to grab the Dragon Fruit before we can cross the bridge, or we wait until the last team is left, and then start to kill them and capture the Dragon Fruit, and the other teams will not be able to come back to help after they have passed." ”
"Brother Xue, winning the fruit is the most shameful, but it seems that it can only be like this, generally the order of the teams crossing the bridge is determined by lottery, I hope that the last team is the weak team! ”
"Brother Wang, we are already grasshoppers on a boat, we must cooperate to the end, why don't we go to the Anping Bridge to ambush now, and wait for the people in front of us to pass, we rush out, they can't find out what happened behind, and it's best to do it at that time." ”
"Well, it was decided. ”
Both of them had a fierce look in their eyes, waving their hands at the people behind them, and disappeared into the morning mist.
The sky was bright, Geng Chen's mood became more and more anxious, this Xue Zhaofeng and the ten disciples were still missing, and the team was about to set off.
Gengchen paced to Min Xiaolin's side and said, "Uncle Shi! this Xue Zhaofeng hasn't arrived yet, should we wait?"
"Hey, how could this Xue Zhaofeng choose to take a detour? This barren place, there will be no mistake in the direction of following the steps of the predecessors, and other places are full of dangers!"
"Uncle Shi, why don't you let the Jiaolong team and Yuhan cross the bridge first, our dragon team will wait until the end, if you don't come again, let's cross the bridge." ”
"Well, it's up to you. ”
"It's just that they don't have a dragon Xieguo, and it is very difficult to cross the bridge, I think there is only one way to break through, throw a fruit over two people, and go with a weak force, how about it?" Geng Chen said.
"Okay, that's all. ”
Gengchen gathered all the disciples of Kunlong Palace, and when he said his intentions, everyone acquiesced.
Yuhan opened his mouth and said, "Let's wait for them, after all, we are a team, what do you say?"
The two brothers Sang Qi, Lin Fei'er, and Kun all nodded, and Honglian hurriedly said: "Originally, I was going to stay, I could bring a disciple over, and Yuhan should also be able to bring someone, Gengchen, why don't you let them stay?"
"Okay, let's let the other teams go first, we don't have to participate in the draw, the last team crosses the bridge. ”
"Okay," everyone hated the same enemy.
The wild team Zhaolei and the old man of the Cangqi faction all came to invite the people of Kunlong Palace to set off together, Gengchen explained the situation to them, and they nodded and said that they set off with the team.
From the Weiri slope to the Anping Bridge three miles or so, everyone made a force under their feet, and arrived in a blink of an eye.
Two big mountains stretch endlessly, a deep valley is black and swarthy and does not see the bottom, extending to the two ends without seeing the end, the cliffs of the two gorges are precipitous, like a knife cutting and axe chopping, a small bridge in the middle is hanging, in fact, it is several iron chains put together, it is two or three hundred meters long, swaying in the mountain wind.
Some people are weak when they see their legs and stomachs, and they shudder, not to mention that there are monsters in the mountain stream blocking the way, and Anping Bridge is not safe at all!
Everyone gathered at the head of the bridge and began to draw lots, and they were reluctant to draw the first and last lots, and the people who started the first to eat crabs because they didn't know what the situation was in front of them, and they were often caught by crabs. The last team is also dangerous and vulnerable to attacks by those who have not received the fruit.
Xu Yang drew a lot, and suddenly the whole team became nervous, because no one knew what to do? If Gengchen is good and he has experienced it, he can talk about how to go.
The old man stepped forward, and after saying something in Xu Yang's ear, Xu Yang nodded, "Teammates carefully watch how I live, just follow my example." ”
Everyone nodded yes.
I saw Xu Yang come to the bridgehead, and after standing still, he shook the iron chain, which was still very stable, and there were wooden planks on the two iron chains in the middle, one on each side, which became a railing.
He threw the dragon fruit high and threw it towards the valley stream, and instantly pulled out his legs and ran to the opposite side, when the fruit crossed an arc and fell into the valley, Xu Yang had already reached the opposite bank. Everyone applauded.
The disciples of Kunlong Palace learned Xu Yang's method and passed seven or eight people one after another. There was no movement in the mountain stream. Everyone is wondering if the predecessors are playing tricks. Now it's Ma Shang's turn, he usually moves slowly, his body is slightly fat, and he is an earth attribute, his strength is indeed great, but his behavior is even slower, he has just been promoted to a six-fold martial artist, and he has won the qualification for cultivation with his strength.
He also felt that there seemed to be nothing, how could there be any monsters, all bluffing, after throwing the fruit, still jogging on the bridge unhurriedly, and the old man behind him shouted: "Brother, run, run!"
He still turned a deaf ear and went his own way, everyone looked at his back, he had reached the middle, advanced a lot, and was still safe and sound.
Suddenly, there was a roar, a puff of black smoke came out from the mountain stream, and a black, hairy hand stretched out from the darkness, only to lightly catch it on the bridge, and in an instant Ma Shang disappeared, and his terrible scream came from the deep valley, which made people creepy and echoed for a long time.
The people on the shore were all shocked by this scene, and they were all so frightened that they didn't even have the courage to go up the bridge again.
The old man of the Cangqi faction shouted loudly: "Hurry up and cross the bridge, the time is tight, and there are more than 100 people? As long as you throw the fruit, it is not terrible to pass quickly, go quickly." ”
Everyone had no choice but to bite the bullet, and when the seven detachments were halfway through, no one was captured by the monster, and everyone's mood calmed down.
Suddenly, there was a big chaos in the rear team, it turned out to be the two disciples of the Xuanji Gate fruit explosion yesterday, snatching the fruit in the hands of others, there was a team in the Xuanji Gate that had just passed, they couldn't stay any longer, and stretched out their claws.
As a result, everyone surrounded, and they were caught and tied up, and the two people who were robbed took back the dragon Xieguo, and under the order of their leader, the two people were directly thrown into the deep valley by several disciples, and two miserable screams were heard.
This is the consequence of robbing others of the dragon and the fruit.
There were fewer and fewer people left in the clearing, and the last group was the Changquan Dojo from Xibo City and the Yellow Flag Team of the Hong Clan, a big clan in the city.
Xue Zhaofeng hid in the shadows, he never saw Gengchen's team and Red Lotus and Yuhan, he thought secretly.
As the clock ticked by, the sun had begun to set in the west, and only the Yellow Flags were left on the empty field.
Xue Zhaofeng hurriedly said to Wang Chunlong, "It's time to start, if you don't act, it's too late, you go first, get the fruit, you can cross the bridge early." ”
Wang Chunlong hurriedly said, "What about you?"
"Have you counted? There should be a team behind us, and as soon as that team comes, we will immediately kill and capture the Dragon Xieguo. ”
Wang Chunlong was very moved, he waved his big hand, and the entire team suddenly appeared beside the disciples of the Yellow Flag Team with lightning speed, raised the knife and slashed, and immediately shouted and killed.
Gengchen happened to arrive with the team, and saw Wang Chunlong rushing out from behind the stone with people, attacking the Yellow Flag team, and killing more than a dozen people in an instant.
Xue Zhaofeng whispered to his teammates: "Now that our opportunity has come, rush out and kill all the Wang family, rush." ”
Ten people pulled out their swords and swords together, and moved the knives from the back of the Wang family, crying and screaming.
Gengchen was also busy directing his disciples, so hurry up and come over.
Xue Zhaofeng held a sword and stabbed Wang Chunlong in the back of the heart, Wang Chunlong slowly turned around and looked at Xue Zhaofeng in surprise: "Brother Xue, you, you are ,..." fell to the ground before he finished speaking.
"Is it Zhaofeng? We've been waiting for you?How did you arrive?" Gengchen asked impatiently.
"It's me, the Wang family is walking ahead of me, we just arrived here, and we found that the Wang family was killing the people of the Yellow Flag Team, trying to take the Dragon Xieguo, so we attacked them, and now they are all killed by us. Xue Zhaofeng said as he looked at the corpse that had fallen to the ground.
At this time, the two people from the Yellow Flag Team who had slipped through the net saluted Geng Chen and Xue Zhaofeng: "Thank you for your rescue, those people suddenly broke in and came to grab the fruit." ”
"Well, you're from the Yellow Flags?"
"Yes, we have one more team ahead that has passed. ”
"Okay, then wait and cross the bridge with us before chasing them!" Gengchen said.
"Yes, thank you!"
"Since that's the case, Mega quickly find the fruit to cross the bridge. ”
"Well, let's look for fruit to cross the bridge. ”
Yesterday, all the teams on the slope of the polder passed an agreement: everyone worked together to cross the bridge, coordinated to pick the fruit, and there was no incident of snatching the dragon fruit between each other, and if it was found, all the teams must kill the person or team involved in the robbery, and never lose their trust. This has been the case in previous years, and without this good agreement, no one can get through this hurdle.
Therefore, in this section of the journey, the most taboo is the matter of winning the fruit, those who have lost their faith and righteousness have risen up to punish them, Xue Zhaofeng's team is not now winning the fruit, but participating in the heroic act of killing the person who won the fruit for justice.
Yuhan looked at it coldly.
Red Lotus snorted lightly, and the status of some people was lowered a lot in her eyes, like a vicious dog.