Chapter Seventy-Six: The Hermit of the Bamboo Forest
Unconsciously, three months have passed, Sha Tonghai took the time to come to Cuizhu Island, Ma Beifang specially assembled a team to perform martial arts in the school field for him to review, first of all, a collective knife drill, nearly 3,000 Dongying people stood shirtless in the school field, holding a long knife with a cold light, these people were all thin and weak when they first arrived on Cuizhu Island, like hungry ghosts. Now, after eating, drinking, and recuperating with rice noodles, fish and shrimp, I have long been fat, fat and strong, and I look majestic from afar. With Ma Beibei's order, everyone shouted in unison, "Ah!" The ground monster roared, and the feet jumped together, and the long knife in his hand was chopped down. With the roar endlessly, the knives on the school field flashed and the murderous aura was soaring.
After the collective knife practice, they each caught and tested the knife technique, and everyone faced each other in pairs, holding bamboo knives in their hands. The "aggressive" sound of bamboo knives colliding on the school field rang out, and the losers stepped down in frustration, and the winners were rewarded with a large bowl of rice wine. Then there was the fight with their bare hands, and the crowd was still a random combination of two, and with the order, they roared, punched, kicked, wrestled and wrestled together. The winner is still a big bowl of rice wine, and the loser has to wash his bleeding nose with cold water and watch others drink.
Finally, there is the sword formation drill, this sword formation was founded by a martial artist surnamed Hu, because he is old, so everyone respects it as "Daddy Hu" when they see it, and the prototype of the sword formation is a simple sword formation of their sect. It has been modified to look like it is now. Originally, this knife formation had a name, but those Dongying people called it "Hu Daddy Knife Formation", and no one mentioned the original name.
Daddy Hu was very angry about this title, saying that it was easy to name the knife array after his own name, so Ma Beifang had to change it to "butterfly knife array". Daddy Hu returned satisfied. This sword formation is a group of twelve people. The twelve people in the formation cooperated very well, as if one person was fighting with twelve knives. Compared with the military formation in the Tang army, it is not inferior.
Although Sha Tonghai does not know much about kung fu on land, he is an expert in knife and gun fighting. Seeing that the kung fu of these Dongying people alone can withstand three or five ordinary soldiers, if they form a sword formation that is more powerful, they can't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered Zhong Xian to offer a reward.
In addition to each of the martial artists getting an ingot, there is also a jar of good wine, and even those Dongying people have ten taels of silver red envelopes. Everyone on Cuizhu Island is happy.
Sha Tonghai is busy with things, so naturally he will not spend the night on Cuizhu Island, so he boarded a boat and returned to Laizhou in the afternoon, and waited for Sha Tonghai and others to be sent away. Ma Beifang happily hugged the wine jar and came to the depths of the dense forest to find Huang Shan, and came to Huang Shan's small bamboo house, but there was no one in the house.
It's still early, and it's estimated that he is training those boys and girls on his own school field at this time.
Then put the wine jar on the table, walked to the depths of the bamboo forest, walked a few miles, at this time the bamboo forest has been dense and even the sun is about to cover it, turn a bush of bamboo, in front of the small school field. Suddenly, a cold wind hit behind me.
Ma Beibei climbed on the tip of Nanzhu, and his body jumped on the top of Nanzhu like a bird, and several long blades swept over the soles of his feet, and the other party saw that he missed a blow. Immediately swinging a knife to cut off the Nanzhu, Ma Beifang took advantage of the situation to jump onto another Nanzhu and looked down, only to see three black-clothed teenagers. Holding a long knife under the bamboo, he stared at him. I didn't even notice that they were lying in ambush on the left just now, and I couldn't help laughing: "It turned out to be you rabbit cubs!"
When those black-clothed young men saw that it was Ma Beibei, they immediately took long knives and crutches on the ground. Knelt down on one knee and said, "I've seen Brother Beibei!" "What are you doing here?" Ma Beifang jumped down from Nanzhu and asked, "On my sister's orders." Sentry here. The young man replied, "No one is allowed to enter without my sister's order, so please wait for my brother in the north, and my disciple will go and ask my sister for her life." ”
Ma Beifang was angry and funny, and said: "Huang Shan is my junior sister, do I still want to pass it on when I come to her?" The young man said: "My sister never said that my brother doesn't need to pass it on." Listening to the tongue twister-like answer, Ma Beifang didn't have the patience to wait, so he immediately shot like electricity and clicked on the acupoints of the three people, and the three people opened their mouths and watched him brush his sleeves away but couldn't move.
Walking into the small school field, I saw those teenagers sweating like rain, some performing jiu-jitsu to climb and roll, some practicing climbing on the trees, as fast as apes, some wielding bamboo knives to fight each other, and then in the distance, the sound of Jiaozha turned out to be dozens of girls practicing the five-wheel knife technique, and even the delicate Mei Daizi and Shui Daizi who were delicate that day have now become heroic and vigorous.
Huang Shan's daily meals are rich in fish and meat, which are rich in nutrients, and these people were weak when they first arrived, but now they are not only much taller but also physically strong. I can't help but shout.
Huang Shan heard the voice and hurriedly came over and smiled: "Why are you free to come?" Ma Beifang said with a smile: "Just now the sand man came to the island, we gave him a martial arts performance on the school field, and he was very happy to see him, and each person was rewarded with an ingots and a jar of good wine, I remembered that I hadn't come to see you for some days, so I came to you with wine." Huang Shan grinned and said: "You can't find a companion when you drink, and you are afraid that you can't rob them of these drunkards when you partner with He Jiahui, so you think of me, right?"
When they walked to the path, the three black-clothed young men were still standing at the entrance, Ma Beifang laughed, stepped forward and unlocked their acupoints with a few fingers, and the three of them saw Huang Shan, and they all saluted: "Hello sister!" and then said with a guilty face: "The disciple is incompetent, and he can't stop the northern brother." ”
Huang Shan looked at Ma Beifang with dissatisfaction and said, "Children are also such heavy-handed. Then he said: "I don't blame you, where are you his opponents, you don't need to pass it on when the northern brother comes in the future, just come over." As soon as he walked a few steps, he suddenly remembered something again and smiled: "When it gets dark, I'll go back to eat with the others, there is no need to guard here at night, remember?" The three of them bowed down and said, "Remember! ”
Ma Beifang smiled: "You are also verbose, no one here still needs guards at night, if they don't go back, will they stay dry all night?"
Huang Shan said: "You don't know, the work of the guard patrol is done by everyone in turn, these Dongying people are the most determined, if you arrange them to do something, they will never delay and be late, there have been several times when it rained heavily at night, I forgot to withdraw the guard patrol quickly, they were drenched in heavy rain all night and did not move, which made my heart ache, so every time I have to tell things to be thoughtful before I can rest assured." No wonder the sandmen trained them outside. This kind of personality is the most suitable for escort and perseverance. ”
Ma Beibei said: "Sure enough, I just entered the elementary school just now. These people didn't say a word and slashed at me, but fortunately it was me. If others don't get hacked to death now, they will be seriously injured!"
Huang Shan was shocked: "There is such a thing?! I just said not to let outsiders break in, but I didn't let them kill anyone." Ma Beibu said: "They just listen to you and don't let outsiders in, but they don't care about the life or death of outsiders, where do ordinary teenagers have the courage to take a knife and cut people at will? These people have a firm character, but their temperament is cruel and vicious is also different from ordinary people, senior sister, you have to educate them well, don't let them become a group of murderous evildoers." ”
Huang Shan thought hard for a long time, and remembered that on the Tianshan Mountain, the masters and uncles always used Buddhist scriptures to dispel the anger in the hearts of the disciples. Fortunately, Ma Beifang still has a Diamond Sutra by his side, so he has to come over and let these Dongying teenagers recite it every day.
In the blink of an eye, I have been on Cuizhu Island for half a year, and now the weather is getting cooler, the temperature difference between day and night on the island is large, and I don't feel it during the day, but it is too cold at night. As firewood.
As the trees fell, the logging team gradually went deeper into the depths of Cuizhu Island, and in the early morning of this day, Yagoro, who was in charge of delivering food, came to the logging team camp with a rice bucket to deliver food. But I saw that the corpses in the camp were in disarray, and dozens of loggers actually died in the camp.
Frightened, Yagoro threw away the rice bucket and ran back, Ma Beibu and others were shocked when they heard the news. Hundreds of people were immediately organized to rush to the logging team camp with weapons, which was more than 30 miles away from the martial arts training camp. The men traveled very quickly and arrived at the logging team camp in the afternoon. I saw that all the loggers died on the spot, and no one was spared.
These people are all strong men, and they have undergone rigorous training in the martial arts training camp, even if they encounter a large number of pirates, they will never be wiped out.
When checking the corpse, I saw that most of the people fell to the ground calmly, obviously unaware of the trick and died, a small number of people held axes and long knives in their hands, as if they wanted to fight, but there was a very small gap in the heart, but there was no extra injury, that is, there was no scratch on the axe long knife without the impact of the blade, it should be that the opponent's martial arts were extremely high, and these people were alert and had no ability to resist.
Everyone carefully examined the corpse and found that the only wound on each person's wound was a very shallow scar on the top of the heart, and although the wound was shallow, it just cut off the heart vein. I can't even see what kind of blade I was injured, what is even more strange is that there are teeth marks on the wound, Ma Beibei used a short knife to cut open several corpses, and the blood of those corpses has been sucked out, is there an unknown demon in this mountain who specializes in killing people and sucking blood?
Fortunately, there are many people, and the scorching sun is on the head, people are not very afraid, the martial artists led hundreds of Dongying people to search the nearby hills and mountains carefully several times, and did not find any clues, seeing that it was too late, the martial artist Liu Hong volunteered to lead dozens of Dongying people to stay in the camp to guard, so as not to be bitten by wild beasts The corpse. The rest of the people returned to the martial arts training camp to make plans tomorrow, and the camp naturally wrote a letter explaining the situation here, and sent someone to sail overnight to Laizhou Yumingsha Tonghai.
In the early morning of the next day, Ma Beibei led everyone back to the logging team camp, but saw that Liu Hong and the others had already been dead for a long time, and even the blood had coagulated. Those Dongying people also had small cracks in their hearts, their hearts were cut off, and the blood in their hearts was sucked up, Liu Hong's body was found a hundred steps away, his eyes were wide open, his long sword was clenched in his hand, his body was leaning under the tree, there were two cracks on the sword, and the blood stains in his heart had dried up.
Although Liu Hong is arrogant, his martial arts are really good, far above He Jiahui and others, he has walked through darts before, and he has extremely rich experience in facing the enemy, but from the scene, it seems that he was poisoned by the other party after only resisting two moves.
The martial arts of this person must be unfathomable. When he opened the corpse, Ma Beifang saw Liu Hong's right hand on the dirt ground, carving the word "ten" with his fingers. There seems to be a vague scratch on it, which was obviously carved with his last breath when he was dying, and it should have a great relationship with the murderer, but everyone can't think of anyone in the rivers and lakes who has anything to do with the word "ten".
I had to bury these corpses alive and then make plans.
Daddy Hu has been a dart master for many years before, and he has seen a lot of knowledge when he travels south and north, and when he saw the word "ten", he couldn't help but gasp, and quickly pulled Ma Beifang aside and said: "Commander Ma, we have met a vampire!"
When everyone saw him pulling Ma Beifang aside, they naturally surrounded him curiously, and when they heard this, they said: "Daddy Hu, there are hanged ghosts and debt collectors in this world, but no one has ever heard of vampires!"
Daddy Hu scolded: "What do you bullshit kids know! This vampire is not a goblin from our Tang Dynasty, but a goblin from far away in the Byzantine area. Everyone laughed: "Daddy Hu, you are really joking, you even recognize the Byzantine goblins?"
Daddy Hu sighed and said: "You don't believe it, I gave Hu Shang's camel team bodyguards back then, those Hu merchants walked in Persia and Byzantium all the year round, they said that there were blood-sucking goblins in that place in the dead of night, they called this goblin a vampire, only a cross can be surrendered, I think this Liu Hong is also a dart master, may not have given Hu Shang a dart, I think I have also heard the story of vampires, he must have encountered such goblins, so he drew a cross on the ground, wanting to ward off evil spirits and subdue demons, but unfortunately ......" Father Hu shook his head and said, "After all, it's not enough mana." Although everyone didn't know whether these words were true or false, they all felt shuddering. (To be continued......)
PS: I just finished coping with the inspection of my superiors, and I am almost tired of cleaning and sorting out documents in the past few days.