Alienated Martial Arts

Chapter 119 Unfamiliar
Click!

A man with a fleshy face was strangled by the neck and held high against the wall.

On the ground beside them lay several corpses, which had become frozen and stiff under the freezing temperature.

Wei Tao let go of his hand slightly, and put him on the ground.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Which gang member in the outer city are you, why did you want to kill me indiscriminately after I revealed my identity?"

"Of course we have a reason to kill you."

The man's eyes were resentful, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If you kill my brother, I will be considered..."

Click!

His neck was broken, and he fell limply on the ground, among the other corpses.

Wei Tao began to strip his clothes, and at the same time he kept stuffing the dried meat he found into his mouth.

Suddenly, he stopped abruptly.

Looking at the Blood Jade Pill found on the man and a paper sign full of words, he couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

This person should be a member of the Red Lantern Society.

This place is already in the suburbs of Cangyuan City, and the distance from the city is only three to five miles at most.

Surrounded by villages and farms, people from the Red Lantern Festival appear here majestically...

It seemed the situation was worse than he had imagined.

Light footsteps came.

Another man's voice sounded from afar.

"What are you dawdling about over there? It's time for you to change shifts, do you know?"

Wei Tao greeted him silently.

The voice of speaking was inexplicably familiar to him.

So I have to go over to confirm whether it is that person.

The footsteps stopped just outside the door.

A man in leather armor was about to reach out to push the door, but his expression changed slightly.

He twitched the tip of his nose a few times, turned around and walked back.

One hand also pulled something from the back of the waist.

Click!

He was also stuck by the neck and pushed against the wall.

Wei Tao stretched out his hand and took the thing over.

With a crisp snap, the whistle used to release the signal broke in two and fell into the snowdrift.

He lowered his head and leaned closer to the man's ear, "I'm curious, as a city defense force, why did you mix with the Red Lantern Church members?"

"You, who are you?"

The man struggled, only to feel that the big hand behind him was like iron tongs, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Bang!
He was pressed hard against the wall.

There was a sharp pain in the nose, and tears mixed with blood flowed down.

Wei Tao moved back a little, and said coldly, "You have to figure out where you are, now I'm interrogating you, not for you to ask me back."

"I'm just following orders, and I don't know anything else." He replied tremblingly.

"You, whose order are you following, and what order?"

"We were ordered by the garrison department to guard at the intersection back to the city, and to warn when we found anyone approaching."

"After the warning, what will happen?"

"After the warning, there will be nothing for us. There will be warriors from the inner city rushing to deal with it. As for what happened next, I don't know much about it."

Wei Tao frowned, thoughtfully, "Where are the members of the Red Lantern Society, what is your relationship with them?"

"I, I don't know their identities, I only know that the higher up wants us to cooperate with each other and guard this checkpoint together."

When the man said this, there was a hint of joy in his voice, "Mr. Wei, you are Mr. Wei from the Red Line Gate."

Wei Tao let go of his hand and looked at him silently, his eyes seemed a little complicated.

The man turned around with a smile on his face, "Young Master Wei, do you still remember me? I am Wuchang Bian. When you first moved into your new residence, I..."

He muttered to himself, his voice getting smaller and smaller, and his smile froze a little bit.

"You shouldn't have recognized me." Wei Tao said quietly.

"Young Master Wei, please..."

Click!

Wuchang Bian's eyes widened, and he fell limply.

Wei Tao lowered his head and looked into his eyes.

It wasn't until the look inside completely disappeared that he sighed and said, "Whether you are warning and intercepting the bandits trying to get close to the city, or the warriors who escaped from the bloody killing field outside, I'm afraid even you don't know. "

Tweet!
In the distance, a sharp whistling sounded straight into the sky.

Then there was a loud bang, which could be clearly heard from a long distance away.

Wei Tao didn't stay any longer, quickly hid the corpse, and walked quickly towards the city that was already close at hand.

It is not yet the time to release the key, and the gate of Cangyuan City is already tightly closed.

There is also a team of armored soldiers patrolling back and forth on the city wall, leaving almost no dead spots or gaps.

Wei Tao waited patiently until night fell completely.

Then, taking advantage of the opportunity when the city guards changed their defenses, they quietly climbed over the city wall from the corner and entered the city that suddenly felt a little strange to him.

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crackle!

A firework rises into the sky.

A burst of beautiful colors exploded in the heavy snow.

There are also dense firecrackers, one after another in this snowy night, and they are connected together.

The storefronts on both sides of the road are decorated with lights and festoons. Under the light of various colors, the whole long street is decorated with brilliance.

Many pedestrians wearing thick winter clothes stopped in front of a certain shop from time to time, chatting with familiar friends, or buying some goods.

There are also children, big and small, running wildly, playing with the snow on the side of the road.

For a while, Wei Tao was even a little dazed.

It's like Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly, who can't tell which side is real and which side is false.

The fierce fighting in the wilderness outside the city,

Bloody corpses with mutilated limbs,
It seemed like a dream, but now he woke up and was leaving him quickly.

Suddenly, a group of knights rushed from the direction of the inner city.

The sound of horseshoes made the stone pavement tremble slightly.

It also woke Wei Tao up from this inexplicable emotion, and turned his head to look into the distance.

Dozens of warriors roared past.

With a cold and murderous atmosphere, he quickly disappeared at the end of the long street.

On the side of the road, several pedestrians watched the knight go away, and quickly lowered their voices to discuss.

"Master Huang is out on patrol again."

"That's right, thanks to them, those scurrying strongmen were kept out, without affecting the peace around the city."

"Where are the martial artists from the Zhou family and the Xu family? Didn't they also go out of the city to suppress the bandits? Why haven't we seen them come back?"

"There are also all the big forces in the outer city, almost all of them have come out, it has been ten days."

"I heard that the Huang family is in charge of the city and its suburbs, and the Zhou and Xu families brought the martial masters from the outer city and cast a net to hunt them down throughout the Cangyuan realm."

"Sigh, when those big gangs were around, it always felt a little depressing to watch them.

As a result, they are gone now, and all kinds of petty theft and gangsters have become more and more wanton.

It would be better to have those vicious men suppress it, pay the protection fee every month and it's over, there won't be so many incidents at all. "

"That's right, there are also guys who escaped from Mozhou, who are more hateful than those green-skinned hooligans.

Green-skinned hooligans sometimes pay attention to the face of a neighbor, and the killers don't care at all, and they are vicious when they start something. "

"Didn't the warriors from Mozhou also form a gang? This time the three masters are out of the city to suppress the bandits, why don't you bring them along?"

"I've brought it on for the past two days. It seems to be patrolling the edge of the city with the Huang family's martial arts master, specially arresting those gangsters who come here."

"It seems that many members of the Red Lantern Society have left the city. These people seem to be full of enthusiasm, but there are not many martial artists in them, and their combat effectiveness seems to be a bit worrying."

Wei Tao listened silently, frowning involuntarily.

The Huang family is mainly in charge of the city and surrounding suburbs?
Doesn't that mean that all the bloody fights that took place in the wilderness were perfectly avoided by the Huang family?

Also, Zhou family's black cavalry and Xu family's Juying hall were wiped out, and the Mozhou black scarf army appeared. With such an important event gathered together, Cangyuan city did not hear any news.

Then think of the few people killed outside the city.

There are also the city defense army and the Red Lantern Festival guarding the card together.

No matter which way you look at it, these things are a bit weird.

Suddenly, Wei Tao recalled Zhou Mingyan's unfinished sentence before he died.

"Also, you must tell them to be careful of Huo..."

At that time, he couldn't hear clearly at that time, and he was still a little wondering if besides Gong Yuan and Elder Jin, there was another master surnamed Huo who came nearby.

Now, though, step back and think about it.

It gives people an inexplicable and weird feeling.

Could it be that Zhou Mingyan was not talking about Huo, but the unfinished yellow words?
If it was really Huang, would the Xu and Zhou families have allowed themselves to be slaughtered without any resistance?
However, looking at the peaceful scene of the outer city preparing to welcome the New Year, there is no sign of chaos at all...

So, what about the place where the family members go to work?

Is there still peace and tranquility?

Wei Tao took a deep breath of the moist and cool air, and quickened his pace again.

(End of this chapter)