Mysterious Martial Arts: The Record of the Swordsman

Chapter 51 Snow Mud Claws (Reset Edition)

The night is dark and the wind is high, the strange trees are towering, and the night owl hides in the branches and screams menacingly. During the day, the tree-lined path turns into a thick ink under the moon shadow, completely covering the vision in front of you. There is only one mud path that seems to spread infinitely, leading to the end of the unknown.

Jiang Wen was attracted by a figure in black when he was wandering around late at night. It was a natural disaster for Jiang Wen to appear in Xiamei Town with such a sneaky and unknown person, so he had to follow up and find out. Fan.

But who would have thought that following along the path and footprints, he gradually lost track of him, as if his figure faded and became lighter until it burst into the air like a bubble.

Thinking about it carefully, in the past few years when he lived in Wuyi Mountain in seclusion, the news from the snow and mud claws on the rivers and lakes often contained strange things that people couldn't see through, except for some deeds that made people full of sight. , and there are even rumors that there are unidentified things surging, which seems to be faintly different from when I first arrived a few years ago.

These rivers and lakes are full of turbulence, and weird news spread frequently, such as a person in the martial arts practiced martial arts for many years and suddenly went mad on a certain day, someone swallowed Ganoderma lucidum and went into the deep mountains to become an ape, and the excavated martial arts treasures only An unidentified skeleton with tall horns, and the thin coffin of an expert who died tragically for many years is full of traces of horror depicted by minions...

This is not only incomprehensible, but also unbelievable.Even with Jiang Wen's self-proclaimed omniscient experience, he couldn't see through the weirdness.

As the road finally came to an end, the thin slanting branches suddenly disappeared, revealing a broken and messy ruin.

Jiang Wen didn't know that beside Xiamei Ancient Town, there would be such a gloomy and dark complex of buildings that hide away from outsiders. The eyes are full of low houses and slanted branches, so it's no wonder that Zhao's family was wiped out several days before they were discovered. .

"It seems to have disappeared here?"

Jiang Wen knelt down to examine the dirt traces carefully, and found that the footprints had completely dispersed in front of the deserted house, and disappeared without warning in his pursuit.

The Zhao family, which was wiped out a few days ago, originally lived in this dark house, which shows that the family is not well off.The main house is already crooked, but there are low pigpens and stoves built on both sides, which makes people feel like old people supporting each other, who may fall down at any time, and the dust floating in the soil The strong earthy smell, the smell of residue, and the smell of pigsty further magnify the unpleasant feeling, and it is almost unwilling to stay for a moment-and not far behind the house is a winding road up the mountain.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Wen's expression was as usual, he tore off the seal left by the government, walked with his head up, then lowered his head and got into the low main house.

"It's too shabby for you to have me here, old man."

Jiang Wen saw that there was nothing in the dilapidated house, not even a decent desk and chair left, so he simply sat in the middle of the main room and said to the air, "But it's okay if you don't show up, I'll stay here all night , to see if you can bear your temper and be delayed all night."

The appearance of the man in black was too strange, and Jiang Wen couldn't help wondering if he did it on purpose, but at this time he didn't follow the opponent's routine, and stepped into this murderous house and never left.

But the long night was too boring after all, Jiang Wen couldn't fall asleep here, and he didn't know when the man in black would show up, so he simply looked around, unexpectedly, this groping really made him discover some clues .

The place where Jiang Wen was sitting at this time seemed to be just a corner where debris was piled up, but after searching carefully, it turned out to be a collapsed earth kang, and there were traces of bedding straw mixed among the rubble, but it was overturned by people. Even the bed support had been smashed, so it became the current mess.

"This is the kang where the five members of the Zhao family slept. The government saw rotting corpses lying on top of it that day. It must have been suspected that there were corpses hidden under the kang, so they turned it upside down, but obviously they didn't find any clues..."

This place was the first to be suspected by the government. If there are clues to hide, it will naturally not be abandoned easily. Jiang Wen bent down and looked at the edge of the kang, and found that the uneven surface of the earth wall had a trace of imperceptible digging marks.

"Well... it seems that this is the scene of the first crime. The five members of the Zhao family were lying here before they died. They may have been in severe pain. They subconsciously left marks on the wall with their fingernails, and soon thereafter There was no movement."

The silent death of this Zhao family also has something to do with their loneliness.No one can tell their origins. Some people say that they are the descendants of the survivors of the former Song Dynasty from the Wuyi Mountains, and some people say that their ancestors came to Wuyi Mountain earlier than the establishment of Xiamei Ancient Town.All in all, because of his bravery, vulgarity and ugly appearance, he doesn't have much contact with the town in his own way, and only knows how to plow the few thin fields here.

Jiang Wen frowned and thought about restoring the scene on the night of the crime, imagining how the five young and old struggled and twisted on it, slowly losing their vitality, but suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Well, wait a minute... what is this..."

His gaze fluctuated up and down, and he suddenly caught a deep dent left on the wall. It was originally hidden in the wall and was not easy to detect. Only by groping with his fingers can he find the trace, which is quite different from other outward-facing scratches.

"It doesn't look like a fingernail digging it out, nor does it look like a mark left by a weapon, but it's more like an iron nail piercing the wall."

When the murder happened, could it be that someone used iron nails, steel needles and the like to commit the crime?It's not completely meaningless to do this, but it's too much trouble to deal with a few ordinary villagers, and it's far less troublesome than killing them one by one.

Jiang Wen still wanted to study it carefully, but suddenly heard the night owls on the branches outside the window suddenly subdued, and a footstep was approaching the haunted house quietly, and he cleverly avoided the entanglement of branches and weeds during his actions. I'm afraid it's really hard to find his movement track with the slight sound made by his pants.

"Could it be that someone in the world did it?!"

Jiang Wen smiled coldly, judging that the other party had already arrived outside the wall, he dodged behind the wall in an instant, with his palms crossed in front of his chest, intending to cover up by surprise.

But the moment he started to move, the footsteps from outside also stopped suddenly, as if he disappeared outside the house again out of thin air. Jiang Wen thought he was bluffing the snake, and hurriedly dodged to chase out the house, but met a pair of eyes like cold stars in the cold night Together, the two actually met at the gate of the haunted house!
In the darkness of the night, dozens of palms collided and exploded in the empty room, because one suddenly rushed out from behind the wall, and the other leaped over the wall with lightness kung fu, the two people facing each other were already very close at hand Fighting and wandering around is naturally inevitable. Jiang Wen was not frightened by the sight like cold stars in the cold night, but was shocked by the opponent's exquisite and fierce fists and feet. A master!
A master is not scary, but a murderous master like the person in front of him is the most frightening. Those eyes that seem to ignore everything and annihilate emotion are too cold, and the eyebrows that are so fierce are so unusual that others have been looking at him year after year. You may not remember the beautiful, ugly, fat or thin, but you must never forget these rare eyes!
Jiang Wen's cotton palm is good at overcoming rigidity with softness, and it circles around trying to dissolve the opponent's rigidity, but the man in front of him also wants to use long-distance strikes to strike far. The two of them see each move and take a breath, until the breath in their chests is almost exhausted before each puts away a pose. returned to its original position.

The moment they retreated separately, Jiang Wen heard the sound of iron objects bumping and joints moving quietly. It was obvious that the person in front of him had weapons in his hands that had not yet been used in addition to his fists and kicks.

——This is the killing move!
"This friend is so handsome, I'm afraid he is not a local."

Jiang Wen clasped his fists and gave up resolutely, stretched his neck and looked not far behind the person in front of him, "I think there is a little misunderstanding between us, how about we just stop here?"

Not far from where he was looking, there was a child who was very similar to a man standing there.Although these two people are one big and one small, their stature, demeanor, and frosty expression are all exactly the same, just like copy and paste, not to mention their obviously callused jaws and wrists, they are definitely not crops The style can have.

From this, Jiang Wen was able to conclude that the person in front of him was not the man in black who he had been chasing all the way, and what he encountered now might be a misunderstanding.

The other party might not be a good person, but he didn't look like a villain who intentionally took the child to commit murder. After all, behind the fierce and cold aura, there was a sense of desolation and loneliness.

"Misunderstood. Our father and son just want to find a place to spend the night. Excuse me."

Cold rain suddenly fell from the sky, wet his clothes and shoulders mercilessly, but in the baggage on his back, there was a colder feeling than the rain.

Jiang Wen smiled slightly, and walked out of the haunted house with his hands outstretched first, giving enough space for the other party to pass through. The stern man also walked into the haunted house without fear, ignoring the strange smells around him coldly.

"Brother, it's not easy to take children with you. I'll let you live here. I'll just spend the night in another place. It's so cold, do you want a drink?"

Jiang Wen took out a wine gourd that was warmed by body temperature from his arms, and asked the other party if he wanted some.

"No, I haven't drunk a drop of alcohol since I practiced martial arts."

Jiang Wen took the wine gourd away with a sneer, and muttered to himself, "Well, I also know that the safe intake of alcohol is zero, and a small drink can hurt your health, but fuck it, people don't live to compare who dies late."

After finishing speaking, he shook his head and left sighing. Before leaving, he took a deep look at the two people, as if he wanted to engrave the appearance of the two people in his eyes, regardless of whether doing so would offend each other again.

"You two, Chong'an County may not be peaceful in the future. If you have no other plans, why not get up early and hurry."

Jiang Wen walked into the Xiaoxiao autumn rain, leaving only the backs of the two of them, and quickly disappeared into the mud path.

"What did he give you?"

The stern man stood with his hands behind his back, watched Jiang Wen pass by his only son, and said.

The child's voice came from not far away, but the voice was equally indifferent.

"food."

The child held an umbrella and came side by side with his father. The world was lonely, and the empty night was quiet, which seemed extraordinarily cold.

But this kind of darkness and coldness is already a great comfort to the stern man. Since eight years ago, when he was wanted for anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, and his whole family was killed, he only had this one hidden at the bottom of the stove. The youngest son who escaped by chance can accompany him.

"Do you think he's a good guy or a bad guy?"

The stern man is always concise and to the point, he doesn't even show much emotion towards his son.

"I don't know. I just think that Dad is a bit like him."

(End of this chapter)