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In early spring, the northwest is still cold and windy.

Huli invaded, and the northwest border naturally became a fierce fighting zone between the two sides. The small towns on the edge were affected, and a large number of homeless poor people began to flee everywhere, or went south to find relatives, making this small town that was originally very lively now There was no one there, and when the north wind blew the grass poles swirled in the air, making it even more bleak.

There was a sound of horseshoes in the distance, and several people wrapped tightly in linen coats galloped on tall horses, raising a road of fine sand, and in front of the small town, you can faintly see the yellow mud and stone bricks. A corner of the city wall.

They slowed down their pace, the person at the head had a pair of big and bright almond eyes, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that there was a girl in the layers of robes.

"It's the time of war. Although the entry point ahead is not Khitan's territory, Qigu has a faint intention to wear a pair of pants with Huli, so it will probably step up the search. You guys, please be smart and act carefully." The girl ordered in a low voice, stretched out her hand and tore off a bit of the cloth wrapped around her face and exhaled, revealing a delicate face, which was Ah Ling.

A few of them are now pretending to be refugees and coming to the border area according to the owner's order, trying to sneak into the market near the cult's main altar again, so as to explore the intersection of entering the main altar.

Originally, the cult was composed of people from an outer branch of the Qigu tribe. The Qigu tribe has a small number of people, but they still have the ability to occupy a piece of land to survive, and they are very hospitable. Because their clothing is similar to that of the Huli people, they often Wandering between the two countries, some even ran into the Central Plains and settled down there.

As for why the evil cult acts hateful and yells, beats and kills all day long?That's because the cult was originally an army created by the Qigu royal family to show their external ambitions. Later, the internal strife in the royal family got out of control, and the leader of the cult broke away from the control of the royal family. Feng Shui treasure completely disappeared in the eyes of the world.

In other words, the Qigu Royal Family doesn't know where the cult's headquarters is now, but it doesn't mean they don't know what troubles their remnant team is doing outside, but there is no threat to the Royal Family itself, and this group of people will Open one eye and close one eye.

A few of them settled their horses when they were still a short distance from the border checkpoint, and walked over with their heads down. The guard briefly checked what they were carrying and found no weapons, etc., and then gave way to let them go.

The bustling street was full of hawkers and yells. A few people mingled among the refugees and stopped and looked around. It didn't take long for the people in front to push and push to the side, leaving a path in the middle.

Ah Ling looked up and saw that it was indeed a horse team patrolling the city, so she raised her hand and the other people who were hiding among the refugees immediately found places to hide.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" The leader of the patrol horse team shouted there, but the speed of the horse team was not very fast.

Ah Ling shrank his neck and dawdled around a corner of the street, stretched out his hand and patted his head, and walked in, while the other few who were inconspicuous among the crowd approached that direction without any trace.

In fact, you can go all the way down the main street to the place where the Qigu royal family lives, but because of the patrol team, they have to take a detour to the back of the palace.

Although Ah Ling's goal is the cult's general altar, no one guessed that that place was actually under the eyes of the Qigu royal family, and it was digging a hole like a gopher to develop downward.

Seeing that there is a strange palace building unique to the Western Regions in front of him, Ah Ling couldn't help speeding up his pace, but when he was about to rush to the opposite alley in one breath, he stopped suddenly, and a series of people behind him almost missed her. knock out.

It turned out that there happened to be a patrolling horse team on the street, and the group of them happened to meet them again on a narrow road.

"Why are there still patrols here?" One person whispered.

Ah Ling stretched out her hand and raised her hand to signal the people behind not to move, she poked her head out cautiously to take a look.

It stands to reason that when she came to investigate before, she found out that the patrolling pattern was a patrolling troop going back and forth on two adjacent streets. Just now, that troop was already almost at the end of the street, and this one appeared out of thin air on the street. What's going on again?

She frowned, jumped onto the roof with a single movement of her feet, and leaned over to peek down. She always felt that this group of people had a strange aura, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

The group of people walked quietly below, the leader raised his face slightly, a sudden gust of wind almost blew his big black cloak off, but at such a moment, the cloak slightly closed Flipping, revealing one of the man's eyes.

A Ling was startled, quickly lowered his head, and lay down on the roof.

...this man has such keen senses!

However, the action of the person below seemed to be just a flash in the pan, and the next moment he stretched out a hand to pull down the hat.

I ran into that person again. This probably wasn't some kind of cavalry patrol in the city, but the clothes were so similar to those of the patrol that no one noticed that's all.

She just guessed in her heart without thinking too much, and soon after the group of people left, she called the people waiting below to rush to the destination not far away.

A Ling and the others nestled behind a house, and in front of it was the ruins of a house. The surrounding land was basically deserted, and it was a place where few grasses could grow and even hungry dogs would not come to look for food.

A quarter of an hour later, a wobbly person came out of the ruins where there was not even a single person. This person seemed to have very limited legs and feet, but he didn't have a crutch to support him. It took half an hour to drag one leg to the abandoned In front of the door of the house, he sat down.

"There are two in the grass in the south, one in the tree, three in the north, one in the east, and two in the tree..." Ah Ling looked around carefully, and murmured, "It seems that the trees in the south I can't sit still..."

After finishing speaking, the girl suddenly jumped up and landed on the top of the tree. With luck, she jumped lightly from tree to tree. She can be one of the three stewards in the valley as a girl, and her martial arts must be good, even better than the other two. A male steward who is more powerful will have the opportunity to take people out.

The person sitting on the tree in the south drew his bow and arrow. Before the point of the arrow pointed at the person sitting in front of the ruins below, a stone flew by without warning and hit his bow. The arm, and then a leg swept across, and the knee hit the abdomen. The man was kicked solidly and flew under the tree, knocked on the trunk and fell unconscious.

The two people squatting nearby heard the sound and hurried over to check, but when they arrived, they were attacked by a man who fell from the sky. One of them was squeezed by his neck with his legs clamped, and the other just pulled out a knife and swung it. The sneak attacker swayed away.

Seeing that the man missed the attack, he swung the knife and rushed towards him. A Ling stepped on the tree trunk with his toes and flipped back.

She quickly twisted the cloak into one strand and rolled it forward, pushed it with the other hand, and pulled it hard with the other hand, and there were more corpses here.

Ah Ling patted his clothes and picked up a big knife, but suddenly smelled a bloody smell wafting from the east, and suddenly said 'no' in his heart, and rushed over there.

The people who followed her were unharmed, except that they accidentally saw blood when killing a member of the cult, but the smell of blood in this place could easily be carried away by the wind, and people a little further away could smell it.

"Bury this person. It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. I have to find the entrance quickly. There are some strange people outside. It's not easy to deal with if they are discovered." Ah Ling ordered so quickly, not knowing why There was a strong uneasiness in her heart.

It's just that before these people had time to take orders, several black figures rushed out from all directions and landed in front of them, surrounding them subtly in a formation, and then a figure came late, and this person walked slowly Skimming down from the tree, he walked to the opposite of Ah Ling with unhurried steps.

Ah Ling's eyes kept falling on that person, and she took a few steps back to show a defensive posture.

Those around are nothing but scumbags, but she can't see through the martial arts of the man in the middle.

"Who sent you here?" The person standing in the center asked, his voice was extremely deep, and he spoke every word very slowly and with a strange hoarseness, but what the Qibone tribe blurted out was actually correct. Central Plains dialect.

Is this a foreigner... or a Central Plains person?

We all know that in order to maintain the purity of the bullshit in their sect, the cult rejects foreigners to the extreme, and those who can speak a few words of Central Plains definitely have ulterior motives.

Ah Ling was silent and looked at this foreigner who spoke the Central Plains dialect in amazement at the same time. He didn't dare to act rashly for a while, but the man's reaction to Ah Ling and the others was not nonsense. A group of people captured it.

"Amu! Let me deal with the man in the middle! Others help drag the other congregants!" Seeing this, Ah Ling yelled, and went up with the weapon he had just picked up.

She knew in her heart that this person's martial arts must not be able to be dealt with by ordinary people. If he is not dealt with first, this investigation will be a complete failure!

Seeing the two of them rushing up, the man pulled out a shining big knife from his back, without even moving a step, he leaned forward and directly held A Ling's knife, and then turned slightly to avoid A Mu's sneak attack.

Ah Ling's expression froze, knowing that he still underestimated this person's ability, and felt that the opponent was still able to handle it with ease, so he changed his way and swung a big knife to display a set of swordsmanship, aiming at the person's major dead spots and Amu. Cooperate with the attack.

"Huh?" The man seemed a little surprised by Ah Ling's change of move, and the next moment he swung his sword wide open and closed to sweep across, and even used the back of his sword to deftly block the combined blow of the two of them. The side-to-side or front-to-back pincers didn't show much overwhelm.

After a hundred moves, Ah Ling decided to take advantage of the gap between Amu and the human being fighting to make a cheap move. Immediately, he thrust the big knife into the ground half an inch at once, and then called out: "Amu!"

The broadsword swung a fine sand that hit the man's face directly, and Amu backed away at the right time.In fact, this fine sand is of little use to the person protected by a cloak and a hood, because he just pushed down the puddle of sand with a single wave of his hand, but in the next moment, something came back A terrifying speed struck from the back of his head.

"Crack!" The man seemed to be a little surprised, but the movement of his hands did not slow down. He stretched out his hands almost subconsciously and grabbed the thing that was about to pinch his neck. go.

"... Humph!" Ah Ling was thrown to the ground so hard that she couldn't help but groaned and couldn't get up all at once.

"...cough." The one who threw the person obviously realized what he had just thrown out just now, his movements froze imperceptibly, and then coughed uncomfortably, before stretching out his big knife to touch A Ling Amu said on the side of her neck, "If you want her to live, don't move around."

Amu pursed his lips and didn't dare to go forward, but he was very surprised that this person could detect A Ling's almost unmoving approach, which meant that it was only a matter of time before he put them down.

The man tilted his head and glanced at Ah Ling who was struggling on the ground, knelt down and raised his hand to knock him out neatly with a hand knife, and then walked behind Amu to stun this unlucky ghost. Subdued the rest of them once, and said in a low voice with a wave of his hand; "Take them away."

"Yes." Those cloaked men pulled the unconscious visitors up and walked in one direction.

As the leader, that person definitely didn't have to do such hard work, so he waited with his hands behind his back, but he was stunned when he moved the unconscious girl alone, and then he uttered an unprecedented cry.

"...slowly." He approached the girl a few steps, and his eyes under the hood slowly fell on her waist.

It turned out that there was a transparent jade pendant tied to the girl's belt, it should have been stuck inside, but it was thrown out during the fight.

"Akta?" The cloaked man who was stopped by him couldn't help asking. In their impression, this man had never been in such a situation.

The man named Arcata just waved his hand calmly, indicating that he can go.

After the group of people left, the man turned around and looked at the messy footprints around him. He raised his hand and waved away. Suddenly, a gust of wind visible to the naked eye swept away in all directions centered on him. The ground immediately became flat again. He raised his leg Step by step, he walked towards the direction where the team disappeared, but there was no trace left where he stepped.

Li Wanshu was drinking tea in a bank.

Since he withdrew his people from the floating lotus wall, he let everyone spread out and used industries and shops in various places to quietly establish sub-helms in various parts of the Central Plains, almost forming a huge network that spread underground in the Central Plains. .

And he, the owner of the villa, was a little troublesome. If something urgent happened, he would have to travel all over the country within a month.He originally liked the first-line spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but it was a pity that his thighs were not up to par, so he could only rush back to the old teahouse in the capital after finishing his work there, and wandered around outside wearing a fox fur all day long.

"Young Master! Young Master! I received a letter from the Northwest Branch!" A man who looked like a servant suddenly ran in from outside, holding a gray-feathered bird in his hand.

"Don't panic." Li Wanshu looked at the bird that tilted its head to look at him, raised the corners of its lips, stretched out his hand and took off the small roll of paper from the guy's paw, and then said, "Go and give it something to eat." thing."

The boy left holding the bird like a gold ingot. Li Wanshu spread the paper and glanced at it, frowning.

The paper simply stated that the entrance to the cult's main altar had been found, but Manager A Ling and others were captured by people pretending to be the Bone Patrol.

...Can you capture Ah Ling and his gang alive?When did the cult have such an unknown master?

But no matter what, there are a lot of sorcery in the hands of cults and others, especially those gu that emerge endlessly. If Aling and the others...it will definitely be a big loss for him, and there are still...

"...Come here." Li Wanshu smashed the paper in his hand into powder with internal force, and a slight chill flashed in his dark eyes.

"What are your orders, Master?" The boy who had just gone to feed the birds hadn't returned yet, and the other gatekeeper rushed in and asked cautiously, not daring to look up at Li Wanshu who seemed to be in a bad mood suddenly.

"Prepare the carriage." Li Wanshu gently pulled out a dagger half an arm long from his boots. Although he hadn't used this dagger for so long, he had always maintained it carefully and never left it. Caressing the delicate pattern on the handle of the dagger, his expression was complicated.

"Tomorrow morning, go to the northwest."

The author has something to say: I’ve been writing in a bit of a hurry recently. It should be better when the holidays come...I’m really afraid that I won’t be able to catch up with QAQ every day, but suddenly I saw three more nutrient solutions...I will work hard!