across the Quartet

Horizontal Chapter Five

Zhang Liang was shocked.He has also learned swordsmanship before, but the attack just now was too fast, too accurate, and too decisive, making them defenseless; Zhen threw the little official out and smashed it against the wall.The man's meridians were cut off immediately, and he died on the spot.

The wound on Wei Zhuang's back began to gush out a large amount of blood.But without realizing it, he pulled out the shark's teeth.At this moment, the secret door slammed shut, trapping the three of them together in the narrow secret room.Because there are no doors and windows, the inside of the house is suddenly invisible.

"If they pile up firewood outside the door and burn it, we will die." After a while, a stern voice came from beside us.Right and wrong.

"They... don't know which one it is, they have a very thorough plan..." Wei Zhuang's laughter came, and there was no trace of weakness in the injured.

"Is this what you expected?"

"Don't dare, nephew saw a white owl flying over his head by accident today when he was going out today, so the origin is unknown." Wei Zhuang said solemnly, "But...the matter of coming to the Taimiao to sacrifice today should only be known by heaven and earth. You and I know each other. Such a well-arranged trap seems to have calculated our whereabouts in advance..."

"You mean," Zhang Liang couldn't help answering, "someone among the three of us leaked today's trip?!"

"...Anyway, let's leave this place first." Wei Zhuang said.Zhang Liang wanted to ask him what method he had, when suddenly he felt a gust of wind blowing in his ears, scraping his face like a knife—the sword energy like a torrent mixed with a broken drink, shaking the earth wall and the ground.He felt many large and small heavy objects falling from the sky, and instinctively took a few steps away. When he opened his eyes again, he found a big hole in the roof above the secret room.

Wei Zhuang continued his old strategy, stretched out his hand to grab the dead little official, and threw it from the hole——as expected, the sound of several arrows pricking into the flesh came again.He shook his head and shouted in a deep voice: "Friends outside, please let Wei Zhuang say something before he dies. There is something important to tell you."

Zhang Liang was thinking about what else he had to do, when he saw Wei Zhuang slashing at the earth wall with his sword, pushing the secret door to the outside.He walked out of the house alone and looked around.Sure enough, there were countless black-clothed and masked men facing each other with strong bows and crossbows in the forest.There are several other people who are not masked, and they are quite familiar in appearance; the leader is a tall crown and long wear, standing with his hands behind his back, and there are a few sneering disciples standing behind him.

Wei Zhuang frowned and said, "Doctor Duan, it's actually you."

He quickly wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, but Duan Cheng seemed to have seen the bloodshot just now, the smugness in his eyes was very clear, but he said in his mouth: "The guard is really amazing, I should have expected that the so-called never miss Even your assassins can't kill you."

Wei Zhuang said: "You know better than anyone else that Wei wants a good sword... It's really a good plan to use the secret Korean demon sword as bait. But Doctor Duan, I thought you would at least cooperate with me until after the Chen family was wiped out." Do it."

Duan Cheng shook his head and said, "That's what I meant, but you're too dangerous—no, it's the person behind you, too dangerous." He raised his hand and pointed at Han Fei, who was blocked by Wei Zhuang. "I know you have ambitions, but I didn't expect that your ambition is to bring out that person."

"Yeah, if I become an official, you will all have a hard time." Han Fei said lightly.

"Where are these people recruited?" Wei Zhuang looked around and said, "Doctor Duan, you are so confident in dealing with me, don't you worry that Wei Zhuang will hand over another barbed wire to Mrs. Chen?"

Duan Cheng laughed out loud. "Do you think that with two shadow thorns in your hand, you can stir up the wind and water in South Korea? Look, what is this?" He took out a bunch of thorn thorns from his sleeve, and the jingle between the impacts was pleasant to the ear. Extremely.

"One hundred gold pieces is a good deal."

Wei Zhuang's face was full of resentment, and he clenched the hilt of his sword with his right hand; he pretended not to feel the stunned eyes behind him.

"You should think that quicksand is just a group of wolves who are only interested in profit. They will do things for whoever has a high price." Duan Cheng laughed endlessly, "It's over for reminiscing about the old days. If the guards want to get a whole body, it's better to kill them with shark teeth. If you kill the people behind you, and then raise your sword to kill yourself, Duan will give you a good word before your majesty, and give you a lavish burial."

"...It turns out that the reputation of the Demon Sword came from this."

"If Wu Yaojian is famous, how could the guards be so interested in it?"

"You really know me." Wei Zhuang laughed loudly, and suddenly said loudly: "Do it!"

Arrows rained down.

After a while, Zhang Liang looked at the scattered corpses and asked, "You just said that one of the three of us must have leaked today's trip—"

"Of course that person is me." Wei Zhuang laughed so hard that the wound on his back was touched, and he had to use his sword to the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

"What a vicious and self-destructive plan." Han Fei shook his head and said, "Duan Cheng probably couldn't figure it out until his death. You are the master of quicksand who killed Xiayi, Xiawei, and many mortal enemies for him. Today's assassination The plan, probably you, the 'Lord of Quicksand', kindly planned it for him."

"I didn't realize that he hired other assassins besides the quicksand, and that he carefully prepared such a tortuous story and the great gift of shark teeth... I have to follow the plan, and it's worth getting the sword first." Wei Zhuang flicked with his hand. Sword, overjoyed. "I fulfilled their wishes and turned today's events into monster swords, otherwise how will this good show end."

"But the group of people below were clearly killed by crossbow arrows."

"Today, it was Doctor Duan who led us to watch the demon sword. Suddenly, I was attacked by thieves. I pulled out the shark's teeth in a hurry. I looked like a madman. I killed several people in a row, but was attacked behind..." Wei Zhuang pointed at the sword with his sword. Several corpses died of sword wounds on the ground, then found a comfortable position, and simply lay down in a pool of blood.Suddenly he turned his face and warned, "Uncle Fei, Xiao Liangzi, you two are not here today."

"Then how will this matter be known in the end?"

"The original official in charge of the weapons in the Taimiao accepted Duan Cheng's bribe and will not appear for the time being, but he will definitely come back before dark to clean up the mess. You go away."

Zhang Liang shook his head, and said: "You said before that I don't know which family plotted against us, so you already know the details of these plans. Brother Wei, Brother Wei, I should have realized that the true feelings in your mouth, I'm afraid it's even rarer than the dragon liver and phoenix marrow."

Wei Zhuang's face was covered with blood, and he looked at him with a smile. "Brother, I'm honored."

Han Fei glanced at the piled up corpses not far away, but turned and left without any pity in his eyes.

"I have heard that good riders fall, and good water drowns. I don't know what the result will be for good planners."

Ten days passed in a flash.After Duan Cheng's death, several of his sons competed for the fief and family property, and the trouble was out of control, and he had no power to influence the court.Young Master Fei also wrote a letter again as promised, summarizing the current situation to Han Wangan, and insisting that the monarchy should not be neglected.Han An was very touched. Although he was still hesitant on the surface, he secretly began to plan to weaken the Chen family that still had power among the three ministers.

"It's a pity that Your Majesty's health has been deteriorating recently, and court meetings are often unable to be held." Wei Zhuang held up a sunspot and pondered, "However, we have not yet established a direct lineage, which is the foundation of the country. What do you guys think?"

"I heard that Lord Hengyang is the most virtuous among all the sons of Han." Han Fei picked up the number of pieces from the chessboard and put them aside.

"Young Master Cheng? Heaven... It seems that Uncle Fei said that South Korea is hopeless, and it is true."

"Why, you suddenly asked about this?"

"My nephew saw Mr. Hengyang and other young masters in the palace today; there is also His Royal Highness Honglian, which is very interesting." Wei Zhuang pondered for a moment, and pressed another sunspot.

"Red lotus? I remember that she is the daughter of Snake Princess. I heard that on the day she was born, the red lotus bloomed overnight in the Hanyu Pond outside the Summer Palace. There are rumors in the palace that this girl is extraordinary, and she must be very expensive in the future."

"Oh? I almost agreed," Wei Zhuang said with a smile on his lips, "someone is going to give her to King Qin."

"King Qin?" Han Fei shook his head and said, "The whole of South Korea is almost in his pocket, so how can he care about the gains and losses of just one person. It must be that those idiots in the court have nothing to do, so they came up with such a way to delay time."

"I think it's a pity that she is different from other children of the public clan. It's a pity to send her away like this." Wei Zhuang looked at the chessboard in a daze, and suddenly shouted: "No, I lost this game again."

Han Fei raised his head alertly. "What's your plan?" He suddenly thought of something, looked Wei Zhuang up and down and said, "Boy, don't you—"

Wei Zhuang laughed loudly, "Uncle Fei, where are you thinking? Now that the country is in crisis, Zhuang is not a person who cares about his children's private affairs." He messed up the black and white two pieces on the chessboard with both hands as if venting, and then got up to resign .

The matter of the Taimiao went quite smoothly; I'm afraid that Duan's party members are still not reconciled, and something will happen.Wei Zhuang secretly counted in his mind the few people in the court who needed attention, while galloping on the official road out of the city.Suddenly, a sharp energy came through the air, almost going to penetrate his throat.

When there was no time left, Wei Zhuang suddenly leaned back on his horse, letting the hidden weapon fly past him.He heard a few more piercing sounds from the front and side, and he simply rolled off his horse, and at the same time he drew his sword and slashed diagonally—only a loud noise was heard, and an old tree not far from the road was split by the sword energy lazily. .A white object fluttered down from the tree, fluttered a few times in mid-air, and flew up another tree.

is that a birdOr... people? ?

Wei Zhuang didn't dare to be negligent; this kind of lightness is really unimaginable, he was caught by surprise, but he was able to calmly turn in mid-air, as light as catkins and as fast as a flying arrow.He hurriedly chased the assassin in the direction where he was fleeing, and shot a lot of hidden weapons head-on, the speed was too fast to recognize the shape, but Wei Zhuang still seemed to see a little bit of black and purple luster under the dim sky, which should be with It is highly poisonous; it is a pity that when the shark teeth are swung out, the true energy swallowed and exhaled is like a fierce wind, sweeping them all away, and it is impossible to get close to them.

Wei Zhuang squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that there were many trivial white things scattered on the ground, which seemed to be bird feathers.

That night, Wei Zhuang brought a villain back to the farm.His face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and two pieces of white hair stuck to his hair; unfortunately, no one dared to tell him.

The trophy in his hand looked no more than seven or eight years old, with eyes and noses and noses, and a face as if carved out of a whole piece of white jade, indescribably beautiful and refined.However, this little man's hair and eyeballs are a kind of blue-purple color, which brings a bit of enchantment to this exquisite appearance.He was hit by Wei Zhuang's heavy hand on the acupuncture points, unable to struggle, his cheeks were flushed, his breathing was short of breath, and he looked very hard.Everyone in Quicksand looked at this little thing with great interest, and many of them showed expressions of unbearable.

"Hang this kid headfirst on that sycamore tree for three hours first," Wei Zhuang said casually.

"what--"

Wei Zhuang heard the emotions of surprise, sympathy, and dissatisfaction suppressed by his subordinates, and said angrily: "This kid wants to kill me. He is very capable, maybe stronger than you."

"Eh--"

"If it's against you, hurry up!"

Everyone was forced to do so because of their coercion.However, the group of female slaves under Huo Mei had already felt pity for them, and they were very gentle in tying them up. Afraid that they might disturb the children, they specially used many strands of straw rope to spread their strength; Hanging on a tree, with countless ropes wrapped around its body, it looks like a cocoon.

Wei Zhuang patted his acupoints open with his palm, and said with a sneer, "Little devil, who told you to come here. If you say it, you will be let go."

When the villain opened his mouth, several hoarse and strange screams came out of his throat.

"This kid probably doesn't speak Central Plains dialect, so it's useless to ask him." Wu Jiu couldn't help but said.Although he was a murderous thief in the past, even he couldn't take this kind of behavior of mobilizing people to torture a small child with equanimity.But he saw Wei Zhuang raised his sword and dropped it, the red glow of shark teeth pierced the void, and something suddenly fell from the top of his head.I took a closer look with a torch and found a few bird carcasses. They were as black as charcoal, with sharp beaks and sharp claws. The strange and stiff appearance made people feel ominous at a glance.

"Bird control technique!" Huo Mei covered her mouth in amazement, and said to the child, "Could it be that you are from the Wu Yu tribe?"

The child didn't seem to hear her words, just stared blankly at the dead bird on the ground, a crystal clear drop of water overflowed from the corner of his eye, and whispered something softly in his mouth.Seeing his pitiful appearance, many girls' hearts trembled; some even accompanied him to wipe away tears.

Among Wei Zhuang's innumerable advantages, conscience has never been one of them.Seeing such a deeply affectionate and evocative picture, I just sneered in my heart, full of the desire to destroy and destroy.

"You should have known earlier, come one, die one, come a pair, die a pair."

The child's blue eyes turned to stare at him.At this moment, Huo Mei lifted up her cuffs, slowly revealing the scale tattoo on her forearm, which dangled in front of his eyes.The child was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly said in an extremely clear Central Plains dialect: "Black Qilin?"

"Yes." Huo Mei sighed softly, "Wu Peng's lineage has been exiled to the land of Nanman and Baiyue since King Wu defeated Zhou. The Wu tribe has great powers and knows the art of cursing and poisoning. The tribes all voluntarily obeyed their orders, and offered the best prey and the sweetest fruits to the Wu tribe. But the young master should have seen it before... Ah!" She seemed to suddenly understand something, and suddenly fell silent.

"I guessed it a long time ago. Such a miraculous ability is mostly inherited by blood." Wei Zhuang took out a thin parchment from his sleeve while talking, "Besides, I found this on him."

It was a bounty portrait.The eyebrows of the person in the painting are not very clear, but the hair band on the forehead is very conspicuous; the reward of one hundred thousand written in cinnabar is attached to the back.Seeing it again two years later, Wei Zhuang couldn't help but feel as if he had passed away.

"this is me?"

"It should be. The pattern on the headband is exactly the same."

Ten swords and three witches.Life and death.

The ten fingers exerted force suddenly, and the precious parchment scroll was instantly broken into countless fine pieces, which fell from between the fingers profusely.

"I know that you are from the Wu tribe. I also know that you are here for revenge. But you are a brat, and no one can point you out. It is impossible to know where I am now." He turned his head and looked at the little man who was hanging upside down. "You just have to say Those people, I will give you another chance to take revenge, how about it?"

The villain remained silent for a while.Wei Zhuang yawned: "Think about it backwards; if you think about it overnight, maybe you will figure it out."

"Put me down." The child suddenly yelled clearly, "No one pointed me out, it was Phoenix who told me where you were."

Wei Zhuang sneered, "Then Honghu told me that you were lying."

"Honghu won't tell you. You are so ugly."

Wei Zhuang's forehead twitched suddenly, and his face turned dark again.It's not that he has never been scolded, but most of them say that he is cruel and tyrannical, so he can't die well; but he always thinks that even if he is dead, it is a corpse that is out of the ordinary and outstanding.

The villain ignored his expression and continued talking endlessly. "The three strongest warriors of our Wu Clan never came back after being invited to the Central Plains. When they left the village, they all held the painting that you destroyed just now. Wu Zhu fought with the Great Elder. Got up, Fenghuang said, the Great Elder wants to get rid of me. Let me also come to the Central Plains."

"Then, you just found it with a painting?" Wei Zhuang barely held back his temper; today's humiliation can be taken slowly.

"Wu Zhu said that if those three warriors find the person in the painting, the spider will give us many, many treasures."

"Spider?" Wei Zhuang's thoughts turned like lightning, and he suddenly said, "You mean the person with a spider drawn on the back of his neck?"

"Ah."

Wei Zhuang twitched his lips and said, "Boy, I'll let you down, let's make a bet, how about?"

"What is gambling?"

"That is to say, from now on, I will give you three chances to kill me. If you can kill me, not only will the spider give you many treasures, but these people will also give you many treasures." Mei et al. "If you can't kill me, you have to stay here and listen to me. How?"

"..." The villain tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "I'll kill you once first, if I don't succeed, can the remaining two be saved until tomorrow?"

"Save it until next year." A suspicious smile slowly appeared on Wei Zhuang's lips.