across the Quartet

Gai Nie has been smoking since he joined the army, and now he stands in the crowd at random, and he already has a vague feeling of being outstanding; and the Qin soldiers roughly flipping the goods, the faces of the caravan people are unavoidable, but he A clear-eyed man with a smile on his face, no wonder the leading Qin knight saw him from the crowd at a glance, and his heart was full of doubts.

On the contrary, Zhongshan wolf hides in a group of guys, almost no one notices.

"Boss Zhuo, that man is—" The Qin knight got off his horse and pointed at Gai Nie standing by the water with his whip.

"... Huh? I haven't seen it before, it's not ours."

"That's the Orion nearby, who came to deliver fur goods to Manager Zhuo." Fortunately, "Old Kang" interjected at this time.

"Orion?" The knights of the state of Qin came out in front of Gai Nie, staring at him with a sneer, "He is definitely not an ordinary Orion. Look at his eyes. These are the eyes only swordsmen have."

"..." Ge Nie felt melancholy, he didn't expect the swordsman's eyes to be exquisite.

The corner of the Qin knight's mouth gradually twisted, and he suddenly pulled out his sword, and the sharp edge lifted Ge Nie's jaw: "What were you laughing at just now? Are you sure that we can't find anything?"

"what?"

"Take it off." The knight of the Qin Kingdom ordered with a gloomy expression, "Take off all your clothes and leave nothing behind. Third child, come and search him. Don't let anyone else go. Search all of them. Once found Carry suspicious items, immediately detain them!"

The soldiers of the State of Qin who were still searching for the goods got the order, immediately picked up their long halberds, and drove the people of Zhuo's caravan to one place, intending to search them one by one.Gai Nie became anxious immediately. He himself was not afraid of being searched, but the silk book on Zhongshan Wolf's body——

"Boss, what should we do now?" He concentrated his energy and said to Zhongshan wolf who was in the crowd with the method of "transmitting sound into secret".

"Idiot, it's all the trouble you caused!" Zhongshan Wolf replied in the same way, and the thin beam of sound poured directly into his ears, numb and itchy, "The news on me is so important, how can I let the people of Qin I searched. I will find a way to go first, and you hold them back for me."

Ge Nie remained silent.With his temperament, if he is in danger with others at the same time, he will definitely be the kind of character who will say to his companion, "You go first, I will hold back"; but if the other party says the same meaning first, the taste will be quite different.

He remembered that when he was in school, he and his younger brother had always fought against the enemy side by side, advancing together and retreating together; even when Wei Zhuang was poisoned when the "Ten Swords" besieged Guigu, he went out to fight alone, and then Xiao Zhuang got angry Big temper.Thinking about it this way, Gai Nie couldn't help but lament that his junior brother is really a hero who values ​​love and righteousness.

"Do you still dare to be distracted?" Seeing the young man in white with his chin lifted by the sword, the knights of the Qin Kingdom were so enraged that they could stab a hole in his neck with a sword; You can't let him die so easily.So he put away his sword, raised his whip, and swiped at Ge Nie's face head-on.

The whip was still flying in the air.Not far away came the neighing of a frightened horse.Someone yelled: "Stop him!" "Don't let him run away!" In the chaos, only a figure was seen crouching on the back of a fast piebald horse, rushing out of the encirclement and fleeing in the dust.

The tip of the whip shook empty with a snap.Ge Nie retreated three feet away.His movement was so strange, in the eyes of the Qin knights, it was like a dense fog that melted in the air and then condensed in other places.

This is the technique of "shrinking the ground".Ge Nie practiced quite skillfully, but when he retreated, his body would habitually shake slightly, creating a pair of afterimages in an instant, but he could not achieve the effect of Wei Zhuang's standing still; when Guiguzi saw them After the performance of the two, they once said that only Xiaozhuang practiced "shrinking the ground", and Nie Er's lightness kung fu might as well be named "Huawu".

The Qin knight secretly thought that something was wrong, he threw away his whip and drew his sword, and went straight to Gai Nie, but he hesitated in his mind: Should he go after the man who snatched the horse and escaped first?Or should we catch this extraordinary young man in front of him first?Who is it on them? ?

No matter who is the suspect and who is the true master, he cannot take any risks.

The Qin knights chased Gai Nie in the direction where he was retreating, and shouted loudly to his subordinates in the distance: "Let the arrows go! Let go!!"

More than a dozen black-clothed soldiers raised their crossbows and fired indiscriminately at the direction in which the fancy horse was fleeing.Taking advantage of the distraction of the opponent in front of him, Gai Nie paused with both feet, leaped high, curled up and stretched in mid-air, and rolled over his head like a kite.

The Qin knight was startled and angry, and hurriedly turned around. Gai Nie had already ran several feet away, and he could never catch up with his feet alone.However, he stared at Ge Nie's getting smaller and smaller back, but a contemptuous sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

——Originally, he imagined that this person would flee in the opposite direction, so he had to divide his subordinates into two groups and act separately; he did not expect this person to chase his horse-robbing accomplice to the same direction, what a shame Stupid as hell.It just happened to be convenient for them to catch them all in one go.

Whether Ge Nie is stupid or not, only he himself knows.

Zhongshan Wolf gave him instructions to hold back all the pursuers.If he fled to another route, then the Qin people would be divided into two groups; he could only deal with the one that was chasing him, and as for the other one, he would have to resign himself to fate; this was not his preferred style of action.So he simply led all the Qin people in the same direction.

Dragging is not an option.There is only one method left to solve these tails completely and let the leader safely send the news back to Zhao.

kill.

Gai Nie didn't know that his eyes were shining dangerously at this moment.In fact, what the Qin knight said was right, this is the look that only swordsmen who work with killing can have.

Besides, on the side of the river valley, when the leading knight gave an order, the soldiers of Qin mounted their horses and chased after them; not long after they ran out, they saw bloodstains scattered on the ground, and they couldn't help being overjoyed.

"Since I'm injured, I can't escape. I'm afraid that one of the secret agents will give up his companion and go first with his things." The young knight who looked like the leader said to himself.

"Boss, what are we looking for?"

"An account book in Master Yao Jia's house. Han Fei died, and the account book disappeared. Mr. Ting Wei suspected that the Koreans had cooperated with others and stole the account book."

"What is recorded in the account book?"

"Shut up! We don't need to know about this kind of thing. Just understand that this thing is very important, more important than your life and mine."

Gai Nie ran wildly all the way, raising the speed of Qinggong to the extreme.Gradually, the person and horse in front became more and more clear, and the smoke and dust raised by the horse's hoof almost rushed into his eyes.Only then did he notice that the man lying on the horse had been shot in the back by an arrow. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and his hands were only instinctively clutching the rein tightly.

"Boss? How are you, boss?" Ge Nie rushed to a position parallel to the horse's head and shouted eagerly.The man hung his head and seemed to have lost consciousness.Gai Nie's speed did not slow down, and he turned his face away with one hand.In the end, I only glanced at it, and there seemed to be a bang in my head, and I was stunned.

This man is not a Zhongshan wolf at all!

who is he?Why escape?Where is the real Zhongshan wolf? ?

Gai Nie took a few deep breaths, thinking that such a coincidence could not exist in the world; this man snatched his horse and escaped to attract Qin Bing's attention, probably to cover him, that is to say, he was one of his own.The Zhongshan wolf used Zhuo's caravan to connect with the spies stationed in Qin, so it is not surprising that there are other "mountain ghosts" in the caravan.

The more Ge Nie thought about it, the more it made sense.Looking at this seriously injured man again, one can see that his face is gray, his cheeks are sunken, and his eyes are half-closed; if he continues to be bumped like this, his life may be lost.What's more, there are mountain roads around here, and there are dense forests ahead, so it is not convenient to ride a horse; thinking of this, he made up his mind, pulled the wounded off the horse, carefully held him in his arms, and slipped into the dense forest up.

He learned and sold all the way, using all the methods of setting up suspicious positions and covering up tracks that Zhongshan Wolf had taught him a while ago, and went around in circles with Qin soldiers in the dense forest.The only trouble was that the person in his arms was seriously injured, shedding blood all the way, he was using his life to guide the enemy.Fortunately, it didn't take long for him to find a rock crack in the mountains, which was narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, which was an excellent hiding place.

Ge Nie quickly got in, spread the sheepskin jacket on the ground, and put the injured man on it.He didn't dare to pull out the arrow clusters on his back easily, so he could only cut off a section of the arrow shaft outside, then apply acupuncture points near the wound to stop the bleeding, and simply bandage and fix it with cloth strips.

Gai Nie checked his veins and felt that this person was more than auspicious, so he had to put one hand on the man's dantian and slowly input some true energy.As for whether that person can survive, it can only depend on his own good luck.

After a while, the man regained a sliver of sanity from the coma, opened his eyes with difficulty, and murmured: "Little brother, it was you... who saved me?"

"Don't dare, brother is seriously injured, so don't talk." Gai Nie thought for a while, and then said: "Is brother a mountain ghost? You don't need to speak. If so, just blink."

The man shook his head slowly. "...Mountain ghost? What is that...uh——"

Waves of severe pain invaded the spirit of the wounded, making it difficult for him to speak a complete sentence.Gai Nie had no choice but to touch the numb points on his body.

"...Little brother, am I... not going to survive?" The man stared at Gai Nie with longing eyes, which made him very embarrassed.

"Hold on, we will rush to the border of Zhao State overnight, find a safe place, and I will pull out the arrow clusters for you."

The man got Gai Nie's continuous infuriating energy, and his face finally looked stronger than that of a dead person.Suddenly, he suffocated his strength and grabbed Gai Nie's arm, and said hurriedly: "Little brother, you and I are not relatives, but I am very grateful that you saved me like this. But I know in my heart that I can't go away from this injury at all." It’s moving; there are still pursuers behind, if you take me, you can’t escape, there is no certainty. Anyway, I am also a person who is going to die, so you better leave me alone and go first!”

"Don't get excited, I still have a way—"

"Listen to me." The man coughed twice, his cheeks flushed abnormally, "I am not from Zhao, but from Qin. Half a month ago, I was plotted against by a strange man in Xianyang; There is a strange poison called 'Jiwei'. If I can't rush to Xinzheng within a hundred days to deliver something to someone in exchange for an antidote, I will die from the poison. I don't want to I died, so I had to do as he said. However, on the day I got that thing, Xianyang’s city defense inspections were suddenly much stricter than before; in order to leave the city, I mixed with the horse team of Zhao’s merchants and hid in the carriage. all the way."

"So that's how it is." Gai Nie said, "That thing must be very important. Those Qin soldiers wanted to search you just now, and you were afraid of being found by them, so you had to take the risk and seize the horse."

"Yeah... If they find this thing on me, they will definitely kill me; if I lose something, and I can't get the antidote for 'Jiwei', I will definitely die. So I can only run away, only I can escape..." The man coughed again, and suddenly opened his mouth, revealing a somewhat crazy smile, "I didn't expect that I was shot by an arrow before I could escape very far - I was dead anyway, and I was dead... dead Don't let them... get what they want!"

"Brother Bai, don't talk, let's rest for a while—" Gai Nie saw that there was blood between his utterances, and thought it was bad.

"Little brother, benefactor, this thing is... handed over to you, and you can dispose of it as you please... I'm dead, and they won't get it... Haha, hahahahahaha..." The man reached into his arms and took out A bronze tube the thickness of a child's arm, the surface has been soaked in blood.Trembling, he moved the copper pipe to Ge Nie's hand.

"Brother Bai, don't be discouraged, things might turn around." Gai Nie pressed his hand and said, "Let's find a way to escape from here first, and you slowly recover from your wounds. I can go to Xinzheng for you and get the antidote." Got it. The person who poisoned, who asked you to give it to?"

The man's lips quivered as he whispered a name.Gai Nie lowered his head, and the moment he heard the name, his pupils suddenly dilated.

In the depths of the dense forest, a few crows suddenly screamed.

The pursuers are coming.

A long time after Qin Bing left, Zhongshan Wolf got out of Lao Kang's tent and stretched comfortably.

He really planned to take advantage of Gai Nie's ability to attract Qin Bing's attention, and snatch a horse to escape; but unexpectedly, a strange person fled before him, attracting all the Qin people.That being the case, he was also happy to be at leisure, so he simply continued to mix in the Zhuo's caravan and returned to Handan safely.

He didn't bother to worry about whether his subordinate Gai Nie could safely escape from Qin Bing's siege and interception.Since General Sima boasted that the boy was omnipotent, he would probably be fine.

The Qin soldiers were divided into two groups, one group of five people, guarding all the horses, and preventing the two people from going back and forth, turning back and escaping from the main road;

It seemed that the young man with outstanding lightness skills did not abandon his injured companion.The leading Qin knight thought, with a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth.Zhao people's so-called loyalty is actually nothing but stupidity.

Suddenly, there were two screams from behind him - one Qin soldier was pierced by an arrow from the top of his head, and the other was shot in the back of the neck, both died immediately.

"Get down! Don't move!!" The leader shouted angrily, and under the cover of vegetation, he crawled to the side of the dead subordinate with his elbows, and made a quick inspection. "That person is up there!!"

Ge Nie did climb a big tree.He climbed on the branches with both legs, holding the bow in one hand and controlling the string with the other, scanning the shrubs and grasses below condescendingly.

The dense forest was deep and secluded, and the dense branches and leaves covered the sky and the sun. Qin soldiers could not see the situation above, nor could they judge where the archers were hiding.But the strange thing is that the branch should also block the sight of the people above. How did he aim at it?

The Qin Bing Commander gritted his teeth and fell on the ground, not daring to move.Suddenly, the sound of breaking wind came from beside him, and another Qin soldier twitched, and was nailed to the ground without even making a sound.The hot blood melted the snow on the ground and flowed slowly to the low-lying places.

The commander had an idea, and lowered his voice and shouted: "So that's how it is! It's Xueguang!"

"What?" The rest of Qin Bing asked quickly.

"It's all our fault that we are wearing armor! This sunny day is so good, as long as we move in the snow, the armor on our bodies will reflect the snow light!" The commander said bitterly, "I have a plan, you pay attention to the above-" He As he said that, he suddenly kicked out to the side, kicking the corpse beside him to roll away a few steps.

Sure enough, another feathered arrow pierced the corpse in an instant.

"Can you see the direction of the arrow?"

"I see!"

"Fire arrows!"

At the commander's order, Qin Bing immediately set up the pistol well-trained, and fought back in the direction where the feather arrow flew just now.After shooting for a while, there seemed to be no response.But no more arrows were shot from above.

"Did we shoot him?"

"...If it was shot, someone should have fallen from the tree." The commander lowered his eyes and said, "He escaped."

"Commander, look there, there is a cave!" a Qin soldier shouted. "There seems to be blood at the entrance?"

"Be careful, that kid is very cunning, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, it is not good for us." The leader pondered, "Guan Nan, your lightness kung fu is the best, go try it out."

"Yes!" A Qin soldier led the line and tiptoed to the narrow rock crevice.Just as he was about to peek inside, another feathered arrow flew out!Fortunately, he dodged fast enough, and the arrow just flew past his clothes.

"Hmph, looking for a dead end." Commander Qin Bing sneered.He made a gesture, and the subordinates understood it immediately, and all the arrows flew into the cave like locusts.

"It seems that there is still no movement?"

"Hmph, why don't we just block the entrance of this hole and open it after a few days to trap them to death."

The Qin soldiers discussed while loading arrows into the crossbow.Only the commander looked at the arrow that was shot from the hole at first, and frowned.

It seems... something is wrong.

Why did the arrow shot from the tree have the power to pierce people, but this arrow was so light that it didn't fly very far before falling to the ground?

"Not good!" He thought of something, turned around suddenly, and drew out his sword at the same time.It's a pity that it's too late.

What finally fell into his eyes was an arc-shaped sharp knife light.

In less than half a moment, Gai Nie finally heaved a sigh of relief as he looked at Qin Bing, who was dying all over the place.Just now, he set up a small mechanism in the cave with flexible rattan, string and arrows, hid the seriously injured Bai Er behind the rock, and told him to cut the rope as soon as he heard someone's voice outside the cave, and let Yu The arrows were shot out; the purpose of this mechanism was not to hurt people at all, but to create an illusion for the pursuers that someone was shooting arrows in the hole.This made it easier for him to sneak attack from behind.

Two days later, Gai Nie carried Bai Er back to Zhao Jun's camp in Jingxing, and called a military doctor to treat him.Needless to say the hardships along the way, unfortunately, Bai Er was delayed on the road for too long, the arrow sore was infected, and he died of his injury.

However, during the healing process, an unintentional remark by the military doctor caught Gai Nie's attention: "Although this man was seriously injured, no toxin was found in his blood. Besides, I have never heard of it. There is a strange poison called 'Jiwei' in the world..."

"The accumulation of small things, the moon can't outrun the sun, the time can't outnumber the moon, and the years can't outnumber the time." Gai Nie said to himself, "From "Xunzi Strengthening the Country""

"What did you say?"

"...I just thought about who that person might be."

Within a few days, Zhongshan Wolf came back from Handan and was slightly surprised to see Gai Nie intact, but didn't say much.

Gai Nie did not mention what happened during the escape, but only asked him for leave, saying that he had to go to Handan and had important matters to meet with General Chen Sima.Although there is some dissatisfaction in my heart, everyone in the "Mountain Ghost" is indeed qualified to directly contact the commander because they often perform confidential tasks. Now Guo Kai's eyeliner is everywhere, so Gai Nie must not attract attention.

Ge Nie repeatedly said yes.Soon, with the brass pipe that attracted snatching in his arms, he embarked on a journey to the capital with a heavy heart.