Thinking

And since the handover at the Nanyang Border Pass, the only thing Yu Ke and his party can rely on is the hundred guards of the Yan Kingdom, and the rest are only a small number of servants. Arrangements for road safety.

Yu Ke was a little panicked immediately, and was very steady under the protection of Lu Yingqiu all the way. At this time, Lu Yingqiu was no longer by her side, but something happened.

Qi Si supported his shoulders and whispered: "Don't be afraid, we have to sneak away."

At this time, there were only Xiao Yunsong and the two of them in the carriage, and the two attendants were standing at the door of the carriage. The black-clothed assassin was busy dealing with the guards of the Yan Army.

The man in black didn't come here for money, he made a decisive move just to kill people, most likely he came for the prince.

Qi Si estimated his own skills, and he didn't have actual combat experience, so he didn't dare to risk Yu Ke's safety.

After thinking about it for a while, he took off Yu Ke's brocade coat and tied the jade pendant around his waist, and gave him his commoner clothes, and the two changed clothes.

Xiao Yunsong couldn't help being moved when he saw this scene, and said in a low voice: "Young master!"

Yu Ke's mind was blank, and she grabbed Qi Si's arm and said, "Don't take risks, let's go together."

Qi Si smiled, and the handsome young man's face looked confident and calm: "Don't worry, nothing will happen. If you are surrounded in a while, Xiao Yunsong will take you to escape, and I will stay behind."

A group of commoner-clothed thugs suddenly rushed out of the bushes on the outside of the mountain path. They were armed with big knives and axes. They all wore civilian clothes and covered their faces with cloth scarves. They roared and rushed up the mountain path and joined the melee.

Without saying a word, the commoner bandits rushed forward and swung their knives at each other indiscriminately. They were not with the men in black.

Most of them rushed into the battle, and a few took advantage of the chaos to sweep the carriage one by one.

Seeing this, the man in black and the guards were fighting and getting close to the carriage, not knowing who was the rich and who was the man, the confusion was extreme.

The attendants at the carriage door didn't hesitate anymore when they saw this, they covered Qi Si and Yu Ke and rushed out of the carriage, ran along the carriage and the cover of the shrub forest inside the mountain road, and fled forward.

The rain was so heavy that several people were drenched in an instant.

As soon as he left the carriage, a man in black in the rain chased him over. Seeing Qisi's clothes, he chased after him. The long sword almost passed through Qisi's back, and the sharp edge of the sword cut a hole in his coat.

The jade pendant on Qi Si's waist fell to the ground, washed away by muddy water.

Qi Si didn't care about things outside his body, pierced the man in black's chest with a backhand sword, and ran away protecting Yu Ke.

Unexpectedly, the man in black thought about his martial arts, and with all his strength before death, he blew a whistle to inform his accomplices.

In an instant, the men in black turned around and got out of the melee, jumped up and down, followed the sound and quickly caught up with Jisi and the others.

——Seeing that the time had come, Ji Si quietly pushed and pulled Yu Ke's Xiao Yunsong with the hilt of his sword, and the two of them rushed a few steps with this force, and then entered the bushes under the mountain road .

Qi Si and the two attendants turned around and swung their swords, separating the man in black from Yu Ke by a short distance, and it was this distance that saved Yu Ke.

The brocade clothes on Qi Si's body were drenched by the rain, but they were more conspicuous. He turned his head and shouted: "Coward! Traitor!"

The attendant understood, and shouted at Qisi: "Your Highness, go!"

Ji Si made a gesture and took a few steps back, several men in black wanted to jump over the attendants and rush over, but Qi Si put his right foot on the ground, rushed forward with all his strength, and stopped the men in black with the attendants to fight.

Qi Si has practiced martial arts with Chong Yi for many years. Although his internal strength swordsmanship is not as good as Chong Yi, he can completely deal with these assassins. The clothes on the waist and abdomen of a man in black were cut, and blood gushed out immediately.

The man in black immediately surrounded them, Qi Si turned around and stabbed a few steps, breaking a tendon in a man's leg. Today was the first time he wounded someone with a sword, but he had to kill them ruthlessly.

Qi Si and his attendants swung their swords desperately, and the men in black underestimated the enemy for a while, but they were gradually defeated.

On the mountain road, the guards of the Yan Kingdom were blinded by killing. The commoner bandits obviously aimed at property, and the guards had the upper hand for a while.

At this time, Yu Ke and Xiao Yunsong had disappeared, and Qi Si felt more at ease, planning to find a chance to escape.

A tall man in black with a sword was very skillful. He came a little later and only concentrated on searching for the carriages one by one. He killed the bandits or guards who stopped him, and he swiftly and mercilessly killed them.

He searched all the way, not letting anyone on the carriage go, and the envoys of the Jin State were also killed by him with a sword.

Realizing that the situation was wrong, the commoner bandits gave up looting and turned around to leave one after another.

The tall man in black with the sword checked the carriages one by one, found the merchant carriage that happened to be traveling with the envoys, and saw a young man in Chinese clothes inside, aged thirteen or fourteen, he went out without hesitation with his sword, the young man stared , blood poured out from his chest, and soon stopped moving.

The man in black rummaged through the young man's belongings, but he couldn't find what he was looking for. He frowned and exited the carriage, only to see something faintly reflecting in the muddy water on the ground beside the carriage, which was somewhat conspicuous in the dim rain.

——He bent down to pick it up, wiped off the muddy water and inspected it carefully. It was a waist card and a jade pendant, which were exactly what he expected to drop.

The man in black carefully looked at the lettering on the waist tag, and put it in his arms.

Then he joined the battle, and the guards and envoys of Yan Kingdom fell like autumn grass under the sword of the man in black.

Qi Si saw his kung fu in the dark, knew that this man's kung fu was so high that he couldn't beat him, and secretly hated him.

Seeing this, the two attendants who followed him persuaded him: "My lord, please go and find him!" Then, regardless of life and death, they rushed into the melee angrily, killed the two assassins desperately, and were killed by the man in black with the sword .

The man's eyes were sinister and vicious, he turned his head and saw Qi Si, his body was covered with mud and blood, and he couldn't see the luxurious clothes, the man in black only regarded him as a follower, but he didn't want to let him go. Jump, rushing towards Qisi.

Qi Si could tell that this person was different from other assassins, his martial arts might be higher than Chong Yi, and he didn't want to tangle with him, so he turned around and wanted to run away, but the man in black rushed over like lightning and grabbed his shoulder with one hand, Qi Si had nothing to do Opportunity resisted and broke free, and he immediately felt that the bones in his shoulders were about to shatter, and he turned around to draw his sword.

However, the man in black acted swiftly and decisively as if teasing his prey. A sword hit his wrist, and when his wrist hurt, the sword fell from his hand.

There was a malicious smile in the sinister eyes of the man masked.

He did not kill Qisi, but took out a small bottle from his bosom, poured out a pill from it, quickly grasped Qisi's jaw with one hand like a steel claw, stuffed the medicine into his mouth with the other, retracted his fingers, and Qisi Forced to swallow the medicine.

Seeing this scene, the accomplice behind him yelled something, which he heard in the confusion, which seemed to be the language of the people outside the Great Wall.

The man didn't respond, and with one palm, Qi Si was pushed down the mountain path, rolling in the muddy water and fallen leaves, and fell down the mountain.

The mountain road quickly quieted down, only the sound of rain.

A man in black stepped forward, bowed his head to the tall man in black with a long sword in his hand, and said in Qiang language, "Do you want to clean it up?"

That man seemed to be the leader of the black-clothed assassins. His voice was low and terrifying, and he also replied in Qiang language: "No, take away the corpses of our own people and arrange them so that it looks like they were robbed and killed by bandits."

The night has come, the rain is getting heavier, and all the blood and crimes are covered by the rain in the darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, Qi Si was lying under a tall old tree in the bushes in the middle of the mountain, completely soaked, his clothes were torn and covered with muddy water.

He was injured by that man, his right shoulder and left wrist were so painful that he couldn't use his strength. I don't know what kind of medicine the man gave him, and his internal energy was exhausted. He fell all the way down the hillside and fell into a coma under the old tree for a long time.

When he woke up, there were pains all over his body. He checked his body, there was no fatal injury, and there was no bleeding trauma, but it was really uncomfortable.

There was no sound of people around, towering forests covered the mountain, the rain gradually subsided, the clouds dispersed, the moonlight shone on the mountains, and there were trees everywhere.

Yu Ke didn't know where she was at the moment, she should have escaped successfully.

Not daring to shout, he sat alone under the tree for a long time, gradually getting used to the pain.

After confirming that there was no one around, Qi Si turned around and walked up the mountain until he reached the mountain path.

It was a distance away from the place where he was attacked. Through the moonlight, he could vaguely see the carriage on the quiet mountain road swaying silently, and the vague corpses of the dead on the ground, as if they were graves made by carriages, and there were no traces of living people around.

He hid beside the mountain road and looked through the gaps in the bushes for a while, not daring to go to the side of the convoy, because he was afraid of seeing corpses all over the place, and second, he was afraid that an assassin would come back and find him.

He bowed respectfully to the convoy from a distance, wiped away the tears on his face, turned around and walked slowly along the mountain road.

The clothes were soaked and felt a bit heavy against his body, and the mountains and forests at night made Qi Si feel cold, but he didn't dare to stop, he just kept walking, not knowing where he would go or whether he would be killed.

The mountain road is winding, with mountains stretching behind it, canyons and towering forests on both sides. At night, there are rustling sounds of animals in the forest, rain falls from the leaves, and a bright moon over the valley pushes away the cumulus clouds and sheds brilliance.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the clothes on his body were already half dry, his shoulders and wrists were so painful that they were numb, and many parts of his body ached every time he moved, and his feet were covered with blisters, but he didn't even know it.

Finally, when it was almost dawn, he walked to a county town outside the mountain.

Before dawn, the streets were empty, and the doors of the houses were closed. He didn't know which door to knock on. He just turned around a few street corners at random, and finally lost his strength and passed out by the small door in the backyard of a house.

The morning star is twinkling in the corner of the sky. On the quiet street, Qi Si is wrapped in a muddy and blood-stained clothes, leaning quietly in front of the door of this house. The breeze blows by, his hair moves slightly, but his eyes are tight. Closed, sinking into a long dream.