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"How do you feel now?" Ye Liuzhou asked.

Xu Yan's Adam's apple moved, and after a pause, he made a difficult voice: "Are you injured?"

Ye Liuzhou smiled at him: "That's your blood, shed so much, I almost thought you wouldn't be able to wake up, but luckily the knife didn't hurt the vitals."

Xu Yan stared at him. From the dirt on the opponent's body, the torn robe with several holes, the blood stains from the neck to the face, he turned his eyes around, and fixed on his unnaturally hanging arms: "Raise your left arm up."

Ye Liuzhou didn't move, and stood in a stalemate for a moment. He met Xu Yan's eyes, and could only say embarrassingly, "A little injury."

Xu Yandao: "After dawn, I will go to gather herbs."

"Farewell." Ye Liuzhou said, "You have suffered such a serious injury, and you still want to collect medicine? Lie down well, and we will find a way to leave from the Crow Forest tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he also lay down beside Xu Yan. The two of them looked at the dark blue night sky gradually turning white among the scattered branches.

Xu Yan said, "What about after that?"

Ye Liuzhou thought for a while and said: "Escape from these bandits first, and then find Pang Qing to lead troops to encircle and suppress Yanfeng Village. After the matter here is settled, we will return to Li Town to recuperate."

He turned his head to look at Xu Yan beside him, met the man's deep and quiet eyes, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?"

In the cold wind blowing miscanthus from all directions, Xu Yan's voice sounded unusually gentle, and he said, "Okay."

As soon as the sky was dim, everyone in the forest started to get ready to go. Ye Liuzhou helped Xu Yan walk to the tree where the horses were tied, when he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from the other side, he immediately lowered his voice , said to the villagers: "Don't talk..."

But when the thin little girl heard the footsteps, her face turned pale with fright, and she burst into tears. The sharp voice of a child immediately echoed in the forest.

Ye Liuzhou frowned and shouted, "Go!"

The villagers fled forward in panic. He helped Xu Yan onto the horse, and when he turned his head, five or six bandits had rushed over, and they raised their knives and beheaded everyone.

The horse kicked up its front hooves in fright, neighed, and fled desperately to the other side. Ye Liuzhou pulled the rein with great effort, trying to control it.

The wound on Xu Yan's chest overflowed with blood again, staining his clothes red, his lips were white, his nerves were tense, and his legs clamped the horse's belly hard, so that the horse stopped and struggled a little.

Ye Liuzhou held down his left arm, and before he could catch his breath, he heard the sound of a sharp weapon falling behind his ears, and he turned sideways to avoid it.

The sharp blade cut off a few strands of temple hair, and then cut into the horse's neck without stopping, and got stuck in the bone!

The horse under Xu Yan suddenly twitched violently, he couldn't exert his strength at all, he just felt the world spinning, and he fell off the horse.

The bandit with the knife drew out the knife, turned to Ye Liuzhou to kill, the blade opened and closed wide during the movement, and followed in a dizzying manner.

Ye Liuzhou dodged left and right, narrowly dodging the blade attacking his vitals, but he became more and more overwhelmed, and a bloody gash was cut on his back accidentally.

Ye Liuzhou staggered back in pain, tripped over a rock, and rolled twice before stopping. He supported the ground and raised his head, and saw the bandit approaching with a big laugh in front of him, with the cold blade dripping down. Blood.

There were bandits on both sides who killed several villagers and walked towards him together.

——There was nowhere to hide, Ye Liuzhou gasped, his pupils widened.

His pupils reflected the cold light when the blade swung down, and he had no doubt that the power of that knife could tear him open.

At this moment, a sharp knife suddenly pierced the bandit's belly full of fat.

The ferocious smile on the other party's face froze, and every inch became horrified.

As the gleaming knife tip pulled out of his body, the bandit fell down suddenly, revealing a tall man behind him, Xu Yan stood holding the knife, his brows were as cold as frost.

He staggered a step, panting violently, obviously struggling to stand still, and stretched out his hand to Ye Liuzhou.

Ye Liuzhou on the ground didn't have time to hand him his hand, when he saw another bandit rushing towards Xu Yan, he hurriedly said, "Left!"

Xu Yan recognized the position by listening to the sound, and without looking at him, he swung his knife and slashed at the opponent's throat!

While the blood was flying, a figure suddenly descended from behind him, a burly bandit stretched out his arms and locked his neck fiercely!

Xu Yan fell back, the wound on his chest was completely torn open due to the large arc of movement, and a piercing pain rushed up. At that moment, his eyes were almost dark, but there was no time for him to stop.

Xu Yan struggled a few times without breaking free from the opponent's arm. The air in his chest became thinner, and it was difficult to maintain his breathing.

Ye Liuzhou struggled to get up from the ground, and felt an unbearable pain in his eyes. He paused, suppressed the sharp pain, and walked to the side of the bandit in a few steps. Just as he was about to pick up the long knife on the ground, But the bandit noticed him and kicked him back.

Taking advantage of the bandit's distraction, Xu Yan turned over suddenly, and grabbed his neck with both hands!

The bandit felt suffocated for a while, struggled frantically, pulled out the dagger from the back of his waist, and slashed at the opponent randomly, but Xu Yan did not let go of his strength despite the blood on his arm.

Gradually, the bandit's movements froze and stopped moving.

Only then did the throbbing veins on Xu Yan's forehead subside slowly, and the surrounding area returned to calm. The small group of bandits they encountered had all died.

He let out a tired breath, and when he got up from the corpse, all the bones in his body screamed and rattled involuntarily.

Xu Yan walked up to Ye Liuzhou, pulled him up, met the gazes of the remaining villagers, and said sternly, "Go ahead."

A group of people dragged their injured bodies forward, stepped on fallen leaves and dead branches, and entered the dark and cold crow forest. The forests in this area were tall and lush, almost covering the sky, and occasionally a crow called from all around. Voice.

Along the way, everyone carefully guarded against the movement around them. Fortunately, no ferocious beasts were encountered. In the afternoon, they still couldn't find the exit, so they could only stop and rest.

Xu Yan's condition seemed to be very bad, and he walked here with the help of Ye Liuzhou, unconscious and half awake.

Ye Liuzhou changed the herbal medicine for him, which barely stopped the bleeding. If he didn't leave this barren forest before dark, then Xu Yan's life would be in jeopardy.

He came over with a bosom full of wild fruits, wiped the dagger clean, cut it into small pieces, and stuffed them into Xu Yan's mouth. Unexpectedly, a smile appeared on the lips of Xu Yan as he chewed.

Ye Liuzhou looked at him with raised eyebrows, "You can still laugh now?"

Xu Yan looked at him gently, without answering.

Ye Liuzhou stopped cutting the fruit, and stuffed his brain directly into his mouth, blocking his smile.

Xu Yan didn't care, raised his hand to take the fruit, and gnawed slowly.

The two of them sat shoulder to shoulder, and suddenly there was a cracking sound of stepping on dead wood not far away, making everyone look over with vigilance.

I saw that the dirty little girl came back from picking some mushrooms and looked at them timidly, very at a loss.

The woman on the side hurriedly stepped forward to pull her over and warned, "We are going to leave after a short rest. I told you not to run around and didn't listen."

The little girl responded, and then called her father, and the middle-aged man piled up branches and prepared to light the fire.

Xu Yan said: "Don't light the fire, the smoke will attract bandits."

The whole family had to stop, and the little girl stood aside, staring intently at the fruit in their hands, and swallowed.

Seeing this, Ye Liuzhou waved to her.

The little girl hesitated for a moment, but still moved slowly and walked in front of him.

"What's your name?" Ye Liuzhou asked. During several times of robbery and killing by bandits, he didn't expect that this frail little girl could escape by luck and survive until now, which is really rare.

The little girl replied in a crisp voice: "Cui Cui."

"Next time, don't go out to pick mushrooms by yourself, there are bandits outside, it's too dangerous." Ye Liuzhou handed her the remaining two fruits.

Cui Cui took it and gave him a childish smile.

The woman behind her thanked shyly, "Thank you, thank you."

"No thanks." Ye Liuzhou nodded.

At this time, the young man who had entered the Crow Forest came back and said to everyone: "I found the exit! Come with me!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, got up their spirits, and followed him. The little girl walked the fastest first, keeping up with the young man's footsteps.

The sky in this area is getting dark quickly, the twilight is falling, the forest is full of dangers, and the crows are making strange and cold calls one after another. Some people look for the reputation, but they still can't see where the crows are.

Approaching the exit, Cui Cui ran out of the forest as if she was very happy and excited, but in the blink of an eye, her small figure was quickly submerged in the night fog.

The woman hurriedly followed, and hurriedly called: "Cui Cui! Come back!"

But she didn't get the slightest echo, she stopped in a daze, and looked back at everyone.

Ahead was a bottomless darkness.

Everyone felt something was wrong, Xu Yan stood still in front of Ye Liuzhou, looked at the young man leading the way with cold eyes, and raised the knife in his hand.

The young man turned around, feeling a little confused, and soon realized something, anxiously said: "No, I didn't..."

Before he could finish his explanation, suddenly an arrow pierced through the clouds and fog, piercing through the young man's neck.

The young man opened his mouth, a mouthful of blood poured out, he couldn't make a sound, and then fell down with a plop.

There was an eerie dead silence.

Everyone was shocked. Looking into the darkness where the arrow was shot, they heard a whoosh, and a flame lit up, followed by a row of torches burning one after another, illuminating the gloomy crow forest.

I saw countless bandits holding torches and weapons, standing in a dense forest, with the Chen brothers and the expressionless Cui Cui standing in the middle.

An atmosphere of extreme horror spread around, Xu Yan looked at the little girl in disbelief.

Ye Liuzhou regained his senses from the shock, and quickly came up with an idea. Cui Cui had left the crowd before, and it must be the bandits he bumped into at that time, and betrayed their whereabouts in order to save his life.

The villagers reacted and fled back in a panic. Seeing this, the bandits yelled and chased after them. How could the villagers escape this group of strong and energetic bandits, who were quickly caught and killed? died, and was even eaten by bandits.

The screams and wailing soaring into the sky startled the crows in the forest, flapping their wings and flying in the sky, rattling continuously.

The woman cried to Cui Cui in the chaotic crowd: "Cui Cui, what are you doing! Come back soon!"

Cuicui shook her head, and said softly: "Mother, you can't escape, I might as well follow them."

Chen Sheng laughed out loud when he heard this, and put his hand on her shoulder, "It's still this little girl who has eyesight!"

Two bandits came forward to grab the woman and tore her clothes to pieces.

The woman looked at Cui Cui as if asking for help, but the little girl was indifferent. She turned her head and cried to her husband for help, but the husband was completely paralyzed on the ground, trembling, and had no intention of saving her.

The woman clutched her clothes helplessly, then suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of Ye Liuzhou and the two of them. Her expression was almost hysterical. She stretched out her fingers and said hoarsely: "They killed your people! They caught you!" Defeat your people! If you want to kill them, you should kill them, it's all their fault!"

Ye Liuzhou didn't turn his head to look at Xu Yan's expression, he twitched the corner of his mouth ridiculously, anger rose in his eyes, his temples throbbed suddenly, and the colic from deep in his head involved his eyes, causing him to raise his hand to cover it. one time.

The two bandits stopped and looked at Chen Hu, the leader in front.

Chen Sheng beside him let out a sigh, "What she said is, kill this Xu Yan for me first! Wait...catch him, I will make him pay the price!"

Chen Hu nodded towards them.

The two bandits came towards them. Xu Yangang took a posture to meet them, but was kicked down by the sneak attack from behind, and fell into the mud with a bang. He tried several times, but couldn't stand up.

"Xu Yan!" Ye Liuzhou hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, but a hand next to him suddenly grabbed his hair, and his arms were also pulled back.

The two were sent to Chen Sheng by the bandits. The other party circled around Xu Yan with a smile on his face, and suddenly punched him hard in the abdomen!

Xu Yan fell backwards and fell to the ground, big balls of blood came out from under him.

Ye Liuzhou watched this scene tremblingly, and even his voice was unsteady: "Stop, stop..."

But Chen Sheng didn't have any mercy, he treated them like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Following an order, a group of bandits surrounded Xu Yan with fists and kicks, only to hear Xu Yan coughing violently intermittently, with blood flowing from his mouth. Continuously trickle down.

"—Stop!" Ye Liuzhou's eyes were bloodshot.

This sound attracted Chen Sheng's attention. He glanced at Ye Liuzhou, ordered the bandits to stop, and said, "This person surnamed Xu is going to take me to the Yuan Mansion to save you. Let me think about how to deal with you." ?”

He paused for a moment, looked at Chen Hu, and asked, "Brother, what do you think should be done?"

Chen Hu frowned impatiently, his fierce eyes were full of anger, "Why don't you just kill them?"

"It's too cheap for them." Chen Sheng shrugged and said casually, "Chop off his hand first."

The bandits who grabbed Ye Liuzhou immediately pushed him down, pulled out the dagger, and were about to chop off his hand. Xu Yan, who fell on the ground not far away, was almost lifeless like a corpse, and suddenly moved. The waist knife fell to the ground, struggling to stand up.

However, his movements were too sluggish, and he was quickly held down by the bandits, and the waist knife fell from his weak fingers.

Seeing this, Chen Sheng showed an interesting expression, "You can still move? If you don't want me to chop off his hand, how about chopping off yours?"

Xu Yan panted and looked at Ye Liuzhou who was facing him. Scarlet blood dripped from his forehead between his brows, and his left eye slowly twisted. He said in a weak voice, "Don't... move him..."

Ye Liuzhou looked at him helplessly, his eyes widened, and there was a heart-piercing pain from inside.

Chen Sheng laughed wildly, echoing in the forest over and over again, he said: "Then you mean to cut off your hand?"

The bandits around him also laughed along with him.

Chen Sheng took the dagger from his subordinates, walked up to Xu Yan and bent down. A bandit pulled his arm away and placed it on the rock.

Chen Sheng twirled the dagger, as if he was thinking about how to strike, and pressed it against his wrist, then quickly raised his hand and slashed down fiercely!

"--and many more!"

The dagger barely stopped, hanging on Xu Yan's wrist.

Chen Sheng raised his cold eyes and looked at Ye Liuzhou on the side.

The other party panted, stretched out his arms, and said, "I know you won't let us go, why don't you start with me and let Xu Yan suffer slowly?"

Chen Sheng clicked his tongue twice, glanced around the two people with interest, then turned and walked towards him.

Xu Yan watched Chen Sheng raise the dagger, his heart almost stopped beating at that moment, "Ye Liuzhou——"

Chen Sheng gestured at Ye Liuzhou's arm, drawing several bloody cuts, but he didn't make a move, as if he wanted to see the terrified fear on Ye Liuzhou's face.

But Ye Liuzhou's face didn't show the slightest fluctuation.

Bored, Chen Sheng moved up the dagger and pointed it at the man's chest, just about to end the farce.

Suddenly, veins appeared on Ye Liuzhou's arm, and he lifted it up suddenly. The two bandits didn't expect him to struggle at this moment, and they didn't hold him down for a while, but the man suddenly got up and held down Chen Sheng's arm. hand.

Chen Sheng was obviously taken aback for a moment, and the dagger in his hand was pulled away by the opponent the next moment, and he felt a chill on his neck.

——Ye Liuzhou swung his arm sideways, and the dagger cut his throat. Everything happened in an instant, and the situation suddenly reversed at an astonishing speed!

There was an empty dead silence all around, all sounds disappeared, and no one reacted.

Chen Sheng's neck was torn open, and countless blood gushed out and splashed on the expressionless face of the man opposite. One drop fell into his eyes and diffused, turning into a blinding blood red.