Small wood

He could hardly believe the situation in front of him, where did these people come from, and how they managed to gather in one place almost instantly in such a short period of time.

The masked people wore dark green clothes that almost blended with the leaves, while the other group of people wore black clothes, with calm expressions and no fear to meet them.

Most of the men in black surrounded the four of them, holding their knives in their hands, staring at the ones on the tree, watching out for those behind them, and welcoming the approaching enemies.

I don't know how many people there are in that green shirt, arrows rained down, and every arrow was directed at them.

"Let's go!" Qian Sheng urged, his mount was shot, he struggled on the ground and gasped for breath, trying to stand up, his stomach was bleeding profusely, and blood foam spewed out of his nose.

"You, what do you do?" Amu asked.

Qian Sheng looked at him with deep and deep eyes, indistinguishable complexity, he didn't even look at the injured horse on the ground, and said directly to Amu, "I'll ride yours."

Before Amu could react, Qian Sheng picked him up, threw him directly on Gu Lin's horse, told him to sit behind Gu Lin, and said, "Hold tight." After that, he whipped the white horse.

The white horse was in pain, neighing, raised its front hooves, and ran forward quickly.

Amu hugged Gu Lin tightly, and looked back nervously.

Seeing that Qian Sheng, under the protection of the man in black, rode on Yun Duo and chased him, he was relieved.

They ran fast in front, the surrounding treetops vibrated, and the birds flew away in fright. The shaking direction of the trees seemed to follow the speed of their riding.

Amu looked sideways, and saw the cold eyes of the people wearing masks among the treetops. They were holding short crossbows at them, as if they were measuring the distance, and the sharp arrows shone with a cold light. Even so, their The speed of the body moving among the trees did not decrease at all, and the broken treetops kept falling.

Amu panicked and said to Gu Lin, "My lord, they are on the tree."

Gu Lin held his hand resting on his waist, and a vague voice came from the front, as if telling him not to be afraid, Amu couldn't hear clearly, but the dry and warm touch in Gu Lin's hand made him calm down a little.

Because the white horse carried two people on its back, the speed still slowed down a bit, and Qian Sheng gradually caught up.

This is the first time Amu saw Qian Sheng like that. In order to increase his speed, he raised his whole body slightly, his whole body was tense, his eyes were sharp and gloomy, and his red and black clothes spread behind him like a hunting knife, blown by the wind. almost stretched straight.

Amu suddenly realized that Zhou Xingping was not here, his horse was empty, running beside them.

"Where's Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou is gone!" Amu shouted, but his voice was lost in the wind, intermittent.

Suddenly, a branch and leaf on the tree on the right was completely torn and fell off. Along with the leaf, there was another person, masked, with the knife edge almost piercing through half of his body.

Zhou Xingping was standing on the tree, holding a curved knife in his hand, the whole blade was red as if sucking blood, with a ferocious face, he chased towards the person in front, with such a strong body, he almost stepped on anything, It fell down with a clatter, and for a while, the group of people moving on the tree gradually surrounded Zhou Xingping, and at the same time shot the bows and arrows in the short crossbow at Gu Lin and the others.

Seeing the densely packed small arrows coming straight at them, Amu was so frightened that he turned his head and dared not look at them, but Gu Lin didn't panic at all. When his wide cuffs were rolled up, the small arrows fell down as if they had lost momentum.Seeing Amu, he hugged Gu Lin even more tightly.

Zhou Xingping blushed, and said to them: "Get out of the forest! You can't see people clearly by staying in the trees!" As he spoke, he pierced another person's body with a knife. He didn't even pull out the knife. With the knife still stuck in the person, he stabbed the next person directly.

Without saying a word, Qian Sheng added a few whips and rode in front of the white horse, leading the way.

They turned sharply to the right, and the masked men turned right too.

The trees in front of them began to dwindle, and they jumped from the trees one after another to block them, but once they landed on the ground, their figures were not as flexible as those in the trees, and without shelter, they followed behind them all the time. The man in clothes beheaded them easily.

Amu listened to those creepy voices and watched those people die.

He shrank his body and hugged Gu Lin tightly.

Gu Lin kept holding his hand, comforting him.

Amu has seen beasts die, some of them were even killed by himself, but there are living people in front of him.He never saw it.

He remembered that the first time he killed an animal he let it go because he couldn't bear it.

It was a small and soft sika deer with dark and pitiful eyes. When he pressed it to the ground, it kept panting and kicking its legs, as if it could escape for its life.

His hand holding the knife kept shaking, sympathy and pity made him soft, but he still didn't make a move after all.

For this reason, Dad gave him a good lesson, telling him that it is not a bad thing to be soft-hearted, but it is a bad thing to be soft-hearted at the wrong time, and what he let go was their family's food for half a month.He still remembers his father's tone when he spoke. He said: "Killing to survive is not killing. You let him go out of good intentions. But without this deer, what will we eat for half a month?"

It was difficult to hunt in winter. Maybe it was because they couldn’t find prey, or maybe it was because Amu had a long memory.Half a month later, Dad dragged a deer back.Put the hunting knife in his hand.As for the deer in his hand, Amu knew at a glance that it was the one he let go half a month ago.

Amu remembered that incident so well that he was very confused now, Gu Lin had never harmed them, why did he pursue Gu Lin, even if it was his own life.

And those men in black, who suddenly appeared at just the right time, if there is an explanation, it is that they have been following them in the dark.

But Amu never noticed it, he always thought there were only four of them.

"I can't run anymore." Qian Sheng suddenly stopped Yun Duo and stopped the white horse.

In front of them was a forest with sparse trees that could almost be called a plain, and Qian Sheng's expression was very bad.Staring at the woods.

"Why stop, don't just stand there!" Zhou Xingping jumped down from the tree and chopped off the body of a masked man.

There were not as many people as before, corpses and severed limbs were almost all over the road when they came, there were those with green masks, and there were also those in black.

"The forest is weird. I'm not familiar with it. You may not be able to get out if you go in." Qian Sheng said.

"Go to the weird ones too, anyway, the original route must not go." Zhou Xingping said, his body was covered with blood, some were fresh enough to flow down, some were brown and viscous after drying up, and some were so thick that they were almost black. of.

There was no smile on Qian Sheng's face, he looked at Lin Zi thoughtfully: "I feel bad about this place."

Zhou Xingping slapped Yun Duo's butt hard, and Yun Duo ran forward desperately in shock. He shouted: "If it's not good, I have to go! If I stand still, I will be shot like a sieve!" While speaking, the masked man The arrows shot over again, but Zhou Xingping stopped him with a knife.

The amount of arrows shot by the short crossbow is astonishing, but the distance is limited. They are riding horses, and it is still difficult to shoot them.

Whether it was intentional or unintentional, Amu saw an arrow shooting straight at him, but Zhou Xingping, who was able to stop it, dodged it and watched it shoot at Amu quickly.

Amu had nowhere to hide, if he did, the arrow would have shot at Gu Lin's back, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, hugged Gu Lin tightly, waiting for the coming pain.

But Gu Lin seemed to feel something, and suddenly turned around and hugged him sideways, and the two of them fell towards the horse.

In the nick of time, Amu could even feel the cold air that came out when the arrow flew past his face.

The two fell off their horses, the white horse was frightened, neighed fiercely and raised its front hooves, it was about to step on them.

"Young Master!" Zhou Xingping roared, rushed over at an unpredictable speed, and slapped the horse's belly, and the white horse fell to the ground without even making a sound.

He wanted to help Gu Lin, but Gu Lin just gave him a cold look and then went to see Amu immediately.

"How are you?" He anxiously groped Amu's back and arms, frowning so nervously.

Amu didn't feel the pain, so he shook his head and asked Gu Lin again: "My lord, how are you doing? Does it hurt?"

Gu Lin hugged him and let out a sigh of relief.

Zhou Xingping, who was watching them, paused for a while and took it back.

"There is no second time." Gu Lin spoke suddenly, his voice was hoarse and cold, revealing uncomfortable pressure.

Amu didn't know who he was talking to, so he looked up and met Qian Sheng's eyes.

Unidentified, complicated, and simply incomprehensible.

Amu remembered that when Qian Sheng carried him onto the horse, Zhou Xingping's horse was still empty. If he had known that Zhou Xingping would follow those masked men up the tree, and the remaining three horses were just enough for them to ride, then he would do this , maybe just want him to block Gu Lin's arrows.

This thought flashed so suddenly that Amu was taken aback by himself.

He shook his head hurriedly, not believing himself.

He was too bad, how could he think that way, Qian Sheng's horse died at that time, it was normal to think of two people riding together.

Because of the fall from the horse, those masked men chased after him, but the distance was only a few tens of meters.

Zhou Xingping clenched his knife tightly and roared at them, his body tensed and ready to go.

But those people stopped, holding the short crossbow steadily at them, but did not move.

"What do they want?" Zhou Xingping asked through gritted teeth.

Qian Sheng narrowed his eyes, and said softly, "They dare not enter this forest."

Zhou Xingping was a little surprised, and laughed casually, "That's all." He turned around and kicked the white horse, but the white horse made no sound and was already dead.He frowned, and pulled his own horse over: "You and Young Master, they go first, I'll cut the rear."

Qian Sheng looked at the white horse, squatted down, cut the horse's neck with a knife, and put the horse's blood in the kettle. He said, "This place is not right, there is no sound at all." He put the lid on the kettle, Said: "They won't come in, it's better not to separate."