Chapter 30 The road is uneven
The sky, which had been gloomy for several days, finally cleared up again.
The golden sunshine is shining down, making Beiman Mountain, which usually looks a bit gloomy, look a bit brighter.
But Liu Laocui, who had a haggard face, looked at the group of bandits on the mountain road holding steel knives and wearing black cloth masks, and his heart felt as if he had fallen into the cold winter, so cold that he almost suffocated.
Although he was extremely frightened, he was the elder of a large family of old, young, women and children behind him. At this time, he could only muster up the courage to step forward and beg:
"Well done, good man! If all this food is given to you, several of our families will not be able to survive!"
Please, have mercy on us."
Among the hundreds of miles of Beimang Mountains, the section north of Luoyang City has the most tombs and mausoleums. Although other places are also steep, they are not without the extinction of humans and animals.
This oblique wind outlet is one of the main transportation routes connecting the north and south of Beimang Mountain.
Although it is very dangerous at night because it runs through Beimang, if you only travel during the day, you don't need to worry about being harmed by wild ghosts.
This large family from Liujiazhuang outside Luoyang City could not bear the extortionate expropriations imposed by the big landowner King Luoyang, so they assembled a donkey cart and prepared to flee from their hometown to the north of the mountain with their wives and children to find another way to make a living.
Who knows that everyone was lucky enough to escape those "human-shaped ghosts", but they failed to escape these more terrifying "ghost-shaped people".
"Bah, you old guy still dare to talk and bargain with the grandfathers?
Leave all your belongings and go back to your hometown, maybe we can be merciful and spare your life."
The bandit leader shook the steel knife in his hand and ruthlessly rejected Liu Laocui's plea.
Waving his hand, the second master behind him immediately swarmed up with his minions, trying to forcibly pull away the donkey cart containing all the family's savings.
"A good man, when you go out to seek wealth, you have something to say.
The Luoshui River is flooding this year, and the fields are so waterlogged that no harvest can be harvested. Leave some for us. The adults can resist it, but the children really can’t bear it."
A man with an honest and honest face grabbed a bandit's clothes and begged.
Behind him, a child with a sallow face and thin skin, who could not tell whether he was a boy or a girl, was holding his calf tightly in fear.
This still failed to win the bandits' mercy.
He pushed him and the child to the ground.
"Go away! I care whether you die or not?"
However, the man was at a loss and accidentally pulled off the black cloth from the bandit's face.
Seeing the face with a large tumor on the tip of the nose, the honest man was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously exclaimed:
"You are... Ma San, the servant of the Luoyang Prince's Palace?!
I recognize you. That day, my fellow villagers and I built a house for your housekeeper. After we built it, you not only refused to pay us, but also beat us.
That’s life-saving money!
My mother-in-law didn’t have money for medical treatment, so she left within two days. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."
Probably because he was really touched by something sad, a grown man forgot to get up and tears fell down.
But.
These villagers, who are illiterate and have never traveled far, don't know the truth about never seeing the true appearance of a robber.
What's more, directly calling out the other party's identity?
Liu Laocui, who was older and wiser, felt his heart skip a beat when he saw this:
"Something bad happened!"
Sure enough, I saw the bandit leader opposite had a stern look on his face and said coldly:
"We can't keep these people, kill them all!"
The servant of the palace who had his face towel torn off was still a little panicked, but when he heard the order, he laughed ferociously, swung his knife and stabbed the honest man in the chest.
Hot blood suddenly splashed all over the face of the child next to him.
The skinny little child only had time to scream: "Dad!"
Then he was grabbed by the big-armed and round-waisted servant, and he was beaten to the ground like a dead branch, until he was smashed into a bloody ball.
"Dazhu! Bolt!"
All the members of this family were relatives who had not yet left the fifth server. Seeing the tragic death of the father and son, they had no time to feel sorry for themselves, as the bad luck had already befallen them.
The second master was the fastest in action and obviously possessed martial arts and military skills. He was much stronger than the minions who only had some brute strength.
He stretched out his hand and pulled out a girl who was no more than a hairpin from behind Liu Laocui.
Ignoring the girl's panic and cries, the second master pushed her onto the donkey cart and commented with a lewd smile while undoing his belt:
"This girl looks like Zhou Zheng at best, but she's still young and tender, and she can barely eat it."
They had already regarded all the villagers as dead people, so they could naturally use the dead people's belongings at will.
"Juan'er!"
Liu Laocui, who was shocked by the tragic death of his nephew and grandnephew, was about to step forward to save his only daughter, but was kicked to the ground by the second master.
He was old and frail and could no longer get up from the ground, so he could only hold his chest and cry bitterly:
"Beasts! Don't you beasts have parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters? You beasts!"
But all he got was laughter from the bandits.
The second master, who turned a deaf ear to the girl, had already impatiently tore off one of the girl's sleeves, revealing a slender arm with yellowish skin, and was about to bully her directly.
Everyone suddenly heard a sharp sound breaking through the air.
call out--!
But as soon as a glimmer of golden cold light appeared in their eyes, the body of the second master suddenly twitched and fell over.
But a bright steel dart about the length of a hand, with two golden threads running through the head and tail, penetrated from the back of his head into his forehead and exited, killing the beast cleanly.
When the villagers and bandits have not come back to their senses,
Something seemed to be shaking in the air.
The golden ring at the tail of the gold-threaded steel dart moved slightly, and like a golden bee or a silver butterfly, it turned into a stream of light and suddenly disappeared into the woods beside the mountain road.
"who?!"
"What a thief!"
"Who dares to meddle in our business?"
The group of mountain bandits could no longer care about the group of unarmed and silent villagers. They gathered around the bandit leader one after another and looked at the mountain forest as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
"It's true that dogs can't change their ways of eating shit. The Yiwang lineage of Dayan Dynasty is rotten from the root. You'd better let me, the 'stealing cat' Cui Tong, cut them all off for you."
A tall and thin middle-aged man wearing black attire and with a strand of hair hanging down his forehead strode out.
It was Wang Yuan who replaced Cui Tong's identity with [Mysterious Object·Human Face Painted Skin].
The lineage of King Yi who sealed Luoyang City seems to have vicious blood flowing from his bones.
Starting from Zhou Yi, the first king of Yili, he was the biggest disaster in Luoyang City. There was no good thing among the Yi kings in the past dynasties.
All kinds of evil deeds are familiar to even a fool in Daling Village.
It is said that even the residences of Princess Zongfangcheng and Princess Tongcheng, Luoyang Prison, and the Confucian Wenchang Temple... were all demolished by the contemporary King of Yi in order to expand the palace.
He even shouted out these lewd words: "Women, you can't give birth to me, you can't give birth to me, and the rest are all allowed."
It is extremely common for such villains to send people pretending to be bandits to cut off roads and rob people.
The words have not yet fallen.
Wang Yuan tapped the ground with his toes, and his whole body was like a crossbow arrow flying towards the group of servants.
Cui Tong, the "stealing cat" who had just passed away, was in his prime and had accumulated a lot of experience. His military training and combat experience were much better than the current Wang Yuan, and he had already half-stepped the threshold of the second realm.
In addition, [Butterfly Art of War] is good at lifting and maneuvering, but he was able to bully them in the blink of an eye.
The bandit leader shouted:
"Form up!"
A dozen people had long knives protruding from their hands and instantly turned into hedgehogs.
Two more people rolled out of the formation with swordsmanship, like sharp sword wheels. They waved their long-handled plain knives and slashed at Wang Yuan's legs.
This group of mountain bandits came from the Royal Palace of Luoyang, so they naturally had no shortage of martial arts and military skills.
Although this is only the [Martial Guard Art] that is most widely circulated in the imperial court and the public in Dayan, even the big-headed soldiers who work as cooks in the army are qualified to practice it, but it is not bad if you can practice it to a deep level.
In addition, these guys are willing to kill for the sake of others, so it may be difficult for even ordinary officers and soldiers to fight against them.
But in the eyes of Wang Yuan now, it is nothing more than that.
His body leapt into the air and spun around, dodging the two swords. At the same time, he whipped out his legs like steel whips, kicking and breaking the necks of the two "ground swordsmen" like a whirlwind.
The energy in his body was flowing, and he stretched out his hand to shake.
A ray of bright golden cold light shot out from the palm of his hand, heading straight for the bandit leader in the formation.
It's like a flash of lightning.
Almost reaching the extreme.
Before the steel darts arrived, the piercing murderous intent in Wang Yuan's eyes had already frightened all the thieves to death.
But in the eyes of the villagers behind him, this savior who fell from the sky was like an unparalleled general who stepped out of a big drama.
Spear and horse, strong and sharp, march forward indomitably!
Chapter completed!