"That's enough! There aren't that many Black Wind Bandits in Shuangji Ridge. As long as we work together and rush over together. Even if the Black Wind Bandits change their ambush, there's nothing to fear. We can still crush them! - Let's go.
, get out now!”
The young man in white clothes at the head pointed to another road on the right that had not been ambushed by the Black Wind Bandits, and said excitedly.
His prestige was gradually rising at this time, and he was killed from the Black Wind Bandits, so his words were very weighty. When he pointed out the path to the right, everyone agreed.
"Okay! Let's go!"
"Set off!"
"There are so many of us, why are we afraid of black thieves?"
…
At this time, even if there were objections, the voices that wanted "revenge" were suppressed.
After all, for most people, the purpose is not to wipe out some black bandits, but to participate in the imperial examination. If they can pass the "Two Bun Ridges" unscathed, no one can object.
After all, if you really have to face off against the Black Wind Bandits, even if you can kill them all with their numerical advantage, I'm afraid there will still be a lot of damage. - No one wants to be the one who dies. This is human nature.
Yang Ji watched coldly, neither objecting nor supporting. However, when his eyes glanced at the wrist of the young man in white who was "surviving the disaster", his heart was suddenly shocked!
"Wait a minute!"
Yang Ji raised an arm and said suddenly.
He had been silent before, but his sudden opening immediately attracted everyone's attention, even the young man in white looked over.
"What's wrong?"
The young man in white frowned in displeasure and stepped forward on horseback.
"Huh! It's nothing!"
Yang Ji drove off the black tiger and walked forward slowly. Under the breath of the beast, except for a few people, everyone else's mounts retreated one after another.
"My opinion may be slightly different from yours. I think this is the best way!"
Yang Ji pointed his hand and pointed directly at another branch.
"You're crazy!"
Seeing the direction Yang Ji was pointing clearly, the young man in white looked shocked. Others also opened their eyes wide and looked incredulous:
"Do you want to die?"
No one thought that Yang Ji would choose the fork in the road that was ambushed by the Black Wind Bandit.
"My opinion is different from yours. Since someone has escaped, they must have known to move to another road. The leader of the Black Bandits is a smart man, so this is the right thing to do."
Yang Ji said calmly:
"Besides, you almost died at the hands of the Black Wind Pirates, don't you want to take revenge?"
The atmosphere suddenly became a little strange.
Yang Ji had been silent before, and everyone had almost ignored him. No one expected that he would interrupt at this time and appear so strong.
The sentence "Don't you want to take revenge?" obviously hit the young man in white's weak spot, and his face turned dark.
"You are so crazy!"
The young man in white looked at Yang Ji as if he were a madman:
"If you want to die yourself, don't drag others into it. Are you stupid and think others are stupid? There are so many green forests guarding them, and only a fool will pass by."
"Oh, it may not be dangerous to choose this road, and it may not be safe to choose that road. I have said this, believe it or not, it is up to you. - Come if you are willing to come, it is your choice."
Yang Ji glanced around and said calmly.
Everyone shook their heads. They rushed over knowing that there was danger ahead, which was obviously not what normal people would do. However, Yang Ji's words were not completely ineffective. At least a few young people came to Yang Ji after thinking about it.
"You guys, don't regret it!"
The young man in white glanced at those people and said coldly. He waved his hand and led everyone into the fork in the road.
"My name is Han Bin."
When everyone was filing into the fork in the road, a young man in black cloth walked up to Yang Ji. He was young, thin, and weak. He was not very strong, but he gave people the impression that he was the first person to have his own ideas.
impression:
"Can I ask what your name is?"
"If I want, I will tell you naturally."
Yang Ji turned his eyes and looked at the other people as he spoke:
"You have to think carefully. If you follow me here, it may not be right. It's still too late to regret it now."
At the fork in the road, in addition to the young man named Han Bin, there were three other people. Among them was a young man and woman who looked like siblings.
Among the more than twenty people, four people are willing to follow Yang Ji, which is already quite good. Yang Ji originally estimated that one or two would be good.
"Hey, don't overthink it. We just don't think you are stupid, so we won't send you there knowing the danger."
A young man with dark skin who was also riding a beast said.
Yang Ji just took one look and knew that he probably also had a martial arts level. People like this have their own judgments and must have discovered something. It doesn't necessarily mean that they followed him.
"drive!"
Without saying much, Yang Ji stepped off the black tiger and immediately ran into another branch. Behind him, the four people looked at each other and followed him in.
The road is winding, with large trees on both sides, rugged mountains and rocks, and shadows everywhere. It looks ferocious and cuiwei. Even if an army is hidden inside, it is impossible to discover it in advance. It is indeed a good place to set up an ambush in the green forest.
Even though they chose this path, everyone still felt nervous and carefully looked around, as if the Black Wind Thief would rush out from behind the woods at any time. Only Yang Ji was relatively calm and calm.
Time passed slowly, and the closer we got to the depths of the mountain road, the more nervous everyone became, even the dark-faced young man.
"strangeness!"
Among them, a young man named Han Bin suddenly couldn't help but said:
"The Black Wind Bandits killed several groups of people here, and they must have cleaned it up too clean. No traces can be seen."
Along the way, I couldn't see anything but the dust raised by the horses' hooves. I couldn't even see a trace of blood, let alone traces of a fight or corpses.
No matter how much these things were cleaned originally, it was impossible not to leave any traces. But the fact is that there is nothing, and the road is incredibly clean.
"Nothing surprising."
Yang Ji wrote lightly: "Because this road is not the road where Heifeng thieves killed people. That person did not escape from here, - there is another way!"
"What!!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and even the dark-faced young man showed a look of shock. Although he felt something was wrong, so he followed Yang Ji into this path, but at all
I never thought that the real "accident" path was not this one.
"What do you mean? Are those people lying?"
A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl sat astride a white horse and said excitedly. She reacted quickly and immediately heard the subtext from Yang Ji's words, and her face suddenly turned pale.
"Aren't those people going to participate in martial arts like us?"
Han Bin also reacted and exclaimed.
All of our information was obtained from the mouths of those "students" who were covered in blood and escaped death. We are all about the same age, and they are all participating in martial arts. There is no need to lie to each other.
So from the beginning, no one doubted their identity.
If what Yang Ji said is true, then the only explanation is that these people did not go to participate in martial arts at all.
"If you weren't sure, you wouldn't have chosen this road even though you knew it was dangerous. - What did you find?"
Another "student" said excitedly.
"These people have slender fingers, but there are thick calluses at the tiger's mouth. This is the result of long-term sword practice by the people in the green forest."
Yang Ji said calmly:
"If I read it correctly, those people were not ambushed by the Black Wind Bandits at all, they are the Black Wind Bandits. And the blood on their bodies is not theirs, but other people who entered that path. As for their injuries,
...It would be even simpler. He was stabbed by other people who were preparing to take part in the martial arts examination and counterattacked before death."
There are basically no weak people who are qualified to participate in the "Martial Arts Examination". Even if they are Black Wind Bandits, it is impossible to kill them without paying a price.
"His!"
There was a gasp, and everyone looked at Yang Ji in shock. Although they knew what Yang Ji might have discovered, they did not expect that his discovery was so "astonishing."
Compared to everyone's hazy intuition, Yang Ji's judgment was obviously more acute and terrifying than everyone else's.
"You bastard! You clearly discovered the problem, why didn't you say anything just now?! Do you know how many people followed those Black Wind thieves in?"
After a brief shock, the only girl among the five suddenly cursed angrily, trembling with excitement.
Women are all emotional. She just followed her brother to Pingchuan City this time. Following Yang Ji was not a choice she made. She simply obeyed her brother, but she did not expect that there was such a big danger.
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"Little sister, that's enough!"
The dark-skinned young man said sternly: "Those people are willing to follow them, can they blame others?"
Although he said this, several people looked at Yang Ji with a look of accusation, even "Han Bin" who followed him at the beginning was the same.
It is true that everyone is a competitor in the martial arts examination, but no one has ever gone so far as to "take human life lightly."
"Don't look at me like that. I've already warned them, but they didn't listen and were too conceited."
Yang Ji glanced at several people and turned a blind eye to the questioning looks. Compared with the cold looks he had received in the clan in the past eight years, this level of looks was too insignificant.
"...Moreover, even if I say it on the spot, do you think anyone will believe it? When those Black Wind Bandits turn back, do you think anyone will speak for me?"
Yang Ji said coldly.
He grew up in a clan and was oppressed so much that he couldn't even trust the children in the clan, so how could he trust these people who had only met each other once? What's more, he had already reminded them and had done his best to be benevolent and righteous.
But these people choose to believe those people. Life or death is their own choice, and they cannot wrong others.
Everyone was silent when they heard this.
Indeed, if you ask yourself, in the situation just now, even if Yang Ji said it, not many people would believe him. Even they themselves did not follow him in solely because they believed in Yang Ji, let alone other people!