Just when Qin Fei turned around and wanted to grab the man with the wolf head tattoo, suddenly a strong wind blew in the forest, mixed with flying leaves, earth and rocks, which made people unable to open their eyes. Qin Fei used his hand to block the strong wind. Feng Chen squinted his eyes and looked at the man with the wolf head tattooed on his chest. There was no one there. To be more precise, there was a blur of gray in front of him and nothing could be seen. Qin Fei had never seen such a big one. Fengchen, even in this forest, was unheard of. He couldn't help but panic at the moment of shock. Qin Fei wanted to open his mouth to shout, but as soon as he opened his mouth, dust swarmed in and entered his mouth and nose, causing Qin Fei to I couldn't stop vomiting, and after the strong wind blew for a while, it gradually stopped. However, the thick sand blown up by the wind did not fall down. It was like a curtain, covering all the people in the woods. All covered in it.
But just when everyone was looking at the spectacle in front of them and were at a loss, the boundless misty fog rose again, adding an indescribable sense of strangeness to the woods, and the officers and soldiers were so close to each other. They didn't even see each other for half a step. Such a thick fog accompanied by suspended sand was really a strange sight. It had never been seen before. Even the old capital official who claimed to have traveled half of the Song Dynasty had never seen it in his life. He was shocked at the moment. .
"Guarding the Chariots,"
Yang Zhi suddenly shouted from a certain direction, and many officers and soldiers woke up after listening to it. However, it was extremely difficult to leave at this moment. Everything was filled with white and yellow colors. They just stood like this, lowering their heads. I couldn't see my own feet. In this dream-like state, I couldn't figure out the direction, let alone go to the chariot where the birthday card was.
"Where is it? The person guarding the chariot is shouting," Qin Fei was also anxious and shouted quickly, hoping to identify the location through the sound. However, the person guarding the chariot seemed not to hear it, and there was no reply at all.
Just when Qin Fei was worrying here, the fog in the forest became thicker and thicker. Qin Fei heard Yang Zhi's anxious roar, but no matter how Qin Fei opened his eyes, he couldn't penetrate the thick fog. Behind the curtain, Qin Fei walked towards the direction of Yang Zhi's voice. However, before he had gone far, he was tripped by the rock roots under his feet. Qin Fei crawled all the way towards that direction, but not far away, the road seemed It became difficult to walk. Qin Fei lost his footing and fell to the ground. A piece of moisture touched the palm of his hand. Qin Fei retracted his hand and looked in front of his eyes. He saw bright and dazzling blood red on the tips of his five fingers touching the ground. Qin Fei was shocked in vain as he looked at it. In his astonishment, he quickly realized the dangers around him. When Qin Fei pulled out the blade with a swish, Yang Zhi, who was over there regardless of north or south, heard the sound and shouted: "What's going on?" ," and then he also took the knife out of its sheath.
Qin Fei groped for the blood stain and took two steps forward. He saw an officer and soldier lying in a pool of blood. Blood flowed from the neck that was crooked to one side. It was obvious that someone had cut his throat with a knife. Qin Fei shouted. No, he crawled on the ground and searched along the corpse. Within two steps, there was another body lying on the ground. The same way of death. Qin Fei seemed to be aware of someone passing by, heading in that direction. Climbing over cautiously, he saw that the man was not wearing official boots, but a pair of straw sandals made of vines. Just when Qin Fei just felt something was wrong, the sound of a chariot rolling by along with the sound of horses rang beside him. When he got up, Qin Feiguang could hear the sound, but he couldn't see anything half an arm away. The fog was really evil. It was so thick that he couldn't even see the sun's scorching sunshine. If Qin Fei wasn't lying on the ground now, He could hardly tell the difference between heaven and earth, black and yellow, in the chaos.
However, no matter how evil the mist is, it seems more and more abnormal for the people and horses to move around as usual. Someone wants to rob the birthday card. This thought flew through Qin Fei's mind, and Qin Fei stood up and walked toward that person. The direction rushed over, and with a pop, it just caught one side of the chariot. The pair of wheels made of iron sheets rotated in front of Qin Fei's chest, grinding Qin Fei's chest, and there was another bone-piercing pain. Qin Fei didn't feel it. He let go, and as if grasping the last straw, shouted: "Come quickly, someone is robbing the road,"
However, before Qin Fei could finish his sentence and speak again, a person suddenly and silently flashed through the thick fog. He raised his knife and cut off both of Qin Fei's arms. Qin Fei was in severe pain. He fell to the ground, but then he felt someone pulling his hair up from behind. Before he could scream, he felt a cold feeling in the front of his throat, and a surge of hot blood rushed out. , no longer conscious.
Yang Zhi heard Qin Fei's voice over there, and when he stumbled over there with a knife in his hand, he already touched a cold corpse. Yang Zhi watched Qin Fei's body being cut. He opened his neck and looked at Qin Fei's blood-stained face. For a moment, his chest was filled with anger, and he stood up. However, there was thick mist all around, and there was nothing at a loss. He couldn't see his men. The enemy can't be seen either.
Just when Yang Zhi was in great pain, a sudden sound came from a few dozen steps behind Yang Zhi and he started to wake up. Yang Zhi listened carefully and found that it was his subordinates shouting that the chariots and battles were moving. However, Yang Zhi wanted to hear the sound. When he went to identify the location, the sound over there stopped suddenly, and he must have been killed. Yang Zhi simply opened his hands and groped around, but there was nothing.
Just like this, less than half a cup of tea passed in the chaotic scene. The fog in the forest gradually dispersed and became lighter and lighter. It was so light that Yang Zhi could see his waist. , you can see your legs, and not long after, you can see your boots stained with blood. The next moment is like a blink of an eye, all the fog is gone, and the scorching sun is shining over Huangnigang. The moment the thick fog disappeared, the sun was like a dazzling waterfall pouring down, stinging everyone's eyes. Yang Zhi looked through the gaps between his fingers and reluctantly adapted to the sudden light. Under the cover of his eyelashes, Yang Zhi Zhi could finally take a clear look at the forest in front of him.
However, just when Yang Zhi completely opened his eyes, the tragedy of the scene also made him open his mouth unacceptably.
In the small forest just now, all the escort carriages were gone, as were the horses of the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers who were originally guarding the escort carriages staggered and fell in their own pools of blood, and there were scattered pieces in the woods. Dozens of officers and soldiers were lying on the ground. They all had half of their throats cut open. Blood flowed out along the crooked necks, staining the soil on the ground red. At this moment, Yang Zhi and a group of people slowly opened their eyes, confused. The ignorant men were like officers and soldiers who had just woken up from sleep, looking at everything in front of them with disbelief and unspeakable fear.
The old governor looked at the dead man next to him in disbelief, his sunken eyes widened in shock. He still held the gourd he bought in his hand, but the wine jar in front of him had been overturned. The mellow wine Along with the blood on the ground, it flowed down the terrain of the forest, but the man who bought the wine was no longer there.
Yang Zhi looked at himself again. He had walked dozens of steps away from the original place. He was facing a tree trunk stupidly. Yang Zhi hurriedly looked to the side of the woods. The customers selling dates also There was no trace of them for a long time, as if those people had never appeared, and as if everything was Yang Zhi's "Nankeyi dream". Yang Zhi blinked hard, but his fantasy was shattered, and the bloody everything in front of him once again declared the cruelty of reality.
"Look," Lu Zhishen shouted not far behind him.
Yang Zhi rushed over and saw Qin Fei's body lying on the road. In addition to his throat being cut in half, two strong arms were cut off at shoulder level, and two blood stains stretched on the ground.
"Follow me," Yang Zhi shouted, and nearly a hundred surviving officers and soldiers immediately picked up their swords and ran after Yang Zhi.
Yang Zhi followed the bloodstain all the way. The first few dozen steps were still dazzling, but after a few dozen more steps, the bloodstains became dots. Yang Zhi was so anxious that he thought he had found a breakthrough and continued to pursue. The blood stains just disappeared. There was no trace, and there were no clues around them. Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen stood here stunned, and the officers and soldiers behind them were also dumbfounded, not knowing what to do next.
Yang Zhi stared straight at the last drop of blood, feeling a huge emptiness in his heart.
Lu Zhishen looked at Yang Zhishen's dejected look and immediately didn't know what to do. Even a word of comfort seemed to be difficult to say. Lu Zhishen didn't know how to say it. He sighed deeply, He put his generous palm on Yang Zhi's body and didn't say anything, just patted it.
Yang Zhi felt the special but heart-warming "comfort" between brothers. An indescribable power seemed to be transmitted to him along the palm of Lu Zhishen's hand with each beat. The original heavy The body seemed to be a little lighter. Yang Zhi looked at the uninhabited woods in front of him, shook his head slightly, and led everyone back to the place where the birthday card was lost. The old governor was slumped on the ground at this moment, looking at the ground. The corpse's eyes were blank and dazed.
Yang Zhi looked at the old man in charge and was furious. He sighed fiercely and cursed: "It's all your fault, old man. The Sa family said that you can't rest in such a ghost place, but you can't leave. What now? You lost the birthday card, how can you tell the Sa family to explain to En, and you have wasted the lives of brothers Xu Du," Yang Zhi said here, and stabbed the knife in his hand hard on the spot. This With all his strength, Yang Zhi held indescribable anger. The blade was halfway into the ground before he stopped. The shining blade of the blade was swinging back and forth on the ground, which frightened the old boss and ducked back. His old face was pale and pale. Watching Yang Zhi's next move.
Yang Zhi really wanted to kill the old man with a knife to relieve his anger, but now that the birthday card was lost, if he were to kill him again, it would make him even more unable to explain to Liang Zhongshu. Yang Zhi wanted to find the birthday card, but when he looked around, there was nothing but dazzling eyes. Apart from the scorching sun, there is no clue as to where to start in this vast world. A strange and ghostly fog has covered up too much and caused Yang Zhi to miss too much. Even at this moment, it is useless to worry about all this. Yang Zhi understood clearly, but the inexplicable unwillingness in his heart was like a sharp knife piercing into his heart. Every thought of it was bloody and painful.
"I'm in such an embarrassing situation, call me Yang Zhi, what should I do?" Yang Zhi's conflict filled with anger finally broke out at this moment.
Lu Zhishen put his arm on Yang Zhi's shoulder and said: "On this yellow mud hill, the roads to and from are intricate. Since the birthday card was robbed by someone using magic, I'm afraid it will fly away in the mist. It is already thousands of miles away and cannot be found."
"Then what should we do..." In fact, Yang Zhi knew the answer, but how to go back now and how to explain...
Lu Zhi sighed deeply and said, "What can we do? Let's go back to Erlong Mountain. That is our only home."
Yang Zhi's Adam's apple floated, and his voice was slightly choked and said: "At the foot of Erlong Mountain, watching so many brothers being slaughtered, how can I explain to the brothers in the village... let's talk about what we were thinking, Will they believe what will happen in the future? All my failures have turned my explanations into cover-ups. They won’t believe me anymore."
Lu Zhishen hugged Yang Zhi firmly on his shoulders and said firmly: "As long as we are doing it for everyone's good, that's it. After all, we are big brothers, right?" After Lu Zhishen said that, he turned to look at Yang Chi.
The two brothers looked at each other, and the haze in their hearts disappeared.
"I lost my birth date. Go back and behead me." Yang Zhi took out the knife from under his feet and shouted: "Why don't you go to Erlong Mountain to have a happy life? Who will follow me?"
"Those who want to go up the mountain to enjoy the food and drink, and those who don't want to, can leave now," Lu Zhishen also shouted at the top of his lungs.
The surviving officers and soldiers looked at each other, thought for a moment, and most of them clenched the swords in their hands tightly, responded to Yang Zhi's call, and were willing to follow Yang Zhi up the mountain to Luocao, while some family members were still in Daming Mansion in Beijing. The officers and soldiers hesitated to stay.
Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen, with seventy or eighty officers and soldiers, left the bad mood of leaving the birth plan behind in Huangnigang, put away their swords, and rushed to Erlong Mountain. After walking dozens of miles, Yang Zhicai Suddenly it occurred to me that I should kill Lao Duguan, but if I go back now, I'm afraid that the old fox will be gone long ago.
At this moment, Lao Duguan recovered from his fear when he saw that Yang Zhi was far away and seriously considered his next plan.
The dozen or so officers and soldiers who were unwilling to go up the mountain with Yang Zhi gathered around Lao Du Guan, complaining incessantly. However, they still needed Lao Du Guan to come up with an idea and find a way to save themselves from the punishment.
An officer and soldier helped the old man up and said: "Sir, today's work has been done. It's useless to complain. You are well-informed and have a wide network in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Our lives depend on it." The old man is in charge," he said, and he and everyone else bowed down in front of the old man.
The old governor didn't help them up, nor did he say anything. His old eyes looked furtively at the direction Yang Zhi left.
Everyone didn't understand what he meant, so they thought it was the end of the road and said: "Old man, is there nothing we can do? We all have to behead our heads. Then... we might as well go up the mountain with Yang Tiha, although we don't know what to do." How to deal with the minions, but before they take revenge secretly, Yang Tiha will have a good life for a few days,"
When Lao Duguan heard that they were about to change his mind, he rolled his eyes, and a pair of veteran hands lifted up the sergeant in front of him and told everyone to get up first. Lao Duguan coughed and then said: "There is no perfect path for everyone. It’s not that there’s no way to retreat, it’s just…”
"There is a saying that 'when the fire burns, everyone sweeps it away'. How can we control it now with so many 'just's? Whatever you can do, we will do it," the soldiers said.
The old man listened and said with joy: "Yang Tiha is here, we can't say it, and we can't escape this crime, but fortunately he has absconded, so this matter has become easier. All we need is this Said: He beat and scolded everyone along the way and forced us not to tell anyone. He secretly colluded with the strong men and used Mongolian medicine to lay us down on the yellow mud hill, tied our hands and feet, and took away all the gold and treasures. "
When everyone heard what he said, it was really vicious. If he said it like this, Yang Zhi would become the culprit of murder and robbery. However, other than this method, there seemed to be no better excuse to excuse him, so everyone They nodded in unison, unified their confessions, and became more determined.
When the old governor saw that the matter was done, he said: "We will go to our office to file a lawsuit first in the morning. The Grand Master learned that these strongmen have been tracked down in Jeju. Yang Zhi has taken the blame. There is no evidence to prove it. It can't be delayed." , let’s go!” After saying that, he took a step to leave, but Lao Duguan took two steps and looked back. The sergeants behind him were standing on the same spot one by one, holding simple swords in their hands, and all of them had swords in their mouths. A malicious smile.
"You... what... do you mean?" Lao Duguan felt an indescribable coldness hit his face, but he didn't get a reply.
What he got was a sharp chop from the sergeant's face. As blood flowed out, the old governor never stood up again. Only blood quietly gushes out from half of his head...
"Old Du Guan died at the hands of Yang Zhi... We can go to Jeju to report to the official now,"