Lin Xi, who was walking silently in a pine forest, suddenly frowned, stopped, and spoke to Bian Linghan in a low voice.
Bian Linghan took a few deep breaths and nodded to Lin Xi with a solemn expression.
The smell of blood is so light that even in this extremely clean air of ice and snow, it is difficult to detect it if you are not paying attention.
Lin Xi hesitated for a moment, then made a gesture to Bian Linghan, and the two people immediately separated dozens of steps in a tacit understanding, and followed more carefully towards the direction where the smell of blood was coming from.
After a few pauses, the two people stopped at the same time. Bian Linghan stood still and looked around cautiously, while Lin Xi walked to a yun pine and squatted down.
They found the source of the bloody smell.
The body and internal organs of a small snow pheasant were just below the spruce pine tree. Judging from the scattered feathers and tear marks, this snow pheasant was hunted and most of it was skinned and eaten alive.
Suddenly, Lin Xi leaned down again, lying flat on the snow, looking forward.
He noticed some strange heights. After walking for dozens of steps, some shallow footprints appeared in his sight.
He immediately made a gesture to Bian Linghan, and then pointed to a high hillside nearby. Bian Linghan immediately moved towards that hillside quietly, and he immediately followed.
At the top of the hillside, he and Bian Linghan saw the footprints spreading up the lower gentle slope ahead, then crossing the creek and entering a pine forest on the opposite side.
"Eating so much raw meat from snow pheasants at one time can easily cause discomfort, and if you are a student at Thunder College, you probably won't have even half of it left, so you will definitely take it away."
"That means he is most likely a prisoner."
"Judging from the footprints, it should be less than an hour ago. If we catch up now, we can probably catch him."
After exchanging views in very low voices, Lin Xi and Bian Linghan immediately went down the slope, following the footprints quickly and silently.
There was only one person's footprints, and it seemed that the prisoners who were thrown into this extremely vast Shizhi Ridge area were indeed very scattered.
However, just as he was about to approach the creek formed by melting snow, Lin Xi suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Just as he looked at the stream in front of him and the footprints on the other side, frowning slightly, an inexplicable rhythm suddenly appeared in the shallow snow under his feet.
Before he had time to react, a black spear point had already stabbed out from the snow under his feet!
As early as when he explained the so-called "wind marks" and "falling moon" of Wind Walker, Tong Wei told him and Bian Linghan that the most difficult position for people to detect and react in time is the brain.
Backward and upward.
Because people always look forward, and when they find a sound, they always look around or look up, but they don't immediately turn around and look back and up.
But Tong Wei was taught archery skills... No arrows can be shot from the ground, so he didn't say anything. In fact, the things that stabbed out from under the soil behind him were also the most difficult to detect and respond to in time.
Because very few people notice the noise and turn around immediately to look down at the ground.
So in just one breath, the black spear point that stabbed out from the ground directly penetrated Lin Xi's left calf. The spear tip protruded from the front of Lin Xi's calf with shocking blood.
The tyrannical force made Lin Xi unable to remain standing and fell to one knee.
When Bian Linghan uttered an exclamation that was extremely harsh in this quiet mountain wilderness, the black spear tip dripping with blood was retracted domineeringly, and then a figure shook away the snow with an even more domineering attitude, holding a
Black-flowered spears and border army swords were flying out of the ground.
Bian Linghan, who looked extremely pale, held a dagger in front of Lin Xi, whose calf was completely pierced. However, this domineering figure did not attack immediately. Instead, he took two steps back with a gun, as if to drive away the coldness in his body.
He took a deep breath as if he were leaving, looked at Lin Xi with a leisurely expression, and said with a smile: "Lin Xi, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."
This man who lurked under the snow and jumped out with a domineering attitude was Wanyan Muye who was defeated by Lin Xi on the half-snowy plain that day.
Bian Linghan's body was trembling slightly, and her mouth was bitter.
She knew that the opponent was a high-level soul warrior, and his combat skills were amazing. Now there was not much distance between her and Lin Xi, and the bow and arrow could not be used at all. Lin Xi's feet were bleeding... She and Lin Xi couldn't help each other.
They might be the other party's opponents, and since she and Lin Xi were defeated... Qingluan Academy was missing two people.
"I didn't expect that I would meet you so soon."
Lin Xi looked at Wanyan Muye and smiled bitterly, thinking that although she was considered careful and could see some people and things more accurately than the average person, she was still not as careful as Hua Jiyue in judging clues.
Only now did he fully understand why he felt something was wrong just now. It was because the footprints from the creek to Wanyan Muye's ambush place were a little too deep.
In other words, Wanyan Muye discovered that there was a natural hollow under the snow that was suitable for an ambush, so he deliberately passed through it, walked through the stream, and walked back along the footprints, and then ambush here.
.As for how to get in, and how there seems to be no trace of digging, Lin Xi also learned it in the wilderness survival course. She only needs to carefully cut and take out the top layer of hard snow, and then pat the snow below directly into it, and then use
Some thin branches are supported above the head, and the layer of snow shell is embedded back.
Hua Jiyue seems to have a unique talent for judging and analyzing some clues. If she were here, I am afraid she would be able to directly detect abnormalities. However, Lin Xi and Bian Linghan do not have such talent, so Wanyan Muye made such a sneak attack.
success.
"It was you who stabbed me in Banxuecang, but now it's me who stabbed you." Looking at Lin Xi who still didn't have much panic expression, Wanyan Muye was a little surprised, but he naturally didn't think Lin Xi had anything else.
The chance to make a comeback. The wound he opened with this shot was so big that it had cut off several of Lin Xi's bloodlines. Let alone fight him again, as long as Lin Xi couldn't stop it quickly with fire and other methods.
If it were blood, he would directly die here due to excessive blood loss and coldness.
So he showed a proud look on his lips, looked at Lin Xi and said: "Although I have never understood the reason why you were able to stab me at that time, you will never have the chance to stab me again in the future... Even if you have some unique abilities,
Talent, if you are no longer here, this talent and the reasons that are difficult for me to understand are no longer there, and there is no need for me to waste my brain thinking about them."
Bian Linghan's body suddenly became cold. She could hear Wanyan Muye's murderous intention. But at this moment, Lin Xi still showed no signs of panic. She didn't care about the wound on her leg, but instead took it seriously.
He looked at Wanyan Muye and asked: "What are you going to do with us?"
Wanyan Muye replied sarcastically: "This competition between the two colleges is not limited to casualties, and for us, you are naturally our biggest enemy, so you can run away now. If you can't escape, you will die in my hands."
Don't have any complaints."
"You said so much because you just want to kill us." Lin Xi looked at Wanyan Muye and frowned deeply: "It seems that you didn't want to decide the winner among the prisoners from the beginning, you just wanted to
To kill us."
Wanyan Muye nodded and laughed: "Compared with finding those prisoners who ran away without knowing where they are, it is much easier to make some traces for you to chase. And if the five of us at Thunder Academy are all good,
Go out, and all five of you are dead or maimed. Then it is even more obvious who wins and who loses in this competition between colleges. How can the outcome of taking one more prisoner out and taking one less prisoner out can be compared?
?”
Lin Xi looked at Wanyan Muye like a student, and then asked seriously: "What about Helan Yuexi? He wanted to kill me when he first saw me in the half-snowy plain, so why?"
"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten." Wanyan Muye smiled, looked at Lin Xi meaningfully and said, "Senior Brother Helan has specially told me that if I see you in the competition, I will not hesitate to use any means.
The method will kill you. As for the reason, I think it should be that you dare to go to such a harsh place above the snow line to practice risklessly, which makes him feel threatened... His spirit is higher than ours, so naturally he doesn't want to see it.
In the future, there will be people who will pose a great threat to him, whether in cultivation or official career."
Bian Linghan's mood at the moment was extremely complicated. Her thin and purple lips were pursed tightly. The color was even gloomier than the color of the mountains under the clouds in the distant mountains. According to her understanding of Lin Xi, Lin Xi let the blood flow and said
There must be some intention behind his words, but what can he do? Should he just let the blood flow like this?
She lowered her head slowly, gripped the dagger tightly, and her body trembled even more violently. She didn't know whether it was because of fear or other reasons.
"I admit that I thought of you too kindly... Just because I didn't want to see others being as good as others, I took the initiative to kill you... Since I am about to die now, can you tell me where a few of you have gone, and what are your thoughts?
How to deal with us?" At this time, Lin Xi asked again.
Wanyan Muye looked at Lin Xi, whose face was getting whiter and whiter, and whose voice was getting weaker and weaker, and then looked at Bian Linghan who lowered his head, but he keenly sensed a trace of the aura of Jade and Stone from Bian Linghan's body.
, he smiled slightly, but took two steps back, holding the black flower spear diagonally in front of him, and said slowly: "It doesn't matter if you die clearly... One of us disguised himself as a prisoner, and he arrived at Peak No. 6.
On a ridge between Peak 3, there is another person who is active near Peak 9. He is gifted with night eyes, and his night vision ability is much better than that of ordinary people. It should be difficult for ordinary people to prevent assassinations in the dark.
.There is another one like me. Although he doesn’t have any special strategy, his cultivation level is one level higher than mine, and he is the cultivation level of a junior soul master. As for Senior Brother Helan, it is said that he grew up in the wilderness.
Da, who has lived with wild beasts since he was a child, his sense of smell for blood is many times more sensitive than ordinary people. He can detect the smell of blood in half of the mountain peaks. He is not with us now, otherwise he should be close to death at this moment.
Came here."
Bian Linghan saw that the white snow under her feet had been completely dyed red with Lin Xi's blood. She felt that she could no longer wait. However, at this moment, she heard Lin Xi using words that could only be heard between the two of them.
The voice said to her: "Don't do anything, trust me." Just as her body trembled violently, Lin Xi let out a sigh of relief and whispered: "Then you haven't said yet, where is Helan Yuexi now...?
Yes, he and I claim to be number one in your academy. What kind of cultivation is he? An intermediate soul master?"
"Senior Brother Helan is indeed the number one student among our Thunder students." Wanyan Muye glanced at Lin Xi and said: "He has been traveling among all these mountains to provide support. According to his footsteps, now he should
He has also reached somewhere between Peak 6 and Peak 3. His cultivation has indeed reached the level of an intermediate soul master."