Everyone set off again and returned along the way they came. After walking for about an hour, they could vaguely see a rugged mountain road ahead.
Although the mountain road is rugged, it is better than this steep hillside. As long as everyone returns to the mountain road, everyone will feel much more relaxed.
Li Zhong and Wang Meng had a good meal and picked a bunch of fruits to take with them. Now they were in a good mood and beat the prisoners less often.
"There are still seven or eight days to go before Yuxia Pass. There are still more than a dozen 'rue fruits' here. Let's save some and eat enough to get there." Wang Meng looked at the fruits in his bag and said with a smile.
"Yeah." Li Zhong nodded, looked at Di Wu in the distance, and said with a half-smile, "I have to say, that guy has some skills, and I couldn't bear to hand him over to the guards at Yuxia Pass."
"We have to ask them to add more money."
"Exactly!"
Both of them smiled and showed understanding expressions.
But at this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew behind them, carrying mud and sand in the strong wind, causing commotion among the team.
"Bah! Bah!"
Wang Meng spat out the sand in his mouth and turned around with a look of surprise on his face, "Where did the evil wind come from?"
Li Zhong was also surprised. He looked at it for a while and saw that there seemed to be a small black shadow in the direction of the source of the sand.
"What is that?" Li Zhong pointed to the distance.
Wang Meng followed the direction he pointed, squinted his eyes for a while, and suddenly exclaimed: "No! That thing is getting closer!"
"What?!"
Li Zhong's eyesight was not as good as Wang Meng's. He was about to say something else when he heard a roar coming from the wind and sand.
The next moment, a terrifying beast appeared in their sight.
This beast looks like a tiger, but it has two heads, hair like steel needles, a very thick tail, and a pincer at the end, which looks extremely sharp.
"What kind of beast is this?" Wang Meng asked in a trembling voice.
Although there is a word "fierce" in his name, he himself has nothing to do with bravery, otherwise he would not be reduced to escorting prisoners.
Seeing the beast approaching, Wang Meng's first reaction was: run away!
Without any hesitation, Wang Meng abandoned Li Zhong and the prisoners he was escorting, and fled in the opposite direction without looking back.
However, it was better that he didn't run. This run seemed to anger the beast.
"Roar!"
Hearing a roar, the beast kicked off its legs and actually spanned dozens of feet, reaching behind Wang Meng in just a few ups and downs.
Wang Meng was running desperately when he suddenly smelled a fishy smell coming from behind him. He subconsciously looked back and saw a bloody mouth falling from the sky!
"ah!"
A shrill scream rang out from the barren mountains.
Wang Meng had almost no resistance, and his neck was bitten off by the beast in an instant, and then his stomach was disemboweled and his intestines were pulled out and eaten.
Such a bloody scene made everyone present extremely frightened.
Some people's legs were weak and they fell to the ground, forgetting to even escape. Some people still had a glimmer of hope for survival. Even though their hands and feet were burned, they still tried their best to escape as far away as possible.
As for Li Zhong, before he knew it, his clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and he felt a chill under his crotch.
Seeing Wang Meng being disemboweled by a wild beast, he turned around and ran away without any hesitation.
But his speed couldn't compare to that beast. Before he could even run a hundred steps, he was slapped on the ground by a claw. Then there was severe pain in his chest. When he looked down, he was actually pierced by the beast's tail!
This evil beast seemed to have identified Wang Meng and Li Zhong, turning a blind eye to the other escapees. It first disemboweled Wang Meng, and then devoured Li Zhong alive.
In just the blink of an eye, the two officers who were showing off their power before were now reduced to pieces of corpses.
After killing two people, the evil beast seemed to be still angry. It stepped on Li Zhong's head and looked around with cold eyes.
Its nose sniffed, and then identified a direction.
That was the escape route of one of the prisoners. The prisoner was strong and strong. When he was robbing the "rue fruits" just now, he outlasted everyone and got two of them.
"Roar!"
After a roar, the evil beast kicked Li Zhong's head away, then ran wildly towards the prisoner.
And shortly after it left, a boy covered in yellow mud emerged from behind a rock on the hillside.
This boy is none other than Di Wu.
He seemed not surprised by the tragedy that had just happened, and his eyes were full of indifference.
Coming down the hillside, Di Wu first came to Wang Meng's body.
At this time, Wang Meng had turned into a puddle of mud. The "rue fruit" he packed in his luggage had long been taken away by the ferocious beast, but there was still some dry food scattered on the ground.
Di Wu picked up the rations one by one with quick hands and feet, wrapped them in blood-stained cloth strips, and then came to Li Zhong's body.
In contrast, Li Zhong's body was still vaguely identifiable, except that his chest was pierced and his head was twisted off.
His luggage fell aside, Di Wu rummaged through it, and took out a bag of dry food, two jugs of water, and some luggage.
There were marks on the luggage of the officers and soldiers, so he did not dare to use it. He could only gather these things together, wrap them all in cloth strips, carry them around his waist, and walk down the mountain without looking back.
"Cao Lu Jing" notes: The prisoner is an evil beast and likes to eat rue fruits. Anyone who steals its fruits will be chased and killed by the beast. There will be no escape within a hundred miles. The rue fruit has a special smell. If you eat it,
The fragrance is spread all over the body and exudes from the pores. The rue has a keen sense of smell and is good at tracking this fragrance. If the rue fruit is taken accidentally, the only way to survive is to block the pores of the body with mud and cover up the fragrance.
Time and space change, stars move, darkness and light alternate back and forth.
I don’t know how long it took, but the scene appeared on a busy street, and fierce yelling came from the distance:
"You bastard, don't run away if you have the guts! If I catch you, I will definitely tear you apart!"
The speaker was a middle-aged man with a fat body and a fleshy face.
Running in front of him was a young man with unkempt hair and a steamed bun in his mouth. Although his steps were not big, his figure was strong and he was running in and out of the busy city without being overtaken by the man behind him.
The man is furious!
He was accompanied by more than a dozen thugs. Logically speaking, it would not be difficult to chase a child. However, this was a bustling city and people were coming and going. He and the thugs were unable to fight, and instead they were led by a young man.
After chasing for a while, the middle-aged man suddenly realized something, stopped, and ordered breathlessly: "You, you, and you, the three of you go around from the back alley of 'Fanchen Residence' to the front.
Block him there!"
"yes!"
The three thugs took the order and got into the alley.
"You two." The man pointed at the two of them again and continued to give instructions: "Aren't you Qinggong? Go and wait upstairs at 'Yichun Yuan'. This kid can climb walls and climb trees. He likes to go to crowded places.
Drill somewhere, and you just wait for him there."
"good!"
The two thugs left the crowd, climbed onto the roof, and climbed over the eaves and walls.
"The rest of you, chase me! We must catch this kid no matter what today, otherwise everyone will not have a good life!"
"yes!"
Following the middle-aged man's order, everyone was full of energy and chased after the young man again.
Although the young man was nimble, there were too many people rounding him up. He narrowly escaped the pursuers several times, but was finally surrounded in a dead end.
He wanted to climb over the wall and enter Yichun Courtyard, but found that there were two people waiting for him above; he also wanted to go through the dog hole to get out of the courtyard of Fanchenju, but found that there were people waiting for him there as well.
After hesitating for a moment, the middle-aged man and others had already gathered around him.
"Little bastard! Are you running? Are you going to keep running?"
While panting, he rolled up his sleeves, with a fierce look in his eyes, "I finally caught you, now I'm going to let you know what I, 'Master Ma Liu', am doing!"
Seeing that there was no way to escape, the young man simply stopped running and turned around with a smile on his face, not panicking at all.
"Sixth Master, I'm sorry for my stupidity, but your 'Black Tiger Gang' and I are not at odds with each other, so why did you lead people to chase me down the street?"
"Bah!" Ma Liuye spat and said angrily: "Di Wu, you are just trying to show off to me, right? Don't you know what you have done?"
"I really don't know. Please tell me, Lord Six, and let me understand." The young man said very sincerely.
"You little bastard, you still want to deny it? You don't know where you deceived our Black Tiger Gang's token, and you even pretended to be us to collect the protection fee for two months. You are really brave!"
"Oh, so that's what happened." Di Wu laughed nonchalantly.
"Do you think this is a trivial matter?" Master Ma Liu sneered, leading his men closer and closer, "We, the Black Tiger Gang, have always been the only ones to bully others, and no one has ever dared to bully us, the Black Tiger Gang!"
"Sixth Master, what you said is wrong!" Di Wu waved his hands repeatedly and said with a smile: "This kid is not plotting against the Black Tiger Gang, but is sincerely helping your Black Tiger Gang."
"What's the meaning?"
Ma Liuye raised his eyebrows and stopped temporarily.
"As we all know, there are four major gangs in Huayang City, namely the Jianlong Gang, the Dadao Gang, the Manniu Gang, and your Black Tiger Gang. Five years ago, during the 'gang merger talks' in Huayang City, your Black Tiger Gang overpowered the Dadao Gang.
Gang and Manniu Gang, but in the final battle, they lost to the Jianlong Gang by one game. As a last resort, in the past five years, I can only call myself the second best, and have to give up many resources, right?" Di Wu talked.
And talk.
Seeing his good temperament and extraordinary conversation, Master Ma Liu was frightened for a moment and stood there without taking action immediately.
"The Black Tiger Gang was suppressed by the Jianlong Gang. The brothers must be dissatisfied. They have been looking for opportunities to take action these years." When Di Wu said this, he suddenly stopped and glanced at everyone, showing a profound expression.
"Half a year ago, the imperial court sent officers and soldiers to rectify the gang strength in Huayang City. All three major gangs lost a lot of good players. Only your Black Tiger Gang got the news in advance, so that all the good players in the gang were hidden and recruited temporarily.
Some refugees were gang disciples, and in the end, those refugees were arrested by the government in your place. Am I right?"
When Master Ma Liu heard this, he couldn't help but look surprised: "You know all this?"
"Hey, what's so difficult about this? These tricks can fool the Manniu Gang and the Broadsword Gang, but how can they fool me?"
Di Wu smiled slightly and continued: "According to my estimation, your Black Tiger Gang should be almost ready, and you will start to take action in the near future. In fact, the boy admires the Black Tiger Gang very much, and has long wanted to join your gang, but he has been
There was no chance, so I came up with this method."
"The solution you came up with is to pretend to be our Black Tiger Gang to collect protection money?" Ma Liuye said coldly.
"No, no!"
Di Wu chuckled and said: "The reason why I stole the Black Tiger Order and came to this street to collect protection money was because I wanted the Jianlong Gang to take it lightly and make them feel that the Black Tiger Gang had suffered great losses in the last court crackdown.
The gang is short of manpower, so they can only let a teenage boy come out to collect protection money. Furthermore, they will probably send someone to follow me. As you know, Mr. Liu, I don’t have any other skills, except for the ability to hide here and there.
It’s called first-class, so it’s okay if the Stegosaurus Gang doesn’t come, but if they do come, they will definitely return in vain. Doesn’t this buy you Black Tiger Gang some time, and then you can catch the Stegosaurus Gang off guard?”
"Huh?"
When Master Ma Liu heard this, his head was a little confused. After being stunned for a moment, he said in surprise: "So, are you really doing it for our Black Tiger Gang?"
"Of course!" Di Wu said with a smile: "I really admire the Black Tiger Gang, especially heroes like 'Master Ma Liu'! I only have one wish, and that is to serve you by riding beside Master Liu.
The work of dogs and horses.”
"Good boy, you can talk!"
Ma Liuye nodded slightly when he heard this, with a smile on his face.
But at this moment, a black-clothed thug next to him suddenly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "Sixth Master, don't listen to his nonsense! Have you forgotten what the gang leader said before setting off?"
These words instantly made Ma Liuye wake up.
The black-clothed thug continued: "The gang leader said, this guy has a brilliant tongue, and the most powerful thing is his mouth. Don't listen to his nonsense! After you catch him, no matter what, seal his mouth first."
Mouth, break both legs, leave only one breath, take it back to the gang and then make a decision!"
"good!"
Ma Liuye took a deep breath and his face became gloomy again.
He signaled the men around him with his eyes, and the thugs immediately understood and surrounded Di Wu's position.
Di Wu had been secretly observing Ma Liuye's reaction. He had already succeeded halfway, but he didn't expect the situation to turn around.
He did not hesitate, and immediately took out a dagger from his sleeve and threw it straight at Ma Liuye.
The tip of the dagger was glowing with green light, and it was obviously smeared with poison, but Ma Liuye did not hesitate at all. He drew out the big knife and thrust it forward, and flew the dagger with a sound of "Dang!"
"Good boy, finally the fox's tail is revealed!"
Ma Liuye sneered and shouted: "Come on! Beat me to death! Both legs will be broken. Leave a breath and take them back to the gang leader!"
"yes!"
The thugs around him responded in unison and pounced on him almost at the same time.