The path continued forward, but there were no fresh human footprints, and the grass roots were covered with thick dust. Through the telescope, no movement was found except dead branches and dead grass.
The little girl stopped crying and lay on the shoulders of the team members, closing her eyes and falling asleep. The team members sat on the floor tiredly, their moods were very low. In this lifeless jungle, if no new stimulating elements appear, everyone will inevitably die.
The ground became dull and silent.
The astringent smell of hay floated in the air. Fei Ying paced and took out another cigarette. This refreshing method of "drinking poison to quench thirst" caught the eyes of every team member.
"Rest for half an hour, let's continue moving forward, at least until we reach the entrance of Langu. Su Lun is a person who will never give up until he reaches his goal. Even if there is only one person left, he will work hard to move forward." I tried to keep going.
With a smile on my face, and relying on my profound inner strength cultivation, my energy and physical strength can last endlessly, and at least for a week, there will be no unsustainable collapse.
No one answered, only the sound of Xiaoguan chewing gum kept coming.
"I will call and ask the people who stayed in the Concubine Hall to follow us. In fact, there are many people who can be our backup. I just don't want a large number of people to flood into the mountain, cause huge chaos, and divide the easily accessible profits into thousands.
There have been many disputes over attacks and plundering. Everyone, please work hard. Remuneration is not an issue. The key is to find my friend Miss Su Lun——"
The only thing that can arouse the enthusiasm of mercenaries is money. They are like bounty hunters walking through the sin city, only living for the high bonus. Talking about human nature and friendship with them is absolutely useless.
Xiaoguan spit out his chewing gum with a "poof" sound and asked loudly: "Mr. Feng, are you sure Miss Su Lun is still alive? So, how to explain her sudden disappearance from our sight? Also, the two of them obviously appeared at the same time.
He disappeared, and a few hours later, the donkey carrying Schiller appeared unnoticed at the gap in the stone wall. What's going on?"
His thin face was full of rebelliousness, as if if I couldn't answer this question, he would stay here and never take another step forward.
I walked up to him and looked directly into his eyes: "This question requires us to explore and understand it bit by bit. I am not a Mexican wizard who can see everything in a crystal ball. If we stop here and sit and chat, we will
Why should I hire you if you can tell me the whereabouts of my friend?"
"I feel like there's a ghost ahead. It's important to save my life. No matter how much money I give, I won't go forward. What do the brothers say?" He looked back at the team members sitting together.
When it came to ghosts, everyone's eyes fell on the little girl again. Her cries reappeared several times. When Feiyue was possessed, she even said in horror that someone was trying to pull her into the wall, so the little girl
Girls will inevitably become the target of public criticism.
Feiyue came over, leaned in front of the little girl, and observed her carefully.
I lowered my voice: "Feiyue, was it she who held your hand in the hallucination?"
Feiyue watched in silence for a few minutes, then shook his head slightly: "I don't know, ghosts are invisible. I just felt someone was pulling me, and there was a little girl crying, so I thought it was her -" She grabbed
He held the little girl's hand, looked over it several times, touched the tip of his nose in confusion, and finally shook his head, "I only saw two hands, but they didn't look like hers. They were smooth and slender, and they belonged to an adult."
hand."
Such speculation is meaningless. If our exploration operations are limited to only one little girl and are slow, we may delay the best opportunity to rescue Su Lun.
Feiying stood up, walked around a few times in deep thought, and then announced in a heavy tone: "Brothers, if you are willing to continue moving forward with me, stand behind me. If you want to turn back, you can stay with Xiaoguan. Of course, I said before
The promised remuneration will not be less than a penny. Brothers, if you are willing to join this team, you are giving me the face of Feiying. Thank you very much——"
He cupped his fists and raised his hands to all the team members, with a calm expression and a sincere tone.
Liang Wei was the first to get up and strode to Feiying. He lowered his head to check the magazine of the submachine gun and remained silent. More team members got up and got behind Feiying. In the end, only seven people were left, timidly gathering together.
Go to Xiaoguan's side.
Xiaoguan rolled his eyes and smiled dryly: "Hey, there are still many people who believe in the boss, and I can only earn this notoriety. However, here I still wish the boss immediate success and help Mr. Feng find the treasure and recover Miss Su Lun!
Then, let’s go first and go back to Muyu Town outside the mountain to wait for everyone’s good news and say goodbye.”
Among the seven people, another one thought twice and returned to Feiying. Before Xiaoguan left, he retreated with only six people.
His actions are of course understandable. In the face of danger, some people will move forward to make money, while others will retreat to save their lives. This is the inevitable choice of Jianghu people.
The team set off again, and the watch quietly pointed to three o'clock in the afternoon.
The military map has become a useless piece of paper without any guiding meaning. No one will go deep into this jungle that has no strategic value. The only paths in front of them are just those casually stepped by hunters and wild beasts, with great deviations from left to right.
. Several times, Liang Wei even wanted to follow the scale of the compass and open a way out by himself, but I stopped him. Haste makes waste, and only by maintaining a peaceful and tranquil state of mind can we move forward on the ground without being spied on.
Those who can take advantage of the opportunity.
We had to find a suitable campsite before dark. From the way Feiying frequently checked his watch, I knew that his thoughts were exactly the same as mine.
After passing through a large forest with gray dead leaves, I suddenly smelled a familiar aroma, which was the smell of freshly cooked rice porridge mixed with firewood and cooking smoke. Smelling it, I felt like I was watching the sunset.
Farmers and villages emitting smoke.
"What does it smell like?" Feiyue sniffed hard.
Liang Wei quickly climbed to the top of a tree and looked forward with his binoculars.
Feiying's eyes were filled with silent solemnity, staring upward at Liang Wei, who was concentrating on his work. Before he became famous, he took his fellow disciples to the African continent and worked as a mercenary in a small war-torn country. His hands were stained with the stains of foreign races.
Human blood was exchanged for the first huge wealth in life. People who have had that kind of experience, no matter where they are, will be accustomed to taking human lives for granted, and do not care at all about adding another human life to their hands.
I touched his arm: "Flying Eagle, there is something I have to say -"
He turned his head, the murderous intent in his eyes radiating unabashedly.
I lowered my voice to the limit: "Liang Wei's life is guaranteed, don't embarrass me."
Feiying was startled, removed his left hand from the handle of the gun, and asked calmly: "What? I never heard Scalpel say that you have friendships with figures in the Sichuan underworld?"
Although his martial arts skills are superb, for the sake of the scalpel, he doesn't dare to act recklessly.
"He is my friend. Give me some face and give him a way to survive. Fei Ying, I will still say the same thing even if I face people from the Tang Clan in Sichuan."
Intuitively, the existence of Liang Wei will bring great convenience to the search for Su Lun, and I also hope to use his clue to find Tiger and recover the long-lost "Blue Falling Yellow Spring Sutra". Flying Eagle
It's okay if you don't give me face, I will rely on my own strength to fight a bloody path to protect Liang Wei's safety.
Fei Ying blinked his eyes, rubbed his skinny palms, and nodded vigorously: "Okay, I will give you face, and I will also restrain the brothers under my command not to leak Liang Wei's identity. But you'd better do it."
Tell him to change his name immediately after leaving the mountain, and then disguise himself as something else, otherwise, I'm afraid Xiaoguan will be interested in getting rich, after all, not everyone can regard five million as dirt."
I smiled and nodded: "Thank you."
When the scalpel was alive, he could stand out from the crowd. Wherever he went, there would be a large number of people in the world cheering and crowding around him. When a person dies, the relationships and friendships left behind gradually become colder. After the person leaves, the tea is cold.
This is an inevitable law of human society, and no one can blame anyone. By doing this, Feiying is already taking care of the scalpel's face.
"Xiaoliang, what did you find?"
Liang Wei observed for too long, and Feiying finally couldn't help but ask questions.
"I saw some smoke blowing in the wind, but I couldn't see where it came from. I'm observing." Liang Wei turned around and reported apologetically.
"Thirty degrees due south to west, two to three kilometers away, there is not just one family cooking, but at least twenty families. If we are lucky, we can stay in a fairly small mountain village tonight.
"Inside." I briefly reported my findings. With my keen sense of smell, I should be more than 80% sure. On a northerly day, I can still smell such a heavy smell of cooking smoke, which is enough to prove that what we are about to encounter is
, is a large and prosperous village, with at least a hundred people in need of food.
Liang Wei jumped down to the ground and asked Feiying for instructions: "Boss, how many people should I lead to clear the way? If we can stay in the village tonight, the brothers will not have to suffer from the wind and dew."
Feiying narrowed his eyes and looked at him: "Do you really believe in Feng's words? It's something that can't even be seen through a telescope, but you are convinced just by his words?"
Liang Wei replied with a dull expression: "I believe him, he is my friend."
I didn’t expect everyone to believe what I said, so I immediately took a step forward with a smile: “I’ll go with Liang Wei, trust me.”
Fei Ying scratched his head in surprise and nodded awkwardly: "Okay, I didn't expect you guys to be... careful!"
Liang Wei and I have been in contact for less than twenty-four hours. We have such a deep friendship all thanks to the bridge of Tiger. Of course, Feiying cannot understand this. The longer we stay in the world, the more utilitarian we become.
According to his standards, Liang Wei is a fugitive from the underworld who has been hunted down by the Tang clan with a huge bounty on his head. It seems that he is not worthy of being friends with me, a promising charlatan.
If the situation hadn't forced him to do so, he might have tried to persuade me to draw a clear line between me and Liang Wei.
Liang Wei and I led six team members. After walking one kilometer along the path, everyone could clearly smell the aroma of rice in the smoke, and their stomachs couldn't help but growl at the same time. The compressed biscuits were mixed with cold water.
The feeling of being together is not pleasant. If we can have a delicious meal of rice tonight, it should be the most satisfying thing.
After carefully stepping through a grassland covered by weathered and collapsed rocks, there are dozens of wooden buildings scattered in the ravine on the side. There are wisps of smoke from the roof of each house, swaying in the wind. The wooden buildings
On the outside, there is a row of thick tree trunks buried, which should serve as a wall. Several children were playing and playing in front of the wooden gate in the middle of the wall.
Several team members were about to raise their arms and cheer, but were stopped by Liang Wei with a stern wave of his hand: "Don't move, everyone, let's see if it's a bandit's nest."
He is right. In the deep mountains and wild forests, it is difficult for the simple-minded aborigines to survive. Often, deep inside these ancient wooden buildings, only bandits occupying magpie nests are hidden. Outsiders with no experience in the world of martial arts will not be able to survive as soon as they leave.
Going in is like a lamb climbing up the altar on its own initiative, it will definitely lead to a dead end.
There was no such village on the map. I was sure of it. I took Liang Wei's telescope and looked at the tallest wooden building.
On the first floor of the wooden building, a young woman wearing gray coarse cloth was busy in front of the stove, her rough face reflected red by the stove fire. At the window on the second floor, a man wearing a thick animal skin coat,
Holding a book in his hand, he was reading it quietly in the evening light.
All wooden buildings face due east. This architectural feature is very different from the architectural customs of mountain people.
Liang Wei thought for a while and suddenly said: "Feng, the construction method of these wooden buildings has nothing to do with the Qimen formation, right?"
I nodded, and he immediately continued: "There are thirty-five wooden buildings. It is roughly estimated that there will be no more than fifty strong men who can fight, and the rest will be women and children, which is not enough. With the strength of our troops, we will swarm
Now, you can control the situation in an instant, right?"
Regarding the actions of the large group of people, he couldn't make the decision, so he asked me every time.
I nodded again. The disparity in strength is huge. We do have the strength to successfully control this village.
Liang Wei looked up at the sky. The crimson sunset had already filled the western sky. In half an hour, the sunset would set and twilight would rise. There shouldn't be any electrical facilities in these wooden buildings, so the lights would be turned on when it was dark.
, is our best time to act.
"Wait?" he asked again.
I smiled: "You are right, we need to wait."
Any military operation is like a master hunting. Only the best hunter who is good at defending and attacking can consume the least energy and obtain the most abundant benefits.
Liang Wei lay on his back on the grass, took a straw stick in his mouth, and closed his eyes comfortably. The other four people also followed his example and lay down. This was the best way to conserve their energy.
In the telescope, the man put down his book and stood up. He had a pair of broad and powerful hands, and was tall and thin, but his body was slightly stooped, as if he was seriously ill. When he stood in front of the window and stared eastward, I could feel
It revealed his uncontrollable depression.
After quickly adjusting the focus, I saw clearly that the book he placed on the table turned out to be an English version of "Century". The gray cover and gilded printed characters were definitely the new London edition of 1985.
It was translated and proofread by the famous theology professors of the University of London, Lian Na and Jacelin.
"Century" is not a novel for entertainment. It is full of boring prophecies. It is not suitable for mountain people to use as entertainment reading when they are bored. It really surprised me to appear here. This person is wearing a leopard skin coat.
What is the purpose of this man hiding in the mountains to read this book?
The light was getting darker, and I couldn't see his face clearly. I just thought he should have a pair of thick and straight eyebrows.
"Liang Wei, I think that man is a little weird, come and see."
Liang Wei turned over and climbed up, took the binoculars, and asked hurriedly: "Which man? I didn't seem to see a man just now?"
I pointed to the wooden building at the top. Dusk fell quickly, and my vision gradually blurred in the blink of an eye. The light came on in the wooden building closest to the wall first. It should be a candle or an oil lamp. The light was dim and reflected from all the windows.
Then, one house after another, the lights were turned on one after another, extending to the highest point. The highest wooden building was the last one to turn on the lights. The woman cooking on the first floor was lifting the lid of the pot to add water.
"I can't see, there is only one woman over there." Liang Wei turned to look at me strangely.
There were no lights on the second floor. Under this light, everything was blurred into chaos, making it impossible to distinguish.
I could only smile bitterly: "What a strange man! Maybe I can try to visit him when I get up tomorrow morning."
"Century" is the last book that should appear in a remote mountain village. Based on my intuition, that man is definitely not a mediocre person who hunts through the forest.
Feiying's large group of troops had already followed. After a brief pause, they divided into three groups and approached the village gate at dusk. The children who were playing had already gone home, and the door was quiet.