Seeing that the clear and clean water is within reach but unable to touch, it makes people very helpless. Liu Juan thought for a while and did not go back. He turned around and continued walking to the stream. Unscrupulous jumped to his feet: "You are looking for death, come back quickly
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A breeze blew by, like a girl caressing her cheek with her soft fingers, and all the bright white water in front of her eyes was crystal dancing water. Liu Juan felt that "I" was no longer in the world at this time. To put it more appropriately, his body was gone, leaving only his spirit.
Dancing in the emptiness, Liu Juan walked step by step towards the mountain stream. The unscrupulous and anxious yelling and cursing in his ears disappeared, and there was nothing. The world seemed not to exist, like a broken bubble, an endless void.
Back to one day ago, Liu Juan received a new mission from his boss, but it was to save the emperor's life.
With no other choice, Liu Juan had no choice but to enter Kyoto with Wuliang, and then Wuliang went about his own business, knowing that Wuliang would provoke countless people to pursue him, and he would also lead them to himself.
So, Liu Juan was seriously injured in a fight with a Taoist priest, and the two of them ran here. One night passed, the sun climbed into the sky again, and the golden sunlight once again filled the entire forest without hesitation.
Due to a night rain last night, the air in the woods seemed particularly fresh, but the faint smell of blood floating in the air ruined this rare scenery.
In a place in the woods, there were many corpses lying in random directions. Many of them were men dressed in black, while some were dressed in imperial uniforms. At a glance, it was clear that these people were the emperor's personal soldiers.
And now, a large group of people were carrying these corpses together. In front of the corpses, a middle-aged Taoist priest was riding a horse, looking at the corpses in front of him coldly. In his eyes, there was a chilling sternness.
In the jungle not far away, Liu Juan was panting slightly, squatting under a short bush. The bronze sword was held in his hand. There was still a trace of blood on the sharp blade, and he was covered with blood.
The green clothes were also splattered with some blood, and the wound on his chest was still bleeding. It was this wound that made him hesitate for a moment and then react immediately, looking at the environment and his own body.
After the situation, Liu Juan did not leave immediately, but chose to hide himself.
"It seems like my luck is really not that good!"
Liu Juan laughed at himself, feeling that they would not find him for a while, so he shook his head helplessly. As for where he was now, he felt in his heart that it was not the time to inquire, but the two teams that had just fought were all
The fact that they were using knives made him a little strange, and their costumes were also very strange.
Next to him, Wuliang had a painful look on his face: In the battle just now, more than 20 people he had brought with him were all killed, and he was also seriously injured. If Liu Juan hadn't suddenly appeared, it is estimated that his
My life has to be lost here. My life is a trivial matter. If things are lost, it will be serious.
Thinking of this, he gently touched his arms and felt that the thing was still there. He breathed a sigh of relief. After that, he turned his attention to Liu Juan next to him.
Wuliang said: "Thank you for saving me. As long as I am safe, I will give you whatever you want."
Liu Juan said nothing.
Seeing him lowering his head and saying nothing, Wuliang thought he would not agree and immediately said: "When I get out of this forest, someone will come to pick me up. All you have to do is protect me out of the forest."
Liu Juan said: "What did you do today and why are so many people trying to kill you?
At this moment, voices came from not far away.
Liu Juan was injured, and he didn't have much demon energy anymore. He could only rely on martial arts now. Liu Juan immediately pulled out his bronze sword quickly, held it in his hand, and then stared closely not far away.
I saw a man dressed like the man who cleaned up the body just now, slowly walking towards his hiding place, grumbling as he walked, looking very dissatisfied.
Unscrupulous and frightened, he quickly hid his figure and held his knife tightly in his hand. The fact that this person appeared here alone meant that there were other people nearby. Once he was discovered, he would definitely
Call, there is no way to escape then.
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Wuliang's forehead. In his current state, it was still difficult to kill this man with one blow without making a sound.
Liu Juan already knew the nearby terrain very well, and as the man was walking towards this side, several ways to quietly eliminate him suddenly appeared in his mind, so he said in a deep voice: "Stay here, don't move!
"
Wuliang was a little surprised by Liu Juan's reaction.
Then, while the man was looking away, Liu Juan quickly ran under another bush. After doing this several times, he got close to the man.
This kind of thing is the most basic thing for Liu Juan, but the unscrupulous man holding the knife on the side couldn't help but break out in cold sweat.
After approaching, Liu Juan remained motionless. The color on his body provided him with good cover. The man didn't know that there was a killer in the forest, so he walked carelessly while keeping his knife pointed at the surrounding people.
Those bushes were chopped back and forth. When he reached the bush where Liu Juan was hiding, he also swung a knife. The knife slashed past Liu Juan's scalp, scaring the heart of the unscrupulous man not far away.
I can't help but secretly admire Liu Juan, who is like a stone, still motionless. Maybe this is what is called moving like the wind and still like a pine tree.
The moment Liu Juan waited for the man to pass by, he immediately stood up, covered the man's mouth from behind, then quickly slashed the man's neck with the dagger in his right hand, then raised his toes, and gently
Catching the knife that fell from the man's hand, this move was not only clean and neat, but also without any hesitation!
The man's eyes suddenly widened, he struggled a few times, and then there was no more movement. Then Liu Juan gently placed him in the bushes, and he hid the knife under the man's body.
After doing all this, he sneaked back to the place where Wuliang was hiding and said in a deep voice: "Let's go! Time is running out!"
Unscrupulous nodded mechanically. He had seen every move Liu Juan made just now. In his opinion, Liu Juan's movements were simply perfect. There was no unnecessary movement, and it was clean and neat, without a trace of hesitation. It was simply perfect.
He was born to be a killer, but this person looked so harmless before he took action.
An hour later.
In the forest more than ten miles away from there, Liu Juan was squatting in the grass, staring intently at the snake swimming towards him.
When the snake was a few steps away from him, he exerted force with his feet, and he rushed toward the snake like an arrow from a string, and tightly grasped the snake's seven inches with his right hand.
After catching the snake, he immediately stood up, took out a bottle from his body, pinched the snake's head tightly, and then pressed the snake's mouth to the mouth of the bottle. The venom in the snake immediately flowed out through the fangs.
After the snake venom was taken out, with a slight exertion on the hand, the snake's head was crushed to pieces...
Then he capped the bottle, put it to his ear, shook it gently, listened to the noise inside, and whispered: "That should be enough, I just hope there aren't too many enemies!"
After finishing speaking, he put the bottle in his arms and walked towards the forest.
Not long after, they came to a stone cave. Although it rained outside last night, the stone cave was indeed very dry. Inside the stone cave, Wuliang was cutting some bamboo branches with a dagger. Next to him, there were already many bamboo branches.
Few well-made arrows and a simple bow.
Hearing the movement at the door, he immediately grabbed the knife beside him, but after seeing the person, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You're back!"
Liu Juan nodded slightly, sat across from Wuliang, looked at the injury on Wuliang's leg, smiled slightly, and said, "Is the injury better?"
Wuliang said gratefully: "Thanks to those medicines of yours, I didn't expect the effect to be really good. I'm much better now."
Liu Juan nodded. He was confident in this medicine. It was certainly effective.
There is now a fire in the cave. It would have been very dangerous to start a fire when the troops were chasing after him. However, after Liu Juan escaped last night, there was no sign of the enemy chasing him. It seems that the enemy thought this time
The operation was absolutely sure, and no backup was arranged. Even if we found out that all the people we sent were wiped out, and then arranged for people to catch up, it would take a long time. Moreover, this is a mountain forest, and with the heavy rain last night, it would take a long time.
All traces had been washed away by the heavy rain. It was not easy to find one's position accurately, let alone in modern times, even in the past. Therefore, Liu Juan found the dead branches with confidence and raised a pile of dead branches in the cave.
fire.
After returning, Liu Juan found a flat stone in the cave, washed it with the stream water outside, skinned the snake, removed its internal organs, and cut it into small sections with a dagger. After bringing it back, he placed the snake sections on the stone slab.
Then he placed the stone slab directly on the fire. He had done this kind of thing countless times, so naturally it was not unfamiliar at all.
Wuliang was a little surprised. After a while, he smiled and said: "Looking at your skills, it seems that you have done a lot. You are not an ordinary businessman."
Liu Juan said: "It turns out that my hometown is in the mountains, and the work here is long, so I am familiar with it. What did you take from others? That Taoist is really powerful."
Wuliang said: "He is the senior fellow of the Aolai Kingdom. He is naturally very powerful. I didn't expect you to escape from his hands, and you are not simple either."
Liu Juan said: "Isn't he your uncle?"
Wuliang said: "My uncle was killed by him a long time ago. He was a tiger spirit."
Liu Juan thought that his sharp eyes could not see the true nature of this tiger spirit. This tiger spirit must be a true demon of the eighth level or above.
Liu Juan also applied herbs to his wounds, and then sat quietly.
After a while, the aroma of snake meat on the stone floor came out, causing Jiang Chengzhi, whose stomach was growling with hunger, to spit.
After waiting for a while, the snake meat was also cooked, so Liu Juan handed him a pair of bamboo chopsticks and said: "These people in the deep mountains and wild forests can only make do with it!"
Although the contact did not last long, he knew that the person in front of him had an unscrupulous temper, so he took it over without being polite and asked while eating: "By the way, you are from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, what's wrong with you?"
Come to our proud country and buy a house.'
Liu Juan was stunned, and then shook his head helplessly. He didn't know why he appeared in Journey to the West.
"What are you thinking about?"
When Wuliang saw Liu Juan staring at the fire in a daze, he couldn't help but wonder.
Liu Juan was startled, raised his head, smiled apologetically and said, "It's nothing, I'm just a little distracted."
After listening to Liu Juan's words, Wuliang nodded, and then ate the snake meat again. The snake meat had no taste at all, but for the hungry Wuliang, it was a rare delicacy.
Liu Juan, on the other hand, set his sights outside the cave. Although he had used horses to lure away the enemy, it was only a temporary solution. It was only a matter of time before the enemy caught up, so what he had to do now was to make multiple
The enemies caused some trouble. As for who those enemies were, Liu Juan did not ask Wuliang. He also knew that if Wuliang wanted to tell him, there was no need to ask himself.
After clearing the snake meat in his hands a few times, Liu Juan took out the small bottle and coated the wooden arrows he had unscrupulously cut with the snake venom in the bottle.
On the other hand, the unscrupulous person asked: "Brother, what do you have in the bottle?"
"Snake venom!"
Liu Juan didn't hide anything and answered honestly. At the same time, he didn't stop working on his hands. After all the prunings were finished, he found some unscrupulous bamboo sticks and sharpened them.
He also coated it with snake venom and buried it around the fire, leaving only a small part exposed.
Then he smeared all the remaining snake venom on his small sword, simply modified it and carried it with him. What he was mainly interested in was that although this kind of small sword caused small wounds, it was still very powerful.
It is very difficult to stop the bleeding, and after the enemy is stabbed, he will often bleed to death. This cannot be blamed on his cruelty. The first principle of battlefield survival is to be more cruel than your enemy!
After applying the snake venom, he carefully put the small sword back into the special scabbard, and then arranged it again. Of course he knew that if the enemy came, he would check the hole carefully, and his purpose was to
A murder trap is arranged in the cave, and the protagonists are wooden arrows and bamboo sticks coated with snake venom.
Wuliang on the side watched Liu Juan's every move carefully, and the more he watched, the more frightened he became: every move Liu Juan made was very careful, and every trap he laid was designed to kill the enemy.
Each trap looks very simple, but it is very practical. If the enemy is not careful, he may not see anything at first, but in the end, he may fall into a situation that is beyond redemption.
After Liu Juan made the arrangements, he walked up to Wuliang, first reached out to pick up Dao, then stretched out his hand and said, "Let's go, the enemy is going to catch up!"
Wuliang nodded and stood up with Liu Juan's help. His injuries were mainly on his legs. Although he was better now, he still needed someone to help him walk. Because of this, Liu Juan set up some traps.
, otherwise, with his ability, it would be a very simple matter to kill the pursuers who, according to him, were as mentally retarded as idiots in the jungle, but it would just take a little more effort.
An hour after Liu Juan and the others left, a group of people dressed as ordinary people chased them into the cave. Looking at the fire with green smoke inside, the leading man was overjoyed and ordered to the people behind him: "
Go in and have a look, I guess they have stayed here."
The few people behind immediately stepped forward. As soon as they reached the entrance of the cave, one of them tripped his foot on a vine hidden in the grass, and then a shower of arrows rushed towards them. Although they were careful, they still got into a panic.
, more or less added some wounds to them. However, the arrow rain in the cave only shot out once, and then disappeared.
The leading man was shocked and immediately stepped forward. When he saw that several people had only superficial injuries, he felt relieved and said: "Be careful! You guys bandage it!" After that, he pointed at the people behind him and said: "
Go up and take a look, and be careful of traps."
A few people nodded and walked into the cave. They saw that the firewood was still emitting light smoke, so one of them immediately squatted down and dug out the ashes with his hands, but as soon as he touched the ground, he felt a stinging pain in his hands.
, only to find that something had pricked a small needle hole on his hand. He didn't pay attention to it, but said: "This fire has been extinguished not long ago, they should be in front!"
The man also stepped forward to take a look and said in a deep voice: "Some of them must have been injured. They ran away in a hurry when they saw us chasing us. Chase me!"
Then, he took his men with him and chased in the direction Liu Juan and the others left.
For experienced people, it is easy to judge the time when the fire went out from the degree of extinguishment of the fire, and thus the time when the person who started the fire left. Why didn't Liu Juan know this? So when he left
, and added some firewood to the fire, so that the time for the fire to extinguish would be delayed. The purpose of doing this was to promote the rapid onset of snake venom in those who were poisoned, because he knew that as soon as these people saw the fire,
Soon after it is extinguished, it will rush to catch up. Vigorous exercise will accelerate blood circulation, allowing the snake venom to travel to the heart as quickly as possible with the blood. People who are poisoned by snake venom do not die immediately like those highly poisonous ones, but there is a
In this process, in order to take care of the poisoned person, the speed of the enemy who is catching up will be slowed down, thereby buying time for one to escape. Although the amount of snake venom among them is not large, it is a mixture of several types of snakes.
Venom, in this way, the toxicity can be increased a lot.
Sure enough, during some time while running, those who were hit by arrows began to feel their vision blurred, and at the same time, nosebleeds began to flow from their noses, and they fell to the ground one after another.
The poisoned people did not die immediately, and the leading man could not bear to leave these poisoned people, so the speed immediately slowed down until it was almost dark and they had not left the mountains yet. He also knew that he might
When he couldn't catch up with the opponent, he immediately asked someone to use pigeons to send a letter to the people in front, asking them to intercept him in front.
By the time he and Wuliang came out of the woods, Liu Juan hadn't even noticed the pursuers coming after him. A smile appeared on his tense face, and a small town appeared in front of them.
