The wilderness is full of dangers, but with the breath-holding and concealment technique, you will be much safer.
Lu Zhong held his breath and hid all the way, turning on the Qi Watching technique at all times to investigate. He encountered no danger on the way and arrived near the target location.
This is a settlement that has been abandoned for many years. It is built next to a small river about ten feet wide. There is a circular wall with many gaps. There are about a dozen simple houses made of thatch or solid wood scattered inside the wall.
With no one repairing them for a long time, almost all of these houses have become dilapidated buildings and may collapse at any time.
Outside the settlement, there are nearly a hundred acres of fields covered with weeds, which should have been left by the casual cultivators who originally established the fields. There are still many cereals growing on them, and it can be seen that they are drought-resistant and easy-to-raise varieties.
Sitting on a crooked tree, Lu Zhong carefully observed everything in the settlement.
Slowly, the map of this settlement has been sketched in my heart.
Just then, he made a new discovery.
In the southeast of the settlement, a faint spiritual light appeared in a three-story thatched house.
"One...two...two people. Judging from the intensity of the aura, they are at the first level of Qi refining. We can guess that they are wild cultivators, which can be used for practice." Lu Zhong's eyes flashed with aura, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.
Practice what you learned from the experience book.
Lu Zhong took advantage of the shadow of the building and relied on the stealth skills taught in the book on hiding, avoiding places where casual cultivators in the wilderness might observe, and quietly sneaked towards the three-story thatched hut.
He regarded this as a kind of tempering for himself, and the two "wild dogs" inside were the whetstones.
Gradually, the conversation between the two people could be heard.
I guess they never imagined that they would be touched right under their noses.
Be careful to avoid a sound trap made of bones and stones. This is one of the traps commonly used by casual cultivators in the wilderness. The sound when triggered can act as an alarm.
Lu Zhong moved a few steps forward, less than ten feet away from the thatched house, and saw what was going on inside through the gap.
As seen through the qi-gazing technique before, there were indeed two monks in the room, a man and a woman. It looked like they were in the aftermath, with their clothes scattered on the floor.
The man was panting and the woman was blushing.
It seemed that they had rested enough, and the two of them got busy again.
Seeing this scene suddenly, Lu Zhong was slightly startled and felt surprised in his heart.
Staring ahead, he remained motionless, as if stunned.
"Bitch, how dare you harm me!"
At this moment, a scream of shock and anger came.
The man pushed the woman away, but found that his complexion turned purple and black for some reason, and then his body suddenly stiffened, and soon black blood flowed from his mouth.
At this time, the woman stood up with a smile and said with a joking face: "My good brother Cheng, just go on with peace of mind. Who told Rou Niang to want to move into Fangshi? Plus you have the spirit stone on your body.
, Rou Niang can finally leave the wilderness and live in the city."
"Bitch...bitch!" The man almost gritted his teeth and spat out these words before dying.
Ignoring the man's curses, the woman still had a smile on her face. She walked to the wall, picked up a small yellow crossbow, raised her hand and shot three arrows at the man's head.
Witnessing all this completely, Lu Zhong once again saw the dangers of the human heart.
They all say that the word sex is like a knife in the head, and it turned out to be true when I saw it today.
He continued to stand still. Although this poisonous woman had a vicious heart, she was not the one who harmed her, so there was no need to bother others to avenge her.
Then the woman got dressed, but she was dressed like a pretty lady. If you didn't know the evil things she had done before, you would definitely be deceived by this very disguised appearance.
It's no wonder that the dead man fell into this woman's hands.
At this time, the woman twisted her waist and came to the man's clothes. She quickly dug out a small bag. She shook it and heard a crisp collision sound, which was caused by the collision of spiritual stones.
"Cut it, only three spiritual stones."
The woman seemed very dissatisfied and spat on the body on the ground.
Continuing to rummage, she found two more talismans in the middle of her clothes, and then a smile appeared on her face, "One arrow-avoiding talisman, one golden light talisman... Hehe, I really made a profit this time!"
While he was talking, a figure appeared behind him.
The woman seemed to notice something, but before she could turn her head, a huge force came from the back of her head.
With a "plop", her body fell heavily to the ground.
Lu Zhong withdrew his hand expressionlessly, but he was surprised in his heart by the effects of the Breath Condensation Technique and the Concealment Technique. He could actually walk behind the opponent unknowingly and knock him out easily.
After some searching, he found five spiritual stones and three cleaning charms from the woman.
However, the poison that poisoned the man was not found even though all the clothes were searched and even the possible sandwich layers were checked.
"Strange, where did she put the poison?" Lu Zhong was a little confused about this.
Without further investigation, he took another look at the man's clothes on the ground. He remembered that the woman didn't seem to have finished searching, so he started to check the remaining clothes and soon found a lacquered letter inside.
The handwriting in the letter is crooked and difficult to read, and it looks really hard on the eyes.
Judging from the content, it was an anonymous murder letter. Someone paid money to assassinate a Talisman Maker. This is the daily business of the wilderness cultivators, so it is not surprising that it appears here.
When he saw the target information attached at the end, Lu Zhong was stunned.
"Hey, isn't this me?"
He never expected that he would become the target of assassination.
The letter is anonymous and nothing more can be seen at all.
But when I turned to the back of the letter, there was a name written in charcoal.
Apparently, it was the man who wrote it, and now he knew the identity of the person who paid for the murder.
"Lin Zhongze, I didn't expect it to be you..."
Lu Zhong recalled the previous monster skin incident, and he suddenly understood the reason why the other party wanted to kill people. It was probably because he couldn't swallow the anger in his heart. After all, Lin Zhongze was just a very small-minded person.
After a while, he rubbed his temples and glanced at the woman on the ground again. The identity of the man she killed was already clear, and he was probably the assassin who was planning to assassinate him.
Assassination is different from head-to-head combat. There are ways to kill people over the top.
Even though the assassin is only at the first level of Qi refining, it is not a problem at all to assassinate a monk at the third level of Qi refining. There are many ways to do it.
Since the man is an assassin, this woman should be with him.
"It seems that we have to solve it together..." Lu Zhong thought expressionlessly.
A flash of sword light flashed, the woman's body shook, and her head rolled to the ground.