On the grassland, a group of three people came from a distance.
Cheng Dalei rode on the back of the black bull and let out a long yawn. Xu Shenji, with his silver eyes, followed him on the horse. His silver eyes were still expressionless, as she had always been, wanting to see anything from her face.
Fluctuations are a luxury. But Xu Shenji sighed and talked non-stop.
"Master, let's take a break and have something to eat?"
"Well, I'm an old man and I won't live long. I might die that day. Before I die, I don't want to starve to death."
…
Cheng Dalei ignored him, but he suddenly stopped while riding on the back of the bull. He frowned and stared around suspiciously.
Wow, Master, are you finally willing to take a break? I thought you wanted to starve me to death. Bring me the dry food quickly, I want to eat." Xu Shenji shouted.
Cheng Dalei shook his head and cast his gaze in one direction.
"The smell of blood."
Certain things really happened unknowingly. Cheng Dalei had been through life and death so many times on the battlefield that he already had a beast-like intuition about the taste of blood.
He turned the bull's head and walked forward, following the smell of blood. Xu Shenji followed behind him, screaming in pain. When the three of them climbed a hillside, they were suddenly stunned by the scene in front of them.
These are traces of fires. The grasslands in winter are all withered. A wildfire can continuously burn more than ten miles of grassland. But it is obvious that this is not a wildfire. There are fire trenches dug around it. Someone deliberately set the fire here.
.And what they burned here were corpses.
Dozens of corpses were neatly placed together, stacked into an obvious "X" shape. The corpses were now charred, the flames had been extinguished, and a few vultures were pecking at the remains of the corpses.
Cheng Dalei picked up a wooden stick and checked the wounds on the corpses. He found that most of the corpses belonged to men, including old people and children, mostly young and middle-aged people. They were all put here after being killed by their ancestors, and they were neatly arranged, like some kind of
religious ceremony.
"Wow!"
Cheng Dalei was thinking seriously when he heard Xu Shenji behind him suddenly vomited.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I just suddenly felt that the smell of barbecue... was so fragrant... wow..."
"Well……"
Cheng Dalei sniffed and began to feel something strange in his stomach. They had indeed not eaten for a long time, and the smell of the burning corpse in front of him... aroused his appetite.
Cheng Dalei managed to avoid spitting it out, so he hurriedly left with Xu Shenji and Yin Mu.
The three of them sat under a big tree to rest and took out dry food to eat. Yinmu chewed the dried meat and signaled with his eyes whether Cheng Dalei and Xu Shenji wanted to eat some.
The two immediately waved their hands, indicating that they didn't need it.
"Master, could it be they did it again?" Xu Shenji.
Cheng Dalei nodded: "Looking at the method, it should be the same group of people, but I don't know what they want to do."
Coming all the way from Liangzhou, this is not the first time I have encountered such a thing. On the grassland, many small tribes were robbed, women were kidnapped, and men were killed. It was the same method. After killing, the bodies were burned and arranged in a neat manner.
The "X" character.
During the process, Cheng Dalei captured a Rong tribe and learned from his mouth that a group of people appeared on the grasslands of the Northern Barbarians. They burned, killed and looted. In a short period of time, more than a dozen tribesmen had been massacred. There were several
The tribes united to hunt down this gang of murderous thieves who appeared out of nowhere. In the end, they were all killed in one fell swoop.
It is said that the leader is a one-eyed dragon. No one knows where he comes from, as if a murderous evil has been sent to the grassland from heaven.
"One-eyed dragon..." Cheng Dalei muttered these three words.
Xu Shenji seemed to know what Cheng Dalei was thinking, and said: "The boss is not Fudler, that person is called Nohara Huo."
"Yeah." Cheng Dalei waved his hand: "Anyway, as long as we don't meet him, this matter has nothing to do with us. Our goal is to find Shao Yu."
"Yes, I just don't know where Shaoyu is now." Xu Shenji sighed.
Now, the three of them have entered the grassland of the Northern Barbarians and are on the border of Bingzhou. The next step is to cross the grassland and enter the empire.
Cheng Dalei, who was communicating with Xu Shenji, suddenly closed his mouth, turned his head slightly and said, "Someone is coming."
As soon as his voice fell, Xu Shenji heard the sound of horse hooves in his ears. Seven or eight fast horses came over the grass slope and surrounded the three people under the big tree.
The leader had a long scar on his face and stared at the dry food in his silver eyes with a greedy expression.
Then, his eyes fell on the silver-eyed face.
"What a handsome girl, just right for the brothers to enjoy."
A group of people laughed, and someone said: "If the man kills it, the woman will take it back and satisfy the brothers' greed. The man's meat can make a good soup."
"There's just an old man whose meat is too tough to chew."
Xu Shenji nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, my meat is too old and not delicious. You can just eat them."
Cheng Dalei rolled his eyes at him, looked at the group of people, and said, "Imperial people?"
"Ha, I'm not from the Empire, nor am I from the Rong tribe. I don't obey the king's laws, and I'm not afraid of God. I am the only king of heaven." Scarface laughed.
At this moment, Yinmu had already stood up and grabbed the ghost-faced ax with both hands. Cheng Dalei waved his hand: "Remember to stay alive."
Silver Eyes carried an ax that was taller than her and dragged her towards the enemy. Her speed was very slow, and the Scarfaces laughed and couldn't help being excited.
When he reached the opponent's horse, Scarface's smile stopped and he looked at his silver eyes with interest.
"Little girl, you should go back with grandpa. Not only will grandpa not kill you, he will also treat you well."
Silver Eyes raised his head, jumped up from the ground, raised the ax with both hands, and jumped to chop it down.
Cut off the horse's head with an axe.
There was silence, and everyone stared blankly at this scene. This little girl seemed to have no strength in her body, but a single blow of the ax could cut the muscles, chop off the bones, and knock off the entire horse's head.
Scarface stood up from the ground in embarrassment. Before he could recover, he was greeted by an axe.
From beginning to end, it was split in half.
Cheng Dalei nestled under the big tree, watching this scene with his eyes. Even after he entered the peerless world, he would not be able to say that he could be better than Yin Mu in a simple comparison of strength, let alone these gang of horse bandits with unknown origins.
Silver-eyed killers are as clean as her expressions. In her eyes, human life seems to be no different from that of a chicken or a dog. He can use the most cruel means to knock off the bones of the enemy, and he also doesn't mind cutting off the enemy lightly.
Throat.
Seven or eight horse thieves soon died under her axe, and only one person was left, who was already frightened. He suddenly yelled and got up on horseback in the distance.
Cheng Dalei suddenly stood up, his body like an arrow from the string, stepped in the air, and pulled the opponent off the horse.