49. Kill the thief
With Gan Ning by his side, Liu Qi didn't have to tense his nerves at all times, rubbed his arm that was sore and trembling due to excessive force, touched the wound next to his neck and recalled the details of the fight, the man was cut by his own throat, and the hot blood splashed his whole body and face, the man weakly threw away his weapon and covered his neck, and under the firelight, the brilliance in his eyes quickly dimmed......
The burning ruins, the swords that shimmer with cold light, and the splashes of blood, what a wonderful picture!
Hiss!
Liu Qi touched the sore spot and couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, and then suddenly woke up from a momentary distraction, and he didn't have time to think about it and quickly clenched the Amazing Treasure Knife in his hand.
Lu Liang on the opposite side mustered up the courage to wave his sword and shouted a few times, but no one obeyed the order to rush forward, and when he turned his head to see the frightened looks of his subordinates, the pitiful confidence in his heart immediately collapsed.
The reason why the thieves did not flee was because they were frightened by Gan Ning, who did not attack a small group of thieves, and they just instinctively thought that the place with many people was safe.
"Kill, kill the thief......!" A shout suddenly sounded behind him, and Lu Liang's last psychological defense line was completely broken!
The thieves thought that Gan Ning and the others were still ambushed behind, and they were all frightened, and they didn't know which one drilled into the darkness first, and forty or fifty thieves and Lu Liang also fled without a trace in the blink of an eye.
This dramatic result made everyone puzzled, and there were only a dozen people listening to the voice, could it be that the villagers who returned late had returned to the village?
Whatever, it won't be with the thieves anyway! Therefore, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their tense spirits relaxed, although they were all exhausted, everyone knew that if they did not stay away from this place, they would not really get out of danger, so they continued to walk briskly towards the entrance of the village.
Soon approaching the entrance of the village, you can see the remnants of the fire in the few strong men are fighting desperately with the escaped thieves, the thieves are now like arrows, most of the thieves are taking advantage of the entanglement between their accomplices and each other, but the entangled dozen thieves are more and more anxious to burst out of a lot of combat effectiveness, the two sides have each other's casualties, it is difficult to separate.
Liu Qi and the others quickly approached the gang of men who were fighting with the thieves, and by the light of the fire, Liu Qi saw that they were dressed as ordinary hunters, and two of them had rabbits and other prey pinned to their waists.
The front is the only exit to the north out of the village, and it can't be bypassed, and the two wounded thieves can't get rid of the stalking of the group of hunters, so they have to turn around and run towards Liu Qi and them, which attracts a few hunters who can't help but talk to Gan Ning and others.
Knowing that the other party was not a thief, everyone showed mercy and tried their best to avoid the crazy attacks of the hunters while explaining loudly.
Hearing the movement here is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more hunters rushing over, Gan Ning can't help but feel angry when he sees that some of his subordinates are starting to be injured, and he flies a hunter's hunting fork with a knife, and the back of the knife falls heavily on the back of the hunter, spurting out a mouthful of blood, and the hunter falls to the ground and faints.
Gan Ning stunned several hunters in a row, and it was not real in the firelight, Liu Qi thought that Gan Ning had made a killer and was shocked, so he pushed aside Gao Tan Gao Jing, who was tightly guarding him, and rushed over and shouted: "Xingba can't kill innocents indiscriminately!" ”
Gan Ning turned his head, his sword eyebrows stood up, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes, this was the killing intent in Gan Ning's heart, Liu Qi felt a chill from the bottom of his heart, and couldn't help but pause.
"Xingba!" Liu Qi shouted in surprise when he saw Gan Ning suddenly raising a knife at him, but before the words fell, the cold and shining blade had already arrived in front of him.
It's so fast!
Liu Qi didn't understand why Gan Ning suddenly attacked him, and he didn't have time to think about it at all, he only had time to instinctively make a dodge action with his head tilted back, but he already knew in his heart that he couldn't dodge this lightning-fast knife no matter what.
With a crisp sound of "dang", Liu Qi only felt sparks splashing in the corners of his eyes, and a stinging pain was splashed by sparks on his right cheek and ear, followed by a scream from the side and back.
Liu Qi sat down on the ground in a cold sweat, and only then did he see clearly that it was Gan Ning who knocked the hunting knife of one of the hunters who rushed out of the darkness and wanted to attack him, saving his life.
The frightened Liu Qi didn't have time to sigh at Fang Cai's thrill, and at this moment, Gan Ning's unreserved display of his strength opened Liu Qi's eyes.
The knife that Orion had just attacked Liu Qi could be described as extremely tricky and weird, Liu Qi, who had always been agile and quick to react, was defenseless, which shows that his skills are by no means simple, Liu Qi asked himself if he and Gan Ning switched positions, they should be able to react, but in such a short moment, it is impossible to stop the target three or four meters away.
It was only at this moment that Liu Qi really put away his contempt for the force of the ancients, or he had never seen the world!
Before meeting Gan Ning, Liu Qi felt that Cheng Guan was a master, and felt that those famous generals in history were nothing more than better than Gao Hong, and in the past two months, he had been able to practice his sword skills hard and occasionally win one and a half moves with Cheng Guan, Liu Qi even thought that in time he would be able to realize his dream of dominating the battlefield of Jin Ge Iron Horse.
But meeting Gan Ning made Liu Qi completely recognize the reality, just as the master Yu Ji warned himself when he said that the only way to practice martial arts is perseverance and diligence, and the few times that he is proud of are flower fists and embroidered legs in front of real masters, even if the talent is poor, ten or twenty years of hard training cannot be surpassed by himself in just a few months.
Besides, it seems that his talent is not high, anyway, no matter how he practices, he can't easily break the iron chain with the thickness of the little finger tied to his body like Gan Ning, Liu Qi feels very helpless, it seems that his dream is unlikely to come true, at his current level, even if he practices for another three or five years, I am afraid it will be difficult to ensure that he can win Cheng Guan, not to mention Gan Ning, and the level of the Five Tiger Admirals is even more unthinkable!
Even this mountain villager can take two moves under Gan Ning's knife, and such a big psychological gap has seriously hit Liu Qi's self-confidence.
"Keep people under the knife!"
In the blink of an eye, the hunter had nowhere to avoid, and seeing the sword light flashing in front of him, Liu Qigu couldn't help but sigh anymore and hurriedly stopped Gan Ning.
The hunter looked at the cold blade attached to his neck, and then at the subdued companions around him, and scolded unwillingly: "Heavenly thieves, you brutes who have lost their conscience, sooner or later you will be beheaded by the government and will not be able to die!" ”
Liu Qi hurriedly pulled Gao Tan and Gao Jing pointed to the clothes on their bodies and explained: "You can see clearly, we are not thieves, can't you see the military uniforms on our bodies?" We were also chased and killed all night, and we just got out. ”
Gao Tan Gao Jing's body was also full of blood, and he couldn't see the original color of his clothes for a long time, of course the hunters didn't believe it, Liu Qi hurriedly said: "If we kill you with a knife, why bother talking?!" ”
"This ......" The hunters looked at the military ring-headed knives in the hands of Liu Qi and the others, and there was a horse in the team, that horse was tall and was definitely not a horse used by ordinary people, it should be an official and military war horse, and the hostility finally dissipated.
With a pop, Orion knelt on the ground in front of Gan Ning and cried and begged: "God-damned thief! There is not a single living person in our village of more than 100 people! Even the children are not spared! I beg you to avenge our mastery, and I beg you to ......."
Several other hunters also knelt down and cried, Liu Qi and the others couldn't help but cry sadly, but Gan Ning seemed unmoved, pulled up the hunter, and his voice was still calm as usual: "There are many thieves and soldiers, not only can you not avenge the enemy and cost your life if you go forward at this moment, so you should leave here quickly and find another opportunity in the future." ”
Liu Qi also hurriedly persuaded them: "The brigade of thieves may return here at any time, come with us, I, Liu Qi, swear to the sky, I will definitely help you avenge your hatred in the future." ”
"Hey!" The Orion slammed his fist on the ground, then knocked a few heads heavily and choked up: "The villain's name is Xu Chen, begging the military master to take in the villain, the villain is willing to make cattle and horses for the military master, and only ask the military master to help the villain avenge himself in the future." ”
The rest of the hunters did not listen to the bitter persuasion of the people, and insisted on continuing to move forward to find revenge for the thieves, Gan Ning grabbed Liu Qi and shook his head, Liu Qi had no choice but to watch them help each other and leave.
Gan Ning said coldly to Xu Chen: "Okay, you are familiar with the terrain and lead the way in front." ”
"Yes." Xu Chen wiped his eyes, got up, and quickly walked out of Langxi Village with everyone.
The sky is getting brighter, Liu Qi and others rushed to the mountain road in the middle of the night, they are exhausted, especially the condition of several seriously injured people is very bad, when they stop to rest, Liu Qi hurriedly checked their situation, although they picked a lot of herbs along the way, but the number is very small and the delay is too long, one of Guan Zhao's subordinates failed to survive because of excessive blood loss, Cheng Guan and Gao Teng are still unconscious.
Liu Qi took a few people into the forest, collected some necessary medicinal herbs, washed them in the stream, rushed back to the team, smeared the wounds of the wounded with burned grass ash and re-bandaged them, then put the herbs into a piece of cloth to wrap them, and wrung out the juice with both hands and dripped it into the wounded's mouth.
Gan Ning has been following by the side, and several seriously injured people who thought they were going to die have persevered until now under Liu Qi's treatment, and it seems that the injuries are stable and there is no need to worry about their lives, which makes the well-informed Gan Ning feel incredible.
However, time was too short to discuss in detail, and when the condition of the wounded had stabilized a little, everyone was on the road again.
After a while, I saw a few familiar figures in front of me, it turned out to be Wei Bin and his five subordinates, the current Wei County Lieutenant's official robe had long been covered with ashes and sludge and could not be recognized in its original color, his face was also black and red, and the goatee under his chin was also burned out, and Wei Bin, who was tired and hungry, was extremely embarrassed.
Wei Bin and his subordinates were in a daze in their sleep by the thieves who broke into the door and tied up the five flowers, and then were identified by a few people and then thrown aside and ignored, and then a fire broke out in the village, and the house where they were located was set on fire, and more than a dozen subordinates were burned alive.
Speaking of which, Wei Bin also indirectly saved Liu Qi, and the thieves mistakenly thought that Liu Qi and Wei Bin and other officers and soldiers were in a group, and took the lead in attacking the residences of the officers and soldiers and gave Liu Qi and others time to prepare, so Liu Qi couldn't see death without help, if they left Wei Bin and a few people alone, they would be dead if they met the thieves who were wandering again.