For the leader of a group of people, moving forward or backward is always a difficult choice, and the more information you have, the more difficult the choice becomes.

The enemy is the seemingly empty city, and no matter how much the suspicious boss outside the city thinks about it, he will feel that the enemy has anticipated his thoughts.

Choice is gambling, countless people with leadership potential roll the dice over and over again, some succeed and some fail, and the person with the best luck becomes the final big winner and is regarded as a "hero".

Gu Shenwei had made many choices to lead the Arm Slave Gang in Dongbao, but at that time he was facing a group of familiar enemies, everyone learned the same content, the assassination methods were similar, and each other could guess each other's minds, and now, the dealer of the gambling game was a stranger, and Gu Shenwei didn't know where to stop his suspicions.

Forward or backward?

No matter how much hesitation there was in his heart, Gu Shenwei would never show the slightest hint on his face, he couldn't even discuss with too many people, as long as he showed a little hesitation, it would affect the morale of the Meng family's swordsmen, he called San'er and asked some questions, and when it was dawn, he had already drawn up a plan.

It was the easiest time to turn around and return to the original route, they had only walked less than a third of the way, and it would take six or seven days to go further, but the Iron Mountain camp was ahead, and it only took four or five days to meet the outpost of Iron Mountain.

Gu Shenwei decided to move on, but he didn't want to passively wait for the enemy to attack.

Huan Nu led three brown belt killers and five swordsmen to explore the way in front, Shangguan Ru was in charge of the other swordsmen, and the protection team walked behind, and the lotus girl and Shangguan Yushi assisted her.

Shangguan Ru was more willing to explore the way, but taking over the remaining twenty or so swordsmen of the Meng family also made her very satisfied.

What Gu Shenwei wanted to do was not only to explore the way, the nine people galloped on horseback, not paying attention to the surrounding situation at all, once several swordsmen noticed something strange on the side of the road, Gu Shenwei still did not stop, telling them to just move forward.

They ran for two days and one night, resting only a few times, drinking water and chewing dry food, and letting the horses graze, and the swordsmen were so tired that they could not understand why the boys still looked the same.

This is nothing to the Brown Belt Killers, who have had days without eating, drinking, or sleeping during the Apprentice Killing, when enemies are everywhere and closing your eyes means giving up your life.

On the way, they found another slaughtered camp, with only six corpses, which seemed to be real bandits, not swordsmen arranged by Meng Wugongzi.

Six corpses surrounded a pile of extinguished fire, facing the sky, the soles of their feet pointing to the center, and the blood flowing from their chests and abdomen stained the surrounding land red, like a blooming six-petal flower, huge and gorgeous.

They were apparently killed unconscious and then disemboweled.

The five swordsmen were frightened, their faces were earthy, and they looked nervously at the young leader.

Gu Shenwei was indifferent, he was used to seeing corpses and brutal murder scenes, just the blood didn't scare him at all, and he scoffed at this kind of destruction of corpses after killing, killing is killing, and there is no point in making up a few more knives.

Unless the killer wants to hide something.

Gu Shen carefully examined the corpse for dismounting, one of the corpses had a stone chip with sharp edges hidden in its belly, this was a tool for breaking the abdomen, he couldn't see anything else, he knew too little about the martial arts schools in the world, and he couldn't judge the true method that the crude and exaggerated wound wanted to hide.

The nine moved on, leaving markers to let the team behind them know that they had been here.

Gu Shenwei didn't know anything about the opponent's killing methods, but he still found a little valuable clue from the six corpses, and the six bandits had not been dead for a long time, which meant that they were not far from the enemy's main force.

In the evening of the next day after leaving the caravan, the vanguard team saw another fire.

Gu Shenwei ordered five swordsmen to lead their horses and hide in the nearby grass, and he took the other three brown belt killers to find out.

It turned out that the swordsmen hired by Meng Wugongzi were not very good, Gu Shenwei would rather let them hide than rely on them to carry out dangerous tasks, and even the unpredictable Liuhua was much more reliable than these people.

The four of them made a big circle, slowly approaching the firelight, and did not find any dark whistles in the middle.

Hiding in the grass twenty paces away, Gu Shenwei realized that this was not the enemy he was looking for.

Around the fire sat eight men in ragged clothes, their heads bowed and no one spoke, occasionally throwing a piece of wood into the fire, their long unsheathed knives leaning against their sides, like a group of hopeless ghosts.

This is a group of bandits, hungry and listless, who have only experienced the scene of drinking wine and eating meat in large bowls in their sleep.

Gu Shenwei not only caught up with the enemy, but was already ahead of them.

If the enemy attacks the team behind at this time, Gu Shenwei will make an irreparable mistake.

He had to take a risk, Gu Shenwei thought, if he were one of those robbers hiding in the shadows, he would never rush into action after throwing out a series of terrifying warnings.

Gu Shen assigned tasks to the Brown Belt Killers, which was the benefit of training together in Dongbao, even the former opponents could understand it at a glance, and everyone understood Huan Nu's intentions.

The next thing is to wait, be patient, and that's one of the best things killers do.

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and the eight bandits were in good spirits, raised their knives and rushed to the road, but before they could drink and order the other party to stay and buy road money, the nine horses had already galloped past, leaving only a puff of dust, and one bandit was almost injured when he was slow to hide.

The eight of them brandished long knives and cursed, and when they had enough of scolding, they returned to the fire, talked angrily, fell silent again, and then slept with their heads tilted one by one, and no one even kept vigil.

Gu Shen assigned Liuhua to send an order for the five swordsmen behind to continue to advance with all the horses and return before dawn, hoping to confuse the enemy in the dark.

As for the eight bandits, they are ready-made bait.

Gu Shenwei had a strong premonition that there were not many people who slaughtered bandits along the way, probably only two or three.

The crescent moon rises and slowly tilts westward, the fire gets smaller and smaller, and the sound of insects, frogs, and snoring gradually becomes the background, which is automatically filtered out by the lurking teenagers.

Towards dawn, the Brown Belt Killers finally arrived.

There is only one person.

Like a large black bird foraging for food in the grass, it flickered up and down, and when it landed, there was no sound at all, and if it weren't for the rapid movement of the black shadow, even the most experienced killer would not have recognized it.

The blackbird-like killer circled around the eight bandits and decided to strike, the weapon seemed to be a dagger, and with a slight slash on the target's body, a thunderous snoring stopped.

It's not like a human, it's like a monster that sucks people in the middle of the night.

Even if it's a youkai, the boys have to be captured alive.

An arrow was shot from the grass in the distance.

"Blackbird" had just finished killing the last bandit, and was about to disembowel, when he suddenly turned around, spread his wide sleeves, and rolled up the arrows of the sneak attack.

A second arrow came.

It was the "Sealed Mouth Flowing Flower", and the speed of archery was the first among the apprentices of Jiachen.

"Blackbird" did not seem to expect the enemy's arrow to be so swift, and was almost hit by the second arrow, and could not help but be angry, and like a clumsy bird, he rushed up and down, left and right, towards the place where the flower was hiding.

There was a steady stream of arrows, but none of them were able to hit.

Seeing that the "Blackbird" was only ten steps away from the flowing flower in an instant, a wild horse emerged from the grass, and the narrow knife slashed directly at the back of the "Blackbird".

The two only struggled for a few moves, the "black bird" suddenly became short and fell into the grass, Gu Shenwei on the other side of the fire ran out, the black horse pounced on the target, and the "black bird" was hit by the foot and was dragged to the ground by the white camel.

The three teenagers were responsible for catching the live mouth, and Gu Shenwei was responsible for killing the superfluous people, but only one "blackbird" came, and his narrow knife was useless.

When Gu Shenwei arrived, the battle was over, "Blackbird" had ropes tied both hands and feet, his body writhed violently, Mustang clenched his narrow knife, his face was murderous, there were a few blood marks on his shoulder, and he was injured in the grappling.

The sky turned white, and four brown-belted killers surrounded the captive, the captive was headed down, his hands were behind his back, revealing ten long fingers, each of which was covered with slender and sharp steel spikes, which were the weapons of the "Blackbird".

Gu Shenwei pulled out the dagger he was carrying, knelt on the ground on one leg, turned the captive over, ripped off the hood, and was stunned for a moment, "Blackbird" is a woman.

The woman was in her forties, her expression was vicious, her lips were bright red, as if she had drunk blood, and her mouth was open, revealing two rows of white teeth.

Whether it's a monster or a woman, it's the same in the eyes of the killers.

Gu Shenwei had been tortured in the Heart Washing Hospital, and he knew that fear would make people say everything, and he also knew that before the torture began, few people spoke the truth.

He took out his dagger, flipped the captive over again, and cut off the thumbs of both of her hands.

The woman buried her head in the dirt and screamed.

Turning over again, the woman's face lost its blood, covered with mud, and her lips were not so red.

Gu Shenwei held the dagger in one hand and two thumbs with steel thorns in the other, "I have a long time, and you won't die until the team behind catches up." ”

There was not the slightest panic in the woman's anguished face, but her eyes were full of threat, and there was a hint of madness, she spit out the dirt from her mouth, stared at the boy who tortured her, and spoke for a long time, her voice hoarse and unpleasant, as if she hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Kill me, we don't want gold and silver, but people. ”

"Who do you want?

"Kill me, you won't live for a few more days, you will all die, the people of Jinpeng Castle will die, everything is doomed, we are back, we want to get back what belongs to us. ”

The woman smiled wildly, as if what she wanted was right in front of her.

Gu Shenwei suddenly lost his self-confidence, torture was useless to this woman, and he didn't have the tricks of the Heart Washing Academy, even if she was cut with a thousand knives, she would not reveal important information.

He held the dagger to her heart, and gave her one last look, expecting a sign of weakness.

She didn't, and he pushed the dagger in.

(Ask for collection, ask for recommendation)