3. Chapter 3: The Flame Messenger

"Uncle, you ......!" Jian Chen was furious, he didn't expect the middle-aged man to attack him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The middle-aged man's face was full of guilt, but he did not hesitate, and then he gave him a dumb point.

Jian Chen couldn't move, and he couldn't scold, his little face was flushed, and his eyes were glaring fiercely, as if he was about to spew fire.

The middle-aged man's subordinates kept moving, and said apologetically: "Little brother, don't be surprised, the uncle is also forced to do so." ”

As he spoke, he took out a bag of things tightly wrapped in kraft paper from his arms, put it in front of Jian Chen's eyes, and said, "Little brother, uncle begs you something, you must help me keep this bag of things for ten days." ”

"In ten days I will come and get it, but if I don't, I am dead. ”

He also said: "Ten days later, if I don't come, you will open the kraft paper, memorize the contents well, and burn it with a fire, which can be regarded as a good revenge for the uncle for the thirteen years of exile." ”

Jian Chen's body couldn't move, his mouth couldn't speak, listening to him talk about life and death in a few words, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, the anger of being attacked had been extinguished for some time, and his eyes were full of inquiry.

The middle-aged man stuffed the kraft paper into his arms, stood up, looked at Jian Chen, and pleaded: "Little brother, uncle beg, you must hide this thing, don't let a third party know, even if it's your master, don't say it." ”

Looking back, he became a little anxious, "My enemy is coming soon, little brother, you have a method of holding your breath in the Sword Shrine, can you learn it?"

Jian Chen couldn't speak, he could only blink his eyes, which could be regarded as an answer.

"Okay, your acupuncture path will be unlocked after half an hour, and the sword mound's breath-holding method can be practiced to the extreme for two hours, and the little brother will definitely be able to do it in half an hour. ”

As for this, he picked up Jian Chen, shook his arms, and threw him into the water.

Jian Chen was startled, he didn't expect him to throw it away, so he hurriedly took a long breath, closed his eyes, and used the breath-holding method.

Thump.

fell into the water, but fortunately the current was slow, and he only sank to the bottom of the water, but was not washed away.

After the middle-aged man threw down his sword, he stepped heavily on the place where he fell into the water, leaving two rows of footprints on the wet dirt by the stream.

Biting his finger, squeezing out a drop of blood, looking around, he used his internal force to hit the left, and the drop of blood was thrown on the weeds ten zhang away from Jianchen's falling water, and he picked up a dead branch, gently broke a crack, and threw it on the right ten zhang or so.

After doing all this, he stopped, looked at the water, and said to himself: "Little junior brother, senior brother just threw you into the water as soon as he came back, hehe, I hope you don't hold a grudge against senior brother." ”

He turned back to face the direction of the sword mound on Bai Yue Peak, knelt on his knees, knocked his head three times in a row, raised his head, and his eyes were full of nostalgia, "Master, Chong'er is not filial, and he has failed the grace of your teachings, if he does not die, he will definitely return to the sword mound one day to serve by his side." ”

After speaking, he stood up, chose the opposite direction of the trace he had just made, and his body was greatly displayed, and he disappeared into the jungle in a few ups and downs.

He turned out to be a disciple of the Sword Shrine as well?

Soon after the middle-aged man left, there was a noise in the woods, and five people came out of the woods.

The five of them were dressed in the same way, all dressed in white, with several burning fireworks densely embroidered with gold thread on the cuffs, and the long sword at the waist had already been unsheathed and carried in their hands, while moving forward, while searching for something.

The leader looked to be in his fifties, his expression was gloomy, and his cold gaze fell on the footprints stepped by the middle-aged man, and he didn't say a word.

His cuffs were embroidered with five golden flames.

"Liu Yan, there are footprints by the stream, could that person be hiding underwater?"

Behind him stood a young man with three golden flames on his cuffs, and his eyes also fell on the footprints, and he couldn't help but guess.

The rest of the crowd thought so, so they waited to see what was going on.

Although the flow of the stream is slow, the surface of the water is seventy or eighty zhang wide, no matter how good you are, the strength of a leap is not enough to cross the surface of the stream, and the guess that it is hidden under the water is convincing.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yan made the man snort coldly: "This person is scheming, let's chase and kill all the way, I don't know how many times he has been deceived." ”

"These footprints are so obvious, it is definitely his trick, even if you don't look at the bottom of the water, it is better to look around, so as to save delay. ”

Everyone was stunned and arched their hands: "Yes!"

The middle-aged man was so thoughtful that he guessed Liu Yan's thoughts thoroughly.

If he didn't leave footprints by the stream, Liu Yan would have to let people go into the water to find out, and Jian Chen, who was hiding underwater, would have nothing to follow.

"Liu Yan, there are blood stains here!"

The disciples who searched around found the blood stains that the middle-aged man had deliberately thrown off on the weeds, and hurriedly reported it.

The flame envoy's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Did anyone of us hurt him?"

All the disciples recalled for a while, and they all said: "No, he was only hit in the chest by Wang Yanzhu with the hilt of his sword, but he did not have any external injuries. ”

Liu Yanenvoy sneered: "This is another trick, if we chase in the direction of the bloodstains, we will chase farther and farther." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and it was still the Three Flames disciple who said, "Liu Yan, in this way, let's chase in the direction where there is no trace?"

Liu Yan was silent, and he didn't know when he held a dead branch in his hand to take a closer look, it was the one that the middle-aged man had broken a crack before.

He closed his eyes and thought for a while, then waved his hand, "Go here." ”

The direction of the finger is the front of the dead branch.

Everyone mentioned light work, and walked in the direction pointed by Liu Yan, and walked away in a blink of an eye.

Liu Yan, who thinks that he is scheming and quite conceited, knows that he still fell in love with the middle-aged man and went in the wrong direction.

Half an hour later.

Jian Chen, who was sinking to the bottom of the water, suddenly opened his eyes, and his hands and feet stepped wildly to the surface.

"Poof...... Whew, whew, whew!"

After holding his breath for half an hour, Jian Chen came ashore, lying on the ground on his back and gasping for breath, and it took a long time to come back to his senses.

"Fortunately, the master has worked hard to hold his breath, otherwise he would not have fed the fish and shrimp this time. ”

He breathed a sigh of relief, and even turned over and looked around, but there was no half a figure.

remembered the uncle's sentence "If you don't come, then you are dead", my heart became anxious, and I shouted at the top of my voice: "Uncle, uncle!"

Where is the response?

Jian Chen's expression was gloomy, he had only known the middle-aged man for half a moment, but he had a very good impression of him, and now his life and death were unknown, and he felt a little sad for no reason.

"Alas, I don't know who my uncle's name is, I hope he will be blessed and have a great life, and he will come to me within ten days. ”

When I looked down, I found the footprints of the middle-aged man, and I couldn't help but wonder, "Hey, I remember that the uncle threw me into the water, how can there be footprints here?"

After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly said: "Yes, it must be that the uncle is afraid that the enemy will find me when he goes into the water to find me, so he deliberately left footprints to confuse the public." ”

Thinking of this, he hurriedly searched around, and sure enough, he also found the bloody weed, and found more messy traces along with it, as for the dead branch with cracks in Liu Yan's hand, he couldn't find it.

Jian Chen said to himself: "This must be left by the uncle's enemy, I will follow the traces to check forward, if the uncle is caught up, I can help him." ”

He was chivalrous by nature, and he didn't think about whether the middle-aged man's enemy was within his range, he just thought about saving his uncle's life if he saved it, but he forgot what the middle-aged man stuffed into his arms for a while.

So he found out the direction, Jian Chen ran his light skills with all his might, and chased after Liu Yan and the others in the direction where they left.

This chase is more than ten miles, although there are many traces along the way, but fortunately, it does not look like it was left after the fight, and no traces of blood were found along the way, which made Jian Chen feel a lot more relieved.

At least the uncle's enemy is still being hunted, which means that so far, the uncle is still safe.

Suddenly, a figure flashed in the dense forest ahead, and he couldn't see clearly because of the trees, and it seemed that the route was coming towards him.

Jian Chen stopped suddenly, hid behind a tree, and said in his heart: "There is a lone one, just catch me and ask about the whereabouts of the uncle." ”

He didn't have a weapon with him, so he had to pick up a slightly thick branch and carry it in his hand as a short stick, and waited quietly.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Jian Chen even heard the other party's slightly rough gasp, and secretly said God helped me, and there was a low cultivation.

As soon as the thought passed, a figure flew behind the tree where he was hiding.

Jian Chen didn't dare to slack off, used his internal strength, lifted the short stick and greeted the back of this person's head!

"Huh?...... Kind of familiar. ”

He was familiar with the clothes he was wearing, it was the disciple uniform of the sword mound.

There will be this kind of disciple uniform in the sword shrine, and there are only two people, one is himself, and the other is ...... Yin Xiukong.

Jian Chen secretly said that it was not good, this time it was close, he just looked at the back, and knew that it was his junior brother Yin Xiukong who was about to be hit on the back of the head by him with a black stick.

Hurriedly retracted.

It's a pity that with his current cultivation, he can't do it to the extent that he can do it at will, and although the power on the short stick has been collected a lot, it still knocks on the back of Yin Xiukong's head with a hint of whistling.

Bang.

"Oops!"

Yin Xiukong screamed in pain, but fortunately, Jian Chen had gained a lot of strength, and this stick did not knock him out.

Yin Xiukong, who was beaten with a black stick, looked back with his head and exclaimed, "Senior brother, what are you doing beating me?"

Jian Chen smiled a little embarrassedly, "Hehe, I want to say hello to you, so I was a little harder." ”

Naturally, he wouldn't tell Yin Xiukong about the middle-aged man, so he hurriedly changed the topic, "By the way, you don't practice your sword well in the mountains, what are you going to run around blindly?"

Yin Xiukong was asked by him, and immediately didn't care about the matter of the senior brother beating his black stick, so he stepped forward and took his hand and ran, "Hurry up and go, there is a visitor from the mountain, and the master asked me to come to find you!"

Jian Chen was pulled by him and asked, "Are you here?"

Yin Xiukong said: "I don't know, there are more than a dozen of them, all of them are white-clothed horses, fine iron swords, and they are very majestic." ”

He complained again: "Senior brother, where did you go, I couldn't find you by the stream where you like to play the most, so I could find it all the way, but fortunately I bumped into you on the road, otherwise the master would have to punish you again." ”

Jian Chenxin said that I was still holding back under the water when you came, so it's strange that you can find it.

Helplessly, the master had a life, so he had to put aside the uncle's matter for the time being, and Yin Xiukong pulled him all the way to the mountain, and hurried back to the mountain.