Mo Li looked at the mess everywhere and fell into contemplation.
This ambush came unexpectedly. How many people were there in Yuzhou
Although gunpowder bows and crossbows are difficult to obtain, as long as they are prepared in advance, they can be used immediately, and trap ambush is different. How did these people know that they and Meng Qi would go in this direction? Even if the opponent has a strategist who can infer their choice and travel direction from the perspective of covering up the horseshoe prints, it will take time to set up such a large-scale trap.
At first glance, this road is very remote, the trees are dense, and it is indeed a good place for ambush.
However, this place is not far from the official road, how can we ensure that no one but the target will take this road? Does the holy lotus altar have such ability
"Brother Meng, wait a minute—"
Mo Li hurriedly said, Meng Qi had already grabbed a person over there, and took out a sign from the other side's waist.
A circular emblem was branded on the token, which looked like an ancient bell. .
"Jiangnan Bayuntang?" Meng Qi said unexpectedly.
Mo Li is rushing here, and when I hear this name, I feel a little familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere.
The man was crushed to death by a tree, and after being pulled out, he pointed at Meng Qi angrily, shaking for a long time without saying a word.
Others groaned in pain one after another, struggling to get out.
Meng Qi took the soft sword back to his waist and sneered while holding the token: "Your territory is in the south of the Yangtze River, why did you come to Yuzhou to dig a hole? I'm sorry, I'm so ignorant, I only heard that your old hall master, the former martial arts leader, didn't know. After that, Jiangnan Bayuntang has been shrinking its head to be a human being. What kind of head are you, you can shrink thousands of miles away?"
"You madman! You ruined our plan to hunt down the evil spirits of the Holy Lotus Altar, and you still spoke mad and perverse words?"
The people of Ba Yuntang finally couldn't bear it any longer, and stared angrily.
They were covered in mud and sand, their clothes and hair were full of grass and leaves, and a few of them had their legs broken and couldn't even get up.
Mo Li's footsteps paused, and he remembered the origin of Jiangnan Bayuntang.
The golden silk armor that he pressed at the bottom of the bag was stolen by the god thief Li Kong'er from the Bayuntang in the south of the Yangtze River.
Li Kong'er was very immoral. He sneaked in and stole things while others were holding funerals, and he stole several treasures in a row, which caused a great loss of face for Bayuntang, whose hall owner had just died and lost his backing.
In addition to the golden silk armor, the stolen items also included the weapons used by the old hall master, as well as the talismans used by the various factions when he was the leader of the martial arts alliance. Originally, if any of these things were lost, it would cause an uproar in the rivers and lakes, but everyone's attention was occupied by the golden armor.
The ambitious Qingwu ancestor stepped in and said that the golden silk armor came from the Mausoleum of Emperor Li, which caused more and more people to compete for the treasure armor in the rivers and lakes. In the end, no one cared about the original owner, Jiangnan Bayuntang.
Mo Li and Meng Qi got the golden silk armor by accident.
The gold wire armor is not useful here at all, it is too cumbersome to keep, and they are afraid that people will see it and cause a new round of blood and rain.
So Mo Li thought about sending it back to Jiangnan Bayuntang. Anyway, they were heading for Jiangnan. As for how to send it, it will be discussed later. As a result, the Moli people hadn't left Yuzhou yet, and Bayuntang came to him. So out.
"You people who ambushing the Holy Lotus Altar here?" Mo Li frowned tightly.
Although the people of Ba Yuntang were full of anger, the two people in front of them cut off all the traps they had set up so hard like chopping melons and vegetables. No matter how angry he was, he only dared to curse a few words, but did not dare to do anything.
"The holy lotus altar deceives people's hearts, it is a demon, and everyone gets it and kills it. This time, I, Bayuntang, take the lead, together with the four gangs and twelve associations of Yuzhou, to completely level the rudder of the holy lotus altar in Yuzhou. The people who tracked down the holy lotus altar last night were abnormal, and they gathered around here today. This opportunity cannot be missed and will not come again. Naturally, they will destroy the enemy at one stroke..."
Mo Li's head buzzed, and all the things that he didn't understand before were settled.
The holy lotus altar has no ability to dominate a road and prevent people from walking, and the local snake is different.
The bodyguards who escorted the merchants who came and went would post a message to meet the local snakes when they arrived at the place. The holy lotus altar is struggling in Yuzhou, and a large part of the reason is that it has conflicts with these local snakes. Liang Duozhu complained about this before.
Meng Qi made a lot of trouble in the county town last night, and the rudder master Liang hurriedly lowered his hands to get back to Master Yin, or to kill Master Yin who knew the inside story of the rebellion, which just gave the four gangs and twelve guilds in Yuzhou a chance. , so they made a oriole with peace of mind.
The mantis catches the cicada, followed by the oriole.
They don't care what is the origin of the cicada and what is the festival with the mantis.
Or rather, don't want to miss a rare opportunity. Cicada's life was deliberately ignored by them.
"Let's not talk about the ambush, the dead man just now was not from the Holy Lotus Altar, but was sent by you?" Mo Li asked word by word.
The group of people who whispered cursing and complaining all closed their mouths, more or less showing a guilty conscience.
According to the original plan, the people at the Holy Lotus Altar and the people they chased should have died in the explosion. They are ambushing here, just to catch the fish that slip through the net. After all, the general helm of the Holy Lotus Altar is very strong, and although the Yuzhou branch rudder is understaffed, no one can tell whether there will be one or two masters hidden here.
Because of the taboo of the trumped-up expert of the Holy Lotus Altar, none of the Twelve Guilds of the Four Gangs of Yuzhou refused to take the lead.
As a result, it is hard to say whether there are experts in the holy lotus altar, but the people who are chased and blocked by the holy lotus altar are real experts!
—What kind of cicada are those damn mantises looking for? Is this a cicada
Meng Qi laughed in anger, and he fiddled with the remaining branches and leaves to find a fairly intact crossbow.
The crossbows are exactly the same as those used by the people of the Holy Lotus Altar, so Meng Qi subconsciously thought that they were all from the Holy Lotus Altar. In the end, that was not the case at all. Duozhu Liang also admitted before that there was a way to buy military weapons from Jiangnan Yichu, but they have been short of money for the great cause of rebellion at the Holy Lotus Temple. They robbed the crossbow from other gangs in Yuzhou. of.
Grab it, isn't it exactly the same
"Who sent the dead man?" Seeing that the crowd did not answer, Mo Li continued to press him without any hesitation.
Meng Qi had never seen Doctor Mo look so terrifying.
Gerbils have numb claws, this is not good! It's not worth getting angry with these scumbags!
"Doctor, I'll ask."
Meng Qi turned his head and picked up the person directly.
The man screamed in pain, only to feel a strange energy rushing through the meridians, and even with the naked eye he could see the energy that was swimming like a snake under his arms.
The other people's expressions changed, this is clearly like a cult forced confession!
"You, who are you?"
"A load of gunpowder came from the Pili Hall, and seven or eight traps were dug on the road... At this time, did you remember to ask us where we came from?"
Meng Qi released his hand and let the man howl and roll around on the ground. The rest of the people tried to escape.
"what-"
A few people who didn't get in the way of movement rolled into a ball like a gourd string, hugging their heads or feet, howling as if they had been intoxicated.
Those who were pressed by tree trunks or had their legs broken and couldn't run were as pale as paper, and they didn't show their timidity by holding on.
"I said, don't do it, I said!" A bald man clutched his broken right leg and gritted his teeth, "Those people are not dead men, they are the killers of Piaoping Pavilion, the killers paid by the Four Gangs and Twelve Associations. The Four Gangs and Twelve Associations said that there may be masters in the Holy Lotus Altar, and they may escape pursuit. This ambush is just a precautionary arrangement."
Mo Li didn't know what Piaoping Pavilion was, but Meng Qi had heard of it.
That is the most mysterious killer organization in the arena.
Anyway, the killer organization, no matter what the world and rivers and lakes are like, it will always exist.
This is a business without capital, collecting money to buy life, and people who are too poor will occasionally vote. Those who are organized are generally very mysterious, have a high reputation in martial arts, do not sell out their employers, and never fail to collect money to get things done.
It is said that Piaoping Pavilion is like this.
The bald man squeezed out a sentence from his teeth: "The people of the Four Gangs and Twelve Guilds are nothing, they just said that they found the Piaoping Pavilion killer, and everything was safe. I didn't know they brought the gunpowder from Pili Tang. Even here The ambush is also because they urged us from the Eight Rhyme Hall to come forward, they contributed money and efforts, and we came forward."
"Bayuntang's power is in the south of the Yangtze River, why should it be involved in Yuzhou's affairs?"
"...The old hall master is gone, we Bayuntang have to work hard to regain its reputation and status in the arena. Since we have taken the lead, we have to finish it. When we meet the timid guys from the Four Gangs and Twelve Guilds I had no choice but to knock down teeth and swallow blood."
Meng Qi sneered when he heard the words.
The bald man's face seemed to have been slapped to one side by an invisible slap, and he opened his mouth and spat out a tooth. He was shocked and angry, but half of his face was so painful that he could not feel it. The smell of blood in his mouth rushed to his mind. Qing, swallowed the words "too deceitful" together with blood.
Meng Qi paused and didn't look back.
In fact, this slap was not hit by him.
But, won his heart.
The people of Bayuntang said it very hard, so that it seemed that the guilt was all on the local snake gangs in Yuzhou, but in fact they were just using each other. Taking this opportunity to turn around and make a name again, the two are in a state of misery. If they really want to harm each other, they deserve it.
Since it claims to have knocked down teeth and swallowed blood, why don't you really taste it
Mo Li's face was expressionless, his hand hanging in his sleeve clenched slightly, his fingertips touched the bladeless knife stored in his hidden pocket, and the cold touch suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Piaoping Pavilion charges how much money from the Four Gangs and Twelve Clubs, and is willing to send so many people to death? Do you know all the people in the Holy Lotus Altar? Why did the killer of Piaoping Pavilion chase after an innocent passing businessman? ?"
The person Mo Li was talking about was Young Master Qiu, who was temporarily deaf and didn't understand what was going on in front of him.
"...Piaoping Pavilion has always been mysterious and unpredictable, and we haven't had much dealings with it." The bald man coughed a few times and said bitterly, "Maybe he wants to make things bigger and involve people from the government to completely destroy Shenglian. The cultists drove out of Yuzhou."
"nonsense!"
Meng Qi didn't buy his account at all.
There are twists and turns here, ordinary Jianghu people will be fooled, will the former Meng Guoshi meet
"Unstable governance is a major event. The officials of Yuzhou are more inclined to do less. They will never publicize this matter to cause trouble for themselves. It's been a tough day. If you make trouble like this, I'm afraid it's what Ba Yuntang means."
The life of the local snake is not easy, so it will find a way to help outsiders.
Is Bayuntang taking the lead in eradicating the holy lotus altar to show off? Or help these local snakes out of trouble? Naturally impossible, they not only want fame, but also have to be "needed" by these Jianghu gangs, only if everyone asks him, it is possible for Bayuntang to have another martial arts leader.
The bald man's expression was condensed, and he hurriedly said: "How can you talk nonsense, and besides, it is impossible to know the inside story of this kind of thing in the next pawn."
As soon as the words fell, an invisible force lifted him upside down by seven feet.
When he landed, his body crooked, and after screaming, the other leg was also broken.
"Doctor." Meng Qi put his hand on the hilt of the sword and looked at Mo Li tentatively.
Mo Li shook his head, and his expression was indescribably tired.
Mo Li heard what Meng Qi asked, but Meng Qi didn't say anything, so he also figured it out.
As a result, the mind is confused, and even can't see everything in this world - these people in the rivers and lakes are obsessed with profit and have no scruples.
"Brother Meng, what do you think it should be?"
"Half-life!" Meng Qi said leisurely, all the people in Jianghu have the strength to stir up trouble and panic. Seeing one is a waste, let's see how they can jump.
Meng Qi tilted his head, looked at the crowd and said thoughtfully, "Broken bones can be taken care of, but if it's not convenient to make a living after cutting them off, why don't you give me a trick, anyway, I can see with one less eye."
Everyone in Bayuntang was shocked and begged for mercy.
"Zhaozi or martial arts, choose one?"
As soon as everyone estimated in their hearts, if the martial arts were gone, it would really be over. There were many one-eyed dragons who entered the arena.
Meng Qi took a step closer, they felt murderous, and incoherently expressed their willingness to lose an eye.
There was a miserable howl from the forest, Meng Qi patted the fallen leaves and dust on his body and walked out of the forest.
Behind Meng Qi, someone weakly shouted: "Why... why do you abolish my martial arts, I clearly said..."
"Well, let me tell you what you want more." Meng Qi calmly said.
"you… "
It seemed that someone was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and passed out.
Meng Qi walked out with his hands behind his back, just as Mo Li stuffed the golden silk armor tightly wrapped in kraft paper at the bottom of the suitcase to Mr. Qiu.
"What is this?" Qiu Gongzi asked subconsciously with a puzzled expression on his face.
Mo Li tapped the two acupoints behind Qiu Gongzi's ears, and the latter finally felt the buzzing in his ears a little lighter, and could vaguely hear the surrounding movement.
"A secret treasure that everyone in the world is fighting for, keep it away so that no one else can see it. This thing can be worn close to the body to resist hidden weapons and swords." Mo Li used sound transmission to enter the secret way.
Young Master Qiu was taken aback, and hurriedly declined: "Since it is a secret treasure, why give it to me?"
Mo Li didn't speak, Meng Qi added in a timely manner: "Your disaster today is caused by the people you saw at the Holy Lotus Altar chasing and killing us, catching up and trying to help us. Now we have offended Bayuntang and Yuzhou Sifang. We don't care about helping the Twelfth Association, but your caravan is still behind, you should go back as soon as possible. Before leaving Yuzhou, it is best to hide in the carriage and not show your face. This treasure is called Jinsijia, which is the thief Li Konger The one I stole from Ba Yuntang was obtained by me and the doctor accidentally, and now the treasure has no owner and we can't use it, so it belongs to you."
Young Master Qiu was startled by Jinsijia's name, but he couldn't return to his senses for a while.
"By the way, do you want this horse?" Meng Qi didn't want to miss this great opportunity, and pointed to the horse that Qiu Gongzi was riding, "Although it's not a thousand miles horse, it's very spiritual. If you take good care of it, the horse will also be given to you. !"
Mo Li immediately looked at Meng Qi, but Meng Qi said seriously: "Don't be angry, doctor, now the carriage is gone, how can we go on the road with this horse? Doctor, I use light power when riding? Or leave the horse alone and let it be Run by yourself, we use light power?"
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