The boat was traveling upstream on the big river at an astonishingly fast speed. The bow of the boat cuts through the waves like an indestructible horizontal knife.
Lu Minglan sat on the bow of the boat, her body was as stiff as a rock, but she was very free.
No one sealed her blood, and no one put a steel knife around her neck. The monk in white robe stood at the stern of the boat with his hands behind his back, ignoring her at all. But Lu Minglan didn't dare to move, like a frightened cat curled up on the bow of the boat.
Her mind was full of the previous scene of the monk killing with one hand, as if it was deeply imprinted in her mind, she couldn't get rid of it. In her eyes, Li Huo's sword was already so sharp that no one could stand against it, but it was as weak as a blade of grass in front of this monk. The sword that Li Huo had gathered all his strength, the sword that was at the pinnacle of his life, was easily caught by the monk's two fingers, and then twisted, the long sword broke.
In the next second, the monk tapped Li Huo's forehead.
In the next second, Li Huo turned into a corpse.
His elder brother, a ninth-rank great practitioner, Li Nan, died at the hands of the Buddhist sect, and he also died at the hands of the Buddhist sect, which was as hard to escape as fate.
At that moment, Lu Minglan, who thought she was well-cultivated, didn't even have the courage to struggle. She always thought that she was stronger than men, but when she fell from the fire, she realized that she was still just a woman who lacked courage. Lihuo died, and those companions also died one after another.
Not one flinched, though they were all trembling.
She didn't die because she was too scared to make a move.
The white-robed monk stood at the stern of the boat, not touching the oar at all. But the boat galloped forward like an arrow flying against the river as if it had a life of its own. He left the Shura field very quickly, and quickly overtook the big boat that Fang Jie was on, without any intention of stopping.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you."
The monk glanced at Lu Minglan lightly, and his tone was very gentle: "I need a guide. I have walked for a long time from the great world of goodness in the west to the land of monsters in the east, because I have never been here before, and I have to avoid people with prejudices and obsessions." Sui man. Originally, I planned to catch up with the person I want to find before going to the place I want to go, but since he is going there too, I simply go and wait for him first."
Lu Minglan didn't understand what the monk was talking about, and she didn't dare to answer.
"Outside of the Great Sui Dynasty, everyone in the world paid homage to King Ming with one heart and one heart. But when they came to the land of the Sui people, they saw all the degraded human nature. How can people be without awe and restraint? Evil thoughts? It's strange that a country like the Sui Dynasty can live for more than a hundred years, and I still can't understand the reason for it."
"Ming Wang said that existence is reason."
He frowned slightly and said: "In this case, it means that the existence of the Sui Dynasty is also inevitable. There is no doubt about what King Ming said, so I think it is because I have practiced Zen for so many years and still have many things that I have not been able to understand. King Ming's wisdom is unparalleled in the world. , He said that the world in the scriptures is just a small world, which makes people's vision limited. The world that comes out is the big world, full of strange things, and you can truly understand it if you can see it thoroughly."
He was talking to himself, but what he said was serious and sincere.
"who are you?"
Lu Minglan tremblingly asked, "Where do you want me to take you?"
The white-robed monk turned to look at Lu Minglan, smiled and said softly, "I came down from the Dashan Dalun Temple in the Great Western World, and I was going to meet someone in Chang'an, your imperial capital, but unfortunately he had already left when I arrived. According to the itinerary, I should meet him first and then go to Yongzhou with him to meet another person, but since he is also going to Yongzhou, if I go to him again, I will have a lot of twists and turns. It is difficult to deal with two people beside him. I'll just go first and wait for him there."
"Yongzhou... So you are going to Yongzhou too."
At this moment, Lu Minglan could see the monk's face clearly through the faint moonlight. This is a very young and clean face, it seems that it should not be very old, and it is much younger than the vicissitudes in his voice. He has a pair of bright eyes that seem to be able to see through everything. He has a beautiful mouth, and every word that comes out of his mouth is beautiful.
"You're better than them all."
The white-robed monk took a few steps forward, stood in front of Lu Minglan and leaned over to look at her: "You know not to sow evil fruits, so you don't have to go to hell to suffer."
"How old are you?"
Looking at this charming face, looking into his eyes, Lu Minglan unexpectedly asked something irrelevant.
"I?"
The monk frowned slightly, then pinched his fingers and calculated seriously: "I really can't remember, I only remember that the first time I retreated in Fengjinglou was seventeen years, the second time was twenty years, and the fourth time It's been thirteen years...wrong, the third time was recuperating because of a serious injury, so it's not considered a retreat...huh?"
He let out a sigh, and then said sadly: "How can I remember these trivial things so clearly? I always thought that I would be able to calm down and practice hard after retreating, but I was still counting the days... No wonder King Ming said that I am far from a great achievement in this life." After all, there is still a slight difference. It turns out that King Ming has seen through that I can't completely meditate. I can still remember how many years I have been in retreat for the first time, but what scriptures and mantras I have read and understood in the first retreat are actually I don't remember it at all."
"I'm very sad."
When he finished this sentence, Lu Minglan shed tears.
She was sad too, very sad. She felt as sad as if her heart was being cut by a knife, but she knew that it was not her own sadness, but the monk's. Just talking to him face to face, Lu Minglan realized that she had lost herself, and her heart was full of the feelings of this monk.
She felt so sad that she was going to die.
"Will you follow me?"
The monk sat down in front of Lu Minglan and asked softly.
Lu Minglan nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes: "I am willing."
"Take off your clothes."
The monk said gently: "Since you want to follow me, you must be honest and not hide anything. Let me see your body clearly and get rid of all the sins on your body."
"good."
Lu Minglan nodded, looking directly at the monk's eyes, raised her hand and slowly unbuttoned her clothes. Under the moonlight, that charming carcass gradually emerged, so white. The movements of her hands were gentle and mechanical, as if there was no vitality.
Soon, her proud breasts, flat belly, and the most secret place were all exposed to the monk.
The monk beckoned, and she crawled over like a well-behaved kitten.
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Fang Jie's heart became tighter and tighter.
Looking at the fatal wounds on those corpses, a figure of a person—Miao Seng Chenya—involuntarily appeared in his mind.
But this man was dead long ago, completely dead. Moreover, it was at his hands that he died. On Banyue Mountain that day, he watched Ma Lilian stab Chen Ya's heart with a horizontal knife. If Chen Ya can still come back to life like this, Fang Xie would rather believe that what happened on Banyue Mountain was just a dream.
He walked to the corpse of the fisherman and his wife again, and the hatred in his eyes gradually spread.
The fisherman died very simply, there was no wound on his body, but Fang Xie knew that this man's heart must have been shattered, and the heart was shattered alive by the inner coercion of the master. As for that woman, the clothes on her body did not know where they went. She was lying naked on the ground, with her two plump thighs still spread apart. Under the light of the torch, Fang Xie saw a fascinated expression on her face.
Extreme joy, extreme joy.
She died at the most confused time, so there was no pain.
Likewise, no mortal wounds were visible on her body. Only the remaining finger marks can be seen on the white breasts. Obviously, this pair of full breasts has been ravaged wantonly.
The expression on her face was very different from that of her husband, she was full of satisfaction, while her husband's face was full of anger and horror.
These two people died earlier than those dark guards. Obviously, when those dark guards were still in the bushes, these two people had already been murdered.
"There aren't many clues."
Mu Xiaoyao took off her cloak and put it on the woman's body, looked at Fang Jie and shook her head: "This man's attack was too fast and too ruthless, and he was killed in one move, and the method of killing was simple and effective, except for this couple Except for the two, the other deceased had only one fatal wound on the forehead, so there is no need to infer the murderer's martial arts from the wound. And we arrived a little late, and we didn't see what the person on the leaving boat looked like .”
"I know… "
Fang Jie sat down on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief: "They are catching up again."
Hearing these words, the expressions of Mu Xiaoyao and Shen Qingfan who were standing by the river changed at the same time. Shen Qingfan turned to look at Fang Jie, with a murderous look in his eyes.
"It would be best if they came."
Shen Qingfan spit out a few words lightly, extremely cold.
"Let's dispose of all the corpses."
Fang Jie ordered lightly: "Yan Kuang, let the guards on the boat come down to dispose of the corpses. If these corpses are left behind, there will be another unsolved case in the locality. At that time, the people will be terrified and the government will be restless. I don't know how many corpses there will be. People will be punished for this fear.”
Yan Kuang responded, squatting down and stroking Li Huo's open eyes: "Although they are annoying, they are my comrades after all. If I know who did it, I will also die I want to seek justice for them."
After saying this, he got up and went back to the big ship to summon the Flying Fish Robe.
Because Chen Hun and Chen Ha felt that they had no interest, they squatted by the river not far away to be more courageous than anyone else.
"I bet the fish wouldn't dare jump out and bite me!"
"I bet they wouldn't jump out and bite me!"
"We all say that Yu'er doesn't dare, so how can we bet and win?"
"Of course we are all winners!"
The two of them were trembling while talking, as if they were really afraid that a fish would jump out. There is no doubt that if a fish really jumped out, the two of them would definitely run away.
"Let's go back."
Fang Jie took a deep breath, greeted Chen Heng and said, "The fish are all asleep and won't come out."
Chen Hum and Chen Ha immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and then both of them stood up at the same time and puffed up their chests.
"Who's afraid of fish?"
"I knew the fish were scared away by us, we ate so many fish..."
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On the riverside, Zhuo Buyi looked at the small boat floating in the river's heart.
He discovered the fight on the side of the dark guards earlier than Fang Xie and the others, but when he rushed over, Li Huo and the others were already dead. And the monk had let the boat drift away from the shore, and he couldn't catch up. At this time, Fang Xie and the others rushed over again, so he had no choice but to retreat.
But he did not give up, but galloped west along the river.
Finally, he saw the boat stopped in Jiangxin.
A small boat without an anchor can stop at the center of the river and float up and down with the waves without being washed away. On the boat, the two naked people were still entangled.
The sweet groan came into Zhuo Buyi's ears, making his stomach churn.