"Who are you?" Seeing the man holding the iron rod and hitting him, Yan Liqiang stepped back slightly and shouted!
This loud shout was not to wait for their answers, but to wait for the conscious activities in their heads. This was also the experience that Yan Liqiang summed up in using the ability of the Mind Snake since he possessed it. Human thinking and consciousness are very complicated, and various different thoughts often run through their heads. The things you want to know are in his head, but they may not be presented when you want to know. So the simplest way is to let him hear your question. Even if he doesn't say it out loud, the consciousness and psychological activities in his brain can feedback the answer to this question. This is a bit like the knee jerk reflex of the brain. When a hammer falls on the knee, there must be a reaction, and when a sound is heard, there must be an echo. When he first met Sima Qingshan, Yan Liqiang also used this method. Unknowingly, he had already seen through everything.
The stick missed and the man shouted, "This is a tough spot, let's attack together!"
In fact, he didn't need to shout, the other two had already started fighting. They were only slightly slower than the first one. One of them held a knife, and the other a sword. They had fierce looks on their faces, and they attacked Yan Liqiang at the same time. Their coordination was surprisingly tacit.
In just the blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang already knew the identities of these three people. What surprised Yan Liqiang was that these three people were none other than three gangsters under Zhou Shouren, the prefect of Luquan County. After he killed Zhou Shouren, these three people saw that the situation was not right and fled from Luming Pass. At that time, he thought that these three people were just small fry and did not take them seriously. However, he did not expect that after leaving Luming Pass, these three people discussed with each other halfway, and actually set up an ambush on the road with their ruthlessness, in order to retaliate against him and avenge Zhou Shouren.
Of course, these three people did not come here to be dead. According to their thinking, they just wanted to push down a few rocks here to cause some damage to themselves and their group. It would be best if they could kill a few important people to let them know that they were not easy to mess with, and then they would run away immediately.
The only thing these people didn't expect was that they rushed up the cliff which was more than 100 meters high in the blink of an eye, so that they didn't have time to push down the big rock behind them.
Now that the identities of these people have been figured out, there is no need to waste time with them. Yan Liqiang shook the spear in his hand, and three gun flowers flew out, covering the three people at the same time. The three people just felt a flash in front of their eyes, and the weapons in their hands didn't even touch the shadow of Yan Liqiang. Then they made a "swish" sound, and their hearts were pierced by the spear in Yan Liqiang's hand. After the three people spat out a mouthful of blood, as Yan Liqiang pulled out the spear, the three bodies fell to the ground.
Yan Liqiang rushed to the top of the mountain and killed three people in the blink of an eye, but suddenly he heard a loud noise from the bottom of the mountain. He looked and saw a huge rock on the steep cliff below. It had been motionless just now, but at this moment, the rock seemed to be hit by the rock that had just rolled down, and it suddenly loosened and rolled down the cliff. Under the rock was the carriage in which Concubine Duan, Concubine Rui, and Concubine Yi were riding, who had just tried to rush over.
“Be careful…” Yan Liqiang opened his eyes wide and yelled, then he pushed his feet hard on the top of the mountain and rushed down the mountain like an arrow at a speed many times faster than free falling.
But the falling boulder was too fast. It was not far from Concubine Duan and her companions' carriage. Just as Yan Liqiang shouted that sentence, with a loud bang, the rolling boulder hit the two rhinoceros horses in the carriage that Concubine Duan and her companions were riding in with the force of thunder, smashing the two rhinoceros horses into a bloody mess. They rolled off the official road and overturned the four-wheeled carriage that Concubine Duan and her companions were riding in, and they fell into the deep ravine below. As for the guard driving the carriage, his head was hit by a piece of stone the size of a dog's head brought down by the boulder. His brains splattered instantly and he fell off the carriage...
There was chaos and exclamations on the official road, and Concubine Duan and the other two screamed in despair and terror in the fallen carriage.
In this situation, no one can do anything. They can only watch as the three people in the carriage fall into the deep ravine and are about to be smashed to pieces...
Yan Liqiang, holding the meteorite spear, was upside down, and his whole body shot down like an arrow. Seeing that Concubine Duan and her carriages and horses were falling from the mountain at the same time, Yan Liqiang's spear in his hand suddenly stabbed a protruding boulder on the cliff. Then, with the huge rebound force, his whole body accelerated again. Like an eagle catching prey from the air, he dived at a 90-degree vertical angle to the ground, crossed the official road in an instant, and plunged into the deep ravine below at a faster speed than Concubine Duan and her carriages...
Thirty meters before Concubine Duan and her companions' carriage fell into the deep ravine, Yan Liqiang caught up with the falling carriage. Concubine Duan's screams could be heard from the carriage. Yan Liqiang, who was in the air, grabbed the strongest crossbeam under the carriage with one hand, and with his other hand, grabbed the part of the spear handle below the meteorite spear head that was inserted into the spear shaft. With a roar, he suddenly inserted the spear head of the meteorite spear into the rock wall next to him...
Driven by the enormous force, the tip of the meteorite spear rubbed violently against the rock wall, sparks flew, and a sharp and piercing sound was made, like when a train engine brakes on the track, which echoed throughout the mountain stream. Yan Liqiang roared. Even with his physical strength and power, it was difficult to slow down the speed of a four-wheeled carriage that had fallen from a height and was equipped with heavy steel plates and was pulling two rhinoceros horses and three people. The tremendous pulling force was unimaginable for ordinary people, and it was far better than the so-called torture of being torn apart by five horses. Under the tearing of such a huge force, the muscles in Yan Liqiang's arms, chest, and back felt as if they were torn apart.
Yan Liqiang roared angrily and held on with gritted teeth, because he knew that if he let go at this moment, with the vehicle falling at such a speed into the river, under the huge impact force, Concubine Duan and the other weak women in the car would surely die.
When he acted to save people just now, it was completely Yan Liqiang's instinctive reaction. Yan Liqiang didn't even consider the identities of the people in the car.
The friction between the meteorite spear and the rock wall produced sparks and gravel that hit Yan Liqiang's hands, head, ears and neck like flying hidden weapons.
After sliding down for more than 30 meters, the speed of the rapidly falling four-wheeled carriage finally slowed down. Finally, the four-wheeled carriage and Yan Liqiang fell into the rushing river below the deep ravine with a bang. A wave came, and the carriage just rolled on the river surface for a few times, and then completely disappeared...
…
A few minutes later, a rope was lowered from the mountain stream. Several soldiers with deer lanterns hanging on their bodies and guards from the palace slid down the rope at the same time and searched for the traces of the carriage that Yan Liqiang, Concubine Duan and the other two were riding in by the river.
“Master Yan… Master Yan…” The soldiers who came down to search shouted at the top of their lungs. They searched along the river for a long distance, but in the end, they found nothing except the surging river water. The only thing they found was the meteorite spear left by Yan Liqiang.
The tip of the meteorite spear was still stuck on the mountain wall near the river in the mountain stream. A stone groove nearly 30 meters long, two fingers wide and half a foot deep, extended all the way down from the rock wall, as if it was chopped by a giant axe, and finally stopped abruptly at the river surface.
On the tip of the meteorite spear, there was a clear mark of Yan Liqiang's palm and fingers.
The meteorite iron spear was taken back, and the three corpses on the top of the mountain were also brought down by Elder Liu and their identities were identified by Sima Qingshan.
Concubine Rong stood on the top of the mountain stream, gently stroking the palm and finger marks left by Yan Liqiang on the tip of the meteorite spear in her hand, then looked at the dark mountain stream and the rushing river below, her eyes suddenly turned red, tears silently poured down, and she muttered to herself, "How could you be so stupid, how could you be so stupid, you dared to jump down with the car, why didn't I see you come up..."
Princess Anping also stood beside Concubine Rong, looking at the deep ravine below, tears in her eyes.
"My master will not die. My master is so capable. Nothing can stop him. He will be fine..." Among all the people, only King Min was still shaking his head at this time, firmly believing that Yan Liqiang would be fine and must still be alive.
Yan Liqiang's Caiyun Zhuiyue also stood by the mountain stream, looking at the mountain stream below, shaking his neck, getting restless, making bursts of neighing, and constantly paddling the ground with his front hooves.
Elder Liu came to the side of Concubine Rong, looked at the deep ravine and the river below, his gray eyebrows trembled, and finally he sighed.
Concubine Rong turned her head and gave orders word by word to the officers and guards around her, "Send someone down to search along the river below for me. Don't let go of a single inch of the place. I want to see the person alive or dead. Do you understand me..."
"yes!"
Then Concubine Rong took off a jade pendant hanging around her neck and handed it to Elder Liu, "Elder Liu, send a few guards to Jinzhou on rhinoceros horses overnight. Gaoyi County is adjacent to Hongyuan County in Jinzhou. When you arrive in Hongyuan County, give this to the governor of Hongyuan County. When the governor of Hongyuan County sees this, he will definitely send troops and people to Gaoyi to meet us..."
"Yes!" Elder Luo took the jade pendant from Concubine Rong and turned around to make arrangements. In just a blink of an eye, four palace guards riding on rhinoceros horses continued on their way, rushing towards Hongyuan County overnight.
Everyone around her walked away and got busy. In the end, only Concubine Rong was left standing by the mountain stream. She looked at the dark deep stream below, listened to the sound of the rushing river, cried silently, and cursed the same words in her heart over and over again, "You have no conscience, you have no conscience..."
All night long, until dawn, the team searched along the mountain stream and river below for a full thirty miles, but still found nothing. Finally, they saw that the official road and the river were separated, and the river rushed into the mountains. It was difficult for vehicles and horses to move on both sides of the river, and there were cliffs everywhere. Concubine Rong had to stop the search. In the end, only a team of capable people were sent to continue searching along the river with tools and ropes, while the entire convoy continued on the road, waiting for news from the search team, while slowly heading to Jinzhou...
(End of this chapter)