A knife in love

Chapter 23

After leaving Tongzhou City, Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei headed northward. The pedestrians gradually became scarce, and finally only two people were left walking together.

Yan Dufei said: "This Yun Feiyang has never been seen before, I don't know who is better in martial arts than Yang Zhenzhong?"

Li Qiufeng said: "It's hard to say. Yun Feiyang once served the late emperor and was one of the late emperor's confidantes. I'm afraid he is quite familiar with Mr. Qiao Sinan. Yang Zhenzhong is the former minister of the current emperor's residence, and the old Xingxian king's confidant. Personal bodyguard. In terms of seniority alone, Yun Feiyang is undoubtedly higher than Yang Zhenzhong, but he thought that he could take over as the commander of Jinyiwei smoothly, but he was snatched by Yang Zhenzhong. I think he didn't say it on the surface, I am very unconvinced in my heart. In the five years since I entered the palace, it is very rare to see Yun Feiyang and Yang Zhenzhong appearing at the same time. The two people are at odds with each other, and they have gathered a group of dead soldiers in private. If Dongchang was not watching, I'm afraid that the two groups of people would have fought each other long ago."

Yan Dufei sighed: "My senior brother Qiao Sinan's martial arts skills are rare in this world, but it's a pity that he went underground with the late emperor. If he is still in the palace, Yang Zhenzhong and Yun Feiyang can only bow their heads and listen to each other."

Li Qiufeng nodded and said: "Naturally. When my younger brother was in the palace, although he had never met Qiao Daxia, he heard about it from the old guards. I heard that Qiao Daxia is not only strong in martial arts, but also like a fish in water in the officialdom. , it is really a great pity for my younger brother that I can't meet Qiao Daxia in this life."

The two talked and talked, and they had walked for more than twenty miles before they knew it.

At this moment, the two had reached the edge of a river, and suddenly stopped at the same time.

Surrounded by silent mountains and fields, only the rustling sound of the trees being blown by the breeze can be heard.

Yan Dufei said: "There are mountains and rivers here, it is an excellent place to go."

Li Qiufeng said: "It's a pity that there are less dogs barking and chickens crowing, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment."

Yan Dufei said: "Although there are no dogs barking and cocking, there are some people who are robbing and robbing." After speaking, he looked up at a big tree not far away, and said loudly: "Since this friend has arrived, please show up. "

Li Qiufeng had already noticed that there was someone in the tree, but he didn't tell the truth.He looked up and saw that the big sycamore tree was more than four feet high, with lush branches and leaves, and the leaves rustled when the breeze blew.

As soon as Yan Dufei finished speaking, the tree suddenly changed.

The tree has changed!

The tree was originally as thick as a handful, but in an instant, the trunk suddenly became thinner, and large clusters of leaves began to rotate and move rapidly in the air.The whole big tree seemed to come alive suddenly, constantly changing into various shapes in front of the two of them.

Yan Dufei and Li Qiufeng are both men who lick blood on the blade of a knife. I don't know how many weird things in the world have been seen, but this is the first time I have seen such a strange big tree.

Yan Dufei said in a low voice: "Things have changed, Brother Li be careful."

At this moment, I saw a silver light flashing in front of my eyes, mixed with the sharp sound of piercing through the air, dozens of hidden weapons flew from the branches and leaves of the big tree in front of the two of them.

Yan Dufei and Li Qiufei each wielded their swords, only the sound of weapons colliding could be heard incessantly, all the incoming hidden weapons had been knocked away by the two of them.Immediately after hearing a shout, the big tree in front of him suddenly disintegrated and turned into a dozen green or black figures, rushing towards the two of them swiftly.

These people came so fast, they were in front of them in just a moment.Li Qiufeng only felt the light of the knife flash, and a gust of wind rushed towards the front door.He didn't even think about it, so he swung his knife to meet him.

"Clang clang clang clang", the opponent slashed four times in a row from four directions, up, down, left, and right, and Li Qiufeng also blocked four times in a row.The opponent's saber was very fast, as soon as the blade's blade intersected with Li Qiufeng's long saber, he immediately changed his move and slashed from another direction.

Li Qiufeng sealed four times in a row, and when the opponent was about to make the fifth cut, Li Qiufeng flicked his wrist and made the first cut.

The man didn't expect that Li Qiufeng would counterattack with his saber when he was fully defending. He saw a flash of cold light, and Li Qiufeng's long saber had already reached the top of his head.He couldn't cover it, so he had to take three steps back.Unexpectedly, Li Qiufeng took three steps in succession and made six cuts with the long knife in an instant.

At this moment, there were already several assassins surrounding Li Qiufeng, each of them slashed at him with their knives, trying to force him to turn around to cover and relieve the danger of his companions.Unexpectedly, Li Qiufeng turned a blind eye to the rest of the people, and still pursued the killer who shot first.I saw Li Qiufeng chasing one person closely, with a long knife in his hand constantly calling out to him, and several people around him were chasing Li Qiufeng closely, but they were always one or two steps away.

Between the lightning and the flint, there was only a light "swipe", the man finally took a step back, Li Qiufeng slashed his left shoulder, and blood spurted immediately.The man let out a "hum" in pain, rolled suddenly to the ground, and disappeared in the weeds immediately.

Li Qiufeng was startled, and when he was about to search carefully, the enemy behind him had already caught up.Li Qiufeng didn't even look at it, he made a backhand with a knife, and at the same time, he turned around, and he had already circled around these enemies. He chopped six times in a row.

Hearing the sound of swords colliding continuously, Li Qiufeng fought one against three, taking the lead with swords, forcing the three of them to retreat.At the end of the fight, only one person shouted, and the three of them jumped up and fell into the river, and disappeared immediately.

Li Qiufeng turned his head, only to see that the five assassins surrounding Yan Dufei were also forced back by his long sword.Li Qiufeng was about to step forward to help, when one of the killers suddenly took out an object from his arms, and threw it forcefully on the ground, only to hear a "hoo", the ground suddenly flashed with fire, and a cloud of smoke rose.Li Qiufeng was startled, with a touch of his right foot, he soared into the air like a big bird, and flew backward three or four zhang away.After the smoke subsided, he saw that Yan Dufei had retreated a few feet away, with his long sword across his chest to prevent his opponent from chasing him.

Looking at the five killers again, they were nowhere to be seen.

Since his debut, Li Qiufeng has experienced dozens of battles, big and small, but never as fierce as today.Although the internal strength of these killers is not deep, but their moves are strange, as fast as lightning, and the moves are all desperate to fight. Compared with the martial arts competition in the martial arts, the degree of danger is unknown how many times higher.

Yan Dufei put his long sword back into its sheath, walked up to Li Qiufeng and said, "Brother Li is an expert in using knives, can you see the origin of these people's martial arts?"

Li Qiufeng shook his head and said: "These people don't look like decent people from famous families in the Jianghu, but rather killers in the underworld. Although their shots are fierce, they don't have any moves at all. Look at their movements, they are similar to those I met in the mountains that night. The white-clothed woman is somewhat similar. It’s just that these people’s moves are more vicious and lethal.”

Yan Dufei turned his head and saw a hidden weapon stuck in the ground. He was worried that it was poisonous, so he picked up a branch and picked out the hidden weapon.I saw that this hidden weapon was about the size of a palm, in the shape of a cross, and the four corners were polished extremely sharply, with a faint black color, obviously coated with poison.The two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time, indicating that they didn't know which sect would use such a weird hidden weapon.

The two each drew their swords, dug a big hole in the ground, and swept all the odd-shaped hidden weapons scattered around into the hole.He also piled up some dead branches and fallen leaves, and started a big fire with a lighter. In this way, the poison on the hidden weapon would be burned by the fire, so as to prevent someone from accidentally touching it in the future and losing his life.

After the fire was extinguished, the two buried the pit with soil.

Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei were both a little depressed because of the fight for no reason.When I got to the previous sycamore tree, I saw that the tree was only as thick as the mouth of a bowl.Presumably, the clothes worn by the killers were the same color as the tree trunk, and they fit close to the tree trunk, so that they became one with the big tree.And some killers are wearing green coats, hiding in the top of the tree, mixed with the leaves, it is very difficult for ordinary people to distinguish, just a single negligence, they will be killed by these killers.

Li Qiufeng went to the place where the man disappeared before, looked carefully, but saw a big hole on the ground covered with weeds, the man got into this hole and escaped.

Yan Dufei said: "These people have set up so many traps in advance, and they have been here for a long time. It's just that there is a martial arts master in the rivers and lakes, who can calculate so carefully and attack so viciously."

Li Qiufeng said: "No one in the Jinyiwei used such a weird sniper method, and I have never heard of such a killer in the East Factory. You and I have only left Tongzhou City for an hour, how do these people know that we will leave? This road, so many agencies have been prepared in advance?"

Seeing him looking at him, Yan Dufei smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know about that either. Just judging from the enemy's methods, I'm afraid there are more powerful killers lurking ahead."

(End of this chapter)