I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 424 Broken City
"Hmm?" A light exclamation came from the cloak.

The military leader guarding the gate hesitated for just a moment, and the dagger on his shoulder slid out of the scabbard with a "clang", and the blade, which was slightly cold, pressed against his neck.

"Lady, spare me, lady, spare me." The military leader finally reacted and begged for mercy, then shouted to those around him, "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and open the city gate!"

creak-

The heavy city gate slowly opened.

Liu Qi pulled the reins and drove the horse into the city.

Da da da……

The crisp sound of horse hooves echoed in the deserted streets.

Whoosh!
Suddenly, a strong wind blew beside me, and a figure fell from the sky and landed on the back of the parallel horses.

Liu Nineteen took off his hood and patted the sand off his body while complaining, "There's nothing in this broken place except a lot of sand!"

Seeing this, Tianxiang, who was standing by, hurriedly and considerately handed Liu Shijiu a kettle.

Liu Nineteen took the kettle and drank a sip. Then she saw Liu Qi staring at her. She immediately understood what he meant. She wiped the water stains from the corners of her mouth and said slowly, "Two days ago, a group of people attacked Yumen Pass at night. According to the gatekeeper, this group of people had extremely high martial arts skills and used all kinds of evil methods. They almost broke into the city. Fortunately, the Changfeng Escort Agency passed by here, and the chief escort He Wentian personally took action to deal with these people."

He Wentian?
One of the Seven Stars, and the chief escort of the Changfeng Escort Agency.

The Central Plains martial arts world is now in turmoil, but he is so conscientious that he even has the time to personally escort the escort out of the border.

At the city gate, Liu Qi could already smell the blood in the air. It was obvious that a bloody battle had taken place here not long ago.

creak...

There were sounds of doors and windows opening in the street.

When Liu Qi heard the voice, he looked over and happened to meet a pair of frightened eyes behind the window.

Bang!

The window closed.

……

At the same time, in a mansion in the city.

A middle-aged man in heavy armor was sitting on a throne with his horse and sword in his hands.

The person standing tremblingly in the hall was the military leader who had been on the city wall.

After Liu Nineteen left, he came here without stopping and reported everything that had just happened to the general in the hall.

"Liu Qi..." The middle-aged general murmured softly while slowly raising his head.

The military leader who was waiting with his head bowed could not help but look up and glance, and happened to see the weathered face of the middle-aged general.

Especially when his eyes fell on the hideous scar on the general's face that ran across his left eye, he couldn't help but tremble, and then quickly retracted his gaze.

"Humph!"

The general snorted coldly, then stood up and strode down the hall until he was standing side by side with the military leader, then he stopped.

The general was a very burly man. Standing next to the military leader, he was almost a head and a half taller than the already tall military leader.

The military leader felt his lips go dry, and the invisible pressure from the person next to him made him breathless.

"General Lin...your subordinate..."

He licked his dry lips and said nervously.

"Enough!" A sudden shout interrupted his words and made him fall to his knees with a thump.

"I failed in my duty. I hope the general will forgive me!"

The general slowly turned around, looking down at the military leader kneeling in front of him with a disdainful look. As the gleam in his eyes gradually faded, he said in a deep voice: "Since it is Liu Qi who broke through... well, you get up first."

The military leader, who had been sweating profusely with his head buried, felt as if he had been pardoned when he heard this. He thanked the general repeatedly, then closed his eyes silently and let out a long sigh.

After Lin Xingguo spared his men, he walked out of the house.

It has been exactly twenty years since he took up his post at Yumen Pass.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Qi, Yumen Pass, located at the throat of the Western Regions and the Central Plains, might have been a good place. Those large and small unruly tribes in the Western Regions were all real military achievements.

It’s a pity that Lin Xingguo was born in the prosperous and peaceful Great Qi Dynasty. Yumen Pass was undoubtedly a remote place of exile for him.

Here he rose step by step from a mere soldier to the position of a garrison commander, and thought that this would be his life forever.

Unexpectedly, one day, before the wind from the northern frontier blew over, the wind from the Central Plains blew here first.

"Huh——" Lin Xingguo stood under the eaves, gazing into the distance at the gradually red sky, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

Boom, boom, boom...

At the same time, the sound of heavy footsteps came into my ears.

Lin Xingguo lowered his eyes slightly and saw the man walking towards him.

The man was clearly dressed as a Western tribesman, walking towards them with big strides, followed closely by two of Lin Xingguo's guards. They looked anxious, as if they wanted to stop this foreign man.

Lin Xingguo waved his hand, signaling the two guards following behind the other party to leave first.

"Lin." The foreign man came to the steps and stood still. Then he pointed at Lin Xingguo who was standing on the steps with his hands behind his back and cursed: "What the hell do you want to do? Fuck you, you took the money and you want to regret it..."

The man's insults became more and more unpleasant. In just a few moments, Lin Xingguo could already hear his ancestors cursing at him.

"laugh--"

Suddenly, a cold light swept across the alien man.

The foreign man's expression froze instantly, his pupils trembled continuously, and his eyes were full of disbelief when he looked at Lin Xingguo.

"Ugh..." He covered his neck with both hands, whimpering. Scarlet blood kept flowing out from between his fingers. In the blink of an eye, a large pool of blood appeared on the man's body.

The smell of blood instantly filled the entire front yard.

The military leader who had just walked out of the hall was almost frightened to death when he saw this scene.

Pfft!
The alien man fell on his back, holding his neck.

Lin Xingguo watched the whole process with indifferent eyes. Only after the other party fell to the ground did he call back the guards who had just left and signaled them to clean up the yard.

……

Night falls in the city.

Liu Qi and his party searched several inns in succession and finally found one that had someone to entertain them.

The innkeeper was an old man with a hunched back. He held a lantern and welcomed Liu Qi and the other two in, mumbling, "There is chaos both inside and outside the pass right now. You three are really brave to leave at this time!"

After entering the inn, Liu Qi took off the hood on his head.

The old man turned around and saw that the three guests were behind his daughter, and he was stunned.

When Liu Nineteen saw the old man's expression, he immediately showed dissatisfaction, and then he took the initiative to say: "Old man, what are you looking at? Have you never seen a woman before?"

The old man came back to his senses after hearing this, and then he chuckled: "Of course I have seen women, especially women as beautiful as you two. Hehe... I never thought that I would have such a blessing when I am old!"

"You are still an old man!" Liu Nineteen sneered, and then fiddled with the short knife in her hand, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you with one blow?"

"If the girl wants to kill me, then kill her." The old man was not panicked at all, and replied with a smile, "It is said that even if you die under the skirt of a beautiful woman, you will still be a romantic ghost. I am old and have lived enough. Otherwise, I would have run away like everyone else in the pass!"

"You..." Liu Nineteen was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect to run into such a shameless old pervert here.

"Okay, we're leaving tomorrow." Liu Qi said, "Please prepare some dry food and water for me, and we also need some horses. Does the shopkeeper know where we can buy some?"

Hearing Liu Qi speak, the smiling old man's face turned serious, and then he nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, yes, most of the people coming and going in this inn are merchants traveling to the Western Regions. There is nothing else, but there are enough dry food and water!"

"It's just that the horses..." The old man showed an embarrassment, "Yesterday, the garrison commander ordered that all the horses be confiscated to the military camp. If the girl wants to buy a horse to leave the border, I'm afraid there is no way."

"But..." The old man paused and grinned, "Since the girls and their group are able to enter the country at this time, the horses may not be a problem for you." The old man's eyes are quite insightful!

Liu Qi was too lazy to waste time talking to the other party, so he asked him to prepare two rooms. After a simple wash, he sat cross-legged on the bed to rest.

Late at night, the entire Yumen Pass fell into deathly silence.

Liu Qi could even clearly hear the even breathing of Liu Shijiu and Tianxiang next door in the room.

Originally, Liu Qi planned to take Tianxiang to Kunlun alone, but Liu Shijiu insisted on going with her. In addition, someone was really needed to take care of Tianxiang on the way, so Liu Qi agreed to Shijiu's request.

It's better this way, at least she won't be asked to take action for trivial matters along the way.

From the moment he arrived at the city gate of Yumen Pass to the moment he entered the pass, Liu Qi clearly felt that the atmosphere here seemed to be a little wrong.

Could a group of horse bandits of unknown origin scare most of the people in Yumen Pass into fleeing inside the pass overnight?

It’s definitely not that simple.

Although Liu Qi guessed that it was most likely not aimed at her, she could not be sure that it was a backup plan left by Gu Liancheng.

But Liu Qi didn't take it too seriously.

In short, she has nothing to fear with a knife in her hand.

In the second half of the night, dark shadows came from the western direction and rushed towards the gate of Yumen Pass.

The officers and soldiers on duty on the city wall yawned continuously and paid no attention to the dark shadows surging in the distance.

"Hiss..." An officer shrank back and looked out, "Why is the wind blowing suddenly?"

He subconsciously pushed his companion next to him.

puff.

But with just this push, his companion fell to the ground, and the moment he landed, his head rolled to the side.

When the officers and soldiers saw this scene, they were stunned for a moment.

laugh--

A flash of cold light passed across his neck.

Another head with wide eyes rolled to the ground.

A pair of animal-skin boots then stepped heavily on the head.

"boom!"

The man in black suddenly kicked the head off, then raised the scimitar in his hand high and let out a roar like a wild beast.

"Woooooooo..."

In an instant, the silence of Yumen Pass was broken by the roaring sounds one after another.

Liu Qi had already stood up from the bed the moment the hissing sound was heard.

After a while, fire gradually lit up outside, and the few people in the city also noticed the movement at the city gate.

creak-

The door opened and Liu Nineteen rushed in with Tianxiang.

Before Liu Shijiu could speak, Liu Qi said, "Go find that old man and ask him to prepare some dry food and water. Tianxiang will stay here."

The two of them had been trained together since childhood, so there was naturally no need for too much conversation at this moment. Liu Nineteen immediately turned around and left the room.

At the same time, there was a big fire in the direction of the city gate.

As the fire flickered, Liu Qi's gloomy face was looming.

Whoever it is, spare her the rest.

Damn!

……

The inn lobby was brightly lit.

Liu Qi sat at the table in the middle, with a bright candle in front of him.

Tianxiang was feeling a little uneasy as the sounds of shouting and killing were getting very close and there were also noisy footsteps coming from the street where the inn was.

The inn where Liu Qi and his party stayed was not too far from the city gate.

So soon someone discovered this brightly lit inn.

boom!
The door of the inn was violently kicked open.

Liu Qi raised her eyes slightly.

hum-

The true energy in front of his eyes surged, and suddenly turned into a blade of light that shot out.

Swish!
The two figures at the door were cut into two by the sword light before they could see the situation inside the inn clearly. The four corpses were thrown out by the residual force of the sword light and fell on the road in front of the inn.

Tianxiang lowered her head and didn't even look at it.

At this time, Liu Shijiu came in from the backyard with the shopkeeper who was staggering.

The shopkeeper was panic-stricken. When he saw the ruined door of the inn, he wailed in his heart. Turning around, he saw that the candlesticks in the entire lobby were lit, so he hurriedly advised: "Two ladies, how dare you light the lights at this time? Are you afraid that the thieves can't find us?"

Liu Nineteen walked forward calmly with a package in his hand. After sitting down next to Liu Qi, he sneered disdainfully, "Didn't the old man say he wasn't afraid of death?"

The shopkeeper seemed not to have heard Nineteen's ridicule. He leaned against a pillar with trembling legs, and then muttered in fear, "It must be the leader of the Black Sand Bandits coming to take revenge. If I had known earlier, I would have followed them and fled to the interior of the country!"

"Hahaha..." A crazy laugh came from outside the door.

"Since you know where we came from, you still dare to light the lights so brazenly. I think you people from the Central Plains don't know your place..."

The old man's pupils trembled when he heard the voice, and then he looked towards the door of the inn, only to see three figures rushing in. Then a cold light flashed past the three people in an instant.

Swish!
The old man's eyes widened and he saw three figures cut in half, with the remains flying out the door.

"Hou." One of them uttered the last word before he died.

The old man stared blankly for a long while before he twisted his stiff neck and looked at Liu Qi who was sitting at the table.

Liu Qi stared at the blazing candlelight in front of him, as if nothing had happened.

……

On the city gate tower, countless torches danced in the wind. In the flickering flames, a man with a huge head and short stature stood on the city gate tower, holding a spear that was twice as tall as him.

He looked at the countless flames inside the pass that lit up one after another, and then turned into fire dragons that gathered towards the center of the city.

The man's eyes were fixed on the most magnificent house in the city center, and a ferocious smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly his smile froze, and then he slowly moved his gaze to look at a discordant place among the countless fire dragons in the city.

"What's going on?" he asked angrily, and his sharp voice made the men around him tremble.

He switched the spear in his hand to the other hand, then raised his right hand and pointed his finger at a quiet street: "Who is leading the team there? Why haven't they taken it down yet?"

One of the men stepped forward, suppressing his fear. He glanced at the direction the leader pointed, and then whispered, "If you want to report back to the Third Boss, that should be the area of ​​Basong."

"Bassoon?"

"The second oldest's nephew?"

The man stomped his sword hard, and then said in a deep voice: "Go tell the second in command that his nephew was incompetent and was killed by me!"

After saying this, the man jumped up and went into the city.

(End of this chapter)