Chapter 197: The Four Swords of a Gentleman

Ah Sheng and Li Xuan also obviously noticed it, and they both lay on the mountain wall, not daring to move.

The big bird spread its wings and flapped them violently. Zhou Wen and the other two suddenly felt something was wrong. They felt a hurricane rising up and directly swept their bodies up.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

All three of them fell back onto the stone platform, seeing stars, and it took them a while to stand up.

But when he looked back at the hollow of the giant tree, the big bird was gone. He looked around but still couldn't find any trace of it, as if it had returned to the hollow.

"It seems that it has known that we are here for a long time. Since it didn't kill us, why did it keep us here? Did it regard us as food reserves and plan to keep us for the New Year?" Li Xuan was still in the mood to joke.

"I don't know if it's keeping us here for the New Year, but it must have kept us here on purpose," Zhou Wen said.

"Since it didn't kill us, we still have a chance. Let's think of other ways." Ah Sheng said as he looked around the platform.

Anyway, the big bird had already set its sights on them, so no matter how careful they were, it was useless. Zhou Wen also walked around the platform to see if he could find anything useful.

"This thing is pretty good." Li Xuan found a Playboy magazine in the cab of a truck.

Zhou Wen picked up a bottle of drink and saw that it still had more than a month left before its expiration date. He opened it and drank while walking to an SUV. The SUV looked very old, with all the glass broken and the body of the vehicle severely deformed.

The car body was covered in mud, and the inside was almost as dirty. It looked like it had been exposed to a lot of wind and rain, and must have been here for a long time.

Zhou Wen looked inside and saw a stuffed doll covered in mud on the back seat. He thought, "The owner of this car must have had children with him. I wonder what happened to them. I hope they're okay."

There was too much mud in the car and there seemed to be nothing useful. Zhou Wen was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly saw a stick-like object covered in mud in the car.

Zhou Wen reached in and pulled the thing out.

"It really is a knife." Zhou Wen wiped off the dirt on the outside, revealing the true appearance of the thing, which was a long knife with a sheath.

The knife is a straight knife, so the scabbard is also straight. Together with the handle, it looks like a stick about four feet long.

After wiping it clean, I found that the design of the whole knife was like a green bamboo. The top section of the bamboo was the handle, and the four sections below were the scabbard. At first glance, I thought it was a bamboo stick.

In fact, the handle and scabbard are made of metal, and they are very heavy to hold.

Zhou Wen tried to pull the knife out, but failed.

"Zhou Wen, what are you doing?" Li Xuan ran over and asked, staring at the bamboo sword in Zhou Wen's hand.

"I found a knife, but I can't pull it out." Zhou Wen tried several times but failed to pull the knife out, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

He was so strong that he could easily break steel bars, but he was not able to pull out the bamboo sword, which really surprised him.

"No matter how you look at it, it looks like a bamboo stick. How can it be called a knife?" Li Xuan said, looking at the bamboo knife in Zhou Wen's hand.

"No, it's a sword. It's called a bamboo sword." Ah Sheng heard the conversation between the two, walked over and saw the bamboo sword. He asked in surprise, "Where did you find this bamboo sword?"

"It's in this car." Zhou Wen pointed to the SUV next to him and said, "I don't know if it's rusted inside, so the knife can't be pulled out."

Ah Sheng got into the SUV and searched while saying, "The material used to cast the bamboo sword is Yuanjin. Even the scabbard will not rust, let alone the blade. This sword has a special design. You can pull it out by turning it counterclockwise."

Zhou Wen followed Ah Sheng's instructions and turned the knife handle. Although it was heavy, he actually turned it. Then he pulled it out and immediately pulled out a section of the blade.

The blade is like the blue waves of a deep pool, exuding a chilling chill. The blade is only two fingers wide, the back of the blade is slightly wider, and the blade is extremely thin, giving people a feeling of being extremely easy to cut.

Zhou Wen pulled out the knife and swung it casually. The blade swept across a car door window next to him and directly cut it off. Zhou Wen didn't even feel any resistance on the blade. It was so sharp that it was a little scary.

"This knife is so sharp? And it's made of Yuanjin. Do you have more? Find me one too." Li Xuan was also shocked by the sharpness of the bamboo sword.

"There is only one bamboo sword in the entire federation. Where are you going to find it?" Ah Sheng got out of the off-road vehicle. Seeing that his hands were empty, it was obvious that he had not gained anything.

"Is this true? The An family has plenty of gold mines, so it wouldn't be easy to make a knife?" Li Xuan said with some disbelief.

"Yuan gold ore is a controlled item. The use of every gram of Yuan gold ore will be recorded. The federation is very strict in this regard. The An family can't use Yuan gold ore at will, not to mention that this knife was not cast by the An family." A Sheng said, looking at the bamboo sword in Zhou Wen's hand.

Zhou Wen handed the bamboo sword to Ah Sheng. Ah Sheng carefully examined the blade and said, "The blade is like a deep abyss with faint blood veins underneath. This is indeed the bamboo sword from the Four Gentlemen's Swords. I never thought that the bamboo sword, which had been missing for so many years, would be here."

"What is the Four Gentlemen Sword? Why have I never heard of it?" Li Xuan asked.

Ah Sheng did not answer Li Xuan. He held the knife and gently scratched his palm, leaving a bloody mark on his palm. The blood flowed along the blade, forming a blood line, which actually solidified and did not fall.

"Brother Sheng, what are you doing?" Li Xuan and Zhou Wen looked at A Sheng in shock.

“A gentleman does not fight. If a fight becomes necessary, blood will inevitably splatter five steps away. Therefore, the Four Gentlemen's Knife must draw blood when it is unsheathed, otherwise it will be disadvantageous to its owner.” Ah Sheng swung the knife as he spoke, and the blood on the knife was immediately thrown away. The blade was spotless, like a pool of autumn water.

After putting the knife back into the sheath, Ah Sheng returned it to Zhou Wen: "Master Wen, although this knife is sharp, it is really ominous. If you can avoid not using it, it is better not to use it."

Zhou Wen nodded, took the bamboo sword and asked, "Who is the owner of this sword? Will anyone come looking for us in the future?"

Ah Sheng shook his head and said, "The person who forged the swords has been dead for many years. The four original owners of the Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum swords all met a bad end. Later, these four swords were lost and gradually disappeared. I'm afraid their subsequent owners also met a bad end."

"What era is this? You still believe in superstitions. If you don't use such a good knife, wouldn't you be a fool?" Li Xuan said disapprovingly.

Ah Sheng didn't argue, but simply asked, "The governor's father, Mr. An, was once the owner of the plum knife."

After hearing this, Li Xuan fell silent. An Tianzuo's father, Ouyang Lan's ex-husband, was once the promising head of the An family with a bright future. However, he died unexpectedly at a young age. It was a pity. All the wealthy families in Luoyang knew about this, and Li Xuan naturally knew it too.

If this is really the ominous omen brought by the Four Gentlemen's Knife, then it is really terrible.

(End of this chapter)