Seeing Ah Hui all alone and helpless, and considering that she had lost all her relatives and wasn't very cheerful, it became clear that Ah Hui really didn't talk to others much. She seemed to be constantly following them around like a shadow, but the two brothers were oblivious to it and hadn't realized it.
“We’ve been chasing them for five days now and still haven’t caught up. Although we haven’t encountered any danger in the mountains right now, it’s still not safe up there. Let’s go back first.” Zhou Erfu felt it wasn’t right to keep taking Ahui all over the mountains looking for the Japanese pirates; at least he had to get her back first.
However, the three of them had not walked for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn when they heard the sounds of fighting and a man's screams from not far away. Erfu and Sifu immediately straightened up and jumped towards the source of the sound without thinking.
Sifu was always faster than Erfu. In just a few breaths, he had covered more than ten meters. His voice came from a distance, "Second brother, I'll go check first. You take Ahui with you. Don't let her be alone."
Zhou Erfu paused, muttered a curse under his breath, and had no choice but to resign himself to going back to pick up Ahui.
When Erfu arrived with Ahui, Sifu was already locked in combat with a masked man, and two other people were fighting nearby.
Erfu looked closely and found that one of them was Prince Cheng. The other party seemed somewhat weak, his face was as pale as paper, and his eyes were sinister and eerie. However, the way he held his sword was very strange.
He gripped the sword hilt tightly with his hands clasped together. When attacking, he crouched slightly with his legs bent, somewhat like a horse stance. His swordsmanship also had an inexplicable strangeness to it.
Looking at the person who fought against Prince Cheng, this person had suffered a serious head injury. A large clump of his hair had been shaved off, and even a large piece of his scalp seemed to have been shaved off. Although it had scabbed over, it still had a pinkish tinge, indicating that the injury had only recently healed.
Wait a minute, although this person's face was covered with many scars, crisscrossing and looking particularly eerie, Erfu felt that the other person was inexplicably familiar. He stood there stunned for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Second brother, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and help me, I can't hold on any longer!" Zhou Sifu was being beaten back by the masked man. The masked man was better at kung fu than him, and he was already at a disadvantage. It looked like he was about to give up.
Erfu suddenly snapped back to his senses, and with a jolt of realization, he looked sharply at the man whose face and head were covered in wounds and shouted, "Prince Cheng, I know now, you are the real Prince Cheng!"
With that, he roared and leaped over to fight Yokoyama Ichiro. It wasn't that he thought Prince Cheng was more important than Shifuku; he just suddenly felt that he should save the real Prince Cheng first to prove that the government hadn't massacred the village and that the massacre was carried out by Japanese pirates.
Moreover...
"Second brother, you're something else! You saved others but not me!" Sifu gritted his teeth, pulled out a poison egg from his pocket, and threw it. The masked man reacted very quickly, and when he saw that Sifu had thrown something, he flew backward at high speed.
They dodged the attack of the poisonous smoke.
However, this dodge immediately changed the situation. Nifuku unleashed his full power and kicked the still-injured Yokoyama Ichiro away in a few moves. The opponent suffered Nifuku's immense force and vomited three liters of blood on the spot.
The masked man's face contorted in a grimace, and he decisively grabbed Yokoyama Ichiro and dashed into the woods to escape.
Sifu didn't dare to chase after them. He couldn't beat them, and chasing after them would be suicide.
"Second Brother, why did you save this person?" Zhou Sifu hadn't heard him earlier and was still upset that he hadn't saved him but had saved a complete stranger.
Erfu helped Prince Cheng, whose face was disfigured, up from the ground and asked him, "How are you? Can you hold on?" When the other nodded, he looked up at Sifu and said, "This is the real Prince Cheng. The one who was taken away by the masked man was a Japanese pirate in disguise."
"Hmm, ho ho." Prince Cheng leaned against Erfu's chest, opening his mouth as if to say something, but he couldn't utter a single complete word. In the end, he could only slump down and lower his head in despair.
"What happened? Your voice has also been poisoned and lost its voice?" Zhou Erfu quickly realized that something was wrong with the other party. "Don't panic, we'll take you back now, and Fifth Brother will detoxify you and heal your voice."
Not only Erfu, but all the Fu brothers have great confidence in Wufu's current medical skills, especially in detoxification. They believe that there is no poison in the world that Wufu cannot cure.
Just as Erfu carried Prince Cheng on his back, the masked man who had left not long ago suddenly returned. The fake Prince Cheng did not come back, but the female pirate appeared.
Oh no, the female Japanese pirates are too skilled; the two brothers probably can't beat them. But even if they can't beat them, they have to fight back. Running away is definitely not an option; they have no choice but to fight head-on.
Erfu pushed Prince Cheng toward Ahui and whispered, "Ahui, you take Prince Cheng and go first. Remember to bring him back and hand him over to the princess. My fourth brother and I will hold them off."
Ah Hui opened her mouth, wanting to say that she wouldn't leave and that she wanted to stay with them, but then she remembered that she didn't know kung fu and would only be a burden if she stayed behind, so she didn't say anything. She gritted her teeth and carried Prince Cheng on her back.
"Be careful, you absolutely can't get into any trouble." After saying that, Ahui didn't linger and ran away with the others on her back.
Erfu and Sifu were a bit surprised. Ahui looked quite thin, but they didn't expect her to be so strong. She could carry an adult man on her back and walk briskly.
"Hmph, trying to run? None of you will escape today." Yokoyama Chiyo suddenly drew her sword, leaped into the air, and aimed at A-Hui.
Shifu quickly drew his sword and moved to block Yokoyama Chiyo. The latter's expression darkened, and she gripped her sword with both hands and slashed down forcefully. Shifu reacted quickly as well. Seeing that the other was gripping her sword with both hands, he followed suit and gripped his sword with both hands as well, managing to take the blow.
Yokoyama Chiyo thought she could seriously injure Shifu with a single sword strike, but she didn't expect her opponent to be so strong that he used brute force to fight back, and actually knocked her to the ground.
With a "plop," Sifu fell from the air, spitting out a mouthful of blood. The female pirate's internal strength was too strong; even his combined internal strength and brute force couldn't withstand it, and he inevitably suffered internal injuries.
However, Sifu quickly jumped up from the ground and swiftly took out a healing pill from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, regardless of whether it would work or not.
"I underestimated you. You actually managed to catch my full-force sword strike. Hmph, you won't be so lucky this time." Yokoyama Chiyo gripped her sword with both hands, crouched down, and quickly moved over.
Sifu had no confidence in fighting her right now, so without thinking, he took out a poison gas bomb and threw it out, then sprinkled some poison powder.
"A treacherous villain, resorting to poison when he can't win, despicable and shameless." To avoid the poisonous smoke, Yokoyama Chiyo had no choice but to retreat, not daring to rush forward again.
Zhou Sifu ignored her and turned to look at Erfu. He saw Erfu and the masked man locked in a fierce battle, neither gaining the upper hand. Erfu was stronger than Sifu and could hold his own against the masked man, but this was a life-or-death struggle, not a fight to the death.
It was unclear how long the two would continue fighting. Sifu quickly ran towards Erfu and, when he was still a few meters away, threw a poison gas bomb and shouted, "Second Brother, run! Don't linger!"
The two brothers had always been in sync. Hearing his fourth brother's shout, Erfu used all his strength to blast the masked man away, and then he and Sifu quickly chased after Ah Hui in the direction she had gone.
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