Along with the screams of the disqualified person and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, the crowd watching below couldn't help but cheer or express regret. Xiao Nanhui swallowed her saliva and found that the boy's sharp eyes were also staring at her when she looked up. She looked at him for a few seconds and then looked away, and climbed to a higher place.
It is definitely not a good idea to start a fight from a high altitude. The key is how to avoid a head-on collision.
After dodging several participants who were standing still, Xiao Nanhui climbed up to the sixth floor of the Pingxiao Tower by sheer cleverness. The wind whistled in her ears, and the voices of people below could no longer be heard clearly. The tower that was still extending upwards had been submerged in the clouds. The rapidly rolling clouds covered Xiao Nanhui's head like a thin curtain, making it difficult for her to see the situation above.
She had been secretly counting the number of people ahead of her. If she was right, there should be no more than four or five people. The seventh floor was the most dangerous one, and no one would be able to reach the top successfully in a short time. She still had a chance of winning.
Xiao Nan returned to his original position to think for a while, tied up all the cloth straps on his body that could be grabbed by someone, and re-tied the cloth on his wrists and ankles, and headed towards the last layer.
As soon as he entered the flowing clouds, he was surrounded by white mist. He could only see about ten feet away. Xiao Nanhui could only try his best to determine the direction and grope towards the top of the tower.
Suddenly, a hand pierced through the thick fog from above and grabbed her elbow. Xiao Nan listened to the wind to determine the position, let go of the hand to dodge, and at the same time, hooked the beam with her legs, and did a somersault to land on another broken beam next to it.
After the opponent missed, he stopped attacking. Xiao Nanhui had just taken a breath when someone attacked her right leg from behind. It turned out that there was an accomplice.
One side of the broken beam was already broken and could not withstand the jumping, so she had no choice but to fight.
After a few exchanges, Xiao Nanhui saw the other person's face clearly. He was a middle-aged man, dressed in tight clothes. He was a master of the grappling technique, focusing on attacking her upper arms and knees. His attacks were steady and accurate. Xiao Nanhui countered several of his moves and was about to counterattack when the first person who attacked her flipped down from the beam and joined the battle. What was worse was that soon a third person rushed out from the clouds below, and the situation instantly tilted to one side.
If they were fighting alone on the ground, the three people in front of her would definitely not be her match, but now they were thousands of feet high in the sky, fighting three with bare hands, so she was a little stretched. Moreover, the three people cooperated well, and it was obviously not the first time for Xiao Nanhui to fight together. It would be difficult for her to separate and defeat any of them. This reminded her of the three people she met in the black shop in Yueyuan Town a few days ago. At that time, they were all equipped with small-handled swords.
"I heard that after the Zhongshan bandits were wiped out, three of their leaders disappeared. It turns out they were following Shen Huo."
As soon as Xiao Nanhui said this, the three men stopped their attacks.
Xiao Nanhui knew he was right.
In fact, she was just guessing. The martial arts of the three seemed to be orthodox, but in fact they were secretly mixed with many unconventional skills. This was a skill acquired after years of fighting in the underworld, and it was definitely not the style of a government official. However, the weapons they had carried before were the horizontal swords unique to the officials of the Huozhou Shen family.
She had just spoken in the dialect of the area south of Zongshan, but the three of them could understand her, which further confirmed her guess.
She had heard from Xiao Zhun about the escape of the bandit leader during the Zhongshan Bandit Suppression Campaign. The Tiancheng Imperial Court offered a reward of 1,000 taels of gold for the heads of three individuals, but no one had seen them in Chizhou. They must have either taken refuge in the mountains or found refuge with some powerful faction. There were only a few people in the world who dared to recruit imperial fugitives for their own use, and the Shen family was the first to bear the brunt of the situation.
"It's not a wasted trip today. The three of you are worth a fortune. Why don't you come with me?"
Xiao Nanhui knew that once this matter was exposed, there would be no room for maneuver, so he might as well take the opportunity to eradicate these three cancers.
However, the next second, a cold light flashed, and Xiao Nanhui's heart trembled.
One of them pulled out a dagger from the inside of his forearm, obviously intending to kill.
This man actually disregarded the rules and brought a weapon. Although it was just a hidden dagger, it could definitely kill someone at a critical moment. If someone was hit and fell down, he would be turned into a pile of meat paste, and no one would know what happened there.
However, this man was so anxious to take her life that he had disrupted the three of them's original footwork. Xiao Nanhui saw the flaw and moved forward to grab the knife and stop him. The two of them instantly grappled with each other. The man was much taller and heavier than her, and had the advantage in strength. Xiao Nanhui took advantage of this and kicked off a wooden board under his feet.
The dagger slashed along her right arm, and the person screamed and fell into the clouds.
Seeing this, the remaining two became alert, but when they saw that Xiao Nanhui had a wound on her arm, they no longer hesitated and rushed over, focusing their moves on her feet, trying to force her off the beam.
Xiao Nan's feet did not touch the ground. Relying on his light body, he used one hand to circle the pillar to gain leverage and flew out. After a circle, he flew back and kicked one of the men in the back. The man lost his balance and fell off the beam.
The one-on-three situation suddenly turned into one-on-one. The remaining bandit realized belatedly that he had made a big mistake of underestimating the enemy, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.
Xiao Nanhui's condition was not too good either. The dagger had previously scratched her arm, and now blood was flowing down her sleeve. She looked a bit disheveled.
Even so, what he just saw obviously made the other party fearful. The two of them were deadlocked for only a few seconds, and the other party suddenly gave up the confrontation and turned to climb towards the top of the last floor of the tower.
Xiao Nanhui knew that this was the last critical moment. If someone got ahead of him, even if he had climbed so many floors, he would be no different from those who were eliminated at the beginning. He then quickly tore off a piece of cloth to tie it tightly around his forearm, and used his hands and feet to catch up.
The closer you get to the top of the tower, the stronger the wind becomes.
The strong wind blew up Xiao Nanhui's hair tie, causing her cheek to hurt.
She grabbed the last wooden beam with her right hand and felt exhausted. The bandit not far ahead was about to climb to the top of the tower and was about to approach the towering center of the tower when a figure suddenly attacked him from behind. He turned around and fought with the figure for three or four rounds. Somehow, he staggered without even a grunt, and fell rapidly to the side of Xiao Nanhui like a torn sack.
The sudden change happened in just a moment. She hurriedly turned over and stood on the platform, found a foothold to steady her body, and looked at the figure who had just made the lightning-fast move.
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