Wang Shi's brows furrowed. Despite his short stature, he was muscular. Hearing this, he stopped and rushed to the front room. Inside, he saw a soldier lying on the ground, a knife plunged into his heart.
The man didn't draw his sword; the blood simply flowed down the blood groove onto his clothes. Wang Shi rummaged through the dead soldier's head, looking at it from left to right, finally stopping at the soldier's wide-open eyes.
Judging from the soldier's expression and wide-eyed stare, he was clearly terrified. Before he could react, the man opposite him had already plunged his knife into his heart.
Could it be...? Wang Shi was thinking about the bloodshed that happened at Lao Ge's house that day. It was Hui Shi who committed the crime that night, but Hui Shi woke up and didn't know what had happened? Could it be that there was a second Hui Shi among the soldiers?
His heart was pounding, practically leaping into his throat. Wang Shi staggered back a step, one hand gripping the doorframe, the other clutching his chest, and said fiercely, "Investigate! I'll investigate thoroughly."
One by one, the soldiers beside him walked out.
Wang Shi slumped onto the threshold, cold sweat streaming down his forehead. Just then, someone else entered the courtyard. Upon seeing Wang Shi, they burst into tears, sobbing, "Someone... is dead... someone is dead..."
He stammered and couldn't speak a single sentence clearly.
Wang Shi jumped to his feet and, mustering his courage, said, "Let's go take a look."
As he walked, he kept staring at the messenger and asked, "How many died?"
“Four…four…four,” the man jogged and followed Wang Shi out of the courtyard.
Just then, another soldier from Wang Shi's squad came over. He ran up to Wang Shi and said in a loud voice, "Four more people have died. They all died from being shot in the heart with a hidden arrow. The dead bodies were left on the road. We saw them when we came back."
Upon hearing this, Hui Shi felt immediately at ease. It's easy to deal with anyone who is human; the real problem is dealing with those who aren't.
He patted the man on the shoulder, then put his arm around him and walked out together, saying as they went, "Come on, let's go take a look?"
While trapped in the pit, Liang Qi held Xiao Yue in his arms. Upon hearing the mention of the hidden arrow, he whispered to Xiao Yue, "I'll go take a look and help that person out as well."
Xiaoyue let go of Liang Qi, and Liang Qi pushed Xiaoyue away, then gently tapped her forehead and whispered ambiguously, "Wait for me!"
Xiaoyue took a step forward, then stepped back. She wanted to go with Liang Qi, but then she realized that if she went, she would only hold Liang Qi back, so she couldn't bring herself to say it.
After Liang Qi exited the trap, he put the lid on it. Xiao Yue followed Liang Qi out of the trap. She felt uneasy if she didn't keep an eye on Liang Qi, so she followed him furtively from a distance.
Seeing Liang Qi sneak away from Wang Shi and disappear into Hu Jianan's yard, hiding on the roof, Xiao Yue went around to Yang Danian's backyard, pushed open the small door, and then opened the main gate of the garden, hiding in the corner between Yang Danian's woodpile and the outer wall.
Looking at the four corpses in front of him, one of them had a diamond-shaped sleeve dart stuck in his heart.
Wang Shizheng, leading a group of twenty-odd men, stood in front of the four corpses and ordered several soldiers, "Search them thoroughly, dig three feet into the ground!"
The four of them entered Yang Danian's courtyard. Xiaoyue peered through the cracks at the approaching soldiers, then crouched down and stood up again after the footsteps had passed. There she saw Liang Qi on the roof.
He rushed into the crowd, snatched the soldiers' knives, and killed them one by one. The four men didn't even need to use two moves before they all collapsed in Hu Jianan's yard.
Hearing the commotion, Wang Shi led the remaining ten people into the courtyard. At that moment, another woman ran out of Yang's house. Yang's appearance was completely different from what Xiaoyue had seen before.
With a stern, pale face and eyes that seemed to pierce with a sharp, ruthless edge, the four of them retreated with their backs to Xiaoyue. As they retreated onto the road, Xiaoyue spotted a shadow...
In an instant, the four men collapsed on the road, using the same method as the previous four men.
Wang Shi was dealing with Liang Qi when he suddenly saw four more corpses. A chill ran down his spine. "Retreat! Retreat!" he thought. He had encountered a master.
Sister Yang arrived and stood on the north side of the road, while Liang Qi stood on the south side. Wang Shi led twelve people on the road.
The three sides were locked in a standoff. Yang's pretty face was cold and icy, and if her eyes could devour people, those soldiers would have been torn to shreds long ago.
Liang Qi, seemingly oblivious to the danger, greeted Sister Yang: "Sister Yang, you didn't go to Qixing Mountain either?"
Sister Yang glanced at Liang Qi, then suddenly smiled. Her smile was as radiant and captivating as peach blossoms in April.
Wang Shi cried out in a daze, "Peach Blossom Arrow, Peach Blossom Arrow, you are the famous Peach Blossom Arrow, the only woman on the list of the top ten assassins, Peach Blossom Arrow." As he spoke, he backed away, his voice becoming unsteady.
At this moment, a bright smile appeared on Yang Sao's youthful and beautiful face, but her voice was devoid of any warmth as she quietly said, "They all have to die."
Wang Shi's knees buckled, and he knelt down, still unwilling to give up, saying, "The rumors in the martial world say you're dead, so how did you end up in this small place?" He then forced a smile that looked more like a grimace.
"Wang Shi is willing to follow me for the rest of his life?"
"May I ask, Lord Peach Blossom Arrow, what is your real name?" Wang Shi asked, kowtowing to Sister Yang.
"Murong Guiyuan!"
After hearing what Sister Yang said, Wang Shi repeated loudly, "Wang Shi is willing to follow Lord Murong Guiyuan for the rest of his life, to lead his horse and hold his stirrups, and to never abandon him in this life."
Sister Yang glanced at the twelve people and said in an icy voice, "Stop talking nonsense, today is your death day!"
After saying that, she threw away the two hidden arrows in her hands and drew a soft sword from her waist. The sword danced gracefully, making her look like a fairy descending to earth. Every move, every hook and flick, was a beautiful fusion of agile dance and deadly weapon in the hands of Peach Blossom Arrow.
After fighting their way to the last one, with only Wang Shi remaining, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance and saw Wang Shi there. They hurriedly grabbed the reins, jumped off their horses, and knelt before Wang Shi.
With a deathly pale expression, he said, "Quick, quick, inform the scholar that a large army is heading this way."
"A large army?"
Wang Shi glanced at Yang's wife standing behind him and immediately asked, "Which army are they? What equipment do they have? Where are they?"
After a series of questions, Liang Qi noticed the soldier's thirsty expression, took the water pouch from the dead soldier's waist, and handed it to the soldier kneeling on the ground.
He took the water pouch, drank half of it in one gulp, and said with a sigh of relief, "I'm on the scholar's orders to find a doctor for the centurion and Hei Zi."
When we were still ten miles from the town, I saw a great procession of banners heading in my direction. I dared not linger any longer, so I spurred my horse and galloped back as fast as I could to tell the scholar the news.
Wang Shi waved his hand and said, "The scholar is dead, the centurion is dead, Hei Zi is dead, they're all dead."
"What? Who killed him?"
The soldier kneeling on the ground then noticed that everyone behind Wang Shi was dead. The water bag in his hand flew out, and he tried to mount the horse, but couldn't get on.
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