Purple Bamboo Forest is a barren mountain in the western suburbs of Hua'an County. It is usually a place where poor people stay. It got its name because of the purple bamboo that grows there.

However, when the flood hit, because the purple bamboo forest was located at a relatively high altitude, it was not greatly affected. Instead, it became a life-saving place at that time.

Zhao Ji led his men towards this side while looking for someone to find out the situation.

Zizhulin is quite far away from where the two corrupt officials enjoy themselves, and they probably don't come here often, so they are indifferent.

Before reaching the Purple Bamboo Forest, I saw a group of strong men blocking the road leading to the Purple Bamboo Forest.

Tian Zhao had been holding back for a long time, and after getting Zhao Ji's approval, he kicked them directly. The group of sturdy men had ferocious looks on their faces, and they were obviously gangsters, and some were even villains who had killed people, and they rushed up one after another.

Tian Zhao was not afraid either. He drew out his sword and, together with the help of several hundred soldiers who arrived earlier, he easily defeated this group of less than a hundred strong men. However, one fish still escaped.

Zhao Ji looked at the direction the man ran and did not order him to chase: "It doesn't matter, just let him go to report the news. I want to see how many people these two corrupt officials have deployed here."

After walking for a while, we saw more and more corpses around us. It was as if the human bodies were thrown here at random.

The smell of death is everywhere here.

There wasn't even the sound of birds around.

The trees gradually became denser, but Zhao Ji ordered the soldiers to slow down.

Sure enough, after walking a few steps, some unusual movements appeared in the woods.

Tian Zhao trained his soldiers in formation to deal with surprise attacks.

Many masked men in black suddenly appeared with extraordinary skills. Tian Zhao protected Zhao Ji while killing the enemies. Although Zhao Ji and his group had many people, they were in a forest and the narrow environment was not conducive to multi-person combat. In addition, these gangsters were all proficient in sneak attacks, so many people on Zhao Ji's side were injured for a while.

Zhao Ji sneered: "You don't need to protect me, just protect those two corrupt officials from being silenced."

Tian Zhao had seen Zhao Ji's skills before, and vaguely understood that Zhao Ji was not a powerless person, so he felt relieved to withdraw some of his men, but Tian Zhao's eyes would still occasionally glance at Zhao Ji.

Because of the obstruction of the branches, Zhao Ji was unable to judge for a moment how many men in black there were. He just felt as if a long time had passed and they had not yet killed all of them.

I don't know how much time had passed, but Zhao Ji suddenly realized that there seemed to be someone hiding behind him. Zhao Ji instinctively went over, held his breath, and went behind that person, and suddenly defeated the enemy with one move.

Zhao Ji placed his hand on the man's throat, but Zhao Ji found that the man in black had no Adam's apple. His heart moved and his hand involuntarily touched his chest.

Hmm...it's really soft.

"You scoundrel, let me go!" a coquettish voice came.

Zhao Ji took his hand off his chest a little embarrassedly, but still maintained the holding posture.

"If you tell your men to withdraw, I will let you go."

Zhao Ji whispered into the woman's ear.

The woman's ears were visibly red, but she still said stubbornly, "What if I don't retreat?"

Zhao Ji's hand revisited the old place, increased the force, and said: "Girl, if you don't let go, I will kill you here!"

As soon as this job was mentioned, coupled with Zhao Ji's actions that didn't seem fake, the girl trembled all over: "Don't mess around, don't mess around!"

"Everyone, follow my orders and retreat!"

The woman used her inner strength to shout, and her voice echoed throughout the woods for a moment. Zhao Ji paused slightly and actually let the little girl slip away from his arms.

Before leaving, she didn't forget to say something cruel: "Just wait for me!"

Zhao Ji smelled his hands and a sweet fragrance came over him, not bad, not bad.

Tian Zhao and his companions were so furious with killing that their blood boiled, but they also captured some men in black.

Zhao Ji stepped forward and skillfully removed the jaws of the men in black: "Remove all the poison hidden in their mouths before questioning them."

After a while, Tian Zhao found out the background of this group of people.

It turned out to be a very famous killer building in the underworld - Yanyu Building.

However, the owner of Yanyu Tower is not a woman, but a man.

So the little girl just now must have called the OP on purpose.

Zhao Ji didn't take the little girl seriously, but asked, "Why did these people come to intercept us?"

Tian Zhao replied: "It's because they seem to have received a very high commission, saying that they want to assassinate you in Hua'an County and fake a refugee riot! He doesn't know who is behind these minions, so he didn't ask!"

Zhao Ji nodded. The assassination was also within his expectations.

If there was no assassination like this, Zhao Ji would probably think that there was a bigger conspiracy behind it.

"No need to ask. You leave one third of the people behind to take the wounded and the assassins to the nearby clinic. Be careful. The rest of you, follow me."

When Tian Zhao heard this, he showed his unwillingness: "Sir, this is not appropriate. The refugees over there may riot at any time. In addition, we don't know how many people the two corrupt officials have ambushed. This is not safe!"

Zhao Ji looked at the wounded and said, "It's not unsafe. I know what's going on. Just follow my orders!"

Tian Zhao was ultimately unable to defeat Zhao Ji, and could only try his best to select elite soldiers to follow Zhao Ji.

When we came out of the woods, there was a huge pit, with skinny, pale-faced people standing or lying in the pit.

The strange thing is that there was not a single guard around.

Zhao Ji wanted to walk to the front to take a closer look, when he suddenly saw a man who was trying to climb out of the pit. Halfway through, he fell down and hit a person who was sitting. The person who fell down did not react, and the person who was hit did not react either.

Tian Zhao couldn't bear to look over and said, "Sir, don't look at it. The person sitting and the person who fell down are both dead, and their chests are not moving!"

Only then did Zhao Ji notice that there seemed to be many dead people in the pit. The slow-moving living people did not shy away and either lay on the dead to rest or stripped the dead's clothes and put them on to keep warm. It seemed that here, death was as common as eating and drinking.

Tian Zhao asked around and finally figured out why there were no guards nearby.

"This is the pit where the patients will be buried alive. The guards are afraid of getting sick, so they basically only guard the perimeter. There should be guards on the path through the woods we took, but they may have been cleared by the people from the Misty Rain Tower, so we were not stopped."

Tian Zhao's face turned pale. He said, "Sir, according to the patient we just asked, there is indeed a plague here!"

"They really did have the plague, and there is basically no doctor who can cure this kind of disease."

"So, sir, we can't leave either?"