Chapter 217 Dalang, it’s time to take medicine (27)
Apparently Huo Shichu was not the only one who thought that the caravan's wheel marks were so deep because it was transporting gold and silver. Even the bandits thought so. So when the caravan reached a remote valley, they encountered a group of well-equipped robbers.
"If you want to die, leave all the goods behind! Otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless!" The leader, a masked, burly bandit on horseback, raised his voice, blocked the caravan and shouted loudly.
The caravan boss was panicked for a while at first, but he was experienced and after barely suppressing his inner fear, he was able to remain calm and bargain with the bandits, trying to give up some goods in exchange for safety so as not to lose everything.
But the robbers would not talk to him about morality. They would naturally take away every drop of the benefits, and would never leave half for the victim. So the negotiations broke down, and the escorts brought by the caravan came in handy.
Some other ordinary people who followed the caravan were so scared that they were running for their lives. Fortunately, the bandits were targeting the caravan, not them, so they took advantage of the confrontation between the escort and the robbers to successfully escape from the battlefield.
Wei Qi and Huo Shichu did not stay in the caravan. After all, they had paid a fee to the escort to save their lives. Now the escort was mainly the first customer and did not care about the safety of small and individual customers like them. It was impossible for Wei Qi, an individual customer, to turn the tables and help the escort, right? He was not such a saintly person. He had struggled in the end times and his heart was hard and cold.
So Wei Qi drove the carriage and wanted to leave the caravan, but the carriage he bought was so good and comfortable that the robbers thought they were in cahoots with the caravan, so several robbers ran up and tried to stop them.
Wei Qi stopped his horse, kicked his long legs and kicked away the bandit who was slashing at him with a knife. He rode for a while, and another robber shouted and rushed up aggressively. Wei Qi raised his toes to pick up the long sword beside the seat, stretched out his hand to grasp the sword, and started fighting with the robber.
The robber was obviously no match for him and was forced to retreat after just a few moves. However, two other robbers rushed up fearlessly. They had realized that Wei Qi was a tough guy, so they naturally concentrated their forces to deal with him. Since they couldn't defeat him alone or by two, they decided to just start a multi-on-one group battle.
In order to prevent those people from hurting his horse, Wei Qi deliberately fought with the robbers at a distance. Huo Shichu was holding her sword in the carriage. This sword was found for her by Wei Qi because Huo Shichu said she knew some martial arts. Wei Qi did not doubt anything and got her such a long sword without saying a word.
Isn't it useful now? These bandits are not vegetarians. Wei Qi struggled with them for a long time before he dealt with them and returned to the carriage.
"They are very skilled. They don't look like ordinary robbers. More like well-trained ones." Seeing that no robbers paid attention to them for the time being, Wei Qi whispered to Huo Shichu.
Upon hearing this, Huo Shichu frowned and looked at the bandits fighting with the caravan guards and escorts in the distance. After watching for a while, he found that their moves were indeed not like those of "self-taught" bandits. Instead, they were more like strictly trained soldiers or secret guards.
"Are you saying they are fake bandits?" Huo Shichu asked with his eyes wide open. They wouldn't be so unlucky this time and get into trouble, right?
"Eight or nine out of ten." Wei Qi said lightly. The two were about to continue talking, but other bandits discovered that they were trapped and rushed over.
Wei Qi killed them one by one with his hands, and the escort master Hu, who happened to have a little friendship with him, saw his neat and beautiful skills and immediately asked him for help in surprise: "Brother Wei! Brother Wei! Come and help me!"
Wei Qi glanced at him, and seeing that he could handle the enemy, he said loudly: "I'm sorry, Brother Hu, my wife is weak and helpless, I have to protect her."
Hearing his high-sounding words, Huo Shichu couldn't help but glance at him. This man was really lying with his eyes open, but she didn't expose him. After all, they were a family.
Wei Qi seemed to notice her look and smiled at him.
Escort Hu was one of the strongest fighters in the caravan. The other escorts were not as skilled as him, and many of them were killed or wounded. He was extremely anxious, but he was entangled by several robbers in front of him and could not save his brothers. After hearing Wei Qi's refusal, he could only continue to beg:
"Brother Wei! Big brother! Please help me! I will reward you handsomely in the future!"
Perhaps it was Master Hu's words that inspired the caravan boss. He realized that there was a powerful man like Wei Qi in his team, and he hurriedly promised him a huge reward: "Brother! I'll pay you fifty gold coins to help me! As long as you can drive these people away!"
"Hmph! I'm afraid that some people have the chance to make money but not the chance to spend it!" The bandit leader who was harassing the caravan boss sneered, his murderous intent becoming even stronger. The guards surrounding the caravan boss found it even harder to resist and fell down one by one.
The caravan boss was so scared that he shouted again: "One hundred gold! Strong men, help me! You can ask for as much as you want!"
Wei Qi lifted his earlobe and did not respond. However, even though he had no intention of going forward to help, after hearing what Master Hu and the caravan boss shouted at them, the robbers knew that Wei Qi was a tough guy, so they gathered a few more people to deal with him.
Wei Qi raised his sword and went down with murderous intent, he raised his hand and swung the sword, moved his hands and kicked with his feet, his movements were sharp and fast, killing people like chopping melons and vegetables, beating the bandits without any chance of fighting back, the escort and other robbers who were watching the situation from a distance were watching this scene in shock.
They had heard that Wei Qi was very strong, but they didn't expect him to be this strong! If this man didn't come out, the mission would fail...
As a result, Wei Qi, whose true strength was exposed, immediately became the robbers' primary target. They rushed up one after another, killing one after another, as if they would never be able to kill enough.
It was just an illusion that they would never be able to kill all the robbers. Although there were many robbers, their fighting power was not on the same level as Wei Qi's. So in the end, the surviving escorts and caravan members looked at Wei Qi in amazement as he killed a robber single-handedly like a killing god, without even blinking an eye. It was clean and neat, as if he was dancing with a sword. His movements were graceful and neat, and killing people seemed like art.
"What are you still standing there for? While Brother Wei is exerting his strength, let's quickly deal with the other robbers!" After Master Hu reacted, he woke up his stunned companions. After his reminder, his companions quickly worked together to deal with the other bandits.
Not long after, the bandits who besieged Wei Qi disappeared. Wei Qi shook off the blood on his sword and walked towards his carriage with a frown. His sword and clothes were soaked with blood, and he had to clean them up.
(End of this chapter)
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