Knife splashing

Chapter 60: Rescue
"No hurry, get up and tell me what's going on."

Manager Wan looked solemn and ordered his men to help the man up.

Li Yan had seen this man before. He was a craftsman working in the village. When he saw that something had happened, he couldn't leave, so he stood by and watched.

After being helped up, the man still had weak legs and a pale face. He didn't care about the blood flowing from his forehead and said in a trembling voice:

"Zhu Zi led a few children to cut grass at the village entrance. One of the children who came back said that a peddler was walking along the official road, throwing candy everywhere and tricking the children into telling him his name."

"After eating the candy, the children fell into a coma. It was the villagers who passed by who woke them up, but when they woke up, Zhuzi had been kidnapped."

"Uncle Wan, my family only has this one child. If he is lost, how can I explain to our ancestors?"

As he said this, he burst into tears.

When the carpenters around heard this, they were immediately furious.

"How dare you come to the village and kidnap someone, you coward!"

"Let's go, the person shouldn't have gone far, let's go search!"

"I found him, and I must skin him alive!"

Everyone was angry and was about to go out to look for him.

"What are you panicking about?!"

One of the old carpenters shouted angrily, "Uncle Wan hasn't spoken yet. Even if they are human traffickers in Xianyang City, Uncle Wan can make them send the people back obediently with just one word!"

Everyone was awakened and remembered the identity of Manager Wan.

Shopkeeper Wan nodded and said, "Ershun, Shuanzi, take some gifts and my visiting card and go to the city's pawnbrokers and the westbound beggars' den respectively and ask them to find someone."

"Speak politely and follow the rules of the underworld."

"Yes, Master!"

Immediately, two carpenters stepped out and prepared to leave.

"If we do this, I'm afraid we won't be able to find the person back."

Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd.

Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Sharifei.

Sharifei chuckled, scratched his big bald head, and said with a cupped hand: "Manager Wan is kind and righteous. We can't hold back on what we have to say. If I said something wrong, please forgive me."

Shopkeeper Wan nodded and said, "Go ahead."

Sha Lifei looked at everyone and said, "I have been around the world and have seen many evil ways."

"There are beggars who kidnap children everywhere, but they always pick the smart and clever ones, and the ones who are young, so that they can sell them at a good price."

"But this peddler asked for the name first. It's obvious that he came prepared."

"Besides, if you hang out on the Xianyang Road, how could you not know the name of Shangyi Village? So most of them are looking for revenge. It's useless to look for human traffickers and beggars!"

"Brother Sha, what you said makes sense!"

Shopkeeper Wan frowned, stood up suddenly, turned around, and suddenly saw Li Yan next to him. He was immediately delighted and hurriedly bowed and said, "I almost forgot about Brother Li's magical powers. I have to trouble you for this matter."

Li Yan cupped his hands and said, "Okay, I want a fast horse and the kid's belongings!"

"Quick, lead the horse!"

"Shuanzi, go get something."

Soon someone brought a chestnut horse and handed over a small wooden sword.

He didn't waste any words and jumped on the horse with the knife and small wooden sword in hand.

"drive!"

With a flick of the reins, the chestnut horse immediately ran out of the yard.

The sound of horse hooves accompanied by dust and smoke soon disappeared from everyone's sight...

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In just a few breaths, Li Yan arrived at the entrance of the village. He pinched the Yang Jue and smelled it, then immediately turned around and ran along the official road.

The smell left by the child was very faint, maybe he had been put into the bag.

But this could not be hidden from his nasal magic.

Following the faint smell, Li Yan galloped on his horse, and soon he saw the city of Xianyang in the distance.

He gritted his teeth and sped up instead.

Xianyang City is very dangerous for him now, but there are some things that must be done.

Shopkeeper Wan treats people with sincerity, and he is never afraid of killing people with his knife!
However, when reaching the fork in the road leading to Xianyang City, the smell turned around and went in another direction.

Li Yan turned his horse's head directly, but a hint of doubt flashed between his brows.

This direction leads to Menggu Village.

That place is quite famous, not because of its beautiful mountains and rivers, but because it was involved in the Maitreya riot and the entire village was razed to the ground by the imperial army.

There are a few villages like this in Guanzhong.

More than a decade has passed, but the scars have not healed. There are even absurd stories about various ghost villages and resentful spirits, and no one dares to move into the village.

Could it be that the place has been occupied by human traffickers?

Li Yan was curious and urged his horse to speed up.

But halfway along the way, the smell changed again, deviating from the main road and going deep into the weeds.

Li Yan turned his horse around and rushed into the grass. Soon he came across a small river.

The stream was not deep, and he rode across it, and the smell completely disappeared.

Li Yan frowned, activated the Yang Jue, and took a deep breath.

"Damn, you cunning beast!"

He cursed and turned his horse around to gallop again. But the trafficker walked a distance in the river, returned to the shore from another direction, and continued to head towards the deserted village.

If it were an ordinary tracking method, it would probably be deceived by this little trick, but it is useless against the magical powers of the people in the Xuanmen.

Sure enough, after walking a few hundred meters forward and climbing over a loess slope, two figures appeared on the road ahead.

A woman was driving a donkey cart with hay piled on the back.

There were also peddlers carrying wooden boxes with many compartments on them, filled with kites, candied haws, clay figurines and other toys.

The peddler was holding a rattle in his hand and whispering to the woman.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves, the two men immediately turned their heads with eyes full of vigilance.

Li Yan's heart moved, and he clasped his fists and shouted, "Please stay, I want to ask you a question."

As he spoke, he secretly squeezed the horse's belly without slowing down.

"Okay, where do you want to go, sir?"

The peddler stopped and turned around. He was a young man with a kind face.

Although his face was full of flattery, his right hand reached for his waist. Suddenly, he twisted his body and swung his right arm. Then a half-foot iron arrow whizzed out and headed straight for Li Yan's brow.

Flick the arrow!
At this time, the distance between the two sides was close, less than ten meters.

The peddler's hidden weapon is quite powerful. An ordinary person would probably be hit.

However, Li Yan had activated his magical powers and had already smelled the iron. The moment he swung the arrow, he turned sideways and fell off his horse.

It seemed that he had fallen off his horse, but he somersaulted in the air and landed steadily on the ground. He lowered his body, held his knife horizontally, and rushed out behind the horse.

But in the eyes of the peddler, Li Yan suddenly disappeared, and then the big chestnut horse galloped towards him.

The frightened horse was so powerful that the peddler had to dodge.

But as the horse passed, a flash of a knife came whistling in front of him.

Oops!
The peddler was startled and stepped back quickly.

However, the knife light was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, getting closer and closer to his neck.

"watch out!"

Just as the peddler was terrified, the woman on the donkey cart suddenly jumped up, spun the meteor cone in her hand, pressed her left leg, and the sharp cone in front of her stabbed and whistled towards Li Yan.

Li Yan dodged and at the same time Guan Shan raised his knife. The meteor cone changed direction and whizzed around the blade.

"come on!"

Li Yan gathered his strength and pulled backwards.

The woman was still in mid-air when she suddenly lost her balance and fell to the ground with a thud. She was covered in dust and the meteor cone in her hand fell out of her hand.

On the other side, the peddler dodged the life-chasing knife, rolled over, and when he stood up, he had a few more arrows in his hands. He waved his hands and half-foot iron arrows whizzed towards him.

The difficulty for ordinary people to dodge hidden weapons is undoubtedly that their bodies cannot keep up with their eyes.

A powerful master can listen to the wind and determine the position, and even coordinate his mind and hands to move his body at will, using weapons to block, or simply catch it and throw it back.

As for Li Yan, with his powerful sense of smell, he could avoid any movement within a hundred meters, so it was naturally easier for him as he could avoid it without even looking.

Ding Ding Ding!
He used the Guanshan knife in his hand to block left and right, and immediately knocked away several arrows. At the same time, he kept running at the peddler.

Seeing Li Yan entangled like an evil ghost, the peddler's scalp tingled, knowing that he had met a tough guy. He took out two daggers from his waist with both hands and screamed, "Tough guy, fight together!"

After saying that, he rolled forward, bent his legs, leaped forward, and stabbed Li Yan's abdomen with the dagger.

The woman pulled out a white wax spear from the haystack, shook her arms, and the spear shot out towards Li Yan's head.

The ground-lying knife and the pear blossom spear!

Li Yan immediately recognized their approach.

Although these two people have not cultivated hidden power, they cooperate well with each other and their methods are vicious. It is obvious that they are not ordinary human traffickers. Most of them are working alone and "living off Ge Nian".

To put it simply, it is the "Ge Gate" among the eight gates: flower, orchid, Rong, and Ge.

No matter if they are killers, thugs, lone thieves, flower-stealing thieves, or even swordsmen, as long as they rely on kung fu to do illegal activities, they are all members of the Ge Clan.

The two men obviously knew that Li Yan was difficult to deal with, so they attacked him without mercy.

The peddler rolled left and right on the ground with strange and agile movements. He used the dagger and leg techniques together, and it was like a whirlwind on the ground, with dust flying everywhere.

The woman's kung fu was obviously inferior, but the pear blossom spear in her hand rolled up and down, and the spear flowers exploded. Ninety percent of it was fake and one percent was real. It was mainly for interference, but every time she fired the spear, it was solid and she would definitely cooperate with the peddler to form a killing move.

Li Yan dodged to the right and seemed to be retreating step by step, but his eyes became colder and colder, like a beast suppressing its momentum.

Finally, a flaw appeared in the cooperation between the two.

The woman's spear was one step faster.

Li Yan immediately moved sideways and changed his shoulder, then he jumped back while raising his knife upwards.

Clang!
The knife flashed, and the woman's white wax spear was instantly cut off.

At the same time, the peddler rolled over, and the dagger crossed and raised up, making a spur.

Li Yan's retreat just managed to avoid the attack, and then he exerted force with his left leg, unleashing his hidden strength, and kicked forward with his right leg.

"Go to hell!"

Click!

The peddler's head was kicked back and he fell to the ground without making a sound.

Snapped!
When the woman saw this, her face turned pale. She just begged for mercy when Li Yan slapped her to the ground. Her eyes turned black and she fainted.

Li Yan stepped forward and opened the haystack.

Inside, the three children all had flushed faces and were unconscious...

(End of this chapter)