Zhao Qian stood on one side of the cave, holding her scimitar in her hand and holding her their heads, there were a lot of chaotic footsteps, and the people above seemed to be walking and stopping, searching for something. No need to ask, of course he came for them, or rather, for Ren Qi. Ren Qi had just experienced a great battle, was soaked in the ice lake, and was injured by several shots from the Northern Spear Saint Bai Xiu. Although he had a gloomy face and looked no different from usual, Zhao Qian vaguely felt that his injuries should not be underestimated. This is also the reason why they are hiding in the cave at this time. When the footsteps faded away, Zhao Qian asked, "Are you okay?" "Ah!" Ren Qi snorted coldly, "What can happen to me? It's just a minor injury. Once in Tianjin, our imperial guards were on a secret mission and broke into a White Lotus sect altar when they were ambushed and suffered heavy losses. Some people had more than 20 knife wounds and three bullets in their bodies. " "Doesn't the White Lotus Sect use firearms?" Zhao Qian was surprised. When she asked this, Ren Qi actually chuckled, an expression he had never shown before, which left Zhao Qian confused.
After a while, he finally stopped laughing and said calmly, "That was a general who thought he was the bravest among the three armies. It was his bad luck. We were ambushed. Some people panicked and raised their guns to shoot at crowded places. That's why the man was shot three times in the back." Zhao Qian didn't find it funny, she was just surprised and asked, "So, he's not dead?" "I said he could survive and get out, I didn't say he wouldn't die." Ren Qi's expression turned grim again, "Anyone would die if they were injured like that." "So you..." Zhao Qian couldn't help but feel a little worried again. "I?" Ren Qi seemed to feel that he was being underestimated, and just snorted coldly: "I said, it's just a minor injury." "it is good!" Zhao Qian suddenly drew her sword, "Then I'll go call those bastards over and kill them one by one!" "and many more!" Ren Qi called her, "I think this place is pretty good. Why don't we stay here for one night? What if we kill so many people and the place becomes smelly?" "I didn't expect you to be such a clean person." Zhao Qian smiled, put the knife aside, and unbuttoned the coat she was wearing. At this time, the firelight in the cave illuminated her body under her thin clothes. Ren Qiyi pulled her over and pressed her aside. "Aren't you injured?" she asked with a flushed face. "I told you, it's just a minor injury, it will be fine after healing." Ren Qi buried his head in it. After a night of swaying, Ren Qi was indeed healed, and Zhao Qian's face also looked much rosier.
As the two were packing up and getting ready to go, they heard footsteps on the top of the cave again. "Should we not let them pollute the tranquility of this place?" Zhao Qian asked. "No need, everywhere is dirty." Ren Qi drew his sword and rushed out. After a while, she heard a group of people screaming from above her head, the sharp sound of a knife being unsheathed, then the sound of flesh being cut, screaming, and whimpering. After just a moment, Ren Qi seemed to have gotten things done. When he fell from the top, he just shook the blood off the sword, and then tore a piece of cloth from some dead victim and wiped the sword carefully with it. Seeing Zhao Qian staring at him, Ren Qi just said calmly: “Killing people is really a very troublesome thing, isn’t it? If you want to kill someone, you need a good weapon. However, a good weapon needs to be maintained and wiped from time to time, especially after killing someone. If you don't wipe it for a while and shake off the blood on it, spots are inevitable on the sword. If you don't wipe it clean and put it in the scabbard, in hot weather, after just one day, you will feel like you are carrying a rat that has been dead for who knows how long. Just putting the sword next to your pillow will make you feel sick and want to vomit. " Zhao Qian seemed to understand something, "So I see those masters often wipe their weapons." Ren Qi nodded, "That's right. A master spends most of his life cleaning his weapons. The rest of the time is spent walking, eating, sleeping, and only a small amount of time is spent killing people." "rare?" Zhao Qian just felt that those masters were either on their way to kill someone or at the moment of killing someone, and it seemed that they were always fighting with others. "Of course it's rare. If a master has been in the martial arts world for ten years, he might only be killing people for a few days." "What about the rest of the time? Like you said, what about the time other than eating, walking, and sleeping?" "I was stopped and questioned non-stop." "..." Zhao Qian turned her head to the side to ease the embarrassment. Then she saw a rather surprising sight. I saw a group of black cavalrymen coming here in a line, and the sound of horse hooves shattered the silence. "How on earth did they find us!?" Zhao Qian just felt a headache. "It's simple. Either you betrayed me or I betrayed you." "Do you think I will betray you?" Zhao Qian widened her eyes. "I don't know, but if it were me, I would." After Ren Qi finished speaking, he frowned and glanced at the sword in his hand, saying dissatisfiedly: "What a pity for this sword that has just been cleaned." The cavalry approached, and the riders drew their weapons, flashing cold light again, but Ren Qi didn't care.
He simply drew a sword. "Do you know what Bai Xiu wants to say to me?" Ren Qi suddenly asked. "what?" Before Zhao Qian finished asking, Ren Qi had already shot out, rushing towards the team of riders in the wind and snow. The leading cavalryman held a spear, and relying on his fastest speed, he used the horse's power to clamp the spear under his arm and rushed forward, stabbing Ren Qi with a spinning spear. Ren Qi kept running forward with his head down. When he heard the horse's rapid breathing, he raised his head with lightning in his eyes. The leading rider was startled by the look, and then a cold light cut his throat. The two companions behind him saw this and rolled their eyes. They pointed their weapons at Ren Qi and attacked him from both sides. Ren Qi was attacked by two long spears on the left and right. He leaned down to avoid the two spears. When he stood up again, he first slashed the stomach of a rider with the sword in his left hand, and then turned his hand to the right in an unpredictable way and separated another rider from his legs. Three people were killed or injured in the blink of an eye. Even if the riders were extremely powerful, their offensive momentum was inevitably hindered at this time. One of the Tatars, who had shaved his hair in front and wore a braid, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, walked out of the team, and put a white-feathered arrow on the string. boom! It was like the explosion of a musket, and arrows shot straight at any of the seven gates. Ren Qi tilted his head, flicked his wrist, and the tip of the sword hit the arrow, which turned around and hit the archer's eye. It went in from one end and came out from the other, bringing out a string of red and white, shocking everyone. Then even the most fearless and daring madman finally reacted, reined in his horse, and turned around to look back. It came in a hurry and left in a hurry, only sweeping up the white snow all over the ground. Ren Qi was not a murderer, but he felt that it was unpleasant to have to clean his sword again after killing only four people. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a rider still there. He reined in the panicked horse, making it trample the snow with all its hooves, but it could not change direction and escape. This man seemed to be even more panicked than the horse. "You won't run? I see that although your legs are weak, the horse's legs can still move." Ren Qi looked at him. The man immediately let go of the reins, and it looked like he stepped on empty air, or fell down in too much haste. Anyway, as soon as he got off the horse, he buried his whole face in the snow, with his hands and feet pressed to the ground, like a dog seeing its owner. "Xiang Guang, the fifth-rank sword-bearing guard of the Imperial Palace, greets Commander Ren!" Xiang Guang? Ren Qi ignored him at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he seemed to have heard of this name before. "When you were in the palace, were you with me?" "I am honored to work under the command of the commander. In Tianjin, Jiangnan, and Longxi, I have witnessed the style of the commander. It is really a great honor!" "Charming? Your ability to flatter is indeed like that of a master of the Imperial Palace."
Ren Qi touched his chin with his hand, not knowing whether his wording was accurate, or whether he was worthy of this word. "Raise your head." Ren Qi ordered. So Xiang Guang raised his head and lowered his eyes. His red face was covered with ice chips, mud and snow, which made him look quite funny. "It's really you." Ren Qi finally got the impression, "You're not dead?" "Thanks to Commander Ren, I found a secret passage that night and escaped. I didn't die." "Really?" There was a hint of regret in Ren Qi's tone. Thinking back to that night, Ren Qi only remembered the sounds of fighting, flames, arrows, and bullets everywhere. He became the public enemy of the palace almost overnight. He did not dare to trust even his own trusted subordinates and just killed himself to escape in a bloody way. After leaving Yujing, he vaguely heard that all his subordinates who had worked for him before were transferred out of Yujing, and those who followed him were all killed. "Since you have followed me to so many places, you must have robbed a lot of money and women. You have been greedy for big things and greedy for small things. I never treat my subordinates unfairly. How did you end up being a killer?" Ren Qi certainly knew that the nature of the masters in the Forbidden Palace was hard to change. Even if they left the system of the Forbidden Palace, no one would become a Buddha one day and suddenly vow to get rid of himself, the most wanted criminal in the Nine Provinces. The only reason they came here to fight after leaving the palace was because of money. "Commander, you are naturally very kind to your subordinates. If you don't like to eat something, you will definitely share it with your subordinates and ask them to eat it all up. Just like in the mansion of Mr. Sun in Jiangnan, just..." "Don't talk about the past." Ren Qi interrupted him, "What was done is done. There is nothing to regret or be ashamed of. However, it is just a past event that is not worth mentioning. I only ask you, why did you come here to kill me?" "How dare I?" Xiang Guang cried out in pain and buried his face in the snow again. "You don't dare? You just pointed a gun at me again?" Ren Qi sneered. When Xiang Guang heard this, he felt something was wrong. He remained kneeling, and his hand touched his waist intentionally or unintentionally. "But I won't argue with you that much." “The younger one actually saved a lot of money.” Xiang Guang's hand left the hidden weapon. "However, he fled in a hurry that day, and he didn't have time to take his wife, concubines, and children with him. He only packed a package and tens of thousands of taels of silver." "You don't think it's a nuisance to bring them along, do you?" Ren Qi snorted coldly. The masters of the Imperial Palace only regarded money as the best and most trustworthy partner. Xiang Guang just smiled bitterly, knowing that Ren Qi didn't care, so he continued: "It's a pity that I'm used to spending lavishly, and I don't have good fortune, so I spent almost all of it in just a few years. I had no choice but to..." "Come to kill me?" After Ren Qi said this, Xiang Guang shuddered again. However, he already knew that Ren Qi didn't care about this, so he just lay there without moving.
"Get up." "Thank you, Commander!" "I am no longer the commander." "Yes, my lord." Ren Qi didn't find this call strange, so he just let him call him that. He pointed to an empty space on one side and said, "Bring those horses here. We'll need them later." "Yes!" Xiang Guang could probably guess what Ren Qi was going to do, but he was used to putting his life at risk. Now he understood that it was better to follow Ren Qizong than to hang out with those people in Xiandu. After all, the Northern Spear Saint Bai Xiu died at the hands of his former commander, not to mention the other insects. So Xiang Guang did not dare to even look at the woman next to Ren Qi. He just diligently led the horse over and wiped the neck of the poor man lying on the ground with a broken leg. Everything seemed clean and neat, just like when he was in the palace in the past. "My lord, please!" Xiang Guang lowered his head and pulled the reins. Ren Qi didn't find it strange to see him like this, he just jumped onto the horse lightly. After Ren Qi got on the horse, Xiang Guang quickly ran to another horse and lay down in the snow. "This is?" Zhao Qian was stunned for a moment and understood what Xiang Guang meant, but she still cast a questioning look at Ren Qi first. Ren Qi was not surprised, he just snorted coldly: "Good slave." Only then did Zhao Qian finally endure the awkwardness and stepped on Xiang Guang's back to get on the horse. Xiang Guang was so lazy that he didn't even bother to wipe the mud off his back. He just quickly mounted the third horse with a smile on his face. He originally wanted to be at the back, following Ren Qi. However, Ren Qi glanced at him and said calmly, "Lead the way." "lead the way?" Xiang Guang hesitated only for a moment, then immediately reacted with the cleverness and alertness of a master from the Imperial Palace. "I heard that there are two groups of assassins coming to this snowy mountain. One group was called by the one-eyed dragon, and the other group was the cold-faced man who recruited us." "Cold-faced?" Ren Qi suddenly remembered this person, "Is he the cold-faced man who specializes in setting up traps and helping people kill people?" "it's him."
Xiang Guang said with a smile: "As long as that bastard can make money, he can even sell out Old X. This time he summoned many of us here, to..." He didn't go on. Ren Qi's smile became even brighter, showing his teeth, "Lead the way, I want to see what price Xiandu has set for me." (End of this chapter)