Square inch by Kyushu

The early morning in Qilian Village is not awakened by the crowing of cocks, but by the rapid knock on the door and the tragic cry.

When Gu An came out with his clothes on, what he saw was that the entrance of the only medical center in the village was full of people. The hangover made him have a splitting headache and his brows were frowning.

When he came to the crowd, he saw Xiang Jiufu, covered in blood, kneeling in the courtyard with his son Xiaobao in his arms, pleading, while the doctor beside him just shook his head silently, expressing that the patient was powerless to recover.Chunhua, on the other hand, hugged her mother who had fainted from crying, and was stunned on the spot, shaking like chaff all over her body.

At this time, Xiang Jiufu suddenly picked up Xiaobao, broke through the crowd and rushed out of the village.Someone in the crowd shouted, "Old Xiang, you can't go, have you forgotten that you can't leave this village?"

But at this time, Xiang Jiufu couldn't care less, Xiaobao was his only son, how could he endure the pain of losing a son when he was old, even if he had to lose his old life, he would not hesitate at all .

But the moment he stepped out of the village entrance and crossed the boundary marker, a huge red python suddenly appeared, and with a flick of the half-meter-thick snake, it entangled Xiang Jiufu.And the little treasure in his arms was thrown out of Xiang Jiufu's embrace by the huge inertia, fell to the ground and fell into a puddle of meat, with brains smeared all over the floor.

And Xiang Jiufu, who was caught in the snake body, suddenly became dumbfounded and stopped crying. I don't know if he was frightened by the giant python in front of him or he was hit hard because he saw his son turned into meat sauce. There were only the screams of the villagers and no more of his hoarse cries.

Seeing this, Gu An immediately mobilized his internal energy to save the person, but was held down by Qihai acupoint with both hands.

Clutching those hands behind his back, a familiar temperature invaded his fingertips. He looked up and saw Li Muge's freehand face.

Just as he was about to ask questions, he saw a black shadow crossing the crowd, passing by in front of his eyes, and heading straight for the scarlet python.

Looking carefully, the black shadow is exactly the "Wuming Li" I met last night.

But when he jumped, a kite turned over and landed behind the python with ease.Then the silver light flashed, and a straight line flowed smoothly from top to bottom. The red-scaled python where the straight line passed was instantly split into two, blood splashed out and dyed the world red.

Just when everyone's attention was focused on this shocking scene, Li Muge glanced at Gu An calmly. Although he was as cold and indifferent as usual at this time, but following his gaze looked at Gu An. You can still see the clues.

His eyes skipped over all the things worth noting at this time, and only stayed on the snake-splitting dagger of "Li Wuming".

Li Muge looked at the dagger, his eyes lit up.

This kind of rusty exterior looks like broken copper and rotten iron, but the blade's edge is like the moon reflected in the cold river, and it is rare to see a dagger that instantly breaks gold and breaks jade.

And he happened to have seen exactly the same one in Gu An's hands.

With his lips raised, he glanced at Gu An calmly, and said in his heart: Such a cold and witty person has a lot of romantic debts!

Things are really interesting!

But when Li Muge and Gu An both stood in the middle of the ancestral hall and were pointed at by thousands of people, he didn't find it so interesting.

At this moment, he could only smile helplessly.

The two of them didn't kill the person this time, and they didn't attract the snake. What's more, they also saved a little girl in the village.

As a result, the whole village is now saying that they offended the "snake demon" and caused the disaster in the village. The people are so passionate that they want to drag them to sacrifice to appease the snake demon's anger, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

It's so stupid, it really is a land of barbarians!

In his heart, Li Muge had scolded Qilian Village from top to bottom, from the eighteenth generation of his ancestors to the No.19 generation in front of him.With a cold snort, he pulled Gu An up and walked away.This rambunctious attack simply made him have a splitting headache.

At this time, several strong men from the village stood in front of them with thick wooden sticks, and they were about to shoot them down.

Li Muge didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, and with a flash, he not only dodged the attack, but also walked to the door with Gu An.

None of the people present could see clearly how he did it, and they couldn't help being afraid under the astonishment, and for a while, they were no longer as aggressive as before.

At this moment, "Li Wuming" clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Brother, you are very skillful. Such a handsome skill is probably one of the best in the Jianghu. I wonder if you can report your name."

Looking around, Li Muge smiled helplessly: "Looking at today's situation, I'm afraid it's useless to talk too much, it's better to have a later date!" After saying that, he waved his folding fan and walked away, but stopped in place just when his left foot was about to step out .Just because "Li Wuming" has paved his way full of "poisonous needles" in an instant.

Although the poisonous needles are so thin that they are almost invisible, but due to the large number and during the daytime, the sunlight can reflect a section of bright light.

Seeing this, Li Muge wondered why the poisonous needle was so familiar. It reminded him of that night in front of Shui Furong's house—that long and treacherous night.

At this time, "Li Wuming" came to Li Muge's side, raised his right hand, and the ancestral hall became completely silent, neither scolding nor discussion.

"It seems that the treatment of 'officials ordered by the imperial court' is really different." Li Muge curled his lips, noncommittal.

"Indeed, I also feel the same." "Li Wuming" lightly brushed the dust off Li Muge's shoulders, and continued: "So when you have no power or power, you still have to learn to know current affairs."

"I'm afraid your 'power' came from a wrong path..." Li Muge looked at the other party with deep meaning, as if there was a pun in it.

At this time, Gu An, who had been quiet and transparent since just now, suddenly blocked the hand hovering on Li Muge's shoulder, and pulled Li Muge behind him.

At this time, he whispered in the ear of "Li Wuming": "We are from Xi Kingdom, and we have seen the real masked general Li Wuming."

"Wuming Li" glanced at him unconsciously, then immediately smiled contemptuously, and said in the same way: "No one has ever seen the real 'Wuming Li'. Anyway, wearing a mask, anyone can be 'Wuming Li', As long as the mask is real and delicate enough!" At this moment, a blood-colored jade mask suddenly appeared in his hand, half of which was embedded with a golden mask shaped like butterfly wings. The difference between silk and other places can almost confuse the real ones, and the degree of sophistication is simply amazing!

So he quietly stared at the face of "Li Wuming" who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and stopped talking.

Because at this moment he finally understood that no matter what they did or said, this person in front of him would not let them go.

But what he didn't understand was, why didn't he want to let them go?

Of course, he would never believe that he was just like those villagers, planning to sacrifice the two of them in order to calm the anger of some snake demon; nor would he naively think that he just wanted to leave them here to clarify misunderstandings.

Is that because of him?

But he clearly dispelled the other party's doubts about him last night!

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized that although he didn't doubt himself, no matter whether he had taken risks alone under the noses of the rich and powerful in the country of Xi before, or now he deliberately pretended to be the general of the enemy country, and came to such a strange village, his appearance always seemed to be It coincides with his own whereabouts.

Thinking about it this way, there is only one possibility: his actions and his own whereabouts were deliberately tied together by someone with a heart and made use of them.

Who would this person be?

What is the purpose of doing this?

Huge disappointment spread in the bottom layer of my heart, but it was quickly replaced by a deep worry.

Ji Yiran, you are a majestic lord, but you have been used so far.How can you be worthy of the half of the country that Jiu Ye spent his whole life fighting for?

If I was the one who made you make this big mistake, Yiran, how can you let me be worthy of the half of the country that Master Jiu fought for, and the painful price he himself paid for this half of the country?

Gu An smiled wryly in his heart, it seemed that he couldn't go to Sheng Jisheng for the time being, because before that, he had to find out the person who threatened Ji Yiran.

"Execution! Execution! Execution! Execution!..." As if bewitched by something, the surrounding villagers began to shout in unison.

"We have fallen into a cult organization, right? And the leader of this organization is not only strong in martial arts, but also good at using poison, so there is no fear in pretending to be someone else!" Li Muge spoke in a moderate voice, but it was just enough to make people around Hearing that, the voices of crusades one after another were obviously stagnant.

Gu An ignored him with a cold face as usual, but Li Muge's heart skipped a beat for some reason, and he felt vaguely uneasy.

"Such ominous people will only invite disasters, so it's better to fight quickly!" Ji Yiran, who was pretending to be "Li Wuming", had already lost his figure as he spoke, turned his palms over and bent his fingers into claws to grab Li Muge's throat.

Li Muge did not expect that the other party said to shoot, and quickly shook off the uneasiness in his heart and immediately bounced back, but unexpectedly, he was half a beat too late. Although he avoided the throat lock with the fingers, he couldn't avoid the poisonous needle piercing the heart.

The so-called life and death have fate, and he has always boasted that "life should not be terminated", so he simply closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate.

But God really treated him kindly, there was no expected pain and no death shroud, he just felt a gust of strong wind passing by calmly in front of him, a familiar scent of tea passed through his nose, and he could only see a few poisonous poisonous pills when he opened his eyes. The needle was tightly held between Gu'an's fingers, and at the same time, the opponent was forced back a few steps by him.

Gu An looked down at his fingers, and couldn't help being surprised: it turned out that protecting him had become an instinct of his unconsciously.

Without giving Li and Gu any time to breathe, Ji Yiran immediately continued his fierce attack when he missed the blow, and took Gu An's face with his palm.

Therefore, after Anla got up, Li Muge dodged to dodge, and fired poisonous needles with his fingertips, retaliating with fire.

Ji Yiran smiled contemptuously, and threw out a handful of purple mist with a wave of her long sleeves.Li and Gu hurriedly covered their mouths and noses and dodged to avoid it.At this time, there was a flash of cold light in the mist, and a sharp jet shot out, it turned out to be the dagger that just cut open the giant python, and it shot straight at Gu Anxin's mouth.

At this critical moment, there was a crisp sound of "pop", and a white jade folding fan fell to the ground. At the same time, a vigorous and powerful hand followed closely, grasping the fan fiercely in an instant. He took the dagger that was going straight to Gu'an's vital point, and knocked it into the air.

After blocking the blow, Li Muge let out a long breath of relief, turned his head to Gu An and said, regardless of his bloody hand, "Are you alright?"

Gu An shook his head and said nothing, just quietly stared at his right hand with no expression on his face.

"It's not easy to be able to pick up a cold jade dagger, but no matter how difficult you are, I'm afraid this hand will be useless from now on." While speaking, Ji Yiran launched another attack.I saw countless hidden weapons fired at once, and all kinds of poisons hit the sky, mixed in the shadow of death was his cruel and cold voice: "For people who practice martial arts, since their right hand is useless, it seems nothing to live. It makes sense, how about I give you a ride?"

Ji Yiran drew out the soft sword at his waist, intending to give the opponent a final fatal blow, but unexpectedly, the target in front of him disappeared suddenly, and disappeared without sound or warning.

At this moment, he was startled suddenly, his neck was covered with a layer of cold and sharp.And that sharp handle is exactly the "cold jade dagger" dripping with Li Muge's blood, threatening his pulse and laughing at the fragility of that layer of skin.

"Let us go." Li Muge's murderous voice sounded cold behind his ears, contrary to his usual carelessness, there was only a kind of chilling danger at the moment.

Ji Yiran immediately sneered and said: "Even if I let you go, can those giant snakes wandering outside the village let you go?"

"Then you send us away!" As soon as he finished speaking, the edge of the blade pressed down a centimeter, Ji Yiran suddenly felt a slight and sharp pain across his neck, and a glint of sinisterness flashed in his eyes.

When Gu An saw this, he was startled, but seeing that Li Muge was just bluffing but not ruthless, he didn't stop him.

"Send you away? Send you away, your hand will definitely be ruined. His life will not be long!" With a cold snort, Ji Yiran gestured to Gu An's finger that just took the poisonous needle with his eyes, "The hidden weapon I shot I have always been able to hide but not pick it up, especially this 'poisonous needle', which looks small and harmless but is in the shape of a snowflake, with sharp edges on each side, and when it touches it, it is a very thin scratch. There are already hundreds of fine lines invisible to the naked eye. The toxicity has long been dispersed."

Li Muge's injured right hand was hanging on the side and trembling slightly, but there was never a trace of pain on his face.But when he heard that Gu An was poisoned, his brows were tightly knotted.

"Give him the antidote and send him away. No matter what your purpose is, I'll stay and help you. How about it, General?" Although Li Muge asked in a questioning tone, the hand holding the cold jade dagger began to increase gradually. , inch closer, the other party couldn't help but say "no".

Different from the simple taste just now, this time he made a killing intent and made a ruthless effort.

Just because this person dared to hurt Gu An!

At this time, Gu An suddenly stretched out his hand to hold Li Muge's hand, stopped his downward pressure, and said in a deep voice, "You can't force him to submit like this."

Hearing this, Ji Yiran raised his eyebrows and said confidently: "This brother is a smart man."

Li Muge glared at Gu An, who was secretly competing with him, with some dissatisfaction, four words were written on his expression unabashedly: the benevolence of a woman!

Even so, he complied with Gu An's wishes and did not increase the strength in his hands.

It's just that he didn't let Ji Yiran go.

"He's smarter than me, but I have the final say on what to do with the knife! So you better not play tricks on the conditions I put forward!"

"Don't worry, brother, if this general treats the two of you as a trifling matter, he won't spend so much time trying to test your skills." Although Ji Yiran was displeased, his phoenix eyes had melted away all the tension on his face. hostility.

"Oh? So what if you try it out?" Seeing this, Li Muge followed his example, showing a hidden knife in his smile.

To play tricks on him?What a waste of effort!

"Since a person with good strength should make the best use of everything, I just want to ask you two to do me a favor." Although Ji Yiran had a kind smile on his face at this time, there was hidden in his words that no one could refuse. The meaning of coercion.

"Since you want to help, don't you have the attitude of asking for help?" Li Muge suddenly got angry at this moment, and the hand held by Gu An cut another shocking wound on Ji Yiran's innocent neck in an instant.

This wound is completely different from the shallow thin mark that was drawn before. At this moment, only the gurgling blood gushes out immediately, which shocked everyone present.

Seeing this, Gu An yelled: "Li Muge!" At the same time, he instinctively grabbed the opponent's veins.

In an instant, Li Muge's wrists felt sore and his fingers numb, and the cold jade dagger was thrown out of his hand, and fell to the ground with a "clang".

At this time, the guards who were guarding Ji Yiran's side also reacted, and immediately drew out their weapons and surrounded Li and Gu.

Li Muge looked at Gu An with some surprise, the pair of always bright peach blossoms quietly covered a shadow at this time, and under the shadow was a touch of long-standing disappointment.

Gu An averted his eyes lightly, unwilling to look into his eyes.And for some reason, a guilty conscience suddenly rose in his heart.

And this guilty conscience unexpectedly made him make up a lie to explain his behavior to Li Muge.And he has never explained to anyone what he does, and he never needs others to understand.

But this time, he didn't want to let him misunderstand him.

So when that explanation blurted out, even he couldn't help being startled.

"Your hand and my life are still in his hands, you can't kill him."

Li Muge shook his sore wrist, looked up at him and said with a smile, "Guan, I didn't want to kill him."

That smile was not sincere, so seeing Gu An's heart burst into anger.