The next day, Lu Zhongqiu, who was satisfied, began to investigate the case. He inquired in detail about what happened that night and made a preliminary judgment on this group of strongmen.
They were just a group of thieves who came from the border area between Xiangnan and Lingnan. There were only three of them, and they were all less than Qi Refining Level 5. They relied on their desperate fighting style to catch Old Master Xie by surprise. Moreover, this group of people came here just for the spirit stone. They did not succeed in the Xie family and only grabbed some gold and silver. They will probably continue to commit crimes near Jiashan.
So, Lu Zhongqiu took Old Master Xie out, and first came to the burned-out jujube tree. After walking around for a long time, they found nothing. There were many footprints on the mud under the tree, but they were all left by the Xie family when they put out the fire.
The two of them walked around the area again and asked surrounding farmers, but they also found no useful information.
After strolling for a while, I came to the former course of Yuan River. Looking across the river, Lu Zhongqiu asked thoughtfully, "Lao Xie, you said they didn't grab the spirit stone. Will they grab passers-by instead of the village?"
Old Master Xie was also looking around and said casually, "It's not a good idea to rob passersby. Which passerby would carry a spiritual stone with him? We still have to rob the village, Rogue Cultivator's village."
Lu Zhongqiu was retorted and was very dissatisfied, "That's not necessarily the case. There are not many people carrying spiritual stones with them? Maybe... let's go and have a look on the bridge over there. Maybe these thieves are guarding the other side of the bridge. Let's go quietly..."
Old Master Xie realized that what he said was inappropriate, and quickly echoed, "I'm just thinking wrong. I'm getting older, and my brain can't turn around easily, so it's easy to make Hutu. It's indeed possible. Let's go over and take a look."
Lu Zhongqiu greeted, "Lao Xie, get down to the river bed and walk along the river embankment. You are too conspicuous like this!"
After getting off the river bed, we quietly approached Guangfu Bridge along the river embankment. Still far away, Lu Zhongqiu motioned to Old Master Xie to duck down and said, "Look over there, behind the stone, there is a man lying down. Do you see it?"
"Saw it."
"What are you doing sneaking around there? He keeps looking at the bridge."
"Master Young Master! It's amazing. He's probably this guy! He's wearing a bamboo hat and a black scarf! We found him. Master Young Master knows everything so well. The thief is not gone! I don't know where the other two are... Well, they're not here. They must have separated."
"Hey, let's go, take it down first!"
It was Fang Buai who was discovered. At this moment, he was looking in the direction of the bridge opposite, anxiously waiting for the appearance of Lu Zhongqiu. The reason why we were anxious was because Lu Zhongqiu suddenly disappeared after entering a restaurant in Jiashan Market yesterday. We didn't know where he went, so everyone had to retreat past former course of Yuan River and wait at the west end of Guangfu Bridge.
Fang Buai's squatting point is behind a big rock. He can't be seen from the other side of the bridge. But who would have thought that Lu Zhongqiu came quietly from the side under the river bed?
Fang Buai was staring at the other side of the bridge when he suddenly saw a person slowly walking over from the other side. It was Liu Xiaolou. Not only did he come from the other side with a swagger, he also took off his hat and black scarf. While stepping on Guangfu Bridge, he looked at the river bed under the bridge.
What does this mean?
Just when he was wondering, there was a sudden movement behind him. Fang Buai looked back and saw two people appearing behind him. They were only two or three feet away from him. One was the Lu Zhongqiu that he had lost yesterday, and the other was not the Xie family. Who was Old Master?
Xie Old Master shook his gray beard and said with a ferocious smile, "Good thief, let's see where you run today!" He took two steps diagonally and blocked the bridge to prevent Fang Buai from escaping to the other end of the bridge.
Lu Zhongqiu smiled and said, "Boy, what happened has happened, don't think about running away, tell your accomplices, where are those two? As long as you tell them, I can guarantee that you will not die."
Fang Buai remained silent, looking at Xie's Old Master, then at Lu Zhongqiu.
Lu Zhongqiu added, "Don't have any doubts. If I say you can't die, you will definitely not die. You won't die even if you want to. Do you know who I am? I am Tianmu Mountain Neimen Officer Lu Zhongqiu. In this regard, I have always been very credible."
The sound of footsteps came, and both Lu Zhongqiu and Old Master Xie saw Liu Xiaolou crossing the bridge.
Liu Xiaolou was not wearing a hat or a black scarf. He looked just like an ordinary pedestrian, but his face was dirty and plastered. It seemed that he had just fallen in the mud. When he saw the confrontation between the three people here, he stared at it with wide eyes, full of curiosity.
This dirty and muddy appearance made Lu Zhongqiu very unhappy. He waved his hand and shouted to Liu Xiaolou, "Hurry over, Tianmu Mountain is doing something. Don't watch around..."
Before he finished speaking, Fang Buai, who had been silent all this time, suddenly drew his sword, and with the sword's light shining directly into Lu Zhongqiu's arms!
Lu Zhongqiu I have never seen this kind of desperate fighting style. Suddenly I was in a hurry, and I flew out my magic weapon in a hurry to block it. The silver hook was spinning like a bright moon blocking the front of him. At the same time, his figure flew back, widening the distance between him and Fang Buai.
Fang Buai saw that Fang Buai could not catch up, and Chuyi was sprayed with swarms of poisonous insects in the sword light. The poisonous insects flew around and bit Lu Zhongqiu crazily.
Lu Zhongqiu turned around several times to avoid it, and continued to use the silver hook in front of him to form a halo of light. The halo was impervious to wind and rain, and finally flicked off all the densely packed poisonous insects.
Being attacked by a low-level monk in such a embarrassing situation, he felt a little embarrassed on his face. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "What a thief, you are looking for death!" The silver hook counterattacked forward, covering Fang Buai completely in the halo.
Fang Buai tried his best to resist, but couldn't stop it. The bamboo hat on his head, the black scarf, and his clothes and trousers were all torn to pieces by this light wheel, and they were hung on his body. Through the ragged clothes, it could be seen that there were countless blood marks on the skin all over his body.
However, he did not care about his injuries at all and continued to fight to the death. He had only one purpose, to buy time for Liu Xiaolou to launch a surprise attack.
He did gain time, and Liu Xiaolou shouted loudly, "Retreat!"
Fang Buai tried his best to fly back and retreated three feet away. He saw that Lu Zhongqiu on the opposite side was suddenly tied with a rope, and he was bumping around like a headless fly. This was because Liu Xiaolou was wrapped in the formation.
Liu Xiaolou sat at the end of the bridge, making secrets with his hands, frowning, and kept calculating in his mouth, trying his best to trap Lu Zhongqiu in the formation.
Looking at his feet, it was Old Master Xie lying motionless, staring in horror at Liu Xiaolou who was running the formation at full strength. Meridians was obviously blocked.
Fang Buai didn't understand Liu Xiaolou's formation, so he didn't dare to trespass. He just anxiously circled around Lu Zhongqiu in the formation.
Lu Zhongqiu suddenly sat up in the air, staring at Fang in front of him with a red face, veins on his forehead bulging, and sweat dripping from time to time. From time to time, he stood up suddenly, hit the silver hook into the void, hit it a few times, and sat down panting again, as if someone was forcibly holding him down, and his behavior was extremely strange.
Suddenly I heard Liu Xiaolou shout, "Call someone!"
Fang Buai woke up and ran out quickly. After not even two steps, he ran back again and struck Old Master Xie with his sword on the neck of Meridians who was sealed on the ground. He completely killed him and then ran away.
Because Lu Zhongqiu was accidentally lost last night, Wei Hongqing, Zuo Gaofeng, and Tan Bazhang were all searching for Lu Zhongqiu around Jiashan. We must find them all quickly now.
Fortunately, they were not far away. Wei Hongqing arrived first, followed by Zuo Gaofeng, and finally Tan Bazhang. After everyone gathered, they surrounded Lu Zhongqiu in the formation.
At this time, Liu Xiaolou had been operating the formation for more than a moment. His real energy consumption was very huge, and he was almost exhausted. After seeing everyone gathered, he suddenly closed the formation and released Lu Zhongqiu.
Lu Zhongqiu had been disturbed, agitated and agitated by all kinds of illusions in the formation, especially the pictures of Lu Yan clan, which caused evil and jealousy to run wildly. In the illusion, this Lu Yan clan was lingering with Wei Hongqing for a while, and fighting with another Human Disk for a while, just ignoring his own fire. And the person who was fighting with Human Disk, why did he look so familiar? He turned out to be Elder Kuai?
Just when he wanted to take a closer look, the small courtyard in front of him suddenly disappeared, which made his heart skip a beat, as if he had fallen directly from a high cliff.
At this moment, he saw the figure standing opposite.
Wearing a bamboo hat and a black scarf, this figure seemed familiar.
It seems...
Wei Hongqing?
There was a mess in my mind, and I suddenly understood something, but it was still a mess.