The mountain road is endless, and I walk alone without any pain.

His mood at this moment was also a bit complicated than the path in front of him.

A few days ago, the battle between him and Hai Cangfeng did not decide the outcome, but... it was divided into "higher and lower".

He originally thought that most of the so-called heroes were over-named, so he didn't take the person like Hai Cangfeng seriously at the beginning.

However, as soon as he confronted, he realized that he could not win.

At least... it's not possible to use a knife.

It didn't take too long for Hai Cangfeng to see through the secret of Xiao Wuji's sword technique. He knew that it would be meaningless to continue fighting, so he stopped in time and said, "Your martial arts are good." Then he left.

After the other party left, Xiao Wuji stood alone in the bamboo forest for a long time, until the sweat on his hands was dry, and he took the knife back into the sheath.

"Is it just 'not bad'..." At that moment, he couldn't help but look up at the sky and started to talk to himself.

Xiao Wuji has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has extraordinary talent. He can be said to have been surrounded by evaluations such as "genius genius" and "unprecedented in the past" for many years - "good" is similar to scolding him in the past.

But now it sounds like he can accept it.

Because he would rather be a "good" swordsman than be the "genius" swordsman again.

He would rather be his bandit than admit that he is the young owner of Wujian Villa, the son of Xiao Zhun, the swordsman Xiao Zhun.

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After walking the long mountain road, Xiao Wuji finally returned to his own village.

"Open the door quickly! The boss is back!"

Still far away, he heard the minions in charge of looking at the wind shouting at the village.

This shout also brought Xiao Wuji back to reality from his random thoughts about the past.

"Yes... I'm just a bandit leader now. Isn't such martial arts enough?"

While thinking, he had already walked into the gate of the village.

However, as soon as I entered the village, I felt something was wrong.

He looked over and found that the gang of minions under him were all depressed and yawned in broad daylight. There were many inexplicable shields in the village courtyard, and there were dozens of sandbags and dozens of water tanks filled with water.

"Hey, what's going on?" Xiao Wuji looked at one of the minions who came forward to greet him, pointed to the things in the yard, and asked casually.

"Oh! Master, you don't know. Something big has happened these days when you are not here. Go and talk to the second master and third master." The minion looked anxious and worried.

Xiao Wuji looked at it, but he felt a little happy. He said to himself: "Just breaking the village, what big thing can happen?"

Obviously, Xiao Wuji didn't care much about the situation of this copycat, so after seeing this situation, he was more curious than nervous.

To put it shortly after, the "second sister" and the "third brother" also heard the news that Xiao Wuji returned and both came out to greet him. Xiao Wuji did not put on any airs and rushed to the back hall with the two of them in vain.

After the three of them sat down, they said a few clichés, and the second sister began to talk about the main topic: "Brother, let me tell you that something has indeed happened these days."

The third brother also added: "Oh... we're going to have a big deal this time!"

"What the hell is that? I scared you two like this?" Xiao Wuji said in confusion.

The book here secretly states that the "second sister" and "third brother" are one named Yuan Zhan'er and the other named Gui San. The two are originally the top brands and turtle slaves in a not-so-famous brothel in Jinling.

One day four years ago, Xiao Wuji was on a whim and used some money to redeem the two of them, and taught them some martial arts. He also became sworn brothers and sisters with them, and then became bandits together.

For Xiao Wuji, this is just a "play". He was thinking about depravity, so he kept doing these ridiculous things.

However, for Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San, this was a major turning point in their lives. They regarded Xiao Wuji as a recreational parent and cherished the promising job of the bandit leader very much.

On weekdays, Yuan Zhan'er and Gui Sanping practice martial arts very hard. In addition, their master is a master like Xiao Wuji who has only practiced high-quality martial arts since childhood, so in just a few years, the two of them have reached the threshold of the second-rate martial arts world.

Of course, compared with Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu who came up the mountain a few days ago, they are still inferior to them.

"Brother, this matter has to start seven days ago." Yuan Zhan'er was a top player in the past. Even if she was not very famous, her conversation and wisdom must be much better than that of the Turtle Three. She told her story about killing Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu with a few words.

"Oh..." After hearing this, Xiao Wuji pondered and continued, "Then have you received the news in this situation now... Someone is going to seek revenge for these two people?"

"Help! Isn't it!" Gui San couldn't help but reply, "Who would have thought that we had just killed the 'Tiger Arm Mingwang' and 'Yitiao Zhen Guanzhong'. Before two days had passed, two more people called 'Easy and Western Poison' came."

"Huh?" The shadow of the man's name, the tree's shadow. As soon as these four words were expressed, even Xiao Wuji's face changed slightly. "The names of these two people... I seem to have a little impression of them."

Just as I was laughing and scraping my stomach, wondering why I had a strong impression of these two people...

"It is said in the world that there is a young man who likes 'die pit murder'... Do you know this?" Gui San took the opportunity to tell him the biggest source of fear of Shuangxi, "I am talking about the 'Western Poison' Huang Donglai."

"Oh!" Hearing the keyword, Xiao Wuji remembered, "Yes, no wonder I feel familiar." He paused for a moment, "What? Are these two people going up the mountain to avenge Liu Zou?"

"They are not just trying to take revenge, they threatened that... all the people in our village will die, and they will also lift our ashes." Yuan Zhan'er said this with a little fear in her anger, and a look of resentment on her face.

"Ha..." Xiao Wuji was not afraid, and he smiled easily, "Do you know when they will come?"

As soon as this sentence was said, Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San's faces became pissed.

"Oh... don't mention it." Gui San said, "These two grandsons, starting five days ago, said they were coming every day, but they didn't come every day, which made us worried all day long. Ye... what did Ye do?"

"I can't sleep at night!" Yuan Zhan'er continued with disgust.

"Yes, I can't sleep at night." Gui San's culture is almost the same. He often needs his second sister to remind him in order to use the idiom in a quick way.

Xiao Wuji heard this, but still didn't understand: "Don't we have our spy in the village? Why is this matter not accurate yet?"

"Brother, you don't know..." Yuan Zhan'er replied at this time, "The earliest time was five days ago. At about dusk, our spy heard from him that the two of them had bought a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, soap beans, and messy iron blocks in several villages at the foot of the mountain. They also wrapped the blacksmith shop in Gengjia Village, saying that Huang Donglai wanted to make a "mechanism" for attacking the village, called "Flying Fire Meteor"... and said that this thing only takes one night to make, and they wanted to use this to razed our village to the ground the next morning.

"At that time, I thought that the reputation of Dongxi Du is far above that of Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu, and his martial arts are probably not lower than those two. Even if we take advantage of his "Flying Fire Meteor" before he finished his "Flying Fire Meteor", we may not be able to get any advantage. It would be better to guard the village like last time and set up a clever game... This way we have a greater chance of winning.

"Then I thought again. Judging from the name and materials, the 'Flying Fire Meteor' was probably something like fire arrow gunpowder, so I ordered my brothers to prepare sandbags overnight, carry out all the water tanks in the village to fill with water, and find various objects, either pierced or nailed, and all made shields to prepare for the next day."

Here is a distraction, why do these people do shields instead of armor?

Shields and armor can also resist the fire of the waves, but shields are basically not available during robbery, but armor can be used at any time in the future. Logically speaking, it should be always available in the copycat.

Here I will explain something that may be used in the subsequent documents - in ancient times, whether you raise your disciples or collect weapons, even if you have hundreds of them, you can get away with it... But the matter of "hiding armor privately" is absolutely not possible.

In the large-scale battles in the cold weapon era, armor has a huge role. Three hundred "armored soldiers" can kill more than 1,000 people who do not wear armor, and five thousand armored soldiers can disperse tens of thousands of armored soldiers.

If you keep your weapons privately and keep your disciples, the court is not afraid. If you don’t believe it, you will pull it out to fight with the regular army. If you want to win, Guo Jing and Huang Rong will take you as your teacher. However, if you make armor privately, it will definitely be treated as a rebellion. There is no other explanation, and once discovered, it will be strangled in the cradle.

Of course, there are still exceptions. For example, Brother Sun's "protective armor" is a soft armor, with only one piece in total. He wears it himself, so no one will pursue it. There are also some bandit leaders who have ever wanted to be a "general". No one takes it seriously by wearing a full-covered armor.

But if you don’t have a soldier in your family, but you have armor hidden in your house, even if you only have one set, it is a crime of rebellion; let alone the sect organizations on the Green Forest Road or Jianghu Road. If you are found to have more than a dozen or twenty sets of armor in the sect, you should directly treat it as a "rebel" and try your best to wipe it out.

To sum up, in those days, it was impossible for ordinary bandit villages to consider armor, which was even greater than the crime and risk of robbery and murder.

"Then..." The book came back to the right words, and Xiao Wuji listened to Yuan Zhan'er's countermeasures and nodded, as if indicating that the latter's response was quite correct: "What's the result?"

"As a result... we waited until noon the next day, and they didn't come." Gui Sanyi interrupted with annoyance.

Yuan Zhan'er also continued: "So we sent spies to inquire... After an hour, spies reported that the two of them slept until noon and told the villagers, 'I was too tired from working in the agency last night and overslept. So I could just wait for dinner before going to go with the cover of the night'." She curled her lips viciously, "Brother, when we received the reward, it was already Shenshi. The brothers hadn't closed their eyes for almost two days and one night. We could only take a break in the less than two hours before the sun sets, and then get up to be wary again..." At this point, she frowned again, "I didn't expect... They didn't come the next night."

Xiao Wuji said, "Then why is this time?"

"We waited all night, and the next day, let the spies go to investigate at dawn..." Gui San continued at the right time, "Spy's return, Huang Donglai ate unclean food for dinner, had diarrhea and ran out of stomach. He took a break when it was better in the second half of the night, and decided to change it to the afternoon."

"Ah?" At this moment, Xiao Wuji suddenly thought of a possibility, "Are these two liars? Why do you feel that you are deliberately trying to make excuses to delay."

"We also began to doubt that... would these two people come out to cheat under the banner of "East and West Poisons". "Yuanzhan'er said, "But unexpectedly, they suddenly came before the afternoon of the third day."

"Oh?" Xiao Wuji became more and more interested in listening, "Did you fight with them?"

"What are you going to do?" Gui Sanyi looked depressed. "We and my brothers stayed up all night and wanted to sleep a little longer before the afternoon. But not long after lying down, the two guys ran to the gate of the village and threw several 'Flying Fire Meteors' into our village."

"What the hell is that?" Xiao Wuji asked.

"We don't know either." Gui San replied, "Before the thing landed, it looked like a small black ball, which was fried as soon as it landed, and it was blown up. As soon as it hit, it would be a pool of tinder oil, accompanied by some iron sheets that exploded. At that time, all the brothers in the village were sleepy and exhausted, and they were relatively relaxed, so a few flew in, which killed and injured seven or eight people."

"What about later?" Xiao Wuji said.

"Later, of course we got up to fight the enemy." Yuan Zhan'er said, "But after all the brothers in the village got up and put out the fire, the two Killing Qiandao did not come in. They just shouted outside, saying that they just took a few shells of flying fire meteors to test the power. When they returned to the village, they pushed the "fort" up, they would not throw a few in with their hands, but to bomb our village like "seventeen shots in a second".

"What is 'second'?" Xiao Wuji asked again.

"Who knows to go, but from what they mean, it's probably just a blink of an eye." Gui San said.

After asking this, Xiao Wuji had basically guessed what Shuang Xie was doing, so his next sentence was: "If nothing unexpected happens, you haven't slept in the afternoon and evening of the third day, right?"

"No." Gui San said, "On the fourth day, during the day, we felt that this was not a solution, so the second sister came up with an idea and asked the brothers to divide into two shifts and take turns to sleep. In addition to guarding the village, the people who were awake were responsible for fetching water in the wells in the back mountain, trying to save more water in the water tank for later use. In addition, a team of people were assigned to go to the foot of the mountain to find ways to make sandbags and shield materials."

After hearing this arrangement, Xiao Wuji couldn't help but sneer in his heart: "Hmph... If these minions in the village were not lazy, why would they be thieves? You are asking them to do this in the backwards? If they can finish it seriously, would they still be bandits? Isn't it better to be a soldier than to be this?"

Yuan Zhan'er's next words were just in line with her smile. She continued: "Oh, it's a pity that the trash in our village are all lazy and slippery. There are still a lot of lazy people in this enemy. After I found out, I scolded them a few times and dared to talk back to me. I said that I was exhausted a few days ago and hadn't recovered yet, so I really couldn't do anything.

"I was so angry that I thought that none of these turtle grandsons were tired when they lay on women. When it was their turn to do some serious business, they were like they didn't give them food... In anger, I killed a few of them on the spot, just to kill the chicken for the monkey to see.

"Brother, what are you thinking? That night, these grandchildren actually escaped about twenty in one breath. What a fucking... "

"Oh...so, get rid of those who were killed by the 'Flying Fire Meteor', those who were beaten to death by you, and those who ran away by themselves... Now there are only about thirty brothers in the village." Xiao Wuji estimated for a moment and asked.

"That's not it." Yuan Zhan'er replied in a helpless tone, but when she said the next sentence, a little bit of expression appeared on her face, "But now that you are back, we have nothing to be afraid of. We don't have to stay in the village so tremblingly. As long as you give your order, we can immediately follow you down the mountain, peel and cramp the two children Sun Huang, and remove eight pieces of them!"

"Yes, brother, I'll wait for you!" Gui San also echoed, "You are not here for more than ten days, and you just happened to catch up with some things. The brothers have not gone down the mountain to get food for more than ten days. The women caught in the village have also died. Look..."

"Look? Hehe..." Xiao Wuji smiled. Although his face was always smiling, he really felt it was ridiculous and laughed out loud, "Look... you two are dead. If I come back one day later, I'm afraid I'll have time to collect your corpses."

When he heard this, Yuanzhan'er and Gui San looked at each other.

Gui San was stupid and could not think of anything.
To be continued...