Chapter 13: Saving People

Qi Xuansu had to admit that since he got the "Xuanyu", he was a little arrogant now compared to his past self. He was not cautious and was plotted against. This was the result and he needed to correct it.

At the same time, he also realized why Qi Niang said to be careful of the local snakes here. From this episode, it can be seen that there are probably few good people here.

Qi Xuansu came to the corpse again and searched it.

This person did not have any identity proof objects or official banknotes. In addition to two fire guns, one long and one short, he only had a bag of bullets, a waist knife, a dagger, a water bag, and a bag of dry food. It was like a hunter going out hunting, but he was hunting people.

This can explain why this person rejected Qi Xuansu's kindness. Qi Xuansu accidentally revealed his wealth in his words. He helped Qi Xuansu lead the way and could only get a small part of the money, but if he could kill Qi Xuansu, all the money on Qi Xuansu would be his.

As the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought in danger, so of course you have to fight for it.

But this is often a way to death.

Qi Xuansu continued to move forward, looking for people.

Qi Niang said that there were several small towns in this Gobi Desert. Only by finding these small towns could we have a chance to find the whereabouts of "Bai Yu Tang" and then find "Mountain Ghost Ballad".

After Qi Xuansu went deep into the Gobi Desert forty miles, he found a row of wooden frames about three feet high. On each wooden frame was a person hanging, with a noose around his neck, his feet off the ground, his head wrapped in black cloth, his face unclear, his hands tied behind his back, and he was obviously unable to resist when he was hanged.

Some of the hanged people had turned into dry bones, and even their bones were incomplete. Some of the hanged people seemed to have just died, and their clothes were still intact. Crows landed on them, pecking at them fiercely and feasting on them.

Whether new or old, they were all swaying in the wind and sand.

It was full of warning.

Qi Xuansu stopped in front of the wooden frame for a moment, and then continued to move forward.

These dead people certainly didn't scare Qi Xuansu. Instead, they were like road signs, allowing Qi Xuansu to confirm that the populated area he was looking for was not far away, at least he didn't take the wrong road.

As expected, on the way, although Qi Xuansu didn't see the city that Qi Niang mentioned, he could gradually see people coming and going. However, most of these people looked unfriendly and carried weapons. Although they didn't take the initiative to attack Qi Xuansu, they also looked like strangers should stay away. Qi Xuansu didn't know the rules of this place, and didn't want to cause trouble for no reason, so he didn't ask for directions.

After walking for more than ten miles, Qi Xuansu suddenly saw a group of people chasing a man and a woman.

The man and woman didn't look like a couple, but the man looked like the woman's guard. They fought and retreated, but they were still surrounded. The guard was first beaten seriously, and then a musket was stuffed into his mouth and killed directly. The woman was left behind, but those wolf-like eyes fell on her, and her fate was self-evident.

Qi Xuansu restrained his breath and hid not far away. He was a little hesitant about whether to help. After all, he was not a Taoist now, but a lone wanderer. Even if he wanted to be chivalrous, he had to consider the consequences, and he could not be like a Taoist without too many worries.

But Qi Xuansu thought about it and realized that he needed a guide. Wouldn't this woman be just right?

At this moment, someone put a noose around the woman's white neck, and then dragged the woman to a poplar tree not far away, put the rope on the treetop, and then pulled the rope down hard. The woman's figure was lifted up. In order to prevent herself from suffocating, the woman held the noose around her neck with both hands and stood on tiptoe.

This group of people did not seem to be in a hurry to hang the woman. They just kept the woman on tiptoe to breathe, surrounded the woman, and slowly approached, breathing heavily.

A dark, thin man with one eye blind laughed strangely: "What a good thing!"

Another person said: "This is the daughter of an official family."

Everyone laughed.

Only a tall man crossed his arms across his chest without any action.

The woman's face was red due to breathing difficulties, and her eyes were full of fear that could not be concealed.

Just when a group of people were about to strip the woman naked, Qi Xuansu finally showed up.

It must be said that this woman should thank Qi Xuansu, and even more so Zhang Yuelu.

If it were not for Zhang Yuelu's influence, the previous Qi Xuansu might not have taken action. For the Jianghu, which is not a good place, chivalry is actually a luxury.

Qi Xuansu didn't say much nonsense, and simply said: "Let her go."

Everyone turned their heads to look at Qi Xuansu, and some people had already raised their muskets.

The result was that the man who raised the musket had no time to move before his head exploded.

Qi Xuansu held his "Dragon Hand Gun" in his hand, with smoke curling from the muzzle. The gun body, which was shaped like a dragon, was extremely intimidating, flashing dazzling light in the sun. What was even more shocking was that this gun did not pierce a bloody hole, but directly blew up the person's head, indicating that the bullets fired from the fire gun were not ordinary bullets.

Qi Xuansu reloaded the bullets slowly: "If you don't want to die, you can try."

As soon as the voice fell, someone really took action.

It was the tall man, who seemed to be the leader of this group of people, and he was also a warrior in the Kunlun stage. The guard was first severely injured by this man, and then killed by the fire gun stuffed into his mouth.

The tall man brought his hands directly to Qi Xuansu, intending to hold Qi Xuansu's arms to prevent him from having a chance to fire.

Qi Xuansu had already loaded the projectiles, but he threw away the "Dragon Fire Gun" and let the tall man hold his arms and exert force suddenly.

For a moment, the tall man had an illusion. He seemed to have returned to the situation where he was wrestling with the bull when he was young. Although he held the two horns tightly with both hands, he could do nothing. He could only be beaten by the red-eyed bull. Pick it up to heaven.

At this time, the tall man felt that he could not do anything to the person in front of him with all his strength. Instead, he suffered from the force of the shock. His chest felt tight and he wanted to vomit blood.

Qi Xuansu held the tall man's wrist with his backhand, and exerted force with both arms in the left and right directions.

The tall man's figure shook suddenly, and there was a burst of explosions in his arms. Qi Xuansu almost tore the arms off. When Qi Xuansu let go of his hand, his arms were already damaged and fell softly, unable to exert any strength.

The huge pain caused large beads of sweat to form on the tall man's forehead. He could hardly stand and had no time to resist.

Qi Xuansu then bent down to pick up his "Dragon Hand Gun", put the muzzle of the gun against the tall man's forehead, and asked, "Can we let him go?"

The tall man showed fear in his eyes and nodded repeatedly.

In fact, without the tall man's orders, the group of people had already separated to both sides.

Qi Xuansu deflected the gun in his hand, and hit the rope that was holding the woman up. The woman fell to the ground, gasping for air.

Although Qi Xuansu's gun was empty of bullets, no one dared to take a step forward.

From the beginning, Qi Xuansu was not afraid of this group of people. He was just afraid that there were other forces behind this group of people that would make him fall into a quagmire.

Qi Xuansu waved his hand, indicating that the group could leave.

The tall man was a little surprised. He didn't expect Qi Xuansu to be so easy to talk to. He retreated without any hesitation, leaving only two corpses, one was the woman's guard, and the other was the unlucky guy whose head was smashed by Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu approached the woman and looked her up and down.

Judging from the dress of this woman, she is indeed not a girl from an ordinary people's family, she looks like a lady from an official family.

As for his appearance, it's pretty good, but that's not important. He doesn't save people just to get people to marry him.

The woman untied the noose around her neck. There was a bright red mark on her fair neck. She looked at Qi Xuansu with a bit of surprise in her eyes.

She didn't quite know what Qi Xuansu's purpose was.

Qi Xuansu looked away, lowered his head to reload the gun, and asked: "Who are you? Who were those people just now?"

The woman hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Thank you so much for saving me. My name is Qin Xiang. That group of people just now... I don't know who they are."

Qi Xuansu put the reloaded "Dragon Gun" back on his waist and asked again: "Then why do they want to arrest you?"

Qin Xiang's face showed fear, regret, and anger: "I was deceived into this place. I wanted to escape, but they wanted to take me back."

Qi Xuansu understood somewhat.

The woman in front of me was probably really a lady from an official family, but she didn't know the dangers of the world, so she was tricked into coming here and fell into the tiger's mouth.