Chapter 6 The sixth time to save others and harm oneself

Hu Tiehua stared blankly for a while, then smiled wryly: "It turns out that this also uses the disguise technique, and the technique is not inferior to Chu Liuxiang's. There are such talents in the desert, we really didn't expect it." He said this to Ji Bingyan, but before he finished speaking, Ji Bingyan had already left. Hu Tiehua had no choice but to walk back, and saw that although the dozen or so sheepskin bags had been punched through, the water inside did not leak out. Ji Bingyan and Xiao Pan had already untied the sheepskin bags and laid them flat on the ground with the side with the hole facing up. There was at least half a bag of water in each bag.

Hu Tiehua said happily: "It turns out that these two people gave their lives for nothing, and it didn't harm us. We still have water to drink." Ji Bingyan didn't speak, but picked up the water bag and poured all the water on the ground. Hu Tiehua was shocked: "What are you doing?" Ji Bingyan still didn't speak. But Chu Liuxiang came over and said in a deep voice: "The concealed weapon is poisonous, the poison has been dissolved in the water, the water is naturally undrinkable." Hu Tiehua staggered back two steps and almost fell to the ground. Chu Liuxiang said: "I have already found the needle barrels for their hidden weapons. The structure is so exquisite that it seems to be on the same level as the famous 'Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Heavenly Devils and God Needles' in the past. I really can't think of anyone in the world. Can you make such a hidden weapon?" He spread out his palms, and there was a black iron cylinder in each of his hands.

Ji Bingyan just glanced at it, and said calmly: "Let's leave it to the evening, let's go now!" He still didn't look at Hu Tiehua. Hu Tiehua finally couldn't help jumping up, and shouted: "It's all my fault, I'm troublesome, I'm blind, you...why don't you scold me? Don't talk? You scold me for a while. Don, I'll feel better." Ji Bingyan finally turned her head, looked at him quietly, and said slowly: "You want me to scold you?" Hu Tiehua said: "If you don't scold, you are a bastard!" Ji Bingyan still looked unchanged, slowly got on the camel, and said calmly: "Why should I scold you? Saving people is always a good thing, besides, you are not the only one who is blind, and you are not the only one who was fooled."

Hu Tiehua was really stunned this time, unable to speak for a long time. Chu Liuxiang came from behind, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "This dead rooster is not as bad as you imagined, is it?" That night, Hu Tiehua, like the stone camel, sat under the bright starlight, on the sand where the heat had dissipated, and in the boundless cold. The aromas of garlic, pepper, and beef and mutton are no longer on the wind.Because all they have left is a small bag of water that will never leave Ji Bingyan's side. Without water, there is no hot food, no enjoyment, no life.

The stone camel was sitting not far away. After this incident, although he didn't see or hear anything, he seemed to have changed. His always upright body seemed to have shrunk, and his face carved out of hemp stone seemed to be suddenly filled with fear and anxiety. But Hu Tiehua did not notice his change. Hu Tiehua was just blaming himself and angry at himself. There was a crystal lamp in the tent, the light was as gentle as starlight, under such gentle starlight, the things Chu Liuxiang and Ji Bingyan discussed were not at all tender. The dark syringe looked ugly and cruel under the light.

Chu Liuxiang looked at the syringe and sighed bitterly: "This is really one of the most terrifying hidden weapons I have ever seen in my life. I think there are only three people in the world who can make such a hidden weapon." Ji Bingyan said: "Three people?" Chu Liuxiang said: "The first one is the head of the Tang Sect in the middle of Sichuan. The second one is Mr. Zhu from Jiuqutang in the south of the Yangtze River. Naturally, these two people will never come to the desert." Ji Bingyan said: "That's right...is there another person?" Chu Liuxiang smiled slightly, and said, "The other one is me. Of course, I couldn't make this hidden weapon."

Ji Bingyan didn't even have a smile in his eyes, and said word by word: "Although you only know three people, I think there must be a fourth person, but who this person is, you and I don't know." Chu Liuxiang was silent for a while, then sighed: "It's not terrible to be able to create such a hidden weapon, what's terrible is that this person can make his subordinates willingly die for him." Ji Bingyan said: "Do you think this is by no means your rival Black Pearl?" Chu Liuxiang said: "Absolutely not, Black Pearl is not so strong, nor is it so ruthless."

Ji Bingyan said: "Who do you think this is?" Chu Liuxiang pondered and said: "I think this person may be a very powerful underworld friend who came out of the Central Plains, or the leader of the rogues in the desert. He is not here for me, Chu Liuxiang, nor for you, Ji Bing. The geese came, he just regarded us as a group of 'fat sheep', and wanted to scrape some oil and water from us." Ji Bingyan said: "Yes!" Chu Liuxiang said: "He guessed that we were going to pass this way, so he set up a trap here first, maybe he wanted us to die, but when those two found out that we were not ordinary merchants, they were afraid that we would miss it. , I changed my mind temporarily, and instead of shooting people with hidden weapons, I shot water bags."

He continued with a wry smile: "He will wait until we are dying of thirst before attacking us. At that time, we will not even have the strength to fight back. Don't we just let him kill us?" Ji Bingyan said leisurely: "Maybe he doesn't want to kill us all at once, he just wants us to live and suffer slowly." Chu Liuxiang frowned and said, "Why do you think so, you..." He suddenly stopped talking, because he suddenly discovered that Ji Bingyan's deep and indifferent eyes seemed to hide great fear and anxiety at this moment. This is really a situation that Ji Bingyan has never experienced before, and something that can make a person like him frightened must be terrible.

Chu Liuxiang immediately became uneasy, and asked tentatively, "Have you already guessed who this person is?" Ji Bingyan seemed to want to say something, but she glanced at the stone camel outside the tent, and immediately held back what she wanted to say, but smiled and said: "No matter who this person is, if he wants to thirst us to death, he has the wrong idea .” Chu Liuxiang didn't ask further, he also smiled and said: "With you here, I have never been afraid of dying of thirst." Ji Bingyan smiled and said: "I know there is a secret water source a hundred miles away. We can get there before sunset tomorrow. I didn't say it just because I want Hu Tiehua to worry."

He lay down laughing, and soon seemed to be asleep. But Chu Liuxiang quietly walked out of the tent and sat beside Hu Tiehua. He didn't want to come and talk to Hu Tiehua, but just wanted to sit closer to observe the mysterious strange man. He has vaguely realized that the secret hidden under the rocky chest of the stone camel is probably ten times more terrifying than the poisonous needle that seals the throat with blood. The next day, Ji Bingyan divided the remaining water into five equal parts, and said lightly: "There is only so much water, you can drink it all at once, or you can keep it. Anyway, this water can only support two or three at most. sky." Hu Tiehua looked at the empty water bag and said loudly: "This is the water you kept for yourself, I won't drink it." He turned his head and was about to leave, but Chu Liuxiang pulled him back and said with a smile: "Don't get angry with Ji Bingyan, you will be fooled if you get angry with him." Hu Tiehua also laughed suddenly and said: "Why am I betting against him? Last night, I heard that he can find water today, but I still have a pot of wine. Why should I drink this fresh water that has faded from the birds?" Ji Bingyan smiled unconsciously, and Xiao Pan looked at the three friends who were holding arms together, and suddenly felt that he was also full of courage. Following such three people, he still has nothing to be afraid of, only the stone camel's face is getting more and more gloomy, he, a man without eyes, seems to be able to see dangers that others cannot see. Ji Bingyan only waved his hand, and the stone camel immediately stopped the team, the camels lay down, Hu Tiehua jumped off the hump, and immediately ran to Ji Bingyan, asking: "You asked the stone camel to stop, didn't you?" Ji Bingyan said: "Not bad." Hu Tiehua said: "Just by waving your hand, he will understand what you mean?" Ji Bingyan said: "Yes!" Hu Tiehua shouted: "But you said he is blind and deaf, how can he see?" Ji Bingyan smiled lightly and said, "I have my own way to let him know what I mean." Hu Tiehua said: "What the hell do you have? Why don't you say it?" Ji Bingyan said: "You really can't see it?" Hu Tiehua said: "The bastard can see it." Ji Bingyan turned to Chu Liuxiang and said, "What about you?" Chu Liuxiang said slowly: "You use a small stone to convey your order. If you want the team to stop, hit the stone camel's left shoulder with the stone. If you want the team to leave, hit his right shoulder." He smiled slightly, looked at Hu Tiehua and said with a smile: "This method is not something only bastards can see, is it?" Hu Tiehua raised his hands flatly, and said with a wry smile: "You're not a bastard, I am, and now I realize that I'm really not much smarter than a bastard." This place looks like a piece of yellow sand, no different from any other place in the desert. The only thing that stands out is a tree. The tree grew beside a pile of weathered rocks, long since dead. Hu Tiehua looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help laughing: "Is there water here?" Ji Bingyan said: "Yes!" Hu Tiehua touched his head and said: "Where is the water, why can't I see it? Could it be that not only my head is not working, but my eyes are also not working?" He grabbed Chu Liuxiang and said, "Be honest, have you seen it?" Chu Liuxiang pondered and said: "I heard that there are many secret water sources in the desert, which are hidden underground." Ji Bingyan said: "Yes, you..." He looked at Hu Tiehua and wanted to speak, but of course he would not say anything good, but before he finished speaking, Hu Tiehua raised his hands again and said: "Stop talking, I admit that I don't understand anything, okay?" He rubbed his head and smiled, "Isn't I very smart? Why am I becoming an idiot when I'm with these two people? Could it be that I was infected with stupidity?" Xiao Pan couldn't help laughing and said, "If Master Hu is really infected with dementia, then I must have passed it on." Ji Bingyan said with a straight face: "How could you pass it on to him, he is much more stupid than you." Before he finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing himself. But they didn't laugh for long—it took them an hour to dig the underground water source, but there was not even a drop of water underground. Ji Bingyan was stunned like a stone. Hu Tiehua wiped the sweat from his brow, wanted to say a few witty words, smiled, saw the expression on Ji Bingyan's face, and thought of the imminent crisis. How could he tell?Where can I laugh? Chu Liuxiang tried her best to keep her voice calm and natural, and said, "Think about it again, did you make a mistake?" Ji Bingyan jumped up and shouted: "You don't trust me?" Chu Liuxiang knew that he must be feeling ten times more uncomfortable than anyone else at this moment, and couldn't bear to say anything, but Ji Bingyan seemed to have softened suddenly, leaning on the dead tree. Xiao Pan apologized and said with a smile: "Sometimes the underground water source suddenly dries up, and sometimes it suddenly changes its course. This is a joke made by God, and no one can do anything about it." Chu Liuxiang said: "I know." Ji Bingyan looked at Chu Liuxiang, and finally said sadly: "Don't blame me, mine..." Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "I know how you feel. If I were you, I would not only vent my anger on you, but I might lose my temper even more." Hu Tiehua laughed loudly and said, "That's right, when a person is sad, if you don't take out your anger on your good friend, who else can you take it out on? If a good friend can't forgive him, who can forgive him?" Looking at these three people, Xiao Pan seemed to have something suddenly blocked in his throat, and said in a choked voice: "The villain dares to interject... If anyone can make friends like Master Chu and Master Hu, he is really a good person." The luckiest man in the world." At this moment, a sudden sound of hooves came. Hu Tiehua was startled and wanted to meet him. But Chu Liuxiang pulled him back, and said in a deep voice: "At this moment, we must not act rashly, and wait and see." Over there, Ji Bingyan, Xiao Pan, and Shi Tuo had pulled all the camels into the sandpit—they just looked around for water, so the sandpit was dug very big. In front of the bunker, there is a pile of rocks blocking the view from the opposite side. In this endless desert, there is really no better hiding place than this. As soon as Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua hid, they saw several galloping horses appearing in the yellow sand flying all over the sky. But these horses came straight forward like crazy, and the horsemen stuck their whole bodies on the horses' backs, as if they were escaping some terrible pursuers. But as far as the eye can see, a large desert is shining like gold under the sun that is gradually slanting to the west. Except for these few horses, there are no shadows of people and horses behind. Hu Tiehua lost his voice: "What's going on? What are these people running from?" Ji Bingyan's face was terribly heavy, and he said in a deep voice: "There are often some extremely mysterious things in the desert. As long as they don't provoke us, we'd better pretend to be blind and pretend we didn't see it." But the horses came running straight for them. Hu Tiehua said: "What if it offends us?" Before Ji Bingyan could speak, those galloping horses collapsed from exhaustion, rolled on the ground and then jumped up. There are five horses in total, but there are only four of them. All four of them were salvaged by the Central Plains martial masters. They are equipped with swords, and they don't seem to be weak. Hu Tiehua had never seen anyone more embarrassed than them. The four people's heads and bodies were covered with yellow sand, their eyes were wide open, and they gasped and stared forward. No one could describe the horror and fear on their faces. When Hu Tiehua and the others saw their expressions, they couldn't help becoming nervous: "What terrible thing did these people see? Why are they so frightened?" Suddenly hearing a roar, the four of them pulled out their waist knives at the same time, flying and slashing wildly!He used all his life skills and all his strength. But there was no one on the other side. What their knives slashed was only the dust in the air. They exhausted all their strength, but they only came to fight the "void", but this enemy could never be cut down or defeated by anyone. Hu Tiehua couldn't help but said: "Did these people see a ghost?" Ji Bingyan remained silent. Xiao Pan shuddered and said in a trembling voice, "I once heard that there are invisible demons in the desert that eat people's hearts. Could it be that they..." Ji Bingyan scolded lightly: "No nonsense allowed." Xiao Pan shut his mouth, but shivered even harder. Hu Tiehua went to look at Chu Liuxiang for help, but Chu Liuxiang was staring at the stone camel. The person who couldn't hear or see was shrunk into a ball at this moment, trembling non-stop—what was he doing for? Hu Tiehua only felt that her palms were cold and wet, and she also broke out in a cold sweat—in this ruthless desert, there are really so many mysterious and terrifying things. Looking over there, two of the four had already fallen down. The other two were also exhausted, panting like cows, but as long as they had the last bit of strength, they would not stop, and their knives danced even more urgently. Ji Bingyan suddenly said in a deep voice: "This is the Peng family's sword technique." Chu Liuxiang sighed: "I can see it too, how did the Peng family become like this?" Hu Tiehua took a closer look, and said in a broken voice, "That's right! It's really the Five Tigers' Door Severing Knife! And judging by the sword skills of these four people, they must be prominent figures among the Peng family's children." Ji Bingyan said: "Five Tigers Broken Door Knife never pass on foreign surnames. Most of these four people are Peng Yun's nephews, brothers among the 'Pengmen Five Tigers'. This bearded man may be Peng Yihu." Chu Liuxiang said: "Have the Five Tigers of Pengmen inherited Peng Yun's bodyguard?" Ji Bingyan said: "Yes!" Chu Liuxiang said: "If that's the case, they must have come here with darts." Xiao Pan said: "It must be like this. In the desert, only people who walk darts don't ride camels." Hearing a roar, another person fell down. Hu Tiehua suddenly stood up, and said loudly: "Peng Yun is a good man, I can't just watch his son go mad and die, I'm going to save him."