Chapter Forty: The Horse
Xiaolian's eyes suddenly lit up, "Really?!"
"Of course it's true. As long as you are willing to learn, I can teach you all the moves I know. Of course, this will only happen after you find Xiao Lie."
She is unfamiliar with the place here, and with the help of a local named Xiao Lian, she has a higher chance of finding Xiao Lie before the man in black.
"Hehe, no problem, I know the situation within a radius of dozens of miles. As long as they are nearby, I will definitely help you find them!" Xiaolian said confidently.
"Well, thank you very much, Miss Xiaolian."
That night, Xiaolian went home to get a rope tool, and while her husband was asleep, she quietly went into the mountains with Qin Wan.
"There is a valley seven or eight miles ahead. It is surrounded by mountains and is very hidden. There is only a small cave leading there. We can go there first and have a look." After walking for more than an hour, Xiaolian gasped and pointed ahead.
The mountain road.
The moon was already high in the sky at this time, the mountain wind was a bit cold, and the surrounding trees were rustling, creating a somewhat terrifying atmosphere.
But Xiaolian seemed to be used to it, and except for occasionally showing a somewhat vigilant look, she was very calm and at ease.
She couldn't help but look at Qin Wan.
I am able to do this because I have been sleeping in the mountains with my husband all year round, but Qin Wan is a member of the royal family, and he still looks like he is strolling around.
"Have you ever walked on mountain roads at night before?" Xiaolian asked curiously.
Qin Wan nodded, "I've been here a few times."
In her previous life, there were natural and man-made disasters, the apocalypse was coming, and viruses were raging. Everything she had experienced was far more terrifying than this.
Even if a mountain tiger appeared in front of her now, she would not panic at all.
"Roar!"
Just as Qin Wan was thinking of this, a deafening roar of a tiger suddenly came from the distance.
The next moment, a gust of cold wind came oncoming.
The clouds follow the dragon and the wind follows the tiger.
A huge, colorful tiger jumped out from behind the bushes, its round eyes opened angrily and flashed with a frightening green light, making people shudder.
"Ah!! My mother!"
Xiaolian was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground and rolled and crawled to hide behind Qin Wan.
The moment she ran, the tiger seemed to be stimulated and rushed towards her like a thunderbolt.
Just when the tiger's generous claws were about to touch Xiaolian, Qin Wan flew forward and kicked the tiger to the side, letting out a low roar like a cry of pain.
The hair all over its body exploded, and its eyes were like lightning. It looked at Qin Wan and grinned, but it no longer dared to attack rashly.
The two sides were in a stalemate for a long time, and Xiaolian almost fainted from fright.
"What should I do? You...can you beat it?" Xiaolian asked with a trembling voice.
If Xiaolian was not here, Qin Wan could use countless tools from space to deal with the tiger, and a single cannon shot could send its soul to the west.
But now, she can only deal with it on her own.
Qin Wan narrowed his eyes and said to Xiaolian: "You hide in the back first."
Her husband had said this countless times, so Xiaolian subconsciously ran two steps back and hid behind a tree.
The tiger seemed to think that Xiaolian was easier to deal with than Qin Wan, so it suddenly jumped sideways, trying to bypass Qin Wan and attack Xiaolian.
But as soon as it moved, a dagger suddenly shot out, and before it had time to react, it pierced its neck.
"Roar!"
The tiger let out a sad roar.
Qin Wan took advantage of its unpreparedness and jumped directly onto its back, grabbed the dagger that was soaked in its bones and blood, and suddenly broke it.
The severe pain made the tiger almost go crazy, jumping up and down crazily, trying to throw Qin Wan off.
But Qin Wan held the hilt of the dagger tightly. The harder it moved, the more severe the wounds on his body became.
Finally, the tiger lost its strength and fell to the ground weakly due to excessive blood loss.
Qin Wan pulled out his dagger and pierced its throat. In an instant, blood flowed like a stream.
The tiger struggled for a while, but soon gave up and made no sound.
Xiaolian on the side watched Qin Wan subdue the tiger and was so excited that she ran over quickly and said, "Wow! You are so powerful, you are almost as powerful as my master!"
"Has your master ever killed a tiger before?" Qin Wan asked casually.
Xiaolian nodded and said excitedly: "Well, just three months ago, we went to this mountain to camp and met a super big tiger, as big as this one. My master killed it in two or three blows!"
He can kill a tiger in two or three blows. It seems that this person's martial arts is not low.
Xiaolian said before that her husband is a woman?
Qin Wan said: "Since your husband is a woman and is highly skilled in martial arts, why do you call her husband?"
"You don't know that." Xiaolian chuckled and leaned into Qin Wan's ear, "My husband admires Mr. Xu. Since meeting Mr. Xu ten years ago, he has devoted himself to learning poetry, calligraphy, etiquette, and now he is a hundred miles away.
They all call her Mr. Female."
Qin Wan is so funny, is it because of Xu Yu?
But it is true that Xu Yu is suave and handsome, and it is common for women to admire him.
She was about to say something when she suddenly saw a black shadow flash past on the hill in the distance.
Qin Wan was startled. It seemed like a horse?
"Look, there's a horse there!" Xiaolian pointed in the direction of the hill and couldn't help shouting.
This is a deep mountain and old forest, how could there be a horse?
If it's not the horse of those men in black, it must be Xiao Jun's horse!
They're probably nearby.
"Let's go and take a look!" Qin Wan pulled the dagger out of the tiger's neck and immediately rushed towards the hill.
Xiaolian also quickly caught up.
When we reached the hill, the horses were gone, but deep hoof prints were left on them.
"There is only one horse in the hoofprint..."
Nine times out of ten, it's Xiao Jun's horse.
"Let's go." Qin Wan took Xiaolian and chased after the horse's hoof prints.
Xiaolian was a little surprised, "Then...that horse..."
"What I'm looking for is a person, not a horse." Qin Wan couldn't help but said.
Xiao Lian came up and said, "A horse is so expensive. It costs over a hundred taels of silver at least."
Qin Wan disagreed. She had plundered those horses from the horse bandits' stronghold, so there was nothing to feel bad about.
After walking along the horseshoe prints for about half an hour, they came to a river. The terrain here was relatively high, and the river rushed westward from here, and the current was very fast.
According to the hoof prints, the horse stayed here for a long time and climbed up from the river.
Qin Wan's heart tightened. Did they fall into the water?
She looked downstream. If she fell into the water, she would most likely rush downstream.
"Tsk, tsk, the current is so fast, the person you are looking for may be in bad luck." Xiao Lian said in a low voice.
"Go downstream and have a look."
Chapter completed!