Chapter 60: Accidentally Poisoned by the Secondary Vehicle (1/2)
On the official road, a team of fifty people was moving forward quickly.
It was Li Yan and his team.
The weakest in their team were all flesh-refining warriors, who could exert hundreds of kilograms of force with a single arm swing, and could walk at the speed of ordinary people running fast.
The average running speed of ordinary people is 15 seconds per 100 meters. If they keep moving at a constant speed, they can run 24 kilometers in an hour, or 48 miles.
Li Yan and his team can reach about 50 miles in an hour.
In other words, if they walk in a straight line, Li Yan and his team only need about 5 hours to reach Guiyuan Peak.
However, in the Great Zhou Kingdom, official roads are built with cities as connecting points, and cannot radiate to towns and villages at the lower level.
Therefore, Li Yan and his team must first follow the official road to the nearest city to Guiyuan Peak, and then find a local guide to lead the way to Guiyuan Peak.
The entire journey is expected to take about three days.
Unfortunately, Guiyuan Peak is located in the east of Linshan City, and the Nujiang River passes through Linshan City from east to west, so it is impossible to go to Guiyuan Peak by water.
Otherwise, if you go downstream, you can reach Guiyuan Peak in one day.
"Fifth Master, how long will it take to reach the next city?"
Today is the second day since Li Yan and his party set out.
Li Yan and other young people who just came out felt fresh and curious about many things on the road.
The yellow rice on both sides of the official road, the pedestrians, merchants, escorts, and relatives they met on the road can make them talk for half a day.
And young people, emotions come and go quickly, and after the novelty, they will feel bored.
In addition, the sun in the sky is emitting high temperatures wantonly, making people sweat all over and feel very uncomfortable.
"We'll reach the next county town - [Black Water City] in half an hour. We'll go in for lunch, rest, and continue our journey in the afternoon."
As the leader of this team, Li Qingyou still has a lot of things to deal with.
In addition to ensuring the safety of Li Yan and others, he also has to plan the route, arrange food and lodging along the way, and deal with emergencies.
"That's good. The sun is too strong. Although I'm not very tired on the road, I'm sweating a lot, making me sticky."
The young man who asked the question was immediately happy when he heard that it was only half an hour's journey.
Not only him, but everyone who heard the news later couldn't help but show a hint of joy on their faces.
When they were at Li's house, although they would sweat a lot during their practice, the clothes on their bodies were less fabric and breathable, so they didn't feel the sweat sticking to their bodies.
However, when they go out for a long journey, of course they can't wear the clothes they wear when they practice, so they are no longer breathable, and the sweat soaks the clothes, making them very uncomfortable.
"Li Yan, when we get to the county, I'll treat you to some rock sugar water. The weather is too hot."
A man next to Li Yan wiped the sweat off his forehead and said to Li Yan carelessly.
"Okay, to be honest, I do miss the cool sugar water."
"Okay, you guys go drink rock sugar water, but you didn't invite me. No, I want to go too."
"Let's go together, let's go together. Thinking of that taste, I'm drooling."
"I remember that it was Li Tiancheng who said he wanted to treat us. Tiancheng is so generous today, so let me be one of them."
Everyone clamored to add one more, and Li Tiancheng's face turned bitter.
Rock sugar water is actually a drink made by adding ice cubes and other ingredients to honey water. It quenches thirst and relieves heat.
However, because the ice cubes in summer are stored in winter, the less they are used, the more expensive it is.
A cup of rock sugar water costs a lot of money, and warriors like them need to drink at least three cups to be satisfied. So many people go together, that's several taels of silver.
For Li Tiancheng, who has always been frugal, this number is enough to make him feel painful.
"Let me treat you today, Tiancheng, you treat me next time."
Li Yan, who noticed Li Tiancheng's expression, said so, and did not give Li Tiancheng time to continue to refuse, and decided on this matter.
Li Yan received a reward of 1,000 taels of silver, and others also knew it, so when he said this, they were not polite.
"That's good, Tiancheng treats, I'm afraid he will run out of money before he has had enough, but Li Yan is different, I will definitely drink as much as I want."
Someone joked, causing laughter from the people around, which also relieved Li Tiancheng's embarrassment.
"Then I will definitely treat you alone next time."
"Okay, okay, I'll talk about it next time."
Li Yan and Li Tiancheng whispered.
The reason why Li Tiancheng was so persistent in asking Li Yan for help was because during a break, Li Yan blocked a dead snake's attack on Li Tiancheng.
This dead snake is good at camouflage. If it doesn't move, it looks like an ordinary dead branch and is difficult to be discovered.
At the same time, the dead snake is very poisonous. People who are bitten will die in a cup of tea.
It can be said that Li Yan saved his life.
Just when the teenagers were discussing what flavor of rock sugar water tasted better, Li Qingba, who was leading the way, suddenly waved his hand, and everyone stopped immediately.
"Second brother, what happened? Why did you stop suddenly?"
Li Qingyou, who was in the middle of the team, asked in surprise.
"There are two groups of people fighting in front. The situation is unclear now, so it is not suitable to go over. Let's step aside and wait and see."
Li Qingba's powerful voice sounded, and then he arranged for everyone to retreat to the grove beside the official road.
Li Yan and his party retreated to the grove and began to observe the two groups of people fighting.
Li Yan had good eyesight, and he could still see the faces of both sides clearly even though the scene was hundreds of meters away.
One of the two groups was dressed in escort uniforms, carrying horses, escort carts, and an escort flag erected on the escort cart, which was very eye-catching.
Obviously, this was a group of escorts on escort duty.
The other group of people, wearing uniform gray clothes, without any markings on their clothes, attacked fiercely and decisively, and obviously took the initiative to attack.
"It seems that someone wants to rob the escort, but I don't know what kind of goods this escort agency is escorting, which would attract a special person to rob the escort."
Li Qingba, who had worked in the family's [Shiwei Escort Agency] for a period of time, said curiously.
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His face was no longer as nervous as before.
Because he had already discovered that the strongest masters of these two groups were only at the Bone Forging Realm, and there were no masters at the Blood Exchange Realm.
"No matter what they are betting, it's none of our business. Our mission is to send these little guys to Guiyuan Sect safely."
Li Qingyou frowned slightly. He didn't like such sudden events.
"Well, I'm just curious and won't do anything."
Although he was Li Qingyou's second brother, Li Qingba listened to Li Qingyou's words and immediately extinguished the desire in his heart.
But after about a quarter of an hour, the two groups finally decided the winner, and the winner was the group of gray-clothed people.
Although the group of escorts resisted tenaciously, after losing half of their men, they still fled in all directions under the desire to survive.
The gray-clothed people did not chase the escorts, but carefully searched the escort car, and immediately evacuated the place after finding what they wanted.
As soon as they left, Li Yan and others walked out of the grove and returned to the official road.
In fact, not only their group, but also several groups of people appeared from various hidden corners like them.
Several groups of people looked at each other, did not speak, and moved forward silently.
When they saw the corpses on the ground, many people in the Li family looked unhappy.
Not only the young men like Li Yan, but also the guards around them.
Of course, they are guards, but they are not old, they are only in their twenties, and each of them has the strength of the bone forging realm.
Many of them were older brothers of Li Yan and the other 20 young men, including Li Huazheng, the eldest son of the third master of the Li family, and Li Huajin, the eldest brother of Li Yan.
Their duties were not to guard, but to be the middle-level managers of the various industries of the Li family, and they were the elites of the Li family.
I don’t know why the family asked them to leave their work and escort Li Yan and the others to Guiyuan Sect.
“Don’t look at it, don’t move anything, listen to my orders, and speed up.”
Seeing that some people turned pale and even vomited, Li Qingyou immediately gave an order.
Now is not the time to practice courage. Li Qingyou will not blame them for being afraid of corpses, but will take care of their emotions.
Moreover, the experienced Li Qingyou always felt that something was wrong.
So, a group of more than 50 people, without even looking at the gold and silver scattered on the ground, quickened their pace.
Soon, they were far away from the battle scene just now.
The people behind Li Yan and his group looked at each other for a few times, and then tacitly began to pick up the gold and silver on the ground and search for valuables in the escort car.
Of course, when distributing gold and silver, there are always quarrels, but no one took action.
After dividing the gold and silver that could be seen on the ground, they began to search for the goods in the escort car.
Among them, two people chatted while searching, and the topic was Li Yan and his group who had already left.
"Hey, where are so many people going together? They look so tender and delicate, they must be from a wealthy family."
"I know something about this. It seems that a sect with innate masters is recruiting disciples. Many powerful families in the county have sent people to the Guiyuan Sect, hoping to make their children become disciples of the Guiyuan Sect."
"In the past few days, I have seen several groups of such teams."
"Innate Sect, I wish I could join it."
"Don't dream, they want teenagers under 18 years old, and their cultivation must be above the Flesh Refining Realm. Do you think you are qualified?"
"More importantly, this time the Guiyuan Sect recruited disciples, but it greeted the powerful people in the major counties of our Linjiang County, and did not recruit disciples from the entire Linjiang County."
"This shows that the Guiyuan Sect will only recruit disciples from the children of these powerful families. People like us who are scattered or small forces don't have much chance."
"Unless you are really talented, so talented that Guiyuan Sect is also attracted to you."
The conversation between the two was heard by a middle-aged man on the side, who couldn't help but sigh: "It's really unfair."
"I wanted to let my kid try it before, but fortunately he didn't go, otherwise it would be a waste of money."
"It's better to save that money and buy more cultivation resources for that kid."
As soon as this person finished speaking, the person who spoke earlier immediately took over and said; "Indeed, it costs a lot of money to go on a long journey, especially to Guiyuan Sect. I heard that a small town has been built at the foot of Guiyuan Peak where Guiyuan Sect is located. It is called Guiyuan Town. The prices are much higher than other places, just to make money from the pockets of this wave of powerful people."
"I really have to thank you. If it weren't for your words, how could I, huh? Pu~"
As this person spoke, he spit out a mouthful of blood, and the blood turned black.
"No, brother, what's wrong with you."
"Go away, these things are poisonous."
As soon as he finished speaking, he bled from all seven orifices and died.
When the others heard this, their pupils dilated and their hands and feet trembled.
However, it was too late to escape at this time.
They had already been infected with the poison. The farthest one ran only ten feet away and fell to the ground.
Suddenly, the killing scene, which originally had only a dozen corpses, instantly had more than a dozen corpses.
At this time, the gray-clothed man who had left appeared again.
"What should we do? The target didn't fall for it. Our plan didn't succeed."
One of the gray-clothed men said in a low voice.
Their plan was very good. They pretended to intercept the escort agency, but in fact they were preparing to poison the Li family.
Even these escorts were arranged by them, but these escorts didn't know anything.
In order to increase the temptation, they even deliberately sprinkled a lot of gold and silver secretly, just to let the Li family touch these things.
Unfortunately, they hit the wrong car.
"Start the next plan."
The leader of the gray-clothed man said coldly, without much discouragement in his words.
"Yes."
However, as soon as he looked up, he saw his leader's head leaving his body.
A streak of blood pierced his pupils.
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