SHOCK Chapter 40

These two things Zhou Wu couldn’t bear to part with, so he took them with him.

He knew this was a major taboo for assassins, but he couldn’t overcome his greed.

These past two days, he had been pondering how the sword expert was killed, neglecting his vigilance towards his surroundings.

Liang Nv quickly pulled on the reins of the advancing ox cart and turned her head to look at Zhou Wu.

Zhou Wu wore a blank expression, staring ahead in a daze.

There were a total of four horses, with three men and one woman.

But she was still recognized at a glance, she was the daughter of Zhu Zenglian.

One of the middle-aged men led his horse forward and stopped in front of the ox cart, scrutinizing the three people on it.

“Where are you coming from?”

His voice was cold, devoid of any warmth.

“Middle Liang County.”

Zhou Wu replied.

“What are you doing?”

“Going home.”

“Where did you go from?”

“Xiang City.”

“What did you do in Xiang City?”

“Visiting relatives.”

“What’s the relative’s name?”

“Zhou Shuzhai.”

Zhou Wu made up a name.

“Do you have a travel permit?”

Zhou Wu took out a piece of parchment from his chest and handed it forward.

Liang Nv quickly took it and turned to hand it to the middle-aged man.

After reading the travel permit and learning that Zhou Wu was an Region Chief Officer, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He waved his hand and said, “Go on.”

Liang Nv jumped onto the ox cart, took the travel permit, and pulled the reins to continue on.

The horses moved aside.

The four people had initially taken out their weapons, but seeing that the three people were not suspicious, they relaxed.

As the ox cart passed by the young woman’s horse, her large eyes stared intently at Zhou Wu.

Her face was filled with a puzzled expression.

“Stop!”

Finally, she couldn’t help but shout.

Everyone immediately became alert, surrounding the ox cart with their horses, and tightened their grip on their weapons.

The woman approached Zhou Wu, carefully examining his face.

“Why do you look so familiar?”

Zhou Wu lowered his voice and said, “Everyone says that about me.”

“Your voice is familiar too.”

Zhou Wu stopped talking, obviously the woman had a deep impression of him, the more he said, the more he would expose.

The woman advanced her horse forward.

“Uncle Xia, search his ox cart.”

Another middle-aged man pointed at Zhou Wu with the long shield in his hand.

“You, get out of the cart.”

Zhou Wu sighed, “I am an Region Chief Officer, may I ask who you are?”

The young man shouted, “Stop talking nonsense, get out of the cart, or I’ll slash you twice.”

Zhou Wu ignored him and said in a low voice, “If you are highway robbers, this official is obliged to bring you to justice.”

The three men laughed loudly.

“An Region Chief Officer dares to call himself ‘this official’, I wonder if he’s a real one.”

The middle-aged man swept his spear horizontally, trying to knock Zhou Wu off the ox cart.

Zhou Wu knew that he couldn’t avoid it, the long sword and gold ingot on the hay in the cart were too obvious, they would be seen without a careful search.

He reached forward, grabbed the hilt of the long sword, and raised his left hand to pretend to block the spear.

The middle-aged man didn’t use too much force, thinking that he was just a rural farmer, and didn’t pay attention to him at all.

When the spear was about to hit him, Zhou Wu grabbed it and pulled it back with force.

The middle-aged man was caught off guard, and his body leaned back along with the force.

Zhou Wu leaped up, swung his long sword, and swept it across the middle-aged man’s neck.

He didn’t even look at the man, relying on his senses to know that this person was done for.

His body didn’t stop in mid-air, and flew straight towards the other middle-aged man.

His speed was very fast, the other middle-aged man had an iron rod in his hand, seeing a white shadow flying through the air, he raised the iron rod and smashed it up.

Zhou Wu twisted his body in mid-air, letting the iron rod graze his shoulder and smash down, the long sword in his hand followed smoothly, and stabbed into the man’s throat.

In the blink of an eye, the two middle-aged men fell off their horses.

Zhou Wu breathed a sigh of relief, among the four, these two were obviously the most difficult to deal with, but he didn’t expect to take them down so easily.

How could Zhou Wu let her go, he stepped on the back of the horse in front of him, and chased after her in the air.

A long saber slashed past his face.

Zhou Wu could feel the sharpness of the long saber, and his back felt a chill.

The young man had already leaped off the horse, missing with one strike, the long saber deviated, and swept across horizontally.

Zhou Wu raised his long sword to block the long saber, the blades clashed, making a loud sound.

Zhou Wu took a step back and took a breath.

Originally, this person was the strongest among the four, hiding so deeply, an unexpected attack.

The young man raised his long saber and didn’t stop, followed forward, each strike faster than the last.

The two fought together, Zhou Wu relying on his strong body and fast speed, meeting each move with a counter move.

But he didn’t know how to use a sword at all, just stabbing at the young man randomly.

And the young woman’s saber technique was very skilled, the saber technique was dense, gradually making Zhou Wu lose the ability to fight back.

Fortunately, the wilderness was open, Zhou Wu retreated while fighting, and didn’t show any signs of defeat for a while.

Liang Nv stood in front of the ox cart, staring blankly at the two fighting.

The young woman saw that the helper she had invited had held off Zhou Wu, she relaxed, circled her horse and ran to the front of the ox cart.

Seeing Liang Nv in a daze, she ran her horse past her, reached out and grabbed Liang Nv, and ran towards Zhou Wu and the two.

When they were a dozen meters away from the two, she took out a short sword from her body, and held it across Liang Nv’s neck.

“Drop your weapon, or I’ll kill her!”

Zhou Wu thought to himself, “This woman is quite smart, she knows how to use this trick on me.”

He was having a hard time dealing with the long saber, and didn’t have time to care about what tricks she was playing, he just blocked and didn’t pay attention.

Liang Nv was held across the horse’s back, her face was very calm, not afraid of life or death at all.

The young man hadn’t killed anyone before, she just wanted to threaten Zhou Wu to surrender, who knew that neither of them would pay attention to her.

While she was in a daze, a handful of dust was thrown all over her head and face.

Dog Paw grabbed the dirt from the earth and threw it at her head and face.

The young woman was furious, threw Liang Nv out casually, and pulled on the reins, rushing towards Dog Paw.

Dog Paw was very nimble, running around the dirt pit quickly, preventing the sturdy horse from getting close to him.

The two also began a chase, Dog Paw would occasionally throw a clod of dirt at her.

And Zhou Wu and the young woman were also in a stalemate, neither could do anything to the other for a while.

He was thinking about a way to win while blocking.

Since his body was special, he would risk injury to kill this person, and then use his essence, energy, and spirit to make up for his injuries.

Zhou Wu gritted his teeth, turned his head to the side, letting the long saber cut his shoulder.

And his long sword also stabbed towards the other party’s chest at the same time.

The long saber was sharp, with a “poof” sound, it cut into Zhou Wu’s body.

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