C10 Bandits

Li Ke's mind was blank. He rushed out from his hiding place for a few steps before slowly calming down. Hearing that there were so many bandits in front of them, Li Ke didn't dare to rashly charge forward. With his small physique, not even a single bandits could be killed. It was very possible that he would be captured or killed with a single slash.

Gong Ling was weak and didn't dare to hide by herself. She wanted to follow behind Li Ke.

Li Ke stared at Gong Lingruo from behind and suddenly felt that he couldn't bear it anymore. The girl's courage wasn't strange, so she reminded him in a low voice, "Later on, wait for me. Don't come out."

"But …"

Gong Ling wanted to say something she was afraid of, but she was interrupted by Li Ke, "Go back. You came with me. Do you want me to think that DogLeading was killed like Erzi?"

Gong Ling Ruo hurriedly shook her head and didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Go back and hide. Don't create trouble for me, I'm just helping."

Li Ke bent his body and disappeared into the darkness. At this time, Li Ke was also very afraid. He had lived with his grandfather in the mountains for twelve days in Huainan, so he was no stranger to life in the wilderness. During those twelve days, Li Ke and Li Chen earned their living hunting experience. However, Li Ke still felt a lot of pressure in his heart when he thought of entering the woods as a prey.

Li Ke had never killed anyone before. When he first saw Li Chen and the others in a fierce battle and killed two people in a row, Li Ke already knew that it was impossible for a martial artist to not walk in the martial arts world with his hands stained with blood.

After suppressing the fear in his heart with all his might, Li Ke agilely climbed up a large tree with dense canopy. Borrowing the last bit of light from his vantage point, he saw a few blurry figures at the edge of the forest. Li Ke didn't think much about it. He nocked an arrow on his bow and shot it towards one of the shadows. The arrow flew like a locust swarm as a miserable scream was heard from the front.

Ah!

The blood-curdling screech was incomparably miserable. Because the light was too dim, Li Ke could not see where it hit. From the sound of it, it should have hit a fatal point.

The screams of their companions caused the bandits to stop in their tracks.

"Archers, ambush us! Everyone be careful!"

The one who yelled should be the leader. Li Ke looked like he was about to shoot an arrow, but his forearm was stiff and unable to exert any strength.

Li Ke secretly hoped that the mafia would be scared off.

At the foot of the mountain, seven or eight bandits were gathered together, dragging a man whose lower abdomen had been pierced through behind a large tree.

"Third Master, Qi'er can't do it anymore." One of them lowered his voice as if he were a thief, forgetting that they were robbers and not thieves.

The Third Master was a bearded man who wore the only set of leather armor among the group. Beneath the armor were some tattered and thin chainmail. Compared to the group of poor looking men who only had cloth armor, he was much more well-equipped.

Just now, Li Ke's arrow had flown right past him, piercing through Seventh Brother who was behind him, causing Third Boss to break out in a cold sweat. He hastily gathered the people together and retreated to the edge of the forest.

"Seven!"

"Third Master, you must avenge Qi'er!"

Third Boss kicked the person with the loudest voice and scolded in a low voice: "All of you shut the f * ck up. Qi'er got pierced with an arrow, and the people in the forest used a hard bow. If anyone saw it, they would all die."

"A strong bow that can pierce through Qi'er, I can't just shoot a few arrows at those inside, let's all charge in and chop them up." The one who spoke was the monkey head, which was considered a small leader among the bandits.

The Third Master did not say anything immediately. In his heart, he was so angry that the monkey did not know how to move forward or retreat.

"Third Master." Monkey Head urged.

In the darkness of the night, no one could see the coldness in the Third Master's eyes. Since that was the case, it was fine. The Third Master said: "You take three people and go up there. Old dog, you stay there and watch over Qi'er. The rest come with me."

"You, you come with me."

Monkey nodded at the two of them and followed the path on the right into the forest. However, the Third Master didn't immediately take action. He looked at Qi'er's injuries with great concern before bringing his men and entering the forest from the left.

After Li Ke had shot one of them, he did not stay any longer. He returned to his hiding place and found Gong Lingruo. He pulled her and ran down the mountain. Li Ke went in a big circle, afraid that he would be seen by the bandits.

Third Boss' hesitation gave Li Ke valuable retreating time. First, he touched the monkey's head, which was getting further and further away from Li Ke.

On the other hand, Third Master, who was dilly-dallying, almost bumped into Li Ke.

Li Ke pulled Gong Ling Ruo and hid in a tree hole, afraid that Gong Ling Ruo would scream out again. Li Ke hugged Gong Ling Ruo and covered her mouth, not letting her make a sound.

Gong Ling Ruo struggled for a while and heard the sound of people passing through the bushes outside. She didn't dare to struggle anymore and obediently let Li Ke carry her.

The Third Boss carefully walked over to the top of the hole in the tree. He kept whispering to the two people beside him: "Spread out, don't make too much noise. If you become a target, don't blame me for not taking care of you."

"I know."

The three bandits walked over cautiously.

Li Ke did not dare to easily emerge. He waited for a long time before he came out from his hiding spot. He brought Gong Ling Ruo with him to the sparse forest at the foot of the mountain and saw that someone was carrying a corpse out of the forest.

The bandit who had just been shot through by Li Ke had already lost too much blood and died.

The remaining bandits were guarding a corpse. Their ears constantly echoed with their companion's helpless moans before death. How could they still dare to stay in the forest? They only wanted to escape.

Outside the forest, Hunter Gong's wooden house was lit on fire. The thick smoke was like a huge python roaring at the sky. In the dark night, the flames were like a sea of hellfire as they jumped at the witch, leaving behind distorted shadows in the night.

Gong Lingluo tightly held onto Li Ke's clothes. For the first time, she discovered that the light and shadow of the flames at night were terrifying.

Outside the burning wooden house, seven or eight mules were gathered together, guarded by a gunman.

Seeing someone carrying a corpse out of the forest, the gunman stuck his gun into the ground and quickly ran up to him. As he ran, he asked loudly, "Old dog, what's going on?"

"Bast Liu, it's Qi'er."

"Qi'er!?" Seeing Qi'er and the old dog covered in blood, Liu Pai Zi, who was still guarding, shouted loudly with a twisted anger on his face, "Who did it? That bastard dared to kill my brother, where's Third Master? Where's the monkey head? "

The old dog replied, "He went into the mountains to chase him."

"Look after the horse."

Liu Pai retrieved his gun, turned around and was about to enter the woods when suddenly, from the direction of the burning village, there came a burst of shouts. A group of bandits embarrassedly escaped from the village and scattered in all directions.

Liu Pai and Old Dog were both stupefied. The previous attack had been extremely smooth, so why did it suddenly collapse?

The two bandits rode over and shouted as they ran: "The idea is too hard! The boss is dead! Inform the Third Boss to retreat!"

The old dog shouted: "The Third Master has entered the mountain."

"What should we do?"

Hu Pai was also getting anxious.

The Wolf Mountain Bandits were just a group of bandits with very loose organization. They had a total of five leaders, each leading several tens of brothers. According to the ranking of the five leaders, from one to five, the Great Master was the strongest. These people had all lost their territories in the battle of the martial arts world, and the bandits who had roamed from other places to the vicinity of Mount Wolf Residence were all tangled together, bearing the title of the Wolf Mountain Bandits.

In the Wolf Residence Mountain, there were dozens of Willows and Bandits, which were the farmers of the Gong Family Village. When they were not busy with farming, they could pick up their swords and spears to string up a bunch of bandits.

Last time, when Wolf Mountain Kou had come to the Gong Family to extort money, he was taught a lesson by the villagers and received some compensation. If the Gong Family's people killed the bandits and organized a counterattack, they might be able to drive the group of bandits away from the nearby mountains.

It was because the Gong family's village spending money to settle matters and giving people the illusion of being afraid of things caused today's big battle.

The two bandits didn't stop after seeing the Third Master. They turned their horses around and prepared to leave, then turned around and shot an arrow through the head of one of the bandits. Their corpses decayed and their mounts stood up in fright.

The other hoodlum was lying on the horse's back, waving his whip desperately to urge the horse to run, but he had only run a short distance when he was shot down by an arrow.

Li Ke looked in the direction the arrow came from and saw his grandfather, Li Chen, Hunter Gong and a few men running out from the darkness.

"Grandfather, father!"

Li Ke kept looking forward and did not notice Gong Lingruo who was beside him. When she saw her family members appear, Gong Ling Ruo ran out of the forest while shouting.

"Come back!"

Before Li Ke could grab her, Gong Lingruo had already run far away.

Hu Pai and the old dog looked at each other and got on their horses to charge at Gong Ling Ruo. As long as they held Gong Ling Ruo as a hostage, they would have a slim chance of survival.

Hunter Gong shouted, "This is bad!" He bent his bow and nocked an arrow with Li Chen. Li Chen shot Liu Pai off the horse's back with an arrow. The hunter Gong hesitated for a moment as he was afraid of injuring his granddaughter, but the arrow missed.

The old dog rode his horse and already arrived in front of Gong Ling Ruo. Gong Ling Ruo was so shocked by the sudden change that she stood there blankly. She helplessly looked at the nearby family members and the approaching bad people and already lost her ability to judge.

"Xiao-Xiao, run!" Hunter Gong yelled out Gong Lingruo's nickname, but Gong Ling Ruo didn't have any reaction and was already scared silly.

The face of the bad guy got closer and closer. A hand covered with calluses stained with the world's evils grabbed over. Gong Ling Ruo screamed in fear: "Ah!"

"Come here! "Little bastard."

The old dog had a sinister smile on his face. Suddenly, a child's cry rang out. "Scram!" While the old dog was focusing his attention on Gong Lingruo, Li Ke rushed out of the forest and used the small bow in his hand as a sword and chopped towards the old dog's face.

When Old Dog saw Li Ke, it was already too late for him to dodge. He could only use his wrist to block.

"Crack!" With a crisp sound of broken bones, the old dog let out a blood-curdling screech as it somersaulted and fell from its horse. At the same time, Li Ke was also sent flying by the horse's inertia. He was still young, so even if he had the strength of a Level 6 Warrior, he could not avoid being knocked flying by the horse without a foothold.

Li Ke rolled over in the air before heavily crashing into the bushes behind him. He rolled over and over on the ground until he crashed into a tree trunk.

"Ke Er!" This time, it was Li Chen who got anxious. His running speed increased even more.

The old dog crawled up from the ground and still wanted to pounce towards Gong Lingruo. He was killed by an arrow from Hunter Gong and had the arrow pierce through his throat.

Li Chen was the first to run past Gong Lingruo, running into the forest as he shouted, "Ke Er!" At this moment, Li Chen was extremely anxious. He had placed all his hopes on Li Ke, never expecting that he would encounter such a disaster.

"Ke Er!"

Hearing his grandfather's shout, Li Ke tried his best to roll over and sit under a tree. Just now, he used all of his strength to save Gong Ling Ruo, and then heavily fell onto the ground. At this moment, he couldn't even muster a bit of strength.

Just as Li Ke was about to reply, a sharp blade was placed on Li Ke's neck. Unexpectedly, it was the Third Master who had entered the forest, followed by two bandits.

The Third Master pulled Li Ke up and forced him to walk forward. Then he said to Li Chen who had rushed over, "Get out of the way, or else I'll kill him."