Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 33
A quarter of an hour is enough for everyone to make a decision.

It's a humiliating death that hurts the family.

Or obey the military order and fight for the future?
It's not hard to choose.

With an order, all patrol inspectors poured into the dense forest like a tide, without exception.

The mountain road is narrow and the dense forest is quiet.

Outside the dense forest, the inspectors, who were still in formation, scattered one after another under the influence of the dense forest's terrain.

Under He Ping's yelling, the dispersed patrols also converged towards their respective establishments, with the team as a unit, spread out on both sides of the mountain path, and headed towards Qili Village on the mountain.

"There are no footprints?"

Chu Mu held the long knife tightly, looked at the white snow covering the mountains and forests, and frowned.

The wave of arrow rain just now couldn't have appeared out of thin air, it must be someone's activity.

The mountains and forests are covered with snow, and if people move around, they will inevitably leave traces.

However, there are very few traces in sight.

The more you go to the mountains and forests, the fewer traces are left, and there are faint traces that have been artificially covered up, but as the distance advances, everything seems to have been attributed to the wind and snow.

They secretly attacked and killed the officers and soldiers whose numbers far exceeded their own, and retreated calmly to cover up their tracks.

In Chu Mu's mind, the threat index of this group of people seemed to soar.

"Follow me, don't wander around."

Chu Mu turned his head to look at Xu Yuan who was following him, gave instructions, and then looked at the surrounding inspection team.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Like Chu Mu, there are not a few who want to find a chance to fight.

Like Li Gang, there are not a few people who are single-minded about their future.

Wherever they came into view, they were all armed with sharp weapons, searching for the advancing team along the path up the mountain in the forest.

From the foot of the mountain to Qili Village, the total distance is only seven miles.

Obviously, at this speed, it won't take long to reach Qili Village.

But once they arrived at Qili Village, things would undoubtedly be much simpler.

It has only been a few hours since the inspector was killed.

As long as he is a normal person, he will not know what will happen if he kills the official.

Escaping is the only option.

But how far can you escape in a few hours.

Not to mention, what would you eat if you fled to the deep mountains in this cold winter?
It will take more time to bring enough living supplies.

"Be careful, if the traitor wants to delay time, there will definitely be a cold arrow attack next."

Chu Mu stopped and looked at the inspectors following him.

The team he was in was mostly newly recruited inspectors, and the few old fritters left just now seemed to be completely wiped out.

Li Gang, the leader of the team, is even more focused on making meritorious service, and now he doesn't know where he has rushed.

Therefore, the rest of Chu Mu's team are all inspectors who have just joined the job just like Chu Mu.

It can be said that they are all a group of oil bottles, so it is no wonder that Li Gang has disappeared.

After asking a word, Chu Mu ignored everyone's responses, and turned his attention to the dense forest.

The entire inspection team was advancing along the mountain road in a triangle shape, and the team he was in was at a corner of the edge of the triangle.

If, as I guessed, the rebel was delaying time, then the position he was in was still quite dangerous.

As if to confirm Chu Mu's guess, all of a sudden, just a dozen or so steps ahead of Chu Mu, there was a plop during a round of inspection, and he fell to the ground suddenly.

A cluster of arrows almost pierced through the entire head, and the blood stained the snow, and the pool of blood was extremely dazzling.

"Enemy attack!"

Shouts suddenly sounded, and the originally quiet dense forest became chaotic in an instant.

Chu Mu's pupils shrank suddenly, and at this moment, all emotions were instantly forgotten, and Chu Mu subconsciously looked in the direction of the arrow cluster.

I saw a figure jumping down from the top of the tree, and then ran wildly in the dense forest. Under the cover of the trees, within a few breaths, the figure disappeared.

Whoosh...

This cluster of arrows was like an order, and cold arrows suddenly struck in all directions.

Inexplicably, an indescribable sense of crisis suddenly enveloped Chu Mu's whole body.

Out of the corner of his eye, a black spot seemed to be flying towards him.

Chu Mu swung the saber away subconsciously, and the sense of collision along the blade clearly spread to the bottom of Chu Mu's heart.

The clusters of arrows that were broken into two fell on the snowy ground, and the strange light shining on the clusters of arrows was also clearly reflected in Chu Mu's pupils.

Chu Mu's back was cold, his throat seemed to be blocked by a foreign object, and his breathing seemed to be somewhat difficult.

Just now, he... almost died!

Xu Yuan ran forward quickly, and looked at Chu Mu with his back bent: "Brother Mu, are you okay!"

"I'm fine, just be careful!"

Chu Mu took a deep breath, and his eyes instantly locked on the man who was running away.

It was at most thirty steps away from him.

In front of him, there were already several bold inspections rushing over.

Without hesitation, Chu Mu held the long knife tightly, and followed closely behind to chase the man.

Dozens of steps away, not too far away.

After this wave of attacks, the traitors whose tracks were exposed obviously lost their greatest advantage.

There are inspectors with bows and crossbows fighting back, arrow clusters and crossbow arrows roaring, and there are inspectors who are chasing and fleeing figures desperately, wanting to chop off people's heads for a future.

After running for more than ten steps, Chu Mu suddenly stopped and shouted: "Be careful, there are still people on the tree!"

On top of the treetops, accompanied by falling snowflakes, a figure leaped down like a dragon.

The hunting knife with the length of the arm sank directly into the body of one of the inspectors, blood bloomed, and the body fell heavily to the ground.

The inspector's eyes widened, the luster in the pupils dimmed to the naked eye, only the indescribable fear was firmly imprinted on his face.

That figure was still vigorous, with a hunting knife several feet long in his hand, as flexible as an arm.

In the blink of an eye, the patrol inspectors who were chasing at the front fell into a pool of blood one after another in a few breaths.

Only then did Chu Mu really see his true colors clearly.

Looking like a teenager, he looks much younger than Xu Yuan.

Dressed in an animal skin jacket, there are still traces of youthfulness on his face, his eyes are clear, but there is a hint of ruthlessness that does not match his age.

The young man stared at Chu Mu, but he didn't retreat, instead, he rushed towards Chu Mu like an arrow leaving the string.

Suddenly, that indescribable sense of crisis once again enveloped Chu Mu's whole body.

Clang!
The blades collided, and the ear-piercing golden sound exploded in the dense forest, like the sound of life-threatening, accompanied by the blood-stained hunting knife, covering Chu Mu like a violent storm.

In just a few breaths, Chu Muyan took a dozen steps back, and there seemed to be a row of hideous gaps in the blade in his hand.

"Chase!"

"Quick, don't let him run away!"

The sound of shouting and shouting was close to the ears, and the sound of metal and iron clashing like a storm also came to an abrupt end.

After Chu Mu reacted, the young man's figure, like a civet cat, quickly shuttled through the dense forest, and finally disappeared from sight very quickly.

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(End of this chapter)