The world is like a prison, my body is holy

Chapter 6 Living and dying together
"Bang bang bang bang, the weather is dry, be careful with fire..."

The moon hangs alone in the sky, and all is quiet.

Wang Wen yawned, walked slowly across the yard and opened the gate.

"Ouch."

As soon as the door opened, a pitch-black object rolled in, startling Wang Wen so much that he pulled out his sword with a clang.

"Brother, don't draw your sword. It's me, it's me!"

The dark thing was also startled by the sound of the long sword being unsheathed. It got up from the ground, pulled down its scarf, pointed at its own big face and shouted.

Hearing the familiar voice, Wang Wen moved closer in confusion and took a closer look in the dim moonlight... The iron block with a neck as thick as its head, who else could it be but Xu Ergou?
He looked him up and down again: a three-foot-long sword, a nightgown, and a mask.

While he was sizing up Xu Ergou, Xu Ergou was also sizing up his elder brother: three-foot-long sword, nightgown, mask...

Wang Wen gave a thumbs up: "You are really a talented guy!"

Xu Ergou: "Hehehe..."

Wang Wen stepped over the threshold and said, "Let's go. Don't miss the time."

Xu Ergou held down his sword and followed: "Brother, I've found out everything. Qin Laoba's group's lair is in Liujia Village outside Dongshuimen..."

Wang Wen: "In your eyes, I am just such a fool who only cares about his head but not his butt."

Xu Ergou: "This...hahaha..."

Wang Wen: "I'll deal with you later!"

The two men, one in front and one behind, jumped over the wall and jumped out of the Qinghe Gang hall, plunging into the endless night.

Soon, the capable man tiptoed into the still-lit hall and said to Huang Xingde, who was flipping through a book, "Master, Brother Hu is out, and his subordinate Xu Ergou is with him."

Huang Xingde flipped a page of the book and sighed with a worried look on his face, "This brat is already this old, but he still has such a bad temper. What should I do in the future?"

A capable man lowers his eyebrows, his eyes look at his nose, and his nose looks at his heart.

……

The two men in the dark walked through remote and deserted alleys, then left the city by water, and unnoticed, they arrived at a large house with two entrances in Liujia Village.

"Wow, that's quite generous!"

Wang Wen looked around the two-story courtyard and said in surprise, "Aren't these people from the Dirty Clothes Sect? How come they live in a better place than me?"

Xu Ergou said sarcastically, "Yes, only the Dirty Clothes Faction would do such dirty things. The Clean Clothes Faction are all respectable people who are not stained with even a speck of dust..."

Wang Wen understood: "Oh, I understand. A temporary worker who kills and sets fires, right?"

Xu Ergou: "Huh?"

Wang Wen: "You haven't studied much, so I don't blame you for not understanding..."

The two men slowly groped their way to the base of the wall of the large mansion. Before they could climb inside, they heard a burst of dog barking coming from inside. Judging from the sounds, there were at least two or three dogs.

Xu Ergou scratched his head and whispered, "Brother, this is not easy to fix..."

"Well, that's easy!"

Wang Wen thought for a moment and quickly made up his mind. He stretched out his hand and quickly drew a rectangle on the ground, then pointed directly at the front door: "After a hundred or so, I will break in through the front door and lure everyone inside in."

"Wait at the back door for me to count a hundred or so, then sneak in and look around to see if there's a doll. This place isn't big, so it shouldn't be hard to find."

After a pause, he emphasized his tone and said in a deep voice: "If you meet someone, just fight to the death. If anything goes wrong, I will take the responsibility!"

Xu Ergou sneered, looked down at the rectangle on the ground, and said softly: "Brother, how about I go in through the front door and you go through the back door!"

Wang Wen slapped his head and tilted it sideways: "Such a good opportunity to show off, you want to snatch it from me?"

Xu Ergou: ...

"Okay, then take it easy, big brother!"

Xu Ergou stood up and said: "If you can't hold on any longer, just retreat. At worst, we can go back and gather our troops, then come back and kill these stinking beggars."

Wang Wen stiffened his neck and squinted at him: "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Xu Ergou laughed, turned around, held down his sword, and rushed out quickly along the wall. After a while, he disappeared around the corner.

Wang Wen squatted on the spot, counted one hundred and fifty in his mind, then stood up and walked slowly towards the gate of the courtyard.

He pulled up his scarf, tightened his belt, and then suddenly lifted his leg.

There was a loud bang, and the two doors flew into the yard. The barking of dogs in the yard instantly became like crazy.

Wang Wen held his sword at his waist and stepped over the gate.

"Ow ooh..."

Three guard dogs rushed out from various corners of the courtyard and rushed towards Wang Wen like three big black rats.

There was a dull thud, and the three guard dogs that rushed towards Wang Wen flew back at the same time, hitting the ground heavily like rags, and became motionless.

Wang Wen patted the non-existent dust on his trouser legs and walked into the yard with a swagger.

"Hurry up, the enemy is here..."

"How dare you come to my Beggars' Sect and act wildly!"

Candles were lit in the side rooms on both sides of the courtyard, and disheveled figures poured out of the doors, holding sticks and surrounding Wang Wen who was standing in the center of the courtyard... A strong sour smell, like fermented sewage, hit Wang Wen in the face, making him breathless and instantly gave up the idea of ​​saying a few polite words.

'One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...'

He counted silently, his eyes finally falling on Qin Laoba, who was standing at the back of the crowd with a gloomy and angry face: "Eight! Very good, everyone is here, we can start the car."

Qin Laoba, who was standing over there, was still looking Wang Wen up and down with a frown on his face: "My friend, which road are you on? Why are you here in the middle of the night..."

"Keng."

Before Qin Laoba finished speaking, the steel knife at Wang Wen's waist had already been unsheathed.

He swung his knife, releasing a flash of light, forcing back the beggars surrounding him. Then he rushed forward with the knife, rushing into the group of beggars like a wolf among sheep, and chopped down the beggar who was blocking his way with one knife, and went straight for Qin Lao Ba!

"How brave!"

Seeing Wang Wen coming at him aggressively, Qin Laoba stepped back without thinking, picked up the iron stick as thick as his arm and hit Wang Wen with it to attack instead of defend.

Seeing how brave he was, Wang Wen immediately swung and chopped with all his might, thinking that one blow would either knock the iron stick out of the man's hand, or crush his lower body and take the opportunity to get close to him.

There was a loud "clang" sound of metal clashing, and the steel knife that chopped on the wrought iron rod with lightning speed broke on the spot. The blade rotated in an arc and flew over Wang Wen's head, and accidentally hit the chest of a beggar behind him who was holding a stick and hitting him on the back, piercing through the chest on the spot.

His idea was not wrong. There were no more than ten masters in Yangzhou City who could fight him head-on, including his adoptive father Huang Xingde.

He simply forgot that this common waist knife, which he had dug out after searching for a long time in the hall to avoid exposing his identity, could not withstand his innate power...

"I rely on..."

Wang Wen stared at the broken knife in his hand, his concentrated attention scattering. The next second, a sharp sound of something piercing the air woke him up. He hurriedly looked up and dodged to the side.

"Woo..."

The wrought iron rod swept past his face with a gust of wind.

Qin Lao Ba was taken aback when he saw that his stick missed, so he swung the stick across without hesitation, hitting Wang Wen's kidney with the tip of the stick.

"Boom."

The solid touch of the stick head made Qin Laoba happy, and he looked over quickly... and saw a big hand covered with calluses holding the stick head firmly.

"Seize the sword with bare hands?"

An idea subconsciously flashed through Qin Laoba's mind. Just as he was about to change his moves, he felt an unparalleled force coming from the other end of the wrought iron rod, forcibly pulling him forward.

His reaction was quick. As soon as he realized he couldn't hold onto his weapon, he let go of the iron rod without a second thought. At the same time, he stomped his foot hard, trying to use the force to leap backwards...

Unfortunately, the distance between the two is too close.

They were so close that his lower body fell apart and leaned forward, and the distance between them was not as long as Wang Wen's legs.

After all, she has long legs that are 1.85 meters long!
Wang Wen swept his leg low and swung it like a whip, leaving behind a trail of afterimages and kicking Qin Laoba's lower body hard.

There was a crisp sound of "click" and Qin Laoba, who had just jumped, flipped in the air and hit the ground heavily. His two legs bent to the right at the knees and were broken.

"Ah, my legs, my legs!"

Qin Laoba, who had fallen and had his head broken and bleeding, rolled on the ground and screamed heart-wrenchingly. His miserable appearance made the beggars surrounding the two of them swallow their saliva subconsciously, their legs trembled, and they dared not take another step forward.

Wang Wen let out a light breath, and silently walked towards Qin Laoba who was rolling on the ground, holding the wrought iron rod.

The faint light from the fires in the houses on both sides shone on him, stretching his shadow very long and drowning out the six beggars shivering behind him.

Seeing Wang Wen approaching with an iron rod, the heartbroken Qin Lao Ba rolled to the other side while desperately wailing, "Master Tiger, spare my life, Master Tiger, spare my life. I have looked down on others and failed to recognize gold and jade. I have offended Master Tiger. I apologize to Master Tiger. I will pay you gold and silver, even thousands of taels. Master Tiger, spare my life..."

When Wang Wen heard him reveal his identity, his steps couldn't help but pause, but the next second he strode towards Qin Lao Ba again.

"Hey, look at what you've done. I don't know whether to call you smart or stupid!"

Wang Wen sighed and walked up to Qin Laoba: "I was only going to cripple you before, but now, I'm going to kill you..."

Qin Lao Ba also reacted immediately, his eyes glaring as he shouted angrily: "Even if I turn into a ghost, I will never let you go!"

Wang Wen slapped his thigh in surprise when he heard this: "It's a deal, double happiness!"

"Click it."

He hit Qin Laoba on the top of his head with a stick. Qin Laoba immediately tilted his head and died. He even vomited out the tofu he had eaten last night.

"squeak……"

The sound of footsteps rubbing against bluestone slabs was heard, and the other beggars suddenly woke up, turned around and threw away the sticks in their hands, rushed towards the courtyard gate, and huddled together at the narrow gate.

Wang Wen heard the hurried footsteps behind him, grabbed the iron rod, turned around and jumped, his body flew across the courtyard like a big bird, jumped above the gate, and swung the iron rod in the air to smash it around.

"Spare your life, spare your life!"

"We know nothing, nothing at all!"

"Killing, killing..."

The beggars' terrified trumpets mixed with the muffled "bang bang bang" sounds, making a loud noise.

But there was not a single light on in the quiet Liujia Village.

Only the distant barking of dogs echoed the sound.

……

When Xu Ergou rushed from the backyard to the front yard with a bag of gold and silver, he saw his elder brother standing among the corpses, looking left and right for something.

He was secretly horrified and called out "Big Brother" as he slowly moved forward. He heard his big brother counting softly "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven..."

For some reason, Xu Ergou suddenly felt that the wind tonight was a bit cold.

"Where's the person you're looking for?"

After repeatedly confirming that this group of good brothers had lived and died together, Wang Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Xu Ergou.

Xu Ergou slyly opened his coat and showed his eldest brother the glittering gold and silver inside: "There are no children in the backyard, only these are found."

Wang Wen frowned and slapped his head sideways: "Did you touch the wrong thing last night, you son of a bitch?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Ergou immediately raised three fingers and swore, "Brother, if that guy hadn't put a child in that sack last night, I, Xu Ergou, would be struck by five thunderbolts and die without a complete corpse!"

"That doesn't make sense..."

Wang Wen scratched his head and thought, "Could it be that this group of beggars has other dens?"

Xu Ergou thought for a moment and shook his head, "I haven't heard they have any other hideouts..."

When Wang Wen heard this, he slapped him again and said, "This is all your fault. If you had come out and told me earlier, I could have kept him alive to ask him some questions. Now look what's going on. They're all dead. Where are we going to find those children?"

Xu Ergou covered his head, took two steps back without showing any expression, and whispered cautiously, "How about I go ask someone else?"

Wang Wen thought about it, shook his head and sighed, "Forget it. If it's destined to happen, it will happen. If it's not destined to happen, don't force it. If she doesn't meet us, then that girl must be unlucky."

Xu Ergou nodded his head: "That's right. You have no relatives or friends, and you can do this. That's it..."

He gave Wang Wen a thumbs-up and continued, "If we continue investigating, we'll end up in a life-and-death battle with the Beggars' Sect. It's not worth it!"

Wang Wen gave him a strange look, sighed softly, and reached out to touch his head gently: "Looks like I'll have to hit you less on the head in the future. You've made the child stupid!"

"what?"

Xu Ergou was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly realized what was happening and exclaimed, "Isn't this something I can protect you from?"

"Your uncle?"

Wang Wen chuckled and said, "Your uncle is really hoping that the Beggars' Gang will make a big fuss so that he can send me to work in the government office!"

Xu Ergou didn't quite understand what he was saying, but he was still shocked: "So you knew there was a trap here, but you still jumped in?"

Just for that little girl?
This is not like my eldest brother's style!

"This thing of yours is probably still about 80% new..."

Wang Wen sighed and tapped his head gently. "That idiot threatened me in the street last night. Do I have to wait for them to deliver your body to my door before I can cause trouble for them?"

At this point, he patted Xu Ergou's shoulder earnestly and said, "You're not a child anymore. You should use your brain more when encountering problems in the future. If you can take action, don't make a fuss. If you can't take action, then hold back and wait until you can. Look at the trouble you caused. If you hadn't argued with them in the street last night, who would have traced it back to us?"

"no……"

Xu Ergou was so confused that he couldn't speak clearly: "You... I..."

(End of this chapter)