A strong bearded man carrying a double-sided ax walked out of the group of horse bandits following Ji Yuanyu and shouted sternly: "I agree with Mr. Ji's sitting down! Those who oppose it, stand!"

For a while, everyone in the inn sat down one after another, including Dongfang Chong.

Ji Yuanyu looked around and nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that everyone agrees with what I'm talking about. Then hand over all the money and valuable jewelry you have."

The two horse bandits carried empty sacks and went to the table one by one to collect money and goods. Ji Yuanyu hung the repeating crossbow that he had just slapped on the table back on his waist, walked leisurely to the shopkeeper, and smiled at the shopkeeper:

"Shopkeeper, congratulations. Your store is full of guests, so your business must be booming."

"Third Master is joking... I'm just... a small business, just making ends meet." The shopkeeper's expression at this time was like a squirrel that had been dug up for winter grain storage.

"Hey, don't be too modest. There are so many merchants coming and going at Jiuquan Ferry, and you are the only inn within a few dozen miles. All the brothers understand it..." Ji Yuanyu put his arm on the shopkeeper's shoulders and hugged him towards the counter, suddenly looking up.

He glanced at Yu Shiqi and Xiling Yue who were standing on the stairs.

He narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth: "Oh, you two are standing up there watching the show? Come down here!"

Yu Shiqi was hesitant, but Xilingyue took him and took the initiative to go down.

Ji Yuanyu leaned against the handrail of the stairs and looked at the two young men, his eyes fixed on Xilingyue's face: "The mask is off!"

"What if I say no?" Xilingyue asked.

"What, the ugly girl is afraid that others will look at her?" Ji Yuanyu clicked his tongue twice, and his voice suddenly rose an octave: "Pick it off!"

Xilingyue hesitated for a moment, then silently raised her hand to reach for the mask on her face under Ji Yuanyu's stern gaze. Yu Shiqi, who was beside him, secretly prepared to draw his sword and capture this person first.

Just when she was about to take off her mask, a roar suddenly came from the distance: "Wait!"

Yu Shiqi and Xiling Yue were both startled, and Ji Yuanyu's eyes were immediately attracted towards them.

The person who made the roar was Dongfang Chong. He overturned the table in front of him, pointed at Ji Yuanyu and cursed: "You are such a big man, how can you bully a little girl?"

Ji Yuanyu had an impatient look on his face, scratching his head and saying, "I remember you were the first one to jump out just now. Who the hell are you?"

After a brief glance at that murderous look, Dongfang Chong felt as uncomfortable as if his whole body was crawling with ants.

He originally wanted to shrink back, but unexpectedly someone in the inn shouted at the top of his lungs: "This is the Eastern hero who slashed the horse bandits at Qimen Village three years ago!"

The horse bandits exchanged glances with each other and laughed together, but Ji Yuanyu walked towards Dongfang Chong with a gloomy face: "You were the one who killed seventeen of our brothers in Qimen Village three years ago?"

Dongfang Chong's hand holding the knife trembled slightly. Seeing Ji Yuanyu getting closer and closer to him with the knife, he almost wanted to turn around and escape on the spot. However, the front door of the inn had been blocked by horse bandits, and they gathered again on the road leading to the backyard.

Looking at the frightened merchants, he subconsciously glanced toward the window.

"Lao Wu was hacked to death by you?" Ji Yuanyu asked angrily through gritted teeth.

Among the seventeen horse bandits who were killed in Qimenzhuang three years ago, Cheng Kuohai, the fifth head of the Huanglong Village, had only time to collect the bodies when Ji Yuanyu and his men arrived. He still remembers Lao Wu's tragic death.

Like this - the man and the horse are split into two, and the opponent's skills are unfathomable.

"It wasn't me!" Dongfang Chong finally couldn't resist the fear in his heart and cried out in a mournful voice, "The person who killed the fifth master was not me! I... I just happened to be there and saw it..."

Ji Yuanyu put the Miao knife on his neck and asked, "Who is that? Tell me!"

"Yes... he is a swordsman from the Central Plains. I don't know who he is..."

Ji Yuanyu let out a dissatisfied "tsk", his eyes fell on the Ghost Head Sword held in Dongfang Chong's arms, and suddenly smiled coldly: "You were also present at that time, didn't you kill our people too?"

"No...I didn't..." Dongfang Chong shook his head and stepped back.

Ji Yuanyu kicked him to the ground, turned the Miao knife in his hand and stabbed him in the chest.

Dongfang Chong was so frightened that he closed his eyes. Suddenly he heard a dull cry of pain from above. When he opened his eyes again, Ji Yuanyu had somehow hit the wall behind him. He quickly turned over and rolled away from the dangerous person.

The third leader of the horse bandit didn't even bother to pick up his own sword and hid behind the crowd.

Yu Shiqi, who kicked Ji Yuanyu against the wall from behind, was being pointed at by all the bandits with weapons. He picked up Dongfang Chong's dropped knife with his toes and caught it in his hand. He glanced at Ji Yuanyu who was struggling to get up.

Said: "Your Excellency said that you only robbed money and did not hurt anyone, so where is your credibility if you go back on your word?"

"Do you keep your word with the horse bandits?" Ji Yuanyu took off the repeating crossbow from his waist and pointed it at Yu Shiqi, "Who are you?"

"Yue'er, please protect everyone." Yu Shiqi made a gesture ready to draw his sword.

Xilingyue nodded slightly, jumped up on a table behind Yu Shiqi and shouted in a commanding tone to everyone who was still stunned: "Anyone who doesn't want to die, hide back!"

Before he finished speaking, the repeating crossbow in Ji Yuanyu's hand had already sounded. Xilingyue quickly looked back worriedly and saw Yu Shiqi raising the sword with his right hand, and the crossbow arrow had been chopped to the side by the sword.

I think back on the Dragon Throne ship in Wuyuejiang City, he had blocked iron bullets from a matchlock gun. In comparison, this kind of military-standard crossbow was nothing.

Ji Yuanyu was stunned for a moment, then he pulled down the mechanism with his fingers and shot out all the remaining seven arrows in the quiver at once. I don't believe you can block them all!

Yu Shiqi had already prepared for this. When Ji Yuanyu shot the first arrow, he turned over the table beside him and blocked it in front of him. All seven crossbow arrows hit the table with a "click-click" sound.

The table obscured his sight, and he briefly lost Ji Yuanyu's position. He relied entirely on his experience of facing enemies to retreat the moment the crossbow shot. Sure enough, the wooden table was cut open by a Miao knife in an instant, and Ji Yuanyu ducked on the ground.

Guntu stepped forward and continued to slash at Yu Shiqi's legs with his knife.

There was a crisp "pop" sound, and the horse bandits and the people in the inn all looked at each other in disbelief. Yu Shiqi stepped on the blade of Ji Yuanyu's Miao knife and pressed it to the ground.

Ji Yuanyu, who pulled the handle of the knife hard but could not pull the Miao knife out from under Yu Shiqi's right leg, blushed. He raised his head and glared at Yu Shiqi, who was looking down at him condescendingly. He even risked being kicked in the head or by his other leg.

He refused to let go of the risk of being struck head-on with a knife.

"Don't you like to talk sense to me? Can you please tell me the truth now?" Yu Shiqi asked, facing Ji Yuanyu's angry and aggrieved eyes.

Before Ji Yuanyu could answer, Yu Shiqi suddenly raised his hand and threw the knife out. The knife whirled into a disk and accurately hit a horse bandit who raised a crossbow. After shattering the upper part of the crossbow, it flew back to him.

in hand.

"I'm not very good at this trick of turning back to the swallows. Next time, maybe it's not the crossbow but your palm that will be chipped off." He glanced at the other horse bandits who were about to make a move and threatened.

Dongfang Chong, who was hiding behind the crowd, saw this scene and suddenly understood the truth about the previous betting competition. It turned out that Yu Shiqi had been giving in to him. This made him even more ashamed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in right away.

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"How is the Third Master thinking?" Yu Shiqi asked Ji Yuanyu, who was still trying to pull the knife back from under his feet.
Chapter completed!