Chapter 56

Lu Changsheng let the silver fall to the ground without paying any attention.

Such an attitude made the escort agency crowd frown.

Then Lu Changsheng asked with a cold expression: "A few months ago, what happened to the caravan guards of your escort agency?"

He got straight to the point.

The middle-aged escort leader's pupils shrank upon hearing this.

"Who are you, and what is your relationship with those people? This matter has already been settled."

The middle-aged escort's tone was very calm.

But his heart was somewhat puzzled.

According to the background investigated by the escort agency, there were no martial artist relatives among those caravan guards, and today someone actually came to ask about this matter specifically, which was quite strange.

"Who I am is not important; where did that group of people go? You had better answer truthfully."

Cold glints flashed in Lu Changsheng's eyes, and his tone was icy.

He guessed right; this matter really had something fishy.

"Hmph... it seems that you cannot be left alive today."

The middle-aged escort's face was full of murderous intent.

As a direct descendant of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency, this matter must never be revealed, otherwise the reputation of the escort agency would be ruined.

The only choice was to silence him.

He immediately turned off his horse, took out the long blade in his hand, and slashed toward Lu Changsheng quickly.

The blade edge rubbed against the void, making bursts of roaring sounds.

With his own Refining Meat late-stage strength, presumably suppressing the opponent would not be difficult.

He was full of confidence in his heart.

A group of escorts beside him also looked confident.

"Die."

Lu Changsheng's face was full of gloom.

He slashed forward with one blade.

Dazzling cold glints flashed in the void, as if to slice through the void, and the momentum was terrifying.

"Crack..."

A light sound came.

The middle-aged escort's long blade was slashed directly, and the cut was smooth and neat.

Before the middle-aged escort could react, a cold light slashed across his neck.

"You..."

The man pointed at Lu Changsheng, then fell to the ground.

Fresh blood stained the surrounding ground red.

One blow, the Refining Meat late-stage escort was killed instantly on the spot.

A group of ordinary escorts around saw this, and couldn't help but be full of fear, their legs trembling.

"Hero, spare my life..."

The crowd hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Does anyone know about the disappearance of that group of caravan guards?"

Lu Changsheng's icy gaze swept across the audience.

The field was instantly silent.

For a time, no one stood up to answer.

"Crack..."

Lu Changsheng waved one hand, a cold glint flashed, and the big man on the far right instantly lost his head, blood gushing like a pillar, and the ground was a mess.

"Does no one know?"

Lu Changsheng's tone was incomparably gloomy.

"Lord, spare my life, I'll say, I'll say..."

A young man couldn't bear the pressure of death and collapsed directly.

He began to answer incoherently:

"That day, we were escorting... we met the Black Mountain Bandits, the goods and personnel were... intercepted..."

While speaking, his eyes drifted, and he was also looking at Lu Changsheng's reaction.

Lu Changsheng's expression was cold and stern.

He knew that the other party's words probably only had three points of credibility.

"Why did you return safely? Only a group of caravan guards were intercepted?"

Murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

"This..."

The young man didn't know how to answer for a while.

Under Lu Changsheng's powerful pressure, cold sweat kept dripping from his forehead.

"They were taken by the Black Mountain Bandits to the mine to dig mines..."

A few breaths later, the man finally couldn't bear the pressure and said with difficulty.

The young man's words had just fallen.

He saw more than ten afterimages flashing in the void, accompanied by cold glints traveling around.

In an instant, a group of men fell to the ground, their bodies and heads separated, like a human purgatory.

Lu Changsheng killed this group of people directly without holding back at all.

Hearing the other party's answer, he could also roughly guess what happened at that time.

The Zhenyuan Escort Agency people were no match for the Black Mountain Bandits and used goods and non-staff personnel to exchange for their own safety.

They themselves were probably also given a gag order, and only a few direct descendants knew about it, while other ordinary escorts were perhaps evaporated from the world.

People who mixed in the Jianghu were really ruthless enough.

Then, Lu Changsheng put away his thoughts and arrived behind a carriage. He used his blade to pick open the wooden box on the carriage frame.

He saw a large pile of medicinal materials piled inside, and the fragrance came to his nose.

He checked carefully, and most of them were medicinal materials under thirty years old.

Only a few were over fifty years old.

With a thought, he absorbed them directly.

Source Energy Points: +45.

Adding the ones in his hand, there were 75 points in total.

The harvest was quite good, and it was also an unexpected joy.

It just so happened that he was very lacking in Source Energy Points recently.

Then he arrived behind the remaining carriages one by one and picked open the wooden boxes.

They were all some ordinary ores, as well as a few jewelry and ornaments, and the value was not very high.

He put them all into the panel space.

Finally, he did not forget to loot the bodies of those martial artists, took out some useful manuals and silver notes, and destroyed the bodies.

After doing all this, Lu Changsheng ran toward the dense forest in front.

Black Mountain.

It belonged to a branch of the Cangyun Mountain Range, this mountain was very dangerous, easy to defend and hard to attack.

A hundred years ago, a group of bandits occupied this place and had passed it down for several generations.

After several encirclement and suppression by the government, they had never been wiped out.

Near Black Mountain, there were large and small mines, as many as a hundred.

Two days later.

At dusk.

A man in black rushed toward the edge of the mine.

It was Lu Changsheng.

He rushed through the deep mountains and old forests all the way, and it took him two days to arrive here.

According to the map of Changping County, some of the mines near the Black Mountain Bandits were very likely the place where his father was captured.

He prepared to explore it well.

Lu Changsheng leaped, jumped to the top of a tree crown, and stared closely at the mine in front.

The mine was surrounded by mountains on all sides, and in the middle was a huge basin.

A group of ragged men were walking with difficulty, with a back basket on their backs, full of iron ore.

This group of people looked very numb.

"Pa, pa, pa..."

"Work faster..."

Many supervisors behind were whipping the mine slaves violently.

The crisp sound echoed through the valley.

Lu Changsheng did not find any trace of his father.

Then, he operated the Spiral Nine Transformations and rushed out like lightning.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Cold glints traveled through the void, and in the blink of an eye, a group of supervisors fell to the ground, their bodies and heads separated.

"Who is it!"

Just at this moment, four martial artists sensed the movement and immediately rushed out from the cave.

The four were tall and had fat faces.

Lu Changsheng did not sense any threat from them.

He took action instantly.

"Clatter..."

Several afterimages traveled around the four, and before they could react, they were beheaded, and fresh blood sprayed all over the floor.

Lu Changsheng stood with his blade, his expression calm.

The mine slaves nearby reacted, and all knelt on the ground.

"Many thanks, hero, many thanks, hero..."

Countless people kowtowed repeatedly, even their foreheads were somewhat bright red, and there were even a few little girls.

For Lu Changsheng, saving them was just a matter of lifting a hand, and it did not harm his own interests, but for them, it was another life.

Lu Changsheng nodded with a smile.

Then he flew toward the front quickly, and disappeared nearby in the blink of an eye.

For the next few days, he kept looking for his father's trace in the nearby mines, but there was no discovery.

He could only make the worst plan; the other party probably met with misfortune.

This group of Black Mountain Bandits was simply crazy, capturing thousands of civilians to dig mines here.

Lu Changsheng also saved some of them along the way, and killed many martial artists of the Black Mountain Bandits.

The silver notes and manuals in his hand were much richer again.

At the same time, the various behaviors of the Black Mountain Bandits made Lu Changsheng very puzzled.

What did they want to do by digging so many ores? Smelting iron? Forging weapons and armor? Were they preparing to attack the county town?

Even if they didn't have the strength to attack the county town, they would fully arm themselves, and they must have considerable plans.

These guesses made his heart feel cold.

There was quite a sense that a storm was coming.

(End of chapter)