Chapter 67: The Thief
1.
The Forbidden City, as the capital of China, has a history of thousands of years.
This is a famous cultural city with a long history, condensing the essence of ancient Chinese civilization, culture, history and historic sites are blended with each other in this place, and become one, its historical connotation is broad and profound, and the cultural phenomenon is also gorgeous and colorful, like a rich treasure, endless.
The history of the Forbidden City constitutes its distinctive urban character, and its geographical location is very superior, which is the ideal place of the political center of China, and the absolute core of economic and cultural affairs. Surrounded by the Great Wall from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is the world's largest and best-preserved ancient palace complex, both of which are almost the most vivid representatives of Chinese architectural images.
The capital's architecture is patchworked, with the bungalows of the old town contrasting with the high-rise buildings of the hutongs and central business districts, and it is as if you are traveling between the past and the future, where the old and the new art collide, making people feel refreshed, like the light of a moment when a lonely silkworm breaks out of its cocoon.
Although there were important things to do, when the style of the capital was presented in front of them, Lin Xiao and Ye Wuxin couldn't help but slow down their pace to feel the atmosphere intertwined between the ancient city and the new city. Along with them were Ling Ying, the sect leader of the Purple Sun God Sect, and the sword attendant of the Ethereal City. These two people have lived in the four-story building for a long time, and they have never seen such a grand scene in modern times, and they feel new when they see everything; if it weren't for their temperament to help them hold up the field, they might have been recognized by others as hillbillies who came from the countryside to the city.
When the four of them got off the train, it was already sunset, and at this moment the night fell, the jade rabbit rose in the east, and the lights in the city were on, and the busy emotions in the day seemed to be released together at this time, and a hustle and bustle of entertainment was slowly spreading. The capital city is full of lights and traffic, and the blooming neon lights illuminate the high-rise buildings all over the body crystal transparent, and it seems that even the sky is rendered colorful, weaving the beauty of the night in the joy of the citizens.
A few people went to the restaurant for dinner, and then wandered around in this night market, anyway, they couldn't run to the Dengcao Hutong in the middle of the night to find any "Bai Xiaosheng", since they have already come to the capital, it is natural to experience the night view of the capital.
Lin Xiao and Ye Wuxin walked behind holding hands, watching Ling Ying and Changfeng walking in front, stopping to take a look at something new and strange that they hadn't seen before. As the head of a faction, Ling Ying still takes into account some identity and self-cultivation, and behaves elegantly and decently, even if he really doesn't understand anything, he also gives people a sense of elegance and easy-goingness. On the other hand, Changfeng is really like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child who has never seen the world, he looks east and west everywhere he goes, and when he sees something, he has to stop there for a long time. Finally, he knew that he had to pay when he bought something, so he didn't cause Ye Wuxin any trouble for them.
"This little squire of yours, did I know him before?" Lin Xiao looked at the back of Changfeng walking around in front of him with interest, he had always been curious about this young man who couldn't speak and could only communicate with people in ventriloquism, "He doesn't look very old, how is he qualified to be the close sword attendant of the sect master of the Ethereal City?"
Ye Wuxin said indifferently: "Of course you know, but you forgot now." Although Changfeng is young and unable to speak, he is actually the longest-lived person in the true sense of the word in the entire Ethereal City. When he was a teenager, he was once captured by the alchemist of the 'Hundred Medicine Hall' in the Medicine King Valley to be a medicine man, and tested the medicine with his flesh and blood. The effects of those drugs accumulated in his body and produced unknown reactions over time, poisoning his throat and affecting his bodily functions, so that he could never grow up. Don't look at him with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old face, but in fact, he has served three generations of Ethereal City Sect Masters, including you. โ
Lin Xiao couldn't help but be solemn when he heard this: "Three generations?!, then even if you don't count the more than 1,000 years of the split of the Seven-Story Building, it should be more than 100 years old!"
Ye Wuxin thought for a while and said: "Almost, among them, the 'Sword God' Xia Yang alone has been in the position of the sect master for nearly a hundred years; before the division of heaven and earth, I held this position for more than a Jiazi; your time is the shortest, only a few years." If you think about it this way, Changfeng should be almost two hundred years old. โ
While Lin Xiao was shocked by Changfeng's longevity, he seemed to have discovered another secret of Ye Wuxin: "You said that you had been staying for a long time before the 'Seven-Story Building' separated, isn't that ...... Sixty years?!"
Ye Wuxin nodded and said: "This is not surprising, as the gradual improvement of the realm of a cultivator, it is common for people to slow down their growth and even rejuvenate. And in that Jiazi, I spent two-thirds of my time in the Xuanbing Room practicing the 'Jade Girl Suxin Dafa', and my body would enter a state of turtle breath under the extreme cold, which you can understand as - stop growing. โ
Lin Xiao sighed "hmm", expressing his understanding, and couldn't help but slander in his heart: "To put it bluntly, isn't it the freezing effect of the refrigerator......" This idea had just turned around, and he heard Ye Wuxin himself say: "This is the same as using a freezer to place a corpse in a hospital morgue for embalming, it's just the same." โ
Lin Xiao couldn't help but laugh out loud, thinking: It is estimated that apart from her Ye Wuxin, there will be no second person to describe himself with such a strange metaphor.
A few people walked all the way, all the way, and before they knew it, they came to the largest antique market in the capital. Once upon a time, this place was a calling card of the Forbidden City, and almost all foreign tourists who visited the capital must do three things - climb the Great Wall, eat roast duck, and come here to watch and play.
This antique market is a place with a rich history, full of mystery, and unforgettable to linger into, and is known by the older generation as "a deep and prosperous market, broad in the people". At this time, it was already night, and most of the antique stalls engaged in serious business had already closed their stalls, and most of the remaining stalls were still doing business under the dim light with flashlights.
Of course, among the stall owners who squatted on the ground, flashlights, and guarded old objects, there was no lack of that kind of bluffing, who just wanted to use the cover of night to empty the fakes on their stalls.
The yin of the antique market in the middle of the night is heavier, some people say that it is the tomb gas emitted by those things dug out of the soil, but most of them are more virtual and less real, to put it bluntly, it is just that the market is covered with curtains and tents all day long, and the sun does not shine very well, so the yin is slightly heavier. But this kind of cold aura really makes people feel very uncomfortable, Changfeng didn't walk around randomly, but returned to Lin Xiao and Ye Wuxin's side, his body was tense, it seemed that as long as someone suddenly appeared at this time, he would raise a sword qi and kill him directly.
Who knew that this was a coincidence, and there was really a person who suddenly rushed out from the side and didn't know which corner. The market was dimly lit at night, and this person had been hidden in a dark corner before, and none of the people in the group had noticed him. Changfeng reacted immediately, his body swayed slightly, and he arrived behind the man, and then a sword aura condensed from his fingers, and he was about to poke at the back of the man's heart. Unexpectedly, the man's steps suddenly fell forward, and he seemed to be running too fast, but his feet tripped together, and he directly hit Lin Xiao.
This time, Lin Xiao and this person's figures coincided together, if Changfeng rashly emitted sword qi at this time, it would inevitably hurt his own people, so he had to let go of his two fingers of condensing qi at the moment, and instead reached out to grab the back of that person.
Lin Xiao's cultivation has now recovered to the peak of the Four Heavens, where can he panic because of this collision. He turned slightly sideways, stretched out his right hand and naturally blocked it, slowly unloading the man's forward momentum to both sides, and holding him firmly by the trend.
The man stumbled under his feet, and then stood firmly, only to see that it was a young man in his twenties, and the clothes on his body had not been washed for a long time, and it was full of patches, and it looked ragged, and even his face was full of dust and dirt. He had just stood firm, and was about to say something, when suddenly he felt a numbness in his back, and Changfeng's grasp had accurately buckled the "Shinto Point" on his vest, and then lifted him above his head.
As soon as Ye Wuxin saw Changfeng lifting the so-called Huazi up, he knew that the next moment he was spitting out the strength of his palm and throwing the other party into the sky, just like the rising star Liu Feng who treated Penglai at the beginning. But this is a three-story building, no more wasteland than a four-story building, there are so many outsiders watching, rashly acting for fear that it will cause unnecessary disputes, and immediately shouted: "Changfeng, put people down!"
Changfeng still listened to Ye Wuxin's words, and immediately let go of his hand and put the man on the ground steadily.
The so-called Huazi was let go by Changfeng like this, and his legs were so frightened that his legs were weak, and his feet had just fallen to the ground, and he didn't stand firm all of a sudden, and fell to the ground again. Lin Xiao reached out in time to help him, so that he didn't let him pounce and avoided the tragedy of hitting his face on the ground.
This called Huazi slapped his chest twice, breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to bow vigorously to Lin Xiao and his party: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Just now, a biting mad dog in the alley suddenly ran out and scared me, so I ran out in a hurry, not intentionally trying to hit you." I'm really embarrassed!" he said as he reached out and slapped Lin Xiao's body, as if he wanted to dust him.
Lin Xiao knew that the other party had good intentions, but after looking at his hands, which were as black as honeycomb coal, he was afraid that his clothes would get dirtier and dirtier by him, so he politely stopped his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, just look at the road next time." The man said "I'm sorry" a few more times, bowed and ran away.
Ling Ying looked at the figure called Huazi running away, and suddenly said, "This little beggar is a little interesting. โ
Lin Xiao felt as if he had something to say, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
Ling Ying touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "When that person ran over just now, I saw Changfeng circling behind him, and he was originally going to attack him. But this little beggar suddenly fell to your side, which is equivalent to pulling you into the range of Changfeng's moves, and its timing and direction are mastered and the score is not bad, unlike an ordinary caller can do. โ
Lin Xiao frowned slightly after hearing this, but then remembered the scene where the person's legs were so frightened that he was put down by Changfeng, so he dispelled his suspicions and said with a smile: "Coincidentally, he is not an ordinary beggar, can he still be a member of the beggar gang?!" he said as he habitually put his hand in his pocket. But as soon as he put his hand in, his face changed violently.
Ye Wuxin was startled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Xiao took out the mobile phone from his pocket, only to feel that the weight and touch were wrong, and the screen didn't light up after a few strokes, but it was a model machine, and he couldn't help but scold: "you! That's a thief!" As he spoke, he turned around and chased in the direction where the thief left, and Ye Wuxin and the others hurriedly followed.
2.
In the dark alley, the thief dressed as Huazi was fiddling with Lin Xiao's mobile phone.
"Now these people are so vigilant!" he muttered as he fiddled, "What kind of password is set on this phone, I still have to take time to unlock it." But it's not too big, looking at this model, it's quite new, and if you sell it directly, you should be able to sell it for a lot of money......"
Before he could completely turn this thought, he heard a gust of wind above him, and a dark shadow fluttered by. The thief hurriedly hid the phone back in his pocket, so fast that it was almost impossible to see his movements. When he looked up, he saw a young man in a black power suit standing in front of him, his face was blank, and he looked extremely gloomy in this dim alley.
"Little brother, is there something wrong?" the thief recognized him as the boy who lifted him up, and was still a little jealous of his ability.
But seeing that the young man didn't open his mouth, a lazy voice sounded from the side: "When you were a child, didn't your parents tell you - 'don't just take other people's things'?!" I saw Lin Xiao pacing out of the depths of the alley while plucking his ears with his fingers.
The thief forced himself to calm down, and said stiffly: "I don't understand what you're talking about. As he spoke, his eyes wandered around, as if he was waiting for an opportunity to escape. But before his thought could be fully formed, Changfeng suddenly forced forward and slashed out with a palm in his chest.
The thief originally wanted to pretend to be confused, but the palm that Changfeng slashed over was vigorous, and he didn't know how much internal strength it used, so that he was almost out of breath, and he was no longer hiding it at the moment, so he directly turned over and rolled a "lazy donkey" and dodged on the ground. Changfeng's palm slammed into the wall, and the old wall was suddenly pressed out by him with five deep fingerprints.
The thief's face sank: "It's not good, this is still a hard stubble!" He thought that Changfeng looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was still sullen and couldn't speak, thinking that he could lift himself up with one move before he was unprepared. But now, it seems that this strange boy can actually press his hand print on the wall with one palm, and his true qi cultivation and palm power are naturally not trivial.
Generally at such a time, the thief should know the difficulty and retreat, throw the mobile phone back to others, and run away directly when he finds an opportunity. But the thief knew in his heart that even if he returned the phone, even if the person who looked like a college student didn't care about him, the teenager would inevitably pester him.
This thief is only proficient in the stunt of "empty hands", and it is okay to do some petty theft, but with his little three-legged cat skills, he will definitely not be able to escape the palms of these two people, not to mention, the other two people who are traveling with them are still hiding in a corner and waiting!
"Since you can't hide, let's fight!" The thief's face was dark in the shadows, his hand shook slightly behind him, a cold light flashed in his hand, and a three-edged/knife had slipped out of his cuff and was held in his hand.
His technique is quite fast, it should be a skill that has been practiced by a pickpocket for many years, but the edge of the blade flashed, which was all too familiar to Lin Xiao and Changfeng, and he couldn't hide it by relying on concealed techniques alone.
Lin Xiao saw that the other party actually moved the knife, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, so he said: "You want to play with the knife, right?
As soon as the Biluo sword came out, both the edge and the momentum completely crushed the ordinary controlled knife in the opponent's hand. The thief watched Lin Xiao come forward step by step with the Biluo sword in his hand, and suddenly felt that his idea of wanting to fight was not too strong, but he was afraid that if the other party's sword came down, he and this small knife would be cut in two together. As soon as he threw away the knife, he knelt down directly at Lin Xiao and Changfeng, and the grim look on his face was gone, but he piled up a flattering smile: "Don't don't! I'm just making a little joke with my brothers." Now it is a society governed by the rule of law, and this is a ...... Not suitable, right?"
When Lin Xiao saw the little thief showing his knife, he thought that he was a ruthless character who dared to face people head-on, but he didn't expect this guy to change his face more neatly than to change the sky. Looking at his dog-legged smile, he almost came over to hug Lin Xiao and Changfeng's thighs and kowtow to confess his guilt, and the words on his lips were also said without any panting, daring to be an experienced soft bone!
Lin Xiao carried the sword to his shoulder, in case he really pounced and hugged his thigh, he could directly cut it down with a sword, and at the same time hooked his hand at the thief: "Where is my mobile phone?"
ใTo be continuedใ
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