Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Enemy Is Ethereal
Li Yong didn't seem to hear my shouting, and put a gun at the door like crazy: "Uncle Scar...... Uncle Scar ...... on the door"
Except for the light and shadow illuminated by the oil lamp in the house and the bullet holes that shone through the starlight, who is there on the door?
I just wanted to scold Li Yong, but I shuddered violently - it was still noon when we first entered the Juyi Hall, and there were no oil lamps in the room...... Where did the lights come from, and who lit them?
When I suddenly turned my head to look at the oil lamp on the table with a dim glow, Ye Xun and Ito Shinya looked at me in a cold sweat.
None of us had the heart to care about Li Yong anymore, so we let him go crazy there. Li Yong kept emptying the bullet before he calmed down a little. Out of the corner of my eye, I swept the porous door: "What do you see?"
Li Yong trembled with a gun and said, "Uncle Scar is back, he just stuck it on the door." β
I said in a deep voice, "Why didn't I see it?"
"Scar is not looking for you when he comes back, what can you see?" Li Yong said sharply, "Scar wants to kill, he wants to come back to kill...... Scar would light a lamp before killing, saying that it was for the souls of the dead, and he had said it before. The lamp was the ...... he lit."
As Li Yongzheng spoke, his whole body suddenly tensed, his hands were tightly clinging to his sides as if they were tied by ropes, his legs were tightly together, his knees were tightly together, and he stood straight in place in an extremely strange posture.
"Li Yong......" I exclaimed, Li Yong's hair suddenly curled up one by one as if it had been burned by fire, and it didn't take long for his blackened scalp to be revealed.
Li Yong's tears couldn't stop flowing, but his mouth seemed to be stuffed, saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth, and he could only make a "woo" sound in his throat, but he couldn't say a word.
I was just stunned for a moment, Li Yong's scalp cracked apart piece by piece as if it had been burned, yellow oil flowed down Li Yong's cheeks, and a pair of eyes rolled from bottom to top.
Li Yong's head was burned?
In just a few seconds, Li Yong's scalp became pitch black, as if pieces of skin and flesh had been burned by fire falling to the ground, but I didn't see the fire coming out of the other person's head.
By the time I reacted, Li Yong's head had bones exposed, and half of his face had been burned black, and even if I wanted to rescue, it was too late.
Ye Xun, who was standing in the distance, suddenly pulled out his knife, and cut Li Yong's head to the ground with a knife in his hand. It was as if the head of a person who had been charred by fire had been rolling out a few meters away before Li Yong's body slowly fell.
I reached out and touched the place where the man's head had rolled, and the ground was still cold, showing no signs of being burned by the fire. Li Yong's head stopped burning, and it was only then that a trace of blood oozed from half of the pitch-black head.
As I checked the head, two bullets suddenly pierced through the door of the Hall of Justice and whizzed over my head.
"Hide!" I lay on the ground and rolled around a few times to hide behind the pillar, and Ye Xun and the others also dispersed into the distance at the same time.
We didn't stand still, and the gunfire was already coming from the air. I distinctly heard the roar of the two machine guns, and the gate could no longer withstand the impact of the bullets, and it collapsed to the ground. The bullets drove straight into the hall like a torrential rain, and the hall was filled with smoke and dust, firelight flashed, and the sawdust that was broken by the bullets fell down the pillars like flowing water.
I hid behind the pillar and waited until the gunfire stopped, and then I quickly glanced out the door. The door of the hall has been completely sealed off by a group of people in Japanese military uniforms, and two machine guns are pointed at the door, one left and one right.
More than 20 38 large covers were barricaded at the door, and soldiers with guns were rapidly pushing the bolts of their guns, quickly reloading them.
Before I could figure out how a group of Japanese soldiers could suddenly appear outside, Ito had already jumped out from behind the pillar with a long knife in hand. I was immediately taken aback by the other party, and the ninja who had been guarding the other party didn't stop Ito Mako.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of a bolt outside, and subconsciously flew up, pounced on Ito's side, and forcibly pushed him to the ground. Before the two of us could fully hit the ground, the gunfire outside started again, and the dense locust-like bullets just passed over our heads, and the Japanese soldiers outside immediately adjusted their muzzles and hit the ground. As strings of Saturn burst out in front of us, I grabbed Ito's clothes and rolled him behind the pillar.
The dense bullets chased after us, the smoke and stones flew all over the sky, and all I could hear was the violent sound of bullets hitting the ground, and all I could see was sparks and rubble flying everywhere. At that time, all I could do was roll out as hard as I could, as fast as I could, and it was a kind of luck that I didn't feel the sharp pain of being shot through the bones by bullets, and before luck didn't give up on my favor, it was a victory to be able to hide in a relatively safe place.
I rolled quickly, glanced up, and suddenly my heart was coldβI was about to hide behind the pillars, but I saw a row of black lacquered pillars that looked like the cloisters standing on the ground, and the columns that stretched away seemed to be endlessly advancing into the endless darkness.
Was it an illusion, or did I accidentally roll somewhere I shouldn't be?
Which pillar is real? If it stops in the wrong place, the bullet will immediately drill my head and kill me.
But I didn't dare to stay for a moment. But when will I stop rolling outwards like this, will I keep rolling in the direction of the pillar into the unfathomable shadows?
I hesitated for a moment, and a bullet grazed the back of my head, and the blood from the bullet ran down my neck.
Regardless of whether the pillar in front of you can dodge or not, you have to dodge it for a while, even if you are only one percent sure, it is better than waiting to die under the indiscriminate guns of the Japanese soldiers. I grabbed the clothes on Ito's chest with both hands and threw them outward, throwing the man out of the way, and I flipped to the side of the pillar as fast as I could. I was just as I didn't know if I should stop, when a hand suddenly reached out from my side, grabbed one of my sleeves and pulled me straight off the ground more than a foot away. Before I could fully stabilize my body, the debris that had been blasted up flew towards me.
If I had stopped where I had just been, the bullets would not have opened the ground, but my chest. As I looked over in horror, I saw the ninja nodding at meβhe was dragging me behind the real pillar.
I hid behind the pillar, pulled out my gun, aimed it at the oil lamp in the distance, and pulled the trigger. The moment the bullet passed through the oil lamp, it also extinguished the fire above, and the hall suddenly became pitch black.
The gunfire outside also stopped. I tried to look out, but the fire that was still burning outside the Justice Hall was completely extinguished, and the curling green smoke that drifted through the air was like a layer of fog enveloping the Japanese soldiers who were waiting for them, and at first glance only a vague line of figures was left behind the fog.
In a short moment, the sound of military shoes stomping on the ground suddenly rose in the fog, and all the Japanese troops began to approach step by step in the direction of the Gathering Hall.
I pulled out the box cannon and knocked it on the pillar a few times with the handle of the gun, and there was also a sound of the handle hitting the ground in Ye Xun's direction - that was the code we had agreed on before, which meant not to act rashly and wait for the opportunity.
Shortly after I leaned against the post with the handle of my gun in my hand, I heard someone next to me say, "Aren't you afraid?"
Who?
My heart sank. Ito and the ninja should be the only ones around me, but the person next to me who is talking is obviously not the two of them.
It was only then that my heart felt cold again. The pillars of the Hall of Justice are not too thick, and the limit of what can accommodate one person to hide behind is already the limit, and after the ninja pulled me over, where did he and Ito go? Could it be that the two of them could escape elsewhere in the face of bullets?
I slowly turned my head to the side, but I saw Li Ran's white and bloodless face appear less than a foot away from me, and when his two eyes looked at me without blinking, a pair of pupils were slowly dilating.
Li Ran said quietly: "Lao Sun is back, Scar is back, and the sick seedlings are also back, and they all came back to find us." Li Yong died at the hands of Scar. Scar used to say that when he was a bandit, his favorite thing to do was to light a sky lantern. Li Yong was lit by him. β
"Don't trust anyone around you, they may be Old Man Sun, they may be Scar, they may be sick seedlings, they are all great immortals. β
I snapped, "How do you know?"
Li Ran grinned and said, "There are some things that you can't know when you're alive, and you only know after you're dead." These things are all told to me by Xiao Zhanzi. Believe it or not, Xiao Zhanzi, they are all over there, and I will tell you whatever they say. β
I rolled my eyes slightly, and out of the corner of my eye, a few sad and smiling figures appeared. Dongzi, Xiaozhanzi...... Those who died on the road were standing in the middle of the hall, looking at me condescendingly. When I looked at one of them, the other person's face was covered with a faint layer of gold. In the blink of an eye, the golden liquid that seemed to seep out from under the other person's skin overshadowed the faces of several people in an instant, and in front of my eyes, it turned into a golden mask with distinct facial features.
Li Ran seemed to be sticking to my ear and said, "See, are they all Jin Daxian." From the day you met them, they were dead. All those looking for you are dead. β
I squinted my eyes and asked coldly, "Are you dead or alive?"
"I died once, but I'm alive again......" Before Li Ran's words were finished, the muzzle of my gun had already pressed against the other party's head: "I'll let you die again." β
The moment I pulled the trigger, Li Ran in front of me opened his eyes suddenly: "No......"