Chapter 49: The Siege of the Thorn
When the only two remaining wooden temples of Qingtai Temple on the mountainside were half-burned, the cold sweat on Su Huihui's back was about to drip down.
Sensing that someone was coming, Sheng Yunyi only glanced at the boulder. With a lightning strike, his Hidden Blade slashed through their eyelids, right ribs, wrists, and knees, and when the cry of pain sounded, he struck the Assassin's leg with a force, shattering the joints of his lower limbs. The Assassin fell to the ground, and he picked up the two and threw them backwards, and the female Assassin, who was still conscious, let out an inhuman scream and fell off the cliff like two leaves with her companions.
He has always moved extremely fast, and the martial arts of the two assassins are not very high, so they should be the pawns in this operation, but at this time, the man in black who arrived later was obviously a little dissatisfied, and jumped off the stone, and a long knife held Su Hui and approached him, with a fierce gaze.
The man in black defiantly embedded the blade into a point, seeing that Sheng Yunyi's face turned slightly pale, and his voice was hoarse with excitement:
"Your Majesty hasn't said the whereabouts of the talisman, then the princess of the Lu clan has already gone to the western sky, and naturally only Her Majesty knows where the talisman is. It's just a good time for this fire!"
Su Huihui was shocked when he heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he unconsciously trembled and touched the pendant containing the medicinal powder on his waist. Princess Lu...... Tears welled up in her eyes, and she suppressed it and didn't cry.
That's the grandmother she's only met once, the only relative she's seen in ten years!
The leader of the assassins was so sophisticated that his right hand slashed the dagger through her forearm, and she gritted her teeth in pain, but she never screamed. Blood spilled down her white clothes, she was a doctor, and no one knew better than her that this knife was just a lesson for her, and the pain outweighed the danger of excessive blood loss. She watched the blood splash drop by drop in the grass, dizzy, her tearful eyes looking for someone in the chaos, and when the tears fell and she could see his face clearly, her heart felt inexplicably better.
He should be able to handle it...... After all, he has never suffered a loss in his work.
Seeing that gaze, Sheng Yunyi's eyelashes trembled.
"Say it quickly! Otherwise, the knife in someone's hand won't have long eyes! It is rumored that His Majesty is benevolent, so let me see it today. β
The assassin squinted his eyes and looked at Sheng Yunyi, the corners of his mouth under the mask were coldly hooked, and he seemed to be quick to understand this scene.
Su Huihui pressed the upper end of the wound and tried his best to stop the bleeding, not daring to take out the wound medicine, and he delayed the person holding her a hundred times in his heart. What's the use of taking her as a hostage, she doesn't know that Raushzi Talisman, and second, she is not an important person, Sheng Yunyi may not even bring her to the assassin, Rende is a ghost!
In the trance pain, his voice was as cold as an ice spring, "Your Excellency had better let her go, otherwise it would ......"
The leader of the assassins laughed and said, "A dozen or so brothers are about to surround the top of the mountain, do you still have the heart to negotiate terms with so-and-so?"
Sheng Yunyi didn't look at him, his tone changed, and he said slowly: "Warm up, you look at me." β
His voice was as soft as the wind silk blowing through the petals in the valley, and Su Huihui was stunned for a moment, and then raised his head as if bewitched. Although his intuition was wrong, his heart seemed to be gently torn off, and he couldn't take his eyes off his dark eyes for a while.
Those eyes are extremely deep, and they are used to looking down on the common people from twelve strings of jade trees on weekdays, but at this moment, they are flowing with undisguised warmth and worry.
"I'm here, don't be afraid. β
It's as if she's really important.
It's as if she really doesn't have to be afraid.
Su warmed his eyes and stopped looking.
The blade was cold to the bone, a thin trace of blood oozed from her neck, and her hands were cold, but she knew that even if the knife was swung completely, he wouldn't have much reaction.
He was never a good man.
Su Huihui covered his arms, his mind was spinning quickly, how to save himself now?
The leader heard and saw his demeanor and tone, and he was even more determined to grasp the right person, and was about to speak, but he heard Sheng Yunyi comfort in a low voice:
"Your grandmother has been suffering in the world for many years, and it is considered complete to be able to relieve the sea of suffering, don't be too sad. Calm down and don't move. β
Su Huihui's heart sank three points in an instant.
The assassin's eyes shone brightly, it turned out that his sword was a blood relative of the Lu family......!
A whistle came from behind the bushes not far away, interrupting his thoughts, and a dozen masked black-clad assassins climbed onto the platform like apes, one by one, forming a position to wipe out the people above.
The leader said sharply: "Give it to me! Just do it cleanly when you force out the news, and you will be rewarded when you go back!"
He carried Su Hoan and hurried back, and the well-trained Assassins swarmed him. Sheng Yunyi jumped out of the encirclement with his strength, a few drops of crimson on his clothes, his left arm was carrying a sword behind him, and his right hand stretched out, already touching the leader's mask.
The leader thought that he was going to save the hostages, and his whole mind was on the knife, and he didn't want the mask to loosen slightly, so he immediately raised his hand to help, and he was in the arms of the other party. The leader used his left hand, Sheng Yunyi expected that although his other arm was strong and powerful, his five fingers were not necessarily flexible, and with a wave of his sleeve, a short needle as thin as a cow's hair was inserted straight into his tiger's mouth, and the eye of the needle immediately spread out blue and black. The leader cursed in a low voice, shook off the long knife and connected several acupuncture points on his right wrist to stop the spread of the toxin.
Sheng Yunyi dodged a sword behind his back, pulled Su Huihui to stand on top of the boulder, and said with a low smile: "There are too many people, will you jump down from here with me?"
Su Huihui was blown by the wind, and it was easy to break free from the assassin's coercion, so he took a few quick breaths, and almost pushed him away when he heard this. Sheng Yunyi grabbed her by the waist and stood in the center of the assassins and threw the bloody Hidden Blade backwards, clanging to the ground.
When the Assassins saw that he had lost his weapon, they fell silent. The leader walked out from behind the circle and simply took off his mask, revealing an ordinary but grim face with a small scar on his right cheek. His face was very pale, the toxicity had been controlled under his wrist, and there was no danger to his life for the time being, but his right hand had been unable to be used recently, which made him feel frustrated.
The encirclement narrowed, and instead of getting a little favor, more than a dozen assassins broke two and injured the leader, all of whom secretly underestimated Jinshang. But there are many people at the moment, and it is impossible to escape even if you have wings today, not to mention that there is also an unarmed woman, unless you jump from the top of the mountain, the heads of these two people will be determined.
Su Huihui's wound was still bleeding, and she took advantage of the confrontation to quickly take out the medicine bag on her waist and sprinkle the medicine powder inside, cold as ice. Sheng Yunyi exhaled, his eyes were light and light when he lowered his head, as if he was staring at a precious piece of porcelain, and at the same time, his hands tightened.
The assassins took in this scene, and the leader said in a dumb voice with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth: "I have given you a chance, it seems that His Majesty is very fond of this woman, so I will be merciful, let you be a companion on the Huangquan Road!
Sheng Yunyi turned his head to measure the distance between the boulder and the edge of the cliff, at this time the two assassins flew up, his body slanted, his footwork seemed to be messy, but he narrowly rubbed the swords of the two and landed on the platform, Su Huihui only saw the white sword shadow weaving into a forest net under the early sun, and the air flow in his ears was cut, which was extremely dangerous.
It should be very hard for him to take her. A few drops of blood splattered on her bare skin, and she didn't know if he was hurt, but her heart was still empty. She knew that he would not let go, that her role had not yet been fully exerted, how could he let go? She felt for a moment that she was about to hate him to death, for all the panic since she saw him, all the encounters that she couldn't resist, for his unpredictable mood, for his bottomless thoughts, which could be reflected in her body, but now she could only hold his shoulder and back firmly, in case she fell down and died in the dodge.
The fresh and pleasant smell of pine wood jumped to the tip of her nose, and she thought that she must resign if she could go back.
Sheng Yunyi bypassed the encirclement of several people and came to the edge of the cliff, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go down." β
He folded his waist and turned back in the air in a smooth arc, Su Hui crouched there and didn't dare to move, only felt a shock to his body, and when he looked up again, it was already clouds and mist, and the mountain wall was close at hand.
They hung on the steepest cliff on that side.
The morning sun stained the dew, washing away a bit of dust, and the cotton-woollike clouds gradually dispersed, and the cold breath inhaled in the lungs seemed to turn into a solid body, as uncomfortable as a pinprick. She buried her head under his neck, breathing heavily, the wound bleeding again from the tension, and a wet red burrowed through his collar and rolled down his back, drop after drop.
Sheng Yunyi said gently: "Don't be afraid, relax." β
She would never believe him again, it was so fake, she complained silently.
The black-clothed assassin's viscarf appeared on the top of his head, and Sheng Yunyi seemed to want to lift his breath to climb up, but as soon as he moved, his left hand that grabbed the rock was trampled on fiercely.
The foot stopped on his wrist, and then crushed, the subtle sound of the bone joint collision made the scalp numb, Su Huihui suddenly raised his head, but his eyes were blocked by a hand.
"Don't look. β
The assassin played with the hilt of his sword and said with interest: "I didn't expect His Majesty to pity the jade like this, but it's a pity, we also have to eat, and we can't keep up with the boss." If you are a ghost, don't come to our brothersβ"
The sword was about to slash into the pale wrist when the leader suddenly shouted, "Slow!"
The blade stopped.
In this moment, the corners of Sheng Yunyi's lips raised slightly, he stepped on the mountain rock, changed his hand to support the stone wall, and his body was flexible like a bird out of the forest, and he disappeared into the half-scattered clouds with people.
The sword-wielding assassin was pushed out of the way, looked at him inexplicably, and was about to ask, when the leader slapped his palm on the boulder, bursting out several fragments.
He sneered: "Do you really think that a person like him can be good to a woman? I'm afraid that the talisman is on that woman, and he is so nervous! Even I almost deceived it, and sure enough, it ......."
The Assassins looked back on what they had seen and heard, and they couldn't help but look at each other.
The leader pinched his right hand and said with hatred: "Don't you have any brains? Why don't you chase after it! If you live to see people die, you will see corpses!"
As soon as the words fell, several figures tumbled down the cliff and fell into the white mist.
The sword-wielding assassin just now muttered: "This side is the steepest, a certain stepped on his wrist, and he has to take a woman who doesn't know martial arts, I think he fell down......"
"Fall?" the leader gritted his teeth and said, "If you fall down, you won't even say a word?" Lu's talisman must be on her, if you don't find it for me today, I'll take you first to pay tribute to the dead brothers!"
Sheng Yunyi climbed all the way down, Rao had seen the route before, and it was very difficult to carry a person on his back, not to mention that now only his left hand could use it. There was a sparse sound of pulling and pulling above, ropes and rattans rubbing, and someone followed, and there was more than one. At some point, he put on a silver glove on his left hand, and it was a great effort to glide over the thick rattan.
Su Huihui has become even more restless since she changed her posture, fortunately she can't see the bottom clearly, otherwise she will definitely be reincarnated as soon as her arm is weak.
"Is your hand okay, did the bones crack just now?" she asked eagerly in his ear.
His voice finally took a breather, "It's just a dislocation, I'll just pick it up later." β
Even though Su Huihui had a thousand words, it was not good for him to be distracted at this time, he felt that his body was constantly descending, faster and faster, and after about a quarter of an hour, those people had not caught up, and the scene in front of him was very clear.
This is the end of the blocking effect of the clouds.
Su Huihui remembered the scene when he looked at the river from afar, it turned out that this mountain cliff was not very high, and it was only because he couldn't see through the fog when he stood on the top of the mountain, it made people feel like they were on the edge of an abyss. Sheng Yunyi zigzagged through more than half of the height, and finally stopped on a slanted dwarf pine branch.
He moved his arm, Su warmed up and got off his back consciously, his right hand was stiff, he still didn't dare to let go of his neck in the slightest, and carefully stepped on the roots of the pine knot. The cold wind blew, and her frozen numb skin began to hurt like pins and needles during the landing, and as soon as the person relaxed, her senses became extremely sharp, and she couldn't help but snort very softly from her nose.
Sheng Yunyi's body is much better than her, and it is really a body that can only be trained in the military camp. At this time, he leaned on the branch of the tree and rested for a while, and a pleasant smile appeared in his eyes, which were hidden by the falling hair, and said:
"Doctor Su looks at the soles of his feet, do you still have the strength to jump?"
Su warmed his head and looked up to see if anyone was coming, ignoring his words:
"Is His Majesty's hand really just dislocated, and after it lands, it must be healed as much as possible......"
Before the words fell, the click of the bone joint pulling sounded in a short way, and when she turned around, Sheng Yunyi's left hand had already been connected.
A doctor has become a wounded himself, and the patient is too versatile, which is too embarrassing.
Her cheeks were flushed, and she finally had a little blood, and she said: "After you connect it, you still need to maintain it for a while, and you can't lift heavy objects recently." β
Sheng Yunyi raised his eyebrows, "Doctor Su has learned to correct bones, how is acupuncture and moxibustion?"
Su Huihui was poked in the small waist, and suddenly called out: "Why are you like this!"
Sheng Yunyi couldn't help but laugh for a while, and said, "Didn't Mr. Qin teach you to learn with an open mind?" Obviously, he only knows pharmacology, so he won't let me say it." β
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He grabbed her hand as she was leaving, and frowned as he felt her whole body feel cold.
"Listen, there's a shallow pool down there, I'll jump down and catch you below. β
Su Huihui knew that he couldn't talk about him, so he simply didn't speak, but his fingers grabbed the corners of his clothes, and he didn't let go.
Sheng Yunyi sighed and explained: "There will be no accident at this height, I have carefully looked at the terrain and the depth of the water before, it is safest for me to go down first, and I can also guarantee that you will not break your legs." β
Seeing that she still did not speak, he took a step forward and motioned for her to remember where she had jumped.
Su Huihui looked down the soles of his boots, I don't know if the height is ten zhang, below is a depression, among the tall trees and wild grasses, the huge pool is like a blue eye, shining in the morning light.
β¦β¦ It's too high, she said she was afraid of heights, not to fool him. She couldn't imagine that she would shout something terrible when she fell, it was definitely heard by the entire Qingtai Mountain, and there was no need for the assassins to chase after her when the time came.
"It has to be fast. Remember?"
Su Huihui tried to convince herself that this was the only way, the rattan was gone, and the mountain wall was very smooth, if the people above found it after a while, then she would have no chance to jump even if she wanted to. She nodded reluctantly, her voice trembling a little:
"Can't...... Together?"
Sheng Yunyi walked to the outermost branch, his gaze condensed somewhere, and then said, "No." Decide for yourself whether to stay here or let me go. β
He pulled back the sleeve of his coat, and suddenly stepped under his feet, Su Hui sank suddenly, and watched as the originally sturdy branch cracked a crack from the surface, and it was still expanding......
She was clinging to the prickly pine needles, her legs were about to go limp, and her back was covered with cold sweat.
Sheng Yunyi reached out and knocked on her eyebrows, and jumped down from the treetops without hesitation.
Su Huihui covered his arm, tremblingly looked down at his smaller and smaller shadow, plopped, and a splash splashed on the surface of the pool, and it took a long time to regain calm.
But he hadn't come up yet.
She stopped in place, not daring to move an inch, the seam that Sheng Yunyi had made out was about to form a beautiful section, as if she was laughing at her for fear of accidentally falling - but now she can't be the master, sooner or later she will have to fall.
Su Huihui felt that he was going to be driven crazy by Sheng Yunyi.
She didn't have time to mess up any more completely, because the next moment the soles of her feet were empty, and the man was already falling unstoppably.
"Ahh