Chapter Twenty-Three: The Sword Rises and Falls
The wind chimes hanging high above the top floor of the hall began to tremble in the breeze, and the people in the hall also shivered.
Even the little devil swallowed unconsciously, because he knew that the bell was empty, so no matter how it trembled and swayed in the air, it was impossible to make a sound. It only makes such a sound when it encounters the murderous aura of its owner. And its owner has never even seen the Great Butler, and it seems that the only person who has seen her alive in Elysium is Emperor Gangdi.
The little devil only knew that when this rumored top killer showed up, everyone present would die.
Rumors about wind chimes were no secret in the building, and many girls began to cry bitterly. There were also some people who were so timid that they even lost the strength to cry, and they collapsed on the ground and held their arms and trembled.
After a brief pause, the little devil didn't notice anything unusual in the field. The Lord of the Wind Chimes didn't show up as expected, so he breathed a sigh of relief. He thanked the "air" in the lobby, then turned and walked towards the casino cable that led to the fourth basement floor.
A girl in Tsing Yi with a bright head quickly lifted her skirt and fled towards the exit of the hall. With the first, there will be followers one after another. However, as soon as the first girl was about to step out of the building, she suddenly let out a scream and fell to the ground.
So the other girls were so frightened that they stopped, and almost crawled backwards.
By this time, the little devil had already walked into the cable ladder, but his heart was still pounding. When the cable finally came down to the casino, he breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, the rules of the Lord of Wind Chimes have not changed, just like eight years ago, as long as one shot, all those present will not be spared. But it was precisely because of such a devastating method of dealing with it that Emperor Gang was furious. Only her father, who was the chief housekeeper, said a few good words for her back then, which also made the two people who had never met form a love affair.
The little devil took a deep breath and gave the guard the order to close the ladder. Now, all he could do was to keep the flames from spreading to other levels.
The words were divided into two ends, and at this moment in the hall of the flower building, there was a gust of wind blowing in the flat ground for no reason. This made everyone present shiver, as if a sharp knife was against the back of their neck.
All of them leaned their bodies against the edge of the hall, as if they were going to hide themselves in the walls.
Dean stood in the middle of the hall, looking so lonely with only the sound of wind chimes.
Previously, a middle-aged man on the second floor had tried to get into the next room. However, before he could open the door, he was transformed into a corpse. This made the people in the whole building even more afraid to move.
Dean observed the two men who had died violently, both with a very inconspicuous golden needle stuck in their necks. The two gold needles were shot from different directions, so it seems likely that the owners of the gold needles were multiple people.
The sound of the wind chimes faded away, but the atmosphere in the hall was still cold and suffocating.
Without warning, a golden needle burst from behind Dean! Although Dean could completely block this needle with his own dragon rock, he didn't want to reveal his skills so early. So, with his keen hearing, Dean narrowly avoided the needle.
Dean looked in the direction where the needles were flying and saw that the needles were coming from among the wooden pillars behind him, and there was no one there. This made Dean change his mind, the needles should have been hidden in various corners of the hall beforehand, but they were not crossbow devices.
While he was thinking, two more golden needles came from the left and right directions at the same time, and Dean turned around and dodged these two needles. And this time, a gold pin broke his cuff sideways. But this was not due to Dean's inability to dodge, but because the golden needle changed its angle on its own in mid-air, although this small detail was difficult to spot, but it made Dean a little surprised.
The golden needle should be artificially triggered, and can even be controlled in mid-air by the will of its owner, just like a flying sword.
However, the golden needles did not seem to be able to be manipulated consistently from Laurel's flying sword, and were nailed to a wooden beam in the distance with a single miss.
With Shi Qing in the past few days, Dean's understanding of kendo has also become more profound. Generally, flying swords are the way of powerful swords, symbolizing that a swordsman has entered the house on this road and has good strength. In the swords of the Western Continent, the flying sword is a side-by-side way, which must be maintained by spells and inscriptions; This kind of unconventional "Left Dao Flying Swordsmanship" is still despised by the two factions. On the one hand, the swordsmen of the powerful faction thought that this was just a castle in the air, and they were just good-looking but did not have the power of the sword, which humiliated their thousand-mile flying sword skills; On the other hand, the swordsmen of the Sorcery School believe that this is obviously contrary to their own concept of "killing the enemy with a sword".
But the reason why this left-path flying sword can still be favored by some people in such a harsh environment is not only because of the two characteristics of quick and fancy.
When someone replaces a flying sword with a hidden weapon, the genre becomes very terrifying.
The biggest support of the hidden weapon lies in the surprise point, and the left flying sword can not only make the attack path of the hidden weapon more difficult to guess, but also more than double the power of the hidden weapon.
At this moment, the flying needles that attacked Dean had changed from two to four, and they were hitting the point from different directions at the same time. Dean analyzed that the flying probes were too thin to engrave intricate inscriptions on them, and that it was barely possible to increase speed and trigger them remotely. Although these golden needles are not as flexible as Laurel's flying sword, they are superior to the number of them.
Faced with hidden weapons flying from all directions, Dean felt more and more difficult to deal with.
And this time, the number of golden needles has increased to ten. Because it was attacked from all angles at the same time, this time Dean did not completely dodge, and was stabbed with three golden needles in his arm and waist and abdomen.
Dean swept the three golden needles away, a little surprised in his heart, the dragon scales that were invulnerable in the past were actually pierced a little by these golden needles. It can be seen that the texture of these gold needles is so hard and the strength is so strong.
The owner of the golden needle seemed to be a little puzzled why the three golden needles failed to work, and the attack of the hidden weapon was temporarily suspended. Dean also took the opportunity to start thinking about countermeasures, after all, even if the other party couldn't hurt himself, it was not a way to be pricked by needles all the time.
Because if you want to interact with the inscription on the flying needle, you can't go too far from the golden needle. So Dean can be sure that the owner of the Golden Needle must be in the hall. To get out of this passive situation, Dean needs to find the enemy as soon as possible.
Dean's gaze slowly swept across the hall, where there were many flower house girls and guests who had not had time to run away, each huddled by the wall and shivering. And the owner of the golden needle must be hiding among these people.
At this moment, the owner of the golden needle also seemed to have thought of a countermeasure, and the three golden needles attacked Dean's front door. Dean quickly leaned back and dodged the blow. But before he could straighten up, another golden needle shot into his ear from the side. Dean didn't have time to dodge, and with a wave of his arm, he knocked off the golden needle.
With a wrong step, Dean spun in place and regained his footing. I don't know how many golden needles this guy in the shadows has hidden in this building, and before Dean can catch his breath, four more golden needles hit Dean's cheek, and it seems that the other party has locked Dean's head as the target of the attack.
In fact, Dean's head could also be covered in Dragonrock Scale Armor, but that would reveal his abilities. If he could, he would prefer that the other party would think that he was just wearing inner armor until he died.
But in the face of the increasingly aggressive Golden Needle, Dean couldn't bear it anymore, so he started running.
Not just to dodge the attack of the golden needle, but to rush to the girl in the flower building closest to him while dodging!
Before he could come up with a better solution, Dean decided to try the stupidest way of allβone by one. The girl hiding in the corner was very close to Dean, and she was afraid of harming the fish pond, but she didn't dare to move, so she could only desperately stick to the wall. Unexpectedly, Dean suddenly ran to him and screamed in fright.
Dean didn't care about any pity, and knocked the poor girl unconscious with a single blow of his knife. However, at the moment of completing this action, the owner of the golden needle seemed to be in a hurry, and the speed of the golden needle suddenly increased a lot, which made Dean have another golden needle on his shoulder.
But these are nothing to Dean, since the other party has shown that he is anxious, it shows that his move is still effective.
Dean grinned and ran towards his next target.
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Under the leadership of the old man, Shi Qing finally entered the VIP area of the casino.
Led by a guard, the two walked through more than a dozen luxurious private rooms, and finally walked to the special competition casino in the VIP area. There are many gambling games for dog fighting, cockfighting, and cricket fighting. Of course, the highest level is still the gamble of "fighting people".
Although the arena is a facility that is strictly forbidden by church order, for the powerful who can enter it to have fun, these taboos are only taboos for the common people.
This particular little casino is now home to dozens of aristocrats, seated in a circle on the edge of the venue. In the middle of them is a large circular pit, which is the arena of the fighters, with a radius of about ten meters, which is spacious for heads-up.
Shi Qing followed the old man in an old cowhide coat to the edge of the small casino, where five or six guards were guarding the security of the venue, and some good-looking maids were preparing delicate food and drinks at the small table.
When the old man in the cowhide coat saw the guard at the head, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile, and the latter threw him a bag of money with an expressionless face. The old man padded the money pouch in his hand, took out a few gold coins from it, put them in his pocket, and handed them back to the head of the guard.
The head of the guard seemed to be satisfied with the old man's "sensibility", smiled slightly and put the money bag into his arms.
Shi Qing glanced at it casually, then ignored it and looked at the "competition pit" in the field.
In the pit at this moment, a short swordsman and a large man armed with a mace are fighting. The short swordsman seemed to have lost all his strength, and his steps were vague and his body was shaky. The big man, on the other hand, kept teasing the swordsman with a sinister smile, and the mace was measured between swings, only wounding and not killing.
Shi Qing looked at the powerful men in the stands around him, unlike ordinary gamblers, they seemed to be used to seeing this kind of fight, and they didn't show any excitement, their eyes were full of indifference. In fact, in the eyes of these magnates, the fight between the untouchables is no different from the fight between chickens and dogs, and it does not make their emotions fluctuate at all.
The only thing that touched their mood was the staggering bets, but the disparity in strength between the two in the arena was so great that almost no one bought a swordsman. Therefore, the ending has been set in everyone's hearts, and there is no excitement.
His eyes swept lightly over these magnates, and Shi Qing noticed that there was a large door opposite, and there was a sign of a cable ladder on the top of the door. The signs of these cable ladders, Shi Qing has seen too many in Elysium, in addition to the "cable" word sign, it is generally indicated that the number of layers leading to the place.
And the number of this cable ladder is "up to 2", which is exactly the cable ladder that Shi Qing needs to find.
At this moment, the short swordsman in the field was already crumbling, although he was very unwilling, but he was also unable to support it. So he jerked back a few steps and signaled surrender to a tall referee-looking man on the sidelines.
But the referee showed a distracted look, and even tilted his head and plucked his ears.
Seeing the referee who turned a blind eye to this, the big man showed a cruel smile and began to approach the short swordsman step by step.
Seeing this, Shi Qing frowned, and glanced at the old man in the cowhide coat. Although Shi Qing didn't take the old man's previous promise of "surrendering and saving his life" too seriously, he was also a little unhappy.
The old man didn't avoid Shi Qing's gaze, and showed a smile that pretended to be stupid.
For the dwarf swordsman in a desperate situation, Shi Qing did not intend to help. Because swordsmen are different from ordinary civilians, accepting challenges requires the awareness of failure and death.
The big man finally pushed the swordsman to the edge of the dirt wall, but the short swordsman was also a hard bone, and he didn't cry out for help after seeing the referee watching coldly. Instead, he calmly gathered his mind to meet the enemy, and always held his long sword across his chest.
Unexpectedly, the big man threw the mace aside and kicked it on the swordsman's sword. The swordsman was already physically exhausted, and the whole person hit the earth wall and shook down a piece of dirt.
Looking at the swordsman who finally fell to his knees, the big man stepped on the swordsman's shoulder, and then bent down to pick up the long sword that the swordsman had dropped. Pointing at the swordsman's neck, he smiled and said: "I said a long time ago that those who practice swords are embroidered pillows that are useless, what do you say is there to practice such a broken thing?" You kind of waste practice around and don't you have to be stabbed to death by your own broken sword? Want to kill me to avenge your father? What a joke! β
The short swordsman was trampled on the dirt wall by the big man and couldn't move, looking at the love sword against his neck, he didn't show a trace of cowardice, but gritted his teeth and said, "You...... You don't deserve a sword! β
After hearing this, the big man raised his eyebrows, and he was about to kill this swordsman who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
However, as soon as his hand was raised, the sword fell to the ground with a thud.
Along with the sword, it fell with his hand.
The big man didn't even feel pain before he lost a hand.
There was silence in the room, and a black-clothed swordsman standing with a sword standing behind the big man casually shook off the blood from his sword. said lightly: "You're right, he doesn't deserve it." β
Immediately after, the mournful howl of the big man echoed throughout the arena.