5. The Assassin and the Prince (4)
There were about five masked men, and it was unknown how they managed to get into the heavily guarded paddock. The most important thing is that these five people are all very good, the guards of the Hanging Pivot and the Great Prince were dragged by three of them, and the remaining two were forced towards them with swords.
The eldest prince hid back in a daze, and then retreated to the cliff, King He frowned lightly, his expression was cold, and he stretched out his hand to protect the eldest prince. He was already thin, standing on the edge of the cliff like a green bamboo, hunting in the mountain wind, thin but tough.
The two approaching masked men seemed to be intimidated by his momentum, and looked at each other hesitantly, but it was the moment of distraction, only to hear the sound of the horse's hooves, a figure jumped down from the horse's back, agile and agile, only a moment behind them, the arm was raised, and the throat of one of the masked men was cut, and blood gushed like a spring. He kept his eyes open, and he didn't blink an eye.
So, the killer can't be distracted.
The sudden situation surprised everyone, and the scene froze for a moment, but time did not allow Yang Yu to kill another masked man in the same way. The death of his companion gave the man time to react, and he quickly turned around and stabbed Yang Yu diagonally with his sword at a very tricky angle.
Yang Yu raised his hand to block, and the dagger and the sword collided, making a very crisp "bell" sound.
Yang Yu has been trained in martial arts since he was a child, and the movements of modern people after deleting and simplifying are much more streamlined than those of the ancients, but the ancients' swordsmanship is complicated, and the number of modern martial arts is far from being beaten, so he can only rely on his flexible skills to fight a draw with the masked general. After more than a dozen rounds, the masked man saw that he couldn't attack for a long time, and he was afraid that he would delay it any longer and alarm others The situation was unfavorable, so after a false moment, he took out a few hidden weapons from his arms and shot them at King He and the eldest prince.
King He protected the eldest prince behind him, and one of the hidden weapons shot him in the shoulder, and his body shook suddenly, and he was about to fall off the cliff. Yang Yu frowned, threw the dagger at the masked man very decisively, and flew to the edge of the cliff while the masked man dodged, but he only had time to grab King He's sleeve before he was taken down to the bottom of the cliff with his momentum.
The hanging pivot's eyes were about to split, and he roared, "Lord Wang!" Coiled in the mountains and forests, startled a flock of birds.
And at the last moment, Yang Yu felt a tightness in his chest, he lowered his head with difficulty, and saw a sword piercing from his back, directly piercing his entire chest, and the tip of the sword was dripping with warm blood. At the last moment when he closed his eyes, he saw the masked man standing gloomily on the top of the cliff, looking at him condescendingly.
"A killer can't have a heart, and the heart is the killer's biggest weakness. No heart means no feelings, no friends, no relatives, no lovers. No weakness, no invincibility. Yang Yu suddenly remembered what his master had said to him, and he thought that the killer who was killed in order to save people by revealing his flaws was probably the first since ancient times.
He wanted to pull his lips and sneer, but he didn't have the strength to do so.
[Ding - The host spirit particles are about to spread, and an emergency procedure is initiated to gather the host spirit particles. The task is about to fail, does the host choose to give up? 】
Opening his eyes to the square hut, Yang Yu stood up against the wall and found that he had regained his short hair and jacket.
"Imminent failure? What do you mean? ”
[Ding-please look at the big screen!] 】
As soon as the system's voice fell, another picture appeared in front of Yang Yu's eyes, in which he was still dressed in ancient costume, lying on his back in the cave, pale and breathing weakly because of excessive bleeding. His shirt had been peeled off, revealing his skin covered in old scars, and the sword on his chest was gone, but the blood had not flowed again, and the wound was covered with a layer of white powder.
He was slightly stunned, his eyes moved slightly, and he saw Su Yi sitting beside him, bowing his head and giving him medicine with one hand. Su Yi was obviously not lightly injured, and the clothes on his shoulder on the side of the hidden weapon had been completely stained red with blood, which was even more shocking than his wounds.
You can't see Su Yi's face from the picture, you can only see his long black hair scattered down, dragging on the ground in layers, contrasting with his white clothes, which is very dazzling. Yang Yu didn't know what his expression was, and he didn't know why he wanted to save himself. He only remembered that since a long, long time ago, he had never expected someone to save him.
He's a killer, and he's been living alone in the dark. Master told him that this was the fate of the killer, and he kept this sentence in his heart.
Fate is a fate that cannot be resisted. There are some roads that come with a price.
He rarely recalled, because there was nothing to recall, but at this moment, many of the past events that he deliberately ignored poured out of the corner like a tide.
He remembered in a bit of a trance that he was also an ordinary person before he became a killer.
"You mean, I can't die, so the mission can continue?"
[Ding--The drug used by this system to detect the target is a product of the planet M-871, which has always been highly efficient, energy-saving, and practical, and enjoys a high reputation in the Space Alliance. At present, our planet has ...... the market]
"Don't talk nonsense."
[So the host can't die.] 】
[But the injury is too serious, the blood vessels are ruptured, the heart and lungs are damaged, fortunately, the heart is fine, this system can start the rescue function to help the host body recover its life characteristics, but it takes a lot of energy to start the rescue function, and the system can only be started three times at most. However, if the host chooses to abandon this task, because the host body is not dead yet, and the spirit particles are still gathered, and now chooses to enter the next mission, it will directly have a sound body. 】
Yang Yu frowned: "I've been listening to you say what spirit particles, what is it?" ”
[Ding-M-871 planet scientists have found that each life form is an energy body composed of many very small particles, which is what you call a "soul", we call it "spirit particles", spirit particles carry things such as memory, emotions and other things that life beings have, but at the same time they also need to be attached to the body, once the body dies, the spirit particles will spread, which is what you call "the soul is scattered", so theoretically, After the death of the body, the spirit particles are gathered together with an external force before they spread, and the person will always "exist". However, with the current technology of M-871, it can only create such a small amount of spiritual space to gather spiritual particles, which is the space where the host is currently located. 】
"There's a penalty for abandoning a mission, right?" Yang Yu moved his fingers, and the feeling of emptiness on it made him a little uncomfortable, and said lightly, "Then go on." ”
Forcefully propped open the eyelids, it was dark in sight, the clothes had been put back on, Yang Yu moved, his body was sour, his bones seemed to be scattered, and it hurt when he moved. There was also some tightness on his chest, probably bandaged. He paused, and began to look around.
This is a very small cave, probably at the bottom of the cliff, can only accommodate up to five people to turn around, it is early spring, after nightfall in the cave is cold and damp, the night dew is heavy, there is a very slight sound of water outside the cave, probably the sound of dew rolling off the blades of grass and dripping on the stones.
There was a slight breath on his side, very faint, almost inaudible. Yang Yu slowly turned his head, and through the moonlight shining into the cave, he saw Su Yi leaning against the stone wall beside him, his hands hanging on the ground, his eyes closed, his face was pale and lifeless, and his originally snow-white brocade clothes began to be dyed with layers of dark color from his shoulders, and the heavy smell of blood floated in the cramped cave, making the air thicker and more painful in the chest.
The whole body did not obey the call, Yang Yu spent a lot of effort to move his fingers, but it was only a small inch, and because of this movement, the bandaged place in his chest was heart-rending and painful, and his forehead had begun to break out layers of cold sweat. He pursed his lips, gritted his teeth and moved his fingers laboriously, and finally touched Su Yi's wrist before he lost his strength.
Very thin, this is Yang Yu's first feeling after touching his wrist, so thin that he is a little awkward. It's also cold, not at all like a living person's hand. Yang Yu felt the pulse on his wrist, closed his eyes, and felt quietly for a while, feeling inexplicably relieved in his heart.
Alive.
It took a while for the system to start the rescue function, and during this time, Yang Yu lay motionless on the ground, he could feel the damaged internal organs in his body slowly growing and recovering, the severed meridians were also reconnected, and the blood began to be re-transmitted from the heart to the limbs of the body, and the cold and numb limbs gradually regained consciousness.
After such a set of processes, it was already the second half of the night after it was over, and Yang Yu opened his eyes and felt as if he had slept for a century. He propped up his upper body and moved back, also leaning against the stone wall, side by side with Su Yi, reaching out and grabbing Su Yi's wrist to check his pulse again.
It's already very weak, as if it will break at any moment.
Yang Yu frowned and asked the system: "You said that his system is more advanced than yours, doesn't he have a rescue function?" ”
[Ding - The problem is beyond the scope of the system's knowledge.] 】
"Is there a way to save him?"
[Ding - The target falls into a deep coma, and the host of this system takes advantage of the present to kill the target and complete the task. 】
“…… No, I have something to ask him," Yang Yu lowered his eyes, covering the gloom under his eyes, and said indifferently, "I want to know why he saved me." ”
[Ding - Inability to distinguish the needs of the host.] 】
Yang Yu was silent for a while, and then walked out of the cave, under the cliff was a small closed valley, in the valley grew a lot of knee-high weeds, and countless bushes, which became a natural barrier at the entrance of the cave, if you look at it from the outside, you can hardly see that there is a cave here. Not far away, a mountain stream flowing out of the groundwater slowly merges into a small pond, the water of the pond is sparkling under the moon, and there is a wild flower on the edge of the pond, which is actually slowly blooming, quiet and tranquil.
There is no trace of human population at all, and I don't know how Su Yi found this cave, and dragged him with such a seriously injured patient. After they fell off the cliff, the second prince must have sent someone to confirm their life and death, and if it weren't for this cave, they would have been found by now, and they would have died thoroughly.
He owes Su Yi two lives.
Yang Yu began to pick up the dry shrub branches, he had to find a way to make a fire, it was too cold at night, and Su Yi would definitely not be able to hold on. In fact, even if there is fire, Su Yi is estimated to not be able to hold on. But something is better than nothing.
Picking it up, Yang Yu suddenly remembered one more thing: I remember that the eldest prince fell off the cliff with them at that time, but now there is no trace, I don't know if it has been captured by the second prince's people. And King He and the eldest prince fell off the cliff at the same time, and there were no soldiers to look for it, so it must have been the second prince who sealed the news.
If the second prince can successfully seal the news, then presumably the guards and hangers of the eldest prince are already very lucky.
Back in the cave, Yang Yu first sorted out the shrubs at the entrance of the cave and erased the traces of man-made. Then he used a few branches to erect his coat to block the mouth of the cave, and the coat was stained with blood, which would better shield him from the fire. After doing this, he set up the firewood and then took out a fire fold from his body. Ever since he became a servant, he has always carried two fire folds with him, but fortunately he didn't drop them.
The fire quickly rose, and Yang Yu controlled the fire light to the minimum, and then turned his head to look at Su Yi. The orange-red firelight reflected his face in bright blood, and the whole person suddenly came to life. And at this time, Yang Yu saw clearly that the hidden weapon on Su Yi's shoulder had not been pulled out.
He looked at Su Yi fixedly, the expression on his face was gloomy.