Chapter 45 Cutting Bing Silk 1
After waiting outside the door for a long time, Su Can was a little impatient, and even had a bad premonition, as if a bat passed by his ears and a spider crawled into his heart. He subconsciously moved his neck. Although he is not afraid of bugs, he hates the feeling. Annoying, endless, little by little, destroying people's spirits and making people eventually go crazy. If someone fights with bugs, it must be the scariest thing.
He also didn't like his hunch. His hunch is often accurate, and once it happens, he has to start thinking about what to do next. "Premonition" means that danger is coming, and he is the one who eliminates it, the victim who must face it all, if it fails. The premonition was a good thing at first, and it was the most important guarantee for him to be invincible, but after a long time, the premonition was like a death bell, beating his head all the time, always appearing unexpectedly, and in the long run, his body developed a sense of exhaustion and rebellion under this never-ending stress: he felt pain. Pain is vigilance, pain is resistance, but there is no escape, so only he is left to suffer. He could never give up. To give up means death, to the death of the person he wants to protect.
In fact, Su Can had already come back from a circle outside, and stood in place again. He looked up at the jackdaws flying overhead, and quickly made a judgment: they were scattered because they were frightened, either because of a strong wind or because of a predator passing by. The wind was blowing, and it did not come suddenly, and the wind had long been tolerated, and in the deep silence of the palace, no one passed by, and he waited for a long time, and no one rushed to say that something had happenedβwhich was very strange.
He looked around, but the guards seemed to be accustomed to it, or they were just sleepy and standing there waiting for someone to change shifts. Ah, yes, when it's time to change shifts, people are the most lax, they hope that nothing will happen, and the big flaws that are usually enough to attract attention will be deliberately ignored. No wonder you can only be an ordinary guard. Soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, which is the most passive form of guard.
Just because they can't move around doesn't mean that Su Can can't move. Su Can walked up to a guard and asked him, "Did you notice anything wrong?"
"Huh?" The young guard didn't dare to speak, but in front of him was his immediate boss and senior, so he made such a harmonious sound, and then was stunned for a moment and shook his head.
Su Can said disappointedly: "You newcomers are really not good. Hey," he called out to the guard next to him again, and asked him, "You didn't notice anything wrong?"
The guard was in a daze, and he didn't even hear the words, Su Can walked over, walked around behind him, and patted him on the shoulder from back to front, the guard was so frightened that the whole person became violent, and he pulled out his knife and slashed towards Su Can, his movements were like flowing water without panting - he was so nervous that he couldn't breathe, and his scalp was numb with nervousness. Xueliang's blade is sharp, and it will bleed if it goes any further.
However, Su Can looked at him with a sneer and said, "It's too slow." β
Su Can's hand grabbed the guard's wrist, not much force, but it just hit his key point, so that his hand couldn't move at all, and he was shaking in mid-air...... Lord Sue?"
Su Can said: "First of all, your speed is too slow, the flaw is too big, if I also stab you with a knife, you have been stabbed in the chest and abdomen several times now." Second, the response is too slow, and I have said a whole sentence to you, and you haven't stopped yet. If the Holy One is pushed in front of you, will you also be stabbed like this? This is the crime of killing the king. It's not enough, you have to practice. β
"I remembered. The guard nodded in a panicked look, "Are you...... Are you Lord Su Can?"
Su Can was slightly stunned, thinking that he was very excited to see him with his own eyes, so he spoke incoherently, and chuckled: "You don't know me? Are you new in the past few days? I don't seem to have seen you." β
It's the truth. It's been two months since the last time I spoke to the guards, and if you're a newcomer within these two months, you might not recognize him. But nothing happened in the palace and new guards needed to make up for it, at least the cycle was really long. However, Su Can really didn't remember that there was such a person, and he frowned slightly.
"It's not. The guard he had spoken to at the beginning said weakly, "He came in with me, but he just doesn't have a good memory." β
Su Can snorted and said, "If you don't have a good memory, you still be a guard, when did such an imbecile person be allowed to come in the palace?"
"I ...... I have face blindness and can't remember other people's faces. Seeing a person can only be identified by details, such as curly hair, or moles on the tip of his nose and mouth, or wearing special clothing. If it were farther away, I wouldn't have recognized it. The guard lowered his head and whispered, "Please forgive Master Su." β
"Is that so...... Su Can said lazily, "If you only remember the details, it's not a bad thing, bad people tend to be disguised, and the small details on the body still won't change." Look at me now, remember me, and don't forget it the next time we meet. β
Su Can was born very good-looking, the superior nose bridge and eyebrow bones made him look like a beautiful sculpture, the peach blossom eyes under the deep eye sockets flashed with a slightly cool light, and the thin lips were pursed lightly between words, and he was so handsome that he was moving. It was meant to be a lecture, but the guard stared at his face, with a hint of an embarrassed smile on his face, and said, "Okay, good, Master Su, I will definitely not forget next time, if there is a next time-"
Su Can tilted his head and said, "What are you talking about?"
The guard lowered his head and snorted, "I said it wrong again, Lord Su......" However, when he slowly raised his head, the shyness and timidity on his face were swept away at that moment, and Su Can saw his evil smile, "Lord Su, the first time we met, I promise that I will not forget it next time, if you can live to that time." β
His left hand was held and could not move, but his right hand could move normally, he reached behind his back, pulled out a long knife with a bang, and slashed it horizontally towards Su Can's waist, this knife was dozens of catties heavy, just a light touch, the skin, flesh and bones of the person were separated, and the complete person instantly became two halves.
"Doesn't Lord Su think I'm slow?" he smiled, "This knife, Lord Su can't escape?"
"Ah......" He heard Su Can's confused voice, "You still have time to talk when you swing the knife, how did I teach you?"
He was slightly startled, and suddenly his chest was cold, and this coolness fell densely, from the chest to the abdomen. At the same time, the movement of the whole person has not stopped, the long knife continued to slash past, and a "ding" sound was heard, and the right hand shook slightly, accompanied by numbness, flashing up one after another, and his right hand lost consciousness in the next moment.
"Although your identity is fake, your weakness is real. When I say that you are slow to react, it does not mean that you reacted, or that you took the initiative and the situation would improve. Su Can smiled mischievously at him, "Do you think I'm talking casually? Look at it, you use one knife of kung fu, I am enough to use seven knives, each knife is what I just told you, and the location of your current knife is also what I told you." And also...... I myself am face blind, I don't recognize the face, I have always remembered people in this way, and I can't remember it, especially a boss who looks so handsome and chic. β
The guard looked down and saw the bloody hole in his chest. Because the first knife was so fast, so fast that his body didn't fully react, and the blood hadn't spurted out yet.
No, more than one hole. One knife after another, from the hard chest to the soft abdomen, Su Can stabbed him five times in a row. These wounds were inflicted after snatching the short knife from his left hand, which counted as a knife, and the long knife that blocked him at the end counted as a knife.
"Sure enough, it's seven knives. The guard said, "You didn't say big things, but you were really powerful and smart." β
He tumbled down like a collapsed mountain.
Su Can turned his head, looked at the first guard at first, and smiled softly.
"You can't get distracted when you're a guard. I've discovered your partner. He said slowly, "Is this all you have in strength? β
The killer looked at him nervously, his eyes fierce and fearful. He was frightened by Su Can's non-offensive eyes, and he didn't know what secrets were behind his gentle words and smiles, and how much he had seen through. The real palace guards gradually surrounded them, and the weapons clinked and made a crashing sound.
He suddenly sneered, "Just because you want to catch me too?"
He let out a loud shout, stretched his hand up, and with a thud, a steel claw flew out of the mechanism in his sleeve, and flew towards a tree not far away, firmly grasping the highest branch. As soon as the rope was retracted again, his whole body approached infinitely towards the branches, and he was instantly out of the encirclement.
The guard at the head shouted, "Draw the bow!" However, the killer's speed was also very fast, and the bow had just been drawn, and he had already disappeared into the shade of the tree.
"It's too slow!" the guard gritted his teeth and said, "Chase me over!"
Su Can sighed and said, "Slow." β
With this sigh, all the guards looked at him, bewildered. The guard at the head said, "Master Su, what do you command?"
"What do I have to say? I just sigh at your stupid brains. Su Can said, "It's just that you can't recognize people, if you chase them out, won't there be no one to guard here?" It's not too easy to take advantage of the void to get in, if something really happens to the emperor, the queen mother, and His Royal Highness King Duan, you will inevitably lose your heads one by one." β
The guard hurriedly knelt down and said, "What Master Su said is extremely true, and the small ones are negligent. Then, Master Su-" He looked up at Su Can and said, "Now, what should I do?"
"Stay here for the first time, with the highest vigilance posture. I'm not kidding. β
Su Can said, looking at them with his arms confused and flustered, and suddenly the door opened, and Su Can looked back to see Zhao Ji stumbling out with a limp out, dejected, lost and depressed, with long eyelashes drooping, like a wounded beagle.
Su Can stepped forward to Zhao Ji's side, lowered his head and joked, "Hey, what have you been hit, you walk like a minion." He slapped him on the back and said, "Hold your back up, Your Royal Highness Duanwang, this is a special period, and people who are sluggish are easy to be killed." β
They didn't know each other, but fortunately they got used to it quickly. Zhao Ji reluctantly raised his head and asked very weakly, "What's wrong?"
"It's not a big deal. Su Can smiled, turned his head, looked at the flying dust in the distance seriously, and said, "It's just an assassin." β
As soon as Su Can's voice fell, the sky suddenly changed drastically.
He looked up at the sky, and a great cloud of gloom was pressed down in a gloomy manner, and the wind began to roar, with a cry or two of exclamations, and the snow and mist flew up to the whole sky, and the branches of the trees groaned and rattled, and suddenly they were torn, swept into the firmament, rolled and shattered, and even under the wind, even the small stones circled in the air, and fell on the knife of the human blockade with a proper sound. The bright, twinkling sun of the afternoon struggled in the pale snow, and suddenly it was receded, and suddenly squeezed into view, and a faint speck of light hovered in the snowy sky.
There is nowhere to hide, there is no way to think about it, only to endure all this in the midst of a blizzard, and the world is fair at this moment.
Su Can turned around and said, "Are you okay?"
Zhao Ji ignored his question. He looked into the distance in a daze, his voice was broken and hoarse, and he almost whispered, "I won't...... You haven't woken up yet, have you?"
Su Can followed his eyes, and also followed the eyes of the guards here. He saw a trembling silver thread rolling forward in the sky, wider and higher, and as it approached them, it was like a great wave, as high as a hill, and it was magnificent.
Su Can immediately hugged Zhao Ji into his arms, ran to the edge of the silver thread, threw himself to the ground the moment the silver thread hit, and separated a little gap between Zhao Ji's mouth and nose to prevent him from being blocked by snow and unable to breathe;
The guards didn't have Su Can's quick reaction speed, if Su Can hadn't been a little panicked, he would have mocked them a long time ago. But before they could have the idea, before they could react, the snow swept by, and they exclaimed, and their companions disappeared like a trick in an instant.
β...... Can you do this in the palace?" Su Can raised his head, looked into the distance, and said lazily, "Don't talk about you, I also suspect that I haven't woken up yet." β
In the distance, I saw a huge white beast the size of a small mountain raising its head and roaring, and the sound was like a bell, and the white snow rolled under its feet. At first glance, it looks like a lion, covered with heavy gray hair, with a dragon's head and a horse's feet; and if you look closely, you can see that its head is like a knife, its eyes are sharp and fangs, its mane is connected with its chest, its long tail is swept away, and the snow is blowing one after another, covering the sky and the sun.
"Are you alive, King Duan?" asked Zhao Ji under Su Can.
Zhao Ji said quietly: "Alive, I will be frozen and awake directly." β
Su Can smiled: "That's good, that's great." I've been in the palace all year round, and I've never seen anything about it. β
"This is called Pixiu, also known as Tianlu, warding off evil spirits, and it is a kind of monster that only exists in the Book of Mountains and Seas. It has a ferocious habit and is responsible for patrolling the heavens to prevent demons and monsters from disturbing the order of the heavenly palace. These are what I read from books. Zhao Ji raised his head, supported his chin with his hand, and said with a wry smile, "I'll tell you the truth, it's the first time I've seen the truth." Are you sure you're alive, Su Can, how do I think these things will only be visible until I'm dead?"
Su Can said: "Why do you think so easily? When you encounter something unsolvable, you want to die." If death had alleviated the pain, I would have died long ago. β
Zhao Ji sneered and said, "How miserable can you be, can you compare to me?"
"Maybe not, look like you've been beaten like this. Su Can said, "Are you feeling better now?" I'm going to stand up." β
"There's an Assassin, ahhh
As soon as these words came out, it was like thunder falling into the sea, quickly spreading to the entire surface of the water, and the lightning surged, and the fish trembled. The palace entered a state of alert, and the guards gathered here in large numbers, as if they were a flock of migratory birds migrating to their destination, spreading their wings and landing on the ground, gathering together to share a new round of confusion, which was a mission hidden in their bones, and they didn't know where it started, but most of them ended in death.
Guards are a profession that fights for their lives, and the scythe of death will cut at some point, and once wielded, it is irreversible. Most of the time, they still don't like to get to the bottom of it, giving the visitor a little room to back off, and the two sides can still not hurt each other, but this is only limited to the assassin who is not determined enough. Assassins like this are here to take advantage of the situation, to make you afraid, to make you bow down in despair and fear, and then kill you with a single sword.
"It's noisy outside. The Queen Mother gently stroked the emperor's face and said in a condensed voice, "Even in front of the emperor, there are no rules." β
Tong Guan had naturally heard the movement outside. He got up and said, "Don't worry, Queen Mother, wait for the slave to go and see what is going on outside." β
The Queen Mother took a bowl of shredded chicken and sea cucumber porridge handed over by the snow silkworm, scooped up a spoonful and put it on her lips to test the temperature, nodded slightly with satisfaction, the expression on her face remained unmoved, and slowly fed it to the emperor's mouth, saying, "No matter what it is, you shouldn't disturb the emperor." The emperor is the Ninety-Five, if his dream is destroyed, no one's head can be repaired. β
The emperor was still in a coma, unable to open his mouth at all, and the spoonful of nourishing and healthy porridge that the Queen Mother forcibly fed in went in from between his teeth, and then trickled down from the corners of his mouth, and when it was about to flow to the edges and corners of his jaw, the Queen Mother took a silk scarf next to him to wipe it off for him.
Tong Guan bowed his head and retreated, and said, "The slave will ask someone to arrest the troublemaker and confess his guilt." β
The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows slightly, and said slowly: "What kind of guilt do you admit?" Do you think there is any room for argument, or the guards in the palace can't afford to provoke them?"
"The minions don't dare, the minions understand. Tong Guan hurriedly whispered and said quickly, "The slave sent someone to correct the Fa on the spot." He turned his head and called out into the corridor in the distance, "Silver Wind!"