Chapter 5: The road is narrow, and the narrow road meets

"How much do you know about my background?" Naruto gave up clenching her fists and stood up, her eyes still daring to look directly into Meryl's dark green eyes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Much more than you know, because I've outlived you." Meryl smiled, "What, mentioning her finally made you brave to face me?" ”

"I don't need to be brave and decisive, I just need you to give me some time, and a reward for arresting Lendle." Ming shook his head, "Am I not your most proud disciple?" ”

"Actually, it's one of the most delicious and fun. But if you want time, I'll give you time, is that enough? The girl held out three fingers.

"Three days? No, it's too short. It takes a long time just to find the moon......"

"Hee-hee-hee, who told you it's been three days? It's three hours, dear. Meryl covered her lips and snickered, "There are three hours left, and it's midnight." ”

What she means is that when the day is over, if Ming hasn't acted yet, then she will help him deal with the matter of Yueying on her own initiative, yes, the kind of arrogant and ruthless self-assertion.

"Please stop kidding, I don't even know where she is? Three hours is not enough to find her! Naruto was furious, remorseful for the girl's vexatious trouble.

Naruto felt accustomed to her deliberately assigning impossible tasks to make things difficult for novices, but this incident happened to Yueying, which still made him deeply uneasy.

Nangong Ming and Ouyang Yueying, as Meryl said, the two were childhood sweethearts who had a good relationship with each other in childhood, and they belonged to the kind of relationship where friends were above and lovers were not full.

Although Ming later listened to Meryl's story and knew that the two families had discussed their marriage, all this disappeared with the outbreak of the war.

Ten years ago, in the year 1400 of the World Calendar, the Fragment War that shook the world was spearheaded by the Majin race.

The war began to spread from the Par Plateau, which crisscrossed the entire continent, and on the way ravaged the elven paradise of the Lane Domain, the home of metal, the Alpha Dungeon, and crossed the Gobi Desert of Yuvasha in full swing, and finally burned the war to the human kingdom in the easternmost part of the continent -

Juetian.

War came without warning, tearing down the gates and breaching the fortresses. However, the Nangong family and the Ouyang family, who were guarding the frontier Tianqian Pass at that time, did not know about it, so that they lost the fortress.

The two families who failed to do so would naturally be judged by the imperial court, but when Naruto thought of this, he was interrupted by Meryl's taunt:

"I don't even know where the lovely person I thought about for a long time is, 76 really deserves to be single all the time when he is so big, so I said, your first time might as well be given to me."

Meryl's pretty face was stained with a hint of charm, and at the same time, she licked her lips charmingly, revealing a small red tongue.

"I want you to take care of it, anyway, I can't accept such a small amount of time, you didn't give me the money, if I starve to death, no one will buy wine for you, right?" Ming said indignantly.

"You think you really know how to run errands? If I told you that the little cutie was hiding by the door right now, would you run out right away? ”

"What did you say?"

"Okay, don't be impulsive, I'll give you three days, right? Young people are angry, and it is not incomprehensible that they want to vent. Meryl tossed him a pocket.

Realizing that it was the future meal money, Ming hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold it, but after he weighed it, Ming's face quickly became strange: "You actually deducted half of it!" ”

Naruto opened the sack the size of the casserole, and reached in with his right hand to stir it a few times like washing rice. "Lendall's bounty is obviously a thousand stele, you ...... Give me back the other half. ”

"Poofhahahaha, who told you that the bounty of a waste man is worth a thousand? If you can get a good reward just by catching a few weak chickens, then everyone will compete to be a killer. ”

Meryl lay on the couch and propped up her head, "As I taught you before, don't be fooled by appearances, or you will ......"

"Otherwise, you deduct my salary and eat my tofu, we have to settle this account. Feed? Meryl, what's going on with your face? ”

Ming just wanted to reason with the girl, but found that Meryl, who had resumed her sitting posture, had a purple face, no, when he spoke, it turned from purple to blue, and she covered her mouth with her hands and didn't know what she was doing.

"Well, I drank too much just now, and my movements were too intense, so I ......" she threw her head back with a hideous expression.

"So? You, you'd better not spit on me! Seeing this, Naruto immediately came to his senses and covered his eyes with the money bag in front of him.

"Stupid——! Shouldn't you go looking for a spittoon or other props that can hold things? ”

When Meryl's bulging cheeks returned to normal, Naru's first retaliation was to be blown away by her, and her body rushed to the roof, then fell to the ground, and the invisible force slapped him twice before stopping.

"What a hell of a place like that! I said a long time ago that if you don't drink so much, it's normal to vomit, right? ”

Mingbi got up with a swollen face, and now he didn't expect to get back the other five hundred silks, but only asked Meryl to spare himself.

"Hmph, my cold lamp Meryl can't teach you a lesson! Now that the money has been taken and the wine has been drunk, let's hurry up and go on the mission. You are still one C-level bounty task short of qualifying this month, if you haven't completed the quota by the end of the month, the other three guardian gods will not be able to save you by then, don't think that I can settle everything for you! ”

Meryl grimaced with her eyelids down and looked around as if there was nothing to throw away except for the bottle, so she ran up and kicked Ming's ass.

"Also, the three hours I just told you weren't joking. After midnight tonight, you have to settle her business, or what will happen, even I can't assure you, do you hear clearly? Meryl stomped on Ming's waist with the top of her boots as she spoke, and with a wave of her little hand, the wine bottles all over the ground were suspended in the air with Ming, full of fluorescent light.

"I understand...... Ming barely held back a sentence, but countless wine bottles swept towards him like a meteor shower, and in a gust of glass wind, he heard her say:

"Got it, get out of here——! Damn it, I actually showed you my ugliness, next time I must make you worse than me (whisper)......"

It was the last thing he heard in this space before he woke up. Before Ming could hear the second half of the sentence, the whole person was delirious and lost in the green halo.

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"So, what the hell is going on......" Rising from the dust-free floor, Naruto found himself lying in a mess of broken glass stubble, "I only have three hours?" ”

Ming picked up the money bag in a daze, but he didn't see any clues, the room was the same as when he came before, the difference was that now there were more Lundl's corpses, and the oil lamp was extinguished.

He tried to organize his thoughts, but his mind was like a mess, and he didn't understand Meryl's words and deeds at all: "Cold light Meryl, she will only haunt the mirrored houses with oil lamps lit at night, and she disappears every time she comes and goes, saying that it can add to the mysterious temperament of the killer, but it is hard for me to find a suitable place for you to come." ”

Naruto wanted to light it again, but was surprised to find that the oil lamp had lost its brilliance because its wick had burned out. And before Ming lights it up, the wick is still long.

"Strange thing, this must be her handiwork, do you want to create a problem for me like that?" Ming kicked over the extinguished lamp and opened the door, and the stars in the sky were a little dazzling.

I saw that in the twilight of the starry shadow, the quiet night floated in the sky like a relic of independence, the continuous clouds blocked under the moon as if holding a pipa, and the faint light that was not very transparent was scattered and overflowing.

When Ming adjusted to the light, he saw the black horse disappear into the darkness like a shadow. The other party wagged his tail happily when he saw him, which also made Ming breathe a sigh of relief:

"Good man, I know. Even if the world abandons me one day, you will stay with me. ”

The beast let out a horse cry similar to laughter, and Naruto took a piece of cured jerky from his luggage and stuffed it into the horse's mouth, then pulled up his bridle and straddled the horse, "But don't be too happy. ”

He caressed the horse's back and said helplessly: "We can't rest tonight, I'm going to find someone, it's the woman who chased us today, she's afraid she's in big trouble." ”

After speaking, as soon as Ming raised the reins, the black horse willingly spread its long legs, its back almost as high as Ming, running in the night, like a dark whirlwind walking with shadows.

Looking back, Naruto only hoped that Yueying would stop beating her own idea, but this was impossible. So he can only rely on his memory to find the original way, hoping that he can find her.

The Nangong family and the Ouyang family were indeed in-laws ten years ago, and the relationship between the two clans was very friendly.

However, with the outbreak of war, this relationship became distorted. Because Naruto was only eight years old ten years ago, he didn't remember many things, and he still heard about them when he chatted with Meryl.

"What did you say happened back then? Hehe, it's nothing more than the defeat of the two families because of the defeat and shirking each other's responsibilities, resulting in both defeats. Meryl in memory said.

"...... each other Pass the buck? What the hell is going on? Naruto remembered that he had asked her that.

"It's very simple," Meryl said rightly, "when the demonic army attacked the Heavenly Trench Gate, Nangong and Ouyang were drinking and playing chess in the mountains and forests, completely unaware of the danger that was close at hand. So when the fortress was conquered, the two generals were still intriguing over winning and losing on the chessboard, which eventually turned into a large-scale massacre, killing people and killing people. ”

"Whose mouth is it to be destroyed?" Hearing this truth, the Orthodox Church was breathless.

"Of course it's Ouyang, who made him want to report Nangong's dereliction of duty to the imperial court at that time, in order to protect himself. As a result, there was a problem with the intelligence, and it was intercepted by the people of the Nangong family, and finally suffered from the latter's poisonous hands, and the Ouyang family went from top to bottom, from the elderly to the swaddling baby, and none of them survived. The scandal of the loss of Tianqian Pass has also changed from the dereliction of duty of the two major families to the treason of the Ouyang family to the enemy, but the fact is that the Nangong family killed them all, made up lies, and survived in the world. ”

Meryl showed a righteous and evil expression, and her eyes were very uncomfortable: "Are my parents involved......

"You must not have participated, if you had done such a bad thing, a person with a conscience like you would have been punished by God a long time ago. Don't look at me like that, I've lost my conscience. ”

Recalling this interruption, Naruto should have felt tired and weak on his horse, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was indebted to Tsuki.

Although the ugly behavior of the Nangong family is not known to the world, the sky has eyes. In the second large-scale invasion of the demon army, the entire Nangong family died heroically, perhaps because they felt ashamed of Ouyang, and the Nangong family did not leave any heirs.

Except, Nangong Ming, an illegitimate child.

"But the people of the Ouyang family have long been dead, and the Nangong family is the only orphan left like me, how do you know about these old things?" Naruto asks Meryl a question in her flashback.

"Because I am the one who intercepted the intelligence of the Ouyang family back then, on the other hand, I also participated in the massacre of the Ouyang family, do you understand?"

The girl took a long sip of wine and sat on the familiar sofa with a smile on her face.

"......" Thinking of this, Naruto suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head as if it was about to explode. When he was found a few days ago by Ouyang Yueying, the ember of the Ouyang family. Naruto's unbelieving fate befell him and choked him by the throat with extreme brute force.

Yueying actually came for revenge, she vowed to take revenge on the Nangong family, but when she grew up, the Nangong family was buried as a hero who protected the country, and the Ouyang family deserved to be treasonous, Ming understood Yueying's mood very well.

"Ten years ago, we were obviously close friends, why did we develop into the way we are now?" Naruto rode the black horse to the place where the moon rose at noon.

He looked up and saw that the traces of the mare's fall were still there. On the roof of a weather-beaten tiled house, a large crater declares that the area has been battered.

Through the broken tiles, Naruto could clearly see the beams of the house, and it was inferred that the horse was probably not saved. "Well, you only have three hours to ......"

Naruto smiled bitterly and stood still, at a loss. He knew Meryl's style too well, and if he hadn't found Moonfall tonight, the instructor would probably have killed her.

"As for the reason, it must be that those killers can't have targets that can't be targeted." Naruto dismounted at the corner of the street and tied the black horse to the door of an inn.

Perhaps the citizens have not yet come out of the shadow of war, there is not even a light at night, and there is a dead silence around them.

"Meryl knows I can't bear to kill you, because I sympathize with what you're going through. Once the Assassins of the Killing Sky have a target that cannot be determined, it means that they are not far from death, what should I do? ”

Ming looked around, the street was extremely quiet, not to mention pedestrians, not even a night cat could be seen.

All he could see was a hazy darkness, and a holy golden glow appeared out of the corner of his eye. Unlike the sun's rays, this beam is more like a fire inside a fireplace, giving a feeling of warmth and contentment.

Well? A golden beam of holiness? That's not ......

"Poof——!

Before Ming could remember what kind of power this light represented, he suddenly felt a cool breeze behind him, and then a spear wrapped in a bright yellow light stabbed straight at him without warning.

Naruno was sure it wasn't a physical object, but a weapon made of spells or other substances. Otherwise, the real gun wielding in the air would definitely make a sound of breaking through the air, but Ke Ming didn't hear it.

In the same way, he rode for so long without noticing anyone following him.

Naruto's body was from back to front, and he was pierced in and out by spearfish, and his face turned pale at once.

It was a generous red tasseled iron thorn, and the difference was that the spear was not shrouded in something and emitted light, but was itself composed of beams of light, and tiny particles of light flew around like fireflies.

"This is, Qin Shenbless's Divine Fighting Technique! Who are you——? In the form of a spear, he recognized the identity of the attacker, but failed to return fire.

When Ming wanted to turn his head, a cold voice that was more chilling than a gunshot wound came from behind him:

"I am, your childhood sweetheart, Nangong Ming."

The girl held a spear in her hand, and her beautiful silver hair shimmered with indescribable brilliance under the moon, which corresponded to her name as the moon.