The ballroom went dark.

"Ahhhhh

Huge chandeliers smashed down in the crowd, and screams and panicked escapes immediately threw the hall into chaos.

The women shouted the names of their husbands and brothers in a panic in the darkness, while the men shouted angrily in an attempt to maintain order and calm people down.

There were also many people around Lin An who did not know the direction and crowded around, because the fighting spirit flashed in the dark, and someone pushed away a large chandelier that fell nearby, although the casualties below were avoided, but the flying chandelier also injured and scared many people.

The whole hall was as chaotic as porridge in a boiling pot, and the dozen or so large chandeliers were like floating bubbles on porridge noodles.

Lin An wrapped her and Leonardo with spiritual power, and the two stood like pillars in the chaotic crowd, Leonardo had already taken out his long sword, and found that no one could get close to them, so the unsheathed sword was retracted and held in his hand.

"Belo Birdbone Boomerang, the Stalker of the Ponto Mountain People!"

Leonardo said in a low voice, his usual oily voice was a little tense, "They are professional assassins, don't take them lightly, they will be targeted, they are used to looking for the light emitted by fighting spirit and magic to attack!" ”

Lin An snorted.

Even if Leonardo didn't say anything, she wouldn't do it—she had already seen that Charles's dinner tonight was not for her, and she didn't care about the lives of everyone in the ball hall except for her companions, especially when she knew that this was an unusual conspiracy.

But she still whispered, "Mountain man stalker? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

"Because historically, they only appeared in Perre's war of extermination against the mountain people, and after a few years of blooming like summer flowers, they disappeared, and now the real mountain people are long gone, and it is said that they followed the destruction of the tribal pillar of faith, and all of them were martyred.

In the war of extermination. They assassinated most of Perre's royal family under heavy protection, and at one point nearly tore Pere apart, but Pere was saved by relying on the founders of the Mercenary Guild. ”

Leonardo said in a low voice, "I didn't expect that this group of terrifying assassins who disappeared in history would appear here. ”

The Ponto mountain people?

Isn't that the country to the south that is harassing Merlin's border because of famine? That's exactly where "Odin" is going......

Lin An's eyes flashed, and a line gradually appeared in his mind, linking Charles's plan.

But she looked at the chaos in front of her, and asked in a quiet whisper:

"Since it never appeared, it was just a boomerang. Can you determine their identity? ”

"These boomerang have a special structure, which cannot be imitated. The bello bird boomerang uses a type of bello rib cage, which is hollow. But it is strangely heavy, and no matter how fast it flies, there is no wind sound, but this bird has long been extinct by the mountain people, and the boomerang they use is also handed down from their ancestors, except for the mountain people. Others don't have this bird boomerang. ”

Leonardo said.

Lin An's eyes flashed again.

"James is here." Leonardo suddenly whispered.

Lin An had no accidents.

No one in the hall knew the situation in the hall better than she did.

However, half of her mental perception was on the side of the recipients who were concerned about James's gathering, and half on Charles on the other end of the spiritual thread, but although the latter kept shouting and presiding over the overall situation, he did not run around. Always stay close to the dance floor.

James gathered most of the honorees, and in addition to that, Helmer and the other honorees brought their female companions. As well as some guests who automatically attached themselves to this group of people along the way, there were men and women, old and young, the members were complicated, and their feelings were out of control.

These people. Mainly because James informed the recipients that they were prepared to gather in the dark. But the reaction of the ladies was no different from that of most people in the hall, and it was only because Lin An's companions were surrounded outside, holding knives, forks, candlesticks and other things in their hands, protecting them like a fence, that they maintained the formation.

Lin An and the others gathered at the back at a certain distance from the dance floor, forming a small encirclement, which was about an unequal triangle with the wine area and the dance floor.

"The smell of alcohol is wafting out." Lin An snorted and said.

"It would be bad if it didn't disperse." Leonardo Road.

"Calm down, be optimistic about your female companion, and don't use vindictiveness!" James whispered to the recipients, "Count the numbers and see who is not there!" ”

"It's almost all there, except for Hemmer and Rofit, who seem to be on the dance floor." Soon there was humanity.

Everyone doesn't care about saying much, but when they can be with their companions, they always feel much safer, not to mention that these people have experienced life and death, so they are naturally very calm.

However, not everyone in the dance hall is as low-key as Lin An and his group.

Many people lit up with fighting energy, and colorful colors lit up the hall, but then the boomerang flew in like a ghost, and only a few miserable screams were heard, and the fighting energy light source in the hall suddenly disappeared six or seven.

"Belo Bird Bone has a demon-breaking effect, and ordinary Douqi Shields and Magic Shields are useless, and will only help lurkers point out their targets!" In the darkness, Lin An heard Charles's shouting again, "Don't use the Fighting Qi Mask and the Magic Shield!" ”

But his voice was drowned out by the screams of the women, and except for some people near the dance floor, the others couldn't hear it at all.

Lin An knew that the attack just now was too sudden, most people's attention was on the poisonous liquor, when the boomerang hit the chandelier, unless it was like Lin An, he had already known that there was an assassin infiltrating outside, and he had been paying attention to the other party's attack, I am afraid that he didn't even know the reason why the chandelier fell.

There were quite a few people in the hall who instinctively fled in panic outside the main building because of the falling chandelier and the disappearance of the light, because the lampposts on the path outside the main building were still on.

Little did they know that the real danger came from that beautiful plantagenet forest.

The lurkers hiding in the woods probably also intended to lure in more people.

They were like wolves in the shadows of the trees, waiting for the guests to run out of the hall of the main building for more than a dozen feet, and the boomerang that harvested life flew out silently again.

In Lin An's perception, he only felt seven or eight blade-like cold murderous aura pass by, and the heads of several men who were running in front suddenly disappeared from their necks, and the spurting blood spurted out like a sprinkling of water, flying on the people nearby.

As far as Lin An could see. A richly dressed lady stood in stride, her expensive fox skin shawl splattered with blood, her eyes straight, and she watched her husband's headless body fall in front of her, as if her whole soul had gone out of her body.

After more than ten seconds, she felt the warmth on her face, subconsciously reached out and touched it, and saw that the hand stretched out in front of her was full of hot blood that had just spurted out of her husband's body, so her eyes widened, and she opened her mouth to let out a scream that pierced her eardrum.

In front of seven or eight headless corpses. The people who ran out of the main building were like prey driven away, and under this terrifying attack, they instantly turned around and ran towards the hall.

Lin An discovered. Most of the survivors were women, and only one middle-aged man who ran a few steps out of the main building survived, and they all scurried back to the main building hall like rabbits.

"It's like a hunt!" James Road.

"Mountain people don't usually kill women, they have a lot of respect for females who can reproduce, and even hunt to catch female animals. If it weren't for the unbearable hunger, they would usually be released. ”

Leonardo whispered, and his body ducked into the encirclement again.

Lin An nodded, she realized that James probably deliberately let the recipient bring a female companion, so many women gathered on their side, and the lurkers in the shadows generally did not regard them as the first target.

In fact, if they are willing to let go of their gentlemanly demeanor. Leave the women out there, and maybe you can organize a counterattack by now - provided that is, of course. The man who hides in the woods is really a lurker of the mountain people.

At least Lin Andao so far, she has only seen a boomerang representing the mountain people lurking.

This is the first corroboration of Charles that Lin An found.

"Quiet, all the women are standing in place, the mountain people lurkers will not kill the women who can't resist and run away, the women are all quiet!"

A male voice with amplification rumbles through the hall. It seems that someone finally couldn't help but make a move, probably because of the excitement of the head-cutting feast just now.

This is since the advent of assassination. For the first time, the guests died.

Yes, it is only now that there are really guests dying in the ballroom.

There were a lot of people who pushed and stepped on in the chaos before, but most of them were the servants who tried to protect the guests and blocked them outside, and even those guests who were poisoned and unconscious in front of them, in Lin An's perception, their vitality was slowly weakening, but they had not died for a while.

This is the second corroboration that Lin An found: it seems that Charles is quite sane, although he doesn't know what he wants to do, but at least he has no plans to kill.

"Someone finally came forward." In the darkness, James whispered.

"They can't wait, after all, casualties are starting to appear!"

Leonardo also suppressed his voice and said, "But the patience of those lurkers was also unexpected, and they did not rush in, it seems that they can see that many people are waiting for the opportunity." ”

James nodded.

In addition to them, there were many of their peers of similar origin, and even though not all of them had been on the icefield front for ten years like James, most of them had seen blood on their hands, and they were no worse than they were in the event of an incident.

Lin An listened to it in his ears, and his eyes flashed slightly:

She sensed that there were indeed some people in the hall, who were quite calm from beginning to end, and calmed down the people around her.

Otherwise, there would be more than 300 guests in the entire hall plus more than 100 waiters, and there would not have been only twenty or thirty people who rushed out of the hall and ran towards the woods just now.

Because of his efforts to open up his perception, Lin An tried his best to perceive the feelings of everyone in the hall, and so far, he has not found anything abnormal:

This meant that Charles seemed to have no internal cooperation among the guests at all - this was very unexpected by Lin An, and he felt that tonight's assassination was clouded.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin An touched the collar pin on the neckline, the collar pin gem was slightly bright, she whispered back a few words, and the collar pin was dark.

It was only a quarter of an hour in the dark, but everyone already felt that a long time had passed, and the people who had just been getting used to the darkness suddenly noticed that the dance hall was slowly lit up.

It turned out that on the top of the pillars on all sides of the dance hall, a lot of white fluorite was somehow exposed.

The white fluorite is carved into a hexagonal shape, and every eight pieces are set in a circle at the top of the column, emitting a soft white light, and with the mirror-smooth reflection of the ground, it seems to be a little brighter than before.

Under a white pillar on the southern edge of the ballroom, Charles clutched a wet silk silk over his mouth and nose with one hand, and one arm had just been pulled out of a circular hole in the column.

Apparently. It was because he had turned on the backup mechanism that the hall was restored to light.

The panicked crowd in the ballroom was momentarily silent because of the light, and many men breathed a sigh of relief: for them, panicked women and darkness were the two biggest factors that hindered their efforts.

Although they didn't know why the hall was bright again, and they didn't notice the situation on Charles's side for a while, they couldn't help but sigh "Thank God", even if they were as calm as James and Leonardo and others, they were slightly relieved!

"Your Highness! Be careful! ”

An abrupt shout. Suddenly, the eyes were directed in the direction of Charles, and it was discovered that the source that brought them back to the light.

But when the people saw where Charles was, the ladies covered their mouths. Low exhalation:

"Oh no!"

I saw three black shadows constantly swirling in the air, and the afterimage drew a strange arc, flying back and forth towards Charles who was standing at the edge of the dance hall, blocking Charles from three directions, almost at the same time that people were paying attention to Charles's direction. The boomerang is here!

In the whispering of the people, Charles was not in danger, a richly decorated thin stabbing sword appeared in his hand at some point, a court swordsmanship, Charles drew the sword at the same time, and the scabbard flew out.

His original meaning. Presumably, the scabbard was used to block the attack of two of the boomerangs.

But he seems to have underestimated the sharpness of the boomerang and the power attached to it, and the two boomerang were like mowing grass. Splitting the scabbard into three sections in the air, the speed barely slowed down, and the direction remained the same towards Charles.

Charles was not afraid, and the sword in his hand slashed through three micro-arc trajectories like lightning!

Two swords in front. The tip of the sword finally knocked two sheathed boomerangs flying, and the last boomerang sliced into the side of the bayone!

Clang!

Charles's jaw cracked. The boomerang changed direction strangely, and when Charles was caught off guard, it quickly flashed past Charles' left upper arm, and the sharp serration brought out a large piece of flesh and blood, and flew back again!

Charles snorted in pain, and a bright color of blood immediately stained his left upper arm, while the blood from the tiger's mouth in his right hand was dripping.

But by this time, Love, who was screaming in front of him, had already pounced in front of Charles, covering most of Charles's vital points with his body.

In the woods, the deadly boomerang never flew out again, and it was clear that the two boomerang left behind by Charles had also taught the Assassins a lesson.

The surviving servants near Charles were the first to react, screaming and rushing at their master, covering their master with their flesh.

There were also many nobles who reacted and rushed out to snatch Charles back.

Naturally, the scythe-like boomerang of death would not miss the opportunity, cutting like a ghost to the nobles who pounced, because the people who could snatch out to save Charles at this time were all sturdy young men, and they were the target of the assassins.

"Don't come here! Get back! ”

Charles shouted loudly, jumped up desperately, and knocked a boomerang that flew towards the leader who thought he was an aristocratic youth.

His tiger's mouth cracked twice, blood flowed for a long time, and the stabbing sword in his hand was directly shaken out of his hand by the huge force, and was split in two by another boomerang in the air, causing the female relatives to exclaim!

Charles jumped up and took out his sword to save people, but those lurkers seemed to be throwing boomerangs, and they had already expected Charles's move, only to see four boomerang collisions in the air, both of them changed their flight trajectory, and flew strangely towards Charles, who was still in the air!

Bang Bang!

The two boomerang were blocked by Love's swing of the sword, and Love vomited blood and flew backwards, and the boomerang trailed back!

Another boomerang slashed at the bodies of the two desperate waiters one after another, throwing countless blood, until it poked deeply into the chest of the third person, and then stopped flying, and the third waiter slowly fell backwards.

The last boomerang was facing Charles' chest, but before the boomerang arrived, Charles weirdly bent his body, using the kind of physical technique that Lin An had seen on Rodier last time, and folded it down as if there was no spine.

The boomerang grazed Charles' chin at the last moment, cut off half of Charles' hair tails, and flew back!

Call!

The people breathed a long sigh and cheered loudly, and under the bloody sacrifice of the waiters and the desperate sacrifices of the waiters, they stimulated the iron and blood in their bones, and their morale was shocked!

"The bello bird boomerang is indeed worthy of its name, the stabbing sword of His Highness Charles. But it's fused with extraterrestrial meteorite! Leonardo sighed.

James wondered, "It's strange that Charles is not such a self-sacrificing man!" ”

At this time, Leonardo said: "He can't help but fight hard, otherwise no less than ten nobles have died in this assassination so far, how can he explain to His Majesty!" ”

"It's also unlucky for His Royal Highness Charles, the assassination of the Pontors sneaked into the outskirts of the imperial capital, I'm afraid they were already preparing before they disturbed the border, His Highness holds the Autumn Festival Ball in the Plantagenet Manor every year, and those lurkers are probably already aiming at this opportunity!"

James said, and the recipients who heard it next to him all nodded slightly.

Lin An heard this. Watching Charles fall into the arms of a waiter, his face covered in cold sweat, plus half of his left arm was stained with blood. He raised his eyebrows, and a hint of sarcasm flashed in his eyes.

"You seem to have a different opinion?" Leonardo's voice sounded low in Lin An's ears, as if the voice was as small as a filament.

Lin An looked sideways, and saw Leonardo looking ahead, and the corners of his lips moved slightly. Immediately knew that he was secretly using his fighting spirit to transmit the sound.

"Too few people died." Her eyes flashed, and she replied with a teleportation technique.

"It's not surprising, in the history of the emergence of the Mountain People Sleepers, they almost only assassinated the enemy's royal family, you can see that the opponent's attacks are mainly focused on Charles."

So to speak, the people who died just now. He was also killed for fleeing.

Lin An thoughtfully:

The Mountain Man Lurker - this choice, now it seems, is wonderful!

Leonardo's message about the mountain people lurking. She had never heard of it, nor had she read it in a book, and their appearance was short and brilliant, four or five hundred years ago, and Lin An's reading. Most of it comes from the collection of Kronos and the Wardens.

These are all old monsters, so Lin An can cherish the history of the demon disaster a thousand years ago. Even many things of the Magic Dynasty are familiar, but in terms of modern history, they are shortcomings.

In particular, whether the mountain people lurkers or assassins who specialized in assassinating the royal family were naturally regarded as taboo for the rulers of various countries, and books on this subject would not be allowed to circulate, and only the nobles with a deep heritage would have their records.

This is also the reason why many of the nobles present today do not recognize the origin of these assassins.

After Leonardo finished speaking, he looked at Lin An, saw her reaction in his eyes, and suddenly added: "However, tonight's events are indeed a little strange." ”

Lin An's eyes moved slightly, "What's strange?" ”

"I can't say anything, but I always feel that the appearance of these lurkers seems to be plausible with the style of historical records, and there is a bit of a difference between the description of the thunder and the wind, and it is ......."

Before Leonardo could finish speaking, a loud shout interrupted him, shaking the entire hall-

"-Be careful!"

The voice only finished saying "small", and even the pronunciation of "heart" was not prominent, Lin An had already turned his head in an instant as expected!

I saw eleven swirling black shadows, like stone flakes that flew into the water when the water was drifting, sometimes appearing in the air, sometimes disappearing.

The terrifying boomerang even twisted the air at the edge of the whirling dart body, and the squeezed Dao Dao ripples disturbed the perception and judgment of many defenders, making people only feel as if they had entered the water in an instant, and looked at the terrifying killing machine hidden in the air ripples like ripples on the water surface of the Dao Dao above, and appeared in the hall in an instant.

Eleven boomerang whirred overhead, and the afterimages of the staggered whirling whirls drew a dizzying pattern in an instant, and almost no one could see the number and target of the boomerang, everyone felt as if they were being targeted, and the cold killing machine scraped through the skin like a pinprick!

The reason why it was almost because there was another person at the scene who could judge the real target of the eleven boomerangs.

"Damn it!"

Between the lightning and flint, Lin An let out a low sigh, and the materialized spiritual power instantly condensed above the hall!

Everyone suddenly covered their ears, and the boomerang above their heads erupted with a grinding sound that tore through the eardrums, and countless whirlpool-like sparks splashed around the dart body, forming a whirlpool of Mars, falling like fireworks!

The eleven boomerangs were still flying wildly, as if they had encountered some kind of transparent obstacle that was harder than diamonds, and they broke through wildly all the way, following the original trajectory, and the boomerang in the center of the whirlpool that splashed Mars broke through to a position less than three feet in front of a person, and only then did it reach the end of the crossbow.

The spinning boomerang, from high speed to stationary, is held in the air by that invisible force.

Clang!

Eleven boomerang fell to the ground with a neat sound, forming a perfect circle three feet from a person's body.

(To be continued)

PS：

Thank you White Seed Seeds for the big pink ticket! o(n_n)o~

Hehe, you can guess, who is the person who is saved?

Well, well, this copy of Plantagenet Manor is coming to an end.

ps:The newly uploaded pictures didn't get it right.,The upload system is too cheaty.,It's obviously the same operation.,But some of the uploads are successful and some don't.,It's really hurting! ==