Chapter 44: Those People

When Xiang Qingniu saw Fang Jie's eyes, which had completely turned red, his heartbeat seemed to stop suddenly. He had never seen a person's eyes so terrifying, let alone an ordinary person with such a pair of eyes that could only be described as demonic.

Fang Xie had experienced many ambushes before, but because he had always had a well-cultivated guard by his side, he was in no danger.

Today's seemingly seemingly untouchable assassination was the most dangerous he'd ever hauled, and if his reaction had been half a second slower, he would now be one of those corpses lying on the ground.

The nearest assassin to him was less than twenty paces away, and the arrows fired from a single crossbow were not able to kill him at this distance, because of his reflexes and a bit of luck.

As the Assassin leaped, the sun's light reflected from the cluster of crossbow arrows and shook Fang Jie's eyes.

If it weren't for this little warning, Fang Xie wouldn't have had time to draw his horizontal knife.

Today's assassination is the most tense in the history of Fang Jie. The muscles in his arms were still as hard as iron, and the stiff bulging muscles had a sense of strength and beauty. He held the knife in his right hand, and the placket of Xiang Qingniu in his left hand almost suffocated him.

"I heard what you said, who the hell are those people!"

Fang Xie looked directly into Xiang Qingniu's eyes and asked.

This ordinary person who obviously can't cultivate, and even a young man whose qi is not as good as ordinary people suddenly burst out with a momentum at this moment. Xiang Qingniu had felt the invincible momentum of his second senior brother when he wanted to kill, which was majestic and palpitating. But the momentum of his second senior brother was unparalleled pressure, and what Fang Xie had on his body was a cold and cruel aura that was terrifying, like a snake, like a knife, like a demon.

"Your ...... Your eyes. ”

Xiang Qingniu didn't answer Fang Jie's question, but subconsciously pointed to Fang Jie's eyes.

With this question, Mu Xiaoyi and Big Dog also found a change in the solution.

Fang Xie was stunned for a moment, his tense nerves relaxed slightly, and the crimson brilliance in his eyes gradually faded, returning to his original black and white.

"What's wrong?"

He asked.

At this time, he found out that Xiang Qingniu was almost suffocated in his hands.

He slowly let go of his hand and took a step back, and for a moment, he felt as if he had been drained of strength. I don't know if it's because of the relaxation after extreme tension that causes this feeling, or if it's something else. He was so tired that he wanted to lie down, his legs were so weak that he could barely support his body.

But instead of falling, he poked the ground with a horizontal knife as a crutch.

"Tell me where those people came from."

When he asked this, the procession of carriages with red sleeves in front of him also stopped far away. A moment later, the old lame man with a big wine gourd tied to his waist came to their side. The old cripple glanced at the dead bodies lying all over the ground, and his expression gradually became solemn.

"If ......"

Xiang Qingniu swallowed hard, his expression was a little painful: "If there is no problem with my memory, it seems that there is only one kind of person in this world who can almost completely hide his body between heaven and earth. Although their cultivation may be very low, it is difficult for even the most extreme masters to discover their existence. So...... They have created many myths of killing cultivators as ordinary people. ”

"But...... That's impossible. ”

"Why can't it be?!"

Fang Xie gasped heavily, feeling like his mind was a mess.

His mind was full of questions now, but he had neglected one thing that he should have paid attention to. He jumped off his horse, rolled on his knees, and instead of dodging, he rushed into the midst of the Assassins, was it a knee-jerk reaction, or did he realize that the Assassins were not strong at the same time as he was assassinated? If it's the latter, how much sober judgment is required?

But now, where does he seem to be a calm person?

Xiang Qingniu shook his head, but still didn't say the answer. The old lame man squatted down to inspect a corpse and sighed, then turned his head to look at Fang Jie: "If this little Taoist priest's guess is right, then I should really wonder where you came from." Because these people will never attack ordinary people. Their goals are often very targeted, and they never interfere in irrelevant matters. These people are the assassins who kill the assassins, the scouts who kill the scouts......"

Big Dog and Mu Xiaowaist glanced at each other, and they both saw a strong worry in each other's eyes.

The old cripple didn't say anything more, just glanced at Fang Xie meaningfully and left. Xiang Qingniu also stopped talking, even if Fang Xie asked and refused to continue. But when Fang Xie felt it, Xiang Qingniu and the old lame man's eyes changed when they looked at him, and they became a little strange, and there was even a trace of hostility hidden in the strangeness.

This made him annoyed, even angry.

Obviously, Xiang Qingniu and the old cripple had guessed the identities of these people, but there was no hostility in their tones towards these assassins, and even a little respect. It is precisely because of this vague respect that Fang Xie even delusions that he is the one who deserves to die.

And those assassins, they are all heroes.

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The carriage continued on its way, still seemingly gently, but there was no doubt that a thick cloud hung over everyone's hearts. I don't know if Lu Dao was afraid of Fang Jie's terrifying eyes, or for other reasons, Xiang Qingniu, a guy who was too lazy to take a step, actually gave up taking the car, but climbed a war horse with difficulty and walked side by side with Cui Liushang. He seems to have deliberately distanced himself from Fang Jie, either vigilant or hostile.

It feels bad.

The five-person trip that had just begun, and in an instant, only the big dog and Mu Xiaowaist were left around.

Cui Luoshang was frightened and hit, and his expression was still a little trance, and he rode a horse and followed the carriage forward, giving people the feeling that he seemed to be sleepwalking. And Xiang Qingniu, a white and chubby little Taoist, peeked at Fang Xie sitting in the carriage from time to time.

He wanted to speak a few times and stopped, but Fang Xie also saw it.

"Fang Xie ......"

The big dog shook his horsewhip, as if to vent the depression in his heart: "Why don't we go to the imperial capital of the Great Sui?" I always felt that this road would not be peaceful. ”

"Are you afraid?"

Fang asked.

"Sort of, indeed."

The big dog nodded, leaned on the carriage and looked at the red-sleeved convoy in front of him, which had stretched the distance to a full three hundred meters. It seems that the people over there also deliberately kept a longer distance, as if they didn't want to be involved with the carriage here.

"Those assassins just now, there are no masters......"

The big dog sighed.

Fang Xie snorted: "I know that I killed five people in a row, and these people's skills are worse than those of the veterans of a hundred battles, and the one-on-one fight is definitely not the opponent of those soldiers of the Right Xiaowei Jingbu Battalion we encountered." Their reactions were top-notch, but their skills simply couldn't keep up with them. So they actually had only one way to kill me, and that was the first blow...... Dozens of single crossbow shots failed to kill me, and they had already failed. The means are so simple, and the cultivation is so low...... But if one is not careful, they will be killed, such an assassin...... It's scary. ”

"It's scary, indeed."

The big dog thought back to the fight just now, knocked on the carriage and asked Mu Xiaowaist inside: "Did you think of something?" ”

didn't sleep, didn't lie down, but sat cross-legged in the carriage, Mu Xiaoxiao, who put down the wine bag and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

"The reason why they have a low cultivation is because if they want to fully integrate into nature, the higher their cultivation is, the more difficult it is for them to do it, because the higher their cultivation, the more special they will be, and the more powerful they will be, and they will not be able to be covered by nature. And their reaction is first-class, which is the result of long-term training, but the training of them is naturally not how to cultivate, but how to kill with one hit. This training must have been brutal...... Just one little is not something that can be done easily. ”

"What?"

Fang asked.

"Hide your emotions and don't vent even the slightest trace of human emotions. At the time of the ambush, they were part of nature, a grass, a stone, a handful of sand, but by no means people. At this time, they don't have the slightest human breath, they don't have any emotion. ”

The big dog nodded: "So before they made it, there was no murderous aura at all." ”

Fang Xie was stunned, and quickly integrated the inferences of Mu Xiaoxiao and Big Dog in his mind, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that these ordinary people were terrifying to the extreme. If it weren't for a little luck, if it weren't for the fact that he had experienced too many ambushes in the past fifteen years, he would have died today.

A group of ordinary people, but they can suppress all the emotions of being a person. Not excited, not excited, not apprehensive, they weren't even alone until they did it.

"It's not the pursuers we met all these years."

The big dog said seriously: "If there is such a group of assassins in the people who chased us before, I am afraid that ...... We're all dead. They are close to nature, blending in with nature, and you won't look at them more when they sit next to you in the restaurant. You won't even notice when they pass you. Compared to those who have advanced cultivation, assassins like them are really unguardable. Because you don't know where and when they will strike you the fatal blow. ”

"So ......"

He looked at Fang Xie and persuaded, "Are we not going to Chang'an, the imperial capital?" ”

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"Gotta go!"

After being silent for a while, Fang Xie gave a categorical answer.

He stroked the horizontal knife in his hand, and his voice gradually calmed down: "No matter how terrible these people are, there is a weakness that can be determined......"

"What?"

"They don't dare to kill me in the imperial capital!"

Fang Xie said in a cold voice: "Although I don't know who they are, and I don't know why they want to kill me, what I can be sure of is that the purpose of their appearance at this time is to prevent me from going to the imperial capital. Maybe after I arrive in the imperial capital, it will bring a great threat to the mastermind behind them. And after arriving in the imperial capital, this person felt that it was difficult to have another chance to kill me. ”

His thoughts gradually became clearer, and after thinking about it, he continued: "After arriving in the imperial capital, I will take the exam of the Martial Arts Academy. If I can't get into the martial arts academy, I have to go back to the military department to report, and then I will either be transferred back to Fan Gu or transferred to another part of the army. As long as I leave the imperial capital, they still have a chance to kill me, and as long as I leave, the threat to them is gone...... So what they are afraid of is that I will be admitted to the Martial Arts Academy, and what they are afraid of is that they will not be able to do it after I enter the Martial Arts Academy, and they will ...... They seemed to be sure that I could be admitted to the Martial Arts Academy, so they were in a hurry to kill me. Thus...... These people are from Chang'an. ”

"Why are they sure that I can get close to the Martial Arts Academy? Did they get some news? ”

"Are they afraid that what will I do when I arrive at the Martial Arts Academy?"

"These assassins are skillful and well-organized, and they are by no means people from the rivers and lakes."

"Whose interests am I touching? Who am I threatening? ”

He asked a lot of questions.

"Li Xiaozong?"

The big dog hesitated and replied.

"Li Xiaozong doesn't have this ability."

Fang Xie shook his head: "It won't be Li Yuanshan, the general of the Right Xiaowei, if it were him, then the first time he sent someone to kill me, he wouldn't have dispatched the Jingbu Battalion." ”

doubt

Too many doubts.

And at this time, Li Xiaozong's general's mansion in Fangu City. Li Yuanshan, who was still in civilian clothes, looked at the map hanging on the wall, pointed to the location of Wolf Milk Mountain, and smiled at Li Xiaozong: "Here, it may not take long to become a battlefield, and the military might of the Great Sui will be displayed over there." So you have to be more prepared, and it will be a great opportunity for you to make the cut. After this war is over, I am afraid that there will be decades of peace. Soldier...... After all, it can only shine dazzling brilliance on the battlefield. ”

"Your Majesty has decided?"

Li Xiaozong was taken aback.

Li Yuanshan shook his head: "This is the news brought to me by the people in the capital through secret channels, Your Majesty may use my right guard to fight this battle." He was also kind enough to remind me to get ready. ”

"Will there be any impact on Fang Jie's matter?"

Li Xiaozong couldn't help but ask.

Li Yuanshan smiled and said with relief: "This matter is no longer something we should worry about, you also know that the excerpt of Fan Gu's great victory has been handed over to His Majesty, and His Majesty has also made instructions." Wu was killed in battle, and the thirty-six officials from the capital were all killed in battle. So...... This matter has nothing to do with us, if Your Majesty suspects...... Who was the first to be unlucky? ”

"It's the military department!"

Li Xiaozong nodded.

"It's not just the military department."

Li Yuanshan smiled and said: "There are also the eyes and ears of His Majesty, those are the people who are the most unwilling to know the truth by His Majesty." They also took my silver ticket, and also helped me lie and fake, and once His Majesty knew the way and was angry and punished, they were the first to bear the brunt. Rest assured...... Those people attacked, how could a small border army scout not die? ”