Chapter 4: The Snitch Returns
"What's wrong, what's wrong, have you caught it?" asked eagerly from behind.
"I can't see it!" replied one man, standing at the doorway, but the fight was no longer visible from the doorway, all he saw was a clearing.
There was a new situation in the fight, and this scream made the hearts of the outside hang, and they were eager to know what the result was, but they were isolated by the high courtyard walls and prohibitions, so they could only do it in a hurry.
"Look, there!" someone shouted, pointing to the courtyard wall.
Everyone hurriedly looked up, only to see a black shadow breaking through the prohibition of the courtyard, holding a silver knife in his hand, shining in the sun, going up the courtyard wall, with two feet on the ground, escaping along the courtyard wall on the left, the speed was amazing.
"Stop!"
At this time, an old man jumped from the courtyard to the courtyard wall, his white robe moved with the wind, and the soles of his feet stood firmly on the courtyard wall, the long stick in his hand was behind him, and he did not stop here, chasing the snitch who had not yet run far.
Immediately afterwards, several more people jumped out of the place where the old man had just stayed, all of them were the stationed disciples of the Lingyun Academy, following the old man to chase down the snitch.
"Is that Elder Su?" someone looked up at the two people who were running away, and asked uncertainly with their mouths open.
"That's right, it's Elder Su!" followed by the official disciples stationed in the Lingyun Academy. The other person was also a little surprised, but still replied, "Elder Su has not come to our town very often, I have been fortunate enough to meet it a few times, and it is definitely Elder Su!"
"I'll go! The scream just now, I thought the snitch was caught, but I didn't expect that Elder Su was present, and let the snitch hurt people, and now it's running, this snitch is so powerful!"
"Who's to say it's not? You say he has the strength, why do you bother to be a thief?"
"I heard a long time ago that Elder Su is coming today, and as soon as he comes, he will bump into the snitch, do you say that the snitch did it on purpose?"
"The people stationed in our town are all disciples of the Lingyun Sect, and the snitch can do whatever he wants in the town, but now that Elder Su is here, he still can't stop him, Elder Su's strength is one of the best in the Lingyun Sect, and there is no way to take him with such strength, so do you want the head of the Lingyun Sect to take action personally?"
"It's good that he doesn't kill people, and he doesn't rob us civilians. ”
The people watching the excitement kept talking, and at the same time they were glad that the snitch was just stealing the cheats of the big family.
At this time, the prohibition in the courtyard has been broken by the man in black, and a group of junior disciples who have not officially joined the Lingyun Sect ran out of the courtyard, they are not cultivated enough, and they can be said to have no power to fight back against the Snitch, at this time, the Snitch and the people of the Lingyun Sect are gone, and they all come out to take a look when they hear the noise outside.
As soon as they went out, they found that the door was blocked, and the junior disciples were stunned, what was the situation?
Before the fight, they were all in the house listening to the senior brother explain a secret book, and when the snitch appeared, they were protected in the house by the senior brother of the sect, and they didn't know that there was a group of people watching the excitement at the door.
This group of junior disciples were all children from the town, between the ages of ten and thirteen, and there were many parents of these children among the people who watched the excitement, and some of them had already seen their own children, so they shouted loudly, and at the same time squeezed towards their own children.
Chen Mu was squeezed into the crowd, too short to see, and he didn't know where Huo Qingyan was.
Parents looking for children, children looking for parents, and there are no formal disciples here to maintain, the scene is very chaotic, Chen Mu is like duckweed, being squeezed around, almost even the knife in his hand has fallen, fortunately, the knife is wrapped in paper, and a very thick layer of paper is used at the edge of the knife, otherwise it is such a scene, you have to cut a few people.
"The thief is back again!" shouted in the distance, and the chaotic scene suddenly stopped, and everyone looked in the direction where the snitch had begun to flee.
I saw a black shadow in the distance slowly getting bigger, and after staying at a certain distance, I finally saw the person's outfit clearly, dressed in black from head to toe, with a black mask on his face, wasn't it the snitch who ran away?
"What is he doing here?" everyone wondered, confused.
"Oh no! He's coming at us, run!" someone noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled his own child and ran.
Elder Su doesn't have much to do with the snitch, who here can withstand it?
After this reminder, the stunned people also began to move, and the crowd rioted again.
Look at the excitement can satisfy everyone's curiosity, now it's going to be with the snitch, then no one wants to watch it, after all, the cultivators who see the excitement here are all half-levels, and those who have the ability have entered the Lingyun Sect.
People began to flee in all directions, for fear that if they ran slowly, they would be given a little by the snitch, and then they would lose their skin even if they didn't die.
Elder Su urged his mana with all his strength behind him, and his long white beard fluttered on his cheeks, hurrying towards this side.
Just now the snitch went to the outside of the town and was stopped by the children outside the town, Elder Su finally led people to catch up with the snitch, and in a scuffle, he let the snitch run away again, and I don't know if the snitch was panicked or premeditated, so he turned around and ran towards the town again.
After sparing a circle, the people who ran out ran back again, and the people who watched the excitement were stunned.
"Catch him!" Elder Su shouted, but after thinking about it, there were some lively townspeople in front of him, what ability could he do to stop the snitch? He was a little out of shape by the snitch, and the elder of the Lingyun Sect couldn't even hold a little snitch, and he felt that his face was dull.
And through the fight, it was found that the age of this snitch is not very old, it should be the same as the junior disciple of Lingyun Academy, he is a person who has been cultivating for almost a hundred years, and he can't even take a teenage little thief, and it can't help but make people laugh when it is passed out, but unfortunately there is a large group of people watching the excitement in front.
The relationship between the Lingyun faction and Qingmo Town can be said to be inseparable, almost all the people in the Lingyun faction are from Qingmo Town, for example, the head of the family is from the Liu family in the town, and Elder Su is a member of the Su family in the east of the town.
Elder Su, as an elder of the Lingyun Sect, was sent to deal with the Snitch this time, and now the Snitch has not been dealt with, and it will hurt the people who are watching the excitement in front of him, if there is anything to do with the high-level of the Lingyun Sect among the injured people, then it will not be good for him to go back, so he hurriedly changed his words: "Get out of the way, be careful of the Snitch hurting people!"
In fact, before Elder Su reminded them, people had already begun to flee in all directions, but there were too many people, and the direction of running was different, resulting in a very chaotic scene.
Chen Mu's thin body was no match for adults at all, he was caught in the crowd and almost fell, he desperately held the knife in his hand, if he hadn't come over to confirm Huo Qingyan's safety, he wouldn't have accepted this crime.
After all, the Snitch rushed in before the crowd dispersed, and the fleeing crowd couldn't avoid it at all, because the Snitch was too fast.
The snitch flashed left and right in the crowd, making it difficult for the pursuing Elder Su and the others to lock on to the target, and they also rushed in, but they were blocked by many people who fled in a hurry, and they lost their target after a while.
Chen Mu held the kitchen knife tightly in front of his chest with both hands, allowing others to collide.
"Whoosh!" Suddenly, Chen Mu noticed that something was swishing past him, and there was a faint fragrance in the air.
The knife in his hand seemed to have scratched something, almost broke free of his hands and flew out, he was staggered a few steps by the strong impact, fortunately there were more people, and he didn't fall down after a few hits, he hurriedly dragged the kitchen knife to death, if it fell, so many people, maybe he couldn't find it at once.
When he stabilized his body and held the knife tightly, he found that there was something in his chest, and he couldn't look down at it when there were too many people.
The fleeing snitch noticed a lightness on his waist, reached out and touched it, and found that the thing on his waist was missing, he quickly turned his head to look for it, and his eyes instantly locked on a weak young man, his whole body was covered in black, and a pair of bright black eyes exposed blinked, secretly noting the young man's face.
No one noticed the snitch's movements, first, the people who watched the excitement themselves were not highly cultivated, and they couldn't see the snitch's high-speed movements clearly, and second, the people who watched the excitement hadn't noticed that the snitch had passed by him, just like Chen Mu, he only felt that something had swished past.
Elder Su and the others from the Lingyun Sect finally let the snitch run away, and they didn't even know which direction the snitch ran from, there were too many people, and it was difficult to tell the difference.
Unable to catch the snitch, the disciples of the Lingyun Sect began to maintain order on the scene, and the junior disciples continued to stay in the Lingyun Academy to practice, and the people who watched the excitement slowly dispersed.