The night is deep, and the man is weary.

The doors and windows of the inn were closed, and there was no light source in the room except for an oil lamp on the table in the lobby and an oil lamp in the kitchen. The whole inn was quiet, both the guests and the clerks all lay down to rest, except for a few people.

Today, Tu Zi didn't know what kind of nerve he had, so he deliberately left Zhao Zheng in the kitchen, and found a lot of work for Zhao Zheng to do, not letting Zhao Zheng rest.

Zhao Zheng thought at first that he had offended the butcher, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't think of where he offended the butcher, and the butcher was refreshing, not the kind of person who cares, leaving him to work here tonight, I am afraid that there is something else hidden.

Zhao Zheng vigorously opened his eyelids that were fighting up and down, driving away his sleepiness, and silently wiped the kitchen stove. When the stove was cleaned and shiny, he rinsed the greasy rag with water, wrung it out and hung it on the wall.

"Brother Ren, if there's nothing to do, I'll go back to sleep." Zhao Zheng asked with a yawn, his words were actually testing the purpose of the human slaughter.

"Stay here and don't leave, I'll have a 'job' for you to do later." The human butcher sat on the chair with a calm face, and there was a hidden worry on his face.

"What job?" Zhao Zhengjian raised his eyebrows, sensing that something was wrong.

"Black work." The human butcher raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Zheng.

When Zhao Zheng heard this, his heart sank: "When the butcher said this, did he want to show me a showdown about this store?" Well, it must be so, they must have set their sights on the black-clothed guest, planning to do it tonight, and then let me know what they are doing in the dark by the way, and pull me in. But that black-clothed guest has good martial arts, can he deal with them with a few of them? Alas, hopefully something will not go wrong with them. When he thought of this, he pretended to be stupid and said, "What kind of work is black work?" ”

"Black work refers to work that cannot be seen, and can only be done behind the scenes." The human butcher explained ambiguously.

"Can't you do this now? I'm a little sleepy. ”

"We can't do it now, because the 'goods' haven't been delivered yet." The human butcher swept his leopard eyes, and glanced at the gap in the wall, intentionally or unintentionally, and behind it was the secret room of the kitchen.

"In that case, then I'll wait with you for a while." Zhao Zheng remained silent, went outside the house to find a chair and came back, and sat down face to face with the human butcher. He was a little uneasy in his heart, and the human butcher kept saying that there was a black job handed over to him, so didn't he let him kill people later? If that's the case, it's a bit difficult, although he knows that this inn only kills the wicked, but as long as it kills, it's not an easy thing to do. In fact, Mo said that it was murder, he had never even killed chickens before, so the pressure was extraordinarily high.

The human butcher is worried about Shen Luoxia's safety, Zhao Zheng is worried that it will be difficult to do black work, and the two of them have their own concerns, but they are unwilling to gossip and keep their mouths shut.

The kitchen fell silent, except for the sound of the wind swishing through the cracks in the windows.

The oil lamp on the table emitted a dim glow, illuminating the faces of the two men, as well as the knife on the cutting board.

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The moon is dark, the wind is high, and the night of murder.

Shen Luoxia sat cross-legged on the bed with her eyes closed, motionless up and down, as if a nun was in a state of flux. To her right hand is a sheathed dagger.

She was dressed very differently tonight, wearing a set of black sè short brown, her whole body was tight and neat, the hem was very short, the lower half of her body was a pair of trousers, and she didn't wear shoes on her feet, revealing a pair of smooth jade feet. Her hair was coiled up several times and tied up with a black sè headband, so that she didn't have to worry about it falling apart, even during strenuous exercise.

This kind of dress is suitable for killing people at night, and the black sè clothes can hide the figure, and the neat dress is convenient for hands-on moves.

Killing is a depressing thing, and even more so killing a master.

Since the opening of the store, Shen Luoxia has encountered such a dangerous opponent for the first time, although she has ordered someone to poison the Wang Jiu in the wine and food, which has greatly reduced Wang Jiu's external cultivation, but she is still very nervous, and her heartbeat is always very fast.

Shen Luoxia spent most of the night finally adjusting her mood to the best state and was ready to move.

It is midnight, the time when man sleeps heaviestly, and if he is lucky, he may be able to take his life while he is asleep.

Shen Luoxia slowly opened her eyes, and in this darkness, her eyes emitted an extremely faint white light. She grabbed the short sword beside her and pulled it out of its sheath, with a faint chill on it. She stood up with her sword in hand, leaped forward, raised her hand to grab the beam, and rolled over and landed on the beam. The beams were not thin enough for people to walk on, but the gap between them and the roof was so narrow that they could only be squatted forward.

Shen Luoxia's feet were bare, and there was no sound at all when she stepped on the beam, she slowly moved forward, and walked to the end of the beam, opposite was a blocked wooden plank, she reached out and grabbed the plank and pulled it away. This is also a deliberate move at the beginning of the construction of the inn, in order to facilitate Shen Luoxia to sneak into the guest's room, if it is through the door and window, it will undoubtedly increase the risk.

The planks were smeared with oil, and the sound of pulling them apart was negligible. When the planks are opened, the two rooms are connected, and you only need to climb along the beams to reach the Tianzi room.

Shen Luoxia looked down through the mouth, and Wang Jiu's snoring sounded in the dark, and the frequency of the other party's snoring did not change in the slightest, and it seemed that he was not alarmed. After a long time, I am afraid that there will be changes, and if you want to start, you have to be neat. She lifted her left foot, reached through the opening, stepped on the beam of the next room, and poked her hand over her head.

This passage is not big, and only slender people can wear it, if it is the tall figure of a human butcher, it will not be able to pass.

Shen Luoxia reached the beam of the next room, put the short sword behind her back, jumped off the beam, and before she landed, her hand grabbed the beam, causing her body to hang in the air. After she stopped, she let go of her hand and really landed on the ground. The supple soles of her feet stomped on the ground, making a louder sound than pulling the planks apart.

"Bump."

The sound is not loud in normal times, but in this night, it is as clear as a drum beat.

Shen Luoxia held her breath and watched Wang Jiu's movements carefully, the room was dark, she could only vaguely see Wang Jiu's outline, only to see Wang Jiu lying on the bed, motionless, obviously not alarmed. Seeing this, Shen Luoxia was overjoyed, if she could start in Wang Jiu's sleep, it would be the best, and many dangers could be avoided. She walked forward with a light step, and the soles of her feet landed on the ground without even a sound, like a night cat exploring its path.

Just as Shen Luoxia approached the head of the bed a meter away, her foot and neck touched a thin thread attached to the leg of the chair at the foot of the bed, which was hidden in the darkness and difficult to see at all. The thin thread was impacted, pulling the two bells hanging at both ends, and only the sound of tinkling was heard, which was particularly harsh in the night.

"Not good!" Shen Luoxia's face was lost, and the hairs on her body stood up, she didn't expect this Wang Jiu to be so careful that she would lay this kind of trap in the house before going to bed. Although she had observed Wang Jiu through Xiao Kong before, she had only secretly looked at it a few times a day, and each time the time was very short, and she had not seen Wang Jiu arrange these things in the house, otherwise, how could she not take precautions.

In the book, Wang Jiu was carried by several murders and was wanted by the local government, and he had developed the habit of acting carefully, whenever he slept outside, he would put up a few thin lines around him, and once someone approached him while he was sleeping, he would touch the bells on these thin lines and cause them to ring.

When Shen Luoxia heard the bell, she thought that this was some kind of dangerous trap, so she hurriedly turned over and jumped to the back, turned her body sideways to reduce the area, put the short sword on her chest, and scanned her eyes back and forth to observe the situation in the house. But apart from the ringing of the bell, there was no other movement in the room.

The bell alarmed the sleeping Wang Jiu, Wang Jiu opened his eyes sharply, shook his head and glanced at the black shadow in his room, he didn't have to guess to know that the other party had bad intentions, and his heart suddenly surged with endless killing intent, and his probe grabbed it in the bed, took out the dart bag on his body, and threw it in the direction of Shen Luoxia.

The dart sac was just a thin layer of cloth, and with such a hard throw, the dozen or so darts inside immediately pierced the dart sac, scattering like a sky full of stars.

Wang Jiu is nicknamed the poisonous bird over the mountain, and his ability to do light work and poison is very powerful, and more than 100 darts on his body are all poisoned, as long as he is in the middle and upper level, his life is in danger.

Shen Luoxia knew that Wang Jiu's poisonous darts were powerful, and she didn't dare to underestimate them, so she immediately turned over backwards to dodge, and used the kung fu of the iron plate bridge, leaning back to ninety degrees, she only felt the cold wind blowing on her face, and several poisonous darts flew in front of her, and "Dududu" was nailed to the wall.

Wang Jiu seized the opportunity for Shen Luoxia to turn over and dodge, pressed his hand on the bed board, and was about to get up. He was now lying down, which was a great disadvantage in battle.

Shen Luoxia didn't give Wang Jiu a chance to get up, after she dodged the poison dart, the willow waist was forced, and the body bones that leaned back straightened up again. With a flick of her wrist, she aimed the tip of her short sword forward, and with a stomp of her jade foot, her slender body flew forward. She is a woman, and her strength in competition is naturally not as good as that of men, but her light skills are excellent, and she rushed to Wang Jiu's side almost in the blink of an eye, stabbed her with a sword, and went straight to Wang Jiu's face.

Wang Jiu was secretly frightened, didn't dare to get up anymore, freed his hands to deal with Shen Luoxia, pressed his left hand on the arm of his right hand, touched the organ tension spring hidden in his sleeve, and heard a rattling sound, and a sharp edge burst out from his sleeve, which turned out to be a murderous sleeve arrow!

The Hidden Arrow is a kind of hidden weapon of the mechanism, which is usually tied to the arm, and the Sleeve Arrow inside can be shè out by pressing the tension spring, and the force of this mechanism is extremely strong enough to penetrate the human body. All the darts on Wang Jiu's body were poisoned, but only the sleeve arrows were not poisoned, because once this kind of hidden weapon hit a person's body, it was enough to be fatal, and there was no need to apply poison again.