Chapter 62. Beholder
The next day was the day to return to Beijing, because I had to return to Shengjing before Chinese New Year's Eve, so the schedule was very tight.
When I came, I rode in the same carriage with Yue Luanyi, but because of what happened yesterday, she got into the carriage alone without looking at me. I stood next to the car with some hesitation.
"What's the matter, beauty, did you upset the princess?" Xiao Jifeng's words were full of schadenfreude.
I ignored him, thinking that I still had to explain it clearly to Yue Luanyi, after all, Ling Niankong and I really didn't have anything.
As soon as he stepped into the carriage, but before he could enter the carriage, he heard a commotion all around. One of them suddenly shouted, "There are assassins!" Protect the master! ”
Assassin!?
Before I could react, I saw black-clad masked men descending from the sky, and there were dozens of them, and in an instant they were entangled with the guards around the carriage.
I was shocked, watching Xiao Jifeng raise his sword to block the attack of the man in black, and I only felt my scalp tingle.
"What happened?" Yue Luanyi lifted the curtain and poked his head out. When I saw the scene outside the car, my face suddenly disappeared.
I only heard a few whoosh sounds, and a few feathered arrows pierced the wall of the carriage I was in. Yue Luanyi exclaimed in surprise and subconsciously got out of the carriage.
She was so frightened that she forgot about her estrangement from me, and her hands clutched the corners of my clothes, trembling.
I kept her behind me. "Don't be afraid."
At this moment, an arrow suddenly flew out of nowhere and shot straight into the horse's hips. The horse neighed and galloped forward like mad.
This change was too sudden, Yue Luanyi was caught off guard, and when the carriage suddenly started, he was unstable and rolled off the carriage.
"Luan Yi!" I exclaimed.
If you fall straight like this, you may get hurt.
But I can't do that much. The horse was frightened, and ran toward the mountain. The mountain road was bumpy, I lowered my center of gravity as much as possible, crouched on the wooden board in front of the carriage, clutched the edge of the wooden plank, and tried desperately to calm myself down:
You have to let Ma An divide it, otherwise something will happen sooner or later if you rush forward so desperately.
But the carriage was so jolting that I was the only one in the carriage, and it was impossible to stop the carriage. It is not advisable to jump out of the car, you must know that this is a mountain road, if I blindly jump out of the car, I may roll off the cliff, the consequences are unimaginable.
What to do!? I looked up and saw the horses rubbing against a tree that three people could hug together.
The alarm bell rang in my head: the carriage was much wider than the horse, and now the carriage would crash into the tree!
Seeing the trees coming at me, I closed my eyes uncontrollably. However, to my surprise, I suddenly felt light, as if I had been lifted out of a carriage.
I just wanted to open my eyes to see, but the world was spinning. I was tightly guarded by the man, and I felt that my eyes were shining with stars.
In the process of rolling down the hillside, there was always a hard object that I didn't know whether it was a branch or a blade of grass piercing the flesh, and it hurt so much that tears flowed out of my eyes.
However, as it rolls off, more and more foreign objects pierce the flesh, and each time they tumble, they pierce a little deeper.
God, if I keep going like this, will I become a hedgehog!? However, because he was protected, the injuries were basically on his back, and the wounds were not too deep.
The slope finally eased. The man didn't know what he was grabbing, and we finally stopped.
I endured the sharp pain in my back and got up, and just wanted to say thanks, but my heart fell straight to the bottom after seeing the man's outfit.
The person in front of him was dressed in black, and his face was covered with a cloth scarf.
He...... He's one of those Assassins!
Fear took over my brain and prevented me from thinking. I tried to get up and run away, but I found that my legs didn't have any strength at all, so I had to sit on the ground and move backwards.
When the man in black saw me like this, he hurried to me and squatted down in front of me. "Don't be afraid, the girl is here to take the girl away." His voice was very young, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and there was no malice in his eyes.
"Take me away?" I was a little confused about the situation, but I was still very vigilant, and I stepped back before saying, "Who are you, and why are you taking me away?" Suddenly, he thought of the assassination at the foot of the mountain, and asked, "Why do you want to assassinate?" ”
"I took the girl back on the orders of the master, and the girl went back with me, and when I saw the master, I would naturally know the answers to these questions."
I continued to retreat. "Who is your master? Why are you taking me away? Where to go? ”
He must have seen that if I didn't get an answer, I wouldn't go with him, so he said helplessly: "Today's incident was planned by the master, but the master didn't want to assassinate, but just wanted to create chaos and take the opportunity to save the girl." ”
I was stunned. The so-called master in his mouth engaged in such a big battle and took such a big risk, just to take me away? So who is behind this scene? What he wants to take away should be Leng Qingqian? After all, I've just entered the limelight, and no one will be eyeing me.
Remembering the assassinations I had encountered several times before...... Those people only wanted my life all along, and they should not be in the same group as the person in front of them.
I was still thinking about it, but masked people fell from the sky all around, and about a dozen people surrounded the two of us.
The dozen or so people who came later were all dressed in dark purple suits, each holding a scimitar.
A stir in my head struck me: these people were dressed exactly like the assassin who had infiltrated Lingfu and assassinated me before! …… These are the same people who tried to kill me three times or twice before!
Seeing this, the man in black pulled me up from the ground and protected me behind me, his muscles tense and ready to attack.
One of the purple-clothed men suddenly sneered: "The leader expected that it was really good, there is really another group of people who are secretly protecting." But your master is too careless, thinking that you alone can save her life?! ”
"Naturally, I don't live alone." As soon as the words fell, a man in black jumped into the air on each side, and the iron swords came out of his body in unison, confronting the purple-clothed killers on the periphery, and surrounded me in the middle.
"Kill!" A purple-clothed killer shouted violently, and the other killers besieged it together.
The sound of swords clashing made my head buzz.
The five black-clad men were fighting with their backs to me.
Although I don't know martial arts, I can see that the people in purple have superb martial arts, and they are full of killing moves. However, the martial arts of the man in black are not bad at all, and they can defuse the enemy's attacks one by one. But they must be outnumbered, and although the man in black can defuse the deadly attack, he is powerless to fight back, and gradually falls behind. In the long run, not only will they not be able to protect me, but I am afraid that even they themselves will not be able to escape death.
The men in black knew it well, and one of them suddenly grabbed my wrist. "You run towards the mountain, and the master will meet you on the mountain."
As soon as the words fell, he struck hard, splitting the dense net-like knife light of the purple-clothed man, and pushed my vest. "Run!"
I knew that it was not advisable to stay in this place for a long time, so I ran up the hill without looking back, as he had said.
I don't know how long I ran, let alone how far I ran, my legs and feet were already unconscious from extreme exhaustion, but I still didn't dare to stop. I don't know if the men in black will be able to stop the killers, and I don't know if they'll be okay, but all I can do now is escape.
The weather was extremely cold, and the sweat from running turned into ice in an instant, and the heavy clothes on my body became like an ice shell hanging on my body. The wound on his back is also aching.
Finally my strength was a little exhausted, and I was unsteady on my feet, tripped over something, and fell hard.
As soon as he got up, he fell back to the ground again because of his weak feet. I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to stand up again, but I noticed a pair of black boots in front of me, and I suddenly chuckled in my heart and hurriedly looked up.
I saw that the person standing in front of me was also a purple-clothed killer, but his outfit was different from the group of killers under the mountain. His face scarf and shoulders were embroidered with cobwebs, and it looked like he was the leader of the purple-clad killers.
He crouched down, fingers hooking my chin. The tails of his eyes slowly raised, clearly smiling. "How did you get caught by me so quickly? It's a pity that my men haven't found you yet, so I'll give you another chance. ”
He pinched my chin and turned my head to the left. "See that road? Run! If you escape fast enough, you may be able to live a little longer. ”
He spoke very slowly, but with an eerie chill, like a beast that was in a hurry to catch its prey, but was not in a hurry to get rid of the killer, and only wanted to play the prey to death.
He let go of me. "Run! Don't let me down. ”
I looked at the path he had pointed me out, gritted my teeth and ran up the hill. Who knows what awaits me on the road on the left!?
Behind him came the sigh of the killer leader. "Well, why are you so disobedient?"
After running up the hill for a short time, he lost his strength again. Sure enough, I had to go all out, and I only stayed for a short time, and the breath that I had been holding on before was drained clean, and I just wanted to stop and rest.
But I still forced myself to run, even though I wasn't much faster than I could go.
Suddenly, three killers stood in front of me. I was so shocked that I turned around and ran back. But after a few steps, five killers appeared in front of him. My heart suddenly felt cold, and the people in black who protected me should not ......
I covered my mouth and forced myself to whimper. How can I repay those people who are not related to me, but who sacrificed their lives to save them!?
Suddenly smiled desperately, there should be no way to repay it, right? Looks like I'm going to die today.
I straightened up, straightened my hair, and held my head high.
A killer snorted. "Why didn't you run away?" As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his scimitar and was about to slash at me.
Suddenly, I heard a lazy voice with a slight mockery: "This is going to be done?" ……”
Hearing this voice, I was shocked, and a cyan figure suddenly appeared in front of me.
"It depends on whether I say yes or not!"