Chapter 14: There is not much time left
Look at the hands that have been scratched by stones on the ground. Zhi Ning had made up his mind at this time, and he didn't hesitate anymore. With his left hand, he supported the body that had just fallen to the ground, and with his right hand, he held the bamboo sword that had just been half-inserted in the soil and slowly raised his head and stood up.
Li Yunlan, I have always been on this island and I only want to live, even if you have revealed your murderous intentions to me, but I still endure you many times, how can you not be reluctant to me. At this moment, I am probably no match for you, but if I fight with my life, I would like to see how many of your sisters can live and die with you today. Come on.
With the will to die in his heart, Zhi Ning's face was full of timidity at this moment, his right hand lifted the bamboo sword from the soil, and with a flick of his wrist, he put the sword horizontally in front of him, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at Li Yunlan.
"Yo, I can't see that you still has some backbone, Yin Yuan Siqin, you stand aside and watch the battle, I will make her kneel and beg for mercy within ten moves." Li Yunlan stood in the distance with her hands fluttering, looking at Zhi Ning, who was tense with contempt.
The scene of Zhi Ning standing in place and Shen Shiyi making a move turned sharply in his mind, but he never remembered how the two of them made a move.
Here, Li Yunlan saw that Ning was still in place, and thought that she wanted to delay time, so she sighed: "Make a move,." Holding a sword flower in her right hand, she kicked hard with her feet to make a flying bird throw into the forest and pounced in the direction of Zhining, this move was a move she tried many times.
Seeing that Li Yunlan had arrived in front of him, Zhi Ning immediately raised his hand and raised his sword to meet the enemy, and here Li Yunlan's sword blade was erected and stabbed straight towards Zhi Ning with the momentum that came from the leap, looking at the fierce momentum, if there was an iron sword in his hand, he would definitely pierce Zhi Ning. Seeing that Li Yunlan was fierce, Zhi Ning didn't dare to take the sword hard, and when the timing was approaching, he turned sideways slightly to avoid Li Yunlan's attack, turned around and turned his wrist to stab Li Yunlan in the leg in the primary sword technique he had learned from Shen Shiyi.
Although Li Yunlan has only been a beginner for two months, she has been practicing with her brothers for several days, and her combat experience is richer than Zhi Ning's. At this moment, the two blades of the sword pressed against each other, and they were facing each other from the lower legs of the two of them to the chest, so far the distance between the two was only one or twenty centimeters, and the two of them looked at each other, and each of them swung an elbow forward with the force of their left shoulder. There was a bone thump in the air. The two of them took a step back in pain.
"Sister Yunlan, let's go up and take down this together, I'm afraid that the mountain patrol personnel will come over if we delay it for a while." Qiao'er saw that Li Yunlan didn't take down the girl with one blow, and said urgently.
"Give me three more moves, and within three moves, I will definitely take her down." Li Yunlan heard the urging of others, and her face was a little unbearable, and she said angrily.
Before others could persuade her, Li Yunlan's move in her hand started again, and a white horse meteor stabbed in the direction of Zhi Ning like a storm. But where did she think that after Zhining heard Qiao'er's words about attacking in groups, she had already made another plan in her heart.
Seeing that Li Yunlan's bamboo sword was close to her, Zhi Ning didn't dodge or dodge at this moment as if she was demented, and let Li Yunlan's sword tip poke and stab her body several times, and her clothes had been torn open by the bamboo sword several times. When Li Yunlan seemed to be surprised and paused with the sword in her hand, Zhi Ning's old technique was repeated, and her right arm bent outward slightly and clamped the bamboo sword stabbed by Li Yunlan. Rushing towards Li Yunlan, Li Yunlan didn't expect Zhi Ning to use this trick, and her body retreated by inertia, completely forgetting that the bamboo sword in her hand was still caught in Zhi Ning's arm at this moment. It was still like the day of the red bean, and when Li Yunlan pulled behind her suddenly, she immediately let go of her tightly clamped right arm. Li Yunlan suddenly fought backwards, and her head touched the ground and rolled around before she sat down again. Unlike that day, when he practiced with red beans, Zhi Ning was already in a battle for his life at the moment, and he followed closely when Li Yunlan was most relaxed. Zhi Ning secretly sighed in his heart, jumped up and slashed at Li Yunlan's face, seeing that Li Yunlan, who was still a little dazed, was about to be struck by this sword, at this time, a bamboo sword flew to the blade of Zhi Ning's sword, and only a bang was heard in the air, and the bamboo sword that had just flown was suddenly cut in two, and Zhi Ning's bamboo sword stopped not far from Li Yunlan's door at the moment.
It turned out that Qiao'er, a girl who was not far from the two of them just now, saw that Li Yunlan couldn't stop it, and hurriedly threw the bamboo sword in her hand in a panic, which blocked Zhi Ning for Li Yunlan to slash her strength. Of course, this is also because Zhi Ning did not use all his strength, otherwise that momentum could not be blocked by a light bamboo sword.
"Sister Yun, are you okay?" The shouts of the girls suddenly woke up Li Yunlan, who had just been stunned by the power of the sword. At this moment, she saw that all the girls were looking at her, and under the shame, she still remembered her seemingly generous words just now. A hysterical cry came out of her mouth: "What else are you looking at? Take her down together. ”
In the moonlight, there was a flurry of figures and dust. After a fist bang, a figure collapsed into the crowd that was gradually surrounding.
On the ground, Zhi Ning was hunched and lying on the ground with his head in his hands. The body has been covered with shoe prints. Intense fatigue and pain couldn't help but spread from her mind to all parts of her body, and all kinds of foul words that she had never heard before rang in her ears. She almost passed out.
Suddenly, a piercing pain came from her hair, and a pair of hands squeezed her hair into a ball in their palms, and then lifted her head up again. Zhi Ning struggled to squint her eyes, which had begun to swell, and a somewhat blurry shadow appeared in her eyes. I'm so dizzy, don't shake it anymore. Zhi Ningxin said.
Finally, after being slapped on the face, Zhi Ning could see that person clearly in his eyes, it was Li Yunlan. I saw Li Yunlan holding Zhining's hair in one hand, kicking her a few more times on her feet, gritting her teeth and saying to the bosom friend standing aside: "You go over there to find something sharper, I want to make this cheap maid a blind and deaf person again, and then shave her face to relieve the hatred in my heart." ”
Here, Si Qin gently brushed Li Yunlan's back with his left hand, and held the bamboo sword that Li Yunlan had just fallen to the ground with his right hand and said: "Miss dissipate your anger, and the slave will use the bamboo sword to gouge out her eyes and give you air." ”
"With my sword? You are not afraid that the blood of this will stain my sword. Bosom friend, have you found it? ”
"Come on, Miss, I'll come here." The voice of the bosom friend came from not far away in the darkness.
A dark cloud drifted in the sky at some point, briefly obscuring the moonlight.
The bosom friend trotted and handed a sharp stone to Li Yunlan, Si Qin stood behind him and sneered: "Miss, let me do this kind of work, you stand aside and don't let this dirty blood splash your clothes." ”
Li Yunlan was already angry at this time, and looked back at Si Qin and scolded with a smile: "You girl has eyes now." Well, it's up to you. ”
The clouds have lifted. Under the faint moonlight that was still half covered, a pair of hands gently stroked Zhi Ning's smooth face, and a soft voice sounded from Zhi Ning's half-unconscious ears: "Don't blame me, it's your own bad life, if you didn't go against my young lady, how could it be your turn to end up like this." As soon as he finished speaking, a hand holding a stone was raised high in the air, and it was about to fall. The other girls had stayed away.
The man in black, who had been observing the field for a long time in the woods, was waiting to leap out.
At this time, an exclamation suddenly came from the quiet air: "Eleven, there seems to be someone over there, let's go and have a look." ”
With a bang, Zhi Ning was thrown to the ground again, and this time the landing made Zhi Ning wake up a little.
The crowd that had just gathered not far away immediately scattered and fled. The people who had just jumped out of the forest also disappeared again.
Under the bright moonlight, two figures rushed from afar. Zhi Ning saw in a trance that the two figures were Hongdou and Shen Shiyi.
She turned her back and looked at the bamboo scattered on the ground, and smiled.
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Hai time.
A black shadow quickly shuttled through the night building, and then passed through a few antique houses, only to see a wall like wood and stone, the black shadow walked to the wall and looked for a moment on a brick with his palm on a brick and lightly buckled it three times, a creak sounded, and the wooden door opened in response.
When you enter the door, you can see that the scenery in the courtyard is completely different from the outside, the small bridge is flowing water, the flowers and plants are shady, there are several cobblestone paved paths, there is a wooden lampstand every other zhang along the path, like a guide sign, there is a one-person tall green tree in the center of the courtyard, although you can't see what kind of tree it is, but when you look closely, you can find that almost every leaf has been carefully pruned. The house is located in the middle of the courtyard, but the architectural style is different from the Ming official residence, the main hall of the Ming house building is mostly two wide gates, or the east or the south open two windows, take the north to the south of the rising sun in the east, the artistic conception of purple air coming from the east. But in front of the shadow, there was no door to the house, and it was full of large windows that fell straight to the ground, and the steps below the large windows were only a wooden cloister that was one step above the ground.
The moment the black shadow walked to the front of the stairs, the room seemed to know that someone was coming, and the big window opened with a bang. Different from the delicate decoration in the courtyard, there is only a flickering green lamp on the low table in the wood-floored house, and the light in the room is faint, and the rest of the room is not visible in the surrounding darkness. Lan Yi, who was called the young hall master, knelt on the cushion behind the low table, and looked at the black shadow with blazing eyes. The faint light reflected on the wall, and behind him was a man and a half tall, with the word "Shinobi" written in black paint.
The black shadow who had just entered saw Lan Yi and bowed his hands in respect, and when he saw Lan Yi nodding, the black shadow took off his shoes outside the wooden corridor. Naturally enter the house from the wooden verandah. The black shadow walked a few steps and knelt down at the table, looking through the faint light, the person was the wood spirit that Zhi Ning had just met a few days ago.
Mu Ling took a sip of the tea on the table, followed to look at Lanyi, and then glanced into the darkness. After a long silence, he took it upon himself to tell what he had just seen in the forest.
The wood spirit spoke in detail and slowly, but no sound in the room interrupted him. Until he finished. The room was silent for a long time,
When Mu Ling began to drink the third bowl of tea, a voice finally came from the darkness: "As you said, the moves used by the stunned young man that day are the same as those used by Shen Sansan tonight?" ”
"Yes, although it was used in a panic, the tricks changed slightly, but the road was all the way. In my opinion, the hall master, your suspicions are indeed grounded, but there is still nothing unclear about your subordinates, so please clarify your doubts. ”
In the dim light, the old man in blue slowly walked out of the darkness, only to hear him say, "You want to ask why I still gave her the sword?" ”
"Hai, my subordinates really want to ask about this, since you already suspect that she is a spy sent from there, why do you ......?"
"Mu Ling, everyone says that you are meticulous in your work, but in fact, you are meticulous and coarse. This temple asks you, if you come to this island to spy on the island, will you bring your only family with you? ”
"Back to the hall master, the subordinates won't, but the subordinates think that maybe this is a deliberate arrangement there, and they want to use this trick to confuse us, and this alone is not enough to support."
"Haha, you're interesting, then the main hall will ask you again, this child was almost stabbed to death by a silver hairpin that night, is it also accidental?"
"Xu deliberately chose a young man who is not very good at martial arts in order to prevent us from testing the number of martial arts, so that it is not easy to attract attention?" Mu Ling replied a little unconfidently.
"Oh? Unobtrusive? This word is missing from this child, and it has only been on the island for a long time since he taught these teenagers how to cut bamboo, and if he hadn't been almost stabbed to death that night, he would have almost become the first to cut bamboo. Putting this aside for now, tonight, as you said, the boy withdrew his hand at the last blow, and was almost killed. If they would send these teenagers who had neither martial arts, nor scheming, and were not ruthless enough to come to the island to work hard, I am afraid that either they have a problem with their brains or that my Mushan, who has been in the eye for decades, is blind. You don't have to keep an eye on that child anymore, I'll keep an eye on her myself. ”
"It's the hall master, what about the third room of Jia?"
"Those naughty teenagers, dozens of people want to leave the island? You'll go back there and stare at it later. ”
"Yes" replied, and the shadow swished away.
At this time, only Lan Yi and the old man who called himself Mu Shan were left in the house.
I saw Lan Yi's brows frown slightly, and he raised his eyebrows and said to Mu Shan: "Lord Mu Shan, this is the reason why you acquiesced to Li Yunlan and their early departure tonight." It looks like you're really good. Even the choice of the apprentice you like?
I only heard the old man laugh dryly, and said in a flattering tone: "Mu Zhi, I am also thinking about the safety of the island, how can we be at ease if the person Li Guogong said does not get rid of us for a day." ”
"Don't call me Mu Zhi, I still like the name Lanyi, I can't afford you to name me. Lord of the Hall, you better take care of the apprentice you almost killed, Kiyama. ”
"Okay, if you like it, use that name, but don't forget about next month's competition." Before Lan Yi could speak again, a puff of green smoke floated up, and the people of Mushan were gone.
Lan Yi snorted lightly and shook his head vigorously without knowing what he was thinking. Turning around and looking at the big words behind him, he slowly knelt down and sat down. The huge windows slowly closed, and there was no sound in the room, and the lights gradually dimmed, and finally went out, and there was no sound in the small courtyard except for the occasional insect chirping. Everything just now seems to be like Nan Ke's dream.