Chapter 8: The Terrible Truth
The golden knife slashed horizontally, and Xu Xi suddenly turned sideways, changed his knife and backhanded, slashed along the edge of the scimitar, and swept straight towards the opponent's neck.
With a violent "bang", the thin knife slashed at Long Mengxun's left wrist guard, which was separated by half a foot from his neck.
Both of them were shocked.
It's not that I'm amazed at each other's skills, although the two of them have their own sword skills, but the sound of the collision just now ...... It's just too big. Whatever it is, it's definitely not something that can be slashed with a knife on a bracer.
There was a "bang", and then a loud bang, and the two glanced at each other, put away their knives at the same time, and ran to the room where the landlord was. After all, on the entire promenade, only the windows there can see the whole view of the long street.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xi and Long Mengxun entered the door at the same time, and both of them were shocked by the scene in front of them.
I saw the talented man standing in front of the window, and the demon mask with blue face and fangs had already fallen to his feet and shattered into several pieces. Only then did Xu Xi know that the man was very delicate, and his voice was as gentle as his own voice.
If it weren't for that hideous blood scar on the neck.
The viscous blood splattered all the way to the ceiling, and the rest of it merged into a small stream with his feeble hand, flowing towards the two of them.
The young man in black picked up the scattered copies of "Qingdi Lu" from the ground, patted the dust on it with his hand, and there were a few blood spots splashed on the cover, he wiped it, but he didn't wipe it clean.
"I stained the book that my master told me to take away." The young man suddenly raised his big and clear eyes and looked at the two of them, "Do you think the master will scold me?" ”
Xu Xi was shocked by the scene in front of him and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. Although she has done a lot of things to cut people's necks before, it is one thing to do it herself, and it is another thing to see it with her own eyes.
"Why did you kill him?" She asked.
The young man looked at her suspiciously, "My master asked me to do it." ”
In the dark, an answer is on the horizon.
"Who is your master?"
The boy was about to answer, when suddenly there was a loud explosion, and the ground on the border was the sky on the long street.
Now, the sky is falling.
There was a loud "boom", and the falling ground boulder smashed heavily on the roof of the Bafang Building, and suddenly the beams of the house collapsed, and a fire soared into the sky.
"Let's go!"
Long Mengxun immediately turned around and ran out, Xu Xi and the young man reacted and followed him out.
The top and bottom of the Bafang Building had already become a mess, and the masks of those cow ghosts, snakes, and gods fell one after another, and everyone showed their original forms at that moment. The guests who came from all over the world were all blocked at a small exit, for fear that if they fell again, they would have to sleep forever in this dark underground street.
The sky that had just collapsed revealed a gap, and the blood-red moonlight came out of it, and everyone was like a headless ghost scurrying around, and under the red curtain, it was like a hundred ghosts walking at night.
The "landlord" of the Bafang Building died, but those servants had no expression. The female servants with high sword skirts pulled out long swords from under their skirts, and the fox-faced little servants took off their masks, and the blades in their hands flew silently. They gradually gathered in the open space in the center of the lobby, and the man in the embroidered robe who had just presided over the bidding on the stage walked up from under the ground, stretched out his hand slightly, and grabbed a handful of scarlet moonlight.
The intricate embroidery patterns on his body were bathed in red light, as if he had come to life.
"Somebody wants to ruin this street." The man chuckled and looked at the servants in front of him with swords in hand, as if looking at thousands of troops, "What do you say?" ”
The answer to him was one word.
"Kill."
Suddenly, there was a rolling vibration on the ground, and a thousand horses stepped into the rotten mud that seemed to gather all the evil in the world.
The long street is ten miles, and all those cavalry gallop. In the light of the sword, the person fell like chopping grass, and those white-clothed sergeants dragged the woman with the sword skirt in her hair bun and dragged it over, and the sword in the woman's hand fell softly, leaving only a headless corpse.
When Xu Xi came down, she saw such a scene, the sound of boiling people washing over her ears, roaring, crying, screaming, the sound of iron knives cutting bones, and the voices of thousands of people mixed together, forming such a hellish scene.
"This ...... What's going on? ”
She asked, but no one could answer.
The puddles of scarlet blood on the ground, mixed with the scarlet moonlight, I don't know which one is more red. The white-clothed sergeants drove past with four-foot sabers and long-haired skulls, and the silver lines and moire patterns on the placket were clearly visible.
The cavalry under the Wei clan of the Northern Yan Chengsheng General's Mansion - the Qingyun Army.
The general led by him rode a white horse, dressed in a heavy brocade white robe, covered with silver armor, and there was not a trace of blood on his body. When he took off the silver and iron crown, he turned out to be a young and handsome general, with a fair face and calm eyebrows and eyes as calm as a piece of cold jade.
"Go check the number of people, and then report the names of the dead and wounded soldiers to me."
The lieutenant next to him picked up his horse, took the token from him, and rode away.
Seeing the white-clothed general walking towards him, he suddenly heard the young man next to him shouting "Master", Xu Xi turned back sharply, only to see a man in a black robe slowly falling down the stairs on the half-broken spiral ladder, his eyebrows and eyes were extremely sharp.
"Sure enough, it's you." Xu Xi said.
Pei Huai was slightly surprised when he saw her here, but he covered his expression for a moment. As soon as he beckoned, the young man beside Xu Xi suddenly rushed over and respectfully held the two volumes of "Qingdi Lu" in his arms.
"Why are you here?" He asked.
Xu Xi thought he was asking her, but Long Mengxun beside him leaned against the cracked pillars and said with a smile, "Isn't the National Teacher also here?" ”
"Lord Long is here, I wonder if Lord Sikong can know?"
"It's purely a personal preference to find some rare treasures here, and I don't need to report it to Lord Sikong in the next time," the crescent moon golden knife in his hand spun out a knife flower, and suddenly put it into the sheath, Long Mengxun suddenly changed his words, "It's the National Teacher who is here to use the Qingyun Army and use the army in vain, I don't know if Your Majesty knows?" ”
Pei Huai raised his eyebrows slightly, "What do you know?" I don't know what? ”
He clutched the scroll tightly in his hand, and for a moment, the dust centered on him spread out slightly, and a faint wind blew.
Seeing this, Long Mengxun smiled and said, "How can a flying eagle guard in the lower district guess the intentions of the saint and the hundred officials, just ask casually, and hope that the national teacher will not blame." ”
After he finished speaking, he walked straight out. The streets were full of stumps and broken arms, Long Mengxun got up and swept towards the dilapidated buildings, and between the ups and downs of several times, he actually disappeared.
Pei Huai lowered his head, flipped through the scroll in his hand, and frowned slightly when he saw the broken pages of the "Zhuyang Scroll".
"Cicada Wing Tuo? This is what you did? He asked, flipping it a few more times, "The craftsmanship is good, although it is a fake, but the rhetoric is exquisite, mysterious and mysterious, and it is really a bit interesting." ”
"So... You're just for these books... You're going on a killing spree here? Xu Xi asked in disbelief.
Pei Huai frowned, "Do you think this seat is such a person?" ”
After he asked, he was suddenly a little surprised, in the past, he never cared about anyone's thoughts, why did he have to ask this woman who had only seen two sides today.
"Isn't it?" She asked again.
Pei Huai was stunned, and threw the video scroll of the Qing Emperor in his hand to her, "Do you really think that this is the secret text written by the so-called regent Lang Yuwang?" ”
Xu Xi took it, glanced at him suspiciously, and then unfolded the scroll, his eyes were full of chaotic lines, and occasionally a few ancient Chinese characters were mixed in, which made people wonder.
She was wondering in her heart, turning and flipping, and her inspiration flashed.
She slammed the pages apart, and saw that several pages were close together, forming a map of the topography of mountains and rivers like a jigsaw puzzle, outlined with ink lines of different shades, and marked with extremely difficult to read words around them.
Xu Xi won't be incomprehensible, this is not an ordinary map, there are not only roads, mountains and rivers, but even the depth of the river, the height of the peaks, and even the direction of the seasonal wind are marked.
The location pieced together on the map is the Suihe River where they are at this time, and the bottom footmark is Jianyuan City. In other words, it is a map of the march, and whoever can get it will be able to take the army to the national capital.
"This is a map ......of the march," Xu Xi said, returning the yellowed pages to him.
Pei Huai chuckled, "It's not too stupid." ”
"But......" she still had some difficulty accepting, "why did you lead troops to kill these people?" ”
Pei Huai raised his eyebrows, "Do you think this place should exist?" ”
Xu Xi was silent, she knew in her heart that this place that hid dirt and dirt like a rat's nest really shouldn't exist.
So it all makes sense, and the people who draw the drawings will entrust it to unwitting merchants to take to a specific place under the pretext of delivery, and then auction off this long underground street to the buyer of the enemy country.
The so-called treasures of the final auction have a fixed receiver, once there is an eyeless person who forcibly lowers the price, the owner of the Bafang Building will invite him to go indoors, and then kill this person. This is also the reason why she entered the door and saw the boy kill the "landlord".
Terrible, really scary.
Pei Huai kept watching her expression, until Xu Xi raised his head again, and the emotions in those eyes changed.
"You... Ever wondered? ”
Pei Huai tilted his ears to show that he was listening.
"I mean... Some of these people, if these people had a way to live, maybe they wouldn't do this kind of thing. ”
Pei Huai laughed, "No one doesn't give them a way to live, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward, you won't understand this truth." Under the huge profits, there are many people who do not hesitate to sell the principle and take risks. Their actions are already treasonous, and it is not too much to kill. ”
"But there are still people who are not ......"
"Is this going to single out all these people?"
“…… Okay," Xu Xi interrupted him, not wanting to argue any more, "The Tao is different, so let's stop here." ”
She put the knife back into its sheath and stood there hesitating.
"If you don't want it, throw it away, you don't have to patrol here." Pei Huai said lightly.
"This knife is very good, it's a pity to lose it."
Xu Xi inserted the knife back into her waist and walked straight out, the oncoming white-clothed general passed by her, and she stepped on the ground with blood and finally disappeared in front of the two of them.
"The national teacher is not going to chase?" He asked.
Pei Huai frowned, "Why is this seat chasing?" ”
"It's the first time I've seen a national teacher talking so much to someone, and I mistakenly thought it was ......."
"Mistaken for it?"
“…… It's nothing. The white-clothed general smiled, but his smile was mixed with a little unknown loneliness.
"Invite General Wei Shuo's Qingyun Army to come over tonight, it's really a knife to kill chickens, disturbing the general's good things, and looking at Haihan."
Seeing Pei Huai talking to him so politely, Wei Shuo was a little surprised, and then smiled miserably.
"Where did it come from, today's eradication of the evil party with the national teacher can be called a beautiful thing."
Pei Huai was slightly suspicious, "Isn't today the night of the good relationship between the general and the daughter of the Gu family?" ”
"Miss Gu......" he muttered, "It's not a kiss, she's ...... Let's go. ”