Chapter 18: The Paranoid Young Pavilion Master
After Zhou Song said goodbye to Ye Xingchuan, it was still difficult for a while, she tried her best to find food, stole and robbed, and found a hidden place to sleep when she was sleepy, and she was in a hurry the rest of the time, she wanted to find a sect, go in to learn martial arts.
One day, she was exhausted from being chased by the stall owner for stealing baked cakes, and when she was about to be caught, she suddenly grabbed him alone.
The man was very strange, wearing a mask and black clothes in broad daylight, and he was not a good person no matter how he looked at it.
"Let go of me!" Zhou Song shook her hand hard, but she couldn't shake it off at all, so she bit this person's wrist hard, and the hard armor almost broke her teeth!
"Little bunny, where do you think you're going?!" The stall owner quickly caught up, holding a stick in his hand, panting, "Thank you so much, this son." β
After that, the stall owner stepped forward to pull Zhou Song over for a good beating.
The man in black didn't let go at all, but said coldly: "How much is a baked cake?" β
"What?" The stall owner thought he was behind his ears and asked again.
The man in black stopped talking, his silence conveying his displeasure.
"Five cents for one, five cents for one!" The stall owner felt that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately smiled all over his face.
The man in black took out five cents from his sleeve and threw it at the stall owner's feet.
The stall owner immediately bent down, picked up the five cents, and thanked him again and again.
Before leaving, I didn't forget to drop a sentence: "Little girl, I think you are lucky to meet this son, if there is a next time, see if I don't kill you!" β
Zhou Song ignored this person completely, devoured the baked cakes, and the man in black pulled himself to the side of the stall.
"Whatever else you want to eat, order whatever you want."
Zhou Song nibbled the baked cake almost as well, and her mind was much clearer, she looked at the man in black timidly, and quickly shook her head.
The man in black smiled imperceptibly: "Afraid that I will be poisoned? β
Zhou Song nodded heavily.
The man in black called Xiao Er, who was passing by, to come to the bowl of noodles, and when the noodles were brought to Zhou Song, he pulled the bowl over.
The man in black took off the mask, revealing a detached and elegant face, and took a bite before pushing it in front of Zhou Song: "Now you can rest assured?" β
Zhou Song still had some faith in the man in front of him, holding chopsticks but not eating: "What are your plans to invite me to eat?" β
The man smiled and said straight to the point: "I can't hide it, I am a disciple of the Shenji Pavilion, and I see that the girl is very eye-catching, I don't know if the girl has the intention to worship my Shenji Pavilion?" There is nowhere to go. β
He was right, Zhou Song had nowhere to go, and she was really lucky to be picked up by the sect halfway through.
Zhou Song thought about it, simply picked up the noodles, and swallowed the dates. Anyway, wandering outside is death, and being deceived by this man in black is death at most, so it is better to eat the noodles first.
The man looked at Zhou Song's rude eating appearance, and couldn't help but show an unpredictable smile: "After eating this bowl of noodles, I will agree as a girl." β
Zhou Song nodded, quickly swallowed the last bite of noodles, and said, "My name is Zhou Song." β
"In the lower Muke - another bowl of noodles?"
Zhou Song ate a total of five bowls of Mu Ke noodles that day, and went back to the inn with him, where he was well served by those little guys, and then after more than a month of tiring travel before arriving at Shenji Pavilion.
Shenji Pavilion is located in the blue wolf region on the border of the Yungui Kingdom, bordering the Aquila Country, and the cultural customs are somewhat influenced by the Aquila Country.
The Blue Wolf area has a Divine Sword Pass, which is a fortress for the Sky Eagle Kingdom to enter the Yungui Empire, and an important military area. The Shenji Pavilion is here, helping the army defend against foreign enemies and maintaining law and order in the surrounding area, but it also does some shady things.
To put it bluntly, Shenji Pavilion is an assassination organization, but those who seek its help are not only ordinary rich people, but also many princes and nobles, royal relatives and relatives, among which there are many interests colluding, and ordinary people are difficult to understand.
When he arrived at the Shenji Pavilion, Zhou Song knew that what kind of disciple this Mu Ke was, he was clearly the young pavilion master of the Shenji Pavilion!
When she was personally led into the Divine Machine Pavilion by Mu Ke, everyone around her was dumbfounded, and they privately discussed where this wild girl came from.
However, after entering the Divine Machine Pavilion, Mu Ke did not rush to teach her things, but spent three months completely curing her of new and old injuries.
During the treatment, Zhou Song followed other disciples and studied in the temple. The art of the mechanism is very obscure, not to mention Miss Shen Song, who has only read books like "The Female Commandment" since she was a child, in addition to these dogmas, she has only read martial arts cheats, the mechanical algorithm taught by the Shenji Pavilion, she doesn't know anything.
However, she cherishes the opportunity to study here, and for the time being, she can't practice martial arts with others, so she studies those books all day long, and as soon as Mu Ke comes to see her, she pulls Mu Ke to ask all the things she doesn't understand, she never minds getting to the bottom of it, even if it's something very simple, she has to confirm it again and again.
"Sister Zhou, you are so old older than us, why don't you even know this thing!" When Zhou Song was eating in the cafeteria, he also held a book in one hand, read a page and ate a bite, and was ridiculed by those little disciples.
"Go, go, you know what?! Sooner or later I'll be better than all of you! Zhou Song nibbled on steamed buns and drove away those little disciples who were laughing and playing.
Those little disciples didn't pay attention to it, they just thought she was stupid and read dead books, so they ran away in a fuss.
The Divine Machine Pavilion is a very strange place, after all, they do strange things, and the people inside are also strange.
They usually look like ordinary people, at most ordinary people with high martial arts, but as soon as they put on that strange mask, they seem to have changed into a different person, taciturn, ruthless, and some will become extremely bloodthirsty and violent.
Zhou Song saw that those people with masks were walking around, for fear of upsetting them, so they were stabbed.
I don't know if it was because of her talent or other reasons, it only took her two months to memorize all the written courses that ordinary disciples needed to learn. In the last month of recuperation, she soaked in the library of the Shenji Pavilion all day long, reading books day and night, whether it was the basic exercises or the secret books of the ages, she read them all over.
When Mu Ke taught her martial arts, Zhou Song naturally knew how to do it at one point, and her cultivation speed was very fast.
"Alas, you let me stay with you all day, why don't you let me practice with other people?" When Zhou Song and Mu Ke were eating tea together, they pretended to sigh.
Mu Ke sensed that she didn't really want to get along with others, and said something that broke her mind: "Do you want to practice with other people, or do you want to show off to other people that you can practice faster than them?" β
Zhou Song smiled mischievously: "Of course I want to practice together." β
Despite this, Zhou Song still made a lot of friends in the Shenji Pavilion, and when they were resting, they would meet up and go around the surrounding small towns together. Eat some snacks, accompany some wine, fight for others from time to time, and then listen to passers-by praise a sentence of "Shaoxia is good kung fu", so unhappy.
She thought that such days would go on forever, and this was the chivalrous life she imagined. However, since you have superior ability, you must assume the responsibility that comes with this ability.
She had been in the Divine Machine Pavilion for a year, and Mu Ke finally asked her to complete the mission, and the first thing she did to take the mission was to receive the black clothes and mask.
After Zhou Song put on the black clothes, he chattered in front of the bronze mirror for a while before putting on the strange mask.
As soon as she put on the mask, things were not rightβfor some reason, when she put it on, she felt that the mask stuck to her face, and she couldn't take it off, and then she had a severe headache, and she spun around in pain, and even raised her fist and smashed her head.
As soon as she came in, Zhou Song rushed to them, beating them all the time, she only felt a splitting headache, extremely violent, and it seemed that only in this way could the headache be relieved.
Those disciples all fled, and Zhou Song smashed everything that could be smashed in the room, but it still didn't get better, until she fainted in pain.
When she woke up again, the mask had been removed and Muko was sitting on the edge of her bed.
"Why are you here?" Zhou Song sat up, and the discomfort had long since disappeared.
"After hearing that you put on a mask, you lost control?"
Zhou Song didn't look over his head and didn't answer.
Mu Ke acquiesced and patiently explained: "This side has the purpose of manipulating people's hearts, the purpose is to break off feelings when performing tasks, the first time I wear it, there are abnormal situations, and then I get used to it." β
Zhou Song asked puzzledly: "Why do you want to break off your feelings?" β
Muko didn't answer directly: "You'll know after that." β
Later, Zhou Song did start to carry out tasks with her fellow disciples, and she always thought that the Jianghu sect was to be chivalrous and righteous and cut off the injustices in the world. As a result, most of the assassination targets were ordinary people like her, and every time she felt unacceptable, her classmates always reminded her to put on a mask, and she realized the usefulness of the mask.
The mask not only manipulates her, but also tells her: put on the mask, you are not you, you are just a ruthless killing machine.
As the tasks increase, the mask has less and less influence on her.
"I don't know how many people Muko has killed to be so proficient in using the mask." Zhou Song thought to himself.
Zhou Song had never thought about where to settle down, despite doing so many murderous things, she still wanted to get out of the Shenji Pavilion, she didn't belong anywhere. What's more, as far as the Divine Machine Pavilion is concerned, she is just a tool.
So after each mission, she would try her best to hide some commissions, if she met a rich family, she would take some away, and after the money was saved, she would fly away.
After a mission, Zhou Song said that he wanted to invite his partners to have a drink, so he found a restaurant and feasted on it.
Zhou Song was already massive, she also put some drugs in the wine, and it didn't take long for those companions to fall asleep. She changed into inconspicuous clothes and ran away with the money she had saved.
Early the next morning, when his companion woke up and informed Mu Ke, Zhou Song had already used the shadowless footwork he had learned in the Shenji Pavilion and had run hundreds of miles.
There are many people who want to escape from the Shenji Pavilion, but they will be arrested within three days, and they will have to accept harsh punishments, but Zhou Song is different, she is already very good, she is more powerful than most people, and she has made all preparations, and she has not been caught for five days, so she relaxed her vigilance.
However, she never expected that on the evening of the sixth day, when she was about to take a shower and change clothes, she would see Mu Ke in her room, quietly waiting for her to come back!
As soon as Zhou Song saw the familiar and frightening back, she turned around and ran, she ran hard, and Mu Ke chased hard.
No one knew how long Zhou Song had practiced light exercises in order to escape, she ran desperately, and finally got rid of Mu Ke.
This is just the beginning of the nightmare, in the next three years, Zhou Song can always meet Mu Ke in casual places, sometimes in the vendors in the bazaar, sometimes in the audience under the martial arts ring, there is no time that she is not scared into a cold sweat, making her run away and almost lose her soul.
Just when she thought that Mu Ke was going to chase her to the ends of the earth, the Shenji Pavilion suddenly announced that the original pavilion master had passed away, and the young pavilion master had ascended the throne, and Mu Ke finally stopped chasing her.
But for a period of time in the future, Zhou Song always had nightmares about Mu Ke coming to chase and kill her, and even regarded the passers-by in the dream as Mu Ke, and almost ran away in obscene clothes after waking up.
Mu Ke usually looks like a gentle person, at most he is relatively quiet and difficult to get along with, but since Zhou Song escaped, he has been like a madman and has an unbearable obsession with her.
So in this life, when Zhou Song saw Mu Ke again, those memories of escape came overwhelmingly, and she was terrified, not to mention that her current martial arts were not as good as in her previous life!
Zhou Song took out his sword and confronted Mu Shen and the others, if Mu Ke arrived, they would be at a disadvantage.
She was thinking about tactics when she saw a flying knife fly in the air, nailing a man in black to the wall!