Chapter 221: You Choose
After eliminating the four people in the room, Shao Xi unhurriedly pulled out the short knife inserted in the back of the second person, wiped it directly on the person's clothes a few times, and retracted it into the scabbard in his boots.
Shao Xi already felt that the person in the lead was standing in the courtyard at this time, and he heard the screams just now, and he didn't know if he would think that he had been killed.
Shao Xi killed these four people too quickly, and he didn't plan to kill the last one of them, after all, he had to leave one alive to be a personal testimony in the future. Therefore, Shao Xi did not rush out of the room in a hurry, but walked out of the room slowly with small square steps.
The people in the courtyard watched Shao Xi walk in front of him, obviously stunned for a moment, probably because they didn't expect that the four people had just rushed into the room and had been dealt with. Now Shao Xi's leisurely appearance proves that the person standing in front of him is not simple.
"The people who sent you here were too careless, they only knew that the old servants who followed me knew martial arts, but they never asked me if I knew martial arts, I was afraid that sending you here would be too underestimate me, right?"
The person in front of Shao Xi was dressed in night clothes, he couldn't see his appearance with his face covered, and he didn't speak, so it was difficult to judge who he was for a while? Before the fight, it is difficult to say how this person's martial arts are, so although Shao Xi seems to be relaxed on the surface, in fact, he is always on guard in his heart when the other party will make a move?
The man in black saw Shao Xi approaching step by step with the sword in his hand, and raised his hand without a sound, and the knife flew out, slashing directly at the midline of Shao Xi's body.
This is the most ineffective attack, since Shao Xi understood the truth that not every move must be taken, this kind of attack that cuts straight to the middle line of the body can be dodged as long as one sideways. However, from this knife, Shao Xi also saw that the other party's martial arts realm, like Lao Wu, was just the peak of the third grade.
It seems that the Zhao family really underestimated themselves, thinking that they were just a civil official and powerless, so they sent these rookies to stab themselves. However, from another point of view, he also thinks highly of himself, and he attaches great importance to a person who does not understand martial arts to send an assassin at the peak of the third grade.
Shao Xi just dodged the opponent's sword gang to the right side, and at the same time, with a flick of his right hand, the Liuyun Sword in his hand flew out directly, heading straight for the other party.
The man in black saw that Shao Xi's sword was powerful, and he also dodged to the right, but he didn't want the Liuyun Sword in the air to be like having eyes, so he turned around and chased him, and was forced to helplessly, so he had to lean to the right again to dodge the Liuyun Sword again.
Shao Xi just thought about it, and the short knife in his boot popped out of the scabbard by itself, drawing a circle in the air and hitting it in the direction of the black-clothed man's path. If the man in black wants to dodge the Flowing Cloud Sword, he will be hit by the short knife, and if he retracts his body and dodges the short knife, he will be caught up by the Flowing Cloud Sword, and he will be caught between two weapons for a while.
Seeing that he was forced to avoid by two weapons, the man in black raised his foot and stomped on the ground, and the whole person jumped into the air, trying to dodge this sword through the time difference in the air.
But as soon as he jumped into the air, he regretted it, because he saw another emerald blue sword flying towards him, and at this time he was completely stunned, how many guys did the other party have on him? How did it fly one after another? What a!
The people who can do the assassin profession are all outlaws, although this person's martial arts are different from Shao Xi's heaven and earth, but he still has courage. Seeing that all his retreats were sealed, this sword was undoubtedly hit, so he had the idea of breaking the net.
The man in black, who was fighting to die with the sword and was about to deliver the final blow, threw the steel knife in his hand towards Shao Xi before the Cuiyu sword hit him, clearly indicating that he was going to complete his last mission before he died, and he was still very professional.
The straight knife and the Emerald Feather Sword almost passed by close together, and went straight to Shao Xi's front door. The eyes of the man in black flashed with a ruthless light, he was able to die with Shao Xi, this mission was successfully completed, and he was even dead.
But what surprised him was that at the same time that he was hit by the Cui Yu sword, he saw Shao Xi raising his left hand and grabbing the steel knife that had flown in front of him. He couldn't believe his eyes for a moment, how could anyone directly use his hand to catch the sharp steel knife? Would you rather give up an arm to save your life? This is not a bad choice, but Shao Xi's expression does not look flustered, it is not like an instinctive move in panic, but a choice made in calmness.
Burst......
Bite......
When the Emerald Feather Sword hit the right shoulder of the man in black, he finally saw what was happening, the tip of the steel knife was facing the palm of Shao Xi's left hand, his right shoulder was hit by the sword, and Shao Xi's left hand was also stabbed, but the result was completely different.
The right shoulder of the man in black was pierced by the blade of the Emerald Feather Sword and fell to the ground from the air, and after Shao Xi's left hand came into contact with the steel knife, with a crisp sound, the steel knife fell to the ground with a crisp sound, making a "dang long" sound, but Shao Xi's hand was intact, and he did not suffer any damage at all, but the tip of the knife collapsed a little.
After Shao Xi used the sea of qi to control the vitality and took back a few weapons, he walked in front of the man in black who fell to the ground, and raised his left hand to show him.
"I don't want to run, but you want to fight for my life, you're too confident, I don't even bother to open the air shield, I can defuse your attack with just a glove, and now you can't leave, then say everything you need to say! lest I have to do any more work. ”
The man in black didn't speak, just stared at Shao Xi with his eyes, and the wound on his right shoulder that was pierced by the Emerald Feather Sword formed a transparent hole, bleeding from front and back, and it was not far from death if he continued like this.
Shao Xi did not rush to remove the masked black bully of this person, but reached out and tore the clothes on his right shoulder, revealing the wound. Huishou took out a bottle of blood clotting from his waist bag, and stopped the bleeding from the two wounds on the front and back of his shoulders.
The man in black looked at Shao Xi with a look of disbelief, he was here to take his life, and now that he was injured, why did he have to save himself?
Jianghu guests are all licking blood with knives, and they never thought of living until tomorrow, but today, at the moment of death, the people who could kill him are saving him.
After Shao Xi scattered the congealed blood, he directly tore off a piece of fabric from the clothes on the shoulder of the man in black and bandaged the wound on his shoulder, and then said his conditions to him with a smile.
"There are many people who want to kill me, you are not the first, and you will not be the last, if I have to kill every one, I am afraid that my hands will not be able to wash off the smell of blood, so let's talk about the conditions. First of all, can you show me what you look like? Secondly, I wish you could tell me who sent you here and why you killed me? The third condition is that you will stay for the time being and be my witness in the future. But if thou doest agree, not only will I let thee go, but I will give you ten times as much silver as you had, but if thou hast not agreed, it will be simple, and I will tie thee up and hang you in a well, and put a stone on top of it, and let thou die slowly and little by little in the darkness of the day. The choice is yours! ”
Just such a paragraph, but the amount of information is very large, simply put, I am not so easy to kill, you can't kill me, now it is in my hands, if you agree to my conditions, you will be prosperous and rich, if you don't agree, you will die slowly in fear.
It is better to talk about conditions, but it is better to say that there is a multiple-choice question, how to live and how to die.
The man in black still didn't speak, but his eyes flickered, and he could see that he was hesitant and tangled. It is said that they must abide by the rules of this industry, they cannot betray their employers, and they cannot be hired to assassinate their former employers, otherwise they will be villains who rebel against their word, and they will be blacklisted in this industry, and in serious cases, they may even be hunted down.
Now Shao Xi wants him to do something that violates the rules of the act, but if he refuses, he will bear nothing and it is self-evident, so he hesitated.
Shao Xi understood what he was hesitating about, and he also knew what he was struggling with, so he added.
"It seems that the conditions I gave are not enough to impress you, so let's do it! If you agree to my terms, I will give you twenty times the amount of silver, and I will arrange for you to go wherever you want. From now on, you don't have to be an assassin anymore, find a place where no one knows you, marry a wife and have children, how about spending the rest of your life in peace? If that doesn't work, I have no choice but to let you hang in the well and abide by your rules. ”
Hearing this, the man in black no longer seems to hesitate, the people in the rivers and lakes are not forced by life to do this business? Who wants to lick blood every day and kill people for a living? Now you can get a large sum of silver, and you can stay away from the rivers and lakes and live in peace, isn't this the life that everyone dreams of?
If you are planning to break away from this business, what is the point of the rules? Since you have decided to withdraw from the rivers and lakes, do you still need to abide by the so-called rules of the rivers and lakes?
Don't talk about any principles here, if there are principles, you won't kill innocent lives in exchange for money, so principles are a fart at this time.
The man in black raised his left hand and gently ripped off the black cloth covering his face, revealing a thin face, which looked very ordinary, and his facial features were not outstanding, but a face was born with edges and corners, like a knife carving, which was very distinctive.
Shao Xi smiled, "Very good! Now that we've reached a preliminary consensus, it's time for you to do the second thing, tell me who sent you to kill me, and why? ”
The man in black's voice was low and hoarse, but it was unusually clear.
"It was the Zhao family from Yujiang City who sent us here, and the person who negotiated this deal with us was Gao Cang, the son-in-law of the Zhao family, and he was the one who assigned us and paid the deposit, although he didn't tell us, but we all know that the employer behind it must be Zhao Huajun, the county guard, because Gao Cang said that something happened to keep us safe."
Shao Xi scratched his head a little, this Zhao Huajun arranged Gao Cang to do this to make it clear that he was afraid that something would happen in the future, so he simply used a relative, if one day the matter was revealed, he would push Gao Cang out as a substitute for the dead ghost.
"You said he paid your deposit? Is it cash or silver? ”
"It's cash silver, and our line generally only accepts cash silver, because the silver ticket has to be exchanged at the silver village, which is afraid that it will cause some unnecessary trouble."
"And the silver collar can be carried with you?"
"On the body." As he spoke, the man in black took out two silver collars from his arms and handed them to Shao Xi.
Shao Xi took the silver collar and looked at it carefully in the moonlight, with a smile on the corner of his mouth that was not easy to be noticed.