The pine waves are raging, and the rain is pouring down.

In the cramped and dark inn, there was only one lamp on, and an old man with goosebumps sat at the table. The old man was dressed in a clean and fluffy white robe, and he looked like the kind of kind old man who would secretly stuff the candy for the children next door.

The door of the inn was pushed open, and the cool air of rain came to the face.

"It's called Shenzhou now, isn't it?" The old man took a sip of hot tea and said slowly, "This is the last rain of summer, and after this rain, it will be autumn." It's cold, come in and sit. ”

"I thought you were here to kill me." Shen Zhou lifted the eaves of the hat, his gaze passed through the empty inn, and fell on the old man, "Why do you want to involve irrelevant people?" ”

Two peanuts popped out of the old man's fingertips, and the open door was slammed shut, and the kernels of the white flowers shattered to the ground.

"That's the way to go. I know those people can't kill you, and they don't even deserve to be your whetstone. As for irrelevant people, you are entangled with the people of the imperial court, what is the matter with the new waiter of the Ministry of Rites who are irrelevant people? The old man said slowly.

"How much do you remember when you were a child?"

His tone was gentle and his expression was kind, as if it was not a nightmare that had haunted him for many years, but a warm and happy childhood.

"A lot."

Or rather, never forgotten.

The sunken boat rubbed the hilt of his sword, and the rain trickled down his scabbard and robe, accumulating bright puddles on the floor. He didn't feel cold, he was used to it and it made him merge with his sword.

Shen Zhou calculated the distance in his heart, but he was not sure if this old man was the only one here. If this is the last link of the Nine Shadows plan, it will be too hasty.

"Don't think about killing me just yet."

The old man said: "You were too young at that time, you shouldn't know that there are two families in the Nine Shadows. The family is Luo's, in the Jiangnan area, which is where you stayed when you were a child; The other family has the surname of mountain ghosts and is entrenched in the north. ”

After Li Qingbai destroyed the Luo's main hall, the Luo's declined for a while, and was almost swallowed up by the mountain ghost clan several times. The two families have been fighting each other for many years, and the Luo family has been defeated and retreated, and the head of the Luo family has issued an order to recover all the seeds that have been lost that year, and fight to the death against the mountain ghost clan.

"I don't want to kill you, Luo's Peerless School has strict requirements for meridian bones, which is unimaginable to ordinary people. It's worth taking you back than killing you. The old man said, "We can not blame Li Qingbai for the past, and we can not move the eldest lady of the Chu family, but you must go with me." ”

"What if I say no?"

The old man stared at him for a long time, and said faintly, "I remember your face, you are the most dazzling one in that batch of seeds, and the one that sees blood the fastest." You've been out there for so many years, haven't you noticed that you're different from others? ”

Shen Zhou frowned slightly.

The old man pointed to his heart and said, "It's not the body, it's not martial arts, it's here." ”

"All seeds are the same, and from the moment you draw a knife and stab a child of the same age in the chest, your heart does not belong to 'man'. You will not be afraid or excited when you see blood spurting out of people's necks, and for you, the convenient solution to the problem is to kill people, and life is no longer precious. ”

Shen Zhou clenched his teeth, and his cheeks were sharp.

He knew that what the old man said was not wrong, that he was such a person. The assassins of the Nine Shadows don't blink an eye when they kill people, they don't care about other people's lives or their own lives, they are the ones that Shen Zhou hates the most, but they are the ones who know Shen Zhou the most.

"Beasts or demons, you are no longer human. Even if the eldest lady of the Chu family can tolerate you and endure you, it will only be for a while, and she will not be able to heal the scars on your heart. Can she still give you a new heart? ”

"Only we are one kind."

The old man stood up, walked over to Shen Zhou, and patted him on the shoulder like an elder who really cared for his juniors.

"I know that you have been raised in Zhenbei Wangfu for many years, even if you raise a kitten and a puppy, you can't bear to give it up. But if you don't leave now, when she gets tired of your cold-blooded ruthlessness, can you resist not slitting her throat? People like us, once they grasp a living person who gives us mercy, are like a drowning person grasping at a life-saving straw. You're just going to kill her with you. ”

The old man said seductively, "It's better to let her go, keep such a thought, as if you really lived." ”

The sword unsheathed silently and slashed at the old man's throat with great speed. The old man, who was about to die, leaned back lightly, and the swan slid backwards like treading water under his feet. The white-robed hunting was flying, and the darts thrown by the sinking boat seemed to have submerged into the lake, and were easily dissolved by the old man's fluttering white robe.

The darts clanged to the ground, and Shen Zhou refused to retreat, and pushed the blade of the sword out with a step.

There was a sudden wind overhead, and Shen Zhou stepped on the table, leaned back and fell back.

The black-robed and silver-faced girl fell from the roof, she had hung upside down like a bat between the beams of the room that the light could not reach, holding her breath and heartbeat, and Shen Zhou did not realize her existence. Her hands glowing with cold light were aimed directly at the top of the sinking boat's head, and as soon as the blow missed, she supported the ground and turned over lightly, half-lying on the ground like a leopard.

Shen Zhou's gaze lowered, and landed on the ground that her hands had just touched. The damp and soft template left five deep nicks, as if a sword had been plowed over. If those hands had landed on top of the person's head, they would have torn the entire scalp apart, revealing a white skull.

The old man walked out slowly from behind the girl, pressed her shoulder, and said regretfully, "It seems that you are unwilling to go back with us?" ”

The old man just spoke at length, and Shen Zhou listened to half of it, but he didn't listen to half of it. The old man seemed to have the magic to see through people's hearts, and cut open Shen Zhou's heart, although he hadn't spoken much since he entered the door.

Will I get out of control? Someday, I'll ...... Kill her?

Shen Zhou's heart was in turmoil.

"The secret inheritance of the Nine Shadows must not be lost to the outside, if you insist on doing so, I will only kill you."

Shen Zhou stared coldly at the old and the young, without saying a word. But the nerves in his whole body instantly tightened, like strings on the verge of limit, and any more pressure would break the whole body.

As the old man's voice fell, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and even seventh heartbeats sounded in the inn one after another, like the dead corpses in the ancient tomb coming back to life, and the vigorous heartbeats rose with sharp killing machines.

Hidden breathing and heartbeat hidden in the inn, not only the iron-handed girl!

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Akiba Mountain House.

Pei Zhang carried the corner of his soaked robe, chased Chu Zhixia all the way and asked, "What you just said to Yan Xiaohou Ye, how true is it and how much is false?" Is the case he said related to the sinking boat? What do the bandits of the Nine Shadows think ......?"

Chu Zhixia walked quickly on the corridor of the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence with an umbrella, plunged into the house, and pulled out the drinking snow on the shelf.

I don't know where Chu Mingxiu got this sword, and it won't catch the blood at all, as if there is a stream of clear water on the spine of the sword that washes the blood down.

Pei Zhang was startled by her movements, and swallowed the words firmly into his stomach.

"Why do you ask so much? It's none of your business. Chu Shixia turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, and said unceremoniously, "Pei Gongzi should stay here and save your own life, don't let the new deal fall short." ”

The two of them had just calculated together that the emperor's meager affection had vanished, and Pei Zhang knew that the three-legged cat kung fu on his body was not a dish in this matter, so he had to shut up.

Pei Zhang didn't react to what was happening, and couldn't help asking, "Who are you going to kill?" ”

Chu Shixia didn't bother to explain to him, and said with a smile: "Pei Gongzi will sit at home and drink tea tomorrow, find a laughing death and ask who died in the streets and alleys, don't you know?" ”

Pei Zhang gasped, remembering Chu Zhixia's supernatural powers, and consciously leaned over to make way for her.

Chu Zhixia put on his coat and hat, strode out of the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence, and took the reins from the hands of his personal guards. She turned her head to look at the Akiba Mountain Residence with the wind lantern up, and said to the guard, "Be careful tonight, the crow pecks at the eyes." ”

The crow's eye peck is the black word of the army in the clouds, which means that an assassin has come to the door. But Chu Zhixia is the most expensive person in this house, she wants to go out, but she asks her relatives to guard the house. The guards were stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Pei Cifu and the young master of the Pei family now live in the mansion.

The people in the rivers and lakes have always rarely colluded with the imperial court, but there was Li Zhengxi in the clouds to protect the envoy of the mission, and there was the assassin of the Nine Shadows Division who snatched the "Guanyin Dashi Tu", Chu Zhixia had to prevent someone from diverting the tiger from the mountain and taking advantage of the weakness to take Pei Zhang's life.

The guards agreed forcefully, Chu Zhixia was silent for a moment, and then said, "If Cheng Yuan comes back, let him go to Blacksmith Lane with weapons and horses to wait for me." ”

Not all of the assassins of the Nine Shadows Division wore silver ghost masks in the blue sky and daylight, assassins were one of the best at concealing their whereabouts, Shen Zhou could find them with the same sense of smell, but Chu Zhixia couldn't.

But Chu Shixia has her own way.

Under the torrential rain, the water level of the ditch rose, and the boat swayed in the wild current, and several times almost crashed into the river bank in a daze. The frenzied water did not flood the bridge, as if a bottomless mouth had swallowed it all.

The boatman who rowed the boat was a mute man with his tongue cut, and although there were twists and turns along the way, he finally arrived at the ghost market safe and sound.

Chu Zhixia threw him a piece of broken silver, and said without looking back: "Wait for me here, I will give you ten taels of silver when I go back." ”

The boatman is in this business, so naturally he has no opinion.

As soon as the white-faced and red-cheeked boy on the dock saw Chu Zhixia, he immediately became in a hurry, and for a while he didn't know whether to cut the rope first or scream for warning. Chu Zhixia borrowed a little bit of strength on the cable, flew to the shore, ignored the boy and went directly into the ghost market.

The boatman was amazed.

Once born and twice matured, Chu Zhixia did not grab a guide first like last time, but went straight to the eighteenth floor. When passing by the lamp oil factory, the dwarf boss inside was flicking his whip, arrogantly commanding the servants to pull the corpse in, and when he saw Chu Zhixia, he was so frightened that he fell on his back.

Chu Zhixia went straight to the eighteenth floor, and this time, the singing and dancing in the building were leveling out and the voices were boiling.

The beauties singing and dancing on the high platform have changed again, and one after another golden lotus flowers have stepped out under their feet, blooming with the skirt, which can be described as a lotus step by step. The spectators below are either dressed as wanderers, or dressed in brocade clothes, or painted green eyebrows and red beards, all kinds of strange things.

Chu Zhixia grabbed a small guy casually and said, "I want to see the ghost city lord." ”

"Ghost City Master, how can you ...... when you see each other?"

"I am Li Qingbai's apprentice." Chu Zhixia interrupted him, "If you don't tell him, I want to see him, and I'll smash this place into a mess later, do you guess he will blame you for not reporting it and dismantling your bones as a puppet?" ”

The little guy changed his words in a timely manner: "Okay guest officer, I'll go right away, guest officer." ”