Chapter 29: An Assassination Without a Trace
Xiang Ye had the heart to step forward to help, but he didn't have an inch in his hand, so he could only hide aside and scratch his ears and cheeks urgently.
Although Li Feng was half a cut above the other party in swordsmanship, after all, he was still unable to support himself after fighting with the five people, and gradually revealed his defeat, and several times he narrowly avoided the short sword stabbed at him by the five people.
Seeing that Li Feng was in danger everywhere, Xiang Ye couldn't help but feel anxious, but unfortunately he didn't have a sword in his hand, in fact, even if he had a sword, he would only slash like a soldier fighting on the battlefield, and a duel with a real swordsman was tantamount to death.
Just when he was very anxious, he suddenly found a lot of large dirt on the side of the road. He hurriedly squatted down, picked up a piece of dirt, and threw it towards a person who was fighting with Li Feng.
The man was concentrating on besieging Li Feng with his companions, when he suddenly felt a foreign object flying towards him, and hurriedly raised his sword to block it, but he didn't want the short sword to block the flying foreign object but it stirred up a burst of smoke and dust, and immediately blinded his eyes.
After the swordsman was stunned, his movements suddenly slowed down, he shook his sword and quickly retreated a few steps, stood aside and rubbed his eyes with both hands.
After feeling that his eyes were slightly better, the swordsman glared fiercely at Xiang Ye who was hiding on the side, and rushed towards Xiang Ye with a strange scream.
Xiang Ye didn't have a blade in his hand, so he hurriedly pulled out his legs and ran backwards, although he had some attainments in martial arts, he was not arrogant enough to dare to snatch the blade from the hands of a professional swordsman empty-handed.
The swordsman chased after Xiang Ye, seeing that he was getting away from Li Feng and the others, his feet were quite fast, but he couldn't shake off the swordsman behind him who was slightly hunched and his legs were spinning quickly like a windmill, and he followed him with small steps.
"Boy, stop!" The swordsman chasing Xiang Ye shouted at Xiang Ye as he ran: "If you want to live, stop me!" ”
Xiang Ye ran forward without looking back, thinking to himself, "Stop? Do you think you're stupid? If you run down, you might be able to save a small life, but if you stand, you're really on your way! I'm afraid that this life will be in your hands at that time! ”
Seeing that the distance between the two was getting closer and closer, and hearing the hurried footsteps, Xiang Ye turned his head and glanced back, and the figures of Li Feng and the four swordsmen who were fighting with him had already become a few black spots.
He couldn't help but feel a little hopeless, it was not that he had never learned to grab a white blade empty-handed, but in the past, both sides were bare-handed in the ring, and he had never had the opportunity to experience snatching a knife from an opponent; In this era, he has participated in two battles, but he has a blade in his hand when he fights, and he will not be as embarrassed as he is now.
"Ahh Xiang Ye was running for his life, and suddenly a scream came from behind him, he subconsciously glanced back, and saw the swordsman lying on his back on the ground, the swordsman's neck was still bubbling with blood, and he didn't know when someone cut his throat.
He stopped and looked left and right, the grass and trees on both sides of the road made a "rustling" sound under the breeze, the swordsman who was still chasing him had become a corpse, the surrounding environment was quiet and terrifying, Xiang Ye couldn't help but feel a cool air coming out of the back of his spine, this cool air "swished" upward, constantly impacting his cerebellar cortex.
People feel fear, especially after something strange happens in front of them, fear is like a spring bud after the rain at an irrepressible speed. Xiang Ye's heart was beating rapidly, and he could clearly hear the rapid "fluffy" sound of his heart beating.
"Who? Which master saved him? He spun around, and there was still silence around him, with no trace of human existence.
He cautiously approached the corpse of the swordsman lying on the ground, and vigilantly leaned out a foot and kicked the short sword in the swordsman's hand to the side.
After kicking the short sword out, Xiang Ye jumped to the side of the sword, bent down to pick it up, and looked back at the swordsman's corpse.
Feeling that the swordsman was dead and would not pose a threat to him, he wanted to turn away, but after taking a few steps and turning back.
The swordsman's death was so strange that he finally felt a little uneasy, and after turning back, he held the short sword in his backhand and stabbed it hard at the corpse.
A few swords went down, and the corpse's chest was a blur of flesh and blood. Xiang Ye was relieved at this time, and with a long sigh, he stood up straight and ran towards the place where Li Feng and the four swordsmen were fighting.
When Xiang Ye arrived at the place, what he saw was not a scene of fierce fighting, what he saw was Li Feng standing in the middle of the road with a sword in his hand and a blank face, and four corpses lying in four directions around Li Feng. Coincidentally, these four corpses were all head and foot inside, lying straight on the road, four pairs of feet facing Li Feng who was standing in the middle, and their heads pointed in four directions, southeast, northwest, and north.
"What's going on?" Xiang Ye ran to Li Feng's side, looked at the corpses around him and said with some puzzlement: "I was being chased just now, I heard a scream from behind, and when I looked back, the person chasing me died, what's going on with you here?" Did you kill all four of them alone? ”
Li Feng frowned and shook his head, "No, I don't know what's going on, just now when I was feeling alone, suddenly a figure flashed, and then these four people fell silently." ”
Xiang Ye looked at the corpses on the ground with some confusion, and saw that the four corpses were all swords in the throat, and it didn't look like someone had attacked from behind at all.
He raised his head and glanced at Li Feng with a blank face holding a short sword with some suspicion, he didn't believe that someone could have such a fast speed and be able to kill four swordsmen with excellent swordsmanship in an instant without Li Feng even seeing his figure clearly. If there is really such a person in the world, there is no need to fight the war again, as long as one side hires a person with such superb swordsmanship and body skills to assassinate the opponent's main general, I am afraid that there is no force that can stop the ending of the main general.
After being stunned for a while, Li Feng blinked and said to Xiang Ye: "This time, I'm afraid that there is a master in the secret to help me and others succeed, since he is unwilling to meet us, I am afraid that there is an unspeakable hardship, don't worry about this matter anymore, let's go back!" ”
On the way back, neither Li Feng nor Xiang Ye spoke again. Li Feng lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, but Xiang Ye's mind kept coming up with the simulated scene in the swordsman duel, and the more he simulated this scene in his mind, the more suspicious he felt. The attack from behind almost cut the throats of the four swordsmen at the same time, even if they had a fast body, it was impossible to do it.
The two of them walked forward, and when they were about to reach the city gate, Li Feng suddenly stopped and shouted in a low voice: "Not good! Almost broke the big thing! ”
With that, he turned and ran back down the path. Xiang Ye was taken aback by Li Feng's shout, and hurriedly ran after him towards the path.
Running back to the place where they had just fought, something strange happened in front of them again. I saw that the road was empty, not to mention the corpses, and even the blood-soaked land had been stripped of a layer of skin, where could it be seen that there had just been a fierce fight here!
Li Feng squatted on the ground, picked up a handful of soil from the ground that had obviously been scraped with a sharp weapon, put it on his nose and sniffed, and said, "It's really a strange thing, who can dispose of the corpse so cleanly in such a short time?" And it didn't leave the slightest smell of blood on the ground. ”
After saying that, he turned his head and said to Xiang Ye, who was bending down to look at the ground behind him, "Brother, let's go to the place where the person who chased you just now died." You might even find some clues. ”
Xiang Ye answered, and the two of them quickly ran forward.
Li Feng's posture when running was the same as that of the swordsman who was chasing Xiang Ye before, Xiang Ye leaned back and took a big stride and swung his arms quickly, but he still couldn't catch up with Li Feng, who was shaking small steps, and after a while, the two of them came to the place where the swordsman who was chasing Xiang Ye just now was killed.
The road was empty, and there were still shadows of corpses. As on the previous pavement, a new piece of soil, apparently cut with a sharp object, appeared in front of the two of them in the place where the body had been laid.
At first, Xiang Ye still had some suspicions that the person who saved him was Li Feng, but after he didn't see the body after rushing back to the path, his previous speculation was suddenly overturned by him. Li Feng had been by his side all the time, and it was impossible for him to have time to come back to dispose of the corpses, so it was very likely that the person who killed these swordsmen just now would have someone else.
There was no corpse in sight, and the two looked at each other in amazement, feeling a little uneasy in their hearts. While the people who secretly helped them kill the swordsman and dispose of the corpse were likely companions rather than enemies, they were puzzled by their hide-thy style.
Since they are companions, why don't they show up?
On the way back to the city, Li Feng and Xiang Ye still looked very close, as if the fight just now had not happened at all, but there were several cuts in the white clothes worn by Li Feng that were cut by the sword, indicating that they had just experienced a fight.
During the reign of the first emperor Zhao Zheng, it was strictly forbidden for the people to fight privately, but since the first emperor died and the second emperor ascended the throne, the world has risen one after another, and the original orderly system was suddenly broken, and the civil competition has also flourished again. In many places, there have been casualties caused by fighting, and local officials have often turned a blind eye to this.
Everyone in Xingyang City knows that Li Feng is a popular person around Li You, although few people know what Li You specifically arranged for him to do, but many people have seen that no matter where Li You goes, he will be followed by a white-clothed swordsman, and that swordsman is Li Feng.
Li Feng has a special identity, and naturally no one dares to take care of it after a private fight with someone, at least in the territory of Sanchuan County.
Of course Xiang Ye didn't know this, he didn't even know Li Feng's name. The only thing he knew was that Li Feng was working in the county guard's mansion, and he was Li You's subordinates, and Li You's subordinates were naturally his friends rather than enemies.