Chapter 10: The Art of War
After the two left the bar, they wandered aimlessly on the street, it was noon, and the people on the street gradually increased, in a square, there were many stalls, selling all kinds of things, including daily necessities, swords and magic wands and the like, of course, most of the quality sold here must not be as good as in the store, many children drilled around the crowd, circling around this small square, and some people were changing all kinds of magic there, and some magic apprentices were there to demonstrate the magic of magic to people。 The two of them were a little moved, one was Miss Qianjin, who was surrounded by people all day and night in the imperial capital, and went in and out of some high-end places, rarely came to this kind of public occasion, and Kong Ming rarely saw this kind of occasion, so the two of them walked to the square together. Hu Siyue lingered in those stalls selling jewelry, constantly picking this, picking that, with a smile on her face, although these small things are not worth a few dollars, and the workmanship is generally made of materials, but they are exquisite and dazzling, few girls can be exempted, and Kong Ming has to temporarily play the role of carrying a bag. The two of them walked around that square for a long time, Kong Ming complained in his heart, he originally wanted to see the prosperity of Sealand City, but he didn't want to become a small man with a bag, which made him angry. At this time, the two came to the front of a bookstall, where there are many kinds of books, Hu Siyue as a magician, the dedication to learning is innate, and Kong Ming just wants to follow her as a vassal and elegant person, at a glance this bookstall has everything, from the knight's travels, the magician's experience to the growth process of the assassin, the prince's adventures, the princess's lovesickness, the formation of magic, the history of the fighting spirit, etc., a lot of books or travelogues or professional or some people's livelihood books, and some are other books that Kong Ming does not know, there are many types, there are many books, but there are not many places to stand, Hu Siyue stood in front of the bookstall and kept holding a book to read, if there was anything he liked, he put it aside and folded it, but he no longer paid attention to Kong Ming next to him, there were several magicians and civilians around the bookstall, standing there, immersed in the book, Kong Ming looked bored, but he couldn't leave here, so he saved the trouble of the third lady looking for him, and picked up a copy of "Magic Art of War" The more I look at it, the more I want to see it, the main thing in the book is to explain the wars in Huatian Continent since the historical record, the whole process of the war and some means of war, the formation of the battle, and the specific description of the advantages and disadvantages of each branch of the army, the influence of terrain and weather on the process of war, the various factors of the outbreak of war, the attitude of various nationalities towards war, especially the description of the forbidden spell is placed in a particularly prominent position, because the forbidden spell determines the pattern of today's continent, and the forbidden spell is equivalent to a nuclear weapon.
In "The Magic Art of War", it is written: War arises from the instinct of human survival, and the end of war is also the instinct of human beings to decide for survival. Just like animals, in the unconscious form, animals fight with different animals in order to survive, whether it is territory or food, it is only a basic condition to ensure that the animal can survive. In the early days of human beings, human beings fought with various different monsters for the survival and continuation of their own race. With the expansion of the human population and the improvement of ability, human beings of different races gradually gathered together to form a country, and the survival of countries produced wars one after another, which continued, and even appeared in a pan-continental war that killed thousands of people, until the emergence of the forbidden spell, so that those war maniacs stopped this large-scale war behavior, this is the terrifying forbidden spell balance, no matter the size of a country's land area, as long as it has a holy magister who can cast the forbidden spell, then it will not be violated by its neighbors, because not every nation can withstand the wrath of the Holy Magister. The horror of the forbidden spell lies not only in its huge destructive power, but also in its continuous destructive power, such as the forbidden spell of fire, burning the city, it can put a city in fire for a long time, melt something that can be melted, and when it is over, the ground will be full of vitrified ground, and there will be no more plants on it, and for a long time, the ground will continue to release the fire element that has not been released; , This area will become the world of wind elements, for a long time, this can not disappear, let alone let people live; water magic forbidden spells, frozen for thousands of miles, can freeze everything within the magic range, and its temperature is very low, even the metal can be frozen, after the forbidden spell, the land in this area will become frozen soil, for a long time it is impossible to grow plants, even in very hot places; of course, there are other forbidden spells as well, but although the Holy Demon Master is easy to cultivate, but it is very difficult to release forbidden spells, except that the magic god can cast at any time, the Holy Magister will have a long time to prepare when casting the forbidden spell, and after the Holy Magister has released the forbidden spell, there will be a short period of magic gap, which is also when the Holy Magus is the weakest. This is the political balance of terror under the threat of forbidden spells on the continent now. Therefore, there is an unwritten rule on the continent that once there is a holy demon master who is not owned by any force, then this holy demon master is the object of all countries, and if it cannot be owned by any country, then all countries will jointly hunt down this kind of magician who cannot control the uncertain factor. Because no one likes to be put a forbidden spell by a holy magician, and because the forbidden spell exists, all countries have great respect for magicians, especially those above the senior magician. And there have been several precedents in history where countries have perished because they offended the Holy Magister, who ran directly into the enemy's capital and released a forbidden spell under an unknown circumstance, which directly led to the destruction of the capital, and the country under no leadership soon fell into collapse. And now, in order to prevent this from happening, all the countries have built defensive magic arrays for the capital, which can be vigilant and defend against the attacks of forbidden spells. Therefore, the Holy Magister is a nightmare for all nations, but it is also the hope of all nations, and the last weapon of a nation. Magicians have also become one of the most respected groups, and all countries have their own magic unions to control all magicians in their hands, giving them a noble status, and allowing them to work for the country, even if they do not work, they will not be obtained by other countries.
Kong Ming was fascinated, and suddenly felt a murderous aura passing through his body, and his body instinctively entered a state of fighting, but his eyes did not immediately look there, closed the book in his hand, looked at the price of the book casually, and then raised his head to look at the stall owner, the stall owner did not feel that there was anything wrong, saw Kong Ming's inquiring gaze, and said: "This book is 6 silver coins." He still gave him a gold coin, put the book into the space ring, and when he was looking for money, he naturally looked in the direction where the murderous aura came from just now, there was no one there, but there were five people who left from that direction, and the five people were not in a group, they were divided into two groups, a group of three, and a group of two. The group of three people were all dressed in ordinary clothes, and the two next to them each carried a sword on their backs, while the one in the middle was not equipped with any weapons, the three of them were walking and looking at the stalls on both sides, as if they were very interested, and the other group of people were two, like a pair of master and servant, the master was dressed more gorgeously, like a nobleman, and the servant was a samurai attire, wearing a set of heavy armor, burly, with a long sword on his back, Kong Ming did not find any murderous aura on their bodies, and looked at their backs for a while, still did not find anything, and shook his head。
"What are you looking at?" Hu Siyue next to her felt very strange when she saw Kong Ming's appearance, she was still stuck in the memories in the book, and she didn't find anything abnormal.
"Let's go, go back!" Kong Ming didn't answer her question, but directly said what he thought.
"Why?" Hu Siyue said angrily, seeing some of the things she liked, but she didn't watch them to her heart's content, but she was forced to go back, and no one was in a very good mood.
"We're being targeted, I don't know how many of them, hurry up and go, or it may be too late. Kong Ming didn't think about it, so he said it directly.
"You're kidding, this is the city, do you think anyone would dare to kill people here, don't they want to live. Hu Siyue smiled contemptuously.
Kong Ming was silent for a while, Hu Siyue saw him like this, and looked down on him even more, thinking that he was just nervous, just when she was about to turn around, Kong Ming suddenly said: "Even if they don't dare to kill people here, then you can continue to read your book, I'm sleepy, I want to go back to rest." After speaking, he was about to hand over the things in his hand to Hu Siyue, and Hu Siyue was even more annoyed when she saw Kong Ming's appearance.
"Are you a man? The voice unconsciously raised, Kong Ming saw her like this, he didn't feel anything wrong, and after handing over the things in his hand to her, he turned back. Seeing this, the stall owner said seriously: "The little couple quarrels, don't quarrel outside, especially women, this will make men feel very shameless." As he spoke, he handed the four silver coins he was looking for to Kong Ming, and then said, "A man should have a little belly, and don't be like his wife." The stall owner's words made both of them feel very embarrassed, and Hu Siyue's mood of buying books was also completely destroyed, and he still gave those things to Kong Ming and said angrily: "Go, go back, you are satisfied!" Kong Ming took the lead and left the book stall, after leaving the square, Kong Ming found a corner where no one was, and took out two sets of coats from the ring, one was still for Hu Siyue, and the other was kept for himself, squeezing all the messy things that Hu Siyue bought into the ring. "Put it on. Kong Ming said coldly. Hu Siyue was even more annoyed in her heart, and felt that Kongming's actions were very strange, but a good education made her endure him again and again, so she could only put on her clothes. After the two of them changed their clothes, they left the corner, but after walking back to the street, they felt that the atmosphere was very wrong. His gaze was more focused on the two people in the group, focusing on the two men, one man and one woman. No matter how annoyed Kong Ming was in Hu Siyue's heart, at this time she also knew that something was wrong, among those people, there were many people who didn't look at Kong Ming a second time after seeing the two of them, because Kong Ming was wearing clothes for Hu Siyue at the same time, she also pulled her hair into a man's long hair, instead of the usual female style, and Kong Ming deliberately took a bottle of wine in order to be more realistic, and kept pouring it into her mouth, and Hu Siyue was also very thoughtful, seeing this situation, she was also extremely cooperative。 The two of them have been walking a street corner, but such people have not decreased in the slightest, which makes Kong Ming feel incredible, thinking that the other party's power here must be very large, then he must know the origin of the two of them, if you want to arrest them, you can go directly to the residence of the merchant group, why bother with the people who are all over the street? Then Hu Siyue couldn't figure out what the reason was, and asked Kong Ming in a low voice, Kong Ming could only shake his head, saying that he didn't know what the reason was.
The pedestrians on the street were very nervous because of the arrival of these people, and many of them hid in the shops next to them, and just when Kong Ming and the two were about to walk out of this street, two people came up from the front and stopped in front of Kong Ming and the two, blocking the way of the two. One of the two is dressed as a noble disciple, while the other is a magician, judging from his magic robe and chest badge, he is a high-level wind magician, and the two of them are not that kind of simple people at first glance. I saw that the pale noble son made a gentleman's courtesy to Hu Siyue, and Hu Siyue also returned a salute. "Miss Hu, I haven't seen you for a long time, I wonder if this time is okay?"
"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Mark, and it scared me. Hu Siyue obviously knew the nobleman, but what Kong Ming didn't expect was that this nobleman's child was also a magician.
"Hehe, Senior Sister is famous for her boldness in school, how can she let this little scene scare?" Mark patted his ass.
"You brought so many people, can I not be frightened?" Hu Siyue said angrily.
"Hehe, we can't blame the junior brother, we are catching two vicious criminals, these two are very powerful, can we be careless? There is news that they have mixed up here, so we have come here early in the morning to set up control, and we can't let them escape again." Mark looked left and right and whispered, his face looked very excited and nervous, thinking that those two people should be very tricky, otherwise there would not be so many people coming.
"Are those two people making you, Lord Baron, so nervous?" Hu Siyue's mood calmed down a bit, thinking that as long as it wasn't related to her, she could watch it as a drama and add some talking points to her boring school life, so now she has some expectations. His eyes lit up and he looked at her junior brother.
"I said it, don't say it. Mark said mysteriously.
"You say. Hu Siyue said disapprerovingly.
"It's the Dark Moon Twin Spirits. Mark said smugly.
"It's them!" Hu Siyue said in shock, looking at Kong Ming's ignorant look, Hu Siyue preached for him: "The Dark Moon Twin Spirits are two people, one is called Dark Sun, and the other is called Dark Moon, of course, this is just their nickname, what their names are, no one knows, only that this is what the people who escaped under their hands call them." Ten years ago, there were several vicious murders in the vicinity of the imperial capital, the people who were killed were very mixed, there were people of several classes, there was no law, but the method was the same, the victims were killed, and they always left the dark moon two words written in their blood around them, and there were more than ten such incidents, and dozens of people died, which made the people in the imperial capital feel very afraid, and the police in the imperial capital were busy for dozens of days without any results. At that time, no one knew who did this, until one time, they met a person during a murder, a swordsman at the level of a great swordsman. It was an Imperial Guards officer, he was on vacation at the time, living in the imperial capital, one day, he went to a dinner party, came home very late, on the way back, he met the Dark Moon Twin Spirits, at first he didn't know that the two were the Dark Moon Twin Spirits, just saw the two of them cover their faces with cloaks, blocking in front of his carriage, which made him very annoyed when he was a little drunk, the two didn't say anything, they started directly at him, the Guards officer took a few of his domestic servants, and fought back, but although there were many of them, the strength of the other party was very strong, in the process of fighting, The officer knew that the other party was a dark attribute fighting spirit of the great swordsman and a necromancer, at the beginning of the battle, the officer's personnel immediately fell into a disadvantage, because the other party summoned more than a dozen undead knights, and cast a few negative spells on them, so that they fell into passivity in the battle, and the dark attribute of the great sword master was constantly attacking the officer, and finally, the officer waited for help in the process of fighting while escaping, a few magicians and great swordsmen who were nearby, they rushed over because they felt the fluctuations of the magic element and the fluctuation of the fighting spirit, but because they didn't know in advance that it was the Dark Moon Twin Spirits of the Mingzhen Imperial Capital, so they didn't take the fight very seriously, until after the two escaped, they went to see the situation of the few domestic servants who were killed, and they found out that these two people were the murderers who shocked the imperial capital in the recent period of time, the Dark Moon Shuangling. From the confessions of those who came to the rescue and the officer, people knew that the Dark Moon Twin Spirits were two people, one was a dark attribute great swordsman, a man, and the other was a female necromancer. During that period of time, all the dark attribute swordsmen and necromancers in the imperial capital were investigated, and the location of the two people was found out, but when the police in the imperial capital arrived at the place where they lived, they found that they had left there, and the waiters of the hotel who had seen them were all killed by them, but the police still drew the images of the two based on the conversation of the people staying in the hotel, and issued a seventh-level wanted warrant, and the names were used when they checked in the hotel, Dark Sun and Dark Moon. Oh, the seventh-level wanted warrant is the wanted warrant for seventh-level criminals, such as the Great Swordsman and the Great Magister, the seventh-level assassin, and so on. Until now, I have heard that they have been surrounded several times, but they have never been able to catch them, and more people have died. Hu Siyue said as she looked at both sides of the road, for fear that the two people would suddenly appear.
"Why did they kill people?" Kong Ming thought for a moment, puzzled, "What kind of connections do those who were killed?"
"The police have been investigating for a long time, and the people who died have no connection, so that's what makes people feel tricky. In the past two days they have killed many people in the city, three nobles and five commoners. Mark said.
Kong Ming looked around, those people didn't pay attention to them when they saw them and Mark together, but they were still vigilantly observing the surroundings, Kong Ming didn't want to stay here for too long, so he said directly: "Third Miss, let's go back." But Kong Ming's words were not taken seriously by Hu Siyue, her vanity overcame her reason, and she said directly: "Do you have a sense of justice, now they are obviously here, if we catch them, what kind of credit will it be?" Kong Ming saw her like this, and he didn't think so, a big sword master, a magic master, where can they afford to provoke, although Hu Siyue is just looking for an excuse for his own curiosity, but you need to know that curiosity kills the cat, before he has no strength, Kong Ming doesn't want to go to this troubled water, that is not brave, but a fool's behavior, but as a mercenary, he can't leave his employer, go back by himself, and persuade for a while, which makes Hu Siyue very annoyed, but always refuses to leave, Kong Ming has no choice, so he has no choice but to stand there with her to see if the guards of those cities can catch those two, but to be honest, in Kong Ming's eyes, It is impossible for those people to catch the Dark Moon Twin Spirits, with their hands and skills, they really can't do anything to others, let alone discover those two, after all, the Dark Fighting Qi is the best at stealth among all the Fighting Spirits, and the same is true for the necromancer, and it is happy if you don't encounter it! Kong Ming was still persuading her at first, but when she got to the back, she simply ignored it, sat on the side and took out the magic art of war to read, while the guards next to Mark looked at the third lady of the Hu family like idiots, and it wasn't until the sun was about to go down that Hu Siyue reluctantly left.