Volume III, Chapter 43
The night breeze blew slowly, and the tent rippled like waves, and the shadows reflected in the firelight on the tent shook with it.
"Aren't you trying to kill me?" the stranger who had invaded the tent opened his eyes and stepped forward gently, the corners of his black placket and belt fluttering in the wind, "Then, let's go together!"
The target who was being chased by himself suddenly appeared in front of him, and the people in the tent were in a panic, while the fat man and the thin man were quite calm among them, and the two of them stabilized the formation on the left and right, leaving the front of the enemy for the phoenix.
"It's Your Excellency Cohen Al Qaeda!" Visiting late at night," the phoenix opened her eyes slightly in a daze, and her seductive voice was slightly vibrased, "What do you want......
Cohen took another step forward, his eyes scanning the people around him, and a strange smile appeared on his face, those who are familiar with Cohen know that there is endless killing intent lurking under this smile.
Cohen took two steps in a row, and the invisible psychological pressure enveloped everyone present, and the fat man who stood at the front was the first to bear the brunt.
Although the fat man held a round shield tightly in front of his chest, he still couldn't eliminate the fear in his heart, and he couldn't help but open his mouth: "You, you're alone?"
"There's a monster behind me. At this point, Cohen was quite honest, and he gestured up with his thumb: "Floating there!
"You're not coming! We're not scared!" the thin man opened his mouth and shouted, "What's on your head, what's there......"
As the thin man spoke, one of his subordinates suddenly acted on his own. The mercenary flew backwards sharply, choosing the route with the shortest distance and the most obstacles from Cohen's point of view. Rushing out like lightning...... Cohen looked at him with interest.
The mercenary, who had made up his mind to escape, did not look back. Barely touching the ground, he rushed to the tent and waved his hand—the tent cracked. From the moment he started to act and rushed out, the whole set of actions was completed in one go, without the slightest hesitation or pause!
Cohen's left hand, which had been placed on his belt, had already carried a dagger upside down, and at the moment when the mercenary rushed out of the tent, he suddenly flicked his wrist, stretched out his five fingers, and the dagger spun and flew out. Fly past the eyes of the thin man, fly through the flames of the bonfire, and break the curtain!
A muffled snort was heard outside the curtain, and a stream of liquid was splashed onto the curtain with a subtle "rustle" sound. The torn curtain was blown up by the night wind like a flag, and everyone saw the vague outline of a human body, which struggled and twitched weakly, and finally fell silent helplessly......
The thin man was so frightened by the cold light that flew in front of him that he could no longer speak, and a trace of blood appeared at the corner of his mouth—he bit his tongue.
The audience was silent. Only the campfire was still burning.
"Bet it on, there's six people left here. If anyone escapes from my hands......" Cohen calmly withdrew his hand and pinched his fingers: "I'll lose you a copper plate." ”
"Hey...... That one...... This is a misunderstanding!" the fat man stammered: "Your Excellency will go your way, and we will go ours, and everyone can not interfere with each other......"
Cohen ignored the fat man, he could tell at a glance that this man's status was not equal to that of the three leaders, and that the real person in charge should be the woman who was almost stripped naked.
"What else can we get besides a copper plate?" Phoenix took two steps forward weakly: "Is Your Excellency so stingy?"
Without waiting for Cohen to answer, another plaintive sigh came out of Phoenix's mouth.
Hearing this command, the men in the tent attacked at the same time, the fat man rolled on the ground, the round shield covered the top of his head, and the sword slashed at Cohen's legs, and the thin man's slender sword stabbed Cohen in the chest, and through the fire, the phoenix raised her hand and threw the only piece of clothing left on her body at Cohen...... The remaining three grabbed their crossbow arrows at the same time and aimed them at Cohen.
Cohen laughed out loud and slammed his right foot into the fat man's shield to take advantage of his strength. With a muffled thud, the black iron sword sheath slammed into the thin man's thin sword, and then Cohen drew his sword in the air and picked open the flying fig leaf.
The fat man spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his clumsy body fell forward, and the thin man also retreated as if he had been electrocuted, and the formation of the three of them had collapsed.
But the piece of cloth that Cohen picked up and flew swelled in the air, grew hands and feet, and then flew to the phoenix with a heel in the wind...... When Cohen took a closer look, he realized that it was an animal the size of a domestic dog, except for its large belly, its fur was extremely short and smooth, and its four paws were small, and it was staring at Cohen with a pair of fiery red eyes.
"I didn't expect it, Your Excellency, my phantom beast is already ten years old!" The naked phoenix played with a strand of long hair, and his face was charming: "It's all you, I know the secret of others, so I must keep you." ”
After speaking, the phoenix's arm was raised, and a few rays of silver light flew towards Cohen, and the phantom beast lying at her feet roared, and also pounced on Cohen, pounced on Cohen halfway, and a red ball of light shot towards Cohen.
Cohen dodged the ball of light and stabbed at the phantom beast with a sword, but the sword body was wrapped around the silver wire first, and as soon as the phoenix hand was retracted, the black iron sword was dragged crooked.
The phantom beast's body swirled in the air, its claw nails sticking out, revealing a bits of miserable green.
With a slam back of his right hand, Cohen once again took off into the air, drawing a dagger in his left hand to force the phantom beast back. Under the violent pull, the silver filaments couldn't help but tremble, making a sharp cracking sound.
The little phantom beast waved its poisonous claws, quickly rotating around Cohen's body, and attacked around the dead corner of Cohen's defense, while Cohen was limited by the silver line to dodge the space, unable to move flexibly, and could only resist with a short dagger, but the phantom beast's claws seemed to be very hard, not afraid of the damage of the blade.
Cohen could only slash violently, shaking the small phantom beast away again and again with great force.
The phoenix on the ground let out a short gasp, the phantom beast's body speed up, and the dagger's fierce slash was dodged continuously, Cohen had no choice but to compare his speed with this phantom beast.
A man and a beast slaughtered in the air, and the people on the ground only saw them striking and separating again and again in the air, the blades and claw tips striking each other continuously. Although it's all small actions to play fast. But it's thrilling. A thin "ding-ding-ding" sound sounded in the night sky.
Cohen suffered from the fact that the phantom beast could fly as he wished in the air, and the originally strict defense became a little negligent in front of this small and flexible phantom beast, but the phantom beast could not make any contribution for a while.
After another gasp from the phoenix, the phantom beast flew away from Cohen one by one, and crawled at the mistress's feet again, its belly bulging uncontrollably, as if it was adjusting its breathing.
Cohen's body flipped and fell rapidly in the air, and after landing on the ground, he let out a few breaths...... There was a rare caution on his face. And that fleeting panic.
"How is it, Your Excellency, do you still think that mercenaries are incompetent?" Seeing the expression on Cohen's face, Phoenix lightly opened his red lips and pulled his hair lightly: "If I didn't have the strength, I wouldn't have brought people to fight for the bounty of five million gold coins." ”
"Five million gold coins. Cohen looked down and thought about it, "Do you have a chance to get it?"
"That's my business!" the phoenix chuckled, "Well, if Your Excellency is willing to cooperate, I will not object." After all, it's not fun to carry a dead man's head on your body. ”
"Haha, what are you thinking?" Cohen smiled dumbly: "You know my identity, and you dare to talk to me like this?"
"They're trying to capture you alive! The bounty plus a million ...... What's not to do? Who called me the stronger side? Phoenix ostentatiously fiddled with the silver thread in his hand: "Others think that I have only achieved the position of the leader of a mercenary group by relying on this attractive body and appearance, but they don't know my true strength, and that's why I do." I don't know how many people have died under my silver thread and phantom beasts. ”
"How many am I?" Cohen wiped the sweat from his head, and the black iron sword plunged into the ground. He exhaled a long breath: "So many mercenary killers are chasing and intercepting me, Lu Man is really willing to pay for it!"
"Of course, who let you stand in the way of Lu Man's wealth? People have long gotten the news and rushed all the way from the Bansai Empire here!" The phantom beast jumped into the hands of the phoenix and was gently caressed by the master's small hand: "Now it's up to you what you mean, don't delay my time, the weather on the dividing line between gods and demons is cold!"
Cohen's eyes froze: "This is the dividing line between gods and demons?"
"Don't you know?" Phoenix became alert, "Then how did you get here?"
Cohen chuckled, and the subtle cautious expression on his face was swept away: "How did it come, it doesn't really matter, the important thing is that I finally fucking know where this is and who is going to kill me!"
"You!" Phoenix's face changed: "Did you pretend to be struggling before?"
"What do you say?"
The panicked phoenix raised her hand to retract the silver thread and dragged Cohen's weapon away, but the black iron sword stuck in the ground did not move.
"You think you can confuse a man with the size of a pig? You think you can beat me with a phantom beast the size of a mouse? You're not fucking stupid. Cohen sarcastically mocked the naked woman in front of him in vicious language, and stepped forward to draw the black iron sword.
The phoenix stretched out his hands, and dozens of strands of silver flew out of his fingertips, winding towards Cohen from all angles.
At the same time, a sharp howl came out of her mouth, and the phantom beast leaped forward under her feet, and pounced on Cohen again.
Cohen held the black iron sword in his hand, and with a slight shock of the sword, the silver threads wrapped around it made a few crisp sounds and then all broke off. Then a sword slashed vertically, and the golden fighting qi gushed out from the sword body, not only sweeping away the silver threads flying in the sky, but also tearing the phantom beast that rushed in front of him to pieces.
A few crossbow arrows flew in, and they were also picked up by Cohen with his long sword.
"Just a few of you," Cohen sneered, "Let's eat!"
The people who were still alive were so frightened that even the will to run away was almost gone.
Like a passing storm, Cohen's black cloak swirled around the campfire, causing a terrible scream. In the end, Cohen's footsteps stopped in front of Phoenix.
The fleeing phoenix was hit in the flank by the head of its flying companion, breaking three ribs, and coughing in pain.
"Slut!" Cohen looked at her expressionlessly, "What else do you know, valuable words can be used for your life." ”
"I ......" Phoenix's naked body was sprayed with the blood of her comrades, red and white looked extremely hideous, she opened a pair of frightened eyes, and replied in a trembling voice: "I won't sue you ......"
"Good. Cohen approached her, pinched the phoenix's neck with his hand, and barely squeezed out a smile on his murderous face: "Say it!
"I won't sue you!" the phoenix, who was still in high spirits just now, howled helplessly. There was fear and struggle in his tone: "I know. You won't spare me!"
Cohen in a killing state is unable to maintain his original sanity. The fingers tightened, causing a crunch of bones.
"Then ......," Cohen added softly, glaring at the pair of lifeless eyes, "just die!"
The woman's slender limbs gradually loosened, and as soon as Cohen let go, the body collapsed limply on the ground.
Cohen looked at his hand and took a step back in a trance.
Killing a person is nothing at all important for a general who gallops across the battlefield and dies nine times in his life. The question is. Cohen hadn't killed a few women, but in a series of previous assassination attempts, he had let others do what he had to do with the women he had to kill, and even before crushing the woman's neck, he thought about letting her go......
But why, why, at that moment, you can't control your body?
"Ah! the Knight of the Gods is sad. Floating in the air, the black shadow that had been inseparable from Cohen spoke: "Is it because of this woman?"
Cohen looked up, his confused eyes blank at the dark, and he didn't pay attention.
"Is the Knight of the Gods coveting this woman's body?"
Coveting this woman's body? No, of course not. Cohen had so many maids around him, and he could take one of the happy maids at random. I don't know how many times more beautiful than this dead female leader...... But Cohen really didn't bother to argue about anything, and at this stage, he couldn't do anything about this dark shadow that disgusted him so much.
"Do you want me to revive this woman? The black shadow continued to speak boringly, as if the meaning of this black shadow was to upset Cohen.
"Don't you want to save her? So, you still love to kill, don't you? Think about how fragile life is! The slightest force exerts that it will perish. Come here, knight of the gods, swear allegiance to me, and I will give you the power to crisscross the entire continent, and you can ......do whatever you want."
Cohen exhaled, shook his head, and began rummaging through the tabernacle to see if there was anything he could use.
A few short crossbows were naturally brought with them, and from the clothes taken off by the female chieftain, a few rolls of tough silver thread were found, and a little food and water were also brought...... He is completely a black shadow and does not exist zài.
But the black shadow didn't think so, and still stubbornly floated above Cohen's head, saying boring tirades, and occasionally "kindly" reminded Cohen that there was another useful thing that he had missed.
Cohen tried his best to control his irritable feelings, packed up his things, and walked out with his feet raised. Outside the tabernacle, there were also more than a dozen corpses lying horizontally.
"Look at what you've done, the people over there, the people over here, you've killed them. ”
The black shadow floated unhurriedly: "You didn't think to forgive them, you hated them, you slaughtered them for pleasure. This qiē and qiē all show your true nature......"
Cohen ran wildly.
"In fact, you yourself understand that you are not a compassionate person, that your body, your blood, and your soul are hungry to kill. The voice of the black shadow still came clearly: "This is not shameful, this is not sad, this is you, the real you." Worldly prejudices, the cold eyes of others, those who hate you and are hated by you...... Kill it, erase those evils, and restore the world to a clean ......."
Cohen continued to run wildly.
"You don't have the ability to protect yourself, you don't have the ability to protect your best friends, you don't have anything to love, you don't have a future, you will always be in confusion, you can't see a glimmer of hope, nothingness will always be with you, forever. But I can redeem you, I can give you strength and make you raise your eyebrows, if only you stretch out your hand to me for help, and prostrate yourself at my feet......"
Cohen stopped suddenly, walked through a dense forest, picked a small tree, and climbed the canopy to sleep.
The dark shadow didn't intend to let Cohen go, and whispered in his ear with endless perseverance, until he realized that Cohen had really fallen asleep.
There was silence for a while, and the black shadow rose into the sky, looking a little dejected.
"Why not!" the Black Shadow sighed, "Isn't this one of the steps of demonization?"
"Your Excellency, Princess. Another dark shadow appeared, also in the form of a woman: "Why don't we go back?"
"We ran out secretly, and if we go back early and later, we will be punished anyway, so we might as well bring a toy back to relieve our boredom!" replied the dark shadow known as "Princess", "If you are afraid, go back first, or help me think about what went wrong with this demonization step." ”
"I want to ...... It must be that the princess didn't tempt her with profits, didn't those Protoss always have very practical promises?"
"For example?"
"Princess, I don't know......! Believe in me, and give you eternal life......"
"Ahh
"If you don't believe me, you will be punished by God and drowned you with a flood. ”
Hearing this, the princess rolled in the air with laughter.
"But Princess, I've heard that the easiest way to demonize is a spiritual magic strike, why don't you give it a try?"
"No, if you use magic, he'll be a fool, what's so funny with a stupid toy?" said the princess softly, "but since I said that I want to demonize him, I must demonize him completely, or else this fun thing will not be my turn...... What's the news on the Demon General's side?"
The first demon general replied that the arranged hunt and killing candidates have all arrived, and there will be no problem. ”
"Well, that's pretty much it. The princess giggled, "When he wakes up, it's up to me to do what I do." If it doesn't work, take advantage of the fact that he is being hunted down and killed physically and mentally exhausted, and make a contribution in one fell swoop!"
At this time, the darkest hour of the night has passed, and a ray of light has appeared in the sky. (To be continued......)