8, Bai Xiaoxie, a disciple of the Snake King
He pressed the combination lock of the box, and the lid popped open, revealing a light gray robe inside. On the top of the robe, four red gold rings, two large and two small, lay quietly, glowing with a faint light in the gradually gathering twilight.
Five years ago, I saw Mai Ye for the first time at the Head Descending Master Conference, and he was wearing this "battle suit" woven from the silk of the Western Regions, and the four golden rings were spirit rings that had been forbidden by the twelve generations of heads of his faction, and the biggest effect was to close his mind and not be controlled by the Gu magic of other head descending masters.
Mai Ye said that the awarding of the battle suit almost represents the retransmission of the mantle and bowl to the other party. So, this time he really sensed the coming end. In the eyes of the characters in the rivers and lakes, Mai Ye's personality is between good and evil, and he belongs to the good people in the profession of the head descender, and often helps those who are harmed by the evil head descender. His death will undoubtedly cause the Dao Demon Elimination in this realm.
"Eagle, I have something to say to the Dragon Elephant Girl, please—" Mai Ye picked up the golden ring and smiled apologetically at me.
I bowed slightly: "Take care." Then he strode out of the hall, through the hallway full of spells, and out of the bar.
There was no light in the hallway, and the twilight was getting worse, and the surroundings were plunged into endless silence and darkness. Probably the entire Crown Mansion was rented by Mai Ye, because I couldn't hear the other residents walking and talking, and judging from the living customs of Africans, they were afraid of the head lowerer, and they would never live next to such people unless they had to.
I haven't mentioned the "Poison King" to Mai Ye, he is going to die, what's the point of mentioning anyone's name?
At the corner of the corridor, four golden lights lit up, like four chains of lightning in the dark night, illuminating the charms on the ground together. A fierce and high-pitched chanting sound followed suit, it was Mai Ye roaring loudly, and at the same time, the sharp female voice of the Dragon Elephant Girl also responded to the beat, and the two waves of sound constantly caused a buzzing echo in the corridor.
I don't know whether to stop Mai Ye's actions or not, after all, the mysterious world of the head descending master is incomprehensible to ordinary people, and many times, masters who have reached the peak of the head descending technique will see death as the only way to 'go one step further and go further'.
Mai Ye also said that only the detachment of physical death can be exchanged for the sublimation of spiritual power. He longs for detachment as a way to resist the torment of a terminal illness all over his body, and perhaps I should fulfill him?
I quietly descended the stairs to the steps outside the building and sat down slowly.
Nighttime lighting in the slum area is scarce, and the light is sparse as far as the eye can see. On the contrary, the bustling area of Cairo City in the distance is brightly lit and brightly lit like a fairyland.
"Regardless of the identity of the Dragon Elephant Girl for the time being, as long as she can remove the poison for Xiwei, she will pass this level first. The night wind was blowing strongly, and the chill made me suddenly sober up, and my thoughts jumped out of Mai Ye's personal circle. A phone call with Hannah, some of the old memories more or less sneaked up, but they seemed extremely distant, as if those days were just a nightmare that they had and could never become a clear reality.
Suddenly, there were people in front of the street, men, women, and children, each of whom craned their necks and looked up at the top of the building.
I understood that when the golden light appeared, it would definitely shine through the window, turning the building into a dazzling beacon in the dark night, and of course alarming the nearby residents.
"The gods have appeared, the gods have appeared......" The ragged fools scrambled to their knees, their foreheads touching the ground, and bowed reverently, oblivious to the dust and garbage beneath them. The dollars and supplies donated by the International Red Cross to the poor people in Egypt over the years have nourished their bodies, but they have not changed their minds at all, and they are still living in the dream of relying on the gods for rescue.
I left the steps and walked to a clearing on the right. Two black basketball hoops stood opposite each other, forming a simple basketball court covered with dust, but the hoop was bare, and there was not even a net.
Barren Africa is an ugly scar on the earth's body, which, despite decades of assistance from European missionaries, American volunteer pastors, Asian philanthropic magnates and the International Red Cross, shows no signs of healing, but tends to expand.
"If there really is a 'sea of gold' in the desert, it may improve the situation in Egypt and even North Africa—" This was just my sudden exclamation, after all, the treasure of gold will only fall into the hands of a very small number of people, and millions of civilians in Africa will have to suffer the miserable fate of being driven by slavery in silence.
I suddenly realized the presence of a man, and out of the corner of my eye, he was standing next to a gas station, straddling a high-powered Kawasaki motorcycle covered in white. He was dressed in a white suit, which stood out in the night, dwarfing the filthy surroundings.
A dim street lamp was lit at the entrance of the gas station, casting a hazy circle of light on the ground, and this person stood in the only light within a hundred meters.
"Isn't the comer good?" I noticed that instead of staring at the top floor of the building with the same curiosity as the fools, he stared at the bustling night scene in the distance, holding his arms steadily.
Of course, to be able to stand in such a posture in a slum where a robbery could happen at any moment, he must have weapons on his body that sweep away all troubles, such as the elbow of his left arm that bulges slightly, the wrinkled parts behind the knees of his legs, and the arch-shaped hard object that is an inch wide and half a foot long that protrudes at the back of the collar of his suit.
Sometimes, a huge treasure is the most visible banner that can attract the attention of the world's underworld masters in just a few weeks, and thus form a situation of strong players in the area where the treasure appears. Judging from the appearance of this young man in white alone, it is impossible to tell which force he belongs to, only that he is an Asian mixed race.
I looked up to the top floor of the Crown Building, and the golden light faded away, and the darkness finally enveloped everything, and there was no light coming out of the window. A few minutes later, a dragon elephant girl dressed in a gray robe appeared on the steps, her strange long hair hidden under the robe, and two gold rings hanging from her left and right earlobes, swaying silently.
The prostrate crowd was still on the ground, and she walked down the steps without paying attention to me, as if on top of the dust were mere lowly ants, not worth a glance at all.
The young man in white turned his head, calmly glanced at the dragon elephant girl, lowered his hand and started the motorcycle engine, and drove straight in the direction of Cairo City. His movements are simple and smooth, without any dragging, and I believe that every time he pulls out a gun to kill someone, it is conceivable that this is an extremely dangerous killer.
"Honorable guest, shall we go?" the dragon elephant girl's eyes lit up with a strange light.
"Don't call me that, I'm Chen Ying, you can call me 'Mr. Chen' or 'Ying'. "I withdrew my attention from the young man, but then I was surprised to find that there were eight wrinkles on the smooth forehead of the dragon elephant woman, seven vertical and one horizontal, deep and striking. It seems that her age has suddenly increased by ten years, and between her gestures, she naturally reveals the steady generosity of a mature girl.
"Okay, I'll call you 'Eagle', now, can I go and save your friend?" she raised her hand and pointed in the direction of Cairo City, and the golden ring on her wrist shone brightly, even though it was still shining in the dark night.
"Where's Mai Ye?" I had a very bad premonition.
"He is very good, and he will stay here for seven days in retreat to comprehend the method of 'Yuan Shen out of the body and incarnating into Gu'. He had just called to call a taxi for us, which would arrive in a few minutes, don't worry about him. The dragon elephant girl tilted her head, her dark eyelashes were high, and her eyes were as bright as stars in a cold night.
"Incarnating into Gu" is the highest realm in the head-lowering technique, and when practiced to that point, a person is a Gu, and a Gu is a person, just like the most clever swordsman in the world can "unite man and sword". However, from ancient times to the present, there has not been a single person in the head-lowering master materials who can reach the level of "human-Gu unity", and over time, "incarnating into Gu" has become an unattainable dream for head-lowering masters.
I was silent again, since Mai Ye passed on his treasured "battle clothes and spirit rings" to the Dragon Elephant Girl, it can be seen that he trusts her, and how can outsiders understand the inside story?
Five minutes later, a blue and white taxi drove up, picked me up and the dragon elephant girl, turned around and headed back to the city, leaving all the kneeling people in the dust.
When I looked back at the top floor of the Crown Building for the last time, there was a light in Mai Ye's small living room, and a figure appeared in the window, looking at us, it was Mai Ye.
"He's still alive, he's okay?" I felt my hanging heart fall to the ground.
As long as Mai Ye is not dead, the terminal illness in his body can be slowly modulated, or surgically removed, or rayed, and there is always a way to extend his life. After I was busy with the business at hand, I would contact several major hospitals in Europe that specialize in cancer and take him there for treatment.
In the taxi, there was the sexy singing voice of an Egyptian female singer, and the driver in a baseball cap kept shaking his head to the beat of the song, and he was not quiet for a moment. Fortunately, his driving skills were passable, and he didn't drive the car into a ditch.
"Eagle, the big head descender said, you are a very interesting person, and you know a lot of people in the rivers and lakes, so you want me to learn from you. The light in the dragon elephant girl's eyes has subsided a little, but the wrinkles on her forehead are like a row of iron grates, which looks extremely strange.
"He's too awarded. I kept smiling, but my heart had flown to Sylvie.
The toxicity of "a little red in the morning sun" will change every moment, when the whole body veins of the poisoned person are corroded, the moment when the morning sun rises the next day, it will burst out with a hundred poisons, and a life will be whimpered. It's been half a day since I left her, who knows if there will be new changes in the hotel?
"I want to see the information of Area 51, can you help me get it?" The dragon elephant girl spoke in a very strange way, one sentence from east to west, and there seemed to be no connection between the top and bottom, abrupt and stiff.
"Oh? That kind of thing is too difficult for me, I guess Mai Ye told you that Area 51 is directly under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon, and all the information in it is a top-secret document with five red plus signs, and it will not be easily leaked. I simply rejected her outright, lest I have to cause trouble again.
"Hehe, is that so?" the dragon elephant girl sneered, and as soon as the golden ring sounded, she had already grabbed my right wrist, and her five fingers were as cold and hard as iron hooks.
I turned my head out the window, unresponsive to her sudden movements.
When I mentioned the topic of "Area 51", Li Tian's information inevitably appeared in my mind.
The Dragon Elephant Girl's "mind reading technique" was really strong, and she instantly obtained all the pieces related to Li Tian, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction: "You are really an interesting person, I want to see Li Tian, right now." ”
I shook my head and patted the driver on the shoulder: "Excuse me, go straight to the Moonlight Hotel, and don't stop halfway." "Don't say that I can't contact Li Tian at all now, even if I can find him, I can't just care about the Dragon Elephant Girl and leave behind the highly poisonous Xiwei in her body.
"Eagle, did you hear that? I want to see Li Tian—" The Dragon Elephant raised her voice.
I brushed her hand away and smiled calmly, "Now, let's save my friend first, and everything else is postponed, understand?"
When the four eyes met, her eyes emitted a blade-like cold light, and she rushed over without any scruples, obviously trying to control my mind with brain waves, but this move was cracked by me five years ago, and the move was made by the Mai Ye Da Head Lowering Master, who was at the peak of his skills.
"I want Li Tian, I want information, I want Li Tian......" she whispered, her palms stretched out, silently clasping my temples. Two warm and cold currents emanated from her palms, penetrating my skin like a snake, and my left and right temples were immediately paralyzed, and I didn't feel anything.
The car was still speeding away, and the driver glanced in the rearview mirror, and with a "bang" closed the curtain separating the front and rear seats. Perhaps he thinks that what we are doing is just the frolic of men and women in love, pretending not to see anything in the spirit of the "no disrespect" work ethic.
I slowly closed my eyes, and a surging heat rose from the dantian, protecting my internal organs.
"Eagle, I just need information, I don't want to destroy your thinking system, maybe we should work together and take what we need, right?" The dragon elephant girl's voice was lowered, almost whispering.
When the air flow in her palm broke through my Adam's apple and collarbone, and attacked with the momentum of a waterfall, I suddenly opened my eyes, and the scorching true qi in my chest rushed up, swallowing all these two cold and hot air currents, and at the same time, the internal qi repulsed, bounce her arms apart with a "snap".
"Ahh
The driver slammed on the brakes, the car "creaked" to a stop, the flying dust rolled up, and the outside of the car suddenly became dark, and nothing could be seen.
"Hey, what the hell are you guys doing? Can you be quiet?" the driver angrily ripped open the curtain and yelled at me.
I let out a long breath and quickly pressed the button, and the window glass was lowered, and a breath of fresh air poured in. The dragon elephant girl propped up her hands on her seat, bounced up, and the seven longitudinal lines on her forehead opened out, like seven sharp blades that killed the enemy in battle, ready to pounce on me for the second time.
"It's okay, it's okay, just keep driving. I waved my hand to the driver.
He turned around and muttered something, and suddenly a black hole in the muzzle of a gun appeared from under his armpit, and shot me three times through the backrest, and the impact point landed on my heart very accurately, but I had already felt the murderous intent in his eyes, and his body did not move, but his left chest retracted half a foot in an instant, and the bullet flew against the skin and burrowed into the backrest behind me.
At the same time, the dragon elephant girl shook, and a muffler-mounted pistol was fired at the back of her heart, and the dull sound of gunfire rang out seven times in a row, and the air was immediately filled with the choking smell of gunpowder.
The driver raised his pistol and opened his baseball cap, with a gloomy sneer on his face: "Mr. Chen Ying, I am fortunate to meet, I am fortunate to be there." ”
He has a thin, dark and shiny face, very rough skin, small eyes embedded deep under the brow bone, and teeth that are typical of the typical Vietnamese macular teeth.
"Friends of the Yueqing Gang?" I smiled calmly, and several thin figures flying in the corner of my eye appeared, this should be a premeditated interception operation by the Yueqing Gang.
"Yes, in fact, the order issued by the above did not say that you must take Mr. Chen's life, but your fame is too great, I have to take into account your counterattack after being injured, so I simply killed you directly, so as to prevent future troubles, haha, haha......" He blew into the muzzle of the gun, and pointed proudly at the trunk of the taxi, "Mr. Chen, even if you dodge the head-on fatal bullet, the brother hiding behind will make up for a few shots in time, all in all, it will not let you survive tonight." ”
He's a full-time killer, and his sharpshooter skills are indispensable, so he shoots at my heart exactly what's right. The space inside the taxi was very small, and if he just pulled out his gun and fired indiscriminately, it would be even more difficult for me to resist. The Dragon Elephant Girl has a "battle suit" to protect her, and ordinary bullets will not hurt her, but she is just startled by the impact of the bullet.
The four doors of the taxi were opened at the same time, and the six gunmen outside pointed their guns at me, but none of them paid attention to the dragon elephant woman.
"Thank you. I nodded to the driver in the front seat.
He was a little puzzled, and asked with a sneer: "What did you say?"
"Bang bang bang, bang bang" Six crisp gunshots rang out, and the six gunners silently exploded with brilliant blood above their heads, and they fell on their backs before they could pull the trigger. The shooter's marksmanship was so clever that he not only accurately killed four people with the first four bullets, but also reasonably predicted the reaction and dodge direction of the remaining two, and also achieved a one-hit kill. Although it is a situation of one killing six, the time difference between before and after is no more than two seconds.
"Huh, who?" the driver shrank and hid under the backrest, but his gun fell into my hand in an instant.
The dragon elephant girl spun around suddenly, her shoulders shaking, and let out a low and gloomy roar. The gunman, who was hiding in the trunk, did not fire again, falling into an inexplicable silence.
"Mr. Chen's life, Mr. Chen's life......" The driver sobbed and hugged his head and begged for mercy.
Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that "flying and domineering when you are strong, crying your father and calling your mother when you are weak" is the principle that the Yueqing Gang has always adhered to, so their begging for mercy is just a chameleon-like performance.
"Where is Li Tian, raise your head!" an indifferent voice sounded, it was the young man in a white suit who appeared outside the Crown Building. The muzzle of his left pistol was pointed diagonally at the top of the driver's head, and the short pistol in his right hand was pointed at the trunk, ready to be on guard.
"Spare me, I'll take you to Mr. Li Tian, and I'll go right away—" The driver seemed to see the hope of survival, and looked up at the young man in front of him with a flattering face, but the other party suddenly pulled the trigger, and a bullet passed through his eyebrows and pierced through the back of his head.
The young man strode to the rear of the car, kicked the trunk latch with his toes, and when the lid bullet rang up, he immediately raised both guns. It's a pity that the two people hidden in the trunk are already dead, and they should have died under some kind of head-lowering technique of the dragon elephant girl. He yelled in annoyance, flew up, kicked the two bodies inside, and fell into the ditch by the side of the road.
I got out of the car and threw my pistol on the roof to show that I had no ill intentions.
The young man put away his two guns, stared at me for a moment, and suddenly bowed deeply: "Mr. Chen, the junior is Bai Xiaoxie, who met with your father-in-law 'Snake King' Mr. Bai Shuyi many years ago. Sister Li's sister arranged for the juniors to greet you, please don't shirk and give the juniors a little face. ”
On the thumb of his right hand is a yellow and green jade wrench, which is the unique symbol of the righteous son under the seat of the "Snake King". The name "Bai Xiaoxie" has been very loud in the area of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand in recent years, and can be called the top figure among the younger generation, whose identity is not only an underworld killer, but also the most favored and trusted figure under the command of the "Snake King".
My heart sank suddenly, and I frowned: "Miss Bai Li has arrived?"
Bai Xiaoxie raised his head, his bright eyes flashed, and he subconsciously made a lip licking action: "Yes, Sister Li arrived at Cairo Airport at four o'clock in the afternoon, and dispatched all the disciples of the 'Snake King' to fight fiercely with the Tang Sect in Shuzhong at the Starlight Shopping Center on San Banno Avenue at five o'clock, ending the battle at five forty o'clock, killing and injuring many disciples on the periphery of the Tang Sect, seriously injuring Aunt Tang, and capturing Tang Mei alive——"
I raised my eyebrows in shock, I didn't expect the people of the Tang Sect to be so vulnerable.
Bai Xiaoxie reached into his arms, took out a white envelope, and handed it over with both hands: "Mr. Chen, this is a letter from Sister Li, and the other page is written by Miss Tang Mei herself, please read it carefully." ”
The upper left corner of the envelope was covered with a blood-red snake seal, which was the former power symbol of the "Snake King" Bai Liyi, perhaps after his death, Bai Li had taken the place of that high position.
When I took the envelope, the dragon elephant girl turned over and got out of the car, slapped her hands, and grabbed the envelope, but Bai Xiaoxie's movements were faster, and before the dragon elephant girl could make the next move, his pistol was already fiercely pressed against the other party's throat, without any pity.
"Down!" he coldly spat out two words and licked his lips again.
I thought of some weird legends about Bai Xiaoxie on the rivers and lakes, and suddenly felt extremely disgusted with him who was gentle and elegant in front of me, raised my hand to take back the envelope, and at the same time pushed away his gun: "Don't be impulsive, my friend is just joking." ”
With the skills of the Dragon Elephant Girl, she may not be easily restrained by others, but her current thinking is very strange, and her reaction ability is even faster and sometimes slow, and there is no reasonable coherence.
"I don't think the contents of the letter will work against you, because it involves an old secret. Eagle, don't go, danger...... Very dangerous. The dragon elephant girl scratched the hair on the top of her head in confusion, and didn't care about Bai Xiaoxie's action of drawing the gun, just stared at the envelope in my hand.
Bai Xiaoxie put his tail finger in his mouth, made a sharp whistle, and a black Mercedes-Benz sedan immediately drove on a fork in the road on the side, slowly stopping in front of us.
"Mr. Chen, Sister Li said, time is precious, maybe we can get in the car first and talk while walking?" Bai Xiaoxie's words were a bit of "it is difficult for a strong man".
The back door of the Mercedes-Benz opened, and the blue on several pistols flashed in the dark, which was completely a Hongmen banquet.