Chapter 22: "The Lord"
No one expected that the counterattack would be so swift and fierce once it began.
Zhang Jiuling was suspended, and some people exposed the existence of the Zhen'an Division, but stigmatized it, so that the Zhen'an Division was criticized in the court, and although it was able to continue to operate, it had to suspend all official support.
The power and energy of the "other party" are far stronger than imagined.
Zhang Jiuling and many days in a row have been closed for many days, everyone has never seen such a depressed Lord Zhang, although he was dismissed from the position of Si An, but for a while there is no suitable person who can replace Zhang Jiuling, so Zhang Jiuling can only be temporarily allowed to continue to preside over the work of the Zhen'an Division as a civilian. But obviously, Zhang Jiuling, under the repeated attacks, seemed to be a little sluggish. Anyone who is close to accomplishing their dream goal will suddenly be restrained and will collapse when they see such perfection almost slip away from their eyes.
As for Chen Ye, after losing a fight with a masked woman in the alley, his mood seemed to be shattered like his own ghost slashing knife. He didn't even have the courage to hold the knife again, not only did he not even carry out the task, but he couldn't even be seen in the Zhen'an Division. Zhen'an Division is the strongest ghost slayer, and it's only been a few days, and it seems to have become a legend of the past.
Now up and down the Zhen'an Division, it is the young Li Zhi who is presiding over the overall situation.
In this way, Zhang Jiuling's original sentence "Li Zhi is the hope of the future of the Zhen'an Division" is actually a little bitter and ridiculous.
But it's not over yet.
It's a normal night, slaying ghosts is on a mission as usual, and there are also those who stay behind in the town security division, if there is no difference, at most, there has been too much bad news recently, and everyone's morale is a little depressed.
No one noticed that the ghost hounds in the town security division barked very little today, and not many people noticed that the handover of the patrol guards seemed to be a little delayed than usual, and the people who were waiting for the change of guard waited for a long time before the next shift of guards, so they carried lanterns and planned to check the situation.
As soon as he stepped into the shadows, a hand covered his neck, and the dagger reached his neck like a serpent's letter, and the guard fell as if licking. Immediately, countless such black shadows emerged from the darkness and scattered everywhere.
It was a massacre that came to your door.
A small black shadow shuttled through the darkness like a black lightning bolt. Bypassing the buildings, he went straight to the non-stop fast, obviously knowing everything about the various places in the Zhen'an Division.
The shadow easily broke through the window, barely making a sound. So much so that Zhang Jiuling, who was sitting in the candlelight with his back to her and drinking on his stomach, didn't seem to know that such a person had sneaked into his room, in this case, this former Zhongshu Ling, who was famous in the government and the opposition, and the guardian of the Zhen'an Division, would probably die quietly unconsciously.
The cold light from a dagger slashed towards Zhang Jiuling's neck.
"Ooh" was firmly blocked by a knife, less than three inches away, but the dagger could no longer be entered.
Another figure stepped out of the shadow cast by the candlelight. Chen Ye.
"See you again. As always, the tone was flat.
It was the masked woman from before who fought him.
Zhang Jiuling put down the wine glass, "You should be the only one, right?" "Do you want to invite the adults outside to come in?" Zhang Jiuling smiled, how could he be half decadent.
"How do you know I'm coming?" is a deep man's voice, very peculiar, like everyone else, but not like anyone, it is a timbre that you will forget immediately when you hear it. The man stepped into the endless fast, and the wide robe was supplemented by shadows to cover most of his face, leaving only a small half of the middle-aged man's face.
"If you think you are a powerful hunter, you will of course come to see the last reaction of your prey before it dies. ”
"You all planned this?"
"Yes, even if the old man had not been dismissed, this plan would have been realized in another way. ”
"Huh, huh?"
"So, are all the dead outside your pawns? ”
"Zhang Jiuling didn't dare to say that he was worthy of the people of the whole world, but Zhang Jiuling was worthy of the Zhen'an Division, and the guards outside were Zhang Jiuling's special invitation to Chen Huaizhi, and General Chen specially sent Jin Wuwei to 'guard' the Zhen'an Division. ”
"This idiot. The man's voice was not angry.
"No wonder General Chen, this move can indeed monitor the movements of the Zhen'an Division, General Chen has this consideration, I'm afraid he also wants to please you. ”
"It's a pity that people who are too stupid always live short. "So you know who I am?"
"I don't know, but I have a general direction. To be honest, before tonight, I even doubted the current royal family and the Holy Lord, but your arrival has further determined the direction of the Holy Lord, and the Holy One should have only been blinded. ”
The man didn't answer Zhang Jiuling's words again, but turned sideways. "Didn't you say that you cut off his knife?" I don't know if this sentence was for the woman, or if I was taking the opportunity to ask Chen Ye. But when the woman heard this, she was like chaff, and even though she was as strong as her, she was still like a lamb to the slaughter before this man.
"She cut off my knife. Chen Ye opened his mouth to break the silence.
"Then why are you still standing here?"
"It's just a knife, what's more, my lord told me that I was going to lose that battle. ”
"Hahahaha, so you even deliberately lost to her, you designed it?" The man's voice sounded a little excited, and he didn't look half angry at all.
"Yes. ”
"I didn't expect that after you escaped from the ghost slash and escaped the two waves of pursuit I sent out, I let you fend for yourself, such an unintentional little game can actually create the consequences of today. "Cause and effect is such a wonderful thing. "Hahahaha, I haven't thought it's been this funny in a long time. ”
Chen Ye paused, and finally didn't choose to ask, after all, he had already made a choice from the beginning.
"Now give you another chance to kill him. As if she had been pardoned, the woman picked up the dagger that had just been thrown on the ground out of fear, and shot at Chen Ye without hesitation.
"Hahaha, I've seen this scene many years ago, I didn't expect you to be so old, and I don't know if you still have an impression. "Oh yes, I forgot, a lowly human like you doesn't deserve to have a memory. The man was apparently speaking to the masked woman.
Immediately afterwards, he excitedly said to Chen Ye, "You couldn't bear to kill her at the beginning, I don't know if you can't do it this time, hehe." "To him, human life seemed like a game.
At this time, another person stepped into the endless fast, it was Li Zhi.
The knife he was holding in his hand still had traces of blood, and he was not surprised to see such an unrecognizable man in the room, but walked between the man and Zhang Jiuling, faintly blocking between Zhang Jiuling and the man. "My lord, the battle went well, most of the people who infiltrated were subdued by us, although there were some casualties, but they were all small, please rest assured. ”
I also saw the fight between Chen Ye and the masked woman in the other half of the room.
This is really a very weird fight, Chen Ye obviously took into account Zhang Jiuling, so he tried his best to control the scope of the battle, and the woman was even more afraid of the place where the black-robed man was like a thunder pool; neither of them dared to extend to this half of the room, but formed a strange harmony, as if the two had agreed to draw a circle beforehand, and the two fought in the circle.
Shooting so intensively, Li Zhi didn't dare to rush to help, not to mention that he was easily injured, and he was even more afraid of causing chaos to Chen Ye.
"The smell of blood on your body is strange. The man was very curious about the newcomer Li Zhi. "Can you lend me a taste?"
With an expressionless face, Li Zhi pointed a knife at this man, whether you are the ultimate opponent or the original ghost, it is just the greatest evil, no matter how big or small the evil is, you need to cut it off!
"Although the old man's plan succeeded, the old man guessed that with you alone, all the people in our Zhen'an Division would probably die here. "Since it is before he dies, the old man has only one question, can you please tell me?"
Hearing Zhang Jiuling say this, the man seemed to be pierced by his thoughts, "Oh, you're quite smart, as an opponent, you're not bad, you ask." "I, I give you the right to ask questions!"
"Where did the ghost come from?" "How did you get here!" asked this question, as if he had exhausted all of Zhang Jiuling's strength, others may not feel it deeply, but Zhang Jiuling himself knew that in order to ask this question, he didn't know how much blood he had paid for generations, and in order to get into this answer, he didn't know how many corpses of his ancestors he had stepped on.