Chapter 17: Death

Qiao Sifu inadvertently glanced back. The original intention was to see if there were any pursuers, and the result was to get what he wanted.

A ray of moonlight was shining through the cracks in the leaves of the forest, shining on the swordsman's thin sword.

A flash of cold light.

"Run!" he subconsciously snorted, took Qiao Jiaxin's hand and ran away.

But the swordsman's sword is more rapid than his reaction. A cold snort came at the same time as the sound of the sword blade breaking through the air. In the blink of an eye, the swordsman spanned a distance of six steps and swooped over like a goshawk, the tip of the sword pointed straight at Qiao Sifu's throat.

But after all, it is a step short. Qiao Sifu dodged once, his neck avoided the blade, and sent his left shoulder up. Burst of blood - this seemingly light and elegant sword was very powerful, and it immediately abolished one of his arms.

But the swordsman had already deceived the two of them within three steps. The rapier went up like a swimming snake and took him by the throat.

Qiao Sifu is castration old, and he can't dodge.

Qiao Jiaxin knew that this was a life-and-death situation, and ran into the swordsman's arms with all his strength, wanting to miss the sword.

The swordsman naturally didn't expect this girl to have such courage, she was really taken a step by her, and the sword blade lost his head.

Qiao Sifu dodged the sword, and his body fell backwards obliquely.

It is falling on a raised old root branch. A dry branch the thickness of a thumb penetrates through the back of the heart and peeks through the chest. But he didn't penetrate his clothes, and he propped up a small tent on his chest, which was quickly soaked in blood.

"Bad luck. The swordsman snorted coldly, as if he was very unhappy with this miss. But it didn't matter - he had already clamped Qiao Jiaxin's arm with one hand.

The maiden tried to resist in the darkness of the night, but her methods were nothing compared to the swordsman. The swordsman's sleeve shook, and the blade of the sword turned around, stabbing Qiao Jiaxin's throat.

At this moment, he heard a voice: "Keep people." ”

The voice was harsh and short, somewhat distorted by the rustle of leaves, but it didn't prevent him from hearing clearly.

The swordsman glanced at it and was surprised to find a man standing behind a low tree two paces away from him.

"Big brother?" he frowned, feeling a little surprised.

The swordsman with high cheeks and fine eyes stood not far away at this time, as if lined with moonlight. Because he looks a little bright, adding a bit of fairy energy. His voice sounded a little unfamiliar, but the swordsman didn't think much of it—it was the person he knew best in more than a decade.

What's more, it does look familiar.

The high-cheeked, thin-eyed swordsman said something, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

So he restrained Qiao Jiaxin with one hand and took a step there. His eldest brother stood motionless under the tree, looking like he was having some mobility problems, and he was afraid that he was injured.

This step out is really visible.

He noticed something was wrong - his big brother looked a little transparent. It seems to be ......

The female ghost who appeared before.

The alarm in his heart was abrupt, and he subconsciously withdrew and waved his sword to defend himself. This vigilance saved him once - he saw the man hiding in the bushes beside him.

A young man in white is holding a branch the thickness of an arm, and he is about to stab. The angle was chosen very trickily, and it was close enough to him, if he took another step forward, he almost landed.

But the movement was too slow—so slow that it seemed to be motionless.

The swordsman sneered: "The light of the fireflies, I can't measure myself. ”

Backwards and stabs with a sword.

At this moment, he suddenly realized in his heart that there was something wrong with this young man......

He was also foggy, like a phantom.

A step back is a solid one. At the moment when the sole of the shoe touched the ground, a heart-rending pain suddenly came from **!

Something, maybe a branch with branches, stuck in it.

Maybe with a knife in the upper arm and back in the leg, he can bear the pain and fight back. But this kind of local trauma, such a great trauma -- and with it a huge psychological shock.

Complex emotions and intense pain broke the swordsman's will in an instant, and he shook off Qiao Jiaxin like the most panicked ordinary person, trying to step forward to get rid of the thing, and swinging the thin sword in his hand behind him in a random way—he didn't even dare to turn around to see where the attacker was.

Because it hurts so much.

But Li Yunxin had already stood up from behind him, clamped the thick branch with both arms, and stabbed it forward again, rushing two steps.

Because of his movements, the swordsman's center of gravity was unbalanced and he fell to the ground. The heart-rending scream came to an abrupt end after only half a sound—two feet of the five-foot-long branch had been inserted, and the swordsman had been completely cut off from life.

Li Yunxin let go of the branch in his hand and clapped his hands. The two phantoms not far away also slowly dissipated in the wind, and the two pieces of rice paper fluttered and fell, and soon turned into ashes.

"Hurry up, someone might be coming. Li Yunxin stretched out his hand to Qiao Jiaxin, who was sitting on the ground.

Miss Qiao stared at the corpse on the ground with round eyes, and then looked at Li Yunxin, feeling that there were two more fires on her face.

"You, you, how are you...... You ......"

She had a lot of questions to ask. For example, how did you get here, how did you make two figures, how did you kill him—how did you poke that kind of place......

It's a pity that the waves of "accidents" brought to her by this teenager are so many that she doesn't know how to ask.

But she's not weak and hesitant after all. Turning his head to look at Qiao Sifu who had fallen to the ground, he gritted his teeth and grabbed Li Yunxin's hand and stood up with his strength.

"Okay, follow me. No matter how scared you are, don't scream. We can run out. After Li Yunxin finished speaking, he turned short and went into the dense forest.

Qiao Jiaxin pursed her lips and followed closely.

The boy didn't speak loudly, but it sounded reassuring.

Especially after experiencing life and death like just now, she felt more at ease.

Li Yunxin knew that someone would catch up, and it might be the more difficult one.

He already knew what it was like to be "painted". It was a strange feeling, something he hadn't experienced in his previous life.

The "sixth sense", the unusually strong "sixth sense", is probably this feeling. It's like being in a quiet room and suddenly you hear a small voice calling you, and then you feel some kind of call in your heart - something is going on somewhere, and you have to find it.

If you are far away, maybe the feeling will disappear before you find that place. But at such a distance tonight, Li Yunxin knew that the "big brother" would soon arrive at the scene where his brother was blown up, and he was furious and began to track down.

The two of them ran in the darkness and the night wind, and the sound of branches and leaves was in their ears. It was as if there was endless darkness ahead and beyond, and if you plunged into it, you would never have to come out again.

It feels ......

"Something is wrong. Li Yunxin stopped and said.

Qiao Jiaxin didn't take a step and hit Li Yunxin's back. The boy reached out to support her, feeling the softness and wetness of the girl's limbs. She was sweating profusely, and her body was trembling slightly—I don't know if it was because of fatigue or nervousness. She gasped, the scorching air spitting into his chest.

“...... What's wrong?" asked Qiao Jiaxin, her voice trembling.

Li Yunxin was slightly stunned and realized one thing.

He's not a real boy, this girl is a real girl. He could think things and speak with the mind of a weathered adult, but the girl ......

Teenage only.

In her world, she is still chasing stars and reading.

She was scared. When he was afraid, he tried to follow him silently and escaped, not the second and not the Virgin. will also use the thinking of an adult to say the sentence "something is wrong", like an adult to restrain his fear and ask him, "What's wrong", don't be coquettish, don't add to the chaos.

It's a rarity.

He sighed slightly, held her arm hard, waited until she stood firm before letting go, and asked in a low voice, "Are you afraid?"

“...... Huh?" the girl gasped, leaning on the trunk of a tree beside her, as if grasping for something would reassure her.

"I know you're afraid. Li Yunxin untied the water bladder from his waist and handed it to her, "Drink some water." There are some things you may not know much about – fear mostly stems from the unknown, so it's normal for you to be afraid. The people who hunted us tonight have no grudges against us, they are just doing things for others. Others don't have any grudges against us, but they just want to kill someone, so they look for someone and happen to find us. So this thing, in a word, is that we are unlucky. ”

The girl took the water bladder and took a sip, then grabbed it with both hands, calmed her breath slightly, and listened hard and carefully to Li Yunxin's words.

In fact, listening to him will make you feel down-to-earth and calm. She didn't know why.

I used to want to brave the rivers and lakes and face the wind and rain to be a woman in red, but after experiencing these things tonight, she suddenly felt that she didn't have to do anything, didn't have to think about anything, and only listened to other people's arrangements and protection, which was actually a very reassuring thing.

"I know it's hard, but there's one thing I need you to do. You have to know that we can't save anyone else right now. Maybe your father right now, huh...... And my master, who is also hiding somewhere, will be anxious at the thought of them, but there is no way. ”

"We can't be in a hurry, we can't be in a hurry and calm down in order to deal with the people who are chasing us. There were six of them, and I killed one just now, and maybe the others killed one too, and there were five left. There's another one that should be coming after us. In other words, there are only four people chasing and killing others. ”

"So, if we keep our lives alive and hold people back, we are buying your father time and sharing the pressure - you are now running for your life and saving people, right?"

Qiao Jiaxin struggled to keep her eyes open and nodded.

"That's good. Let's go. ”

Qiao Jiaxin took a deep breath and burrowed into the dense forest again. She walked two or three steps, and then turned back to look at Li Yunxin.

But it was found that the boy was gone.

The heart that had just calmed down suddenly became chaotic again, and she quickly turned around and took another step back, wanting to see if she was walking too fast, and the young man did not catch up.

But after taking two steps, she suddenly saw a light coming to her.

Thin, lightning-like light appeared in her sight for only a second, and she felt as if the whole world had gone dark. She didn't even have time to think about anything - because she didn't know what was going on.

The swordsman drew his sword back, and Qiao Jiaxin fell limply to the ground. A thin red mark is left between the eyebrows, like a red bean.

"Look for death. He whispered, then turned his head to look at Li Yunxin, "You have some means." Tell me, who are you?"