It is a mistake for a killer to learn more about the life history of the person who was killed.

A pot of good wine and the Jinpeng Castle Narrow Knife were enough to make the two swordsmen who had been in Nancheng for many years summon everything, and Gu Shenwei's face was scarred from the fight, but he disguised his age, making him look a lot more mature.

The two swordsmen and Nie Qing are fellow villagers, both from the Northeast Bingtun.

A few years ago, when the Central Plains was at its strongest, it had set up a place to garrison troops in the Western Regions, with a maximum of 100,000 soldiers, and controlled almost all countries.

At that time, the soldiers became ordinary villages, and the abandoned Central Plains soldiers took off their armor and became farmers, intermarried with the locals and had children, and their dresses and living habits gradually became bearded, but the style of martial arts never declined, almost every family had weapons, and the first iron weapon that the boy touched after birth was either a knife or a gun.

Nie Qing is a child of Bingtun, his parents died early, there is a brother and a sister above, and a younger sister below, he follows the tradition of Bingtun, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has cultivated the farmland for several years when he grew up.

Until he was in his thirties, one day, he put down his hoe and said to some of his neighbors, "This thing can be gouged out, and so can a sword, and more." ”

The wife has been observing coldly for many years, and she knew that there would be this day, and her husband would not be able to help but want to take risks, so she did not object, and only made one request, "I will not wait for anyone, either you take our mother and son together, or divorce me now, let me remarry, and let your son change his surname." ”

Nie Qing took his wife and children, walked on the old road taken by countless fellow villagers, came to Biyu City, and when the whole family was killed, exactly sixty days passed.

Nie Qing seems to have saved some money, or someone has funded him, in short, he is not as shabby as other wandering swordsmen, although he has not found a big customer who appreciates him, he can still barely support his wife and children.

His elder brother was an honest farmer, the only man in the village who didn't like swords, and his sister had long since been heard from when she married away from home.

These are not what Gu Shenwei wants to know, hearing it in his ears just makes him irritable, only one thing caught his attention, Nie Qing's sister is said to have been taken away by immortals since she was a child, and she caused a sensation in the distant village of Jintun back then.

But that's all, the two fellow villagers couldn't say who took Nie Qing's sister away, and even expressed doubts about whether she really went to learn immortals, "Maybe she's dead, Nie Qing's father and mother made up such a set of statements." ”

The two swordsmen who shook off the old bottom of their fellow villagers drank the last glass of wine and hurried away.

Gu Shenwei sat there thinking about things, and someone took the initiative to find him.

is also a swordsman, tall and big, round eyes and raised eyebrows, not angry and arrogant, slapping his palm on the table, "You killed the three members of the Nie family?"

"Go away. Gu Shenwei held the narrow knife on the table.

"It's okay to kill a man, why kill a woman or a child?" the swordsman didn't back down, raised his voice, and the whole tavern fell silent again.

Gu Shenwei looked up at the swordsman, felt the taste of being judged, and had the urge to kill again, "Because he has a woman and a child, he is tying the lives of his mother and son to himself." ”

Gu Shenwei didn't draw his knife, even he didn't know why, there was no need to explain it at all, especially no need to say this to a strange swordsman.

The facial features of the knifeman's face were put together, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, landed on the scabbard of the narrow knife, turned around and strode away.

The tavern is back lively, but the voices are quieter.

Tie Hanfeng watched in surprise as the swordsman walked out of the tavern, and then said goodbye to the shopkeeper, signaling that the apprentice could go.

When he got outside, Tie Hanfeng didn't say a word, he punched the apprentice in the lower abdomen, waited for him to stand up straight again, and said, "What's going on with this TMD? Where is the anger of fighting with Lao Tzu? Go and kill him, and throw his head in the tavern." ”

"I don't want to kill right now. Gu Shenwei said stubbornly and walked into the dark alley.

Tie Hanfeng followed behind the apprentice, his brows twisted into a deep groove, he had always felt that this apprentice had cultivation value, but now his confidence was a little shaken.

The two followed the daring swordsman to the village on the edge of the city, where a few hours earlier the master and apprentice had killed a family of three.

The daring swordsman entered his door, and he was so carried away by the rage that he didn't notice that he was being followed.

Gu Shenwei waited under the wall for a long time, and jumped into the wall.

Tie Hanfeng stayed outside to control the wind, expecting the apprentice to carry a few heads out, but he was disappointed and puzzled, after Huan Nu came out, he was holding a long big iron nail in his hand.

The iron nail is seven or eight inches long, with a square head, which can be held by the hand and has a sharp end, which can be used as a weapon.

"What is this?" Tie Hanfeng asked as he walked into a secluded place.

"I don't know, he has a lot of these things hidden in his house. ”

The two turned a corner, and when they arrived at the door of Nie Qing's house, Tie Hanfeng became more and more unhappy, "Tell you, the killer will not return to the scene, this is the rule." ”

Gu Shen jumped into the wall for himself, and found that the body had been taken away, the blood was still there, and a pile of the same large iron nails was found under the firewood behind the stove.

The master and apprentice walked through the dark alleyway, whispering about the iron nail, Tie Hanfeng also thought it was a bit strange, but there was also a good explanation, "They are swordsmen, and the iron nail is probably the cargo they want to escort." ”

"But what can this kind of iron nail do? It is too thick to build a house, and it is not easy to use as a weapon. ”

"Ask the guy who spat on you, he's sure he could spit out something else. ”

"Don't startle the snake just yet. ”

"You're cautious at this time, don't you want to take the initiative to find those women?"

"Yes, so these male swordsmen are not important, isn't there a lot of people secretly arranged in the White Clothes Courtyard in Nancheng?

"How do I know, you are bait, I look at you, that's all, I don't care about anything else. ”

Tie Hanfeng's tone was full of anger, Gu Shenwei knew that he had touched the sore spot of his master, the iron cripple was half a cover in Nancheng, and he had no status in the castle.

Back in Xu Yanwei's small building, it was already the middle of the night, and Xu Xiaoyi immediately told them bad news.

A Jinpeng Castle killer has just been assassinated.

The master and apprentice immediately went to the place where the incident occurred, which was a low-level brothel that also recruited residents.

The people of Jinpeng Fort had already sealed off the brothel, and were checking the prostitutes and guests inside one by one, Tie Hanfeng showed his waist card, took the apprentice in, and asked about the details of the incident after a while.

The killer, Wu Ling, settled in this brothel, was in the middle of a battle with a prostitute and was killed by an assassin.

Wu Ling is well-known in the castle, with superb knife skills, although he is older, he is still not comparable to ordinary killers, he is the same as Tie Hanfeng, he was once a subordinate of the third young master, and now he is the killer master.

The master and apprentice saw the corpse, there was only one wound, the sharp weapon pierced the back of the head from the left eye, Wu Ling was naked, his mouth was wide open, half of his face was full of blood, and the narrow knife was placed on the bed, without being unsheathed, which showed that he was plotted without noticing.

The prostitute who shared the bed with Wu Ling had not yet regained her composure, crying and screaming, "It's a ghost, a long-haired ghost!

This assassination made the killers present extremely embarrassed, Wu Ling is a master, there are many people in ambush around the brothel, this is a trap to lure the snake out of the hole, but the snake came and slipped away.

Gu Shenwei recognized this killer master named Wu Ling, who was the master of the lotus girl.

Wu Ling accepted a total of ten Jiachen apprentices, and after the elimination, only two remained, one of whom was a lotus girl.

The four brown-belted killers were left in Nancheng as bait, and the people who followed them were their respective masters, Wu Ling took the lotus girl to live in a brothel, in Jinpeng Castle, there is no difference between men and women, if you want to be a killer, you have to remove the gender distinction.

Tie Hanfeng and the other killers gathered to make small talk, and they had to wait for someone from the fort to decide on their next move.

Gu Shenwei found the lotus girl in a hut.

The lotus girl was very calm, she hadn't seen the master's body yet, "I bumped into the assassin in the courtyard, and I didn't have time to use the knife, this person is very good, and the killer outside didn't stop him." ”

"Something is wrong. ”

"yes. ”

The two of them said these words endlessly, and outsiders were confused, but they knew it.

For those who have practiced the swordsmanship of the Book of the Dead, "not having time to draw the sword" means that they were almost killed, and it means that there is something wrong with the person holding the knife.

When he followed his master to kill Nie Qing's family, Gu Shenwei already felt that something was wrong.

In Jinpeng Castle, he had killed younger apprentices, and he had killed many people he didn't know in order to practice his swordsmanship, but when he faced the fourteen-year-old boy, his heart hesitated and his hands were a little weak.

In Xu Yanwei's small building, his hand was hit by the master before it touched the handle of the knife, also because of hesitation.

In the tavern, the swordsman was bold and provocative, and he still let the other party go because of a moment of hesitation, although he later tracked down and found strange iron nails, but that was not his original idea.

He killed Nie Qing's father and son because their martial arts were not high, and there was no need to use swordsmanship.

In the eyes of Master Tie Hanfeng, he didn't even look like a killer anymore.

The swordsmanship of the "Book of the Dead" seeks speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, and loses the original intention of the swordsmanship when he hesitates instantly.

The Lotus Girl and Gu Shenwei felt the same way, until they met the assassin by chance, and found that they couldn't draw their swords according to the method of the "Book of the Dead".

"It's the monk who is making trouble. ”

The object of the Dutch girl's suspicion is the same as Gu Shenwei, and the Tiger Monk Master passed on a set of exorcism scriptures to them, which is claimed to be the correct reading of the "Book of the Dead", and now I think about it, there is a big problem.

What the two could not be sure was whether the other four teenagers who studied the scriptures together had been similarly affected.

"Did you see the corpse?" Gu Shenwei asked, he had a bigger question to communicate with the lotus girl, and even to "interrogate" her.

The Lotus Girl shook her head.

"The person who killed your master also used the Sword Technique of the Book of the Dead. ”

Killing the enemy with a sword, passing through his eyes, Gu Shenwei only glanced at it, and knew that this was a technique he was familiar with, except for himself and the lotus girl, he couldn't think of a third person who would know this set of swordsmanship.