Chapter Seventy-Three: Night Killing
Gu Shenwei didn't expect the master to kill the horse-faced man, he couldn't hear the slightest murderous intent in the words of the two, and he didn't expect that he would let the apprentice do it.
"Why?" Gu Shenwei blurted out, Tie Hanfeng stared at him sternly, he knew he had said something stupid.
"I didn't have a knife. As soon as he spoke, he knew he had made another mistake.
No one likes a killer with a lot of tongues, and no one would hire a killer who can't kill without a knife, Gu Shen was ashamed of his low-level mistakes, so he hurriedly stood up, grabbed a chopstick on the table, hid it in his sleeve, stepped over the drunkard who fell asleep, and tracked down the horse-faced man who had left the tavern.
No more guests will come, the two fat men at the door are putting bundles of weapons into a large wooden box, more than half of the guests have left from here in a delirious way, they have long forgotten the swords they have deposited, and they will not take them again.
Gu Shenwei wanted a knife, but immediately gave up the idea and decided to use chopsticks to complete the task of killing.
The cool breeze outside the house was blowing, the air was filled with the smell of wine and filth, Gu Shenwei stumbled and almost fell, he had never drunk so much wine, the strange thing was that although his hands and feet were out of control, he didn't feel how drunk he was, and his mind was still clear.
Standing in front of the door, he just happened to see the back of the horse-faced man.
The horse-faced man entered the city through a gap in the city wall and followed the winding alleys into the city's chaotic buildings.
Gu Shenwei followed quickly, and when he walked to the corner of the street, he held on to the wall and spit out the wine in his stomach, feeling much better now, and his hands and feet obeyed the call again.
Although the "assassination" that accompanied Shangguan Ru was just a game, Gu Shenwei learned a lot from it, such as tracking techniques, when there are lights and the street is relatively straight, follow farther away, and chase closer when it is dark in front or there is an intersection.
After about a quarter of an hour, there were fewer and fewer lights leaking out of the room, and Gu Shenwei felt that it was time to start.
The horse-faced man was so drunk that he didn't seem to notice that someone was following him, staggering forward in the flickering alleyway maze, and from time to time he yelled a few words in a rough voice.
There was a turn in front of him, and Gu Shenwei sped up his pace and broke the chopsticks a little at the same time to make them sharper.
Gu Shenwei's heart beat faster, the real assassination is very different from the monthly test in the Fire Refining Academy, an apprentice who volunteered to be a killer was prepared for death from the beginning, and it seemed natural to kill them, and the horse-faced man, Gu Shenwei saw him drinking and talking with his own eyes, and cried like a child when he talked about his lost friends, the whole person was so real, it seemed to have an inexplicable power, which made him, a killer apprentice, feel weak.
Turning the corner, there is darkness ahead, it is really a good place to kill people, but the target is gone.
The whole alley was silent, no one and no footsteps.
There are some things that can never be learned, no one has ever taught Gu Shenwei how to discover and use intuition, and at this moment, his intuition tells him that the enemy is on his side.
The dagger stabbed silently, and the horse-faced man did not forget the weapon stored at the door.
Gu Shenwei lowered his head to dodge the attack, the steel blade brushed against his right cheek, and he could even feel the coolness transmitted by the metal.
Two men, an old man and a young man, are entangled, no one flinched, and no one called for help, this is Biyu South City, and death is the only way to solve the problem.
The horse-faced man has average martial arts, but he is extremely experienced, and the dagger is superb, Gu Shenwei encountered three dangers, wasted two opportunities, and finally mastered the rhythm in the fifteenth move, and inserted the chopsticks deep into the opponent's shoulder socket.
The two of them made quick moves, and the fighting time was very short, Gu Shen took three steps back for a successful move, feeling extremely tired, and suddenly missed the wine in the South Wall Tavern, and couldn't help but dry his mouth.
The horse-faced man, mortally wounded, still had a strong will to survive, threw away the dagger, covered his shoulder socket with one hand, and stumbled deeper into the alley, the other hand stretched straight forward, as if there was a life-saving elixir in front of him.
Gu Shenwei silently counted the steps of the horse-faced man, and when he reached the ninth step, he couldn't bear it anymore, picked up the dagger from the ground, and chased after him.
The man's vitality is surprisingly tenacious.
Gu Shenwei grabbed the horse-faced man's hair from behind, forced him to raise his head, and then slit his throat with a dagger.
failed to kill the enemy with a "chopstick", if the steward of the Fire Refining Academy was here, he would sentence Huan Nu to fail.
The corpse fell heavily, Gu Shenwei was suddenly flustered, he didn't sympathize with this man, but the feeling in his heart was like when he did something bad when he was a child and was afraid of being scolded by his father, he held the murder weapon in his hand, and he didn't keep it, he hesitated again and again, and threw it to the side of the road.
Then, at last, he saw those dark eyes, shining like cats in the dark.
The boy sat on a low wall, holding a half-eaten melon in his hand, and when he saw the whole process of the killing, he was nervous and excited, as if he was enchanted, and he did not run away.
He looked only eleven or twelve years old, but his eyes were as mature as adults, and it was impossible to guess his age.
Gu Shenwei's mind was all on the horse-faced man, and he didn't find this witness for a long time.
What should we do with the witnesses? Ignore him or kill him? Gu Shenwei was a little undecided, this knowledge must have been taught by the Carving Wood Academy, and he was the only one among the hundreds of killer apprentices who hesitated about it.
The boy swallowed the melon flesh that had been in his mouth for a long time, and said carefully, "I came out to eat the melon." ”
It's the second half of the night, and even the drunkard who is looking for a hangover has gone home to sleep, but a little ghost has come out to eat melons, which is strange no matter how you look at it.
It only takes one step to jump to the wall and drag the boy down, but Gu Shenwei has no ** and will to kill, so he takes a step back and prepares to leave.
The boy apparently misunderstood the teenage killer's action, and immediately said, "I'll help you throw the corpse, do you know where to throw it?"
Gu Shenwei didn't know, he hadn't thought about disposing of the corpse at all, and when he heard the boy say this, he immediately felt that it was necessary.
"Come down and carry the corpse. ”
Gu Shenwei ordered, trying to keep his voice cold and strong.
The boy moved quickly, threw away the melon in his hand, jumped to the ground, ran to the corpse, struggled to carry the corpse, staggered two steps, and fell heavily forward.
"I kid you not, but it's too heavy. ”
The boy struggled to poke his head out from under the corpse, looking innocent but not very afraid.
Gu Shenwei suspected that the boy was pretending, but he still grabbed the corpse and put it on his shoulder, which was his skillful work.
"I'll show you the way. The boy said as he ran as fast as he could.
Gu Shenwei followed closely behind and found that the boy did not know martial arts.
The boy took a shortcut, and soon reached the edge of the city, where there were fewer and fewer houses on both sides, and in the distance there was endless darkness, like countless layers of huge black veils wrapped around Biyu City.
"There's a wilderness ahead, and everybody kills people and throws them there. ”
The boy's tone seemed to be an expert, and after speaking, while the immature killer looked up, he burrowed into the alley next to him, and fled with his life, he didn't want to be killed in the place, and even the strength to throw the corpse was saved.
Gu Shenwei didn't chase the boy, it was enough to kill one person this night, he walked forward a little further, threw the corpse in a bush, stood up straight, stared at the gloomy night, listened to the ethereal wolf howl, and thought to himself that the boy was right, this place must have absorbed a lot of corpses for Biyu City.
It had taken him a long time to find his way back, and he was almost lost in the twisting alley, and by the time he entered the South Wall Tavern, it was almost dawn.
There were only a few people left in the tavern, either lying on the ground or lying on the table, snoring and sleeping, and the shopkeeper, the man, and the fat man who guarded the door were gone.
Tie Hanfeng sat on the chair, tilted his head, opened his mouth wide, and slept soundly as usual.
Gu Shenwei sat opposite the master, and there was still residual wine on the table, but he didn't want to drink it anymore at all.
Tie Hanfeng shuddered suddenly, woke up, and looked at his apprentice coldly, which showed that he had woken up from drunkenness.
"Master, I'm done. ”
"Where's the head?"
“...... I threw the body out into the wild. ”
"It's hard to move, there are corpses in the city for you to carry, maybe you can make a fortune from this. Fool, bring the head back later, and feed the rest to the dogs. ”
"Yes, Master. ”
A murder came to an end, and apart from adding some actual combat experience to a killer apprentice, it didn't cause the slightest ripple in Biyu City.
This trip down the mountain had a great impact on Tie Hanfeng, he abandoned the familiar life, endured three months of hardship, just in order to cultivate a killer who would never attack from behind, the meal of wine revisited on the south wall let him know what was more important, and let his apprentice go from then on.
"Within a year, you will have no opponents in the Fire Refining Academy, this is enough, in the future, who would have thought of the future?"
After saying this, Tie Hanfeng left his apprentice to busy with his "business", and went down the mountain twice in three days, often not returning all night.
As for the conspiracy against Huan Nu, Tie Hanfeng felt that the problem had been completely solved, and the horse-faced man was his "business" partner, in order to force the iron cripple to accept the harsh conditions of account sharing, he bought off the people in the fort, and wanted to kill his only apprentice, so that he would lose his reputation as a killer master.
This name is very important to Tie Hanfeng, without it, Tie Hanfeng is a half-retired old killer in Jinpeng Castle, and it is difficult to find a low-paying escort job in the city.
Now that the horse-faced man is dead, the apprentice will naturally be safe, Tie Hanfeng thought so, but Gu Shenwei was still suspicious.
The first thing he suspected was Miss Luo Ningcha, and he quickly excluded her, it was a stupid woman who was unpopular, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to buy the killer apprentice.
The second object of suspicion was Shangguan Yushi, the girl never really let down her guard against Huan Nu, and it was very in her interest to let Huan Nu die in the Fire Refining Academy.
There were still more than ten days left before the fourth monthly test, and Gu Shenwei found that every time he threw a corpse, it seemed that someone was following him, and he didn't dare to go to the boulder cliff again, and honestly threw the corpse on the cliff.
He didn't tell Master about it, but decided to investigate it himself.