Chapter 36: The Night Battle
There are no stars, no moon, no sound, no one.
The clouds were thick, there was light snow in the sky, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be filled with a cold and terrifying murderous aura.
There are still two residual lamps in the small courtyard not far away, the lights are sufficient, and the shadows of the dead trees are swaying in the wind, looking like a giant ** wrong canine teeth, as if they are about to devour the fifth small building.
When a breeze passed through the corridor, the pigeon's hands slowly fluttered with the wind, and his body swayed slightly with the wind, as if an invisible silk thread was pulling at his whole body, making him unable to fall.
The figure of the carrier pigeon appeared and disappeared in the shadows of the dead trees, and the fifth Xiaolou stared at him, his hand already tightly gripping the hilt of the sword, and his whole body was already full of vigilance.
It was obvious that the pigeon had become a corpse at this time, and someone had deliberately placed him here, as if someone had guessed that the fifth small building would definitely run out, and would definitely want to find someone to ask him about it.
But why didn't Liancheng see this corpse when he ran out?
Although there are not many birds and beasts in the Yancheng Divine Hunting Mansion, there will never be even a single person left at this time.
The fifth small building faced this dead corridor, her eyes fixed on the corpse of the carrier pigeon at the end of the corridor, and her heart couldn't help but sink.
She is now beginning to understand why Yuwen Xia must live in the Divine Capture Mansion by herself, thinking that Liancheng here will be able to protect her, but even Yuwen Xia didn't expect that Liancheng didn't know that the fifth small building lived in the mansion, and the carrier pigeon that was supposed to report the news had been bought early, and was assassinated in the end.
After Liancheng got the news of Yuwen Xia's accident, he immediately rushed to the rescue with all the horses of the Divine Hunting Mansion, and only left a few masters in some places that needed to be protected.
The place where the fifth small building lives now is obviously not an important place, and after Liancheng takes people away, not to mention the masters, even the people can't see it.
But what she couldn't understand was who wanted to do it to herself, her only enemy was the Li family, but the Li family never had the ability to transfer all the people of the Shenzhu Mansion, just to target herself.
The two remaining lamps in the courtyard suddenly went out together, and the darkness was like an endless sea, engulfing the lamps, and then spreading to her mouth and nose.
The fifth Xiaolou only felt that he was about to stop breathing now.
At this moment, she seemed to hear the sound of snowflakes falling on the ground, and the faint sound of breathing from under the floor. The sound of her breathing had always matched her breathing rate, and if she hadn't suddenly held her breath, she might not have realized that there was a person hiding under the floor until she died.
Fifth Xiaolou immediately gasped, only to feel a chill suddenly rush into her brain.
Before the man under the floor could move, she suddenly kicked her feet, and the person had already flipped out in the air, and when she flipped six feet, she stabbed a sword in the air.
Sword qi surged out from the tip of the sword.
The man has landed.
The wind through the corridor became more urgent, the sword wind seemed to cut all the thin lines on the carrier pigeon's body, and when his body fell, he suddenly heard several loud noises in a row, and the floor of the corridor was actually lifted by the sword qi layer by layer, revealing the mottled mud under the floor, and a pitch-black sword light.
The body of the sword is pitch black, and so is the man.
No one could describe the speed of this sword, his person was like an arrow off the string suddenly jumped out of the ground, and when the fifth Xiaolou saw the sword light clearly, the tip of the sword was only a foot away from her throat.
He has been practicing this sword for ten years, and no one has ever taken it alive, most of them have died under the sword before they even understand what happened, and he is very confident in his sword, which is not a conceit but a real self-confidence, because no matter who the opponent is, he will give it his all every shot.
His sword seems to be extremely direct, without complicated and strange changes, but in fact, there are six hidden changes, five of which can deal with all kinds of counterattacks, and one change that he specially prepared for the fifth small building, this change is not aimed at her throat, but a hole on her body.
The order he received was to try not to die if he could catch him alive, and at this time the distance between the two was very close, and the man in black was about to change his trick to point to the acupoint of the fifth small building, but at this moment, a pale sword light stabbed out from the bottom up like a match.
The pale sword light stabbed not his people, but his sword!
This sword has also followed him for ten years, and no one knows better than him how sharp and tough this pitch-black sword in his hand is, so he thinks that this pale sword light does not seem to be any threat, and he does not even change his moves to deal with it, but instead spends up the speed of the point.
Shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief before the king, of course he understands this truth, if a person is frozen, the sword will never move by itself.
He didn't overestimate this famous sword that had been treasured for many years in the Hidden Sword Villa, anyone who held this sword in his hand would think like this in his heart, but it was a pity that no matter what weapon he was, it was just a bunch of tofu in front of Aji Sword, but some tofu was soft and some tofu was hard.
When the black and white sword bodies were staggered, the two immediately heard a soft sound of "ding", and the man in black suddenly felt that the sword in his hand had become a lot lighter, and then saw the pitch-black sword body in front of him, which was actually out of the hilt of the sword and spun and flew out, and finally "grabbed" and nailed to the branch of a dead tree not far away.
His man also spun and flew upside down with the sword, and when he landed on the eaves, he was still terrified in his heart, and he would rather believe that this sword had failed than that this famous sword would be cut off so lightly.
The night is getting deeper.
The dense clouds of low pressure slowly drifted away, and a little starlight was revealed.
The stars are bleak. Fifth Xiaolou could only vaguely distinguish the outline of the black-clothed man's face, but he couldn't see the expression on his face, but the resentful look in his eyes could be seen by anyone.
He wasn't looking at the fifth small building, what he was looking at was the short sword in the fifth small building's hand.
The black scabbard, the pale blade.
The fifth Xiaolou couldn't help but ask, "Who are you? Don't you know what kind of place this is!"
The man in black didn't speak, didn't have any expression, and didn't react at all, as if the fifth building didn't ask him, and he couldn't see the people in the fifth building.
It was true that he couldn't see the person in the fifth small building, and the short sword, which was less than three feet, had already occupied all his sight.
The short sword is in the hand of the fifth small building.
"What kind of sword is this?" asked the man in black, his eyes still fixed on the dagger in her hand.
Anyone who has seen Aji's sword has this kind of look, of course Fifth Xiaolou knows what they are thinking in their hearts, and of course she knows what she should do.
She put the sword into the sheath and said lightly: "It's just a murderous sword." ”
The man in black didn't answer, and raised his head slightly to look at the fifth small building, his gaze calm.
The fifth Xiaolou said again: "Who are you?"
"It's just a murderer. The corners of the black's mouth turned up slightly, as if he was smiling, and he didn't seem to know how to laugh.
The fifth Xiaolou suddenly raised his eyebrows and asked, "You killed the carrier pigeon?"
"I didn't kill him. The corners of the black-clothed man's mouth were even higher, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Moreover, he is not dead." ”
Fifth Xiaolou's eyes widened, and he immediately said, "He's not dead?"
She looked in the direction where the carrier pigeon was lying down, and at the end of the corridor, the carrier pigeon's lying body suddenly bowed down and coughed loudly, as if in response to her words.
The man in black was also looking at the carrier pigeon and said, "I only took one payment, and of course I won't kill two people." ”
The fifth Xiaolou said: "Only took the money to kill me?"
The man in black is silent, and silence usually means acquiescence.
At this time, both of them saw a series of lights flickering in the distance, and the eagle of the night watch seemed to be about to return home.
The man in black obviously couldn't stay any longer, so he immediately jumped up, and flew out of the high-walled courtyard in a few take-offs and landings, leaving a sentence before leaving: "If you don't save him again, I will have to collect two pieces of money." ”
The fifth small building also immediately stepped out and landed beside the carrier pigeon.
The pigeon's face was dead gray, and he coughed loudly, whispering something between the coughs.
The fifth Xiaolou looked at the carrier pigeon, and felt a little guilty in her heart, the carrier pigeon was injured by her, and she could only stand beside the carrier pigeon and watch at this time, unable to help anything.
If it was a traumatic injury, she still remembered some first-aid knowledge and could bandage it a little, but she really didn't know where to start with this poisoning.
Just when she wanted to turn around and call someone, the carrier pigeon suddenly stopped her, although the voice was not loud, she still heard very clearly, as if she was saying the word "Liancheng".
Could this matter be related to Liancheng?
Fifth Xiaolou was taken aback, and couldn't help but lean over and whispered, "What were you talking about just now?" Do you know some truth?"
The carrier pigeon gritted its teeth and nodded.
Fifth Xiaolou's heart moved, and her people had come closer.
What answered her was a sword light!
The blade of the sword is thin and short, and the sword light is blue, a blue that is close to the miserable blue color.
The sword is clearly poisonous!
This sword was fast and ruthless, and it was precisely when Fifth Xiaolou let her guard down that he saw her weakness before he struck it.
She didn't see the sword at all, and she didn't think that the pigeon would attack her.
In an instant, the sword light pierced into her right shoulder, and the tip of the sword was exposed behind her shoulder, and a series of blood beads continued to drip down the tip of the sword.
The distance between the two was too close, and the person's shot was too fast, and the fifth Xiaolou didn't even feel anything, only felt that his right hand suddenly lost consciousness, and then his whole body was unconscious.
Fifth Xiaolou gritted her teeth to prevent herself from falling asleep, she seemed to have understood something at this time, but the toxin had affected her brain at this time, and her eyelids became more and more uncontrollable, she staggered back a few steps, and finally fell down softly.
As soon as she fell, she was stuffed into a dark sack.
The "carrier pigeon" had already taken off his disguise at this time, revealing a face that the fifth small building did not recognize at all, and the other one carrying the sack was the black-clothed killer who had escaped just now!