At that moment, the boat in front of me, which had been going down the river, also stopped.

The bow of the boat was laid across the weeds on the shallow shore and stopped.

In the drizzling rain, Pan Ruoye, who had been quietly staying in the cabin of the boat, walked out and walked to the stern, waiting for the arrival of his boat.

The surface of the river with a light mist has a hazy and dreamy color, making Pan Ruoye, dressed in pale yellow clothes, like a fairy in the legendary water.

The yellow-robed cultivator standing on the bow of the boat drifting down the upstream is tall, and if the man and woman on the two approaching boats were together in the mist at this time, they would surely feel like a couple reunited after a long absence.

However, the two people who were so calm on the bow of the boat both knew that only one of them would be able to leave here alive when they officially met today.

"Actually, I don't like to kill people very much, I always feel that killing people must bring some emotions of their own, if it is not hatred, or the other party makes me unhappy, or the other party is hateful, which makes people feel disgusted at first sight. ”

The yellow-robed cultivator's boat slowly fixed in the middle of the water, his slightly frowning brows slowly loosened, and he looked at Pan Ruoye, like an acquaintance, without any opening remarks, and said slowly, "When I first started practicing when I was a child, whether it was reading storybooks or classics, I always had a hard time understanding it, and both sides who must be separated from life and death seemed to like to talk nonsense, but when I was older and started to really kill people, I began to understand... Because killing people is not a pleasure after all, the real meaning of dialogue is to alleviate this unpleasant emotion, especially in the face of an opponent who has never been encountered before, a complete stranger, who is killed when encountered, and then faced with a cold corpse, it is really the same feeling as chewing wax, inexplicably empty, lonely and cold, so, what to say?"

After saying this, the yellow-robed cultivator bowed to Pan Ruoye and added, "In Xia Zheng Jingcheng. ”

"I know who you are. ”

Pan Ruoye looked at the yellow-robed cultivator, and said as if looking at an acquaintance: "The best assassin in Jiaodong County, one of the four cultivators in Jiaodong County who Zheng Sleeve is the most afraid of, when the fleet of the Great Qin Dynasty opened up overseas shipping routes, many powerful cultivators on those overseas islands died in your assassination, if you really talk about military merits, your military merits will not belong to Liang Lian at least." You are most cautious and do not ignore the slightest possibility of getting in the way. You've been following me until now and you're saying this to me because you don't want any shadow to affect your shots. ”

"You're very honest. ”

Zheng Jingcheng pursed his lips, and then said: "It is precisely because you know the queen too well and know our Jiaodong County too well that you are ranked second on the list of you must die." But I don't understand, you obviously know my intentions, in the few days that I have been following you, why don't you look for an opportunity to strike first? With your cultivation, it is impossible not to find an opportunity to take advantage. ”

Pan Ruoye didn't reply for a long time, and when she spoke again, her expression was slightly cold, "Because I'm thinking." ”

Zheng Jingcheng naturally asked, "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, if I and Zheng Sleeve swap positions, in such a situation, if I were Zheng Sleeve, what would I do. Pan Ruoye said coldly: "I figured it out, if I had a clear conscience, whether the other party believed it or not, I would definitely try to explain, but I didn't wait for the person she sent to explain, but waited for the person who came to kill me." ”

"So I don't make the first move, so to speak, I'm waiting, waiting to see if she'll try to do something to stop you from killing me. Pan Ruoye sneered, looked at the place where Shen Xuan and Zheng Bainiao fought before, and after a pause, he continued: "The result is that the killing game has begun, but I didn't wait for any explanation from her. This only shows that some of my guesses are correct, and she knows that the real truth cannot be concealed, so she can only borrow your hands to get rid of me. ”

Zheng Jingcheng listened to her words carefully, his face did not change, and even with a hint of sympathy, "Your guess should be correct." ”

"You want to talk to me more, but your mood is a little fluctuating, and it is clear that your assassination attempt against someone in Changling City has failed. It's just that even if you talk to me so much now, and reaffirm that I have no way out, I'm afraid that talking to me will not be good for your move, but will affect your mood and confidence more. Pan Ruoye looked at the most cautious Jiaodong County cultivator and sneered: "Because Jiaodong County cultivators like you will always lack something compared to us. ”

Zheng Jingcheng's brows jumped, and he said in a deep voice, "What is it?"

Pan Ruoye looked at him and said slowly: "Zheng Sleeve and I met for the first time, before taking me into Changling, I was in a mountain town outside Bashan, just when the army and the Bashan sword field were fighting, a horse thief fled to our village, and then took advantage of the situation to loot several mountain towns around us, almost all the adults in the mountain towns were killed, and only many small children could hide in some hidden corners to survive. And among the children who survived, I was one of the thinnest. The children also turned into wolves to kill each other in order to fight for the only food they had, but I was the one who survived. ”

"It's too much of a coincidence to think about it at this time. When did her palace maid appear badly, why did it happen to appear when we were killing each other until I was the only one left. Pan Ruoye laughed, "Many of your cultivators in Jiaodong County also have this kind of cultivation method, but there is the most essential difference between you and us, that is, from the beginning of your cultivation, you know that you will encounter such a thing, and you have a long time to be afraid, to overcome your fear, to prepare for it. But we are different... We were met with something like this all of a sudden, and we were unprepared for such a desperate situation. So you don't have the innate bravery that we have. The wolves that are raised with dogs are not the same as the wolf kings who are born. ”

Zheng Jingcheng frowned.

But Pan Ruoye didn't give him time to speak, and said directly, "So you want to choose the most suitable time to wear down my momentum, but the more desperate you are, the more you can stimulate my sharpness." The most important thing is that these days I am still thinking about some sword postures on the Sword Sutra. ”

Zheng Jingcheng's face froze.

Pan Ruoye looked at him and said heavily: "I have comprehended some of the sword postures on the Sword Sutra of King Chen, and now I have almost thought about it. ”

"That's why I say that these conversations with me won't eliminate some of your bad emotions, they will only make you more unconfident. ”

Pan Ruoye looked at Zheng Jingcheng, who was silent, and his calm eyes suddenly turned into a sea of storms, full of murderous intent, "This is the time I am waiting for to make a move." ”