Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 2: Sword Eight

December twenty-seventh.

There are wind ponds.

The samurai in black hurried into the room and knelt outside the curtain. His left arm was pierced by a three-edged steel thorn, and his right hand pinched it hard, still dripping blood. His black military uniform looks like a servant of the Imperial Guards of the Lower Tang Dynasty, except that a blue bat is hot-stamped on the chest leather armor, and a short knife is biting between the bat's sharp teeth. This is the emblem of the Centurion of the Ghost Bat Battalion. The Ghost Bat Battalion is a secret formation of the Forbidden Army, and they are all selected elites. It took Xiyan four years to form this army, and it secretly operated in the major cities and counties of the Sixteen Kingdoms in the East, just like the thirty-one guards of Fenghu. scout organization.

"What?" Xi Yan suddenly lifted the curtain.

"Return to the general," the centurion lowered his voice, "the subordinates are not doing well. There are seven people in Chunguo, and none of them survived."

"The last team didn't escape...how did they die?"

"Thirty-seven of my subordinates have been keeping a close eye on the seven wind tigers, and they have been hiding well. But the night before yesterday, at the wine shop, a chief who was dressed as a drug dealer was interrogated by sergeants patrolling the street, and he was found in public. They took out their short knives and exposed their identities in front of Fenghu. They tried to avoid us, but their subordinates kept the general’s instructions in mind, simply exposed their identities, and chased them closely. Until yesterday, they pretended to go to the Tangchi to take a bath. My subordinates had no choice but to take off their clothes and follow them in. I didn’t expect them to hide their weapons in the pool, and it was difficult to take advantage of us being unarmed. My subordinates injured more than a dozen, and they took the opportunity to escape. But they only chased for two streets. We saw that they were all hanged on the tree. If they didn’t see it with their own eyes, the subordinates really couldn’t believe that Tian Luo’s killing method could be so fast.”

"What happened to your arm?"

"We were one step late, but we still met the killer. He didn't have time to escape after the murder. Just now we felt that this kind of steel thorn was shot by the machine and injured two people in a row. I saw a shadow leaning against the wall. Moved, felt wrong, chased to see that it was not a figure, but the killer imitating the shadow and trying to escape. The subordinates wanted to surround him, but he moved too fast and still failed to complete the encirclement."

Xi Yan nodded: "Don't blame yourself, Tianluo's killing skills are beyond your imagination after all. Their killers spend their whole lives to kill people."

"However, the subordinate also shot and wounded the killer of Tianluo. We chased him for three squares in a row, and finally only found this, which should be temporarily used by him to bind his wounds," the centurion said. Pass up the white towel.

Xi Yan took it silently, twisted it, the tentacles were cold, it was a piece of undyed ice brocade, with blood stains blooming on it. He brought the towel to his nose, and besides the smell of blood, he smelled a very faint scent of flowers,

The woman slashed open the shirt on the left breast, exposing the place where she was shot, and penetrated two inches below the shoulder blade.

She turned the blade and exerted a little force, the blade sliced ​​through the muscles beside the short arrow. Blood gushed out and slid down warmly. She used the knife again, and cut a knife in the opposite direction, so that there was a knife mark on both sides of the short arrow, deep into the skin. She gritted her teeth, grabbed the short arrow, and exerted all her strength! She threw the drawn short arrow into the tub with one hand, picked up the bandage with the other and pressed it, the severe pain made her feel like half of her body was gone. Panting violently, she turned her head and used her teeth to help, and tore open a tin bag. Inside the tin bag was a thin layer of ointment, translucent, like black jade. She put the tin bag on the candle beside her and burned it, wisps of green smoke filled the air, she tried her best to open her nostrils, and inhaled the smoke greedily. There was a warm smell in the room, like the aftertaste of burning tobacco, but not choking.

The pain in the arm eased, and there was a lazy numbness in the whole body, rushing from all the limbs to the heart. People can't help but want to fall asleep, even if they never wake up again. The woman leaned against the corner, her eyes blurred.

A footstep came from afar, quite heavy, and it was heard at the door.

"Who!" She struggled to stand up with a stern voice.

"Me!" A dark voice came from outside, a little hoarse, it was a boy whose voice was changing.

"You Yin? She breathed a sigh of relief, "Why are you here so late? Wait outside, I'm wiping myself, wait for me to change. "

She couldn't let that kid see her in this attire. She hastily went to remove the belt of the soft armor that was close to her body, but the soft armor made of special material was as tightly attached to her body as a layer of skin, and it was even more difficult to take off when it was stained with her sweat. Her forehead was covered with cold sweat, and she tugged on the sleeves of the soft armor.

"I'm here to get the wrench," the boy said, "Just give me the wrench."

The woman froze for a moment: "It's so late, don't go."

"I want that finger wrench! I don't want to talk nonsense with you!"

The woman was silent for a while: "You Yin, don't be stubborn. That sword will kill you in the end, it has already killed your father."

"What does this have to do with you?"

The medicinal properties began to surge up, and the woman felt that her body was gradually losing strength, and she needed to support the table to stand still. She took a deep breath: "Your father... hopes to live a good life and not to die anymore! Do you really not understand your father's heart? You keep saying that you want to become like your father, but What are you doing now? You are like a bandit, leading your friends to run rampant, fight and rob, and dominate the hundreds of people in the East Palace, making the shops around the East Palace scold you when they hear your name, this is your father Did you do something?"

"I said I don't care! I said I want my finger wrench! I want it now!" The young man said every word, the word "mine" was especially emphatic.

The woman was stunned for a moment, pulled out the silver chain on her chest, untied the wrench, and stuffed it out through the window pane.

The boy picked up the wrench, turned around and left.

"Hidden..."

The young man didn't turn his head back: "Shut up! The affairs of our You family have nothing to do with you! You are not my mother! You are just a woman picked by my father!"

The faint sound of footsteps went away, and the woman leaned against the wall wearily, and slid to sit down. The warmth brought by the medicine permeated for a long time, as if soaking the whole body in hot water, stretching lazily and casually. She felt that someone was holding her. It was the man she met in Basong many years ago. He was riding a tall black li, sometimes cruel, sometimes frivolous, and sometimes silently looking into the distance.

"Why do you want to save me?" She was struggling, not wanting to admit defeat like this.

“I heard that someone took pity on a snake that was frozen by the side of the road, wrapped it in his arms, and the snake woke up warm, and killed him. I want to try.”

"This... is not a reason."

"Because I don't believe what they said, female snake? Snakes don't shed tears. How can I look at it? It's just a cat?" The man gently touched her face, and the tears were wiped away by him up.

Cat...

"Cat, you can't escape, I won your bet, you are mine."

"Cat, don't you want to walk with me? I know there is a big mountain far away. There is a huge bronze door in the mountain. Open it and you will enter a new world."

"Cat, why do you always pester me? Do you want me to marry you?"

"Cat, you know... I'm very tired..."

"Cat! Go away! Don't look back! What I said before... are all lies to you!"

Under the clear moonlight, the walls are covered with books, dead silent. **The upper body woman is curled up in the corner, with a happy smile on her face and tears on her cheeks.