Jiang Yitian and Cole pushed open a door and rushed into a small path, running into two patrolling guards in front of them. The battle deep in the Mage Prison obviously had not affected them here.
"Minister Jiang? Why are you in such a hurry? What's the matter?" A guard was a little surprised by Jiang Yitian's anxious look, but still greeted him with a smile.
But what answered him were three bullets from a Type 54 pistol. Before the young man's formal smile faded, his face was covered in exploding blood plasma.
The other guard didn't have time to react before Cole stabbed him in the chest.
"Hey. Now you're much more efficient in attacking your own people than before." Cole's tone was somewhat sarcastic.
"Stop talking nonsense and let's go." Jiang Yitian's face looked very bad. He walked around the two dead bodies on the ground, pushed open the door behind them, and said, "There is a side door further ahead. Going out is the backyard. Let's go out through the back door."
He turned to Cole and said, "You think this is funny?"
"If we don't have fun with others from time to time in our line of work, we'll go crazy." Cole responded, "But, coming to kill Xiao Chen was your plan, wasn't it? I'm the good guy who offered to help you."
"If you didn't think killing Xiao Chen would be beneficial to you, you wouldn't come to help us do this! I'm not stupid." Jiang Yitian said.
Cole wiped the blood off the sword on the body on the ground, "Whatever you think."
Jiang Yitian hurried to the side door and pushed it open, and outside was the yard. He looked around the door and saw no one in the yard, so he stuck his head out. But he didn't expect that he would hear a whoosh in his ear just after he took a step outside.
He felt a pain in his neck and felt like he was hit hard there, and then he fell to the ground with his face covered in shit.
In a daze, I heard someone say, "Little guy, I've been looking for you for many days. I finally caught you."
Cole, who was behind him, heard the noise outside and turned around to run back. Unexpectedly, five soldiers with rifles suddenly rushed out from behind him. They pointed their guns at Cole and shouted, "Don't move!"
Cole was well aware of the power of the Five-Six-and-a-Half. He knew that no matter how skilled he was in martial arts, he was no match for the five armed warriors. So he raised his hands obediently.
"Throw away the sword, put your hands on your head, and come out slowly." A voice came from outside the door.
Cole walked out little by little, and when he reached the door, he saw Ji Yijun pointing a rifle at him. Jiang Yitian had already fallen to the ground, holding his neck, and looking at the two of them.
There was only Ji Yijun outside. Cole thought, if he just moved to the side at the door and left the corridor, no matter how many guns were fired from behind, they would not be able to hit him. And there was only Ji Yijun in front of him, and the distance was very close. If he moved quickly, he might not be able to hit him.
Cole knew that this opportunity was fleeting, so he accelerated as he walked out the door, first flashed to the left to avoid the aiming of those behind him, then his body swept in an arc and pounced towards Ji Yijun.
Cole was right. Ji Yijun was not a good marksman. It was difficult to shoot him when he was moving fast. Cole's sword pierced the blind spot of Ji Yijun's rifle, forcing him to hastily block with his gun and unable to bayonet himself. Under the strangulation of his long sword, Ji Yijun couldn't even hold the gun. After barely blocking his attacks a few times, the gun slipped out of his hand.
But Cole didn't know that unlike the soldiers here, Ji Yijun had been practicing Tai Chi since he was a child, which was all bare-handed fighting. Just now, when he was fighting with Cole with a rifle, he couldn't use his hands at all. Now that he threw the gun away, his hands were freed, and his punches were as smooth as flowing water, much smoother than before!
Cole clearly felt something was wrong. Without the rifle in his hand, Ji Yijun seemed like a different person. Although he was unarmed, he was much more difficult to deal with than when he was holding a weapon. His movements seemed slow but were actually swift. There was always a force between his fists and feet, directing his attacks to an unknown place. It was clearly a blow to the east, but the opponent pulled it and it went to the south. It was clearly a sword that was intended to stab the body, but it ended up stabbing the ground.
Cole felt as if he was stuck in a quagmire. Ji Yijun's strange boxing style was like vines in the quagmire, entwining him layer by layer and making him feel as if he had strength but nowhere to use it.
He glanced around and saw that the guards who had just intercepted him had already rushed out of the room, spreading out to block all the directions he might escape. If this continued, he would be exhausted by Ji Yijun and it would be difficult for him to escape. He tried to get rid of Ji Yijun and rushed towards a guard, wanting to kill the guard and break out from that direction, but Ji Yijun kept entangled with him and never let him get out of his control.
The two men fought for about five minutes. Ji Yijun found a flaw in Cole's chopped attack and used half of the Wild Horse Split Mane move. He pressed Cole's wrist with his left hand and moved his right hand under his armpit, and then removed Cole's sword. Cole fell backwards. Ji Yijun took the opportunity to attack him and punched him in the chest and abdomen several times, knocking Cole to the ground.
The two guards rushed forward, holding Cole's shoulders one on the left and one on the right, and pinned him to the ground with his hands behind his back.
Ji Yijun walked up and started punching and kicking the two men without saying a word. Although he couldn't use his fighting spirit now, his strength from years of martial arts training was no less. His fists landed on the two men, and immediately Jiang Yitian and Cole were beaten black and blue, and howling like ghosts.
Jiang Yitian's face was beaten like a half-ripe green pepper, green and red. Blood was oozing from the corners of his mouth, and two teeth were sticking out. He no longer had the arrogance and complacency he had in front of Xiao Chen before. He looked at Ji Yijun with his eyes swollen into slits, and was frightened by his pretending to raise his fist, so much so that his neck shrank.
"You, you can ask me something. Why did you hit me?" Jiang Yitian said stutteringly.
"Because you deserve a beating." Ji Yijun squatted in front of him and said, "I've been looking for you for several days, and today I finally caught you red-handed. Don't you think I should give you a good beating?"
"You, you are a hooligan!"
"I'm a good student who got into a 985 university with high scores, how can I be a hooligan?" Ji Yijun patted Jiang Yitian's swollen face with his hand, and Jiang Yitian couldn't help but shudder. Ji Yijun grinned and said, "You two guys have too many twists and turns in your mind. If you are not afraid of being beaten half crippled, who knows what bad ideas you will come up with. Now that you are like this, you can finally come with me to see Xiao Chen." (To be continued)