When Xiang Qingniu saw Fang Xie's eyes that had turned completely red, his heartbeat seemed to stop suddenly. He has never seen a person with such terrifying eyes, let alone any ordinary person with such a pair of eyes that can only be described as monstrous.
Fang Jie had been ambushed and killed many times before, but because he was always surrounded by well-cultivated guards, he was not in any danger.
Today's assassination, which seemed to be similarly near-miss and even resolved with some ease, was the most dangerous one he had ever experienced. If his reaction was half a second slower, then he would be the dead body lying on the ground now. one of them.
The closest assassin to him was less than twenty steps away. The crossbow arrows fired from this distance could not kill him because of his reaction and a little luck.
When the assassin jumped up, the rays of the sun reflected from the clusters of crossbow arrows and dazzled Fang Xie's eyes.
If it wasn't for this little warning, Fang Xie wouldn't have had time to draw out his horizontal knife.
Today's assassination was the most nervous time Fang Jie had ever experienced. The muscles on his arms are still as hard as iron, and the hard bulging muscles carry a sense of strength. He held the knife in his right hand, and his left hand was holding Xiang Qingniu's front collar, which almost made him suffocate.
"I heard what you said, who are those people!"
Fang Jie looked directly into Xiang Qingniu's eyes and asked.
This ordinary person who obviously couldn't cultivate, even the young man whose air was inferior to ordinary people suddenly burst out with a kind of aura at this moment. Xiang Qingniu had felt the invincible aura of his second senior brother when he wanted to kill someone, it was majestic and palpitating. But his second senior brother's aura was unparalleled pressure, while Fang Jie's was a cold, cruel and frightening aura, like a snake, like a knife, like a demon.
"Your...your eyes."
Xiang Qingniu didn't answer Fang Jie's question, but subconsciously pointed to Fang Jie's eyes.
With this question, Mu Xiaoyao and Da Quan also noticed a change in Fang Jie.
Fang Jie was stunned for a moment, his tense nerves relaxed a little, and the crimson brilliance in his eyes gradually receded, returning to the original black and white.
"What's wrong?"
he asks.
At this time, he realized that Xiang Qingniu was strangled in his own hands and was almost suffocated.
He slowly let go of his hand and took a step back. For a moment, he felt as if his strength had been drained from his body. I don't know if it's the relaxation after the extreme tension that causes this feeling, or something else. He was so tired that he wanted to lie down, his legs were so weak that they could hardly support his body.
But instead of falling down, he poked the ground with the horizontal knife as a crutch.
"Tell me first, what is the origin of those people."
When he asked this sentence, the carriage team of Hongxiu Zhao also stopped far away. After a while, the old lame man with a big wine gourd tied to his waist came to their side. The old cripple glanced at the scattered dead bodies on the ground, and his expression gradually became serious.
"if… "
Xiang Qingniu swallowed hard, with a painful expression on his face: "If my memory is correct, there seems to be only one kind of person in this world who can almost completely hide his body between the sky and the earth. Although their cultivation may be It's very low, but it's hard for even the top experts to find their existence. So...they have created many myths about killing experts with cultivation bases as ordinary people."
"But... that's impossible."
"Why is it impossible?!"
Fang Xie panted heavily, feeling his mind was in a mess.
He is full of questions in his mind now, but he has overlooked one thing that he should have paid attention to. He jumped off the horse, rolled on the ground, and instead of dodging, he rushed into the assassins. Was it a subconscious reaction, or did he realize that the assassins were not strong at the same time he was assassinated? If the latter, how much sober judgment is required
But now, how does he look like a calm person
Xiang Qingniu shook his head, but still didn't say the answer. The old cripple squatted down to examine a corpse and sighed, then turned his head to look at Fang Jie: "If this little Taoist's guess is correct, then I should really wonder where you came from. Because these people, never They will attack ordinary people. Their goals are often very targeted and they will never interfere in irrelevant matters. These people are originally assassins who kill assassins, scouts who kill scouts... "
Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao looked at each other, and they both saw deep worry in each other's eyes.
The old cripple didn't say anything else, he just gave Fang Xie a meaningful look and then left. Xiang Qingniu didn't speak anymore, even if Fang Jie pressed him, he refused to continue. But Fang Jie felt that the way Xiang Qingniu and the old cripple looked at him had changed, becoming a little strange, and there was even a hint of hostility hidden in the strangeness.
It annoyed him, even angered him.
Obviously both Xiang Qingniu and the old cripple had guessed the identities of these people, but there was no hostility in their tone towards these assassins, and even a little respect. It was precisely because of this vague respect that Fang Xie even had the illusion that he was the one to be damned.
And those assassins are all heroes.
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The carriage continued to move forward, and it seemed that it was still going smoothly, but there was no doubt that everyone's heart was covered with a thick layer of dark clouds. I don't know if it was because he was afraid of Fang Jie's terrifying eyes, or because of other reasons, Xiang Qingniu, who was too lazy to take a step, gave up the car, but climbed a horse with difficulty and walked side by side with Cui Lueshang. He seemed to have purposely distanced himself from Fang Xie, either with vigilance or hostility.
It feels bad.
The group of five had just started, and in a blink of an eye there were only Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao left around.
Because Cui Lueshang was frightened and shocked, his expression was still in a daze. He followed the carriage on horseback, giving the impression that he was sleepwalking. And Xiang Qingniu, a chubby little Taoist, peeked at Fang Jie who was sitting in the carriage from time to time.
He hesitated to speak a few times, and Fang Xie noticed it.
"Fang Jie..."
Big Dog flicked his horsewhip, as if to vent his depression: "Why don't we go to the Great Sui Emperor's Capital? I always feel that this journey will not be peaceful."
"Are you afraid?"
Fang asked.
"A little bit."
The big dog nodded, and leaned against the carriage to look at the red-sleeve recruiting convoy that had pulled the distance to a distance of 300 meters. It seems that the people over there deliberately kept a longer distance, as if they didn't want to get involved with the carriage here.
"Those assassins just now, there are no masters..."
Big Dog sighed.
Fang Jie hummed: "I know, I killed five people in a row. These people's skills are worse than those of veterans of hundreds of battles. One-on-one fights are by no means the right guards we encountered. The opponents of those soldiers in the battalion. Although their reactions are top-notch, their skills cannot keep up with their reactions. So they actually have only one way to kill me, and that is the earliest blow... Dozens of single crossbow shots failed to kill me , they have already failed. Such a single method, such a low level of cultivation... just one careless will be killed by them, such an assassin... is terrible."
"It's really scary."
Big Dog recalled the fight just now, knocked on the carriage and asked Mu Xiaoyao inside: "Did you think of something?"
Instead of sleeping or lying down, Mu Xiaoyao, who was sitting cross-legged in the carriage with a straight body, put down her wine bag and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Their cultivation bases are low because if they want to fully integrate into nature, it is more difficult for people with higher cultivation bases to do so, because the higher the cultivation base, the more special they will appear, the more imposing they will be, and they will not be able to Covered by nature. And their response is top-notch, this is the result of long-term training, but the nature of training them is not how to cultivate, but how to achieve a one-hit kill. This training must be cruel... just a little bit is not easy It can be done."
"What?"
Fang asked.
"Hide your emotions, and don't let out even the slightest bit of human emotion. When ambush, they are a part of nature, a grass, a stone, a handful of yellow sand, but they are definitely not human. In At this time, they have no human breath, no emotion."
Big Dog nodded: "So they didn't have any murderous intent before they did it."
Fang Jie was stunned, and quickly integrated the deduction of Mu Xiaoyao and Da Quan in his mind. The more he thought about it carefully, the more he felt that these ordinary people were extremely scary. If it wasn't for a little bit of luck, if he hadn't experienced too many ambushes in the past fifteen years, then he would definitely die today.
A group of ordinary people can suppress all the emotions of being a person. Not excited, not excited, not apprehensive, and they weren't even alone until they did it.
"It's not the chasers we encountered in the past few years."
Big Dog said seriously: "If the people who chased us before had such a group of assassins, I'm afraid...we are all dead. They are close to nature and blend in with nature. When they sit next to you in a restaurant, you won't Look at him more. When they pass you by, you don't even pay attention. Compared with those with advanced cultivation, assassins like them are really hard to guard against. Because you don't know, they are When and where will give you a fatal blow."
"so… "
He looked at Fang Jie and advised, "Should we not go to the imperial capital Chang'an?"
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"must go!"
After a moment of silence, Fang Jie gave a decisive answer.
He stroked the horizontal knife in his hand, and his voice gradually calmed down: "No matter how terrifying these people are, there is one weakness that can be identified..."
"What?"
"They dare not kill me in the imperial capital!"
Fang Jie said in a cold voice: "Although I don't know who they are, and I don't know why they want to kill me, but I can be sure that the purpose of their appearance at this time is to prevent me from going to the imperial capital. Maybe I After arriving at the imperial capital, it will pose a great threat to the chief envoy behind them. And after arriving at the imperial capital, this person finds it very difficult to have another chance to kill me."
His thoughts gradually became clear, and he continued after thinking for a while: "After arriving in the imperial capital, I will take the exam for the Academy of Martial Arts. If I fail the exam, I will report back to the Ministry of Military Affairs and then either transfer back to Fan Gu or be transferred to the Academy of Martial Arts. Go to another army. As long as I leave the imperial capital, they still have a chance to kill me, and as long as I leave, there will be no threat to them... So what they are afraid of is that I will be admitted to the Yanwu Academy, and what they are afraid of is that after I enter the Yanwu Academy They have no way to do it, and... they seem to be sure that I can be admitted to the Martial Arts Academy, so they are eager to kill me. It can be seen that... these people are from Chang'an."
"Why are they sure that I can get close to the Martial Arts Academy? Did they get any news?"
"Are they afraid of what I will do when I arrive at the Martial Arts Academy?"
"These assassins are well-coordinated and well-organized. They are definitely not from the Jianghu."
"Whose interests have I touched? Who have I threatened?"
He asked many questions in succession.
"Li Xiaozong?"
Big Dog hesitated and replied.
"Li Xiaozong doesn't have this ability."
Fang Jie shook his head: "It can't be Li Yuanshan, the general of You Xiaowei. If it was him, then the first time he sent someone to kill me, he wouldn't have dispatched the Jingbu Battalion."
doubt.
Too many doubts.
And at this time, in the general mansion of Li Xiaozong in Fan Gu City. Li Yuanshan, who was still in casual clothes, looked at the map hanging on the wall, pointed to the location of Langrushan and smiled at Li Xiaozong: "This place may become a battlefield in a short time. Show off over there. So you need to be more prepared, this will be an excellent opportunity for you to join the ranks. After this battle is over, I am afraid that there will be decades of peace. Soldiers... After all, they can only Shine brightly on the battlefield."
"His Majesty has decided?"
Li Xiaozong was surprised.
Li Yuanshan shook his head: "This is the news that people in the capital brought me through a secret channel. Your Majesty may use me to fight this battle. He also kindly reminded me to prepare."
"Will Fang Jie's matter have any impact?"
Li Xiaozong couldn't help asking.
Li Yuanshan smiled and said in relief: "This matter is no longer something we should worry about. You also know that the military department of Fan Gu's great victory has been handed over to His Majesty, and His Majesty has also given instructions. Wu Peisheng died in battle. He came from the capital. The thirty-six officials were all killed in battle. So... this matter has nothing to do with us, if His Majesty suspects... who will be the first to be unlucky?"
"It's the Ministry of War!"
Li Xiaozong nodded.
"Not just the Ministry of War."
Li Yuanshan said with a smile: "And your majesty's eyes and ears, those people are the ones who don't want the truth to be known by your majesty. They also took my bank note and lied for me. Once your majesty knows They are the ones who bear the brunt of the wrath and punishment. Don't worry... How can a small frontier scout survive those people's attacks?"