The City Lord's Mansion was smashed to pieces.
The sign "The world is always quiet" stood firm for a few minutes, but in the end it still couldn't hold it up and hit the ground with a bang after being messed up in the wind. The stele of "Tianxia Shi, Taiping Shi" was broken in two from the middle, thinking that Tianxia and Taiping cannot be both.
Lide stepped on the half of the stone tablet engraved with peace, looked around the ruined walls of the city lord's mansion, held a secret book found in the splint, and yawned quietly.
The rain was pattering down the ground, the water mist was hazy, and the broken bricks and tiles all over the place were like waste soil in a fairyland.
A voice sang from outside the door:
"The new Mayor of Splendid City, Mr. Xiang Tiange is here—"
Lide said to Xiang Zhehua, who was holding an umbrella beside him and kept rummaging through the gravel with his scabbard for clues:
"gone back."
Xiang Zhehua put away his sword and followed Lide, and the two of them walked through the gate of the City Lord's Mansion. Walking towards him was a tall, thin man, staring coldly at Lide with a pair of eagle eyes, but Lide turned a blind eye to him and passed him by with Xiang Zhehua. The man called Xiang Tiange by others opened his mouth and said in a low voice:
"The above said that you are a person who does not know how to praise."
Lide paused, and replied:
"Indeed."
Xiang Tiange said lightly:
"You don't know what you just did, and you don't know what you're doing. But Yunyang will be buried with you soon, and this is the price you have to pay for your arrogance and ignorance. Most monkeys in the world think that wearing The clothes look like a person, but if you take off the outer layer of robe... you are still just a beast."
Lide didn't look back, just looked at the rain falling outside the umbrella, tapped the palm of his hand with the secret book, and said:
"Whether animals are good or people, you can't tell from the outside. Some people are handsome, but they do things behind their backs that are not as good as animals. Our Yunyang is a small place, so don't bother the city lord. If you If you have time, it’s better to focus more on the bloody clothes case, so as not to make others worry about the city lords of Nanchu, all of them are trash.”
Xiang Tiange smiled, stepped into the city lord's mansion that had been turned into half ruins, and said coldly:
"Okay, I want to see if you can get out of this Fairview City!"
The dilapidated gate of the City Lord's Mansion was closed, and Li De walked into the heavy rain with Xiang Zhehua. Xiang Zhehua was holding an umbrella, her slender body was trembling slightly, her clothes were not thick, and most of them were wet by the rain while searching for evidence in the rain, and the cold wind made her face pale.
Lid took off his coat and put it on her.
Xiang Zhehua hesitated in her heart whether to refuse, but the warmth from the clothes made her finally accept the gift. She knew very well that her relationship with Lide was a mistake from the very beginning, and the direct bloodline of Lord Yunyang and the nobles of Nanchu should not have been involved in any way, but the matter has come to this point, and she is no longer able to decide on her own.
She thought of Xiang Linglong again, until Xiang Linglong died, she didn't know which faction Xiang Linglong belonged to.
Maybe he is a peace faction just like himself, maybe he never thought of killing his niece, but all this does not affect his death. Xiang Zhehua didn't give him any reminder when he knew the news in advance. If Xiang Linglong is really a peacemaker, Xiang Zhehua cannot escape the blame.
Now that the City Lord's Mansion has been turned into ruins, Xiang Zhehua's heart suddenly feels a little empty. In the heavy rain, she recalled that night when she threw herself into her arms, maybe since then, her fate has gone out of control. She was supposed to marry a well-connected Southern Chu nobleman. From then on, she would take care of her husband and teach her children, occasionally play some elegant repertoire for her husband, and be a gentle young woman who can live in the hall and the kitchen, hiding the sharpness of her youth in the years.
But now, she has half-stepped out of the cage, and at the same time she has to face an uncertain future.
In the heavy rain, Lide put away the umbrella in his hand, solemnly handed it to Xiang Zhehua, and said to her:
"Help me put it away."
Xiang Zhehua was puzzled, but Lide smiled at her and said:
"The assassin is coming."
Xiang Zhehua looked around, the chill around him seemed to be even stronger at that moment. She took Lide's umbrella, looked at him with some concern, and asked instinctively:
"Are you all right?"
Lied nodded:
"It's okay, small scene."
In the quiet rain, a melodious flute sounded. It was like the sharp laughter coming from the cemetery in the middle of the night, and the tingling feeling of the scalp crawled all over the body in an instant. In the downpour, snakes as thick as arms crawled out from all directions within sight, and surrounded Li De and Xiang Zhehua in an instant.
Lide leaned over and punched the ground, and the ground beyond the two of them collapsed inch by inch. The nearby poisonous snake was shattered into powder on the spot, and the distant poisonous snake was thrown into the sky. Snakes all over the sky fell with the heavy rain, Lide turned around, and an elbow hit the assassin who was trying to mix in the snakes to make a surprise attack, causing him to vomit blood.
Many people wearing bamboo hats appeared in the rain.
A scarred face holding a machete said to the thin old man behind him:
"I just said that your snake is unreliable. Hundreds of snakes will be broken if they are said to be broken. If you don't come up with some new tricks, the reputation of your snake witch association here will be ruined."
There was a bit of gloating in his tone.
The thin old man's face was cloudy and uncertain, the flute in his hand was turned upside down, and the sound of the flute this time was like crying. A wagon in the distance exploded, and a golden python tens of meters long jumped out of it, roaring and joining the battle. Scarface didn't say much, and gave the rest of the people a look, all kinds of weapons were unsheathed one after another, and the dozen or so top assassins gathered here finally exuded a monstrous killing intent.
"What about that little girl?"
someone in the crowd asked.
Scarface snorted coldly, and replied:
"Yutaishan didn't buy her life. If she is caught alive, she will be given to you as a plaything. If she is dead, she will find a rope and tie her and the man next to her to the city gate. They are married!"
His hand brushed the golden ring on the back of the machete, he waved his arm suddenly, and said loudly:
"Do it!"
A thunder exploded, and there were hurried footsteps in the rainstorm.
The straw sandals stepped on the waterlogged ground, and there were assassins from Yutai Mountain in all directions in an instant. Li De and Xiang Zhehua had no way out in the rainstorm. But at the next moment, several tentacles pierced the heart of the person close by like sharp knives, and disappeared into the rain in a puff of smoke.
It was as if time paused for a brief moment, and then the assassins who jumped high turned into corpses and fell down.
The machete in Scarface's hand was less than three inches away from Lide's face. Lide looked into his eyes, smiled, reached out and patted his shoulder, and the strong man fell to the ground, vomiting blood, and his vision slowly began to lose sight.
Xiang Zhehua didn't understand how they died at all, and after a long pause, he asked Lide:
"Assassin... solved it?"
Lid nodded, wiped off the blood on his hands, and replied with a smile:
"This batch has been settled."
He paused and continued:
"Of course, there will be another batch, next batch, many, many batches. There are probably assassins like this all over the entire city of Splendid Brilliance. Everyone's purpose is to kill us. This is just an appetizer."
Lide shattered the head of the boa constrictor rushing from behind with one punch, and continued on his way to Zhehua as if nothing had happened.