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"My lord, are your hands alright?"

"fine."

Although Jieshi seemed to respond easily without feeling pain, the right hand he was holding didn't look like "all right" at all in Number Six's bright red eyes.

It has been nearly half an hour since I held it tightly until now, and I haven't let go of it once. Faint white smoke is constantly emitting from between the fingers. You can also see burnt black on the edge.

"Why do you insist on it? Or do you cherish it because you made it yourself?"

"I only did the final procedures for this sword, and the rest of the steps were completed by others, so strictly speaking, this sword was not made by me."

"But Master Jieshi, you have already spent two days, and you only finished the final steps in these two days?"

"The material of this long sword is an artificial material. The person who knew the ratio and method of synthesis died two days ago. The hardness of the material is also rare in the world. The manufacturing process alone takes at least five years. Two days in five years is nothing more than For a brief moment."

"Wow, it took so long? Is this sword really that powerful?"

"I don't know, but this sword contains countless promises, experiences, and blood and tears. It resides in the "souls of two blacksmiths."

"Hmm, those two blacksmiths must be very important to Master Jieshi, right? How dare you take them away at the cost of injury."

"...Is it important? Maybe."

Responding softly, he walked to the countryside outside the capital of the Kingdom of Swords, staring at this seemingly peaceful but uninhabited farmland with deep purple eyes.

"It's really quiet here. Well, it should be said that it's too quiet. The crops on these farmlands are obviously mature, so why are no one collecting them?"

There was nothing wrong with what Number Six said, and Jie Shi nodded slightly for his correct judgment.

"Um?"

Under the dark purple eyelids, he accidentally noticed an abnormality, and went straight to a certain place without waiting for number six.

"Huh? My lord, please wait for me!"

Not knowing what was going on, No. [-] could only keep up, not forgetting to watch "many strange places in this countryside" out of the corner of his eyes.

"My lord, what's wrong with you?"

After running for a short distance of about half a minute, Jieshi stopped, neither paying attention to No. [-]'s question nor changing the direction of his eyes, his dark purple eyes fixed on the position in front of him.

"Master Jieshi, what are you looking at?"

No. [-] followed Jieshi's viewing direction, and turned his gaze to the front of himself - after being burned by a powerful fire, it was all scorched ruins in the end.

Judging from the size of the wreckage, it is only an ordinary family, about the size of five people, and the dilapidated black concrete walls are furniture that has been burned by fire and messy personal items.

Rather than burning down the old house because of the new residence, it is better to say that it was set on fire by others and burned to the ground.

"Well, is it because people in this family are hated by the neighbors? How could they be burned so thoroughly?"

Ignoring No. [-]'s random speculation, Jie Shi took a deep breath of cold air, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

"call."

He spat out again in the last few seconds, and walked towards the "complete cabin next to him".

Swish.

Raising the unfinished weapon in his right hand, he swung a blow at the roof, and the resulting wave sliced ​​the roof cleanly.

When the slash fell, the entire wooden roof fell to the ground with a "bang" and broke apart. Because the wooden walls of the wooden house lost the firm structure above, one after another "slapped" fell down. on the ground.

The timid and terrified appearance of a man and a woman old farmers living in it is clearly printed in the eyelids.

The old and wrinkled age marks were imprinted on the face, and the body could not stand up straight, showing a hunchback. The combined age of the two men was probably over a hundred years old. The female farmer hid behind the male farmer in fear. The purple pupils tightened their bodies in fright, fearing that they would be crushed by that sharp and dark gaze.

The old man, who was still a little conscious, knelt on the ground and begged this outstanding man who had suddenly lifted the roof off.

"My lord, our family has nothing to confiscate, and my son has already gone to the battlefield for you. Please raise your hands high!"

"Let me ask you, what happened to the house next door?"

Jieshi's question was obviously beyond the old farmer's expectation. He first expressed his astonishment, and then he spoke after looking at the scorched and miserable appearance in the house.

"Well, they were burned by the conscript brigade because they refused the conscript brigade's request that the young swordsmen be taken away."

"Where are the people inside?"

"The five members of their family were all forced to lock up in the house and burned to death together."

"It means that all the people inside died in the house?"

"Yes."

No. [-] walked leisurely to Jie Shi and said softly.

"That's right, I did see a total of three charred corpses under the bed and the bookcase just now."

Hearing this, Jieshi stepped on the ground hard with his left foot, and the sole of his foot sank deeply.

Seeing the picture of someone sinking into the ground without exerting force, the old farmer immediately clings to more intense fear.

"My lord, my lord, I have already said everything I know, please forgive us!"

"There are two crimes on your body. One is that when your neighbors are being burned by the army, they are wailing and asking for help, and you choose to ignore all of this."

It is obviously a forced crime, because in reality, the two old farmers cannot compete with the swordsman army at all, and even a little peaceful and rational communication may be affected. The only thing they can do is to suppress their hearts Fear and obediently hide in the house.

It's just that no one dared to refute what Jieshi said at the moment, and everyone present could hear that this was just an excuse for Jieshi's "emotional fluctuations".

"Secondly, you told a big lie."

boom!

Huge and dense broken lines spread out from the position where the left foot is trampled hard. The depth of the gaps makes it hard to see how many there are. It is only known that the center of the pressure of the left foot is completely compressed to the depth of the ground. The left foot, together with The calf sinks into it.

"No, my lord, I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth!"

"That family consisted of three members, an aunt, an uncle, and one child. The other two children were all privately given to barren nobles. Just now, the child next to me said that there were only three corpses, but you said that five people were burned to death. .”

"Well, maybe I was slightly wrong. It is true that there should be only three of them, but as your lord said, the nobles have already revised the roster, so it will cause confusion."

"Nobles can be of different classes. Only the highest-ranking monarch has the qualifications to change. But can ordinary peasants meet the highest-ranking monarch and adopt the children of peasants?"

After a pause, Jieshi stared at the old farmer with his deep purple eyes burning.

"Are you going to tell the truth?"

"My lord, what I said is the truth! I really don't know about this matter!"

Kneeling on the ground with both hands and head, the old body trembled and tears and snot from the dry and wrinkled corners of the eyes pleaded with Sitno.

"Number Six, do you think this matter is true or false?"

"Well, although the old gentleman looks pitiful, everything you do is right."

"Poor, isn't it?"

Pulling up his left foot from the hole in the ground, at the same time, he swung the blade of his right hand with a powerful wave that oscillated in the air, and precisely hit the old woman who had been silent behind the old man.

boom.

Without any struggle, not even a slight wail, the old and weak body fell to the ground without a sound.

"Old, wife, wife ah ah ah!"

The old man subconsciously looked at the situation behind him. The scene in his eyes distorted his face and howled loudly. He hugged his wife tightly but still couldn't get any response.

"You, you devil! We have nothing to confiscate, and everything we asked for has been given to you, why do you treat us like this?"

Having given up the will to survive, he yelled loudly at Jieshi while hugging his wife, and began to close his eyes and lean against his wife's cheek.

"Are you still not going to tell the truth? Because you have hatred for the neighbors, and you know that they have sent away children in the past, so you secretly reported the information on the five people on the neighbor's list to the army, and asked the army to come here to check and confiscate them. Less than three young people burned down their house in anger, all these plots are within your expectations, aren’t they?”

"Ah, ah, ah, wife, ah, ah!"

I don't know if it was deliberately pretending not to hear it or because he was too sad, he didn't pay any attention to Jie Shi's deduction, and the number six next to him looked at the old farmer with a complicated expression.

Jieshi took a step forward and walked in front of the old gentleman, reached out and grabbed the thinning hair, pulled him up forcibly, and forced the other person's eyes to look at his own.

"Do you remember who I am?"

"You? You... Ah, ah! Impossible! You should have died in the third country!"

At this moment, he finally found Jieshi's appearance. The old man was frightened and began to break free. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Jieshi's left hand, allowing his hair to be pulled out and stubbornly resisting the end of his life.

"It's not my fault, you found the wrong person, it's them, it's someone else's idea, it's none of my business!"

"That's right, I am the demon you fear. It is your rumored discrimination that killed me, and also killed the kindest neighbors in this rural area... just because they are a little closer to me."

"Ahhh! Don't come here!"

"I am what you call a demon."

Swish.

The weapon in his right hand waved a blow, and the shock wave in the air swept into the old man's body, allowing the opponent's body to receive the shock head-on.

"Woo!"

A large amount of bright red passed through the throat and finally erupted from the mouth at once. A large mouthful of blood turned into a rain of blood and sprayed down from the sky. The old man kept his head up and did not move.

"Number Six, let's go."

Allowing the blood to stain his skin, Jie Shi turned around and walked away quickly, without looking back or showing mercy, as if he was just doing an insignificant thing.

"My lord, why did that old gentleman look like he wanted to die, why did he look like you and wanted to live? Normally speaking, there should be nothing more terrifying than death, right?"

"Because he was afraid that I, who turned into a demon, would do something worse than death."

After a brief explanation, Sitno walked to the corner of the entire countryside - a very small wooden house with a simple and clean appearance and a volume that can only accommodate one person.

"No. [-], the countryside is a very simple place. Because of this, it is also a very scary place. As long as someone has a little evil thought, it will easily infect the whole village with this evil thought."

Without waiting for No. [-]'s response, Jie Shi kept his gaze on the wooden house and continued.

"The leader has a very strong interest and concern for this wooden house, and will often send people to clean it here. Rumor has it that this place is the lifeline and feng shui of the kingdom of swords. The strong and weak of the country rely on this place. "

"Well, if the organization's prophets watch it, maybe they can see it accurately."

"Everything is just a rumor. No one knows the truth. The only thing that can be known is that the people who live here are deeply hated, because as long as natural disasters and various bad luck happen, some people will start rumors that the people who live here are full of people. Only bad luck will lead to turmoil and misfortune in the country.”

"Didn't it say the place? Why did you mention people?"

"Because this is the only excuse to comfort the wound, blame all my misfortunes on the people who live in this wooden house, and use the people there as a punching bag to let out a good breath of grievances, so that my wounds will not hurt so much. Go on living."

Speaking of this, Jieshi took a deep breath, swung the weapon with his right hand and completely destroyed the entire wooden house, and the wood and boards that made the "slapping" brackets fell to the ground in pieces.

"As long as people see 'evil', they will fear and avoid it endlessly. Not only is the existence of evil itself, but even those companions and friends related to evil cannot be spared."

"My lord, you seem to hate these people very much, but."

The tone of No. [-] was completely different from the usual leisurely attitude. At this moment, he seemed timid and hesitant, as if he was thinking about whether to speak out the thoughts that came to his mind.

"But what?"

But being questioned coldly by Jie Shi, No. [-] subconsciously knelt down on one foot, nervously and tensely, slowly expressing his thoughts.

"Your behavior is almost like a self-contradictory, self-harming act."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you were crying."

Jieshi didn't stretch out his hand to check his cheeks and the corners of his eyes. His deep purple eyes quietly looked at the wooden house that he had lived in for several years, and "memories of the past that were rejected by everyone and only auntie cared about" quietly appeared in his mind.

"This is proof of mood swings."

Swipe away the unnecessary tears with a wave of your fingertips, take a deep breath of cool air to "lock the floating emotions again, and lock them firmly", and look up to the right.

tread.

A child holding a short knife suddenly descended from the sky, jumped precisely into the range of Jie Shi's gaze, and said respectfully while kneeling on one foot.

"Master Jieshi, the organization hopes that you can go back."

"Have you found the time yet?"

"Yes."

After speaking respectfully, No. [-] patted the shoulder of the child who came here to report.

"No. [-], I didn't expect you to have a day to run errands."

"Don't be rude in front of adults."

As he said that, No. [-] roughly pressed No. [-]'s head to his waist, causing No. [-] to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

"Well, you nasty guy, do you want to fight!"

Number Six, whose mouth was full of dirt, angrily grabbed Number Four by the corner of his clothes, as if preparing to fight.

"let's go."

Ignoring the children who were already tugging at each other's clothes and the corners of their mouths, Jie Shi shook his head lightly to brush away unnecessary thoughts, and walked towards the God-gathering forest.