Laughing at Chang'an

The sun was setting and it was dusk.

The blood flowing from his chest was hot, but Wang Zhen's heart was cold.He knew that he was not dead yet, and he couldn't die in a short time - the other party cleverly avoided the internal organs in his body, and although the wounds he created were scary, they were not fatal.He tried his best to support his weak and weak legs, not letting himself fall down, gritted his teeth silently, and looked at the person who walked in front of him.

Click, click... The other party's walking was accompanied by crisp metal impact sounds, hitting Wang Zhen's ears one by one.He didn't look carefully when he got into the car just now, and only now can he really see the other party's appearance clearly.Very thin and tall, as thin as a clothes hanger, when the wind blows, the whole person seems to float with the clothes.With the sound of clicking footsteps, he walked around to Wang Zhen's face from behind, with a very playful expression, and looked up and down Wang Zhen with curious eyes.

"You are very calm, Sao Nian." He nodded in satisfaction, "He is a man with backbone, I like it."

The man's brain must be really sick. Wang Zhen covered his mouth and vomited a mouthful of blood. He couldn't hold on any longer, his legs gave way and he fell forward...and someone stretched out his hand to catch him.

This is in front of the largest main entrance of Nancheng. Although it is evening, there are quite a few people coming and going.Several guards stood in front of the checkpoint indifferently, without any thought of justice.The guards of the southern city are also tasked, and the guild releases them regularly. The pay is very low, but it is safe enough and leisurely enough.The mercenaries who will accept this mission know what level they are, expecting them to meddle in their own business, it is better to expect red rain from the sky.

But today's situation is a bit different. There is actually an acquaintance in this group of guards, not Wang Zhen's acquaintance, but the driver's.

"Xue Bailang?" The guard stood aside for a while, finally confirmed it, and came forward to ask, "Is that you? Are you back?"

Hearing the sound, the driver turned his head, squinted his eyes silently, and then smiled cheerfully, and replied, "Old He? Oh, what a coincidence! Well, I'm back to deal with some things, and get together at night? I'll buy you a drink."

"Okay, you do what you want." The guard nodded, and was about to retreat. After taking two steps, he turned his head and said with a frown, "Hey, old Xue, don't stand in the middle of the road, go to the side to block people. Passing by."

The driver nodded, lifted Wang Zhen by the back of his collar, walked to the side of the road with a click, and threw it on the ground.He turned around, folded his legs with a little effort, and then sat down on the ground.

To be precise, those are not legs, but two metal poles.The metal tube coated with a layer of black paint is as thick as two fingers, and there is a thin dark groove on the tube. If you look carefully, you can find that the tube is engraved with energy lines that are hard to distinguish with the naked eye, forming at least three Provenance combination.

The driver tapped his prosthetic foot with his fingers, turned to look at Wang Zhen who was trying to get up beside him, smiled slightly, did not speak, and raised his head again to see the red sun sinking in the sky.

The expression on his face was a little bleak and even more sad.

"When I was your age, I dreamed of being famous. Before I came to Chang'an, everyone said I was a genius. When I got here, I realized that geniuses like me are everywhere, and they are worthless... The one who greeted me just now , Back then I vowed to look like a human being, but now it’s not just guarding the door for people, hey, it’s all life.”

"……Something will occur if it belongs to your life, if not, do not push it."

Wang Zhen lowered his head, struggled to tear off the clothes on the wound, held down the large blood vessels near the wound with his hands, and sprinkled the hemostatic powder he carried with him on it.He was so busy trying to save himself that he didn't listen to the people around him at all.

"You can't do this." The driver suddenly said to him, and stretched out his hand to help him bandage the wound with the torn clothes. The technique was very skillful and the effect was quite obvious. The bleeding from Wang Zhen's wound was almost stopped immediately.

Wang Zhen couldn't figure out what this psychopath wanted to do.

"Don't look at me like that." The driver grinned happily at him, the smile on his face was not fake at all, "I was just kidding you, I didn't intend to kill you."

"Then what do you want to do?" Wang Zhen asked weakly.

The driver gave him a friendly smile.

"Wait for Li Shen." He took it for granted, "Wait for him to save you, so I can settle accounts with him."

Wang Zhen felt like he couldn't laugh or cry—he wasn't the main character in the matter of feelings, but Li Shen was.He clutched his wound to look at the driver's feet. Those two metal prosthetic feet were too conspicuous, glistening in the afterglow of the setting sun.The driver noticed his gaze, smiled lightly, and said, "Yes, this is what Li Shen did."

"The first time I saw him, he was about the same age as you." The driver said to Wang Zhen in a reminiscing tone, "He was squatting outside the guild, eating boxed lunches by the bridge, and he was the only one in the group. The most conspicuous thing is that face is really uncommonly beautiful. There is no girl in Dongcheng who can compare to it... I told our team leader at the time, if we don’t have enough ability to pull him in, it’s fine to look good. It’s a pity. The captain didn't agree."

Listening to his nonsense, Wang Zhen felt a little complicated.After being hit on the chest, he knew that the person in front of him must be Xianlu, and it was impossible for him to run away.But he didn't know if he could meet Li Shenlai. The other party's mental state was obviously problematic, and no one could guarantee whether this psychopath would go crazy again.Another worse problem is that once Li Shen arrives, he will be of no use to this lunatic, and the possibility of being killed casually should not be too high.

So Wang Zhen opened his mouth for the first time, and he asked the driver very seriously: "Do you want to die?"

The driver was taken aback for a moment, then laughed.He laughed so hard that he was so happy that tears fell from his eyes, attracting the eyes of passers-by.Like an idiot, he hugged his belly and rolled on the ground twice, and then beat the ground hard. After that, he shrugged his shoulders and laughed like he was about to die.

Wang Zhen moved to the side with great effort, feeling ashamed, and hoped that others would not regard him and that lunatic as one.

"Am I wrong?" He said coldly to the driver beside him who was still inexplicably laughing, "Li Shen is a half-step altar, if you meet him, you will die."

"Yes, that's right, you're right." The driver stopped laughing and explained to him solemnly, "I'm not laughing at that."

"I was laughing at myself."

………………

What happened at the main entrance of Nancheng was sent to the desks of interested people in a very short period of time.On the clock tower of Xuetu, an old man in pajamas was playing chess with a young man with a simple and honest face. He smiled and said something about going to the theater, and stretched out his hand to pick up the chess pieces.The corner of the young man's mouth twitched silently as he was about to kill his dragon without hesitation, and he cursed his mother silently in his heart.

Sitting in the office, Huang Sha, the leader of the desert, asked his secretary about Xia Fenghe's itinerary, and he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the other party had led the team to the Northland early in the morning.

On the southern outskirts of Chang'an, a teenager in a wheelchair scratched his head in distress when he received the report, and silently operated the wheelchair to pick up the car in the garage in line with the principle of 'wipe your own butt by yourself' in the regiment.

On the top floor of the Geng Army Guild Hall, Geng Yan looked at the Chief Military Advisor Lin Guo who was sitting in front of him, frowned and said that this is not good.The latter pushed his glasses and asked, do you have a better way? ... Geng Yan was dumb, holding his head in silence.

In the study room on the second floor of Huiguang Xiaoyu Building, Li Tieyi added a cup of tea to Li Shen himself.

"Xue Bailang left Chang'an six years ago and went to the South China Sea. It's true. It's true that he changed his career to become a pirate, married a wife and had children." He looked at the thin-page report in his hand with an uneasy expression, "Four years ago He took his family to sea and encountered a shipwreck, and he is already a dead person in the records. What happened in between seems to be another mystery... Things seem to be getting more and more complicated."

Li Shen didn't care about how Xue Bailang came back from the dead, what he cared about was Wang Zhen's life and death.No matter whether the boy hides secrets or not, he has already made an agreement with him, promising to protect him well.

"So where are they now?" he asked.

Li Tieyi didn't hide anything, and said bluntly: "At the main entrance of Nancheng, Wang Zhen was injured. He was with Xue Bailang and showed no signs of moving. He seemed to be waiting for someone."

wait for someone?Who are you waiting for?

Li Shen stood up, nodded to Li Tieyi and said, "I'll go and have a look."

"Let's go together." Li Tieyi also stood up, took off the coat hanging on the hanger at the door, and handed it to Li Shen, "I'll ask someone to arrange a car, you put this on, it's cold outside."

Li Shen hesitated, took the coat, and put it on.The thick black woolen material is very warm and fits well.To be honest, he was a little flattered.

The car was parked downstairs, and Li Shen and Li Tieyi sat side by side in the back row, both silent.Li Shen had something on his mind, but Li Tieyi looked at him silently.The old man's gaze was complicated, and he would silently avoid it when Li Shen noticed it.

The car drove out of the main entrance of Huiguang, along the road to the Suzaku Avenue leading directly to the south gate, and headed towards the main entrance of the south city.In the evening, Nancheng was already a little quiet. The upstairs of various guild halls were sparsely lit, but the street lights on both sides of the road were still dim, and they would not be turned on uniformly until dark.

Li Shen looked at the scenery outside the car window, thinking about how to deal with Wang Zhen's matter later.It's not difficult to rescue people, but the trouble is later, if the young man can't explain clearly how he learned to focus on the sword, not to mention Li Tieyi beside him, even he himself will feel a little uncomfortable.

Just as he was thinking, a flash of light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and a cool blue sports car passed by like lightning. Even with his eyesight, he could only see a blurry shadow for a moment, showing the speed of the car.

Li Shen blinked and hissed. If he is not mistaken, it is Ruofeng's new Symphony Zero that was released this year. The limited edition Quanfanglu only sells [-] units, and the cliff has been remodeled, otherwise it will run away. Not at such a god-like speed... By the time he knew it, it was already too late, and the hundred cars had already been sold out, and he was quite annoyed.

A man's psychology of loving sports cars is almost the same as that of loving beautiful women. What he can't get is the most itchy, especially if he can't stand people showing off in front of his eyes.Li Shen silently made up his mind that if this car dared to show up in front of him again, he would definitely take the owner down and give him an indiscriminate meal to relieve his anger.

Li Tieyi suddenly let out a light snort.

I saw a red thinker with a very flamboyant appearance chasing up from behind, driving side by side with Li Shen's car, the rear window was lowered, revealing Hades' old face smiling like a chrysanthemum.

Li Tieyi also reached out and opened the car window.

"Hey, Xiao Li, why are you going?" Hades was so mean as soon as he opened his mouth, even Li Shen, who was sitting by and listening, couldn't help frowning. "Hey, Xiao Shen is here too? You two are finally together."

Li Tieyi chuckled, and changed the topic casually: "You always go to see Wang Zhen? That's the same way."

Hades smiled at him meaningfully, and he also smiled at others as usual. It is really hard to tell how many undercurrents and turmoil there are in this mutual smile.

Yuanjialu has been narrow for decades, but that's all.