Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

The author has something to say: There are memories in this chapter, about Miss He Lian (I feel that the insertion is blunt, but I have tried my best OTZ).Any little angels like her?

This moment was heart-wrenching, He Lian groaned and almost bit her lips, endured the pain and turned over suddenly and slammed out of the window.I saw her body folded in mid-air, jumped onto the roof in an instant, and then quickly lowered her body.Because there were already bowmen waiting below, He Lianfang was greeted by a rain of arrows as soon as He Lianfang raised his head, and he could only hear the sound of "crackling", the sound of arrows hitting the roof of the stone house.

And He Lian couldn't even put her mind on these flow arrows, the master from just now had chased out from another window, and sneaked behind her like a wandering spirit in the blink of an eye.All of this happened in an instant. He Lian instinctively twisted her body and stabbed the dagger out without hesitation, while the other party turned slightly to let the dagger pass by against his chest, while he raised his hand suddenly. He clasped He Lian's wrist with his hand, and twisted it vigorously.

With a sound of "Kara", He Lian's right hand was twisted off abruptly by him.

In fact, He Lian was often confused when she was very young.

She didn't really live a normal day, so she didn't know how different it was where she lived and the people she knew.Her father, supposedly an ordinary fisherman, lives with his daughter in a quiet and remote fishing village.However, the fact is not really that simple, because He Lian would sometimes be woken up by slight movements at night, she got up from the bed, stepped on a stool, tiptoed and looked out the window.There was only a little light in the dim night—an oil lamp on the ground was illuminated by a towel, and the faint light could only illuminate a square inch.And she saw that her father was digging something, or buried something, and the sound of the shovel rubbing against the soil was not harsh, because the user was careful.

This kind of thing happens from time to time, as if there are things in the ground that can't be dug up or buried.One day, the young He Lian asked in a childish voice: "Father, what are you digging at night?"

Instead of getting any answer, she was slapped and told sternly not to mention the matter again.

After that, He Lian learned to keep silent.Besides scolding her, her father rarely talked to her, and always looked worried.When He Lian was a little older and started to understand, she found that the rest of the family seemed to be so silent and weird, so she didn't take it seriously.

This ignorant state remained until the age of seven, when He Lian began to go to sea with her father.She was capable from an early age, partly because she wanted to please her father and therefore wanted to be the best at everything.Although her father was not so easy to please, He Lian finally got a new opportunity because of this - to go further afield.

After getting acquainted with the jungle within range of exploration, sailing is certainly exhilarating for a child.Although He Lian knew that the only reason his father took her was because he needed help, he had to take He Lian with him whenever he wanted to go far away.

And that far away place is Bitter Fruit Island.But He Lian didn't know what the island was called at that time, and her father never told her.The fact that she was not trusted by her close relatives made He Lian feel very frustrated. However, after a long period of helplessness, she finally compromised. At least she learned how to live in harmony with her father.

Until that day, she met Mr. Dongwu on Kuguo Island, and by chance, she accepted her as an apprentice.

This is actually not a simple matter, but it is not that important.What really concerned He Lian was the truth she heard from Mr. Dongwu—that her father was actually the "gatekeeper" of this bitter fruit island, with some sort of secret duty on his shoulders.

And the fishing village she lives in is actually not a real fishing village, but a hiding place for desperadoes in the rivers and lakes.Even his father was one of them.These people either made powerful enemies in the rivers and lakes in the early years, or committed bloody crimes that could arouse public anger, so they fled to this forgotten coast.

And among these desperadoes, most of them carried a considerable amount of property.Although living here does not require a lot of expenses, everyone invariably values ​​their wealth very much.They found a secret location—perhaps in their own yard—and buried the gold, silver and jewels in the ground.Some people, like He Lian's father, dug up from time to time to see if things were still there because of paranoia.They are secretive about their treasures, and they are always vigilant and cautious when getting along with their neighbors, as if they are surrounded by enemies.

This kind of truth once puzzled He Lian.It's just that she didn't ask her father for confirmation, nor did she reveal to anyone about her apprenticeship with Lord Dongwu, but she only felt hatred for money in her heart.

She felt that those cold things took away her father's care for her, because her father would rather guard those lifeless dead things every day than say a few words to her.The same goes for the neighbors around, they are all a bunch of weirdos.He looks nervous every day, looking around with probing eyes, as if he is ready to catch the thief who wants to steal at any time.

During that time, He Lian had always wanted to leave, far away from this disgusting place.

However, it was his father who left first.

The man left a note one day and disappeared.A year later, he returned here with a serious injury and a baby.He Lian stayed by his bedside, and heard her father exhort and plead with her with unprecedented strong emotion: "That's your brother, you have to raise him, and you have to treat him well." He finally He told her about the money buried in the yard, but his tone was somewhat hostile.After finishing speaking, he panted for a while, as if he was confused, but after a while he suddenly said clearly: "I know you hate me, you are a strange little thing, you have been staring at me with that kind of eyes since you were a child .I admit, I don't like you, I can't like you."

He Lian didn't answer.Her father began to babble, mostly inaudible gibberish, occasionally uttering something inexplicable with surprising clarity.

After that night, he died.He Lian was left with a younger brother and the status of "gatekeeper".

For a long time, He Lian couldn't adapt to this kind of life - this is actually unreasonable, because her father had also left for a year before, but she didn't have such a strong feeling.At that time, she always had a premonition that her father would come back the next day.She waited, with strong premonitions every night, and therefore eternal hope.

But when the father died, the situation changed.She no longer had hope, because the dead couldn't be resurrected and crawl out of the mud—just like the money and things her father hid, they would just stay in the ground and rot slowly.

When the younger brother grew up, He Lian put a lot of energy into martial arts.She began to go to Bitter Fruit Island frequently, although not every time the master was in the mood to give her advice.He Lian has a feeling that in fact, Lord Dongwu took her as an apprentice just to spend his lonely life.She is like a master raising a gadget to relieve boredom, but no one will take the gadget seriously.

Her life passed by meaninglessly like this, He Lian sometimes imagined the outside world, but she didn't really want to leave.She can always find a reason to convince herself: the island is inseparable from people, the master may still need her, and her brother is too young.

In this way, day after day, she finally waited for Zhan Zhao.

Also waited for the destruction of the fishing village.

In fact, when Zhan Zhao was envious of He Lian telling his younger brother "you stay here", He Lian was also secretly envious of A Lan.She envied Alan, because someone could tell her without hesitation in the face of danger: you stay in a safe place.

What's more, Zhan Zhao said it tactfully, as if he still considered Alan's mood.At that moment, He Lian was even a little jealous, jealous that when Ah Lan had to rush forward in the face of such danger, there was still someone who could take care of her.How much He Lian hopes that one day when she has to do something dangerous, someone can tell her: You stay in a safe place, and I will do the dangerous thing.

But He Lian has no one to rely on, she knew this very early on.It's nothing, no one to rely on means you must be strong yourself, He Lian has always used this as the driving force for progress.She did a really good job too.As early as when approaching the stone house in the dark, He Lian deduced from the overturned soil that most of the buried property had been dug out.Then there is no second possibility. These people and these robbers came here for the treasure. They slaughtered the fishing village just to reasonably occupy these unowned things.

This made He Lian have a strange feeling, not the anger and fear that everyone he knew should feel when they were almost killed, but a sense of responsibility.She considers it her duty to guard the treasures here, as if her father were about to dig up the yard to see if the treasures were intact.

She thought she could do it, until she met that young man with incredible martial arts.

The pain of the broken wrist bone did not stay at the wrist, but was contagious like the plague, quickly spreading to the whole body.Not only did this person move extremely fast, but also his moves were vicious, and both of He Lian's hands were crippled in just a few back and forth.But He Lian still didn't admit defeat, and slammed into the man with her right shoulder.The roof was covered with moss, wet and slippery, she fought back desperately, and actually let He Lian knock the man staggering.

It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, only to hear a sharp piercing sound, and a sleeve arrow pierced the night sky like a shooting star and shot towards the man in official uniform.The latter was originally unstable on the roof, but now he had to lean up suddenly and fell down the roof of the stone house.At the same time, the bonfire in the courtyard was extinguished violently, and the surroundings were suddenly plunged into darkness.

He Lian reacted extremely quickly, and jumped down from the roof in the blink of an eye.But just when she was about to escape from the stone house, someone suddenly grabbed her from behind, and saw that person pinched her veins accurately and quickly, and with a touch of her toes, she broke through without a sound. From the window, he jumped back into the second floor of the stone house.

This step is too bold, but also unexpected.It's not a long-term solution, but it can buy you some time.

I only heard a cold voice from outside, containing a fierce killing intent: "Light the torch and chase me!"

Immediately there were loud footsteps outside, Zhan Zhao took this opportunity to let go of He Lian, then quickly supported her wrist, and with a soft "click", he connected her wrist bones together.He Lian's body went limp from the pain, and she almost fell to her knees.She gritted her teeth, cold sweat dripping from her forehead to her chin.While fixing her wrist with two sleeve arrows, Zhan Zhao whispered close to her ear: "That person will definitely come back to check this place, then I will lure him away, you go."

"His martial arts are too high." He Lian's breath trembled a little, and when Zhan Zhao connected the phalanges of her left hand, she could no longer feel the pain, "I have never seen a person with such high martial arts."

Zhan Zhao seemed to be smiling in the darkness, his voice was almost inaudible: "That's someone with high martial arts that you haven't seen before."

Suddenly, he tilted his head slightly, and calmly gestured to He Lian.He Lian bit her lips tightly, and moved silently to the corner of the room.

The next moment, a big hole suddenly appeared on the roof, and the man fell straight from the top, and before he landed, he swept his knife at Zhan Zhao!