[Comprehensive martial arts] Master let me cultivate myself

She was still thinking about this question while sitting on the camel and playing with the throwing knife.

The camel didn't come from Ji Bingyan.

This profiteer was willing to use two throwing knives to pay off the debts of the food and wine that had been dumped, which was considered rare and generous, so it was impossible for him to unload another camel from the carriage to her.

This was in exchange for the small town she passed by with what little money she had left.

The consequence of the lack of funds is that the camel looks a little thinner, and it is not stable enough to walk in the yellow sand.

But it was enough for her.

The fingers rotate flexibly, and the curved bamboo handle pulls out the inertial flying knife, which is as thin as a cicada's wing but flashes with snow-covered cold light under the sun.

This is not her master's best knowledge, after all, her master is not a good hand with throwing knives.

Probably she is a rebellious temperament in her bones.

For example, she could inherit the world-renowned Yedi martial arts in Bi Luo Fu, or some of the Changchun Island classics held by her master as a descendant of the Zhu family, but she still wants to learn the wedding dress magic skill.

This sect took the life of Mrs. Ye Di, who was also the biological mother of her master Zhu Zao, but its practice method was not known until Tie Zhongtang and Iron Hero reorganized the Daqimen.

The two ancestors Yun and Tie deliberately lost this practice with far-sighted intentions.

Fortunately, she, a latecomer, has also been fulfilled, so she won't practice too much.

Ji Bingyan felt that it was true that her internal strength was weak.

However, she is now in the second round of her ten-year-old mental process, and the second round of recuperation. The meridians in her body have become smooth. In less than two years, she will be known for her profound inner strength.

As with internal strength, so with weapons.

There is no one in Yedi's lineage who specializes in throwing knives.

Even her master said that even if she learned by analogy, if she wants to make progress in flying knives, she can only rely on herself to find experience in the rivers and lakes.

That's why she left home.

It's a big deal to wait for her to bring a gift to each of the sisters to apologize after she has achieved great success.

While thinking about this, she didn't forget to pay attention to the movements around her.

I don't know if it's because her tactic of feinting to Lanzhou worked. The smooth journey made her feel a little uneasy, but at this time, the city wall of the King City of Kucha had already appeared far away on the horizon.

The destination has been reached, no amount of uneasiness can only be taken one step at a time.

Thinking of what Ji Bingyan said at the time of parting, "Shi Guanyin's eyeliner is everywhere in this desert. Even if there is any suspiciousness in the change of ownership of a camel, it will probably reach her ears." Without hesitation, he stabbed the camel with a knife.

The knife aimed at the rough-skinned and thick-skinned place just made this weak one of its kind run away, heading in the direction it came from.

Robbers are rampant in the desert, and it is normal for the buyer of the camel to be killed, but the camel may escape.

After watching it leave, Shi Nian carried a backpack with a small amount of dry food left, and went to the leeward side of the sand dunes, which was still some distance from the city wall.

In the oasis near the founding of the Kucha Kingdom, there is a hint of water vapor in the still hot air.

But the roll is full of dust, and even a little bit of water vapor has been almost dried by the air.

She glanced at the water sac that was almost bottomed out, and once again felt that Ji Bingyan's current status is absolutely inseparable from his stinginess.

It is true that Hu Tiehua said that he is an iron cock.

Although Hu Tiehua's face, which has become more and more unshaven and haggard after spending four years on the Loess Plateau, she can't see where the title "Butterfly" is right.

Shi Nian pursed his somewhat dry lips, but chose to wait until night fell.

She looked over there.

Although it is a royal city, a small place like Kucha is far from being comparable to the Central Plains.

The highest position of the outermost city wall poured with loess is only more than two feet high, and the guards patrolling back and forth on the wall stacks with an interval of 12 feet leave a lot of opportunities for people to take advantage of.

Taking advantage of the bright sunlight, she took into account the defenses on the city wall.

When the night fell, she slowly buried the things she was carrying with her in the depths of the sand, and walked in that direction.

During the action, a throwing knife was caught between her fingertips, and the silver thread tied at the end was attached to the indistinct bracelet on her wrist.

When she stepped lightly on her toes, the flying knife suddenly dropped from her hand, and the silk thread was almost completely hidden in the night.

A flash of knife light that was so cold in an instant, precisely hit a place on the city wall that was likely to be a place where iron wreckage was left during the siege battle.

Although this knocking sound was clear but not too loud, it attracted the attention of the guards who were closest to here on the city wall at this time.

And the guard, who was supposed to turn around at this moment, chose to poke his neck out and look in the direction of the movement diagonally forward.

But she had already moved the wrist mechanism with her fingertips to retract the silk thread, and pressed the flying knife back in her hand.

Even though the man poked his head out quickly enough, he still couldn't see the movement of retracting.

At the same time, she passed behind the guard like a cloud of smoke.

The footwork of Liuyun Piaoxue did not bring the slightest wind sound at all, even if it did, it had already mixed into the cold wind in the middle of the night in the desert.

The guard didn't see the clue, and when he turned around and turned back, Shi Nian had completely disappeared from the sight of the city wall.

"It's really cold, I guess it's an auditory hallucination." He rubbed his hands and continued to walk forward.

When he was in the wrong position with the guard in front of him, he asked casually to make sure that the other party did not hear the abnormal movement, so he was relieved.

Shi Nian inherited the supreme lightness kung fu from his teacher, but it had already sent her into the inner city.

The first step went well.

She landed on a roof.

The coldness of the night didn't affect her actions at all, but it somewhat affected her search for someone.

After all, she is not a local, so it is naturally impossible to know the residences of these rangers who came from afar, especially when there are few people active at night, it is even more difficult to confirm.

Thanks to Zhu Zao's erudition, she was forced to learn a few words of foreign language. After climbing on the roof for more than half an hour, she finally heard the location of the group of "outsiders".

The figure tossing and turning on the roof did not attract anyone's attention until she arrived at the residence of the "outsider".

This is the northeast corner of the royal city, but it does look like a rare and spacious place in the royal palace compared to other locations.

It's a pity that there are only candles burning in the room, and there are few people outside the door, so it is difficult for her to distinguish the target for a while.

Fortunately, after waiting for half a quarter of an hour, a thin man pushed the door and came out. He waved to the boy who was in charge of the reception, gestured to him, and mixed his poor Fanbang dialect with Middle-earth dialect. , expressing his appeal with actions.

After seeing Xiaotong leave, this person did not enter the room immediately, but waited in the corridor.

Shi Nian's eyes lit up, good opportunity!

There is no second person's breath in his room, and this person's figure is not difficult to pretend.

Taking advantage of the other party's back to the door, she slid down the eaves without a sound, and nimbly turned in the air like a bird and floated into the room.

So when the thin man took the washbasin filled with hot water from the boy, turned back and walked back into the room, when he put down the basin and closed the door again, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow at the end of his eyes.

But it was too late for him to respond.

A hand covered his mouth and nose as quickly as lightning, and he fell down before he could even utter a whimper, but before his body hit the ground, he was supported by someone first.

The second step went well!

Shi Nian took a closer look at the man's appearance and stuffed him into the big box by the wall.

The dose of the drug was not light, and it would take at least two days for this guy to wake up, and these two days were enough for her to figure out the location of the convoy leaving the desert by relying on this identity.

"This king of Kucha is really not picky." She murmured in her heart.

This man who was recruited without much fuss is indeed the appearance of a martial artist from the Central Plains, but his internal strength is not to mention whether he is a famous master——

Fundamentally vain and impure internal strength is on the surface, at best, he is someone who knows one or two sets of palm and boxing techniques to walk in the rivers and lakes for self-defense.

It is definitely not ranked among martial arts heroes.

But the news that King Qiuci likes to make friends with the heroes of the Central Plains martial arts was submitted by her master's intelligence agency. Shi Nian went to memorize all the important things before going out, so there should be no mistakes.

This sense of disobedience made her subconsciously refreshed.

The uneasiness that he had felt since arriving at the royal city came to his heart once again.

At this moment, there was no one else in the room except the stunned guy, so she chose to rummage around the room as soon as possible to eliminate potential dangers.

But the inside of the house seemed a bit too tidy, more like it only provided a place to sleep.

Apart from the neatly stacked luggage outside the closet, the only thing that looked a little eye-catching was the table covered by the red flannel, and there was an obvious box-shaped object under the flannel.

With the idea of ​​being on guard even if this thing was in the house, she used the flannelette that was parted by the silver thread in the bracelet, and opened the box with the same technique.

But what surprised her was that what was contained in the box was not a secret treasure or a weapon, but a curved-neck lute.

lute……

Shi Nian scanned the instrument suspiciously.

There are many pipas with curved necks in the Western Regions, but the pipas that were carefully placed in the box seem to have won the attention of this resident.

Could it be that she accidentally attacked a musician instead of King Kucha's guest?

She doesn't play the pipa very well, let alone this exotic pipa with curved neck and four phases, which is much simpler than the four phases of China with thirteen frets added.

and many more……

If this person is not a musician, there is another possibility.

She flicked through the information of Kucha Kingdom in her mind, and realized a terrible problem——

She may have chosen the wrong target!

If I could remember some of the hobbies of King Qiuci back then, I would naturally remember that the king had a daughter who loved the pipa and was named after it.

The whole body of this curved-neck pipa exposed under the candlelight is made of fine iron. Even if you don't pick it up and weigh it, you know that it is not light. This is by no means the way a pipa used as a musical instrument will be made.

Most of her research on flying knives is based on hidden weapons, and it is not difficult to find that there is a pile of poisonous needles hidden in the curved neck, and there is actually a gap between the curved neck and the body of the pipa, which seem to be connected flawlessly , either a built-in short knife or a mechanism.

This is clearly a weapon!

Putting it in the King City of Kucha, it doesn't matter who this pipa is for.

Big trouble...

She had to leave as soon as possible and replace her target.

But at this moment, she suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from outside the door, and accompanied by the sound of footsteps, was a question towards the boy in the corridor. "Is Mr. Yu asleep?"

Her footsteps faltered in place.

Immediately afterwards, I heard the boy who had just dealt with people reply, "Not yet, I just called for water."

The visitor's tone was much lighter, "That's good."

Instead, he knocked on the door and continued, "I heard that the new pipa made by Mr. Yu for Princess Pipa has been completed. The king's banquet is coming. I want to invite you to present it in advance, and please come with me."

Mr. Yu himself can't go with you...

Shi Nian complained in his heart.

But she decisively lowered her voice at this moment and said, "Wait a while."

If Shi Nian knew that there was a word called Mercury retrograde, she should know what word to use to describe it. She entered Shi Guanyin's territory by mistake, and after meeting that well-maintained poisonous woman, everything went wrong. .

Or maybe she and Da Mo don't get along well.

But now is obviously not the time to worry about this.

The man/skin/mask that she quickly took out from the armhole was flexibly pressed by her fingertips, and the moment it was put on the face, it had already become the appearance of the man who was stunned and packed by her just now.

The inspection of the closet just now also allowed her to distinguish which set of clothes the musical instrument maker was wearing to pay homage to King Kucha in just a split second.

There is no harm in learning a little miscellaneous.

For example, the one who was stunned couldn't think of a way to wake her up for a short time. In order to ensure that that guy would not interfere with her actions, she used something that she didn't even bring an antidote with.

But when she opened the door, the people outside the door didn't wait long, and what they saw was a thin man who was already dressed up and holding a box containing a refined iron lute.

"Please lead the way."

What came out of "his" throat was the same voice as that of Mr. Yu who had communicated with Xiaotong just now.