Death Princess

Pat, the blood dripping from the tip of the knife stained the snow red.Wumian let go of his left hand and wiped the bleeding wound on his cheek, heaved a sigh of relief, put his left hand behind his right, and held it on the Japanese sword.Squinting his eyes, the scars on his face were huddled together, he looked at the men in black who surrounded him with complex expressions, and then at the nameless corpses in black lying on the ground.

"Fog face, don't struggle anymore," the leader of the man in black took a few steps closer to the fog face, "Even if you have the power to reach the sky, you can't escape the all-out attack of the dark pavilion. Just capture it with your hands free, brothers give you a fight!" happy."

Heh, bro.

Wumian chewed two words in his mouth.From this point of view, money and power are truly paramount in this world.When I was still the pavilion master, what kind of faces did this group of people put on and fell at my feet like dogs.And now?The tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs.

But speaking from the bottom of his heart, Wu Mian had already expected the situation he was in today.Having been by Jiang Tang's side for so many years, Wu Mian has already figured out his nature of killing donkeys.Even if there was no incident about the Ou family, even if he hadn't happened to hear the conversation between King Ping and Jiang Tang that day, even if he hadn't seen it today...Jiang Tang would attack him sooner or later.

Since ordering himself to participate in the martial arts conference, isn't he determined to kill him?Let a killer who is recognized by others go to a place like a martial arts conference to show his face.Even if Jiang Tang didn't do anything, he would sooner or later be killed by the enemy in the rivers and lakes who could row all the way from Lingzhou to the capital, right?

However, even if he counts thousands of times, he will never count... he is that person.If there is no news about him like this, that master will be about to move.

"cut."

The knife rose and the knife fell, everything from the beginning to the end was only a snap of the fingers, and the head of the man in black had fallen to the ground, and in contrast, dozens of blades were also placed on Wumian's neck.Turning up the corners of his mouth, he squeezed out a ferocious smile, and Wumian closed his eyes in satisfaction.

The expected pain and darkness did not come, only the cold wind was blowing, and the night snow was brushing the ground.

Opening his eyes, Wumian found that the knife on his neck and the killer beside him were replaced by a white mist that could not see his fingers.The foggy eyelids twitched, and the next moment, he heard a familiar voice: "Get on the horse!"

Wumian only hesitated for a moment, then according to the direction of the voice, he accurately flew and jumped onto the invisible horse in the strange white mist in the snow.Almost at the same moment when he jumped onto the fog surface, the horse galloped out of the white mist as if it had run loose.Subconsciously, Wumian looked back, only to find that there was no fog behind him, and some were just a group of secret assassins wielding knives indiscriminately, as if they were chopping something invisible to the naked eye, without realizing it at all The fog that has escaped.

The horse quickly left the crowd behind without a trace, but there was no dialogue between the escaped man on the horse and the rescuer.

The whole day's fighting and excessive blood loss made the instantly relaxed fog face a little drowsy. Out of years of instinct, he tried his best to resist this drowsiness, but in vain he maintained a trace of ambiguity while running around on the horse. Consciousness, a sense of being able to deal with emergencies a little bit.However, along the way, there was no so-called "emergency situation", so Wu Mian didn't know when he fell on the horse's back.

When he woke up from the foggy nightmare, he was already lying on a simple couch in a dark room. The large wound on his body had been roughly bandaged with medicine, but the small wound that needed to be undressed was perfectly ignored.In the only corner of the room where two candles were lit, there was a person sitting with his back to the bed, who seemed to be writing something.

"Why save me?" Wumian asked, sitting up regardless of the wound, lowering his eyes.What he was thinking in his heart was the reaction of his master who was far away in the sky after knowing about this matter.

"An enemy of an enemy is a friend, isn't it?" replied the man.

I haven't seen her for a few days, and she has changed a lot.It seems that she...is no longer a secret murderer.

This thought suddenly echoed in the foggy mind.

"Besides, I saved you, and of course I won't save you in vain." Leng Tong stood up, put her hands behind her back and came to the edge, "Use your life to exchange the answers to a few questions."

"Use my life?" Hearing this, Wu Mian laughed, "What answer can a precarious killer get in exchange for his life?"

"What if it's a life-saving killer?" Leng Tong raised his eyebrows, and put the note in his hand on the candle and burned it, "If you don't spare your life and don't want to trade your own life with the answer, why should you stay in the dark pavilion for a few more days?" To collect those chips every day, and not to escape until Jiang Tang completely tore his face?"

"Tch," Wumian smiled wryly, "It seems that you are fully prepared for the deal."

"That's natural." Rubbing the scraps of paper on his fingertips, "I've been traded by you as a bargaining chip so many times. Yingmen, more or less, still has a few friends who can help."

"Oh?" Misty leaned against the wall, "Then tell me, what answer do you want to exchange for my life, and how do you want to keep my life?"

"Three days." Leng Tong raised three fingers, "I can give you three days, during these three days, no matter where you are, no one will recognize you as a foggy face. What, Pavilion Master Wu, three days is enough for you to escape?"

Wumian didn't answer in a hurry, but lowered his head and touched the scar on his face.Just when Leng Tong was about to open his mouth to add something, he suddenly raised his head and replied: "Okay, three days will be three days. Tell me, what do you want to know."

Seeing that the deal has progressed, Leng Tong secretly swallowed his saliva and wiped the sweat from his palms, "First, at the martial arts conference, was it Jiang Tang's order that you killed me? If so, why did you accept it in the end?" How could Jiang Tang, who wanted to take my life, coerce me to assassinate the young master of Jianzong?"

"How do you know that I have withdrawn my strength?" Wu Mian was a little surprised.

"If you don't pull back, even Jiang Tang and Jianzong can fly, and they won't be able to arrive in time to block the knife." Leng Tong's answer was very cold, and it wasn't her own thing to do with the knife. life is the same.

"Take it easy, huh," looked at Leng Tong with a greasy look, "Maybe I was fascinated by your face, and suddenly I couldn't bear it."

Feeling nauseated for a while, Leng Tong insisted on holding back.

"As for why Jiang Tang wanted to kill you, but he was prepared in advance to kill you with your sword," Wu Mian continued, "because he already knew that I can't kill you, the order to kill you is not for you, but For me, he was testing me. If I really made a move in full view that day, I would have become a target of public criticism. What's more, that Chaolu revealed my identity unceremoniously. How many of our hidden cabinet killers are there? Enemy, claim your life, don’t you know? Jiang Tang is using you to test my sincerity, to see if I will obey his orders, even if obeying his orders will cost me my life.”

Regarding Wu Mian's answer, Leng Tong didn't say anything, but continued to ask, "Second, who is the person standing behind Jiang Tang? Why did he take Chao Lu's life? Third, what happened three years ago?" ? How did the master die? Who was the woman who broke into the dark pavilion?"

"This is the third question." Intentionally or unintentionally skipping over the second question, Misty picked up the third one directly, "I only know a little or two about the truth three years ago. I don't know what complicated power disputes there are. There is only one thing I can answer clearly, and that is, the death of the master has nothing to do with me. Moved Master."

"...Okay." Leng Tong's expression still didn't change much, only a faint light flashed in his eyes that revealed his inner thoughts, "Then what about the second question?"

"Second question." Wu Mian shook his head, "Death, you know, there are some things that are better not to know, and knowing will only bring disaster."

"Is it like you who are being chased by Jiang Tang now?" Leng Tong raised half of his eyelids, "What if I must know? The people behind Jiang Tang, their plans, and everything you know."

For a long time, the mist staring at Lengtong's eyes did not speak.

The snow outside the window had stopped at some point, and the first ray of sunlight pierced the night sky, bringing the white belly where the sky and the earth meet in the distance.

"Okay, if you don't regret it, I'll tell you everything. But before that," Misty took a deep breath, "there is another thing that you may be more interested in."

. . .

Whether on the way or the way back, the imperial envoy team is extremely slow.From Lingzhou to the capital, it took more than ten days to travel quickly, and it would take more than a month to spread out the imperial guard of honor and banquets from various local governments.As soon as they left Lingzhou, Ning Yuan and Wei Zhuoxuan joined the Ning family's army, and they probably already arrived at the outskirts of the capital.They set off at the same time, but He Yi, who was almost grounded by He Yupeng in the imperial envoy, was still staying in the mansion of the prefect of Jingzhou.

He Yupeng and a few officials held a banquet in the front hall, but He Yi, who was always tired of these entertainments, found an excuse at random and went to wander in the back garden of his mansion.Wandering around, He Yi found to his annoyance that he had lost his way in the palm-sized garden.Holding her forehead and sighing, knowing that Peng San and the others must be not far away, she pondered over how to summon the four of them so as not to reveal the fact that she was lost.

But at this moment, with only a few plops, the four masters flew from nowhere and fell face-to-face at He Yi's feet.His heart tightened, and He Yi felt a strange fragrance coming from his mouth and nose, and then his feet softened, his eyes went dark, and he fell unconscious.

A man who looked like a servant of the mansion came out from the depths of the woods, wrapped He Yi in the quilt prepared in advance, carried it on his shoulders, turned around and was about to leave, but was blocked by another man who looked like a servant.

"Why, Shishi, do you still want to stop me?" asked the servant who was carrying He Yi.

The person called "Stone Persimmon" didn't answer, but he didn't give way either.

"Why, let me give you a great opportunity to be a princess, eat all the delicacies, and enjoy the glory and wealth, don't you want it? Pretending to be the princess of Changping is much more convenient than being an unknown secret guard at the prince's feet, right? Shishi, you have been a dog for the He family for a long time, and you have forgotten the deep blood feud between you and the He family?" The man tried to take half a step forward, but was stopped by Shi Shi again.

"Shi Run, this matter..."

"There is no room for maneuver in this matter, you have to do it or get out." Shi Run said sharply, "If you get out, from now on, there will be no one like you in Wu You Clan."

"But..." Shi Shi didn't dare to look at the face of the sleeping person wrapped in the quilt.

"To do it or not to do it, just tell me." Shi Run interrupted her again.

After several times of hesitation and several struggles, when the hand hidden in the sleeve was pinched white by himself, Shi Shi replied: "Okay, I will do it."

"Oh," Shi Run raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, "Then go and change your face, these four people will wake up soon. Don't worry, they will forget about being stunned after waking up. You Just pretend that nothing happened, just pretend to be your Princess Changping. I will give you the instructions in the future after I find out the depth of that side."

"...Well." When Shi Shi moved out of the way, he still avoided He Yi's sleeping face.

How could the civet cat exchange for the princess, the real princess who was exchanged, have a reason to save her life?At first Qin Hui left himself here to protect Princess Changping.

Shi Shi, or Jia Bing and Wu You, bit their lips firmly.

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