[Sword III] Seeking Wings

Chi Xiao strode up to the gossip party behind his junior brother who arranged behind him, and opened the window with a bang like a beating to catch the current, obviously very angry.

But his expression at this moment is still familiar to Modin, it is exactly the same calm and indifferent as usual.

——Because of this, it was the same as what he saw when he was almost killed by mistake before, enough to make people feel the most piercing chill and fear just by looking at each other.

Sure enough, as soon as the group of teahouse attendants looked up and saw Chi Xiao, they immediately turned pale with fright, fell silent on the spot, nodded and bowed, and ran away in a hurry.

They made quite a loud noise as they ran away in a panic.

Qingyun in the pavilion turned his head when he heard the sound.

"...Oh my god! It's the elder brother...! How could that evil star be here!" Even though Chi Xiao's expression could not be seen clearly from his position, Qingyun immediately turned pale like a teahouse waiter, his voice trembled, and he even forgot To put the word evil star lightly, "...Damn it! He found us!"

He stomped his feet back and forth, and suddenly grabbed Miss Xiu's hand, making a posture to protect her behind him, and at the same time stood up and raised his head, staring directly at Chi Xiao's direction, "Quick, now you go back to your stronghold with Qinggong, I'll deal with it here !"

"Eh? Since it's your senior brother, then I... well, say hello to your senior brother for me, see you later."

Miss Xiu was quite frightened by his desperate posture, looked and looked at Chi Xiao's non-hostile attitude in confusion, and left with a blank face.

Modin watched the pink figure stepping across the treetops against the moonlight, until the last afterimage of the light veil on her clothes disappeared from sight, he came back to his senses, blinked his dry eyes hard, wondering why he was in a trance just now .

Seeing that Chi Xiao had no intention of pursuing him, Qing Yun finally relaxed.

In other words, it is wilted down.

Seeing the senior brother making a "come here" gesture to him at the window, the junior junior brother who was invincible in front of Qingyuan just now nodded again and again, trotting all the way, sweating all the way into the room, the first thing he did was He was in a hurry to pour tea for his brother.

Chi Xiao stuffed Qingyun's handkerchief to wipe his sweat, then dragged him to sit down, stared into his eyes through the table, "That girl Xiu from the Valley of the Wicked just now is your love? Is she best friends with that Yin Yu you hate? "

"Well, to tell you the truth, brother... yes.

——However, senior brother, not only did I not harm my side in the slightest when I fell in love, on the contrary, I took this opportunity to do business for the Haoqi League! "

After Qing Yun rubbed the handkerchief in his hand for a long time, he finally opened his mouth.

"Every time I meet Miss Xiu, I will try to trick the villain's movements, and I have gained a lot." Qingyun continued to defend himself:

"For example, I have already found out that in the treasure hunt at the Pingding Village post station tomorrow morning, it is Yin Yu who will fight in Evilman's Valley. She was seriously injured a few months ago. Miss Xiu just revealed that she has not recovered yet. It just so happens that we are here. I will fight, and at tomorrow's hour, I will confront her head-on, when nature is in harmony with people, and blood will come before blood! Brother, you have been worrying about me, and my "inner demon" will naturally be eliminated.

——When I make a great contribution tomorrow, I will also give a share to Miss Xiu who provided the information, and then bring her to my Haoqi League.Brother, please believe me!Miss Xiu was just kidnapped by Yin Yu, she is really good... eh?big brother? "

Qingyun watched in surprise as Chi Xiao suddenly stood up and walked to his side, putting his hand on his shoulder lightly.

"Qingyun, I remember that the matter of winning the treasure is a Class A secret of your branch hall."

Chi Xiao looked down at him:

"——You just let me know the time and place so casually?"

Qingyun was stunned immediately.

After a while, his face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"...Qingyun, you have really gone into a madness, and your mind is about to be destroyed." Chi Xiao supported his junior brother who was about to soak his face in the teacup, "I'll say it again, your skill has greatly increased now, it's just Because of excessive hatred, the knot in your heart is not resolved, and you deviate from the practice. If you face your knot in this state tomorrow, you will definitely not even know how you died."

Before he finished speaking, Chi Xiao suddenly pointed his fingers together, and struck Qing Yun's back with a knife.

He hugged the fainted junior brother to the bed, took the other's clothes and sword, and prepared to change them for himself.

Modin understood that Chi Xiao wanted to pretend to replace Qing Yun to carry out that secret mission.

After seeing his disguise, Modin further confirmed what the mission was.

——It was the illusory weapon battle that he witnessed in the station a year ago.

It turned out that it was Chi Xiao who saved his life from under the collapsed beam.

It was also Chi Xiao who personally killed the girl Xiu whom he seemed to have known inexplicably and whose figure haunted his heart all the time.

And the next moment, Modin could no longer avoid this kind of deja vu, why?

Chi Xiao opened Qingyun's inner pocket and took out the mission instructions.

—and a heart-shaped pink purse with exquisite craftsmanship.

There are two names embroidered on it, one of which is Qingyun.

And the other one is exactly Modin's hometown in Pingding Village, that childhood sweetheart, the neighbor lady who made him yearn for many years.

"...No! How is it possible... No!"

Modin stared blankly for a moment, grabbed his hat suddenly, as if he wanted to force himself to believe that it was an illusion, and kept shaking his head as long as he struggled to wake up, whimpering.

But in this illusion where one's subconscious is hundreds of times sharper than usual, he could no longer deceive himself and others in the face of those silk embroidery characters that were so clear that they seemed to pierce the eyeball.

...Actually, you already recognized her.

In the trance of extreme pain, Modin seemed to hear his own voice.

——Just because she is disfigured and is no longer as beautiful as before, you don't accept it and don't "know".

…When she left home and entered the Valley of the Wicked, you only need to wiggle your toes to find out why.

——But you are afraid of being implicated by her and getting into trouble with a powerful force you can't afford, so just don't help, don't ask, until you escape and don't know, even if she fell into that field, it is clearly to protect your village's property, including yours. .

…Until you heard that she had been promoted to the Heaven Extinguishing Demon King in the Valley of the Wicked, you didn’t even have the guts to contact her.

——That's why she has love, so she won't fall in love with a selfish and cowardly bastard like you.

... At the post station that day, as a public official, you had the opportunity and the responsibility to stop the Taoist priest from killing people, but you didn't do it.

—so you lost her.

Forever, lost her.

"No...Miss Xiu...Daozhang...I...ahhhhh!!!"

Modin stared at Chi Xiao's back as he went away with the sword in his hand, crying heart-piercingly.

The illusion around him was changing rapidly, and the brilliance was mottled, but he only felt that his eyes were gradually covered with blood and darkness, as if his soul had fallen into the abyss.

***

On the other side, in the mass grave forest, Chi Xiao rode a horse and galloped through the setting sun in the evening, showing more and more deep layers of leaf shadows.

For him now, holding on not to pass out is the limit of what he can do, so he is completely unable to control the illusion he created just now, and he even has no way of knowing whether it is only his previous near-death experience or revealed the past. which memory.

The only thing that is certain is that he has put Tang Xiaoyi—and probably Modin—into the bottom layer of the illusion structure, without any conscious information, only a precipitous abyss with colorful rock walls.

Since Kuvatsam's mental power is far stronger than ordinary people, Chi Xiao can only pull him into the surface of the illusion, but he can't control it. He will definitely continue to search for Tang Xiaoyi soberly, and it won't even take long for him to escape from the illusion. The edge forcibly broke through.Therefore, putting her in the bottom layer of the illusion, where Kuvatsam cannot detect and reach, can best ensure her safety.

This is his illusion. In theory, Tang Xiaoyi can't climb that cliff.

But, after all, she still carries the other half of the phantom matter... After all, she is his most karmic lover.

"...It's okay, with her mind, she can definitely deduce that she must stay where she is and hide, so she won't wander around."

Thinking of this, Chi Xiao focused on looking forward again, and went straight to the border of the forest.

Along the other side of the official road paved by the peasants, he reached a tree on the outermost layer of the mass grave forest, and he turned his eyes slightly.

A sword blade suspended by the side turned accordingly, and the azure blue light pierced through the wind, and was nailed into the center of the tree trunk in a straight line.

As Chi Xiao rode away, the flickering sword blade on the tree trunk gradually dimmed, and finally stabilized in a faint blue like insect fireflies, completely blending into the dim night.

This is the instruction written by Cang father in the kit.

——In the mass grave forest area, the illusion master can easily control the living puppets who enter the forest, but the control power will quickly decay when they leave the forest area.If the realm master is in its prime, it is indeed enough to manipulate the living puppets into Luoyang before the decay is over, but now Chixiao is injured and tired, and lacks strength, so it is necessary to transfer Chixiao Honglian, who has the same attributes and stores illusion substances, to Luoyang. Lay it along the road as a repeater to expand the scope of the evil spirit field, so as to ensure the success of the surprise attack on Luoyang.

"Daozhang, you have worked hard. I know you must have won the phantom weapon. Now, please place the blade according to the route in this map. This step is very important, and you must persevere!"

The title of the map that was prepared five days ago and put into the kit, Father Cang wrote like this.

"... Father Cang, I'm sorry." Calculating the distance according to the map, and placing the second blade on the top of a mound outside the forest, Chi Xiao sighed softly and closed his eyes slightly, "I... didn't get everything. "

In this way, no one knows whether they can still support the realization of the surprise attack on Luoyang after sharing the phantom material equally with Tang Xiaoyi.

unless……

Chi Xiao thought silently, and urged the horse to speed up.

The cold wind at night suddenly hit his face directly, and he began to have difficulty breathing, the pain in his body gradually became numb from hot and cold, and even the scenery in front of him was blurred until the light and dark fluctuated.

Two quarters of an hour later, after passing through a wasteland and the ruins of three villages, Chi Xiao had already laid down seven sword blades along the road.

Now, the next point indicated by the map is the city wall of the stronghold of the Valley of the Wicked ahead.

Unable to signal the sentinel, he rushed over on his horse.

Because his clothes were soaked in blood, they were completely red under the night light. The villain sentry almost thought that Chi Xiao was one of his own, but as he approached the city, they found the martial arts Tianjiao battle rank he was wearing in his hair—and the levitation In the air, no matter how you look at it, it looks like twelve metal blades ready to attack at any time.

"——Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Break through the barrier with great vigor!" The sentinel immediately shouted loudly.

Because the distance was too close at this time, the vice guard guarding the gate had no time to ask questions, so he immediately ordered to attack with all his strength.

In an instant, all the archers on the city tower were full of arrows, and several generals jumped off the high wall, surrounded by swords, lights and swords, and attacked the comers mercilessly.