[Sword III] Seeking Wings

"...General Kuvatsam." After a moment of silence, Tang Xiaoyi finally turned around, "How much water do you think I have to get into before I can believe that from your standpoint, you will think about us and the officers and soldiers?"

"It's not for your sake." Kuvatsam didn't care about her sarcasm, but replied sincerely, "It's just because I've thought about it a lot recently, and I still think that the so-called war should be a contest between the army and the army."

"No matter how powerful you people in the Jianghu are, you are still common people—the foundation of our country that our soldiers should not be enemies and protect." He said, "In fact, in terms of position, I should kill Xiao Daochang and win Chi Xiao. Honglian, accuse you of being used by me again. However, I finally let him go, and I have no intention of holding you hostage again. I only rely on my duty. Please take care of yourself, temporarily truce, and leave the remaining matters to the troops of both sides. "

Hearing this, Tang Xiaoyi raised his head and looked at him squarely.She rested her chest on one hand, as if she was thinking seriously, as if she really felt something, she stared at the group of gentle enemies in front of her with more and more sincere eyes.

Kuvatsam waited patiently for her mind to relax, but suddenly heard a very slight metal collision.

The next moment, a tiny flame flickered fiercely at her fingertips.

"Goodbye, Speaker."

Tang Xiaoyi twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, let go of it neatly, and threw the Lei Zhenzi, which had been quietly assembled in the sleeve of Kuvatsam when he was talking loudly, and added several times the gunpowder, directly to his face at zero distance.

The moment the hidden weapon exploded, she launched the flying claws that were also secretly prepared, and instantly retreated into the building complex in the distance.

This is the structure located on the other side of the lawn in Chixiao's illusion. The outer shape is a block with winding roads.Although with Kuwatsam's skill, the modified version of Lei Zhenzi could only make him dizzy for a few quarters of an hour just now, but it is not so easy for him to go through these intricately arranged buildings to find her.

—Here, he should be able to persist until Chi Xiao returns.

Thinking about it like this, Tang Xiaoyi threw everything he had just heard into the corner in his mind.

In her opinion, what Kuvatsam said may have one point of basis, but the remaining nine points are all fallacies that put the cart before the horse.

It was just a rhetoric to persuade his enemies to relax their vigilance and surrender without fighting.

Most importantly, no matter how the imperial court viewed the faction, whether or not the faction should participate in the war was also Datang's housework, and it was not up to foreign invaders to dictate.

But at the same time, she was also a little surprised. Just now, in order to counterattack with a hidden weapon under Kuvatsam's nose, she pretended to be listening, and guided him to seriously engage in the high-spirited talk. This impression is quite insidious. , It was so easy to be fooled.

In fact, even if his words didn't touch her, with her keen observation as an assassin, she had to admit that there was a bit of sincerity in the eyes he looked over.

... and familiarity.

When Tang Xiaoyi was drooping his eyes and pondering, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a window open a few steps away in the small courtyard where he was.

In the room, there was Chi Xiao's figure.

In the illusion, wearing a complete red jade hairpin, Chi Xiao from the past is standing by the table, holding a few pieces of pink cloth and a bunch of reagents in his hand, as if he is doing some experiment.

"Is this illusion an important memory of the Taoist priest?" Tang Xiaoyi thought.

According to those reagents, it was further confirmed that this place was in the stronghold workshop of the Haoqi League. She immediately took advantage of this rare opportunity to spy and carefully observed the terrain and architectural structure here.

However, within a few seconds, a figure ran over from outside the courtyard, shouting "big brother" at the top of his voice, while raising his leg aggressively, kicking open the door of Chi Xiao's room.

——It’s Qingyun.

Tang Xiaoyi saw Qingyun date Miss Xiu, and later killed him personally to avenge Miss Xiu, so he immediately recognized his back.

"It turns out that I really killed the Taoist priest's fellow apprentice, and I owe him a blood debt...!" The inexplicable ominous premonition along the way before was really fulfilled, and Tang Xiaoyi suddenly felt his fingertips go cold for a moment.

And the next moment, this coldness exploded violently.

——She heard Qing Yun grabbing Chi Xiao's shoulders and pressing him against the wall, almost crying loudly: "Elder brother! It turns out that you went to the post station to win the treasure for me the day before yesterday—you killed Miss Xiu! !!"

Before he finished speaking, Tang Xiaoyi, who was outside the wall, staggered and slammed into the window, his sharp metal nails were fastened to the window frame, almost piercing through the wood on it.

"—yes, it's me."

In the room, Chi Xiao's phantom still had the usual indifferent expression, calmly facing Qing Yun with an almost murderous glaring and restraint, "If it wasn't for this, your mission would have failed."

He pointed at the two pieces of cloth in Qingyun Yiyang's hands that had partially reacted and changed color, "The purse that Miss Xiu gave you when she met with you the night before the mission was smeared with hidden hallucinogens. On the day of the mission, the special clothes on her clothes Incense is medicine, just wait for you to get within two feet of her, and you will lose your mind quickly. Within half a quarter of an hour, only the person in front of you will follow——in this way, you will hand over the glass bottle , and would probably be more than happy to tie herself up and be her captive again."

Qingyun obviously also understands this reagent test method, his face was pale, he stared at the indicator color on the cloth, shaking his head trembling all over his body, but he still didn't let go of the hand pinching his brother's shoulder, "...No! Miss Xiu must I don’t know, I was used by those villains...it must be Yin Yu...! She must have known in advance that I was going to fight, and she didn’t dare to come, so she tricked Miss Xiu to take her place, and then planted such a conspiracy on her..."

"No matter what the reason is, your friendship with Miss Xiu has threatened Haoqi League's tactical execution and must be terminated."

"...Then you shouldn't kill her! With your martial arts, it's easy to capture her...!"

"However, I am not obliged to treat the opposing camp leniently."

Chi Xiao stared into Qing Yun's eyes, lightly grasped Qing Yun's finger that had obviously pinched bruises on his shoulder: "——I have only an obligation to take care of you."

"You will go crazy, the surface reason is the abnormal hatred for Yin Yu. The real root is that you value the position of the person you love very much-you are so paranoid because you are eager to let her sever the connection with the hated person , day and night just want revenge and then quickly..."

Before he finished speaking, Qingyun waved his hand violently, and directly grabbed his neck.

The young man burst into tears, his hands were trembling and tightened, even Tang Xiaoyi outside the window could see through his fingers that the bruise on Chi Xiao's neck was getting deeper and deeper.

But he never really killed.

"...Look, you are indeed much better than before after breaking the evil relationship." Chi Xiao did not resist at all, only gasped with difficulty, took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears for his junior brother, "You were irrational when you hated Yin Yu, But if you hate me now, you obviously know how to measure it."

Qingyun stood in a daze for a long time, then suddenly his feet went limp, and he leaned against Chi Xiao and cried out.

Outside the window of the illusion, Tang Xiaoyi, who had been staring at the two of them for a long time, his eyes were dry and bloodshot, finally came back to his senses.

With the current scene and angle of view, she could no longer see Chi Xiao's expression, but what she saw just now, when he persuaded Qing Yun, the same cold voice and indifferent expression as usual, was still hovering and lingering in her mind at this moment, Zoom in until the entire sea of ​​consciousness is covered in a distorted posture.

In fact, after the initial shock, Tang Xiaoyi already understood that Chi Xiao would intentionally kill Miss Xiu.They are all members of the camp, and they chose to fight to practice their ideals, so naturally they also have to be aware that weapons have no eyes.If she had the chance to confront Qingyun head-on, she would kill him without hesitation, and then teach Miss Xiu a lesson, what is long-term pain is worse than short-term pain-she knows the so-called "true love" of this immature couple. ", has already become a pawn played by the caring people of the two camps, and it is impossible to get a bright future.

However, when she stated the killing, she would never be as calm, numb, and taken for granted as he was.

——Even if it’s for our own people “on this side”, killing the enemy “on the other side”.

In the phantom of Ziyuan Mountain four days ago, although Tang Xiaoyi already instinctively disliked Chi Xiao's calm and decisive killing, he was not wary of how terrifying such a personality was.

But now, knowing that he personally buried her best friend with such an attitude, she finally felt a strong uneasiness and horror——

And anger.

This kind of anger sharply tore the nerves, causing her already seriously injured arm to exert a miraculous force.

——Tear open the window frame of the illusion.

"Chi Xiao...you...you owe me a blood feud!"

As Tang Xiaoyi gritted his teeth in a deep voice, and stepped forward, the freshly bandaged wound on his body was torn open, and the blood flowed down his fingertips, continuously seeping into the ruins of the phantom.In the world that was gradually turning red, blood-colored thorns began to condense, entangled everything like a net.

"You...you want me...how can I forgive you...!"

The next moment, she clenched her fist violently, and the phantom thorns closed, and the sharp barbs hit like a sharp blade, instantly tearing apart all the existence in this scene, and the light and shadow shattered.

There are no more lawns and buildings, only the dark shadows of leaves shivering with the cold wind in the mass grave forest in the moonless night.

Kuvatsam stood behind a tree in the distance, quietly watching Tang Xiaoyi covered in blood, staggering and kneeling beside the grain truck.

"It turns out that the illusion just now belonged to the leader of the path, and you each took part of the illusion weapons." He held his hand, guessing how these two good teammates who took risks side by side and shared righteousness fought wits and bravery along the way, and fought back and forth. "If I had known earlier that the illusion here was incomplete, and the owner of the realm was far away, I would be able to get out of trouble with just a little internal energy."

"...However, it's good to watch this scene." Kuvatsam raised his eyebrows again when he recalled what he saw in the scene.

"——I understand a little bit, why the two camps keep killing each other."

Seeing that Tang Xiaoyi, who was lying on the frame, seemed to have discovered something suddenly, he trembled like an electric shock, stared at a crossbar at the end of the frame, struggled to raise his only movable left hand, and poured out a pile of As for the reagent bottle, Kuvatsam was slightly taken aback.At this moment, a fast horse was approaching in the forest, he sighed silently, turned around and hid in the darker tree shadow behind.

***

Three quarters of an hour ago, the stronghold of Fenghu Village.

Chi Xiao woke up from a coma and slowly opened his eyes.

This is the room above the city tower, and all the injuries on his body have been treated.He looked around and saw the tightly wrapped bandages on his hands, leaning against the edge of the bed and struggling to get up.

Father Cang was at the door of the room, holding Zixia's organ bird in his hand, and was about to hand it over to a team of generals.