[Sword III] Seeking Wings

"...Daozhang, it seems that the food cart is going to belong to your Haoqi League temporarily. I am really unwilling to close my eyes."

Although he was still attacking neatly, Tang Xiaoyi instinctively began to have all kinds of strange ideas in his head.

She turned away, not wanting to look at him again.

In the corner of his eyes, he still caught an unusually clear and sharp light blue edge.

Not sword energy.

is the sword.

To be precise, it was the blade fragment of Chixiao Honglian.

Tang Xiaoyi turned around and looked in shock at several pieces of silver-white metal glowing with blue light, flying towards her side across criss-crossing trajectories.

Their speed is comparable to the fastest darts of Tang Sect masters, but their flight trajectory is a complex curve that is absolutely impossible for any known hidden weapon——

In this way, as if there was a soul, it portrayed the extremely beautiful and precise light marks of death, and killed all the dozens of spike soldiers in an instant.

"...What the hell is this?!"

Hearing the neat sound of enemy soldiers falling to the ground almost at the same time, and seeing Chi Xiao still standing quietly on the broken wall not far away, just making a sword move with one hand and two fingers together, Tang Xiaoyi was stunned this time.

——I didn't notice at all for a while, when I thought about the danger of death, the action of the wolf tooth soldier slowed down as if by induction.

Even when Chi Xiao came over and grabbed her by the waist, and wanted to take her to a safe area with light work, she forgot to decide whether to cooperate and lean on him to save him effort, or to push him away coolly. Show that you're still alive and kicking, and don't use the jerk of the opposing faction to claw.

Arriving at a safe area near the grain truck, Chi Xiao gently put Tang Xiaoyi down on the ground.

"Phew... are you... all right?" He stepped back and supported the broken wall with one hand, and asked her a little out of breath.

Probably because the strange move that was more terrifying than the Spike just now was very exhausting.

Tang Xiaoyi looked at Chi Xiao's pale face, "...and I didn't cooperate at all when I was taken by him."

She felt embarrassed for a moment, and immediately gave a formal thank you.

"I'm fine, Daoist, come here." Realizing that she was on the only clean stone platform where she could rest on a half-recline, she hurriedly made way for him, ran to the other side by herself, and took out the The bandages used to deal with the knife wounds from the battle just now.

"Oh, I just scared me to death! Are the two heroes alright?" Feeling that the crisis was over, Modin got out of the car with the emergency medicine.

"By the way, I just smelled a very strange gas. It is colorless and odorless, but it is different from the air." Seeing that both of them are safe and there is no need for help, he breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time he directly explained the strange thing he noticed. said.

"Me too. This gas seems to be the cause of the rampage of the Spikes, but to me, it only restricts my actions, so I couldn't fly away before, and almost finished the game." Tang Xiaoyi also provided the information he knew.

Soon, combining the black technology of Tang Sect and Chunyang, the three detected that the gas did not exist in the corpses that died during the war, so it should have been released after the war to affect the remaining Spike soldiers on the battlefield, the reason is unknown.

As for whether it will infect other people, Tang Xiaoyi and Modin think from their own feelings that maybe it won't. Chi Xiao didn't object, but they knew they couldn't be sure——

The specific composition of this gas cannot be determined by experiments, but it can leave traces on the mysterious crystal similar to the evil spirit in the previous glass bottle.

—they are homologues.

Both Modin and Tang Xiaoyi were related to the Illusion Weapon in a Bottle, perhaps that's why they weren't infected.

What's more special is that the person who gets the phantom weapon seems to be able to exert influence on the poison gas infected person - or, it can be called control.

In the battle just now, Tang Xiaoyi, who was extremely nervous, didn't realize that when he was determined to fight to the death, the Spike soldiers moved slowly in response.

But Chi Xiao noticed it.

He looked around, got up and walked to the grain cart, "Let's take a detour and clear the gas here first, I have a way."

***

The grain cart that was supposed to go straight to Maple Leaf Ze was cruising around the entire battlefield.

Perhaps thanks to his timidity, Modin has a particularly keen perception of abnormalities. Under his guidance, in less than half an hour, the three of them have solved most areas accurately and efficiently, even The source of the poisonous gas here was also searched.

It was a small spherical mechanism of unknown origin, scattered around the corners of the battlefield, and basically exhausted its toxicity, leaving only empty shells with trace remnants.

Of the dozen or so spheres seen so far, only one is complete, and it seems to have misfired accidentally, and the gas inside has not been used.For the sake of caution, the three decided to hand over to Chi Xiao for safekeeping.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of handing over the items, Tang Xiaoyi leaned over to Chi Xiao's side, and looked closely at the golden gemstone in his hand, where the dark lines in dark tones were flickering on and off quickly.

"...Xuan Jing is really amazing. It would be great if I could have one someday." She felt a little emotional in her heart.

Xuanjing absorbs these evil gases so quickly that in some high-concentration areas, she can even see a substantial, fast-moving whirlwind around it—and it removes the poison that turns into dark streaks. The speed is actually faster than devouring them.

——The best thing is that it has no wear and tear itself.

Tang Xiaoyi has already understood that the function of the mysterious crystal is actually similar to a catalyst, which can be used as a medium to allow the user's clean internal force to react quickly with the vicious substances from the outside, thereby achieving the effect of exorcising evil spirits.

"To be able to neutralize the toxicity of such a large area by himself, the Taoist leader is really... well, it seems that he can't do that."

As the grain truck moved forward, the concentration of the gas also increased. Tang Xiaoyi noticed that Chi Xiao was beginning to struggle. His complexion was getting paler, and his breath became more disordered. She could even see thin cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

It stands to reason that he didn't have to worry about this nosy business.she thinks.

First of all, this place is under the jurisdiction of the Shence Army, and people from the faction are here to act on their behalf, and they may be provoked and beaten by these strange soldiers.Secondly, even if the pollution in this area has not been purified and becomes a restricted area, the residents here can still move to nearby areas to live.

But the Taoist priest still tried his best to preserve a clean home for the people here, even though they had already fled away and probably never wanted to come back.

——The most important thing is that the three of them are going to Fengye Ze soon, and they are going to officially fight for the final ownership of the grain truck.

And he is like this now - Tang Xiaoyi is sure that he can hang him up and beat him tomorrow.

"... In good conscience, you are not a bad person."

She was thinking, and suddenly said something to Chi Xiao.

After speaking quickly, she immediately turned her head away from him.

When Chi Xiao heard the words and looked up, he only saw the half-exposed back of a coquettishly dressed female villain, and a pair of long hair with a big ponytail that was blowing in the wind and clinking with hidden weapons.

He didn't say a word, just stared at her for a long time.

Tang Xiaoyi was facing Chi Xiao with his back, busy looking through his pockets, he didn't see the complicated and profound expression fluctuations in his eyes, and he didn't hear that very faint but very sad sigh.

When she turned around, he had the same ice face as usual.

"Here, here you are, the pill to restore internal strength." Tang Xiaoyi stuffed a small porcelain bottle into his hand.

"Don't look at it, which is hard to find in the Jianghu. In our Tangmen, we can take it casually. By the way, I major in Frightening Feather Jue, so I don't usually need this. Oh, and it's about to expire. It's a pity to throw it away. Why don't you give it to me?" Forget it." Before the other party could respond, she immediately added a series of words.

Just when Tang Xiaoyi finished speaking and just turned his back, he heard Chi Xiao behind him saying "Thank you."

Again, like that...

Gentle, gentle...

Inexplicably...familiar.

But... different.

Her little brother Chunyang would never have such a sad voice, such a heavy breath.

***

With the help of Tang Xiaoyi's elixir, Chi Xiao finally persisted in cleaning up the entire battlefield.

However, when he reached the rear of Maple Leaf Lake, where the Shence Army had not been damaged by the war, he was about to pass out.

Leaving Modin to take care of him, Tang Xiaoyi ran to Shence Barracks and knocked on the door, hoping to borrow a clean room for him to recuperate.

It stands to reason that the Shence Army is the person in charge of guarding the checkpoint. The target of the Spike Army's raid this time, even the voluntary support camp was repelled, so they should have suffered heavy losses.

But in the barracks that Tang Xiaoyi saw, there were many troops resting leisurely.

Looking in the distance, the checkpoint area is still in ruins, the two camps are still struggling with the Spike Army, and listening to the tents here, many soldiers are playing mahjong with joy, Tang Xiaoyi almost couldn't hold back the roof of them .

She stamped her feet and turned around a dozen times outside the camp gate before finally persuading herself to put on the correct polite smiley face, and knocked on the door in good spirits to make a request.

After a long time, the drunken soldier finally opened the door impatiently.

"You bitch, why don't you get out? You should wait for the grassroots to work for you! It's an honor to die! Don't borrow it!" He glanced at her, and "slapped" the door to her face.

Tang Xiaoyi flew up and kicked this person, including the door panel, from one end of the tent to the other.

Then the place was borrowed.

Of course, it was just an abandoned hut with nothing but the cold wind howling from the hole in the broken wall.

However, Tang Xiaoyi couldn't ask for more, she even had to say thank you, pay the rent, and what the kicked soldier asked energetically, was enough to buy his ten lives for medical expenses.

——No matter how bastard the Shence Army is, they are officers and soldiers after all, and these grassroots people, even if they are the well-known Jianghu faction in the Central Plains, and they are allies officially included in the united front by the court, they are not qualified to openly challenge the officers and soldiers after all.

Tang Xiaoyi was even a little afraid of his impulsiveness just now.If there really was a conflict with the Shence Army, let alone the three of them, even the soldiers in the front line might be stabbed in the back by these bastard soldiers who are amateurs in combat and experts in deception. The consequences were simply unimaginable.

— But fortunately, these bastards are really too bastards.

To be able to kick them honestly with just one kick, it's no wonder that when they saw the Spikes, they just fucked up and shrank their heads.

"Let them guard the key crossing area... Fenghua Valley will end sooner or later."

Tang Xiaoyi tidied up the broken hut, and arranged for Chi Xiao a place where he could barely sleep for a while, thinking at the same time.

Just when she finally cleaned up and sat down by the wall to squint together for a while, Chi Xiao suddenly stood up.

"Let's get out of here immediately." He said with his back to her, leaning on the wall with one hand, and staggered out of the room.

The author has something to say: 1. Why didn’t I give Dao Chang Zhen Shanhe? Actually, it’s because I like floating weapons (fog). There will be a plot explanation later

2. Divine strategy is a kind of officers and soldiers who are usually villains in the game. They are often killed on the way to upgrade. Let them continue to play a (temporary) villain image here