Heroes of the Fantasy World

Chapter 497
(7)

They surrounded the pagoda, and there was a circle of Taiping Taoists who formed a sword array at the outermost edge. Every other person was holding a lantern, and there were several rows waiting for orders inside. Infectious.

It was extremely dark at night, and nothing concrete could be seen in the bamboo forest, but it was easy to see through the gaps in the forest leaves the stone lampposts standing on both sides of the downhill pass. It can be vaguely recognized that the window hole is a hollow in the shape of "fire".

Li Ke took a small number of people and broke into the pagoda to search around, and he himself ordered most of the people to garrison elsewhere, leaving only the left and right two to follow him to the Buddhist room where the Xianbei witch was.

He thought that by doing so, he would not disturb the dignitaries in the room.

There are no candles lit inside, the sound of the wind blowing is turning something, and the disrepaired wood is about to break "squeaking", as if something is about to fall at any time. It stands to reason that this noble pagoda should not be broken. this circumstance occurs.Murong Yan's mournful panting was intermittent.

"Master Miko!" Li Ke pushed the door and went in, bowing his hands and saying: "Please forgive me for being late when I come down."

The two Taoists on the left and right immediately took up the lanterns and entered the door to inspect the surroundings, and lit the lampstands. They saw that the room was messy, as if there were traces of a fight, such as Buddhist scriptures, inkstones, broken teacup tiles, etc., scattered on the ground.

Murong Yan's hair was disheveled, and she sat down leaning against the wall in sweat, holding a piece of blood-stained ceramics in her hand to confront the visitor, muttering: "Don't come here... Please, let me go."

"Master Witch?" Li Ke used to see that her clothes were also stained with blood, and thought for a moment that the other party was also injured, but the other two Taoists went over to check and found that Murong Yan was not injured in any way, but was frightened , The body is extremely weak.

"Take the Mistress to another place, and you must send heavy troops to guard it!" After Li Keyong finished speaking, he immediately called the old monk who was in charge of the pagoda, and asked, "What's going on?"

The old monk said: "At first, the old man only heard a strange noise upstairs. Later, he went up and saw that it was the witch who was entangled with the assassin. The old man had never practiced martial arts. In a hurry, he immediately went down the mountain and called the Taoist priests here !"

"But the assassin is gone?" Li Keyong walked to the place where Murong Yan had just stopped, picked up the broken pottery that Murong Yan had abandoned, and looked at it. His eyes gradually came to the destroyed window. The two pieces are completely unusable, and they will shake and make a "squeak" sound when the wind blows gently.

"Blood?" At the fracture, Li Keyong found blood, and it spread all the way to the green tile fly outside the window: "It's the blood of an assassin."

Li Ke used to remember the direction where the bloodstain finally disappeared, and immediately led someone to chase it himself.

The entire hillside has long been surrounded by members of the Taoist Taiping, and the assassin will never escape easily. Li Keyong is so conscious that he and the assassin will definitely meet each other at some point.

There was a sound every once in a while on the compacted soil slope, and the vigorous search of the mountain soon yielded results.

The assassin appears.

He was dressed in green clothes and a bamboo hat, so he couldn't make out his face.He limped up to Li Keyong and said, "I surrender myself, you guys don't chase anymore..."

The words of the assassin are not humble, not like sincere surrender at all, Li Ke dealt with it naturally and carefully: "Stop! You, you have the courage to pass through the guards of the imperial city to come here, and you are willing to surrender? Tell me, what is your purpose? ?”

"What purpose can I have?" The assassin asked, "I want to kill the emperor, is that the purpose?"

"What did you say?" Li Keyong continued to question: "Your goal is His Majesty the Emperor, why did you want to attack a girl?"

"Hehe." The assassin sneered, "It's been two days and one night since I was ordered to stay here. I originally planned to return to my command before the emperor came, but I didn't expect to wait for you to come tonight. With such heavy defenses, I must be an important person... I thought I was going to succeed tonight, but I didn't expect that a group of you Taoist priests would come and go with a pregnant woman. Tsk, I thought the young master could change his taste tonight, that girl, after all, can be regarded as a beauty."

Li Keyong gritted his teeth with hatred, he drew his sword out of its sheath and fought vigorously, the assassin in green leaped cleverly, stepped on Li Keyong's head and grabbed the bamboo tip and turned over.

Condescending, the assassin complained: "I have already surrendered, why do you still want to kill me!"

"You, a heinous and unforgivable villain, actually want to rape the witch? I have to kill you. If not, I can't explain to the celestial master!"

Li Ke slashed at the bamboo grid with a horizontal sword, and the bamboo fell to the ground slowly. The assassin lost his support and returned to the ground. His injured arm still had obvious bandage marks, and fresh blood dripped down his sleeve from time to time.

"You really won't let me go?" The assassin said these words almost with a smile, very provocative: "Hahaha, then I don't want to surrender."

Li Ke used his straight sword to strike, and the assassin leapt out of the way with the help of the bamboo forest to cover him. The sword struck the bamboo, leaving a deep mark.

Hearing the sound of fighting here, more and more Taiping Taoists joined in the battle of chasing the assassin.

The assassin fights and retreats, always using the stones he picked up casually as hidden weapons to deal with people. He uses the toughness of bamboo as a support for his toes, and he dodges at will. The shoes almost never stick to the mud along the way.

The harder Li Ke used to chase, the farther away he was from the assassin...

When more than half of the Taiping Taoists gathered in the bamboo forest, and hundreds of big lanterns illuminated the forest, Li Keyong shouted belatedly: "This is to tune the tiger away from the mountain, go back to the pagoda, our priority The task is to keep the witches safe!"

Everyone listened to the order and watched the figure of the assassin in green disappear into the night.

Fortunately, Murong Yan was well protected.

Her inner undergarment showed signs of being slightly torn, and there were red strangle marks on her neck. From the eyes of others, this must be a sign of a fierce struggle.

What's more, the Xianbei witch is now dying, her physical strength and spirit are on the verge of collapse, and she has to worry about the fetus in her womb.

"How is the current situation of Miko?"

The female Taoist who had some knowledge in medical skills replied: "Master Miko was overly frightened just now, and it is a blessing that she did not pass out! If the fetal gas is activated later, I am afraid the consequences will be unpredictable."

"My lord, can you hear me?"

Murong Yan nodded and let out a soft sigh.

"We are going to send you to Uncle 'Tianxuan' now, you must take good care of your body, I will not let you step out of the Taoist temple again."

Tianxuanzi, one of the Seven Sons of the Big Dipper of Taiping Dao, is also the second only to the Heavenly Master in Taiping Dao.

But what is strange is that Tianxuanzi is not only a girl, but also petite, like a child-like face. It is said that it is because she has practiced the "art of retaining the face" all the year round. At the same time, she has a violent temper that is completely opposite to her appearance. There are often rumors in the Tao that she punished her disciples too mercilessly.

All these things, Li Keyong only heard about it, but never witnessed it with his own eyes. In fact, he had a very shallow impression of this uncle, and only remembered that her appearance had not changed for many years.

On the second day after sending Murong Yan to Tianxuanzi, Tianxuanzi put up several layers of white curtains at Murongyan's resting place, centered on that narrow place, and added more curtains to the original wall of the house. It has several layers of "defense", and only women are allowed to enter and exit the curtain on weekdays, while men stand outside the door and guard the main roads everywhere. Even Li Keyong, who was ordered by the celestial master, can only stand in front of the door far away. The curtain looks into the house.

It seems that Tianxuanzi intends to let Murong Yan's daily life be carried out in such a "small box".

(End of this chapter)