I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 42 Assassination
In an alley, under dim light.

There was a middle-aged woman standing there, and in the shadow in front of her, there was no one in the shadow, but a black leopard could be vaguely seen.

Wu Huanmei sensed danger. She could only vaguely see the outline of a black leopard in the shadows in front of her, but she didn't see anyone else. At this moment, she felt like she was surrounded by wild beasts.

She was worried about the safety of her young lady. Since someone came to stop her, someone would definitely come to arrest her young lady at the same time. If the young lady was arrested, the master and mistress in the capital would be in a dilemma.

When they came to Hai City, the master and the mistress said that their opponents were all political opponents, who would only suppress and attack them politically and would generally not do such despicable things. However, in order to avoid accidents, they sent the children in the family away in different places, including their daughter to Hai City.

Because Haishi did not participate in the struggle this time, it is safe here on a large scale.

Wu Huanmei did not ask who the person in the dark was, because it would be meaningless to say anything at this time.

At this moment, she heard a scream, and her heart tightened, because it was the young lady's 'banshee scream'.

In the darkness of the wall, a black leopard walked out step by step. It was like a hunter in the darkness, slowly approaching its prey.

She looked back again and saw that a man had appeared on the retreat behind her. The man looked very short, wearing rubber shoes, sanitation worker's clothes, a black round hat, a shovel in his hand, and a garbage truck behind him. When Wu Huanmei looked at him, he grinned, and Wu Huanmei's eyes saw the rotten black teeth in his mouth.

She seemed to smell a foul odor in her nose.

She didn't wait any longer, but she didn't choose to force her way in either. Instead, she chose to walk on top. She suddenly jumped towards the wall, and then used her hands and feet to climb up the wall quickly. There was obviously nothing to climb on the wall, but she was running like the wind with all her limbs.

She wanted to go to the roof, then run from the roof to the street in front to escape from the encirclement.

Soon, she ran to the top of the wall, her hands already on the eaves, and with a flip, she was already on the roof. But at this moment, a bright light suddenly appeared on the roof.

Wu Huanmei was shocked and her eyes widened.

There was actually someone lying in ambush here, and she hadn't sensed it at all before.

In a hurry, she only had time to reach out to block her throat, and her body fell backwards. Even if she fell back into the alley, she had to do this.

However, she felt her wrist suddenly lighten, and then her throat seemed to open, blood gushing out, and her strength quickly dissipated with the spray of blood.

While still in the air, the man saw a man with messy hair standing on the roof holding a short knife.

"boom!"

She fell to the ground, but she no longer felt any pain. She was in a coma, and her body was shaking uncontrollably.

At this moment, she seemed to hear a distant voice saying, "We are even now."

"Hehe, no problem, but I think we will have another chance to cooperate." The 'sanitation worker' said with a smile.

The young man on the roof didn't pay any more attention, but turned over and jumped off the roof, disappearing into the dark alley in a blink of an eye.

The short sanitation worker pulled his garbage cart towards Wu Huanmei who had fallen to the ground.

The other black leopard disappeared into the darkness. It was vaguely seen jumping in the darkness and then disappeared.

Ye Youruo knew that Aunt Wu would definitely be nearby. Although she said she wanted to go alone, Aunt Wu would definitely protect her where she couldn't see her.

So after she screamed, she found that Aunt Wu didn't come immediately, and she knew something was wrong.

When Pei Ju was confronting the wild dogs and cats, and a wild monkey that came out of nowhere, she immediately said, "Let's go quickly."

Pei Ju naturally felt something was wrong. Although these were just wild cats, dogs, monkeys and the like, none of them could pose a threat to him, there must be someone behind these things.

And he knew clearly that what he was holding was not a real sword. If he was holding a real sword, he would not be afraid at all, but now it was just a wooden stick.

However, now that he is surrounded by these things, it is not so easy to take someone away. These wild dogs and cats all have ferocious eyes. He is sure that as long as he shows any sign of fear, these things will pounce on him.

The dogs and cats that had been trained by humans for thousands of years seemed to have regained their wildness at this moment. This metropolis seemed to have become their hunting ground. Although there was no jungle, these alleys and houses were enough for them to live and reproduce. It seemed like a steel jungle.

Ye Youruo took a deep breath. When Pei Ju saw this, he immediately knew what she was going to do, so he held his breath and concentrated. As the other party screamed, he felt a slight pain in his head and was a little dazed, but because he had been prepared, he did not really lose his ability to move.

At this time, he just pulled Ye Youruo and rushed towards home. He sank his energy into his dantian and swung the wooden stick in his hand towards the monkey that was blocking the way, hitting the monkey from the back of the ear to the back of the head.

The monkey seemed to be distracted by the scream and did not dodge or resist.

The monkey cried out in pain after being hit by a stick. It seemed that it could not bear the force and was knocked to the ground, its limbs shaking.

He did not take the opportunity to leave, but pushed Ye Youruo forward and said, "You go first."

Ye Youruo did not stop and immediately jumped out of the encirclement, but after running about ten meters, he turned around and looked. He saw Pei Ju swinging a wooden stick left and right. The wild dogs and cats looked stupid and slow under his stick.

She knew that her Banshee Scream played a role in this, but Pei Ju's sword swinging power, accuracy and smooth rhythm were also very impressive.

In a short while, the wild cats and dogs were beaten and trembling on the ground.

Pei Ju ran over without stopping and said, "Let's go."

Although Ye Youruo has better physical strength and runs faster than ordinary girls, how can she compare to Pei Ju? Pei Ju couldn't help but pull her hand and run together.

It feels smooth and soft as if it has no bones.

She did not struggle, and the night wind blew her loose black hair into the wind.

Suddenly, they stopped again because there seemed to be a big guy standing in the shadow under the tree where the running lights could not reach.

Ye Youruo was panting and looking into the shadow. Her eyes seemed to be able to see.

"Black Panther?" Ye Youruo said in surprise.

Pei Ju looked at the wooden stick in his hand. If it were a real sword, he would definitely fight with this guy who called himself the jungle hunter.

At this moment, another person came out from another place.

He stood at the entrance of the alley and suddenly called out a few times.

The voice was strange. Pei Ju felt uncomfortable when he heard it. He wanted to hit someone and was inexplicably angry.

A group of wild cats and dogs suddenly rushed out from the dark alley.

"This is the call of the wild." Ye Youruo obviously knew more, and she immediately recognized what kind of spell it was.

Pei Ju suddenly thought that if Ye Youruo was bitten to death by a group of wild cats and dogs here, he might not even be able to find the murderer.

The black panther growled and walked out of the darkness step by step.

A pair of eyes glowed green in the dim light. Ye Youruo's heart was already sinking, because her Aunt Wu hadn't appeared for so long, so something must have happened.

At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out: "You are so brave, who sent you here?"

A strange rickshaw appeared at some point. The person pulling it was dressed in black, wearing a black hat, with his head lowered and a pair of black cloth shoes on his feet.

Pei Ju looked at him and thought that this was a dead person.

But what really attracted him was a man on the rickshaw.

Sitting in the car was a woman dressed in the attire of an ancient lady. She looked to be in her forties and was holding a lamp in her hand.

She was none other than Han Yitong, whom she had just parted with.

"The lady's imprisonment is none of your business." The man in the alley said coldly.

"They are my students." Han Yitong answered coldly. She didn't stop at all. She sat on the mysterious rickshaw and rushed directly into the alley.

Before she got close enough, the lamp in her hand suddenly emitted a strong light, which shot into the alley and fell on the people in the alley.

At the moment the light shone, Pei Ju saw that the people in the alley had faces covered with hair.

The moment the light fell on his face, his eyes seemed to be burned, and he immediately turned and ran into the depths of darkness.

At the same time, strange noises were heard again, and wild cats and dogs rushed out of the alley and pounced on the people in the rickshaw.

“Meow! … Meow…”

"Wang Wang Wang Wang..."

At the same time, the black panther also silently leaped into the darkness and disappeared in an instant.

When Pei Ju saw this scene, the hairs on his body stood up, because he knew that when the black panther jumped out again, it would be to hunt down Teacher Han.

Teacher Han rushed into the darkness. If he didn't know the existence of the black panther, he would probably be attacked by it.

"Teacher Han, be careful, there is a black panther hiding in the dark." Pei Ju said loudly.

Han Yitong seemed to have not heard anything at all and rushed directly into the dark alley. She stretched out her hand and drew something quickly in the air, then stretched out her hand and pointed.

The person in the eyes of the wild cats and dogs that pounced on her suddenly became blurred. The original Han Yitong disappeared, and only a little firelight flickered, sometimes far away and sometimes near.

They suddenly lost their target, and their pounces were in vain. They could only cry anxiously in the darkness.

The hairy man who retreated into the darkness took out a medicine bottle from his arms and dropped two drops of medicine on his eyes. The burning sensation was relieved a lot and it was no longer difficult for him to open his eyes.

But after he opened his eyes, he saw only a vague shadow of fire. The shadow of the light seemed to be very far away, as if separated by several spaces.

When he tried to see more clearly, the vague shadow of the light suddenly grew bigger, and a rickshaw suddenly rushed out.

This rickshaw was not running on the ground, but floating in the air. A mysterious lady was sitting on the rickshaw, looking mysterious and stern.

At this moment, she was like a queen from the darkness, and he finally understood why she was called 'Madam'.

He looked up and saw the woman on the rickshaw in the air draw a circle towards him with her hand, and then heard a curse in his ears: "Ban!"

In a panic, he wanted to leave here, but there was only darkness in front of him.

Although his eyes still hurt a little, he could still see in the dark.

It's probably because of the burns, so the things I see are a little blurry, like double images.

He walked in the darkness, in a trance.

But it was clearly just a rectangular alley and he only had to walk in one direction, but he still couldn't get out after walking for a while.

Feeling a little flustered, he immediately called out to his pet, the Shadow Leopard, in his mind.

Only this black panther is his real pet, which he contracted with after great efforts. This shadow panther can take him to perform shadow jumps, which is one of the reasons why he is willing to take on the assassination mission.

In his opinion, even if he failed, he could still escape by riding the shadow leopard.

However, he could sense the presence of the shadow leopard, but the shadow leopard's feedback to him was that it could not find him, and it seemed to be trapped in the darkness.

Pei Ju was watching this scene outside the alley. He saw Han Yitong rushing in in a passenger car. The darkness in the alley was as thick as ink.

Even the light in her hand was drowned out.

Pei Ju suddenly had a strange feeling, as if the small alley had become another world at this moment, like a road leading to hell, endless and deep.

Not long after, Pei Ju saw a little light rushing out from the darkness. Under the light, a rickshaw rushed out from the darkness. The lady on the rickshaw was holding a lamp. Wrapped in the darkness, she looked so mysterious, as if she had returned from hell.

"Teacher Han." Pei Ju and Ye Youruo shouted at the same time.

Han Yitong nodded, but looked up at the sky.

An owl suddenly fell from the dark sky.

Before the owl landed on the ground, its wings spread out and suddenly turned into a pair of arms. The moment its feet touched the ground, they stretched out and turned into a pair of human legs, but they were bare.

Pei Ju couldn't help but look at his feet. The other person's five fingers looked a little deformed, like claws, but still maintained the shape of a human foot.

"I'm on night watch today. What happened here?"

The man transformed from an owl asked.

Han Yitong pulled out a small black book from her bosom. Inside, she found a badge and her photo. After showing them to the other party, she said, "There's a druid in here who tried to murder my student. I've trapped him."

"Okay, ma'am, I'll take care of it." The person transformed into an owl replied immediately.

At this moment, Ye Youruo took the opportunity to quickly say, "My family may also be in danger. Can you help me find her? She must be nearby."

"Okay, I'll notify my colleagues to come over. You may be in a hurry, but please don't be anxious yet." The person transformed into an owl said quickly, then took out a bamboo whistle and started blowing it.

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