Chang'an: Qinglian Sword Song

Chapter 10 Chapter Nine
"Many people in Yunjian Building have this smell." Li Xiang said, "They all wear thick sachets to cover up..."

It's hard to understand, what is the purpose of so much trouble under the Yunjianlou.

Xun Qing was about to speak, but Li Bai noticed that Li Xiang was tugging at his sleeves, his ears moved slightly, his expression froze, he covered Xun Qing's mouth, and dragged the two of them to squat down and hide among the flowers.

Immediately afterwards, two figures were heard emerging from the forked road behind him.If it wasn't for Li Xiang's reminder, I'm afraid we would have bumped into each other head-on.

It was a middle-aged man with a gloomy face, and a steward following behind him, walking past them and walking straight into the depths of the darkness.

Li Bai's eyes were attracted by the person walking in front.

Ji Xian!

It's just that, unlike the grace and kindness of an hour ago, that upright face at this moment is full of ferocity.

Without thinking, Li Bai followed on tiptoe. .

"I can't do such a small thing well. Could it be that I raised you bastards for decoration! It was so easy for two thieves to sneak in and even read the account book!

That guy named Kunlun Mole boasted that his swordsmanship seemed to be unparalleled in the world, but he ate so much every day, he was a complete idiot! . "

Behind him, the steward kept nodding and bowing, not daring to disobey.

The two walked all the way to a huge door, only then did Ji Xian stop, and angrily scolded, "Okay, go back to work! If you can't bring back the bodies of those two little thieves, then bring your head back!

Also, Mr. Boqing's goods will be sent out today, immediately! "

The steward nodded in a panic, and hurried away with a group of capable swordsmen.

Only Ji Xian disappeared into the darkness behind the iron gate.

After a long time, Li Bai withdrew his gaze and looked behind him, only seeing Xun Qing's gloomy expression and Li Xiang's restless expression.

"Do you want to go in and have a look?"

he asked softly.

Normally, Li Bai wouldn't have too many worries.No matter what the situation is, he always believes that he has the strength to fight.But it's different now, he has two people who must be protected here.

You can't let them be led into a pit by your own mind.

"It's not like you to ask other people's opinions."

Xun Qing shook his head indifferently, and sighed: "It's all here... I won't leave unless I find out what kind of tricks that guy Ji Xian is playing.

What about Li Xiang?Waiting here for our return? "

"I'm with you."

Unexpectedly, after hesitating for a moment, the blind boy holding the pipa bit his lip and said, "If you can't come back, I can't get out here alone."

"Then follow me."

The grass root at the corner of Li Bai's mouth raised a smile, and he drew his sword out of its sheath. "Let's see together, what the hell is that guy doing!"

There seemed to be a huge space in the darkness behind the door, and it was silent at the moment.

Only a little light leaked from the crack of the door in the distance, illuminating the vague scene and the silhouettes of countless behemoths.

Huge lifting arms, delicate assembly tables, and even a variety of production tools are like a huge mechanism workshop.

But this is a bit too advanced.

Even if he has a little knowledge of the mechanism, in Li Bai's view, there are many things in it, and the equipment in Xun Qing's house may not be able to catch up with the horses!
Just above the rows of long tables, there are various mechanical animal parts and parts randomly placed, but they don't look like they are assembled, but like... disassembled!
At this moment, Nuo Da's mechanical workshop is not the place where the mechanical beast was born, but more like the place where the mechanical beast is cut up.

The strange thing is that most of the tools and equipment are still in place, and even some organs are still running, continuing the dull and monotonous movements, as if they were still running normally the last moment.

But at this moment, no one saw it.

Not even the proper guards...

But in the final analysis, why is it necessary to build a mechanism workshop under the Yunjian Building?

"Organ... smuggling?"

Xun Qing murmured in astonishment.

It's hard to imagine that the famous Jinjin Cave in Chang'an and the incomparably luxurious Yunjian Tower are just a disguise set up by Ji Xian.And the real cornucopia is actually hidden in this shady mechanism workshop under the Yunjian Building!
Ji Xian, that guy, secretly smuggled mechanism beasts to places other than Chang'an!

This is a profitable 'good business'!
It is even much more profitable than smuggling oil and salt tea!

In order to maintain the monopoly of its own technology, all exported agency products are controlled by Yu Hengsi, the imperial court organization in charge of all agency facilities in Chang'an. transfer.

And all registered agency engineers are the focus of monitoring, and they have to submit their own status statements and product catalogs to Yu Hengsi almost every ten days.

And even under such high-pressure control, agency smuggling is still the best choice for getting rich overnight.Once transported out of the feudal town, the value of the organ beasts that can be seen everywhere in Chang'an City immediately increased by more than a hundred times, and I don't know how many desperadoes flock to them.

But that was just a small fight.

It can't be compared with the scale in front of them at all.

In front of Xun Qing's eyes, there are hundreds of animals, wood, cows, and horses in the most common transport institutions... With his life of poverty for many years, it is completely impossible to imagine what kind of institutions these institutions can sell in ghost markets outside Chang'an sky-high price.

As a mechanism engineer, he even imagined the whole process. In this workshop, how all the mechanism beasts underwent an unrecognizable transformation, were packaged into boxes, and were hidden in piles of goods through the operation of the ghost market. In various ways, take the rail car and go in all directions...

Among them, there was a batch of unlucky goods that were unfortunately exposed to the eyes of Honglu Temple. .

As a result, the smugglers jumped over the wall in a hurry, and a mechanism engineer who had just returned to Chang'an became an unlucky hostage, and was rescued by another swordsman who picked up the car halfway to steal wine.

Coincidentally, that cheap bastard got his organ core from the smuggler again...

At that moment, all the messy clues were finally connected in one place.

Strictly fit.

There are no more mysteries.

"He wants to kill us just because we messed up his good business?"

Xun Qing said to himself, unbelievable.

Just because of this, they are going to be put to death, even if an innocent beggar is involved and killed indifferently?
Just thinking of such an absurd reason, I was almost out of breath.

When he lowered his head, he finally faced the purple-blue face on the ground bleeding from all seven orifices, and in the dimness, he saw his own reflection in those pupils that had lost their luster.

I also saw my own face, slightly distorted by panic.

Corpse!

He subconsciously exclaimed, but Li Bai covered his mouth.

"calm--"

Li Bai took out the torch and rubbed the gears, a little light from the fire swept across the darkness, and soon, it went out with the closure of the machine.

In the fleeting light, the messy corpses in the workshop were illuminated.

Those ferocious faces bleeding from the seven orifices still had the despair of dying, and the empty pupils coldly reflected them, the intruders who did not belong here.

It seems that evil spirits want to choose people and devour them.

"It's poison."

Li Bai said softly: "These people have all been poisoned...

He finally understood why in such a secret workshop, there was no guard, not even an alarm.Because the people who originally guarded here and the mechanics who worked here have been poisoned to death!
No one can escape...

"Why...why?" Xun Qing murmured dully, "Aren't they, aren't they Ji Xian's subordinates? But why...why..."

"Who knows? There are too many reasons, Xun Qing."

Li Bai didn't know how to explain all this to the friend in front of him, and was silent for a long time.

From Yunzhong to Chang'an, over mountains, through wilderness, across great rivers and streams, during this long journey, he has met all kinds of people.

There are benevolent people who never forget to help the innocent even if they are trapped, and villains who are willing to betray their best friends and sell their blood relatives for a little profit.

"Xun Qing, there are all kinds of people in this world..."

He let out a long breath and sighed regretfully: "But some people can no longer be called 'people'."

Even wild beasts would not commit such heinous deeds.

Whether it's the dead in front of him, or those poor people who were sold to Yunjianlou like Li Xiang, or... the beggar who died because of just seeing him.

In this huge vortex, how many innocent bones are there?
The teacher once told him that he must learn to accept the imperfections of this world, but after all, he could not learn to look away when facing the ugliness that filled the whole world.

Too much.

He has seen too many ugliness and mistakes, but there are only more things he hasn't seen...

It was so much that he couldn't bear it for a moment.

"Xun Qing, take care of Li Township."

He said softly: "I'm going to correct a 'mistake'."

At that moment, Li Bai lowered his eyes and clenched the hilt of his sword tightly. The jade pendant hanging on the long sword let out a faint whistling sound, with a ferocious killing intent.

In this way, he passed those corpses that were desperate and unable to escape, and walked step by step to the deepest part of the workshop, the sealed door.

Draw your sword!

In the narrow room, Ji Xian was wandering anxiously.

Unlike those villains in the story books who should be complacent at the moment, he seems to be full of fear, fidgeting, and the vertical pupils of the demons are bloodshot.

Suffering in panic.

Until a hoarse voice came from the shadows.

"You made me wait too long, Ji Xian."

In the darkness, an erratic and gloomy voice sounded: "Wu has your father's patience, you have squandered too much!"

Ji Xian trembled all over, and immediately bowed his waist and bowed his head in fear and respect: "Mr. Antlers, I have cleaned up all the finishing touches!

Please give me some more time. With time, I will be able to find the things that Wang Yuan lost! "

"No, Ji Xian, you are trying to be smart, playing with fire and setting yourself on fire—"

Outside the flickering firelight, the 'Antlers' in the darkness sneered coldly: "You think you can redeem your mistakes, but you make mistakes again and again.

The trash you sent out not only provoked the Dali Temple, but also provoked the 'heavenly man' in the cloud.

You think that you are rich and a little clever, and that everything in Chang'an City revolves around you, even if one day, Wu Yougong will bow down to you. "

"I have absolutely no such intention!"

Ji Xian's face was pale, and he knelt down quickly, pointing to the heavenly oath to guarantee, "Please also learn from Wu Yougong!"

"Fear always wakes people up, doesn't it?"

Antler sighed softly, "Unfortunately, you woke up too late from your big dream. I guess, until now, you still don't understand what you did..."

In the surging shadows, the invisible messenger chuckled mockingly:

"You don't even know who's at your door—"

At that moment, a candle flower exploded from a solitary lamp in horror, and the dim light rose up.

The messenger of darkness has deserted him.

Disappeared without a trace.

When Ji Xian turned his head suddenly, he saw a crack suddenly appeared on the heavy iron door, followed by a second one, which criss-crossed and formed a cross scar.

Iron and steel crumbled into pieces.

And in the darkness behind the door, someone walked towards him, stepping on the sins he left behind.

One step, another step.

Ji Xian's complexion changed suddenly, ferociousness appeared in his beastly vertical pupils, like a desperate wild beast, choosing to devour someone, "Who!"

Li Bai tapped the grass roots at the corner of his mouth, and said slowly:
"Your—retribution."

A ray of iron light flew out from the sheath, tearing apart the darkness, spreading straight forward, tearing apart the desolate wind, passing through Ji Xian's body, and penetrating backwards until the turbulent candle flame was cut in two by itself.

A crack was neatly left on the floor, the long table and the wall.

Ji Xian's expression froze, and he only had time to let out a shrill scream.Immediately afterwards, it was simply and neatly cut into two pieces, with little afterglow appearing under the light of the dim candlelight.

Like a burst bubble, it disappeared.

It wasn't the feeling of being cut at all, but it was like nothing...

In an instant, Li Bai stepped forward without thinking, the blade in his hand swept across, following the guidance of his instinct, the clanging blade left a straight track in the air.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a flower of blood blooming out of thin air in the originally empty place.

A suppressed muffled hum sounded, and then disappeared, only a little bit of blood appeared on the ground out of thin air, extending towards the darkness outside the door!
"Illusion!"

Li Bai never imagined that this blood-debt villain is actually the illusionist who arranged countless bronze mirrors!
But even illusions shouldn't be able to stop his two swords.

What's... on that guy?
In the workshop outside the door, a stumbling figure emerged, Ji Xian was covering the huge gash on his face, and the gash on his chest that almost pierced through his heart.

He just turned his head and gave him a venomous look, then rushed outside without looking back.

"Get out of here!"

He kicked away the blind boy standing in front of him, and his figure disappeared again with difficulty, melting into the darkness.

Xun Qing swung the iron rod in his hand, and subconsciously chased him in the direction where he disappeared, but he heard Li Xiang's shout: "He's in the south!"

Xun Qing turned his head and swept across without hesitation, only to hear a muffled groan, as if he had hit something, and little drops of blood stained the iron rod.

Ji Xian's distressed back flashed from the air, and he climbed to the gate leading to the outside of the workshop with his hands and feet, and his speed accelerated again!

"Whispers of the Wind?"

Xun Qing's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the green ring on Ji Xian's hand, he immediately became angry.

Ji Xian, this bastard, actually has such a treasure hidden in his body!
Those precious things that have been handed down on the Continent of Kings, the unworldly treasures created by skilled craftsmen, under the arrangement of Ji Xia, have collected the effects and functions of the top various strange things into a book, and almost every These items are the treasures that warriors, mages and even mechanism masters dream of.

The second product of 110 known as the 'heavenly treasure'!
Among them, compared with many famous swords and murder weapons, Whisper of the Wind is also a rare treasure.It can support the magic shield for the wearer, resist the damage of the surprise attack, and save life under the attack of the assassin.

That magic shield actually countered Li Bai's two swords!
It's a shame that I haven't practiced any stick skills, otherwise I would take his life when the magic shield was broken just now!
But Li Bai's pursuit did not stop. Seizing the momentary opportunity Xun Qing blocked, his figure had already soared into the air, stepping on the broken mechanism beasts scattered in the workshop all the way, and pounced on Ji Xian.

The blade of the sword falling from the sky reflected the cold light, slashing down in a howling sound, the flawless blow was coming to the extreme, even if Ji Xian's blurry figure could not be seen clearly, he had already locked the path he had to pass!

Sensing the chill on his back, Ji Xian gritted his teeth, and the boots under his feet lit up with a gleam of light, causing his speed of desperation to increase sharply again.

The falling sword blade tore his outer robe and the inner armor that was also of the heavenly grade, leaving a scar on his back with deep bone visible, blood gushing out.

Li Bai frowned.

The Whispers of the Wind, the Boots of Speed, and the Cloth Armor known as the Heavenly Cloth...

How afraid of death is this bastard?He even equipped himself with so much equipment that is hard to buy.

Stimulated by death, Ji Xian tried his best to escape, staggering and running in the strange sea of ​​flowers without looking back.

I don't know what mechanism he triggered. The piercing siren sounded in the darkness, and there were continuous sounds of chaotic footsteps in the distance.

Those swordsmen and dead soldiers who were sent out by Ji Xian to hold the key points and search the Yunjian Tower finally arrived.

For a moment, in the dimness, it was impossible to tell how many people there were, only the sharp blades in their hands and the pupils of their eyes stained red with killing intent could be seen.

Seeing that his subordinates finally arrived, Ji Xian finally had a smile of escape from the catastrophe, turned his head and looked at Li Bai who was chasing after him, his expression became extremely ferocious.

"Kill him for me!"

He roared hoarsely: "Kill him! Whoever can decapitate this bastard will receive a reward of one thousand! And the two bastards behind, don't forget! Kill them all!"

Before the words were finished, someone jumped on him recklessly, and then, the galloping figure froze, staggered past Li Bai, and fell to the ground.

Silence came suddenly.

The flying blood rose from the blade, and fell again.

In the darkness, only the calm voice of the boy holding the sword came: "In Chang'an, does this count as 'justifiable self-defense'?"

(End of this chapter)