It doesn't matter what the lord is.

20. A long-planned assassination

I still remember that day when it was drizzling and I was standing side by side with He Yue under the eaves, he said to me:

"All living things suffer, and we should do something for them."

Bai Huang looked left and right, and sighed more and more. I can understand her. A little girl who grew up in the sea of ​​clouds has always liked to fight for justice. She traveled incognito all over the sea of ​​clouds, and helped the injustice when she saw it. But compared with the scene in front of her where 300,000 people's lives were hanging by a thread, the things I did before seemed like a child's play.

Bai Huang had no other options, so he ran to my side, followed me, and asked:

"Lid, is there any way to save them?"

I replied calmly:

"Have."

Bai Huang immediately asked:

"what?"

I turned my head, looked at Bai Huang, pointed at my head, and replied:

"A man must help himself before others can help him, and then God can help him. You must first take care of your own affairs before others can help you, and then God can help you. Three hundred thousand people would rather freeze to death in the snow than go to the capital to cause trouble. What can we do to help? This place is not far from the capital. If three hundred thousand refugees surrounded the capital and refused to leave without food, then things would be much easier to deal with."

Bai Huang argued:

"They will die! Attacking the capital will be treated as treason. I don't know how many people will lose their heads."

"And now they won't?"

I asked back, and Bai Huang suddenly fell silent.

Wumi said:

"In fact, some of them went to the capital, intending to report the incident to His Majesty, but as soon as they arrived, they disappeared."

Bai Huang snorted coldly:

"This is too much! Three hundred thousand people, do they really think they can hide the truth?"

This is also what I find strange.

The matter of Tianyue Mountain is not a trivial matter. It is impossible that there is no news in the capital, and it is impossible to suppress it completely. During the New Year, everyone is likely to keep silent tacitly, but after the New Year, more and more people will die in Tianyue Mountain, and this matter will inevitably be exposed. It is obviously unwise to embezzle disaster relief funds at this time, and I don't know if those people in the capital are really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

But I haven't been to the capital yet, so I don't know what the situation is like there. It's hard to jump to conclusions. Wumi didn't seem to want to talk more about this matter. She drank her porridge, stretched her body, and continued to walk into the snow.

I saw the sweat on his forehead was quickly dried by the cold wind, and his footprints were deep and shallow, so I knew he hadn't eaten enough in the past few days. Whether it was for the sake of disaster relief or to win people's hearts, eating the same meal with these people was undoubtedly a very good means. It was possible to quickly gain the trust of the people, but not everyone could do this to increase affinity. After all, only those who have eaten a handful of rice mixed with two handfuls of bran know what porridge will be. People who are used to the delicacies of the mountains and the sea can hardly swallow such things, but looking at the calm expression of Wu Mi when he was drinking the porridge just now, it was not fake at all.

Bai Huang and I followed him and walked a long way to a relatively open place. Suddenly, a group of people stopped us. There were hundreds of them, blocking Wu Mi. The middle-aged man in the lead knelt on the ground and said sadly:

"Sir, are we really going to die here? The people we sent to the capital to ask for an audience with His Majesty have not returned yet! You are kind-hearted and capable, please show us a way to survive! If this continues, we will all die here, Sir!"

Wu Mi also looked reluctant and wanted to help the person in front of him up, but the person refused to get up. Wu Mi had no choice but to kneel down in front of them and said:

"It is my fault that I am incompetent and cannot save you! But now there is really no better way except to wait patiently. At the end of the year, at most after this year, someone in the capital will take care of this matter. I promise you, no one else will take care of this matter, but I, Wu Mi, will give you a way to live even if I have to sacrifice my life."

When Wu Mi knelt down, the snow on her white clothes fell to the ground.

He bit his lip and said loudly:

"But wait! It's not time yet...please wait a moment."

"If there was a way to survive, we would not come to you for help..."

The leader knelt down and cried:

"Without a house or food, we have to sleep in the wilderness every day. We don't know when we will close our eyes and never wake up again! I'm afraid we won't be able to survive this year..."

A person behind said:

"You don't know, we are residents living west of Tianyue Mountain. Our family is poor, and this year we are going to build a palace for His Majesty the King, but the soldiers from above came to chase us away, just like a group of robbers! They demolished our house, searched our money and food, and our wives and children...most of them were abused by them. We finally escaped, and everyone was injured. Now it's snowing heavily, we really can't survive!"

Bai Huang asked loudly:

"What kind of soldiers are these? Where did these soldiers dare to be so arrogant? What's the name of the leader? Tell me your name!"

Several people looked at each other and didn't dare to speak.

Bai Huang was stamping his feet alone, splashing the soft snow everywhere:

"This is too much, it's really too much! Are they still human? They really treat the people like dogs. Even ordinary robbers and thieves don't go this far!"

I was frowning in thought when I suddenly heard a voice from behind the crowd:

"What do you mean I can't do anything? I think you are just like those officials in the capital. You are afraid of losing your position, so you come here to curry favor! If you are an official in the capital, if you really want to take charge, would you have no way to do anything? You only know how to win people's hearts in front of us! You say one thing and do another. It's you who are the ones who harm us!"

I looked over there, but several voices soon rang out from the crowd:

"That's right, you and they are the same people! You stopped us from going to the capital to cause trouble, and you said it was for our own good!"

"Why else would he, a Beijing official, come to Tianyue Mountain? He obviously wants to suppress this matter. You are the lackey of those people above you!"

"Don't be fooled by him! Think about it, he has been here for so many days. Apart from tricking us into not causing trouble, what else has he done? A traitor who appears loyal is just like this kind of person!"

The sounds that came one after another were very contagious, and soon they came from all directions.

Wu Mi raised his head suddenly and shouted:

"Don't be incited!"

He saw the situation clearly, but at this point the situation was no longer something he could control alone.

Some people believed in him, and naturally some people looked down on him. Once these people were incited, they were also a force that should not be underestimated. Not all people in the crowd were incited, and some people retained their rationality. But the excited victims could no longer listen to their advice, or... these people had been thinking about doing this for too long.

"Kill him! Beat him to death!"

"Kill this treacherous official who pretends to be loyal!"

"Kill him! Go to the capital! Ask His Majesty the King for food!"

People gradually gathered around, and at this moment someone suddenly rushed out from the crowd, holding a half-broken wooden stick in his hand, and chopped directly at Wumi's head.

21. Let’s join the orange-eating crowd

The stick didn't come down, but blood had already splattered.

Because Bai Huang and Wu Mi were standing close to each other, when someone rushed over, He Ji attacked directly without any mercy and cut off half of the man's arm. Blood splattered on Wu Mi's face. Wu Mi hurriedly turned around and looked at He Ji with a hint of anger in his eyes.

Bai Huang also realized that something was wrong, but it was too late to stop Heji.

The man with the broken arm roared miserably:

“It hurts, it hurts! My hand——!!”

Someone in the crowd shouted loudly:

"See? They don't even consider us as human beings! Everyone, come together and kill these damn officials!!"

Bai Huang hurriedly said to Heji:

"Heggie, apologize now!"

Heji's face was painful as if it was pierced by needles, and he bowed to the victims. But this action was meaningless at this time. I watched coldly, knowing that this matter had already become a big deal and could not be easily resolved. It was better to say that this matter had been planned for a long time, and it just broke out at this time.

Alayya has walked to my side and protected me behind her.

Frost fell on her golden hair, and some of the armor on her body was blue because of the cold. Her slender hands tightly grasped the hilt of the sword at her waist, as if she could draw the sword at any time. Just now, Heji cut the man's arm, and the air was already filled with a strong smell of blood. This pungent smell stimulated people's nerves even more. For those who were ready to make a move, this dazzling red was like the red cloth in the hands of a bullfighter, provoking their last bit of reason.

Alayya whispered:

"Master, what should we do?"

Since Heji has already taken action, I will choose to stand on Baihuang's side first.

Seeing the disaster victims around me rising like a tide, I replied:

"Protect me and Bai Huang first. Anyone who dares to come up here will pay with their heads."

The voice was quite loud, so Wumi could hear it clearly. He looked at the crazy expressions on the people's faces and said to me:

"They were also instigated by someone... Well, let's talk about it after things calm down."

Before he finished speaking, he was already shaking his head.

My opinion of him has improved a little bit.

If Wu Mi stood in front of us at this time, talking about morality, I would not hesitate to put him on the blacklist. You are the one who caused the trouble, and we are the bad guys. If you still want to perform in public to highlight your kindness, it is too unkind.

Fortunately, Wu Mi is much more spiritual than I thought.

We have to kill some people right now. Even if we don't take action, someone from the other side will come to kill us. When the people gathered here just now, many masters whose realms were completely different from those of the disaster victims also sneaked in. There were at least 20 to 30 of them. If these people don't die, the instigated people will not calm down. They are like a perpetual motion machine for making trouble. As long as they are alive, they can continue to instigate the people and make these desperate people turn their spearheads against us.

It can be judged that among those who came at the beginning, there are probably some ordinary people with mediocre fighting power but good at speaking, who are responsible for inciting the people. This plan is quite good, using ordinary people to incite ordinary people, and then letting those masters mix in with ordinary people and find opportunities to attack. When the time comes, they will hack a few of us to death with their swords, and no one will be able to find anything.

I felt unhappy, but when the victims rushed over here, I still said to Alayya:

"Forget it, try to keep them alive. But don't be too cautious. Don't keep anyone who poses a threat."

It's not that I sympathize with anything.

In my opinion, people have to pay the price for their actions. Whether they are born evil or are incited to do bad things, as long as the negative impact is produced, the person who does bad things must pay the price, or at least be aware of paying the price. If you don't even have the courage to be killed, but you hold a broken weapon and intend to kill people, what kind of person is this? This is still a coward, a coward with a weapon.

But the problem is that Alaya, who has reached the fifth level of perfection, will have to undergo the first test of [Self-examination] when she enters the sixth level. Before that, she imitated the Zen sword training method, using killing as Zen and walking the Shura path. For her, killing is certainly the best way to improve her strength, but I don't want her to start killing before the sixth level.

For example, if you let a newborn baby experience all the vicissitudes of life, is it a good thing for him?

Maybe not. What will his life be like in the future? Will he still be happy? Will he move forward? No one can say for sure.

I have no way of fully predicting what Alayya will become when she becomes numb from killing people, so let's put this matter aside for now.

Alayya nodded.

When the crowd rushed forward, Alayya rushed forward with sword without hesitation.

Compared to Heji, who was practicing the Gentleman Sword and had a hint of hesitation at this time, Alayya's movements seemed more agile.

She was like a reef sticking out from the rapids, instantly cutting the crowd rushing towards me into two parts. With the sharpness of the long sword "Youlong" and Alaiya's superb swordsmanship, at the moment when the blood splashed, no one ran to me anymore. I could even sit on the ground again and take out my watermelon from my arms——

There is no watermelon in winter!!

But luckily I brought oranges.

After peeling off the orange peel, the pungent smell more or less covered up the smell of blood. When the sweet orange entered my mouth, I seemed to be back to the time in the kotatsu.

Seeing Alayya taking action, Heji followed closely and blocked the crowd coming from the other side. His realm was a whole level higher than Alayya's, and his actual strength was much higher than on paper. This time, the crowd on the other side was also directly blocked. Seeing that his guards were quite powerful, Bai Huang also squatted down, ran to sit next to me, and stretched out his hand to me.

I didn't have many oranges with me, but I gave her one anyway. Bai Huang followed me to watch the show. Wu Mi, who was looking around, frowned and said to us with a wry smile:

"You guys...just watch like this?"

"You'll be fine once you get used to it."

As I said that, I threw an orange to him.

Unexpectedly, Wu Mi held the orange and had no intention of sitting down. Instead, he said:

"I have to wait and see what happens. Once things get better, I have to..."

"Well, it's the same if you sit down and watch."

I pulled him, and as Wu Mi was dragged to the ground by me, a plum blossom dart instantly pierced into the snow and nailed to the ground. The powerful force blew away the snow on the ground, making it impossible to open one's eyes. Just a little bit, this plum blossom dart would break Wu Mi's neck, causing his head and body to "fight each other like birds of the same forest, but they fly away when disaster strikes".

Wu Mi touched his neck and there was some cold sweat on his face.

Heji also said loudly to Alayya:

"Here comes the tough one, be careful!"

Alayya responded hastily, and the sword in her hand had already collided with a machete that was chopped down with tremendous force.

As the small fry in front were defeated one after another and unable to rise again, the culprit behind the scenes, who was mixed in with the ordinary victims, gradually surfaced.

22. Catch the shrimp farmers!

There are always too many troubles and too little time.

When Alayya and Heji were fighting against the masters lurking among the disaster victims, I held Bai Huang in one hand and Wu Mi in the other, and said loudly:

"The wind is pulling hard!"

The opponents have eight fifth-level, five sixth-level, and four seventh-level. What are you going to fight them? Just use your heads to hit them.

Alayya slashed the scarred man holding the machete with a sword, and then kicked him in the belly, kicking him away. The old man was unlucky and bumped into the spear in the hand of the man behind him, and was stabbed through.