The dim night, the confused night, the faint starlight penetrated from the thin clouds, shrouding it like mercury. The imperial capital was very quiet at night, so quiet that it made people feel an indescribable feeling.
The fear of coming came from the bottom of my heart. The bustling city was still brightly lit, but there were only a few people in the streets and alleys. A few pedestrians were walking aimlessly on the streets like wandering souls.
The imperial capital post station, except for the lively scene in the past few days when the envoys from various countries came to visit, has returned to its usual calm tonight. There is no busy scene of people coming and going. There are only a few guards standing coldly in front of the inn door holding sabers.
, their condensed eyes swept across the street in front of the inn door. And the street was as silent as a pool of stagnant water, and there was no vitality of the past. And they stood like statues, and only they exuded...
The bloody aura also told them that they were still a group of living guards.
The largest courtyard of the inn is the residence of the Southern Tang Dynasty envoy. Like other courtyards in the inn, it is as quiet as an ancient well. Tomorrow, I will start my journey back to my own country. Tonight, I don’t know which envoy from the country proposed to stay in the imperial capital.
After spending the night as much as they wanted, most of the envoys from various countries in this station went to experience the bustling nightlife of the imperial capital. Only a few followers were guarding their luggage and goods.
Although the post station was heavily guarded by soldiers, these soldiers stood listlessly at their posts. As long as this night passed, they no longer had to guard the usually unattended post station day and night. There were only these.
The envoys from various countries have left the inn and will return to their normal lives.
The guards were listless. They were looking forward to the guards changing guard to take their place. They themselves didn't know how long they had been standing there. Although no major events had ever happened in this inn, the Holy Father attaches great importance to this visit from various countries.
Mission. That’s why they did not hesitate to allocate personnel from the Forbidden Army to guard this inn.
A burst of vigorous footsteps reached the ears of the guards, causing them to raise their eyes, which were already dizzy and sleepy, and the sharp light they should have shone from their eyes. The guards who changed the guard finally arrived.
, and they themselves don’t remember how long this rotation lasted. It seemed like it was just a few quarters of an hour longer than before. But it was only a quarter of an hour, so who cares? They had been standing there for five or six hours.
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"Brother, thank you for your hard work." A lazy voice came into their ears, and the guards who were impatient to leave didn't even have time to catch up with the guards who were changing guard.
He left the place where he stood. It had been just one night, who cared about the passwords that had to be exchanged every day. As the dozens of listless guards left, one after another energetic guards with cold eyes and aura stood here.
In every corner of the inn, there was a strong smell of bloodlust surrounding them, and of course there was a faint smell of goat's milk.
The new guards watched the listless guards leave. There was no expression on their faces, only their eagle-like eyes glowed with a cold-blooded light. However, at this time, there was still one last guard.
Instead of going out, he stood in front of the inn door, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped back as if he had discovered something.
The guard just took a few steps back, but he didn't notice that a strong new guard had a cold light in his eyes and quietly walked towards the guard. When the guard saw the strong new guard coming quietly, his expression changed.
Suddenly there was a change, a look of horror flashed in his eyes, and he was about to open his mouth to shout. But the sturdy new guard rushed in front of the guard, and saw a cold light flash in his hand, and a long, curved handle.
The knife swiped across the guard's neck, and a stream of rich blood suddenly shot out from the guard's neck.
He covered his neck tightly with both hands, his eyes flashed with fear, he opened his mouth and squirmed a few times, but in the end he didn't scream out, and he slowly fell down.
Suddenly, the inn was filled with a bloody smell that assaulted the nostrils. The strong new guard dragged the fallen guard up and headed towards the depths of the inn. Soon, there was a sound of water rushing,
Immediately, the inn fell into silence again. It was as if everything had never happened, and the few guards with cold lights stood upright at their posts.
A few more quarters of an hour later, the night fell like water, and there was silence all around. A sound broke through the air, but several figures turned over from the courtyard wall of the inn. And those eyes
The guards who had never even blinked turned a blind eye, and did not react at all to such a big movement.
The few night travelers who climbed over the wall did not completely wrap themselves up. On the contrary, their clothes and appearance were exposed in the night. Some of them held a strong bow half a man's height in their hands.
There were also a few people holding gleaming scimitars in their hands. Their attire was not that of the Han Chinese in the Central Plains, but that of the Khitans, and they did not hide their clothes. They were obviously confident.
There were five people who came, all in their thirties, their eyes were shining with cold light, and their bodies were filled with bloodthirsty aura. After climbing over the courtyard wall of the inn, they headed straight towards the inn.
They headed for the largest courtyard in the city, obviously heading towards the Southern Tang Dynasty's mission. They found the courtyard so accurately and quickly, without any sloppiness, and their movements were vigorous and fast, like a bird in the deep mountains and wild forests.
Like a scurrying cheetah.
The night shadowed the mottled trees in the courtyard on the ground, and the slightly warm southerly wind blew the dead branches in the courtyard up and down. The few night walkers fell into the courtyard,
Their figures all fell into the mottled shadows of the trees, and their eyes looked toward the houses in the courtyard with blazing light.
The dim candlelight penetrated from the window, reflecting two blurry figures in the window, one of which was slightly fatter and shorter, while the other figure was slightly taller. The two figures seemed to be chatting about something, and from time to time
I saw these two figures walking back and forth.
The night walkers hiding in the shadow of the trees looked at the two figures revealed through the dim candlelight. They did not hear the conversation between the two people, only the two people walked back and forth, like a scene.
It was like a silent acrobatic. The leader of the night walker was a man in strong clothes, as thick as a mountain. In his hand was a scimitar with a faint blood-like glow in the cold light. He glanced at his accomplices, and then did
made a gesture.
A thinner man quietly took off a few arrows from his back. He placed the arrows on the crossbow, and the full moon's strong anger suddenly appeared. But he did not immediately put the arrows on the crossbow.
The arrow was shot out, but it was waiting for the leader's order. Another night traveler also acted in the same way. The two of them locked the figure reflected on the window, waiting for the leader's order.
The leader of the night walker looked at the two figures in the window for several seconds. He did not rush to issue any orders, but looked coldly at the two flashing figures in the room. He did not notice any
If anything goes wrong, just press the outstretched palm into the void.
"Whoosh, whoosh!" Two arrows carrying the aura of death tore apart the night in the courtyard, arrived in an instant, and shot in through the window. However, there was no scream as they imagined.
, it’s just that there were two more holes shot through by arrows on the window, and even the flashing figures in the room were still moving back and forth. The two arrows shot into the room like mud sinking into the sea.
, no more breath-like sounds came out.
His face changed, and the leader of the night walker couldn't help but have a look of doubt in his eyes. He didn't understand why the shaking figure was not hit by the two arrows, and the two arrows that shot into the house were also
There was no sound. And the surroundings were silent, as if none of this had ever happened.
Then, two more arrows shot in quickly, but the shaking figure was still unharmed. Finally, two arrows sounded "grab, snatch", as if they had hit something in the room.
And after that, there was still no sound.
The faces of the few night walkers hiding under the shadow of the tree finally changed. They didn't understand why the four arrows couldn't hurt the two shaking figures, but the two shaking figures seemed to move faster.
It seemed to be mocking their incompetence, and it was also a silent provocation to them.
A look flashed through the eyes of the leader of the night walker, and then two assassins holding scimitars quietly approached the house. When he walked to the door of the house, they shot the other people hiding under the shadow of the trees.
With a gesture, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Obviously, they were not in any danger, and the two swaying figures in the room still didn't seem to notice their presence.
The machete passed through the bolt of the door, and the door opened in response, but nothing happened as they imagined. The room was still silent, and not even the sound of human breathing was heard. The head of the night walker
A cold light shone in the man's eyes, and he led the rest of the night travelers toward the house quietly.
When they stepped into the room, they were stunned, because there was no one in the room at all, and they clearly saw the two shaking figures outside. A feeling of horror filled their hearts.
It was so chilling, maybe they broke into the haunted house, no wonder the arrows of their own people couldn't hit the two shaking figures.
A night wind suddenly blew into the room, and the swaying candlelight swayed for a while. Only then did their eyes notice the candlelight. The night traveler's eyes fell on the person next to the swaying candlelight.
On top of the two pieces of paper, and there was a thin thread tied on the piece of paper, he dropped the two pieces of paper. A few wisps of night wind blew in through the small cracks in the window, blowing the two pieces of paper away.
Pieces of paper cut into human shapes also swayed in the wind.
The faces of other night travelers were even more ugly. They didn't understand that they had been tricked. The shaking figures they saw outside the window were reflected by these two human-shaped pieces of paper. And those arrows
The arrow hit another wall in the room, no wonder it didn't make any sound.
One of the archers had a face full of anger. He had never been teased like this before. He grabbed the two pieces of paper and pulled them hard. He pulled hard and dropped them.
The two thin threads holding the piece of paper broke immediately, and at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
Before everyone could react, they only felt a crash above their heads, and a burst of biting cold water poured down from the sky. Everyone was immediately drenched by the cold water poured down on their heads, and their faces were covered with cold water.
They were so angry that they didn't expect that they were being teased repeatedly by the people in the courtyard. At first they were teased by the shaking figure, and then they were splashed with cold water on their heads. They were teased one after another.
Everyone will be embarrassed and angry.
Everyone rushed out of the house one after another. They were covered with water stains and looked as embarrassed as they could be. When they walked out of the house and came to the courtyard again, they were stunned because they saw two people.
A young man with a mocking smile on his face, a fat little Taoist priest, and a young man in a blue shirt with an extraordinary temperament.
"Junior brother, you can think of such fun tricks, I want to play more next time." Li Xiaoyao's words, as if he was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, were really an expression that deserved a beating.