There are some rules for Kang Haijiao to fight the swordsman on behalf of Terashima Yasuhei.
First of all, he never writes anything like a "challenge"; everyone in the martial arts world knows this... As a martial artist, it is best to leave few written notes or not leave them at all, otherwise your handwriting may one day be ruined. They will appear in some places they shouldn't and cause you some trouble that shouldn't belong to you.
Secondly, Kang Haijiao never "agrees in advance" with others on time and place, because doing so is equivalent to giving the other party "preparation" conditions; Jianghu is dangerous, if the swordsman you invite is a despicable person, secretly find someone to advance It's not easy to set up an ambush at the duel location.
Thirdly, he never comes to challenge during the day. After all, the place for dueling during the day is not easy to find, and it is easy to be followed. If someone follows, it will easily cause trouble.
To sum up, when Kang Haijiao goes to fight with others, he usually chooses to do so at night, and he directly makes it clear to the other party - if you want to come, you should come with me alone immediately. If you don't dare to come, forget it.
Then you say that if he does this, would anyone really dare to do it?
Of course there are still some, otherwise where did the sixteen swordsmen who died in the hands of Terajima Kohei come from?
Whether it's for heroism or loyalty, or for making a name for yourself... this world will never be short of people who dare to lick blood with their swords.
The more people die at the hands of Terajima Kohei, the more valuable he is to defeat.
And tonight, Kang Haijiao's target is Lin Yuancheng.
During the day, Kang Haijiao had already visited the inn where Sun and Lin lived... He also gave the waiter some money and found out which room Lin Yuancheng lived in... So, at midnight that night, Kang Haijiao went directly to He entered the inn through the window on the second floor and went straight to Lin Yuancheng's room.
Nowadays, Kang Haijiao can be considered a master of Qinggong. Coupled with his natural brute strength, even if he does fight with the opponent, he will at least be confident that he can escape.
Therefore, when he arrived at the door, he didn't even knock on the door, just kicked it in and walked in.
He was planning to give Lin Yuancheng a show of strength and suppress his opponent, and then say that he was here for a fight.
Don't think that he is "unnecessarily arrogant". In fact, his arrogant attitude and his face of "challenging you because he thinks highly of you" can be said to have been tried and tested. Many swordsmen who went to appointments before were because of Seeing his attitude, he agreed immediately.
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It was a little late, but it was fast, but when Kang Haijiao raised his foot, he easily kicked open the door of Lin Yuancheng's guest room.
As he walked inside, he said the words he had been holding back for a long time in a very arrogant tone: "I heard that there is a swordsman living here, it's you..."
However, before he could even say the last word "?", in the darkness... a handful of lime powder was smeared on his face.
This familiar feeling made him feel like he was dreaming back to the night in the Dragon King's Cave, with all kinds of painful memories flashing through his eyelids like a revolving lantern.
Immediately afterwards, he felt a pain in his lower body. While he instinctively covered his crotch and knelt down, the back of his neck was hit hard by something hard, and then...he didn't know anything.
How could Kang Haijiao imagine that this inn, from the shopkeeper to the waiter, had already been "taken care of" by Brother Sun...
After experiencing the big drama in Luoyang City last year, and the incident where Lin Yuancheng was ambushed in the wine shop, Sun Yixie must be more cautious during this trip to the "Seven Heroes Meeting", so now every time he goes to When he lives in a new place, he will first test the staff in the store. When he feels that there are no problems with these people, he will then pay to "take care of it."
During the day today, after the waiter in the shop collected Kang Haijiao's money and reported the location of Lin Yuancheng's room, he turned around and reported the matter to Sun Yixie... When Brother Sun heard this, he felt that there was an uninvited guest, so Lin Yuan and I Brother, say hello. Let’s pack lime powder and sap tonight and wait.
No, Kang Haijiao is waiting for him...
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I don't know how long it took, but a basin of cold water was poured on his head, and Kang Haijiao was awakened from his coma.
After a brief period of shock and fear, Kang Haijiao discovered that his body, hands and feet had been firmly locked with iron chains and fixed on a chair; the lime powder on his face had been washed away, and he was Judging from the residual smell, it should have been washed away with something like vegetable oil.
And in front of him, there were two people sitting, one was Lin Yuancheng, and the other... was naturally Sun Yixie.
"You...you..." Kang Haijiao was completely confused. His mind was full of questions, but he didn't know where to start.
"Brother, I think you look familiar." Although the lights in the Dragon King's Cave were dim that night, Sun Yixie still remembered Kang Haijiao's appearance - first of all, he was tall and had a distinctive appearance. Secondly, both times he appeared in front of Brother Sun with lime powder on his face. The scenes overlapped...
"Hmph..." When Kang Haijiao heard this, all the old and new grudges in his heart surged up. He couldn't help but sneered and said, "Young Master Sun can remember me. It's really an honor for me..."
"I really didn't expect that you were injured and fell into a deep cave that day, but you didn't die completely. It seems that your life is really tough." Sun Yixie added.
"It's easy to say." Kang Haijiao continued to sneer, "God loves me so much that he is reluctant to let me die."
"Fart!" Lin Yuancheng glared at Kang Haijiao and said angrily, "If I hadn't been soft-hearted and spared the life of a dog like you, how could you still be sitting here talking nonsense?"
Many people who see this may have forgotten what this is all about, so I would also like to mention that our previous clerk said: A few years ago, Kang Haijiao and his five brothers were still working together in Luzhou and Yingzhou. During the robbery in He, I met Lin Yuancheng, who had just turned sixteen and was new to the world, and was dismissed by Lin Yuancheng as his "reputation".
That day, these six people knelt on the ground in tears, swearing on the lives of their entire family, declaring that they would never do evil again, and begged Lin Xiaoxia to let them live.
As for Lin Yuancheng, he also felt that these six people were not qualified to be the first batch of souls killed by the sword after he officially entered the world (no one knew about his killing of his master, and he would not tell anyone). Looking at them They have already sworn such vicious oaths, so let’s just believe them.
Let's not talk about this matter... Not to mention you, readers, even Lin Yuancheng himself has almost forgotten about it.
If Sun Yixie hadn't recognized Kang Haijiao just now and told Lin Yuancheng the story of how he and Huang Donglai met the "Dragon Prince" in Chenjia Village while the other party was unconscious, Lin Yuancheng would not have been able to remember such a person.
However, now Lin Yuancheng not only remembered it, but also learned that Kang Haijiao and his gang came out to continue doing evil half a year after they were released by him, which made him quite unhappy.
And Kang Haijiao must also have a grudge against Lin Yuancheng...
Although the other party let him off the hook, he didn't feel he should be grateful at all; in Kang Haijiao's logic, he was a good thief, but it was this boy named Lin who took the initiative to come to him and his brothers. I gave them a lesson and forced them to kneel down and beg for mercy. This was the other party's initiative to find trouble. Why should I thank him when my begging for mercy was successful in this situation?
This is the typical logic of a villain - even if he robs, murders, rapes and defrauds, it is all "forced by life", and it is even more natural to do other bullshit things, and if others want to seek justice, they can do it As for him, he is "nosy".
"Ha...so it turns out that Young Master Lin also remembers me?" Kang Haijiao still smiled, "I thought you had definitely forgotten about a little person like me."
This is true, otherwise he wouldn't have thought about showing off to Shaoxia Lin as soon as he entered the room, pretending to be cool or something like that.
"Oh, you seem to be quite calm." Sun Yixie squinted at the other person and said in a threatening tone, "Have you been knocked stupid by me and you are a little confused about the current situation?"
Hearing this, Kang Haijiao raised his eyebrows and shrugged: "If you wanted to kill me, you would have killed me long ago. Since you have tied me up, it means that you have something to ask me. Therefore, at least for this moment and a half, I will not be alive." Isn’t that a big concern?”
It has to be said that the current Kang Haijiao is much stronger than a year ago in terms of psychological quality and scheming. Compared with the martial arts he obtained in the cliff cave, he actually survived in the underground river for more than a month. Only the will he honed in this journey can be called his real "adventure".
"Hey, your thinking is quite clear." Sun Yixie said, "Then for a 'smart' person like you to break in like this tonight, he shouldn't be here to seek revenge against me or Brother Lin, right?"
"That's..." Kang Haijiao said in a taken-for-granted tone, "I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with Cangzhou Xiaoxia and Dong Xie joining forces on my own..." He shook his head and continued, "I'm coming tonight. , Actually I just came to deliver a message."
"I've searched everything on you and there's no letter." Sun Yixie said.
"A verbal message." Kang Haijiao said.
"What message, and whose message is it from?" Sun Yixie asked again.
Kang Haijiao didn't intend to hide anything, because only by telling his intention would he have a chance to survive: "Someone asked me to bring a message to Shaoxia Lin, saying that I wanted to compete with him in swordsmanship..." He paused after saying this. , read in a solemn tone, "It determines victory and defeat, and also determines life and death."
As soon as he heard about the sword competition, Lin Yuancheng's expression immediately changed.
"Is the name of the person you are talking about called Terashima Yasuhei?" Lin Yuancheng came here to explore the road and inquire about various information, so he had already heard about Terashima challenging swordsmen and killing people and seizing swords.
"Oh? Have you heard of him, Shaoxia Lin? That would be easier." When Kang Haijiao looked at Lin Yuancheng's expression, he knew that the other party had probably taken the bait, and immediately said, "Then I won't belabor it. In a word... Terashima is already waiting for you at the duel place. If you dare to go, I will lead the way... If you don't dare..."
"Wait a minute!" Sun Yixie said, "You dare not do anything? In the middle of the night, you said someone wants to challenge Brother Lin, and Brother Lin has to go? If you don't go, you don't dare? Then do you dare to swallow it? Are you going to commit suicide?" He paused and then said, "Looking back... If Brother Lin really went there and found out that you had 1,800 people ambushed there, wouldn't it be a serious disaster? Also, why do you need to lead the way? ? Can't you tell us the location and we can go there ourselves? What evidence do you have to prove that you are here to bring a message, and not because you made up such a temporary reason after being caught by us? "
All his questions were reasonable, but unfortunately, at this time, there was one person who couldn't listen to anything.
"Okay, I'll go, you lead the way." The next second, Lin Yuancheng looked directly into Kang Haijiao's eyes and replied firmly with these six words.
"Hey, Brother Lin, I said so much and you didn't even hear me?" Sun Yixie said.
"Brother Sun, we only loosen the chains on his feet. We can't do anything with him." Lin Yuancheng replied.
After that, he looked at Kang Haijiao again: "If I find out that you are lying to me or trying to escape, I will kill you."
"Wait a minute." Unexpectedly, Kang Haijiao had some objections at this moment, "Sun Shaoxia, do you want to go too?"
"What? Can't you?" Sun Yixie actually didn't really want to go, because in his opinion, there were too many doubts about the matter, and Lin Yuancheng had the tendency to die.
"Well..." Kang Haijiao thought for a while, "I'm not going to hide it from you. Among the swordsmen who fought against Terashima before, the first two brought their companions to the appointment. As a result, the companions of those two people As soon as we saw that our friends had lost and died, we decided to besiege Terashima to avenge our friends... We had no choice but to kill them all, which was a waste of lives. Therefore, from the third Since then, I will only bring the swordsman himself to the appointment."
"Hmph..." Sun Yixie didn't believe the other party's words. He snorted coldly, "These are all your one-sided words... I heard that none of the sixteen swordsmen came back alive. They were finally killed. They were all corpses when they were found, and the swords were taken away... So what if you guys did some trick, wouldn't it mean that there is no proof?"
"Yes, it is possible." Kang Haijiao said, "So I still say the same thing... If Lin Shaoxia doesn't want to come, you don't have to come."
He made it clear that this was a method of provoking generals, but it did work.
"Brother Sun, you don't need to say anything. Lin knows that you are thinking about me, but I have to go tonight." Lin Yuancheng said.
After Sun Yixie heard this, he thought to himself: "Forget it, this guy wants his sword more than his life. I can't persuade him. I'll just act according to the situation. If the situation goes bad, I'll get out of the way. At most, I'll avenge him some other time." chant."
Thinking of this, he said to Lin Yuancheng: "Okay~ Since Brother Lin has said so, I won't say any more. I will follow him later to have a look. If the opponent is indeed the only one who accepts the challenge, then I will definitely I won’t disturb you.”
"Thank you, Brother Sun, for making it happen." Lin Yuancheng responded gratefully.
"Okay, if you say 'Dong Xie'... I also believe it." Kang Haijiao also took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the situation. "If Sun Shaoxia can promise not to interfere, then it's okay to come and have a look." He said Then he gestured towards his feet with his eyes, "Without further ado, I'd like to thank you two... please relax your legs and feet for me."
