The academy courses make it very clear that when encountering a strange situation, the mortality rate is as high if you act recklessly as if you just do nothing.
You must observe carefully, collect information, and make decisions before taking action.
Li Wei pulled out a dagger from the inside of his boots and threw it to Yang Yu, who had no weapon.
The three of them pressed against the wall and walked in the direction of the sound.
As soon as I walked out of the alley, I saw a man squatting under the earthen slope of the ditch facing the street.
His figure is thin, wearing a bamboo hat and a brown raincoat. There is a bamboo pole for boating at his feet - considering that there is a awning boat parked next to the ditch, he should be a boatman.
"The new crowbars are floating along the river..."
The boatman squatted on the ground and sang a boating chant, his voice was low and hoarse, and his tones were erratic and tortuous, like a drama, while his palms were digging something in front of him.
That's... people.
Li Wei, who was walking at the front, had his pupils dilated suddenly and saw a middle-aged man in brocade lying in front of the boatman.
His hands and feet were separated, his body was disemboweled, and his face still had an expression of extreme fear and despair.
"Sister on the shore, look at me from afar..."
The boatman kept digging out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, murmuring in his sleep, and suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Ang and the other two people on the street.
There was blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and with a respectful smile on his wrinkled face, he said, "Do you three gentlemen want to take a boat?"
Yang Yu had been frightened to the point of numbness. Although Li Wei was equally frightened, he was a soldier in the border town after all. He had been licking blood at the tip of a knife since he was a teenager.
He tightened his grip on the sword in his hand, ready to swing it at any time.
Seeing that the three people did not answer, the old boatman threw away the organ in his hand, stood up, and said respectfully: "Three people in the boat are counted as one person, and one mile is five cents."
Li Ang narrowed his eyes and replied, "No need."
"Since you don't want to take the ride, then please pay this person's boat fare."
The boatman pointed at the body of the man in brocade clothes lying on the ground.
Li Ang glanced at Yang Yu from the corner of his eye. When the latter touched his clothes, sweat broke out on his forehead.
No money in my pocket.
"How about this jade pendant?"
Li Wei was quick to think and pulled a round jade pendant from Yang Yu's belt and handed it to the boatman.
"Young gentleman, stop making fun of me, isn't this a piece of cake?"
The boatman glanced at the jade pendant, grinned slowly, and said quietly: "If you don't have money to pay, then you can pay with your life."
After that, he climbed up the slope on his hands and feet, dragged his blood-stained raincoat to the ground, and ran towards the three of them.
"Fire Technique!"
Yang Yu was sweating profusely, using his hands together, he made gestures to the boatman.
boom!
The blazing flames that bloomed from his fingertips naturally exhausted themselves in mid-air and failed to incinerate the boatman.
"Don't do any magic at this time!"
Li Wei took a step forward and swung his sword without hesitation. It passed around the shoulder and collarbone and struck the weak spot on the boatman's neck.
sand--
The boatman's head flew into the air, and then he fell to the ground, where his bones were rolling. However, not much blood seeped out from the broken neck of the headless corpse.
"Killing!"
Miserable cries came from the awning boat. A woman ran out of the awning boat, threw herself on the ground, hugged the boatman's head and cried bitterly, "Dalang, you died so miserably! Dear fellow citizens, please help me." Let me redress my grievance!"
Her cry seemed to turn on some kind of switch, and the whole city came to life.
The flower girl carrying the flower basket, the salesman carrying the load, the scholar in Tsing Yi, the young lady with makeup on her face, the maid holding an umbrella...
Characters walked out from the corner and filled the street in an instant.
"Killing for life is a matter of course."
They stared at Li Ang and the three of them, with ferocious expressions and uniform voices as they stepped forward.
Touching porcelain, right?
Li Ang looked around at the dark crowd in front and whispered to Li Wei and Yang Yu: "Let's go!"
After saying that, he stepped on the ground and jumped up. He climbed up the wall with his palms. He turned over and climbed up the wall. He reached out and grabbed Yang Yuhou's collar and pulled him up.
"Brother Li."
"coming."
Li Wei also climbed up the wall, and as soon as he stood firm, he saw more citizens pouring out of the street in the distance, "Killing people to pay for their lives, it is only right!"
The streets echoed with the shouts of the crowd. They rushed towards the location of Li Ang and the three of them with crazy expressions, like some kind of rat tide.
"What exactly is going on?"
Li Wei's scalp couldn't help but feel numb, but he heard Li Ang shouting loudly next to him, "It is only right to kill someone to pay for their life!"
Li Wei suddenly turned his head to look, and saw Li Ang's expression was frantic, his eyes were wide open, and he was even crazier than the crowd below. He repeated at the top of his lungs, "Killing must be punished with life, it is only right!"
Even Li Ang...has been assimilated by the weird?
Li Wei and Yang Yu felt cold all over their bodies, as if they had fallen into an ice cave. However, in the next moment, Li Ang's expression returned to normal and murmured: "It's still gushing this way. Sure enough, it won't work."
"ah?"
Seeing that Li Wei was dumbfounded and confused, Li Ang had to explain: "I'm trying to see if I can disguise myself as one of these ghosts.
Tell them there are no moles here.
But it doesn’t seem to work. "
If this works, then there will be ghosts, okay? !
No matter how Li Wei and Yang Yu screamed crazily in their hearts, Li Ang made a decision again, said "go upstairs", jumped off the wall with Li Wei and Yang Yu, boarded the restaurant, and rushed to the top floor.
The three of them worked together to drag several rectangular wooden tables over, with the thick wooden table tops facing down to cover the stair entrance on the top floor.
At this time, the crazy crowd below had also rushed into the building and chased them along the stairs, but were blocked by the wooden table. They banged against the tabletop crazily and scratched the gap between the wooden table and the stairway with their hands.
Li Wei stepped on the shaking wooden table with his foot and slashed at the arm stretched out from below with his sword. Yang Yu was also aroused and stabbed a raised palm with a dagger.
Although the crowd that surged up from downstairs were fearless and large in number, they were all of ordinary physique.
Li Wei was born in the border army. He took a traditional Chinese medicinal bath and learned the art of body training in the academy. He had a long breath.
Guard this only entrance, there will be no problem for the time being.
"Shichiro,"
Li Ang's voice interrupted Yang Yu's slashing, "The soles of your shoes."
"Um?"
Yang Yu looked down at Li Ang's gaze, only to see a plum blossom-shaped blood stain under his boots.
The soles of Li Ang and Li Wei's boots also had exactly the same marks.
"The body lying by the river just now was the man in brocade who bumped into the old woman in gray at the Jian Yue Theater during the day."
Li Ang said quickly: "The blood on the soles of his boots is the same as ours."
"Is it an anomaly caused by Jian Yue Troupe? Is the blood on the soles of our boots some kind of mark?"
Yang Yu suddenly realized something, "How could it be? They are the Zhou Guo Troupe. They have to go through a lot of checks and searches when they come to Chang'an."
"have no idea."
Li Ang narrowed his eyes and said, "But there must be a problem at the Jian Yue Troupe. You guys can guard this place. If you can't hold it anymore, just take off your boots and throw them away. It might work."
"Risheng, where are you going? Don't be impulsive!"
"The Luoyang Tower is where the Jian Yue Theater Company is located."
Li Ang jumped over the top railing, stepped on the cornice tiles, and jumped up to the pavilion next door.
His departure instantly attracted a portion of the crazy crowd, causing the defensive pressure on Li Wei and Yang Yu to suddenly decrease.
The strong wind blew past his ears. Under the blood-red sky, Li Ang jumped and shuttled across the rooftops of the buildings in the West City until he came to a crossroads without tall buildings.
Li Ang jumped lightly into the middle of the intersection, and crazy crowds of people came to the four streets in front, left, and right.
"If we're here, they probably won't be able to see it."
Li Ang muttered to himself, looking back at where Li Wei and Yang Yu were, and twisted his neck, making a crisp clicking sound.
As if he didn't see the crowd coming, he walked to a shop door, patted the solid wood beams outside the door, and nodded with satisfaction.
Boom!
With one punch, the surface of the solid wood beams exploded, releasing countless splinters.
Boom!
With another punch, the top of the thick beam was violently broken, and Li Ang pulled the entire beam out of the stone base like a carrot.
Li Ang held the heavy beam lightly around his waist, stood in the middle of the intersection, and looked back at the dense crowd.
