"...Phew.?Net?"
In the alley not far from the small building, Duan Qing, who was carrying a big knife, exhaled a breath of tiredness. It seemed that in such a breath, he slowly relaxed his originally tense thoughts: "Should you be so strict?" Harsh, so little time is not given..."
boom--
The sound of heavy objects falling came from behind him. Duan Qing looked back at the top of the small building not far away. The roof of the building had become riddled with holes. He looked for a while in a daze, but there was nothing in his sight. He stopped and continued upward, looking into the pitch-black sky.
"Looks like this..." He sighed and said, "It seems like it's going to rain."
Withdrawing his gaze, Duan Qing slowly pulled out his weapon and walked to the alley where he was, the interface with the next street. Chaotic footsteps of varying weights appeared around the intersection. Not long after, a group of players running over from the other side of the alley surrounded him as he just walked out of the alley.
"Moshang Qingshan!" The leading man with a big sword shouted loudly: "I won't let you go this time!"
"...The fate between us is really deep." Duan Qing, holding his forehead, sighed and said: "And...why are you here? You..."
"When did you get involved with those guys?"
"What, what nonsense..." Codename Aqiang tilted his head in confusion, and then while looking around at the surrounding situation, he shouted at Duan Qing: "I told you before, see you later. I'll beat you once! I'll teach you to be careful in the future. I didn't expect you to be so arrogant and run out so arrogantly..."
He threw the big sword in his hand to the ground, and the straight blade reflected golden light under the street lamp: "Don't you want to hang out here anymore?"
"...Well, it seems that you are indeed passing by." Sensing the vague smell of alcohol on several nearby players, Duan Qing showed a strange smile: "Otherwise...be careful if I accuse you of treason. It’s a crime.”
"Say, what are you talking about?" As Chihun's people looked around, Aqiang, codenamed, raised his shining sword again: "Stop trying to scare people! We have investigated the movements around here. You don’t have any companions! Delaying time is useless for you and me..."
"I'm not delaying, I'm just... very sleepy." Duan Qing yawned and replied: "I haven't had any rest all night. If I don't sleep or log off, I will probably be forced to pass out by the system... Oh, I didn’t see it, you also changed your weapons?”
"Ha! I'm just going to let you change weapons, and not allow me to change one?" As if his itch was finally mentioned, Aqiang, codenamed, stood up straight with a slightly proud look, and shook his hand that was glowing with golden light. Sword: "This is the final reward of the City Guards quest line. It's a high-end product through and through! As for the effect..."
"Would you like to try it yourself?"
"..."
Duan Qing did not answer, but lowered his head amidst the other party's successive provocations, and seemed listless and silent. In the darker and darker night, a few birds, who were frightened by the crowd or the coming rainy night, appeared with chirping sounds, then flew up from the top of their heads near them, flapped their wings and fled into the distance, crossing the sky. The increasingly violent night wind also began to blow from all directions at this street intersection, and then brought out the rustling sound of leaves among the crowd that became quieter and quieter.
"I have no intention of targeting any of you." When the footsteps and shouts of soldiers came from the small building behind him, Duan Qing pinched his brow and slowly uttered a suppressed voice: " Even if you guys come to my door, I don’t want to get to know you guys..."
He thrust the long knife to his side, and the blade like a door panel was deeply embedded into the ground: "Whether it was a mission conflict at the beginning or a subsequent contest, we had different forces and had to fight. We're just enemies, even if you bully others, provoke me at every turn, and steal my wife...I haven't even complained a word."
He folded his arms and squinted downwards like a god looking down on all living beings: "But... after arriving in Tania, you still like to cause trouble for me. You can't help but explain it, no matter the reason, even if you put aside your personal feelings, I I have to comment - your behavior is so... well, blind."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Seeing that the boss next to him seemed to be in a daze, Yuwen Baiye shouted hurriedly: "There is so much truth in the game, do I need a reason to beat you? We just see that you are unhappy... "
"That's the mentality that scattered players like us should have." Duan Qing shook his head and said, "Not you."
"Being emotional, calculating, and... regardless of the importance." As his tone became more sinister, Duan Qing's face became as dark as the night sky: "Are you sure you want to spend such energy to deal with an unknown me? What price will you pay? Do you really understand... the meaning of the words I forgave you that day? No, you don't even know the precarious situation of the principality, how could you investigate me like this? The person’s background…”
"If nothing happened tonight, you would already be the sinners of the principality." Duan Qing lowered his head and said: "Then you will have to go to the empire and join forces with the Wings of Freedom again, and I can guarantee... "
"In this process, there will be no chance for you to regret."
"you you……"
In the increasingly dull atmosphere, Aqiang, codenamed, asked in a stern tone: "Do you know anyone from Wings of Freedom?"
"I don't know those guys, I just know them." Duan Qing shook his head, then raised his giant sword: "But..."
"Believe me, I know a lot more... than you know."
Swish——
As the first raindrop fell, the bright sword light suddenly flashed past, drawing a perfect circle in the crowd, as if the bright moon in the sky was piercing through the clouds and fog, and was pulled directly in front of them. Players touched by this bright moon were split in half without any resistance. Even the staff raised by Yuwen Baiye, who was barely able to react, was neatly sliced by this knife, and then connected. The holder flew out with blood splattered on it.
"In this world, strength speaks for itself after all." Among the crowd who were frightened by this scene and flew away, Duan Qing drew the shining blade back to himself, looking at the bewildered man with the big sword in front of him, He said word by word: "If those people are trying to cause trouble for us and those big guilds, we might as well cultivate ourselves for a while, and then... practice sword practice."
"You, you..." In the increasingly rainy night, Aqiang, who was copying the code name of the big sword, said bitterly: "You have killed so many people, you have killed so many of my brothers, and you still want me to let go of the past?" Hatred..."
"Come on, who was yelling just now not to let me come?" Duan Qing wiped the rain on his head and showed a meaningless smile: "I came to the door myself, and I don't want to take the blame... Where in the world Is there such a good thing? You can explain it to your brothers yourself."
"Why?" Aqiang, the code name, scratched his neck and shouted again: "Why can you kill us at will? If you say it so nicely, doesn't it mean you have a grudge against us?"
"Oh, about this..." With an inexplicable smile on his face, Duan Qing took back his long knife, then walked through the crowd that had retreated, and walked towards the streets and alleys under the rain: "Because I’m in a bad mood today, so I said…”
"You're in bad luck."
"...Wait, stop!"
The dark figure gradually faded away, and finally disappeared into the intersection of night and rain. The man with the big sword, who seemed to have remembered something, let out a slow roar at this time, and his body followed his movement of getting up. He ran towards the direction the other party left: "Please explain to me clearly..."
"Boss!"
A black shadow suddenly appeared next to him, pulling him into the shadow created by a broken street lamp on the side of a certain road: "Stop chasing, let's leave quickly."
"...Yu Chen?" Seeing the appearance of the player who was holding him clearly, Aqiang, codenamed, grabbed his shoulder: "Didn't I ask you to investigate the situation? Why are you back now? Do you know... "
"I know, I know..." the thief player said in a hurried voice: "I saw it, I saw it all. The level of combat there is incomparable even to the League Cup!"
"……What did you say?"
"That person, that person..." Yu Chen swallowed hard, then pointed in the direction Duan Qing left: "He is definitely not an ordinary person, we can't afford to offend him! He, and that chick... Let’s leave quickly, it’s not safe here…”
"Can you……"
call--
The sound of clothes breaking through the air mixed with the whistling of metal instantly covered the back of the shadow where the two of them were. While interrupting the urgent questions of the codename Aqiang, it also brought up a lot of screams belonging to the players. Then it stopped abruptly with the rustle of falling rain, and slowly spread along the terrifyingly silent atmosphere. Feeling bad, the thieves hurriedly picked up the body codenamed Aqiang again, and hid in the depths of the shadows for a while. A woman's figure with fluttering skirts appeared in front of them, under the street lights, and then stopped. He noticed his ghost-like movements and looked at the place where the two of them were hiding.
"Oops, oops..."
"She, she is not the same person that day..."
Amidst the low voices of the two people, a dagger with a cold light came quietly as the woman swung it out with both hands. In an instant, it bypassed the broken lamp post in front of them and came to the front of the two of them. The shocked codename Aqiang hurriedly raised his big sword and blocked it in front of his face. However, Yu Chen, who was guarding him, suddenly rushed out and slashed the dagger in the path it flew by. Past: "Watch out!"
呲——
In the harsh sound of metal friction, the strange dagger that was originally turning turned in another direction again, and was brushed by the right side of the sword codenamed Aqiang, and was nailed straight to the wall behind him. Yu Chen, who was in front of him, kept moving. The next moment he threw a flying knife towards the woman, but the metal wire that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye trembled in the air and hit the flying knife. On the blade of the knife.
clang!
"whispering sound……"
Sighing secretly, the thief player who ducked down to avoid the attack gritted his teeth, took out another flying knife from his waist with his right hand, and rushed forward in the direction of the woman again, but what he saw in front of him was However, the figure disappeared in front of him faster, and suddenly passed by his ear. The silk thread running between the two also brought a scream that broke through the air, and was tied to his waist. come over. He hurriedly stopped his unstoppable pace, and hurriedly raised his dagger, trying to get ahead of the opponent's power and block this seemingly fatal blow, but the silk thread like a spiritual snake paid no attention to him. Instead, he swung upward at the next moment, cut off several of his heads, and then passed over his head.
wrong……
He turned around and saw his boss holding a big sword and rushing towards the woman: "Just a rat..."
His words stopped abruptly, because the steel wire that was quickly retracted neatly cut the broken lamp post in half in an instant, and then came to him.
As he hurriedly turned around to defend himself, the sword codenamed Aqiang let out an unbearable friction and scream. Then, as the thread suddenly tightened, the whole body holding the sword retreated towards the wall. passed. The ghostly figure belonging to the woman passed by him the next moment, and the silk thread with rainwater also circled half a circle again with increasing strength, pulling him to the back of the wall at the other end, and then Amidst the sound of metal friction, the sword hit the hilt nailed to the wall. With pain in his back, he turned around desperately, using his knees and shoulders together, he used brute force to jump away from the dagger fixed on the wall. However, the silk thread was retracted faster, and with it A crackling scream like lightning cast a dazzling arc in the rain.
In the figure of the thief who was once again forced to retreat, she took a step forward. The spinning figure suddenly stopped, and then she elegantly stabbed the dagger she had reached into the shoulder of the man with the big sword.
"ah--"
The painful roar stopped suddenly, and then as the thread passed by again, it rose into the sky together with a large head, and rolled down into the rain curtain in the distance. Yu Chen, who was half-kneeling in the distance with gritted teeth, rushed towards the woman again, and then slowly stepped back under the emergency brake, because another silk thread that was beaten by the rain appeared strangely. The woman's left sleeve extended into the ground beneath his feet.
"This is a warning." As the figure gradually became clearer, a voice as cold as a rain curtain came from the woman in a blue and white maid uniform. "Please don't..."
"Don't harass my husband again."
Boom!
The sound of splashing earth and rocks immediately appeared under his feet. Yu Chen involuntarily raised his wrist, and at the same time took two steps back to block the earth brought out by the opponent when he retracted the dagger: "You, you Won’t you kill me?”
The bloody Ningyu Ninglan did not reply, but bowed slightly, retreated calmly, and then disappeared from the opponent's eyes in the intertwining rain and night. Her footsteps moved silently, and she passed through several streets at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. Finally, at an intersection near Tania's south gate, she slowly stopped in front of a figure with his back against the wall.
With her old smile back on her face, she stepped forward with her hands folded and bowed again in a rather reserved manner: "Mr."
"It's raining so heavily..." Duan Qing looked up at the sky, and after a while he said, "This should be the second rain since coming to the free world..."
"Actually, there are many, sir." Encrypted Ninglan nodded and replied, "It's just that sir doesn't remember much."
"Ah……"
Lifting up the long knife beside him, Duan Qing looked at the woman's figure that was soaked by the rain, and slowly shook his head: "So much blood... Even if it rains heavily, I'm afraid it won't be able to wash it away. of."
The woman smiled and shook her head, then lowered her head again.
"Although I don't object to taking you with me, but... I don't want to see you like this."
Duan Qing, who had picked up his long sword, turned around and watched a group of patrolling guards outside the intersection using their shields to block the rain. They quickly left the front of the street, then straightened their backs and took the lead towards the adventurers. Walking in the direction of the association: "So, if there is a chance in the future..."
"It's better not to be stained with so much blood." He waved back, then walked away: "I feel uncomfortable."
The smile on her face grew wider, and the woman slowly raised her head, and her face, originally stained with blood, blossomed like a flower.
"Yes, sir."
