The night is... like ink, and a group of people wearing indigo night clothes are like flowing ink under the cover of the night sky, seeping inside and outside the soil.
"Go and have a look." It seems that there are experts with good Qinggong in the Chamber of Commerce. Luo Xingzhou gently patted the opponent's shoulder and raised his chin. After accepting the order, the person escaped into the darkness, as if he was invisible. Quality ghost.
"Chameleonman", this was Vasily Petrovich Sokolov's nickname.
As the saying goes, there is only the wrong name, but there is no wrong nickname. Although Vasily has never heard of this sentence, if you tell him this sentence, he should also take it seriously, because he also likes his nickname quite a lot.
Vasily was born into a family of hunters, and both his father and grandfather made a living by hunting. Perhaps due to the strong genetic influence, Vasily has shown unusually sharp five senses since he was a child, and under the influence of the strong atmosphere, he became an excellent little hunter. Vasily, who was only thirteen years old, could easily hunt in the jungle with an old bow, a machete and homemade traps. Even the most vigilant deer could not detect the existence of danger. In the following years, the beasts in the Altera Mountains trembled for this young devil.
But after he came of age, Vasily liberated the antelopes, jerboas, lynxes and so on in the Altera Mountains, because the coming-of-age ceremony he prepared for himself was to hunt a bear alone.
As the largest carnivores on land, bears are often compared to tigers. Regardless of the controversial issue of which beast is more powerful, they are equally dangerous to humans. And the weapon Vasily prepared for himself, wrapped in a thick felt coat and lying in ambush on the frozen soil, was a matchlock gun.
In this chase battle full of ambushes and confrontations, the brilliant technological crystallization that brought mankind into the age of firearms finally defeated the primitive barbaric fangs and claws. But the decisive factor in this battle was Vasily's strong will and superb skills.
Keen senses have created accurate marksmanship, strong skills have created superb concealment techniques, and Vasily is even proficient in pharmacology - this is a talent born for assassination, so Vasily was also successfully recruited from the East by the Chamber of Commerce. Selected from the Theocracy's Guards, the title of "The Refugee" is also derived from this - his clean assassination techniques are frightening, and what's even more terrifying is that you don't even know it before the moment he takes action. Where did this person come from?
By the way, he was one of the four people who sniped Guan Lingxiao that day, and the bullet that caused "fatal" damage to Guan Lingxiao also came from Vasily's gun. This man was also one of the people who later stole information from the prison cells of Lining County.
As a very hairy race, Vasily's hair and beard were rarely shaved cleanly. This was his habit. From the lower half of his face, he could easily be mistaken for a eunuch, while from the upper half of his face, he looked like a eunuch. Fanseng, because excessively long hair will hinder the senses to a certain extent. I saw this guy with a smooth head picking up the edge of the brick very flexibly, and in a blink of an eye he was lying next to a window on the top floor.
Vasily used a dagger to carefully cut a small opening in the window paper along the window frame, and then took out a slender tube from his pocket. He put one end of the tube in his mouth and the other end into the window paper. The other side. This is his homemade smoke, which is powerful enough to fascinate a wild boar for several hours in a relatively open area in the jungle. The development of Western timekeeping tools is more advanced than that of the Sheng Dynasty, and their timekeeping methods are also different. One hour is almost equal to two hours, and one hour is divided into sixty minutes.
As an excellent hunter, Vasily's observation and memory are also quite good. This is to distinguish the movements of prey. Through the surrounding reconnaissance in the first half of the night, he memorized all the windows that were lit by candlelight, so he searched for them every day. The same behavior is replicated in each window - the person responsible for performing this task on the other side is his apprentice Pavel, and Vasily has no worries about his abilities.
After completing his move to lay out the smoke, Vasily climbed up to the roof alone, and more than ten minutes later Pavel climbed up quietly as well, but the two did not communicate using words and beat each other. After a few gestures, they parted ways and left.
Some people may think that the behavior of the two is unnecessary, but it is very necessary from the perspective of safety and concealment - even if the leader is not Luo Xingzhou, a Shengguo native, everyone understands that one of the precepts of the Chamber of Commerce is to strictly prohibit private conflicts with officials. , to avoid unnecessary trouble, this was stipulated by Qi Jun himself, and the third prince had no choice but to take such risky measures. Zhao Xike and others also made the same considerations when escorting the prisoners. For safety reasons, they stayed at official posts along the way. This also made it harder for the Chamber of Commerce to act rashly and rush in to kill everyone they saw. Going back to Vasily's behavior itself, he and Pavel acted at the same time to improve efficiency. Once the other party made any mistakes, they could take care of each other and make up for it in time. The direction of the two when they parted was also because they had other plans next. The mission exists - before that, everyone has found a higher position, ready to coordinate the battlefield and snipe the fish that slip through the net.
The sound of the musket is extremely loud, and it will not be fired easily at the last moment, but as long as it is fired, it must be ensured that no one is left alive.
"How long will it take before we can take action?" Seeing Vasily return to the formation, Luo Xingzhou confirmed to him.
Vasily took his musket from his companion, took out his handkerchief and wiped the barrel of the gun, and replied without raising his head: "I will be in charge of this for about ten minutes, but there was a room in Pavel's place that was still empty at that time. Some people were not asleep, so they delayed for a while before starting, so they had to wait for at least thirty minutes - I personally prepared the smoke, which is enough to ensure that they are unconscious until dawn, so it is not short of this time, just wait patiently. "
Patience, this is what Vasily excels most among his peers, and is also the most important quality for a hunter and even a killer - he can stare at his prey motionlessly in the ice and snow for a whole day and night in order to find the perfect opportunity, just for the sake of Fire the most lethal shot.
"You only have one strike first." This is an ancestral saying that Vasily heard from his father. It contains two meanings. One is the pride of the Sokolov family in their shooting skills, and the other is to educate future generations to remember this. It's important to kill with one hit, because the beast won't give you a chance to shoot a second arrow.
The young Vasily once disagreed with this, but after he almost died under the tusks of a wild boar, he finally understood why his father's expression was so serious when he introduced his ancestral teachings to him.
One only needs to fall once.
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Vasily took out his pocket watch again and looked at the time, then nodded towards Luo Xingzhou.
The order was passed, and the large army would silently enter this quiet inn in five minutes, and then kill the people inside silently. There were still two people as the advance team to conduct the test - this time they were dispatched There were two people from the Sheng Kingdom. After taking off their night clothes, they revealed their disguises. One of them was pretending to be a scholar, and the other was pretending to be a book boy. Each of them rode a skinny horse and carried a lamp.
Before the tense killing array struck, the rapid tapping of horse hooves was almost the only sound - they could not slowly wander into the courtyard of the inn, because that was not in line with the mentality of late-night travelers looking for a place to stay. There will be flaws, and they can't leave any flaws.
The person pretending to be a book boy tied the horse for the young master behind him, and then knocked on the door. After several knockers, there was still no response. The book boy pushed the door open with all his strength - an ordinary inn at this time The door may have been bolted, and there is nothing you can do except use delicate tools to open it and work hard to achieve miracles, but the official post has never been like this - although the official post is not only prepared for official officials, but because it is expensive It is favored because of its exquisite decoration, excellent environment and excellent security. You don't know which dignitaries will stay late at night, so just keep the door open all night and welcome them - just leave someone to watch the door.
The book boy asked several times in a low voice in the lobby of Guanyi, then looked around the lobby, and finally found the waiter who had passed out on the ground in a corner with a rag in his hand. It seemed that this guy was It seemed that he was cleaning the table before he passed out, but instead of finishing the attack, he blew a tube of smoke into the opponent's mouth and nose - people may cry out when they are in pain, and it would be troublesome to wake up the main target upstairs. , so there is no rush to kill.
After doing all this, he signaled to his accomplice sitting at the door, and when his accomplice knew to go out and greet the large army, this guy also sneaked into the counter and searched for some scattered silver coins.
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Pavel concentrated on holding the flintlock gun in his hand tightly, with his right index finger lightly resting on the trigger. After seeing the large troops filing in from the north and south gates, he devoted all his attention to the battlefield.
He should be regarded as Vasily's most proud disciple. Apart from his lack of experience, he has learned 80% of Vasily's skills. Of course, he was the one who assassinated Guan Lingxiao and stole the county government office. And he is still very young, only nineteen years old now. At this age, there is still a long way to go.
"What a beautiful view." A sudden voice sounded above his head. Pavel's hair stood on end, and the blood in his body rushed to his brain. He was about to scream, but was stuck by a hand from above. on the throat.
When did this guy... come behind me? I didn't even notice it at all? Pavel is quite confident in his observation skills. He is not even weaker than Vasily in this regard, but at this time, he, the killer who should be lurking in the dark, is actually choked by someone?
The opponent's arm was so strong that Pavel didn't even have the strength to pull the trigger and fire a shot. During the struggle, he glanced at the opponent's face with his peripheral vision - no matter what, at least he let me signal to everyone that something was wrong... Yes!
It was the face of a man who was about thirty years old and very vicissitudes of life. His appearance was above the level of ordinary people, and it would not leave a very deep impression on people.
But in the eyes of Pavel, a "companion", this man's terrifying similar temperament is simply terrifying. When facing him, he seemed to see his master.
But the man didn't let Pavel think for too long. He simply crushed the other man's throat, picked up the gun and hung it on his shoulder. Finally, he groped for Pavel's body for a while, and finally disappeared at the bottom of the slope.
