Chapter 225: Hades Three Watches
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The scholar who stopped the little guy from kicking the fallen to the ground was Ye Yinfeng, who was about to walk with Li Xiaoyao, but unexpectedly witnessed all this. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info maybe he used to be a reader, or maybe it was for other reasons, which made his heart flutter inexplicably, making him feel extremely sympathetic for what happened to this down-and-out scholar.
Or maybe he found the same resonance in the down-and-out scholar, if there was no tragedy in the Ye family's annihilation, he might have participated in the township test, and he should have achieved a reputation as a talent. He seemed to see his future shadow from this down-and-out scholar, and according to his family's wishes, he went all the way to the exam, and finally became an official and became a knight for the rest of his life.
Ye Yinfeng sighed, bent down and stood up again, after his visit, he found that this scholar's breathing was even and long, and there was no danger to his life at all. Maybe it was too much grief and anger, coupled with a slap from the little guy, which made him depressed, so he fainted.
"It's dry, watch out for the candles." A hoarse voice reached their ears, and then a slender figure dragged by the moonlight appeared in their sight.
It was a watchman, I saw him hooking his back, a cotton coat that was so rotten that it couldn't be worse, the man had sparse flower hair, and the wrinkles on his face gave people a weathered feeling. It was an old man's husband, about sixty years old, with a pair of cloudy eyes squinting, which made people feel that his eyesight was not very good.
"Young man, why are you lingering in this land of wind and moon so late at night, go back quickly." The husband was coming head-on, and found Li Xiaoyao standing in the center of the street and Ye Yinfeng standing next to the scholar, he said in a hoarse tone, the voice was like someone choking the neck to speak, which made people feel very weird and weird.
A yellowed lantern was in the hand of the man, and he staggered slowly and slowly towards Li Xiaoyao. Behind him was layers of white mist, which shrouded the houses behind him like a veil. The dim palm lamp flickered in his hand, as if it would be blown out at any moment.
Ye Yinfeng was stunned, the husband was also three or four feet away from them, due to the night fog, they only saw a rickety figure and the shadow that was dragged by the waning moon, they could only vaguely feel the gray hair and wrinkles on the face of the husband, but they wanted to really say that the husband saw it carefully but felt blurred.
Looking at each other from afar, Ye Yinfeng and Li Xiaoyao glanced at each other, they couldn't help but secretly luck in their hearts to quit bleeding all over their bodies, this husband gave them a sense of elusiveness, it was a feeling like an abyss, there was no sharp breath, no majestic momentum, but like an ordinary old man.
The night mist rose and was hazy, and the dim palm lamp flickered like a spiritual fire in the depths of the darkness, and the groom was like a messenger from hell sent by the king of Hades, which made people feel a little palpitations.
With each step, the night fog became thicker around him, and the lamp swayed more intensely.
"Old man, how many days is it now?" Li Xiaoyao suddenly asked the old man, and his eyes showed solemnity, and he looked at the old man without blinking.
"Ouch, look at me, an old man, I actually forgot to play the shift, this should be the third watch, it should be the shift." As the old husband approached, the old man laughed at himself and spit out an extremely depressed word, low and hoarse, which made people very uncomfortable to hear.
"Bang Bang Bang", he knocked step by step, and the gong in his hand sounded, and the sound shook the light in the lantern in his hand even more swaying, as if it might be extinguished at any time. And the old man's footsteps stopped with the sound of the gong.
Only then did Ye Yinfeng see the old man's face, in addition to the wrinkled face, there was also an incomparably pale face, as if he had crawled out of the grave, it was an incomparably terrifying paleness. Looking at the other party's strange face, Ye Yinfeng's heart tightened inexplicably, and a faint uneasiness suddenly surged out.
Facing Ye Yinfeng's gaze, the old man's eyes shifted from Li Xiaoyao's body, and when he reached Ye Yinfeng's body, he grinned and showed incomparably white teeth. The white teeth flickered in the night, like a smile from death, which was daunting.
And his face began to distort because of his grin, and the wrinkles on his forehead could almost contain the mountain, and the wrinkles on his face became even more eerie. Vaguely, Ye Yinfeng saw two incomparably long marks slanting from the old man's left forehead to the right side of the corner of his mouth, like a wriggling worm, which made Ye Yinfeng tremble in his heart, and cold sweat broke out on his back.
The old husband's gaze stayed on Ye Yinfeng's body for a few breaths, and then turned to Li Xiaoyao's body, still showing a smile that was more ugly than crying.
When Li Xiaoyao saw the smile of the old husband, his heart suddenly tightened, his small eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly, and his whole body suddenly straightened like a bow. His gaze seemed to shoot straight towards the old man, and his palms couldn't help but spread, and his true qi had already been poured into his arms.
"You're a husband?" Li Xiaoyao opened his mouth and asked, this seemed to be a nonsense, and it also seemed to be a meaningless sentence, Ye Yinfeng didn't understand the meaning of this fat Taoist priest for a while.
"Yes, this friendly eyesight, old man, I have been a watchman for more than a few decades, this husband's profession is not easy to do, no, you see, in this cold and windy night, I have to wait for passers-by to tell the time, and from time to time I have to point out the way for those charming people. Alas, I have been fighting for a lifetime, I can't eat enough, I can't wear warm clothes, why bother to come, unlike a little Taoist friend, I look like a rich and noble person. ”
As soon as the old man heard the question of the little fat Taoist priest, he chattered endlessly, although it was extremely miserable, but there was no misery at all, but it seemed to be a family affair with others.
"I know that it's so tiring to play the shift, so don't stop it early, this Taoist master can hear that this profession can also be passed on to the next generation, your old man won't be reluctant to play the shift." Li Xiaoyao even said some words that were difficult to guess, and it seemed that he was also carrying with this old husband.
"Alas, people are old, and there are no children and no daughters, who will pass it on, and I plan to stop saving up my savings." The old man let out a long sigh, and the endless loneliness was fully visible, but his grinning expression still existed, which made people feel extremely weird.
"Can you take the liberty of asking a question?" Li Xiaoyao asked the old man with a bow.
"Old man, I am lonely and unheard, I don't know what this little Taoist friend asks, I know everything about the old man, and I have no end to it."
"Dare to ask the old man, who is the king of Hades?" Li Xiaoyao asked the old gentleman with a solemn expression.
And when Li Xiaoyao asked this question, Ye Yinfeng, who was standing quietly next to the unconscious scholar, suddenly changed his face, how could he not know the meaning of Li Xiaoyao's question, a tension that had never been felt before rose in his heart, and his whole body suddenly tensed, and a fierce aura suddenly appeared, flowing in his body, endlessly.
In fact, he should have thought of it a long time ago, but he didn't expect that there would be such a person in this not very famous Hezhou City, and he couldn't help but think about it when he was on guard. Whether this person was coming for him or Li Xiaoyao, he couldn't be sure, but there was one thing, the two of them were in a very critical situation at this time, and this danger was more sudden and violent than anywhere else.
"Hahahaha, the little Taoist friend laughed, although the old man, although I stepped into the Hades Hall with half a foot, but who is the Hades, old man, I really don't have the qualifications to know, I don't know if the little Daoist is satisfied with this answer."
As soon as the old man heard the other party's question, he suddenly let out a burst of laughter like a ghost crying wolf, and his pale but wrinkled face was really as white and impermanent as the throne of Hades, terrifying and hideous.
"Satisfied, how can you not be satisfied, since your old man said that he doesn't know, then he doesn't know. But Ben Dao Ye still has a question, is that person really a scholar? Li Xiaoyao stretched out his hand and pointed at the scholar who fell to the ground not far from Ye Yinfeng's feet, with a hint of sharpness in his tone.
"Papapapa", as soon as Li Xiaoyao's words fell, there were several clapping sounds from behind Ye Yinfeng, and the sound of these palms was like a life-saving talisman. Ye Yinfeng trembled, and an inexplicable shock swelled up in his heart, his face became even paler, and he didn't notice when the scholar behind him stood up.
Turning around with difficulty, Ye Yinfeng's pupils shrank slightly, and when he stretched out his hand, the bladeless black iron sword suddenly appeared in his hand, and his eyes condensed into a sharp sword light, staring directly at the scholar.
"Yes, I'm just a scholar, a useless scholar, presumably this little brother used to be a scholar, alas, why are you doing this." The scholar didn't care about Ye Yinfeng's sword-like gaze at all, he walked past Ye Yinfeng's side with a breezy attitude, and walked towards the old man, his posture was gentle, and he walked very carefully, as if there was some weak life on the street, and he was afraid that he would trample the weak life to death if he stepped on it.
Ye Yinfeng's heart swelled with all kinds of feelings, he stared at the back of the scholar, he never thought that the other party's hidden methods were so clever, not only deceived him, but even the old Jianghu Li Xiaoyao also deceived him.
Husband, scholar, this title seems to be universal, but it has set off a monstrous wave in Ye Yinfeng's heart, and the identity of the other party is about to come out.
"If the king of Hades wants you to die in the third watch, you will not live to live for the fifth watch, and it is an honor or misfortune for the two of us to be able to send the top killers and scholars under the throne of Hades of the 'Assassination Alliance'. The third watch order of the king of Hades is the highest assassination level of the 'Assassination Alliance', and it is said that there are no more than five killers of the Guimeng who can carry out the three orders of the king of Hades, and the husband and the scholar are two of them. The three watches urged the life and death sentence, and the two top killers who could carry out the three watches of the king of Hades were dispatched, and their goals were for the two of us who were not weakly crowned, which was too bullying. ”
Li Xiaoyao looked disdainful, and mocked the two, it seemed that he was talking to the husband and the scholar, but in fact he was revealing information to Ye Yinfeng.
At this time, Ye Yinfeng didn't know Li Xiaoyao's intentions, and a touch of bitterness surged in his heart, but he raised his head again with his unyielding nature, and his whole body exuded a momentum like Ling Tian, which was arrogant and unyielding, sharp as a sword. At this moment, he abandoned all the distractions in his heart, since they met on a narrow road, it is not yet known who will win and who will lose.
The battle intent of fighting for the sky was majestic, Ye Yinfeng's body was as tight as a bow, he stood like a bamboo, and a heavenly synthetic-like charm was faintly born on his body, he was like a peerless sword waiting to be unsheathed.
"The last question, is it him or Ben Daoye?" Li Xiaoyao's face was solemn, and he asked another question, he knew the usual style of the 'Assassin Heaven Alliance', with clear goals, but he never revealed any information about his employer, as long as he gave silver, even if it was the emperor Laozi, they would dare to assassinate him. But they never reveal any information about their employers, and they only recognize money and not people. Li Xiaoyao didn't plan to ask who was bidding for his life, because it was in vain to ask.
"You're mine." The old gentleman's gloomy gaze was like a spiritual fire bursting out of the underworld, exuding a terrifying luster, and he said to Li Xiaoyao.
Obviously, then the scholar's target is Ye Yinfeng, the scholar did not speak, the meaning is obvious, the corners of his mouth are slightly raised, if you don't know his identity, maybe someone really thinks that he is just a down-and-out scholar.
The night was thicker, the moonlight was fainter, and it was almost the last of its rays, and the fog became more hazy, layered and endless. The lantern in the old man's hand was brighter, and the orange light slowly became brighter, which was particularly dazzling in this dark night.