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Chapter 1212: A Just Cause (Part 1212) [Seeking a monthly pass]

Although he could clearly see the killer's neck being captured, his fingertips felt nothing. Was this a miss?

Shen Tang was shocked.

Even though the incarnation is far less powerful than the original, it can still easily deal with ordinary mid- to high-level warriors. No matter how special the killer's methods are, the gap in realm and combat experience is there.

But she failed.

Little did she know that the killer was more shocked than she was.

Not to mention that his warrior intention was born entirely for assassination, and he had deceived the target just now without revealing any flaws, and the timing of his attack was just right. The target suddenly became alert only because his murderous intention was revealed! He had an absolute advantage and the advantage of sneak attacks, so he could kill people in just three or two rounds. How many so-called masters died in his hands without knowing why? The person in front of him was an exception.

  Not only was he barefoot, but he also stepped on his own specialty head-on and destroyed it, which also gave his hidden body the illusion of a cold neck!

He calmed himself down secretly.

"Of course it's the person who wants your life!"

The voice is strange, and it is difficult to tell whether it is male or female, or its age.

It suddenly transformed into a wisp of strange green smoke, and stuck to Shen Tang's blind spot like a ghost. Its moves were bizarre and unpredictable, and its limbs could be flexibly twisted into any terrifying shape, attacking from any inhuman angle that was unimaginable.

"Who the hell are you?" Although Shen Tang was able to counter the killer's moves, she was unable to shake off the killer and couldn't kill him. She also had to concentrate to avoid being ambushed by the other party, which made her feel uncomfortable all over.

The enemies she encountered on the battlefield over the years were either Gong Xichou, who used his absolute strength to suppress the enemy, or Yun Ce, who used quick and easy means to subdue the enemy. It was rare for her to encounter a killer. After fighting for more than twenty moves, her patience was completely exhausted.

The blade suddenly turned and stabbed backwards fiercely.

The killer almost whispered in Shen Tang's ear.

"It's no use!"

Shen Tang was not affected at all.

The knife pierced the killer's palm accurately, tearing it in half.

When his palm landed on the ground, the killer's wound did not spurt blood as expected. Instead, it melted under the sunlight and turned into a wisp of dark green smoke. "Idiot, you wasted your time. What can you do to me?"

Shen Tang saw from the corner of her eye that black mist was gushing out of the opponent's broken limbs, and then they were restored to their original state in an instant. The killer took advantage of the gap when Shen Tang's strength was just exhausted, and used his backhand to chop her neck diagonally.

The sharp and strange laughter came and went, suddenly real and suddenly distant, and stubbornly drilled into her eardrums. It seemed that due to the strange laughter, whether Shen Tang opened her eyes or closed them, she could see countless pairs of overlapping yellow eyes with black pupils quietly opening in all directions.

These eyes gradually twisted into countless killers.

  As the sharp blade coated with a special poison got closer and closer to the target, the killer's eyes were filled with excitement, thrill and trembling!

Just a tiny bit missing!

"Uh--"

This gap became an insurmountable chasm for him.

"Although it's a little off, the shadow isn't that big at noon, so it should have hit it, right?" The killer stared at Shen Tang in disbelief. The latter's right hand holding the knife was stabbing the shadow's heart at his feet, and he said calmly, words that made him feel cold all over.

Although it was a question, the tone used was firm.

As if to confirm her words, streams of dark red liquid gushed out from the blade, turning into several winding snakes that flowed out of the shadow range and were completely exposed to the sunlight. This was fresh human blood!

"With such little ability, you dare to come and steal my head?"

It's a pity that with such supernatural abilities, he didn't go to Fengluo Liyuan Theatre to create special effects and use it as a hotspot to attract customers.

You could have made money safely, but you chose to risk your life with her.

The killer was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

His body began to melt and fold from the top of his head, gathering into a pool of something like asphalt on the ground. Shen Tang frowned slightly, and moved her bare right foot away in disdain, fearing that it would be contaminated - her strong defense did not mean that her shoes had full defense. She was attacked by the killer just now, and she was caught off guard and could only use her feet to block it. As a result, her clogs were scrapped on the spot, and she was forced to go barefoot.

The shadow under his feet quickly engulfed the "asphalt".

Shen Tang stabbed again but only hit the bricks on the ground.

The feel is completely different from the previous knife.

"Tsk, the knife didn't kill him."

When I stabbed Shadow with a knife, the tip of the knife felt like it was breaking through a rib, but it was slightly different from piercing the heart, and it should have been deviated by an inch.

This injury will not kill a brave warrior.

"Lord——"

Liao Qian's voice came from beside the carriage at the door.

Oh, no, it should be said that Cui's beaten meat buns. Liao Qian's vest is still in Liao Jia's hands, while the real Liao Qian stays beside Shen Tang as a lackey supervisor and thug, acting low-key and introverted, with almost no sense of existence.

He looked suspiciously at Shen Tang who was standing motionless at the door.

And a pool of blood suddenly appeared under her feet.

Liao Qian's pupils suddenly shrank: "My Lord, you——"

Shen Tang asked back: "What's wrong with me?"

Liao Qian: “…”

Judging from the location of the blood, it seems more like Shen Tang was barefoot and accidentally cut his sole with a sharp weapon. This behavior might be a bit outrageous for ordinary people, but it is normal for the lord in front of him. Over the years, Liao Qian couldn't remember how many unorthodox and unreasonable things the other party had done. Barefoot madness has happened more than once.

  Is this what he can say?

Shen Tang looked around.

Her hand holding the knife was also empty.

If it weren't for the pool of warm human blood under her feet, even she would have suspected that the assassination just now was just an illusion.

"Zun Guang, what did you see just now?"

"Just now? The lord was the only one there."

Liao Qian only saw Shen Tang walking out of the government office with one bare foot, one foot deep and one foot shallow, standing at the door like a stupid pillar, motionless, as if in a daze. At first, he thought she was sad and reluctant to leave the post where she had worked for hundreds of days and nights, but soon he found something wrong - even if she was standing at the door and missing the sadness, she shouldn't have stayed there for so long, right?

Liao Qian felt his scalp tingling.

He tried to make up for his loss by concentrating on keeping an eye on his surroundings but found nothing unusual. However, judging from his lord's reaction, something seemed to have happened just now.

"Someone is here to assassinate the lord again?"

"Don't look for him anymore. He ran away when he saw the situation was not good. If I had expected you to discover the enemy, you would have been killed by me on the seventh day." Shen Tang patted his shoulder and looked at the original location of "asphalt". He collected his scattered thoughts and said, "It's just a sneaky little mouse."

Something crawling out of the gutter! "I have temporarily repelled the person. I just don't know which force sent him. His moves are weird, but his ability is quite interesting. Preliminary judgment shows that he seems to be able to hide his body in the shadow of others to assassinate them closely, and his breath is perfectly restrained. If it's not a special warrior's words, then it's some kind of warrior's intention... It's a waste of talent to use this ability as a killer."

"Hide your true self in someone else's shadow? Doesn't that mean you can kill whoever you want? Wherever the shadow is, that's where you can lurk?" Others might get furious if their boss criticized their work ability, but Liao Qian was able to be thick-skinned and pretend nothing happened. He was focused on his killer ability, and even looking at his own shadow under his feet made his scalp numb. He said, "Isn't this ability a natural killer?"

Subconsciously, I imagined the role of this ability on the battlefield. If it was used to kill the commander of the three armies in front of the battle array, I dare not imagine how useful it would be.

It is really a great weapon for gaining military merits!

"The troupe is in even greater need of this kind of special talent. There are four performances a day, and if you come out to play a supporting role, you can get a higher dividend than his single vote, and you don't have to worry about your life. This ability can only be used at noon, because if you run into me, you will hit a wall sooner or later." Shen Tang said a few words to dispel Liao Qian's nervousness. Not to mention being nervous, now he can only laugh and cry. She became serious, "There should be a lot of restrictions on the use of his ability, otherwise he would have become famous long ago."

Killers belong to a small and special group of warriors. Other warriors always have a legitimate reason to take action, but killers are different. They kill people without distinguishing between good and evil, right and wrong, and only care about the benefits and orders.

The more famous the killer is, the more business he gets.

The fastest way to become famous is to step on the target's corpse and let the employer see the efficiency of the assassination. If the killer can use this ability unscrupulously, he will be the king of killers, and he will be a famous general who is feared by everyone... If he has neither, it can only prove two points - his ability is very limited and he can't do whatever he wants; this guy may belong to a private force.

"Next time, let this sneaky little mouse become a dead gutter rat!"

Shen Tang didn't show it on his face, but he was still depressed inside.

It is reasonable to suspect that both the original body and the incarnation have been at ease for too long, so that their skills have deteriorated. Even a fragile assassin dared to make trouble for her! Sure enough, a sharp blade needs to be polished all the time to maintain its condition. And she hasn't fought for two years!

I sit in the office every day and review memorials every day.

If she hadn't been so disciplined, her abdominal muscles would have run away from home one by one. Liao Qian was just talking about things that were not related to the topic.

"My lord, didn't you kill the people who came?"

This was a bit beyond his expectations. Although Liao Qian didn't know that the lord in front of him was actually just an incarnation, and he didn't know Shen Tang's true strength, but from the contact in the past two years, he knew that Shen Tang was very strong. Whether it was the tricky martial arts competition to win a bride, or the use of force to suppress the temptation of overt and covert attempts, she was at ease and never failed, let alone suffered a loss.

It was a normal question, but it sounded different to Shen Tang.

He kicked him angrily.

Liao Qian dodged directly, with a natural sense of complacency between his eyebrows, as if saying - Hey, you can't hit me!

Shen Tang: "..."

Liao Qian looked at her bare feet and made a sincere suggestion: "Should I get you a pair of clogs? The ground is full of potholes. Even if your feet are invulnerable to swords and guns, it will still hurt to walk barefoot."

"If you don't speak, I won't think you're dumb."

Liao Qian and Liao Jia are indeed relatives.

When Liao Jia doesn't smile, he is a serious and handsome young man, but when he smiles, he becomes a despicable and treacherous human trafficker; Liao Qian's appearance does not have such defects, but his mouth, combined with his habit of doing as much work as he is paid, has a weird temperament.

After getting on the carriage, Liao Qian was still absent-minded.

"My Lord, do you have any clues about who is behind this?"

“Whoever profits is the mastermind behind this.”

"Looking at the Lord's social interactions, it's really hard to guess."

To put it bluntly, according to the master's logic of guessing the real murderer, Liao Qian thought everyone looked like the murderer. Not to mention how many people she offended during the martial arts competition, in the two years she was in office, she offended her superiors, the clerks, and a group of people who wanted to take advantage of her but were punished. In addition, the master's governance performance was too good, and he also offended all the neighbors.

Liao Qian told the truth: "There are enemies everywhere."

Natural disasters are frequent in the southwest during the rainy season. Not every year, but twice every five years, and a lot of manpower and material resources have to be spent on strengthening dams and clearing rivers. After the disaster, emergency repairs and reconstruction are also needed. If it affects agricultural harvests, taxes for the year must be reduced or exempted as appropriate, and money must be paid to appease the victims... In this situation, deceiving superiors and subordinates and withholding disaster relief funds are common.

Among the group of people crying and begging for their parents, she stands out.

Only a few houses collapsed and a few people were injured. The loss was so small that the royal court did not need to allocate disaster relief funds. This made the neighbors feel particularly uncomfortable. A natural disaster will harm an entire area, and it is impossible to spare anyone. Either Shen Tang cheated, or her neighbors cheated. Then who pocketed the profits that were intercepted, and who would bear the losses caused by dereliction of duty?

Shen Tang pulled off their pants and tore them to pieces!

The source of many previous assassinations all came from here.

"There are too many people who want to harm the lord." Liao Qian knew all about this, recalling for the lord how many people wanted to harm her, and the methods they used were endless. "We once stopped a group of sneaky villains at the border, and after questioning them, we found out that they were covered with smallpox scabs and pus."

These all came from smallpox patients.

We can also see from the side how much the lord hates her!

Once smallpox spreads, nine out of ten houses will be empty.

Liao Qian muttered in a low voice: "To say something extremely treasonous, even the king of the country dislikes you and wants to kill you."

He then emphasized it again.

"Of course, not this time, but before."

If the lord had not been such an eccentric official, and the light of a lamp had not revealed the filth in the room, the king could still live his life with his eyes closed - if the water is too clear, there will be no fish, and corrupt officials who are greedy and embezzle money are also doing things, which is beneficial to the king to stabilize the operation of the royal court.

"Now the king needs the lord, so of course I won't do it."

Eliminate one leader, and the rest are suspects.

Thinking of the current situation where there are enemies on all sides, Liao Qian's heart was a little nervous. The lord was very powerful and was not afraid of the shadow killer's sneak attack, but he was not. Fortunately, the killer went after the lord. If he had attacked the people around the lord, it is estimated that many people would have died.

Clipping off the wings can also weaken the lord's power in disguise, and deter the outside world from easily joining her. The mastermind behind the scenes has integrity, or his brain did not think of this layer, so Liao Qian was safe and sound: "The lord has been given an important position, so someone must have given up the position... Lord, do you think it was done by the people who were squeezed out?"

This is the most direct conflict of interest.

Shen Tang finally gave him some response.

"You guessed it was Mei Jinghe?"

Liao Qian used to be in the Cui family, so he was naturally familiar with Mei Jinghe. He also knew that this man was the first meritorious minister who assisted the king to ascend the throne. Not only was he extremely powerful in the Qi State, he also took the initiative to launch several wars of annihilation against neighboring countries. He was definitely a ruthless person!

He thought for a few breaths, shook his head and said, "Such a heroic woman would disdain such shady deeds. It shouldn't be her."

Not everyone likes to rely on assassination to deal with political opponents.

Anyone with a little bit of arrogance would disdain this.

Shen Tang vaguely guessed something.

"It's not her, but it may not be the people around her."

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The weather is so hot that it makes people feel depressed.