Taming the Demon: A Guide to Raising a Great Sage

Chapter 145 Chapter 144, guns and martial arts, no one can stand it!

After riding a horse for a day, has he already entered the boundary of Yunya County?

Shen Lang murmured in his heart, and glanced at the team of police officers, and saw that there were eight of them in total, all wearing formal police uniforms, with police badges hanging on their belts, and each holding a short musket with eight black holes, aligned with each other. Swipe pointed at himself.

The hostility of the policemen is of course very serious.

In other words, as they were police officers, when they heard the gunshots and rushed over, they saw several corpses lying in disorder in the lobby of the inn, and there was only one person standing upright, so of course they would be hostile to the only person standing.

But, is the reason for the hostility of the police officers really because they suspect that Shen Lang is a murderer?

"Do you know? I used to be a policeman's servant in Changsheng County. I am also a caring person, and I really inquired about some news about the yamen."

Shen Lang looked at the eight policemen, ignoring the eight short muskets pointing at him, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, showing a sneering smile:
"So I know that among the counties under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou Prefecture, even in the richest coastal counties of Chenghai and Ningkang, there are only four arresters in the county yamen who are formally organized by the imperial court.

"Except for the four full-time arresters, the others are just yamen servants and white messengers without the establishment of the imperial court. When each full-time arrester goes out to handle cases, there will be at least one or two people, and as many as four or five people, and they will always bring some yamen servants, Bai Cha started.

"You have gathered eight so-called full-time police officers from Yunya County in one breath, and you don't even have a single yamen servant or white messenger... Do you really think I'm a fool?"

After hearing his words, all the "Yunya county arresters" suddenly changed their colors slightly, and a bearded arrester let out a grinning grin:
"Worthy of being a minion of the God Detective Hall, I have learned a bit of the shrewdness of the God Detective Hall! But you are good at killing people with a musket, have you ever thought that one day you will be killed by a musket? Fire!"

bang bang bang...

With an order, the eight muskets fired almost simultaneously, but at the same time as the gunshots sounded, the bearded policeman suddenly changed his expression, quickly dropped the flintlock pistol, drew his waist knife, and screamed:
"Be careful, he has..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a figure covering his eyes with his hands, with a few bullet holes on his chest and abdomen that did not see blood, savagely smashing through the gunpowder smoke in front of the arresters, blatantly crashing into the group of arresters, with the momentum sinking With a bump of the shoulder, the iron shoulder slammed into the chest of a policeman.

Boom!
There was a dull crashing sound and a crisp bone cracking sound at the same time. The arrester's chest collapsed, blood spurted from his mouth, and he fell out, dying before he landed.

At the same time, the bearded policeman roared angrily and slashed at Shen Lang's back with a knife.Another fast slashed with a horizontal knife, slashing towards Shen Lang's waist.

Shen Lang didn't dodge or dodge, he let the two knives hit his back and waist, and with the sound of cracking silk, he stepped on the floor and rushed diagonally, killing a retreating arrester.

Seeing that Shen Lang was coming fast like a gust of wind, the catcher couldn't dodge, so he gritted his teeth and swung his knife, slashing a snow-bright arc of light, slashing at Shen Lang's face.

Shen Lang didn't dodge or dodge, he raised his left hand up to block, when the blade cut off his palm, his five fingers snapped together and snapped off the steel knife with a bang.

At the same time, with his right paw holding a low roar like a tiger's roar, he clasped the catcher's throat with one claw, and tore it hard, tearing the catcher's throat to a bloody mess, tearing up all the blood vessels, and the blood flew like It was the mist blowing from the high-pressure faucet.

At the same time as he scratched the arrester's throat, Shen Lang was stabbed in the back and shoulder again, and his outer clothes split open, revealing the undamaged soft armor inside.

And on the palm of his left hand, where he received the knife hard, there was only a shallow bloodstain, which could barely cut the skin off.

The wound was slightly numb, and the blade was poisoned.However, his first-level "vitality enhancement" has the ability to resist poison, and he is not afraid of all mundane poisons.It is obviously impossible for these ordinary killers who pretend to be policemen to have "supernatural" poison.

Having said that, if the quick-catching knife was smeared with the poison of "transcendent" that he couldn't bear, it would be impossible for Shen Lang to catch the knife with bare hands.

After advancing to the third level of the Monster Taming Art, Shen Lang not only has a longer perception distance of the "hostile gaze", but also has a more accurate judgment of the threat level.

When attacking close, he can basically predict whether the blow will pose a fatal threat to him.

When he was locked on by the eight muskets before, apart from feeling a little uncomfortable in his eyes, Shen Lang had no other premonition of being threatened. Obviously, the eight muskets could not penetrate his layers of armor, even without the armor covering him. The guard's face and limbs can't be threatened, only the fragile eyes, and the throat with only skin defense are afraid of harm.

That's why he dared to face the volley of eight guns, only covered his eyes with his palms, and at the same time buried his head and lowered his chin to cover his throat, and launched an attack brazenly.

At this moment, Shen Lang slashed wildly against the steel knife, blatantly killing two people in a row, then turned around quickly, and at the same time a heavy pistol with the hammer opened appeared out of thin air with both hands, and with his arms stretched, the muzzle almost hit two He swung his knife to the face of the catcher in front of him.

The two policemen were about to swing their knives, but they were suddenly stung by the muzzle of the gun. The movement of swinging the knives froze immediately. open.

After overturning the two, Shen Lang turned his wrists, and the two guns disappeared out of thin air again. A flash of knife light cutting towards his neck flashed sideways. Just as he was about to continue to shoot, a short musket was aimed at his forehead.

It was the bearded catcher who was carrying two short muskets on his body. At this time, he finally saw the opportunity and pointed the second gun at Shen Lang's forehead, and said with a grinning grin:

"Wearing soft armor, you are not afraid of being hit by a knife or a gun. It's amazing! But I really want to know if your head can also block bullets!"

"It's a pity that within seven steps, the fist is fast!"

Shen Lang grinned, exerted strength on his feet, and rushed straight towards the gun.

Bang!
"Hurry up, mother!"

The bearded policeman roared and pulled the trigger, the smoke and sparks from the muzzle of the gun directly covered Shen Lang's face, and the bullet hit Shen Lang's eyebrow even more impartially.

Although the defensive strength of the second-order skin is comparable to that of iron armor, and it has the ability to relieve force, but the iron armor can't hold the musket and shoot at close range.At this moment, being so close at hand, he shot a shot almost directly at the forehead, and the skin on Shen Lang's forehead immediately burst open.

Unfortunately, under the skin, there are still bones.

The strengthened frontal bone of Shen Lang's second-order bone is as tough as fine steel.The lead bullets, whose power was reduced by half by the second-level skin defense, hit the frontal bone, and were immediately squashed and bounced off.

Shen Lang, who was rushing forward, ignored the impact of the musket's approaching bombardment. He didn't even tilt his head back, and directly threw himself into the arms of the bearded policeman. Hu catches his throat.

After that, without even looking at him, he slanted into the arms of another policeman whose face was pale with shock from the bullet in his head. , took advantage of the situation and clasped his throat with a backhand claw, and tore it hard, killing another person.

In a blink of an eye, there were only two of the eight catchers left.

The remaining two had lost all fighting spirit, turned around and ran away, but Shen Lang raised his hand again, and there were two more flintlock rifles out of thin air in his hands—after copying Shark King Island, the ammunition reserve in Shen Lang's space But not a lot.

With the convenience of picking up items in the space, he can even use the dozens of flintlock rifles stored in the space to unleash continuous firepower of automatic rifles when necessary.

Shen Lang held a rifle in each hand, held the butt of the gun under his ribs, pointed the muzzle at the back of the policeman, pulled the trigger, and made two bangs, the two policemen immediately fell forward, struggled twice, Then he died of anger.

At this point, the eight "quick catchers" were all wiped out, and Shen Lang was supernatural again, and this time he didn't even use spells, so he just relied on armor, guns and martial arts to wipe out all the killers.

Putting away the two long muskets, Shen Lang took out a towel dipped in water and wiped his face.

It was a bit uncomfortable to be covered by gunpowder smoke and sparks just now.

Although I closed my eyes in time and didn't get hurt, my nose was very uncomfortable and my face became disfigured.

As for the shot on the forehead, there was only a little bleeding from the wound.

Afterwards, the powerful self-healing power endowed by the first-order "vital enhancement" came into play, and the bleeding was quickly stopped. Although the wound hadn't scabbed yet, it was estimated that the wound would heal within one night at most, without even leaving a scar.

After wiping his face clean, he blew his nose vigorously to clean up the little gunpowder residue stuck in his nostrils. Shen Lang began to clean the battlefield, first putting away all the short muskets and ammunition bags.

Although the short muskets held by these fake policemen are not as powerful as his two custom-made heavy pistols, even ordinary fifth-rank warriors will be seriously injured or even killed if they take a few shots while naked. .

Needless to say, below the fifth rank, no matter how good the martial arts are, if you hit a vital point, you will die with one shot.

After packing away the muskets, Shen Lang searched the corpses of the eight fake arresters for a while, only found a few tens of silver dollars, and a few ordinary poison bags.Otherwise there is nothing useful.

On the other hand, a portrait was found on the body of the bearded policeman, which was a sketch of Shen Lang, the same as the portraits found on the bodies of the previous five killers.

"So, these eight fake arresters are the same group? Are they ordinary killers who took Mrs. Zhao's order? The quality is far worse than those five killers. Most of them are only eighth rank in martial arts, and only the beard is seventh rank." martial arts."

Although this group of people is a bit smart, knowing how to pretend to be a policeman and release hostility towards Shen Lang, a "murderer", in a reasonable way, it's a pity that they are still not smart enough.

If it were Shen Lang, at most two people would be used to pretend to be the arrester, and the others would just pretend to be yamen servants.

However, for ordinary government servants, they cannot hold guns at will.

It is estimated that the beard is to make everyone dress up as a policeman just now so that everyone can hold guns in a reasonable manner.

It's a pity that Shen Lang has a clear understanding of the establishment of the county government office, revealing flaws.

Shen Lang pondered for a while, took off his coat that had been cut to pieces, put on a new one to cover the soft armor, picked up the package and walked out of the lobby, went to the stables to pull out his black horse.

Yingzhou Mansion is a "place of wind and clouds, a place of heroes". Apart from the "Assassin's Guild" of the Blood Shadow Sect, there are still many desperadoes hiding behind the scenes.

As long as you are willing to spend money, a lot of desperate criminals will move upon hearing the news.

So this inn must not be able to stay any longer, or God knows how many killers will rush over one after another.

There is no need to clean up the corpse.

If someone comes to conduct an autopsy at the scene, we can speculate on his strength...

Oh, that's right in his arms.

Look at the sky, the sun has set.It is now August, and Yingzhou Prefecture, which is located in the southernmost part of Dachu, is still hot in midsummer, but the days are not as long as last month.

In half an hour at most, it will be completely dark.

In almost all stories, the killer likes the night.

But for Shen Lang, the night is also his natural ally.

"The moon is dark and the wind is high, which happens to kill people."

Shen Lang chuckled, got on his horse, rode the horse out of the fence of the inn, and continued galloping towards the northeast.

After a while, another group of people entered the inn.

These people seemed to have anticipated the situation in the inn, and were not surprised by the corpses all over the floor. As soon as they entered the door, they began to carefully search the dozens of corpses lying in the lobby.

After the body was examined, the first few people began to exchange opinions in a low voice:
"Six seventh-ranks, seven eighth-ranks, and a peripheral striker. Except for a swordsman named 'Xiao Hei' who is a novice who has just debuted, the others are all experienced and ruthless with multiple lives in their hands. Veteran. There are so many assassins, but he was killed by him alone... That kid is not only good at assassination, he is also good at head-to-head confrontation!"

"It's not a pity for the killers to die, anyway, they are just cannon fodder to help us test his strength. But the kid's strength has indeed exceeded our expectations. Before on Shark King Island, he blindly followed Chen Yuniang and Mu Qingxue to pretend to be a tiger. I thought he was only good at sneak attacks and assassinations, but I didn't expect that he has some real skills!"

"That's right. He didn't even use a sword this time. The cause of death for everyone was either a gunshot wound or a claw wound. And judging from the position of the corpses, the killers were once intimidated by him and wanted to retreat, but they were all killed by him." He chased him to death. Judging from the distance between the corpses of the first batch of killers, that kid's lightness kung fu is also unbelievably strong, and even a seventh-rank warrior couldn't escape a few steps."

"He is a member of the Shenchuitang. Who in the Shenchuitang is not a light kung fu master who can chase and run well? In addition, Zhang Wenbin, a member of the Duke's family, said that the kid read the "Tiger Claw Kungfu" cheat book and claimed to have the ability to never forget. .It seems that he has really learned Tiger Claw Kung Fu. In such a short period of time, he has practiced Tiger Claw Kung Fu to the point where he can kill people in actual combat. His talent in martial arts cannot be underestimated!"

"A lot of lead bullets fell on the ground, and they were all squashed. It seems that the kid was shot more than once, but none of them could injure him..."

"Hmph, since he is the murderer of my younger brother, he must have put on my younger brother's silk armor. Ordinary muskets cannot penetrate this armor."

"No, here is a bullet with blood. Look, this is an ordinary bullet. It is different from the special weighted lead bullet that killed the killers. It should be the musket used by the killers. That kid got shot! It can only cover the chest, abdomen and back, but there is no armor for the limbs and head, so he should have been injured! It is very likely that a certain part of the limbs was shot!"

"Very good! In this way, his strength will definitely be damaged!"

"Don't be careless. There is another corpse outside. Looking at its wounds, it looks like it died of 'pointing arrows'."

"What? That kid also knows Taoism?"

"It's not surprising that he knows Taoism. He has spiritual talent. Although people with spiritual talent may not be able to learn spells, after all, spells are too difficult and obscure. Even if they are born with strong spiritual power, they may not have the wisdom to understand spell books. .But since you have spiritual talent, you have the conditions to practice spells...so that kid has probably learned spells!"

"Before Shark King Island, although he did not cast other spells, he once summoned a red carp monster. Is this a spell or a natural ability?"

"It should be a natural ability. Summoning monsters is a seventh-rank Taoism. If he can learn seventh-rank Taoism, wouldn't he have already learned a lot of ninth-rank and eighth-rank Taoism? Then on Shark King Island , He should have demonstrated Taoism long ago. Therefore, he should be a red carp monster summoned by his natural ability. 'Fingering Archery' is only ninth grade, and he only uses it now, maybe he has just learned this technique."

"The average level of the sons of heaven in the Taoist Temple of the Imperial Capital is to complete a ninth-grade Taoism in a month. That kid didn't know how to point and arch when he was on Shaking Island, but now he suddenly knows it. From the time calculation, he has no time to complete the first one. Two ninth-rank Taoism—he will never be stronger than the geniuses of the Taoist school? Therefore, "pointing and archery" should be his only Taoism. Although this technique is not small, it cannot track and lock the enemy. Take precautions in advance, the threat is not great."

"Practicing both martial arts and dharma, he actually wanted to practice both martial arts and martial arts. Did he read too many scriptures? Didn't he know that after the internal strength of martial arts, would it take a lot of time to just meditate and cultivate internal strength every day? If you practice dharma, you don't have time to cultivate your internal strength. There is no time to study spells with internal strength... This kid really does not know the heights of the sky and the earth! Even if he is lucky enough to learn a spell now, he will be distracted in the future, and he will not succeed in writing or martial arts! Of course, he will have no future. ..."

"According to the traces at the scene, we can almost judge his basic strength: swordsmanship, claw skills, marksmanship, fingering archery, summoning monsters, and a mercurial soft armor that can block musket bullets."

"Since we have almost found out the kid's details, can we start hunting?"

"Don't worry. This son is rich in means, quick-witted, ruthless, and very difficult to deal with. He should be an assassin carefully cultivated by Mu Qingxue, and he will do some dirty work for her. Maybe there is Mu Qingxue on him. It is a life-saving treasure. So we have to let those desperadoes who work for money try it out for a while. Find out his details again, and consume more of his physical strength, energy, and hole cards!"

[There are only two days left in July, and the ticket will expire if you keep it, ask for a monthly pass~! 】

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