Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 216 Blind Fight
Verbal communication is skipped, and information is conveyed in a simple eye contact.

【being caught up】

Not the group of mourners, they should turn around and leave after placing the remains, there is no need to linger here; even if they are newcomers, there is no reason to go deep into the passage full of bones.

Unless it is other poor and boring tourists, it is too coincidental to meet them at the same time on the same day.

The follower never seemed to think that he would be discovered, and still maintained a deliberately light pace, following from a distance. The winding passage and surrounding stone chambers concealed the lighting light, and the sound was absorbed into the bone wall.

For those who have rich experience in dark environments, hearing is sometimes even more important than vision. This kind of tracking with inconsistent pace is as obvious as the torches on the street at midnight.

This was not a bad thing. Kraft took the lantern from Cooper, pretended not to notice the follower at all, walked out for a while, stopped in a fairly spacious stone room, and hung the lantern on a protruding fibula.

The bewildering light reminded someone to stop here, Kraft drew his sword out of its sheath, and took Kupu to stand against the wall on the other side, waiting silently.

The other party's reaction was not slow, and was quite eager. After realizing that the sound of the tracked object disappeared, he quickly slowed down his steps, but his pace became faster, and he quickly shortened the distance to avoid losing track.

Kraft speculates about his psychological changes: he suspects that the target has discovered the stalking, or walked into some narrow fork, like an insect disappearing into an unreachable slit, becoming a memory stain that makes people toss and turn.He had no choice but to take a step forward, chasing towards the final position where the sound disappeared.

The depressing and hasty footsteps dodged the broken stone and bone fragments, and suddenly slowed down and became lighter as they passed the nearest corner; the pursuers were pleasantly surprised to find that there was no reason to worry, and artificial lights were shining from a stone room.

Accompanied by the very slight sound of metal blades closing, the faint light from another lamp in the corridor disappeared.

Kraft turned his wrist to adjust the blade, ready to take a leisurely shot when the opponent entered while looking at the light position.

Regardless of whether Professor Kalman hinted at this place or not, at least this time he should not return empty-handed.

As the distance increased, the sound of footsteps inevitably became clearer, at least one light and one heavy could be distinguished.

It's a bit complicated, and it's hard to decide whether to act decisively when the first one enters, or to let the two enter together. That will cause considerable instability to the sneak attack that was originally guaranteed, and give the other party time to react.

But it is not impossible.

Kraft shrunk his body and leaned closer to the wall, with countless wrists and elbows touching his back, giving people the illusion that the dead who were all over the wall would fall down with their fragmented bodies tilted.

The stalker paused at the door for a moment, but his self-confidence prevented him from hesitating much. A figure leaped into the stone room with a sword in hand, adjusted his momentum during the activity, and pointed at the light.

The second person followed closely behind, with the streamlined armor curved surface protruding under the robe, and followed with steady steps to occupy the position at the door, looking behind the former.

The comers are not amateurs, and they are more difficult to deal with than some guys who think they are not afraid of swords because they have some special abilities.Kraft secretly said trouble, gave up the idea of ​​keeping his hand as much as possible, and stabbed the sword straight at the neck of the armored man.

Sure enough, when he saw the old oil lamp dangling from the bone, the visitor immediately realized what a simple but effective scam he had encountered. He slashed down horizontally and made a desperate posture.

The timing window was much shorter than imagined, but Kraft needed even less time. He noticed that the abnormal armor wearer had no time to dodge, and only had time to deflect his head and neck, and the blade had already penetrated the cloth.

Unexpectedly, the momentum was broken until it was blocked by the bone or drilled into the bone seam. The blade rubbed against a piece of movable series metal, smashed a few joints with force, and slid lightly on the skin surface.

It was a piece of chain mail.The cost of time-consuming protective gear is not low, and the maintenance is even more cumbersome. It is mostly lined with the neck gap where the armor protection is weak, which confirms the guess of its professionalism.

At the same time, due to the disadvantage of the length of the weapon, Kupu was swept back by the long sword.

The timing advantage brought by the little trick failed to translate into a sufficient tactical advantage.Relying on the opponent's slow movement, Kraft retracted his sword and kicked at the bend of his leg at the same time, leaving the staggering and unbalanced armored enemy to Kupp to deal with, and he went up to the other who was swinging horizontally and was adjusting his posture. one.

This swordsman's quality of swordsmanship is no less than his on-the-spot adaptability. After gaining space, he reversed his previous posture and immediately retreated to open the distance to fend off the naughty pricks from the lower lane. Then he fought hard with Kraft, and retreated slightly.

Within a few seconds of coming and going, the two of them learned a lot about each other in the fight without seeing their faces clearly - they are people who cannot be easily taken down.

The opponent noticed that there was a gap in physical fitness, and Kraft worried that Kupp might not be able to resist the opponent with elite equipment for too long.

【Catch a trick】

Pretending to attack again, Kraft moved closer to the wall, the two swords clashed briefly, and found that the opponent was not doing his best, and seemed to be holding back his hands for some small moves.

This is exactly what he wanted, the blade retreated at the touch of a touch, and swept towards the wall carrying the lamp.No matter what operation, it will be greatly reduced after losing vision, but some people are exceptions.

And the opponent also draws his sword, piercing in an unimagined direction.

【lantern】

The lamp, which was attacked from two sides, was broken with its supporting bones, and the structure that had endured years of use encountered an unbearable load, and it fell apart on the spot, and the flame was stamped out.

The environment was completely plunged into darkness, and the swordsman stepped forward, stabbing with the impression left by the last moment of light.

Skill and wisdom are the only things that are better than brute force. Those who are diligent in practice and rich in talent are all proud of it as the key to turning the situation around. Obviously he believes that darkness is a sharp weapon to magnify the advantages of skills.

Kraft changed his position to dodge, but was surprised to find that the opponent could recognize the movement of steps by hearing in a chaotic situation, and turned stabs into chops to pursue.

Excellent sensory movement coordination ability, coupled with the courage to abandon visual combat, is indeed an extraordinary combat skill.

After being parried, the poisonous snake-like sword re-judged its position along the direction of the attack, and the swordsman adjusted the direction and turned his backhand to Kraft's side.It's hard to imagine what kind of mentality would make someone delve into such a lackluster combat technique.

As long as there is no special training and only relying on imagination to cope, I am afraid that no matter how experienced people are, it will be difficult to get through the continuous offensive in the dark.

It's a pity that Kraft's reason for sweeping out the flame was completely different from his.Some people can see better when they are blind, and some people can see more clearly after being blind.

After a series of consecutive attacks, the judgment of the position in the swordsman's mind was finally completely blurred, and he stood still in the darkness, guarding against the attack from which direction he did not know.And his companion, like Coop, does not have the skills of precise positioning by visual and non-visual senses.

Kraft also finally had time to look at the first normal opponent he encountered, and what he saw with his mental senses was far more information than a quick glance under poor lighting.

For example, the decoration of the sword is very characteristic. The tsuba is a circle, and the wings spread out on both sides just form the handguard.

And the other party's face looked a little familiar after seeing it clearly.After searching in memory, I successfully found a correspondence from the day I first arrived in Dunling. The two met once in the courtyard of the medical school, and they didn't even exchange names. I didn't expect to meet again in such a place.

"Inquisition? What are you doing with me?"

(End of this chapter)