my unparalleled way

Chapter 27 The same hobby

Under the night, the convoy on the wasteland has gradually fallen into silence.

The guards did not relax their vigilance, except that half of them entered the tent to rest, and the other half still kept watch at night.Especially pay close attention to the carriage where Lin Si and the other two were in.

The dim lights in the carriage cut off the coldness of the outside world and brought warmth.Mu Zheping lowered his head and looked at the book in his hand seriously, turning the pages rhythmically, reading quite engrossed.

"What are you looking at?" Lin Si's voice suddenly reached his ears.

Looking up, Lin Si had withdrawn from the practice of closing his eyes, and was looking at him curiously.

"Do you have any other books? It's too early and I can't fall asleep." The two of them talked very little since they got into the carriage, especially this young man named Mu Zheping, who was as quiet as a woman.

"No more, my package is so small, how can I put so much in it." Mu Zheping raised the book in his hand and said with a smile.

"Ah! What kind of book are you talking about? "The Way of the Swordsman"!" Lin Si's eyes were so good that Mu Zheping could clearly see the cover of the book the moment he lifted it up.

Before Mu Zheping could answer, he couldn't wait to get up and stand next to Mu Zheping who was opposite him, and leaned closer to read his book.

"Yes." Mu Zheping was slightly surprised, "Have you read this book too?"

"I've seen it, but it's a pity I didn't finish it. I saw Lynch and the three of them encounter a bloodthirsty giant bear in Qingming Underground Palace, and then I didn't watch it." Lin Si yelled.

"It's still early, there's still a lot to come. It's exciting there. Lynch obtained the Absolute Heaven Sword in the underground palace, and opened the inheritance of the Heavenly Sword..." Mu Zheping said.

"Is that so? Are his two brothers dead? When I saw them, both of his brothers were injured!" Lin Si asked anxiously.

"He didn't die. They got the water from Wuji Soul Spring behind them. Not only did they heal all their injuries, but they also improved their level." Mu Zheping was astonished by Lin Si's enthusiasm for this book, but he didn't feel impatient. Explain patiently.

"That's really great, what about the back? How's the back? Did Lynch seek revenge from the God Sword Sect when he came out of the underground palace?"

"Well, the next part is more exciting. The three of them entered the Divine Sword Sect. At that time, the Divine Sword Sect was holding a grand ceremony for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the sect. Many people from other sects were also invited to watch the ceremony."

"Wow! Isn't that shocking scene?"

"That's right, the three of them disturbed the ceremony and shocked the various sects. But later, more powerful sects appeared, and after that, they reached a higher level."

"No way, there are more powerful ones!"

"Yeah, haven't you seen how long this book is?"

"Uh, that's what you said." Lin Si rubbed his hands together, and smiled at him embarrassedly: "Can you lend me a look, I saw half of the book at the time, and the book was snatched away!"

"I haven't finished it yet, how about I lend it to you after I finish it?" Mu Zheping was quite helpless.

"Then you have to watch it quickly!"

"This... ok!"

Lin Si had no choice but to return to his seat, and with difficulty pressed down the idea of ​​wanting to snatch it away to see what happened, and he worked hard to enter the cultivation state again.

The next day, the convoy continued heading north, with no accidents along the way.

The convoy traveled for two days, and finally, on the afternoon of the third day, what we saw in front of us was no longer a wasteland, but a jungle.

This jungle is not as vast and boundless as the Warcraft Forest, it only has a radius of a hundred miles, there are no Warcraft in it, and a wide road is opened in the middle.

In the past two days, Lin Si finally finished reading "The Way of the Swordsman", and then he and Mu Zheping fell into endless discussions about the plot.

"Hey, I didn't expect Guo Shaoyue to betray Lin Qi in the end, such a good brother." Lin Si sighed, still brooding over the plot in that book.

"We can't blame him. Lynch himself is too strong, and he never considered his brother's feelings." Someone was discussing the plot with himself, and Mu Zheping was also very interested, but he had different opinions on the plot.

"But he is too ruthless, he almost ruined everything for Lynch."

"Yeah, it's really ruthless, but it's not smart enough. If it were me, it would be a little later, and then Lynch would be completely dead without a place to bury him." Mu Zheping said calmly.

"You are really poisonous, so when are you going to do it?"

"At least control Raging Flame City in your hands a little bit, wait until you have enough cards, and then launch an attack on Lynch's most proud wedding day."

"I'm asking you, not Guo Shaoyue." Lin Si twitched his lips and looked into his eyes seriously.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Mu Zheping was astonished.

"You should understand!"

"I don't know."

Both of them still had smiles on their faces, but the taste in their words gradually changed.

"Isn't your purpose of entering this convoy to kill that Lord Du?" Lin Si stared closely at his slightly squinted eyes, and restrained his smile.

"Oh, why did I kill him? He took me into the motorcade, and it's too late for me to thank him!" Mu Zheping spread his hands and gave an innocent wry smile.

"Really? Then can you tell me these two days, one hour before dawn, why did you suddenly wake up and lean out the window to look?"

"I'm used to getting up early."

"Then can you tell me what was in the little bag you stood by and tucked into your sleeve while they were cooking last night? Although you didn't use that in the end."

"It's just a little condiment for seasoning. Seeing that they have it, I didn't show it." Mu Zheping smiled innocently.

"Then can you tell me what is the powder you inadvertently smeared on Mrs. Du's clothes after lunch today? Although it is very inconspicuous, there are only stars and dots, but I did see it." Lin Si asked with a smile, She just stared at him with deep meaning in her eyes.

"That's luminous powder... If the torches are all extinguished at night, he will be as conspicuous as a firefly." Mu Zheping smiled and leaned on the carriage board with his arms folded. "I didn't expect you to see even this. I thought I was doing it very covertly."

"Wow, this is really a good thing. At that time, no one can see anyone, but you can see him accurately, especially in the dense forest!" Lin Si clapped his hands and praised.

"Yeah, it's a good thing. It's just that I wanted to avoid the guard's sight, but I fell into your eyes." Mu Zheping sighed.

"That's right, the excuse of who told you to join the convoy is almost exactly the same as mine, and you're also sitting in the same carriage as me. I don't even have to be suspicious!"

"Oh, thanks to you, my actions wouldn't have been so difficult, and I didn't expect that before I got into this convoy, someone would use the same excuse as me to make those guards look like thieves from the beginning. Also be on guard against me." Mu Zheping spread his hands and smiled wryly, "What about you? Are you here to kill him too?"

"Me? I'm not, I'm really a lost person who wants to go to school in the city of academy."

"Is that so...that's such a pity."

When he said this, a pitch-black dagger suddenly appeared in his hand, and before he finished speaking, the dagger was less than an inch away from Lin Si's heart.

But the dagger failed to move forward because a hand blocked it.

Lin Si firmly held Mu Zheping's hand holding the dagger, grinned and said, "Murder to silence?"

"Yeah, I have to do this. I had a really happy conversation with you these two days." Mu Zheping's free hand didn't stop, but reached towards Lin Si's neck like lightning.

"Oh? Then it seems that I am really ignorant!" Lin Si's other hand blocked the hand that was reaching for the neck.

"No, it's very interesting to fight with you." Mu Zheping's knee hit Lin Si's crotch soundlessly. With his strength, if Lin Si was hit, his whole body would soften quickly and become a bow. Shrimp on the ground.

"Oh, really, I feel the same way!" Lin Si's knee also met Mu Zheping's knee silently.

"Peng!" The sound of two knees hitting suddenly came from inside the carriage, but the guards outside were not alarmed.

Mu Zheping didn't attack again, but sat back, he saw that he couldn't take advantage of Lin Si in a fight in this carriage.

"Why didn't you call out to the guards outside? I believe that as long as you say luminous powder, I will be surrounded immediately." Mu Zheping stared at Lin Si and asked with doubts.

"Oh, I didn't expect it for a while..." Lin Si let go of his hand, grinned and said, "Shall I try it now?"

"Is this the reason?" Mu Zheping laughed dumbfounded, and withdrew the dagger.

The two had a temporary truce, each rubbing their sore knees.

"Well, it seems that my plan has failed. What do you want to know?" Mu Zheping seemed to have resigned himself to his fate, and raised his head to ask.

"Why did you kill Lord Du? I think he's pretty good."

"Yeah, he is very nice. Du Qi, 39 years old, has served as the city lord of three cities. He was promoted to governor of Yaozhou province four years ago. Reporting to Guoducheng, I believe he should stay there."

"Is he corrupt?"

"Officials are clear and bright, the people are convinced, and the territorial management is well-organized. Although it is not clean and thrifty, it is considered a good official."

"Is he not good enough?"

"No, he takes good care of his subordinates, is warm-hearted to his friends, and loves his wife and daughter very much. Yueguo can't help taking concubines, but he only has one wife. As for his daughter, you can see that he sent her to school on a special trip. .”

"Then you have a grudge against him?"

"No grudges, no grudges."

"Then why did you kill him?"

"I didn't want to kill him, I was forced to do nothing."

"Who forced you? Are you from an organization?"

"Yes, after reading "The Way of the Swordsman", you should know that as long as the assassin organization is willing to spend money, it can kill anyone, even the king of a country."

"Then why do you want to join such an organization, killing people regardless of good and evil, don't you think it's bad?" Lin Si himself has killed people before, and he himself is not a soft-hearted person, but he is very concerned about killing innocent people at will. Still disgusted.

"I don't want to join that organization either, it's just an accident." Mu Zheping didn't seem to want to say more, but he had actually violated the professional ethics of a traditional assassin.

He doesn't have the awareness that other assassins can travel thousands of miles without a hit, and if he is caught, he will swear to the death to keep his secret.In the face of Lin Si's questioning, he simply explained everything he knew, and the most important thing is that now Lin Si has no intention of catching him at all.

"Then you can quit."

"I can't go back."

"Why, at least you can leave now. I believe that there are no people from your organization around who are watching you all the time. You can live incognito."

"You are right, but if I do that, I will die myself within a few months."

"They left a trick on you?"

"What do you think? Otherwise, it would be so easy to send me to perform the task alone."

"Then what do you do now? Did you fail the mission and go back?"

"I can't go back. Failure in the mission means death. There is no shortage of people in the organization, especially an assassin in Tsing Yi like me." Mu Zheping said flatly, as if he was not the one who died. "This is my first mission. , I’m actually not very good at it. As you said, he’s not a bad guy.”

"Have you ever killed someone? I think you didn't look like a soft-hearted person when you swung the dagger at me just now."

"I've killed, I've killed a lot! I joined the organization like me, and in the end I and some other people survived." When Mu Zheping talked about the past, his expression didn't fluctuate much, and he smiled lightly: "As for the attack on you just now, That's just a habit, an instinct when you feel danger. You are about the same age as the group of people who entered the organization with me."

Lin Si shrugged helplessly: "Then it seems like I'm really lucky."

"Well, I believe that if you are also that group of people, you can survive like me."

Lin Si didn't answer, he could imagine how cruel it would be, but he definitely wouldn't just watch Mu Zheping kill Du Qi.He is not a good person, but Du Qi is very kind to himself, and he can't ignore what happened in front of him.

He also didn't want to arrest Mu Zheping, although Mu Zheping wanted to kill him just now, but it's because they all like to watch "The Way of the Swordsman"... He thought silently.

It took an hour for the convoy to stop on the road in the jungle.

(End of this chapter)