I am the villain in the book

#300 - Sword Escape

"Wait!"

A voice suddenly stopped Old Zhang Tou, who was about to pull the donkey cart into the city.

Everyone turned their heads to look, and immediately a soldier recognized the speaker, and asked with a loud laugh:

"Brother Bai, what's wrong?"

"…"

Wearing a standard black armor, with a refined steel long sword across his waist, his eyes were incomparably deep, as if a few more glances would make people lost in them.

The person who came was the ninth Son of Heavenly Dao, Bai Youheng.

"Brother Li, it's nothing. Leave these two people to me."

"Hmm?"

The soldier was stunned: "What? Brother Bai, do you know these two?"

"I don't know them."

Bai Youheng shook his head and didn't intend to explain further, he just walked to Old Zhang Tou and said, "Old man, come into the city with me."

"This…"

Glancing at Bai Youheng, Old Zhang Tou said with a flattering smile: "I wouldn't want to trouble you, Officer."

"No trouble at all."

Without explanation, Bai Youheng grabbed the donkey cart's rein and walked towards the city without looking back.

The soldiers behind him watched the three leave with puzzled expressions, and someone sighed: "Speaking of which, didn't Brother Bai work as a night watchman before? His actions are indeed strange, it's best to have less contact with him in the future."

"Not so, night watchmen are not all like that, I have a younger brother who is also a night watchman gong beater, usually he has no bad habits other than visiting brothels, and he is very smart."

"Well, I was generalizing. By the way, I heard that Fengyuan has been quite uneasy recently? Nearly a thousand people have died violently within a month?"

"That's right, the night watchmen are currently doing their best to investigate, but they have not been able to find the real culprit…"

"Alas, in this world, there is no peace anywhere!"

"Who says otherwise…"

"…"

Yuanzhou City, in a deserted alley.

"Officer."

Looking at Bai Youheng who suddenly stopped, Old Zhang Tou said with a smile: "I'm just a commoner, I don't know what you…"

"Old man, you don't have to worry."

Bai Youheng shook his head: "I'm just doing a routine check of your luggage."

"Luggage? But the officers at the city gate have already checked it."

Shaking a small piece of silver from his sleeve, Old Zhang Tou painfully stuffed it into Bai Youheng's hand.

However, the latter didn't take it at all, just turned his head to look at Agou sitting on the donkey cart, and ordered with a smile: "Little girl, get off the cart first."

"Grandpa…"

Agou weakly looked at Old Zhang Tou, who narrowed his eyes, and then returned to his timid appearance.

"What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and get down!"

"Oh."

Agou reluctantly jumped off the donkey cart, and Bai Youheng also stepped forward at this time, carefully rummaging through the large and small packages on the donkey cart.

Torn clothes, ragged blankets… There were many things, but none of them were valuable.

Seeing that Bai Youheng had almost turned over all the items, Old Zhang Tou stepped forward and said with a smile: "Officer, I'm really just a commoner, I just want to take my granddaughter to Dafeng to escape the disaster…"

"Hmm."

Bai Youheng nodded, but his brow furrowed slightly, obviously wondering about something.

Seeing this, Old Zhang Tou felt bad, and was about to say something, but found that Bai Youheng's gaze suddenly stopped on the position where Achun had just been sitting.

Crap!

He cursed inwardly, wanting to gloss over it and divert Bai Youheng's attention.

But the latter moved even faster, already reaching out and pressing on a cart board, and then suddenly pulled it along the direction of the wooden board's gap.

"Crash!"

The entire wooden board fell off in response, revealing the interlayer below, and the long sword hidden in the interlayer.

"…"

Looking askance at Old Zhang Tou, he took the long sword wrapped in layers of rags in his hand, and then drew the sword from its sheath with a "clang".

The cold light of the long sword flashed away, and a kind of misty and invisible killing intent suddenly spread rapidly to the surroundings.

"Old man."

Gently licking his lips, Bai Youheng held the sword and looked at Old Zhang Tou again with a smile that was not a smile: "What are you doing carrying such a sharp blade when you're out?"

"O-Officer…"

Fine beads of sweat oozed from Old Zhang Tou's palms: "The world is chaotic, I brought it for self-defense…"

"Self-defense?"

Bai Youheng glanced at the interlayer on the donkey cart: "Putting the sword in this kind of place, if you really encounter bandits, I'm afraid you won't even have time to take it out."

"Th-this…"

Old Zhang Tou swallowed his saliva, and his answer became more and more difficult: "I-I don't expect it to be useful, it's just to embolden myself."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

Bai Youheng returned the sword to its sheath with a "swish", and at the same time, he unfastened the saber from his waist and placed it on the donkey cart.

"Old man, since you said it's just to embolden yourself, then how about I exchange this refined steel long saber for this sword?"

"This is a military saber, if you really encounter bandits, it should be more intimidating."

"I wonder what you think?"

"Ah? This…"

Old Zhang Tou was dumbfounded when he heard this, and hurriedly made up another story: "Officer, this sword is my family heirloom, I-I really can't exchange it!"

"Can't exchange it?"

Bai Youheng didn't hesitate at all, and suddenly took a step closer with a gloomy face.

"Then there's no need to exchange it!"

"Swish!"

"Swoosh swoosh! !"

The dazzling light instantly covered the entire alley, and gradually faded away after a full five or six breaths.

Bai Youheng struggled to open his eyes in a cloud of dust, but the figures of Old Zhang Tou and Agou were nowhere to be seen in front of him.

Apart from the pile of tattered luggage and a dirty old donkey, only he was left in the entire alley.

As for that precious sword…

The scabbard was still tightly held in his hand, but the long sword with endless killing intent had disappeared.

"Bang!"

The miscellaneous wooden scabbard suddenly exploded in mid-air, turning into countless fragments.

Bai Youheng narrowed his eyes coldly, and did not run out of the alley to look for people, but carefully rummaged through the luggage on the donkey cart again, trying to find some useful clues from it.

Not long after, he suddenly stopped his movements and slowly groped out a black token from a tattered jacket.

This token was jet-black, made of obsidian, with two sharp small characters engraved on it—

Suspended Mirror.

"Ah! Grandpa! I forgot to take the token my senior brother left me!"

In a bridge hole half a mile away from the alley, Agou slapped her forehead, her expression extremely annoyed.

"What? Your senior brother left you a token too?!"

Old Zhang Tou was stunned when he heard this: "How come I don't know about it?"

"Senior brother didn't let me tell you."

Agou frowned and answered truthfully: "He said that when you die, Grandpa, I can take this token to some Suspended Mirror Division and let the people there send me to Shuzhou."

"…"

From surprise to anger, Old Zhang Tou was so angry that he couldn't speak, and even the long sword in his hand trembled for a while.

After a long while, he gritted his teeth and snorted coldly, while carrying Agou on his back and continuing to run away, he muttered:

"Humph! Good! Very good!"

"When we get to Fengyuan, see how this teacher teaches this villain a lesson!"

"Grandpa, aren't we going to look for that token?"

"We're not going!"

"Oh, by the way, Grandpa, what did you do just now? Why did we suddenly run here with a swoosh?"

"Hmph hmph, this is a great divine power!"

"Does senior brother know this divine power?"

"No."

"Then can Grandpa teach it to me?"