C32 Inn Murder
When it was night time, Shao Jian was resting in his room when he heard a low grunt coming from the man next door, but he did not make any sound. Shao Jian quickly raised his sword and walked out of the room, gently putting his ear to the paper window to listen for a moment, then using his finger to make a small hole in the window, he looked in, only to see a middle-aged man lying in a pool of blood, Shao Jian immediately breaking through the door and entering the room, feeling a burst of force behind him, he anxiously floated to the side, after that, he turned his body, only to see a shadow float past him, and another palm strike came over.
"Shao Jian leaped up, waving his hand and striking out. Following that, he shouted loudly," Who are you, and why did you kill this man? "
Without saying a word, Shao Jian turned around, but every time, the other party seemed to have already expected it, as he was one step faster than him and waved his hand behind Shao Jian to attack him again. Shao Jian struck out with his backhand, Bang! A loud sound rang out, followed by a quick movement.
Just as he was about to make his move, Shao Jian suddenly turned and intercepted him. He saw that the other party was a middle-aged man dressed in green with a strange pattern embroidered on his shoulder. Shao Jian was shocked, he did not expect that this person was dressed exactly the same as the people from the mysterious organization he met last time.
Seeing Shao Jian looking at him, the other party seemed to be deep in thought. He reached out his hand and slapped over with his palm, and then his body floated away.
Shao Jian returned to his senses and noticed the opponent's attack, he immediately extended his hand out to catch it, then activated his body to chase after him, coming to an alley outside the inn, he stopped him and asked: "Who exactly are you, you think you can just run away after killing the man?"
The opponent released a burst of cold laughter, did not say a word, and struck out with his palm. Shao Jian waved his hand again to welcome the attack, only to see the opponent's body rising several tens of feet into the air, and fiercely slashing down with a few palms. Shao Jian raised both his hands above his head, a burst of palm wind shot out and struck the opponent, causing a burst of explosion. Then, that person took advantage of the rebound force and flipped up in the air. His two feet ferociously kicked over.
Shao Jian's body was in front of him, both of his hands carried a dense amount of inner force, and immediately the sound of fists and feet clashing resounded. The two of them separated, and floated more than ten meters away, and then, with a whizzing sound, Shao Jian's palm struck out, as the opponent also attacked, and with a bang, the both of them took a step back. The other party chuckled and flew off into the distance once more.
Shao Jian shouted: "Stop", and chased after him, striking from behind with his palm, the other party seemed to feel the palm wind approaching, his body spun in mid air, and attacked again, the two forces clashed, Bang! Bang! Bang! It made a series of sounds.
Shao Jian shouted: "Sir, where are you planning to run to? Use any tricks you have to."
The other party laughed, and then his figure flashed in the air, escaping out of the city. Shao Jian chased closely behind, and when the person stopped in an open area not far away, he turned and laughed sinisterly at Shao Jian.
Shao Jian floated in front of him and asked: "Who exactly are you?"
That person finally said, "There's no need for you to know about this." As he said that, he jumped into the dense forest ahead of him. Shao Jian then leapt into the forest and shouted, "If Senior still doesn't answer my question, don't blame me for being unreasonable."
That person said, "Hur hur, your tone is quite impressive. I'd like to see how unreasonable you are." With that, he reached out for Shao Jian's wrist. Seeing that the opponent was attacking, Shao Jian immediately floated to the side, and then pointed towards his chest. The man waved his hand to block the attack, and then rushed behind Shao Jian, his fist striking towards the back.
Shao Jian felt a whistling sound from behind him, he moved forward a few feet, and then spun around, releasing a wave of Qi from his hands, causing the opponent's fist to hit the wave of Qi that was coming at Shao Jian, causing him to be forced to take three big steps back.
Shao Jian shouted: "Sire, you should just announce your name, you are not my opponent."
That person laughed sinisterly, "This is only the beginning. The good show is yet to come." He snapped his fingers. "Whiz!" "Whiz!" "Whiz!" With a light sound, a group of mysterious organization members, who were dressed in the same attire, suddenly jumped and stood in a row in front of Shao Jian. Among them, three of them, whom Shao Jian recognized, were the ones who Shao Jian had followed a few days ago.
Just then, another middle-aged man walked out and asked the man who killed someone in the inn: "What's going on? If I let you do something and you get me into trouble, and even get chased over, what do you think I should do? "
That person said, "This subordinate is incompetent and has caused trouble for the captain. I hope that you will forgive me for this."
Shao Jian glanced at the captain and saw a small plate hanging around his waist. This was probably the symbol to distinguish the rank and rank of their organization, only to hear him ask: "Who is he, how did he catch up to you?"
That person said, "Captain, your subordinate was about to leave when he suddenly barged in. Your subordinate was incompetent and was unable to stop him."
Shao Jian stared at the group of people, afraid that they would suddenly attack, and then asked the captain: What is your name, Sir? "Why did you order your subordinates to kill the innocent? Also, you should be working for an organization. May I ask which organization do you guys belong to?"
The captain laughed: "You sure ask a lot of questions, huh? I can only tell you my surname is Xie. If you want to know anything else, it will depend on how capable you are. Also, may I ask who you are and why you're involved with our private matters? Don't you understand the rules in the martial arts world? "
Shao Jian said: "I do not care about the Jianghu rules, since this matter has happened to me, I will take care of it."
Xie Shi laughed coldly: "How much ability do you think you have? It's something that you can really control. It seems like you're a very conceited person."
At this time, one of the three people that Shao Jian had previously defeated walked out and said to Xie Shi: "I recognize this person, and he is rather capable. Last time, this subordinate and the others were almost done in by him."
After Xie Shi heard his words, he looked at Shao Jian and said: "That's good, let's settle the new and old debts together." As he said that, he rushed to Shao Jian's front and slapped him on the chest with his palm. The man from before, along with the three people who had previously lost to Shao Jian, also attacked at the same time.
Shao Jian immediately wanted to take care of the five experts, only to see him wave his hand and take's palm. His body was pushed back a few meters, and with a flip of his hand, he struck out with his palm, causing his body to fly into the air and attack his palm strike downwards a few times. Then, with a turn of his body, he kicked one of the enemies in front of him. Bang! Bang! After a series of explosions, Shao Jian floated back to the ground.
Xie Shi shouted lightly: "You are indeed very skilled, watch carefully." With a move, he once again appeared beside Shao Jian, he waved his hand at Shao Jian's waist, and the other four people attacked at the same time.
Shao Jian who was surrounded by enemies roared out, his body spinning non-stop, both hands striking out alternately, with a loud sound, the surrounding attacks stopped, after that he fiercely patted his palms three times, a powerful burst of Innate Qi swept out, instantly knocking the three people away, Shao Jian took the chance and leapt out of the encirclement, flinging! With a clear sound, the black iron sword was unsheathed. The sound of weapons being drawn could be heard as the enemies withdrew their weapons and attacked.
Shao Jian moved forward, the black iron sword in hand began to wave, and clanging sounds of weapons clashing came out. The two opponents' cultivation bases were separated from each other, causing them to stagger back a few steps. Shao Jian chased closely after him as the black iron sword stabbed forward. The opponent couldn't dodge in time, and a cut was made on his chest. Then, he quickly retracted his sword and slashed towards the incoming other person. The other person hastily used his sword to block, clang! With a crisp sound, the man's weapon was sliced apart, Shao Jian struck out again! With a "peng" followed by a blood-curdling screech, that person was sent flying by the palm strike and died on the ground.
Xie Shi was so angry that his voice came out loud, the sword in his hand released a ray of silver light that struck over, causing the black iron sword in hand to tremble, and with a sound, it pierced forward, only feeling that there was a powerful wave approaching from behind, he slashed down with his big blade. Shao Jian shouted lightly, and his body drifted for three meters, following that, his body quickly spun on the spot. After waving the black iron sword for a while, it flew from left to right, and then suddenly shot forward. The first style of the Pure Yang Sword, 'Clear Sky Sword', was quickly executed. A scarlet crescent shaped Sword Qi rushed out, then split into six lines, forming a half moon shape, and with a sound of rushing wind, it rushed towards the enemies. Pop! Pop! An explosion. The ground was immediately covered in dust, and other than Xie Shi who was an expert, the rest of the enemies were all forced to retreat.
With a loud shout, the longsword in Xie Shi's hand pointed straight up into the sky, and his body immediately rose to a height of thirty meters, laid flat on the ground, and automatically rotated clockwise. The longsword drooped down, and wildly thrust downwards, and with a radius of one meter with his body revolving as the center, he picked up the sword and enveloped Shao Jian within.
Shao Jian felt a burst of sword Qi undulations, his body was trapped inside, he bellowed, and the black iron sword pointed up, waving it around quickly, its body started to spin quickly, one by one, the sword Qi started to expand, then Shao Jian suddenly stopped his fast spinning body, raising her sword and rushed up into the sky, Dang! Clang! Dang! The two swords clashed, sparks flew in all directions, sword qi flew everywhere, causing the clothes of the person beside them to flutter! Crash! - His body swayed.
After being struck, Xie Shi's spinning body stopped, and he turned around to float back up to the ground. Only after taking two steps back did he manage to stand firmly, and said to Shao Jian: "Wait, until we meet again." With that, he turned and disappeared into the forest. The rest of the team members also ran off into the distance when they saw that their captain had left. Shao Jian was not in the mood to chase after him, he was afraid that he would fall into his opponent's trap. Glancing at the corpse on the ground, he turned and leapt into the city.
Returning to the tavern, the sword was surrounded by people, and they were pointing and talking. When Shao Jian asked around, he found out that the waiter had also heard the muffled moan, and when Shao Jian went to chase after the man, he entered the room.
Shao Jian pushed through the crowd and went to the second floor. He saw the waiter and the shopkeeper standing in front of the room next door in panic, the corpse still lying there.
At this time, someone said to the shopkeeper, "Hurry up and report it to the official. We can't let him lie here like this, can we?"
Another person said, "What officials? There was no sign of the murderer. "Looks like this shop is going to suffer." Hearing this, the waiter was so anxious that he almost cried.
At this moment, another person said, "This must be a grudge between the martial arts world. Otherwise, so many people would be fine except for him being killed. This kind of thing is not something the government can deal with, just blame your bad luck."
The first person said, "You can't pretend that way, can you? The sky is getting hotter and hotter, and the corpses will soon rot and smell worse.
The last person to speak said, "Do you still want to do business? It's more important to keep your life first. "After such a fight, the inn was closed, and now that the culprit was nowhere to be found, people from the government will definitely come and capture everyone concerned for questioning."
The second person said, "The government is so dark these days, they can't catch the murderer. In order to receive the reward, they might use the shopkeeper and waiter as scapegoats."
The waiter and the shopkeeper were immediately scared to the point that they were covered in cold sweat while trembling all over. Another wave of discussion rose from the crowd.
The first person said, "We should leave this place as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the constables arrive, they will catch us and bring us in."
Another person said, "That's right. Let's quickly leave this place. It's filled with bad luck." With that, the crowd quickly left, afraid that the officials would leave soon.
Shao Jian sighed, he could only sympathize with this simple and honest waiter, and the shopkeeper's misfortune. He had the urge to tell them the reason, but now that the murderer had fled, if he were to say it, people would look at him suspiciously, and then he wouldn't be able to explain himself for another hundred mouths. He then shook his head and returned to his room.