Chapter 139 The So-called Knight

Fighting is a very fun thing; one can see that Xue San is having a blast.

The "Four Horses" had already swooped down. The lead horse, wielding a large axe, slashed down at Xue San.

Xue San's reflexes were quick; he easily dodged the attack. At the same time, he shifted his body, his heel striking the ground, and his small frame changed direction in an instant, darting behind the lead horse.

In a flash, his small hand flicked, and another dagger appeared, which he swung at the back of the horse.

"Buzz!"

An extremely fine thread was severed.

Xue San landed gracefully, seemingly wanting to imitate A Ming with a Western aristocratic bow, but halfway through the motion, the lead horse swung its axe down at him.

Xue San's eyes twitched.

This puppet wasn't controlled by threads!

A setup! Damn it, another setup!

Xue San pushed off the ground with both legs, catapulting himself backward, but the other three horses, which had been circling on the periphery, now flanked him.

The thin horse reached out with both hands, its zither strings forming a large net that enveloped Xue San. The noble horse spread its arms and moved quickly, trying to hug Xue San.

But this time, from beginning to end, Blind Man Bei stood there motionless, not making a move, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Zheng Fan was a bit far away, and at this moment, Xue San seemed to have gotten himself into a dead end, but Zheng Fan, as the master, didn't have time to help.

Who would have thought that Xue San, trapped in the zither string net, would suddenly shrink his body, using something like soft bone skill to make his already dwarfed frame even smaller.

The stress points of the zither string net were arranged according to Xue San's presence, but when Xue San suddenly shrank, the net seemed to instantly lose its mark.

Xue San rolled up into a ball, like a small meatball, and directly escaped from under the net. The noble horse's hug also missed its target.

Blind Man Bei suddenly opened his eyes at this moment. Zheng Fan only felt a gust of wind blow past him, and the noble horse's body trembled suddenly, as if invaded by an unknown force.

"Bang!"

The noble horse exploded, and a pungent, stinky, and poisonous liquid splattered everywhere. This was originally meant to be used after hugging Xue San, but now it was forcibly released by Blind Man Bei.

The thin horse and the pretty horse next to the noble horse were drenched in the liquid. The bodies of the two puppets began to corrode frantically, and it seemed that the internal formation patterns were also destroyed. They knelt on the ground, no longer moving.

Of the four horses, only the lead horse remained.

Blind Man Bei still stood there, calmly looking at the only remaining lead horse.

The lead horse's mouth opened, but the voice didn't come from its mouth, but from its abdomen.

"I heard that among Western mages, there's a rare type that can do what you just did."

Blind Man Bei raised his hand to his mouth, covering it, and yawned.

He guessed right. The real controller was actually hiding inside his puppet.

Perhaps, in the dark, there really was a kind of mutual appreciation between old schemers.

Because Blind Man Bei had seen through the other party's tricks from the beginning.

The voice came from the lead horse's abdomen again:

"I should have attacked you first."

Blind Man Bei nodded.

"Yes."

This was indeed a strategic mistake, allowing a dual-type "mage" of mental and spatial abilities to calmly output damage from the side.

If you don't know how to cut the back row in a team fight, you'll definitely lose miserably.

Actually, Xue San worked hard this time. There were quite a few of the Seven Demon Kings who were suitable to team up with Blind Man Bei:

A Ming with high HP recovery, Liang Cheng with high defense, and Fan Li with a large HP pool.

But Blind Man Bei himself seemed to prefer teaming up with Xue San. Zheng Fan darkly speculated that it might be because Blind Man Bei found it amusing to watch Xue San hop around in front of him, attracting fire.

"You're too greedy; you couldn't handle four puppets at all."

The voice from the lead horse's abdomen came again:

"Because I've never met you before."

Blind Man Bei smiled slightly and said,

"You flatter me."

"You're welcome."

After speaking,

The lead horse took a step back, and Xue San took a step forward.

A shout came from the lead horse's abdomen again:

"Hero Chen, if you don't act, I'm going to be killed by them!"

Obviously, this was calling out to another person. If there were no accidents, that person should have been responsible for guarding the back door.

Xue San's eyes narrowed, and his ears twitched slightly, but what puzzled him was that he couldn't sense anyone coming.

Blind Man Bei still stood there motionless, but Zheng Fan believed that he was actually always on guard against another assassin.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a grandfather clock here; otherwise, he could have cut in the sound of the hands moving.

But three minutes later,

On the first floor of the post station, it was still just their group of people.

Xue San licked his lips; he couldn't wait any longer.

The lead horse seemed a little shocked and shouted again:

"Hero Chen, are you really going to let me die?"

It was clear that the lead horse was starting to panic.

Earlier, when he first heard the lead horse call out "Hero Chen," Zheng Fan was only concerned with being vigilant about his surroundings. But when he heard the second call of "Hero Chen," Zheng Fan tasted a strong, rustic flavor.

As soon as he heard "hero," an image of old-fashioned martial arts films with a bit of grease seemed to float into his mind, but this word was already a bit retro.

And having woken up in this world for so long, this was the first time Zheng Fan had heard a title with the suffix "hero."

But obviously, the hero didn't seem to be online.

The lead horse was really panicking this time,

And shouted again:

"Hero Chen, save me, save me!!!"

Three calls, but no feedback.

Xue San, moved.

When a puppeteer who's already completely at a disadvantage has only one puppet left, her ending is already doomed.

At the same time Xue San moved, Blind Man Bei's mental strength and thought power were applied to the lead horse.

The lead horse let out a muffled groan. Although it still swung its axe, its speed was obviously much slower, and it couldn't gain any advantage when facing Xue San in the first place with the way it fought, not to mention that Blind Man Bei was desperately adding various weakening buffs to the other side.

Xue San easily found an opening, and the dagger in his hand pierced into the back of the opponent's neck, then cut downward.

The lead horse really became a split horse this time.

From inside the cut-open puppet,

Appeared the figure of a naked woman.

This woman was obviously a bit deformed. She was about the same height as Xue San, but Xue San was a dwarf, so he was just short, but if you didn't give a reference object and took a photo, you wouldn't be able to tell that Xue San was anything special.

But this woman's head was that of a normal person, but her limbs and torso were highly atrophied. She didn't look like a person at all, but rather like a spider.

When her true form was exposed,

The woman's body began to tremble.

She seemed very unaccustomed to showing her true appearance to others. The instinctive inferiority and anger made her expression distorted.

"Who are you…"

Before Blind Man Bei could finish his question, the woman let out a howl, as if wanting to rush over and fight Blind Man Bei to the death.

But what she lost wasn't just the puppet. The puppet not only hid the defects of her body, but also the formation inside the puppet and her control over the puppet were her real fighting methods.

Once she lost the puppet, she really had nothing to be afraid of except for her appearance.

After the scream,

The person who tried to pounce fell directly to the ground. Her severely atrophied limbs began to frantically beat the floor tiles, her eyes filled with venomous hatred.

"Kill her, and I'll tell you who she is."

A man's voice suddenly entered here.

Blind Man Bei's face immediately showed a look of shock.

This was the first time Zheng Fan had seen such an expression on Blind Man Bei's face,

Because in the past, no matter what, Blind Man Bei had always adhered to his three principles of behavior:

First, I have style;

Second, I have a lot of style;

Third, I have a great deal of style.

Zheng Fan didn't think that Blind Man Bei would deliberately make a fuss to scare him at this time.

Xue San's face was also very ugly. When he saw Blind Man's face, his face became even uglier.

The assassin's "keenness" failed to sense the speaker's position, and Blind Man Bei's mental strength failed to sense the other party's position either, which meant that the situation was quite serious.

However, Xue San still walked over and stabbed his dagger into the female puppeteer's body. The dagger was poisonous, and the female puppeteer's body quickly turned black, and then she died, motionless.

"She lost; she should be freed."

That voice rang out again, but this time, that person also appeared.

He was sitting behind a table in the corner of the first floor, with a bowl of tea in front of him. It seemed that he had been sitting there for a long time, but no one had noticed.

He put down the teacup, stood up, picked up a sword from the chair next to him, and walked over.

He stood by the female puppeteer's corpse and said,

"I promised you I would answer for her. Ask away."

His appearance couldn't be called handsome. In fact, it could only be described as very ordinary, the type you wouldn't notice in a crowd. He would definitely be treated as a spare tire in the dating market.

Moreover, he didn't have any charisma, so there was no way to compensate for his appearance with charisma.

But his appearance did bring great pressure to Zheng Fan and the others.

Blind Man Bei's voice rang in Zheng Fan's mind:

"Master, you ask."

Zheng Fan responded in his mind, "Do you need me to attract his attention so you and Xue San can make a move?"

"I hope that master can seize the opportunity and say as much as possible."

"…" Zheng Fan.

At this time, Xue San made a "seven" gesture to Blind Man Bei, meaning that this guy was at least seventh rank or above.

Blind Man Bei shook his head slightly and made a "five" gesture. He felt that the person in front of him should be fifth rank.

"Who is she?" Zheng Fan pointed to the deformed female puppeteer who had already died and asked.

"I don't know her name," Hero Chen replied.

"Then what do you know about her?"

"She is a Jin person."

A Jin person?

Why would a Jin person run to Yan to kill him?

"Why did she want to kill me?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know, and you were still with her?"

"Yes."

"How many people came in total?"

"I'm the only one left."

"You worked together, but you weren't on the same path?"

"Three paths."

Zheng Fan asked one question after another, and Hero Chen answered one question after another.

"She was one path, you were one path, and the group of assassins who rushed into the courtyard at the beginning were one path, right?"

"Yes."

"Who were those assassins?"

"I don't know."

"Then why were you together?"

"I needed them to lead the way."

"Then why didn't you help her earlier?"

Before the "lead horse" died, it had called out to this Hero Chen three times, but Hero Chen didn't help her and watched her get killed.

"She deserved to die."

"Why did she deserve to die?"

Hero Chen pointed to the twenty-odd corpses lying on the ground in the post station,

"She killed these innocent people."

Zheng Fan suddenly felt a surge of hope. People always like to be friends with honest and kind people, because these kinds of friends are easy to trick.

"You don't know why they wanted to kill me?"

"I don't know."

"Then what about you? What are you here to do?"

Hero Chen looked at Zheng Fan and said,

"To kill you."

"Do you know who I am?" Zheng Fan pointed to his face.

"Zheng Fan."

"There should be quite a few people in this world named Zheng Fan; you might have the wrong person…"

"Zheng Fan, the garrison commander of Emerald Willow Fort under the jurisdiction of Silver Wave County, South Hope City, Great Yan."

"Oh, it really is me. What a coincidence."

Zheng Fan smiled awkwardly and continued to ask:

"Are you a Qian person?"

Since Zheng Fan woke up, he had killed people and tricked people, but the force he had offended the most and that would send this level of expert to kill him…really only Qian.

"Yes."

As expected, a Qian person.

"Hero, listen to me. There's a saying that debts have debtors and grievances have owners. I led troops to Qian by order of Marquis Jingnan.

How about this? If you really want to work for the well-being of Qian and eliminate a major threat to Qian, I can help you enter South Hope City and help you get close to Marquis Jingnan.

I'm just a garrison commander, just a slightly bigger pawn. You should know the principle of capturing the king first."

After Blind Man Bei made it clear that he and the others were no match for this Hero Chen, Zheng Fan began to divert the trouble out of instinct for survival.

Of course, it was also because this Hero Chen seemed to be a bit slow in the head.

"I can't beat Tian Wujing."

Tian Wujing was Marquis Jingnan's name.

"People should always try, always find challenges to do. That way, life can be more meaningful."

"I am no match for Tian Wujing."

"…" Zheng Fan.

Zheng Fan realized that people who weren't too bright were even harder to fool, because this reason was unsolvable.

I can't beat him. Why would I go looking for him?

"We can take our time and make a plan," Zheng Fan suggested. "I can help you strategize."

In order to save his own life, Zheng Fan wouldn't have any qualms about selling out Marquis Jingnan again and again.

"I don't want to kill him."

"Then can you not kill me either? I know you're a good person."

"I want to kill you."

"No, we're at war between countries, and I'm a soldier. Fighting and killing people is my job. You can't possibly go kill everyone who goes to Qian to fight, right?

I heard that Left Succession, the garrison commander of Ji Retreat Fort, just went to Qian a while ago and killed a lot of Qian soldiers. I'm familiar with him. I can introduce you."

"I won't kill him."

"No, you're just fixated on killing me?"

"Yes."

"Why won't you kill them, but you have to kill me?"

"Revenge."

Hearing this answer again, Zheng Fan suddenly felt even more puzzled.

He asked:

"Avenge who?"

"For the dead."

"Which person?"

Zheng Fan was very curious. After him, many people followed his lead and took troops to Qian to plunder. Why was this guy targeting him specifically?

"A group of people."

"Which group of people?"

"The wronged souls."

Hero Chen seemed to feel that he had answered long enough and enough questions.

He raised his sword,

Grasped the hilt with his left hand,

And said:

"I draw my sword; you draw your saber."

Xu Wenzu then walked out from behind Zheng Fan, his face serious, staring at Hero Chen, and snorted coldly,

Saying:

"Do you know what the consequences will be if you, even as a martial arts expert, kill an official of my Great Yan within the borders of my Great Yan?

You fool, do you really think that there is no one in my Great Yan?

Today, if you want to learn from some unthinking person who would cause blood to splash five steps, then in the future, when the iron cavalry of my Great Yan storms into the heartland of your Qian, we will surely pile up corpses for thousands of miles to avenge today's hatred!!!"

Hero Chen didn't seem to care about Xu Wenzu's threats,

Just still calmly said:

"I never hurt the innocent. Debts have debtors and grievances have owners. Today, the only person I want to kill is Zheng Fan. You can all leave."

"Humph!"

Xu Wenzu glared at Hero Chen angrily again,

And then,

Turned around,

And left…

Xue San and Blind Man Bei didn't leave and still stood in place.

Hero Chen continued to say calmly:

"You can stand on the side and watch me kill him. As long as you don't interfere, you don't have to die."

Xue San didn't speak, just silently stood in front of Zheng Fan.

Blind Man Bei didn't speak either and lightly yawned.

Seeing this,

Hero Chen said:

"Then you have to die too."

Blind Man Bei's voice rang in Xue San's mind:

"I somehow feel quite excited."

"Me too," Xue San responded in his mind.

"Last month, Liang Cheng took Master to Qian to run around and play a war game, almost causing us to die inexplicably at home. Thinking about it now, I still feel a chill down my spine.

Now, it's their turn to experience this feeling."

"Yeah, at least we can be thoroughly screwed before we die."

"Disgusting."

"We're about to die; just bear with it."

"I think there's something wrong with this guy's words," Blind Man Bei communicated. "It seems that Master killed his family when he was in Qian."

"What I feel is wrong is his brain."

Zheng Fan then spoke at this time:

"Hero, I have one last question."

Hero Chen hesitated, but still nodded and said:

"Ask it. After you ask, I will draw my sword."

"Even in death, let me die with understanding. What's your name?"

Hero Chen frowned slightly,

And said:

"Haven't you been calling my name all along?"

"…" Zheng Fan.