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Tang Lian felt like her mind was a complete mess, with fragments constantly emerging and eventually stringing together to form a complete memory.
He seemed to hear a cacophony of shouts, which made his head ache even more.
He opened his eyes and saw blurry, flickering lights and shadows.
Finally, it became clearly a face.
Lei Wujie's large eyes, one of which was bruised, still brimmed with concern and excitement.
"You're really awake, Brother Tang. How are you feeling?"
Tang Lian closed her eyes again, and the dull pain in her mind seemed to be gradually disappearing.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "What... what's wrong with me?"
Lei Wujie visibly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard him speak.
"We were just about to ask you something. We went to watch the excitement, but when we turned around, we saw you lying under the tree."
We initially thought you had been ambushed, but you don't have a single wound on your body.
Strangely, I can't wake you up no matter what I do.
Sikong Qianluo's voice came from the side, filled with deep doubt.
A masked face suddenly flashed through Tang Lian's mind, and he instantly opened his eyes and sat up.
He pounded his head with his hand: "Something's not right."
It seems that they were indeed ambushed.
With a hint of pain on her face, Tang Lian tried hard to recall all the details and gave a general account of what had happened.
Lei Wujie and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
Ultimately, all eyes fell on Xiao Se.
After all, of the few people present, only Xiao Se was truly knowledgeable about matters of the martial arts world.
Xiao Se frowned.
"Don't look at me like that."
In the martial arts world, there are quite a few people who can secretly ambush others without anyone noticing.
But I have never heard of a description like Tang Lian's.
But no matter what, I had a bad feeling about it.
We're probably being watched.
Chapter 155 Take a Blow from Old Sun!
As night fell, the rain seemed to intensify.
There weren't many guests at the inn. The innkeeper and the waiter were leaning against the counter, talking in hushed tones.
Tang Lian did not come out of her room due to her inexplicable injuries.
Inside the main hall, Xiao Se, Sikong Qianluo, Lei Wujie, and Ye Ruoyi sat around an octagonal table.
Several dishes were laid out on the table, mostly seafood, primarily fish and crab.
However, none of the people had any appetite for food or drink.
"Xiao Se, are you saying we're being watched?"
Lei Wujie twisted a crab leg and sucked on it twice.
Xiao Se nodded: "That's for sure. Dong Sang, this is our first time here, and we haven't made any enemies in the past few days."
It's impossible for Tang Lian to be plotted against just because she climbed a tree and glanced at someone.
So I think this is most likely aimed at me.
Those present were naturally not outsiders. Sikong Qianluo, needless to say, had now inherited the identity of the Vermilion Bird Guardian, while Lei Wujie was the Azure Dragon Guardian.
As for Ye Ruoyi, she and Xiao Se were childhood sweethearts and close friends.
Therefore, they could all understand the hidden meaning behind Xiao Se's words.
Even during the last raid on the Heroes' Banquet in the Dark River, although the target was Snow Moon City, Xiao Se knew very well that the reason for targeting Snow Moon City was ultimately because of him.
So it wasn't surprising to Xiao Se that someone was targeting them.
Seeing Lei Wujie gnawing on the crab claws for a long time, Ye Ruoyi shook her head, grabbed a crab herself, dismantled it with a tool, and pushed it in front of Lei Wujie. Lei Wujie was stunned for a moment, and then revealed a silly smile that Xiao Se couldn't bear to look at.
Ye Ruoyi found it somewhat amusing, and was in a good mood.
"So who do you think it could be?"
Of all those present, she actually understood the situation in Tianqi City better than Xiao Se.
Xiao Se is undoubtedly a genius and very smart, but he has been away from Tianqi for several years. Even with the information provided by Baixiaotang, there are some things that cannot be explained by intelligence alone.
After all, Bai Xiaotang wouldn't be so meticulous as to treat everything as intelligence.
When Sikong Qianluo saw Ye Ruoyi's actions, she stared at the crab for a long time, stirred her hands under the table a couple of times, seemingly hesitant and somewhat restless, but ultimately did not move.
She and Xiao Se are not the same as Lei Wujie and Ye Ruoyi.
Sikong Qianluo could tell that the two were in love with each other. Although she didn't quite understand their way of getting along, it was very different from her relationship with Xiao Se.
She naturally liked the desolate scenery.
But Xiao Se, aside from constantly criticizing her, never seemed to reveal anything about himself...
She never knew what this guy was thinking.
Xiao Se, on the other hand, took the crab, quickly dismantled it into pieces, and then naturally swapped plates with Sikong Qianluo.
His eyes were fixed on Ye Ruoyi, but his mouth kept moving.
"I don't think it matters who it is. If I can guess, you can guess too."
But this makes no sense.
The biggest problem now is how to find this group of people.
To be honest, I'm feeling a little uneasy right now.
They're ambushing us from the underground river, at least they're not hiding it.
When they meet head-on, there will naturally be some small, unremarkable guys to hold them off.
But the biggest problem is that we don't even know who's behind this or how they're doing it.
Lei Wujie heard his name called and looked up at Xiao Se.
"Of course, if they dare to show up, I'll chop them all down." As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Ye Ruoyi, who straightened her back.
Xiao Se rolled his eyes at him.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and the closed inn door was blown open.
A strong wind blew in, carrying a little rain.
The waiter muttered a few curses, probably cursing the weather or something.
But the next moment, he scrambled back.
His face was filled with terror: "A ghost! A ghost!"
Another bolt of lightning struck, and Lei Wujie had already stood up, gripping the Heart Sword leaning against the table.
Then, in the flash of lightning, they all saw a person, a person wearing a monkey mask.
The man stood in front of the inn, facing the wind and rain.
"who?"
Lei Wujie shouted, and then saw the monkey suddenly smile.
It then seemed to merge into the rain and disappear.
Lei Wujie drew his sword and stepped out the door in a few steps. It was pitch black outside, with only the heavy rain pouring down. The sound of the rain seemed to make the world noisy.
"Lei Wujie, watch out behind you!"
Just then, he heard Ye Ruoyi's slightly anxious shouts.
Lei Wujie subconsciously turned around, and suddenly, a face fell down from above.
A face with three eyes.
In the sight of Xiao Se and the others, they saw a person hanging upside down in front of the door, with his hands on Lei Wujie's shoulders.
Lei Wujie only felt a faint light flash before his eyes, and his mind was momentarily confused.
The next moment, he retreated rapidly, and with a swift movement of his sword, he unleashed a burst of sword energy that cleaved through the rain curtain.
Lei Wujie heard a surprised voice, and then the figure vanished in a flash.
Yang Xin was shocked and anxious.
Since he obtained this divine general mask, his three eyes have been able to capture souls, making him invincible.
Everyone has distracting thoughts, and his soul-capturing technique amplifies those thoughts a hundredfold, instantly shattering the soul.
The most important thing is that this move is very subtle and impossible to defend against.
There are very few cultivation techniques in the world that directly target the soul; at least Yang Xin had never encountered one.
He used this method to kill many people who were stronger than him.
The elder who raised him once told him that foolish mortals all have obsessions in their hearts, and these obsessions are the inner demons.
His divine general mask possesses the power to subdue demons, capable of erasing all of a person's thoughts.
Even if he doesn't die, he'll become an idiot.
But what's up with this guy in the flashy red clothes?
It turned out I was just momentarily dazed, and nothing happened.
How could there possibly be someone in this world without any ulterior motives?
Or perhaps, this guy is just an idiot?
Lei Wujie recovered incredibly quickly, and his counterattack came as a surprise to him.
Even though he dodged quickly, a piece of his robe was still torn by the sword energy.
"Where did this coward come from? If you're so capable, come out and fight me for three hundred rounds!"
Lei Wujie was somewhat bewildered; he had truly been startled just now.
Suddenly, I remembered what Tang Lian had said before; she seemed to have mentioned this kind of mask.
Could it be that he plotted against Tang Lian?
That shouldn't be the case, considering that Brother Tang Lian is quite strong.
"Hey kid, where are you looking?"
"Take this from my old Sun's staff, hey!"
Suddenly, he heard the wind and rain intensify behind him. Lei Wujie turned around abruptly and saw a steel rod, which struck him on the head.
By the light of the inn's lanterns, he saw the monkey mask again, exactly the same one that Sikong Qianluo wore during the day.
The mask seemed to have grown out of the person's face, and it was incredibly lifelike.
Chapter 156 Murder on a Rainy Night
"The golden monkey wields its mighty cudgel, clearing the jade sky of dust for ten thousand miles!"
Hehehe... I, Old Sun, haven't seen a demon like you in a long time.
"Go lie down obediently for your grandpa!"
Lei Wujie parried with his sword, feeling the blow as powerful and heavy as if it weighed a thousand pounds.
The Heart Sword was bent into an astonishing arc.