The Demon Swordsman 2
Ch. 205 - Spy Hunter
Maybe the simple words were just to comfort him, but the boy was crying. Dipping his eyes with the back of his hand, sobbing sedan long enough. He nodded with difficulty, unable to make a sound.
"I'll definitely take care of them, I swear ..."
Lan Zhuxian had just snatched the spear in the enemy's hand, smashing the two spears crosswise over his opponent's neck. Making the wood break, the man in front of him fell down. Only he was left standing in the middle of the pitch-black night.
Xin Chen chuckled amusedly. "If this continues I also do not need to bother to intervene."
"I'm happy to help Young Master."
But it seemed like Lan Zhuxian did not catch the annoyed face on Xin Chen's face.
"I can die of boredom if all the things you do."
"That's my duty, my lord."
"Well!" Xin Chen exclaimed to break the flow of the debate. Lan Zhuxian raised his head.
"What's up, my lord?"
"Look, this is how it is." Xin Chen flicked his finger, "Your first task, find these children a place to stay. Got ideas?"
Lan Zhuxian looked at the five children who were then looking back at him with hopeful eyeballs.
"I have no objection to bringing the five of them along"
"Don't joke. You want to put an army of kids behind me? We're not going on a sightseeing tour." The veins on Xin Chen's forehead appeared, from the very beginning he indeed could not rely on others like Lan Zhuxian. Maybe going alone is the right choice.
However as he looked at the little boy, Xin Chen remembered himself in the past. Traveling with the Thunder Fox in her first adventure exploring the world. He was silent for quite a while, not knowing where the shitty fox went. Xin Chen still could not forget that the figure of the fox was so important to him.
"Master, I have some acquaintances who live on the hill. He's an information salesman too, I heard that guy opened an orphanage in his house."
"Then ..." Xin Chen took a heavy breath, "You take them to a safe place. Make sure their lives are safe."
"By pleasure, my lord."
Xin Chen had disappeared into the darkness of the night, Lan Zhuxian looked out in all directions. Little murmuring to himself, "Then these grown-ups? Also sent to an orphanage?"
Lan Zhuxian was hit by a big problem that made his head dizzy instead of a bitch. He did not know what to expect from the adults who had passed out. Their numbers are many. Lifting them one by one was just a waste of time.
"We have to leave immediately. These adults must have their own way of survival." Then Lan Zhuxian stuffed some gold pieces into their pockets. That's all the money he's got. Maybe enough to buy them food.
"Stop!"
A man with an open chest shows his chest that is field, while his skinny friend frail walking snobbishly, he who just shouted. The second face of them was pongah, typical of the robbers who ruled the forest and deserted places. Restrict certain areas as their land and require that its victims pay 'passing money'.
Xin Chen had run out of patience, how many times had he been intercepted in these past three days. Hot as well his eyes saw that arrogant look.
"Hoi, hoi, don't you ignore us?" The bigger man pushed Xin Chen's shoulder with the sword still sheathed. But all he felt was that it didn't touch anything.
Xin Chen himself only used his shaped form at certain moments. Using a human body also absorbed his spirit power that had once been destroyed when dealing with the Demon Queen. Undeniably, at that time the Demon Queen managed to kill the entire spirit residing in the Spirit Control Book.
The reason why Renwu City became a sinister land was because the lives of thousands of humans were exhausted in the former land of war. The spirits there were not calm, they were crushed under rubble, burning fire, slashed with iron and melted by the Dark Dragon. In just one night, without any sign of it the city shattered into a scorched earth on the map of the Shang Empire.
Waiting for a reply got nothing, the man had intended to stoop down on Xin Chen's feet. Again, he was just puffing empty air. This time seriously, he looked at Xin Chen in an uncovered fear.
As if supporting the atmosphere, Xin Chen instead smiled sinisterly. Makes the man with the burly body almost pee in his pants.
"Se-demon!!!" screeching, the shudders blurred after that hideous smile, his hair rose as a cold aura haunted him. To the extent that the man paid no more attention to the money bag he dropped, he was conscious and too afraid to go back to pick it up.
Xin Chen chuckled, taking the money bag with pleasure. "Mistakenly made me your target. I should've confiscated all his clothes and swords." Xin Chen snorted incensed, people like them would be rewarded with the law or feared by being locked up in prison would never be afraid. Robbing them back became the most pleasant way for Xin Chen to give them some awareness. Even though he himself is not sure if it really affects whether it does not.
"Ult them again!?"
Furious with anger appearing behind the tree a little far away from him, Xin Chen approached to the source of the voice. Peering at the approximately eight soldiers were marching, gathering to negotiate something. Some of them were severely injured, the blood on their faces drying up. Describe how much sacrifice they made to devote themselves to the Empire. The responsibility given to the group of soldiers was a heavy burden; against an enemy that secretly destroyed them.
"I didn't think those people would run away rather than defend their own land! Those fools-!" His frustration culminated in a hot afternoon, getting heated up his head that was already engulfed in emotion.
"We have to apply for help to the superiors, this can't be allowed anymore! They broke the agreement seven years ago. The Devil Sword Treaty and Qin Yijun ... All the sacrifices of the Demon Sword were in vain! I'm not gonna let that happen, give up everything we got"
"But we don't have the rest of the team anymore. All is over, many have resigned. They don't want to take the trouble to sacrifice their lives just for the sake of a poor land ..."
The highest among them only clicked an annoyed tongue. The morale of the soldiers was decreasing year after year, the motivation to protect everyone became the motivation to save themselves. As the most senior of all, the man felt this change.
"Then, we'll just! We will drive them out with or without bloodshed! I don't care anymore, at least in this way our lives die with honor!"
The man's voice boomed loudly, rumbling in the ears of another soldier. Those tough people with a stance as strong as steel dared to die for an Empire that didn't even look at them. The self-esteem they held sky-high at times made Xin Chen envious.
"Hey, someone's spying on us! He must be one of them! Catch her!"
Instantly the soldier spies turned towards Xin Chen were about to hunt him down.