Twelve Trials from Scratch

The reed flower was silent, but the red ghost laughed loudly, put the knife back into its sheath, turned around and walked to the original seat, "Come here and pour me wine."

Lu Hua glanced at the women and followed them unhurriedly.

On the other side, the second son, who was about to report the news, let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the boss was in a better mood, and finally found a chance to come forward, and said cautiously: "Um... Boss, Sanlang said before that he was going to urinate in the woods. I haven't come back yet, I'm afraid something happened."

Chi Gui held the wine cup in his hand, and while letting the reed flower pour the wine, he turned his head to look at it, and said casually, "Sanlang? Who is that? Is there such a person on our side?"

……

As the night darkened, in the village, there was a simple dwelling that hadn't been burned down.

"That...Brother Su Qi..." Xiao Chi stood by the door, looking at someone who was holding a candle and rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the room, with an expression of "I don't know what to do", said weakly: " Is it really okay to steal people's things like this?"

"Xiao Hina, we are righteous people who are about to challenge the evil bandits..."

Su Qi dug out a fairly new set of men's uniforms from a box in the corner, made gestures on himself a few times, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Can a just cause be called stealing? We are crowdfunding for justice! In short, with equipment and funds, we have the ability to carry out justice, and what we are taking now should be the commission I collected for helping them avenge."

"I don't understand what you're saying at all."

After a while, Su Qi, who put on a top and bottom pants and a light blue costume of the same era, extinguished the candle and walked out of the room.

"Brother Su Qi, are you going to steal from other people's houses next?"

"Ahem, I said it's not stealing, it's crowdfunding. You see, the slippers on my feet are so inconvenient. What if I accidentally slipped my feet during the battle later? So of course we have to crowdfund a new pair of shoes Come out."

As he spoke, he looked around on the small road in the village.

On the outskirts of the village, the burnt-out houses were still flickering with sparks; except for the lights on the side of the big house, the whole village was dead silent, only the faint moonlight illuminated, barely able to see things.

There were not many robbers, and as soon as the corpses were disposed of, they all gathered in the mansion in the center of the village to have fun, so Su Qi and Xiao Chi could walk in the village without any publicity, and there was no risk of being discovered .

In other words, even if you show it a little more, you probably won't be discovered.

Next, Su Qi's "crowdfunding" operation went very smoothly. Not only did he get shoes that fit his feet and some food, but he also found a good-looking samurai sword from a villager's house. It should be picked up from a nearby battlefield and privately obtained. Hidden.Probably because the robbers were careless when they searched for the loot, this knife was cheap for him.

"The next step is to wait until the robbers are all asleep and their guard is the most relaxed..."

Everything was ready, Su Qi and Xiao Chi found a homeless house not far from the mansion to stay temporarily.

Xiao Chi was still a child, she couldn't hold on after eating something, and soon leaned against the corner of the wall and fell into a deep sleep.Su Qi was sitting by the door, trying to hold up his eyelids, while looking at the moon in the sky, while counting the time, planning to assassinate the robbers at midnight after all the robbers fell asleep.

That's right, sneaking into the assassination is what he is going to do.Anyway, those robbers are still humans, not monsters, and if a person is killed, he will die... There are many enemies, and he can only use this method to make up for the gap in strength.

Afterwards, time passed slowly, and when Su Qi woke up again, he suddenly found... the sky... dawn!

"..."

He stared blankly at the dazzling morning sun for a while, then silently lowered his head, looked at the samurai sword beside him, and fell into a long silence.

Did I stab myself?Or stab yourself?

Chapter 8 He sneaked in

After all, Su Qi still didn't stab himself.

It's not that he's afraid of pain, he can't hold a knife with soft hands... Well, it's true that he's a little afraid of pain, but the main reason is still that he doesn't want to waste the number of retracements.

Even though he has died twice, for Su Qi, the pain and emptiness before death is definitely not a wonderful experience.So his idea is very simple, it is okay to die, but it must be worthwhile.

So he took advantage of the early time, and those robbers might not have woken up drunk, changed his plan, focused on gathering intelligence, and sneaked into the village chief's house alone.

Su Qi's profession is a writer, not an assassin (berserker).Unless the two sides fought hand-to-hand, it would be difficult for even a robber to win, so he rushed to the street halfway without any suspense, but he also took the opportunity to learn key information such as the layout of the house, the distribution of the robbers, and the location of the hostages.

Then, Su Qi slept for a long time in that pure white space, until he was so full of energy that he almost overflowed, then he clicked the button again and chose to read the archive.

But this time, the place where he appeared was no longer the grassy slope, but the house where he and Xiao Chi last stayed last night.

Outside the door, the village and fields were bathed in moonlight, and there was silence under the night sky.

Su Qi, who was sitting by the door, blinked his eyes, regained his senses, glanced at Xiao Chi who was breathing lightly and sleeping peacefully in the corner, and thought in his heart.

"The skill description of death return is 'reverse time after death, rebirth to a stable time after the last battle', sure enough, I can't freely choose the save point and loading point. The last battle was to kill the robber in the woods , The stable time point should refer to the meaning of being safe and staying at a place above the specified time, otherwise I should appear in the temporary stronghold outside the village, not in this room.

"Compared to the free choice of save points and load points, this restriction prevents me from restarting completely in a certain world. I can only repeat it in the time period between two battle rounds, and always do what I think is the best. until the result.

"So even if I find out that I have regrets in the later stage, it may not be able to make up for it, because once I skip that time period, I can't go back. This is to let me choose carefully. Don't you think that there is a meaning of returning to death? In addition , How to define 'combat' in the skill description? Is it a 'battle'? Is it a war consisting of many short battles? Is it a 'battle' or multiple 'battles'?"

……

In his free time, he quietly thought about his abilities and his plan of action later.It wasn't until the moon was high, and it was estimated that it was almost one or two o'clock after midnight, that he stood up, stretched his muscles and bones, took the knife, and walked towards the village chief's mansion under the moonlight.

This gang of robbers was indeed a mob. At this point in time, even the two who were ordered to guard the woman were sleeping like dead pigs, leaning against the closed warehouse door and snoring loudly.

So even a rookie assassin like Su Qi, who had only played Berserker's Creed, successfully eliminated all the bandit minions except the leader.Well, just died four times.

For the first time, the stealth skill was not enough, the robber was awakened, and he was besieged and died.

The second time, the technique of covering the mouth and cutting the throat was unskilled, and the victim was asked to sound a warning, and was besieged and hanged.

The third time, I was unlucky. On the way to stealth, I happened to meet a robber who peed at night. The two stared at each other for a while, made noises in the struggle, and were killed by the siege.

The fourth time, a robber struggled too hard before he died, and woke up the robbers next to him by surprise, and was besieged once and died.

And through these four retracements, he knew where the robbers slept and how many people were in a room; he knew who slept lightly and who slept deeply, who was strong and who was weak, who was alert, and who Unresponsive, who will wake up at what time at night, who can cover up the movement with loud snoring; he also knows where to hide, which floor is too noisy, which room has poor sound insulation, etc.

The so-called failure is success, it is because of the experience gained in exchange for blood and life that he can finally marry successfully for the fifth time.

……

Mansion assassination level, fifth week.

Moonlight shone in through the half-open paper door, and the dim Japanese room was filled with a faint smell of blood.The two corpses looked terrified, lying on their backs on the crooked tatami, blood spilling from their necks, glowing a viscous dark red color under the smudged moonlight.

Su Qi raised his knife and got up, exhaled a long breath, looked down at the corpse under his feet, his face was full of exhaustion.

He is very tired, not only tired physically, but also mentally.Infiltrating and assassinating are far from simple things in the game. Even if you know you will not die, you can repeat it countless times, but the process is still unavoidable. Tension and fear.And this kind of experience was four times in a row, which really made him feel exhausted and hollowed out physically and mentally.

"Hey, how did I suddenly become an assassin when I was a dead house? The pressure is huge..."

Su Qi sighed, walked out of the room, basked in the moonlight in the corridor for a while, finally pulled himself together, and came to the door of the Japanese room where the bandit leader was.

Perhaps because they were afraid that the women would take the opportunity to take revenge, the robbers locked the women in the warehouse while they were sleeping, which saved Su Qi a lot of trouble.As the leader, Chi Gui is even more extreme. He doesn't even trust the other accomplices, so he sleeps alone in a room by himself, and claims that he likes to kill people in his dreams, so that others are absolutely not allowed to enter his bedroom.

Obviously, this once again provided Su Qi with convenience.

"Ninety-ninety people travel hundreds of miles. This is the last one, and he is still the leader of the bandits. You must not be careless."

The moonlight cast his figure on the paper door, and he warned inwardly. He pulled out the knife beforehand, then half-kneeled in front of the door, grabbed the door frame with his left hand, and slowly pulled it open.

The frosty moonlight spread along the slightly enlarged door gap on the indoor floor, and the interior was dark, only the sound of a clear and powerful breathing echoed slowly.

Su Qi grabbed the knife with his right hand, propped his left hand on the ground, carefully moved his legs, and walked in with his knees.

He looked at it by the moonlight, and saw six stacks of rectangles and the room was empty, not even a single candlestick.And in the middle of the Japanese room, a tall man with a long knife in his arms, put the armor he had taken off on his side, curled up on the tatami like a baby in the womb, in a very strange sleeping position.

There's no need to restrain your voice anymore, just take it away with one knife!

Su Qi sat on his knees by the door, quietly observed the target for a while, and saw that the latter had no abnormalities, then slowly walked to his back with his knees, so that the midline of his body was facing the back of his neck.

ended……

Holding the handle with both hands, he slowly raised the knife. The long and narrow blade reflected a cold light in the dark room.

Then he lowered his head, locked his cold eyes on the back of the neck of the person in front of his knees, took a deep and soothing breath, swung his hands down, and slammed them down!

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boom!

The blade cut into the floor, but the person who was supposed to be killed turned over and dodged at the very moment, with his back against the paper door, half kneeling opposite, staring at Su Qi with a stern expression.

"who are you?"

As he got up, he drew out the long knife and threw the scabbard at his feet.

click...

Su Qi pulled out the saber, stood up as well, and said with a smile, "It's just a ronin who happened to pass by with a sense of justice in his heart."

While speaking, his muscles were tense, his heart was beating rapidly, and he subconsciously gripped the handle of the knife even tighter, feeling unstoppable tension and...fear in his heart.

His rationality is not afraid of death, let alone the bandit leader in front of him, because he knows that he will never die; but his sensibility and instinct are afraid, afraid of the pain that death will bring, afraid of the dangerous aura of this man in front of him.

In Su Qi's feeling, the red ghost was fundamentally different from the previous gangsters who were called robbers, but were actually not much different from farmers.It's not just that the figure is taller and burlier, and the appearance is more fierce and stern, but it's something more ethereal and elusive.

Either murderous, or ferocious, or the aura of the so-called strong, or the breath of blood and fire after many battles... In short, just standing in front of him is like facing a fierce beast like a liger face to face. , making people feel chills in the heart, like a glow on the back, as if they might be bitten to death at any time.

So don't look at Su Qi's relaxed and nonsensical mood on the surface, in fact, he is just losing but not losing, and has actually given up treatment.However, death is also worth dying, so even if he knows he must lose, he must obtain as much information as possible.

"you are lying."

On the opposite side, Chi Gui's tall body stood tall like an iron tower, and his sharp knife-like eyes looked Su Qi up and down, "Your skin has no traces of wind and sun, and your clothes are too clean. Novice, your standing posture is no different from that of ordinary people.

"Although your figure is taller than the average person, you can only be called healthy, not solid, and not like a real warrior who has gone through a lot of tempering and has no extra fat. So... who are you?"

While speaking, the long knife he held in front of him slowly lowered, and his tense body gradually relaxed, and it was obvious that he was no longer as vigilant as before.Because he has already seen through the details of his opponent, the person in front of him cannot pose a threat to him.

Su Qi ignored the other party's question. While staring at him closely, secretly guarding against possible attacks at any time, he said, "I'm curious, why did you escape my knife just now when you clearly fell asleep."

"Hmph, because your killing intent is too obvious, and I have already developed a premonition to deal with the crisis..."

Chi Gui didn't mind telling the answer to a dying person, but he quickly lost interest in the weak man in front of him, "Forget it, it doesn't matter who you are, you're going to die anyway. Those trash haven't moved yet , should have been killed by you, right? But it is definitely not a face-to-face confrontation, but a sneak attack while they are asleep, right?"

After finishing speaking, holding the knife and raising his foot, he approached Su Qi leisurely.

In an instant, the latter felt that the entire Japanese room had become a hunting ground, and the red ghost walking towards him was the Beastmaster proudly patrolling the territory, and he was a little white rabbit who had strayed into it.

Cold sweat unconsciously oozes from his forehead, Su Qi's knuckles holding the knife are slightly white, he is so nervous that he can't even speak, he can only follow the red ghost to come forward step by step, step by step retreating towards the corner of the wall.

"Are you afraid?"

"It's too tense. If you do this, your body will become stiff, your movements will be slow, and it will be difficult to go all out when you swing the knife. If you continue like this...you won't even be able to catch my knife."

As the red ghost approached, he smiled and taught Su Qi the essentials of fighting like a teacher.

"If I were you, I would slow down my breathing, relax my body, adjust my body and mind, and leave a third of my strength when I exert myself... Yes, that's it, it's... now!!"

After the last word was pronounced, his body moved like a rabbit, and he rushed out.

boom! !