Sole decision

It's raining today, not too big or too small, but rainy nights always kill people.

Recently, the Zhou family's defenses have become much stricter, and people's nerves are more likely to become tense at this time.

Aqi worked in Zhou's family for two years. At first, he thought that he could be as beautiful as the young and Dangerous boy in the movie, but the reality is not as he thought.Lucheng has been too peaceful for the past two years, and everyone has nothing to do. Later, guns were banned. He feels that the story of brotherly loyalty in the movie is getting farther and farther away from him.Just when he thought he was going to rust, Lucheng suddenly became chaotic.

He participated in several fights with weapons and was very brave. His boss liked him very much and sent him to Zhou's house for defense.I heard from the boss that today is a very important day, and the darker it is, the more you must concentrate on it.He and the people in the same group patrolled around, the rain pattered on the raincoat, and the surrounding area was fogged by the rain, no matter how serious we were, we couldn't see anything.

They wanted to have a drink after finishing their shift. At this moment, Aqi saw a small puddle in front of him being splashed by stones.He was stunned for a moment, and the people next to him asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and said it was all right, but he had a bad premonition in his heart.

He also likes to read messy novels, which say that this is a good weather for killing people.

Lightning flashed across the sky, and the dark path became brighter. The three of them looked up subconsciously, and saw a black shadow flying past, so fast that they couldn't see clearly.They immediately turned around cautiously, and heard the "bang" thunder, and there was a person standing three to five meters away from them.

The man stood tall and straight in the rain, the surrounding light was extremely poor, and there was only a silhouette.Another flash of lightning flashed across, and it was only then that he could clearly see two long knives pinned to the left and right sides of the man's waist, a long knife on his back, and a short knife that seemed to be pinned to his back waist.Five long and one short, like a monster stretching out cold tentacles in the darkness.

He was not a monster, his hair was combed neatly, as if it hadn't been disturbed by the rain, and Aqi could see his face clearly, it was Pei Zhaoxue.

There was thunder.

"Let me go." Pei Zhaoxue said.

The three of Aqi looked at each other and clenched the short sticks in their hands.They must not let Pei Zhaoxue go there. On the contrary, if they can capture Pei Zhaoxue alive, their status in the Zhou family will definitely rise.

They didn't move, Pei Zhaoxue simply walked forward, and the three of them involuntarily took a step back.Pei Zhaoxue continued to walk, and when she arrived in front of them, Aqi gritted his teeth and rushed over with a short stick in hand.Pei Zhaoxue only took off a knife from his waist, and did not draw the knife, and used the scabbard as a stick.He turned sideways, and Aqi's stick rushed over his head, but he couldn't hold back his strength. Pei Zhaoxue's scabbard hit him first on the neck, then on his waist, upper legs, three times in a row, the speed Quickly, Aceh knelt down on the ground.

Seeing this, the other two attacked together, but they were no match for Pei Zhaoxue, and fell down one after another.Pei Zhaoxue held a knife in one hand, and the three of them fell behind him. He didn't even look at them. Aqi was furious and said, "Do you know how many people are there tonight? It's impossible for you to break in alone."

Pei Zhaoxue acted as if she hadn't heard, and continued to walk forward. Aqi gritted his teeth and sent a signal to go out.

The Zhou family's mansion is at the end of this path, Pei Zhaoxue could hear people rushing over through the sound of the rain, many people.After he hurried for a short distance, a pair of men and horses rushed over in front of him, surrounding him layer by layer, counting carefully, there were about a dozen people.

"Get out of the way." Pei Zhaoxue said.

Everyone knew Pei Zhaoxue, and they were afraid, but they couldn't let Pei Zhaoxue go.Pei Zhaoxue's eyes swept over these people one by one. He didn't want to waste time, so he lifted the knife with his right hand, grasped the handle and pulled out the knife. At the same time, he also drew a knife from his waist with his left hand. Turned a knife flower, one knife was protected in front of the chest, the other was pinned to the back, and the tip of the knife pointed to the sky.

"Brother Pei, it's unreasonable." The leader said, "Let's go together!"

More than a dozen people wanted to take advantage of the number of people to subdue Pei Zhaoxue, but the two straight-edged long knives seemed to be able to cut off the rain, and the water droplets were dancing, and the light and rain of the knives flashed in front of people's eyes.The sword had no eyes, and after a while, the water flowing on the ground turned red.

Pei Zhaoxue crossed his knives and raised them above his head to block the short sticks of the two. At this time, someone attacked him from behind and strangled his neck. Someone came from the front. In order to avoid being suppressed by many people, he threw the knife in his hand. After stopping two people, he leaned back to lift his legs, kicked the opponent's chest and knocked him into the air, then turned his body inertially, twisted the neck of the person behind him with both hands, and the person also Turned over by him.Pei Zhaoxue landed steadily, with one knee pressed to the ground, and the other hand supporting the knee.

When someone falls, someone will make up for it. Pei Zhaoxue drew out the other two knives and rushed to the end in one go.When the back of his knife hit the head of the last person, he had already reached the gate of Zhou's house.

It's not very far from here to the dojo.

Both the door and the wall were very high, Pei Zhaoxue looked up, inserted the first knife in his hand into the wooden pillar, and stepped on it to use his strength to turn it in.The people inside didn't expect Pei Zhaoxue to come in like this, and they were a little dazed. Pei Zhaoxue didn't give them a chance to think, so he raised the knife and went up.

People go with the knife, the knife turns with the person, the shadows of the people don't stop, and the knife sees blood.A single knife directly killed the garden from the gate.

Zhou Ce was sitting in the middle of the dojo. He was a little bored. He looked at the time and saw that he would be there soon.He knew that Pei Zhaoxue was rushing over, but this road was not so easy.

Even the weather didn't give Pei Zhaoxue face, he was looking forward to seeing what Pei Zhaoxue looked like, maybe he could imagine it, so he closed his eyes.

There were footsteps, Zhou Ce didn't hear them, but he felt them.Pei Zhaoxue never missed an appointment, nor would she be late, the closer the time came, the heavier the footsteps.

Until Zhou Ce smelled blood.

When he opened his eyes, Pei Zhaoxue had already appeared at the door of the dojo.He was drenched in the rain, his shirt sticking to his skin, and the water splashed down his hair.There was blood on his shirt, but it wasn't his blood.

Zhou Ce saw him walking slowly, with a knife on his back, which was the Shingon Ritsu Sword.

Pei Zhaoxue fought all the way here, and his breathing was only less fluctuating than usual. He stood in front of Zhou Ce. At this moment, Zhou Ce smelled blood very clearly.He looked up at Pei Zhaoxue and asked, "Are you looking for me, or are you here to kill me?"

"It's all right." Pei Zhaoxue replied.

Zhou Ce said with a smile: "Axue, sometimes I really don't understand what you are thinking. If you want to kill me, you have countless better opportunities than now, and you can do it without anyone noticing."

"It's not important." Pei Zhaoxue said, "Just let's make a break between us."

"Break it if you say so?" Zhou Ce stood up, "The ones you lied to me..."

"Since when did you know?" Pei Zhaoxue asked.

Zhou Ce twitched the corner of his mouth and replied, "At the gas station, I didn't completely pass out. I heard most of the conversation between you and Li Ying."

"So." Pei Zhaoxue asked, "You knew it from the beginning?"

"I can also find out what you can find when you return to Lucheng." Zhou Ce didn't want to hide it anymore, "I know everything about you." So he chose to retreat to the back, which is why Lu Ai has Traveling outside for such a long time.He transferred most of the Zhou family's property outside without anyone noticing, even if the sky fell, he would not be caught off guard.

"But I was so naive, I thought you..." Zhou Ce clenched his fists, and his expression became a little struggling.He kept these secrets in his heart all the time. He had guessed that Pei Zhaoxue might take revenge. If Pei Zhaoxue wanted to kill him, he would not be surprised at all.He was observing Pei Zhaoxue, Pei Zhaoxue's quietness made him sometimes fantasize that maybe this person really didn't care about anything, maybe he was really numb, maybe they could live their lives in such a twisted way.

When he realized that Pei Zhaoxue had taken action, he even gave Pei Zhaoxue countless excuses to save her, but Pei Zhaoxue didn't say anything.

"Actually, from then on, it doesn't matter whether I die or not." Zhou Ce smiled bitterly, "You want to wipe out all the families, you want the era of Lucheng to end completely, right? You might as well just kill me for revenge Come faster, some things will not change even if they are ground into powder and turned into ashes, so why should you deceive yourself?

"Although it can't be changed, at least..." Pei Zhaoxue said, "I won't care about anything anymore. Everything I do is not out of revenge."

A look of surprise appeared on Zhou Ce's face.

"Zhou Ce, do you know? For a long time after that incident in the church, I really wanted to kill you. I wanted to kill you every midnight. But thinking and doing are sometimes two different things , I don’t want to be dominated by emotions. If I could find less reasons for myself at that time, things might be completely different.” Pei Zhaoxue said, “You know what happened in Yancheng later. I was very confused at that time. There are more reasons to kill you than before, but when I thought everything through, I gave up the idea."

Having said this, he stopped.Zhou Ce hadn't heard so many words from Pei Zhaoxue for a long time, nor had he heard Pei Zhaoxue talk about his inner thoughts. These words were a huge shock to him, enough for him to digest them for a long time.

I only heard Pei Zhaoxue continue to say: "For me, it doesn't really matter which outcome I choose. I don't have to seek a meaning. It doesn't matter whether it's my father or me... I don't want to live in the karma of revenge. As long as I can respect my original intention and do any one thing, then no matter how other people and things change, it has nothing to do with me."

"I have nothing to do with you, too?" Zhou Ce asked.

Pei Zhaoxue did not answer.

Zhou Ce suddenly said: "That person that day was Zhang Wenjie, right? Besides you, I have always been able to feel that there is an invisible force. I don't know when you merged together, but I can deduce that you The purpose is the same. Not only you, he... It can even be said that the power he represents needs to make these families fall apart. How did you make Zhang Wenjie trust you and be willing to cooperate with you?"

"I told him, if Zhou Ce can do it, so can I." Pei Zhaoxue took off the knife behind her back and held it in front of her face, "I am qualified, and I can replace it."

Zhou Ce laughed twice: "He believes you?"

"He believed in man's obsession with power."

"So do you really want to replace it?" Zhou Ce laughed for a while, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he said loudly to Pei Zhaoxue, "I said it! As long as you want, as long as I have, I can give it to you!"

"I don't want to." Pei Zhaoxue shook his head, "At the beginning, I asked you to find a way to settle the accounts and settle the accounts. You didn't think of a way, so let me do it now."

Zhou Ce said: "The matter between you and me will never end."

Pei Zhaoxue walked to the knife rest on the side, took the knife in front of him and threw it to Zhou Ce, Zhou Ce reached out to catch it.Pei Zhaoxue said: "The solution is very simple, either you die or I die."

He slowly pulled out the knife and placed it between him and Zhou Ce. Zhou Ce understood his intention.

When they were young, they often competed with sword skills in the dojo. Everyone hacked childishly with wooden knives, but Pei Zhaoxue had some tricks.The young boy always dissatisfied, and his brothers were often hurt by it.Fighting swords is a fairly ancient way of dueling for them, perhaps the easiest method when there is no other way to decide the winner.

It is also the most decent and fair way for the Zhou family.

Zhou Ce also pulled out the saber in his hand and waved it diagonally upwards. The back of the saber was attached to his back and turned around. He took the saber with his left hand and made a flexible circle. The saber was caught in his right hand. He leaned back a step and covered the saber with a horse step. .With an extremely chic knife-cutting style, the tip of the knife was directed towards Pei Zhaoxue.

Pei Zhaoxue's expression was simple, but it could be seen that he was fully focused on what was going to happen next.

With a sound of "cha", the two blades touched together.Pei Zhaoxue didn't expect Zhou Ce to attack fiercely as soon as he came up. After blocking him three times, Pei Zhaoxue discovered that Zhou Ce's sword skills were not unfamiliar, but skilled in moves and precise in strength.This reminded him of the moment when he was attacked in the hospital that year, Zhou Ce also showed his superb marksmanship.Perhaps for Zhou Ce, without his ability to learn well and badly, as long as he wants, he can do his best.

Zhou Ce didn't hide it, but he didn't care about being pampered by the immortal.

Another slash with a knife, Pei Zhaoxue held the knife in both hands to block, Zhou Ce's knife rested on top of him, Pei Zhaoxue felt that she shouldn't have any distracting thoughts at this time, raised her strength, stepped up and chopped Zhou Ce away with the knife, The knife turned and stabbed out directly.

The mantra's knife slashed iron like mud, blowing hair and breaking hair. Even if Zhou Ce dodged, there was a long wound on his chest by the point of the knife that was a hair's breadth away, and blood flowed out.He didn't even frown, he slashed left and right, swung the knife in the air once or twice, and slashed at Pei Zhaoxue.

There is only the sound of metal rubbing against each other in the dojo, and the sound is like lightning and thunder.The rain outside didn't stop, and the fight between the two inside became more and more intense, each had knife marks on their bodies, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

Zhou Ce was injured more severely than Pei Zhaoxue. He was beaten to the edge of the field by Pei Zhaoxue.Pei Zhaoxue hid the knife under his armpit, and when he pulled it out, he turned the knife with both hands, pressed the knife to the other side of his body, and switched his left and right hands to chop vertically. Zhou Ce had to roll on the ground in embarrassment, avoiding Pei Zhaoxue's knife.

At this time, Zhou Ce understood that Pei Zhaoxue really wanted to kill herself, she had no love or hate, and no emotional killing intent.Normally, he didn't think he could defeat Pei Zhaoxue, but now no matter what Zhou Ce thinks, he still has the highest instinct of a human being as an animal. When a suicide is on the verge of death, he will instinctively fight against death. Let alone him?

He fought with his life, and Pei Zhaoxue couldn't get any benefits for a while.With more and more injuries and more physical exertion, Pei Zhaoxue was panting again and again, but the saber did not lose the wind.Zhou Ce knew that if he went on like this, he would only fall into an endless quagmire. They all knew that the outcome was between one knife and another, so Zhou Ce tried his best to hit Pei Zhaoxue right on the head.

"drink--!"

Pei Zhaoxue took a deep breath, and the horizontal knife supported the falling blade.Zhou Ce's knife was so powerful that it made Pei Zhaoxue's mouth hurt. Pei Zhaoxue's blade slid past Zhou Ce's, and there was a crisp "crack" sound, and the knife in Zhou Ce's hand was split into two pieces. The tip of the knife flew out of the field and stuck straight into the wooden floor.

Zhou Ce was shocked, it was this loss of focus that made Pei Zhaoxue seize the opportunity, turned around and swung the saber.Zhou Ce was in a panic and didn't choose his way. He grabbed Pei Zhaoxue's hair and twisted him to get close to him.

The knife has a length and requires a certain distance to use it. The closer two people are, the harder it is to use the knife.Pei Zhaoxue didn't expect that Zhou Ce could use such indecent means at this time. Immediately afterwards, his waist was empty, and Zhou Ce pulled out the Jie Dao that was pinned behind his back.

Armor piercing with short knives, most suitable for melee attacks.Pei Zhaoxue made a decisive decision, turned the back of the knife and quickly drew the back of the knife. Zhou Ce's hair lost the strength to resist, and even he took a step back unbalanced. When he looked again, a braid that Pei Zhaoxue had originally combed fell into his hands. The snowman also distanced himself.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Ce felt a heat in his waist, and Pei Zhaoxue's knife had stabbed into his body. The knife was a bit off, but he seemed to lose all his strength at this moment, and he fell to the ground with a bang. When Pei Zhaoxue's knife was drawn out, he was Feel the pain in the heart.

He had never felt this kind of pain before, but in the next second, he didn't seem to feel the pain anymore.

His hands were struggling on the ground, but he couldn't get up no matter what, and he still had a handful of Pei Zhaoxue's hair in his hands.

Looking at Pei Zhaoxue's person again, his hair was all loose and cut unevenly with a knife. The long ones reached the shoulders, and the short ones didn't reach the ears.He actually cut off all the hair he had grown up since he was a child. Zhou Ce held the hair in his hand, all his emotions were choked in his throat, and blood vomited out.

It turns out that if people don't worry about it, they really don't care about anything.

Pei Zhaoxue walked towards Zhou Ce with the knife in his hand. He looked down at Zhou Ce condescendingly, then half-kneeled beside Zhou Ce, holding the tip of the knife high.

The Mantra and Law Saber has been passed down in the Zhou family for so many generations. It is said that there are countless dead souls under the sword. Zhou Ce wonders if there are any members of the Zhou family among them.Maybe the people of the Zhou family will always die under the law of mantra—because it is power, desire, and everything.

The moment the knife fell, Zhou Ce suddenly shouted: "Brother Pei!"

You can't hesitate to kill, let alone listen to your last words, but Pei Zhaoxue's knife stopped because Zhou Ce asked him why he was still wearing the necklace he gave him.

Pei Zhaoxue did not answer.

"Brother Pei, I loved you." Zhou Ce finally showed a painful expression on his face. He seems to have returned to his original appearance, he can vent his feelings, and he can ask Pei Zhaoxue hoarsely, "All these years, who do you think I have loved? !Even if you hate me!"

Pei Zhaoxue paused.

It was at this momentary pause that a bullet cut through the air and passed through Pei Zhaoxue's chest.Pei Zhaoxue couldn't even utter a sound, so she fell on Zhou Ce's body. Zhou Ce was soaked in blood like a flood that burst a bank.

Zhou Ce slowly raised his hands, his hands were covered in blood, he was a little lost, and when he realized what happened, he hugged Pei Zhaoxue with these blood-stained hands.

A Fei came in from the outside, holding a gun in his hand, maybe there was only one bullet in the gun, it was enough to kill one person.He lay in ambush outside for a long time, never finding a suitable opportunity, until just now.Obviously Pei Zhaoxue could have killed Zhou Ce first, but he didn't know why Pei Zhaoxue suddenly stopped.

In an instant, life and death are exchanged.

"He's dead." A Fei said to Zhou Ce who was lying on the ground, "He's also free."

Zhou Ce hugged Pei Zhaoxue's body without moving, his hand stroked Pei Zhaoxue's hair, his mouth moved, but A Fei couldn't hear what he was saying, and couldn't read it.

Axue, you shouldn't believe me.

There was so much blood that it seemed that even the rainy night outside was stained red.