Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 132 Attack (1800 votes plus more)
Everyone was having a lively and happy New Year's Eve dinner. Seeing that Ren Yuan had no intention of going to sleep, the senior sister reminded him: "Shouldn't you practice in your dream?"

Ren Yuan shook his head and smiled, "No hurry, let's spend the New Year together first."

"That's great!" Senior Sister said with a happy smile: "This is the first year we spend together!"

Obviously, she also hoped to be with Ren Yuan tonight.

"That's right, this year has not been easy." Wen Li said happily: "Let's not sleep tonight, let's drink and chat until dawn!"

"Snore..." Red Leopard expressed his support, but in the blink of an eye he fell asleep beside the warm fire.

Everyone leaned on the red leopard and chatted in a relaxed mood. I don't know if it was because of the fatigue from the journey or because they were too relaxed. After a while, they fell asleep head to head with the red leopard snoring.

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In the hall, the warm firelight flickered quietly, and the shadows of the people reflected on the ground also jumped...

At some point, a few more black shadows appeared on the ground, swimming silently towards the crowd.

Then, those shadows stood up from the ground, turned into human forms, raised their black blades, and stabbed at the sleeping people.

With a swish, the sharp blade that was stabbing at Su Xiaoxiao passed through her body without any obstruction, but missed.

With a clang, the short sword that was stabbing at Ren Yuan was blocked by the Qingming Shield. Before the black shadow could put away his sword, Ren Yuan, who was well prepared, chopped down his sword and arm with one blow.

The remaining few black shadows were all killed on the spot by the senior sister with the bone sword at an astonishing speed!

Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the enemies lying in ambush outside howled and rushed into the hall from all directions, hoping to win by relying on their numerical advantage.

As a result, Ren Yuan and Su Xiaoxiao didn't have time to take any action before they were chopped to the ground by their furious senior sister.

The warm and cozy New Year's Eve scene just now turned into a living hell with corpses everywhere...

"I told you not to ruin my year!" Senior sister's bone sword was stained red, and she was still slashing angrily. Ren Yuan pulled her away and coaxed her for a long time before he calmed her down.

On the other side, Su Xiaoxiao quickly checked around and made sure there were no ambushes, so she came back to interrogate the prisoner whose arm was chopped off by Ren Yuan.

"Look, it's New Year's Day, why do you have to do this?" Su Xiaoxiao sighed softly, sat down elegantly opposite the man and said, "Tell me, who are you? Why are you still working on New Year's Eve?"

"..."The man was barefoot, with a blue cloth wrapped around his head and a big earring on his left ear. It was obvious that he was not dressed like a Han Chinese.

He covered his broken arm, his eyes full of resentment, and uttered an incomprehensible murmur. Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Forget it. I'm a ghost. Your spells won't work on me."

The man stopped talking, but it was obvious that he understood Chinese.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "I know even if you don't tell me that you are descendants of the Yelang Kingdom. The village should be not far away, right?"

As she spoke, she raised her hand with a jade bracelet on it, pointed at the corpses scattered all over the ground and said, "If you still don't speak, we can only go to the village and ask your family members."

The man looked at the murderous female god who had just been appeased, and finally let go of his arrogance. He asked in a muffled voice, "How did you find us?"

"The door gods we just put up are just for show? Door gods are the gods that guard the gates. Do you understand?" Su Xiaoxiao answered the question first, then asked with a smile: "Then what's wrong with you? Why do you want to bring bad luck to us if you have no grudge against us?"

"Someone is willing to pay and wants to find you." The man said in stiff Chinese.

"Who is it?" Su Xiaoxiao asked. There was an almost imperceptible charm in her voice that made people relax their guard involuntarily.

"It's an organization called Minggui." The man replied, "They know you are going west, but they have too few people here, so they offered a high reward. They asked the local underworld forces and green forest heroes to help find you." "After reporting the news, I thought you must have been discovered by many people along the way. I was afraid that I wouldn't get the reward, so I wanted to arrest you first to be safe. Alas, who would have thought..." The man sighed with regret, and said angrily:
"But Minggui's people said that your strength is no more than three orifices, and that woman must have more than five orifices, right?"

"How do you know that we are the people we are looking for?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

"In this world where evil spirits are rampant and the weather is freezing cold. Isn't it obvious that a man and a woman are riding a leopard and running in the deep mountains and forests?" the man replied.

"..."Su Xiaoxiao was speechless.

She questioned the man again, and when she could not get anything new out of him, she waved her hand and put his soul into her oil-paper umbrella.

"This time, it was all thanks to my sister's alertness that she discovered them in advance." Ren Yuan then spoke.

"A Yuan, do you know how many times I've been chased by someone?" Su Xiaoxiao said with a wry smile, "I definitely need more experience in this area."

"How did they know we came from the west?" asked the senior sister at this time.

"..." Ren Yuan looked at the bone sword in her hand, thought for a moment and said, "This thing was taken from Mr. Chen, I'm afraid it has something strange."

"Well, this is the only possibility." The senior sister thought about it and it was true. This was the only object they had that was related to Ming Gui.

He was about to throw it out of the hall, but Ren Yuan stopped him and said, "This is a good thing, there's no need to throw it away. I'll just keep it."

"Oh, right." Senior Sister stuck out her tongue in embarrassment. "My mind gets stuck at night and I forget you have a solution."

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Thousand miles on the ship.

Everyone had been here for a long time. Although they couldn't eat or drink, the atmosphere was still quite harmonious as it was New Year's Day.

Even the impolite little girl smiled today and sat there chatting with everyone, of course she mainly listened to Chen Baxian's bragging...

Chen Baxian was talking about his exciting experience of going to Taihu Lake and catching an old turtle spirit when he saw a flash of white light in front of him and Ren Yuan finally got on the boat.

"Haha, Happy New Year, third brother!" Chen Baxian and others stood up and laughed.

Chen Ling's two daughters also stood up and bowed, saying, "From now on, I wish everything will be better than before."

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year." Ren Yuan bowed and took out a red envelope with a smile, saying, "This ship owner has given red envelopes to everyone."

"Thank you very much." Everyone smiled and accepted the money, even though it was useless on the boat. But who wouldn't want to have a good start?
Ren Yuan also prepared a beautiful high-top hat with curled brim for Xiao Heizi. Xiao Heizi took it expressionlessly, but put it on immediately.

"A gift. It can greatly increase people's favorability."

Ren Yuan handed the bone sword to it again and asked it to put it away in the warehouse.

Everyone present, except the little monk and the little girl, was very careful and knew that Ren Yuan was in trouble when they saw this.

"Why did you put away the elder sister's weapons?" Chen Baxian asked hurriedly.

"This thing has attracted the Minggui people." Ren Yuan replied: "I guess they won't be able to find it after we get it on the ship."

"Ming Gui?" Chen Lingzhi frowned slightly when he heard that.

(End of this chapter)