I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 36 Sword Light

When Pei Ju finally left, he asked Na Xun clearly that if he didn't wear armor, he could only train, not practice sparring.

For sparring, you need armor, either bring your own or buy it here.

A set of armor here costs about 5,000 yuan, which is more expensive than outside, but she said that hers is better made.

If you want to be a swordsmanship instructor, you only need to come here once a week for instruction.

The school pays some salary, but it's not much actually. It mainly relies on the various clubs in the school to register, and there is no membership fee at all. Ordinary people can learn a lot of knowledge about mysticism here.

If you perform well in a school club and have excellent grades, it will be much easier to find a related job. It is not necessary to have good academic performance.

Here, there is more than one path in life.

The most important thing is that the club teaches things, and the president of the sword club is a swordsman who has obtained a professional certificate.

Pei Ju also needs to take the first-level swordsman qualification exam.

The first two levels of the swordsman qualification certificate belong to the apprentice level, while the third level is a professional swordsman. The difference between professional and apprentice is huge.

Apprentices can only learn sword skills, but professionals must have their own professional abilities.

If you want to study outside, the training fee will be more expensive. For example, the training class opened by Tian Youhan before cost 9,999 yuan.

Moreover, you may not be able to learn real things from schools outside.

The presidents of various university clubs in the school must be professionals.

His salary as a tutor in the school is low, mainly because the school does not have any business premises, so he only pays a symbolic amount. There are also many tutoring positions available, and the main purpose is to help students.

When Pei Ju was leaving, he also saw that many of his classmates were probably using armor that they had made themselves. It looked very simple, which can be said to be a case of there being a policy at the top and a countermeasure at the bottom.

Finally, he decided to buy it and became a swordsmanship instructor in a sword club.

Then, on this day, he had a fierce sparring match with the senior students there.

First it was one on one, from those good players who were unwilling to accept it to several vice presidents, and they all won in one on one.

After that, no one wanted to fight him one-on-one anymore, and he didn't want to fight one-on-one anymore, because in a one-on-one fight, apart from having to figure out the opponent's sword moves at the beginning, it would be easy to win once you are familiar with them.

So he proposed one-to-many.

First it was one against two, then one against three.

One against two is okay, but one against three is difficult.

In this way, he practiced alone until the evening, and the people who practiced with him were all boarders, so he had to go home alone.

He carried his own stick sword on his back and wore slippers.

Covered in sweat, I was walking on the streets of Hai City at night. I looked up at the sky, but I couldn't see the sky at all.

Some people say that it is the smog caused by industrial production that obscures the sky, while others say that this fog has existed since ancient times.

There are tall buildings hidden in the night fog. Looking up from below, you can see lights appearing and disappearing in the sky, just like looking at the palace in heaven.

It is said that the scenery seen from the tall building is the scenery above the clouds, which is completely different from what people see below.

Moreover, he also heard that somewhere, when they were constructing a building and laying the foundation, they had to demolish some old houses, and this disturbed the "spirits" in those old houses.

It caused a mysterious leak, which eventually caused a huge commotion. It is said that it has not been completely resolved until now, but has been sealed, and it still causes noise from time to time.

Therefore, there are traffic bans in certain places in the city and at certain times.

You can also talk about a curfew with a limited time.

Pei Ju didn't know why, but someone in the Super Committee could dispel the crying of the fish monster in the hearts of the people of the city by thundering in their dreams, and prevent the crying of the fish monster from recurring, but it could not completely dispel the mysterious leaks caused by those spirits.

Passing by a newsstand, there was an old man sitting inside with a lamp hanging inside. When Pei Ju walked by, the old man lowered his head to read a thick novel.

There was a newspaper placed at the newsstand window. He glanced at the newspaper and saw that it said [Gas station leak caused explosion, 18 people died, 21 people were injured].

Pei Ju couldn't help but be stunned. Logically speaking, this newspaper should be reporting the news about the "fish monster crying at night". After all, this was a big news that shocked the whole city, but there was no report on this at all.

He took a look at the style of the newsstand, which had a strong sense of the times.

The old man sitting inside was wearing a pair of reading glasses and a blue shirt with the Red Star Fertilizer Plant printed on it.

He remembered hearing that there was a fertilizer factory on this land, but it had been relocated long ago due to pollution. However, something seemed to have happened during the relocation, and people seemed to have died, but he didn't know the reason.

He suddenly thought of something bad and felt a chill on his back. He stopped looking and ran away.

After running for a while, I looked back and found that the newsstand was gone.

Take a deep breath and stop looking.

Walking back, the lights on the road and the midsummer wind actually made him feel a little cold.

There seemed to be a man leaning against a tree not far from the street light ahead. He took out a lighter and lit a cigarette.

In the sudden firelight, you can see a man with messy hair leaning there. He is wearing a gray work suit and his appearance is not very clear.

I saw him take a puff of the cigarette, then raise his head and blow out smoke rings. He didn't look like he was smoking, but rather playing with cigarettes.

It doesn't look like he is alone watching the traffic, but rather like he is deliberately waiting for someone.

Pei Ju was a little wary and decided to bypass this person.

When he was still more than twenty meters away, he crossed the road and walked on the other side.

But his eyes were still looking at the man opposite him, and his intuition told him that the other person was not simple.

At this moment, he saw the other party move. He flicked the cigarette in his hand, and the sparks flew across the void, drawing irregular circles in the air, and fell on the concrete ground of the road, splashing a piece of sparks, rolling down a few times, and finally resigned to his fate and stopped moving.

After he flicked the cigarette in his hand, he folded his hands in front of his chest and glanced towards the road. Pei Ju was sure that he was looking at him.

But the other party quickly withdrew his gaze, and Pei Ju found that the other party quickly blurred and disappeared in his eyes.

Although he was in the shadow under the tree, he disappeared from his sight. That could only be the other party's ability, not that he couldn't see clearly, because his eyes were much better and sharper than those of ordinary people.

Just then someone was walking over on the opposite sidewalk. It was an old man holding a big golden retriever.

The old man is walking his dog.

This is a very common thing in the sea market.

However, he didn't know who this person was. Pei Ju's intuition told him that something was likely to happen. This was all very ordinary, all very normal, but the intuition in the dark made his hair stand on end.

Just as the old man with the dog approached, a bright knife light cut through the shadow in the darkness, and the old man only had time to let out a short cry before he fell to the ground with a bang.

Pei Ju saw it clearly. After the flash of light, the old man's head flew up, but his body just fell straight down, and blood splattered.

Pei Ju was stunned. He stood there watching, but soon he came to his senses and immediately squatted down behind a tree to peek at the other person.

The people on the opposite side of the road also squatted down and hugged the golden retriever. Then, for some reason, after a while, two people ran out from the shadow under the tree. When they entered the light, Pei Ju clearly saw that the man was holding a blonde woman in his hand and running quickly towards the front. He entered a fork in the road, turned into it and disappeared.

Pei Ju quickly got up and ran home.

He wanted to call the police station, but there was no place to make a phone call on the way, so he decided to go home and tell his grandfather first, and then call the police station using the home phone.

He ran all the way back home and saw his grandfather sitting under the eaves, waiting for him to eat.

He immediately thought of how he had come back so late again today, and his grandfather still didn't know why.

But he didn't rush to explain. Instead, he said loudly: "Grandpa, I saw someone killing someone on the road just now."

"Don't be impatient, speak slowly." Mr. Pei Si was obviously experienced. Even after hearing such news, his voice became more steady.

"Just now, on the road, I saw a man standing under a tree, and then he disappeared. After a while, someone passed by with a dog, and he suddenly jumped out and killed the person holding the dog with a knife." Pei Ju said hurriedly.

"Are you sure you saw it clearly?" Mr. Pei asked again.

"Sure, I saw his head fly off, but when that man ran, he was pulling a woman with him."

"Where is the dog?" Mr. Pei Si grasped the key point.

"I don't know, it seems to be gone." Pei Ju thought for a moment and answered quickly.

Mr. Pei Si turned and went into the house, then dialed the number of the police station and quickly explained what he had just heard from Pei Ju. After hanging up the phone, he said to Pei Ju, "Let's eat first."

"Ah."

After Pei Ju washed his hands and face, he sat down. There were two dishes covered with plates on the table. When he turned them over, the dishes inside were still hot.

One of them was a large plate of chili peppers, spiced with garlic and fermented black beans, and the other was tomato and egg soup. Pei Ju liked both.

My stomach was growling with hunger, so I ate some rice, vegetables and drank some soup.

After eating continuously, he finished one bowl and filled his second bowl before he said, "Grandpa, I joined the sword club at school. I practiced sword fighting with others there today, so I came back late."

"Well, as long as you don't go to the streets to fight with others, it's fine." said Mr. Pei Si.

"Yeah." Pei Ju wanted to say no, but he was afraid that someone would provoke him and he would not be able to help but hit someone.

"You did a good job today. You sensed something was wrong and took a detour. That's good. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall." Master Pei said seriously.

"Your personality is like your father's, and also like me when I was young. From top to bottom, we are all intolerant of any injustice. I am old now, and my son died when I was old. You are still young, so your temper needs to be tempered."

Pei Ju was a little confused. What was he trying to do? Trying to temper himself, wouldn't that be annoying?
"I'd like to have you stay with your grandfather for a while after this semester. Your grandfather has a calm and generous personality and lives in the mountains all year round. If you stay there for a while, perhaps you can cultivate your character and learn some of his skills."

Pei Ju didn't want to go because his mother remarried and he was not close to his grandfather.

"When you were little, your grandfather loved you very much and told me that he would definitely let you go back to live with him someday. He said he had something to teach you. Even though your mother remarried, your grandfather only had you as his grandson, and your mother was going abroad, so he felt very lonely."

An old man with a long beard and kind eyes appeared in Pei Ju's mind.

So he said, "Okay, I'll go when I have a holiday."

As they were talking, they had already finished their meal when they suddenly heard a series of footsteps outside.

The people who came in were from the police station.

With what Fourth Master Pei just reported, naturally someone will come over to question and take notes.

They were asking Pei Ju, and Pei Ju described what he had seen in detail, and finally signed his name and put his fingerprints on it.

At this time, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Did you see the scene?"

"I saw it. It's pretty much the same as you described, but there's also a golden retriever's skin on the scene."

The person from the police station was the same one who had come to the training hall last time. He was from the detective department.

His name was Jin Fengyue. Pei Ju felt that he was a very careful person because he asked a lot of details when he was questioning him just now.

"Fourth Master, do you know anyone with such powerful swordsmanship?" Jin Fengyue asked Fourth Master Pei.

Pei Ju was right, that bright light was the flash of a knife.

Even now, he still thinks the knife light is extremely beautiful.

Extremely fast, extremely beautiful, cutting through shadows and darkness, disappearing in a flash, killing the enemy with one blow.

Looks like a killer.

"The art of swordsmanship has always been in decline. Compared to the effects brought by acquiring other abilities, it takes several times more effort to achieve the same effect with swordsmanship. In Haishi City, I have never heard of anyone with such swordsmanship." said Mr. Pei Si.

"It seems more like the swordsman inheritance from the northwest." Jin Fengyue said.

"Yes, in the Shaanxi Pass area, the knives in Guanshan are fast and fierce. One strike from them will kill either you or me." said Mr. Pei Si.

Pei Juze silently kept it in mind.

"Then we'll leave first and not disturb the Fourth Master's rest."

After the two exchanged a few polite words, Jin Fengyue took his men away.

Because Pei Ju had practiced sword for so long in the sword club, he did not practice more at home. He came back late, so after washing up, he lay back on the bed, ready to enter the sacred place of Shanjun Temple.

He felt that practicing breathing techniques there would be more effective.

Fall into sleep.

Outside, Mr. Pei Si turned off the lights, sat in front of the eight-immortal table, lit a stick of incense, took out his pipe and started smoking, as if he was guarding something.

On the second floor of the next yard, when Pei Ju came back, there was a person standing there watching him talking to his grandfather. Later, when the police arrived, she was listening there.

She was amazed that Pei Ju always encountered so many strange things.

We both go to and from school, so why can’t I meet him? Is it because I don’t come home late enough?
(End of this chapter)