Chapter 249 - A Year (1/2)

Chapter 249: A Year

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Leaning on his five feet long saber, Zhuang Heng watched as his brothers plundered wantonly, and felt a war his children playing and having fun

He had only two beliefs in life: sabers were his life blood, and his brothers were his fa Machete God” in the jianghu To hiobjects which could talk, and which often annoyed hies were overturned along the roadside The horses laid in the pools of blood gasping feebly for air while a dozen or so hurass This had been an all-too-co would not have bothered tomore “dirt” was alelcomed To the bandits, this served as food which they could never have enough of

His twelve brothers had already heaped together all of the ite the corpses one-by-one for , and thus every cent and item mattered to the a coe waste not to take it off

“Hey, look what I’ve found!” The stubbly Elder Du was carrying a young girl of around ten years old, and was eager to receive the approval of his boss

Elder Du was an imperceptive person who could not discriirl like this was not yet a woman, and could not even be used by his brothers to release their urges upon But Zhuang Heng was in no mood to educate him and lazily waved him off

Disappointed and despondent, Elder Du placed the girl down and pulled a short sword out fro saber like his boss’, for it was , but he did not have the courage to ask for one His current short sas decent as well At its best, it could chop down a tree which was as thick as the riazed at the bandit Her sliile neck was certainly not as thick as the rim of a bowl

Perhaps because she had been scared silly, the young girl neither cried nor whined, and showed no intention of running away Instead, she seeive her sweets

“Lower your head,” Elder Du ordered He wanted to chop her head off with one perfect stroke such that her head would roll over to his boss’s feet while her body reht He had witnessed a scene like this before and alanted to imitate it at least once

The final wish of Elder Du’s life would, however, be impolitely interrupted by an intruder

Everyone turned their sights toward the wilderness, starting fro, followed by the brothers ere searching through the corpses, and finally Elder Du as taking careful aiirl remained unconcerned and continued to stare fixedly at the bandit

A pure black horse ambled its way toward the crowd It was ridden by a pale-faced young knight who looked like a lost traveler He appeared calroup of bandits in his disorientation Like the little girl, he seemed to not understand the cruel reality of the situation

As the bandits brandished their shi+ny swords, several of them moved toward the flanks and prepared to encircle the prey which had arrived on its own

Although the horse was a fine speci Heng felt that a fool like this was too insignificant for hiht stopped ten steps away fro, unbothered by thea word, he performed an action which confounded the bandits He took out a piece of black cloth and rubbed it gently on the horse’s cheek several times before he covered the horse’s eyes with it The animal was apparently accuston of resistance

The knight leaped off the horse, revealing the saber and shich were attached to his waist

“Are you Zhuang Heng?”

The knight’s sickly pale face suggested that he had just arrived from a frozen land, but it was currently early autumn and the sunshi+ne provided a pleasant warmth The bandits, who had been busy for half a day, were even sweating profusely

“Yes” Zhuang Heng bucked his spirits up slightly, albeit he still did not take seriously the knight who had appeared froht shook his head in some disappoint slain bywas taken aback for a hter The solemn and murderous atrass did There were always a few hly rated their own kungfu and considered the bandits to be a bunch of incooons They would then seek to kill these bandits in order to ht, this type of people would speak profoundly and abstrusely at the start, but would become all flustered and overwhelmed when the action started Subsequently, they would either die horrifically or escape through sheer luck In the latter case, they would then gru with terror, that the bandits were breaking the rules of the jianghu by outnu which these people would never e themselves

This was yet another swordsly felt that this was a day for fun and garound and rested it on his shoulder “Cohtly interested We have to be on our way soon, unlike you with all that spare tihter With his pale face re expressionless, he pulled his sword out and slowly drew nearer to his ene felt a quake in his heart the h there was no perceptible killing intent or swift offensive froan to tense up involuntarily He grasped his saber shaft forcefully and lowered his center of gravity, as if he was facing a formidable opponent

Unable to sense their boss’s frame of mind, the twelve brothers were bored stiff as they watched the duel play out While awaiting the i their total yield for the day A few quick-thinking ones a the pure black horse By the bandits’ principles, whoever touched a particular piece of loot first would get to claim it as his own

Therefore, oing on on scene, and did not know that the duel had already ended in the blink of an eye Only the simple-minded Elder Du clenched his fists excitedly and prepared to applaud and cheer He never got tired of watching his boss use a two-handed saber to kill

But his applauses and cheers would never be heard Though he had been watching, Elder Du did not understand as going on It felt the sah a dream; because the contents of the two dreams were completely unrelated and the dislocation between them was ludicrous, one would even murmur to one’s self within the drea-saber was resting on his shoulder as before What the brothers would never find out was that the long-saber had moved away from his shoulder for a short ti the eneh today