Astral Apostle

  Chapter 58 Stealth and the Butterfly Effect

  The layers of yellow clouds and the setting sun cast a layer of blood on Baiyuan City.

   Pedestrians gradually sparse and deserted.

   Zhou Jing hid in the corner of the house, looked at the lord's longhouse across the street, and wandered the windows of the castle.

   He has been stepping on the spot all day, and now he has a general idea of ​​the situation around Root.

  Because of the fright for half a year, Root has been staying in the castle. If he wants to kidnap him, he can only sneak in. He has arranged several guards in the castle for a long time, working in two shifts during the day and night, and standing guard at the important roads of the castle. In addition, he also deployed a new batch of alien blood guards to protect his safety.

   On paper, the castle is heavily guarded and difficult to enter without a sound.

  However, people tend to slack off... The garrison has lasted for half a year, and no danger has occurred. The guards have long since slackened, and it is impossible to expect them to be tense for a long time.

   In the past few months, there were people who were afraid that the world would not be in chaos, or were quite dissatisfied with Root, hoping that a hunter would follow Jason and assassinate Root.

   However, Baiyuan City is now depressed, and a large number of hunters have left. Even civilians feel that it is impossible for any assassination incidents to break out. The guards also think the same way, and they will not be on alert all the time.

   Tight on the outside and loose on the inside - this is how he judged the situation of the castle's defense.

   "Wait until the middle of the night before starting." Zhou Jing was sure and disappeared around the corner of the house.

  …

  The night came as scheduled, and Baiyuan City gradually sank into sleep.

   As time went by, the guards standing guard at the gate also began to blatantly fish, and yawned from time to time.

   In a low house on the side of the castle, there are two guards hiding here, eating some kind of nuts while chatting casually, occasionally turning their heads to raise the curtains, and observing the castle through the window.

   Their task is to monitor the outer wall of the castle, preventing people with extraordinary physical fitness from climbing the outer wall, sneaking into the castle through the window, and ringing the bell immediately if they find it.

   It’s only been half a year, this post has long been slack, and it’s a shame not to sleep directly.

   "Tsk, the last time there was a disturbance by alien beasts, there were not enough hunters, so we had to use the army, and a lot of people died. When there were enough hunters in the past, where did we need to work hard." One of the guards muttered dissatisfied.

Another guard shrugged: "Fortunately, we were chosen to guard the castle, we don't have to fight with alien beasts, how safe it is here. I think Baiyuan City is almost over, save more money here, and then go to other towns to settle down. ."

   Although they are town guards, they are also dissatisfied with Root. They are just for living, and complete loyalty does not exist.

   At this moment, a figure seemed to pass by outside the curtain, and flashed in the corner of their eyes.

   The two turned their heads subconsciously, opened the curtains to find out, but found that there was no one outside.

   Just when the two of them thought that they had been up late for too long, they were wrong when there was a knock on the door behind them.

   "Duh duh."

   The two of them instinctively turned back.

   At this moment, a figure came in from the eaves above the window, and fell silently behind the two like a civet cat, his hands sticking out like ghosts.

Snapped! Snapped!

  The two guards' mouths and noses were covered, and they couldn't shout.

  The irresistible force directly pulled them into someone's arms behind them, and then the arms on the neck tightened sharply.

   The vision of the two of them fell into darkness in an instant, and they lost consciousness.

   Zhou Jingle stunned the two guards, placed them on the ground lightly, then pulled out the latch, and let Ross, who was knocking mechanically outside, also enter the room.

   "Change clothes."

   Zhou Jing gave an order and changed into the guard's clothes by himself.

   He has been to the castle a few times before, and he is not unfamiliar with the structure inside. This is a four-story castle. Root's original bedroom is on the third floor, and it is most convenient to climb in from the outer wall.

   But he felt that Root was so scared that it was unlikely that he would leave such an omission. He would definitely take some measures to prevent the enemies with extraordinary bodies from climbing the outer wall and touching his room directly.

So when he stepped on the spot during the day, Zhou Jing thought in a different position, thinking about how to take precautions with the lord's resources, and the final result was to rely on human surveillance... Under his intentional search, during the day, he found the outer wall of surveillance around the castle. 's sentry.

   He has quietly settled all the external outposts he found, so that climbing the wall would not be easily discovered.

Zhou Jing and Ross quickly changed the guards' clothes, took off some of the armor leaves that were prone to rubbing noises, and then found thick ropes from the room to tie the two naked and unconscious guards together, and blocked them with coarse cloth by the way. mouth. He is generally measured against ordinary people, but it is enough for two guards to sleep for a long time.

   After doing this, Zhou Jing took Ross around to the back of the castle, and under the cover of the night, he quietly swam up the wall, and his movements were extremely agile.

   But Zhou Jing didn't go in directly from the window of the lord's bedroom on the third floor.

   He felt that since Root was guarding against hunters in the city, he probably wouldn't dare to continue living in the same place, maybe he had already moved to a room without a window, and the original lord's bedroom might have been turned into a vacant room or a bait.

  Zhou Jing climbed directly to the roof, probed from the crenel, and found that there were indeed several guards standing guard on the roof, but they were basically taking a nap.

   The only one who didn't sleep, was taking off his shoes and was concentrating on picking his feet, smelling his hands from time to time.

   "It's delicious..."

   Zhou Jing twitched the corners of his eyes, and suddenly turned to the roof with his strength. With one step, he sprinted across a distance of several meters and threw himself in front of this person.

   This guard just sniffed his finger and was intoxicated, and he didn't have time to react.

   He just saw the figure, when Zhou Jing hit him with a knife, his eyes rolled and he passed out.

   The whole process took only one second, there was almost no movement, and the rest of the guards were still asleep.

   Zhou Jing made up his swords one by one, emptied the garrison on the rooftop, leaving only one guard, and vigorously shook him to wake him up.

   "Uh...change of guards?"

   The guard opened his sleepy eyes and spoke subconsciously.

   Suddenly felt the chill of metal on his neck, he looked down and found a long knife pressed against his neck, and his sleepiness was instantly frightened away.

   The guard glanced to the side and saw that all his companions fell unconscious on the ground, and suddenly trembled all over.

   "No shouting, tell me about the situation in the castle, I'm only here for Root."

   Zhou Jing spoke in a low voice.

   The guard nodded, daring not to resist, and told the information he knew as if he had poured beans into a bamboo tube.

   That salary is not enough to support his loyalty.

  Because he thinks Root has changed rooms, Zhou Jing needs to find out the location of Root, and the guards stationed inside the castle should know.

  The rooftop guard is on a rotating basis, and this guard does know how many floors Root is currently living on.

   Hearing what he said, Root changed his room as expected, but it was still on the third floor. Originally, it was the servant's room without windows, and it was changed into a new bedroom. In the original lord's bedroom, several alien-blooded guards lived.

   In addition, every room with a window in the castle has a latch outside the door, which is locked from the outside, and even if you turn in through the window, you have to hit the door. And the entire three-story window, the guards are the strictest.

   "Looks like it's easier to go down from the castle than to go in from the outside."

   Zhou Jing thought to himself, but without hesitation, he raised his hand to knock the person unconscious.

   After finishing his hands, he took Rose down the stairs from the rooftop to the fourth floor and entered the castle.

  The defenses on the fourth floor are not strict, and only occasionally can see guards patrolling or standing guard, all fishing.

  Although he changed into a guard costume, this was used as insurance. Zhou Jing listened to his breath with his extraordinary senses, figured out the distribution of guard posts, and walked around as much as possible.

   The two quickly came to the stairs leading to the third floor, where there were guards and they couldn't get around.

   Zhou Jing pressed the round helmet and walked straight over with Ross, ready to deal with cross-examination or even attack.

   However, the guard guarding the stairs only glanced at the two of them. Seeing that they were dressed as guards, he didn't care anymore. He chatted with himself and let the two go downstairs.

   Zhou Jing did not look sideways, and walked with Ross, knowing it in his heart

   Sure enough... the inside of the castle is already quite slack.

   Came to the third floor. The guards here were very dense. Zhou Jing circled around for a while, without disturbing others, and quickly found the target.

   It was an inconspicuous place. The corridor extended out a narrow staircase leading down to the room. There were four guards standing guard at the entrance of the stairs, and there were two other people standing guard at the door. Root lived here.

"It seems that the guards with different blood all live on this floor. There may also be guards with different blood in Root's room. These people can't be led away. It seems unlikely that they will not cause any movement at all... But they are here, as long as they get close to Root. , catch him and run away without worrying about being discovered."

   Zhou Jing pondered for a while, then resolutely led Rose to the stairs.

  The four guards standing guard at the entrance of the stairs noticed the two approaching, and their eyes fell on them with scrutiny, trying to identify their identities.

   Zhou Jing quickly approached the four of them, and without waiting for the four of them to ask questions, he took the initiative to say:

   "Karl called us over, it's time to change shifts."

   "...Who is Carl?"

   The four of them were stunned for a moment, and when they were about to say it, the interrogation got stuck, and subconsciously thought about whether there was someone named Carl among the people they knew.

   At this moment, Zhou Jing violently attacked, moving like a rabbit!

   He took advantage of the brief moment when the four of them were stunned, and his fists smashed out like sharp arrows, slamming into the chests and abdomens of the four of them one after another.

   bang bang bang!

   Shen's strength penetrated into the body, and the four people's bones were broken and tendons were broken, and they fell to the ground screaming.

   The face of the guard who was standing guard at the door not far from the house suddenly changed, and the state of being listless instantly became tense, and he shouted without thinking:

   "There is an enemy attack! There is..."

   The two of them shouted for a while, and Ross, who was behind Zhou Jing, was already rushing forward, colliding like a bull.

  !

  The two guards couldn't avoid it, but they were knocked back by Ross, and their backs slapped on the door, making a muffled sound.

  Ross kept walking, slamming against the door against the two of them.

  Crack! !

  The sound of wood cracking exploded, and the door was smashed into pieces by three people.

  Ross rushed into the room with the two guards whose bones were broken.

   A sudden loud noise woke the people in the room.

  Root frowned and had nightmares, in which he played Chasing Me with Jason, who had no chin, again.

  Suddenly, the dream was shattered by a loud noise, and he suddenly opened his eyes, but before he woke up, he stared at the broken door with dazed eyes.

   On the other side of the room, on the soft collapse, a different-blooded guard was resting and protecting himself, and he was also awakened at this time.

"who!"

   The alien-blooded guard shouted in rage, pulled out his long knife sharply, and killed Ross who was rising from the ground.

   However, before the blade hit Ross, a figure suddenly appeared in the diagonal stab, and a side kick was as fast as lightning, almost making him unable to react.

  ! !

   The next moment, the foreign-blooded guard only felt severe pain in his side ribs, and the terrifying force seemed to break half of his ribs, and the whole person was kicked and flew out.

With a    bang, he flew out and smashed the wall, causing the long knife to fly out of his hand.

   The whole person was stunned to the ground, gushing blood, struggling to get up.

   Zhou Jing succeeded in one strike, without pausing, and catching up was a straight kick that went straight to the head.

   The guard was so exhausted from the pain that he only had time to raise his hand to protect his face, his arm was immediately kicked, and his bones were instantly broken.

  !

   A kick with explosive force like a cannon shot, directly across his arm, cracked his skull.

   The back of his head slammed into the wall, smashing a pit and shaking out a circle of floating ash.

  The different blood guard Qiqiao bleeds and falls to the ground, without the strength to fight again.

   Zhou Jing's face was expressionless, and he stepped on his foot again, breaking his neck, and then stopped.

   When dealing with alien blood warriors, he is not as "gentle" as dealing with ordinary people, and he will kill him if he can.

   This guard has only one level of reinforcement, and his own foundation is excellent. The effect of secondary reinforcement is much higher than that of ordinary people. His physical quality is almost crushing, and the opponent is not his opponent at all.

   With a successful raid, you can instantly kill the enemy.

   At the same time, the movement here also alerted the guards and alien-blooded guards on the entire floor.

   "Tap Tap..."

   Messy footsteps sounded outside the door, approached quickly, and soon the two of them would be blocked in this room,

   Zhou Jing's expression remained the same, the powerful strength from the secondary enhancement of the [Tiger Courage] characteristic carried through his arms and slammed into the wall.

  Boom!

  The wall burst, the bricks flew, and the hole suddenly opened.

   A gap of cold wind appeared, and outside was the scene of Baiyuan City.

  Although there is no window to retreat in this room, breaking through the wall can lead to the outside world. Before his extraordinary physical fitness, demolishing a house and breaking a wall was as easy as drinking water.

  Root was too frightened to move on the bed.

   In the blink of an eye, an alien blood warrior from a tribe was instantly killed by the enemy, and Root did not dare to act rashly, for fear that he would also be punched and killed by someone.

   He was horrified. He didn't expect that after half a year, someone would follow Jason's example and attack him.

   Haven't all the dissatisfied hunters gone, where is this rude man?

   "Stun him and bring him." At this time, Zhou Jing didn't even turn his head to speak.

   Ross heard the words and immediately bullied Root.

   Root was frightened and could only save himself when he saw this. He wanted to delay time, so he said:

   "You... don't mess around, attacking the lord is a felony, don't take the road of crime..."

   Hearing this, Zhou Jing turned his head, did not speak, and smiled playfully.

   Previously, he fought against the alien-blooded guards, and his movements were so fast that Root couldn't see his face clearly. Only at this time did he use the moonlight to really see Zhou Jing's appearance.

   At this moment,

   As if there was a big hand, it grabbed Root's heart suddenly.

  The boundless fear spread from the bottom of my heart.

   "Jay, Jason?!"

   Root's eyes widened suddenly, unable to believe what he saw.

  How is it possible, this man was killed by his own eyes!

   Even if you don't die, your jaw can't grow back!

ghost! Devil! Come to my life!

   The nightmare that haunted me for half a year suddenly appeared in reality

   Root opened his mouth in a daze, his brain was blank, and the ice cold penetrated his bone marrow, leaving only an indescribable deep horror that almost suffocated him.

Snapped!

   Ross, regardless of his reaction, faithfully carried out Zhou Jing's orders, stunned Root directly, then wrapped Root in a quilt, holding Root under his arm, like an expressionless flower thief.

"go!"

   Zhou Jing said nothing, and greeted Ross to jump out of the hole and quickly disappeared among the continuous houses in the town.

   From kicking the door, breaking the wall to kidnapping and running away, the whole process takes less than ten seconds, and the efficiency is extremely high.

   When the other alien-blooded guards and guards on the same floor arrived, they were faced with a messy room that was only empty, and a hole that was constantly flooded with cold wind.

   "Oops, the lord was kidnapped!"

   "Follow me now!"

   Numerous alien-blooded guards were shocked and angry.

   But they turned to look at the body of their companion on the ground, and the group was extremely afraid and did not dare to chase after them easily.

   In such a short period of time, you can kill a foreign-blooded guard... This is probably the level of three enhancements, right? !

   When did such a powerful person come to Baiyuan City?

  The lord is gone, the dragons are leaderless, and the many guards are at a loss for a while, not knowing who should give the order.

   At this moment, the captain of a guard from a tribe gritted his teeth and said loudly:

   "Immediately notify the city guards, search the city, and guard the city gates closely, so no one can escape!"

   This person is considered to be the small leader of the tribe's guards, and the guards that Root transferred from the tribe are basically under the command of this captain.

   Seeing someone stand up to preside over the overall situation, many guards quickly followed orders.

   The tribal guard captain looked at the other alien-blooded guards and shouted:

   "We will follow the trail immediately and stop this man!"

   Hearing that, although many of the alien-blooded guards were afraid of the thief's skills, they became courageous in their activities together, and immediately jumped out of the hole, chasing Zhou Jing's trail.

   Several other tribe guards were about to move, but this man reached out his hand to stop everyone, and whispered:

   "Don't be too concerned, the main thing is to protect yourself... It doesn't matter if Root can't be rescued."

   The eyes of several clan guards flashed, vaguely understanding something.

   In the past six months, Root has been troubled by troubles, the sunset is in the west, but he is still occupying the position of the lord, and there are probably many people in the tribe who want to replace him...

  Whether it's for the sake of ascending the throne or to restore the "business" of Baiyuan City... Root has instead become a member of the clan who hinders the interests of the tribe.

   Several tribal guards nodded silently before joining the pursuit force.

   At the same time, the messenger sent by the backer behind Root also rushed over.

   He also settled in the castle tonight, and was awakened when the accident happened, but it was too late to support him.

   Seeing the current situation at this time, the messenger's face changed drastically, and the whole person was messy.

   Someone really attacked the lord, did they succeed? !

  The identity of the perpetrator is a mystery, what is the origin? for what purpose?

  Root knows the overall plan. If he is tortured and revealed, wouldn't it implicate the adults, and the plan behind him is at risk of exposure? !

  The messenger set off a storm in his heart, turned his head and left.

   He had a determined look on his face. Prepare to rush back to the capital overnight.

   The accident here must be reported to the adults immediately!

   Whether the thief intentionally or unintentionally, the overall plan of the adults must be adjusted!

  The messenger gritted his teeth and cursed inwardly.

  Root...why didn't this dude cut himself off sooner? !

   (end of this chapter)