What? What a while?
She felt that the questions she hadn't asked in time might never be asked again.
The air was stagnant, like holding your breath before a sudden rainstorm.
The next moment, something pierced the darkness and came roaring like the cry of a crane.
That was the sound of an arrow breaking through the air.
She swung the bowstring with all her might, the arrowhead broke, and the barbed iron arrowhead fell to the ground with a creaking sound, which was the gate of hell opening.
Then, a rain of arrows came roaring down, and each arrow had a long silver thread trailing behind it. If they missed the target, they would turn into an invisible net, determined to strangle the prey in the net into pieces.
The flat string in Xiao Nanhui's hand danced like an impenetrable wall, cutting down the probing arrows one after another.
However, the next second, the attacker began to reveal his sinister intentions. An invisible wind blade penetrated her defense line and silently cut open her waist.
Blood gushed out, and she had no time to care. When she looked up, she saw An Lu standing at the dark cave entrance, smiling silently at her.
That was the trick she had seen on the evening she left Bijiang.
Invisible wind blade.
How could anyone pull off such a move? What weapon was he using? Even the most formidable martial arts master couldn't conjure an invisible, injurious blade from thin air.
Na Anlu seemed to know her confusion, but did not intend to explain it to her.
"Kill her."
The densely packed thin lines around it began to rotate and tighten, trying to torture the prey in the net to death.
These Puhuna were even more formidable than the ones they had encountered last time in Murhe. Their moves were flawless, clearly a testament to their long-standing coordination. They methodically manipulated the thin strings in their hands, gradually drawing her into a corner. And those barbed arrows had a predatory quality; if she tried to escape, they would shoot her like a kite. As long as they held the string, she would be unable to escape.
To break out, she had to find a flaw in the formation. But An Lu's tactics were waiting for her to break out. As long as she tried to deviate from the center of the formation, the strange, invisible wind blades would attack her from tricky angles.
There was only a small space left around her, and her defense gradually collapsed. The sound of the thin wire stirring the air shook her eardrums, making her unable to hear even her own voice clearly.
"Your Majesty, get down! Get down now!"
Amid the tinnitus, she couldn't hear whether the man responded, but she felt the person behind her slowly move towards her back, and then a pair of hands hugged her whole body.
In shock, she had no time to react to the attack from behind. The bowstring in her hand paused, and an arrow with a thin string saw her weakness and flew towards her.
The arms around her waist held her and turned her half a circle. She felt her vision flash, and what came into view were two lapels embroidered with familiar dark patterns.
He held her to his chest.
In a flash, she saw the barbed arrowhead tear through the exquisite and intricate patterns like a poisonous snake and drill out its head. Warm blood splashed between her eyebrows, with a little trembling air flow, which made her feel a little itchy.
She held the string in her right hand and slowly touched the man's back with her left hand. Her hand felt like it was sinking into a pool of warm spring water, and a warmth spread under her hand.
what happened?
The surrounding noises paused for a moment, as if even the enemy was shocked by the scene before them.
She rolled her eyes blankly, and her eyelashes brushed against the man's jawline.
"Xiao Nanhui, you said you weren't afraid of being alone. Remember what you said."
His breath was still lingering by his ears, and the next second, a huge force spread out, and the hair that had just been pinned up for him was instantly scattered by the sharp breath.
Her long black hair spread out like a piece of torn satin, and a jade hairpin fell crisply in front of her eyes. Then a heavy pressure came over her, making her unable to straighten her back, and she fell to the ground.
A strange sound penetrated deep into her ears, like the sound of thousands of insects and ants gnawing on leaves, or like the sound of a swarm of bees circling. The sound came from all directions and went to all directions, so fine and dense, penetrating every pore and destroying her heart.
Xiao Nanhui covered her ears, trying hard to overcome the splitting headache, then she tried to slowly open her eyes.
What she saw was something she had never seen in her life.
Many years later, she still remembers that feeling.
It was as if the air was split into two by an invisible knife, and then divided into four, sixteen, hundreds, thousands, countless, until it could no longer be divided.
She saw the arrows flying in the air turn into mist and dissipate in the wind, and the net made of thin lines also disappeared from the spot, like the traces of charcoal on the drawing paper, which disappeared with a flick of the brush.
A dozen assassins remained standing, seemingly unsure of what had just happened. They maintained their attacking stances, their weapons vanishing into thin air.
The one closest to him screamed first. He saw that his outstretched arm seemed to be eaten away by something and dissolved into the air.
His scream was immediately stuck in his throat, making a strange "clucking" sound. His legs seemed to want to take him away from here but he couldn't move at all. In the blink of an eye, his entire body had turned into a ball of blood mist and dissipated in this space. There was no evidence that a person had ever existed here.
An Lu fell to the ground, then turned around and grabbed the cracks in the rock wall behind him, climbing up like crazy.
The rest of the people were still standing there, their wax-like faces destroyed, only their eyes showing fear and trembling. Some people suddenly knelt on the ground, clasped their hands together, and muttered something, praying that the gods could hear their prayers.
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