Chapter 203 Train to Santarém (Part )

Although Charlotte had some doubts in her heart, with enemies right in front of her, the first thing she needed to deal with was the men who attacked her for no reason.

Of course, the best case scenario is that she can defeat them without using her Word Spirit. Because her Word Spirit has a large damage range and is not easy to control in a small car. She still has many questions that she wants to get answers from them.

Who are the people behind them? How did they know her whereabouts? What is their purpose in assassinating her?
In addition, Charlotte had some concerns in her mind.

First of all, only one of the three of them revealed his spiritual words, and the spiritual words of the other two are still unknown.

Secondly, Lu Mingfei had just pointed out the weakness of "Spirit of Words·King's Servant". Logically, the manipulator hiding behind the two of them should have taken action, but that person didn't seem to care, as if he still had some backup plan.

No matter what her opponent's backhand was, she had to take the initiative. As long as she got past the two people in front of her and defeated the manipulator behind her, she could capture the three people alive.

Charlotte took a deep breath, and the moment she exhaled, she flew out like an arrow from a bow.

There were two clangs, the sound of the sword blade colliding with the cane again. There were two tall and strong men blocking the way in front. It was obviously not easy to pass them in the narrow carriage and attack the operator behind him. But Charlotte had already anticipated the trajectory of the two men's actions.

After deceiving the two men's center of gravity with a fake move to the left, she stood on tiptoe and spun lightly like a nimble cat, then jumped up on the right seat, trying to use the wall of the car to gain leverage, and jumped directly over the two men's heads, heading straight for the operator hiding behind.

But the next moment, her eyes lost sight of the target.

Losing the target did not mean that the opponent's figure suddenly disappeared or hid, but simply lost sight of the target. The moment she jumped up, her vision suddenly became as bright as day, as if someone suddenly threw an M84 flash bomb into the car. The strong light hurt her eyes, so she had to subconsciously close her eyes and jump back to her original position.

Of course it wasn't a flash bomb, but the effect of a word spirit. Charlotte immediately understood what was happening. Among the two people standing in front of her, one of them had a word spirit of the blazing sun.

Word Spirit Blazing Sun, number 28 in the periodic table, radiates a strong light of up to 4000 lumens in the area centered on the caster. Although it has no lethality, it can seriously affect the enemy's vision.

No wonder the manipulator is always so fearless, it turns out he is not worried at all that I can get close to him.

However, the Word Spirit: Blazing Sun should be an indiscriminate attack. Since I have lost my vision, the opponent should have lost his vision at the same time.

Charlotte closed her eyes tightly, trying to wait for the dazzling feeling to disappear, when she suddenly felt a pair of arms hugging her waist and above.

Her sensitive parts were suddenly touched by an outsider. Charlotte reacted and cried out subconsciously. Then she realized that the hands were not coming from the front of her, but from behind her, and there was only Lu Mingfei behind her.

Did she miscalculate? Was that guy actually an enemy? He was just hiding deeper? Or did he suddenly become beastly and want to attack her?
No, there is no time to think about these things now. I should break free from this guy's arms first!
Feeling the unfamiliar male presence behind her, Charlotte's socially anxious heart began to beat rapidly. With a red face, she waved her hands and feet hurriedly, trying to use the fighting skills she learned from the palace's private instructor to counterattack Lu Mingfei.

It's just that this guy's lying skills were so powerful, and the place where she was attacked was also quite wrong, so her body went limp, and most of her strength was lost in an instant, and she was completely unable to break free from that guy's arms.

After all, Charlotte was just an aristocratic girl in her early teens with not much combat experience. She lost her composure in an instant, even her breathing rhythm was disordered, and her punches became unorganized. She was just like a little girl punching and kicking randomly at the air.

"Don't move!" Lu Mingfei said in Charlotte's ear.

Charlotte was stunned, and before she could react, she was suddenly held back by Lu Mingfei. Then a gust of wind suddenly blew past her with a whistling sound.

No, that was not the wind. Charlotte immediately realized that it was the sound of a very narrow sword slashing past her.

Lu Mingfei didn't suddenly want to pounce on her or something like that... Instead, he hugged her from behind and helped her avoid the opponent's attack.

But the other side should have also lost their vision, so how could they see their own position?
No, what he should be more concerned about now is how the guy behind him knew that the other party was going to draw his sword?
"Can you see?" asked Charlotte.

"I can't see it." Lu Mingfei replied.

"Then how did you..."

"I heard it."

"Did you hear it?" Charlotte was stunned.

Although she had indeed heard that there was a skill in ancient Chinese martial arts that could identify the opponent's position by the sound of air flow caused by the opponent swinging a sword, she always thought it was just a legend.

What she didn't expect was that this guy whom she met by chance at the airport could actually identify the location by sound.

She only knew that Chinese alchemy had a very ancient foundation and heritage. Could it be that Chinese martial arts were as powerful as alchemy?

"Can this kind of sound really be heard? Or is your word spirit something like 'Kamaitachi'?"

"Normally, you can't hear them, but after being blessed by the effect of 'King's Servant', the voices of the two people are obviously much heavier than usual, and their movements have become slower and heavier. In addition, the carriage is still a closed space, which will amplify the sound. In this case, it is not difficult to roughly judge the other party's actions... You should be able to hear it."

Charlotte really held her breath and tried to listen to the movement in the carriage. She heard nothing except the sound of raindrops that were isolated outside the carriage. Before she could listen for a while longer, Lu Mingfei immediately hugged her and dodged the opponent's slash.

"'Word Spirit· Blazing Sun' should be an indiscriminate attack. The opponent can still know your position even when losing vision. It should be that they have a Word Spirit that can collect information and determine the position. I guess one of them may have mastered the 'Word Spirit· Kamaitachi' or the 'Word Spirit· Snake', so they can know our position accurately even under the influence of the Blazing Sun." Lu Mingfei analyzed.

Charlotte was stunned for a moment and temporarily put aside the question she wanted to ask Lu Mingfei.

The King's Servant is responsible for strengthening teammates and commanding battles, the Blazing Sun is responsible for preventing enemies from approaching the King's Servant's releaser, and the other person who masters the "Snake" or "Sickle Weasel" can attack the enemy when the Blazing Sun deprives them of vision. It must be said that the match of the opponent's trio is indeed quite exquisite, and they must have been a team that has been running in for a long time.

The guy behind him obviously has much more combat experience than himself, and he also knows a lot about the types of word spirits. In this case, it would be helpful for him to seek his opinions in order to turn the situation around.

Just as she was thinking this, Charlotte's legs suddenly hung in the air, and then a whistling sound flashed in front of her. Lu Mingfei held her from behind to front to avoid the enemy's attack, and his big hand pressed hard on her sensitive part again.

The two took a few steps back and finally reached the end of the carriage with their backs against the wall.

"Speaking of which... could you move your hand away a little?" Charlotte asked. If it weren't for the fact that both of them had temporarily lost their vision due to the effects of the scorching sun, she felt that Lu Mingfei would definitely be able to see her face, which was flushed and full of gnashing teeth.

"Oh oh..."

Hearing Charlotte's words, Lu Mingfei suddenly came back to his senses. He was in a hurry just now, and he could only throw Charlotte to help her avoid the enemy's attack. Because he couldn't see, he didn't know where he touched Charlotte. After hearing what Charlotte said, he felt that his palm was still soft.

Lu Mingfei hastily moved his hand down, but was still hit hard by Charlotte.

“Stop hugging me…!”

Charlotte blushed and bit her lip. After weighing the pros and cons, she pulled the index finger of the hand around her waist. "You... hold my hand and tell me what to do."

"what?"

"Do not talk nonsense!"

"Oh oh..."

Feeling that strange big hand holding her small hand, Charlotte's heart tightened and she almost couldn't help pulling her hand away. She took several deep breaths to suppress the feeling of rejection rising from the bottom of her heart.

For a socially anxious person like her who has never appeared in social occasions, it is too difficult to suddenly hold the hand of a stranger of the opposite sex.

When Lu Mingfei felt the cold and slender little hand clasped with his fingers, he suddenly remembered that when he was in the imperial capital subway, he also wanted to hold Liu Miaomiao's hand like this.

"Tell me what to do?" Charlotte said, trying to sound calm.

"I do have an idea..."

Lu Mingfei whispered the detailed plan to Charlotte.

Charlotte was stunned: "Isn't this a bit too risky?"

“Now that it’s like this, we have to seek wealth and fame through risk, right?” Lu Mingfei said.

Charlotte lowered her head and said nothing. What Lu Mingfei said made sense. If he did this, he could immediately identify what kind of Word Spirit the other party's third person was. It would also be more conducive to releasing his Word Spirit.

Although she didn't want to release her Word Spirit...she wanted to leave as many survivors as possible on the other side.

Having made up her mind, Charlotte heard Lu Mingfei say "Upper left!" and immediately leaned back. Sure enough, a sharp gust of wind passed by her upper left, and it seemed that a few strands of hair were cut off by the sharp sword blade.

As soon as she stood firm, Charlotte heard Lu Mingfei say "horizontally". Without any hesitation, she swung her cane and chopped forward. She only heard a muffled groan of pain, and the cane really hit something.

Lu Mingfei held her hand from behind and gave her instructions. She followed Lu Mingfei's instructions and made corresponding movements. The two of them overlapped their bodies, dodging and fighting back at the other.

The person who was hit groaned. Although the pain would be greatly reduced under the blessing of "King's Servant", every time he was hit by Charlotte's cane again and again, he became more and more angry.

Chopping, dodging, slashing, and hiding, the opponent's breathing became heavier, and the amplitude of the sword swinging became larger and more chaotic. It seemed that even Charlotte could hear the sound of the opponent's sword swinging.

It wasn't just seeming, she really heard it.

In the stinging vision, the sound of the sword swinging became clearer and clearer, as well as the opponent's breathing, the slight vibration of the train wheels rolling over the rails under his feet, and even the sound of rain flowing against the glass windows.

Although the five senses of hybrids are far superior to those of ordinary people, more than 90% of humans' understanding of the outside world comes from vision. Therefore, humans are particularly dependent on vision and ignore information other than vision.

But after gradually getting used to losing her vision, Charlotte's other senses became ten times sharper. Under Lu Mingfei's guidance, she actually gradually heard the sound of the other party's sword stirring in the air.

The sharp sound was analyzed in Charlotte's ears. The world in her ears became more and more real as the sound was deconstructed. Even the structure of the entire carriage was constructed in her ears.

The opponent swung his sword again, and before Lu Mingfei could warn her, Charlotte had already raised her cane. The sound of bones breaking came from her ears, and the sword spun into the air, cutting the air into pieces.

"I've hit it!" cried Charlotte.

Lu Mingfei didn't expect Charlotte to understand it so quickly, but immediately, with a "whoosh" sound, the wind caught the sword that Charlotte had sent flying after she smashed the opponent's hand bones.

Then the two of them let go of each other's hands at the same time, and started swinging their weapons, but their target was not the man who was blessed by the King's Servant who was blocking their way, but the train window.

Charlotte used her cane and Lu Mingfei used the hilt of his sword to smash the train windows.

With the sound of glass breaking, a large amount of cold wind and rain poured in. The train in Portugal is not very fast, only about 100 kilometers per hour, which does not produce much pressure difference between the inside and outside...

However, if the opponent's Word Spirit is Kamaitachi, the whistling wind in the car will be able to interfere with the judgment of "Kamaitachi".

The stinging feeling in her eyes finally disappeared, and Charlotte opened her eyes in a daze, but her vision had not yet fully recovered. Psychedelic shadows overlapped in front of her eyes.

The middle-aged man who was fighting with Charlotte in front of him covered his ears and knelt on the ground crookedly, with blood flowing from his ears. It was obvious that he did not close the Word Spirit in time when the car window was shattered. The sharp whistling of the wind and the huge thunder and lightning in his ears broke his eardrums.

"Are you so brave?" The operator frowned and finally spoke again, "Aren't you afraid that the word spirit of the person in charge of our scouting location is not 'Sickle', but 'Snake'?"

In a low-resistance environment, such as a rainy day, the "Snake" will have an amazing spiritual field.

"To be honest, it doesn't matter. The carriage itself is not very big. Even if your man's word spirit is a 'snake', it can detect my position by increasing the range a little bit or reducing the range a little bit."

Lu Mingfei said, "But if your word spirit is 'Sickle Weasel', you will lose the ability to grasp the coordinates and will be forced to cancel 'Scorching Sun'."

“It’s quite a gamble.”

The operator was silent for a while, and suddenly pulled out the rapier from the umbrella beside him.

Before Lu Mingfei realized what he was going to do, he saw the red-eyed Mediterranean man release the Speech Spirit Blazing Sun again. Lu Mingfei subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands, thinking of the last scene he saw before closing his eyes.

What was that guy trying to do as he ran towards me with a sword in hand? Was he trying to remember our location based on the last scene he saw before casting Blazing Light, and then kill me and Charlotte with a blind knife?
Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei was stunned and quickly shouted, "Get out of the way!"

He heard a loud "boom" in front of him, and a high-temperature heat wave rushed towards him. The residual power of the heat wave shocked Lu Mingfei and sent him flying backwards, hitting the wall of the train heavily.

It was like a grenade exploded instantly in front of them.

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(End of this chapter)