Chapter 97: The Thief on the Beam, a Good Death

"Humph!"

Seeing that the person in the corner did not move after he spoke, Su Lie snorted coldly, broke off the corner of the table in front of him with his fingers and threw it towards the place where his eyes indicated.

Not only has he recovered from all his injuries, but he has also practiced martial arts. Although he has only just started, his progress is far beyond that of ordinary people. A wooden table corner, under his huge power, is like a hidden weapon made of gold and iron. It leaves a blurry afterimage and hits the corner of the room.

Just as the corner of the table was about to fall into it, a black shadow suddenly flew out and hit the corner of the table accurately.

Snapped!
As the wood chips flew everywhere, the black shadow kept speeding up and flew straight towards Su Lie. Su Lie's expression remained unchanged, he just slowly extended two fingers, and then a round iron ball was caught between his two fingers.

"Are all local thieves as bold as you? You come out to steal before nightfall. You must be very busy." With a sarcastic remark, Su Lie saw a dark shadow swaying in the corner of his sight, and then a figure walked out.

"I didn't expect that a sickly person like you could actually spot me." The man was dressed in black, with a black scarf wrapped around his head, revealing only his eyes. With this attire, he lay in the corner just now. Ordinary people would not have been able to spot him unless they looked closely.

In fact, the thief's breath-holding skill was also very good. In Su Lie's perception, not only was his breathing almost non-existent, but even his heartbeat was much slower than that of an ordinary person. If Su Lie had not had a strong mind and five senses that were far more sensitive than ordinary people, he would not have been able to detect this guy.

Just by listening to the other party's words, it seemed that he had been targeting me for a long time.

"You have been observing me for a long time." Su Lie said affirmatively.

"Two guys from other places landed here in a hurry. One is injured, and the other is poisoned. It's hard for such a combination not to attract attention." The thief spoke in a leisurely tone, and his body began to move to the window inside the house as he spoke.

"I saw you guys were in such a hurry before that I thought there were some enemies following you. Now it seems that we thought too much. But I saw you took a lot of tonics during this period. I thought you were a fat sheep, but now it seems that I made a wasted trip."

Watching the thief walking while talking, he was ready to retreat to the window. However, Su Lie did not move his feet at all from beginning to end, just standing there and listening to the other party quietly.

Arriving at this position, the flying thief seemed to have gained a lot of confidence. He looked at Su Lie again with a hint of sneer and pity in his eyes.

"Boy, according to the rules of my business, money should not be lost. But I haven't found many coppers in your house for half a day, it seems that you are also a poor guy. But in this world, if you want to survive, you have to listen to our leader. It just so happens that our leader likes your companion. As long as you offer your companion to our leader, you can live here in peace in the future, and no one dares to disturb you."

Nanqiao Town is located on the edge of Hangzhou. It is not a poor and barren place, but it is far away from Liushenmen and Tianbo Mansion. In addition, the government's jurisdiction over the underworld is loose, so some underworld people entrenched here formed a small gang here.

Although this gang bullies the market on weekdays, they are very good at judging the situation. They know which people can be bullied and which people are not to be messed with. Therefore, although the townspeople have been complaining about them, no passing heroes have cleaned them up, and this is also the norm in this world.

There is a very clear dividing line between warriors and ordinary people. People in the martial arts world come and go, and except for some righteous sects that care about the civilians within their sphere of influence, other warriors never take ordinary people seriously. Not bullying them at will is already considered a good behavior.

"So, I have to thank you?"

Cold words came out of his mouth. At this point, apart from the desire to fight in the martial arts world buried in his heart in his previous life, Su Lie now had no intention of becoming a chivalrous hero. He didn't cause trouble, but when trouble came, Su Lie would never tolerate it.

As if he saw what Su Lie was thinking, before Su Lie could make a move, the thief broke through the window and ran out.

As a disciple of the Gentlemen Sect, he may not be good at other Kung Fu, but Qinggong is definitely his strong point. Although he has not entered the realm of refining the internal organs, he is confident that even a master of refining the internal organs may not be able to catch up with him.

So when the thief flew two or three feet away and was about to leave the courtyard, he looked back. And it was this one look that made him miss the best chance to escape.

Su Lie had only practiced martial arts for a short time, so he naturally did not learn any light-weight body movements. Although there were many martial arts secrets in the Ming Dynasty, they were all methods that required the activation of true qi. Su Lie had not even entered the stage of refining internal organs, so naturally he could not activate it.

But without the true qi, Su Lie had strength and perfect control over his body. So when the thief jumped out of the window, Su Lie had already unlocked his body again. Now that his body has been tempered by martial arts for a few days, it has become much stronger, and a short burst of strength will not harm his body.

tread!
Su Lie took a step forward and crossed a distance of two meters to appear behind the thief. According to the distance between the two, Su Lie would have to be outside the courtyard to catch up with him. But as luck would have it, the thief actually turned around and looked back, which gave Su Lie an opportunity.

So, Su Lie took a deep breath, stepped on the ground again, leaving cracks on the blue brick floor, and instantly got close to the thief.

The big hand reached out and slapped the other person's head. The thief said that he never left without money, and he didn't know how many people he had stolen from. Moreover, as a member of the town's gang, he usually bullied many kind people, and it was obvious that these kind people were all civilians who didn't know martial arts.

But apart from all these, just because he dared to come to his house to steal, he was doomed to death!

Faced with Su Lie's big hand, the flying thief would naturally not sit and wait for death. His agile and flexible skills allowed him to flip his body freely in the air.

shhhhh!

Several hidden weapons were shot out by the flying thief, piercing Su Lie's palm and face. This move of attacking Wei to save Zhao, if Su Lie didn't want to get hurt, he had to retreat, and then he could leave safely.

However, the flying thief had a good idea in his mind, but Su Lie's actions were beyond his imagination. In midair, Su Lie took a deep breath, causing his abdomen to collapse and his chest to swell up. Then, a long, thick white breath blew out of his mouth, blowing away the attacking hidden weapon.

"Breath turns into arrows!" The thief only had time to exclaim in surprise when he saw this, and then Su Lie's big hand had touched his head.

"No, I'll give it to you."

Snap! Bang!

The sound of bones breaking was accompanied by the sound of a corpse falling to the ground. Su Lie stepped on the ground again. On the ground beside his feet lay a horrible corpse with its head mostly retracted into its neck.

As for the words that the thief did not say before his death, Su Lie also knew what it was, it was nothing more than money.

But, after I kill you, all of these will be mine.

The fight between the two was complicated, but in fact it only took a few breaths. It was not until the moment when the body fell to the ground that the noise attracted Mu Qing from another room.

"What happened? Ah!"

Mu Qing was a little curious at first, but when he saw the horrible corpse under Su Lie's feet, he let out a low cry and quickly looked away.

Although she was born in the underworld and had seen dead people before, this was the first time she had seen a head being pressed into a neck. This method of killing the enemy was too cruel.

"Pack up and I'll take you away tomorrow."

Not noticing the people around him, Su Lie squatted and began to feel around the corpse. Since the first time, his movements have become much more skillful. It must be said that people's learning potential in this area is really huge.

I don't know if it's a personal habit or if people in this world are like this in general, they all like to keep important things close to their bodies. Not long after, Su Lie took out a few silver bills from the body of the flying thief. The amount of money on them was quite a lot, at least eighty taels.

This is already a lot of money in this remote town. You have to know that what he took from Jia Xing was only more than twenty taels, and it took him more than half a month.

(End of this chapter)