Chapter 64: Battle for the Flag
Chapter 64: Battle for the Flag (Part )
The reason why Li Zhen was injured was entirely due to his experience. He had participated in the previous flag-grabbing competition and experience told him that people would only attack each other when they reached the top of the mountain or sprinted down the mountain.
Little did they know that the rules had been changed and everyone had to stay on the mountain for two and a half hours, or five hours.
So the attack happened right from the beginning of the flag capture.
Without the burden of Li Zhen and He Zhanmiao, Xiao Xia instantly entered a state of breaking through obstacles. His vision and hearing were far superior to those of ordinary people, and he also had extremely sharp perception abilities.
Xiao Xia wanted to find the archer. This person should be within a hundred steps of him. His intuition told him that the archer had his eyes on him.
"Whoosh!" A sound of breaking through the air suddenly rang out. Without thinking, Xiao Xia swung his short sword and "clicked!" an arrow flew out. Judging from the direction of the arrow, the target should be his right shoulder.
From the corner of my eye, I spotted a dark shadow a hundred steps away.
Xiao Xia took a few quick steps and quickly approached the black shadow in an arc.
"Swoosh!" Another arrow came flying at him. Xiao Xia rolled over, and the arrow missed.
The archer was also frightened and turned around to run up the mountain. After only a few steps, Xiao Xia was sure that this man was a fourth-rank warrior who already had some internal strength foundation. He showed a physique as light as a swallow, but did not break through the obstacles.
The archer was extremely fast, but not as fast as Xiao Xia. The distance between the two gradually narrowed to more than twenty steps. Xiao Xia swung his hand and a flying knife shot out.
The archer screamed and fell headfirst, the flying knife hitting his calf.
Xiao Xia leaped forward, cut off the back of the bow with one sword, and then swung the sword to hold the back of the archer's neck.
"It's really the Jiangning Xiao family!"
The other person was wearing a green belt. He raised his hands and said in horror: "Brother, don't kill me!"
"Where is your sword?" Xiao Xia discovered that the other party had no sword.
"My sword is under the tree. I was in such a hurry just now that I forgot to take it."
Xiao Xia pulled the flying knife out of his leg, and blood immediately gushed out.
"Apply the medicine yourself!"
The archer slowly turned around and turned out to be a young warrior in his twenties. He was very handsome, but his eyes were full of fear. He actually had the mark of a second-level warrior.
Xiao Xia secretly cursed the Jiangning Xiao family for being despicable, using a fourth-grade master to impersonate a second-grade warrior.
The archer took out a medicine bag from his arms, took out a plaster, tore off the film, and applied the plaster directly on the wound.
The Xiao family of Jiangning was indeed thoughtful. They directly combined the gold wound medicine and plaster so that they could be used directly.
Xiao Xia snatched the medicine bag and took a look. There were nine plasters in it. He put it directly into his arms and said coldly: "You are eliminated, get off the mountain!"
The archer heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Xiao Xia had no intention of killing him. He said with shame on his face, "I don't want to, but I have to obey the family's orders!"
"Your last name is also Xiao?"
"I am Xiao Ding, a concubine's son of the Jiangning Xiao family."
"How many people did you shoot?"
"Your companion was the third one. He also shot two other warriors from the Jinling Xiao family, but they were not fatal. They all withdrew from the competition."
Xiao Xia pulled off his belt, turned around and left. Xiao Ding shouted from behind: "The Jiangning Xiao family has deployed a total of three archers, all of whom have practiced archery for two years. You have to be careful!"
Each person's name is written on the belt, and according to the rules, without the belt means being eliminated.
After running about two miles, Xiao Xia found another warrior lying on the ground. This warrior had lost his sword and belt.
It means that this person is out.
But the warrior didn't seem to be injured. At least Xiao Xia didn't find any wounds. He patted the warrior's face and said, "Hey! Wake up."
The warrior sat up suddenly, which scared Xiao Xia. The warrior suddenly grimaced in pain and covered the back of his head with his hands.
"Where are you from? Who attacked you?" Xiao Xia asked with a smile.
"I am Xiao Lan of the Jinling Xiao family, a first-level warrior." "Did someone sneak attack you?"
"It's not a sneak attack, a female warrior!"
"There are also female warriors?" Xiao Xia was surprised.
"There is one, Xiao Mannu from the Xiao family in Jiangning. Alas! She is simply a witch."
"How did she do it?"
Xiao Lan smiled bitterly and said, "She suddenly appeared, approached me with a smile, and pretended to undress. I was distracted and felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and I didn't know anything."
Xiao Xia laughed in silence and patted his shoulder, "Go down the mountain! We'll settle the score with her later."
Xiao Xia turned around and continued running up the mountain. He needed to reach the top of the mountain and find a big tree where he could see the flagpole. He needed to know where the flagpole was.
After running several hundred steps, a girl's scream suddenly came from the front, "You hooligan, what are you doing? Let me go, help!"
Xiao Xia walked forward and saw a girl warrior with a green belt lying on the ground covered with thick fallen leaves about a dozen meters in front of him. A male warrior with a yellow belt was holding her down, as if he was going to molest her.
As soon as the young warrior saw Xiao Xia, she immediately cried out, "Little brother, save me!"
I guess she is Xiao Mannu! In the western front, all three members of the Jinling Xiao family were eliminated, and she was the only one left in the Jiangdu Xiao family. So who would wear a yellow belt and molest her?
Xiao Xia leaned against a big tree, folded her hands in front of her chest, and smiled, "You still have to find a good place after being bullied. Are you afraid that the mud will stain your skirt?"
The crying stopped abruptly. The female warrior pushed the male warrior away, sat up, and said coldly: "Did you meet that idiot just now?"
The male warrior tore off the yellow belt from his waist, took out a green belt and tied it on, then slowly drew out his sword, "Junior sister, kill him!"
The female warrior also jumped up and drew her willow-leaf sword.
She was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a girl's double bun, tall figure, an oval face, big eyes, long eyebrows, and a pretty appearance, but with a hint of evil in her eyes.
Xiao Xia also slowly drew his sword and squinted his eyes as he watched the two men approach. He suddenly understood what Zhang Jue said, 'Some skills are acquired through hard practice, while some skills are acquired through talent'.
He could never tell the details of a samurai's martial arts, but when he was in the barrier-breaking state, he could keenly feel that the female samurai's martial arts were much more advanced than the male samurai around her.
This girl has reached the fourth rank, while the male warriors around her are only of the second rank at most.
Xiao Xia waved his hand and a flying knife shot out like lightning. The male warrior was caught off guard and the flying knife hit his right arm. The male warrior screamed and his sword fell to the ground with a clang.
At this moment, the female warrior Xiao Mannu shouted loudly, rolled in the air, and stabbed Xiao Xia's chest with her sword like lightning, at an unparalleled speed.
Xiao Xia turned around and was already behind Xiao Mannu. Xiao Mannu secretly cried out that something was not good. He tapped the tree trunk with his left foot, did another backflip, and jumped ten feet away. This back and forth was as smooth as a rabbit leaping up and down, extremely smooth.
When she stood firm and looked at Xiao Xia again, she couldn't help but feel shocked and angry. Xiao Xia had a lazy smile on his face and held a green belt in his hand.
When Xiao Mannu lowered his head, he found that his warrior robe had been untied and his belt was missing. Fortunately, there were buttons holding up his collar, otherwise his naked body would have been exposed.
"You bastard!"
Xiao Mannu had never suffered such a loss since she was a child. She screamed, rushed forward, and stabbed Xiao Xia with the long sword in her hand like a rainstorm.
Xiao Xia took two steps back and thrust out with the dagger. Xiao Mannu suddenly felt a pain in her wrist and the long sword in her hand fell to the ground. Then Xiao Xia kicked her hard in the chest. She took more than ten steps back and fell on the ground with her back facing the sky. She struggled and couldn't get up.
Xiao Xia slowly walked up to the male warrior. The male warrior was so frightened that he quickly took off his belt and handed it to Xiao Xia.
Xiao Xia collected the two belts, pulled back the flying knife, and continued running towards the top of the mountain.
The male warrior then ran forward to help Xiao Mannu up. Xiao Mannu was so angry that he slapped him hard, "You useless idiot!"
Xiao Mannu was the daughter of the head of the family, Xiao Hong. The male warriors feared her like a tiger and lowered their heads, not daring to say a word. Xiao Mannu snatched the yellow belt and tied it on herself. She saw that her warrior robe was covered with mud and there was a big black footprint on her delicate chest. She was immediately filled with shame and anger, with no way to vent her rage. She was so angry that she shook her head desperately and screamed like crazy.
"what--"
After venting some of her anger, she bent down and picked up her sword.
The other party didn't take her sword?
No! She seemed to be injured. She quickly looked at her wrist and was stunned. Her wrist was fine, not even the skin was broken.
What kind of martial arts is this?
Xiao Mannu was stunned for a while, and suddenly looked in the direction where Xiao Xia left. A trace of fear flashed in his eyes. This young man broke through the barrier.
(End of this chapter)