Chapter 269

269 Hearing Things?

“Tell our people to be careful. Ah Ying’s ability is far beyond our expectations. I’m afraid that some of our brothers have already been discovered by him. If he was not familiar with the rules of the building, how could you still be alive?”

The man who had been smiling just now had now turned cold, and his voice had changed from light and clear to dark and deep.

“This subordinate will be careful.”

The figure who had just entered the door answered briefly.

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“Hmph, that’s all you’ve got. You can’t even compare to a single finger of his. How can you be careful?”

The young man scolded and then ordered, “Have you contacted there yet? The next mission we give him will be the one that has been left unsolvable for twenty years.”

“Tell there that he will die after this.”

After the man in black left the inn, he went straight out of the city and rode his horse to a village ten miles out of the city.

“Ying is back? You’re so early today.”

“Brother Ying, this is a radish that I just picked at home. It’s very juicy. Do you want to take it back and try it?”

“Brother Ah Ying, it’s getting cold. Why don’t you put on some more clothes? Don’t let the cold damage your bones.”

From the moment he entered the village, the villagers kept greeting him, from white-haired old men to yellow-haired children. Everyone who saw him had a smile on their faces, as if they were not frightened by his cold appearance.

Although the man in black did not smile or speak, he would occasionally nod in response. However, he would not accept anything the villagers gave him.

He walked all the way to the back of the village. There was a small courtyard behind the entire village. The man in black walked over and unlocked the door, then went in and closed the door.

He had been staying in this village for nearly two months. He had only stayed for one night when he passed by, but he did not expect to choose this place to stay.

He sat down at the table and took out a bottle of wine.

Perhaps it was because it was directly pressed against his chest, even in such a cold day, the freshly warmed wine still had some temperature.

He slowly drank the wine. The strong wine burned down his throat with its unique spiciness, but it could not dispel the emptiness and coldness in his chest.

“Mei ‘Er, will I really not be able to see you again? No matter where you go, I won’t be able to see you again?”

His voice was extremely low, almost like a whisper. However, the room was empty, and no one responded to his words.

Ever since he had left the Qin village, he had followed the mountain range from east to west. He had also been asking for information about a person along the way, but he had not found any clues.

He had chosen to settle down in this village because there was a little girl who looked exactly the same as the person in his memory. It made him feel like he had returned to the past, but the surrounding environment reminded him again and again that it was a past life that he could never go back to.

Therefore, he stayed here and bought this courtyard that was far away from the crowd and was about to be abandoned, making it his temporary residence.

Every time he was out on a mission, he would return here immediately and quietly drink for the night before leaving again.

The villagers were so familiar with him because he had saved the villagers before.

In order to store enough supplies before winter, the men in the village went up the mountain to hunt together. However, they were surrounded by a group of wolves who were also hunting. If the man in black had not appeared in time, the group of men would have suffered heavy casualties.

Therefore, even though he had been cold and ignored everyone, the villagers’ enthusiasm for him did not diminish. As time passed, he would occasionally give a little response, but it was only a nod.

The sky had unknowingly darkened, and the wine that the black-clothed man had brought was almost finished. He originally wanted to go to sleep, but suddenly he heard a faint sound of a bird.

“Mei ‘Er!”

The black clothed man’s eyes focused, his eyes revealing an expression of disbelief. That voice was something he had only heard in his dreams so many times, and now it came from the night. Could it be that she had heard his heart and come to find him?

After a muffled sound, the door opened, and the man in black in the room had disappeared.

This village wasn’t like the Qin Village, which was in the mountains. It was at the foot of the mountain. The small courtyard where the black clothed man stayed was relatively closer to the mountain forest behind. Thus, he directly rushed into the back mountain from the courtyard. Even though the sound was quite loud, it didn’t alarm anyone.

In the late night, the forest was filled with ghostly shadows. Countless branches reached out to the man in black like pairs of ghostly hands, pulling on his clothes and arms as if to prevent him from getting closer to the voice he heard.

The sound was near and far. The man’s ears moved, trying to distinguish the direction of the sound. His senses had always been extremely sharp, but at this time, he could not clearly tell where the sound was coming from. He could only rush forward aimlessly.

When the man in black was running, he suddenly lost his balance and fell into a state of weightlessness.

Fortunately, he came to his senses in time and did a somersault in midair. A dark light flashed from his wrist and the rope that had shot out was firmly hooked onto the trunk of a tree, stopping his falling momentum.

After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, the man climbed up from below and looked back down. He was actually standing on the edge of an unfathomably deep cliff below.

The ghostly voice had lured him here, and it was actually to make him fall off the cliff.

The man pressed on his wrist, and the ropes that were piled on the ground were all retracted into a leather bag on his wrist.

It was an exquisitely made sleeve dart. Its shape was exactly the same as the one on Mo Ruyue’s wrist, but there were some differences in size and its style was a bit more rough.

This time, the man listened more carefully to the sounds around him, but he could only hear the whistling mountain wind and the sound of branches swaying in the cold wind. Other than that, he could not hear anything else.

“Is it an auditory hallucination, or is it a rustling sound?”

He shook his head to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating from drinking too much.

His alcohol tolerance was extremely good, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he would not get drunk even after a thousand glasses. The alcohol that he had drunk during the day was no more effective than plain water to him.

As he was in a state of near-madness when he was running, he did not distinguish the direction. However, his memory was extremely good, and he only needed to look at the position of the moon to know which direction he should go next.

At this time, he was already very far into the back of the mountain, and it was already night. The nocturnal animals in the mountain began to come out one after another. On his way back, he was targeted by countless fierce beasts.

The man was bold because of his skills. He was not afraid of this at all and only sped up the speed of descending the mountain.

The stench in the air was getting stronger and stronger. although the man ignored it, the beast that treated him as prey could not hold back any longer. It still got close to a dangerous level and was ready to pounce at any time.

The cold wind was still biting, but a strong wind with a fishy smell suddenly blew from behind.