Chapter 256 Assassination and the gap
The staple food of dinner is green fern mushroom zoo fish porridge. Xia Lan has never cared too much about food nutrition intake. What he cares about is food safety.
In recent days, his mind suddenly felt a little uneasy. As a superior strong man, his mind has always been accurate in warning signs of danger. He believes that this feeling will not appear for no reason. If it is accidental, it is inevitable. Perhaps somewhere he does not know, danger has begun to approach quietly.
Every day, the food will be tested under the strict supervision of Count Heather. Poisoning is a common method of assassination, and every noble lord will be extremely cautious about the safety of his own life. Therefore, poisoning assassination is difficult to work with nobles. If you want to succeed, unless you secretly bribe everyone who checks food safety.
After eating a large pot of green fern mushroom fish porridge under the service of a maid, this kind of semi-liquid food is easy to swallow. Especially when the body is seriously damaged and has a bad appetite, this kind of food is both nutritious and can satisfy your hunger.
Leaning on the bed, he waved his hand to repel the maid in the room, took out the recovery potion specially made for him and took it, Xia Lan closed her eyes, and the airflow in her body quickly combined with the effects of the potion to nourish the severely damaged internal tissues in her chest.
The air flow remaining in Baixize in his body has always been the biggest problem for his recovery. Every time Xia Lan slowly heals the torn tissue structure in his chest through the air flow and the effect of the medicine in his body, the air remaining in Baixize in his body will struggle violently to resist. As a result, the place where he finally recovered was torn again in an instant. After such repeated recurrence, the body's recovery will naturally be extremely slow.
However, the remaining qi in Baixize's body gradually weakened with the treatment. The strength of struggle and resistance will no longer be as fierce as it was at the beginning. In the long run, Xia Lan can completely drive them away sooner or later.
As night falls, heavy snow is still falling outside the window. The howling cold wind frequently pours into the cold air through the gaps in the window. Under the warmth of the blazing flames burning in the fireplace, this cold is naturally not worth fearing.
Crack-
In the quiet and quiet room, the wood kept making crisp sounds during the burning process, and the air was filled with a faint smoky smell. In such a peaceful and comfortable environment, people gradually became sleepy. Soon, Xia Lan on the bed actually made a gentle snoring sound and fell asleep.
Quietly, silently.
Click—
Suddenly, the door handle of the room slowly turned, and the slight sound was inaudible, and the door opened from the outside to the inside.
A black shadow appeared in front of the cracks that opened the door and paused for a moment. When the black shadow's deep and narrow eyes stared at the people on the bed in the distance for a long time, an arc seemed to be seen in the darkness.
The door opens and the door closes.
But there was an extra black shadow in the room that did not belong here.
The shadow looked very cautious. He looked around and observed for a while, and he began to walk towards someone's place on the bed.
His steps were light. Every step seemed to be walking on thin ice, carefully.
Until He appeared in front of the bed, the expected accident and danger did not happen. He held his breath and concentrated, and suddenly a dagger with a cold light appeared in the hand of the black shadow.
Lift up and fall down!
"Bang--"
With a loud noise, the black shadow screamed, and his whole body hung on the wall of the room and slowly fell down. The dagger in His hand made a crisp sound and landed beside His side.
"How is it possible for you!?"
The black shadow was spitting blood in his mouth, his eyes were full of incredible.
Xia Lan stared at the uninvited guest in front of her with cold eyes, coughed a few times, and slowly stood up from the bed, and a long sword shining with green light appeared in her hand.
"Are you trying to ask why the hypnotic psychedelic substances added to the wood don't work for me?"
Xia Lan seemed to see through the other party's thoughts and said coldly.
"You...you actually know?" The black shadow stared at her eyes widened and in surprise.
"It's just a common method of assassination. I can only say that you are too young, Miss Maid!"
Xia Lan sneered, staring at the true face of the black shadow beneath the wall with disdain in her eyes.
That’s right, this black shadow is the maid who comes to serve Xia Lan these days!
As for hypnotic psychedelic substances, Xia Lan often used this kind of thing when assassinating some people due to system missions. So after he smelled the abnormal smoky smell in the air, Xia Lan immediately held her breath and began to pretend to be asleep.
"I didn't expect that I still failed."
The maid picked up the dagger at her feet, reached out to support her and stood up tremblingly. Her face was very pale, as if Xia Lan's unexpected attack had caused serious internal injuries to her body.
"However, Lord Xia Lan seems to have neglected a place."
The maid was laughing, and her beautiful face looked very cunning.
After hearing this, Xia Lan frowned because he thought of something bad.
"Maybe you have guessed that the porridge I served you was drinking colorless and tasteless poison!" The maid sneered sinisterly: "Now do you feel that there are countless ants in your body biting you? Of course, although this poison cannot kill you, it is tantamount to your current physical condition. So what if you are a superior person? In the end, you will still die in my hands!"
"It's a secret poison, and the timing of the attack is just right." Xia Lan said expressionlessly.
"No, you are wrong. It's not just right, but as expected, because this poison is specifically targeting the airflow in the body of a strong man. The more the airflow runs, the stronger the poisoning effect." The maid stared at Xia Lan with a dagger in her hand tightly and sneered.
"Why didn't I notice anything when I was circulating the airflow to heal my body?" Xia Lan asked.
"Because the airflow was not released." The maid explained seemingly kindly.
"I see."
Xia Lan nodded and said.
"So you can die!"
After saying that, Xia Lan took a step forward, and her figure instantly came to the other party's approach, and the long sword in her hand suddenly slashed towards the maid's neck.
The maid was wary of her long time, but she didn't expect that the opponent's speed would return so quickly. The dagger rolled towards the ground and dodged the opponent's next attack.
"A warrior who cannot use airflow is a waste!"
Feeling the strength of the dagger blocking the sword just now, the maid posed in a wary battle posture and laughed.
"Why do you need to use the airflow in your body against a warrior in the middle level? Just sword skills can easily kill you." Xia Lan said calmly with his long sword standing in front of him.
"Arrogant!"
After the maid glared at Xia Lan, her body rushed towards Xia Lan quickly, and the silver dagger shone with an extremely cold wave.
Xia Lan held the sword in both hands, and the hand holding the sword was very stable. He did not move, even though the other party was about to rush to the front of him.
Snap-
Only in a moment, Xia Lan moved her steps in the moment when the two met, and then she narrowly avoided the other party's fatal dagger. She slashed her sword with her hands quietly.
The maid opened her mouth wide, and gradually her dark vision was spinning. In the blur, she seemed to see her headless body, and blood columns kept gushing out of her neck...
"Gap is the gap. You will never understand the realm of the superior."
Chapter completed!