"Kill one person in ten steps, and do not keep a thousand miles away. After doing things, you will leave and hide your own name." Li Bai's poem "The Legend of the Knights" is not so much a description of the daily life of the ancient knights, but rather a true portrayal of a professional killer.

In ancient China, it was in the need of the current situation. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many famous killers have appeared in history. Some of them are famous and have been famous throughout the ages; some are notorious, called minions or lackeys, and do shameful activities.

But more killers, in fact, were buried in the torrent of history together with their organization, and were all unknown from beginning to end.

Sima Qian, the author of "Records of the Grand Historian", specially created a chapter of "Biography of Assassins", focusing on the five famous assassins in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

They are: Cao Mo, Zhuangzhu, Yurang, Nie Zheng, and Jing Ke; there is also a friend of Jing Ke, Gao Jianli, attached to Jing Ke's story. But whether it is these five assassins or other dead soldiers of that era, the legendary nature of personal heroism that was talked about by later generations is mostly the legendary nature of personal heroism. Even the content of Sima Qian's account focuses on their spirit of knights assassination for righteousness.

However, the term "killer" is still not glorious. Due to the need of feudal rule, almost all dynasties have had the shadow of killer organizations.

Especially the court... The court secretly recruited and trained killers and used assassination to eliminate individuals to reduce the threat to the imperial government. Such organizations are extremely hidden and have extremely high mysticality. It is precisely because of this that historians are often very secretive about killer organizations, and their figures can only be seen in folk stories and legends. Until the Ming Dynasty, the emergence of "Three Factory and One Guard" marked that the official secret agency that undertakes part of the assassination function officially appeared on the stage of history.

Before the Ming Dynasty, all killer organizations were low-key.

It also includes a killer organization in the Tang Dynasty, whose name is Blue Lotus... But Blue Lotus is just a killer organization. There is also an organization above Blue Lotus, which is divided into eight gates, thief gates, Gu gates, mechanical gates, thousand gates, orchid gates, divine tone gates, red handkerchiefs, and lotus lotus.

Among them, the thief is the organization of robbers and thieves, the Gu Gate is the organization of release of Gu, the corpse driving, the mechanism is the organization of researching the machinery, the Qianmen is the organization of scams, the Orchid Gate is the organization of brothels, the Shentuo Gate is the organization of jumping the gods, the red handkerchief is the organization of magic, and the Blue Lotus is the organization of the killer.

Although Lan Lian is loyal to the master of these people, they are not talking about the national justice, but "taking money for others and seeking life for others", and nakedly exchanging life for money for transactions.

This organization has a long history and there are still such cruel people.

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"I'll be the main assassination this time...!" He Qingfeng looked at a woman in front of him and said slightly in a restaurant in Chang'an City.

"You know that this is my plan to pave the way for King Qi, and you are willing to serve as the main assassination..." The woman opposite He Qingfeng asked with a smile.

"Of course... I am the Lanlian Killer, you are the leader of Lanlian Sect. Lanlian assassinated and took money and demanded life for others. Nothing paved the way for anyone. Even if there is, it has nothing to do with me...!" He Qingfeng said it dismissively.

But the woman on the opposite side could see some other emotions of He Qingfeng, but the woman didn't say it, but smiled and said, "I'm sorry, this time it's not you who are the main assassination..."

He Lufeng frowned slightly: "I am the best killer of Lan Lian."

"I know...!" The woman looked at He Qingfeng and said lightly: "If we collect money, we will indeed seek life for others, but we have never said that this seeking life for others will definitely seek success.

And Xiao He... you won't want to be an unknown killer forever, right?

"Sect Master, what do you mean... Why can't I understand at all..." He Qingfeng didn't know what the other party was saying. The purpose of his Blue Lotus was to take money and take life for others. This has always been like this. Why did he become what life-seeking again today and may not necessarily succeed?

You know, this is not the case before.

Looking at He Qingfeng who was a little at a loss, the Lan Lian Sect Master smiled and said, "Killer is always a shameful profession. We have no future anymore, but our next generation still needs a future.

Just like Xiao He, you...you will have children in the future. Do you want your children to become names and killers who can only live in the darkness?"

"Of course I don't want to, but we are powerless to change... After all, there are still people above us..." He Qingfeng reminded slightly.

But the sect leader looked at He Yuefeng and said, "It can be changed. As long as you listen to me, the blue lotus will soon disappear from the entire Tang Dynasty. It is not that we disappeared on purpose, but that we did something wrong and were wiped out by the court. No one above will doubt it.

After the matter is calmed down, the Lan Lian will completely end. At that time, we will become the gang members of Dunhuafang together. If you want to continue your work, you can go to the intelligence agency of Dunhuafang.

If you don’t want to, you can also enter the workshop of Dunhuafang. At that time, we Lanlian people will have their own future.”

"So that's it..." He Qingfeng didn't say anything, but silently lowered his head...!

The next day was around 5 o'clock. Li Tai was exempted from going to the morning court, but because he thought of an idea that Li Shimin could be wary of Li You yesterday, he got up early today and prepared to attend today's morning court.

But Li Tai would not have thought that the journey to the palace this morning would be very thrilling and exciting.

Li Tai cannot ride a horse because he is too heavy, so when he goes to court, he usually rides a carriage... and he rides a four-wheeled carriage produced by Li You. It has a large space and is relatively stable. Li Tai likes this kind of four-wheeled carriage very much.

But what Li Tai didn't know was that sitting in this kind of four-wheeled carriage would become a very clear target. Although Li You's four-wheeled carriage was wood, there was steel plate in the interlayer between wood and wood, which could not be broken even with the most advanced bed crossbow.

So Li You's safety can be guaranteed, but the four-wheeled carriage that Li Tai is sitting in is not the same as Li You's carriage.

There were about fifty guards in the royal palace around Li Tai's carriage. These guards were not to guess and knew that they must be good at it, otherwise they would not have been sent to protect the King of Wei. However, no matter how powerful these people were, they would not have thought that there was a big trap waiting for them in front.

When the carriage arrived at Tongyifang, Li Tai was about to enter the Taiji Temple of the Imperial City from Hanguang Gate, but Li Tai would never dream of it that at this time, there were about thirty killers ambushing him on the way he must pass. Each of these killers had a strong bow and a crossbow in the army. This crossbow was used to shoot Li Tai in the carriage.

In this way, Li Tai's carriage convoy arrived at Tongyifang in a peaceful atmosphere, and in Tongyifang, less than a hundred meters away, all thirty killers were in place.

Li Tai was still taking a nap in the carriage at this time, and he would not get up until Li Tai was about to wait.

But just when Li Tai was dreaming and Li You were finished, suddenly a sound of breaking through the air came to Li Tai's ears. Although Li Tai was sleepy, the sleepy Li Tai was easily awakened. This was a kind of self-protection.

As soon as the sound of breaking through the air started, Li Tai opened his eyes and then heard a "bang". A sharp arrow shot into Li Tai's carriage from outside the carriage, and was nailed directly to a place less than fifty centimeters from Li Tai's body.

"Ah..." Li Tai's shocked voice sounded: "Come and protect me quickly, someone will assassinate me..."

As soon as Li Tai finished speaking, fifty guards immediately protected Li Tai's carriage, but it was useless to protect you. The killer leader shouted: "Call...!"

Thirty ambushed killers suddenly stood up and thirty bows and arrows kept firing. These killers were all extraordinary in archery. After a few rounds of volleys, fifty guards of the King of Wei were killed completely.

Then the killers smiled slightly, and then a killer opened the carriage door and saw King Wei Li Tai trembling in the carriage.

After seeing the killer, Li Tai quickly begs for mercy: "I am the King of Wei Li Tai. Don't kill me. I will give you a daughter. How much does the other party give you? I will give you twice."

However, Li Tai's begging for mercy did not make the other party hesitate at all. Instead, he asked the other party to raise his knife high. Then he heard the other party whisper: "You will never give it to him because you are not qualified enough, so Your Highness, you must do your best, not yours. If you want to rob, then someone will punish you. Now his order is to let you die...!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the killer slashed it down with a knife. Although Li Tai was a little fat, he still tried hard to hide in the face of life and death.

"Ah...!" Li Tai's thigh was cut, and blood flowed over Li Tai's trouser legs in a short while and dripped onto the carriage. Li Tai screamed in pain.

The killer laughed: "You are quite flexible and know to hide, but I'm sorry, you can only hide one knife. You will die in this second knife...!" Following the killer's second knife, he came down.

At this moment, a bow and arrow cut through the sky from a distance, shooting the steel knife in the killer's hand to the side. The killer's tiger's mouth was shocked and painful. The power of this arrow was at least five stone bows.

"Let's go...it's Yuchi Gong..."

Suddenly, the killer in front shouted loudly. The killer was stunned and looked at Li Tai and shouted to the killer behind him: "But Li Tai is not dead..."

"Do you want to lose your life here... Go quickly...!"

The killer behind shouted again, and then the sound of "bang", "bang", "bang", and a burst of smoke rose around, which should be a smoke bomb.

A piece of smoke passed, and Yuchi Gong immediately came to Li Tai's carriage. Seeing that Li Tai's thighs were bleeding, Yuchi Gong shouted loudly: "Go to the palace to find the imperial physician immediately...!"

"Yes..." A soldier agreed, and followed Li Tai and knew nothing. Perhaps because of too much blood loss, Li Tai slowly fainted.

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Chapter completed!