A Pair of Eclipse Swords
Chapter : 239 – Grandpa Crate Carrier
Both Gu Ren, Khuang Peng and Nie Chi, were perplexed when they received the emperor's order to search for Sung Han and Sung Hwa. Not confused with his orders, but confused about where to look.
It had been since a few months ago that they had last seen Sung Han and Sung Hwa who had left in a hurry from the palace. After that, there was no news. The Faceless Demon and the Red Eagles completely vanished like the swallowed up of the earth.
Gu Ren invited his two friends to search the foothills of the Heaven's Wall Mountains. Because Sung Han and Sung Hwa at that time seemed to want to investigate about the Jeiji Empire. Once there, they found nothing at all. Even asking the officers no one knew about the two men.
Finally they returned north, then east and west. However, the results remain nil, Sung Han and Sung Hwa are completely lost. This was the reason why the three people were a little hesitant once they received orders from the emperor to look for Sung Han and Sung Hwa. They thought maybe this time the two people had gone out of nowhere and people like them seemed to be nowhere to be found unless they deliberately appeared.
They are powerful people who are sometimes strange. Who knew that if only Sung Han and Sung Hwa had crossed over to the southern mainland by now?
At one time, Nie Chi complained. "It seems impossible to find them. They are like ascetics. Can't be seen unless it's what they want."
Khuang Peng sat down next to Nie Chi and fanned his face with his cap. "The situation as it is now is really uncomfortable. Better a war between two camps. Not like a quasi-prone, peaceful situation."
Gu Ren nodded. "Indeed right. And maybe the sudden disappearance of Sung Han and Sung Hwa was because of that. They want to investigate why Jeiji didn't take action immediately."
"You're saying he's reached the south?" sahut Nie Chi's. "What's right?"
"It's not impossible" Gu Ren replied. "Sakti people who live freely like them, who can guess the way of his mind?"
They talked under the tree to get tired. A village has been seen from here and that is their next destination. About an hour later, Gu Ren decided to continue on his way to the village.
Arriving at the village, the three frowned when sensing the awkward situation in the village. The residents do the activity as usual, but in the faces implied fear and horror.
Gu Ren took the initiative to stop one of the passersby. He patted his shoulder and rebuked. "I'm sorry, what's in this village that's freaking you out?"
Before, the man was shocked. But hearing Gu Ren's words, as if reminded by something, his confused face turned into horror.
He looked at the clothes of the three men in front of him, and asked. "You from outside?"
"Right," Gu Ren replied as he nodded.
"You swordsman?"
"You could say so."
Hearing this the person's face brightened. Quickly he dropped to his knees before Gu Ren's feet. This made the three of them shocked and attracted the attention of the people.
"Eh-eh, what's going on?" bewildered Gu Ren tried to make the person stand up. "Stand."
But the man remained unmoved. He said with a slight tremble. "Master, help us all. It's been two days since there's been a freak in this village. Grandparents carrying coffins. He wasn't bothering us, but it was scary enough. Moreover, his attitude was quite strange, it seemed that he was not from the human race."
Gu Ren and the other two looked at each other. Hearing the testimony must be this is a magician. Who else if not the magician who behaves strangely?
But the three were astonished that they had never heard of such a character. Carrying crates? A grandparent?
Khuang Peng stepped forward and asked. "Where is he now?"
"At the tavern down the street" he replied, pointing in one direction. "Please do something gentlemen."
"Alright, we will reprimand the old man," Gu Ren replied and immediately invited his two friends to go to the tavern down the street.
It is not difficult to find this store because it only looks one store in the area. Quickly they entered the store, after opening the window, it was a very unusual sight but also a little funny.
Obviously everyone is staying away from this one grandpa. Even those three warriors felt goosebumps. And they soon knew that this was the man the grandfathers of the crates were referring to.
The grandfather ordered nothing but one urn of wine. And at this moment, he was just sitting pensively looking out the window.
The three warriors approached and Gu Ren quickly paid his respects. "Sorry sir, but is it really this master who is the culprit of the fear of the citizens?"
Grandfather ignored him for a while. When Gu Ren wanted to ask the same thing a second time, the grandfather turned his head and replied. "I think you already know. You reckon?"
Hearing that voice, inexplicably Gu Ren and his two companions felt cold at the nape of his neck. It was only fitting that the villagers were frightened. Even those who were true warriors remained shaken.
"I'm sorry, but you've scared people" Gu Ren said.
Just like before, this grandfather did not immediately reply. He looked at Gu Ren and the other two people alternately. His very sunken eyes looked indifferent and a little lazy. Then the answer was issued with a half-hearted dragging tone.
"Then, what's my business? What matters is that I'm not interrupting."
Gu Ren was at a loss for words. It was true what the grandfather said, he just stopped here and was not bothering at all. But that black chest and that creepy face that was what was disturbing, horrible!
Before Gu Ren found the answer to the grandfather's words, from the outside in a row entered three people who might all be thirty to forty years old.
They immediately knew the grandfather carrying the chest, and with his face came over.
"Thank God we can find you here. Our three teachers–"
"Do the three Silent Hermits have no memory of friends at all. Even just sending his student to pick him up?" the old man cut off the words of one of the men who had just arrived. He then drank his wine. "Say a reasonable reason why his student came to pick him up?"
"Sorry, but three teachers can't leave the mountains at will."
"One of them can."
"This is the teacher's order. I'm sorry," the man looked shy.
The grandfather let out a furious sigh, drained his wine and placed a few coins on the table. He crooked and lifted his coffin, turning to look at Gu Ren.
"Well, I'm leaving. The person you think is disturbing is leaving" he said before walking out of the store with three other people.
Gu Ren was confused and astonished. But to be sure, he was sure that the grandfather must have been a swordsman. He had never heard of the name of the Silent Hermit, but seeing the characteristics of the grandfather, he felt familiar.
"Is he perhaps the master of the Golden Goa?" chirping Nie Chi suddenly.
"You mean?" Khuang Peng seemed interested.
"You remember, right, the time Jeiji's troops were pounded in the Golden Goa. The one who faced them was a kosen swordsman nicknamed Demon Golden Goa Chest. Looking at his features, it was not impossible that the Demon Golden Goa Chest was the one who had just left it."
The three immediately remembered and secretly grateful that they had not been too presumptuous.
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