Dragon and Phoenix
Chapter 42: A Swordsman in the Midnight
On the 8th day, they rested in a forest. They make a fireplace and enjoy dinner. Roasted deer and warm rice. Of course with a few cups of wine to warm the body. After eating, they all went to sleep. Except for Yan Tian Bu. That night, he had a turn to watch. Fireplaces
and wine gave them all the warmth. They sleep in the open.
Entering midnight, Cio San suddenly woke up. Cukat Tong also woke up a while later.
“You heard that?” ask him to Cio San.
The one asked was just nodding. Yan Tian Bu remained in his place. He wondered what voices the two men were listening to. Before long, a black shadow appeared. Someone showed up there. He walks in a relaxed manner. His face was covered in a mask.
“Greetings to Mo Kauw-kauwcu and King Maling,” the man said as he rode.
“Salam,” Cio San replied. “Gentleman who?”
“If you want to know, please come with me,” replied the masked man.
“You wait here,” Cio San said to Cukat Tong. He then moved.
“Good. Cio San is Cio San.” His face was covered in a mask, but one could see that he was smiling behind his mask.
“Please.” Cio San invited the masked man first. Then he followed her.
The masked man moved very quickly. Jump up on a tree branch, come down again, sneak behind a tree, and run very fast. Not hearing Cio San's leg behind him, he turned his head. It turned out that Cio San was still behind him smilingly looking at him.
Before long, after the masked man felt they were far enough away from Cio San's entourage, he then stopped at a rather airy ground.
“I am the one you have been looking for all this time,” said the masked man.
“I never look for people. Sir may be the wrong address,” replied Cio San with a smile. Her fingers played her hair, while her left hand folded back.
“I was the one who planned all those murders. I am the brain of all chaos in Bu Lim.”
“Ah...” That's all that came out of Cio San's mouth.
“I came to warn you, not to interfere in my affairs!”
“Master may forget. But I never meddled in your business. Your people are always coming looking for me and want to kill me.”
The masked man in front of Cio San was at a loss for words.
“I don't like you. I want you dead,” he said.
“Already. Your stupid plan is I know. Plans like this only make my mind contemptible.”
“What plan?”
Cio San is just a buzzing. His face showed disappointment.
“You're using sense ‘fishing tiger leave sarang’, right? You hope that when I leave my entourage, your gang can ambush and attack my entourage, right? You yourself are not the ‘big box’. You're just a man,” said Cio San.
The eyes of the masked man glinted in shock.
“If you already know, why did you leave them?” ask the masked man.
“You not only underestimated me, you also underestimated the Maling King and Ang Lin Hua,” Cio San said.
Then he continued,
“This is for sure you will lose, but still you do too. This is definitely not an order from si ‘big box’. It must have been you who planned it. Si ‘big box’ won't do such a stupid thing.”
Again the masked man displayed his surprise.
Cio San's ears had heard the sound of a fight far away. Where his company rests.
Then he frowned.
“You did deliberately want to kill your own friends?”
“Cio San is Cio San. The news of your intelligence has indeed amazed me. Youre right. I did want to kill my own friends by borrowing your hands.”
Cio San just looked at him.
The masked man continued, though,
“Our master, the one you call the ‘big box’, has managed to gather many swordsmen Kang Ouw to submit under his power. We don't know each other because we always wear masks. But from his silat moves, we finally got to know each other. Even if only can
fumbling, as each hides his real silat.”
Proceeds,
“Si ‘big box’ also gives us the books of silat sakti. He had great schools such as Go Bi-pay, Kun Lun-pay, and Hoa San-pay. Even the books of silat sakti belonging to Bu Tong-pay and Siau Lim-pay, he has. You can imagine, what a great man he is, who is able to steal the books of the great parties? The books of knowledge they keep secret.”
Cio San just nodded.
The masked man continued, again,
“Then you can imagine, how great is our science? People as smart and claustrophobic as you, will not be able to fight the greatness of the ‘big brain’ and all of us.”
The sound of fighting far away there had already stopped.
“Ah, stop. That's not what I wanted to tell you. Actually, after a long time of gathering with the rest of the group, I began to be convinced, that some of my enemies were among this group. Finally, you can guess for yourself, I borrowed your manpower to kill them.”
“Your wish is done,” said Cio San. “What do you want now?”
“Because you have helped me get rid of my enemies, I want to tell you an important secret.”
“Please,” says Cio San.
“I know who the ‘big box’ really is,” said the masked man.
“Why do you want to tell me?” ask Cio San
“I hate to be his slave forever.”
“You said, I won't be able to fight it. Why are you changing your mind now?” ask Cio San again.
“If you know who he really is, of course you are able to make steps to be able to defeat him.”
“She is the most beautiful and richest woman in the world,” replied the masked man.
“You mean Khu-hujin?” ask Cio San.
“Who said she was the prettiest and richest?” the masked man asked.
“Oh, so there's more? What's name?”
“You will know when you meet him,” replied the masked man.
Cio San nodded. “Thank you,” said.
“If you succeed in killing him, I will come to bring offerings to you,” said the masked man.
After saying so he had jumped away from it.
Cio San was alone there. He then walked back to his entourage. Sure enough, there were some corpses lying there. The first Cukat Tong greeted him.
“You managed to beat him?”
Cio San shook his head. “Of course it's not him.”
“They are leading you away so they can snatch us. But he miscalculated. Ang-Siocia (Nona Ang) took them all out. In recent days, his silat science has improved greatly. Really great.”
Cukat Tong praised him blatantly.
Ang Lin Hua could only say, “Dare not dare.did not.” while jutting. “All thanks to the instructions of the noble Kauwcu.”
“Good. Let's bury these bodies properly,” said Cio San.
They all worked and buried dozens of corpses right then and there. When they finished, they went back to rest.
This time it was Cukat Tong's turn to stand guard.
Long time he was silent. Finally, because he could not hold back his curiosity, he invited Cio San to talk. Cio San seems to have fallen asleep.
“You don't want to explain to me what happened?”
Quite lazily Cio San replied,
“Why do you take your own wits for granted? You are King Maling.”
“King Maling if it is next to you, only a turtle. If you are here, the business of thinking I leave it to you entirely,” he said with a laugh.
Cio San finally got up.
“Basic slacker,” laughs.
He then continued, “You must have known if they had run the sense ‘lancing tigers out hive’?”
“Ya,” replied Cukat Tong short.
“Si masked person claiming to be ‘big box’ it thinks he can lie to me.”
“What does he say?”
“He said, he wants to borrow our hands to kill his own gang friends.”
“What's the reason?” ask Cukat Tong.
“He said, some members of his gang turned out to be his enemies. So he wants to borrow our hand,” explained Cio San.
“Then why should he lure you away? Wouldn't it be if you had, that business of borrowing and lending hands would be finished sooner?” ask Cukat Tong again.
“If he does not lure me away, of course his friends will not dare to attack. They ‘kan already really know what I can do.”
"So he disguised himself as the ‘big box’ and lured you out, so that his friends would dare to attack us? Hmmm. Then?”
“Then after his friends died, as a thank you, he told me a secret.”
“What secret?”
“Secret identity si ‘big box’ actual.”
“HAH? Who is he?”
“Say the masked man, she is the prettiest and richest woman in the whole world.”
Cukat Tong face instantly changed, “Di..dia?”
“You know?”
Cukat Tong simply nodded and could not say anything. Face lowered.
Soon Cio San said, “Of course I don't believe his lies.”
“Why don't you believe it?”
“Because I already know who the ‘big box’ actually is.”
“You know? Si..who?”
“Reclassic. I'll tell him, if I can really prove it. Otherwise, it will pass easily.”
“Then, what did the masked man mean to tell you that false secret?”
“To plunge me into the wrong path. Slander, so that I am affected, and not suspect it,” explained Cio San.
“For that matter, he sacrificed dozens of his men. So crazy!” cukat Tong.
“Can be, he does not need a dozen of his men,” said Cio San.
“And he thinks you are stupid to just believe his deceit. Hahaha..,” Laughter Cukat Tong.
It goes on again, “Sometimes, the person most **** is, the person who considers others more ***** than himself.”