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summercomfort) wrote2010-02-16 12:12 am
summercomfort) wrote2010-02-16 12:12 am
Day 5
The maid seemed to be coping surprisingly well. She was startled by the large man, but Li Tan leapt over the field of needles and onto the immobile man's shoulders and signaled that it was safe. "It's all right. I've used my chi to block his pressure points. He can't move." At that she seemed to calm down. Bending backward while seated on the man's shoulders, Li Tan retrieved the two Go stones that he had shot into the man's back earlier and jabbed those pressure points a few more times to reinforce the chi block.
Li Tan leapt back, heaved a sigh of relief and started clearing the needles with the help of the lantern light, recounting tonight's casualties in his head: This muscular man who landed in the field of needles. He looked to be in his forties and was dressed simply. The two women in green who laid the trap, and who were now collapsed unconscious on the other side of the hole in the wall. Why did he get involved in the first place? He should have let them fight and kill each other. After all, it was Jianghu and it was none of his business.
The needles cleared, he dragged the women out from the destroyed west main room and laid them in the courtyard beside the man. They were dressed in green from head to toe, and wore their hair in an identical manner. Their eyes were tightly closed in a frown of pain and shock. A red dot adorned each cheek, and their iron-plated shoes glinted in the lantern light. A Go stone was embedded in each solar plexus. Angered by the treachery of the trap, Li Tan had shot out two Go stones at the women just as they moved in on the man. Li Tan had immediately regretted it, as this opened the women to a full punch by the man that knocked them into the wall and left them in their current state. Li Tan then had to shoot two stones to stop the man before he moved to kill the women.
He glared at the unconscious bodies, cursing himself. Apparently three years and a thousand books were not enough to cure him of that Jianghu sense of self-righteousness. The same self-righteousness that the man and the women probably felt. He retrieved the two Go stones that he had embedded in their abdomen earlier and reinforced their pressure points, as well. At least now, lying unconscious in the courtyard, they were all the same. And what about him? Was he any better, hiding in his room and shooting stones from his window, judging both sides?
A thousand thoughts crowded his mind: Who was in the right? What were they fighting over? Was this an organizational grudge or a private blood feud? Do they have back-up nearby? But amidst all these thoughts one crystalized: *They must not know it was him.* Everyone had thought him gone. He needed to get rid of all of the evidence and leave without a trace. That should be easy: after all, the three bodies can be easily handled, and only the maid knew he was here.
The maid. He looked up at the maid who had silently held the lantern for him for the past 10 minutes. Simple country girls were not good at keeping secrets. He needed to get rid of all of the evidence.
Li Tan leapt back, heaved a sigh of relief and started clearing the needles with the help of the lantern light, recounting tonight's casualties in his head: This muscular man who landed in the field of needles. He looked to be in his forties and was dressed simply. The two women in green who laid the trap, and who were now collapsed unconscious on the other side of the hole in the wall. Why did he get involved in the first place? He should have let them fight and kill each other. After all, it was Jianghu and it was none of his business.
The needles cleared, he dragged the women out from the destroyed west main room and laid them in the courtyard beside the man. They were dressed in green from head to toe, and wore their hair in an identical manner. Their eyes were tightly closed in a frown of pain and shock. A red dot adorned each cheek, and their iron-plated shoes glinted in the lantern light. A Go stone was embedded in each solar plexus. Angered by the treachery of the trap, Li Tan had shot out two Go stones at the women just as they moved in on the man. Li Tan had immediately regretted it, as this opened the women to a full punch by the man that knocked them into the wall and left them in their current state. Li Tan then had to shoot two stones to stop the man before he moved to kill the women.
He glared at the unconscious bodies, cursing himself. Apparently three years and a thousand books were not enough to cure him of that Jianghu sense of self-righteousness. The same self-righteousness that the man and the women probably felt. He retrieved the two Go stones that he had embedded in their abdomen earlier and reinforced their pressure points, as well. At least now, lying unconscious in the courtyard, they were all the same. And what about him? Was he any better, hiding in his room and shooting stones from his window, judging both sides?
A thousand thoughts crowded his mind: Who was in the right? What were they fighting over? Was this an organizational grudge or a private blood feud? Do they have back-up nearby? But amidst all these thoughts one crystalized: *They must not know it was him.* Everyone had thought him gone. He needed to get rid of all of the evidence and leave without a trace. That should be easy: after all, the three bodies can be easily handled, and only the maid knew he was here.
The maid. He looked up at the maid who had silently held the lantern for him for the past 10 minutes. Simple country girls were not good at keeping secrets. He needed to get rid of all of the evidence.
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I hope the maid kicks his ass.