Chapter 45: Charging into the Heavy Encirclement with Each Step Filled with Alarm

  Those five or six pursuing soldiers were running wildly while shouting. The war horse that was dragging Shi Jing seemed to have sensed something and ran even more frantically, galloping with all four hooves.

  Shi Jin was scolding in his heart, and the horse was also running wildly due to panic. As they turned a corner, Shi Jin let out a sigh of relief as the officials finally disappeared from view. He stretched out his hand with difficulty and patted the horse's shiny black coat, exclaiming: "What a clever and spirited steed!"

  Shi Jin hadn't finished praising the horse when he suddenly felt a severe pain starting from his back, spreading rapidly throughout his body like water overflowing. It turned out that either this horse understood human language and was proud and arrogant, or it was originally a stupid horse, seeing Shi Jin leaning forward and turning, but this time the alley was too small, and the turn was too sharp, so Shi Jin couldn't hold on and was thrown off. In previous instances when Shi Jin had been thrown off, he would swing his legs in the direction of the throw, except for a bit more pain in his hands, his whole body felt comfortable, and Shi Jin was happy to do so. But this time, the horse threw him off directly, slamming him into the corner of the alley with great force.

  Shi Jin fell to the ground with a thud, and was dragged along the ground by the momentum, rolling over several times. He was in pain all over his body, covered in bruises. This fall was particularly miserable, as he had already been feeling sore in his arms and numbness in his legs earlier. Now, rubbing against the stone pavement, he lay paralyzed on the street, finding it hard to move even a little bit.

  At this moment, Shi Jin not only felt a surge of unbearable pain spreading throughout his limbs, but also faintly heard the sound of rapid footsteps rushing towards him.

  Shi Jin knew that those bastards wouldn't give up and were chasing after him again. Shi Jin tried to struggle and get up, but every movement brought even more intense pain. At this moment, Shi Jin felt that his whole body had lost all its strength, but the shouting voices were getting closer and closer, and in a state of panic, he could only pant heavily, unable to do anything.

  Shi Jin looked up at the sky, feeling that it would be better to die a heroic death in battle, shouting "Twenty years later, another good fellow!" as he fell to the ground with his last drop of blood. In the future, when people talk about Shi Jin, they will have to clench their fists and bow their heads towards the sky, saying that he died a glorious death, a true hero!

  Shi Jin was thinking like that, and in his heart, he felt it was all beautiful. But when he thought about the current situation, the corner of his mouth twitched. Being paralyzed here, killed by these unknown small roles, was really a reversal of fortune, very humiliating. Not to mention what others would say later, even if Zhu Wu mentioned his big brother Shi Jin, he estimated that he wouldn't have the face to speak up. What would be said in his heart? Shi Jin couldn't hold on and escaped, not only was he dragged down by a black-haired beast, but also chopped by several small soldiers...

  Shi Jin thought of this and got so angry that he couldn't bear it, hearing that the group of people had almost reached the previous street corner. If they turned around again, everything would be too late. Shi Jin refused to accept this fate, gritting his teeth tightly, even if it killed him, he struggled to get up. For some reason, he thought of Master Ji again in his heart and felt indignant. " Auspicious person, heavenly appearance!", Bah!

  The bird's breath hadn't been exhaled yet, when the footsteps of those officials and soldiers got closer. But at this moment, Shi Jin still hadn't struggled to get up. His anxious heart was hard to express in words. A pair of eyes stared tightly at another corner not far away, where the firelight from torches shone brighter and brighter, obviously approaching this direction. As expected, just at that instant when people hadn't turned out yet, a knife tip had already appeared from the wall corner. Shi Jin looked at it, closed his eyes, and thought: "It's all over..."

  Immediately afterwards, several military officers rushed past the corner, following the bloodstains dragged out by Shi Jin, and ran in that direction. The sharp-eyed government soldiers caught sight of Shi Jin's direction at a glance, seeing the marks of new collisions on the wall corner.

  It must have hit the wall corner, hitting so hard that it's estimated to fall down and die there. The officer and soldiers speculated with great joy, thinking about the merits they had gained, and shouted out in their hearts.

  "He's over there!" The officer shouted and was the first to charge forward with his knife.

  Ran to the corner of that small alley, turned around, and those soldiers were stunned. Several people who followed closely lit torches in all directions, except for a few drops of blood, where was the person?

  The officer and soldiers held up torches at the corner and saw that the peeled soil was scattered all over the ground.

  "Damn it! That damned bird, really has a hard life!" The man looked and didn't catch it, the joy in his heart immediately fell through, and he involuntarily jumped up and cursed.

  "Less nonsense, hurry up and chase!" The crowd chased anxiously, thinking that Shi Jing was still hanging on the horse. One sentence blocked his mouth, and they all rushed along the alley together.

  At this moment, Shi Jin's back was stuck to the gate of a household in this small alley, and through the wooden board, he heard every word and sentence spoken by the government soldiers.

  Although his whole body was in pain, Shi Jin still cracked a smile. In this dark courtyard, he whispered to the person beside him who was still listening carefully with their ear against the door: "Thank you, hero, for saving me."

  "It's none of your business, it should be!" The man seemed to fear that the officer was still nearby and hadn't left yet, so he suppressed his voice and replied softly.

  Shi Jin leaned against the door panel, looking up at the starless night sky and said: "The officers and soldiers have left, but... you're finished!" As he spoke, he glanced in the direction of that person.

  The man let out a long sigh of relief, clearly a bit more at ease. He didn't bother with Shi Jin, but carefully put his arm around Shi Jin's shoulders in the darkness, supporting Shi Jin's battered body as he hobbled towards the house.

  He followed the man into a side room, but Shi Jin couldn't see clearly where they were. It was pitch black in front of him, and he could only follow the sound of the man's footsteps as he moved cautiously through the darkness. The man seemed to be very familiar with his surroundings, walking steadily without bumping into anything.

  In this room, it seemed that they had reached the end of their journey, and the man also stopped in his tracks. Shi Jin's exhausted body urgently needed to collapse onto the bed and catch his breath. His hands hastily stretched out towards the bedside, but what he touched was beyond Shi Jin's imagination.

  What stood in front of Shi Jin was not the bed he wanted, and the touch felt icy cold, which was not the wooden texture that a bed should have. Just as Shi Jin felt something was off in his heart and was about to ask, he suddenly heard from the darkness in front of him, "creak creak creak", a metallic gear turning sound.