Chapter 1993: Diversion! (1/2)
Edited by: Michyrr
”Wang Chong, are you sincere?” Zhangchou Jianqiong solemnly said.
”Mm!”
Wang Chong nodded.
Wang Chong was not lying, nor was he exaggerating the threat. No matter how powerful the Arabian Empire was, all it could do at most was wipe out the Great Tang. But An Yaluoshan was different. An Yaluoshan could call forth the otherworldly invaders and plunge this world into destruction. The Nine Provinces, all of its people, and the very earth itself would cease to exist!
It was for this reason that Wang Chong was relentless in his desire to kill him.
”Okay!”
Zhangchou Jianqiong sternly nodded.
”Wang Chong, these words from you are enough! In the future, with anything related to this An Yaluoshan, you only need to call on me to obtain my full assistance!” Zhangchou Jianqiong sternly said.
King Song and Zhangchou Jianqiong quickly departed.
After they left, Wang Chong headed off in another direction.
”Your Highness!”
Several muscular figures emerged from the shadows, appearing in front of Wang Chong. One was Old Eagle, and the other… was like a mighty god, a full head higher than an ordinary man. It was none other than Li Siye.
To 'welcome' An Yaluoshan, Wang Chong had stationed Xu Keyi, Su Shixuan, a hundred-some estate guards, ten ballistae, and numerous master archers at the city gate. While Li Siye and Old Eagle were not part of this force, given how they had appeared, they clearly had also been a part of this operation.
”Your Highness, why didn't you give the order? Did An Yaluoshan not appear?”
Li Siye gripped his sword with both hands, a baleful energy rising from his body.
Li Siye and Old Eagle had taken part in that operation on the stormy night two and a half years ago, and they had personally experienced Wang Chong's resolve to kill An Yaluoshan. For An Yaluoshan's current visit to the capital, while Wang Chong had placed all those elites and ten lethal ballistae at the city gate, the true killing blow had never been meant to come from either the elites or the ballistae.
Li Siye and Old Eagle had been waiting in the shadows for Wang Chong's order, upon which they would charge out and utterly pulverize An Yaluoshan and his Youzhou soldiers.
Wang Chong's operation at the city gate was not meant to intimidate or threaten. It had been meant to kill!
After a few moments of thought, Wang Chong calmly said, ”Because the conditions were not right and An Yaluoshan did not appear?”
”What?!”
Li Siye and Old Eagle were both struck dumb.
An Yaluoshan had been right there at the eastern gate, guarded stalwartly by Cui Qianyou and Tian Chengsi. And hadn't Wang Chong 'talked' with him for such a long time?
What did he mean by 'did not appear'?
”That man wasn't An Yaluoshan!” Wang Chong firmly declared, his terse statement sending shockwaves through the minds of his two subordinates.
He wasn't?
The An Yaluoshan at the gate was fake?
The two of them had considered many possibilities, but not this answer.
While An Yaluoshan had changed a lot compared to two and a half years ago, he seemed to them like the real deal. Moreover, when painting a tiger, it was easy to paint the skin but difficult to paint the bones. If that was a fake, how had his aura and demeanor been so similar?
”I don't know how he did it, but that man was not An Yaluoshan! He must have used some special method to transfer his aura to that man, or even control him from a distance!” Wang Chong coldly said.
”How could this be?” Li Siye muttered. Wang Chong's answer was utterly absurd, and it went against everything he knew.
A fake?
But how could it be so similar?
Wang Chong said nothing, but his eyes gleamed with a subtle light.
The moment An Yaluoshan had appeared at the gate, he had used the 'True World', but to his surprise, An Yaluoshan had some extremely powerful tool that was able to resist the probing of 'True World'. But what truly allowed Wang Chong to confirm that this An Yaluoshan was a fake was the palm he had placed on An Yaluoshan's shoulder.
An Yaluoshan was a man who had destroyed the world. If killing characters like Khatabah or Dusong Mangpoje could change the course of history, someone like An Yaluoshan had already transcended the level of 'historical character'.
He was the most crucial inflexion point in the destiny of the world!