Book 18 - Chapter 2 – Initial Expectation Hard to Achieve (1/2)
Book 18 Chapter 2 – Initial Expectation Hard to Achieve
The fleet of carriages left the roup ofcarriages Together with the uards, they rode in neat fore When they left, the Rong Mansion was still lively with the loud party
When they entered another ’s carriage, suddenly reined the horses to stop While everybody ondering, the curtain rose up, wang shi+chong stuck out his head and called out, “Xiyi Xiong, Daozhang [priest], Kou Xiaodi, please co, and Ouyang Xiyi, three men ere aware of actual situation, the rest of the people were baffled
Linglong Jiao, Chen Changlin, and a dozen or so s on both sides of the street, to guard against the ene this opportunity to ae, the real and the fake wang shi+chong were sitting side-by-side
After Kou Zhong, threespoke in low voice, “I want to change course”
Priest Ke Feng was stunned, “Won’t that e shi+chong said, “I suddenly re their strong e If the ene the boulders are Huang Gongcuo, You Chuhong, Dugu Feng, wang Bodang, and the like, and I aerous”
Kou Zhong pretended to blurt out, “In that case, won’t our tactic of showing-the-ene also said, “If the enemy uses iron hammer, heavy rocks, and the like to attack us, we must anticipate our way back to the I Xiyi said, “Spy a saidXiong, it won’t be showing-the-eneive the ene smiled and said, “Our objective is clear; if the eneht to take the Heavenly Street’s Io back to the I the road, the enee method This is , as sitting on the driver seat, “Jieyuan, co, threeXiyi deliberately pulled Ke Feng aside to talk to hiht so that he did not see wang shi+chong taking off his outer robe, exposing an attire si on theonto the driver seat
The cavalcade inally quiet street was suddenly filled with hoof beats and the sound of wheels grinding the paveht up so everybody breath heavily
Dark clouds hang low on the sky, another stor has already applied the disguising technique he learned fro, he was able to achieve fo, 60 rese; it’s just that without the hair and the beard, plus with the aid of the darkness of the night, perhaps anybody would be able to see the flaw in just one glance
The ‘original’ fake wang shi+chong whispered in tre voice, “I don’t want to die, Daye …”
Xu Ziling patted his shoulder and said, “Don’t worry! I will doinwardly, he hid inside the secret co riders, a platoon of about twenty men, finally turned onto the Heavenly Street, and slowly entered the Ied her horse to catch up with Kou Zhong Riding alongside him, she spoke in low voice, “Is this a wise choice? The assassins can easily hide a was surprised; this woe in her attitude these past couple of days, taking initiative to talk to hiinable in the past He laughed cheerfully and said, “I am most afraid that they won’t come!”
After a short pause, he asked, “Where is Qiuci anyway?”
Linglong Jiao lightly replied, “Why do you want to know?”
“A place derives reflected glory fro spoke in low voice, “Qiuci is able to produce matchless music and dance in the world, and beautiful women like Miss; certainly it is a beautiful land, hence the reason I, Kou Zhong, am tempted to inquire”
He cleverly flattered Qiuci State and Linglong Jiao, andand the people in the sa, it was neither blatant nor condescending, so that this as-cold-as-ice-and-frost beauty would have to take it as face value and would not be able to reprihtly; under the illumination of the lanterns ahead and behind the
After being quiet for half a day, she spoke in low voice, “Do you really think so?”
A tinge of regret grew in Kou Zhong’s heart; considering non-Han women were different fro and direct, if she ht bring unintended consequences But this er, how could he explain that it was just a rando her?
Without much choices he hardened his heart and replied, “Of course I do”
Linglong Jiao shot hilance “Do you knohere eastern Tujue is?” she asked
Kou Zhong nodded, “Isn’t that north of the Great Wall?”
Linglong Jiao becaure! West of Eastern Tujue is precisely Western Tujue, Gaochang and Qiuci Fro, Shanshan From there you still have to travel for two months to the northwest, across the Great Desert, and that is the grassland wherewas dumbstruck, “It’s that far,” he said
Suddenly they heard a horse neighing ahead; the cavalcade stopped i ahead, they could vaguely see a tall figure standing in the middle of the road
Momentarily everybody was stunned; how could the assassin be this brazen?
It should be noted that nearly all of the entire force of ’s command were concentrated here, not to uards Unless the eneer force, perhaps before they were able to even touch wang shi+chong’s carriage, they would have to retreat with broken troops and da for this side to shout the question, the hter and said, “wang shi+chong! You are going to die today!”
Surprisingly, it was the Dugu Clan’s leader, Dugu Feng’s voice
Before anybody had ti roared and spun around several times with the speed that was difficult to see with naked eyes; and then he threw a large object that was spinning in the air Like a black could it flew across the uard troops
A whistling noise, the sound ofthe Imperial Road Under the illumination of the lanterns and the torches, they could see that the object thrown by Dugu Feng was actually a large piece of iron disk, about five chi in dia his special technique, it created a beautiful arc in the air, as like a spinning top it fleith astonishi+ng speed toward its target
Dugu Feng was the leader of a hu for th, plus the angularin place, combined with the circular disc’s rotational property, plus the sharp teeth along its edge, really carried an unbreakable and i Daoqi personally came, perhaps he would not dare tothe circular disc, Dugu Feng immediately flew back, sith in this one throw, and his true power suffered a very huge loss
Ahead, lanterns were falling to the ground, because the guards jumped down of their horses and scattered away to evade Panic spread out like a ripple The rest of the people also jumped down from their horses and scattered in all direction
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The light was suddenly sed by the darkness A dreadful feeling, worse than the danger of battlefield, descended upon the people
Kou Zhong, Ouyang Xiyi, and the others had never thought that the eneain the upper hand in just one move like this Momentarily they could only watch in disbelief as the round disc froe in two
By the ti away froround or riding their horses away to evade, while they were utterly defeated, a dark shadow fell down fro accuracy it landed on the flying, spinning disc, the tip of the shadow’s toes was right at the axis of rotation, so that the shadow looked like an i, as it flew along the spinning disc; an astonishi+ng scene to behold
“assassin!” Ke Feng shouted
Ouyang Xiyi already soared into the air, hoping to be one step ahead of the ene was , this assassin’s h, it was definitely above Xu Ziling’s and his Because he did not knohat the ene to do next, and was fully aware that nobody would be able to stop the assassin before he reached the carriage, in his quick-thinking he threw hie and shouted, “Go down!”
wang shi+chong, sitting on the driver seat, becaet Wide-eyed he stared at the ene over the horses’ head, while his subordinates while scra at the curve of the flight path, he knew that the fast-spinning disc carrying the enemy was about to cut across his face
If the ene on his skill, he could leap into the air to intercept the ene disc But the curving attack path was theGongcuo, one of the people with enough qualifications to be Ning Daoqi’s ive up the idea, sprang off the seat, and rolled down on the ground in an extre!
Under everybody’s blank stare, the spinning disc razed through the carriage as if it was made of dried, rotten wood, about half a chi below the roof The disc carried the roof of the carriage along and dropped it to the ground, leaving the carriage looked like an ugly-shaped, a vicious-looking open cart
The four horses pulling the carriage reared on their hind legs first, and then their necks broke and they fell down, died on the spot
The assassin sprang up, made a flip in the air, and then with head below and feet above, he dove down into the carriage like a cannonball
Without casting even half a glance toward the tre on the floor at the aft of the carriage, both his palms struck toward the secret co inside the secret co, suddenly heard the horses neighing, he knew so He was just about to push the board open and get out when Kou Zhong’s warning shout rang in his ears
If it were other people, he would have hesitated but for a ether since they were little, they lived and died together, so there was a fabulous tacit understanding between them; it could even be said that it was unparalleled in the world
Kou Zhong’s shout was still ringing in his ears, he ie, dropped to the stone slab pavee
‘Boom!’
The entire floor of the vehicle shattered into s and the seats dropped down to the ground, but the wall of the co cried ‘Lucky!’ inwardly If he was a split second late, it would be strange indeed if he did not die like a minced meat with all the bones in his body split in pieces
Before he had ti up, the dreadful assassin, who clearly knew that he had slipped away froh the wall in Xu Ziling’s direction, and fiercely attacked hie in two, the spinning disc has not lost itshorses Immediately their blood splashed, two poor innocent warhorses toppled down tragically, bringing the guards on their back along to the ground
Other than scattering in all direction, wang shi+chong’s et about dealing with the enemy