The four-horse carriage was very stable and moved very fast. Eight guards escorted the carriage all the way until dawn, when they finally found a dilapidated temple to rest.
The sky was still dark, and when the carriage slowly stopped, Tian An, who was sleeping, hardly felt anything.
The carriage was very comfortably furnished, and could be called a modern RV, so Tian An and Zhao Yiming did not need to get off the carriage.
Deng Xue woke up when the car stopped, but she didn't move as long as Tian An didn't get out. She looked up and continued to sleep.
Jingyu, as the leader of the guards, led his men to check around, then asked his men to add fodder to the horses and told everyone to take a rest.
Inside the carriage, Tian An turned over and continued to sleep in Zhao Yiming's arms. Zhao Yiming felt the movement of the person in his arms and reflexively pulled the quilt for her.
Half an hour later, everyone had traveled all night long and was now fast asleep.
Tian An, who was originally breathing evenly, suddenly shrugged his nose, then suddenly opened his eyes, and quickly pulled the quilt to cover himself and Zhao Yiming's heads.
In the dark bed, Zhao Yiming opened his eyes immediately and whispered in Tian An's ear, "What's going on?"
Tian An took out a pill from the space and placed it next to Zhao Yiming's mouth. After he swallowed it, he said, "It contains a drug. The smell is very light and difficult for ordinary people to detect, but it can't escape my nose.
It’s just that the people outside…”
Zhao Yiming didn't doubt Tian An's words at all, even though he really didn't smell anything.
After comforting Tian An, he reached into a secret compartment and took out a crossbow, loaded it with short arrows and handed it to Tian An, then loaded the second one.
While he was loading the crossbow, Tian An took out a black mask from the space and put it on him, then turned around and put one on himself.
Everything was ready, and the two of them quietly crouched by the carriage door. Tian An even carefully made the bed, making it look as if someone was still sleeping on it.
After thinking about it, Tian An took out another porcelain bottle and poured some potion into the gap of the carriage door.
Humph! The other party drugged them, so she wanted to see which one was more powerful, hers or theirs.
This was her first time riding in a carriage! She couldn't let these ruthless people get in and cause her trouble. It would be best to stop them at the door.
Zhao Yiming just watched her tinkering with it, without saying anything or stopping her, but just carefully guarding her from the side.
After Tian An finished all this, he went back to stay beside Zhao Yiming, his eyes sparkling and looking a little excited.
It was not known whether the person in the dark was patient or cautious. Two quarters of an hour had passed since she administered the drug, and no movement had been heard. Tian An almost thought she had made a mistake.
Just when Tian An's feet were sore from squatting, Zhao Yiming beside her suddenly reached out and grabbed her. Tian An was cheered up. What's going on?
Sure enough, after a while, I heard rustling sounds outside the carriage. It must still be snowing outside, and with the whistling of the cold wind, it was impossible to hear it without careful observation.
Hey! No one can compare to her when it comes to nose, but when it comes to hearing, you have to look up to Zhao Yiming!
As Zhao Yiming pulled her harder, the rustling sound outside the door got closer and closer to the carriage.
Soon, the sound stopped on the small platform outside the carriage door, and Tian An's heart was nervously in his throat.
She could almost feel the man reaching out to open the carriage door.
Then, the two heard a "bang..." and the movement outside the door stopped abruptly.
The world seemed to be quiet for a moment, and then they heard more chaotic footsteps coming this way.
Soon, with a "bang", the carriage door opened.
Without waiting for the person outside to come in, Zhao Yiming raised the crossbow in his hand. With a "swoosh", the person was blown backwards by the inertia of the crossbow arrow.
Tian An was stunned. This, this, did Zhao Yiming improve the crossbow? The crossbow she originally gave him didn't have such great lethality!
"Hide inside and don't come out."
Zhao Yiming gave Tian An some instructions, then took the crossbow in his left hand and took out a long sword from the side of the carriage door with his right hand.
Through the light coming in from outside the door, Tian An could see clearly that the sword was the heavy sword she took out from the space and gave to Zhao Yiming when they fled from the famine.
Zhao Yiming rushed out with his sword in hand and closed the carriage door behind her. Tian An was afraid of causing trouble for Zhao Yiming, so he could only stay inside the carriage obediently.
Soon, "ping pong sounds" were heard outside the carriage. Tian An leaned against the door and listened carefully. After making sure that the beating sounds were farther away, he carefully opened the carriage door a crack to observe the situation outside.
These assassins are not like those in TV dramas, wearing black tights, with black cloth covering their faces, and looking heroic.
There were about a dozen of them, dressed like beggars, with faces covered in mud, so their true appearance could not be seen. However, their skills and the long swords in their hands showed that they were not ordinary people.
But I have to say that this is how an assassin should dress. If they didn't take the initiative to show their weapons, who would know that they are assassins!
At this time, more than a dozen assassins were stopped by Zhao Yiming ten feet away from the carriage.
Tian An made sure that there was no one around the carriage before he carefully opened the carriage door and went outside to where Deng Xue was.
He took out a porcelain bottle from the space, opened the bottle cap and placed it under Deng Xue's nose, letting her smell it. He then put his thumb on the bottle mouth and turned the bottle mouth upside down to let his thumb be stained by the potion inside.
Then he used his fingers dipped in medicine to pinch Deng Xue's philtrum hard.
Deng Xue felt pain and woke up slowly within five seconds.
Afraid that she would scream, Tian An quickly covered her mouth and only let go after she saw him clearly.
Deng Xue heard the sound of fighting not far away and instantly understood what was going on. He picked up his sword and rushed over to help.
Tian An hurriedly pulled her, put the medicine bottle in her hand, and pointed to the guards who were responsible for guarding the carriage not far away, and the dilapidated temple.
Although Deng Xue's martial arts skills are much better than before, to be honest, he can't help much if he goes up, and he might even make things worse for Zhao Yiming.
It would be better to wake up the others quickly while the people on the other side are not noticing them.
Aren’t you a secret guard? You can’t just sleep until your master finishes the fight!
Deng Xue glanced at the person who was still unconscious not far away, decisively took the medicine bottle from Tian An's hand, stood up and got off the carriage.
Tian An took out the crossbow that Zhao Yiming had just installed for her, squatted in the dark and aimed at the assassins, providing cover for Deng Xue and Zhao Yiming.
As expected, Deng Xue was discovered as soon as he got off the carriage.
The people surrounding Zhao Yiming were stunned for a moment, and one of them raised a knife and slashed at her.
At this moment, Deng Xue just blocked Tian An's figure. The assassins didn't notice her at all. When Deng Xue raised her hand to raise her sword, Tian An decisively pressed the switch of the crossbow.
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