Chapter 10: The First Bamboo Forest Assassination: Lu Jingchuan was particularly cooperative today...
In the dark bamboo forest, a carriage drove past quickly, stirring up a large amount of fallen bamboo.
Suddenly, a cold light cut through the air, and an arrow shot in from the side of the carriage and was caught by Lu Jingchuan.
At the same time, Qin Yuqing suddenly opened her eyes. Before she had time to think about why she was lying in Lu Jingchuan's arms, the carriage suddenly stopped.
"My two young masters, there is an assassin." The coachman's voice was urgent. He spoke very quickly, "Protect yourselves, I'll be back soon." As he spoke, the sound of fighting was heard outside.
Qin Yuqing vaguely sensed something was wrong, but the current situation did not allow her to think too much.
"I will protect myself." Qin Yuqing squatted down obediently. There happened to be elevated tables and chairs on both sides of the carriage, which just blocked Qin Yuqing's thin body. "We must catch him alive."
Lu Jingchuan no longer hesitated, nodded, turned around and left the carriage. He understood that if he did not quickly defeat the assassins outside, the terror would attract more people.
Through the curtain of the carriage, Qin Yuqing half-lay on the carriage and stared at the situation outside. Her vision was limited, and she could only see that the visitors were all wearing black clothes, with hats on their heads, and their faces seemed to be covered with something, blocking their appearance.
What made Qin Yuqing even more confused was that these people had similar shapes and looked like clones of the same person in the moonlight.
She needs to clarify a few things.
Who wants to kill them?
Has anyone else seen General Lu Zhong’s letter?
How did these assassins know their specific whereabouts?
If they were tracking me intentionally, why didn't I notice?
All developments seem to revolve around the plot of the original book, but they also seem to go against the original book.
In the original book, Lu Jingchuan also needed to be assassinated after the birthday banquet, but at Lu's house, not here.
"System, my life is in danger, help me."
[After testing, the host is not in immediate danger of life, and the system will not provide assistance.]
The system's words left Qin Yuqing stunned. Could it be that because Lu Jingchuan was there, she was still safe?
Gradually, the sound of fighting outside became quieter. The front of the carriage sank, and two people were seen sitting in front of the door curtain. Then a man in black who had been knocked unconscious was thrown in.
The man's hands and legs were tied, and his jaw was violently removed, so his mouth could only open and not close.
"Don't come out, I'll guard it." Lu Jingchuan's voice was a little hoarse, "Let's go, this is not right."
"My two young ladies, please sit tight." The carriage was moving quickly through the bamboo forest.
"Are you hurt?" Qin Yuqing poked the man in black lying on the ground. His face was so featureless that he could hardly be found in a crowd.
Qin Yuqing remembered Lu Jingchuan's voice. She felt a little worried for some reason and subconsciously said, "I brought medicine."
"I'm just thirsty." Lu Jingchuan leaned over to take the water handed to him by the driver. "Are you okay?"
"What can happen to me? Don't worry." Qin Yuqing picked up the tea beside him and poured it on the unconscious man in black, "Wake up and don't sleep anymore."
"Be careful." There was a hint of concern in the cold voice, "Don't play with death, but it's okay if you die."
"If you die, it's my fault." Qin Yuqing slapped him and shook his red palm, saying, "Don't pretend to be dead. Your breathing is disordered, I know you are awake."
The man in black's throat moved slightly, the muscles on his face kept twitching, and his eyes stared at Qin Yuqing.
"Why are you looking at me? I didn't take it off. If you don't agree, go find him." Qin Yuqing pointed at the people outside the carriage with an innocent look on his face. "Even if you look at me like a fool, I can't save your jaw."
"Yes, it's me."
When Qin Yuqing heard Lu Jingchuan's words of cooperation, she couldn't help but chuckle. He was so cooperative.
"Yes, you heard me, didn't you?" Qin Yuqing half-knelt, his hands constantly searching in the cabinet. "I'm telling you, you're in my hands now. As long as you tell me what's going on, you won't have to suffer too much."
"If it falls into his hands, tut, tut, tut, it will be much more tragic."
"Skin it, remove the tendons, slice the meat and remove the bones." Lu Jingchuan was very cooperative today, which was very good. She liked it very much.
Unfortunately, this man in black was not a man of tact. He closed his eyes with great courage and silently resisted Qin Yuqing's proposal.
Qin Yuqing brought another pot of water and covered the man in black with a piece of paper. She smiled and said, "I'm a woman, and I don't know how to use harsh torture to extract a confession. I can only use gentle torture."
The water droplets wet the paper little by little, and the wet paper firmly adhered to the face of the man in black.
"This process may take a while, but don't worry, it's not fatal."
Qin Yuqing dipped her fingers in a little water and slowly moved them along the face of the man in black, pressing down on the papers that had not yet been tightly absorbed, leaving no air behind.
"I don't know if you've ever tried it, but wet paper can kill people." Qin Yuqing said as she covered the man in black with new paper. "You'll gradually find it difficult to breathe, so you'll subconsciously breathe through your mouth, trying to break the paper's restriction."
"But unfortunately, your jaw is broken, so you can't break through the limitations of paper."
Drop by drop, the cold water soaked the new paper, sticking even more firmly to the face of the man in black.
The man in black kept grabbing the carriage with his hands. He couldn't break free because his hands were tied. In his ears was the woman's gentle and smiling voice and the sound of cold water dripping.
"Looks like a new one is needed." Qin Yuqing said as she gently placed a piece of paper over the man in black's face, repeating the previous operation. "Your breath is taken away by the weak paper, and your vision is also eroded by the paper. In the end, your world is filled with only the cold paper, and no other sound."
Qin Yuqing's voice was like a demon from hell, full of temptation and deadly danger. "Don't worry, I won't let you die." Qin Yuqing flipped open all the papers and saw the black-clad man's violently bullied chest. "Get ready, it's coming again."
Lu Jingchuan looked at the black-clothed man's pale cheek through the carriage curtain and shuddered subconsciously. Fortunately, he had not offended Qin Yuqing.
New paper covered the face of the man in black again. His spirit was being broken bit by bit. He had experienced the pain of slow suffocation and he didn't want to endure it anymore.
"Mmmmm!"
He can't stand it!
"Oh, that's all?" Qin Yuqing peeled off the paper and said with some regret, "You are the most unbearable person I have ever met."
"Tell me, who sent you?"
"Secret order, whose owner is unknown." The man in black replied haltingly, "Horse carriage, at midnight, to the bamboo forest of Xiangshan."
"Whose people are you?"
"I don't know. It's captivity."
"You mean, you have been locked up in one place since childhood, and just followed orders after receiving secret orders?" Qin Yuqing was a little curious. This was completely different from the plot of modern novels or TV dramas.
"Yes."
"How did you receive the secret order?"
"Carrier pigeon."
"What about the carrier pigeons?" Qin Yuqing asked again.
"I ate them." The man in black was already desperate. At this moment, he was no different from the carrier pigeon before. "I won't let go of any of them."
That means there is absolutely no clue. These people have never seen the person behind the scenes, and they probably don’t even know where the captivity is.
I thought I might be able to find out something by following the carrier pigeon, but the person behind the scenes was cautious.
"If that's the case," Qin Yuqing narrowed his eyes slightly, a smile on his lips, and asked, "How many people have you killed?"
"I've killed so many that I can't remember."
"One last question." Qin Yuqing touched the hairpin on her head. Chuntao had given it to her specially when she attended the birthday party, saying that it could save her life.
"Who are the people you killed?"
"There were disaster victims causing unrest, landlords who refused to pay taxes, and ministers who issued secret orders to be killed—there were too many to remember."
Because of his mental breakdown, the man in black just wanted to end everything quickly. He didn't want to hear this woman's voice anymore!
"Oh, so that's it." Qin Yuqing pulled out the hairpin on her head and was about to kill someone to silence him when Lu Jingchuan stepped sideways into the carriage and stopped Qin Yuqing.
He stretched out his hand to cover Qin Yuqing's eyes, and then a scream rang out in the carriage. When Lu Jingchuan took his hand away, the man in black was no longer in the carriage.
"Don't get dirty."
Qin Yuqing chuckled. Lu Jingchuan was really cute.
"It's not dirty, but he deserves to die."
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