Seeing that the knife was about to reach his nose, the guard beside him wanted to step forward to stop it, but was stopped by several men in black.
Xu Hengzhi left behind a congenital master who was fighting with him and rushed over, but saw that the man in black who had just attacked Eryi had dropped his knife and was retreating as if he had seen a ghost.
【Shield activated】
"Are you frightened, sir?" Xu Hengzhi asked.
Eryi had just woken up, and with the moonlight and the bonfire, he could see what was happening outside the carriage. "It's okay, go help them."
"Yes." Xu Hengzhi had been guarding the carriage primarily to protect his master. But since the master said so, he must have a way to protect himself. Thinking back to the black-clad man's actions, there was nothing he couldn't understand.
Eryi felt something hard near him. Seeing it was the knife dropped by the man in black, he grasped the hilt. Even with the shield, he couldn't be completely without a self-defense tool. Slightly worried about the others, Eryi slowly climbed to his feet, holding onto the carriage door to gain a higher position and observe the situation.
…
When he accepted this mission, he received intelligence that he was to lead a team to assassinate a highly skilled healer. This woman possessed a method to remove poisonous poisons and had disrupted the organization's plans several times. She must not be allowed to stay. Since she was not skilled in martial arts, he could simply bypass her guards and kill her on the spot.
There are several long sections of road between Liuyue City and Luocheng. There are no post stations in between, so he must spend the night outdoors. He chose one of them to carry out the assassination.
After several days of investigation, he had a rough idea of the team's strength. The strongest was the innate master who followed the divine doctor. The rest of the team was well-trained, and ordinary thieves were no match for them. But this time, the organization included another person, sending three innate masters. Unlike those martial artists, they were more skilled in killing.
He always carried a large sword, but he was actually skilled in concealed weapons, and the sword was just a decoy. His most common method was to follow up his sword moves with the hidden weapon, catching the enemy off guard, and it often worked wonders.
Before taking action, he poisoned the hidden weapon. He had heard that this miracle doctor was good at detoxifying, but if the miracle doctor herself was poisoned, no one would be able to detoxify her.
That night, under cover of darkness, everyone retired. He gauged the wind's direction and released poisonous smoke. If used indoors, this smoke would make people sleep like dead pigs, but in this vast space, it would at most make them drowsy and lower their guard. With the activation of internal energy, the toxicity would dissipate. However, the two sides were equally powerful, the enemy in the open, while they were in the dark, so they only needed to gain the upper hand. The poisonous smoke, carried by the wind, blew towards the resting convoy, indeed making them drowsy.
After doing this, he launched a surprise attack as planned. Soon, the two groups engaged in a fierce battle. Another man, taking advantage of a moment's opportunity, attacked the carriage. Unexpectedly, the person inside seemed to sense his approach and took the initiative to lift the curtain and poke his head out.
Just right!
He secretly channeled his inner energy and, as usual, slashed with his sword. The woman remained impassive, neither dodging nor dodging, not even glancing at him. As the blade neared her nose, he channeled his inner energy to its fullest, but the tip remained stuck in front of her, unable to move even an inch. The vibrations from his knuckles jolted him so hard he dropped the blade.
The realm of heaven and man? !
He retreated again and again, throwing out his hidden weapons one after another. At this moment, the woman seemed to have just noticed him, glanced at him, and yawned lazily. The hand that was covering her yawn casually waved, and several hidden weapons he had thrown fell powerlessly. After a round of confrontation, her robe was not stained, and her hair was not messed up.
How could there be such a celestial state at such a young age?
He instinctively grasped the hidden weapon in his palm and retreated again.
The woman picked up the knife he had dropped. She casually stood on the carriage, the knife stuck into the board and standing aside. Her pale face, serene in the moonlight, scanned the room with a careless glance. Her eyes flickered to him, then turned away with disdain.
He secretly cursed the person who provided the information.
"withdraw!"
…
"Are there any injured?" Eryi asked when he saw the thieves retreat.
The guard counted the number of people and reported, his expression grim. "Several people were injured, all poisoned." They were already assuming she was their leader. Everyone had seen why the man in black had withdrawn, and no longer dared to dismiss her as just another unarmed healer.
"I'll go and take a look." Eryi threw away the knife in his hand, took out the medicine box from the carriage, and jumped out.
Eryi opened the status panel. As they walked along, quite a few people were actually slightly injured, with many suffering minor scrapes and knife wounds. But for those who walked on the edge of a knife every day, scrapes didn't count.
Eryi followed the guards to the center of the convoy, the stench of blood overwhelming. Several people lay unconscious in a makeshift tent. Someone, with a sullen expression, was applying simple bandages to their wounds. Upon seeing Eryi approach, he simply turned sideways to let her see the situation more clearly, without stopping his work.
Yun Jiang
HP 56% Fatigue 86/100
[Poison: Manshanhong][Bone Injury][Continuous Bleeding]
The man had a knife wound on his shoulder, so deep that the bone was visible. Even after emergency medicine was applied, the bleeding continued to flow.
Pan Zi
HP 42%/90% Fatigue 73/100
[Poison: Red Mountain][Broken Limb: Health Limit Decreases by 10%][Continuous Bleeding]
The man's left hand was gone from the elbow downwards.
There are several others like this.
"They can't make it back on the road like this," someone said. "Let's settle them in a nearby village first." That's how it's always been done.
"You guys go out first." Er Yi knelt beside the person with the lowest health, opened the medicine box, took out the antidote storage device, and released the smoke. He gestured to the man who was silently bandaging everyone to go out first, "I'll do it."
…
Yun Jiang felt that he had slept for a long time, so long that he suspected he was still dreaming.
He vaguely remembered being attacked at night while escorting Divine Doctor Er to Luocheng, where he was stabbed several times in the back. He felt a searing pain and profuse bleeding, and soon after, he passed out. Before he passed out, he vaguely heard someone say the knife that had stabbed him was poisoned, but he felt no pain at all.
Yun Jiang had several companions lying next to him. He sat up quietly. It was still early morning, and if he woke them, they would probably beat him to death.
Gently opening his shirt, Yun Jiang checked his wounds, only to discover that although he was covered in a thick layer of bandages, after removing them, he discovered that not only was he not injured, but even his previous wounds had disappeared. He rubbed his temples with his fingers, feeling something was wrong, and pinched himself hard.
"Hiss." It hurts.
He looked at his companions sleeping beside him. When he first woke up, the dim light hadn't noticed them. But now, after a closer look, he saw they weren't his usual team. He didn't wake them, but instead opened the tent curtain and walked out.
Several people sat by the campfire to keep watch. The ground was messy, as if a big battle had just taken place, and the smell of blood was faintly carried in the wind.
"Hey, give me two bites of cake." Yun Jiang stepped forward and said.
Several people on night watch turned to him and stood up.
"Why did you come out?"
"I woke up and took a look."
"Doesn't the wound hurt?" several people asked hurriedly.
"What wound?"
early morning.
All those who were seriously injured the night before have recovered. Even Pan Zi's hand has been reattached and he can move around as usual.
No one asked, no one dared to ask.
Xu Hengzhi saw everything and became more determined in his thoughts.
…
Eryi watched the mission progress, detoxifying 26 out of 100 people, with great satisfaction. Once her detoxification storage device arrived in the capital, the mission would surely be completed quickly. Then, she would be able to enter a higher plane and gain access to even more advanced healing techniques.
Over the next few days, assassins would occasionally come, each wave more formidable than the last, but they would all be defeated.
Judging from their moves and attire, they must be from the same organization. Er Yi smacked his lips and said, "How hated I am!"
After going through countless hardships, they finally arrived at Luocheng. When they were about to welcome Eryi into the city lord's mansion, she solemnly refused.
"Where is the problem?"
"When I arrived here, I heard that several villages around Luocheng were plagued by Gu insects, and all the villagers were parasitized by Gu insects. Is that true?"
"yes."
"No need to rest, take me there now."
"yes."
…
Looking at the figures of the crowd in the distance, the people who came to greet them from the City Lord's Mansion looked at each other in confusion.
"Who is this woman? How could she make the Third Prince's guards so obedient?"
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