127. Good Show
Midnight.
The iron door of the inner prison creaked, as if a skinny claw was scratching deep into the heart, making one's teeth ache.
Jin Zhu walked out of the door first, and more than 20 black-clad spies stood outside the door solemnly with their swords drawn.
He stood in front of the spy in a black suit, his face expressionless. "In the battle of Mudan Bridge, our brothers suffered heavy losses. But this is our livelihood: killing the most vicious thieves and sleeping with the most beautiful women in Red Lane. Tonight, put your heads on your belts and follow me to achieve merit."
After saying that, he turned around and said to Xifeng, "Bring out Shopkeeper Yuan."
Manager Yuan had his hands and feet shackled with iron shackles as he staggered out of the inner prison. As he walked, blood oozed from the wound in his thigh that was shot by Tianma.
He stood outside the door, his hair disheveled, his head raised, greedily taking a few breaths of fresh air, and exclaimed, "It's delicious."
The Golden Pig put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "If you can capture the long whale tonight, you will never have to return to the inner prison."
Shopkeeper Yuan chuckled, bowed with his hands in shackles and said, "Thank you for your good wishes, sir."
The golden pig pushed him onto the carriage.
Just as Chen Ji was about to get on the car, Jin Zhu turned around and stopped him: "You and Xifeng will follow outside tonight. Don't get close."
Chen Ji was puzzled: "Master, you don't believe me?"
The Golden Pig laughed as he sat in the carriage. "How could I not believe it? But the closer we get to this place tonight, the more dangerous the Jingchao thieves will be. You haven't even started practicing cultivation yet, so you're powerless. You can't risk your life."
He continued earnestly, "Tonight, if you realize something's not going well, you must immediately find a place to hide. Don't, don't, don't do anything impulsive."
When Chen Ji heard Jin Zhu say "tens of millions" three times in a row, his expression suddenly became complicated: "Sir, if I'm not in the car, who will give you advice? I'm not afraid of danger."
The Golden Pig was slightly moved: "No, I appreciate your kindness, but you have just obtained the path to cultivation and cannot die."
After that, he lowered the curtain and said loudly, "Let's go."
The carriage slowly drove towards the East Market.
Chen Ji stood in front of the inner prison gate, silently watching the back of the car as it drove further and further away. It was a good thing that Jin Zhu didn't want him to get too close to danger; at least he didn't have to worry about being backstabbed at any time.
But he had originally planned to take advantage of the chaos tonight to kill Manager Yuan so as not to implicate Concubine Yun. Now he could only act according to circumstances.
Thinking about it.
Xifeng looked at Chen Ji and said, "Master Chen..., let's set off as well. Let's follow the carriage from a distance, so that if Master Jinzhu gets into danger, we won't be able to provide timely support."
Chen Ji glanced at him and said, "You and I are both pigeon-level spies, so there is no need to call me sir.
Xifeng smiled flatteringly and said, "With your intelligence and talent, it's only a matter of time before you are promoted to the rank of Donghaiqing."
The next moment, he took out a copper whistle and blew it, and the spies dispersed in an instant and moved through the alleys.
Xifeng was the only one left accompanying Chen Ji, but he could hear the other party blowing a bird's call from time to time, adjusting the formation of the spies and cross-covering the carriage's advance.
During the interval between the instructions, Xifeng looked at Chen Ji with a sly look in his eyes: "What level of cultivation method did the master give you?"
Chen Ji glanced at him and said, "My Lord didn't tell me. If you want to know, you can go and ask my Lord yourself."
Xifeng shrank his neck and said, "I won't ask him. If I do, I'll definitely get scolded."
As they were talking, the carriage in front suddenly accelerated and turned left on Park Lane.
Xifeng and Chen Ji glanced at each other, and Chen Ji said, "No, Manager Yuan said he and Changjing agreed to meet at Caoyun Wharf tonight at 1:00 AM, but this is not the direction to Caoyun Wharf."
Xifeng asked, "What should we do?"
Chen Ji said: "Blow the whistle
Ask Master Golden Pig."
Xifeng blew the whistle but heard a voice from the carriage. At the same time, Xifeng said with a serious expression: "My Lord said to follow me."
Chen Ji took a deep breath and said, "Listen to the adults."
The spies kept crisscrossing the alleys, chasing the carriage.
But before they could catch up with the carriage, it turned again and changed direction.
Everyone followed the carriage and kept speeding up. The spies were running out of breath. It seemed that if they continued running like this, they would have no strength left by the time they reached their destination.
Chen Ji frowned and said, "Use the whistle to signal the lord to stop. We can't let that thief policeman lead us by the nose any longer."
The west wind blew the copper whistle, and this time only two brief bird calls were heard in the car.
Chen Ji asked doubtfully, "I've been listening to you blowing the whistle. How can I tell what message the whistle conveys?"
Xifeng explained, "The copper whistle can learn three bird calls. The first is the magpie. One call means "call in" or "follow up." Two calls mean "surround" or "ambush and kill." Three calls mean "retreat." Four calls mean "fuck him."
Chen Ji raised his eyebrows: "So emotional?"
Xifeng explained breathlessly. "Here's my simple explanation. The second bird call is the bamboo partridge. The number of calls represents different formations. The third bird call is the long cry of a falcon. They only blow this whistle in one situation: when they encounter someone in extreme danger."
Chen Ji was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is that the sound?"
Xifeng said, "That's the sound. Damn, the enemy is attacking."
On the cold and solemn bluestone street, the stone pavement was so smooth that it could reflect the moon. On this stone pavement, a long spear was reflected coming from the roof of the attic, as if it had pierced through the moon.
With a humming sound, the long halberd crossed the sky. It pierced through the carriage with a clang. With a loud bang, the wooden carriage shattered into pieces, turning into a sky full of debris.
when
After the long spear smashed the carriage, it was nailed to the bluestone road, and the wooden pole continued to vibrate automatically.
With debris flying all over the sky, Golden Pig and Manager Yuan flew out of the car, one on the left and one on the right, and fell to the ground.
Xifeng exclaimed, "Sir."
Just as he was about to step forward to rescue, he saw several more masked assassins burst out from the rooftop, simultaneously unleashing their halberds. Although not as formidable as the first halberd, they blocked all the spies' routes to support.
Chen Ji pulled Xifeng into a corner and peered over. Looking towards where the first halberd had come from, he saw a masked man standing on the rooftop, several halberds tied to his back with hemp ropes.
The man's heel tapped back and hit the end of a halberd, which flew out from behind him and landed in his hand.
The next moment, the halberd flew out of his hand.
With a humming sound, the long halberd unexpectedly went not for the golden pig, but directly for the chest and abdomen of Shopkeeper Yuan. The other party wanted to kill the seriously injured Shopkeeper Yuan first to silence him.
At the critical moment, the Golden Pig rolled and crawled to the side of Shopkeeper Yuan, grabbed his collar and pulled him hard.
The long spear that was originally intended to hit Manager Yuan between his chest and abdomen penetrated deeply into his calf and was nailed to the ground.
"Ah!" Shopkeeper Yuan wailed.
The Golden Pig said angrily, "Why are you howling? You were counting on your colleagues to save you. Now it's not me, the Secret Service, who wants to kill you. It's those colleagues who want to kill you."
Shopkeeper Yuan trembled and said, "Save me, Master Golden Pig, save me."
In an instant, Xifeng shouted loudly, "My lord, be careful."
The Golden Pig suddenly turned sideways, only to see a long spear, whistling in the wind, rush past him and nailed into the stone road behind him with a bang.
He roared: "Tianma. This person is a master of the Xundao realm. If you don't take action, I will
Dead."
But this time there was no brilliant meteor shower streaking across the night sky.
The route was changed temporarily, leaving Tianma waiting in vain.
Golden Pig gritted his teeth, stood up, and leaped onto the attic, charging towards the man on the second floor. "Xifeng, go help the other brothers and hold them off until Tianma arrives."
Chen Ji hid in the corner, observing the battlefield silently.
The flying spears were intertwined on the stone road. Manager Yuan took a deep breath and pulled the spear off his leg.
He gritted his teeth and climbed up, using the halberd in his hand to support his body. When no one was paying attention to him, he limped into the alley!
Chen Ji slowly retreated into the shadows and chased in the direction that Shopkeeper Yuan had fled.
He kept moving back and forth in the alley until he heard heavy breathing coming from the next corner, and then he suddenly stopped.
Chen Ji listened to the heavy breathing, getting closer and closer, until...
He suddenly rushed out of the alley and hit hard with his shoulder.
With a clang, the long spear fell to the ground, and Manager Yuan was also knocked to the ground by the impact.
Chen Ji looked at the other person silently, but saw that Shopkeeper Yuan was lying on the ground motionless.
Fake death?
No, not faking death.
Chen Ji looked closely and saw that Manager Yuan's face had turned dark. He looked like he was on the verge of death.
There was actually poison on the long spear just now?
He picked up his halberd from the ground and walked towards Manager Yuan. Just as he was about to raise his halberd for another strike, he suddenly stopped.
wrong.
He always felt something was wrong.
Chen Ji slowly put away his halberd, leaned against the wall and said, "It's really shameful to die at the hands of your own people. Remember not to be a Jing Dynasty man in your next life."
At this moment, he looked up and around, only to find that Tianma had appeared at some point and was standing on the eaves above his head, looking down at him silently.
Chen Ji was shocked.
Tianma didn't say hello to him, but jumped down from the wall lightly, took out a pill from his sleeve and stuffed it into Manager Yuan's mouth.
In just a few breaths, Manager Yuan's breathing gradually became heavy, and even the blackness on his face quickly faded, becoming rosy.
Messy footsteps were heard, and Jin Zhu limped into the alley, squatted beside Shopkeeper Yuan, and grabbed his collar: "How dare you trick me."
Shopkeeper Yuan slowly woke up and said, "Please spare my life, sir!"
Jinzhu was about to punch him in the face, but Tianma grabbed his fist.
He looked up and Tianma shook his head silently.
Jin Zhu's expression changed several times. Finally, he looked down at Shopkeeper Yuan and said, "The people of Jing Dynasty want you dead even more than we do. In this vast world, where else can you find a place to stay? Tell me, are you willing to cooperate with us?"
Shopkeeper Yuan quickly said, "Yes, yes!"
Jin Zhu asked in a serious tone, "Did you make a date with Chang Jing tonight?"
"Appointment!"
Chen Ji watched the scene silently and let out a breath.
Until this moment, he finally confirmed that everything that happened tonight was just a show directed and performed by the Secret Service.
The assassin's halberd was sharp, but aside from Shopkeeper Yuan, none of the spies were killed. The first halberd had a clear chance of killing Golden Pig, but it flew right through the center of the carriage. Golden Pig, such a coward, had fallen to the Xiantian realm, yet dared to pursue a Dao-seeking realm expert...
Every detail reveals weirdness.
But the most crucial detail is this: Xifeng said that one bird call is a call to follow, two calls are a siege and kill, three calls are a evacuation, and four calls are fuck it.
The Golden Pig responded to the whistle for the second time in the car, clearly two times.
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