Chapter 942 "Warming Up"
That night.
Dahui, Guyang County, Pingyun County.
"Brother, this is it"
The dark night sky was covered with dark clouds, and the moonlight was dim and cold.
There was complete silence around a certain courtyard, but if one looked closely, one could easily discover that there were hundreds of dark shadows slowly creeping in the same direction.
These people were all wearing night clothes and had their faces covered. Even the weapons in their hands did not reflect any light. They must have been painted with black ink.
Only the vicious tiger embroidered on the corner of their clothes swayed slightly in the moonlight.
It is obvious that these more than a hundred people are from the same sect and are all very powerful.
As for what they are going to do, judging from their posture, they are undoubtedly going to take the lives of everyone in the courtyard.
"Get started!"
Following a low shout from the leader, hundreds of black shadows suddenly sped up and silently surrounded the small courtyard.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of people from the four directions of east, south, west and north climbed over the courtyard wall and rushed into the candle-lit wooden house with long knives in their hands.
But after the noise of tables and chairs being overturned, someone quickly ran out of the house.
He ran all the way to the masked man in the lead, leaned over to the latter's ear and whispered in a low voice: "Brother, there's no one."
“.”
The masked man in the lead frowned and was silent for a while, then snorted coldly: "Hmph, keep looking! He won't be able to escape far!"
"yes!"
“.”
Like a flock of flying crows, in just a few breaths, more than a hundred men in black flew in all directions and soon disappeared into the night.
At the same time, on a forest path not far from here, a man and a woman were walking hurriedly in the moonlight.
They were exactly the targets that the men in black were looking for, and they were also two people that Wei Changtian was very familiar with.
Chu An and Qin He.
"My husband, what happened? Tell me."
There was a hint of tears in her voice as Qin He grabbed Chu An's clothes tightly. This was the tenth time she asked this question tonight.
Chu An looked at her with a heavy face, and after some hesitation, he still did not tell the truth. He just said softly: "Don't ask, just remember what I told you."
"We will separate temporarily after we leave Pingyun County. No matter who asks you, you must say that you don't know me."
"Remember it?"
"I"
Qin He bit her lips tightly, and the uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense.
She was about to ask something while crying, but Chu An's eyes changed at this moment. He suddenly reached out and hit Qin He on the back of the head. Then he carried the unconscious Qin He on his back and ran away into the depths of the woods at a faster speed.
“Swish, swish, swish!”
After a dozen breaths, several masked men stopped where he had just stood.
Someone squatted down to check the footprints on the ground, then pointed in the direction Chu An escaped.
"Escaped that way."
"Chase!"
“.”
"Captain Tang, did we disturb your rest?"
Dajue, the capital city.
Dozens of guards in golden armor stood inside and outside a certain house. The old eunuch in the lead narrowed his eyes and looked at the bewildered Tang Chen, and explained with a fake smile:
"But His Majesty has summoned you to the palace to see him immediately, and there is nothing we can do."
"I hope Captain Tang can pack up quickly and follow me into the palace."
"Eunuch Zhang, why did His Majesty summon me to the palace?"
As if he had just come to his senses, Tang Chen asked the old eunuch in a low voice: "I wonder if you could tell me something first, so that I can be prepared in advance."
"We don't know about this."
The old eunuch shook his head and said, "Won't you find out when Captain Tang goes there?"
"That's good. Let me go back to the house and change my clothes first."
"Well, Captain Tang, I think you wouldn't mind if I help him straighten his sleeves, right?"
".How could that be? I'll have to trouble you, sir."
"Captain Tang is so polite."
Turning back and giving a wink to the imperial guards, the old eunuch immediately followed Tang Chen into the inner room.
Obviously, he must be very confident in his own strength and believe that there is no way Tang Chen can escape from him.
What's more, it seemed that Tang Chen had not heard the news outside and had no intention of escaping at the moment.
“.”
Standing at the door of the house, the old eunuch looked coldly at Tang Chen who was putting on his outer robe in front of the mirror not far away, and a greedy smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
But the next moment, when Tang Chen suddenly turned sideways and his eyes met the old eunuch's through the reflection of the bronze mirror, the latter's body suddenly stiffened, and his eyes became extremely empty in an instant. "You."
After a few breaths, the old eunuch pushed open the door with a slightly sluggish movement, and calmly ordered the guards outside:
"Let's go back to the palace first."
"Father-in-law, this."
The guards were all stunned when they heard this. After looking at each other for a few seconds, someone was about to speak, but was interrupted by the old eunuch coldly:
"This is the order His Majesty just sent!"
"Ah! Yes! I'll be back at the palace soon!"
No one dared to question it anymore, and soon the guards left Tang Chen's residence and returned to the palace.
Not long after they left, Tang Chen, with a pale face, also walked out of the house.
He walked up to the motionless old eunuch, reached out and took out a golden token with the highest "peer authority" from the latter's arms, then without hesitation, he walked out of the courtyard quickly.
After about a hundred breaths, the old eunuch, who was standing alone like a puppet, slowly raised his right hand and slapped his chest fiercely. "."
"Bang!!"
“Bang, bang, bang!!”
Xinfeng, Fengyuan City.
The sound of fierce fighting could be heard from an alley, and the screams of pain could be heard from far away, causing the surrounding residents to close their doors and windows in panic.
"Ah! Murder!!!"
The night watchman who happened to be passing by just glanced into the alley, then ran away shouting, and judging from the direction he was going, he must be going to the government office to report the case.
Cries of fear pierced the night air, but failed to stop the fighting in the alley.
It was not until nearly an incense stick of time later, with the last desperate wail, that the surroundings returned to peace again, with only the strong smell of blood lingering in the air.
"Da, da, da"
The sound of light footsteps came from far away and then stopped at the entrance of the alley.
Looking around, Shen Ran, who was covered in blood, had a gloomy face and an extremely cold gaze.
He paused for a moment at the entrance of the alley, then disappeared in a flash.
Behind him, in the narrow alley, there were more than a dozen corpses lying in a pool of blood. Chu An, Tang Chen, and Shen Ran.
Great return, great awakening, and new devotion.
As if they had planned beforehand, the above three people were chased, ambushed, or surrounded and killed almost at the same time.
It was obvious that the people who intended to take away their luck were not the same group of people, nor were they instructed by the same person.
Then, this can only mean that three different forces have decided to "strike first".
Not only did these forces find out their location in a very short time, they also organized a very threatening "hunting operation".
Of course, judging from the current results, the three of them have escaped for the time being.
But this does not mean that they can sit back and relax from now on.
Because this is not the end, it is not even the beginning, perhaps it can only be regarded as a "warm-up".
After all, as time goes by, it is foreseeable that the actions against them will only increase, and become more and more watertight and difficult to resist.
It's not just Tang Chen and the other three.
The same thing happened to the other seven people who were still alive.
These sons of heaven will live in a crisis-ridden situation for a long time to come.
More importantly, this danger does not only come from the "outside", but may also come from any of their trusted relatives, friends or "sons."
Daqian, Xiling Prefecture.
It was still the same inn, but now it was completely dark inside and out, with only a candlelight in a room at the back.
Beside the dim flames, Zhang San gently placed two envelopes in front of Wei Changtian and whispered:
"The secret letter just arrived."
"One is from Yan Huaiqing."
"One is from Zhuang Zhiming."
(End of this chapter)
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