Chapter 47 Hunting down the traitor. This is your last chance.
A few days later, Luo Wan went to the Yasheng Pavilion in Tingyu Tower, which was used to receive external intelligence and issue tasks within the building. It was managed by the third-level assassin Biyue.
The Dumb Pavilion has four floors. It is not an ordinary wooden attic, but a stone pavilion embedded in the mountain, looming in the fog.
The top two floors are where secret reports are usually coordinated. Only the death squads from the Dumb Pavilion are allowed to enter, and the death squads from the Dumb Pavilion cannot enter without a warrant.
The second floor is an armory, and the first floor is a library that ordinary assassins can enter.
"If you're poisoned, just go to the Qianji Office and look for Qingyun."
A hoarse voice suddenly sounded from behind.
Looking back, I saw Bi Yue's thin figure standing in the shadows, his face gloomy, and his skin, which had not seen the sun for many years, looked sickly pale.
Due to his mission, he stayed in the Dumb Pavilion all year round. Except for going out every three years to select a group of new death warriors, people outside the Dumb Pavilion rarely saw him at other times.
Therefore, this assassin who has stayed in Tingyu Tower for twenty years is still mysterious and it is difficult to find out a single word about him.
Luo Wan withdrew his hand from the book and said, "Just taking a look."
Bi Yue's bony fingers pulled out the tome "A Hundred Poison Solutions," which contained only solutions to minor ailments and poisons. He said, "I heard you defeated Hui Xue. I thought he'd be the longest-lived of the four of us. It seems staying in the Yasheng Pavilion for too long can lead to information isolation."
"Thank you very much." Luo Wan took the book and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute," Bi Yue called out, pulling a small bamboo tube from his sleeve. "A new official's first steps are always important. This is a young girl, a First-Class assassin who escaped yesterday. Her name and location are all inside."
Luo Wan opened the bamboo tube, and there were only a few words on it: Ning Ning, Chenglian Ancient Road.
A small picture is attached.
Luo Wan thought carefully. There hadn't been a single female assassin named Ning Ning in her batch, or the batch before her. Going back further, she couldn't be called a young girl anymore; she could only be from the latest batch of assassins.
He is so brave that he thought of escaping as soon as he got out of the building.
The Chenglian Ancient Road is located at the foot of the Tingyu Tower Mountains. It is a hundred miles in radius and is deserted. However, there is an inn that only receives people from all walks of life.
With Luo Wan's lightness skill, it would only take an hour and a half to reach the inn from Tingyu Tower. As for whether the little girl would appear in the inn at this moment, it all depended on luck.
That night, Luo Wan entered the inn wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat.
As soon as he stepped in, four burly men with shirts off who were sitting around a table cast their eyes over to the token on Luo Wan's waist.
A few of them moved their knives, chuckled, and continued to sit in their original seats drinking.
The sarcasm in that smile was so strong that it was difficult for Luo Wan to ignore it. Even the waiter who came to take the order was frozen in embarrassment. After Luo Wan placed the order, the waiter hurried away from the place of trouble.
Just by looking at the way those people were dressed, Luo Wan guessed that they were from the Wan Lei Sect.
In the martial arts world, if we were to say which two organizations are the most incompatible, they would be Tingyu Tower and Wanlei Sect.
The story is roughly that the first generation owner of Tingyu Tower and the first generation owner of Wanlei Sect were brothers from the same sect. Later, a series of events happened, which caused the two brothers who were as close as brothers to become enemies and never had any contact with each other until they died.
As for the reasons, time has passed and the love, hate, grudges and disputes have long been unclear.
In short, from the moment the two factions were established, they were mortal enemies, and there was no way they could turn hostility into friendship.
Even though they are mortal enemies, they won't fight for no reason.
When you are out and about, you are busy with tasks and no one wants to cause a conflict for no reason, so you just compete secretly.
When the waiter came to serve the dishes, Luo Wan asked the waiter about Ning Ning's whereabouts.
Seeing the waiter hesitant and hesitant, Luo Wan took out an ingot of silver.
The waiter said, "He went east in half an hour."
Luo Wan ate his meal hastily and then headed in the direction pointed by the waiter.
The night forest was dark, with dead leaves crumbling under my feet. The footsteps in front were getting faster and faster, from a slow walk to a fast walk.
The thin black figure started running and disappeared into the night. Luo Wan caught up with her with a light skill, grabbed the back of her clothes, and threw her away, causing her to crash into the tree trunk next to her.
"Ning Ning, why did you run away?"
This voice was like the god of death declaring death. Ning Ning was horrified and immediately knelt on the ground: "I was wrong! I was wrong! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"I kowtow to you! Yes, I kowtow to you!" As she said this, she began to kowtow.
Luo Wan repeated: "Why run away?"
Ning Ning stopped only after her forehead was covered in blood and dirt. Her face was still filled with fear, and her voice was trembling: "I don't want to kill anyone, and I don't want to stay in Tingyu Tower."
Luo Wan said calmly, "You've persisted through all these years of training."
Anyone who survived the Liufeng training grounds had blood on their hands. It was ridiculous to hear a Tingyu Tower soldier say they didn't want to kill.
Ning Ning said, "That's because I have no other choice! If I don't kill him, he will kill me. Is there anything wrong with wanting to live?! I finally made it to the first level and can leave the building. Do I have to stay in this dark hell?!"
She said sadly: "I have no family, no friends. From the moment I entered Tingyu Tower, I didn't even have myself. I was just a puppet of Tingyu Tower, a sword used by those in high positions to kill people. If I obey, I will live, if I disobey, I will die.
I am a person, a living person! Don’t you feel sad for living like this? I left Tingyu Tower just to live a simple life. I don’t want to kill anyone…”
Luo Wan paused for a moment before realizing that she had already been assimilated into Tingyu Tower. Initially, she was extremely reluctant to enter Tingyu Tower.
In the end, it was irreversible, so she gave up the idea of leaving. Then, step by step, she became the owner of the place she hated the most.
Luo Wan asked, "Where is your tattoo?"
"What?"
Ning Ning raised her head, blood flowing from her forehead to her chin, dripping and hitting the dead leaves.
Luo Wan said: "I will take your tattoo away, or I will take you away. It's your choice."
When hunting down traitors in Tingyu Tower, they can report back by their tattoos. The location of each assassin's tattoo is recorded in Yasheng Pavilion. Sometimes it is too troublesome to bring the traitor's body back to Tingyu Tower for reporting, so the location of the tattoo will be used instead.
Ning Ning hesitantly rolled up her sleeves. Her tattoo was on her wrist.
Luo Wan said, "I'll chop off one of your arms and bring it back to Tingyu Tower. From now on, you'll have no connection with Tingyu Tower. As for whether you can survive and what kind of life you'll have, it's up to you."
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When Luo Wan returned to Tingyu Tower, the morning mist had not yet dissipated. Blood seeped from the bottom of the bag she was carrying, dripping onto the stone steps in intermittent red lines.
In front of the snake cave in the back mountain, Bi Yue has been waiting for a long time.
He took the bundle, and a corner of the cloth opened, revealing the pale arm underneath. The red spider lily tattoo looked enchanting in the morning light.
Bi Yue padded the bag, opened it to confirm the contents, and then threw the bag and the arm inside into the snake cave.
After returning to his residence, Luo Wan fetched a basin of clean water.
The figure reflected in the water was suddenly shattered by the color of blood. She had unconsciously crushed the edge of the copper basin, and the wound on her fingertips was immersed in the water, spreading out in strands of red.
She felt no pain, and her fingers were swollen white without any feeling. She suddenly began to wash her hands frantically. The wound that had stopped bleeding started bleeding again because of her movements.
Luo Wan met Tan Yin on the way back to his residence. At that time, she had just led the new shadows out of the Shadow Camp. She kindly congratulated Luo Wan on the successful completion of his first third-level death squad mission.
"I don't want to kill anyone, and I don't want to stay in Tingyu Tower."
"Don't you feel sad that a person lives like this?"
Ning Ning's words played in her ears in a loop, and the scene of last night seemed to be reflected in the basin.
She cut off Ning Ning's arm, then helped her stop the bleeding and bandaged the wound.
Ning Ning was only fourteen or fifteen years old, the age when noble ladies in the capital were learning to play the zither and recite poetry, but she had already lost one of her hands.
Ning Ning's lips turned pale from pursing, and cold sweat soaked her clothes. Fortunately, Luo Wan had Ma Fei San with her, which allowed her to barely endure the pain of the broken arm.
"Sister..." Ning Ning weakly grasped the corner of Luo Wan's clothes, a glint of hope in her eyes. "Let's run away together, leave Tingyu Tower... anywhere is fine."
Luo Wan looked at her pale face and said coldly, "You have a way to turn back, but I don't have one anymore."
Ning Ning shook Luo Wan's arm: "It's not too late! We didn't do that voluntarily! We were forced!"
Luo Wan looked at her distorted reflection in the water. At first, she just wanted to live a simple life, just live.
But why is it that every time she struggles desperately to survive, fate always pushes her into a deeper abyss?
In order to save the woman in the alley, she lost her eyes; in order to prevent her companions in the restaurant from being whipped, she went through a fire ring and entered the Tingyu Tower; in her previous life, she was soft-hearted and let Su Qinghuan stay, but in return she lost her own life.
Is it sad?
So sad.
She scrubbed her hands furiously until the skin broke and blood oozed out again.
Originally it was just a small wound caused by the edge of the copper basin. Now, due to her violent washing, the wound was torn and became larger, and more blood flowed out, dyeing the entire basin red.
"What are you doing?!"
A pair of white, bony hands suddenly grabbed her wrists and stopped her movements.
Chu Lin's palm was cold, but it carried an irresistible force.
Luo Wan looked up and met his furrowed brows.
The moment their eyes met, Luo Wan suddenly overturned the basin of water.
The moment the water splashed, Chu Lin hugged her tightly in his arms.
Luo Wan struggled violently, his voice hoarse: "Get out!"
Chu Lin's breath brushed past her ears, and he said softly, "Awan, what happened?"
Why could he be so calm and composed at any time? He was too indifferent. In comparison, she looked like a madman.
Luo Wan spoke clearly, enunciating each word: "I hate you."
She hated him for betraying her, for deceiving her, and for shattering the only beautiful fantasy in her life.
Chu Lin's voice remained calm. "The Wuzhou Su family is involved in illicit salt trafficking, illegal mining, and collusion between officials and businessmen. The evidence has been handed over to the authorities. Three generations of the family will be implicated and executed in seven days."
Luo Wan said coldly: "The one I want you to kill is Su Qinghuan."
Chu Lin comforted her, "She will die too, and the Su family won't be able to escape."
*
There is a long street in Wuzhou City, with sycamore trees planted on both sides, providing shade in the summer and colorful leaves in the autumn.
On the execution ground, the sword came down, beheading one group after another.
It wasn't until the woman who looked so much like Su Qinghuan from her previous life was taken to the execution ground that Luo Wan looked up. Compared to her previous life, her face now looked even younger. If she hadn't been disguised, it must have been Su Qinghuan.
Luo Wan stared ahead, watching Su Qinghuan staggering to the execution ground, and said calmly, "Aren't you going to save her? This is your last chance."
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