Chapter 184 Bait?
As expected of Mr. Bu Ke, who said she could take on ten men single-handedly, Qiu Xiang, after confirming that someone could protect Li San Niang, went all out and fought the female assassin.
The female assassin was probably getting impatient because she hadn't actually touched a hair on Li San Niang's head for so long. Qiu Xiang seized this moment and raised her Emei dagger towards the female assassin's heart.
With a "thud," came the sound of the Emei dagger piercing flesh. Qiu Xiang was ruthless enough to twist it, causing the tip of the dagger to twist half a circle around the female assassin's heart, shattering it into pieces.
The female assassin collapsed with her eyes wide open before she could utter a sound.
After the female assassin fell to the ground with her eyes wide open in death, the assassins who were still fighting around her suddenly became as if they had been injected with stimulants, and launched an attack that was even more ferocious than before.
Within ten breaths, some of their own men had also fallen.
Just as Qiu Xiang was about to move closer to the carriage, two assassins approached and began fighting with her.
Li San Niang saw the scene outside through the broken car door. Although she couldn't understand why these assassins went crazy after the female assassin died, they didn't care about themselves at all and were willing to risk injury to defeat the person in front of them.
But Li San Niang truly understood that as a fragile target, the most important thing to do was to be obedient, to stay obediently in the designated area, and not to go out impulsively and cause trouble for her own side.
Li San Niang might have considered using a muscle-softening powder before, but the arrows still stuck in the carriage wall told her that there were long-range attacks, so it was better not to cause trouble for herself. At least in the current situation, it was not appropriate to use muscle-softening powder.
Li San Niang looked at the multicolored black blade of the dagger in her right hand. It was only after being soaked in a deadly poison that it could appear in this way under the light.
"It seems that in the end, I'll have to rely on this dagger," Li Sanniang thought to herself.
As the assassins erupted, fewer and fewer of our own men were still able to fight, and even Xue Yao had to get off the carriage and fight the assassins.
Although Li Sanniang didn't want to be a saint at this moment, looking at the person lying on the ground, she rationally understood that the fault did not lie with her, but with the mastermind behind the scenes who wanted to use her to establish their authority and destroy this prosperous scene.
However, Li San Niang still realized that if it weren't for protecting her, these people wouldn't have been injured or even killed.
Several dozen breaths passed, and Li Sanniang wondered why the Imperial Guards hadn't arrived yet, given how important this matter was.
Li San Niang carefully moved to the carriage door and saw that only Qiu Xiang, Xue Yao, and a Jinwu Guard in armor were standing on her side, while the other side had four people.
No, there were five people!
Suddenly, a tall, thin man leaped onto the carriage shaft and was about to slash Li San Niang's neck with a knife.
Before Li San Niang could even react, she jumped off the cart and rolled away to avoid the knife.
That was close!
The place where Li Sanniang rolled was a bit far from Qiu Xiang. Li Sanniang squatted on the ground and didn't get up, wanting to find cover to hide. She was really afraid that the archer, who was somewhere, would suddenly shoot her with an arrow.
This archer was too skilled; Li San Niang felt that her keen senses were useless and she really couldn't dodge him.
Before Li San Niang could find suitable cover, the tall, thin assassin was already close in with his long knife.
At this moment, Li Sanniang felt that it was really funny that she was holding a dagger that was not even as long as her forearm and facing a long sword that was almost three feet long. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion, or if it weren't for the fact that she was the weak one, she would have burst out laughing.
Li Sanniang quickly stood up, thinking she had to give it her all. Before she could even make a move, the tall, thin man lightly swung his long knife, and Li Sanniang felt a sharp pain in her right wrist. Then, the dagger that Brother Li had specially given her for self-defense, which was also soaked in poison, flew out of her hand.
In the blink of an eye, the tall, thin man stood behind Li San Niang, and a long knife was pressed against her neck.
Li San Niang was kidnapped by the tall, thin man!
"Don't move, or I'll chop this woman up."
"Ah!" This was the sound of the long knife blade cutting through the skin on Li Sanniang's neck, a small wound that caused her to cry out in pain.
"Third Sister!"
Qiu Xiang was about to shake off the assassins who were fighting her and head towards Li San Niang.
"Take one more step closer, and I'll kill her!"
Qiu Xiang stopped in her tracks, and the others also paused their fighting. The remaining four assassins all moved closer to the tall, thin man.
Xue Yao calculated the time in his mind. In another quarter of an hour, the Jinwu Guards, who had previously sent a message to the palace to have the soldiers of the suburban camp surround the various city gates of Chang'an, should be arriving at Yongping Ward soon.
They want to wipe out all these rats hiding in Chang'an!
Li San Niang actually served as Xue Yao's bait.
I wonder if Mr. Bu Ke from the Bad Guys also knows about Xue Yao using Li San Niang as bait.
However, seeing the blood on Li Sanniang's neck, Xue Yao had no choice but to say, "As long as you release Li Sanniang, I guarantee your safety."
"Ha, can we believe what Commander Xue says?"
Although a knife was held to Li San Niang's neck, and the wound from the sharp blade was indeed quite painful, her hands were not bound.
Li San Niang will not give up until the very last moment.
"My word is my bond. If I say I can guarantee your safety and keep you alive, then I will definitely keep you alive!"
Xue Yao's words carried some weight. After all, he was the most powerful person after Emperor Wu, and he commanded a personal guard that had the authority to supervise all civil and military officials. He was indeed a person of considerable power.
The tall, thin man initially came to participate in this mission thinking that his organization wanted to establish its authority over the Tang Dynasty and that's why they wanted to kill a woman in public.
Because the sect offered a generous reward and treasures for this operation, the tall, thin man volunteered to participate.
However, the tall, thin woman is slightly different from the female assassin who was killed by Qiu Xiang before. She was not an assassin trained by the sect from childhood, but was attracted by the bounty due to her superb martial arts skills and later joined the sect voluntarily.
Therefore, the tall, thin man's loyalty to the organization was not as great as that of the assassins who had been brainwashed since childhood; in fact, one could say that the tall, thin man didn't even have the concept of loyalty in his mind.
When the tall, thin man followed Li San Niang's donkey cart to the main road leading out of the town, he sensed something was wrong. But looking at the crowd around him, he thought he was just overthinking it. However, when the Imperial Guards and patrolling constables came to disperse the crowd, he knew that the operation had inevitably been exposed.
At that time, he already had the intention to quit.
But it was at this moment that the female assassin made her move. There was no way to retreat; they had no choice but to fight to the bitter end.
But Xue Yao's appearance later made him realize that his chances of survival today lay with the woman in that carriage.
That's why he broke into the carriage, went to great lengths to capture Li Sanniang as a hostage, hoping to find a chance to escape.
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