There was a button next to King Lang's pillow, which he pressed when he sensed the unfamiliar presence entering the room.
In an instant, poisoned arrows were launched from all directions around Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng blocked it with his sword.
"Guards! There's an assassin!" King Lang shouted as he pressed the button.
More than a dozen guards rushed into the room and surrounded Lu Zheng.
“%$#@*%…” Lu Zheng said a long string of words in the language of the Sand God Kingdom, then broke through the encirclement and ran away.
King Lang was stunned for a moment; he hadn't expected that they were from the Sand God Kingdom.
These fools, having been wiped out by the Great Zhou, dare not seek revenge against the Great Zhou, but instead come to him to vent their anger?
When he came to his senses, Lu Zheng had already run far away, but his guards had given chase.
Thanks to the fact that the Lange Royal Palace is a miniature version of the Great Zhou Royal Palace, and Lu Zheng having toured the entire palace last night and learned the patrol patterns of the guards in various places, he quickly left the palace.
King Lang ordered the entire royal city to be sealed off immediately, allowing entry but not exit.
Lu Zheng returned to the courtyard. His hand was injured, but he used the hemostatic powder he carried with him, and it worked very well.
"General!" Bai Er and the others were shocked to see Lu Zheng covered in blood.
“Let’s get out of the city.” Lu Zheng tore a piece of cloth from his clothes to bandage his wound, and continued, “There’s a ditch on the east side of this alley. The palace uses water from the moat. We’ll swim out of the city. We need to be quick!”
After saying that, he took the wooden box that was placed in the corner and walked out.
Bai Er and the others put out the fire and followed.
By the time everyone had jumped into the water, it was just beginning to get light. However, the palace guards had already taken up positions at the city gates, and no one noticed that someone had jumped into the stream beside a certain alley.
Lu Zheng was an excellent swimmer; in both his past and present lives, he had spent time in the water camp.
Not to mention Bai Er and his group, the Thousand Blades Sect in the white robes used to be built by the lake, and all the assassins in the Thousand Blades Sect had a water training.
They swam a long way before getting ashore.
"General, your injury..." Bai Er went to see Lu Zheng after getting ashore.
"It's alright." Lu Zheng looked down at his arm; the bleeding had stopped. Xin Xin's hemostatic powder was really effective.
Many soldiers in the army were saved by this hemostatic powder during the previous expeditions to the Sand God Kingdom and the Izumo Kingdom.
Daylight broke, and it was the first day of the new year again.
Lu Zheng looked westward. "Xin Xin, is she over there?"
Bai Er and the others didn't ask Lu Zheng about his entry into the palace; they all stood aside, waiting for Lu Zheng's instructions.
After a long while, Lu Zheng asked, "Where did you put the carrier pigeons we brought earlier?"
Bai Er replied, "General, there is a small fishing village near the Kun River. We entrusted the pigeons to a girl to raise."
Lu Zheng frowned: "Is it reliable?"
Bai Er nodded: "Reliable. This girl often goes to Kuncheng to sell salted fish and buy some products from the Gu sisters. She lives alone in the far corner of the village and doesn't get along with the villagers. Since Huncheng started construction, she hasn't bought any of the Gu sisters' products. Instead, she's saving money and planning to move to Huncheng. She seems to dislike Langge Kingdom. This girl is very shrewish. We didn't reveal our identities, only saying we were from the royal city and gave her some money."
Lu Zheng nodded: "Okay, we'll head over now."
He now needs to use carrier pigeons to send back news that Langge is actually Qu Wang, as well as Peng Mu and Peng Si's wife.
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