Chapter 3452 Who wants to kill you?
The tightly closed door slowly opened a little.
Everyone became nervous. The archers lying on the four walls immediately tightened their bowstrings and aimed at the gate. The soldiers around, as ferocious as wolves and tigers, also clenched their swords in their hands, with cold light flashing, waiting for the order to rush forward.
But Zhu Feng raised his hand, signaling everyone not to act rashly.
As the creaking sound gradually subsided, the door opened a little, and the firelight immediately illuminated a figure emerging from the deep darkness inside.
"Xin Ping!"
When Nan Yan saw it, she subconsciously rushed forward.
But Zhu Feng was quick-witted and grabbed her.
The person who walked out was none other than Princess Xinping! However, she didn't come out alone. A large hand stretched out from behind her, crossing her neck and holding her tightly. In the other hand, a sharp knife was pressed against her neck. There was no doubt that if there was any disturbance outside, the knife would immediately cut off Princess Xinping's slender neck.
As soon as she saw the knife, Nan Yan felt as if her heart was stabbed by a knife: "Xin Ping!"
As soon as Princess Xinping saw them, she started to cry anxiously.
Her mouth was stuffed with a piece of cloth and her hands were tied behind her back, leaving her no room to struggle.
Zhu Feng just glanced at her with a gloomy expression, and the hand that held Nan Yan's arm tightened a little, but he said nothing, and looked behind Xin Ping with sharp eyes.
Behind her was the villain.
The man should not be tall, dressed in black. When he stood inside the door, he was almost completely blended into the pitch-black darkness of the room. In addition, he was slightly curled up, so he was completely blocked by Xinping.
This way, the archers had no way of finding a suitable position to kill him.
The surrounding soldiers had no chance to take action.
Seeing this, Ying Shao immediately signaled the men behind him to walk to the corner to see if they could come up with a solution. Zhu Feng turned his head and said softly, "Don't act rashly. Even if you have to, I must be alive."
Ying Shao whispered, "I understand."
Then, Zhu Feng took another step forward. Before the people around him could panic and try to stop him, he said, "You want to see me, and here I am."
The man remained hidden behind Princess Xinping, his head tilted slightly, and Zhu Feng immediately caught that flicker of panic, a glint of cunning and ferociousness. He stared fiercely at Zhu Feng. Though he hid his gaze tightly, his trembling voice betrayed his current panic.
He said, "You, you are the emperor of Yan Kingdom?"
Zhu Feng said nothing, just sneered.
Nan Yan immediately said, "Is the Emperor fake?!"
The man said, "Don't think I don't know. You emperors love to find substitutes. I've never seen the Emperor of Yan, so how can I know if it's real or fake?"
Zhu Feng raised his eyebrows slightly.
Although the emperor's use of a body double for travel wasn't exactly a secret, it wasn't something the common people would know. If this person was truly from Yue, then even if he wasn't a member of the royal family, he would at least have connections with people of high status.
So, Zhu Feng said coldly: "If you think so, then no matter who comes, you won't be able to tell the truth from the false."
The man was stunned.
Zhu Feng said: "While I still have patience, tell me what you want. When I lose my patience——"
He didn't say the rest of the words.
But it was precisely because he didn't say it that it was the most intimidating. Although the man stood behind Princess Shinpei, he could clearly see that the garden was full of soldiers with swords in hand, and the surrounding walls were also covered with archers. If he showed even a little bit, he would be shot like a hedgehog and chopped into pieces.
Thinking of this, he subconsciously dragged Princess Xinping back half a step.
He shouted, "Don't mess around, otherwise—I'll kill her right away!"
Zhu Feng said coldly: "You can't threaten me with this unfilial daughter."
Upon hearing this, Xinping's eyes showed disbelief even though her mouth was stuffed. Although she had heard these words in the house just now, she still couldn't believe that her father would say this, and she even lied to herself that maybe she had heard it wrong, but this time, she couldn't lie to herself anymore.
She bit the cloth in her mouth hard, and her eyes turned red.
Seeing her like this, Nan Yan immediately understood what was going on. She wanted to say something but stopped herself. She looked at Zhu Feng again and could only suppress her impulse.
Seeing Nan Yan like this, Zhu Feng realized that he didn't need to care about her anymore, so he loosened his grip on her arm. He looked coldly at the dark figure behind Xin Ping and said, "The reason I came here to listen to your nonsense is just because I'm interested in you."
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"How dare you break into my camp and kidnap the Princess of Yan? You are quite courageous."
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"I can have you torn into pieces at any time."
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"What is your purpose in taking such a risk and doing these things?"
The man's eyes were bloodshot and his wheezing didn't sound like a human, but more like a beast cornered. He said solemnly, "I, I want to live."
Upon hearing this, Nan Yan frowned.
Zhu Feng also sneered and said, "You broke into my camp and kidnapped the Princess of Yan. You said you want to live?"
This is simply ridiculous.
The man himself seemed to find this ridiculous. He took two deep breaths and then said, "Even if I have to die, I can't die in obscurity."
At this time, Zhu Feng seemed to come to his senses.
He stared into the man's eyes and asked, "Someone wants to kill you?"
The man said, "Yes."
"Who?"
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The man remained silent but refused to speak.
Zhu Feng thought for a moment and said, "I've only been in Yongzhou these past two days. If you had been in the city the entire time, you wouldn't have taken action tonight. You must have heard the news of my arrival and just entered the city."
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"You are from Vietnam."
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"The people of Yue want to kill you?"
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"If an ordinary Yue citizen wanted to kill you, your ability to sneak into my camp without making a sound would not be enough evidence. The one who wants to kill you is probably not an ordinary citizen, but someone extremely powerful, making it impossible for you to stop him and have nowhere to hide."
An expression of surprise gradually appeared in the man's blood-red eyes.
He didn't expect that the Emperor of Yan could figure out everything just by looking at him.
He is indeed the emperor!
Thinking of this, he seemed to see a glimmer of hope and subconsciously took half a step forward.
But the whole person was still hiding behind Xinping and inside the door.
Zhu Feng asked, "Who is the one who wants to kill you?"
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