Chapter 176 Falling into the Palace
Shen Yu looked upwards coldly.
As the carriage moved further away, they were about to leave the guardhouse at Xuanwu Gate.
Tonight the full moon was high in the sky, casting a large patch of soft moonlight under the city wall. Shen Yu was very far away from Xuan Lin. He looked up amid the fighting and wailing, and only vaguely saw Xuan Lin's figure.
The lights on the top of the palace wall were all on, outlining a slightly pure gold frame around Xuan Lin's all-black figure. Shen Yu couldn't see his specific movements, but seeing the tip of the bow emitting a cold light, he knew that he must have fully pulled the dragon bone bow in his hand.
This bow was made for Shen Yu using thousand-year-old animal bones from Chengyuan Mountain. The bowstring alone was selected, made, and reshaped nearly a thousand times. In the dozens of battles he went to with Xuan Lin, this dragon bone bow helped him take down the enemy's heads in one fell swoop many times.
Now he finally aimed the bow at Shen Yu.
"Wow wow wow—what are you doing! Get to the side quickly!" Gouqie Toutousheng's scream exploded in Shen Yu's ears. Before Shen Yu could react, he was knocked to the side by Gouqie Toutousheng's ball.
The sharp arrow pierced the air and went into the wooden pillar next to Shen Yu, just two or three millimeters away from his face.
The carriage was hit so hard that it tilted twice. Spider-web-like cracks appeared on its body where it was pierced by the bullet, and the whole carriage was shaking and about to fall.
Shen Yu's forehead hit the wooden pillar next to him. He took a step back and was suddenly pulled to the side by the people behind him.
"Hide inside and don't come out." Wen Yu's voice was cold. He took the long arrow from Shen Yu's hand and stood at the edge of the carriage in his place.
He was much thinner than Shen Yu. Although his face was similar, every part of his body was significantly different from Shen Yu's. This was mainly because he had suffered a lot of injuries over the years and had not received any treatment. He was not as healthy as Shen Yu, who had lived through the end of the world.
Shen Yu calmed down. He sat in the shadow cast by Wen Yu and turned to look at the arrow that had pierced into the inside of the carriage.
Unlike ordinary long wooden arrows, the surface of this arrow is covered with a layer of red color of unknown origin, and the tip is made of pure iron, which is very sharp.
Shen Yu held the long arrow in one hand. As soon as his palm touched the arrowhead, he sensed a familiar energy fluctuation.
The red part of the bow and arrow cracked, and tiny black lines emerged from the gap. They seemed to be full of life, and as soon as they appeared in Shen Yu's eyes, they were accompanied by a crackling sound mixed with lightning, and slowly climbed along the surrounding air.
Seeing this, the alarm on Gouchu Tousheng's body lit up, its body color turned pure black, and it quickly hid in the corner.
"Shen Yu! This is the energy of the system! No... no, no, this is the energy of the coal balls! It hasn't locked onto you yet, hurry up and leave!"
Shen Yu's face changed slightly when he heard this. He retracted his hand and turned to look outside the carriage. They had already left Xuanwu Gate, and the secret guards behind them were still chasing them. If he jumped out of the window at this time... maybe he would have a chance to escape.
Shen Yu frowned. He was about to reach out to grab Wen Yu, but when he lowered his eyes to look inside the carriage, his whole body froze in place.
Those densely packed tiny black lines spread across the entire bottom of the carriage in just one or two seconds. The electric currents in them slowly gathered and all converged in the direction where Wen Yu was.
Shen Yu's eyes were dry and his pupils moved. He saw that these black lines seemed to have consciousness. They bypassed the other dying people in the car and just approached Wen Yu.
Wen Yu naturally couldn't see these things. He was standing on the outside, and his legs had already been tightly wrapped by the black line that was quickly split and crawling up.
"Pick up the jade..."
Shen Yu's mind went blank for a moment. He used the dagger to tear off the black lines that were entangled with him. His palms were stimulated by the dense and tiny electric currents and felt pain.
Xuan Lin's arrow was not aimed at him. Shen Yu was wearing a mask, and everyone in the carriage was wearing a mask. They were of similar stature and wore the same clothes. Xuan Lin couldn't tell who was who at such a long distance.
He just wanted to shoot this arrow and let Meiqiu take Wen Yu back.
The death row prisoners in Chengyuan Mountain are of no importance to him; they are just tools used by Xuan Lin to threaten and suppress Wen Yu.
The only person Xuan Lin refused to let go from the beginning to the end was... Wen Yu.
"Damn it! How did the strength of the coal ball change so much! I can't bite it off!"
It changed its form and bit the black thread on Wen Yu's leg and pulled it out, but it didn't bite off any of it. The purple light disappeared, and the light on its body dimmed, as if it had merged into the darkness.
Shen Yu stood there in a daze. He looked forward and saw Wen Yu staggering for some reason, holding on to the inside of the car with his arms and his face pale.
A few drops of scarlet blood dripped from his trouser legs.
Shen Yu blinked his eyes, his expression invisible under the mask. At this moment, he suddenly spoke to Gouqie Tousheng: "Gouqie Tousheng, Wen Yu and I are actually the same person, did you know that?"
It bit the black line in its mouth, turned around and touched the ball.
"You know, but Meiqiu may not know." Shen Yu said, cutting his palm with a dagger. The blood on his hand kept flowing down the edge, and soon formed a pool in front of him.
Those black lines sensed the smell of Shen Yu's blood, and they immediately stopped crawling on Wen Yu's body. After stopping for a moment, they suddenly changed direction and rushed towards Shen Yu.
"You're crazy!!!" Gouqiu Tuosheng screamed non-stop.
Shen Yu took off the mask on his face. In front of everyone in the carriage, he tore off the fake mask on his face, revealing his true face underneath.
When the man from Chengyuan Mountain, who was hiding in the innermost part, saw Shen Yu's face, his eyes widened immediately: "Junior Brother?!"
Wen Yu also turned his head upon hearing the voice, his pupils trembling, and grabbed Shen Yu's arm: "What do you want to do? Go back! Come out now, what are you going to do!"
There was a sense of gnashing of teeth in his eyes, as if he wanted to tear Shen Yu into pieces.
Shen Yu was helpless. He pulled out the bow and arrow from the carriage and smiled at Wen Yu: "Yu Yu, you must live well after this life. Don't even think about your next life, because it may be even worse."
Wen Yu's eyes were red, and he held onto Shen Yu tightly, "Don't be crazy, go back!"
The black lines had already wrapped around Shen Yu's chest. He tightly grasped the long arrow in his hand, turned around and jumped out of the carriage.
"Shen Yu!!!"
Shen Yu fell to the ground, Wen Yu's tearing voice lingering in his ears. He blinked and raised his head, and saw that the secret guards who were chasing him stopped in front of him soon.
Shen Yu sat there without moving, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him. He lowered his eyes to look at the black thread wrapped around his hand, and curled the corners of his lips after hearing some sounds.
"Your Majesty, you are here?"
Xuan Lin walked slowly towards Shen Yu, the coal ball stopped on his shoulder, and the electric current in his body collided violently, emitting a cold light.
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