Chapter 276 The Zhou Emperor!
In the short time that followed, the fake Sun Qian was dead, and the person who killed Sun Qian had also vanished without a trace.
Liu Yanhui and the others stared silently out the window, then immediately realized what they were saying and said, "The waiter from earlier..."
Ban Sicao was about to chase after him after she finished speaking.
"Stop! Don't alert them!"
Ban Sicao ran too fast and couldn't stop in time, so she crashed into the door frame.
"We'll split into two groups!"
Time was of the essence, so the group immediately split into two teams.
The ten-person team split into two: Ban Sicao led four people, while Shen Lanxi led Liu Yan and others.
The two groups split up and headed to the hiding place of the fake Sun Qian.
Shen Lanxi chose a place further away, at the entrance of the town.
When she arrived, the fake Sun Qian was being attacked.
"Help!"
The guards rushed forward, but quickly became vulnerable.
Liu Yan frowned and said, "These people are all well-trained assassins." The guards they brought were not as skilled.
Shen Lanxi left a message telling everyone to take care of themselves before rushing over to help.
Liu Yan quickly found a safe place to hide.
After a few moves, the assassins were lying on the ground. She knocked them unconscious, giving them no chance to commit suicide by poison.
The fake Sun Qian was slashed twice on the arm and shoulder, and his life was in danger.
Just as Shen Lanxi was about to call someone to clean up the scene, her expression suddenly changed.
"Get down!" she shouted, throwing the stick in her hand away.
With a bang, Sun Qian was knocked down. Where he had been standing, an arrow was stuck in the wall. If that blow hadn't knocked down the fake Sun Qian, he would have been dead on the spot.
Upon seeing that there were still assassins, Liu Yanhui immediately rushed towards Shen Lanxi.
Several guards drew their swords and looked around warily.
Shen Lanxi stared intently in the direction the arrow had come from, her dark eyes fixed on it. The assassin had quickly left after firing the arrow.
"General, we should not stay here any longer. Let's hurry to the Salt Lake!" The Northern Garrison is stationed at the Salt Lake.
Shen Lanxi: "Send them to the salt lake!"
Liu Yan asked, "General, what about you?"
Shen Lanxi: "The fish have already been caught, how can I just put away the fishing rod?" She would definitely pull them all ashore and gut them!
"General, why don't we reunite with Ban Sicao before we leave?" Liu Yanhui had a very bad feeling.
Shen Lanxi took out a whistle and blew it.
Liu Yanhui's eyes lit up; how could he have forgotten about Xiaoxue?
Shen Lanxi wrote a letter for Xiaoxue to take away, and then quickly led people to meet up with Ban Sicao.
When Ban Si Cao saw the assassin poisoning her, she laughed.
"You're really showing off your skills in front of Guan Yu, trying to play poison with me. You're just asking for trouble."
A packet of powder was sprinkled down, and all the assassins collapsed like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
After the two met up, Shen Lanxi suggested that they wait for reinforcements in Mosang Town.
"General, this town of Mosang is too strange. I suspect the whole town is inhabited by their people. Let's go outside the town and wait!" Ban Sicao had already noticed the abnormality when he arrived.
The vendors didn't look like vendors, the pedestrians didn't look like pedestrians, and even the servants didn't look like servants. The bustling street was deserted, without a single child.
Shen Lanxi could no longer contain herself; she wanted to know the truth and the answer.
"I want to interrogate them."
Ban Sicao and Liu Yanhui sensed the anxiety in Shen Lanxi's tone. This was the best opportunity to learn about the theft of Wei family army's supplies. If they missed it, they didn't know if they would have another chance.
"yes!"
Ban Sicao shook his wrist, and the red bracelet on his wrist immediately turned into a small red snake, which bit each of the assassins.
Bansicao: "After being bitten by Little Red, you will soon be in a hallucination. These assassins will think they are in a dream, and they will answer whatever they are asked."
In the blink of an eye, the assassins opened their eyes groggily, swaying and laughing foolishly as if they were drunk.
Ban Sicao tried it out: "Have you eaten?"
The assassins chuckled foolishly and said, "No!"
Ban Sicao nodded: "That's fine."
Shen Lanxi: "Who sent you?"
The assassin chuckled and then said, "My superior."
Shen Lanxi: "Who is the superior?"
Assassin: "A superior is a superior."
Shen Lanxi frowned, her eyes flashed, and she changed her questioning style.
"To whom do you pledge your allegiance?"
The assassins chuckled and shook themselves twice, saying, "Emperor Zhou!"
Shen Lanxi's pupils dilated: "Who is the Zhou Emperor? What does he look like? Where is he?"
The assassins said, "The Zhou emperor is the emperor, he wears a mask, and he's in the capital!"
Shen Lanxi hurriedly asked, "Where in the capital?"
The assassins all said in unison, "We don't know!"
Shen Lanxi: "Was it you who stole the Wei family army's supplies?"
Assassins: "Yes!"
How many of you are still in Mozambique?
The assassins: "The entire town of Mossang is ours."
"Where are the people from Mosang Town?"
"Kill them! Kill the entire town!"
These people deserve to die!
Shen Lanxi's eyes instantly filled with rage; it wasn't time to kill these people yet.
"How did you manage to contact the Zhou emperor?"
Assassins: "Contact your superiors!"
"How many assassins like you are there in total?"
Assassins: "We don't know!"
Shen Lanxi: "How did you manage to steal the Wei family army's supplies?"
Assassins: "We don't know!"
Shen Lanxi asked a few more questions until the assassins vomited blood and fainted from the effects of the medicine, and then she stopped.
"This Zhou emperor has a huge group of assassins under his command. These assassins are all contacted by their superiors; those below them only know how to obey orders and know very little about the world!"
Liu Yanhui had a question on her mind for a while.
"They had the chance to kill us, so why didn't they just kill us and end it all?"
Ban Sicao was also completely baffled. In his mind, if he hadn't tasted the sleeping potion, Shen Lanxi and the others would still be unconscious in the inn right now.
The Zhou emperor's men were fully capable of killing Shen Lanxi and the others.
Shen Lanxi considered several possibilities, but none of them made sense.
Surely this mysterious Zhou emperor didn't want to kill her?
Without thinking, they would realize it's impossible; there must be another purpose, but they just can't figure it out yet.
"Arrest more assassins and interrogate them!" It would be best to capture their superiors as well.
Before his men could receive their orders, the guards outside rushed over.
"General, something terrible has happened! Fire!"
Shen Lanxi's expression changed.
Liu Yan replied, "Quickly call someone to put out the fire!"
The guard said with a strange expression, "There are too many fires, and the wind is picking up outside. Let's evacuate Mosang Town quickly. Judging by the fire, it could reach us in the blink of an eye!"
Shen Lanxi had never felt such intense anger before.
"Signal the people outside Mozanne and tell them to surround the town!"
Liu Yanhui quickly ordered someone to release carrier pigeons.
The fire spread in the blink of an eye. Shen Lanxi stood at the entrance of Mosang Town, her expression cold as she watched the place being engulfed by the flames.
"General, they must have retreated as quickly as possible after that archer ran away."
Who exactly is Zhou Tianzi, who so readily shoots and abandons his comrades, and who controls these cold-blooded killers behind the scenes?
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