Li Qiji pulled Guan Zhiyue and began to retreat. The group of men in black had come too fiercely, and his own guards and escort team had all started fighting.
Guan Chengzhuo saw his younger sister, who was wearing a white undergarment and hiding behind Li Qiji. She had already retreated from the upstairs room to the main hall.
Bilian gripped Jiwu's belt tightly, refusing to let go no matter what.
Ji Wudang was speechless. He had almost been slashed on the arm just now, but this maid was the Empress's personal maid.
If he doesn't protect her now, and the Empress comes after him later, given the Emperor's current nature, he'll definitely make him take the blame.
Instead of doing that, it would be better to protect it properly now!
"Ah~ Your Majesty, are you alright?" Bilian shouted loudly when she saw Guan Zhiyue in the hall.
Ji Wu was truly exasperated and retorted rather irritably, "Big sister, you should worry about yourself! There are so many people downstairs! Do you think she'll be alright?"
Bilian didn't want to say anything more. This damn man was like a blockhead, trying to shake her off and run away. She wasn't going to give him any chance!
So Ji Wu protected Bi Lian, fighting and retreating all the way to the hall, where the two sides were evenly matched.
These men in black seemed to operate without any rhyme or reason, indiscriminately slashing at anyone they saw as if they had no purpose, killing anyone who was part of Guan Zhiyue's group.
"Big brother, are you alright?" Guan Zhiyue asked when she had a moment. Guan Chengzhuo, who was beside her, was bleeding.
Guan Chengzhuo shook his head and said, "It's nothing, this is all the blood of the men in black."
"Everyone, please be careful! We need to find a way to break out of here, we can't stay inside anymore."
Li Qiji looked around and saw that the restaurant was now littered with corpses, with countless black-clad men and his own men dead or wounded.
But the men in black seemed to be increasing in number, and it felt like a war of attrition, as if they wanted to wear them all down.
Su Xu and Guan Chengzhuo also noticed this problem: their own men were dwindling in number as the fight went on, while the number of men in black was increasing.
This looks like they're all going to be killed!
"Who sent you?" Guan Chengzhuo asked as he fought, but none of the men in black on the other side spoke; they just kept attacking them.
The group fought their way from the restaurant lobby to the outside, where the streets were pitch black.
I couldn't see anything clearly, and the streets and surroundings felt very deserted; I didn't even hear a dog barking.
"Li Qiji, don't you think this is very strange? Why is the fight in the restaurant so fierce, and there's no one around?" Guan Zhiyue asked as she pulled Li Qiji back.
While keeping a close eye on the fight, Li Qiji replied, "These beasts must have killed all the people and livestock around here!"
Guan Zhiyue felt an unprecedented fear and involuntarily gripped Li Qiji's arm tightly. "What... what do we do?"
Her voice trembled with fear. Li Qiji held her hand tightly, never letting go, and comforted her with a gentle and magnetic voice, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."
Guan Zhiyue asked Xiao Tuantuan in the space telepathically, "Xiao Tuantuan, do you have a gun?"
"Your master's life is in grave danger!"
Inside the space, Little Tuantuan saw the chaotic fight outside and said regretfully, "Master, we don't have guns, but we do have crossbows. Do you need them?"
"Yes! I'll take it if you give me an iron bar right now, as long as I can live!" Guan Zhiyue said urgently.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Tuantuan actually threw an iron rod out of her spatial storage, and to be fair, she threw it quite accurately.
The force of the blow stunned the three attackers. The thing that suddenly flew out of the air was incredibly powerful!
"Wow, Little Tuantuan, you're pretty good! Your skills are not bad, but you'd better hurry up and give me the crossbow!" Guan Zhiyue and Li Qiji were holding hands, fighting and retreating on the street.
Guan Chengzhuo and Su Xu also withdrew completely and are now fighting and killing each other in the street.
“Ji Wu, give the signal!” Li Qiji said.
Ji Wu was also looking for an opening when he launched the signal flare he was carrying into the sky.
In an instant, a beautiful rose bloomed in the air, its red petals as vibrant as fire.
The group of guards who arrived earlier, led by Ji Shang, had already joined the fighting. The ones now calling for help are the guards hidden behind the guards, who are assassins from the Tianji Pavilion.
"Ah, watch out!"
Just as Guan Zhiyue gave the warning, the man in black's sword had already pierced Li Qiji's back;
The sword that was originally meant to stab her was blocked by this fool. Even though Guan Zhiyue was well protected, she still got a cut on her arm.
These men in black now want her dead!
"Are you alright? Li Qiji, can you still hold on?" Guan Zhiyue, using Li Qiji's prone body as a springboard, caught the crossbow given to her by Xiao Tuantuan and fired it at the man in black.
Immediately afterwards, they helped Li Qiji retreat to a darker spot on the side. Li Qiji felt weak and limp because he had been stabbed in the back.
"Li Qiji, are you alright? Don't scare me!"
The two retreated as they walked until they reached a horse. Li Qiji used all his strength to cut the rope tethering the horse.
The two struggled to climb onto the horse's back and galloped towards the city gate.
The men in black behind him continued their relentless pursuit. They knew the man was about to die because he had been poisoned by their muscle-softening powder and was no longer able to fight. Now, all that was left was the woman he was protecting.
The order given was "Kill them all to silence them, leave no one alive."
What the men in black didn't expect was that this group of people were so good at fighting. Apart from the two unarmed women, the others were all very capable fighters, and they lost so many of their brothers.
But now it seems this woman is quite skilled; she's actually a master of hidden blades, able to hit her target every time.
"Don't let them go, kill them!" These were the first words spoken by the leader of the men in black, after so much fighting.
Guan Zhiyue and Li Qiji rode their horses on the road outside the city. The two of them galloped along the road, while more and more men in black continued to pursue them relentlessly.
As soon as they left, the number of men in black in the inn decreased, clearly indicating that they were still chasing after the Emperor and Empress.
"Li Qiji, are you still conscious?" Guan Zhiyue looked ahead, controlling the horse, glancing back at Li Qiji who was tied to her.
Li Qiji struggled to open his eyes and said, "Wife, don't worry about me, leave quickly and go find reinforcements to save your brother and the others."
"What nonsense are you talking about! There are a lot of men in black chasing us right now."
No sooner had they finished speaking than they heard a sound of something cutting through the air, followed by the muffled groan of an arrow piercing flesh.
"Li Qiji, have you been shot again?"
Li Qiji slumped onto Guan Zhiyue's shoulder, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Two needles were stuck in the horse's rump, and as it ran, it started to bolt wildly, eventually leaping off the cliff.
Guan Zhiyue gripped the strap tied to her chest tightly, her screams echoing throughout the valley.
Immediately, everyone, including the horse, flashed into the space. Guan Zhiyue, who landed on the black soil of the space, was still screaming loudly.
Little Tuantuan flew to her side with a look of disgust and said rudely, "Master, what are you yelling about? You're already inside the space."
"And you've even trampled down a patch of your own cornfield. Are you sure you're not going to get up?"
Guan Zhiyue looked at Xiao Tuantuan, opened her closed eyes, and realized that she was safe.
"I say, you really are strange. Why didn't you hide inside the space when you clearly have one? Why did you have to fight for so long?" Xiao Tuantuan said.
Guan Zhiyue got up from the ground, helped Li Qiji up, and then said, "I don't want to die yet, especially not in front of so many of them;"
If I suddenly disappeared into thin air, will I still be able to live in this world?
"Wouldn't I be treated like a monster and burned alive by them?!"
They dragged Li Qiji to the Lingquan River with great effort, cleaned his wounds with the spring water, and examined them.
The two were safe, but the group of men in black surrounded the entire valley and began preparing to search the mountain...
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