Chapter 210 You Must Be Obedient
The knife is raised.
No matter how much Ren Dankou cried and begged for mercy, Jiao Zuotai remained completely unmoved. There was not even a trace of hesitation on his face. He only said to the 200 captive servants standing in the circle of the Black Scale Cavalry:
"Dankou's registration book was lost, but no one in the entire camp found it. This means someone may have sneaked in. I'll count to three. If you come out on your own, I'll spare her. Otherwise, I'll chop off her arm—let's begin! One!"
The two hundred captive servants looked at each other, their faces pale with fear, but no one dared to speak. All they could hear was Danko's desperate cries.
Yun Chen clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.
I didn't expect Jiao Zuotai to be so strict and meticulous in his military management, predicting a spy's infiltration based on just a registration list. Would he rather kill the wrong person than let him go?
Do you want to take action?
There is no chance of success in rescuing Dankou!
If we don't save her, Dan Kou will die! But she can take the defense map back to fight the Black Scale Cavalry! Save more people!
"two!"
Jiao Zuotai shouted loudly, and Yun Chen's thoughts were interrupted. She subconsciously took half a step forward.
I don’t know if it was Yun Chen’s illusion, but Jiao Zuotai seemed to look at her and smiled strangely for no apparent reason.
Yun Chen stopped abruptly and controlled the urge to kill.
But after stopping, she immediately regretted it.
If you can't even save a little girl, how can you be considered as defending your country?!
But a little lack of patience can ruin a great plan! Is one person's life more important? Or are the lives of millions of ordinary people more important?!
Yun Chen had never felt so flustered and difficult before. It felt like there was a black and a white fighting in her heart, making her unable to tell what the right thing to do was!
She quietly raised her eyes and looked at Dan Kou, who was naked but no longer caring about shame. She was like a desperate fish waiting to be slaughtered, struggling on the chopping board...
For a moment, she even hoped that Dan Kou would betray her, pointing at her and shouting, "That's the spy. She stole my registration list."
However, Dan Kou did not. She just cried and begged for mercy, saying over and over, "It's really lost! It's true! I didn't lie to you! Please spare my life, General!"
Even if a little brothel girl would cater to and fawn over the enemy who were worse than beasts in order to save her life, she also knew that when faced with national hatred and family feuds, she had to sacrifice the car to save the king.
Although Dan Kou didn't know what a defense map was, she knew that saving Yun Chen meant keeping the hope of expelling the enemy.
Yun Chen understood Dan Kou's determination, how could he bear to let her down? He almost bit his teeth to pieces, but in the end, he trembled and closed his eyes.
"three!"
As Jiao Zuotai finished speaking, Yun Chen clearly heard the sound of the blade cutting through the air.
Dan Kou let out a sharp scream, and then there was a crisp "bang" sound, and the machete fell heavily.
Yun Chen suddenly opened his eyes and saw that the machete had fallen on the chopping board only a millimeter away from Dan Kou's arm, leaving a deep wood grain cut.
Dan Kou was so frightened that her whole body went limp, her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed to the ground.
Jiao Zuotai and the surrounding black-scale soldiers burst into laughter, as if they were watching an amusing clown show.
Yun Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his back was already soaked with sweat.
She looked at Jiao Zuotai calmly. The latter was laughing happily, looking cunning and proud as if he was playing with people in the palm of his hand.
Yun Chen wanted to remember Jiao Zuotai's face clearly and cut him into pieces with his own hands one day.
Perhaps overwhelmed by hatred, Yun Chen stared at Jiao Zuotai for a long time.
Perhaps it was because he felt Yun Chen's gaze, but Jiao Zuotai's smile slowly disappeared, and he walked towards Yun Chen with a knife in hand.
Jiao Zuotai approached step by step and stood in front of Yun Chen.
She slowly lowered her head, her whole body tense, ready to explode at any moment.
However, Jiao Zuotai simply raised his hand and grabbed the person next to her.
Jiao Zuotai grabbed a disheveled, frail boy who looked only in his teens, pulled his hair, and dragged him in front of Dan Kou.
The young man trembled with fear, glanced at Dankou secretly, and silently shed two lines of tears.
When she saw the young man, Dan Kou, who was about to faint, suddenly got up, regardless of the embarrassment of being naked, crawled to Jiao Zuotai's feet, and kowtowed.
"General! You promised me! Spare my brother's life! Just keep him like a puppy to play with! You know, I lost my parents when I was young, and I became a prostitute just to support my brother. You heard all this, and you still say I'm a good sister! General, please don't hurt my brother, I'll do anything you ask me to! Please, General!!"
"I did promise you." Jiao Zuotai put his arm around the boy's shoulders like an older brother. His tone seemed lighthearted, but it was full of threats and viciousness. "But Dan Kou, you forgot, the premise of my promise to you is-"
After a pause, Jiao Zuotai continued, "You must be obedient."
As he said the last four words, Jiao Zuotai raised his knife and cut his throat at the fastest speed.
Blood spurted out from the boy's ruptured throat and splashed onto Dankou's snow-white naked skin.
The boy's body slowly fell to the ground.
Dan Kou then let out a shrill scream:
“Ah!!! Ah——”
All the captives and servants in the room were stunned by this sudden scene, even Yun Chen was stunned where he stood.
Immediately afterwards, two black-scale cavalrymen dragged Dankou up from the ground and pressed him on the chopping board again.
This time, there is no countdown, no false "opportunity".
A black-scale cavalryman raised his sword and quickly cut off Dankou's arm.
The action was so sudden that even Dankou herself didn't react.
She was originally still crying for her brother, until she saw the severed arm slowly bleeding and the bones falling to the ground, she collapsed and howled for herself.
Yun Chen stared blankly at everything in front of her. It seemed as if a wild beast was roaring in her head, causing all the blood in her body to rush to her head.
Apart from endless anger and murderous intent, she could no longer feel anything else.
Just when she was about to explode, a hand suddenly grabbed her shoulder tightly, stopping all her movements.
Jiao Zuotai had come behind her without her knowing, his black scale armor tightly pressed against her side, the sharp scales pricking her flesh and causing pain.
His eyes were sinister, and his face was filled with a playful yet vicious smile:
"Women and children are tender and are best made into meat soup. Would you like to try some later? Heroes all have a weakness, which is that they can't bear to see the people suffer. But you're not one of them. You're a coward, so you watched them die, dying for your 'spy'."
Every word Jiao Zuotai said rang in her ears, making her so angry that she could hardly think calmly.
She glanced at the knife at Jiao Zuotai's waist and was about to attack, but Jiao Zuotai had anticipated her action and suddenly stepped back.
More than a dozen personal guards quickly surrounded him, pointing their swords at Yun Chen.
Jiao Zuotai stood outside the encirclement, looking at Yun Chen with admiration:
"You're brave. I admire you."
Yun Chen's eyes were filled with hatred. Although she knew that she had been exposed long ago and everything before her was just Jiao Zuotai's malicious trick, she still tried to put on a final disguise:
"I don't understand what you're saying."
Jiao Zuotai laughed, like a poisonous snake swallowing its tongue. "You want to know where the flaw is, right?"
Yun Chen didn't say anything. Jiao Zuotai pointed at her face and said, "Your disguise is quite good. If I had seen you face to face in the big tent just now, I probably wouldn't have recognized you. But you appeared behind me."
Jiao Zuotai shook his head as he spoke, as if he felt sorry for Yun Chen, but also as if he was admonishing him:
"Kid, you're filled with such murderous aura that my entire back feels cold. How could you not feel it? It would be the same for you. Intuition is really accurate sometimes."
After saying that, more than a dozen personal soldiers rushed towards Yun Chen.
Yun Chen broke the jaw of a personal soldier with a hook punch, snatched the sword, and started fighting fiercely.
Hatred made her lose her mind, her eyes were red and about to burst, and she roared and charged towards the Black Scale Cavalry.
Every move is quick and decisive, and every blow is fatal.
Yun Chen killed ruthlessly and accurately, but he could not withstand the swarm of more personal soldiers.
Yun Chen was originally focused on killing, but Dan Kou on the other side began to wail even more miserably, which instantly attracted Yun Chen's attention.
Dankou's other arm was also chopped off, both arms were broken at the elbows, and the whole person fell on the chopping board, motionless.
Yun Chen wanted to rush over to save Dan Kou, but in the moment of distraction, he was hit on the calf by a knife and fell to his knees.
Seven or eight sharp blades immediately stretched out and crossed over Yun Chen's neck.
The half-finished defense map fell out of her arms. Jiao Zuotai picked it up with the tip of his knife, took a look at it, and his expression suddenly changed.
"Do you really think you are an omnipotent savior hero?" Jiao Zuotai threw the defense map into the furnace and burned it cleanly. Then he stepped forward and grabbed Yun Chen's hair, pulling it back hard, forcing her to look towards the kitchen.
In the most resentful and terrifying voice in the world, Jiao Zuotai grinned:
"Great hero, I want to see how many people you can save today."
After saying that, two bodyguards lifted the tent next to the kitchen.
I thought it was a tent for storing food or kitchen utensils.
But when the curtain was lifted, several large dog cages suddenly appeared in Yun Chen's sight. Inside were naked people from Yancheng with their limbs tightly tied.
There are old and young, men and women.
Everyone was naked, crammed together, their mouths stuffed so they couldn't make any sound. All they could see were faces distorted with fear.
Like slaughtering livestock, two cooks dragged a man out of the cage and slit his throat with a swift knife.
Bleeding, convulsion, chopping, and boiling.
One after another died in front of Yun Chen. She watched helplessly and screamed at the top of her lungs until her voice broke, but it was of no use.
"Eat me! You bastard! Kill me if you dare!"
Yun Chen struggled desperately, and the blade across her neck loosened a little. It didn't take her life, but it did leave seven or eight wounds, making her neck look bloody and very scary.
But she felt no pain at all.
She watched as one person after another was dragged out and the cage gradually emptied.
In the end, there was only a skinny little girl left in the cage. She buried her head in her knees, trying to block out the inhumane screams.
The cook dragged the little girl out without hesitation. She turned out to be a child who looked only ten years old.
There was no struggle, no resistance, he was just pressed on the chopping board at his mercy.
At the last moment, the child looked at Yun Chen, a trace of pathetic brilliance flashed in her empty eyes, and she whispered:
"Brother Yun."
The cold knife was raised and chopped down sharply.
The little girl who danced around with the cat in her arms, begging Yun Chen to find the cat...
Never again.
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