Chapter 370 Killing Yan Shijiu
When Yan Shijiu appeared in front of him, Yun Chen was stunned for a moment, slowly put away his fighting stance, and looked at him with heartache.
The tall and strong Yan Shijiu was stuffed naked into a small dog cage, his hair disheveled and his body covered with dog bite marks.
He looked slightly better than Nan Lijun, but there was hardly any healthy skin on his body.
But he seemed to feel no pain at all. When he saw Yun Chen, he smiled happily like a child:
"It's been so long since we last met. Did you miss me? Did you dream about me?"
Yun Chen nodded without any joke or perfunctory response:
"Yeah. Both."
Yan Shijiu laughed even more happily, then frowned slightly, coughed violently for a while, covered his injured abdomen and slowly fell to the edge of the cage. He could no longer speak and could only smile weakly at her.
Yun Chen subconsciously took a step forward, and the guards around him immediately drew their swords.
Prince Touman put on a malicious smile and said, "Kill him, and I'll let you go immediately." He then gestured to the guards beside him to bring a black horse and continued:
"I mean what I say. Kill him and return to Nan. I'll use his head as a wine vessel."
Yun Chen didn't say anything.
Two guards dragged Yan Shijiu out of the dog cage and threw him on the ground.
The sunny and handsome nobleman was now like a skinned stray dog, shivering and curled up in a ball.
Only then did Yun Chen discover that there were several bloody holes on his thighs caused by dog bites. The blood and dirt mixed together and had frozen.
Yan Shijiu was lying on the snow, his brows furrowed but his eyes were smiling:
"Xiao Yunyun, come on, I promise not to resist..."
Touman continued to fan the flames:
"Kill him, and I'll let you go immediately, give you a horse, and give you food. These are all my personal soldiers, and I promise this matter won't get out and won't affect your reputation. Come on, General Yun, you've killed countless people, so this one won't make a difference."
After a long period of silence, Yun Chen walked slowly to Yan Shijiu with a sword in hand.
Yan Shijiu was still smiling, his starry eyes looking at her softly: "Go ahead, I don't blame you. If I had to choose between the two, I would definitely choose you to live."
Yun Chen still didn't say anything, just shook his head slightly.
She dropped her sword with a clang, untied her bloodstained and bear claw-marked singlet, and draped it over him.
She put down her sword and all her defenses, not caring at all about Touman or anyone else who might attack her. She exposed her back to the enemy and left her arms to Yan Shijiu.
"Yan Shijiu, I'll stay with you." She looked at him firmly. "Life or death, you can kill me and run away. Anyway, I can't kill my friends."
In an instant, Yan Shijiu's pupils suddenly constricted, and he stared straight at her face, trying to find any trace of deception on it.
The words "killing friends" seemed to be automatically ignored by his brain. All he could think about was—
Yunchen really loves me, she is willing to die with me.
Yan Shijiu's chest heaved violently, as if something was about to burst out of it.
He almost used all his strength to suppress the surging emotions in his chest and chuckled softly:
"Look, you still say you don't love me? I know you do."
Yun Chen smiled helplessly, "Since we are going to die together, we might even be made into a pair of skull wine vessels. Whatever you say, it's up to you!"
After saying that, she turned around and stood in front of Yan Shijiu.
Touman's smile became more and more weird, and he pursed his lips like a bird and whistled loudly.
More than a dozen vicious dogs rushed over from all directions, wagging their tails at Touman to show their goodwill, and kept rubbing and twisting their hips on the ground, which made Yun Chen feel nauseous.
Touman threw down a short knife and said, "Then let my dogs have a good meal."
As soon as the words fell, the pack of dogs rushed towards Yun Chen and Yan Shijiu.
She sighed in her heart, "I'm a soldier fighting in a war! Not a wildlife dealer! Now it's a bear, then a dog! It never ends!" Then she quickly picked up the dagger and fought with the dogs.
The duel with the black bear just now had exhausted all her physical strength. The wounds on her body were all exposed and bleeding.
At this moment, she really didn't have the strength to fight anymore. Her eyes kept turning black and she was dragged by the pack of dogs, spinning around and around, unable to even get up.
Soon, the dogs gained the upper hand.
Two dogs bit her calves on each side and pulled them to the sides, while the other dogs drooled and swarmed towards her crotch.
At this moment, a dog in the front suddenly fell down with a wail. Yan Shijiu didn't know where he got the strength to get up, and actually bit the dog's hind legs with his mouth, trying to stop it from attacking Yun Chen again.
With a new target of attack, the pack of dogs immediately turned towards Yan Shijiu, barking wildly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yun Chen quickly used his last bit of strength to turn over and throw himself on him.
She pounced too quickly and the pack of dogs blocked her view.
Yan Shijiu opened his arms in a trance to catch her, but his direction was a little off. As he caught her, his hand very "accidentally" touched her chest, through the thin clothes -
Holding something soft...
He subconsciously sighed, "Hmm... so soft," and then immediately received a big slap in the face. Yun Chen lay on him tightly to resist the attack of the dogs, and cursed:
"Yan Shijiu! I'll chop off your claws!"
He smiled ambiguously, "Which one? The one you touched, or the one you didn't touch?"
Before Yun Chen could curse again, the next moment, at the last chance before the dogs came to bite him, he put his arms around her waist, held her hand, and hugged her tightly.
Touman immediately blew the whistle to stop the dogs, and the world instantly returned to coldness and silence.
There was no more smelly dog hair in the air, no more eardrum-tearing howls, only a warmth that slowly seeped through Yun Chen's clothes, staining her chest red.
The dagger in her right hand had penetrated deeply into Yan Shijiu's chest.
He slowly released her hand and pushed her away with force, spitting blood from his mouth, but a broken and gentle smile appeared on his face.
"Yun Chen, let's go..."
He released all his strength and collapsed completely on the snow. His starry eyes gradually blurred, but he still stared at her infatuatedly.
He could no longer make a sound, and blood was spurting out onto the ground in large mouthfuls. He could only mouth the following words:
Go away, I don't blame you.
She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but his lips were so small that it seemed like he was saying “love” instead of “not strange”.
Yun Chen took two steps back in a daze, then knelt on the ground and began to vomit violently.
Blood, acid, and tears mixed together, and she vomited so much that her stomach cramped and hurt, and her teeth chattered.
She had been in the bloody war thousands of times and lost countless souls by the sword, but Yan Shijiu was the first friend she killed with her own hands.
Seeing her collapse like this, Touman couldn't help but burst out laughing.
But as he laughed, he couldn't laugh anymore.
Yun Chen wiped away his tears, picked up the sword, and stood up again.
She stared at Touman with her pair of clear black and white eyes, making him feel a chill he had never felt before.
At that moment, Touman felt the fear of a head hanging high for the first time. He seemed to have a premonition that he would die at Yun Chen's hands sooner or later.
Touman signaled the guards with his eyes to be on alert, and all the guards immediately surrounded him and looked at Yun Chen vigilantly.
Regardless of the figures of the guards moving back and forth in front of him, Yun Chen's eyes were fixed on Touman from beginning to end, without moving an inch.
Touman felt like an hour had passed before Yun Chen finally withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes to look at Yan Shijiu's body for a moment, then clenched his fists, turned over, mounted the black horse, and galloped out of Wangting City.
The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away. Touman rubbed the goose bumps on his neck and couldn't help smacking his lips:
"This woman is amazing."
Touman said this in Nan language. The guards did not respond. All around him was the rapid breathing of dogs with their tongues hanging out.
Seeing no one responding, Touman said again:
"Aren't you going to get up yet? Isn't the ground cold?"
After a moment of silence.
Yan Shijiu on the ground let out a satisfied and comfortable sigh, stretched out his body, shook off the appearance of a "corpse", turned over nimbly, and brushed off the snow foam on his shoulders.
Then, three figures suddenly appeared like ghosts, and Wan Chen and two secret guards hurriedly brought wolfskin cloaks and healing medicine.
After some cleaning and healing, Yan Shijiu returned to his clean and new appearance, except for the knife wound on his chest that avoided all vital parts and was still bleeding, as if nothing had happened.
Touman was used to everything. Ever since he met Yan Shijiu, he knew that this guy was a very ruthless person who was as cruel to him as he was to his enemies.
It was just a show, but he used knives, guns, sticks and clubs, and asked his secret guard Wan Chen to attack him. He also killed Touman's dog and used the dog's fangs to pretend to bite him.
During the whole process, Touman watched from the side with his teeth bared, but Yan Shijiu remained expressionless, and even had a hint of excitement in his eyes, as if he was particularly looking forward to it.
This made Touman, a guy who was used to being cruel, couldn't help but curse in his heart, "What a pervert."
But no matter how perverted he is, Touman likes Yan Shijiu as his ally very much. If it weren't for Yan Shijiu, how could he successfully launch a sneak attack on the Northern Expedition Army, and how could he capture Nan Lijun to vent his anger.
I'm afraid he will have to wait until Xiong Dun dies of old age before he can sit on the throne of Luojiang.
Now that the rebellion was successful and Xiong Dun was dead, the entire Luojiang was his. Touman was in a good mood and said with a smile:
"Yan Shijiu, you lost the bet."
Yan Shijiu raised an eyebrow but did not respond. He leaned against the wine table, rubbing the "wedding dishes" on it with disgust, and picked out a few pieces of cold meat and threw them to the dogs.
The dogs swarmed over, squeezed around Yan Shijiu's legs, and wagged their tails. It was as if their expressions had changed, and they no longer had the aggressive look they had before.
Touman knew that it was not his dog that could act, but Yan Shijiu who acted too well.
From a pitiful piece of "white meat" at the mercy of others to a moody king with murderous smile, he is really good at it.
Yan Shijiu shook his head nonchalantly, "How did I lose?"
Touman laughed and said, "We made a bet earlier. We bet on whether your woman would look back after you 'died'. I watched carefully just now. She ran straight out of the city without looking back. So if you lose, pay me. One ingot of gold. Don't deny it. I want to keep it for myself."
Yan Shijiu snorted coldly, took out a gold ingot from Wan Chen and threw it to Touman.
Touman looked at the gold with pride and said:
"It's normal for you to lose. This woman looks like someone who will never look back. Even if you rescue her from a blizzard ten thousand times, and hold her in a snow pool ten thousand times, it will all be the same—"
Oh, by the way, you haven't paid me for the black horse yet. Do you know how expensive my horse is? It's one in a hundred thousand, and I haven't even ridden it for a single day!
Yan Shijiu smiled without saying anything, pulled out the dagger from Wan Chen's waist, and stabbed the dog closest to him to death with one knife.
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