Chapter 446 Take All
The whole place fell into dead silence.
Huo Gannian still maintained the action of stabbing with the dagger.
King Xi Yan held the wine glass motionless, his mouth wide open in a daze, with a horrifying bloody mouth in his throat, and his stiff eyes moving. Before he could even look at Yan Shijiu, he slowly fell onto the wine couch in front of him, making the dishes crash loudly.
Han Biao looked at the corpse of King Xiyan in shock. A flash of surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he cried like crazy:
"Father!! Father——"
This sound broke the silence and finally brought back the fear of everyone in the audience.
King Xiyan's personal guards were caught off guard, and they were all terrified and panicked.
Su Zhengyang and the imperial guards were so frightened that their scalps went numb and they were completely unable to think. They could only subconsciously fight with Xiyan's people and suppress them.
The whole scene suddenly became chaotic.
All the civil and military officials were stunned, even Nan Lijun and Yan Shijiu were shocked.
Only Yun Wang looked calm, as if he was not surprised at all.
He frowned and looked at Yun Chen who was standing there in shock. He slowly stood up and walked forward, raising his sleeve to cover her eyes.
Yun Chen stared at Yun Wang blankly, his eyes filled with astonishment, confusion, and gradually clear worry and fear.
"A Nian...what are you doing?"
Why did he commit such a heinous crime in public?
Yun Wang couldn't answer, nor did he dare to, and couldn't answer.
He could only cover his sleeves tightly so Yun Chen wouldn't see it——
Seeing Huo Gannian slowly putting away the dagger and calmly wiping the blood from the blade on his sleeve, it seemed as if he was afraid that others would not be able to see that it was him who killed King Xiyan.
Seeing Nan Lijun and Yan Shijiu looking at each other, they were overjoyed and horrified, and shouted, "Catch Huo Gannian!"
Yun Chen sat there blankly, unable to see the images, but only hearing thousands of noisy sounds in his ears, which made his scalp numb.
It wasn't until a large group of imperial guards rushed forward and surrounded Huo Gannian, swords drawn, that the newly appointed Wu Yanguan ran to Nan Lijun's side. After receiving a glance from the other party, he stood up and shouted, "The Regent is rebelling! Capture him!"
Yun Chen suddenly woke up, slammed the table and jumped up, kicking down the nearest imperial guards. He snatched a sword from someone and stood guard in front of Huo Gannian with the sword.
Seeing Yun Chen's attack, Rong Yi, Luo Dongdong, Duan Jie and Fu Lin on the side immediately grabbed their swords without thinking, surrounded Huo Gannian and Yun Chen, and confronted all the imperial guards with swords drawn.
This scene made Nan Lijun's eyes widen with anger, and he roared:
"Yun Chen? Duan Jie? Are you all going to rebel? You always claim to be loyal to the emperor and love your country! But now you want to rebel together with Huo Gannian?! Fine, fine! Then capture them all!!!"
After receiving the emperor's order, the imperial guards swarmed forward.
Yun Chen firmly guarded Huo Gannian, only defending and not attacking. Rong Yi and others did the same.
But including Huo Gannian, there were only six of them. How could they defeat a full 20,000 imperial guards?
Soon, the six were overwhelmed by the tide of imperial guards and were injured one after another, but they only defended and did not attack from beginning to end.
Even if the blades of the imperial guards were about to chop off their eyebrows, they would just use the back of the sword to knock the opponent down.
Because Yun Chen just wanted to protect Huo Gannian, and never thought of pointing his sword at the imperial guards and the emperor, and slaughtering his compatriots.
But doing so would mean endless killing. If he didn't kill some imperial guards to create a way out, he would just have to wait until all his strength was exhausted.
At that time, whether he was captured or accidentally killed by a blind sword would all depend on God's will.
Su Zhengyang saw Yun Chen's attitude of defending but not attacking, and was worried.
But fearing the presence of Nan Lijun and all the civil and military officials in the court, he did not dare to speak out to stop them. He could only secretly order his most trusted group of brothers in the imperial guards to rush to the front, squeeze to Yun Chen's side, and resist some attacks for her.
On the side, Nan Lijun also saw the intention of Yun Chen and others not to fight back. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
If she could kill Huo Gannian and Yun Chen right now, then why would she need to make all these elaborate plans and calculations? From now on, no one would be able to threaten her throne!
She instantly forgot her previous plan with Yan Shijiu, stood up excitedly, and prepared to issue the order "Kill them directly for me."
Yan Shijiu, standing by, saw it clearly and was secretly furious. How could he allow anyone to harm Yun Chen's life? Nan Lijun, this evil fool!
Thinking of this, Yan Shijiu quickly glanced around, and had to find a way to force Yun Chen to stop immediately!
His eyes fell on Yun Wang who was not far away. He grabbed Su Zhengyang who was watching the battle anxiously and whispered something.
Although Su Zhengyang was surprised and a little hesitant, he looked at Yun Chen and saw that he was getting more and more injured, his official uniform was torn and bleeding, and it looked like he would not be able to hold on soon. So he followed Yan Shijiu's instructions and ran quickly to Yun Wang's side.
Before Nan Lijun was about to issue the kill order, Su Zhengyang whispered "Sorry!" and put the knife to Yun Wang's neck.
Yun Wang remained motionless, his expression calm.
Su Zhengyang used all his strength and shouted at the top of his lungs:
“Yun Chen!!!”
The deafening sound actually drowned out the noise of fighting in the arena, attracting Yun Chen to look over.
After just one look, Yun Chen stopped what he was doing.
As soon as Yun Chen stopped, the other Rong Yi and others also slowly stopped and put down their knives, panting.
Among the imperial guards, Su Zhengyang's confidants immediately took the lead in putting away their weapons. The other imperial guards were already confused and panicked, not understanding the situation, and they also put away their swords one after another.
Everyone's emotions were slowly calming down, except for Nan Lijun who was sitting on the high seat, who was still immersed in the extraordinary excitement of issuing the killing order.
Seeing the situation suddenly calm down, Nan Lijun angrily took back the words that were about to come out of his mouth, regretting missing such a great opportunity to get rid of Huo Gannian.
Her mind returned to her plan with Yan Shijiu, and she once again put on the appearance of a monarch who was heartbroken and indignant at being betrayed by her subjects. She waved her dragon sleeves and said angrily:
"No matter who it is! If you dare to resist again, I will kill Yun Wang - come, arrest Huo Gannian, Yun Chen and other traitors and bring them to the inner hall for interrogation!"
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