Chapter 38: Oath and Allegiance (5)
Late at night, a dark shadow appeared on the roof of Zhao Ziheng's residence. In the study in the east wing, Zhao Ziheng was talking to Wang Ye...
"What's the news?"
Wang Ye asked Zhao Ziheng, who had just received the news from Zhao State and looked worried, about the situation. Zhao Ziheng folded the paper with the message in silence, but his expression had already told Wang Ye...
"Should I ask you to go back?"
The content of the letter is not difficult to guess. After all, the State of Zhao was still in the process of reconstruction. However, the absence of Zhao Ziheng during this period had some impact. It had been more than a month since Zhao Ziheng left the State of Zhao. Time passed really quickly. Even with the auspices of Zhao Ziyin and the Prime Minister, some things still required Zhao Ziheng to personally deal with them.
"Brother Wang, don't worry about it. Let's talk about Black Wolf——"
Zhao Ziheng turned back to the topic they had been talking about before. It seemed that he didn't want to say more about the content of the letter. Wang Ye understood this, so he continued with his topic.
Zhao Ziheng also heard about the Black Wolf Organization from Wang Ye. Zhao Ziheng did not ignore the reasons for the previous and current assassination attempts on Zhou Yan. Since the identity of the other party has been roughly grasped, the only thing left is the enemy's hiding place. It is undoubtedly a difficult problem for Zhao Ziheng and others to search for the whereabouts of this mysterious organization. The enemy is safe, and the organization wants to come to the whereabouts of mystery. Where should we start the investigation? The clues have been interrupted. Even if we know who the murderer is, we can't know who the mastermind is. Who is planning to assassinate Zhou Yan? And for what purpose? Why didn't Zhou Yan take action when he was seriously injured and bedridden, but waited until Wang Ye and Xue Han performed surgery on him before taking action? And is their purpose really to kill Zhou Yan? A series of questions appeared in front of Zhao Ziheng and others...
"King Zhou had already sent people to guard every checkpoint, but the assassins were able to sneak into the royal city and assassinate King Jing. This shows that they may have disguised themselves as ordinary people and sneaked in without being noticed, or they may have an insider."
"I think so too—"
Zhao Ziheng and Wang Ye had almost the same ideas. They first speculated that an assassin had sneaked into the royal city.
The black-clad assassins on the roof just happened to arrive at the roof of the room where Zhao Ziheng and Wang Ye were. Because of their light footsteps, it was difficult for people to notice. Although the black-clad assassin in the lead was also masked, he could still be clearly identified as Feng Yan from his eyes. When he arrived at the top of the room, Feng Yan issued instructions to his subordinates with a few gestures. After receiving the instructions, the four subordinates left one by one...
In the room.
"The question is, why did they want to assassinate Prince Jing, and what was their purpose?"
Zhou Yan had done so many brutal things that it was difficult for Zhao Ziheng and Wang Ye to guess the mastermind. The only thing they could be sure of was that the other party was definitely not an ordinary person. One was the legendary top assassin organization Black Wolf, and the other was the famous Zhou State's brutal and cold-blooded King Jing. If the other party was an ordinary person, how could he command the legendary Black Wolf ? Although Zhou Yan had killed many people, Zhao Ziheng really had no idea who could command the legendary Black Wolf, who hated Zhou Yan so much that he even wanted to kill him.
"Even though I have thoroughly investigated Prince Jing's past actions, I have not been able to find—"
Wang Ye suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his words, and Zhao Ziheng's expression became serious and cautious. Wang Ye remained silent, his expression very cautious. The tiles directly above him were moved away, and Feng Yan was looking inside through the gap. Seeing Wang Ye stop talking in the middle of his words, he immediately left the gap vigilantly. Feng Yan's small and slight action also caught Zhao Ziheng's attention. Like Wang Ye, although he noticed someone above him, neither of them looked up?
The four guards who were guarding outside the study room all fell to the ground at some point. The four assassins were hiding their auras and ready to act when the opportunity arose. Feng Yan, who had avoided the rooftop for a while, thought that his whereabouts had been exposed, but he didn't expect that there was no reaction? Hearing the voices coming from under the tiles again, Feng Yan moved his sight to the gap again. Just as he turned his sight into the room, he found that there was no one in the room. When he noticed it, Wang Ye had already broken through the rooftop and shot out several silver needles at the same time. Feng Yan was as light as a swallow and dodged these silver needles with several backflips. At the same time, he also distanced himself from Wang Ye and was able to attack him without being noticed by him. Of course, Feng Yan could sense that Wang Ye was a master...
Almost at the same time when Wang Ye broke out of the roof, Zhao Ziheng broke out of the door and launched a counterattack on the four assassins who were waiting for an opportunity. The four assassins were taken advantage of by Zhao Ziheng unexpectedly, and the assassins who were panicked by Zhao Ziheng's appearance were quickly subdued one by one. No matter who they were, the main thing was to leave them alive to explore clues. Zhao Ziheng made appropriate attacks on the assassins to prevent himself from killing them by mistake.
After dealing with the last assassin, Zhao Ziheng heard the sound of fighting coming from the roof. It seemed that the battle was still going on. In fact, Zhao Ziheng only noticed the four assassins outside the door at the beginning, but Wang Ye noticed the one on the roof. Zhao Ziheng could guess from Feng Yan's ability to hide his aura that he must be a master. And it was Wang Ye who gestured to Zhao Ziheng to deal with the four assassins outside the door, while Wang Ye himself was confident in Feng Yan on the roof? No matter what the reason, Zhao Ziheng knew that Wang Ye's strength was above his own.
After a while.
Wang Ye jumped down from the roof.
"Where's the assassin?"
"Escaped—"
Zhao Ziheng was a little surprised by Wang Ye's answer, knowing Wang Ye's skills. How could he escape from Wang Ye? It was obvious that the other party must be very skilled. Looking at Wang Ye's body carefully, there seemed to be several cuts on him. He was not injured but just cut by the sword. Sure enough, just from being able to escape from Wang Ye's hands, it was obvious that the other party was not simple. I didn't expect that he could even cut Wang Ye's clothes. It was obvious that the other party must be a master...
