Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 209 Chaos
The north of Feishi City seemed to have entered deep autumn earlier than the city itself.
The withered yellow leaves fell on the emerald blue ground, making it look even more desolate.
Da da da…
The chaotic sound of horse hooves made a crackling sound in the pile of fallen leaves, making the night sky seem even quieter.
"It's going to rain." Outside the inconspicuous thatched hut, a man in his thirties looked at the sky above his head and said in a low voice.
"Doctor Li, they are coming..." An attendant beside him immediately reminded him when he heard the sound of horse hooves.
The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and faster.
Soon, a strong man wearing the uniform of the City Lord's Palace's personal guard jumped off his horse and shouted, "Li Yi! Something happened, quickly take your people and go rescue the City Lord's Palace..."
Seeing the excitement of the visitor, Li Yi was calm and indifferent: "Oh, something happened?"
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up!"
"Lu Wantang has already messed up Lady Daduo's plan. Is there any need to rescue her?"
"You..." The man looked at Li Yi in shock.
"The Lu family is no longer of any value." Li Yi smiled and waved his hand casually.
Four big men immediately jumped out of the thatched cottage and pulled away the messenger who had just come out of the City Lord's Mansion with great difficulty.
The messenger finally reacted and shouted, "Li Yi! The Lu family has raised you for so many years, and now that something has happened, you want to betray us? Are you still a human being..."
His voice stopped abruptly.
After the four big men dragged him for a distance, they naturally had no intention of leaving him alive, so they simply broke his neck.
Li Yi's eyes flashed with madness, and he whispered to himself: "Human? If it is possible, who would want to be a human?"
In the world outside the border, the strong prey on the weak and strength is respected. This is his lifelong pursuit!
"I thought the Lord of Feishi City was quite capable... I didn't expect that." Li Yi snorted coldly, returned to the hut, and let out a sigh, "Useless thing!"
As he said "useless thing", a sea of heads lowered their heads in a rush.
His hut was at the mouth of a mountain stream. The top of the stream was very narrow, but below was a huge valley.
The hut is right above the valley. If you don't walk into the hut, you would never imagine that the hut is blocking a road leading to the valley inside the mountains. You would just think that it is just a small house built against the mountain.
In a small house like this one, there might be two chickens or a kind old man living there.
By this time, it was already late at night.
In the quiet valley, tens of thousands of people crowded together, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "Master, calm down!"
Li Yi looked at the crowd in the valley with satisfaction, and said in a voice that was not loud but could be heard clearly by the whole valley: "Tonight is the most important night for you!"
All the sounds in the valley stopped at once.
Li Yi continued, "I can give you a strong body and sharp claws, but how high you can climb depends on you..."
There was another sound of kowtow.
"Remember, the closer you can keep up with me, the further you can go on the road to becoming a strong man!" Li Yi waved his hand violently.
In the valley, following the waving of hands, a roar of applause rang out: "The light will live forever, long live the leader."
Li Yi turned around and returned to the thatched cottage.
His two followers followed silently, but neither of them spoke.
Li Yi pointed at the map and said, "Li Cheng, take 10,000 people to Jinshakou to support Lord Daduo's attack. This is the first attack before winter this year, and we must win a great victory."
"Yes." Li Cheng flashed and disappeared behind the thatched cottage.
“Li Qin, what you are about to do will go down in history... It will open a new chapter for Xingyao Continent...” Li Yi’s eyes glowed with light. “Take the remaining 23,000 men, put on the Red Tassel Army uniforms that I asked Lady Daduo for before, and that were specially left behind when we cleaned up the battlefield, and head directly to Tulun Pass!”
Li Qin raised his head suddenly: "Are we really not going to rescue the City Lord's Mansion? If it's after tonight..."
"They will be executed along with their entire family." Li Yi waved his hand. "Well, if I have time, I will collect their bodies."
"So...is this a temporary plan?" Li Qin was still a little worried.
“Haha…hahahaha…” Li Yi rubbed his temple and sneered, “Li Qin, you talked too much today.”
"Yes." Li Qin's face turned pale and he immediately retreated.
Tick-tock, tick-tock…
Just as Li Yi expected, the raindrops had already fallen.
Then, each raindrop grew bigger and bigger, and slowly turned into a heavy rain.
Li Yi smiled, poured a glass of wine, sat in the leaky hut, and said, "If there is only one plan for everything, how could a veterinarian like me, whose fate palace is not even lit up, survive to this day?"
Lu Tianji must have thought that after he received the notice from the messenger, he would go to rescue the City Lord's Mansion, right?
Therefore, Lu Tianji would find a way to delay them, at least until dawn.
At that time, all his men had already left Emerald City. This heavy rain could wash away all traces of their journey !
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As time passed, news came into the meeting room of the City Lord's Mansion.
"We found the person who went out from the City Lord's Mansion to report the news. We are tracking his location."
"We have found his location, but he is already dead."
"The messenger who went out from the City Lord's Mansion to report the news died in the Wutong Forest in the northern suburbs. No one lives there, only an abandoned hut."
"We went into the hut to investigate. The scouts found that the teacup was still warm. It might be their contact point, and the contact person had just left the hut."
"We are already following the clues left by the people who left the hut..."
As the news came in one by one, no one said anything.
Only when this news rang out did Tang Zheng suddenly speak up: "Wait a minute. Can you be more specific? What clues?"
"The leaves of the phoenix tree parted in one direction, leaving footprints in the mud in the middle..."
Before Tang Zheng could say anything, Ning Mo shook his head: "If I'm not mistaken, the teacup was warm just now, and it's still warm now! Moreover, it's impossible to separate such thick sycamore leaves without using star power. In such a heavy rain, if you don't use star power on purpose, you won't be able to leave footprints..."
The scout was stunned: "Then..."
Tang Zheng pointed at Ning Mo and motioned him to continue.
Ning Mo did not hide anything and continued, "These are all false clues deliberately released. However, those who are chasing the footprints should continue to chase them. Just send someone back to the hut and investigate more carefully. Generally, the real clues can be found in the opposite direction of the false clues."
After the scout saw Leng Zhan nod, he took the order and left.
The sky gradually brightened, and the bloodstains on Tang Zheng and the others became more noticeable as the sky grew brighter.
"Okay. Tang Zheng, you guys go back to the academy and have some rest first." Leng Buchen knew that the matter would not be settled for a while, so he let Tang Zheng and the others leave first.
The streets outside had become quiet.
After a night of turmoil, the bustling Jade City turned into a sea of blood.
Many people who had close ties with the City Lord's Mansion or participated in this extravagant business were dragged out of their homes and killed on the spot.
Unfortunately, Tang Ququan, a "distant relative" of Tangjiabao.
If the driver hadn't mentioned it on the way, Tang Zheng would have completely forgotten about this person.
Outer Street…Inner Street…The Palace of Learning…
When they returned to Yisu Academy again, everyone in the carriage felt as if they were in another world.
It seemed that a lot of things had changed from the moment they left Leng Xianyuan Cemetery.
"Stop the car." Tang Zheng said softly to the driver.
"Here?" asked the driver.
"Well, let's stop here." Tang Zheng nodded.
"It's raining outside, let me take you to the dormitory." The driver suggested .
"No, this place is fine." Tang Zhengdao.
Since Tang Zheng said so, the driver had no choice but to stop the car and let Tang Zheng get off.
Crash...
After getting out of the car, Tang Zheng realized that it was raining really hard outside.
The sound of rain was like the mournful cry of the entire Emerald City.
He stretched out his hand and tore off his shirt, took a deep breath, and slowly ran along the outer wall of the academy...
