Volume 4: Holy Capital Tribulation Chapter 254: Catching a turtle in a jar?
Wanfu Palace is where the Empress Dowager lives. Naturally, it is the most luxurious in the entire Daxuan. Its specifications are in no way inferior to the Tianxuan Palace where the Emperor lives.
The palace is divided into the front hall and the back hall. The front hall handles court affairs, the back hall handles palace affairs, and the back of the palace is where the empress dowager lives.
Today, the more than one hundred assassins are clearly coming for the Queen Mother. They will definitely break through the front and back halls and head straight for the Queen Mother's bedroom.
They had obviously made all the necessary preparations. At the beginning of the attack, they had sent people to detour around Wanfu Palace to prevent the Queen Mother from escaping after learning the news.
At this moment, the assassins rushed into the hall like a tidal wave. The guards guarding the hall had been slaughtered, and only a few powerful Qilin guards were still fighting with the enemy!
However, the enemy was so powerful and had so many experts that the few Qilin Guards could barely resist and were repeatedly hit. Their lives were in danger.
At this time, Zhao Yu, who had escaped, was surrounded by the enemy and the situation was not good.
With the sound of fierce fighting, Zhao Yu and several Qilin Guards were forced deep into the hall, while most of the assassins led by the gorgeous woman had already entered the hall.
The hall is magnificent and golden. The stone pillars supporting the hall are carved with dragons and phoenixes, with scales and claws flying, which looks majestic.
Deep in the hall there is a phoenix throne and a luxurious glazed screen behind it, which demonstrates the majesty of the royal family everywhere.
"It's no use, we can't win, retreat!" Zhao Yu tried hard to defend himself while persuading the Qilin Guards, "I've called for help, reinforcements will be here soon!"
"Daxuan guards, don't give way even a step," one of the Qilin guards said with a firm look in his eyes, "If you want to get through, you have to step over our corpses!"
Tsk tsk…
Pedantic...
Zhao Yu frowned and had to think about how to retreat.
Now the roads are blocked. If these Qilin Guards retreat with me, there might be a chance, but if I run alone, I'm afraid the chances are slim.
Unexpectedly, at such a critical moment, the sound of fighting suddenly came from outside the hall.
“Kill!”
"Protect the Queen Mother..."
"Surround them all, don't let any of them go, kill them..."
Suddenly hearing the shouts and screams, the assassins present all looked surprised and a little panicked.
Because they thought their plan was flawless, but now both the inside of the palace and the entire Holy City were in chaos.
People were busy dealing with the soldiers who went crazy after drinking the potion and had no time to care about the safety of Wanfu Palace.
“Kill…”
The people outside came in with great force, and there was a clanging sound of weapons colliding and screams. Then, a group of people rushed into the hall and faced many Xuanmen assassins.
"Hey, hi!" After seeing this group of new people rushing in, Zhao Yu suddenly became energetic and shouted excitedly, "Lord Xu, the magic soldiers are coming from the sky! That's great! I knew it, I knew it..."
Before Zhao Yu finished praising, a hidden dart came flying towards him. He was so scared that he quickly swung his sword to knock the dart away and dared not be distracted again.
Sure enough, the group of people who rushed in were the reinforcements led by Xu Zun.
Around Xu Zun were Huo Anu, Ani, Ku Niang, the elite inner guards assigned to him by Cai Kun, and the constable from the Divine Police Division who had gone back to report the news.
All together, there were about thirty people.
In order to save time, they ran straight to the Taimiao. After entering the Taimiao, they saw everything at a glance and confirmed their speculation.
So they climbed the ropes left by the assassins and entered the palace, and arrived in time.
However, Xu Zun had already thought that the enemy had ill intentions, and the number and quality of the assassins were guaranteed to be of the highest quality.
With only thirty or so people like them, they probably cannot be a match for the enemy.
Therefore, he could only resort to bluffing and try to delay time as much as possible, because Cai Kun, who knew the true situation of the heavenly tribulation, had already mobilized elite troops.
As long as we can delay until the main force arrives, the problem can be easily solved!
"Stop, stop!" Xu Zun shouted as he rushed into the hall, "I have already seen through your evil plot. Can't you see that this is a trap?
"Thieves, why don't you surrender obediently? When will you do that?"
Xu Zun's words really had a miraculous effect, and most of the assassins who were fighting fiercely stopped.
The assassins all looked horrified and looked towards the elegant lady in the center.
"ah!!?"
As a result, upon seeing this gorgeous lady, Timur trembled all over and almost fell to her knees.
Xu Zun suddenly realized that this noble lady was most likely the Yuanzhou Taoist Master that Annie had mentioned.
So he quickly stood in front of Ani and tried not to let her show up too early.
Annie also tactfully took a few steps back and hid behind the crowd.
"No, don't listen to him!" At this time, one of the assassins shouted, "There are not many of them. If it is really a trap, how can there be only so few people?"
"Yeah, if it's a trap, we'll be surrounded by them as soon as we get in!"
"Yes," said another, "If they could really predict it, why didn't they block us underground instead of forcing us to break into the palace?"
"Well, why are you talking so much nonsense? Even if it's a trap, let's just kill him quickly today!" shouted a fearless assassin.
Seeing this, Xu Zun had to use his unique killer move.
“Hahahaha…hahahaha…” Xu Zun laughed wildly with all his might, laughing so hard that his face turned red.
You know what, this trick really works. After laughing, the whole hall fell silent.
"Do you think you can conceal the fact that you secretly transported pills into the military camp and arranged for someone to secretly put the drugs in, and you can really hide it from the world?" Xu Zun said confidently, "In fact, I have already discovered your conspiracy!
"I have secretly investigated Yan Hai, the Minister of Personnel who was assassinated by you, and have been monitoring those military officials who were promoted by him as an exception!
"So," he said, narrowing his eyes, "the chaos in the palace you are seeing now is just us acting for you!"
"Yes, yes!" Zhao Yu's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood what Xu Zun meant. He echoed loudly from the other side, "As early as when we first went down into the underground canal, the adults had already discovered that you used fake moss as road signs!"
ah……
After hearing Xu Zun and Zhao Yu's words, the assassins' faces tensed and they all believed it to be true.
If the matter of the road sign is exposed, it means that they have no way out and only death awaits them.
"Hey, yo yo yo..." Zhao Yu was also very smart. He knew that Xu Zun might be stalling for time, so he pointed at the man with triangular eyes, scars, and claws on his hands and said, "If I'm not mistaken, isn't this Gongsun Yelang?
"And this one," he pointed at the hunchbacked man who looked like a vampire, "Sun Shadow Dark Demon Luo Jia! And this white beauty..." He pointed at the pale-faced woman and said, "Saint Sword Qu Zhenbai.
"Good fellows, you really spared no expense to invite all these wanted criminals. No wonder the government couldn't find them!"
Although Zhao Yu sounded very excited and relaxed when he spoke, if you looked closely, you could see cold sweat on both sides of his cheeks.
Because he was the only one at the scene who knew these three people best, and knew that their true combat power was no less than that of the ten great masters of Daxuan.
It was only because they committed so many evil things that they were excluded from the top ten masters.
"Enough!" At this moment, the elegant woman surrounded by the crowd finally spoke up, and revealed the secret in one sentence, "If there really is a trap, why are you guys talking so much?
"Are you trying to stall for time and wait for reinforcements?!"
this……
Xu Zun frowned immediately and thought about how to continue to scare them.
But unexpectedly, the elegant woman smiled faintly and said, "It's okay. We are not in a hurry. We can just have a chat..."
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