Chapter 257 - Escape from the Imperial Capital

Coming out of Dong Zhuo's secret room, Cao Cao was so frightened that he didn't know that he had left Dong's Mansion and came to the street, in the dead of night, a cold wind blew Cao Cao woke up, thinking about what happened before, Cao Cao couldn't help but be afraid for a while, but fortunately, in the end he left unharmed, but what puzzled him was that he didn't know why Dong Zhuo would let him go, was he arrogant, disdainful, or for some other reason, Cao Cao didn't want to continue to investigate, thinking that the imperial capital could no longer stay, so he had to flee here overnight.

Cao Cao wanted to escape alone, but after thinking about it, he decided to persuade Long Xiangtian to escape with him, so he sent Long Xiangtian a signal they had agreed on in advance.

Long Xiangtian pulled Lu Bu to chat, but he was always worried in his heart, not knowing what the result of Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo was, until he received Cao Cao's signal and knew that no matter whether the matter succeeded or failed, at least he could be sure that Cao Cao was still alive, so he was relieved. Long Xiangtian guessed, referring to the storyline of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo must have failed, but this world is not the Three Kingdoms of the late Han Dynasty in the history of the earth, and what happened may not be completely according to the history of the earth. , then it means that history will change dramatically in the future, I don't know what kind of catastrophe it will cause, and if Dong Zhuo dies, it will have a huge impact on the future, because as soon as Dong Zhuo died, the Xiliang forces suddenly collapsed, and the drama of the future princes crusading against Dong Zhuo could not be staged, which is also inconsistent with history, and the best result is that both of them are alive and will develop step by step according to the trajectory of history.

Knowing that Cao Cao was still alive, it was expected that Cao Cao would most likely fail in his assassination, so Long Xiangtian asked Lu Bu to go back in the middle of the night to protect Dong Zhuo's safety and prevent someone from being unfavorable to Dong Zhuo, which made Lu Bu feel very strange, it was originally late at night that Long Xiangtian invited himself out to say that there was something important to talk about, but it turned out to be just small talk, and now Long Xiangtian suddenly wanted to go back by himself, and suddenly cared so much about Dong Zhuo, which made Lu Bu feel a little inexplicable, but for the sake of Long Xiangtian after all, his brother, Lu Bu didn't care about anything, so he said goodbye to Long Xiangtian and went back to Dong's mansion。

Sending Lu Bu away, Long Xiangtian began to contact Cao Cao, and soon, Cao Cao appeared in front of Long Xiangtian, and learned that Cao Cao had indeed failed to assassinate, and after some inquiry, Fang Jue was incredible, Cao Cao's sacrifice of the knife was indeed similar to the storyline that happened in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but in this world, Dong Zhuoming knew that Cao Cao was here to assassinate him, but he was not angry, but followed Cao Cao's words, and finally let Cao Cao come back, so that Long Xiangtian had to sigh at the magic of Cao Cao's protagonist's aura.

Cao Cao said: "Although Dong Zhongying didn't kill me on the spot, it is inevitable that he will not retaliate in the future, the emperor can't stay at the moment, for now, the only way to escape from the imperial capital is to take advantage of the night!"

Cao Cao's escape from the imperial capital after the failed assassination was indeed historical, but Long Xiangtian still asked, "Then why don't we explain the situation to Lord Situ?"

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Wang Situ will be suspicious when he sees that I failed to assassinate but came back safely, just if he asks me about it, I will say that I will sacrifice the knife, it will annoy him, and I boasted in front of him before, and now I returned empty-handed, I have no shame, so it is better for us to escape!"

"Well, that seems to be the only way to it. Long Xiangtian nodded, and when he heard Cao Cao's last words, he couldn't help but ask, "What! Why should I run away with you?"

"It was you who invited Lu Fengxian to come out first, so that I could sneak into the Dong Mansion safely, do you think that the Dong thief will not find the clue after tracking it down? Besides, you and Lu Fengxian are brothers, but they are not used by the Dong thief, it is inevitable that the Dong thief will be jealous, in order to prevent his subordinates from rebelling, the Dong thief is very likely to strike first and get rid of you, how do you say you don't escape?"

Long Xiangtian was speechless for a while: "But ......"

"It's nothing, you don't know how terrible Dong thief is, now you have to hurry up and escape at night!" Cao Cao persuaded.

"What about Yan'er?" Long Xiangtian said.

Cao Cao asked, "What Yan'er?"

"That's it...... It's Zeiskong's daughter...... Cai Yan!" Long Xiangtian said awkwardly.

Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Brother Xiangtian! I know that it is normal for heroes to love beauties, but now is really not the time to think about this, besides, you also said that Miss Cai is Cai Sikong's daughter, and she is one of the three princes, and she is one of the true ones, and you are afraid that Dong Thief, the Yuanying Zhenjun, will dare to disrespect him? So Brother Xiangtian, you are worrying too much, Miss Cai is safer to stay in Cai's Mansion than in other places, so don't worry!"

Long Xiangtian suddenly realized that he was indeed worried too much, always comparing the history of the Three Kingdoms with this world, thus ignoring the realm level of this world, so he thought to himself that no matter how Dong Zhuo could not be for a lifetime, he would never dare to do anything to Cai Yong and his family, after all, he was in a hurry, and he could destroy you, the Yuanying True Monarch, with one finger.

In fact, Long Xiangtian chose to return to the imperial capital because he could get closer to Cai Yan here, and he could also learn about Cai Yan's situation through Xiu'er, so even if he couldn't see her again, he was more or less relieved, and now that he had escaped from the imperial capital, it meant that he could no longer freely enter and leave here in the future, Long Xiangtian was a little reluctant, but Cao Cao's repeated persuasion and imminent events made Long Xiangtian have to make a decision immediately, pondered for a while, and finally decided to escape from the imperial capital with Cao Cao.

Originally, Long Xiangtian wanted to inform Liu Bei that they would leave together, but Cao Cao said that it was too late, so he asked Long Xiangtian to leave the imperial capital with him first, and then send them a letter to them.

In this way, Long Xiangtian followed Cao Cao to escape from the imperial capital at night, and because of the urgency of time, he didn't greet anyone.

The two of them fled all the way at the fastest speed, and in an instant they were already a hundred miles away, but the true yuan in the body was also consumed at a rapid speed, Long Xiangtian was good, and there was a spiritual absorption circuit that could constantly replenish the consumed true yuan, but Cao Cao didn't have this ability, of course he couldn't stand it, so naturally the two of them had to find a mountain to rest and recover the true yuan.

The next day, Chi You, who incarnated Dong Zhuo, found that Cao Cao was no longer in the imperial capital, and then he knew that he had run away, and he was immediately furious, he didn't expect Cao Cao to be so cowardly, and he originally wanted to play with him, but now it's good, people ran away, and Chi You was naturally unhappy, so with the help of the power of the imperial court, he issued a flying talisman document to the states and counties, saying and doing to assassinate Dong Zhuo, so that the states and counties found Cao Cao's traces and immediately reported and arrested.

Cao Cao and Long Xiangtian, who heard the news, thought about it and decided to rest during the day and hurry at night to avoid the crowd in order to avoid the pursuit, and proposed to go to Cao Cao's father's territory in Yanzhou to avoid the limelight. Long Xiangtian didn't want to continue to follow Cao Cao to Yanzhou, but now that the government was tracking down, he had no choice but to continue to follow Cao Cao.

What Long Xiangtian didn't expect was that the government's investigation was so strict, and there were people from the government who were in the airspace every day to investigate, so that the two of them could not resist the sword, otherwise they would immediately expose their location and had to walk, Long Xiangtian originally thought that he could meet Chen Gong on the way to escape, but the county did not dare to go at all, so he stayed in the barren mountains and mountains of Sizhou for many days. The two of them were almost desperate, and when they were frowning, Cao Cao suddenly patted his head and said, "Oh! I forgot that there is a good friend of my father's who lives in seclusion here near here, and we can go there to take refuge from the limelight." ”

Hearing this, Long Xiangtian couldn't help but feel a pimple in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "The one you said won't be surnamed Lu, right?"

Cao Cao said in surprise: "Hey, Xiangtian, how did you find out? That's right, that father's friend is indeed surnamed Lu, and his name is Boxuan, he was originally a friend of his father in his early years, but because his father was attached to the powerful at that time, he paid attention to fame and fortune, so he has long stopped contacting, and now you and I are at a critical juncture, so I have to go to him to hide for a while." ”

Long Xiangtian couldn't help but feel speechless for a while, thinking: Lu Boxuan is not Cao Cao hiding in his house on the way to escape, as a result, his sons killed pigs to entertain Cao Cao, but Cao Cao heard the sound of knives and mistook it for the sound of weapons, thinking that they would plot against him, and killed his whole family, and finally Cao Cao also said the famous sentence "Rather teach me to bear the world, stop teaching the world to bear me". Long Xiang Tianxin said: This is troublesome, if Cao Cao is allowed to go there, then Lu Bohao's family will be finished, no, he must stop him!

So Long Xiangtian began to oppose Cao Cao's decision to go to Lu Bohao's house to hide, but he couldn't say a suitable reason, plus Cao Cao could already speak well, so Long Xiangtian couldn't refute it, and finally Cao Cao also said that Long Xiangtian didn't go to go alone. There was no way, Long Xiangtian had no choice but to decide to go with Cao Cao, thinking: This time it is not Chen Gong but himself who follows Cao Cao, which will definitely make Cao Cao not misunderstand, so as to protect Lu Bohao's family.

When he came to Lu Bohao's house, he learned that Lu Boyao was not there, and only his five sons were at home. Cao Cao expressed his intentions, and Lu Bohao's sons warmly beckoned Cao Cao and Long Xiangtian to stay here to avoid the limelight for a while.

That night, Long Xiangtian saw that everything was fine, so he told Cao Cao the question that had been held in his heart for many days: "Meng De, tell me, did you deliberately want to escape from the imperial capital by failing to assassinate Dong Zhuo?"

Cao Cao smiled and said nothing, which strengthened Long Xiangtian's thoughts, so he said: "It seems that I guessed correctly, you are not such a reckless person, how could you assassinate Dong Zhuo, but what I don't understand is why you fled the imperial capital by assassinating Dong Zhuo?"

Cao Cao said: "Actually, I have two plans, one is that the assassination is successful, that is the best, and the other is that even if the assassination fails, with my own identity, it is not difficult to escape, but what I didn't expect is that Dong Zhongying actually knew that I was here to assassinate him, but he pretended to let me go, so I sent the Seven Star Knife to him to leave, which is what makes me feel strange, because according to Dong Zhongying's personality, he should not let me go, but this should also be related to his recent change of heart!" In this way, I was able to escape from the imperial capital and make a name for myself in the name of the failure to assassinate Dong Zhongying, which is a prestige that nothing can exchange!"

"Oh, I understand, what you need is this reputation to increase your popularity and plan for the future, you know that there is nothing you can do to continue to stay in the imperial capital, but you can't go out of the imperial capital to plan and call on the princes of the world to crusade against Dong Zhuo!" Long Xiangtian said soberly.