Chapter 97: The Brutal Truth
After a while, Zao Wou-Ki saw Ling Jing leave.
Then, he was called in by Wan Qingqing.
Wan Qingqing asked Zao Wou-Ki to sit down on a chair in the carriage, and then asked, "Zao Wou-Ki, you shouldn't be Ling Jing's person, right?"
"Princess, don't worry, I'm not his subordinate!"
Zhao Wuji replied very seriously, and he judged from Wan Qingqing's tone now that she and Ling Jing were not in the same group.
"Now Ling Jing is going to snatch a treasure in the sinkhole, I don't plan to join in this fun, I know that this is very dangerous, I'm afraid that a lot of innocent soldiers will be sacrificed! Ling Jing In order to be able to grab the treasure in the sinkhole, he set up a bureau from the beginning, let us jump into it! I don't plan to jump into this bureau, I want to withdraw! Zao Wou-ki, do you understand when I say this?"
Wan Qingqing said lightly.
"Understood! What the princess means is that you have a disagreement with Ling Jing, and he wants to sacrifice many people's lives to get that treasure for him, and you think it is not worth it, so you plan to leave, but he traps you and makes it impossible for you to leave, right?"
Zao Wou-Ki pondered for a moment before replying.
"Yes! Ling Jing is powerful here, and he was sent by the Tianyin Kingdom, I can't stop him, I can only let you and your father and a hundred soldiers take care of me! After encountering danger, I want you to escape from here as soon as possible!"
Wan Qingqing said.
"Oh, I see!"
Zao Wou-ki's eyes flickered, he was thinking about the hidden meaning of Wan Qingqing's words, and he couldn't judge whether this would be Wan Qingqing's conspiracy.
Whether it was Ling Jing or Wan Qingqing, they all gave him an unfathomable feeling.
He felt that it was better not to believe in Ling Jing or Wan Qingqing.
"Princess, what do you want me and my father to do next?"
Zao Wou-Ki immediately asked.
"You and your father, and a hundred soldiers are responsible for taking care of my safety, you tell your father, let him choose some capable men, and protect me at any time. Ling Jing may let everyone make sacrifices for him to snatch the treasure in the sinkhole, you ask your father, do you want his right-hand man to become cannon fodder here?"
"Yes!"
Zao Wou-Ki immediately went to find Zhao Tianming.
Soon, he met Zhao Tianming.
And Zhao Tianming told him that he had just received an order from Ling Jing, and Ling Jing asked him to mobilize a hundred soldiers to take care of the princess's safety together with Zao Wou-ki.
Zhao Tianming did not have any doubts about this order issued by Ling Jing.
In his heart, he felt that the princess really needed a master to be responsible for protecting her at any time, and he really couldn't understand why there was no master by the princess's side to protect her at any time.
Zao Wou-Ki immediately pulled Zhao Tianming into the princess's carriage and asked the princess to tell Zhao Tianming the truth.
After Zhao Tianming listened to the princess's words, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.
He didn't expect that only more than a hundred people of his team might be able to successfully escape in the end, and the other soldiers were all used as cannon fodder by Ling Jing.
"Ling Jing is doing this too much, he is simply disregarding people's lives!"
Zhao Tianming was deeply dissatisfied with Ling Jing's approach, his eyes widened, and he couldn't wait to find Ling Jing desperately.
And when Wan Qingqing saw Zhao Tianming's facial expression, he knew what the other party was going to do.
"General Zhao, you better calm down first! or we won't have too much sacrifice this time!"
Wan Qingqing said soothingly.
"Up to now, I have lost more than a hundred of my subordinates, I usually call them brothers, but I didn't expect that now I sent them here to die, how can you make me bear?"
Zhao Tianming said.
He pondered for a while, and then immediately asked Wan Qingqing, "Princess, is there really no way for you to stop Ling Jing?"
"Ling Jing is that person who has done everything for himself, he only has his own fame and fortune in his heart, and he will not take other people's lives in his eyes at all!"
Wan Qingqing shook her head and said helplessly.
Listening to Wan Qingqing's words, Zhao Tianming couldn't help sighing.
His mind was spinning rapidly, and he was thinking about what he was going to do next.
He knew that with his own strength alone, he had no way to stop Ling Jing at all.
Ling Jing was an envoy sent by the Tianyin Kingdom, and he also had the token of the Tianyin Kingdom.
As long as he took out that token, even the monarch of the Eternal Kingdom would not dare to go against his will.
"What I'm going to do now is to try to transfer the officers I trust to my side, so that they can keep the princess safe!"
Zhao Tianming thought for a while and knew what he should do next.
"Princess, I'll arrange for my men now!"
Zhao Tianming saluted Wan Qingqing and said respectfully.
"Go, transfer here the men you think you're going to save!"
Wan Qingqing said.
"Yes!"
Zhao Tianming knew that now that he could only see step by step.
His greatest hope was to be able to bring all the soldiers home safely, not just a hundred.
But he also knew in his heart that it was a difficult thing to do.
Now, even Wan Qingqing had no way to make Ling Jing change his mind, let alone him.
"Only the high-level of the Tianyin Kingdom can make Ling Jing change his mind!"
Zhao Tianming knew in his heart that now in this team, only Ling Jing was the biggest.
Unless Ling Jing changed his mind, it would be difficult for others to convince him.
Soon, Zhao Tianming found a hundred of his trusted subordinates and asked them to follow him.
The team continued in the direction of the sinkhole.
The team advanced about a kilometer, and suddenly, Ling Jing stopped the team, and it turned out that Ling Jing had detected a large group of people in front of him.
In order to determine the identity of the group of people in front of him, he carefully probed several times, and finally determined that the identity of the other party was a human race, not a demon beast.
He thought with his toes that the people who could appear here must not be ordinary adventurers, there was only one possibility, the group of people in front of him were people from the Feather Demon Sect.
Although Ling Jing also knew what some of the high-ranking people of the Feather Demon Sect looked like, now the group of people from the Feather Demon Sect in front of him were all covering their faces with black cloths, and there was a magic circle in that black cloth that shielded the detection of divine sense, so he couldn't recognize who the group of people in front of him was.
"Everyone be on guard, it's the people of the Feather Demon Sect!"
Ling Jing shouted loudly.
The others immediately prepared for battle, preparing to face the masked men of the Feathered Demon Cult in front of them.
At this point, they were already very close to the sinkhole.
Within a radius of thirty kilometers near the sinkhole, the divine sense detection ability of all living beings will be affected by the energy released by the sinkhole meteorite, which greatly weakens their divine sense detection ability.
All creatures that are close to the sinkhole will be affected by the shielding divine energy released by the meteorite, which greatly reduces their divine sense detection ability.
Ling Jing and the others hadn't discovered the existence of those Feather Demon Sect people before, and the other party hadn't discovered their existence either.
They only see each other when they are very close to each other.
At this time, the group of people from the Feather Demon Sect were also on high alert like Ling Jing and the others, preventing the other party from rushing over.
"What's going on up ahead?"
Wan Qingqing in the carriage suddenly asked.
She noticed that the carriage was not moving forward, so she asked Zao Wou-Ki outside.
"Princess, thirty-seven people from the Feather Demon Sect have appeared in front of you!"
Zao Wou-Ki replied.
"Then I'm going to get out of the carriage, I can't be in the carriage all the time, now there is danger everywhere outside, I can't sense it in the carriage at all!"
Wan Qingqing said, and after that, she got out of the carriage.
Her eyes widened, and she soon saw a group of masked men appear in a high mountain in front of her.
"Zao Wou-Ki, how do you tell if they are from the Feather Demon Sect?"
Wan Qingqing asked suddenly.
"Princess, who else can appear here at this time but us?"
Zao Wou-Ki said helplessly.
"Yes, that's them!"
Wan Qingqing suddenly realized.
Indeed, those who have the strength to enter the sinkhole now can not be ordinary adventurers.
Little by little, time passed.
Ling Jing prepared the team to fight at any time, and here they waited for the people of the Feather Demon Sect in front of them to rush over.
However, they didn't know that the thirty-seven people from the Feathering Demon Sect in front of them were all terrified when they saw them appear.
"There are a lot of people in front! It's the army of Zhennan County, there are also royal guards, and there are people from Lingxiao Pavilion!"
Some of the Feather Demon Sects had long been familiar with the banners of the various units of the Eternal Ancient Kingdom, and they knew the origin of those teams by looking at the banners raised high.
"They should have arrived!"
Previously, the Feather Demon Sect had sent spies to spy on Ling Jing's team, knowing that they were heading towards the location of the sinkhole.
The person in charge of this place retreated the people of the Feather Demon Sect and did not have a head-on conflict with Ling Jing's team, and the person in charge planned to come back with a sparrow at that time.
However, what they never expected was that suddenly, a black fog was released from the sinkhole, and that black fog shrouded everything within a radius of tens of kilometers nearby.
Those Feather Demon Sect people who were originally in charge of tracking Ling Jing's troops soon discovered that they had lost their way in the black mist.
They didn't know how long they had been in the black fog, but in the end, they still didn't get out of the black fog.
Just when they were all disappointed, suddenly, they saw a large army appear in front of them.
At first, they thought it was their own dazzle, or that the army that appeared in front of them was a hallucination.
But as the army got closer, they realized that what they were seeing was not an illusion.
Previously, they had been ordered to keep an eye on an army entering the sinkhole.
Therefore, it immediately occurred to them that the army should be in front of them now.
Seeing each other getting closer and closer, anxious looks flashed on their faces, and their hearts were full of fear.
"Do you think we should retreat, or do you rush up and fight them?"
"What kind of fight? Don't you see that the other side has so many people? With just a few dozen of us, how can we beat them? We must retreat immediately! A good man will not suffer the loss in front of him!"