Chapter 49: The Border Gap Is Out
|||->-> "There!" Lian Yunpo deliberately let out a clearer voice, and leisurely pointed in the direction of a sentry tower in the distance, "It's the sentry tower established by the Saran Kingdom." β
Next to him were the marshals and generals of Sauron, and the direction he was looking at was also the location of the watchtower.
Currently, they are roughly hundreds of meters away from the watchtowers on the Saran border. In order not to be discovered, they also deliberately hid behind a large stone monument that was warped.
However, in order to get a better view of the other side, they still leaned against the edge of the stone tablet and boldly stuck their heads out to the side.
Lian Yunpo was naturally the most exaggerated among them, and half of his body was even exposed to the outside of the stone tablet. It was he just now, who kept asking Li Shuangjue questions.
"Oh! these are the things!" replied the Assassin Li Shuangjue. He still seemed to be extremely unimpressed, and his neck was also in that crooked style, with a sense of disdain that spontaneously arisen.
"Well, how's that?" Lian Yunpo smiled drunkly and turned his head to look at the master assassin again, "Are you confident? can you deal with everyone in it in an instant?"
"Generalissimo, don't you look down on me? In your heart, I can't even handle a few low-level Saran soldiers?" Li Shuangjue pretended to be a little angry, but in fact, the smile on his face was always shrouded.
"I don't mean to question your abilities, I'm just here to ask you now, to make a final confirmation. Will you be able to complete the task well?" Lian Yun tilted his head slightly, and his gaze returned to the style of casting into the distance.
"Of course you can!" Li Shuangjue quickly raised the hilt of the thin sword pinned to his waist, "I ......don't need a minute! Wipe out all the Saran soldiers in that tower. β
"Hmph, this assassin is really quite confident!" Sun Junfeng did not forget to taunt beside him.
But Li Shuangjue never paid any attention to it, he always locked his eyes on Generalissimo Lian Yunpo, "Trust me! I will definitely be able to." β
"Oh, it must be possible?" Lian Yunpo frowned slightly, "You really feel that you are able to let out such confident words! But, Li Shuangjue! I, Lian Yunpo, have always looked at what people do, not what people say? Whether you can complete the task or not depends on your specific performance!"
With that, he made a gesture of putting his fingers together and pointing towards the sentry tower in the distance. Obviously, what he meant was to ask Li Shuangjue to make a move as soon as possible and not to continue to make any more bold statements.
Li Shuangjue naturally understood what he meant, and after he hurriedly pursed his lips and nodded his head, he took a step forward firmly, "Okay! Generalissimo! Oh! No! I should say that all the Sauron generals here, you should take a good look at my performance moment!"
In this way, Li Shuangjue officially decided to do it.
Under the gaze of almost everyone, he gradually lowered his body's center of gravity. He didn't pull out his sword immediately, but the weapon at his waist had already exuded a murderous aura.
"You guys just wait here for a few tens of seconds, and then ...... Let's just go straight to the watchtower and see my results!" Li Shuangjue let out his trademark evil smile.
In an instant, the other person suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving behind only a trace of the breath of human nature, which looked like a burst of smoke spreading outward.
Li Shuangjue disappeared quietly, and several people around him almost didn't react.
"This ...... He ......" Lu Lei let out a surprised sound.
"He's already on his errands. Lian Yunpo's eyes were a little empty, and he didn't look at the few expert-level little brothers around him.
The three masters present could all judge that Li Shuangjue had just used assassin skills to sneak. Stealth is not a difficult skill to identify, but it is unbelievable that it has disappeared so completely and quickly like Li Shuangjue.
Confident that the assassin would be able to complete his mission, Lian Yun increased his gaze towards the watchtower.
The watchtower is now an isolated thing, nestled in the middle of this desolate frontier. There is nothing but a few scattered trees around.
The people of Saran really don't know how to use the land! Lian Yunpo suddenly made such a feeling. He pulled his gaze a little closer and looked straight at his own land on Sauron's side.
At the very least, Sauron's borders still have plenty of meadows for irrigation, and it's definitely not like Saran's desolate appearance.
Therefore, Lian Yunpo had a different idea in his heart at this moment, he thought that if Sauron had succeeded in annexing Saran more than twenty years ago, maybe that side would not have been so desolate.
Alas, Lian Yunpo began to shake his head incessantly, he felt sorry for the failure to annex Saran.
"Hey, Marshal Lian, what are you thinking?"
While he was pondering, Guan Yunlong's words suddenly came out of thin air. Lian Yunpo quickly recovered his senses and twisted his head towards the position of a close friend next to him.
"I'm not thinking about anything, I'm just feeling something. β
"Oh, what are you feeling?"
"About this...... Let's wait until we get back to the barracks!Now let's focus on the task at hand!" Lian Yun tilted his head upwards quite smoothly, and his gaze was locked on the sentry tower again.
Guan Yunlong thought about it and was definitely good, so after nodding his head casually, he also looked towards the sentry tower.
There was no movement on the other side of the watchtower, except for the occasional breeze that blew dust on the ground.
This is also ...... It's too quiet! Lian Yun burst out with an adjective from his heart.
It has been almost a minute since Li Shuangjue sneaked away. However, there was no movement from the tower, as if the Assassins had never approached it.
What is going on here? Lian Yunpo asked himself such a question. However, he didn't look in a hurry, and he still had great confidence in the ability of the master assassin Li Shuangjue.
"What......'s wrong?" Zhu Qi turned his neck blankly, his gaze kept switching back and forth between the guard tower and the old marshal Lian Yunpo, "Why is there no movement?"
"yes! There have been ...... in the past It's been some time!" Lu Lei unconsciously touched his hand to the hilt of the sword on his waist, as if he thought that a big battle was coming.
"It can't be that something happened, right?" As time continued, the uneasiness on Zhu Qi's face became more obvious, "For example...... By...... Discovery?huh?"
Seeing this, Lian Yunpo hurriedly appeased, and his eyes quickly aimed at the two people, "Two young generals, don't be so nervous. It's not long since then! Let's wait patiently!"
"But...... Generalissimo! The Assassin's sneak attack is a word for 'fast'! He's been out for a while, but he's ......."
"Regardless of the final outcome, for us we have to be patient for now. Lian Yunpo's tone was still relatively tough, "Whether it is a success or a failure, we have to wait for a result." β
"Hungry! Yes...... Is it?" Zhu Qi twitched the corners of her mouth in embarrassment.
"Hmph! I think that so-called master assassin is simply a waste of fame! If he really has the ability to reach the sky, he should have completed the task in the first fifteen seconds of stealth. Sun Junfeng suddenly screamed, and his eyes looked blood-red.
His loud words made the atmosphere that had finally been lowered quickly ignite again.
"Sun Junfeng! Don't get excited. β
"How can I not be excited?" Sun Junfeng turned around and made a respectful gesture to Lian Yunpo, but his tone was still full of aggression, "Generalissimo! I don't think he should have been sent to complete the task in the first place." If you believe me, Sun Junfeng, I promise that I can kill all the Saran soldiers in the watchtower in an instant. β
"Heh, I didn't see you recommend yourself so freely just now, and now what kind of afterthought are you putting here!" Zhang Zhijie rolled his eyes mockingly, and the staff in his hand also slammed heavily to the ground.
Sun Junfeng didn't react at first, but it wasn't until he heard a few 'ding' canes hitting the ground that he felt ridiculed by others.
In an instant, he raised his eyes sharply and glared at Zhang Zhijie angrily.
"Hey, you...... What do you mean?"
Zhang Zhijie didn't even look at it, and casually put the staff in his direction, "What do you think I mean, I mean what I mean." β
"You ......"
"What are you doing? is it time to quarrel?" Lian Yun roared at the two of them quite quickly, and his appearance had completely changed to a majestic style.
As a result, Sun Junfeng and Zhang Zhijie quickly stopped, but the conflict between the two will definitely not go away.
"Marshal Lian, it's been more than five minutes since that assassin entered, can't something really happen?" Guan Yunlong asked.
"Vice Marshal Guan! I think we should believe that assassin. After all, he's a master. If he can't even kill a few ordinary Saran soldiers, how can he reach the master level?"
When facing Guan Yunlong, Lian Yunpo's tone was surprisingly soft, and he had a sense of calm narration.
"The master assassin is only said by him unilaterally, who knows if he is bragging?" Sun Junfeng interjected again.
"No, I don't think it's bragging. A series of movements from his appearance. It was clear that he was the man with a powerful rank of Assassin. Lian Yun said categorically.
"But, Generalissimo......"
"Okay! Sun Junfeng! Don't talk any more nonsense. You've been on it since then. I'll order you to shut up now and wait for me!" Lian Yun shook his head quite quickly, and his gaze hit Sun Junfeng directly.
Sun Junfeng suddenly felt a chill, and even his body shrank in. He no longer dared to make a sound, and obediently moved to the edge beside him.
Sun Junfeng's embarrassed appearance couldn't help but provoke the explicit ridicule of several people. Among them, Zhang Zhijie is the most obvious, and he also glances at Zhu Qi and Lu Lei from time to time.
"Well, Ah Lian, how long do we have to wait, and if there's no movement there, are we going to wait?"
"Vice Marshal Guan, you don't have to wait forever. We just need to ......" Lian Yunpo's words were not finished, and he suddenly stopped. Because he saw a scene, which he had been waiting for a long time.
"Hey, Marshal Lian, what's ......" Guan Yunlong was surprised at first, but as he moved his gaze into the distance, he saw a different scene, "This ......"
The watchtower in the distance doesn't change much, but the most interesting thing is that someone at the top of the tower is somebody. That person was Li Shuangjue, and he was still waving his hand.
What's even more staggering is that at some point, all the soldiers standing guard above the watchtower have disappeared.
"Oh, it seems that he has completed the task very neatly!" Lian Yunpo's face finally released a trace of danger, and he no longer looked restrained.
"So what are we waiting for!Let's hurry up!" Guan Yunlong also expressed his thoughts.
"That's it!"
Lian Yunpo put his hands behind him and began to walk towards the watchtower.
Seeing this, the rest of the people also followed closely behind the generalissimo, even if they didn't like Li Shuangjue as an assassin anymore, they would definitely be happy that he had completed his task properly.
didn't even approach the watchtower, and when he was about ten meters away from there, Li Shuangjue let out a shout, "Hey...... Are you in a hurry?" he waved one hand, but the other was firmly gripping the Assassin's blade.
"General Li Shuangjue, you are really redundant to ask this question!" Lian Yun replied quite calmly, "We originally thought you had failed?"
For a moment, Li Shuangjue's face showed an indescribable exaggerated look of surprise, "Ahh
"Don't say that yet, wait until we come in!"
When the words were over, it meant that Lian Yunpo and his party had officially walked to the sentry tower.
Looking up at the whole view of the watchtower, I found that although it looked extremely simple on the outside, because it was a temporary construction, the overall style was relatively standing.
"What a towering building!" Lian Yun replied casually, and walked towards the tower.
The outside of the watchtower looks very simple, and the interior is also simple, that is, a few tables and chairs occupy the area, and the rest is relatively empty.
However, Lian Yunpo still noticed something strange insideβthere were a number of Saran soldiers, who were calmly all over the tower. Some of them sit on chairs and 'take a nap', or some of them lie flat on the floor and 'sleep'.
In short, if he hadn't known in advance that this place had been swept away by a master assassin, Lian Yun would definitely not have felt that the soldiers were already corpses.
The only reason for this was that the Assassins were so fast that they died before many of the Saran soldiers could react.
"He is indeed a powerful character, fully worthy of the title of Master Assassin!" Lian Yun sighed continuously.
The subordinates behind him nodded in agreement. However, there are also extremely unconvincing ones, and Sun Junfeng is an outlier.
'Damn, damn it! Sun Junfeng was still cursing in his heart.
Lian Yunpo began to walk towards the top of the tower, and he walked slowly along the wraparound staircase.
The watchtower is roughly a three-story structure, with the ground floor for soldiers to rest, so that's where the corpses are most abundant. The second floor can be described as a storage room, but it is so small that it is almost impossible for people to stay.
The top floor of the watchtower is arguably the most versatile, and its style is also open-air. On weekdays, soldiers stand guard on this floor, and as long as there is a stir, they will definitely send a signal to the outside world.
Coming to the top of the watchtower, Li Shuangjue had been waiting for a long time. At this point, he finally softened his body, and even the slender assassin's blade was tucked into his scabbard.
"General Li Shuangjue! I know that I should give you infinite praise now. However, I think you should explain it to us well!" Lian Yunpo walked towards Li Shuangjue, "Why did it take you nearly five minutes?"
Actually, it only took a dozen seconds to complete the task. Li Shuangjue grinned.
"Oh, more than a dozen seconds, and what about the time we spent waiting outside?"
"Don't blame me for anything, Generalissimo. After all, after I have killed all the soldiers here, I must at least take a good look at the whole of the watchtower, so as not to slip through the net or make any mistakes! β
"Well, you're right, you should be careful. β
"After I killed all the soldiers here...... He also took a quick walk around the tower. I also found an interesting fact about this. When Li Shuangjue's smile was put down, he began to step to the center of the top of the tower.
Lian Yunpo and the others naturally followed slowly, and they also showed a more cautious appearance.
"Generalissimo, Deputy Marshal! Look!" Li Shuangjue pointed to a deep pit in the center of the top of the tower, which was filled with haystacks.
"This ......"
"I think the Sarans must have thought so. As soon as the soldiers in the watchtower noticed something, they immediately set fire to the haystack. Then, the smoke can make the soldiers on the other side of the Yokoga military camp know in advance where our Sauron is marching. β
After hearing this, Lian Yun couldn't help but show a look of surprise, "Oh...... Oh! That's a good idea! It basically limits our attempts to sneak attack. β
"The Sarans are really cunning little clever ghosts!" Guan Yunlong let out a threatening curse from behind.
"They think it's very beautiful, but the reality is really ......," Zhang Zhijie slowly touched the edge of the pothole in the center with his foot, "and their idea went bankrupt." Now this watchtower has completely become our territory. β
General Zhang Zhijie is right! This also means that the gap in the Saran border has come out. Lian Yunpo let out a smile and began to turn his head to look at the territory of the Sauron Kingdom.