"Chapter 66: The Late Night Visitor"
Travelers have to knock at the door of each living person to knock on their own door, and people have to drift around outside before they can finally reach the deepest inner sanctum.
β Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)
In the empty recruit camp, the five hundred temple warriors who followed Bai Feng to the camp lit piles of firewood in the camp, and the real purpose of these firewood was not to illuminate the camp at night, but to camouflage it for people twenty miles away.
Parthian archers, ironclad cavalry, companion cavalry, and other elite cavalry took turns patrolling outside the camp day and night, so that no one would come within five miles of the camp, and for the next month, the recruit camp would be a forbidden place in the province of BesanΓ§on.
Facts have proved that the military forbidden land where Bai Feng personally sits is not really that impregnable, at least for a powerful saint-level powerhouse, it is quite easy and effortless to avoid the cavalry patrolling outside the camp to infiltrate the camp.
On the night when Bai Feng used the teleportation array to return to the recruit camp, at midnight, two masked men in black power suits quietly bypassed the cavalry patrolling outside the camp and infiltrated the recruit camp where only five hundred temple warriors were stationed.
The bright moonlight poured into the empty recruit camp, allowing the two men in black to easily see the reality inside the camp, and the reality that there were only a few hundred soldiers in the camp where there should have been 30,000 imperial recruits existed, and the serious discrepancy with the intelligence made them look at each other.
Although the cavalry patrolling outside the camp did not discover the existence of these two men in black, Bai Yi, Leng Gundam and Leng Gaofei, the two commanders who had been following Bai Feng's side, knew everything about the infiltration of the two men in black, and reported the situation to Bai Feng in advance.
"The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire. Just when the two men in black were secretly suspicious, Bai Feng, who didn't plan to let them go, walked out of the camp tent slowly: "I don't know who the two of you came to visit late at night, who sent them, and what happened?"
At the same time as Bai Feng spoke, the hundred generals and guards who had already been ambushed in the dark immediately rushed out and surrounded the two black-clothed men from all directions, and the five hundred temple warriors who had not noticed the two black-clothed men before also quickly surrounded them.
The 100 heavy cavalry of the general guard, each of whom was a powerhouse of the Great Sword Master's Consummation Realm, and the 500 Temple Warriors who sacrificed special sacrifices, each of whom was a powerhouse of the low-level Great Sword Master's realm, and the encirclement formed by these 600 people was not something that just two saint-level powerhouses could break through.
The sudden change made one of the men in black panic, but the other man in black boldly lowered his guard and shouted to Bai Feng outside the encirclement: "Your Excellency Bai Feng, we are here tonight without malicious intent, we just want to make a deal with you." β
"Woman?" Bai Feng, who frowned slightly, asked unceremoniously: "If you want to make a deal with me, you can come to me openly during the day, why do you sneak into my camp late at night? Do you think I will believe your explanation?"
"It's really that our identity is too special to come to the door during the day, so we made this decision. The man in black undisguised his mask and black cloth, and said with a straight face: "Your Excellency Bai Feng, can you give us a chance to talk alone?"
"There is such a flawless beauty in the world?!" Looking at the woman in black who took off her scarf, Bai Feng, who was amazed at first sight, had to admit that this stunning beauty, which can be described as a country and a city, is simply the perfect gift of the Creator!
"Since you want to talk alone, then I'll give you a chance. Perhaps it was the appearance of the woman in black that moved Bai Feng, and he turned his head and ordered Leng Gundam and Leng Gaofei beside him: "You immediately lead the temple warriors to retreat." β
"General, it's too risky for you to meet these two men in black alone. Leng Gundam, who was not affected by the appearance of the woman in black in the slightest, made a suggestion: "We can capture them first, and then hand them over to you for personal interrogation." β
"There's no need, I'm sure they won't do anything dangerous to me. Bai Feng, who smiled slightly, deliberately raised his voice and said: "My Bai Feng's life is not as noble as the Jurchen Khan Nurhachi, how can I ask His Majesty the Dark Council to personally take action?"
All the people around Bai Feng didn't quite understand the deep meaning of Bai Feng's words, but the woman in black who was originally fearless, but there was a trace of panic and shock on her beautiful face that was not easy for ordinary people to detect.
After Leng Gaoda and Leng Gaofei retreated with five hundred temple warriors, one hundred soldiers of the general guard also retreated to the periphery of the camp, and only Bai Yi accompanied Bai Feng into the camp.
Knowing that her identity had been exposed, the Holy Maiden of the Dark Council, gritted her teeth, but decided to take her sister and follow behind Bai Feng.
"Your Majesty, I'm curious, why did your Dark Council assassinate Nurhachi?" As soon as he walked into the tent, Bai Feng asked with curiosity on his face: "You know, there doesn't seem to be any deep hatred between the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe and your Dark Council, right?"
"There really wasn't any hatred before, but their Eight Banners cavalry inadvertently strangled an elder of our Dark Council. The black-clothed saint with the same face replied unabashedly: "In retaliation, we plan to assassinate his son Daishan." β
"I see!" Bai Feng, who knew the inside story of Nurhachi's assassination, changed the topic and continued to ask: "Another thing that makes me curious is how can such a mission as assassinating the enemy's high-ranking people, which is almost lifeless, be carried out by you, a dignified saint?"
"Your Excellency Bai Feng, do you think normal men can be immune to my charm?" The black-clothed saintess who suddenly smiled charmingly threw a flattering look at Bai Feng and said, "Actually, I'm also curious, how did you know my identity?"
"Your identity, guess it!" Bai Feng, who didn't intend to expose his relationship with the secret guard, in order not to dwell on this topic, he directly preached and said: "Tell me the purpose of your coming tonight, my time is very precious." β
"Your Excellency Bai Feng, the people of the Holy See have all found you, and the people of our Dark Council can't be slower than them, right?" The black-clothed saintess who asked for Bai Feng followed Bai Feng's words and said, "We, the Dark Council, want to know what agreement has been reached between you and the Holy See. β
"It seems that the matter between me and the Holy See is not the turn of the people of your Council to intervene, right?" Bai Feng, who seemed to be smiling, said not politely at all: "Whether it is their Holy See or your Dark Council, they are not closely related to our empire." β
"The close connection with your country does not affect the establishment of a close private relationship between you and me, does it?" said the black-clothed saint with a smile, "As long as you are willing, our Dark Council is willing to be your friend and give you some appropriate help." β
"Friend?" Bai Feng, who sneered at the words of the black-clothed saint in his heart, still had a faint smile on his face: "I am a person who talks to my heart, and there is a price to be paid for being my friend;
"I want to hear it!" The black-clothed saint with bright eyes did not hesitate to accept it.
In Bai Feng's opinion, the two-year agreement he had secretly reached with the Holy See was a top secret that was not known to outsiders, but it was also not valuable information.