Volume 2 Ember Chapter 78 Losing Ground
A low footstep quickly approached from a distance. The hurried two walked around the noisy streets, and walked around into the area where the officials and soldiers had traveled.
"Director!" A group of soldiers standing in front of the gate bowed their hands to the leading man.
The man waved his hand, and led the pawn behind him into the door, and went straight to his headquarters.
"Director, maybe there will be another turnaround?" Zhao Yi, who was following behind, whispered.
"What turnaround? It's late! ”
Zhao Yi shuddered suddenly. Judging from the current situation, Jiang Xi has a little determination to die. In order to appease Yi Yu, he decided to personally come to investigate Guo Jie's condition. Although there are other possibilities, more than that, Lu Chi has already sensed the opposition of some people.
This time, they are tantamount to throwing themselves into the net.
"Director, do you already know something......?"
Jiang Xi's figure was stunned, but he didn't stop.
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"Director! You...... How did it come. ”
The door of the department is closed, and there are three big characters on the plaque, supervising the department. The sleepy little guy in front of the door was suddenly awakened, and he saw clearly the man smoking with a cold face in front of him, and he was shocked as if he had lost his soul.
The little guy with the gun has been guarding the gate for two days and two nights, and in the past two days, the department has not done anything else except for the governor who came to transfer troops. He couldn't help but complain about Jiang Xi in his heart, it seemed that he was too suspicious.
And on this day he finally lost the last of his stamina, and fell to the ground and fell asleep. But Na Cheng thought that Jiang Xi, who had been out for so long and had not returned, coincidentally came back at this time.
"Has anything happened to the division in the past two days?" Jiang Xi puffed out a puff of smoke, glanced at the closed Simen, and decided to hide his anger first.
But the little guy was stunned, and he didn't say a word for a long time.
"Lao Tzu asked you if there was an accident in the company!" Jiang Xi suddenly raised his foot and kicked the little guy to the side, and the ebony cigarette stick in his hand was clutched tightly, and there was a sign of breaking.
"Director! You...... What are you doing here?! Zhao Yi, who was standing beside Jiang Xi, was shocked, and hurriedly went up to help the little guy who fell by the door.
"It's really two waste ......" Jiang Xi took another big puff of cigarette and kicked the door open, but was stunned by the scene in front of him.
He glanced back and forth at every corner of the vast division. But to the end, he couldn't see a single figure.
"What the hell is going on!" Jiang Xi quickly pulled out the war knife in the sheath of his waist and laid it across the neck of the little guy, his forehead was full of swollen green tendons.
"Division...... The people in the division have been taken away by the governor......" said the little guy tremblingly.
"Taken away?!" Jiang Xi grabbed the hem of the little maid's clothes and glared at him fiercely. But there was a bit of omen, even fear, in my heart.
It seems that Guo Jie is dead. Jiang Xi finally put down the little guy weakly, and felt a little empty in his heart.
"Yes...... It was taken away, and the governor himself came this morning, and he said that there was something important to do, and all the soldiers of our division needed to go over, so he left me here to guard the gate, and when you came back to report to you. ”
"Then why didn't you say it earlier!?" Jiang Xi's eyes were split.
"Governor...... He said he had already informed you......"
"Good calculation! What a calculation! Jiang Xi suddenly turned his head to look at Zhao Yi, but he only saw the panic and fear flowing in his eyes.
"And what about the people I sent to find Guo Jie? Haven't you come back yet? He decided to give it a go, even if he died, he would tell Yi Yu the news.
He stepped forward and grabbed the little guy by the neck with his hand, lifting him up.
"Division...... Director! Other...... I'm out of breath! ”
"Director, you put him down first, let him speak slowly! If this continues, it will be even more delayed! Zhao Yi hurriedly pressed Jiang Xi's arm.
"Boy, do you still want to intercede for him?" Jiang Xi slapped the little guy a few times, and blood gushed faintly from his nose, "He's a traitor!" We all have to die! ”
Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment, and his dim eyes had a strange look.
He let go of his hands and retreated towards Jiang Xi's blind spot. A slightly trembling hand reached behind his waist and felt a thorn blade hidden in it. He carried the dagger with him all the time, just in case he needed it for no reason. And that time seems to have come......
"Director! He's dying! Zhao Yi saw that the little guy's face was blue and red alternately, and his breath was already extremely sluggish.
"I just want him to die!" Jiang Xi pulled away violently and threw the dead chicken-like little guy out.
And at that moment, the stabbing blade that had stopped in mid-air struck out. But the man with the thorn was gone empty because his hand was shaking. He hurriedly withdrew his stabbing blade, and after confirming that Jiang Xi had not found it, he took a deep breath and hid his movements.
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"Did you see that?" Ning Ye's hoarse voice slowly agitated, and his eyebrows looked over from the attic, "The appearance of a harlequin." ”
"It's filthy, and I didn't find it personally, but I lost it first because of my own temperament." Lu Chi stood beside Ning Ye and was amazed, "It's ugly, it's so ugly." ”
"No, he's risking his life."
"What do you mean?" Lu Chi was stunned.
"The message of the master of ceremonies from before was broken, affecting their judgment. And he came this time to leave a way back for Yi Yu. I didn't expect this step. ”
"You're too modest......"
"No, it won't." Ning Ye stroked the cane on the carved railing, his eyebrows and eyes wide, "How did that kid deal with it?" ”
"It's all about the meaning of the whole."
"You're good," Ning Ye turned around, glanced at Lu Chi deeply, and smiled to himself, "You're really good." ”
Lu Chi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, but he saw the old man's vague gesture clearly in his eyes.
"I see."
"So...... Let's settle the matter at hand. ”
"Of course," Lu Chi waved his hand backwards, and the elite guards in the pavilion, with the sound of iron armor, rushed down the attic in unison, and rushed towards Jiang Xi's division.
It should be said that they are worthy of being the personal guards under Lu Chi's command, and their action is comparable to their loyalty to obeying orders, and they are the first guards to enforce the criminal law, and they have won Lu Chi's trust.
And after a short time, hundreds of guards wearing raw and cold iron armor crowded in front of Jiang Xi and the three of them, and the spears in their hands were clenched, and the cold light appeared.
"Dear to me?" Jiang Xi looked at those guards in the past, and secretly felt a little afraid, "What are you trying to do in front of my department?" Dust! ”
Someone in the guard suddenly let out a low sneer, and in the middle of the line, a humane path gradually dispersed. And the dust terror walked slowly forward from the back of the line, holding a broad war knife in his hand.
As the dust of the captain, he was not qualified to hold a knife. It's just that the knife was the war knife that Lu Chi sent down to execute the pro-Wuwei. And this war knife given to his subordinates was printed with the inscription of the soldier who was about to die under the sword.
The purpose of exercising military regulations on behalf of Lu Chi and punishing all traitors according to the law is to preach the Tao and prove Lu Chi's Tao.
"Executed knives? How can you hold this sword? Or are you powerful enough to hold me down? Jiang Xi did not advance but retreated, and the war knife in his hand rolled and shot, pointing directly at the dust. He still held the last shred of luck in his heart.
"The Governor investigated and dealt with Director Jiang's department today, and it seems that he has found something terrible." Dusty stared at Jiang Xi with a cold smile on his face. The curled up and swollen muscles were torn out like a dragon coiled on his body, trying to tear Jiang Xi in front of him to pieces.
"That's not your turn bastard!" Jiang Xi jumped forward, and the war knife in his hand roared and surged towards the dust that did not make any moves.
After the dust retreated slightly, many of the guards around him embraced him, and Sen Leng's spear set up a solid fortress in front of him, leaving him unscathed.
"It's already a dead fish, Jiang Xi." Dusty shook his head and sighed, but his gaze touched Jiang Xi's rear.
"Lu Chi's lackeys, they all deserve to die!" Jiang Xi kicked away the first few soldiers in the encirclement, and pressed down the spears of the guards with a majestic sword momentum, trying to kill the fortress formed by the spears.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt a chill in the back of his abdomen, and then a sharp pain like thunder bloomed. He struggled to look behind him, only to see a thin figure. On the thin shoulders, there was the dust that he had just pushed out.
"Director...... It's time for you to go. Zhao Yi held the slender stabbing blade, deepened his strength again, pulled out again and again, and then stabbed in, as fast as a galloping wind.
The best dagger with a blood groove was personally purchased for him by Jiang Xi before. Jiang Xi was worried that he would be detected by Lu Chi's ears and eyes, and he would kill people. The best ironman in the city forged this unpreparedness dagger. After this dagger is inserted into the human body, it can maximize the bloodletting, and instantly make people lose the possibility of resistance.
It's just that what Jiang Xi didn't expect was that this poisonous dagger purchased for his subordinates was finally stained with his own blood first.
Zhao Yi stared at the increasing blood on his hands and the shriveled figure in front of him, and finally drew his dagger.
Before that, he was hesitant, but because the gaze of the dust was too cold, he was a little frightened.
At present, Jiang Xi is at the end of his strong crossbow, and he is completely able to kill Jiang Xi with his meager strength and make up for his mistakes. After that, if he entrusted the information between Yi Yu and Jiang Xi to Lu Chi, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not let him go, and now there was only this way to save his life.
"Day and night, in the end, you can't guard against your own henchmen." The war knife in Jiang Xi's hand fell to the ground with a "clang". He used the last of his strength and pushed away Zhao Yi's support. Eagle-like eyes, always staring at him.
"Zhao Yi, well done." Dust stepped forward and patted Zhao Yi on the shoulder.
Wu Changjian smiled...... Zhao Yi dropped the dagger in despair and stood in place.
Dusty waved his hand backwards, causing the guards to spread out a circle of defense.
"Dead eyes are still so stubborn." He kicked Jiang Xi's body over, just in case he saw those sharp eyes again.
The broad-backed war knife with the inscription slashed at Jiang Xi's neck. The sound of bones cracking and the crunch of the ground shattered together, and the irascible man with the smoking gun died.
Dusty lifted Jiang Xi's head, and looked at the child who tried to survive by betrayal, and smiled coldly.