Chapter 901: Assassination (Part I)
Regardless of whether Li Bai has ever been to a certain city, and whether he has written any poems in the city, anyway, almost every city in the world will have such a restaurant called Taibai Lou, and its scale is not small in the city. For example, in the city of Suzhou, located on Yaqian Street, there is such a three-storey Taibai Building.
Because of the proximity to the government and other important yamen in the city, the business of this Taibai Building has always been excellent, even if it is not a meal at this time, there are many guests in the building, including Cai Jiuru. Dressed in a short dress, he would come upstairs early every morning these days, chose a window position on the third floor, and ordered some wine and food.
In the eyes of the shopkeepers, this should be the entourage of an official or a wealthy businessman, because his master entered the yamen to do business, he would come to the building to wait. Because of this thought, when they saw Cai Jiuru often probing down from the window, they didn't take it too seriously.
But what they didn't know was that Cai Jiuru had only one purpose for appearing here every day for the past few days, and that was to find an opportunity to assassinate the Jinyi Guard commander named Lu Zhen with one blow!
Because it was this official named Lu Zhen who caused the vitality of the entire Holy Sect to be greatly damaged a few years ago, and it was almost destroyed; It was also because of him that two or three months ago he sabotaged the overall plan of the Holy Sect in Kaifeng, and even worsened the lives of many brothers in the Sect. So when he received Elder Gao's order to find an opportunity to assassinate Lu Jin, he went all out, looking for any opportunity to attack.
It's a pity that Lu Zhen has always been cautious, and every time he goes out, he always has a lot of guards around him, so that Cai Jiuru almost can't find a chance to start. Fortunately, he still has some patience, since he can't find a chance for a while, then wait slowly, as long as he stays here, he can always find a time when the other party is lax.
For this reason, Cai Jiuru also deliberately chose Taibai Building as his hiding place. Because the restaurant here can just see the people entering and leaving the yamen in several places, and as long as the people who pass by the yamen street, they will pass under them, which will give him an excellent opportunity to make a move.
Now, after nearly a month of waiting, Cai Jiuru has finally waited for such a great opportunity to assassinate Lu Jin! He found that Lu Jin, who came out of the Yamen of the City Division, did not let his guards follow, but walked towards the bottom of the restaurant alone. This made his spirit suddenly lift, and his eyes were fixed on the target's body, and his right hand had quickly retracted into his sleeve, clenching the flying knife hidden in it.
On the long street, people come and go endlessly, but in Cai Jiuru's eyes, there is only one person. When Lu Zhen had walked to the window where he was only less than a few feet away, his body was suddenly long, his left hand suddenly hit the table on the table, his body had risen up, and with a shrug of his shoulders, he had directly smashed through the carved window lattice on the side, and then Cai Jiuru rushed down like a hunting goshawk, people were in mid-air, with an angry shout, his hand shook, the cold light flashed from his hand, and the flying knife had flown towards Lu Jin's face with a roar.
The first thing that was shocked by this sudden change was a few diners on the third floor of Taibai Building and the restaurant guys who came upstairs with a tray. Seeing that the guest by the window flew out directly, everyone immediately screamed, and the guy waved his hand, and even the tray with the dishes on it slapped directly on the body of the guest in front of him, causing the other party to scream again.
Then, the pedestrians who were coming and going below were also startled by the movement above, and when they looked up, they saw a figure falling straight down, and everyone was startled to shout at the same time, and quickly flashed to the side, for fear of hurting themselves by falling down.
Lu Zhen also raised his head abruptly at this time. His steps were still quite heavy when he was meditating on his own, but now he noticed that someone had fallen above his head, and his steps naturally stopped, and then he found that a cold light was shooting straight towards him from above. It was only then that he woke up to the fact that someone was going to assassinate him!
Almost after understanding this, Lu Jin's body had already reacted, his head was tilted, and while trying his best to avoid the flying knife, he also made a decisive effort under his feet, and his body shrank and stretched, and he actually threw himself to the side in an extremely embarrassed posture.
In the past few years, although he has been pampered, Lu Zhen has not put aside his martial arts, although it is impossible for him to really practice how good his skills are, but his movements are much more agile than ordinary people, even at the moment of sudden attack, the first reaction of body self-preservation is extremely fast.
As a result, Cai Jiuru's knife shot in the air was actually dodged by him with a pounce. And the momentum of this knife did not stop, and it actually entered the chest of an unlucky pedestrian behind Lu Jin, and he screamed and fell to the ground.
Seeing that he failed to succeed in this knife, Cai Jiuru's face changed slightly, but his movements were not affected too much, and when he landed, his body rose again, and he shouted: "Where is the dog official!" With his hand on his waist, a short knife that had been hidden there before had been withdrawn, and he quickly pounced on Lu Jin, who was struggling to get up.
In order to avoid the oncoming flying knife, Lu Zhen also used all his strength, so this fall was really painful, and his body was even more painful. But before he could breathe his breath, the assassin had struck again, his bright sharp knife glittering in the sunlight, and in the blink of an eye, it had stabbed in front of him. This made his heart even tighter, and he immediately used his hands and feet together, supported the ground, and shrank back, at this time, he didn't even have time to get up.
Looking at Lu Jin's embarrassed appearance, Cai Jiuru showed a hideous smile on his face, and after the knife missed, his body stepped forward again, and he stabbed the opponent's chest again. This time, he believed that Lu Zhen would definitely not be able to dodge and would be able to succeed with one blow.
Lu Zhen himself knew that he was in a desperate situation, and his movements were not as good as those of the assassins, and he fell to the ground at this time, and it was even more difficult to dodge. Still, his instinct to survive made him roll to the side on the spot, hoping to dodge the knife again. However, his dodge was obviously still half a beat slower, and when he tried his best to dodge, the knife still stabbed him in the body.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound next to him, and Cai Jiuru's knife was actually blocked by a green shadow that suddenly appeared between the two, making this fatal knife deflect outward, only cutting through Lu Jin's shoulder in front of him, but it did not really pierce his body. This sudden change made Cai Jiuru stunned for a moment, and then found that what appeared in the horizontal was a long bamboo pole, and when he looked at it again, he saw a man holding the bamboo and looking at him with some panic.
No one expected that under such circumstances, there would be ordinary people to rescue Lu Jin, which made the atmosphere at the scene suddenly stiffen. Immediately, Cai Jiuru came to his senses, his left hand lightning poked out, and he grabbed the head of the bamboo, only pulling and sending it, and the man was exclaimed, and his body had been knocked out horizontally. At the same time, as soon as he let go of his hand, his body approached again, and he stabbed Lu Jin's chest with a knife.
Now, no one should be in the way of themselves anymore! This is the thought that turned to Cai Jiuru's heart when he swung this knife.
But then, this idea of his fell into the void, a few angry shouts sounded from the side, and several figures rushed over like a whirlwind, crashing into him as if they were dying, and when Cai Jiuru's knife was about to stab Lu Jin, one person had already bumped into him head-on, and the knife in his hand.
"Poof!" The knife had entered the body, but it was not pierced into Lu Jin's body, but was stopped into his body by the person who suddenly pounced. At the same time, this one also stretched out his hands and clasped them, and directly hugged Cai Jiuru's upper body, making it difficult for him to make a move, and he couldn't even escape. It's just that in this way, the short knife that had already penetrated deeply into its body was completely pierced, and it didn't reach the handle!
But even so, this person still hugged Cai Jiuru's body, making it difficult for him to make the next move. And in this delay, several people behind them have also swooped in, two of them attacked Cai Jiuru left and right, and the other leaned over, and took Lu Jin, who fell to the ground, out of the opponent's attack range.
It was only at this time that Lu Zhen saw clearly the appearance of these people who saved themselves from the mortal realm, they were Yao Gan and other subordinates, it was Yao Gan who dragged him out, it was Gao Bao who desperately hugged the assassin, and it was Wang Alcohol and Li Xiong who were attacking the assassin like a storm......
Just now, when Lu Zhen proposed that he wanted to be quiet alone, although Yao Gan and the others felt a little risky, they still didn't dare to disobey their own orders. And in their minds, this is Lu Jin's hometown, so there shouldn't be any problems, so they really didn't follow.
Unexpectedly, after only a moment's work, the killing machine suddenly appeared, and an assassin actually swept down from the restaurant to assassinate Lu Jin. When they saw this scene, they scared everyone a lot, so they immediately pulled out their legs and ran towards this side with all their might. Although they knew very well that because of the distance, they were afraid that it would be too late when they arrived, but they still rushed with all their might.
Then they saw this series of thrilling scenes, and after finding that Lu Jin had no way to avoid it, several people went even more crazy, Gao Bao didn't say a word, and went to Lu Jin's body without saying a word. It was precisely because of his sacrifice of his life that he was able to save Lu Zhen from being stabbed, and also created an opportunity for the few people who came later to rescue and take people.
It wasn't until he opened up the distance between him and the assassin that Lu Zhen was shocked for a moment, and then hurriedly shouted: "Catch it alive!" "He had to find out where the Assassin came from, or he would be in fear and unsettled.
At the same time, the remaining guards had also quickly rushed over and launched a siege on Cai Jiuru together, and even the officers and soldiers in the yamen in front had heard the news and rushed over......