Chapter Ninety-Eight

Dong ping.

The heavy rain finally stopped for a day, and people began to enjoy the rare tranquility after the rain, walking on the road and smelling the fragrance of the earth, their hearts were refreshed, but they looked up and saw that the sky was still cloudy, and the sky was as dark as ink.

In Dongping City after the rain, the rain on the road is like weaving, flowing uncontrollably, as if the city has been occupied, and no one is allowed to set foot on it.

In the middle of the night, everyone had already fallen asleep, and the noisy city of the past seemed extremely lonely and lifeless at the moment.

It's just that in this central place of the patriotic world, the rain comes and goes, and the shadows of people secretly passing on news have never stopped.

Especially near the royal palace, in the dark, where the human eye can't see, there are countless secret sentinels coming and going.

At this moment, in the palace, Liu Xiu, who turned the country upside down, was sitting there in the study, frowning.

In front of him, above the desk, there were countless case files and documents, which collected the affairs of the first qiē of the country, the size of the land, the population density, the official files, and all the news submitted by all the spies placed in various parts of the country in the past few days.

In the room, the candlelight faded, and everyone retreated to rest, no one stepped forward to add candles, only a lone lamp remained, flickering with a faint yellow and white light.

Since Wen Ya was sent by him to investigate Pingyan City, after Yan Shuo's movements, Liu Xiu has become more and more silent, and for a few days, he has not been seen leaving the study for half a step.

In the dark, Liu Xiu's face flickered with the candlelight, flickering and changing.

But the depths of his eyes were calm and deep, and he didn't feel tired, as if he didn't feel half tired after these days and nights, pointing out the country and planning the layout.

After a while, he finally put down the file, raised his head slightly, and looked out the window into the darkness, as if waiting for something.

Outside the window, the lieutenant in charge of the palace guards, Cheng Beibing walked out of the duty room with a tired face, and he walked briskly with a column of guards to check whether the guards on duty were lazy.

Although the situation in Dongping City has been calm in the past few days, he understands in his heart that the confrontation between King Ying and King Wei has reached a white-hot stage, and he is afraid that King Wei will take risks and send someone to assassinate King Ying, so he personally inspects every day, for fear that there will be half a point of omission and a major event.

But day and night, it also made him emaciated and very tired.

Soon after the heavy rain stopped, the air revealed a fresh smell of earth, smelling intoxicating, quite refreshing, Cheng Beibing took a deep breath, turned his head and gestured to the soldiers behind him, several people in the queue understood, nodded silently, and swept away to the surrounding darkness, the tops of the trees, and the houses.

Cheng Beibing watched them go away, smiled slightly, and led the rest of the people to turn around and continue to move forward, but as soon as he walked not far, his body suddenly shook, his brows were furrowed, his eyes were like electricity, and he looked at the high wall beside him.

It is well known that this is the instinct formed by his high sensitivity to danger over the years, even in the noisy crowd, he can hear the pin dropping, not to mention the crisp stampede that suddenly came from behind the high wall after the rain in the middle of the night.

After being stunned for a moment, seeing that there was suddenly silence behind the high wall, and there was no movement, Cheng Beibing frowned, waved his hand gently, and the guard Li Xiao behind him nodded knowingly, took a deep breath, suddenly snorted, stepped on the wall, and jumped a few times, reaching the top of the wall like a tiger climbing the wall.

He leaned down and looked around, and it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly.

Since the death of the princess Liu Ziyu, the king of England and the king of Wei don't even want to be peaceful on the surface, and the two kings don't even see each other.

In the palace, so the vigilance was strengthened, and Wen Ya even transferred a guard from nowhere to guard it day and night, and even the trees on the wall were guarded in shifts, and vicious dogs kept patrolling.

The house is strict, and as for Si.

But at this moment, where there should have been someone to defend, there was not half a human figure, and even from the trees not far away, there was not the slightest movement, and the sound of dogs barking could not be heard.

There was a deathly silence all around.

Li Xiao was short on the wall, moving lightly, patrolling back and forth, but he didn't find the slightest abnormality, even so, he didn't dare to be careless, took out his short knife, hid it behind his waist, gestured to Cheng Beibing, and turned over to the wall.

Then there was no news.

After a while, when Cheng Beibing's patience was exhausted and he wanted to continue to send people to the wall, a strong wind suddenly came to him, and then, from the corner of the wall, a figure swooped down on everyone!

Cheng Beibing has always been alert, reacted quickly, his body was short, and he slashed out at the figure with a knife.

All the guards shouted loudly in unison, and the guards in the palace saw that the situation was not good, and they all raised their swords and swords, and the open fire rushed here, and the entire palace was in chaos!

The person who came was strong in martial arts, and he was not shocked, and under the siege and killing of the guards, he did not fall behind at all, and even slashed a few guards.

Cheng Beibing became more and more frightened, and when he saw that the guards in the palace were coming, but only one assassin appeared, he secretly screamed in his heart, and hurriedly shouted:

"Don't come here, it's important to protect Your Highness!"

These words were like thunder, and they exploded everyone in an instant, but it was too late.

I saw two figures suddenly flash out of the darkness and gallop towards the study.

Cheng Beibing seemed to hear the sound of his heartbeat, which was deafening.

There were only six guards at the door of the study, although they were on guard, but they were still caught off guard, under the bright light, I saw two figures passing quickly, and several knives flashed immediately, and several guards covered their throats and fell down before they could make a move.

Before they even shouted, blood gushed out happily from their fingers, and then they swam away, and entered the bluestone slabs, piled up in the rainwater, blended together, and looked at their former owners proudly, never wanting to go back.

A few elite guards are unexpectedly vulnerable!

Cheng Beibing screamed in despair, struggled to dance a few knives, shook off the assassin who was deliberately grappling with him, and hurried towards the direction of the study, while shouting in his mouth:

"Someone, protect Your Highness!"

But it was too late, after the two killed the guards, they wiped the blood stains on the knife with their hands, and were about to push the door in, only to see that the person on the left side of the door suddenly removed the masked turban, looked back at Cheng Beibing, and sneered.

Cheng Beibing glanced at him, felt that this person was very familiar, frowned, stared at the assassin for a while, and suddenly shouted, shouting:

"It's you, the leader of the family class is proud!"

Cheng Ao smiled slightly, and was about to speak, when he saw the masked man next to him also tear off the towel on his face, and snorted coldly:

"The surname is Cheng, Lao Tzu can't let you monopolize the good name!"

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Cheng Beibing and said loudly:

"Sue you, it was our father and the two who killed the king of your family, one is him, Cheng Ao, and the other is me, Fang Shan, the two of us have a blood feud with Liu Xiu, and we are here to take revenge tonight, and we have nothing to do with others! lest he go to the underworld and sue the wrong complaint, annoy the king of Hades, and let Liu Xiu"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Cheng Ao suddenly let out a low shout, his body moved, and then the sword flashed, and it actually slashed straight at him.

Fang Shan was caught off guard, his eyes were frightened, his body was sluggish and couldn't move, only his mouth could still make a sound, and he scolded angrily: "Cheng Ao, you fucking rebellion!" ”

Cheng Aoli ignored it, and came to Fang Shan's side in a moment, only to hear a "choking" sound, the swords collided, and then the two figures separated instantly.

Fang Shan's face changed drastically, his body was short, and he retreated to a safe place before he dared to turn his head.

Cheng Ao also retreated quickly, and Fang Shan faced the enemy side by side, both of them turned pale and looked ahead.

I saw that in front of the two of them, at the door of the study, a graceful woman stood there coldly, although she had a beautiful appearance, but the candlelight was extinguished, shining on her face, flickering non-stop, the two of them only felt that she was like a ghost.

Not far away, Cheng Beibing stared at it and saw that the person who was guarding the study was actually gentle, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, shouted loudly, and ordered everyone to come to escort him.

Cheng Ao Fang Shan Er didn't know the details of gentleness, he didn't dare to move, and after a stalemate for a while, the guards came to the two of them and surrounded them.

On the other side, the crowd still surrounded the lone assassin and fought non-stop.

At this time, Cheng Beibing also rushed over, he stood in front of the guard, his brows furrowed, and shouted:

"You are not small, you dare to trespass on the forbidden land of the palace, everyone listens to the order! Take down the two of them and hand them over to His Royal Highness to dispose of, if the two of them resist and do not obey, there will be no forgiveness for killing! ”

All the guards responded in unison, rushed up, only to hear the sound of weapons breaking through the air instantly, and attacked the two of them.

Seeing this, the two glanced at each other, nodded, and when everyone besieged, they saw that in the crowd, Fang Shan suddenly rolled to the ground, his body was like a ghost, and he arrived in front of everyone in an instant, and at the same time, the sword in his hand danced rapidly, and several guards were caught off guard, and were cut by the blade, and fell down with a wail.

In just a moment, Fang Shan came out of the encirclement and rushed straight towards Wen Ya, who had been guarding the door of the study.

Wen Ya shrugged and moved, her eyebrows frowned, she didn't expect Fang Shan to get out of the encirclement so quickly, her heart was cold, she was on guard, ready to meet the enemy, and at the same time she shouted in her mouth:

"Be sure to stop Cheng Ao!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw Fang Shan's figure arrive, and at the same time, the sword slashed at the face, Wen Ya snorted coldly, did not retreat but advanced, the long sword in his hand was like a snake, and with the momentum of a dragon's groan, he went towards the blade.

The swords crossed, swept by in an instant, and the two of them retreated sharply and then advanced, so back and forth, in the blink of an eye, the two fought for more than a dozen rounds, regardless of victory or defeat.

After fighting for a long time, Fang Shan saw that he couldn't win, frowned, and shouted to Cheng Ao, who was still trying to break through the encirclement: "The wind is tight!" ”

Cheng Ao frowned after hearing this, hesitated for a while, and sighed: "Lao Tzu said that it is not appropriate to do it tonight, you are fucking bent on going your own way, what are you waiting for!" ! ”

Speaking of the case, the figure suddenly accelerated, rushed forward, the guards moved quickly, and the sword was guarded in front of his chest, but Cheng Ao suddenly sneered, rolled in the air, and his body did not retreat but advanced, and at the same time, the blade was backwards, and the two guards who danced the sword forward, and the empty door was wide open, and the blood poured out instantly.

Due to Cheng Ao's extremely fast speed, the two guards even ran a few steps with blood before they fell.

Cheng Beibing was taken aback, saw that there was a gap, scolded secretly, beckoned the guards to entangle Cheng Ao, and jumped with his sword and blocked there.

I saw a murderous flash in Cheng Ao's eyes, the long knife hit the ground, his body took off, and he kicked several guards who tried to trap him, kicking them all to the ground.

After that, the body did not stop, pulled out and picked it up, the figure suddenly accelerated, and shouted, and at the same time, the sword flashed, and after a few vertical jumps, he escaped from the encirclement.

And Fang Shan didn't know when he got rid of Wenya, standing under a tree and waiting for Cheng Ao.

Behind him, Cheng Beibing stood there dumbfounded, silent, and the guard beside him who had just stood up saw this, his heart sank, and he picked up the lantern on the ground and shone it at him.

Under the candlelight, I saw a touch of red on Cheng Beibing's neck, which stinged everyone's eyes.