Chapter 1: Betrayal
The night is dark, wrapping all dangers in a way that makes it impossible to see clearly.
Yu Ke held the gun in his arms, and although his eyes were closed, he did not fall into deep sleep. It has been more than three days since she fled from Shengjing, and every day, she is terrified.
Shengjing is the royal capital of the Great Apocalypse, who would have thought that overnight, the Beidi people would approach Shengjing, and the iron hooves went south, looking to break through Shengjing.
The emperor in the gentle township woke up and moved the capital overnight with the palace concubines and princes, and the speed was staggering.
The emperors have fled, who will guard Shengjing?
The generals who were left behind were all uneasy, Yu Ke had no news of his father and brother, and in a panic, he could only follow the Lin family and the Li family and escape from Shengjing with his mother and grandmother.
Her father was a border general guarding the Hukou Pass, and he was not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict. The sudden change made her unable to even deliver the message.
In just three days, Yu Ke encountered homeless robbers, and fought and retreated, extremely embarrassed.
If it weren't for her strict father who forced her to practice martial arts together, she didn't know if she would be able to leave Shengjing with her mother today.
Unable to sleep, Yu Ke simply got up to check whether his mother and grandmother were safe, and then walked to the stream, washed his face, and sobered himself up a little.
The hazy moonlight was reflected in the water, Yu Ke looked up, saw the broken moon, couldn't help but fold his hands, and prayed in a low voice, "The moon god is above, please bless me, send my grandmother to Ruyang safely, please bless my father and brother to return safely, and let our family be neat." Please bless this battle to subside quickly, so that the common people can live a peaceful life, and do not have to be displaced. β
With that, she knelt down and kowtowed to the moon three times, but when she raised her head, she saw a dark shadow approaching her from the water.
A cold wind struck from behind, Yu Ke lowered his head to dodge, and with a reflex, killed the man in black.
Something happened!
Yu Ke ran back in a panic, these men in black were well-trained, and they were clearly not ordinary robbers. Yu Ke was intercepted by several black-clothed people one after another, and he was very sure that the other party was prepared.
She didn't dare to think about it, so she could only rush back to save people first.
When they arrived at the camp, they heard a terrible scream, and there were many corpses lying on the ground, including men in black and servants of her family. The carriage was gone, and Yu Ke ran to the tent and didn't find A-Niang and her grandmother. But the remaining blood stains on the ground still carried residual warmth, and Yu Ke panicked to the extreme.
Hearing the screams, try to force yourself to calm down.
She.... She.... She had to find someone first, find her fiancΓ© Lin Yun, and find her cousin Li Chaoyan. Where are they?
Perhaps they noticed something was wrong and fled with their mother and grandmother.
Yes, that's right.
Yu Ke quickly calmed down and tracked all the way towards the bloodstains. Not long after running, I heard a faint cry.
Yu Ke clenched his grip on the silver gun and said coldly, "Who's there, come out!" β
Her questioning caused the other party to fall silent for a moment. Yu Ke walked slowly in the direction of the cry, quickly plucked the bushes with a spear, and suddenly saw a woman holding a knife and being embarrassed.
"Chaoyan?" Yu Ke looked at her in surprise and shock.
Li Chaoyan saw Yu Ke clearly, and immediately got up, crying and hugging Yu Ke. "Cousin, I'm scared to death, there are so many people in black, it's so scary, they kill people when they see them."
She cried and cried, grabbed Yu Ke and didn't let go.
Yu Ke tried to comfort her and said, "Don't cry, now is not the time to cry, what about my aunt and grandmother?" Why are you alone, where have all the people from the Lin family and the Li family gone? β
Li Chaoyan trembled and said, "They.... They all ran away, and the man in black came suddenly, but fortunately I went to the toilet and escaped. But they ran too fast, I didn't have time to chase after them, so I had to hide here, cousin, I'm so afraid, they kill people without blinking, and many people die..... Woowoo"
As soon as Yu Ke was about to say something, he felt movement behind him, pushed Li Chaoyan away, and shot the other party with a reflexive shot.
She was splashed with blood, and she only had time to wipe the blood off her face, and when she pulled Li Chaoyan up, she forced him to ask, "Where did they go?" β
"That's... Over there...."Li Chaoyan grabbed her hand stiffly, afraid of being abandoned by her.
Yu Ke clenched her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you." β
As he spoke, he took a look at the terrain and took Li Chaoyan to the forest.
"Cousin, aren't we going to chase after the aunts?" The aunt is Yu Ke's mother, Su Shi.
Li Chaoyan's mother is the younger sister of the Su family.
Yu Ke gasped a few times, and said solemnly, "Since these people are prepared, there must be an ambush on the next road, if we catch up directly, I'm afraid we will be killed soon." To be on the safe side, it is better to take this trail, and you may be able to catch up with them soon. β
She had traveled back and forth with her father and brother for several years, and had escorted military rations with her father and brother, so she knew that there was a trail here.
When Li Chaoyan heard this, his eyes flickered, and he followed behind without saying more.
After walking for a stick of incense, both of them were tired, but Yu Ke didn't dare to stop, for fear that the other party would catch up, and he was afraid that he would be too slow, and A-Niang and grandmother would encounter accidents. and Lin Yun, he is a weak scholar, with so many people, how can he deal with so many murderous killers?
She thought as she walked, and she couldn't figure out why the other party wanted to kill them.
Are these people coming for the Yu family, or the Li family? Or the Lin family?
Yu Ke thought back for a while, and found that there were all the dead people, and she couldn't tell who the other party was aiming at for a while.
As she walked, she suddenly felt that something was wrong. It's so quiet, there's no night owl calling.
She turned her head suddenly, grabbed Li Chaoyan, and said in a low voice, "Run." β
Before Li Chaoyan could react, he was dragged by her and ran in another direction. But after running for a while, he was surrounded by people.
The men in black who were hiding in the shadows appeared one after another, besieging them like the Grim Reaper. The knives in the hands of these people were cold and shining, and in the dark forest, they were even more hideous and terrifying.
They were so murderous that Yu Ke didn't even have the certainty to inquire about the identity of the other party. She could only protect Li Chaoyan behind her, and said in a low voice, "I'll drag them for a while, you run towards the south, and when you see a huge silver needle pine, you run to the left-hand side, remember?" β
Li Chaoyan snorted vaguely, Yu Ke only thought she was afraid, but he didn't have time to comfort her. This cousin has always been delicate and timid, otherwise she wouldn't have let her stepmother learn and hide in Yu's house to live.
I just hope that she can be clever at this time and escape safely.
The man in black surrounded them, Yu Ke pulled out the shrinking spear, and turned it into a delicate and sturdy spear, and was about to face the enemy head-on, but she felt a pain in her lower back, and she touched her abdomen, where a sharp blade pierced herself.
Yu Ke turned around in disbelief and saw Li Chaoyan who was smiling, she took two steps back, and Yu Ke's blood was still stained in her hands.
"You.... You..... Why? Yu Ke couldn't understand why his cousin, whom he had always loved, stabbed her in the back.
At that moment, the forest suddenly lit up. The man in black lit the torch and looked at Yu Ke indifferently.
Embattled, Yu Ke was horrified and noticed that she had been calculated.
"Sister, where is the Yu family's military talisman?" Li Chaoyan said with a smile, asking a question that seemed to be a simple one.
But Yu Ke was shocked.
Li Chaoyan's beauty, especially when she laughs, makes people feel like a spring breeze, and she feels that this world is beautiful, and the spring flowers in spring are not as gentle as her smile.
But this woman who smiled gently and softly stabbed her without changing her face, and she could calmly question her about the whereabouts of the Yu family's military talisman.
The Yu family's military talisman is the secret of the Yu family, few people know about it, how could she know?
"You.... Who do you do things for? Yu Ke propped up the ground with a spear and covered his abdomen so that he would not fall to the ground.
Li Chaoyan looked at her expressionlessly for a while, and suddenly smiled, "Sister, sometimes I really envy your ignorance, you are protected so well, you don't have to worry about anything." But now I despise your ignorance and naivety, if it weren't for that, how would you have been calculated to death, and I don't know what would have happened. β
"What.... What do you mean? Yu Ke looked at Li Chaoyan in disbelief, and the panic in his eyes was difficult to suppress.
"That's it, you're going to die, I'll tell you." Li Chaoyan sneered, took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off his hands, and said, "To put it simply, Your Majesty has been jealous of the Yu family for a long time, and he has long wanted to get rid of you." But your Yu family is still stupid and doesn't know it, and you work for the emperor in vain. β
"Impossible, how could Your Majesty treat the Yu family like this? My Yu family has the merit of being a dragon, and I have always been loyal to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will not treat us like this. Yu Ke didn't believe it, the reason why the current emperor was able to ascend to the throne was due to the Yu family's contributions.
When Emperor Yingzong had an accident with his own conquest, it was Yu Jiali who overrode public opinion, resisted Beidi on the one hand, and supported the emperor to ascend the throne on the other.
Your Majesty said that the world cannot live without the Yu family, and I cannot do without Yu Qing.
These words are especially in my ears, how could the emperor turn around and kill them?