Chapter 31: The Assassin Returns
After listening to Lu Bu's words, Zhang An thought for a while, and after having a rough plan, he asked Lu Bu to borrow a copy of the map.
After all, in this era, maps are rare, and even if there are maps for sale on the market, the details are still not as clear as those held by a general like Lu Bu.
You must know that the map in Lu Bu's study is a military map, and confidential information such as mountains and rivers, how many troops are stationed and so on are all marked on it, which is much more convenient than those maps circulating on the market.
For Zhang An's request, Lu Bu naturally would not refuse.
Lu Lingqi, who had always pestered Zhang An, listened to her father and Uncle Zhang's chat with wide eyes, and suddenly asked out loud, "Is Uncle Zhang leaving?"
"yes. Zhang An pinched Lu Lingqi's little face, "Uncle is going to go around the place." ”
Lu Lingqi pursed her mouth, and her little face showed signs of sunny and cloudy.
"Ling'er, what's wrong?" Lu Buleng paused.
"Ling'er, don't let Uncle Zhang go. Lu Lingqi said with tears in her eyes, "Uncle Zhang hasn't seen Ling'er for a long time, and he finally came, and he was leaving, Ling'er was unhappy." ”
Lu Bu and Zhang An glanced at each other and laughed.
Lu Bu opened his hand to Lu Lingqi, "Come, Ling'er come over and let Daddy hug me." ”
As a result, Lu Lingqi didn't give Lu Bu face at all, and hugged Zhang An's neck but refused to go to her father.
Zhang An smiled proudly, "Haha, Fengxian, it seems that Ling'er is still closer to me, so it's better to be my daughter." ”
Lu Bu glared at Lu Lingqi, but it didn't take long for him to be deflated and mutter, "The female can't help but be a father... ”
Zhang An no longer cared about the self-pitying Lu Bu, and said to Lu Lingqi, "Ling'er, is this good, Uncle Zhang will go outside as fast as possible and come back, and then bring you a lot of delicious and fun back, okay?"
Lu Lingqi blinked her eyes, "So how long will it take?"
Zhang An thought for a while, pointed to a plum tree outside the hall and said, "When the plum blossoms bloom and thank you, I will come back." ”
It's late summer and early autumn, and more than a year should be enough time to collect all the stones by yourself.
Although Lu Lingqi is precocious, she is too young after all, how can she fully understand what Zhang An means.
But all she wanted was Zhang An's clear answer, and when she heard Zhang An's personal promise, her little face turned cloudy and clear, and she raised her little hand and said, "Uncle wants to swear by high-five with Ling'er." ”
This kid is too smart, isn't he? High-fived and swear, and you know? How does Lu Bu usually teach children? Zhang An glanced at Lu Bu in surprise.
Lu Bu naturally understood Zhang An's eyes, and he showed a smug smile.
Zhang An stretched out his big hand, gently patted Lu Lingqi's little hand three times, and then slanted at Lu Bu and said, "Fengxian, you usually fight abroad, Ling'er is so smart, I think it's all the credit of my sister-in-law, what are you proud of?"
Lu Bu's face suddenly turned red, and he said forcefully, "Tiger father has no dog girl! Ling'er can be so smart because her father is smart!"
Zhang An sneered, "Then why are you smart?"
Lu Bu thought for a while, and found that in addition to being superior in force, there was really no example of how he could do it in terms of strategy and strategy, and after a while, he blushed and said thickly, "Zhang An! Come on, come on, I'm going to fight you for three hundred rounds!"
Zhang An glanced at Lu Bu, and said to Lu Lingqi with a smile, "Ling'er, uncle is going to teach you a word today." ”
"What does my uncle want to teach me?" Lu Lingqi asked in a soft tone.
This word is called annoyance, which means that after someone is scratched and hurts his feet, he can't refute it, and he is ashamed and blocked, so he is very angry. Zhang An said with a smile.
Lu Lingqi nodded her little head ignorantly, and asked, "What does it look like to be angry?"
This question is fantastic! Zhang An really wants to kiss Xiao Ling'er.
He pointed to Lu Bu, who was angry at this time, and his head was almost out of breath, and said with a smile, "This is what it looks like to be angry." ”
Lu Bu gasped angrily, and said hatefully, "Zhang An, I will definitely not rest with you!"
Zhang An laughed.
At this moment, without warning, a burst of weapons exchanged and screams and roars erupted outside the hall.
"There are assassins!"
"Stop him, the assassin is going to the backyard!"
"How dare an assassin come to a certain mansion to make a mistake!" The look on Lu Bu's face was more surprised than annoyed, he stood up and strode out, "Zhang An, go to the backyard, you stay in the inner hall and be with Ling'er." ”
Put Lu Lingqi here in Zhang An, Lu Bu is still more relieved, after all, compared with ten months ago, Zhang An today is like being reborn, and he can survive a few moves in his own hands, even if there is any accident, as long as Zhang An shouts for help, and then resists a little for a while, it is enough for Lu Bu to rush back.
Zhang An hugged the frightened Lu Lingqi, and whispered reassurance, while looking at what could be used as a weapon in the hall.
After all, Lu Bu and Zhang An were drinking and chatting at Lu Bu's house, so naturally they wouldn't carry weapons with them, who would have thought that there would really be assassins who would dare to sneak into Lu Bu's house to assassinate?
Zhang An had not yet reached the Gang Qi Realm at this time, so he could not condense his qi into a soldier, so he could only rely on foreign objects.
Zhang An, who was looking for a weapon, was suddenly startled and felt that something was wrong.
Although Lu Bu was drinking with Zhang An at home, he would not deliberately perceive the outside world like when he was marching and fighting, but his intuition as a supreme martial artist was spontaneously searching for information around him.
Since the assassin was able to sneak into the Lu Mansion without Lu Bu, he could naturally sneak into the backyard quietly, how could he be discovered by the guards on the Lu Mansion?
Zhang An was suddenly terrified, but he was afraid that the target of the assassin was not Mrs. Yan in the backyard, but Lu Bu's only daughter, Lu Lingqi!
The assassin had apparently investigated Lu Bu and knew that Lu Bu was most concerned about Madame Yan and Lu Lingqi.
Lu Bu, who has been married for many years, but only has one daughter, is reluctant to take a concubine, and still loves Mrs. Yan, if he loses Lu Lingqi, Lu Bu will definitely be even more reluctant to take a concubine, and will put all his thoughts on Mrs. Yan, in this way, Lu Bu's next child does not know when he will be born.
The assassin knew very well where to stab the knife that would hurt Lu Bu the most.
This is to make Lu Bu cut off the heirs.
But what good is this doing other than completely angering Lu Bu?
These thoughts flashed through Zhang An's mind like lightning, and he stood up and was about to open his mouth to call for Lu Bu to come back.
However, before he could utter his voice, he was forced back by a dagger that suddenly appeared in front of him.
The assassination target of this dagger was none other than Lu Lingqi, who hugged Zhang An tightly and shrunk her little head in Zhang An's arms after being frightened!
And the dagger exuded a strange smell, Zhang An just smelled a hint of it, and he felt dizzy, obviously coated with poison.
He actually did such a vicious attack on a cute little girl of four or five years old! Zhang An was furious.
However, Zhang An was holding Lu Lingqi with his right hand at this time, and there was only one left hand left, and he couldn't fight back forcefully at all.
The dagger appeared too close and the speed was too fast, although Zhang An retreated again and again, but the dagger was always chasing after it like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
Seeing that the dagger was about to fall on Lu Lingqi, Zhang An gritted his teeth and protected his left hand in front of Lu Lingqi.
The dagger effortlessly pierced Zhang An's left arm, and it came to a near halt in front of Lu Lingqi.
Zhang An endured the severe pain and waved his left hand suddenly, and the qi in his body exploded.
A gust of wind suddenly swirled in the inner hall, and the wine and food on the table flew up and fell all over the ground.
The assassin also completely revealed his body under this move, and it was the young assassin in the barbarian army that day.
The huge movement in the inner hall suddenly attracted the guards who were already guarding outside the hall.
Seeing the guards swarming towards the assassins, Zhang An's pupils shrank, and he shouted, "All stand down!"
However, it was too late.
The assassin's body shook slightly, and he disappeared in place in an instant.
There was a fresh breeze blowing in the hall, but in this breeze, all the guards stopped their movements without exception, and a crack in their necks that kept spurting blood outward, and they fell to the ground.
Although Lu Lingqi, who was hiding in Zhang An's arms, didn't see the situation in the hall, she could still imagine the picture when she heard Zhang An's loud shouts, and she couldn't help but start trembling.
Zhang An glanced at the dagger that was still on his left arm, and his face was gloomy.
I don't know what kind of poison is smeared on this dagger, but with my body in the realm of blood exchange and the cultivation of turning liquid into gang, I can't stop the rapid spread of toxin in my body at all.
After a while, Zhang An felt that his vision had begun to blur, and his heartbeat had begun to accelerate.
A fast heartbeat is not a good thing, as an excessively strong heartbeat will speed up blood flow in the body, allowing toxins to spread faster in the body.
However, even if there was such a big movement in the inner hall, Lu Bu didn't rush back.
There are only two possibilities, one is that there is also a tricky enemy in Lu Bu, and the second is that this inner hall has also been set up with a barbarian formation to block the sound.
When a figure beside the young assassin turned from shallow to deep, condensed into reality, and a wizard in unique costumes appeared, Zhang An confirmed his guess.
Zhang An's vision may have come true. No, I'm afraid that except for the inner hall, the entire Lu Mansion has been set up with a spell to block the sound, otherwise the mansions of several Cao Jun generals are next to the Lu Mansion, if you hear that the Lu Mansion has entered the assassins, don't you come to help?
"Leave the child and let you go. The barbarian wizard spoke, still in a strange tone.
Zhang An's answer was succinct.
"Get out. ”
The wizard stopped talking, but raised his hands in the air and muttered in a low voice.
Zhang An was suddenly alert in his heart, these wizards' abilities were varied, and if he cursed himself again or something, he would be unlucky immediately.
To make Zhang An's situation worse, as the wizard began to chant in a low voice, the assassin gave Zhang An a cold look and disappeared in place.
Zhang An's luck blessed his body, and pointed like a sword, pointing forward without thinking.
It happened to be the dagger that the assassin handed out.
Zhang An stood in place, and in an instant, he and the assassin had made seven or eight moves.
Zhang Anxin, who fought with the assassin for the first time when he was sober, was a little puzzled, he could still have a few tricks with this assassin after being poisoned, and it seemed that his cultivation was not high, how could he seriously injure Cao Chun with one move, and he could entangle Lu Bu to the death?
At this moment, the assassin slashed at Zhang An with a dagger.
Zhang An did not hesitate to point together, and also made a horizontal cut.
Who would have thought that just when Zhang An's two fingers were about to make contact with the dagger, the qi in his body suddenly stagnated.
Although almost in the blink of an eye, Zhang An's qi began to circulate again, but at that moment, Zhang An's qi blessed on his fingers was dispersed by a dagger.
Rao is Zhang An saw that the situation was not good, and immediately withdrew his hand, but still a large piece of skin and flesh was shaved off, and white bones appeared on his middle finger.
What should I do? Zhang An escorted Lu Lingqi and quickly retreated, looking at the assassin who was approaching step by step, and the wizard who slowly condensed a black light between his hands, he was anxious.