Chapter 468: Getting Closer
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation | Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Ying raised her hand and slapped its mouth. “You’re quite bold, little brat.
Are you hungry?” She cut the beef from the interspatial store into smaller chunks and tossed them to the wolf cubs. The wolf cubs smelled the blood and began gobbling up the meat. Their mouths were not even as big enough to bite the meat chunks, but they still wolfed down the pieces of meat that were bigger than their bodies.
After eating and drinking their fill, the two wolf cubs flipped over and revealed their bellies in front of Su Ying without any fear.
Su Ying reached out and rubbed their bellies. “You think you are a dog, huh?”
The two wolf cubs grunted contentedly under Su Ying’s massage, their heads nuzzling her palms. When Su Ying stopped, one bit Su Ying’s hand in displeasure, urging her to continue serving it.
Su Ying kicked its butt gently. After this, she extinguished the fire and brought them back to sleep in her interspatial store.
On the other side of the mountain, Xiao Jin was still rushing on his way. However, it was dark now and the mountain road was difficult to walk on. By the latter half of the night, the group had only reached the halfway point on the mountainside.
-Let’s stop and rest first. We’ll continue our journey when dawn comes.”
Xiao Jin could continue walking, but he could see that the two officials were struggling to keep up. He still needed them to lead the way. If the two of them could not move, it would be troublesome.
The two officials had long been waiting for Xiao Jin to allow them to rest. They were so tired that they couldn’t even lift their legs.
-My Lord, please rest for a while. I’ll bring some firewood back.”
The three of them found a relatively flat place to settle down. With torches in their hands, the campfire was quickly lit up.
Although Luo City was suffering from a drought and the sun was so hot that it could kill people, the cold air was still very chilly in the mountains late at night.
After a simple meal of dry food, one of the two officials kept watch during the night. Xiao Jin leaned against a tree and closed his eyes to rest and wait for the arrival of dawn.
At the foot of the mountain which was not visible to them, a group of black-robed men was stealthily advancing up the mountain.
The forest was exceptionally quiet in the middle of the night. Even the slightest movement could be clearly heard.
In the darkness, Xiao Jin opened his two eyes.
His dark eyes blended into the deep, dense color of the night.
He gripped the sword in his hand tightly and slowly stood up from the ground.
Suddenly, an arrow shot out towards him.
Xiao Jin was already prepared. When the arrow flew over, he leaped onto a tree. In the blink of an eye, he saw a silver light flash on the opposite tree. He chopped off the branch beside him straightaway and flung it at the other party.
The black-robed man hiding in the darkness realized that his presence had been exposed. Before he could make a move, he felt a murderous aura lunging at him.
He jumped down from the tree in shock and quickly dodged.
Xiao Jin didn’t persist in engaging the other party in battle. He turned around and darted into the forest.
The black-robed man followed closely behind him.
In the darkness, Xiao Jin’s figure zipped through the forest like a nightingale.
Finally, he hid himself in a tall tree.
Not long after that, the black-robed man caught up and went past the tall tree without noticing Xiao Jin, who was hiding in the tree.
As he watched the black-robed men flashing past one after another, Xiao Jin silently counted their numbers. There were 23 of them.
The black-robed men pursued him to the front but then realized that Xiao Jin’s figure had disappeared.
“Where is he? You lost him?”
“I clearly saw him in front just now. He must be around here. Let’s split up in threes to search.”
“Alright.”
The figures of the black-robed men zipped through the forest like phantoms, but they did not find Xiao Jin after searching once through.
“Leader, we didn’t find him. The forest is dense and lush. He must have hidden himself.”
In the pitch-black darkness, it would not be easy for them to look for a person. The black-robed man’s eyes gradually clouded over. He was sure that their quarry was in this forest, but it would not be easy to locate him.
“Why don’t we set the mountain on fire? I don’t believe he won’t come out.” “The weather is dry now. If we set the mountain on fire, we won’t be able to get out alive either.”
“Continue searching. If you can’t find him, think of another way.”
“Alright.”
Xiao Jin hid in the tree and watched as the black-robed man gradually approached. He stood up silently. After making sure that no one was following that fellow, he landed lightly on the ground and came behind that black-robed man.
The black-robed man sensed that something was amiss and turned around, but it was too late. Xiao Jin’s hand had already grabbed his neck.
The black-robed man struggled to hit Xiao Jin, but Xiao Jin dislocated both his hands and jaw and brought him back up the tree.
A beam of faint moonlight filtered through the branches and landed on the black-robed man’s face. It made his face look exceptionally pale.
“You guys know who I am.”
The black-robed man looked at Xiao Jin without saying a word, but Xiao Jin could tell from the change in the other party’s expression that his guess was correct.
The black-robed man knew his identity, but when Xiao Jin left the palace, only a few trusted aides knew. It seemed that someone had betrayed him.
Xiao Jin pulled open the man’s mouth, took out a dagger, and pried out a pill sealed in white wax from his teeth. This was a suicide weapon unique to death warriors. It was usually hidden in the back of their molars. Whenever they found that something was wrong, they would bite the poison pill and kill themselves to prevent any information from leaking.
in the capital city, there were not many aristocratic families that could afford to raise a large number of death warriors. This time, they had sent out more than 20 people. There were probably more of their people lying in ambush in the city. How could an ordinary small family afford such a large expenditure?
Xiao Jin slit the black-robed man’s throat and jumped off the tree before returning to where he was resting earlier.
The two officials who followed him had fallen asleep and had not been woken up, so they escaped death. The black-robed men’s target was Xiao Jin, so they did not give the two officials a second glance after Xiao Jin left.
Xiao Jin woke up the officials.
“There are assassins trying to assassinate me. Try to travel on the hidden small paths as much as possible.”
The two officials were still a little groggy after being woken up from their sleep. However, after hearing Xiao Jin’s words, they immediately became alert. They did not dare to delay and quickly left with Xiao Jin through another hidden small path.
The sky gradually turned bright. Su Ying woke up and came out of her interspatial store.
She stretched and took a few breaths of fresh air before taking out the fish from the interspatial store to slice up. She still hankered after the sashimi she ate last night.
After slicing off the fish flesh, Su Ying threw the fish flesh into the pot to cook. She also took out some dried meat and added it to the pot to make the fish soup more fragrant.
Su Ying cut the fish into slices and placed them on a clean leaf. She then sat cross-legged on the ground and savored the rare delicacy mouthful by mouthful. However, when she thought about how those carts of fish would be gone after they were eaten, she chewed the fish slices more times to allow her taste buds to better savor the taste.
After finishing the fish meat, Su Ying scooped up a bowl of fish soup. Sure enough, with the addition of meat, the fish soup smelled even more fragrant.
Su Ying took a long sniff of it. Just as she was about to drink the soup, an arrow suddenly shot out and accurately knocked over her pot. The milky white fish soup spilled out, and not a single drop was left.
The veins on Su Ying’s forehead bulged a few times. She quickly surveyed her surroundings before slurping down the bowl of fish soup in her hand in one gulp. Then, she abruptly tossed out the bowl in her hand..
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