Chapter 540 Assassination, a city-wide search (5k)
Three days?
Zhao Duan nodded quietly: "Yes, I will send someone to contact you later and hand you the letter you need to deliver."
This sentence hides a message, that is, Zhao Duan has already grasped the location of Feng Xiaolian.
Feng Xiaolian, a veteran of Fengyue Place, was not surprised and couldn't help but say:
"Governor, I will do my best to do this matter to show the sincerity of the Huai Palace, but I still want to take the liberty to remind you that if you want to instigate Zhao Shixiong, it is probably not a good choice and it will easily cause death."
Zhao Duan looked calm and glanced at him: "Are you teaching me how to do things?"
Oops, this line seems to be used a little frequently...
Feng Xiaolian smiled, shut up tactfully, and then pretended to greet her before she left and continued to hang out of the flower field.
Zhao Duan was not in a hurry to leave, and continued to listen to music and drink.
After three rounds of drinking, he left the venue before Wang Qi arrived, and then circled around the city several times to make sure that he had thrown away all his tails, walked into a hidden alley, took out the silver scroll as big as a palm, and shook it gently.
With a "slam", the prepared clothes fell to the ground. He quickly changed his coat, wiped his right hand on his face, urging the mask named "Jiuyi", and changed it to a brand new look again.
At this moment, the sun sets in the west and the sky is dark again. When Zhao Duan walked out of the alley, he saw that the smoke from the cooking stove under the sky is even straighter than that of the Sichuan and Chongqing men in the previous life.
Zhao Duan had a murderous aura in his eyes and walked towards the place he had already checked in. He decided to hunt Wang Qi tonight.
The Qianhuan God Lord, who was the first to support the society, once lurked in the capital and assassinated the imperial military generals, and Zhao Duan followed suit today.
"It's time to create some mess."
...
The night is getting darker.
After nightfall, Yongjia City will gradually enter a state of martial law curfew, and only a very small number of people can walk at night.
Of course, this includes the Grand Supervisor Wang Qi.
The third hour of Xu.
In the brightly lit Yunshao courtyard, there are silk and bamboo orchestras, and the obscene words and erotic words are as always.
Surrounded by the guards, Wang Qi walked out of the main door and stepped onto the carriage outside.
Then, under the protection of the soldiers wearing strong and sharp legs, the carriage returned to the barracks along the cold streets.
Although Wang Qi is lustful and indulged in brothels, he almost never stays outside. He leaves the place of Fengyue on time every night at 3 o'clock in the Xu Dynasty, and his movements are abnormal, as if they are specially prepared for the assassin.
However, his eyelids kept beating tonight, and a faint feeling of anxiety arose in his heart.
"Didn't you sleep well?" Wang Qi thought to himself, leaning in the carriage, closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.
Meanwhile, somewhere along the street corner on his must-pass road, a five-story restaurant further away.
Zhao Duan sat silently on the tiles, looking cross-legged at the moon covered by clouds in the sky.
There was a small hourglass beside him, and the last grain of sand was passing by and time was coming.
Zhao Duan stood up like a spirit cat, turned around and came to the height of the roof, looked up, and his eyes crossed the streets, and the roofs fell on a convoy slowly driving on a main road in the distance.
The curfew will not intervene in the city, and it will be easy to lock in the target.
"It's up to you." Zhao Duan murmured, touching an ancient mysterious bow in his hand. The bow was made of wood, as if nothing was left. The words "Taibu" were engraved with ancient characters.
Taibu Bow!
The weapon left by Lu Tong after his death!
Nie Yurong reminded that she could not get close to Wang Qi, so Zhao Duan will use this weapon to perform long-distance sniper tonight.
He took out an arrow from the quiver, bent his bow and put it on, and a thread of energy flowed from his fingertips into the bowstring.
Strands of qi were pulled out, and mottled light spots were spit out one after another. While bent their bows, an illusory arrow condensed.
The illusory arrow merged into one with the real iron arrow.
The sound of wind echoed in Zhao Duan's ears, and the wind was mixed with ancient branches blown by the wind, and the faint throats made of them seemed like whispers.
The line of sight locks in the carriage gradually approaching, knowing that once it is shot, this arrow will definitely hit.
However, not to mention Wang Qi's trump card, the guards beside him will intercept the arrow first, greatly weakening the power of the arrow.
For this reason, he did not immediately think of using Taibu Bow to kill him.
Until I was in the Great Dream Scroll, I got inspired from Pei Niannu [Silver Armor Edition].
"How can a martial artist kill the enemy from a distance?"
Zhao Duan suddenly raised his longbow and shot an arrow towards the sky!
The arrow wrapped in white turbulent flow and headed towards the night sky, as if it was "thousands of miles away from the target".
However, Taibu Bow has the attribute of "must win", so even if the arrow is shot farther than it is, it will adjust itself and re-lock Wang Qi.
But in this way, because of the long journey, the time it takes for this arrow to arrive at Wang Qi will be longer.
And this is what Zhao Duan needs.
He did not pause, and his hands kept drawing arrows from the quiver at his feet and shot them frequently.
But every time he shoots an arrow, he adjusts the angle of "deviation".
Zhao Duan closed his eyes and recalled what Pei Niannu said when he used bamboo to make a bow and arrow in his dream and then demonstrated it to himself.
He whispered softly:
"All fears are caused by insufficient firepower."
"This arrow will die."
...
On the long street, the moonlight is as cold as water.
At this moment, the wind and clouds moved, the moonlight was briefly blocked by the clouds, and Wang Qi's team turned around a corner of the street.
Suddenly, several strong men in the army near the carriage moved their ears at the same time, suddenly looked in a certain direction in the distance, subconsciously drew their swords and shouted:
"There are assassins!"
As the words fell, everyone heard a sharp and low whistle in their ears.
At the end of the residential houses under the night, an arrow tear through the airflow, the tail feathers trembled, and the target locked the carriage tightly.
"Protect your sir!"
A military guard jumped out, covered with Qi, and his sword in his hand slashed out, wrapped in wind and thunder.
However, when the collision was made, his arm holding the knife seemed to be over-electric, and he was paralyzed and painful. His face changed and he realized that the assassin's cultivation was very high, even the aura attached to the arrow was so fierce.
"The strongest people in the world!"
Fortunately, it finally blocked...
"It's coming again!"
Before the soldiers could take a breath, one after another of the sounds of cracking the air sounded almost at the same time. At this moment, many arrows came from the night in all directions at the same time.
The ordinary soldiers next to the car surrounded the car, but there was no time to react. Only a few officers from the Divine Era joined forces to try to stop the arrows carrying powerful kinetic energy.
Some ordinary soldiers could not dodge and were pierced by crooked arrows, and blood sprayed, and they died immediately.
Wang Qi in the carriage opened his eyes the first moment he was attacked and said intimately:
"You are waiting for!"
There was a blue and white porcelain bowl in his right hand. Without hesitation, he immediately threw the porcelain bowl to the ground after hearing the word "world".
"Bang!"
The ancient porcelain bowl was fried to pieces, and the clear water inside was stained by his feet, and it turned out to be a huge pool!
At the same time, with Wang Qi as the center, a blue "wall" suddenly spread out in the air. In the blink of an eye, it spread in all directions, covering the surrounding area ten feet in a circle!
If you look down from the sky, the corner of the street at this moment, along with the entire army, was suddenly blocked by a huge, several-story-high, "blue and white porcelain bowl"!
It seems to isolate this place into a barrier.
At the same time, Wang Qi took a step and stepped on the pool of water under his feet.
This ancient temple was last seen publicly, about six hundred years ago, and was named [Blue and White Cage].
Mortals can also use it before the internal mana is exhausted. As long as it is broken, a formation cage will be built around it that can trap the worldly realm.
Before dissipation, people inside can't get out, and people outside can't get in.
Wang Qi can use the bowl of water in the bowl to leave the cage and teleport to a hundred meters away from the nearby area!
This is his confidence in fishing. Even if the strong people in the world come, the guards outside can slightly block it, allowing him to break the porcelain bowl.
And any assassin will be trapped in this cage and catch turtles in the jar.
However, the foolproof trap finally made mistakes. Zhao Duan neither stepped into the cage nor had any intention of "failure".
At this moment, under the cover of the other arrows, the first arrow he shot circled around the sky, and with a "pop", it pierced into the wooden board of the carriage and accurately pierced Wang Qi's back!
Just for concealment, this arrow has the least energy attached, but it is fatal enough for a civil servant!
"Ah!" Wang Qi screamed, his body fell down, but his boots were already trapped in the water under his feet, with ripples rippling, his whole body disappeared into the carriage, and the water on the ground quickly dried up.
At the same time, the seriously injured Wang Qi suddenly appeared in a nearby alley. He looked pale, covered his bleeding back waist with both hands, left the guard behind him, and tried his best to escape to the depths of the building.
Try to use the complexity of architecture to find a way out.
After Zhao Duan shot out the arrow, he calmly took back the Taibu bow and took out the ancient small mirror the size of a palm.
[Fengyue Baojian]!
This was a shrine he obtained a long time ago. Because it was practical enough, it was not fed to the Red Flame Holy Armor.
At this moment, he recalled Wang Qi's appearance in his mind. The mirror was rippling, and an alley was slowly appearing, and Wang Qi was staggering and fleeing in panic.
"I'm not dead yet? Then I'll send you on my way." Zhao Duan looked at the extremely eye-catching, upside-down blue and white porcelain bowl style barrier, and understood that Wang Qi's backhand had been used.
He jumped like a ghost, running among the ridges and houses.
There was a sword that shining with cold light in his right hand at some point.
"Who is it?!" At this time, the movement here attracted the rebels patrolling nearby, and some soldiers raised their spears and scolded loudly.
Zhao Duan landed gently, his figure passed through like a ghost, his sword energy flashed, and a corpse fell on the ground.
As long as he is not surrounded by a large group of soldiers with military formations, this person is like a native chicken and a tile dog to him now.
Soon, Wang Qi, who was running in panic, stopped suddenly. He held the wall with one hand and stared at a figure deep in the dark alley.
At this moment, the moonlight splashed, and Zhao Duan approached like a leisurely stroll.
Wang Qi looked harsh and weak: "The military masters will come soon, can you escape..."
rub!
A splash of swords passed by, and Wang Qi threw himself to the ground in disbelief, blood flowing from his neck, and his energy was gone.
Zhao Duan shook his wrist, and the blood on the tip of the knife shook a straight blood line on the wall.
"I originally wanted to arrest you and leave the interrogation, but since you made such a big noise and would soon attract experts, I can only kill you."
Zhao Duan put away his knife and returned to the sheath, and did not look at Wang Qi, and quickly disappeared into the night.
"At this time, Song Jinxi and the others should do it."
...
As Wang Qi said, the noise of the blue and white porcelain bowls was enough to make the strong people in the city notice it quickly.
Not long after, a large number of iron cavalry rushed over on the quiet street, everyone holding torches, illuminating the entire street.
"General!"
The officer trapped inside the barrier saw the cavalry scattering outside, and a middle-aged man with a not-tall figure and a little short walked out like stars.
Zhao Shixiong was on the horse, still wearing pajamas, seemed to have fallen asleep and was awakened in a hurry.
He had no expression on his face, and suddenly grabbed the air with his right hand, and then his wrist sank, and the night color rippled, and a big pass knife was pulled out of the void by him.
The long sword slashed in the air!
The huge blue and white bowl covering the entire corner of the street made a "click" sound, cracking open the spider-web-like cracks and withered.
The magic array that can trap the worldly realm cannot withstand his sword!
In the carriage, the blue and white porcelain bowls that had already broken were pieced together and recovered as before, but there was no water in the bowl, which meant that the hidden mana was temporarily exhausted.
"Search!"
Zhao Shixiong spit out this word coldly.
Immediately, a cavalry turned into a torrent of steel and flowed in all directions.
Not long after, someone reported: "General, you have found Wang Qi's body!"
He was dead... Zhao Shixiong's heart sank. Soon, he came to the alley. Under the light of torches, he saw clearly the pool of blood lying on the ground, and died with his eyes closed.
A personal guard checked it and stood up and replied:
"General, Wang Qi died of a throat slit, but was seriously injured by an arrow."
Zhao Shixiong couldn't see his mood, and suddenly raised the knife in his hand high.
At this moment, a rolling scarlet aura poured into the blade, and seal carving runes lit up on this Guanjian, which had an equally good origin, and the blade spitted out a red flame, covering the entire alley.
Then, in the crimson light, Wang Qi, who was running hastily with a wall, appeared, and another young man walking with a knife appeared.
Obviously, the knife in Zhao Shixiong's hand is not just an ordinary weapon, but also contains some magic.
It can actually "restore" the scene that happened here not long ago.
"Is he an assassin?" Zhao Shixiong stared at Zhao Duan in the illusory light.
He had no impression of his face after disguising himself, but when he caught a glimpse of the knife, his eyes slightly condensed, and a strange color flashed through his eyes:
"Is it him? That Zhao Duan?"
He laughed:
"What a courageous person, he dared to lurk in the city and kill people under the nose of this general..."
A personal guard came back outside the alley and reported:
"General, no whereabouts of the assassin was found nearby. It must have been far away."
Zhao Shixiong nodded and was about to speak when suddenly a sound of horse hooves approached outside the alley.
Everyone looked at the fierce horse and saw a tall woman with fair skin, about thirty or forty years old, carrying a long sword, and bulging figure.
Also wearing pajamas, he went out in a hurry.
"Madam!"
A group of personal guards immediately lowered their eyes and did not dare to look up.
"Gongsun?" Zhao Shixiong frowned and looked at the woman: "What happened?"
The woman named Gongsun, who was born in the Jianghu Gongsun family, had thick eyebrows condensed into a ball. She first glanced at Wang Qi's body on the ground before saying:
"Not only Wang Qi, but other military supervisors in the army have also been assassinated. There has not been any counting how many casualties there have been, but no less than five people who have received the news."
Zhao Shixiong laughed, threw the sword, and ordered with murderous intent:
"Sentence! The first thing is to check all the suspicious people who appeared in this area within the five nearby streets today.
Second, check Wang Qi's whereabouts and rules in the past ten days, and everyone who knows that he has a blue and white cage hidden on him.
Third, start from the attacked soldiers and see who are investigating them recently, and... what unusual things have happened in the city recently. No matter what is worth noting, you are allowed to let go!
Fourth... The whole city searches!
In the past fifteen days, strange faces and people from other places have to be investigated!
Without comparing the portrait, the other party will change his appearance, but it must be a man, and the focus will be on checking young men... Also, contact Xiyi and point out directly to inform the prince of Zhao Duan's possible sneaking into the city! ”
Gongsun, tall and plump, was stunned for a moment while wearing a full dress.
Zhao Duan?
The unmarried royal husband chosen by the female emperor? The great commander-in-command of the rebellion, the cruel, cunning treacherous minister nicknamed "King of Yan Zhao"? !
Did he do it?
Gongsun's face became solemn, and he nodded and said, "I will make arrangements."
Zhao Shixiong stared at the corpse on the ground, his smile remained unchanged:
"I am very interested in this junior of the family named Zhao. If I can eliminate this treacherous slander, I will never lose the second half of the title."
Does your husband have such a high opinion of the treacherous minister?
Gongsun was a little surprised.
...
...
That night, with Zhao Shixiong's military order issued, the entire Yongjia Prefecture City shook.
Batches of rebels held torches and ran murderously in the streets and alleys of the city, searching for all suspicious people overnight.
On the streets, the calm of the curfew was broken, and the people hiding at home could only hear the neat footsteps outside, and the sound of metal thumping against the blue bricks as the war horses galloped.
There is a slaughter.
Similar scenes only happened when Zhao Shixiong led his troops into the city without bloodshed.
Recently, Zhao Duan carried out an assassination operation with a small group of shadow guards, but the entire mansion once again entered a murderous atmosphere, as if he had entered winter ahead of schedule.
Zhao Shixiong took Wang Qi's body back to the government office, which is the "Combat Command".
After Song Jinxi and other shadow guards succeeded, they also quickly lurked up, trying their best to cut off all possible traces of themselves.
And more people are still ignorant about what happened.
Zhao Duan changed back to the appearance of "Dong Ping" and his clothes, and returned to Hongni Lane, entered the room, lit the candle, and began to boil water to prepare for a bath.
There were swords and Taibu bows on the table.
His actions tonight were quite smooth, but it was not clear about the situation of Song Jinxi and others, so he needs to wait for news.
But it can be imagined that soon, Zhao Shixiong will react.
Considering the recent big moves of Yexiang Sect, Zhao Duan knew very well that neither himself nor Song Jinxi nor others would hide for too long and would be caught out eventually.
"However, it is not easy to find us in a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands? So, as long as you don't take the initiative to expose it, it's okay to hide for a while."
Zhao Duan thought about how to use Feng Xiaolian's line to contact Zhao Shixiong.
To implement your own plan.
Suddenly, his ears moved, and he raised his hand to put away the bow and arrow and knife on the table.
Then, footsteps and a creaking sound of opening the door came from outside the door.
The door was pushed open, and the girl Du Shishi was holding a small lantern and looking at Zhao Duan who was washing her feet.
"Miss Du has something to do?" Zhao Duan frowned, "It's inappropriate to break into the bedroom of a strange man without knocking on the door at night."
Du Shishi stared at him and said suspiciously: "You're just back?"
Zhao Duan smiled: "I'm back soon."
"Is that?" Du Shishi stared at him with a faint look: "But I came over before and found that you were not here."
(This chapter ends)