ZiLi fell off his horse, battered and exhausted, and rolled on the ground a few times. His body was covered in dirt and dead leaves, his elbows and knees were bleeding, and one shoe on his feet was missing. Half of the fake beard on his mouth was dangling as it was about to fall off, and the sweat running down his face made the mask made of human skin stick closely to his skin like a layer of glue, which was very painful. However, in the face of these four assassins who were approaching him step by step with bright sharp swords, none of this mattered at all.
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“You want to know?” the assassin gave another evil grin, “Then go to hell and ask Yama, the King of Hell, about it!” as he said that, he suddenly raised his double-edged sword and aimed at ZiLi’s heart.
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“Don’t touch them, just dodge.” one of the assassins roared, making a quick decision. The three of them swiftly dodged, and when they thought they were in the clear, the concealed weapon in the form of a sphere that had fallen to the ground suddenly exploded unexpectedly, and immediately, a burst of suffocating white smoke was released.
*Cough, cough, cough, cough* F•ck, it was actually a smoke bomb!”
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*Gasp* “I’m damn tired! But, in the end― in the end I managed to preserve my life!” ZiLi climbed off his horse and stretched out exhausted on the grass by the lake, saying to the two next to him who had also jumped off their horses, “You two, thanks a lot! By― by the way, why are you two here?”
These two individuals were none other than the two brothers who had relied on ZiLi to meet the Emperor in the capital that day. So, how did they end up here? Well, that is a long story!
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On that day, when they realized that the old man was ZiLi in disguise, they immediately went after him, but there were too many pedestrians in the market, so they could not find any trace of him for some time. After wandering around for a while, they finally saw ZiLi at the city gate rushing out of the city on his horse. Before they had time to pursue him, they suddenly saw another man on a horse arriving from outside the city with an Imperial edict in his hand, ordering the gates to be sealed off. All people entering and leaving the city had to go through a strict inspection, and a large number of soldiers were also searching the city. The people were tormented in panic for two days before the seal was lifted. Rumor had it that the Emperor was after a fleeing notorious criminal, but they could vaguely guess that it was not as simple as that. Since their goal was to see the Emperor to bring an accusation against someone, they did not care about the rumor. But the bad thing was that the one who could introduce them had escaped before the city gate was sealed off and without him, they were back to square one. Just when the two brothers were considering whether they should go after him or not, their enemies suddenly had discovered their whereabouts and an unavoidable chase ensued with the intention of killing them, forcing them to decide to leave the Capital for the time being, both to catch up with ZiLi and to avoid the chase. So, the two of them went on a non-stop journey looking for traces of ZiLi, while eating in the open air and sleeping outdoors. After being on the run for a few days, they arrived in a small town and upon asking around, they finally found out that ZiLi had spent the night there as he had sought refuge. When they got this information, the two knew that their target was not far ahead. To avoid any unexpected additional complications 2 , the brothers immediately went after ZiLi without staying in the small town. Who would have thought that the first thing they saw was the scene of ZiLi being chased to be killed by more than a dozen people! The brothers then decided to take a detour to the front to ambush them, and that was how the scene at the tree came about.
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After hearing this, ZiLi’s heart was filled with regret and shame, to think that those whom he had deceived with his ugly heart had now saved his life instead! In any case, he owed them a favor. Knowing that they wanted to see the Emperor to bring an accusation against someone, ZiLi pondered for a while, then wrote a letter crookedly with a brush, sealed it, took a token from himself, and handed it to them, “I can’t go back to the Capital with you. You can take this sealed letter to the Ninth Prince, Hong Qing, and ask him to take you to see the Emperor. I think he will definitely agree. However, you absolutely must not divulge my whereabouts. If they ask for more details, you will say that I already handed these things over to you when I was in the Capital, understood?”
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“Oh, by the way, I still don’t know your names yet, can you tell me?”
“I am Lin CunGong.”
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