Chapter 208: Disappeared
Liu asked Long to make a decision, because they had no time left.
Finally, Long gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s take the path.”
Liu nodded, “I agree.”
Then, Liu lift Long and brutally took a lash to his horse before jumping off the horse. Liu tried to make the horse run ahead wildly, with the purpose of attracting those assassins for longer time.
Liu took Long to the path.
The path was overgrown with weeds, and some weeds were even taller than an adult.
Having no idea whether he had a misconception, Long thought he probably smelt stench and putrefactive odor.
But the smell was not strong, so Long suspected whether he had a wrong smell.
Just then, a poisonous person like the one Long had seen in Quanzhou rushed over. By now, Long was sure he indeed smelt the putrefactive odor.
Liu was astonished that as a person with powerful martial arts, he didn’t detect the poisonous person hidden aside.
Although they didn’t discover the poisonous person early, Long didn’t get injured. Liu drew back Long at the critical moment and kicked up the poisonous person with strength at the same time.
Liu exploited the situation to stab the poisonous person in the head with his sword.
The poisonous person fell down.
Holding Long’s hand, Long continued to fly forward.
With the hand held, Long flew and thought a lot.
The attacks tonight were closely linked as if they had been monitored early. The reason why the attacks were made now was to ensure the fulfillment of the assassination.
No wonder their previous actions were taken so smoothly.
It seemed that those people had been cornered, otherwise they wouldn’t stake everything on this assassination till now.
But, that was also the reason that Long thought it would be not easy to get through this crisis tonight.
Liu took Long to run fast.
Long’s mind was weighed down with anxiety.
Seeing more than ten poisonous people standing in the way, Long was surer that it was not easy to get through tonight.
Liu’s brows were furrowed, “We were ambushed by so many assassins on this road. How about other roads?”
Long narrowed his eyes, “What do you think?”
“I don’t know, but how could they have so many assassins… how did they get to know the road we took?”
“Some things are not very difficult to guess. Calculation could help.”
Liu pursed his lips, “It seemed we couldn’t avoid this crisis. Take this pill.”
Without asking what pill Liu gave him was, Long directly took it.
“Stand there. I’ll try to stop those poisonous people from coming over.”
Long nodded, “Okay, got it. Don’t worry about me.”
It was actually impossible not to worry, but there was no other way at the moment.
Long saw Liu rushing over to those poisonous people and fighting with them.
Thanks to his powerful martial arts, Liu intercepted all those poisonous people by himself.
But just at the moment, Long suddenly sensed a life-threatening crisis.
That crisis came from the position behind Long’s ear, so Long rolled away by instinct.
Long’s sudden movement helped him avoid that attack. He had a narrow escape from death.
Cold sweet was falling off Long’s face.
“Hoho, you’re quite swift.” The voice was very hoarse. It seemed that the speaker who was supposed to be mute insisted to speak. That was why the voice was so harsh.
Long looked to the speaker who was a man wrapped by black clothes except eyes.
Long easily noticed the silver knife held in the men in black, wondering that would be the weapon threatening his life just now.
If Long hadn’t escaped in time, his head probably would have been chopped off.
Long stood up, “Who are you?”
The men in black gave a harsh laugh which was very unpleasant to ears.
“Who? Hoho, I’m the one to kill you. You filthy emperor, today is your last day in this world.”
The weird man laughed, then held the knife and charged towards Long.
But Long remained extremely calm at the life-or-death moment.
Long warded off the first attack of the weird man. But he knew he would be killed by the man’s knife if the man continued.
However, Long was not anxious. Although Long was not good at martial arts, he wouldn’t be killed in two or three attacks. Long escaped very destructively.
Just when the weird man was finally about to cut off Long’s head with his knife, Liu came over. Liu didn’t kill all the poisonous people. He just killed three of them and broke out of their siege.
“Go!”
Liu lift Long and slapped him on his back.
That slap seemed fierce, but it just sent Long away instead of hurting Long’s internal organs.
Long was not good at martial arts, but he was strengthened by instinct under the crisis of life and death. Long flew a long distance by virtue of Liu’s slap.
The weird man shouted in a cold voice, “Go chase him!”
Those poisonous people accepted his order and turned to chase Long.
But would Liu allow it?
Liu didn’t indulge himself in the dogfight as the weird man expected. He flew to the poisonous person who was chasing at the forefront.
Holding his sword, Liu stabbed toward the poisonous person’s head.
Liu’s fierce attack ended the poisonous person’s life.
“Damn!” The weird man seemed to know they could never chase Long if they didn’t make Liu stay.
Then, the weird man joined the fight to attack Liu together with those poisonous people.
However, that was only a misleading strategy.
The weird man tried to leave after participating in the fight for seconds.
But Liu saw through his trick early. So it was not easy for the weird man to leave.
Every time the man was about to fly away, Liu stopped him.
As a result, Liu got scratched by those poisonous people.
Fortunately, as the miracle doctor, Liu carried many medicines with him. Liu had taken the antidote before starting the fight, so those scratches wouldn’t hurt him for a short time.
With the time passing by, Liu killed all those poisonous people.
However, the weird man still had not broken through Liu’s defense.
Just when the weird man thought Liu would dogfight with him, Liu suddenly turned round to fly away.
The weird man was extremely astonished, wondering what the hell Liu was going to do.
When the man was about to chase angrily, a sound piercing through the air sounded behind him.
He immediately turned round to respond to the attack. Two shadow guardians emerged in front of him.
One of the two guardians was Ying Feng.
“You go take care of him.” Without glancing at the weird man, Ying Feng left this sentence before running after Liu.
The weird man also intended to chase, but he was stopped by the shadow guardian.
If the weird man wanted to leave, he had to kill the guardian, otherwise, he would die. Another fight started.
Liu just spent almost fifteen minutes in that fight. He hurried to chase Long because he was afraid that Long was ambushed again.
Liu’s speed was extremely fast. But when he thought he was supposed to catch up with Long, he didn’t see anyone at the place ahead.
Liu got his heart jolted, wondering what had happened to Long.
When Liu halted according to traces of signs, Ying Feng came.
“Where’s master?” Ying Feng asked.
“I stopped the assassins and let him flee first. He was not supposed to run so fast in theory.”
Without saying anything, Ying Feng kept flying forward. Liu knew Ying Feng was looking for clues.
Liu also looked for clues at the place where he was. But Liu found Long seemed to disappear out of the void when he got here.
Liu tightly pursed his lips.
After thirty minutes, ear-piercing sounds arose behind Liu continuously, which meant there were people flying here by martial arts.
Liu turned round to have a look and caught a sight of Shi.
Liu knew he got into trouble from Shi’s cold look.
Long disappeared when staying with Liu anyhow.
Shi came to Liu soon.
“Where’s Long?”
Liu repeated the whole story of stopping assassins and letting Long flee first.
“I just spent fifteen minutes on fighting with those assassins. In theory, Long was not supposed to run too far. But I didn’t find him when I came here. I’m looking for clues.”
Shi gazed at Liu with his cold eyes.
Liu slightly pursed his lips.
Shi didn’t say any word at last before leaving…