Xuanxia

Chapter 1016 Acting

Late at night, outside the prison.

A group of secret agents escorted the prisoners out of the prison one by one.

These prisoners had black bags on their heads, so their faces could not be seen, and they could not see what was happening outside, but one could vaguely make out that these prisoners were both men and women, and that they were all shaking violently, but there were also a few brave ones who were screaming at the top of their lungs.

"Li Jingzhe! Let me tell you! I am of a very high generation! Lord Yuan, the Deputy Minister of the Cabinet, is my uncle! Gu Jinchen would bow to me whenever he saw me! Who the hell are you to detain me! We have not committed any crime or adultery, so why are you detaining us!"

"Uncle Fifteen, please stop talking..."

A trembling female voice came from under a black cloth bag: "We are all meat on the chopping board..."

"Stop talking!"

A secret envoy shouted in a deep voice: "If you dare to speak without permission, I will chop off a finger first!"

The prisoners immediately shut up.

Prison vans drove up and stopped outside the prison gate, and the secret messengers began to escort the prisoners and stuff them into the vans.

Perhaps realizing that the atmosphere was not right, one of the prisoners raised his hand timidly, clearly having questions to ask.

"Speak." A secret envoy spoke.

"Um, sir..."

The prisoner's tone was very flattering and thoughtful: "Can you please tell me what we are going to do? Don't worry, I'm not asking in vain. My Lan family has hidden a lot of things in the villa east of the capital! I am willing to provide information and let you gentlemen confiscate it! There are antiques and calligraphy and paintings that I have collected over the years, which are worth thousands of gold. They are all evidence of my oppression of the people! I, I will make up for my crime with meritorious service!"

No one was stupid. This was almost a blatant bribe. This person's behavior was extremely spineless, but all the children from the noble families said nothing, and no one blamed him.

Of course, they all wanted to know where they would be taken...

"Oh, it's not a secret."

The emissary smiled and said, "It's okay to tell you."

As soon as these words came out, the fawning prisoner immediately bowed repeatedly: "Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"

Although he was wearing a black bag and his face could not be seen clearly, one could still seem to see his ferocious face that was flattering, yet also forbearing and ferocious.

"This time, your family has captured too many people. The Hell is full and even the Ministry of Justice's jail is full."

The emissary laughed and said, "It's hard for the court to support you. If you have a headache or a fever, you have to be treated, which costs a lot of money, so why not just..."

He had just said this when all the prisoners were shocked!
The jails are full? It costs money to keep prisoners?
This is murderous!

Thump thump thump thump!
Several timid prisoners knelt down on the spot, and a few who had not yet been taken to the prison van were confused and wanted to run away, but were also pulled back.

"Why are you panicking? I didn't say we're going to kill them all."

The emissary said leisurely, "If the prisons in the capital are too small to hold you, we will send you to the neighboring towns. Of course, if you are willing to explain or chat about something else on the way, we will be happy to listen. This shows that you are valuable. After all, the prisons in the neighboring towns don't have as much space as the capital..."

"Tell me, tell me! I'll tell you!"

Someone immediately shouted, "I'll tell you whatever you want to know!"

"Don't worry, don't worry." The emissary smiled and said, "We can talk on the way."

A group of prisoners were escorted onto the prison vans. The vans started moving. It was late at night and the entire capital city had fallen asleep. The only sound was the sound of the wheels of the prison vans rolling over the bluestone bricks.

The prisoner car drove out of the capital and drove slowly along the official road for more than ten miles. The voices of the prisoners crying and scrambling to tell the information were endless. Not long after, the wheels of the car just rolled over the bluestone of the boundary marker, and suddenly a jackdaw flew away in the forest.

The leading emissary suddenly raised his hand, and his subordinates reacted very quickly, having already drawn their swords...

But the arrows from the other side came faster.

Amid the dull sound of arrows tearing through the night fog and nailing into the shafts, dozens of black shadows swooped down on pine branches, and the rotten leaves scraped up by the soles of their boots condensed into poisonous tornadoes in the air.

"Formation!"

The leader of the secret envoys had not yet unsheathed his long sword when the swords of the three men in black had already touched his brow.

The moment the scabbard hastily blocked, sparks exploded into dark blue arcs in the mist - there was actually a thunder and fire symbol on the opposite sword!

The secret agent on the left swung his knife to kill, but the black-clothed man's chain gun suddenly wrapped around his wrist like a venomous snake, and the steel arm guard immediately cracked into spider-web-like patterns.

Screams broke out in the prison van.

The prisoner who claimed to be Yuan Ye's nephew was banging against the iron bars frantically. Under the black cloth bag with half of it cut off, his fat cheeks were splattered with the hot blood of both the man in black and the secret envoy.

He watched helplessly as the knife of the secret envoy leader was melted into red molten iron by the thunder and fire talisman. Another man in black took the opportunity to swing out a nine-section whip, which rolled towards the secret envoy who was attacking with a knife from the other side...

The battle between the two sides became fierce in just a moment, with blood splattering and corpses lying everywhere!
"Save me! Save me!" The prisoner's eyes widened and he shouted excitedly, "You are here to save us, right!"

"The person that Master Yuanye wants, even Mingjian Pavilion cannot keep him!"

The hoarse roar of the leader of the men in black shook off the pine needles, and in his hand a long sword swung out a silver light in the air!
The silver sword light was so dazzling that even the secret envoys present had their pupils shrank and did not dare to take it head-on. They all dodged, but the target of this sword was not them.

The sword light roared like a silver dragon as it passed over the prisoner van convoy. The iron cages let out shrill and hoarse screams and began to tremble violently. Then, they all shattered at the same time in the huge metal tear!

"Not good!" a secret messenger shouted, "Stop them!"

But it's too late.

Ropes shot out from the dark forest. They had clear targets and instantly entangled the children of the noble families. Then the ropes instantly tightened and pulled violently, pulling these people away from the already broken prison van!
Like kites, they were either screaming or laughing wildly as they were pulled by ropes into the dark forest.

At the same time, the men in black turned around and ran away without any desire to fight.

"Chase!

The emissaries made a move to charge forward.

They watched the men in black and the children of noble families retreat into the dense forest, their long swords deliberately slashing at the air, the sword energy whittling the bark of the ancient pine trees until it curled like flowers.

When the last corner of a man in black's clothes disappeared into the darkness, one of the "killed" men in black suddenly sat up with a twitch, and dug out a fish bladder filled with sheep's blood from behind his breastplate.

"You guys from Mingjian Pavilion are so cruel... You almost cut off my shoulder with a single blow." The man in black tore off the bleeding shoulder armor, revealing the knife marks on the inner layer of black iron soft armor: "Next time, ask Master Wu to give me more blood-activating pills..."

"Captain, should we ask the Imperial Medical Bureau for more medicine?"

On the ground, several "dead" emissaries sat up and said with a smile: "This time we are really going to fight!"

"What a fight..."

The leader of the secret envoys sneered, "Do you know who the person who just drew his sword was? If he really hits us, we will really die!"

The forest returned to dead silence, with only a few strips of black cloth swaying in the wind on the broken iron spikes of the prison van.

(End of this chapter)