Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 19 Protection
Lu Yanning stepped forward and slashed the leech's raised body in half with a knife, and Gu Jingnian and Cui Hao fell to the ground.

Cui Hao's abdomen was covered in blood and flesh, and the wound was obviously infected with eggs. Seeing Lu Yanning coming towards him with a knife, he spat out blood and begged.

"Don't kill me, I can be fine! I still have hope..."

The knife flashed, and a head rolled twice.

Lu Yanning ruthlessly hacked his boss to death, then turned around and helped Gu Jingnian up.

"Let's go! Capture Liu Heng and I'll mobilize troops to control the situation."

The two quickly left the vicinity of the dungeon.

Gu Jingnian asked, "He just said he would be fine, what does that mean?"

"He's crazy." Lu Yanning's eyes showed disgust. "He thinks that finding the heart of a snake and using it as medicine can cure his injuries."

"What's the basis?"

"The phrase 'A viper can be poisonous, but its heart is good medicine' has driven these people crazy."

"How was my brother-in-law captured?" Gu Jingnian asked, "Who told you this?"

Lu Yanning said, "One of my personal guards is Cui Hao's man. He set a trap for me from the moment I entered Wanchun Palace. He sent the others away and lured me into it."

What he didn't say was that the personal guard had previously been under Gu Beiming's command, and he met him in the personal guard camp of the Xiaoyi Army.

Gu Jingnian asked: "What about that sentence? Who said it?"

"Cui Hao just said that he promised to give me a viper heart."

"They do this just to seduce me?"

Lu Yanning said, "They are using Wanchun Palace to raise leeches, and it will soon be impossible to hide it. The temporary palace has not been built for a long time, and Chao Juzhi has been evading and delaying. Your Majesty still plans to inspect it in person, so there is a plan to assassinate the emperor in the western suburbs."

"Is it related to my father?"

Lu Yanning quickly shook his head and said, "What does it have to do with my father-in-law?"

Gu Jingnian could feel that Lu Yanning was covering up for him, but he didn't care anyway and just pretended not to know.

He glanced at the night and said, "Liu Ziyan is going to do something good tonight. I know where he will go."

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Liu Ziyan was sleeping when he was suddenly grabbed, thrown to the ground, and dragged in front of someone.

He was a middle-aged man wearing silver armor, but the armor he wore was much more complicated and exquisite than that of other silver-armored guards. There were snake heads carved on his helmet, shoulder armor, belly armor, etc.

"General Cao?" Liu Ziyan rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Something happened in the dungeon. Are you the one who turned my people into leeches?"

"How dare I?" Liu Ziyan said, "A rat got in last night. General Cao, please deal with it as soon as possible."

"Did you ask Cui Hao to meet Lu Yanning?"

"Yes."

"Lu Yanning escaped."

"This……"

Liu Ziyan's eyes rolled and he realized that he had been negligent. The problem might be with the silver-armored guard. Then, he was patted twice on the cheek.

"You two just need to refine the medicine, and I will be in charge of the guarding. Don't interfere."

"Yes."

"The situation can't be suppressed for too long. We need to select the seedlings that can produce snakes as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, General Cao."

Liu Ziyan sent General Cao away and muttered, "If you guys weren't always causing trouble, who would care about those trivial matters?"

When he turned around again, he saw a tall maid standing in the corner, wrapped in a green cloak that hid her body tightly.

"What's wrong?" Liu Ziyan asked.

"The two four-headed vipers and the one three-headed viper you kept were chopped to death."

Liu Ziyan was stunned, and spat in the direction where General Cao was walking, saying, "He didn't say anything just now, and he has no sense of responsibility. Look, what's the use of them?"

The tall maid didn't answer.

Liu Ziyan looked at the sky and said, "Let's go. You protect me."

The two then walked towards Gongdeyuan.

Behind them, a short figure ran stealthily and quickly ran towards Wanchun Mountain.

Master Ma walked quickly and reached the sedan chair path leading up the mountain behind the palace. He suddenly heard roars and shouts coming from nearby. He leaned over to take a look and saw that it was the guards who were watching the campfire and arranging firewood, trying to drive a dozen leeches into a dungeon.

But he also saw some of the guards holding their stomachs in pain, and he couldn't help but chuckle.

"You guys just take your time and play."

Suddenly, a guard turned around and rushed towards him with a distorted face. Then he let out a roar, and leeches rushed out of the blood mist and pounced on him.

The bloody mouth appeared in front of Master Ma in an instant, but it did not bite him.

The pair of pupil-less white eyes of the leech still showed no emotion, but it turned its head away, as if showing some disgust.

Master Ma chuckled twice more and continued on his way.

"To you, I am just a little poisonous fruit."

The reason why he is so short is that he has been soaked in a medicine jar since he was a child, and the medicine that is extremely toxic to aliens has been soaked into his body little by little.

That process once caused him severe pain.

But when vipers and leeches run rampant throughout the world, he will become a favored child of heaven.

Master Ma became even more excited. He ran up Wanchun Mountain and saw the towering observatory again. He ran to the bottom of the platform and a guard came to stop him with a sword. He opened his mouth and blew out a cloud of smoke.

He didn't tell Gu Jingnian that he had actually swallowed a lot of bamboo tubes. He picked them out from the filth, wiped them on his clothes, and hid several of them in his pockets.

I guess it's impossible for that guy to check it carefully.

Climbing up to the observatory in one breath, Master Ma looked towards the brightly lit Wanchun Palace, eagerly waiting for great changes to happen.

The leech spits out saliva to form eggs. In the past, countless eggs competed to parasitize on one body, but tonight, he poured the saliva into every well in Wanchun Palace, to maximize the chances of every egg finding a body.

After growing for nearly a night and a day, the seeds are about to germinate.

"bring it on!"

Master Ma's eyes widened, and gradually, his eyes were filled with flames of excitement.

Suddenly, screams of pain were heard from the cells where countless laborers were gathered.

"what!"

A leech suddenly appeared and pierced several living people in an instant.

The air was filled with the smell of flesh and blood, which drove it crazy. It wished it could bite all its prey to death in one breath and keep them to suck slowly.

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

At that moment, countless people's stomachs were torn open, and leeches were tangled together, biting wildly with their bloody mouths wide open. Flesh and blood, there was too much flesh and blood for them.

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Pei Nian opened his eyes and saw a ball of fire in the darkness.

It was a candlestick. Liu Ziyan was sitting under the candlestick looking at the cage. To be precise, he was looking at the yellow tiger's rising and falling belly.

"What a good material."

Seeing Pei Nian wake up, Liu Ziyan said with emotion: "When the Kaiping Division first came to Liu's house to investigate the case, I thought, 'Captain Huang Hu is really a good material.' Today, I have finally achieved my wish."

Pei Nian ignored him and reached out to pick up the snake head on the ground and cut off the yellow tiger's head with the blade, but unfortunately he had no strength.

"Yugui! Yugui!"

Liu Ziyan smiled. Usually, the same thing would just involve feeding food, but today, there was also the pleasure of revenge.

Suddenly, shouts were heard outside the hall.

"who?!"

Liu Ziyan turned around and saw that the palace door had been kicked open by someone. The person had his face covered with a black cloth and it could be seen that it was Lu Yanning.

Lu Yanning, holding a single sword in hand, defeated several guards in succession and rushed straight towards him.

"I said Cao Ju was a waste." Liu Ziyan cursed and quickly looked at the waitress behind him, "Protect me!"

In an instant, Lu Yanning rushed to within ten steps of Liu Ziyan.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking wind. Lu Yanning blocked it with his sword and deflected the arrow with a clang. He felt a pain in his palm. At that moment, he realized something was wrong.

"Get out of the way!"

There were not one but three arrows shot out, and each arrow was extremely powerful.

Two of them were shot at him, and one was shot at Gu Jingnian.

The arrow scratched his forehead and Lu Yanning fell on his back in a dangerous manner, while reaching out to push Gu Jingnian away.

It was too late. Gu Jingnian was shot out by the arrow and fell outside the door.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

Three arrows were fired in succession, nailing into the gold brick. If Lu Yanning had not rolled quickly, he would have been nailed to the spot.

He looked up and saw the waitress tearing off her green cloak with one hand and pulling out two arrows from the backpack with the other two hands and placing them on the other hand holding the bow.

She actually has four hands.

"奭人?!"

Lu Yanning was surprised. He knew that there was a team of secular archers in Wu Dinghou's Chiling Army, but he didn't know that there were others who could command secular people as attendants.

As he was distracted, two sharp arrows were already in front of him. He raised his sword to block them, but the sword in his hand was knocked off. He dodged and the arrow shot into his left arm.

The young woman reached out to pull out the arrow again, but there was only one arrow left in the backpack.

"Whoosh!"

As the arrow was shot, a figure fell down and rolled twice after being hit by the arrow.

Instead, Lu Yanning jumped up, picked up the knife, and rushed towards the witch.

"Smoke!"

A cloud of smoke came down.

Lu Yanning was well prepared. He covered his face with a wet cloth and walked forward holding his breath.

The woman picked up Liu Ziyan with one hand, threw a dart with each hand, drew the sword at her waist with one hand, and immediately retreated to the back of the hall.

Lu Yanning dodged the darts and quickly chased out of the hall, but saw that the witch had already run away with Liu Ziyan, and a team of silver-armored guards were on their way. He had no choice but to turn back, climb up to the mezzanine from the back hall, and stab to death the person operating the mechanism inside.

In the cage, Pei Nian and You Gui covered their mouths and noses, trying hard not to pass out again.

They saw that Huang Hu's belly was bulging more and more violently, once, twice...

Finally, a leech rose into the air with a trembling roar.

"Boom!"

The cage door was pulled up, and Pei Nian and You Gui quickly jumped out. A team of silver-armored guards rushed forward and swung their swords to chop, but were suddenly grabbed by the bloody mouth.

With a loud "bang", the iron plate above fell down, and Lu Yanning fell from the sky, picked up the two people and left.

"For years!"

Gu Jingnian stood up and pulled out the two arrows from his body, but his hands were shaking slightly.

It was not because he was too badly injured, but because he finally saw an alien, an alien who was driven by others.

"go!"

When Lu Yanning saw Gu Jingnian catching up with him, he quickly walked out of the hall, but was stunned for a moment.

He saw that under the steps, leeches were twisting in the air and countless people were lying in a pool of blood.

The situation here is just like the one at the Western Suburbs Parade Ground, only I'm afraid it's even worse than the one at the Western Suburbs Parade Ground.

"What's going on?" Pei Nian murmured.

"It was Master Ma." Lu Yanning had heard what Gu Jingnian had said and murmured, "He used the water source to plant eggs in everyone."

Pei Nian suddenly felt remorseful and gritted his teeth, "It's my fault for not killing him earlier."

"Since there are Xie people, there must be more strange people around Liu Heng. We can't capture him for the time being. We must mobilize troops as soon as possible."

Lu Yanning has the aura of a general and he sticks to his word. Having made the decision, he immediately wanted to take them out of Wanchun Palace.

Gu Jingnian did not hate Master Ma as much as they did. Instead of asking the court for troops, he was more interested in what Master Ma had said.

He followed behind Lu Yanning and couldn't help looking back several times.

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"what happened?"

After leaving the hall, Liu Ziyan also saw the chaotic scene in Wanchun Palace, and shock and anger appeared in his eyes.

"I said we should take good care of it, why did it become such a mess?!"

The woman asked, "Can you still control it?"

"How is that possible?" Liu Ziyan said angrily, "If you want to get rid of the snake now, you can only rely on the law of the jungle."

"Oh." The woman asked, "Then you are useless?"

Liu Ziyan was stunned, fear suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he said: "I..."

"puff."

The witch had stabbed Liu Ziyan's heart with a sword.

She sheathed the sword with both hands and wrapped herself in a green cape with the other two hands, muttering, "The teacher said that he would not support useless vulgar people."

(End of this chapter)