Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 239 Human Threat

"Wait a minute, the Wu tribe may not have found the exact location of Linluyuan. The environment of Linluyuan is very hidden. If they can't find the entrance, we can still escape here and we can avoid a war." Pei Nai replied.

Chai Yaojin listened to their conversation and asked, "Set off fireworks to ask for help? Are the Tianyao troops nearby?"

"No, I don't know the location of the Tianyao army now, but the Qilu army led by Gongyang Zisheng has been not far from here." Pei Nai explained.

Chai Yaojin was surprised.

Since the Qilu army was not under Tianyao's command, how could he go into direct battle with the Wu tribe for Pei Nai and the survivors of the Lu Kingdom?
He then asked, "If you send out fireworks asking for help, will they come?"

"I will." Pei Nai nodded firmly.

When Chai Yao entered, he instructed the other Lu people, "Open the warehouse first and take out the weapons and bows and arrows."

A group of people were ordered to leave.

Chai Yaojin called another team of people over, "Prepare the fortress's cannonball mechanism. If the enemy starts to attack, you must counterattack immediately!"

"Yes!" These people immediately ran to the wall on one side, took down the paintings on the wall, revealing the wall full of complicated mechanism buttons.

Pei Nai's eyes lit up, and he said to Ju Liancheng: "This Linluyuan is indeed the work of the Valley Country."

Ju Liancheng hummed, and said indifferently: "It can be considered that Zhang Sheng and his men have joined the battle."

Everyone had been waiting quietly in the command room, not even daring to light a lamp. They just stood there in the dark, for fear that the firelight would shine through the cracks in the rocks and be confirmed by the Wu clan.

Some of the Lu survivors kept murmuring prayers, asking God to bless them with good luck.

But God doesn't fulfill people's wishes.

When the morning light was dim and the east was about to brighten, Linluyuan was completely surrounded by the Wu army.

The leader of the army had numerous exotic braids tied behind his head. When Pei Nai saw the two flywheels in his hands, he understood his identity.

Chai Yaojin gritted his teeth and read out his name with hatred: "The Wu clan is heading to Yuesiji!"

Back then, the State of Lu was conquered within two months by an expeditionary force of 100,000 led by Yue Siji.

Wherever the Wu cavalry went, all the soldiers and civilians were slaughtered, leaving no one alive.

The mountains and rivers are broken and devastated.

The man on the plain is the blood enemy of every Lu citizen.

"He is now one of the new Six Rivers, the flywheel of slaughtering rivers and destroying karma." Pei Nai added.

Chai Yaojin sneered, full of sarcasm and dissatisfaction towards the martial arts world's selection of candidates.

It was also when Yuesiji was aimed at the main gate of Linluyuan that everyone finally realized that they had been completely exposed.

Their hopes were shattered, and some women even burst into tears, with the sound of their sobs lingering in everyone's ears.

A man was annoyed by the noise and yelled at her: "Shut up!"

"They rape and kill all women, even babies. They even like to torture and kill them. Their methods are bloody and brutal. What should we do?" Many people began to collapse.

The iron cavalry formed a deep formation, but after surrounding them, they stopped.

"What are they waiting for?" Tu Xun asked in confusion, looking at the scene outside.

Chai Yaojin kept his eyes on the window through the stone slit. "We are waiting for daybreak to facilitate the attack. At the same time, we are waiting for the artillery to be delivered."

"Do you want to set off rescue fireworks?" Pei Nai respected their opinions.

Chai Yaojin shook his head. "Wait a little longer and see what their intention is. If we release fireworks asking for help, it might directly anger them."

Does this mean you don't believe Qilu will come to help?
Or are you holding on to the last glimmer of hope that the Wu tribe will not start a war? .
Pei Nai disagreed, but this was their territory, so she didn't respond.

No one spoke for a long while, only the woman's suppressed sobbing could be heard. Fortunately, no one brought the child to the command hall, otherwise the baby would have cried uncontrollably in such a depressing environment.

Suddenly, Yue Siji took the bow and arrow from the general beside him, and there seemed to be a scroll tied to the arrow.

He drew his bow, pulled the string, and shot the arrow.

The long arrow broke through the air and shot straight towards the crack above the mountain gate where they were.

People squatted down in a hurry and panic, and the arrows tied with scrolls broke through the covering vines, entered the meeting and command room, and shot into the innermost wall.

Chai Yaojin walked through the crowd, strode over, and took the large scroll that Yue Siji shot at him.

With the help of the people around him, he pulled open the cloth and saw two lines of words written in blood on it, one by Tian Yaoyu and the other by Lu Guoyu: "Hand over Pei Nai, and you can spare the lives of others."

The bloody words on the scroll made the crowd restless and everyone was in an uproar.

Chai Yaojin and everyone else looked towards Pei Nai, their eyes focused on her alone, as people speculated about her importance to the Wu clan.

"How did the Wu tribe know for sure that I'm here?" Pei Nai asked Ju Liancheng puzzledly.

After all, Senior Zhong was able to sense the wind and would not leave anyone following him, so they were indeed not discovered when they came.

Ju Liancheng said firmly: "I think he is testing me."

But the people of Lu didn't think so. This scroll seemed to have rekindled their hope for life.

Someone immediately shouted, "Hand her over to the Wu clan!"

"Yes! It's all her fault. Get her out! We'll be safe!"

"Hurry up and do it! Throw her down before the Wu clan changes their mind. Do you all want to be tortured to death?"

People clamored to compromise with the Wu tribe.

Some even pleaded with her in Tianyao language: "Please go out. Only if you go out can we survive."

Chai Yaojin didn't know what to do for a moment.

He could only look at Pei Nai and couldn't speak to either side.

After all, he had not expected that taking in Pei Nai would bring disaster to Lin Luyuan and all the survivors.

Being stared at by countless malicious eyes, Pei Nai remained unmoved.

"I won't go out!" she said without hesitation, and then looked at Ju Liancheng, "Light the fireworks for help!"

Ju Liancheng had been waiting for a long time and was about to take out the flint, but was stopped by the people around him.

People wanted to snatch the fireworks sticks from his hands.

Ju Liancheng protected him tightly in the chaos. Pei Nai saw Ju Liancheng being bullied and pulled out his gun.

The sharp tip of the gun slashed through the air, and even stone fragments fell from the wall above.

Pei Nai pointed the tip of his gun at the Luguo man who was pulling Ju Liancheng, "Let go! If you touch him again, I'll cut off one of your hands!"

The man was frightened by Haoran's internal force and the wind from the gun, his eyes became a little dazed, and then he let go of his hand.

Someone in the crowd questioned her in Tianyao language: "Aren't you Tianyao Zhubei Gun? Where is your love for your country? Can you bear to let so many women, children and the elderly die because of you?"

Pei Nai looked her straight in the eyes, his voice echoing throughout the command hall: "I am not afraid of death, but if I go out now, everything I will encounter will be tantamount to humiliating the country. I cannot let the people of Tianyao and those who love me suffer this fate."

"Countless people have sacrificed their lives to keep me alive. I will not sacrifice myself so easily just because of the pressure and so-called emotional constraints you are under."

Her eyes were tough and cold, and she said firmly: "Defending the fortress and waiting for the arrival of Qilu's reinforcements is your only way to survive."

(End of this chapter)