Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 219 Unless General Chen Dies in Battle

Even so, he couldn't just sit there and wait to die. So he used all his strength, dragged his unsteady body, and tumbled off the top of the tent, then staggered away.

Once his figure disappeared into the darkness, Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin appeared at the tent entrance. After exchanging a glance, they followed the direction the man had gone.

However, they didn't chase too closely; they just followed behind.

The man's injuries were truly severe. He didn't bother to take detours and instead dodged the patrolling soldiers all the way to Kong Xiao's tent, where he lifted the curtain and rushed inside.

Kong Xiao was lying on the bed, sulking. Since he started following the general, he had never been punished like this before. Even though he had made many mistakes in the past, the general would only punish him symbolically, mainly to teach him. He never expected that this time the general would not show him any mercy and would suspend him from his post.

At this moment, he only felt that he had been treated unfairly, and he did not think about how much he had gone wrong before. Chen Lingyuan was so badly injured, but he only let the army doctor apply medicine and bandage him. The rest was up to him to see if he was lucky.

Just as he was cursing General Chen into the void, the tent flap was suddenly lifted, and a dark figure practically rolled in.

"Who goes there?" Kong Xiao was startled and jumped out of bed, grabbing his sword from beside his pillow and pointing it at the dark figure.

"Idiot, it's me, what are you yelling for!" The man in black was furious. He had finally escaped here, not so that he could yell and summon the soldiers to arrest him.

"It's you!" Kong Xiao's pupils contracted sharply upon hearing his voice, and he also smelled the blood. He quickly sheathed his sword, walked over, and squatted down beside him, asking, "What happened to you? Are you injured?"

"I won't die!" The man in black now felt no sensation in his right foot, only intense pain, while his left foot was slightly better.

Kong Xiao rubbed his nose, walked to the table, lit the lamp, and held it up to him. "Let me see your injuries."

"Don't worry about me, go clean up the bloodstains outside, hurry up!" The man in black grabbed his hand, which was trying to see his injuries, and whispered to him, pointing to the bloodstains that had dripped all the way to the floor.

Kong Xiao hesitated for a moment, then placed the oil lamp beside him, got up and went outside. He couldn't let anyone find out that he had taken in an injured stranger in his tent.

He was lucky; no soldiers patrolled the area, and he carefully cleaned up the bloodstains left by the man in black along the way.

He originally intended to clean the trail back to where the bloodstains started and see where the person was injured, but halfway there he heard orderly footsteps not far ahead, knowing that patrolling soldiers would soon pass by, so he had to abandon his plan and turn back to his tent.

Mo Ziyuan and Lin Xin, who had been following him all the way, followed the example of the men in black and climbed onto Kong Xiao's tent.

"How badly are you injured?" After entering the room, Kong Xiao deliberately sealed the tent flap shut before approaching the man in black and asking.

"He won't die!" The man in black repeated those three words. He had moved himself to Kong Xiao's bed and was leaning against the headboard with a pale face. There was a pile of blood-stained strips of cloth on the floor in front of the bed.

However, the black cloth covering his face hadn't been removed, so Kong Xiao couldn't see his deathly pale complexion or the cold sweat soaking his forehead beneath the cloth. "I shouldn't move around too much lately; I need to rest and recover here for a few days. Please make the necessary arrangements."

"What? You're recuperating here?" Kong Xiao jumped three feet high upon hearing this. "Are you kidding me? Chen Lingyuan has been keeping a close eye on me lately. If he finds out you're here, not only you, but I'll be finished too! No way, absolutely not!"

"Say that again?" The man in black suddenly opened his half-closed eyes, his cold gaze piercing him like two sharp blades.

"I... I said you can't stay here. Because of the incident where the Western Rong people burned our supplies, the general dismissed me and is already very dissatisfied with me. If he finds out that I've left outsiders here, I'm completely finished." Kong Xiao said to him with a mournful face, trying to evoke some sympathy from him.

To his disappointment, the man in black glanced at him indifferently, then looked away and closed his eyes again. "That's your problem. Anyway, I need to rest for the next couple of days. You should know who I am now, right? If I get arrested, guess what kind of statement I'll give? And what will happen to you?"

"You!" Kong Xiao was furious, but there was nothing he could do. He wished he could go back to last night and strangle the man in black who had spoken to him.

He paced around the tent like a trapped beast for a while without figuring out how to deal with it. Finally, he had no choice but to give up and let out a desperate sigh, coming up with a "good" solution.

"What? You want to grab me while I'm asleep to claim credit?" As if seeing through his thoughts, the black-clad man's faint mocking voice suddenly rang out in the tent again, startling Kong Xiao, who had just sat down at the table.

He turned his head away in disbelief.

"Don't be surprised how I know. Humans are creatures of self-interest. What I could give you before, I may not be able to give you now, so it's normal that you chose to betray me. But you've overlooked one thing: whether I'm the kind of person who can tolerate being betrayed. Don't you agree?"

The man in black remained in the same position, his voice flat and even, but to Kong Xiao, it was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, shattering his soul.

Indeed, once I hand this person over alive, who knows what he might say? If he really implicates me, even if he manages to cover it up, it will definitely leave a thorn in everyone's heart.

Rather than this, we might as well... take a gamble!
Having made up his mind, Kong Xiao changed his demeanor and chuckled, "How could that be! You're overthinking it. But this place is indeed not a good place to recuperate. General Chen is easy to fool, but that heir of the Duke of Dingguo from the capital is no pushover. My suspension is largely due to him!"

"The heir of the Duke of Dingguo? Mo Ziyuan?" The man in black immediately understood what Kong Xiao meant. Was he just trying to provoke him into fighting against his enemies?

Normally, he could lend him a hand, just to show off his abilities.

But he was ambushed and injured on the top of the camp of the Duke of Dingguo's heir. He still doesn't know who did it. How could he possibly provoke Mo Ziyuan at this time?

However, he couldn't say that. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "The heir of the Duke of Dingguo is already on our death list. You don't need to worry about him. What you should be thinking about now is how to get military power in the Western Frontier Camp."

"Heh, don't even think about it unless General Chen dies in battle!" Kong Xiao said with a sneer.

"Then let him die in battle!" The man in black's voice was sinister and ruthless.