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Chapter 315 Death Soldier
"So little?" Zhu Yu was somewhat surprised.

She wasn't the only one surprised; Yan Shu, standing beside her, also looked astonished: "There were only so many people; where did those bastards get the audacity to be so arrogant!"

Lu Zhang was so nervous that his face turned slightly pale, but he finally calmed down a bit. Seeing that the situation should be under control, he became a little more at ease. Looking at the others, not only Lu Qing and Yan Daoxin, but even Zhu Yu and the girl next to him were calm and showed no signs of being frightened.

This made him somewhat uneasy, and he walked to the side, gripping the reins, looking embarrassed.

Those strange-looking bandits were too exhausted to yell anymore. They ran back as fast as they could, shouting, "Brothers! Retreat! Retreat now!"

Just as they were about to reach the place where they had stopped the five people earlier, a few more people emerged from the roadside.

"What are you doing out here! Run! Run!" Scarface shouted as he waved his hands frantically at them.

But the people in front seemed deaf; instead of running away, they rushed towards them.

After running a few more steps, the group finally realized that something was wrong. The people running towards them were not their own brothers who had been lying in ambush on the hillside and in the woods, but rather the enemy's men.

After realizing this, the group stopped, looked at each other, and glanced around to make sure they didn't see any of their brothers who had been lying in ambush. They were surrounded by people of unknown origin, and unless they suddenly sprouted wings, there was no chance of them escaping.

Lu Zhang's men rushed over and surrounded the group from both sides, keeping watch to prevent them from suddenly breaking out while waiting for Lu Zhang to give orders.

Lu Zhang's heart was finally at ease, and his expression returned to the calm and composed demeanor he usually put on.

"Men, seize these thieves as well, and take them back for further interrogation!" He raised the hand holding the riding whip and waved it at the soldiers in front of him.

The soldiers who had been blocking them from the front and back then moved closer to the bandits, closing in on them.

But seeing that none of them offered any resistance, the soldier closest to them reached out to grab one of the bandits' sleeves, when suddenly the bandits' expressions changed slightly. Scarface suddenly shouted something unintelligible, and then collapsed limply to the ground.

This sudden scene startled the soldiers nearby, who quickly retreated to avoid a trap.

Yan Daoxin, on horseback, shouted "Oh no!" He ripped off his veil and jumped off the horse. Pushing aside the people blocking his way, he squeezed into the middle of the circle, turned over the people who were lying on the ground one by one, checked their breath, and then pried open their mouths to smell them. His brows furrowed into a knot.

Lu Qing and Zhu Yu also dismounted. Zhu Yu quickly stepped forward, grabbed the wrist of the nearest bandit, and placed his fingers on it, but felt no pulse.

Then, reaching out and prying open the person's eyelids, they saw that the person's pupils had already dilated.

"Dead?" Zhu Yu turned to look at Yan Daoxin in surprise. "Can he be saved?"

“They can’t be saved.” Yan Daoxin shook his head. “They’re those enslaved assassins again.” “Damn it!” Fu Wen, who was standing nearby, was stunned. He immediately turned and ran, saying to Fu Lu as he ran, “Quickly go check on the people we captured on the other side!”

Fu Lu also came to his senses and hurriedly ran in the opposite direction.

"You don't need to go! You're already dead, there's no point in running over now!" Yan Daoxin came to his senses and called out to the two brothers, but they had already run off in a flash and couldn't be called back.

"Fine, let them check it out." Lu Qing said calmly, but in reality, she didn't have much hope either.

Sure enough, the talismans returned in no time. From the expressions of the two people, it was clear that things were just as Yan Daoxin had said: the bandits captured on both sides were dead.

“These people are always prepared. If anything seems amiss, they will not let themselves be captured alive.” Yan Daoxin sighed helplessly. “I never expected them to do this. Otherwise, if we had tried a different approach, we might have been able to save one or two lives.”

"How many accomplices have been captured on both sides in total?" Lu Qing asked Fu Wen.

“There aren’t many over there, only five people in total,” Rune replied.

Fu Lu nodded quickly in agreement: "It's the same when I go there. Yi and 'General Yi's' men only captured six people, and they searched the woods and mountains on both sides. There were definitely no survivors."

"Isn't this number a bit too few?" Zhu Yu also felt that this matter was very strange. "At most, there are only about twenty people. How could they cause such a big commotion in this area?"
With so few people, they can't even muster enough to form a small, reasonably powerful mountain stronghold.

After she finished speaking, she remembered the scarred man's last roar before he died, and quickly moved closer to Yan Shu, whispering, "What did that guy shout before he died? Did you hear it clearly?"

Yan Shu nodded expressionlessly: "I heard you, but I don't understand."

"If they're not from the Jie Kingdom?" Zhu Yu wasn't particularly surprised by this result; it was largely within his expectations.

"The sounds are similar at first glance, but not a single word is correct." Yan Shu nodded. "It feels like they're just copying a cat or a gourd, learning a similar sound but only to fool people."

In this whole world, besides the Jie people, how many others can understand the Jie language? This place is also the border between Jin, Shuo, and Lan. It is not far from any of these three places, but it is far away from Jie land.

The people here have never seen a proper Jie person in their lives. As long as they put on an act, it shouldn't be difficult for them to fool a few people.

I was originally planning to catch them alive and question them to see what happened, but these bastards died pretty quickly!

"General, what should we do with these people?" Lu Zhang's subordinate asked Lu Zhang, somewhat at a loss.

Lu Zhang glanced at Lu Qing subconsciously, and quickly realized that it would be too embarrassing for him to ask Lu Qing's opinion at this time. So he pretended that he already had a plan and said, "Well, since the divine doctor said that there is no way to save him, there is no point in delaying any longer. Let's dig a few holes here and bury him on the spot!"