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Chapter 663 Archers

The four men remained motionless, but the two tied to the tree were very alert. They vaguely heard some noise and were jolted awake from their drowsy state. They listened carefully and realized that their brothers had arrived, so they immediately perked up.

The two men first glanced warily at Lu Qing and the others, but seeing that they didn't seem to notice, they didn't dare to let their guard down. They then looked at the fire and saw that there was no smoke rising from it, just like they had encountered before. Considering that their minds were perfectly clear at this moment, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The two men cast their gazes into the shadows deep within the woods not far away, trying to catch a glimpse of their companion hiding there.

As a gust of wind blew by, the surrounding trees rustled. Accompanied by the brief commotion brought by the wind, a dozen or so people suddenly rushed out of the darkness deep in the woods. Their clothes and appearance were almost identical to those of the two tied-up "bandits." Each of them held a large knife and looked menacing.

This group of people rushed out, not even bothering to untie their two accomplices from the tree, and immediately surrounded Lu Qing and the other three.

Lu Qing was casually poking at the fire in front of him with a thin twig. Even when surrounded by people, his expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected it all along.

The talisman master had his hand on his waist. Although they couldn't carry swords when they were out, they would still keep a dagger at their waist for self-defense.

The two of them were now watching the people around them warily, ready to fight them at any moment.

Lu Qing glanced around and chuckled lightly, as if with a hint of disdain: "Is this all there are? Or is it that the Prince of Lan's grandson is worried and therefore unwilling to send more people?"

The two men tied to the tree felt uneasy upon hearing Lu Qing's words and couldn't help but shout, "Brothers, these guys are used to using dirty tricks that can't be brought to the table. You must be careful!"

Be careful, they might use sleeping potions and hidden weapons—

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the dozen or so men who had been wielding large knives and looking menacing suddenly sway and then collapse limply to the ground.

"If I had known that it would take so long to get only ten or eight people, it would be a real shame to waste my precious sleeping incense." Lu Qing slowly stood up, looked around, and said with a hint of regret.

Before he finished speaking, his expression changed slightly, and he grabbed Zhu Yu, who had stood up with him, and quickly pulled him aside.

Just as the two people fell to the ground, Zhu Yu, who was caught off guard and startled, heard two voices.

One sound was the whistling of an arrow whizzing past her ear.

The other is the dull thud made when a heavy object falls.

Fuwen and Fulu had not expected this turn of events. Fulu quickly got up and rushed towards the direction from which the arrow had been shot, while Fuwen, fully on guard, quickly circled around to stand in front of Lu Qing and Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu looked in the direction the talisman had run off to; the muffled thud from when the object fell had come from that direction.

She glanced back at the arrow embedded in the ground not far behind her, then slowly turned to look at the hazy treetops in the opposite woods.

"That fall must have been quite hard," she exclaimed in surprise.

Fu Wen looked at his mistress with some confusion, wondering why she would suddenly say such a thing. Zhu Yu pointed in the direction Fu Lu had gone: "It's probably one of their accomplices. They left an archer in the treetops to ambush us in case anything went wrong here. Luckily, they were able to launch a surprise attack from the outside."

We used the mother-child incense this time, right? While you were searching in the forest, you placed the mother incense along the only path some distance away.

While roasting the rabbit, we also lit some incense. We were here and smelled the incense alone without any problems. Even when people came from outside and were surrounded by incense on their way, they didn't notice anything unusual.

When they arrived, the combined effects of the mother and child incense knocked the person down.

However, as the fragrance spreads, it gradually weakens with increasing distance.

The archer hiding in the treetop at the edge of the forest, though also affected by the mother's fragrance, was a little slower than the others who approached.

I guess he saw his companion suddenly fall to the ground and knew there was an ambush, so he wanted to shoot an arrow at us from there. He didn't expect that he would lose consciousness when he shot the arrow.

Judging from the direction and distance from which the arrow came, that person was much higher than the previous one. It's likely that the messenger who went back to report told him that we would release sleeping powder, so he deliberately climbed high to avoid being hit.

"That's really bad. The higher you climb, the harder you fall. I don't know if he'll even survive now."

The people around were all sprawled out and couldn't hear what Zhu Yu was saying, but the two people tied up nearby heard it clearly. Now that they understood what the Mother-Child Incense was all about, they realized that the reason they hadn't fainted was because they had been tied up in front of them and hadn't come into contact with the incense.

The two realized they had become bait for each other, and were immediately furious and unable to contain their anger. They started hurling insults at each other, using the most offensive and offensive language imaginable.

Zhu Yu picked at his ear, smiled at the two people, and didn't think it was a problem at all.

In her past life, her duty was to search for perhaps even more cruel truths from the various signs and evidence at gruesome scenes.

Those truths, while clearing the names of some and allowing others to rest in peace, also expose the pretense of others, leaving their crimes nowhere to hide.

These people, and even their families, will naturally not be very happy.

So let alone dirty and vicious insults, she has even encountered death threats before.

In comparison, the two "bandits" tied to the tree were quite restrained in their cursing.

Lu Qing was not a person who could not keep a temper, so she naturally ignored the insults from those two people.

He surveyed his surroundings and, after confirming that there was nothing unusual, signaled to Fuwen to tie up all the people on the ground.

After Fu Wen had tied up most of the people as Lu Qing had instructed, Fu Lu returned.

He looked slightly tired and was struggling to drag something. When he got closer, Zhu Yu realized that he had not only dragged back a person who had fainted and was covered in blood, but also... a small tree?
(End of this chapter)