Brocade Robe Unparalleled

Chapter 45 Night Attack
At the foot of Eagle Beak Mountain, there is the entrance to a karst cave.

Night had fallen, but the two brothers, Wu Da and Wu Er, were still dutifully standing guard at the cave entrance.

In the past, the Black Wind Cave was not guarded so heavily, but the situation has been special these past few days. The chief said that people from the Jingbian Division might come to investigate, so they must guard the cave entrance for twelve hours a day and be on guard at all times.

If any suspicious persons are discovered, immediately notify the head of the gang.

The night wind was biting, and Wu Er shivered. He leaned his weapon against the cave entrance and said, "Brother, I'm going to take a leak. You watch the place by yourself for a while..."

Wu Da glanced at him, snorted, and said, "A lazy donkey pulls a millstone, producing lots of excrement and piss. Go on, and come back quickly!"

"Everyone needs to use the restroom sometimes..."

Wu Er muttered something and slowly walked towards the woods to the side.

Half an hour later, Wu Er emerged from the jungle. Wu Da said irritably, "Why did you take so long? Did you need to take a dump... Ugh!"

Wu Da's neck was snapped in an instant, and his body slid down helplessly. He was then caught by 'Wu Er', who gently helped him sit down and lean against the cliff wall, pretending to be fast asleep.

Lin Xuan looked back but did not see the figure of the man in black robes.

He looked around for a while before a dark figure emerged from the shadow of a large tree.

Seeing the man in black robes appear, Lin Xuan felt much more at ease.

Wearing the clothes of the guard he had just dealt with, he turned and walked into the cave.

After entering the cave, there is a long passage in front of you. On the stone walls on both sides of the passage, there is an oil lamp at intervals. The light of the oil lamp is dim and weak, barely enough to see the way ahead.

Lin Xuan was about to move forward when he quickly put his foot down again.

He lowered his head, and in the dim light of the oil lamp in front of him, a barely perceptible glimmer of light flashed across the ground about an inch above it.

It was an extremely thin thread that stretched from one side of the cave wall to the other.

Although this thread doesn't look very strong and couldn't possibly be connected to any powerful mechanism, it's sufficient to connect some kind of warning device.

Lin Xuan stepped over the silk thread but did not move forward immediately.

He took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, grabbed a handful of pre-prepared wood ash from the bag, and flicked it forward.

The narrow passage was soon filled with a layer of wood ash.

Against the backdrop of this layer of plant ash, the several silk threads connecting the two sides of the cave wall at different heights suddenly became clear.

Using this method, Lin Xuan slowly moved forward until two paths appeared before him.

The two paths branched off to the left and right, and the ground at the cave entrance was covered with messy footprints.

Lin Xuan took out a trumpet-shaped wooden tube from his pocket. One end of the tube was wider than the other. He pressed the wider end against the cave wall and the other end close to his ear.

Then, he held his breath, focused all his attention, and listened to both cave walls.

One of the cave walls was completely silent.

From another cave wall, faint, indistinct noises could be heard.

His powerful mental strength already endowed him with extraordinary hearing, and with this makeshift microphone, he could hear the sounds from deep within the cave to the maximum extent.

Not far behind him, the man in black robes watched this scene calmly, a hint of doubt rising in his heart.

She didn't teach him any of this. How did he manage to tinker with such a strange and wonderful thing?
Lin Xuan slowly walked along the cave, and after only a few dozen feet, he encountered five forks in the road.

According to intelligence from the Jingbian Commandery, there are further forks within these forks.

People unfamiliar with the terrain can easily get lost.

Fortunately, as Lin Xuan went deeper, the sounds he heard against the cave wall became clearer and clearer. After passing through another fork in the road, two guards who were dozing against the cliff came into Lin Xuan's view.

Lin Xuan was about three zhang away from them.

The cave was very narrow. Although he wasn't wearing shoes, but rather tightly wrapped soft cloth, which would make no sound when he walked, he couldn't guarantee that he could capture them without making a sound within this three-zhang straight-line distance.

Lin Xuan looked back and saw that the man in black robes was standing a few feet behind him, but he showed no intention of helping him.

After taking a deep breath, Lin Xuan walked out from the corner of the cave. The two guards were no longer sleepy when they saw someone come in, but they were not very wary.

After all, only our own people could get in here silently.

A guard yawned and asked, "Wu Er, weren't you on duty at the gate? Why are you back..."

Wu Er walked quickly and said hastily, "There's something going on outside, I've come to report..."

Just as the two were about to ask what was going on and ask them to go in and report, two strong gusts of wind rushed towards them. The two were just ordinary martial artists and could not withstand the sudden attack of an eighth-rank martial artist at all.

In an instant, their throats were shattered, leaving them only able to make gurgling sounds. With their throats shattered, they would suffer for a while before finally dying.

Lin Xuan cleanly and efficiently snapped their necks, helping them to be free sooner.

After passing through this cave entrance, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

Ahead was a wide cave, with some boxes piled up in the corner. Many small caves had been carved into the cave walls, with only simple fence doors at the entrances. The sounds of snoring came from inside.

This is clearly the stronghold of these bandits.

It was already past midnight, and apart from the sentries that Lin Xuan had taken care of, almost everyone was fast asleep.

Lin Xuan quietly slipped into a small cave. Inside, on a stone bed, a burly figure lay sprawled out, seemingly dreaming, muttering incoherent murmurs...

In his dream, Hu Liu was having a good time with his lover, Cui Xiang Lou. Just as he was getting into the swing of things, his lover, Xiao Hong, suddenly grabbed his neck. No matter how hard Hu Liu tried, he couldn't pry her slender wrists off.

Click...

After a crisp sound, Hu Liu's head lolled to the side, and he collapsed limply onto the bed...

The dark figure silently left the cave and entered another one.

One.

two.

Three.

……

More and more bandits had their necks snapped silently by Lin Xuan in their sleep.

This mission was much simpler than he had imagined.

In Jingbian Division, above the flag officers are the general flag officers, and above the general flag officers are the centurions. Even the powerful aura released by a centurion of only the sixth rank was difficult for him to resist.

But in this bandit's cave, he was like a wolf among sheep.

Most of these bandits were low-ranking martial artists, and even the ninth-ranked martial artists only made Lin Xuan use a little more force when he twisted their necks.

After dealing with yet another bandit, Lin Xuan entered a small cave again.

The figure on the bed was still fast asleep.

However, just as Lin Xuan approached silently, the snoring on the bed suddenly stopped, and the person sat up, alertly asking, "Who's there!"

By the dim candlelight on the cave wall, he could make out the figure in front of him and blurted out, "Wu Er, what are you doing here... No, you're not Wu Er!"

"Enemy attack!"

The man roared, grabbed the large knife from beside the bed, nimbly jumped off the bed, and swung it at Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan reached out and grabbed the blade that was swinging down with great force. He threw a punch, and the man's chest caved in. He looked at Lin Xuan with extremely terrified eyes, twitched a few times on the ground, and then fell still.

Lin Xuan was surprised. This was clearly a newly promoted ninth-grade martial artist, yet his senses were even more acute than those peak ninth-grade martial artists.

But he didn't have time to think and immediately turned around and left the cave.

The commotion woke up the bandits who were sleeping in the other caves. Some of them, wearing only loincloths, rushed out with their weapons.

Lin Xuan's heart sank slightly. He had already dealt with no less than ten people along the way, but there were still more than twenty bandits rushing out at this moment.

It seems that they have grown and expanded considerably in the past six months.

A burly man with a scarred face glanced at Lin Xuan's face and exclaimed in surprise, "It's you!"

As the target of this operation, my cousin had already provided him with a portrait of the flag officer of the Jingbian Division.

But to Zhou Biao's surprise, despite setting up sentries both visible and hidden outside and alarms inside the cave, he still managed to sneak up here silently. This person is definitely not simple!
Of course, even so, he didn't believe that a mere eighth-rank banner officer could escape from their grasp.

Even if he didn't make a move, his men would have killed him with a single sword strike each.

Zhou Biao looked at the figure surrounded by his men and sneered, "You have a path to heaven but choose not to, you have no way to hell but choose to come and die..."

He raised his hand, waved it lightly, and said calmly, "Kill him!"

In the past, even if he had a lot of courage, he wouldn't have dared to kill the flag officer of the Jingbian Division.

But this time, the person standing behind him was the head of the Jingbian Division.

If this matter is handled well, won't they have a powerful backer in Sizhou from now on?

(End of this chapter)