As Shang Luoshu's voice faded, the room fell instantly silent, save for the gentle breathing of the two people.
Lu Yinxi looked at the man in front of her. Gradually, a mist welled up in her eyes. The grievances in her heart were piling up bit by bit. No one would be happy to hear what Shang Luoshu said after waking up from a coma, let alone Lu Yinxi, for whom Shang Luoshu was the one she loved!
The man saw her aggrieved look and his heart softened a bit. However, he still forced himself to keep a straight face.
"You never take my words to heart!"
Huh?
Lu Yinxi was slightly stunned. Before she could understand the meaning of his words, she felt a tightness around her waist and the warmth of his breath on her collarbone.
"Xier, please don't use the Word Spirit again, okay?"
Shang Luoshu already knew that the time she spent in a coma and suffering after using the Word Spirit was getting longer each time. Although it was only four or five days now, if this continued, would there come a day when she would never wake up after using it?
Just thinking about such a scenario playing out in front of him in the future made it impossible for him to contain himself. The strength in his hands tightened gradually, as if this way he could prevent losing her.
Lu Yinxi was held tightly in the man's arms. Their bodies were so close that they were like conjoined twins. She could even clearly feel his body trembling. He was scared.
However, even so, she couldn't give him a promise.
She slipped her slender hands out of Shang Luoshu's embrace and placed them on the back of his neck. The young girl deepened the hug and said slowly, "But if I don't use the Word Spirit, you'll die..."
There were ten Wolf Guards. Fang Qinhu and his subordinates were no match for them at all. The Word Spirit was the only solution in that situation.
The man's hands froze, his heart in a turmoil.
Yes, she was right! If Xier hadn't used the Word Spirit, they would all have died.
In the end, it was his own lack of strength!
The strength in his forearms tightened again. It was as if their owner wanted to completely meld the person in his arms into his very bones and blood.
It was a long while before Lu Yinxi heard Shang Luoshu's voice again.
"Xier, I will become stronger!"
At dawn, a group of people were anxiously waiting in the forest. It wasn't until the sun popped up from the east that they finally saw the people they were eager to see.
The leader and two other brothers.
Joy instantly spread across everyone's faces. However, it faded a bit when they saw the expressions of the three.
"Leader, what happened? Was the mission not successful?"
Someone stepped forward boldly and asked. He stole a glance at the other two, but no one answered his question.
When Zhou Kou walked into the crowd and the joy on the soldiers' faces had completely disappeared, he finally made up his mind to speak.
"Prepare your luggage. We'll set off for Longxi after noon!"
Zhou Kou's night reconnaissance of the enemy camp had been extremely successful. If it weren't for the patrolling teams, he would have thought he had entered an unguarded territory.
It seemed that the two large armies hadn't expected that someone would dare to break into a camp of tens of thousands of people with only two subordinates. Nor could they have imagined that the three of them would even dare to eavesdrop outside the main tent.
Having served the Regent King for many years, many people in the army had developed an arrogant and domineering attitude. Zheng Dai and Zhu Jie were no exceptions. Therefore, in this scheme of Shang Mozheng, their attention was almost entirely focused on Shang Luoshu.
Once Shang Luoshu left, they completely let down their guard, which was why Zhou Kou was able to successfully obtain important information.
The first piece of information was about His Highness the King of Jing.
From Zheng Dai's words, Zhou Kou learned that Shang Luoshu had escaped from Yangxian and was heading for Longxi, but Shang Mozheng had already sent the Wolf Guards to intercept and kill him.
In addition, he also heard that in a few days, Zheng Dai would arrange for his soldiers to stage a fight with the "rebels" in Yangxian, and then "reason with them and move them with emotion" to "recruit" all 80,000 of them, so that they could become the Regent King's troops openly.
Regarding the "recruitment", Zhou Kou had actually had a premonition for a long time. Once the news of victory reached the capital, even if His Majesty was unhappy, those tens of thousands of people would still be under the Regent King's command.
Even though he knew this in advance, he couldn't change anything.
What he should be more concerned about at the moment was the safety of His Highness the King of Jing. With ten Wolf Guards, he could almost imagine the fierce battle the King would face if he encountered them.
Could the King survive the Wolf Guards?
Zhou Kou didn't know. All he knew was that his mission this time was to接应 His Highness the King of Jing. Even if the King had already died, he had to bring his body back!
Ten men on ten horses led the way. With the personal guards protecting the carriage in the middle, it slowly drove out of the city gate. All the on - looking commoners couldn't help but turn their heads.
Longxi was a rather remote place on the map of the Great Qi. As the necessary route to Longxi, Zhao County wasn't in a very good geographical position. So it was no wonder that the locals rarely saw such a grand occasion and were quite curious.
Lu Yinxi was sitting in the carriage, changing Shang Luoshu's dressing at the moment.
Zhao County was just a county. Many medicinal herbs were not available, so they couldn't give Shang Luoshu the best recuperation. Therefore, after discussion, everyone decided to go directly to Longxi.
With Uncle Su in charge there, they could get whatever they needed. However, since they were traveling in a carriage, the speed would definitely be slower than riding a horse. So they could only arrive at the earliest the next day.
In the capital, at the Regent King's Mansion
Shang Mozheng hadn't been this angry for a long time. Yang Li peeked carefully through the crack of the study door at the scene inside.
All the furnishings were destroyed. The messenger was brutally killed under the sword, but the anger in the Regent King's heart hadn't subsided. He stabbed the sword into the already lifeless body and pulled it out again, repeating this action.
It was not until an hour later that Yang Li heard the summoning from inside. He didn't dare to delay. He immediately asked someone to go in and clean up, while he himself respectfully stood outside the study without moving.
He knew the reason for his master's anger.
Just now, the news came that the Wolf Guards, who had been missing for many days, had been completely wiped out!
When he first heard this news, Yang Li almost lost his balance. The fear that had been buried deep in his heart for a long time climbed up bit by bit like the forked tongue of a poisonous snake, making him break out in a cold sweat.
It was no wonder he was so scared.
These fifteen Wolf Guards of Shang Mozheng were specially trained by him over many years. They were the fifteen most top - notch killing tools in the world. Over the years, they had helped the Regent King get rid of countless people. But now they had all been killed by Shang Luoshu.
If Shang Mozheng wasn't angry, there would be something wrong!
However, now that the situation had developed to this point, after venting his anger, he still had to find another way to get rid of Shang Luoshu.
Looking at the large pool of blood on the ground, Shang Mozheng suddenly remembered, for some reason, the last messenger he had killed in the study...
"Your Highness, this subordinate discovered that the Fourth Miss can... can use sorcery!"
"It was just because of a single word she said that our arrows fell to the ground!"
"Your Highness, you must believe this subordinate. Every word this subordinate says is true! Your Highness!"
At that time, he didn't believe these words. However, after several failed assassinations and the loss of the fifteen Wolf Guards, Shang Mozheng couldn't help but think in this direction!
So, was it Lu Yinxi?