NABC Chapter 49 Who are you?
Chapter 49 Who are you?
Chapter 52 Who are you?
Silence reigned all around.
He was gone for about half an hour, and when he returned to the room, everything was as usual.
Hilu nodded her little head and whispered, "Jiangyuan, is this the place?"
She was both excited and nervous.
What excited her was that she had been staying in the Frostclaw tribe and hadn't even explored the Moondwelling Valley much, but she never expected to come to a place that no one in the tribe had ever set foot in.
This sense of novelty, transcending such a great distance, made her heart beat a little faster.
The tense part is that this time, she might have to kill someone.
Like Jiang Yuan, she had only ever killed monsters before.
Monsters and humans are different, a fact she vaguely understood even though no one had ever taught her.
"That's right." Jiang Yuan leaned close to her ear and whispered instructions: "Use stealth to scout out the layout outside and the knights' positions. Mainly the second-tier ones, hmm, one of them has a hideous scar across his face—"
Jiang Yuan's breath tickled Xilu's ear.
Hilu's cat ears twitched uncontrollably.
She listened attentively, trying her best to remember every word.
After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he earnestly instructed, "Just gather intelligence first this time. Safety is the top priority. Protect yourself. If you feel something is wrong, come back immediately."
After all, we can leave here at any time.
"Mmm!" Hilu nodded vigorously, her figure rapidly fading, even her outline melting into the air, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Yuan stood right in front of her, but he could no longer sense her presence at all.
It was as if the slight warmth beside me just now was an illusion.
Jiang Yuan didn't linger. He walked to the door and turned the doorknob.
"What can I do for you?"
A few meters outside the door, the maid from before was still there. Seeing the door open, she quickly asked...
Jiang Yuan didn't look at her; his gaze went past her and towards the corridor.
At the end of the corridor, a man in armor took off his helmet and was holding it there, looking this way.
Jiang Yuan recognized him as one of the three second-tier knights.
He must have been tired of wearing the helmet for too long, so he took it off, revealing a somewhat impatient face underneath.
"What time is it? Why are you still sending knights to guard me?" Jiang Yuan sneered inwardly, without replying to the maid.
He was too lazy to act anymore, so he just stood there with the door open.
The maid looked puzzled, stepped forward, and asked again, "You—"
Jiang Yuan simply closed the door.
He sat back on the bed and softly called out, "Hilu?"
no respond.
Hilu has already gone out.
Time slipped away quietly as we waited.
until a certain moment.
Jiang Yuan suddenly got up and opened the door again.
Outside the door, the maid was dozing off when she was startled awake by the sound of the door opening. She hurriedly looked up.
Seeing Jiang Yuan staring straight at her with the door open, she panicked and didn't know where to look.
"you----"
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Yuan closed the door again.
At the end of the corridor.
The second-tier knight "Rhys" looked at the door that had been closed again, a contemptuous smile playing on his lips: "Fool, only now realizing something's wrong? Trying to run away?"
He licked his cheek with his tongue, shifted to a more relaxed stance, and found the long night watch utterly boring.
What is the captain still hesitating about? It would be so much easier to just kill him. Why make him stand here like an idiot?
But not long after.
The door opened again.
Rhys saw "Rogge" standing in the doorway, still the same, not saying a word, just quietly watching them.
Rhys frowned, wondering if he should go over and give this reckless kid a warning to behave himself.
And that became his last thought.
The next instant, a "hoarse" sound came from his throat, his eyes widened suddenly, and his pupils were filled with disbelief and horror.
A long, slender, silver-gray dagger, accompanied by a petite figure, gradually appeared beside him.
His neck was completely severed and separated from his body.
Bang!
Its head fell to the ground and rolled dully.
The body remained standing, blood gushing from the clean cut, splashing a deep crimson stain on the wall.
In front of the door.
Jiang Yuan took in the whole scene, and then he flashed to the maid whose pupils were dilated with fright.
Before the maid could even scream, he delivered a swift and decisive chop to the back of her neck.
Her body went limp, and she fell silently to the ground.
Jiang Yuan strode towards the end of the corridor, stopped beside Xilu, looked her up and down, and asked, "Are you alright?"
Hilu pursed her lips and shook her head.
The blade of the dagger in his hand was clean, without a speck of blood.
"Let's hurry," Jiang Yuan asked as they walked, his speech quickening, yet his thoughts remaining perfectly clear: "Was Governor Marcus alone in his room?"
Hilu had already investigated and found the location of Captain Corwin of the Guards, as well as the location of the Governor, but the door was closed at the time, so she did not go in rashly.
Time is of the essence, and every piece of intelligence is crucial.
Hilu said, "Yes, there are two other people besides him, but their auras are very weak."
As she spoke, her voice suddenly softened, "They are—"
"What are they doing?" Jiang Yuan asked curiously.
"—Having a baby"
Hilu opened her mouth, her ear tips turning red.
She didn't know what was wrong with her, why she brought up having children in front of Jiang Yuan, and she had a strange feeling about it.
As they talked, the two quickly crossed the corridor and reached the fork in the road.
It was late at night, and most of the maids and knights had returned to their rooms. They did not encounter anyone else along the way.
"Okay, Shilu, go and deal with that Corwin."
According to Hillu's investigation, of the three second-tier knights, one had already been dealt with by her, Corwin was in the core area of the castle, and the other was not there; he should be outside.
If we can eliminate this one threat now, we will have the situation completely under our control.
Hilu nodded, and her figure disappeared again.
Following the direction indicated by Hiru, Jiang Yuan stepped onto the central stone steps.
I climbed the stone steps and came to a door.
With his five senses heightened, even before he got close, he could faintly hear some kind of sound coming from inside.
"Still working on it? What kind of medicine did you use? If you can bring it back to Earth, it'll be worth a fortune."
An idea flashed through Jiang Yuan's mind, and he decisively opened the door.
The sound of the door opening rang out.
By the light of the oil lamp burning inside, Jiang Yuan was able to see the situation inside.
Upon hearing the door open, the maid behind her didn't stop moving at all, showing no reaction whatsoever, as if she was already used to it, and didn't even turn around.
"Corwin?" Consul Marcus grunted, his fat jiggling with his movements.
He then seemed to realize something was wrong—he opened the door but didn't hear the expected response.
He peered slowly and laboriously toward the door through his enormous belly.
At that glance, he was terrified: "What, what are you going to do? Where are they! Corwin! Rhys! Where is the knight? Where is my knight!"
Startled, he shoved the woman beneath him away and frantically scrambled toward the head of the bed, crumpling the sheets in his haste.
The two women screamed in terror at the sudden turn of events.
"Don't move." Jiang Yuan raised his bow, nocked an arrow, and said calmly, "Your knight won't be coming."
Marcus's fat face jiggled as he exclaimed in panic, "Impossible! Impossible! Who are you? You're not Roger! Who sent you?!"
Jiang Yuan drew back the bowstring, but did not rush to release the arrow.
He believed that Hil had already dealt with the second-tier knight.
Marcus has been entrenched in Cape Territory for many years, plundering countless amounts of the people's wealth; he must be hiding some kind of slush fund.
If he's well hidden, I can kill him with an arrow and then never find him again.
He needed to make the fat man feel that there was still room for negotiation.
Marcus crawled to the head of the bed, his large body trembling like a leaf, and said in a trembling voice, "You can't kill me—I have money, I have plenty of money, you can have as much as you want—"
"Cooperate well, I—" Jiang Yuan was about to speak slowly when his eyes suddenly narrowed.
His powerful eyesight allowed him to vaguely see that Marcus, using his body as a shield, was quietly reaching under the pillow beneath him, his fingers groping for something in the darkness.
The movement was very light, yet Jiang Yuan captured it clearly.
A bad feeling welled up inside me.
Jiang Yuan no longer hesitated and released his grip.
"Whoosh!"
Piercing shot!
The arrow gleamed, piercing the air with a sharp whistling sound.