Chapter 31: Slaughter
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh_
The peak of the mountain was reflecting bright sunshine and stood out, in stark contrast to the deep blue sky behind it. A muddy, winding road crossed along the foot of the mountain, and there were rarely any travelers on it.
Wearing a standard armor and a custom long sword, Wu Qi was riding on a deer with a single horn on its head, examining the windy road beneath him. The deer was nibbling on so moss on a rock, grinding its teeth against the said rock.
Maybe the moss was not delicious, the deer snorted unhappily and whipped its long tail out and hit Doggie on his face.
(Side note: If you forgot who is Doggie, refer to Chapter 7)
Doggie wiped his nose. He was wearing the sa standard armor of the City Guards, and wore a smile on his face. He pushed the deer tail away, then extended his hand and proudly stroked a twelve-feet-tall battle ax that was there beside him. The head of the ax was almost three feet in length. Without even needing to swing it, one could already tell how much damage this ax could cause.
One month ago, after the night of the assassin incident, Yi Yan and his brothers had stopped all their dirty tricks completely. They began to party every night, in an almost hysterical condition, playing and torturing their servant ladies and maids wantonly, as if they wanted to live their luxurious and extravagant lives for the few days they still could.
Within a month, Zhang Hu had brought back all the soldiers of the third battalion from ng Village. Under the constant persuasion of Lu Chengfeng, Lieutenant Hu Wei, who was the commanding officer of the third battalion, joined him as his third hanger-on. Those five hundred elite soldiers under him had beco Lu Chengfeng’s personal guards.
Not just them, Zhang Hu had also brought back six hundred strong young n from ng Village, including Doggie. All of them were endurance filled n who could fight. With the stationed four thousand soldiers from Little ng City, together with a huge amount of money and food sent by Wu Qi, ng Village no longer needed so many strong young n to protect their village. Therefore, the elders of ng Village had wisely agreed to send the six hundred strongest young villagers to Little ng City.
No matter how hard they worked in ng Village, they were still just a villager. By joining Lu Chengfeng and working in Little ng City, these villagers might build themselves a brighter future. Those elders in ng Village had wise minds, and their decision was wise too. These six hundred strong young n had been grouped into Lu Chengfeng’s personal guard on the day they arrived. Besides this, Lu Chengfeng also took out a book, which was a secret skill of the Lu Family – ‘Mighty Ox Strength’ and gave it to these n from ng Village.
One month later, the punishnts for Yi Yan and his brothers, that had been decided by the King of the Lu Kingdom, arrived in Little ng City. Corruption and abuse of the law, failure to perform their duties, etc… Yi Yan and his brothers had been sentenced for many offenses. As expected, Yi Yan himself had been removed from the position of Mayor, and Lu Chengfeng was appointed as the acting Mayor.
Everything ran according to Wu Qi’s plan, except the punishnts for Yi Yan brothers. The attitude of King Lu made Wu Qi puzzled. The Yi brothers didn’t suffer from any further punishnts, and were only ordered to return to the Yi Family and shut themselves up to ponder over their own mistakes. Obviously, the Yi Family had used their connections to influence the decisions of their punishnts. In the end, besides losing their jobs, they weren’t required to be held responsible for any other matters.
“A snake will bite the hand of he who spared its life, the Yi brothers must die!”
Wu Qi sat firmly on the single horn deer, narrowing his eyes and looked far off in the direction of Little ng City. This place was three hundred miles away from Little ng City, and it was the only road that led to it. If Yi Yan and his n wanted to return to Ruyang, this was the only road they could use.
Doggie, with the sa silly smile on his face, stroked the big ax again, then slamd on Wu Qi’s shoulder with his hand and asked, “Big brother, when will the n you want to kill arrive?”
Wu Qi remained silent and thought for a while, then he nodded his head slowly and said, “Maybe another hour? They had too many coaches, and with so many won and other family mbers, plus the current road conditions, they won’t be reaching here for a while.”
Patting on Doggie’s shoulder, Wu Qi frowned and said, “Doggie, didn’t big brother Zhang Hu ntion that we only want adults when he was at ng Village? Why did you co back with him?”
Doggie’s smile suddenly disappeared, and, said with a deep voice, “My dad died; I need to support my mom and my younger siblings. By coming to Little ng City, the acting Mayor will pay well. Also, I can practice the ‘Mighty Ox Strength’ skill that the young master gave us. This is so much more powerful than the inherited skill of ng Village, so why shouldn’t I co here?”
Clenching his fists tight on the ax, Doggie raised his head up proudly and stared at a passing cloud. With a smile, he said, “All the uncles in the village told that won outside of ng Village are tastier! I want to earn a lot of money, then I’ll buy few won from outside of the mountain and bring them back to ng Village. I want to have children, a lot of my own children!”
Wu Q’s face beca rigid instantly. Doggie’s ambitious dream had made him recall Le Xiaobai. There was once when Le Xiaobai stood in front of the famous red light district in Amsterdam, Netherland, raised up his head up and shouted, “Give won, I want a lot of won!”
Breathing out a long sigh, Wu Qi spoke helplessly, “Your na, Doggie, is an awful na. Let give you a new na? … How about ng Xiaobai?”
Doggie nodded his head indifferently. He couldn’t tell if the na was good or bad, he replied straightforwardly, “ng Xiaobai? Sounds good, so I’m ng Xiaobai from now on!” He turned around and told the group of muscular n behind happily, “Folks, from now on I’m ng Xiaobai… This is the na big brother Wu Qi gave!”
These muscular n were separated up into smaller groups of ten and were drinking so hard liquor happily. When they heard what ng Xiaobai said, all of them raised their wine sacks high up and cheered. With extre excitent, these n finished all the liquor in their wine sacks. Their faces turned red and their necks beca thicker in an instant, the veins on them expanded visibly.
These tough guys were like a pack of mad bulls. With just a command from Wu Qi, they would sprint forward and rip everything apart.
Mighty Ox Strength, the secret skill from the Lu Family, it was a perfect match for these tough and simple n from ng Village. After just practicing it for over twenty days, these n had beco fearless, like those mad bulls, ready to strike on a waving red cloth.
Hu Wei and his five hundred elite soldiers from the third battalion were waiting quietly in the woods beside them. All of them remained silent, like a hill, and not a single movent could be seen. Even the Raptors they were riding were standing firm and quiet, occasionally swinging their tails to chase away so small bugs.
Compared to the n from ng Village, who were like hot boiling lava, the third battalion was like a silent iceberg; each and every single one carried a frightening force of devastation.
A parade of coaches and horses gradually appeared at the end of the road. There were more than a hundred coaches in this parade, and three hundred cavalries were riding along beside them. The snake-like parade was moving slowly in Wu Qi’s direction. The Yi brothers had finally co.
Within this parade, aside from all the relatives, servants, and guards of the Yi family, there was also an emissary from the Capital of the Lu Kingdom, who was here to announce the punishnt, and a team of more than a hundred people from the Yi Family who were following along as well. These Yi Family n ca from Ruyang purposely to fetch and escort the Yi brothers back ho.
“I wonder, will there be any assassins among these people?” Wu Qi stared at the parade, then he gave a signal with a hand gesture.
A man from ng Village sprinted into the woods, then made a sharp and ear-splitting whistle that carried a strange tone. In the next second, a continuous whistling sound ca from the woods afar, and the whistle sound kept passing farther and farther until it could be heard in a narrow valley along the road.
When Yi Yan’s parade was nearing the valley, a strange howl suddenly ca out from it. In an instant, nurous razor sharp arrows had shot out from the valley toward the Yi Family’s parade.
Together with the weird howling and cheering sound, more than two thousand barbarians were dancing and hopping around in joy, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands and rushing out of the valley. Behind these barbarian strikers, a few hundred barbarians kept shooting arrows with the bows in their hands, sending those poisonous arrows into the sky in front of them.
Although the villagers of ng Village had a deep-seated hatred with these barbarians, after living in the depths of ng Mountain for generations, they had developed a secret relationship with a few barbarian clans. A lot of rare and precious materials were harvested by these barbarians in the most remote areas of ng mountain and traded with ng Village.
Therefore, with the help of these barbarians who had a secret relationship with ng Village, they managed to manipulate the real barbarians into setting up a trap along the roadside, ready to ambush a parade of coaches which was allegedly full of salts, foods, and beautiful won.
With Wu Qi’s careful and brilliant planning, these nearly three thousand barbarians never suspected that they were being used by soone else; they just stayed hiding happily in the valley. Right now, when they heard the signal, they imdiately rushed out without hesitation and initiated the crazy and brutal attack toward Yi Yan’s coaches.
Those poor guards of Yi Family, before they could find out who was the attacker, those arrows had rained down upon them like a storm, killing nearly half of them. Wu Qi had witnessed the power of these arrows before. Once they hit soone, the person would have his body begin to shrink almost imdiately, his blood turning into so nasty dirty liquid and splashing out in an instant.
The cries of pain never stopped as more and more guards got killed every second. Facing the attacks of these barbarians, those guards’ reactions were obviously slower.
These guards were brought here for the Yi brothers by their family, and were not that good at fighting. The biggest help for Yi Yan in Little ng City were actually those guards who betrayed him. Those warriors, who had lived for a long ti in Little ng City, were the ones who had the most combat experience and strongest abilities.
The barbarians flocked towards Yi Yan’s coaches in the thousands, and surrounded all of them. After a round of countless blades slashing and axes chopping, all of Yi Yan’s guards were killed on the spot. A few coaches were pulled to the roadside by these barbarians and had their door curtains tear down. The cries of won from these coaches stimulated these barbarians to attack even harder.
Luckily, the Yi Family had sent a team of guards from Ruyang to protect Yi Yan. These guards were the elites of the Yi Family. Their equipnt, cultivation level, and fighting spirits were far above the level of those sissy guards from before.
Nearly hundreds of these guards had gathered around Yi Yan, Yi De, Yi Xing, and Yi Cu, forming a huge round-shaped formation, and they started moving slowly to the side of the road. They were heading to a field with large rocks scattered through it. With the strength of these guards, if they could get to that field and stay in a group, they could defend themselves and fight off these barbarians.
But, sothing that could bring ultimate despair to Yi Yan and his siblings finally happened!
Three barbarian leaders suddenly rushed out from valley, each holding a bone flute, a bone staff, and a bone blade. These weapons unleashed a grueso and shivering breeze, an ear-splitting ghostly howl, and a six-foot long, grayish blade beam respectively towards Yi Yan’s group.
The howling noise of the bone flute could disperse the soul of a human. The freezing breeze from the bone staff could suck out one’s bone marrow. On the other hand, the blade beam of the bone blade always targeted at one’s neck. In just the blink of an eye, seventeen elite guards of the Yi Family had been killed. All of them had their head chopped down by the blade beam, and their souls and bone marrow were dispersed and sucked away by the chilling breeze and ghostly howl.
An insidious sneer suddenly ca out from one of the coaches. In the next second, four faded shadowy figures burst out from the coach.
Wu Qi kept nodding his head. So Yi Family really had sent new assassins to protect Yi Yan and his brothers! Raising his hand slowly, Wu Qi sneered and said, “Everybody get ready. Slaughter every single person down there!”
The n from ng Village got on their single horn deer, and the soldiers of the third battalion got on their Raptors. With Wu Qi leading from the front, all of the n descended from the mountain slowly, getting closer to the battlefield quietly.
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