Chapter 204 – Lord Su disappeared again

Su Yan hurriedly put on an inconspicuous navy blue cloak and left the room to go to the stables to get a horse.

The imperial guards on watch were startled, and the captain was busy asking, “Where is Your Excellency going late at night?”

“Go to the west city.” Su Yan said, “Order three or five people, change into cloth clothes and follow me, try not to attract attention.”

The captain of the guards wanted to advise him to bring more people, and was just about to open his mouth when Su Yan came to his ear and whispered a few words. The captain nodded after listening, “All at your lord’s command.”

The night was deep, the streets were empty, and the sound of horses’ hooves stepped over the puddles that remained on the stone floor, splashing strings of water.

Four Tee Riders, shielding a cloaked figure in the center, galloped westward.

Between Huang Hua Fang and Hourong Yong Fang, separated by half of the Imperial City, it was impossible to take a straight line. One could only go west first, crossing Clarification Square and Nanxun Square, to Dong’anmen outside the Imperial City, then turning along the Jade River to Chang’anmen Street directly south of the Imperial City, and bypassing the wall of the West Garden before reaching Hourong Square.

Weekdays people come and go on the street, the carriage can only slowly sneak around, Su Yan did not feel impatient, this night the fast horse travels freely, but feel that the road to the Shen House is extraordinarily long.

As if galloping for a long time, Su Yan suddenly strangled his horse and slowed down, asking the guards beside him, “Why haven’t they arrived yet?”

One of the guards replied, “We are almost there. To the left of your lordship is the Great Hourly Yonfang, to the right of this palace wall is the Tai Liquid Pool of the Western Garden, and if you walk a little further, you will arrive at the Hourly Yonfang.”

“Da Shi Yong Fang ……,” Su Yan murmured, “Before the assassination of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it seems to be in the alleys of Da Shi Yong Fang.”

“Yes. Why did Your Excellency suddenly mention this, but have you made any new discoveries?”

Su Yan turned his head to look at the dark alleyways of the neighborhood, the pathways were all hidden in a silent night. He softly said, “Turtle Gong’s testimony said that there are several secret entrances to the underground ‘Ming Hall’ in this capital, and he only knows two of them. After the public trial assembly, some members of the congregation came to their senses and reported several other underground dens of the congregation’s gatherings, scattered throughout the five cities and various neighborhoods.

“I’ve carefully looked at the intelligence summarized by the Northern Zhenfu Division, and the only thing I don’t see is any mention of Da Shi Yong Fang, do you know why?”

The guard looked at him with a blank expression, seemingly unable to understand the unfinished meaning of the words, “I am humble, please enlighten me, my lord.”

Su Yan sighed darkly.

Sometimes his thinking was too vivid, leading to some jumps in speech, and those who couldn’t keep up with the rhythm would inevitably find it baffling when they heard it. However, if it was Qi Lang, Ah Chui, or even King Yu, they would be able to understand what he meant, and even cite a few examples.

There is also the Royal Master, he always felt that talking with the Royal Master is like playing chess, the other party seems to always be more than him to think of a step, more hidden a move. So some words he didn’t even need to say out loud, the other side can understand.

And Prince Zhu He Lin, although because of the young, unsettled nature of the heart, often think out of the box, but that kind of heavenly, unrestrained temperament, is in the hierarchical deep palace can rarely raise a rare treasure.

–In short, he was raised by these few to spoil his appetite, before picking up the degree of tacit understanding with the others, it is really easy to go from frugality to extravagance, and difficult to go from extravagance to frugality ah.

Su Yan asked himself a bit listlessly, “Because it’s a fish in the net. There must be a stronghold of the Vacuum Cult within Da Shi Yong Fang, and it’s still at a level that ordinary congregations and lower level leaders can’t reach, so that’s why it hasn’t been uncovered.”

The guard was surprised, “In that case, this place is dangerous and should not be stayed in for long, your honor should return to the house as soon as possible. It will be safer to come back tomorrow during the day.”

After the bombing, the capital has strengthened the night patrol, not only the five cities military division, even the capital army also teamed up to patrol. They just this way, they encountered four times to stop the interrogation, show the seal of the Da Lisi before passing the pass, and the seven kill camp or vacuum religion of the remnants want to roam the city, the difficulty can be said to be not small.

Nonetheless, the four guards still didn’t dare to let their guard down, and when they heard Su Yan say that they were stepping on the edge of the beast’s nest at this very moment, all of them looked grave.

“Continuing onward, also going to Hourly Yong Fang.” Su Yan smiled, “The meat that was sent to their mouths, they haven’t bared their fangs to pounce on it yet, probably pondering whether it’s a trap or not. Let them ponder on it.”

He reared his whip and urged his horse to gallop westward, and the guards, unable to do so, had to beat their horses to follow.

Not long after the imperial city and the west garden, into the big, small Yong Fang junction of the alley. Ahead is a stone arch bridge, Su Yan was about to get off his horse and lead the line across, next to a guard suddenly called out “careful”, jumped down and pounced on him —

A cold arrow shot out from under the bridge hole without a sound, the arrowhead was pitch black and flew past Su Yan’s side. If it wasn’t for the guard’s sharp reaction and timely action, this arrow was afraid to see blood and seal the throat.

The remaining three guards drew their swords and escorted Su Yan to withdraw. However, they saw twenty to thirty silhouettes leaping out like ghosts from underneath the bridge, on the roofs of the nearby houses, and among the trees beside the road. The silhouettes were all dressed in black armor, black scarves covering their faces, and the blades in their hands brought up a cold murderous aura as they stabbed at the guards.

These several guards see the other side of the number of people, the sword moves tricky and poisonous, and each other to cooperate with each other and not a word of nonsense, obviously well-trained assassins, the heart of the austere.

But they can serve the imperial court, their own martial arts is outstanding, also through the wind and waves, even if the enemy is outnumbered suddenly respond to the battle, but also not panic.

The guard who pounced on Su Yan, holding him longitudinally on the horse, without hesitation towards the way to come galloped, as long as along the Chang’anmen Street to the imperial city near, there will certainly be guards can ask for help.

The other three guards were dragging and pestering the pursuing assassins, trying to buy them time to call for help even at the risk of being injured and perishing.

Su Yan was not in danger for the first time, but this feeling of death coming in the next second as the sword swept by still made his chest clench and his heart beat wildly. He inhaled deeply, and felt out a Jin Yi Wei special firework from his bosom, and quickly lit it.

The fireworks went up into the sky with a sharp whistle, a red light that was extremely striking in the darkness of the night.

A few black arrows shot from the rear, the guard leaned down and pressed Su Yan tightly onto his horse’s back, avoiding the arrows before shoving the reins into Su Yan’s hands, and said loudly in the whistling night wind, “In case my humble servant falls off his horse, don’t be alarmed, my lord, and just lie down on your horse’s back like this and continue to run towards the east, and you’ll soon encounter the defenders!”

“- You listen!” Suyan said.

The squire heard the sound of hoofbeats …… not only from the horse beneath him, but the overlapping of countless hoofbeats, like the muffled thunder rolling across the sky at the time of the hibernation, and even the slate floor trembled ……

“It’s reinforcements!” The guards called out in ecstasy.

“No, it’s an ambush.” Su Yan looked at the tidal wave of Jin Yi Wei Tee Riders coming in front of him, his gaze bright as a starburst, “The enemy is dark and I’m bright, rather than always worrying about cold arrows in the dark, it’s better to lure the snake out of the hole. Tonight hard work you four, with me as a bait back.”

The guard lost his words for a moment, and in his heart he did not know whether to be impressed or terrified.

Su Yan was afraid that he would misunderstand and think that he was negligent of human life, and he explained, “It is not my intention to use you as bait, but I was about to go out, so I thought that I would leave a back-up, so that I could cope with any unexpected situation.”

The guards sighed: ”Your honor is only using himself as a bait, why should you feel guilty in your heart? In the event of danger, we are equipped with martial arts skills, we can’t fight and escape, but how about you, my lord? Have you ever thought that if we are cowardly and afraid of death, leaving you to escape, what should you do?”

Su Yan smiled, “I know that no matter what you all do, you will not abandon me. All of you are loyal and righteous people, otherwise why would the emperor send you to protect me?”

As he spoke, the brocade guards and men had already swept past them, pouncing straight on the black-clothed assassins chasing after them from the rear.

The captain of the guards who was instructed by Su Yan before he left the house steered his horse close to him, nervously sizing up Su Yan, seeing that he was unharmed, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and cupped his fists, “I am fortunate to have arranged for reinforcements in time, and ambushed them across from Dashiyongfang, near the Treasure Banknote Bureau in the West Garden. Just waiting for your lordship’s signal to act immediately.”

Su Yan turned his horse around and chased the assassins along with them, saying, “These black-clothed men are all presumably assassins of the Seven Slaughter Battalion, leave them alive, I still have to interrogate them one by one.”

The captain immediately passed on the order.

Su Yan once again came to the side of the stone bridge where he was attacked, and saw that the man in black was fighting and retreating, and seemed to want to break out and escape, but was repeatedly blocked back by the entangled jinyi guards, intending to capture him alive.

A few black-clad assassins, cornered, bit the wax shell of the pills hidden in their mouths, and then knelt on their swords, their bodies convulsing.

Su Yan hastily raised his voice and said, “Don’t let them kill themselves!”

The brocade guards rushed over and tried to pry open the assassins’ teeth, but they saw these people’s pupils gradually turning blood-red, letting out roars of agony, and their true qi stirring within their bodies, their power climbing up and up in a matter of moments.

“-Blood pupils!” One of the brocade guards called up, “Do not meet their eyes, be careful not to fall for the mesmerizing spell!”

Blood pupil state of the assassin crazy ferocious, puppet-like do not know pain, and can easily perform nightmare magic, extremely difficult to deal with. In the blink of an eye, there are too close to the brocade guards inadvertently hit, consciousness into the realm of ecstasy, do not distinguish between friend and foe to launch an attack, the scene was suddenly a burst of chaos.

Seeing this, the guards repeatedly urged Su Yan to leave.

Su Yan also knew that in the current situation, it would be useless for him to stay, and in turn, he would have to distract the crowd to protect him, so he withdrew from the battle circle under the cover of his guards.

As he left along the riverbank, a flying clawed hundred practice rope shot out coldly from beneath the dark water, clasping Su Yan’s shoulder and yanking him violently from the back of his galloping horse into the river, splashing out with a huge splash.

The guards were so alarmed that they flew and jumped into the river, rejecting the enemy and searching for them in the white waves of the water.

However, until the water surface regained its calmness, they still did not find Su Yan’s figure, very chagrined and unwillingly presumed that the assassin in the river dragged Lord Su into the water, and then immediately led the people to swim away with the current and left this section of the river.

This person is good at water, hands should not be underestimated, more terrible is the will of the firm and tenacious, the whole hidden lurking, and finally seized the fleeting moment. Can in the heavy protection of the people seized away, a hit after the fight to escape, in the grasp of entry and exit can be described as exquisite.

The captain of the guards had an iron color and ordered through gritted teeth, “Search! Split into two teams, carefully search upstream and downstream, both in the river and on the bank, make sure to rescue Lord Su safely, or else you’ll be waiting for your head to be raised to face the Holy Spirit!”