mtl008 Chapter 199 Escape!
Chapter 199 Escape!
Chapter 199 Escape!
"Pfft..." Baili Ce, who was galloping wildly on horseback, spat out a mouthful of blood and almost fell off his horse.
She didn't dare ask why Baili Ming had suddenly become Song Zhaohe, and just kept speeding northward.
Before long, Gu Guards appeared from all directions.
"This way!" He immediately chose the gap with the fewest Gu Guards, and led the few remaining hidden guards out to fight their way out. He prayed that he would not be caught by Wang Qingyan, while feeling an uncontrollable chill running through his body.
Before long, fewer and fewer of their men fled. Once she had shaken off the Gu guards by relying on her knowledge of the terrain, only Zhao Qi, who was with Song Zhaohe, remained by her side.
"Bang!" As he rounded a street corner, Baili Ce was tripped by a pile of bamboo poles lying in front of him, and he and his horse were sent flying far away.
"Hurry—" Zhao Qi, who was running a little behind her, reined in his horse and stopped abruptly. He didn't even care that his hand was bleeding from the injury, and quickly jumped off the horse to scout the way.
"..." Bai Li Ce, who was momentarily speechless from the fall, tried his best to recover as quickly as possible.
next moment--
“There’s no road ahead!”
"..." Damn it, what do you mean by "everywhere is a dead end"?
"bring..."
"follow me!"
Just as she was about to "sacrifice herself for righteousness" and let Zhao Qi take Song Zhaohe away first, a familiar yet aged voice came over.
"Quick! This way!" For some reason, Blind Tan suddenly regained his sight and ran out of the alley next door to lead the way for them.
Bai Li Ce's eyes sharpened, and he nodded suggestively to Zhao Qi. He then went to help Song Zhaohe, who was lying on the horse, and followed Tan the Blind.
"This way..."
"This way..."
"quick!"
Tan the Blind led them through a maze of twists and turns, until they suddenly found themselves in a dead end!
"arrive."
"Click—" Then a brick was dented, opening up an underground passage.
Turning my head...
Zhao Qi's knife was already at his head.
Blind Tan trembled in fright, stammering, "You...you..."
The dagger in Baili Ce's hand was only an inch or two away from his waist.
Pretending that the "leading the way" incident never happened, Baili Ce and Zhao Qi quickly helped Song Zhaohe down into the tunnel.
Even though he knew that Baili Ce was present when the assassins surrounded him, and that the city's Gu Guards were chasing him like madmen, Wang Qingyan still chose to return home.
He kept telling himself that she was just teasing him.
She'll go back once she's had enough and calmed down.
"..." But when he saw the corpses of the Gu Guards scattered all over the ground and the dismembered body of Jiu Er, he could no longer find an excuse to deceive himself.
“Heh…” Wang Qingyan smiled sweetly as he picked up the blood-stained “yin-yuan rope”.
What did she do wrong?
She was simply bewitched.
If we kill them all, things will be fine.
......
After urgently treating Song Zhaohe's wounds, Baili Ce was filled with mixed emotions.
There were more than just the four of them in the tunnel; there were also many elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people, as well as several slow-moving human Gu that had not yet fully recovered.
Bai Li Ce and Zhao Qi sat on either side of Song Zhao He, watching the people around them with high vigilance.
The people around them stared at them like thieves, as if they might be pounced on and killed if they weren't careful.
The atmosphere gradually became tense...
Amidst an extremely uncomfortable sensation, Baili Ce and Zhao Qi gripped their blades tightly, their hearts pounding with fear. If they dared...
Suddenly, a young man with a limp limped toward them!
With a "whoosh," Baili Ce's dagger was halfway out, but he said...
"Have something to eat," the young man said, taking out half a pancake.
It looked cold and hard, and had mold spots on it, so it must have been stored by him for a long time.
Bai Lize quietly observed the young man, "..."
Zhao Qi, who was standing next to him, also shook his head warily.
"Have something to eat," said Blind Tan, who was setting bones for someone.
"Thank you, but no need," Bai Li Ce said, putting the dagger behind his back without sheathing it.
In such a situation, even towards a three-year-old child, the greatest malice must be maintained.
"..." The young man took back the half-cake with a hint of disappointment.
He sat down quietly... and smiled slightly.
Just as she and Zhao Qi were wondering what he was up to, the young man suddenly asked, "Are you Wang Qingyan's wife?"
! !
Bai Li Ce almost stabbed him.
Then he said, "Thank you."
???
Bai Lizhe, whose mood had been like a rollercoaster ride, could hardly believe his ears.
"Thank me?" She was covered in cold sweat, and if this continued, her heart would not be able to take it.
The young man said, "I remember you once distributed porridge at the largest matchmaking temple in the city."
"..." I completely forgot.
Would she do something like that?
"Because of that porridge, my mother, my sister, and I all survived."
"You're welcome, I'm not doing this for you."
"But our family did get to eat delicious rice porridge."
The young man's voice was gentle, and even carried a hint of timidity due to his poor health.
Yet it was this gentle, sickly voice that gradually calmed Baili Ce down.
Listening to him speak again, I suddenly felt full of energy.
Looking at the eyes of the people around me, they no longer seemed so hostile.
"And last year at the end of the year, if it weren't for you asking us to make those lanterns, many people probably wouldn't have made it through the winter."
"..." She looked at Blind Tan with some confusion.
Having been tied to Wang Qingyan for so long, she never imagined that anyone would still remember these things.
Blind Tan nodded, walked over and took the half-eaten pancake from the young man's hand, and looked at Song Zhaohe and said, "Give this gentleman some; he still has a long way to go."
After hesitating for a moment, Baili Ce finally took the half-cake.
Seeing that she had accepted it, the people around her handed her a soft leather water bottle.
Slowly, she broke off pieces of the hard, dry biscuit, soaked them in water to soften them, and fed them to Song Zhaohe with Zhao Qi's help.
Then, listen to their stories.
Tan the Blind said, "Girl, I know that apologizing is useless, but I still want to tell you that I don't want to do those things either, but I want to live."
"You think you can survive long enough to build this tunnel under his watch? You really have some skill."
Knowing he was in the wrong, Blind Tan wasn't angry. He even mocked himself, saying, "What skill do I have? I'm just a rat that knows how to dig holes."
Let alone Wang Qingyan, even Jiu Er wouldn't care about "rats" like them.
"Then why have you been pretending to be blind?"
“Sigh…” Blind Tan sighed helplessly, “The world is tough. I have a disability, so kind people will take pity on me and my business will be better.”
"For evil people, at most they can only steal a few coins and bully me."
Bai Li Ce felt a pang of sadness upon hearing this. This was the underlying tone of the times: oppression was the norm, and obedience was the rule.
A woman looked at her son, who seemed dazed and confused, and said, "Yes, it doesn't matter if I die, but what will happen to my son?"
"Just because you don't want to die, I have to accept my bad luck?!"
"When you exchanged my every word and action for money, didn't you embellish it?!"
"We...we had no choice," said an old man, his face flushed with embarrassment.
"We've wanted to leave Lincheng for a long time, but look..."
The lame young man pulled up his right trouser leg... His right leg was deformed and uneven, and several protruding joints were severely worn and festering.
"Looking like this, I can't go far even if I wanted to."
"If we have a way, we won't make things difficult for you."
"Girl, please...please have pity on us."
"Girl, please have pity on us, you're his wife anyway."
"Shut up!" Zhao Qi pointed his broadsword, and all was silent.
Without sufficient escort and a safe haven, even if they escaped Lincheng, they would not survive.
But if they go back to their own homes now, given Wang Qingyan's character, it would be strange if he didn't kill them to vent his anger.
Reporting her on the spot won't work either. Wang Qingyan will definitely say, "They betrayed you. Aren't you very angry?"
Whether they are or not, none of them will survive.
Therefore, the best approach is for Blind Tan to rescue them first, then play the victim to get her to willingly attract the pursuers.
In this way, the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who cannot walk fast will have enough time to leave slowly.
"..." After that, Baili Ce could not hear what they said, nor did he want to hear it anymore.
She felt a sharp, agonizing pain in her heart. So, she was just supposed to be held at gunpoint?