Chapter 14: The Perfect Time For Murder
The night was dark and the wind high, with Imperial Court officials present, making it the perfect time for murder.
This sentence made Li Hao somewhat dazed.
Not long ago, he had heard it too.
That night was dark and the wind high, with heavy rain imminent.
“Jiang Wangchun, the Imperial Court already knows you privately possess items from the Previous Dynasty, treasonous, plotting treason, the Embroidered Uniform Guard is on the way.”
“Quickly hand over the Treasure Map to me, I will certainly keep it secret for you, the Embroidered Uniform Guard won’t find out, and your whole family can be safe.”
He earnestly persuaded the man in front of him.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man who had been poisoned beforehand and could barely stand struggled to lift his head and look at him: “Then isn’t this the night dark and the wind high, with the Imperial Court present, precisely the perfect time for murder?”
Li Hao smiled, squatting down to look at Jiang Wangchun: “Mr. Jiang, how could I kill you? Actually, like you, I care about the Previous Dynasty and support the rightful rule.”
Jiang Wangchun looked past him toward the door, where Jiang Family Members of all ages and both genders lay in the courtyard like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, surrounded by Bodyguards holding knives.
“Fourth Master Li.” Jiang Wangchun withdrew his gaze and looked at Li Hao, “You’re not even covering your face anymore, which means you don’t mind us seeing it, and also means we will definitely become dead people.”
Is that so? Li Hao smiled, reaching out to touch his own face.
“Scholars are indeed clever.” he said, “However, death comes in many forms, quick and painless or not……”
A cry of pain rang in his ears.
Li Hao’s dazed gaze focused, seeing the youth standing by the door thrust the bamboo pole in his hand through a Bodyguard.
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From the moment this youth entered, not only he noticed something was wrong; there were only a few people left guarding the Security Agency, how could they not recognize everyone? A sudden unfamiliar face naturally meant ill intent.
The Bodyguard closest to the door reacted first, gripping his knife and charging over, but before the blade could fall, the youth’s bamboo pole pierced his chest.
“I’m different from you, I only kill quickly and painlessly.” Mo Zheng said, abruptly pulling back the bamboo pole in her hand.
The Bodyguard pierced through the chest fell to the ground and died painlessly, unlike that Jiang Family child at the time……
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After Li Hao said the words about not painless death back then, a Bodyguard in the courtyard swung his knife, severing the arm of the young child lying on the ground.
The young child, originally asleep from the anesthetic, let out a miserable scream, rolling on the ground, crying for his mother……
Li Hao didn’t need to turn around to know how miserable the young child was, because Jiang Wangchun’s refined face had twisted.
“Don’t——” he shouted hoarsely.
“Don’t?” Li Hao laughed, patting Jiang Wangchun’s face with his knife, “Then quickly and painlessly hand over the Treasure Map——”
Jiang Wangchun didn’t look at him, still gazing toward the door, his pained expression mixed with anxiety: “Run——run fast——”
His drug-stiffened mouth and tongue forced out these words.
Li Hao laughed, run? How could they run away?
Another miserable scream sounded from behind.
This time it was an adult, whose cry wasn’t as pleasant as a child’s, and mixed with profanity.
“Damn it, kill him——”
No, this was one of his own; Li Hao wasn’t familiar with the voices of Jiang Family Members, but he knew his own subordinates well.
This was his Bodyguard shouting.
Li Hao hurriedly turned around, seeing one of the Jiang Family Members lying in the courtyard half-kneel up, slim build, not much bigger than the child rolling on the ground, now holding a knife in his hand.
And the Bodyguard who had just chopped off the young child’s arm was rolling on the ground, his calf also severed.
To think they still had the ability to fight back even under the anesthetic.
Li Hao’s face darkened, but he didn’t care much; what if they woke up? At the same time, the other Bodyguards reacted, cursing as they swung their knives to chop.
The youth staggered and rolled, actually dodging the attack, then tried to pick up a Jiang Family child lying on the ground; the surging Bodyguards swung their knives, slashing that person’s back.
The youth fell to the ground and immediately rolled, dodging more chopping blades, while always holding that Jiang Family child in his arms……
He looked wretched, and amusing.
Unable to save himself yet still trying to save someone.
Li Hao couldn’t help laughing, turning to look at Jiang Wangchun: “Not bad, Jiang Wangchun, your family members have hidden talents, some skill, but you still underestimated me; since I’ve done this, I won’t let any of you go——”
Before he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Wangchun struggling to lunge over, not at him, but at the knife in his hand——
With a puff, blood splashed across Li Hao’s face.
Jiang Wangchun was pierced through the chest, his gaze fixed straight on the door, on the youth still rolling on the ground, being hacked by the Bodyguards, but still not letting go of the child in his hands.
“Go——” Jiang Wangchun screamed.
The youth looked over, and Li Hao looked at him too; his hair scattered from rolling, covering his face, only a blurry outline visible……
The youth set down the Jiang Family Member in his hands, rolled to the wall, and climbed over it like a gecko.
All this happened in the instant of Jiang Wangchun’s scream; the person vanished like a ghost, and the Bodyguards’ chaotic blades only managed to strike the wall.
What was that thing! Man or ghost! Li Hao’s expression was stunned, then he shouted fiercely “Don’t let him escape——”
Sounds of fighting also rose outside the wall.
Li Hao looked at Jiang Wangchun on his knife, who had no breath left, kicked him away with his foot, and cursed harshly “Reckless fool.”
He then pointed at the courtyard.
“Kill them all, kill them all——”
The courtyard late at night was a scene of bloodshed.
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Accompanied by a miserable scream, a Bodyguard tumbled to the ground, blood spurting from his throat, splattering onto Li Hao’s robe.
Li Hao’s memory was pulled back from the past to the present; the current scene was also a bloody mess.
More Bodyguards gripped their weapons and pounced on that youth.
The youth still stood by the door, looking as if ready to flee at any moment, knocking every incoming weapon flying; those he couldn’t fly away, he dodged with his body; those he couldn’t dodge, he let the blades strike him, but no matter what, his bamboo pole each time precisely hit the weapon-wielding Bodyguards’ throats or chests, killing with one strike.
It seemed like only a blink of an eye, and five Bodyguards lay on the ground.
Li Hao looked at the youth by the door, bloodstained all over, his torn robe hanging loose.
Li Hao suddenly had a thought: he stood by the door not to escape himself, but to prevent them from escaping.
“It’s you!”
Li Hao also realized something at the same time.
“The one who escaped that night!”
The storeroom now was much brighter than the Jiang Family that night, the youth’s hair tied up, revealing his features.
Eyes like stars, pale face, thin lips, clear and refined features.
“Right, it’s me; that night I was poisoned and couldn’t kill you all, so I had to cover my face; now……”
He smiled faintly, gripping the bamboo pole in his hand; with a cracking sound, the bamboo pole shattered, revealing a black iron sword inside.
“You will all be killed by me; in front of dead people, I don’t need to cover my face.”
He actually came back?
How dare he come back!
He came alone to kill them!
Li Hao looked incredulously at the youth before him.
Was this a fool or a madman?!
But Li Hao’s hand trembled slightly.
“Kill him!”
He screamed, swinging his knife as he pounced toward the youth by the door.
The other Bodyguards also pounced over.
The lights in the storeroom instantly went out, blades flashing and shadows flying amid blood and flesh.
