Chapter 20 (2/2)
Just as she was about to leave, Grandma Yu grabbed on to her wrist, and said: “Feng Ning, you should stay by my side instead, and just in case something happens, we’ll be able to deal with it better.”
Feng Ning paused for a bit, and met Grandma Yu’s eyes, and was confused for quite a while, until she finally realized, and pulled free from Grandma Yu’s grasp, and said in a heavy voice: “Grandma, the situation’s already like this, please trust me for once.” After saying so, she ran off towards the study without even looking back.
She could hear the sounds of fighting far off in the distance, the study was indeed where the main forces were concentrated. Feng Ning remembered back to the mechanisms and formations defending the study, it seems that this study is probably where the things most important to the Long Family are hidden. At thinking so, she increased her pace, while she can’t erase the things she’s done in the past, right now even she can help out the Long family, and since Long San treats her so kindly, if not for any other reason, she’ll defend this place to the death just for his sake.
She jumped onto the ornamental mountain, and saw several dead bodies on the ground, while about a dozen or so Long Family guards that seemed familiar were in battle with several a.s.sa.s.sins, Feng Ning took a good look at the shape of the land and the lay of the mechanisms, and was about to go a.s.sist them, when the s.h.i.+ning reflection of the moon on the nearby lake’s surface suddenly blinded Feng Ning’s eyes.
Feng Ning’s legs gave out from under her, and she almost fell off the ornamental mountain, she tried her best to correct her balance, and she held her head that was feeling dizzy, but the image of the lake was already burned into her mind, she closed her eyes, and her body became stiff all over, while she broke out into a cold sweat.
While Feng Ning was immobilized on the ornamental mountain, the combat situation for the Long Family guards wasn’t looking good, and when Feng Ning heard the sound of blades clas.h.i.+ng and the screams of people dying, she was super worried for everyone in her heart.
She clenched her teeth, and tried her best to encourage herself: “it’s alright, the fight won’t be on the lake, I won’t fall in……”
At this moment, a masked a.s.sa.s.sin shouted: “the door’s open, let’s go inside.” That voice gave Feng Ning a jolt, it sounded similar to the man that wanted to kill her before.
Feng Ning clenched her fists, and rushed towards the study, while averting her gaze from the lake on purpose, and thought to herself in her heart: “Long San, please protect me.”
Of course, Long San wasn’t going to reply here, but Feng Ning had already arrived at the study, where the guards and the a.s.sa.s.sins were engaged in fierce combat, Feng Ning ignored all of them, and rushed inside the wide open door.
The study was very large, and there were several rows of large bookshelves, and two tables, but n.o.body was on the first floor, Feng Ning kept her guard up, and carefully jumped up the stairs, three men in black were searching a wall on the second floor, several secret weapons shot out from the wall, and they were able to dodge them.
The voice that Feng Ning recognized said: “it should be in here.” The other two people nodded, and began searching for hidden mechanisms on the wall again. Feng Ning didn’t make any sounds, and went directly for the person that was talking, that person suddenly detected an ambush behind him, and barely escaped the attack by rolling away on the ground, another person pulled his sword out and blocked Feng Ning’s attack.
Without saying a thing, Feng Ning attacked twice more in quick succession, and began fighting with that person. When the third person was about to come help his comrade, the first person that dodged the ambush said instead: “don’t bother with her, finding that item is more important.”
Feng Ning cautiously raised her guard inside her, this person fighting with her is stronger in martial arts than the a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader responsible for attacking the servants’ quarters, it seems that none of these three will be easy to take down, but she definitely won’t allow any of them to take anything at all away from the Long Family. Feng Ning fought recklessly without abandon, while the other person got scared, while neither of them was weak in martial arts, when one person is trying to protect his life while the other is attacking without care for hers, the advantage is obvious.
Feng Ning’s blade was able to slice and injure his waist, then with a flick of her wrist, the next blade sliced towards his shoulder, and the other person was already losing badly, and could only roll away on the ground, at seeing the situation another man in black hurriedly intercepted Feng Ning with a horizontal blade in order to block Feng Ning’s attacks. Feng Ning didn’t slow down her attacks at all, and kept up a relentless series of attacks with some powerful blade techniques.
At this moment, a Long Family guard arrived, and upon seeing the situation he attacked the man in black that was trying to open up the wall mechanism, but the person that Feng Ning injured earlier suddenly shouted, and jumped the guard. While the two of them fought for a few rounds, there was a “clang!” and the wall mechanism opened up, while the man in black reached inside looking for something. Feng Ning’s heart was as if it was on fire, and she took as large a step as she could, ignoring the opponent in front of her, in order to attack and force away the person rummaging through the mechanism.
That person dodged the attack, while the man in black behind Feng Ning had arrived with his attack as well, since Feng Ning was forced to defend against his attack, she pivoted on her foot and jumped to dodge his attack, but in the time that it took, the person that was rummaging earlier had already reached inside again and taken out a small container, he opened it up and took a look within, and shouted: “this is it, we’ve got it, leave now.”
Feng Ning became even more anxious, and shouted: “n.o.body is leaving.” She ignored the sword that was right before her, and leaned her body, allowing the sword to pa.s.s dangerously close by, and with one step she arrived in front of the person that had stolen the item, and she lifted her blade and sliced, in an attempt to recover that small container.
At this moment, the Long Family guard that had been battling a man in black kicked away his opponent, and attacked the a.s.sa.s.sin holding the small container, since the a.s.sa.s.sin was facing enemies from both sides, he was forced to use his sword to block the guard’s attack while kicking towards Feng Ning. The other man in black raised his sword and attacked Feng Ning, Feng Ning ducked, and doing a handstand with a single palm on the ground, dodged that sword’s attack, and kicked the wrist of the person holding the container with the momentum from righting her body. The container flew up into the air, and with another kick that successfully landed against the man in black’s waist, making use of the recoil, she barely managed to glide over and catch the container.
Her series of movements were so ingenious, that everyone else paused in surprise for a moment, and the container had already landed in Feng Ning’s hands. The man in black whose voice Feng Ning recognized suddenly shouted: “you’re trying your utmost hardest to the point of risking your life for them? You think you’re really Long San’s wife?”
Feng Ning was confused for an instant, and didn’t understand what he meant, but she definitely confirmed that she recognized his voice: “it is you.” This response shocked the Long Family guard: “you know each other?” Just as he finished speaking, the man in black made a gesture, and all three a.s.sa.s.sins attacked him, and the guard raised his sword in surprise to defend himself, Feng Ning was still a ways off from him, she wasn’t in time to help him, and that guard wasn’t able to block three people’s attacks, under their combined attacks, one of them was able to kick him off the second floor onto the first floor.
At seeing the situation, Feng Ning rushed to the window, and was about to jump down the window to meet up with the other guards, since she has the Long Family item, the best case scenario is to defend it with everyone together.
But, the moment the window opened, two secret weapons shot in with a whistling sound, Feng Ning barely dodged one of them, but the other sc.r.a.ped her shoulder, causing a burning sensation, she bore the pain the best she could, and collapsed by the window, since the moonlight visible from the window was beautifully reflecting off the lake, Feng Ning wasn’t able to bear it anymore, and with an “Ah!” scream, she finally collapsed on the ground.
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