Chapter 444: A Lifelong Enemy! (1/2)
Chapter 444: A Lifelong Enemy!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Buzz!
Drunken Sparrow restaurant was packed with countless Hu, all of them in the midst of giving toasts and clinking their cups. When the doors were kicked in, the Hu were stunned, and then furious.
”Bastard! Who was that?”
”Don't they know that we reserved this entire place? Are they seeking death?”
”Get out of here, or else don't blame us for being rude!”
……
Like a pack of enraged lions, the countless Hu began to curse, pouring expletives out of their mouths. The Hu had never had very patient personalities. There were several clangs as many of the Hu unsheathed their sabers and swords and fiercely went to confront Wang Chong's group.
But in the next moment, they all came to a sudden stop.
Because they had discovered that the people rushing in outnumbered them by a large margin!
”Kill them all!”
Wang Chong waved his right hand as he strode out of the rain and into the restaurant. His voice was icy and brimming with sternness.
Rain had soaked through the chinks in his armor, flowing down his shoulders, arms, and chest, and finally congregating into a little stream under his war boots.
The Wang Chong of this moment was callous to the extreme.
No one had ever seen such an aura from him before.
”Young Master?”
At the front, Wei Anfang and the others, who had already rushed ahead of Wang Chong, all turned their heads. The capital was an important place, and killing so many people would bring serious consequences.
But there was not the slightest shred of emotion on Wang Chong's face.
”Strike!”
The moment he spoke, the Steel Guards of the Chi Clan and the guards of the Wang Clan rushed in like tigers setting upon a pack of wolves.
The Steel Guards and the guards of the Wang Clan had all been recruited from the battlefield. Military men considered it their vocation to follow orders, and their carrying out of orders was inevitable as a toppling mountain coming to earth.
As long as there was an order, they would resolutely advance, even if they were confronted by a mountain of blades or a sea of fire. In this aspect, they were completely different from the students of Deflecting Blade Manor, whose hands were still not stained by blood.
Boom!
All the Steel Guards of the Zhuang Clan, the guards of Deflecting Blade Manor, and the experts of the Wang Clan had come prepared. Each of them was wearing a suit of armor and wielded an axe or saber. Like a flood of steel, they charged into Drunken Sparrow restaurant. With a cold glimmer of light in the air, they fiercely hacked into the crowd.
”Ah!”
Blood flew and screams rang out. In just a single clash, ten-some Hu had been sent flying.
”Kill them. They dare attack us!”
The countless Hu began to roar.
In Wang Liang's party, there had been quite a few guards at his side, and when one added those sailors, his party had been huge. In those circumstances, no one should have been able to bully them.
Wang Chong had found it very strange at the start. How had Wang Liang been injured? But when he saw the situation in Drunken Sparrow restaurant, he knew.
Drunken Sparrow was one of the largest restaurants in the capital, and the number of Hu gathered here exceeded one hundred.
And each one of them was muscular and armed. Not a single one of them was weak. The people by Wang Liang's side alone wouldn't have been able to deal with them.
Unfortunately for them, Wang Chong had come prepared.
”Kill them. Don't leave a single one alive!”
Wang Chong's voice was callous and stern. The righteous did not grasp for wealth and the kind did not command soldiers. The current him was his true self!
It's the thirty-ninth year of the Sage Emperor's reign, so this should be your first time entering the capital… but you were already beginning to gather troops back then!
Wang Chong's gaze was like a bolt of lightning as it swept through the restaurant, his mind completely calm.
The Hu in Drunken Sparrow were wearing all sorts of clothes and came from a myriad of ethnicities. Wang Chong had even met a few of them when he went to see Big Golden Tooth. Wang Chong was well aware that none of these were Hu from the border, but the Hu merchants and guards of the capital.
In the interior of the Great Tang, it was only natural for Hu to get along with Hu. And that person in particular was unsurpassed in his ability to use money and power to make friends and entice talents.
When that great calamity swept down from Youzhou in the northeast at the start of the rebellion, even the Han had been enticed, much less the Hu.
If his guess was right, he was the one who had gathered all these people here.
And in the future, these people would be the source of that worldly calamity. Wang Liang had only unintentionally run into their attempts to gather together and court favor with each other.
No matter what, none of these people could be allowed to leave.
”Everyone else, come with me!”
After leaving enough people to deal with the Hu warriors on the first floor, the icy-faced Wang Chong began to lead his forces to the second floor.
Wang Chong had arrived like a shooting star, taking no breaks, but now that he was in Drunken Sparrow restaurant, the closer he got, the slower his footsteps became, and the colder his expression.
Right before a tiger pounced at its prey, its soles would become soft and its movements silent. Before an alligator struck, the water would be calm and the surroundings silent.
After half a lifetime at war, Wang Chong had made a habit of calming himself down at crucial moments. Only when the mind was like placid water could he maintain his composure, and only by maintaining his composure would he strike true!
Rumble!
The activity on the first floor had already alarmed the second floor. By the time Wang Chong was clanking his way up the steps to the second floor, it was in complete uproar.
Countless sabers and swords had been unsheathed, the sound of metal constantly ringing in the ear. There was also a fierce energy, smelling of blood and battle, seeping through the floorboards.
Wang Chong was no stranger to this energy.
This was the smell of military men, elite troops who had spent a long time on the battlefield and seen blood!
”Just who in the world are you?”
As Wang Chong's groups ascended the stairs, they were welcomed by cold flashes of light. In an instant, they were surrounded.
Unlike the Hu of the first floor, all the Hu here were armored and well-trained, and appeared extremely formidable.