Vol 9 Chapter 150 (1/2)

Chapter 150

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 150: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS DEFECTING TO THE CAO FACTION (8)

Yun Chang POV

“What do you mean by that?” Cao Ren asked as she frowned. Shen Pei on the other hand had her eyebrows creased tighter than never before.

“My lords can just deploy your troops and wait outside the city. We will do as we suggested before. But after that, my lords need not do anything. We will fight to the last man inside the city and you may enter the city after that.”

“Ah, no, if you do that…” Cao Ren seemed to waver when she heard the last part.

Yes, if we do that, then there is no meaning to getting us to defect. For us, defecting is a way to abandon a path that leads nowhere and and join a path which leads to a bright future. For them, they will lose the opportunity to add more capable generals to their roster.

“Isn’t that what you were all after to begin with?” Wen Yuan sneered, “In the end, the only way to show our sincerity is to for us to die for you right? As long as we’re alive, we’ll be a problem for you right?”

“Wu…” Shen Pei seems to have lost the upper hand.

“Lord Shen Pei, I’m not trying to target you but we cannot sense a shred of sincerity from your words and actions.” I said as I walked over to her, “From how you’ve treated us thus far, we feel very disappointed.”

As I said so, I swept my gaze about at the troops around us, “If you want to just get rid of us, then you can try it now!”

As I yelled out, I stared forcefully at the troops and they were forced to back away. This included Shen Pei as well. And it seems like the strong facade she had been putting up crumbled away instantly as well.

“That’s…”

“Lord Guan Yu, we understand what you mean. That includes Lord Shen Pei as well.” Cao Ren said and got up before making her way over to me as she rubbed her shoulders.

“From what I understand, you require us to deploy our troops to the city and you will take care of the rest.” She said and then pointed at Chen Gong, “After that, you will open the gates for us right? Are you certain that you will be in charge of the north gates.”

Chen Gong nodded and replied firmly, “Of course I can.”

“Lord Li Dian, what do you think?” Cao Ren did not immediately reply in the affirmative. Instead, she looked at Li Dian who folded her arms across her chest as she looked down.

When she head Cao Ren call out to her, she looked up for a moment and looked down again, “Let me consider this again.”

Cao Ren’s eyebrows dropped slightly. Looks like Li Dian’s answer was not what she was expecting.

“We’ll leave it at that then.” Cao Ren did not ponder further and held her hops as she smiled kindly at us like she did in the beginning as she slowly said, “You can go back for now. If we sortie in 3 days’ time, then that means we are willing to trust you and everything will proceed as we have discussed. If we have not sortied by then, that would mean that we either feel that our capabilities are insufficient for a siege. You may bide your time and when our reinforcements arrive, we can proceed with the plan then.”

That is not very helpful for our cause. But that’s probably the best we can get for now.

“Alright, I understand.” I nodded.

“That’s settled then.” Cao Ren sighed as though she had just solved a very difficult predicament.

I saluted wordlessly and then turned back to the other 2 who got up as well. They looked calm, and neither seemed happy nor sad nor weird. Looks like the

y have completely recovered from the crisis we had earlier with Shen Pei.

“But I have to say that your choice is a wise one, Lord Guan Yu.” Cao Ren smiled, “When our main body advances southward, we can cover the entirety of the Tan stream and send our search parties for Lord Liu Bei. Perhaps he might have been saved by somebody living along the stream by then.”

Is she talking about big brother?

“Ah…” I uttered and paused for a moment as I was unsure how I ought to react to her raising this all of a sudden, “I’ll be counting on you when the time comes then.” I said as I saluted her.

“You count on us.” Cao Ren said but her smile seemed to diminish slightly, “But it doesn’t feel like you’re very happy about it.”

Eh? I felt lost when she said this and looked about as I stammered, “No, I was just… A little…”