25 Observing an Assassination (2/2)

At the same time, the farmers who were traveling around the surrounded carriage reached into their wagons and pulled out their swords, the merchants also did the same.

”Ahhh!” There was a scream from the poor unsuspecting people who had been cornered into going along with this hoard of carriages. How tragic it was to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If they were not on a carriage perhaps they would not have gotten dragged into this.

The assassins feared that onlookers would be witnesses to their crime. With a quick thrust of their blades, they quickly silenced the witnesses. With a short amount of time, the ground was filled with running blood.

With no one around to bear witness to their crime, they quickly surrounded the brocade laden carriage and its four protector carriages.

”Hmm… I wonder if they will survive?” Madam Lin placed her hand under her chin and watched without any emotion at all. With all the bloodshed that was happening in front of her, she was unfazed.

Ru An had her eyes fixed upon the bloodshed and screaming. There was a fire that was burning within her eyes, as though she felt her blood rushing towards the four limbs of her body, warming up to get her ready for a battle.

She suddenly spoke: ”I don't know if the guards will survive, but the person they are protecting, will most likely be unharmed.” It was as though Ru An was very well versed in such a situation, knowing those that will survive and those who will perish.

”Oh? Tell me why.” Madam Lin asked, her eyes wide with anticipation as she looked at the artery that was pulsating so fast on Ru An's pale neck.

”The guards that are protecting the carriage has formed a formation around it making sure that not even a fly will be able to get through,” Ru An pointed to the guards who had placed the black-clad carriages as a blockade around the brocade laden carriages and used their bodies as shields around the carriage, ”this goes to show the lengths these guards are willing to go to prevent the person inside from getting hurt, even willing to give up their own lives. With the move and communicate together, I believe that they may be death guards.” Ru An spoke analytically as her eyes were still glued on the fight.

”Hm.” Madam Lin nodded as she fishes around her pocket and finds a wrapped oil package of sweetened lotus seeds and placing one into her mouth.

”Want one?” She hands one to Ru An, who takes it and places it into her mouth. Yet with her actions of taking the lotus seed to putting it into her mouth, her eyes did not leave the fight for even a second.