38 Hostage Ii (1/2)

Nuwa slowly got out of the carriage and frowned a bit when she noticed her surroundings after raising the corner of her long thick veil. Her eyes were turned wide in surprise. All of the royal carriage guards were motionlessly laying on the gra.s.s. At first, her heart almost burst out in fury when she believed that they were killed but later she thought it was a rather strange situation when she noticed that none of her people were physically harmed. Their clothes were not drenched in blood marks nor had any stabs marks except her the two coachmen. Only they looked injured as their hands were wounded but they didn't seem serious.

To be precise, all of them looked as if they were in deep slumber without any worries.

”W-What happened to them? Are they poisoned?” Stuttering, she asked the two muggers.

Since she was acting docile, the bandit duo thought she was harmless as they replied to her.

”Only unconscious.” Answered the wound face without turning his head.

”H-How?”

”Shut up! Pray for yourself or you will join them. Walk.” Hissed the stony face when pointing his sword on Nuwa's back.

Nuwa nodded and started to follow the bandits' instructions. The stony face was walking in front of her when the other was behind. Nuwa soon rediscovered that all of the other guards were also laying on the ground and realized that they were drugged.

'How can all of the people become unconscious at the same time?'

'Are their martial arts really that powerful? Then that is such a disgrace for the imperial guard and His Highness' for choosing Ruo Xie, huh!'

Nuwa tsked when giving a smug smile. Howbeit a new possibility came across her mind.

'What if they were drugged?'

'Ehh... but how can that even possible!'

Soon Ruo Xie's group came to Nuwa's sight. They were about a hundred meter's away from the distance she stood. She saw that he was surrounded by the pack of bandits and nonstop slas.h.i.+ng them one after another.

Ruo Xie had only a handful of companions beside him as a result, even though he was a genius martial artist, it was impossible to fight against hundreds of bandits. Those people were like zombies, nonstop attacking them. Before he could defeat one when another would pop up behind him. Surprisingly, they were not professional fighters. He found only a few of these people who were well versed in martial arts. There were even some women in the group!

If it was the other time, he could have already won without using too much strength. However, those robbers were pretty smart. They already prepared some unconscious gas and thrown at the royal procession before attacking. As a result, most of his sides of people were knocked down without grasp the situation.

Because Ruo Xie and his subordinates were a high-level martial artist, they endured those incapacitating agents effect, even though they could already feel that their nervous system started to weaken exponentially. He was gritting his teeth to be conscious.

Ruo Xie was deeply thinking how could these people got such precious medicine on their hands when King Jingze, who always liked to collect uncommon things, could not get after searching in black markets for a long time.