Chapter 172 – Human Mentality in the Face of Danger (1/2)

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Black Wolf guards clothed in their dark uniforms directly pierced through the walls and entered the morgue.

Dust rose up in the surroundings, but none of it reached them. Their clothes fluttered with their true qi as they stared at Li Qingshan coldly.

A sharp killing intent gathered and wrapped firmly around Li Qingshan. Although the strongest was only the fifth layer Xie Nande, they were much more powerful than Zhang Lanqing and the others.

They were professional killers, a pack of wolves for hunting prey. Every single one of them had survived countless life-threatening battles. If Zhang Lanqing were pitted against Xie Nande, he would kill the latter in a single clash.

However, Li Qingshan sat down instead. He held the scabbard of the Wind-entwining blade in one hand without even looking at these Black Wolf guards. The rolling dust reached five steps away from Li Qingshan, but it was unable to advance another inch further. Xiao An stood beside him as her eyes that were like black pearls revealed yearning.

All of his paths, front, back, left and right, had been sealed. All that remained was the pitch-black, holey main entrance of the morgue with cold wind whistling into the structure. A black shadow stepped over the door sill. With the wind, an iron hawk arrived. The hawk’s wings were highly raised, its eyes were circular, and its beak was curved like a hook. It stared straight at Li Qingshan as if it could come alive at any time and kill him.

The might he gave off alone surpassed the other Black Wolf guards combined.

Li Qingshan finally raised his head. “Commander Zhuo, what an impressive group!”

Zhuo Zhibo scanned the morgue filled with corpses and asked in doubt, “Did you do all of this? You repelled the Zombie Daoist?”

“It’s as you can see.” Li Qingshan spread out his left hand.

Zhuo Zhibo sneered. “He’s just a piece of trash!”

If the wolves and the hawk had surrounded the Zombie Daoist, he would never have been as relaxed as when he faced the disciples of mohism. Even if he tried to flee with everything that he had, they would still end up killing him and ripping him to pieces.

Li Qingshan agreed, “He really is just a piece of trash.”

They had fallen out already, so Zhuo Zhibo no longer tried to hide his blatant killing intent. “You’re about to die, so do you have any last words?”

Li Qingshan shook his head with a smile. “I won’t die.”

Zhuo Zhibo said, “Yes, you won’t die too soon. We have the most skillful interrogators here. We will cut you open bit by bit, but we won’t let you die.”

He wanted to take pleasure in Li Qingshan’s expression of fear and despair, but he was disappointed. Li Qingshan only smiled. A pair of snowy-white canines that were slightly longer than usual protruded from his mouth, and even the child beside him remained unfazed.

Although they were enemies, Li Qingshan could not help but praise them. Now these were true warriors. As the most powerful system of violence within the Great Xia empire, even the weakest Black Wolf guards possessed such composure.

He possessed absolute confidence about defeating them. The only issue now was that he could not let any one of them escape!

Li Qingshan stood up. With a shing, he drew the Wind-entwining blade that was so damaged it seemed like a saw. He reached into his talisman pouch with his left hand and held a Lightning Summoning talisman. Xiao An held her blade in one hand and the Skull Prayer Bead in the other.

They did not even have to make eye contact, and they had already decided on a battle tactic. It would be the same as the tactic they had employed against the Zombie Daoist earlier. They would erupt with all of their strength and kill the strongest, Zhuo Zhibo, instantly. After that, the rest would just be lambs for slaughter. Even if they managed to escape, hunting them down would be easier.

Zhuo Zhibo nodded, and seven Wind-entwining blades were drawn from their scabbards.

The battle was about to erupt, but a bellow suddenly rang out from outside, “Li Qingshan, is there something wrong with your legs? How slow do you have to be?!”

Li Qingshan was slightly taken aback. “Why did you return?”

At this moment, Zhuo Zhibo looked back and saw a burly man with a full beard standing several dozen meters away. The aura he gave off and the bronze cannon in his arms made Zhuo Zhibo’s eyes narrow.

Hao Pingyang said, “I’ll come back here if I fucking want to. Since when do you care?” Zhang Lanqing and the others stood beside him, holding loaded Thousand Mechanism crossbows as they frowned.

Zhang Lanqing said, “Aren’t you done with your matters? If you’re done, then hurry up and come over!”

Zhuo Zhibo said frigily, “I was wondering why you were so fearless. Looks like you’re getting help from others. No wonder you thought you would live.”

Li Qingshan completely ignored him. He yelled back at Hao Pingyang, “I can’t go over right now, so you should go first! There’s no need to wait for me!”

Hao Pingyang exclaimed, “If I want you to come over, then you come over. I would like to see who stops you! I’ll blast them to pieces!”

Li Qingshan felt rather helpless, but also rather touched. He sheathed his blade and said to Zhuo Zhibo, “Commander Zhuo, looks like there just isn’t enough time today!” With that, he made his way over to the main entrance of the morgue with Xiao An.

The moment he brushed past Zhuo Zhibo, both of them could sense the startling killing intent from the other, but neither did anything.