Chapter 448 Youve Crossed the Line, Bitch! (2/2)
Zhuge Liang wanted to retort, but he held back his words.
'Well, fine. I don't need to protect you lots if things go south. I'll just use my messenger birds to inform Lu Bu and Zhang He about this, then.'
Cao Cao agreed to Cheng Yu and Guo Jia's plan by dragging the Romans and Parthians into their wars.
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A month later, after the grand meeting, all troops departed from Xuchang and headed toward their designated deployment location.
As everyone was busy with the dispatch, Cao Cao's servants were in a panic and asked to see their lord.
A new incident had occurred, which was the turning point of Cao Cao's forces.
”MY LORD!! IT'S EMERGENCY!!”
Cao Cao frowned, ”What's wrong?”
”T-THE LADIES, THE PRINCESSES, AND THE YOUNG MASTERS!! T-THEY ….”
Despite how the servant wanted to report the news, he could not bear to say it.
The gesture alarmed Cao Cao that something wrong might have happened to them. He rushed to his inner palace to check on his wives and his children.
Upon arrival, he saw the corpses of his inner palace guards, which comprised of female soldiers. Their bodies were cut by one single slash, which either severed their heads or torsos.
Cao Cao ran toward his main wife's room, lady Liu. As soon as he entered, he found nobody.
He ran toward other rooms, where his consorts slept, such as Lady Bian and Lady Huan, but he also found no one.
After 30 minutes of searching for his wives and children, Cao Cao could not find anybody.
”WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?”
He went ballistic as his family was missing.
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A day later, when he calmed down, he finally noticed a golden scroll in his chamber.
It was something that Cao Cao recognized, an edict of the emperor!
Shocked by the scroll, he slowly walked toward it and spread it.
[Cao Mengde, you've crossed the line, bitch! I'm fine with you conspiring behind my back and improving your military power, but I won't tolerate if you employ underhanded tactics like assassination on someone unrelated to our fight!]
[Since you're so desperate to the point you went on and tried to kill my daughter, I'll be taking your entire family here in Ye! If you still want to rebel against me that much, you can say goodbye to them and find yourself a new wife because I won't leave anyone alive!]
[You have two options. One, evict yourself from your forces and surrender to me unconditionally. Then, you can retire from the politic world and reunite with your family.]
[Or two, take this the hard way and continue what you're doing. If you make this choice, forget about them since they will no longer exist in this world!]
[Also, you should have noticed by now. I came here personally and strolled in your goddamn palace, unhindered. I can claim your neck any day I want to.]
[Savor your life and pick the right choice. You have been warned, and this is my last warning.]
From the tone, Tong was infuriated, and Cao Cao could sense the threatening force within the scroll.
Cao Cao was angry, yet terrified by Tong's abilities.
He was a mere mortal while Tong had almost reached the threshold of a god, who could come and go at any time.
From the beginning, he was powerless!
It was his first time in two worlds that he faced despair.
'Am I fighting against a god? Why am I fighting him!?'
Cao Cao recalled that Pu Jing manipulated him into fighting Tong when he had planning to merge his forces with this emperor.
He was angry, yet he was helpless.
Although he had many theories that Tong might have bluffed by sending a group of spies to kidnap his family, Cao Cao believed that Tong had come here personally to take them away.
The proof was clean-cut, and the swiftness of the operation. Had mortals taken this job, they would have alerted the guards and caused a lot of commotion during the process. In this case, no trace was left behind. Only someone who could fly could accomplish this kind of feat.
Without a way out, he called his cousins and relatives.
Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, and Cao Ren rushed to see Cao Cao in secret.
”Mengde, I heard what had happened with the guards. Do you know really happened?”
Cao Cao tossed Tong's scroll at Xiahou Dun, ”Read it yourself.”
After Xiahou Dun read all the messages, he was shocked, ”This… Will you surrender to Zhang Tong?”
Cao Cao shrugged, ”Well, Zhang Tong was supposed to do this ages ago, but he purposely allows us to grow for some reason. It's a matter of time that we merge with them and let him absorb our forces.”
”Then, what about the coalition?”
”I have an idea,” Cao Cao's eyes revealed determination. Even the situation was hopeless, he never gave up.