110 Traveling Together (2/2)

Gu Shenwei had mixed feelings after Shangguan Ru's departure. He began to long for killing, hoping to see blood gushing out of someone's neck. This scene would make him feel sick in his stomach and, at the same time, feel peaceful in his heart.

In the afternoon, an accident occured, which happened to partially satisfy his craving for blood.

Meng Mingshi's caravan suddenly stopped at the roadside, waiting for them.

Seeing that, Slave Qing, Slave Huan and Dao San quickened their horses to check the situation in the front, while the other members of the escort team stopped and waited.

The caravan members all looked frightened. Seeing that, Slave Qing turned pale. He speeded up further to ride at the forefront.

”What...” Slave Qing said in a hoarse whisper when he saw a corpse lying in the middle of the road.

The dead man was a macheteman hired by Meng Mingshi. He lay on his back with an arrow shot into his chest, his machete unsheathed.

”Someone wants our goods,” the banner-carrying killer of the caravan said as he glanced at the dead body.

Slave Qing looked around nervously and asked, ”Who dares to rob us? Where are they? How about we return to the fork to take the safer road?”

”No, we can't,” the banner-carrying killer blurted out while shaking his head. Slave Qing was stunned. Since he had become a butler, he had never been denied by any ordinary killer so harshly.

Dao San was an experienced guide. He explained to Slave Qing, ”This is the bandits' typical way of telling their peers that they want a caravan's goods, We can't turn around now since they must have already blocked the way behind us.”

”What? Peers? Are you saying that there are more than one group of bandits here? How come... we have Golden Roc Flags.”

”Bandits with names won't dare to rob us, but nameless roving bandits will never care about our flags,” the banner-carrying killer said plainly, seemingly not surprised at all.

”Roving bandits? It must be easy for us to defeat some roving bandits, isn't it?”

”Yes, we'll kill them all if they dare to show up.”

The banner-carrying killer said assertively, which greatly raised everyone's spirits. They were confident that their killers and machetemen would defeat those sneaky bandits who only dared to shoot arrows at them while hiding in the darkness.

”Let's camp here,” the banner-carrying killer said to the Fifth Young Master Meng in a commanding tone.

Meng Mingshi looked as pale as Slave Qing and kept nodding to the killer. His attendant hurriedly went to deliver the order to everyone in the caravan.

”You'd better camp together with us,” the banner-carrying killer said to Slave Qing. Slave Qing could not agree more and nodded violently.

The escort team and the caravan stayed together again. Shangguan Ru and Shangguan Yushi refused to trust Meng Mingshi's judgement and went to check the dead body by themselves. When they came back, they looked solemn and volunteered to keep watch at night.

Gu Shenwei put them on the first shift and then went to implement his own plan.

Every time he sensed danger, he would become much calmer than usual. He focused on analyzing the incident because he did not believe in coincidences. ”The death of the macheteman is not an accident.”

He thought he had already seen through Meng Mingshi's plot against him.

It was getting dark. He walked around the camp to make sure that everything was alright and then he went to visit the camel drivers.

The five camel drivers were sitting around a fire, chatting and drinking. He joined them, and soon the four hired camel drivers left, saying that they wanted to sleep early.

They purposely left the chief of the guards and the fort's camel driver alone.

Gu Shenwei stared at the camel driver. He did not know his name, but he believed that he did not need to know that.

The camel driver kept his head down and remained silent for a long time. When he looked up, Gu Shenwei saw his piercing eyes. Only killers had this kind of look in the eyes. ”You take care of your things, and I'll take care of mine,” the camel driver said.

Gu Shenwei nodded to him and left. His guess was right. This camel driver was sent by Golden Roc Fort to protect Shangguan Ru. It seemed that the girls' plan had been leaked long before they had sneaked out of the fort. Gu Shenwei was sure that the girls would be safe with this camel driver around.

The girls were still standing on sentry. Gu Shenwei took this chance to wake up the other four brown-belt assassins. He ordered Snowcamel to stay in the camp and the other three to leave with him on a mission.

”Let's go to find the bandits. If I guessed correctly, they're not very far away from us.”

Four brown-belt assassins scuttled away from the girls and walked out of the camp with their horses. After that, they mounted their horses and galloped to the northeast.

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