116 The Pouring Golds (2/2)
”F*cking traitor!” Shangguan Ru yelled in rage.
The women in dark robe spoke in a voice that sounded like the screeching of metal pieces being scraped against each other, which was so harsh that everyone on hilltop heard it loud and clear. ”Go south. People from Golden Roc Fort, go south. Or, go to hell by sunset.”
Slave Qing sat on the ground, and muttered, ”Why go south? Why go south?”
The banner-carrying killer sighed, and said, ”Seems like we will have to go south and see what we can do.”
Gu Shenwei shook his head, and said, ”No, we're not heading south. Get ready my friends, we have to break through them before sunset.”
”With these people? There's hundreds of them down there.” The banner-carrying killer could not believe what the young leader just said.
Gu Shenwei did not know what was right. It was his intuition that told him that breaking through was the only right option.
”Bandits love treasures. Throw them away. And when the enemies were fighting for them, we will break through.”
”What if we fail?” Slave Qing was shivering as he asked. He did not even care about those treasures now.
”Then you will die here,” Gu Shenwei answered. He did not understand why they could not figure out such a simple thing.
He didn't want to die, he wanted vengeance. However, the killer training had unconsciously reformed his thinking. He saw death as an ordinary and random affair. And by practicing through the Nameless Swordbook, this thought was pushed to the extreme.
Slave Qing was struck with panic, for he was not a killer.
Maid Little Sui, who had not said much on the trip, came up with an idea. ”I was given to 'Bighead Kingpin', does this mean that I'm not a Golden Roc Fort's people?”
The crowd turned their head around to look at her. For the first time, Little Sui demonstrated her bravery and firmness, meeting dozens of eyes without fear. She was getting more and more convinced that it made sense. Although she was not yet in Bighead Kingpin's place, she was an Iron Mountain's people the moment she went out of Golden Roc Fort. Besides, these killers only cared for the Tenth Young Master, and none of them would care about protecting a maid.
Gu Shenwei had no intention of keeping Little Sui. It was even better to lose a burden. All he wanted was to keep Shangguan Ru alive so that he could stand a chance of killing the Tenth Young Master.
However, those bandits downhill had made their move before Gu Shenwei could make his reply.
One after another, the heads of the Meng family's people were thrown to the hilltop. They rolled around on the ground.
The enemy was making a demonstration in Golden Roc Fort's fashion.
The face of Little Sui turned from pale to flush with red, and back from flushed to pale. She could not help it as she gasped with fear, and collapsed into Fang Wenshi's arms.
”Good point, little hero. Breaking through in the chaos created by golds and silvers, bravo.” Fang Wenshi looked over the steep slope, held Little Sui tightly, and was not interested in the heads scattered on the ground.
Gu Shenwei checked every head, and said, ”Fifth Young Master Meng is alive.”
”What a shame.” Shangguan Ru sounded calm, perhaps too calm to hide her panic.
Gu Shenwei used to think that the Shangguan family trained their children in an advanced and stricter method. Now it seemed he had overrated them.
This day passed extremely slowly. More and more roving bandits gathered on both sides of the mountain pass. The dark robed woman had either slain the bandits nearby, or forced them here to besiege the people from Golden Roc Fort.
The group of 15 was preparing stealthily. Slave Qing and the other three handymen armored up, and kept asking for blessings from Buddha. Little Sui had not talked about her ”identity” anymore. The armor was too weighty for her to put on, so Fang Wenshi volunteered to help. He mounted on the horse after getting armored, and Little Sui sat behind him with a shield on her back.
The killers though, were lightly armed, and only took round shields, which would be dumped after reaching the enemy's camps.
At high noon, they launched the breakthrough.
Gu Shenwei had made countless decisions in his life. This was definitely not the best one, but it did work.
Numerous golds, silvers, and jewels rolled downhill, and coins were pouring down like rain. The moment those bandits saw this dream-like scene, they immediately dropped their bows and arrows and scrambled toward it like maniacs.
More than 20 dark robed women yelled to berate them, but these frenzied men were unstoppable.
There were always two sides of a coin. Although the bandits gave up their defenses, they also congested the narrow mountain passage.
The stormtroopers hit the wall of people, and the killers dismounted and stepped onto the backs of the enemies. Several armored men fell into the crowd, and the bandits started to snatch their golden helmets and silver armors.
The dark robed women brought out their shiny steel needles onto their fingertips, and started to chase after their prey.
Gu Shenwei had told the five brown-belt assassins that their life was dependent not only on their sabers, but also on the safety of the Tenth Young Master. However, things quickly went out of control, and they were too focused on killing enemies and couldn't spare any effort to protect someone else.
Even Gu Shenwei himself had lost sight of his protection target. His last glimpse of Shangguan Ru was the camel driver leaping over Shangguan Ru's head as he adeptly chopped off a dark robed woman's head.