218 Eavesdropping (1/2)

Chapter 218: Eavesdropping

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Wei Lingmiao became an experiment into how strong a human's endurance was. Using as much time as he usually took to kill forty people, Gu Shenwei extracted everything through the former's mouth.

Three years ago, Wei Lingmiao came to break off the engagement.

There was originally already some marriage incompatibility between the Wei and Gu families, which was greatly exacerbated when Gu Lun retired to the Western Region. Both father and son of the Wei family wanted to call off the marriage.

Though it was true that Wei Lingmiao did not know initially that the target of the assassination campaign he took part in was his future father-in-law's family, he quickly found out yet did nothing to stop it. Instead, he merely raised a request to enjoy his woman, Gu Cuilan, before she died.

After cutting open Wei Lingmiao's stomach, Gu Shenwei sliced the flesh off the former's body piece by piece, and was finally able to ascertain that the former was not the person who recruited the killers of Golden Roc Fort.

”Nobody else knew, including Shangguan Nu. It was only the Supreme King who knew everything, while my father might have known a little. Kill me, I beg of you.” At this point in time, Wei Lingmiao was wishing for death and was even willing to betray his father.

Gu Shenwei turned around and summoned the giant roc. Over the past few days of interaction, he had discovered that the roc could understand whistles, and so he opted to use this means of communication with it.

The giant red-crowned roc leaped into the air and tore the tent canvas with both claws before landing in front of Wei Lingmiao and staring into his eyes with a look of covetousness.

Despite wanting death, Wei Lingmiao was seized by an uncontrollable fear. Using the last bit of energy in his body, he raised his right arm to defend himself. All that remained of this hand, which had fondled the bodies of countless women, were a few dense white bones and traces of flesh and blood.

Before the giant roc could peck at him with its sharp beak, Wei Lingmiao was already dead.

Outside the tent, dozens of chariots were lined up in a row. Without chopping open the wooden boards to check their insides, Gu Shenwei simply figured from their weight that these chariots were uniquely designed. With the giant roc's assistance, he pushed the chariots one by one into the pit.

After pushing in more than thirty chariots, he unexpectedly saw a person inside the pit. In response, he immediately pulled out his saber, while at the same time regretted being negligent. He had counted forty-two people at the start of the expedition and seen forty-two people when he reached this camp, but there was yet a possibility that someone had come to meet Master Wei.

However, the person was not a man.

All this while, Xu Yanwei did not realize that the devil who wrecked the camp was an acquaintance, and she was even more horrified by the giant roc. Holding her head and cuddling herself into a heap, she knew only to scream ”Don't kill me!”.

Gu Shenwei recognized her through her voice. ”How are you not dead?”

Xu Yanwei raised her head and was stunned for a moment. She then burst out weeping as she jumped onto her feet and ran over to hug Mr. Huan. With her crying became even more intense, she rubbed her tears and snivel on his body and did not say a single word.

Gu Shenwei had to push her away before he once again asked her why she was not dead.

”I... I slept with a guard, and he told me that t... tonight would be t... the end.”

Xu Yanwei offered her explanation sobbingly. Many years of living in South City had given her an instinctive presentiment towards danger. A single loose sentence let slip by a guard had aroused her suspicions. During the digging, she found a chariot to hide under and subsequently watched as her unsuspecting sisters were brutally massacred.

”I should have listened to you earlier. You came to save me, right?”

Gu Shenwei did not reply. There was still plenty of work for him to do.

Xu Yanwei wished she could cling on to Mr. Huan forever. However, she was terrified to death of the giant bird and had to keep a far distance from it. Nonetheless, she could not stop talking about how good a person Mr. Huan and how silly herself was.

After all of the chariots were pushed into the pit, where they broke into different parts, it was time to cover them with the near-hundred corpses. The job was made considerably easier with the assistance of the giant roc, who treated it as a game, and would peck every corpse several times before tossing them into the pit. Xu Yanwei took several more steps back and continued to chastise herself, albeit her voice was no longer audible.

It was day by the time the ground was leveled. Gu Shenwei released the large team of horses and train of camels, knowing that if anyone came to search for clues, they would follow the hoofprints and be led far away.

Next, he smashed the wine jars and set them on fire.

He had to leave immediately but still did not know what to do with Xu Yanwei.

He had not thought about rescuing anyone in coming here. It was a complete accident that Xu Yanwei was able to live. Had the giant roc showed up a moment later than it did, the guards would have realized that the female corpses did not add up, and would have quickly found and killed her.

While she saw everything take place, the one thing she did not know was that the chariots were loaded with gold.

Gu Shenwei walked over to her with his saber in hand. As her sense of danger had already subsided, she scampered towards him joyfully while making a series of pledges that she would never act on her own accord ever again. ”I'll listen to you, completely listen to you.”

What saved Xu Yanwei's life was not her tears or promises, but a plan which Gu Shenwei suddenly thought of in which she could be of use.

The two people got on horses and traveled day and night on the same route they came from. While Gu Shenwei was accustomed to such a physically demanding course, Xu Yanwei had never suffered such heavy bumps before, yet strangely enough, she gritted her teeth and persisted without complaining or even asking for a rest.

When there was still a half day's journey back to the big camp in Iron Mountain, Gu Shenwei made a turn into the wilderness, where he bade farewell to the giant roc and allowed it to fly high and away.