257 Five Days (2/2)

This move made many people believe that the Golden Roc Fort had already found the Dragon King. They guessed that the armed escorts were busy preparing for an attack right now.

Fang Wenshi and Xu Xiaoyi were a little fidgety, as their lives and futures were closely bound with the fate of the young killer. If the Dragon King was killed, they would immediately lose everything they had now.

Only Tie Linglong was perfectly calm and collected. She practiced her saber skills as usual and then consoled the other members of the team. ”Don't worry. The dragon king will be alright even if they find him. He'll kill them all.”

Unfortunately, the little girl failed to convince anyone in the team, and even the swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain also began praying for the giant roc to appear again and come to the rescue of the Dragon King.

Upon hearing the swordsmen's prayers, Tie Linglong solemnly explained, ”The roc isn't the Dragon King's pet. Nobody can control it. It comes and goes as it likes. Even the Dragon King can't summon it.”

Tie Linglong's words further undermined the team members' confidence. Upon hearing that, Fang Wenshi thought to himself, ”If things are getting bad, I have to persuade Xu Yi to make some arrangements as soon as possible. Maybe I can earn some money during this process.”

On the fourth day, when the Golden Roc Fort launched an attack, the team members' confidence hit rock bottom.

As the Dragon King needed someone to collect intelligence for him, he sent Chu Nanping out. Although the teenage swordsman had used some make-up to change his looks before going out, the Golden Roc Fort killers still recognized him. They followed him to a small inn and had him surrounded at around 9 pm.

This time, Shangguan Tian had sent out 30 killers. Such a team would be enough to eliminate a small gang. Upon hearing this news, many people in the city guessed that Shangguan Tian had found the Dragon King and Chu Nanping long before this day. They thought that the Second Young Master had just pretended to have no idea about where the Dragon King hid while secretly assembling his killer team.

Few of them witnessed the fight that night, but on the next day, many described the scene in detail as if they had seen the whole process.

It was said that two killers had sneaked into the teenage swordsman's room last night, trying to catch the youth alive, but in the end the boy was somehow alarmed by the killers and then jumped out of the room through the window.

Chu Nanping was said to have escaped without a scratch from the inn after exchanging blows with four or five killers. Many people found it difficult to believe that the youth could have broken through the ranks of the killers.

Someone who was familiar with the Golden Roc Fort's style contended that it must have been Shangguan Tian's scheme. ”The Second Young Master must've let the boy escape on purpose. He must've sent his killers to follow him. The Dragon King is probably being surrounded by the killers now.”

Rumors were flying everywhere on the fifth day, and there were as many as ten versions of rumors regarding the death of the Dragon King. Even Tie Linglong could not remain calm and cool that day. She was in no mood to practice her saber skills and spent the entire day listening to different intelligence reports together with Xu Xiaoyi, no matter how absurd these reports sounded.

”The Dragon King is alright as long as we don't see his head,” Tie Linglong said to herself. Every time someone hurriedly ran into the inn, she would feel that her heart had skipped a beat.

The whole city was eagerly waiting for the final result of this competition. The hooligans, who had been busy searching for the Dragon King in the past few days, felt very disappointed. They believed that they were used by the Golden Roc Fort killers. Given that, they began to openly support the Dragon King and hoped that the pale-looking young man could survive the last day of this competition.

Usually, Golden Roc Fort killers never took actions during the daytime, but on the fifth day of the competition, all the armed escorts of Golden Roc Security Agency went out to surround a place which was said to be the Dragon King's hiding place. Once they spotted an unfamiliar face among the people entering and leaving this place, they would follow or interrogate that person. Although these armed escorts were not soldiers sent by the government, no one dared to resist them.

Residents of the city were greatly surprised since the place surrounded by the armed escorts was the Prime Minister's mansion and its surrounding area, but on second thought, they realized that this place was indeed the ideal hiding place. Besides the king's palace, the Prime Minister's mansion was the safest place in the whole Shu-lik City.

Two days ago, Prime Minister Shi had left the city on the pretext of going hunting in the suburbs. Although he did not mind letting the killers fight inside his mansion, he announced that once anything in his residence was damaged, he would refuse to recognise the result of this competition.

Everyone in the city wished to watch this fight between the killers that night, but the armed escorts did not allow miscellaneous personnel to enter that place. Even the government also sent troops to help Golden Roc Security Agency seal off that area. The servants in the Prime Minister's mansion were so excited. As servants of Prime Minister Shi, they did not have to worry about their own safety, and meanwhile they could get a chance to watch the fight. They could brag about such an experience in the months to come.

As night fell, hundreds of people gathered outside the Prime Minister's mansion. They did not expect to see or hear what happened inside the mansion. They only wanted to know the result in real time.

Soon they got bored, since the mansion was too quiet. At this moment, a man who claimed to be very familiar with killers' style said to the crowd, ”Killers are always as quiet as mouses during a fight. Only soldiers in the army and bandits will fight noisely like cats and dogs.”

Some soldiers in the troop heard that and beat the man. With a bloody nose and a swollen face, the man still refused to leave and started to murmur, ”Let's wait and see. The Dragon King is tough. He's the nemesis of the Golden Roc Fort. Even 100 killers can't...”

Before he finished his sentence, some armed escorts beat him. After that, the crowd was as quiet as the Prime Minister's mansion.

People began to leave one after another after around 9 pm. Shortly after midnight, there were only a few who stayed behind. The armed escorts and soldiers also relaxed their vigilance. Everyone was wondering if there were really any killers fighting inside the mansion.

At dawn, two servants opened the door of the mansion while yawning. Before they closed their mouth, they were shocked to find out that they were already surrounded by a curious crowd. The people eagerly asked about the fight last night, but the servants just shook their heads repeatedly and said, ”No, all the dogs inside the mansion were quiet last night. There were no killers fighting here.”

Now that all the five days had passed, residents of the city could not wait to know the result. Finally, at noon, they got a message from the suburbs of the city: the Dragon King had won the competition and Shangguan Tian had become his captive.