599 Threatening (1/2)
Golden Roc Castle's plot in the Royal Court was close to a fiasco but Shangguan Yun looked neither anxious nor annoyed as if it were a trivial matter that had nothing to do with him.
”Living among a thousand of women, is Dragon King looking for the feeling of being emperor?” Shangguan Yun joked in the tone of an old friend, wearing a smile that Gu Shenwei was familiar with.
In fact, Shangguan Yun's trip to the Norland wasn't easy this time. Like the Dragon King, he had been looked upon everywhere. Although some of them were acting, fundamentally, that was part of the reality. He had put up with all of the humiliations, or, he didn't care about them at all.
”Walking in the night, you must be regaining your killer's feeling.” Gu Shenwei cautiously replied, always remembering that the words of the third young master were more offensive than the saber in his hand.
Alone, Shangguan Yun looked up at the starry sky and did not seem to take the Dragon King's words as sarcasm, ”I've never been a good killer, even the feelings I've revived are merely afterimage. My kung fu instructor once told Unique King that I was always absent-minded and couldn't concentrate on what I was doing, which would be a fatal flaw in the future. He was really right. How can I turn a blind eye to the beautiful stars high above and patiently wait for the best moment to unsheathe my saber?”
Gu Shenwei didn't like mysterious talks. They were like the tricks played by the enemy in combat, the more one paid attention to, the easier one would be misled. ”You're not a good killer, and I'm not a good listener. What's your purpose here?”
Shangguan Yun still looked up at the starry sky as an extension of the topic, and when he spoke again, there was not a trace of sarcasm, ”I'm here to talk about my sister with Dragon King.”
”Hmm.” Gu Shenwei didn't want to give any hint to the other side about his feelings.
”She was in my hands, once.”
”What about now?”
”She's in a secret place, which even I don't know. All I can tell you is that her final destination is the main tent of the Khan.”
Gu Shenwei's heart sank. This was the result he worried most and was most reluctant to see, ”Golden Roc Castle really takes their own women seriously.”
”Nah, everyone knows that sister Ru is Dragon King's woman. She has been driven out of the castle long ago and even helped you defeat the Golden Roc Army.
Shangguan Yun sighed. He had also joined the seaside slope battle. No matter how to cover it up, it was a fiasco for him. ”I like sister Ru very much. She's the only person I like in the whole family. She's like me, a rebel of Golden Roc Castle.”
Gu Shenwei couldn't help snorting lightly. Shangguan Yun changed his statement in time, ”She's like the old me, but she's an enemy now. Even so, I do not want to hurt her, but I have no choice. Golden Roc Castle has been cornered by Dragon King, we can only act unscrupulously.
”Isn't that what Golden Roc Castle always does?”
”You see, I told you I wasn't a good killer, and I have to beat around the bush even when I threaten others.”
”You've come to threaten me?”
”Yes, I'm threatening you, with my own sister.” Shangguan Yun finally discarded the last bit of cover-up, and he didn't seem to be particularly embarrassed. ”Our original plan was to let the Khan infect … a strange disease through Shaomin, but he wouldn't die right away. Ten days later, he would die suddenly beside sister Ru, so sister Ru would become the only murderer, from whom the mastermind would undoubtedly fall on Dragon King's head.”
'Then Shangguan Ru would be killed immediately, leaving all the deaths unarguable.' Gu Shenwei felt irrepressible anger and a strong impulse to draw his saber, ”Good plan.”
”Good plan, perfect plan, vicious plan, now all become an unsustainable plan. Dragon King stole Shaomin and disrupted the deployment of Golden Roc Castle.”
”So you and Zhang Ji then made a new plan.”
”The new plan isn't that perfect. We can only resort to the most traditional methods to send out killers and sneak into the main tent to kill the Khan with King Kuari's help. When sister Ru wakes up, she will find herself with a bloody narrow saber in her hand. Both Zhang Ji and I don't like this plan. Because we have to rely on the ability of one or two killers, any mistake will result in a complete failure. Unlike the original plan, the executors were all unaware of the plan and therefore, couldn't reveal any of it even if they wanted to.”
Shangguan Yun looked very regretful. Golden Roc Castle had begun to change Shangguan Shaomin two years ago but didn't expect that she would be taken away halfway.
”Go on, I haven't heard any threats yet.”
”I have another idea, and Zhang Ji and King Kuari also agree with me. Since we are going to carry out the venture plan, we might as well take a little more risks to put the murderer of the Khan on the Central Plains, though this will cause some trouble because the first thing that King Kuari doesn't want was to go to war with the Central Plains after he inherited the throne.”
Fang Wenshi had speculated that King Kuari had secretly colluded with the Central Plains. Gu Shenwei felt the counselor's analysis was becoming more and more credible.
”It was me again to make a suggestion.” Shangguan Yun slowly said as if he were telling a story full of twists and turns. ”There's no need to plant it on the Central Plains. Putting it on a certain sect of the Central Plains is enough. Later we can say that they acted in private and the emperor didn't know it at all. Then we can send a group of experts to sneak into the Central Plains and wipe the sect out, that is, to take revenge.”
”In this scheme, there's no need for Shangguan Ru to appear.” Gu Shenwei said.
”I said I like my little sister very much and would save her if I could. But it would require Dragon King's cooperation.”
Gu Shenwei had already guessed what Shangguan Yun's 'threat' was. He hummed and motioned him to go on.
”King Rizhu is a nuisance. King Kuari is very unsatisfied with but also a bit afraid of him. If Dragon King can solve this trouble, King Kuari is willing to make a concession and let go of sister Ru. But if Dragon King chooses to stay loyal, to avoid more trouble, King Kuari would have no choice but to let sister Ru appear at the scene of the assassination, and Dragon King would be the one to blame for.”
”Or I can find a way to thwart the assassination plot and keep the Khan alive while seeing King Kuari's true colors.”
”Of course you can, but that won't save sister Ru, and you can't defeat King Kuari. Even King Rizhu and Second Consort, who can visit the Khan at any time, can't tell the truth, who will believe you?”
Indeed, in the Royal Court, not only one people had the ominous foreboding that the Khan was going to die unnaturally. Some people even took action to stop the assassination but no one could frighten and stop King Kuari.