755 Suicide (1/2)
Old Man Mu glanced at the four people at the door and said rather gravely, ”Dragon King, you should've given me the antidote sooner. Now it's too late. I'm afraid that I'll have to ask you to fight all of them once again.”
Though the four people were masked, Gu Shenwei already knew their identities. ”White Eagle, Red Kite, Sky Condor, Purple Vulture.”
The four surviving wing guards of the Khan removed their masks and stared at the Dragon King vigilantly. At last, it was Red Kite who spoke up as the representative of the group. ”We won't allow anyone to desecrate the Khan's remains.”
Gu Shenwei shook his head and replied, ”Neither will I.”
Red Kite sneered in response. ”So the Dragon King changed his mind that quickly. Would you like us to see you off?”
”That was what he said too.”
Old Man Mu suddenly chipped in. ”Forget about my nonsense. If you come out a short while later, you would've heard the Dragon King refusing my suggestion. Ha-ha, also, Mo Lin is a friend of ours, so you should be our friends too…”
Red Kite shook his head and replied, ”Mo Lin's a traitor. Now that you've come, you have to stay here forever.”
”That can't be true. You see, the Khan has specially dedicated a room to Silver Condor. Ha-ha, I noticed that you guys don't have one. As for us, the Khan didn't like us at all, so there's no need for us to stay here with him.”
”There are plenty of rooms here, and some of them will stay empty, their residents never returning. These empty rooms, conveniently, can be used to house you.” Red Kite was immune to Old Man Mu's mischief, and was determined to have these intruders remain behind in the mausoleum.
Han Fen chipped in too, saying, ”I want to choose my room if we have to stay.”
”Suit yourself,” Red Kite sharply replied.
”It was you all who stopped the Waning Moon Hall from raiding the mausoleum,” Gu Shenwei suddenly made an irrelevant remark, seeming completely ignoring the threat in front of him.
Red Kite was slightly caught off guard and answered, ”The Master Commander thought that she was the only one who knew about the secrets of the mausoleum. Once she discovered that she was not the only one, she immediately gave up her tomb-raiding efforts. Humph, it turned out she was also afraid that her misdeeds of desecration would be heard by the whole grasslands.”
”That's not fair,” Old Man Mu said angrily. ”Lotus took all the gold and left unharmed, while we just came in by mistake, but we are the ones who have to stay forever?”
”The Waning Moon Hall was just lucky. Someone will bring back the Master Commander's body eventually.”
”I think that Mo Lin's a traitor,” Gu Shenwei speculated, hinting that Mo Lin was the only one who was suitable for this task.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
”Mo Lin's a traitor but Silver Condor isn't,” Red Kite mysteriously replied, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth and a ghost of sneer smeared across his face.
”The Wing guards of the Khan also play with words?” Old Man Mu responded to the sneer with contempt. ”Does Mo Lin think that changing his name can change the fact that he's a traitor? Ridiculous. Are you a bunch of kids?”
Old Man Mu raised his closed fist and aimed at the four people. The hand opened and a small bottle shot forward and exploded in front of Red Kite. The four wing guards all held their breath and whipped out their scimitars in unison. In the face of danger, all of them remained composed.
It was at this very moment that Gu Shenwei made his move. Old Man Mu had attracted part of the enemies' attention, and his killer's instincts refused to give up any tiny advantage.
Gu Shenwei had once been mobbed by the four wing guards and nearly been killed. This time around, Red Kite had replaced Silver Condor, but that didn't weaken their attack one bit.
The target of his first saber attack was not Red Kite, who was the closest to him, but rather the wing guard who was the furthest away. Three scimitars flew at him, yet he didn't switch targets.
Han Fen hadn't quite understood what these people were saying, but she knew what she should do. The moment Old Man Mu made his move, she also bent over and started moving, throwing out various sacks of powder.
In just a brief moment, the room had been filled with colorful smoke. Both sides could barely see the opposing parties.
Gradually, the smoke dispersed. Howver, no one could be seen in the room. The Wing guards and the Dragon King were all kung fu experts, and Old Man Mu was highly experienced, so Han Fen's knockout powder hadn't knocked anyone down.
Four wing guards were lying in the corridor. Two of them had been stabbed in the chest by a saber, and the other two's faces were pale with blood dripping out from the corners of their mouths – clearly, they had been hit by the Dragon King's frosty Qi.
Their main priority had been to evade the knockout powder, but Gu Shenwei had attacked and pursued them with his full strength, which gave him an advantage in their engagement. Even so, wing guards were still surprised by Dragon King's kung fu prowess.
”Ha, the Dragon King's made some progress in his sabersmanship again.” White Eagle was the eldest wing guard and he had fought Dragon King before, which was why he could sense the difference between the two fights.
Red Kite had been hit by a palm attack, and he had heard that the frosty Qi would wear off over time as long as the victim protected their heart meridian. But the Dragon King's palm technique seemed to have changed – it now rampaged in his body more ferociously, which meant that he would suffer more severe internal injuries if he didn't control the frosty Qi. ”You've won again.”
Gu Shenwei put away his saber and placed it on the ground along with his scabbard. ”I'm not going to take anything from the Khan's mausoleum, let alone his remains. Now you can believe me.”
The four wing guards shared a glance with one another – they had lost the battle and were now lambs waiting to be slaughtered, so indeed they could believe him now.
”And you won't tell anybody the secrets of this mausoleum?” White Eagle asked, clamping the wound on his chest.
”I won't.”
”And the other two?”
Old Man Mu puffed out his chest. ”The Dragon King won't, and I won't either. As for Han Fen, she will only tell Lotus, but since Lotus already knows, that doesn't count as telling. And one more thing, Dragon King, there's absolutely no need to keep it a secret – I mean, the Court Attendants Army already believes that the Khan's in the heaven anyway, and there's so much treasure here… Even if we ourselves don't need it, it would be an act of charity to use it to help the poor.”