Chapter 28: Hunted (1/2)
Chapter 28: Hunted
Gao Yu held the letter in his hands, slightly shaking. He felt the blood rush to his head, and his cold, dark eyes were filled thick with murderous intent.
“Young Gao, what do think about this?” Liu Yan also felt like his limbs were as cold as ice as he asked with a frigid face.
“The entire Ling Family have evacuated, and that surely must be proof that Shattered Ice Manor’s men are closing in. The reason they didn’t talk to us personally and took such a roundabout manner was probably because they didn’t have conclusive evidence to accuse the Feng Family. They’re afraid that we wouldn’t believe them and would only slow them down instead,” Gao Yu said with a cool expression, and continuing on, “By evacuating en masse, they were already sending us the clearest signal about how serious the situation is!”
“Right.” Liu Yan nodded his head and said with a heavy face, “We probably don’t have much time left.”
“I’ll inform our clansmen to depart for the Arctic Mountain Range immediately. It would be best if we don’t alert the Feng Family, but that is probably impossible.”
Gao Yu knew very well in his heart that the Ling Family’s unusual departure must have caused Feng Yi and the other to feel suspicious, and if they were to leave right after, then surely they wouldn’t be able to hide it from the Feng Family any longer.
If the Feng Family and Shattered Ice Manor were truly in cahoots, then they were bound to lose their cool and act against them by blocking their way.
“The Ling Family sure acts fast. They are gone just like that, and we’re slower, already one step behind them. This is probably not going to be easy.” Liu Yan let out a sigh and continued, “The Ling Family member has been with us this entire time, and there wasn’t anyone who left the camp. Where did they get the news?”
“It was that guy called Qin Lie! He was the only one who was moving freely this entire time!” Gao Yu let out a humph.
“That simpleton?” Liu Yan shockingly questioned.
“Simpleton?” Gao Yu’s eyes were chilly as he sucked in a deep breath and exclaimed coldly, “He’s the real ruthless character in the entire Ling Family! The Ling Family had acted promptly and retreated, causing us to be left behind, so now we are forced to endure both Shattered Ice Manor and the Feng Family’s attacks,buying them time to escape! What a diabolical bastard!”
Liu Yan gave it some thought and realized that, other than Qin Lie, there really was no other person from the Ling Family who left their sight. Hence, he too became as sure as Gao Yu that the mastermind behind the Ling Family was none other than Qin Lie!
“They’re totally planning to sacrifice us to buy time. Truly, they are both ruthless and diabolical alright!” Liu Yan too let out a sigh.
“That damned Qin Lie!”
Gao Yu let out an angry curse before immediately leaving Liu Yan’s tent in a hurry. He began to quietly inform the Gao Family and have them evacuate deep into the canyon as quietly as possible.
“Big Brother Liu, Brother Gao, just what are you guys doing? It’s the middle of the night, can it be that someone among you have gotten lost as well?”
Feng Yi had already noticed something was amiss for a while now, and upon seeing the Gao Family quietly attempting to leave, he immediately realized that something must have gone wrong with the plan after giving it some thought.
He wasn’t sure how such a meticulous plan could have gone wrong, but he knew for sure that it must have been exposed.
Gao Yu paid him no heed at all, and that dark and cold pair of eyes of his brutally stabbed at him once before he led the Gao Family to rush into the deeper parts of the canyon.
He knew very well that the men from Shattered Ice Manor would be arriving very soon. If he tried to confront Feng Yi now, it would be no different from committing suicide, so he could only endure it and urge the Gao Family members to escape as soon as possible.
“Young Master!” Watching the Ling Family and now the Gao Family leaving one by one as well, Feng Lun’s eyes became filled with murderous intent as he asked, “How did they find out?”
Feng Yi frowned deeply as he watched the Gao Family members rush deep into the canyon, but he could not think of a reason.
After a moment’s hesitation, he took out a strange-looking horn and blew out in a low, quiet tune.
The same kind of sound suddenly came from behind them, and after a start Feng Yi soon came to a complete understanding.
“Shattered Ice Manor’s men are here. I do not know how they found out, but there’s been a change in our plans!” Feng Yi calmed down and blew the horn again, and this time, its sound turned rapid and high-pitched.
In the forest, the Shattered Ice Manor’s elder listened to the horn sound as his face darkened. He uttered darkly, “Garbage! We made all these preparations and they still found out beforehand? How completely useless! Listen to me, bastards! They already know we’re here, so let’s cut the sneaky shit and kill them all already! Not a single Ling or Gao clansmen will be left alive!”
Shattered Ice Manor’s martial practitioners instantly howled their replies and charged towards the canyon at full speed.
Around the same time, Feng Yi roared his order as well, “Attack!”
The expressions of Feng Lun and the rest of the Feng Family’s martial practitioners changed, filling with murderous intent. Noticing that the Gao Family weren’t completely out of sight,, they immediately brought out their bows, spears, lances, and other long ranged ice blades and ran after them with increasing speed, all the while firing the sharp blades in their hands.
Amidst shrill howls, a rain of frigid lights soared above the valley and headed straight towards the Gao Family martial practitioners!
“Feng Yi! The Feng Family will definitely be wiped out due to your actions here today!”
Liu Yan exploded into a roar as a surge of spirit energy suddenly ballooned from inside his slightly overweight body. Immediately afterwards, circle after circle of swirling spirit energy promptly exited his sleeves and flew up into the sky, forming clusters of spirit barriers that disrupted all the projectiles coming their way so they could not accurately stab into a person’s body.
A sliver of anxiety appeared on Feng Yi’s handsome face due to Liu Yan’s angry roar.
Just then, a series of eerie howls came from behind him, and Feng Yi immediately calmed down as he spoke to Liu Yan, “Big Brother Liu, if we kill both you and the entire Liu Family members hereand come up with some random excuse later, then who will know what role the Feng Family played in this incident? Besides, with Shattered Ice Manor here, even if you did find out the truth, the Feng Family may not necessarily have to fear you at all! Keep shooting and slow them down!”
Upon hearing his words, the Feng Family’s martial practitioners grinned sinisterly and continued their offense with a newfound vigor.