Chapter 298 – Assassination (1/2)

There was a door not far away, and the wooden box for transporting water will be put down there. The guard slaves would take out the pots that were filled with water, and then place them in the location where the water was stored, so that the slave masters could enjoy the pure water.

Su Gu glanced at the wooden box and didn’t feel that anything was wrong with it. He felt that his current behavior was quite embarrassing. However, Shao Xuan’s words echoed in his mind again and he finally decided to avoid going near the wooden box.

If I don’t encounter any danger today, I’ll punish the three people of the Flaming Horn tribe vehemently, thought Su Gu.

Wu Shi, who was just following Su Gu, didn’t know what the young master was thinking at the moment. As he kept on walking, Wu Shi suddenly felt a chill, the hair behind the back of his neck stood up.

“Young master!”

While Su Gu was walking, he heard Wu Shi scream and then found himself getting picked up by Wu Shi. Bewildered, he could only see the scene from which they were quickly retreating.

Bang!

The large wooden box that had been carried exploded.

Splintered wood and fragments of broken pottery sprayed everywhere. Some of them whistled past Su Gu’s ear, hitting the surrounding wooden walls with resounding force, enough to make continuous “bangs” like that of a dense volley of arrows.

As the wooden box exploded and the splinters and pottery fragments scattered, three figures rushed out from the box.

The size of the three people who had been curled up in the box like a ball, doubled when they rushed out. Different from ordinary slaves, these three people didn’t have any slave marks on their body or face that could associate them to any slave master.

They were slaves specially trained on the art of assassination, just like the men of Martyr tribe. Not having any unrealistic expectation on their survival after assassination, they solely focused on the target, which seemed to be the city’s most powerful slave master, the Fallen Leaves Lord Su Lun.

The surrounding slaves roared, while the assassins howled like beasts.

From a calm atmosphere in one second to a chilling and blood curdling atmosphere in the very next second, the air filled up with the stench of slaughter, bloodlust and breathtaking killings.

When Su Gu was taken away from the place of skirmish, he caught a glimpse of red liquid squirting from the distance, and he heard the sound of broken bones and a scream which got cutoff abruptly.

Crash.

Shortly after Su Gu left, several people were impacted by violent forces and slammed against the wooden wall, and broke through it. The people who broke through the wall, fell to the ground and curled up their bodies, which were mangled beyond recognition. These were the slaves of Fallen Leaves City who had been guarding the palace.

Many of the woods used in the palace were from the Sunset Trees which were more than 100 years old. Those hard wooden walls were not as hard as stone walls, but were enough to block ordinary slaves. However, at this moment, Su Gu only heard the sound of walls being broken. The so-called hardest tree in the desert turned quite vulnerable at this moment.

While Wu Shi was taking Su Gu away from the conflict, they continued to hear the sound of fighting and slaughter.

At the edge of the palace, Wu Shi stopped to rest. There were a lot of wounds on his back, but they were not fatal. They had escaped quickly, and it was safe for the moment. However, when the surprise attack began, if he was closer to the assassins, he might not have had the time to escape.

I’m really lucky, otherwise I’d have died just like the other “Liao” slave. Thought Wu Shi.

Looking at the young master, whom he brought over with him, Wu Shi found that the young master was acting unusual – He was staring straight ahead but his eyes were unfocused. Wu Shi didn’t know what he was thinking.

Was he having a panic attack?

The situation had indeed been dangerous, but there had been assassination attempts in the city every year. As a Lordship competitor, he shouldn’t be so cowardly.

“Young master?” Wu Shi tried to talk with him.

But Su Gu didn’t reply.