32 Chapter 32 – Blood Claw (2/2)
Zhu Xuan was ecstatic and felt that god is helping him when he heard about the new orders from Tiger claw. One thing he was worried about his plan was the number of bandits in the stronghold. He is planning to poison all the bandits using the poisonous herbs he collected, but he wasn't sure how effective the poison would be. He was worried if it didn't affect them much, they will be able to provide back up and flood him with attacks from all direction and he would die a miserable death.
Now that most of the bandits will be outside the stronghold patrolling the mountains, even if they didn't die by poison they won't be able to come for help when he attacked the leader and the commander.
Evening came, and Zhu Xuan disguised himself as a cook and went to the place where food was prepared for the bandits with the poison he made using the herbs. He silently mixed the poison with the food served for the bandits, but he found that the food for the leaders and commander was prepared by the head cook of the stronghold and delivered seperately.
So he immediately left the place and hid himself, waiting for the person who deliver the food to the leader and commander. He waited for a while when the person approached with the food. He knocked the guy unconscious and then disguised himself as that person and poisoned the food. Then he delivered the food to the maids of both the leader and commander, and hid himself in the shadow of a pillar near the entrance of the Tiger claw Leader.
He figured both the leader and commander will definitely realise they have been poisoned before others, and they would have some pills for recovering from poison. His plan was to sneak attack and kill the Tiger claw when he will rush to the commander's place. Zhu Xuan figured Tiger claw will definitely go to the commander's place when he realise someone poisoned their food to inform the commander and make preparations for any enemy attack.
He waited patiently, and after it took a time of an incense stick to burn, the door of the house opened and Tiger claw rushed out with a pale face. He was rushing towards the direction of commander's place when Zhu Xuan dashed towards Tiger claw and brought the dagger towards his neck.
Tiger claw was already expecting a possible sneak attack and immediately side stepped to retreat. But Zhu Xuan brought his other dagger and slashed in an arc and Tiger claw's hand was cut off and fell in the floor.
Tiger claw screamed in pain and backed off, but then he suddenly roared in a loud voice ”Enemy attack, someone infiltrated the stronghold. Come to my place fast and kill the enemy.”
Zhu Xuan was shocked after hearing his loud voice and cursed under his breath. He didn't expect this Tiger claw to be a clever and cunning guy.
Tiger claw realised he couldn't face the guy after his hand severed so he didn't even bother asking any questions of his assailant and immediately shouted to inform everyone of the enemy attack.
Zhu Xuan increased his speed to kill Tiger claw before anyone arrives, but Tiger claw didn't attack at all, he focused in defence and dodging, and only suffered minor injuries by Zhu Xuan. While Zhu Xuan was attacking Tiger claw with frenzy, he heard a loud boom on the side and turned to find a big burly man running towards him with face full of anger like a mad dragon.
Not only was he, even Tiger claw was momentarily distracted by the loud noise. Using this chance, he delivered a kick to the Tiger claw; tiger claw flew away with his ribs broken. Making sure Tiger claw won't be able to interfere, he turned towards the rushing Blood claw.
Blood claw saw Zhu Xuan injuring Tiger claw right in front of him and shouted in anger ”How dare you infiltrate my place and injure my men”.
He increased his speed as he shouted and Zhu Xuan also moved towards Blood claw with a dagger on each hand.
Both Blood claw and Zhu Xuan rushed towards each other like two raging dragons.