vrcanaries Chapter 182 Death in the Mountains
Chapter 182 Death in the Mountains
Seeing this, the man in black made a gesture to the other men in black in the house, and more than ten masters instantly chased in the direction of Ning Yunxiao and the others.
Outside the house, the men in black stopped the killing and turned to harass Deng Sijiu and the others who wanted to catch up and help.
At this moment, Ning Yunxiao and Jiang Lige were landing steadily on the top of the Three-Headed Mountain.
The men in black were still some distance away from them. Ning Yunxiao seized the opportunity to tell Jiang Lige, "I'll find a way to hold them back later. When the opportunity arises, you must run away immediately."
"I……"
Before Jiang Lige could even utter a word of rebuttal, Ning Yunxiao coldly blocked his reply. He said, "With my current condition, living one more day is a luxury. Jiang Lige, I've earned it by saving your life."
In his previous life, Jiang Lige liked to read storybooks. Whenever he saw those romantic scenes full of love and lingering feelings, he always felt that the most beautiful love in the world was just like that.
But the words spoken by this man in such a terrible environment, in the calmest tone, were more powerful than any storybook Jiang Lige had ever read. They opened the thick walls of her heart, allowing the heart that had been immersed in the cold pond for years to once again...
Flowers bloomed.
Obviously, the men in black did not give them much time alone, and a new round of swords and sabers came again.
Ning Yunxiao was not at all panicked. He calmly assessed the current situation and responded quickly, nimbly dodging the blade while accurately attacking the man in black.
After several rounds, the two sides remained evenly matched. Ning Yunxiao's fighting style also made the men in black gradually come to their senses.
Ning Yunxiao is already at the end of his strength and is probably stalling for time and waiting for rescue.
Thinking of this, the men in black immediately changed their fighting style. After changing their formation, they attacked with all their might, delivering a fatal blow.
A trace of panic finally flashed across Ning Yunxiao's solemn face. He faced the palm of the man head-on, but was ultimately defeated. He was directly knocked away, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, staining his plain clothes red.
The men in black were also severely exhausted by this palm strike and stood not far away, leaning on their swords.
"Sir!"
Seeing this, Jiang Lige hurried forward and helped Ning Yunxiao half-up. Looking at the bright red blood flowing from the corner of his lips, Jiang Lige realized for the first time since his rebirth that he was still the coward in his previous life.
She didn't even dare look at him.
She just stretched out her muddy hands and tightly grasped his clothes, as if all her strength was concentrated in that one place.
Ning Yunxiao smiled as he looked at her, his frown suddenly relaxed, then he held her hand, stuffed something into her hand, and opened his thin lips slightly.
"Meeting the princess amidst the glare of swords and the bloody end is a regret of my life," he said. "But I still think the princess looks more beautiful when she smiles. Every time I see her smile, it's as if there's no more pain in the world, and it brings me joy."
"..."
The girl looked at him silently, and pulled the corners of her mouth as if she wanted to smile, but in the end she couldn't smile.
The tears gathered in his eyes could not help but fall, suddenly landing on his bloodstains that had not yet dried, and the pure liquid was instantly dyed bloody.
At this time, the men in black who had just been badly exhausted by Ning Yunxiao had recovered and came again with swords in their hands.
Seeing this, Ning Yunxiao picked up the dirt on the ground, then grabbed Jiang Lige's waist in the rising dust and jumped off the cliff.
"Jiang Lige, I love you forever."
The moment she fell off the cliff, Jiang Lige heard Ning Yunxiao say to her.
The lingering mist blocked her eyes, and she couldn't see Ning Yunxiao's expression when he said this, but she thought...
She will never forget the tenderness in Ning Yunxiao's words, and the heart-pounding feeling in that instant.
Well, at least you won’t be alone on the road to the underworld.
At the moment of facing death, Jiang Lige thought so and closed his eyes with great relief.
At this moment, the man in black on the cliff saw this and quickly stepped forward to check. He saw the figures of the two people falling rapidly, and finally disappeared in the clouds in the mountain stream, without a trace.
"Boss, this..." A man in black looked at the leader in embarrassment, "That palm strike just now damaged all of Ning Yunxiao's internal organs, and Princess Zhaohua has no martial arts skills. If these two fall off the cliff, they will definitely die!"
The leader of the men in black pondered for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "Don't be careless. Go down the mountain and search immediately. We must find the person alive or the body dead."
"Yes!"
……
Deng Sijiu and others had settled the people, but they arrived a step too late and saw the tragedy all over the ground.
A scrap of Jiang Lige's clothes hung on a branch at the edge of the cliff. Deng Sijiu's face was gloomy, and he made a quick decision.
Go down the mountain to search.
The search time was long and painful for Deng Sijiu and others who came with them, as well as the people in the border town.
Everyone knows that Ning Yunxiao and Jiang Lige chose to go into danger alone to save them, and their current life and death are unknown, also for them.
Anger, hope, pain, too many emotions mixed together, making this time particularly heavy.
Deng Sijiu led his men to search the bottom of the cliff for a whole day and night, but they still couldn't find the bodies of the two men, until...
On the morning of the second day, Deng Sijiu led the team to the bottom of the cliff and found the black-clad men chasing them. What they had in their hands was for returning to report -
Ning Yunxiao and Jiang Lige's bloodstained clothes, and half of their broken fingers.
When they met on a narrow road, Deng Sijiu and his group were filled with anger and became bloodthirsty. They were determined to kill the murderer who hurt Ning Yunxiao and the others at all costs.
The men in black were all wiped out, but none of Deng Sijiu and the others were happy about the victory.
He just silently carried the men in black back to the border town, hung them on the city wall, and was cursed by thousands of people.
The news of Ning Yunxiao and Jiang Lige's death spread, and the people in the border town were grief-stricken. The bodies of the men in black that were hanging on the city wall that day were carried away by the people after the ropes were cut.
Some were chopped up and fed to dogs, some were stabbed to pieces, and some had talismans pasted all over their bodies, depriving them of reincarnation. There were all kinds of ways to vent their anger.
At the same time, Deng Sijiu also personally wrote a petition and returned to Beijing, informing the people in Beijing of the death of the two people, and said that he would return to Beijing to apologize after dealing with the aftermath of the border town.
After the capital received this news, it can be said that the entire court and the harem changed overnight.
Empress Dowager Jiang and Concubine Dowager Xian, the two most honorable masters in the harem, both fell ill overnight. Empress Xiao, who always loved to show off, stayed in the harem obediently and did not go out. The entire harem was as silent as stagnant water.
Emperor Shengwu, who had attended court every day for more than 20 years since he ascended the throne, stopped attending court for three days. When he returned to court, he had lost a lot of weight, and his sunken eye sockets made him look as if he had aged ten years.
Afterwards, Emperor Shengwu was furious and sent an imperial envoy to the border city to thoroughly investigate the assassination of Ning Yunxiao and Jiang Lige.
All these things made some ministers sigh, "It can be said that he died a worthy death."