allonlinenovel Chapter 296 Greed comes at a price.
Chapter 296 Greed comes at a price.
Yin Bi immediately leaped out of the bathtub.
She spun around, jumped, and draped her inner garment over herself.
Who's outside?
A man in black descended from the sky and landed in front of Yin Bi, respectfully replying, "Master, there are assassins attacking. You must leave this place with me."
"assassin?"
Yin Bi was somewhat surprised. After all, the brothers and cronies in the court who posed a threat to him had long been eliminated by Xiao Qing. No one should dare to chase him all the way from the capital to this place.
There's only one truth: his whereabouts were leaked.
And the only ones who would assassinate him are probably the Dou family.
Hmph, as expected, his achievements have overshadowed his master, and he has long harbored rebellious intentions.
It seems that the previous suppression of the Dou family was not a mistake.
The only person who would reveal his whereabouts is Tang Guangjun.
The Tang and Dou families have a long-standing friendship. Even though Tang Guangjun is the son-in-law of Prefect Li, it's hard to guarantee that he won't secretly switch sides due to the entanglement of family interests and old friendships.
A cold glint flashed in Yin Bi's narrow eyes. He pursed his thin lips, quickly dressed, and followed the man in black out of the house.
As soon as they stepped out of the room, they saw flashing swords and shadows, and their own guards and assassins were already fighting with the assassins.
"Out!"
Gao Mengli, who was secretly firing a hot gun, saw two people come out of the inn, but she couldn't see their faces clearly in the darkness.
However, judging from the fact that these two only watched the battle and did not participate, it is undoubtedly the crown prince.
He immediately pulled the trigger and aimed at Yin Bi.
Yin Bi saw a woman in the distance pointing some kind of hidden weapon at him, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
He immediately made a hand gesture into the air.
Immediately, a dozen or so men in black filed out from behind him and rushed straight to Gao Mengli's face to assassinate her.
Gao Mengli was taken aback and looked around.
Damn, there's nowhere to hide!
She stood there so casually in the night, and indeed, it seemed she was too conspicuous.
With the New Year fast approaching, she started making noises one after another.
"Bang bang bang," gunshots rang out, and the man in black fell to the ground.
The force of the impact made her palms go numb and her shoulders turn bruised.
In addition, the darkness made visibility poor.
Several others moved quickly in front of her during the brief moments when she was reloading and firing her gun.
Yin Bi was about to retreat, but after hearing the sound from the sky and seeing the fallen guards, his eyes widened in shock for a moment before turning fiery.
What is this thing? How can it be so lethal?!
If he could possess that... wouldn't he be able to dominate the entire battlefield!
"Catch me alive!"
Just as the guards were about to close in and deliver a fatal blow to Gao Mengli, they suddenly heard an excited shout.
The flashing swords and shadows before her instantly transformed into palm strikes.
While flying in the sky, she suddenly felt the terror of bungee jumping.
"Ali!"
Seeing Gao Mengli, who had been watching closely, being slapped away by the man in black, Yu Zhi was on the verge of her heart pounding in her throat.
Despite being stabbed in the shoulder, she immediately leaped to catch Gao Mengli as she "flew into the sky".
Gao Mengli, who thought she would be crippled even if she didn't die, never expected that she would be "rescued" by the injured Bucktooth Jade.
Because of her shoulder injury, Bucktooth Jade couldn't use her hands, but she managed to catch her beloved White Moonlight steadily by using a human sandbag as a cushion.
Gao Mengli felt her body go limp and her palms become damp.
She quickly turned over and stood up, helping the buck-toothed girl, who had bled uncontrollably, to her feet.
"Ayu, are you alright?"
Just as Ayu was about to speak, she saw the black-clad man's fists and palms coming one after another. She quickly flipped over to protect Gao Mengli behind her, taking two solid blows herself.
"Pfft~"
Blood spurted from the buck-toothed jade mouth and then into Gao Mengli's eyes.
"Ayu!"
Without thinking, Gao Mengli quickly pulled the trigger, not aiming at the black-clad man who was moving rapidly towards her, but at Yin Bi's shoulder.
"Bang!" and "Pfft!" flew together.
Gao Mengli "bungee jumped" again and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Yin Bi felt a numbness in his shoulder and looked down in disbelief at the bloody hole in his shoulder.
That woman, from such a distance, actually hit him with that lump of iron.
While he was still in a daze.
Gao Mengli fell to the ground, and while lying there, she picked up the flintlock pistol again and shot Yin Bi in the thigh.
"master!"
The guards nearby, seeing their master injured right before their eyes, rushed forward in alarm to help him up.
Whether they escorted Yin Bi away or not, given Yin Bi's vengeful and cruel nature, his head no longer belongs to his own neck.
It's just a matter of morning or evening hours.
Yin Bi gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.
Despite the excruciating pain from his two gunshot wounds, his eyes blazed with fury as he glared at Gao Mengli and roared:
"You vile woman, how dare you treat me like this! Do you know who I am?"
Gao Mengli spat out a mouthful of blood, then got up from the ground, but did not put down the gun in her hand.
With a smirk and a mocking expression, he said, "Nonsense, we came back because we know who you are. Do you think your status can overshadow us?"
To be honest, we're afraid of arresting the wrong person!
Your noble status is your death warrant today.
Yin Bi's eyes widened in anger, and large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He completely ignored the tearing pain coming from his wound, wishing he could tear that arrogant woman apart with his own hands.
Looking at Gao Mengli, he went berserk: "Chop this slut into pieces and feed her to the dogs!"
At his command, the remaining guards pounced on Gao Mengli like hungry wolves.
He took advantage of the chaos to quickly get into a carriage and escape.
Yin Bi's guards quickly picked up the trembling old man hiding in the inn and threw him into the carriage.
"Ouch, be gentle!"
"Imperial Physician, quickly examine His Highness's injuries."
After being thrown into the carriage, the imperial physician was so disoriented that it took him a long time to recover.
Turning his head, he saw that blood was gushing out of Yin Bi's wounds like a gushing spring, which startled him so much that his old face trembled: "Your Highness, your injury is terrible!"
He hurriedly and shakily opened the medicine box, frantically taking out tools and herbs, his forehead covered in even more sweat than Yin Bi's.
Meanwhile, Gao Mengli and her group, who were still engaged in fierce fighting, finally managed to wipe out all of these peerless masters.
"Damn, they actually ran away!"
The man with the missing tooth looked around but didn't see that damned prince, so he couldn't help but spit.
Dou Weiyi sneered: "Run? How far can you run by land?"
The mountain road between Pingding and Pingyao counties is winding and twisting; it's estimated that they haven't even gotten over one hill yet.
He wasn't in a hurry at all; whether he went to Kyoto or Fucheng, he would go through Pingyao.
No one knows the terrain of Pingyao better than him.
Dou Wei counted the number of people. Most of them had some injuries, but there were no casualties, which relieved him.
"Alright, stop sneaking around!"
"Hey...hehe..."
Tang Guangjun emerged from the shadows, followed by a group of yamen runners.
"You've caused such a huge mess, don't expose me."
"Yes, yes!"
Wen Chou, carrying his bundle, quickly chimed in. He had originally intended to flee for his life, but Tang Guangjun had caught him again.
This advisor is truly working himself to the bone; he can't do anything right.