The Ghost of Fog
Chapters 175. Northern turmoil
"A-ampuunn..aagghh!!"
Inside the forest, there was a settlement filled by several large tents. The place is a den of thieves who lately unsettled the surrounding residents.
They often commit robbery, murder, and even rape in the villages around there. But now it appeared that twenty men in pure white clothes led by a woman dressed in red were slaughtering the bandit group.
The red-robed lady was carrying a pair of daggers as her weapon. He also wears a red mask.
"Where are your leaders!?" ask the red masked woman to a man who looks scared.
"I don't know...I don't know!! He's gone!" frightened answer.
"Srats!"
Just one slash, the man's chest was already wide open and died instantly. A moment later, this woman exclaimed.
"Find the leader and kill him on the spot!!"
These two dozens of people then immediately flashed from there. Looking for a leader from the band of thieves. It was not until five minutes, from the depths of the forest there came a terrible cry, hearing this the red mask smiling with satisfaction from behind his mask.
A few moments later the twenty men returned and one of them said, "All is well, miss!"
"Good, now we're home!"
Who was the red masked woman and the twenty men dressed in all white? They were none other than Zhang family members and that red mask was Song Qian.
Ask them why their clothes are like that. So the answer was due to the death of the most loyal bodyguard of the Zhang family, Lin Tian the Fog Ghost Swordsman.
It had been four years since the warrior's death, and over time people began to forget. Since Lin Tian was a loyal bodyguard, as well as the figure that Miss Zhang admired the most, Zhang Qiaofeng made a massive change to his family.
After the main residence not far from the waterfall was completed, Zhang Qiaofeng immediately made a new rule. The first was, the Zhang family uniform was changed in color from the previous one in red, to white. Just like the pride clothes of the ghost.
Second, Zhang Qiaofeng also ordered all family elders to wear special clothes made directly by Minghao, a literati who, in addition to silat, is also good at sewing.
The clothes were made of pure white fine silk with a collar and the tip of the robe in gold. For his own belt, it was pitch-black.
And while on duty, Zhang Qiaofeng had this elder wear a white mask just like Lin Tian's. Only the difference was that the mask belonged to the elders was plain with a hole in the eye, without any form of nose or lips.
The young leader also formed a personal bodyguard squad of five people. All women. They were Song Qian, Fen Lian, Lu Jia Li, Yin Yin and her daughter. The five bodyguards wear masks and red clothes.
As for himself, wearing a pure white robe that was deliberately made as similar as possible to Lin Tian's. The difference was, there was a golden dragon image on his back that wanted to devour the sun. He was also wearing a mask belonging to Lin Tian that had already cracked on his right cheek.
In memory of the ghostly warrior, Zhang Qiaofeng named the elders of the Zhang family as the Ghost Line. As for his five personal bodyguards, he was named Red Ghost.
All this he did was for the sake of his loyal bodyguard, Lin Tian. Even until this moment, he was unwilling to accept the male personal bodyguards anymore on the grounds that no one would be able to replace Lin Tian. And this was indeed true, actually all this time what he really considered as a bodyguard as well as the closest person was a Lin Tian.
"It's all done, miss." Song Qian gave a report to a masked girl.
"Good indeed. What about the investigation?" ask Zhang Qiaofeng who without taking his eyes off his reading book.
Song Qian seemed to frown behind her mask before replying, "Miss.please don't be like this.he has long since disappeared and may be dead..."
Zhang Qiaofeng sighed and took off his mask, turning his head to look at Song Qian. His mouth revealed a small smile, but from his eyes it was clearly a ray of profound sadness.
"Song Qian, find him! If it's dead, give me the body! If all of you can't get his body, even to death I'll always assume he's alive."
"Song Qian, who's torturing themselves? I just...hopefully.." she glanced at the end of the sentence.
"There's no need to rush Song Qian, I don't give a time limit to this investigation. You take it easy." he continued.
Song Qian lowered her head for a moment before looking back at her nonanya as the girl spoke.
"For a moment about the investigation. Now what about the Unsurpassed Devil going North? Is there any progress?"
"Sorry miss, according to reports, we have found no traces of a No Appeal Devil in this South. Looks like they've all really moved to the North."
"After seizing the Xiao family, they instead ran away huh...Haha is so funny, wanting to challenge the empire with such strength? Although strong but they can what!?" zhang Qiaofeng replied with a slight laugh.
Indeed many years ago, the No Appeal Demon led by Sian Yang invaded the Xiao residence and managed to take control of the Stone city. However, it only lasted for a few months before the ruling family, aided by the emperor's troops and Zhang's family, attacked Batu city and succeeded in expelling them.
Finally after almost half a year later, there was a rumor saying if the Devil of No Appeal went to the North. From then on, the martial world became a little peaceful. Yet....
"Several months ago, the No Appeal Demon had managed to subdue half of the Song empire's territory." Song Qian continued to give a report.
"Hm.they're really troublemakers. How did emperor Chu act, was there any movement from them?"
"For a while, there has been no development, miss. The Emperor is still investigating the situation there."
"That's it. You can rest."
"Well miss."
As far as Song Qian was concerned, Zhang Qiaofeng stared at the cracked mask with a sad look. Unknowingly, two tears fell on the mask.
"Lin Tian, don't be like this, where are you going, alive or dead?" he muttered before kissing the mask on his forehead.
"If you're alive, I hope you're okay. If you were gone, no, you would still be alive!"
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Days after that, all the ruling families obtained a warrant from the emperor which essentially sent them all to investigate to the North, if necessary sending help to the Song empire.
The Zhang family who had already become the ruling family also received the letter and immediately prepared.
Zhang Qiaofeng ordered all the rows of red ghosts and ghosts to go with him to the North. For a residence in this Southern region, he left it to Lu Tuoli and his brothers. They were indeed part of the ghost line, but Zhang Qiaofeng had deliberately left them here so that they could investigate the enemy movements in the South there. Zhang Qiaofeng was still worried that there were some Unsurpassed Demons who had returned to the South and messed up there.
Lu Tuoli and the others left there was because they were the weakest elders in the Zhang family. If they come along, it could endanger their lives.
"Be careful, miss! Go home safe!" exclaimed Lu Tuoli saluted along with the two hundreds of people left in the residence.
The large army of the Zhang family that had already reached two thousand people left for the North. The other families also did the same, they sent at least two thousand to three thousand troops.
Thousands of people from the ruling family and imperial troops set out for the North to send aid to the Song empire. In fact, all of this was done by emperor Chu Quon due to the direct request of emperor Song. Given the close relationship of their ancestors, then Chu Quon did not hesitate to send help there.
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