
“Xiu’er?”
The middle-aged woman looked back at him with tears in her eyes, Lu Xiulan immediately came forward then hugged her mother to calm down. After careful consideration they were all residents of Windless Heights Valley.
Bing Lian moved to help Tan Minjie tie up one of the horsemen, the soldiers from Sky Jewel Kingdom examined the bodies of the other two who were already headless. While Yin Kyiv seems to clean the blood on the blade of his sword.
“If I hadn't ambushed this one person, you two would have finished him off....ugh...” Minjie tightened the rope before gagging the man's mouth with a cloth.
“Maybe...”.
“Hey!? We can get information about enemy”
“I think it's impossible Brother Tan, as it seems. He was not a Cultivator, all three of them were mountain bandits who settled around the valley. The point is he is just a lackey, his knowledge is less valuable in my opinion..” Lian comments shrugging.
“Eh? Why just say it now!? Tau so mending I just kill...hah..
“Quiet, who knows we can pry about their patrols to easily smuggle...”.
Finally all were brought back to the border where the Sky Jewel Kingdom troop camp was. Lu Xiulan continued to be by her mother's side for the middle-aged woman to feel comfortable, when she got there. The colonel immediately greeted, some of his men reported the entire incident. Making his face instantly lose color, he was grateful not to start a problem with Bing Lian's group.
“Mother? Will you tell me what happened?”
“Hah...exactly one week ago, midnight they attacked the village...”.
Although initially reluctant, inevitably Mother Xiulan began to explain the series of events of the conquest of Windless Heights Valley. The raid was led by a man named Shen Hai and his colleagues numbered thirty men.
They are certainly very strong to be able to provide resistance against the bandits, but each – has not intervened in the activity and let the rough work be completed by the group of robbers.
“How many fatalities on our side?” chirps Bing Lian arrives – arrives.
“It's a little, because of Shen Hai's orders. Most residents are detained, the dead are usually caused by the brutal acts of mountain bandits”
“Do You know where Dad is?”
“Your father along with Chun Jiao and Guan Qianda seemed to get a special cell because he held the leadership of the resistance for the attack”
“At least they have not been killed, well now we should find the location of the enemy's operation center”
“Learners? Let me thank you for saving our lives” Mother Xiulan bowed her head.
“Hmm? Raise your head Madam Lu, I did it because we live in the same place” Lian said smiling faintly.
“Eh....?”
“You don't recognize me?”
Lu Xiulan's mother looked closely at the young man's body in her face from head to toe, but it was true – felt she had never met someone with – characteristics before. That was when the distinctive lotus flower scent pierced his nose, his eyes widened in shock.
“Li..an?”
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Lu Yong had never liked Lian since long ago, he actually did not have any personal problems. The attitude and temperament of the child was not a bad thing for him either, but he hated seeing Lu Xiulan playing with him.
He was afraid that his youngest daughter would have a bad influence, associating with a peasant child as a learned person was very strange according to Lu Yong. The feeling remained even after Lian saved Lu Xiulan while he was mired into the trench.
Even this woman became the only – member of the Lu family against her husband's decision to send Lian to the White Crow Sect first. When almost all of her – children agree, big brother – big brother Xiulan is calm because they think Lian can help also keep Xiulan there. Unexpectedly five years later, Lu Yong was saved his life by the same poor little boy.
Although his behavior was not as bad as the Chun family, Lu Yong's resentment was realized by little Lian. The main reason why he had always set a distance with Lu Xiulan. The figure of a handsome young man in front of him now was completely different, his white hair and blue eyes could easily sedate girls.
Lu Yong looked at his daughter to confirm Bing Lian's words, Lu Xiulan nodded her head full of question marks. Little astonished at his mother's strange demeanor, Lu Yong's body trembled violently. Just about to kowtow, Lian moved swiftly catching her shoulder.
“Nyona please..it's okay – what....I've forgiven you long ago.....Xiulan?” Bing Lian asked for help, afraid that if left alone Lu Yong would smash his head hard to the ground until it bled.
Lu Xiulan took over and had Lian retreat, Bing Lian scratching – scratched her confused head. He did not expect Xiulan's mother to be as hysterical as before, as long as she was still calm. Lian took Tan Minjie, Yin Kyiv, and the Colonel to their prisoners.
“Phuah!? Uhuk! Uhuk! Weepy! Kepa—“
“Ck ck ck...keep your mouth, or I'll make sure you're sorry....” said Lian slowly, her middle finger was stuck on the man's neck.
That person instantly shut his mouth tightly, cold sweat drenching all over his body. But several occasions saw him struggling so that the ties to the tree behind him were broken. The throat is very dry due to gagged cloth for hours – hours.
Bing Lian began her interrogation, the information she requested was simple. How about the guard route around Windless Heights Valley plus the location of the main headquarters of the Savage Crocodile Tribe, the bandit smiled mockingly before saying he didn't know anything.
“Although know though I won't—“
CRUST!!!
“ARGGH!!”
The stale – no-nonsense Lian broke one of her fingers, she moved to the next target casually. Tan Minjie and Colonel stared at each other in horror, while Yin Kyiv touched her own lips wondering what it was like to do something just now.
“My question is still the same..”.
“Fuck idio—AKHH!!!“
“You see this pill, I have five. If an ordinary human like you drank it, your wounds would recover in a flash” Bing Lian showed the medicine in red.
“Ukh....!!!”
“Do you know? The arms are composed of about fifty-four bones..”.
GLAKES!
“You devil!”
“Thank you kash for the compliment, if times five then the result is two hundred and seventy. Let's see if you can endure that much fracture pain, I can do it all night...hehehehe Lian grinned wide.
CRUST! CRETAS! THE KRUNTUK! CRETAS!
The night was filled with cries of pain, finished consuming the second pill. The prisoner was not strong anymore, he told me everything he knew did not dare to lie in the slightest. Lian nodded in satisfaction then asked the Colonel to move her.
“Kill me!!!”
“Nak only, redeem your sins just died. Basic irresponsible people” reply Lian ketus.
Bing Lian summoned everything including Lu Xiulan to discuss the preparations for the release of Windless Heights Valley. Sky Jewel Kingdom troops were also expected to participate, refusing to let the Colonel down after seeing how Lian had been interrogated before.
Lian widened the map of the valley then gave – marks on a certain location, she wanted the Colonel along with his men to make a fuss around there so that the Cultivator Savage Crocodile Tribe's attention was split.
“Lian isn't here..” Xiulan pointed to the biggest point.
“True, their main headquarters...was on my farm....”.
Author Note :
Because of the request from the MT/NT, tomorrow the photo of Cast TROIE characters will be deleted. Thank you!
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