Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 437: It’s Difficult to Reach Guanshan for the Dream Soul
——Farewell——
Lu Ning wanted to get up, but his injured legs could no longer stand up.
As he watched, a shiny butcher knife dripping with blood was about to pierce his throat.Z.br
A thick arm blocked her way, and she felt a sudden flash of blood in front of her eyes. Someone picked up her waist and ran towards the door desperately.
"Brother?!"
Lu Ning saw Toto's ferocious face and cheered in surprise.
Turning his eyes slightly, he saw his empty and bleeding left shoulder.
It turned out that he actually used his own arm to block Baohua's fatal blow.
"Brother!" Lu Ning grabbed Toto's lapel and cried bitterly and angrily.
"Even if I die, I will protect you from here!" Toto said these words through gritted teeth, completely ignoring the pursuers behind him, and just sent Lu Ning and Xia Yunqing out the door.
"Lu Ning, Toto! Hurry up!" Mu Qianqian had already fled outside the door with Xia Yunqing, waving to the two of them anxiously.
She had asked Xia Yunqing to ride a horse and leave first, but she stayed loyally to wait for Lu Ning.
When Baohua saw several people trying to escape, he immediately shouted: "Stop them, and no one will be able to leave alive!"
With an order, the lingering man in black rushed towards Lu Ning and others.
Toto did not dare to stop and used his strong back to resist the falling swords.
When he ran to the gate, he threw Lu Ning to Mu Qianqian, while he stood like a mountain in front of the gate, blocking the only way out.
"Brother! No!" Lu Ning struggled to crawl towards Toto, shouting with anger, which sounded so heartbreaking.
"Lu Ning, you can't save him, leave quickly!" Mu Qianqian struggled to pull Lu Ning, who was covered in blood, onto the horse. She did not dare to look back, fearing that she would cry.
Toto watched Lu Ning being dragged onto the horse, and finally grinned at her and murmured: "Little deer."
As soon as he finished speaking, his tall body suddenly fell to the ground. The men in black surrounded him and slashed at Toto's body with knives like they were venting their anger.
"Xiaolu, Master Xia will leave it to you, you go quickly!" Toto urged Lu Ning in a hurry, his eyes like copper bells already bloodshot.
The torrential rain blurred Lu Ning's eyes. Amidst the sound of the heavy rain, Toto's cry for her to leave quickly was so sad and tragic.
"No!" Lu Ning let out a heartbreaking cry, clutching his chest and spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Sit tight!" Mu Qianqian wiped away her tears and flew onto the horse.
She held the horse's belly, and the horse let go of its hooves and rushed into the night sky.
Lu Ning cried out in pain.
Mu Qianqian hissed: "Stop crying! If you cry again, I won't be able to bear it anymore!"
She tried her best to suppress the trembling all over her body, controlled the reins and ran out of the city.
She knew that if something happened to Lu Ning, Toto's death would be in vain, and Xia Yunqing would not be able to escape either.
This time, she felt that she was no longer a thief, but a real heroine, because she did not just focus on her own escape, but learned to save others!
Just as the city gate was right in front of us, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind.
Mu Qianqian screamed secretly: Could it be that the man in black is catching up again?
"Xiaolu, don't go! Wait for me!" Before she could turn around to look, Hu Qi's cry was heard.
Hearing this voice, Lu Ning suddenly stopped crying. She gritted her teeth and shouted, "Qianqian, put me down, I'm going to kill him!"
But how could Mu Qianqian dare to stop? She shouted with all her strength: "You are like this now. You can't even protect yourself. Who else do you want to kill? Don't count on me. I can't do anything except run away!"
Lu Ning glared at Hu Qi who was gradually approaching. The scene of Toto's tragic death made her unable to think about her own life and death. She only hoped to avenge Toto.
"Then run away and leave me alone!" Lu Ning shouted this to Mu Qianqian, pulled out the dagger and poked the horse's butt.
The horse roared and ran forward like crazy. Lu Ning turned over and rolled down.
Get off the horse.
Mu Qianqian felt a chill behind her. When she looked back, Lu Ning had fallen to the ground, and she was being taken away by the horse.
Seeing Lu Ning fall off the horse, Hu Qi ran towards Lu Ning. When he ran up to him, he picked up Lu Ning and exclaimed: "Little Lu, are you okay?"
However, a silver light flashed before his eyes, and he saw Lu Ning stab a dagger from his right hand, hitting him in the chest.
Hu Qiyuan opened her eyes, looked at the dagger on her chest in disbelief, and then looked at Lu Ning sadly: "Why? None of this... is my intention!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his body softened and fell to the ground.
"Brother Qi!" A sharp shout came from the rain curtain, and Baohua quickly ran to him. He jumped off the horse and rushed to Hu Qi's side.
Hu Qi grabbed his collar and said word by word: "Badi, please, don't hurt her!"
"Ah! You're still protecting her now!" Baohua gently put down Hu Qi, pulled out the sharp knife from his waist, stared at Lu Ning with blood in his eyes, and walked towards her with a ferocious expression.
Lu Ning had collapsed on the ground and did not run away. She could no longer fight and did not want to fight. She felt no regrets in being able to avenge her brother.
She raised her head and stared at Baohua without fear, with a happy sneer on her face. This was the joy of revenge!
Baohua's hair was messed up, his face was stained with the blood of an unknown person, and his whole person had fallen into madness.
He approached Lu Ning step by step, raised his hand high, and slashed at Lu Ning with his knife.
Between the lightning and flint, a white figure rushed over like lightning, hugged Lu Ning tightly, and used his body to block the oncoming knife.
"Hu Qi?"
"Seventh brother?"
Lu Ning and Bao Hua exclaimed in unison when they saw Hu Qi being hit in the vest by a knife.
With a "bang" sound, the knife in Baohua's hand fell to the ground.
He knelt down and hugged Hu Qi's body, yelling with tears in his eyes: "Brother Qi, why are you so stupid! Is this woman worth what you do?"
Hu Qi looked at him with blurry eyes, tried his best to curl his lips, but before he could finish a word, he tilted his head and passed out.
"Brother Qi!" Baohua hugged Hu Qi and looked up to the sky and roared.
His crazy gaze fell on Lu Ning, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to kill you to avenge Brother Seventh."
With that said, he picked up the knife and stood up suddenly, walking towards Lu Ning again.
Just as the knife was about to fall, a hidden dart flew out of the darkness and hit his left eye.
He screamed in agony and immediately dropped the weapon in his hand, his whole body writhing painfully and crazily in the heavy rain.
"Lu Ning, hold my hand quickly!"
All this happened too fast. Just when Lu Ning was stunned, Mu Qianqian turned her horse's head and ran back.
She held the reins tightly with one hand and bent down to think that Lu Ning had stretched out her hand.
Lu Ning's last desire to survive made Lu Ning grab the hand in front of him, use up his last bit of strength, fly on the horse's back, and immediately passed out leaning on Mu Qianqian's back...
——Endgame——
After the rain, the clouds opened, the surface of the river was clear and blue, and a faint cloud lay on the small beach, motionless.
On the shore of Orange Island, the corpses of hundreds of people were displayed in various directions. Everyone's face was purple and their whole body was swollen. They all died from drowning.
Yu Fengjin stood on the shore and looked at the corpses one by one. He couldn't wait but was very resistant. He was so afraid of seeing that face that was thinking about them day and night.
After counting hundreds of corpses, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, he realized that his palms were covered with sweat and the clothes on his back were soaked with sweat.
Gu Jiyun came over and said perfunctorily: "Mr. Liu, the storm did happen, but their bodies were not found. Do you think we should keep looking, or what?"
Yu Fengjin raised her head with her hands behind her hands and said firmly: "Keep looking, they should still be alive!"
The reason why he was so sure was because Mu Qianqian didn't come back, which meant that something must have happened to Lu Ning, which made Mu Qianqian unable to escape temporarily.
Gu Jiyun frowned,
He seemed a little impatient: "Orange Island is so big and connects Beiyu, Annan and Nanzhao. How should we find it? Where can we find it?"
Yu Fengjin didn't even look at him, but insisted in a calm voice: "Their ship must have encountered a storm not long after leaving the shore, so these corpses were pushed back by the waves. Those who were alive must have landed nearby.
, exhausted, they will definitely take shelter in the towns near the coast."
Gu Jiyun laughed in a low voice: "There are many towns nearby. We only have so few manpower. How can we find them? If they are in trouble, they will definitely go to the local government office for help. Why don't we wait a little longer-"
"No!"
Yu Fengjin glared at him and said decisively: "If they are seriously ill or in danger and cannot call for help, if we wait like this, we will miss their last chance of survival!"
"Okay!" Gu Jiyun crossed his arms and said calmly: "There are only so many people, how do you distribute them?"
Yu Fengjin smiled coldly and simply said, "Since Commander Gu has said so, I will take over the command!"
"You!" Gu Jiyun then realized that he had been fooled and said angrily: "The Golden Armored Guards are the imperial guards of the capital. Do you have the guts to send them out?"
Yu Fengjin gently shook the folding fan and said with a faint smile: "Of course I don't dare to mobilize the Golden Guards, but there are at least a thousand soldiers in Jiangning Mansion, which is enough! However, if Commander Gu is reluctant to delegate power, then I will have to trouble you.
Listen to my orders every day!"
As he spoke, he took out his badge and waved it proudly in front of him.
Gu Jiyun was so angry that his gums rattled, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! In that case, as long as you are not from the Golden Armor Guard, you can use it as you like! I want to see what you are capable of!"
After saying that, he angrily walked away.
The continuous heavy rain is like a curtain, the water vapor on the river is misty, the sails are heavily shadowed, the sky is dark, and the birds are slowly returning.
Yu Fengjin sat alone in front of the lamp, and all kinds of melancholy suddenly came to his heart along with the heavy rain: Lu Ning's laughter, laughter, laughter and anger were vividly reflected in front of his eyes, and his heart was racing, and he was very uneasy.
Unable to suppress his anxious mood, he could only put pen to paper and write verses repeatedly:
I lie down in white clothes during the New Year, and the white door is so lonely. The red building looks cold to each other through the rain, and the pearl foil floating lantern returns alone. The long journey should be sad in the late spring, and I still have vague dreams in the remaining night. Where can I find the jade seal?
, a wild goose flies among the clouds thousands of miles away.