Arrows rained down in an instant. Her pupils contracted, and in the next moment, she found herself and Xiao Feng on a tree branch, hearing Mo Lingxi’s warning voice.
“Wife, Xiao Feng, be careful, stay here.”
Sheng Lengshuang hugged Xiao Feng tightly, her brows furrowed. “Okay, you be careful too.”
Seeing Mo Lingxi swat away several arrows with a palm strike, her heart tightened. With so many archers, they might not be able to leave unscathed.
“Don’t worry,” Mo Lingxi comforted her softly.
Sheng Lengshuang couldn’t help but worry, but she knew very well that worrying now was the most useless thing. She had to find a way to leave safely.
She narrowed her eyes and thought for a moment, recalling the animals in her spatial medicinal garden, but decided against bringing them out.
If a large group of animals suddenly appeared, it would not only arouse suspicion but also potentially bring trouble and danger.
The medicinal powder… it was easy to injure their own people.
She looked around again, still not finding Tao Li’s figure. Capturing this woman didn’t seem very useful; she was just a pawn, but it was worth a try.
“Tao Li, do you want to live? I told you last time, if you don’t get treatment, you won’t live much longer.”
Hearing this, Tao Li unconsciously clutched the wild grass, her eyes filled with a desperate desire to live. “Sheng Lengshuang, you don’t need to say that. After you die, someone will naturally come to treat me.”
“I will live to a ripe old age and enjoy a life of honor.”
Sheng Lengshuang asked Mo Lingxi with her eyes if he had found Tao Li’s hiding place.
Mo Lingxi shook his head, indicating not yet. He whispered, “Wife, there’s no need to find Tao Li, she’s not very useful. This will be handled soon.”
Sheng Lengshuang lowered her gaze and saw that the hidden guards had already dealt with many of the masked men. The remaining masked men had no time to deal with the three of them, which somewhat eased her mind.
As expected of Mo Lingxi’s hidden guards, their skills were top-notch.
Suddenly, there was a ‘swoosh’.
Before Sheng Lengshuang could react, Mo Lingxi pulled her into his arms, and a ‘thud’ sounded in her ears.
Tilting her head, she saw Mo Lingxi holding an arrow with one hand, the arrow mere inches from her heart.
This scene terrified her, and cold sweat broke out. “Hidden arrow!?”
If not for Mo Lingxi’s quick reaction, she couldn’t imagine the consequences.
Mo Lingxi snapped the arrow in half and scanned the surroundings with a fierce gaze. “Be careful, someone is hiding in the dark shooting arrows. Tao Li and these people are just distractions.”
Sheng Lengshuang’s heart pounded. Still calm, she looked around again. “Black Hand really wants me dead, using this method to kill me.”
Mo Lingxi grunted, protected Sheng Lengshuang and her son as they landed, and then ordered several hidden guards to search the surroundings.
Sheng Lengshuang patted Xiao Feng a few times and said to Mo Lingxi, “It’s not very safe here anymore. Let’s go back.”
“Alright.” Mo Lingxi protected the mother and son as they descended the mountain.
Once they were in the carriage, Sheng Lengshuang let out a sigh of relief.
However—
The horse went wild.
The carriage’s speed suddenly increased, and it became extremely bumpy.
Sheng Lengshuang almost fell to the ground. She ignored herself and quickly shielded Xiao Feng in her arms, gripping the carriage with one hand. “What’s going on?”
Mo Lingxi lifted the carriage curtain, and the three of them saw that the coachman had fainted at some point. The coachman then fell to the ground, and the wild horse continued to run forward at full speed.
The surrounding scenery rapidly receded.
The carriage became increasingly bumpy and faster.
Sheng Lengshuang felt extremely uncomfortable and was finding it harder to hold on. She did her best to protect Xiao Feng in her arms, calmly thinking about how to resolve the situation.
“Hold on tight, I’m going to control the horse.” Before he finished speaking, Mo Lingxi had already exited the carriage.
Sheng Lengshuang’s cautionary words were left unsaid as she watched Mo Lingxi sit on the wild horse’s back, pulling hard on the reins, trying to stop the horse. This scene made her heart leap into her throat.
Unable to speak, she tightly protected Xiao Feng, trying her best to steady herself, completely unaware that her palms were already scraped raw.
Xiao Feng, being very sensible, held onto her, trying to steady himself so as not to be a burden to his mother.
Just as Sheng Lengshuang was worried about Mo Lingxi, there was a sudden loud ‘boom’ accompanied by the horse’s pained neigh, which pierced her eardrums.
“Mo Lingxi!”
Before she could lift the carriage curtain to check on Mo Lingxi, she felt the entire carriage frame tilt heavily to one side, causing her and Xiao Feng to fall sideways.
At this moment, the only thought in her mind was to protect Xiao Feng.
She shielded Xiao Feng in her arms, using her own body as a cushion, and crashed to the ground, preventing the child from feeling any impact.
In that instant, as she hit the ground, stars flashed before her eyes from the pain. “Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng, are you alright?”
She immediately checked on Xiao Feng.
“Mom, I’m fine.” Xiao Feng lay obediently in his mother’s arms, not crying, not moving.
Sheng Lengshuang, confirming Xiao Feng was truly fine, loudly called out to Mo Lingxi, “Mo Lingxi, Mo Lingxi, are you okay?”
After a long pause with no answer, she felt uneasy and pulled open the carriage curtain, only to come face-to-face with two masked men holding swords.
Instinctively, she threw a handful of medicinal powder and retreated with Xiao Feng.
The two masked men also retreated.
As Sheng Lengshuang was about to sprinkle more powder, she saw Mo Lingxi dispatch the masked men one by one with his sword. “Mo Lingxi!”
Mo Lingxi flicked the blood off his sword, then entered the carriage and helped Sheng Lengshuang and her son out. “It’s alright…”
He noticed Sheng Lengshuang’s scraped palms and immediately wrapped them with a handkerchief. “When we get back, I’ll have a doctor look at them.”
Sheng Lengshuang followed his gaze and only then realized her palms were injured. She said it was nothing. “It’s just a small injury. What happened?”
Scanning the surroundings, she saw several masked men’s corpses, along with several pits of varying sizes, and the horse was already dead.
It was a scene of devastation.
Mo Lingxi protected Sheng Lengshuang and her son as they left and quietly explained the situation. “It was other assassins. Black Hand arranged a series of schemes.”
Sheng Lengshuang finally understood why Tao Li had appeared. If Tao Li hadn’t appeared, their attention wouldn’t have been drawn, so Black Hand deliberately let Tao Li appear to distract them, thereby implementing their subsequent plan.
“We’ll have to be more careful when going out in the future. Today’s events show that Black Hand is determined to kill me, no matter the cost.”
Mo Lingxi narrowed his dangerous eyes. “I’m planning a major cleanup, using the arrival of envoys from several countries as an excuse.”
Sheng Lengshuang: “Offer a reward. Comparatively, the common people might know more and can help us a great deal in certain situations.”
Don’t underestimate the common people; they know things the authorities don’t.
Mo Lingxi thought this method was feasible.
And so—