Chapter 130 Family Matters

It wasn't that Zheng Fan wanted to crack a joke in this tense atmosphere, but rather because, as the "secondary creator" of Liang Cheng, somewhat like Gao E to Cao Xueqin, he had his own understanding of Liang Cheng's background.

Liang Cheng was a zombie who had lived from ancient times to the present, and although his strength had only recovered a tiny bit, his bloodline foundation should still be there.

It was like, "My attributes are all ordinary, but my level is very high." In most situations, this was useless, but when facing a younger brother of the same race, it might have miraculous effects.

It was similar to the bloodline suppression of high-level magical beasts over low-level magical beasts in the Warcraft setting. Here, high-level and low-level only referred to bloodline level, not strength, just like how a young and strong slave still needed to kneel and kowtow when facing a noble child.

However, the woman in white robe didn't give Zheng Fan much preparation time. Two living corpses transformed from Barbarian strongmen charged straight at them in an extremely savage manner.

The woman in white robe walked to the side of the two children, her eyes fixed on the battle.

In fact, the reason she hadn't chosen to attack from the beginning was because two of the three people opposite her had brought a sense of pressure from the first time she met them.

As for the one who seemed to be the leader among the three, he was clearly a piece of trash.

Of course, it was normal for the leader to be trash.

Otherwise, why would you bring subordinates when going out?

In fact, she was able to maintain restraint at first. Both sides were clearly wary of each other, but after entering, she saw the horses they had placed inside. The marks on the horses couldn't be faked.

From then on, at least in the eyes of the woman in white robe, there was no room for retreat.

After learning about the conflict between the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Shatuo tribe, the royal court sent her to mediate. But when she arrived, the two sides had already started fighting, and a Yan country cavalry had directly entered a tribe without any young adults. She only had time to rescue the two descendants of the Shatuo tribe leader.

Now, she just wanted to take these two children back to the royal court.

Who knew that on the way back, she would be ambushed by the Zhenbei Marquis faction!

Facing the two charging living corpses, Liang Cheng didn't rush to attack. Instead, he clenched his fists, and a deep black color began to flow in his eyes. Wisps of baleful aura emanated from around him.

The next moment,

Liang Cheng opened his mouth,

Revealing two fangs,

And roared at the two living corpses rushing towards him!

"Roar!!!"

Under the roar,

The two living corpses, which had been aggressive just a moment ago, suddenly seemed to have been paused. They stopped abruptly, and seemingly due to inertia, began to sway back and forth in unison like roly-poly toys.

The woman in white robe's eyes widened. This scene was beyond her imagination. She had lived in the royal court since she was a child and become a Barbarian Master of the royal court.

She had the most profound mastery of the art of refining living corpses. She didn't think her living corpses were invincible, but she really didn't expect that the living corpses she had just refined could be controlled by the other party right in front of her!

It was like you had painstakingly developed a new type of weapon, but the launch button was in the hands of your enemy.

"Barbarian Curse, Open!"

The woman in white robe placed her left palm on her forehead, and a white light immediately appeared in her eyes.

At that moment, the world looked different in her eyes.

She saw her two living corpses emitting a gray light, but the man who had roared earlier was covered in deep ink-like black!

Moreover, she could clearly feel that her two newly refined living corpses were actually having some inexplicable and strange emotional fluctuations towards the man in front of them.

In modern terms, it would be: "Pick me up! Throw me up high!"

"Hoo…………"

Xue San began to move slowly to the side, quietly and silently.

"Roar!!!"

Liang Cheng roared again.

The two living corpses turned around directly, and following Liang Cheng's rhythm, let out a roar together. Then, they charged directly at the woman in white robe!

Directly betrayed,

Turned against their master on the spot!

The woman in white robe didn't dare to delay. She bent down and picked up the two children.

No one knew the power of these two living corpses better than her. At least, in the time since they were created, they were almost invulnerable!

"Hehehehe."

At this moment, a gloomy laugh belonging to a villainous minor character came from behind her.

Almost at the instant Liang Cheng controlled the living corpses to counterattack, Xue San had already appeared behind the woman in white robe. The dagger in his hand turned into a cold light and stabbed towards the woman's back!

This time, the sneak attack didn't take into account whether the other party was still holding two children. Killing was like this, not allowing you to have any compassion.

Besides, if Liang Cheng hadn't happened to meet his relatives, it would have been them being chased by the two living corpses right now.

"Bang!"

The dagger stabbed into the woman in white robe's back, but Xue San only felt like he had stabbed a piece of steel. His wrist felt a violent shock.

A white robe fluttered up, directly enveloping Xue San. The most terrifying thing was that there were silver needles shining on the robe.

"Crap!"

Heaven knows if there was poison on the needles. Xue San wasn't Liang Cheng, daring to test poison with his own body. He retreated timidly.

As long as the green hills remain, there's no worry about firewood.

As an assassin, retreating and looking for a second chance after a failed strike was almost an instinct.

But when Xue San dodged the falling white robe and glanced aside, he was stunned.

Damn it,

What did I see?

"Master!"

At that moment,

Zheng Fan was thinking: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

When Liang Cheng used his zombie roar to incite the two living corpses to rebel, not only Xue San moved, but Zheng Fan also moved.

Zheng Fan, carrying his saber, charged up from the other side.

He didn't know why he was charging up. Maybe it was because in a group fight, if you didn't count the two children, it was originally 3v3 between the two sides.

But after the two living corpses defected, it turned into a 5v1 gang fight.

What were you waiting for at this time if you didn't go up and kick them while they were down!

Then,

Zheng Fan realized he was in a bind.

First, the woman in white robe dodged the attack of the two living corpses, and then used a golden cicada shedding its shell to avoid Xue San's sneak attack. Then, the woman in red tight-fitting clothes flashed and appeared in front of Zheng Fan.

A flattering way of saying it was that Zheng Fan was prescient, discerning the battlefield situation and blocking the enemy's retreat in advance!

A more realistic way of saying it was, "Crap, I overdid the bravado!"

Fortunately, he had killed people on the battlefield a few days ago. Zheng Fan almost instinctively gripped the saber handle with both hands, raised the saber, and slashed at the woman rushing towards him!

The woman didn't seem to expect that someone could ambush her in advance, but her response was also extremely ruthless. She directly threw the girl doll in her hand at Zheng Fan, at the saber in Zheng Fan's hand.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

If it were in the past, if he had enough time to think and analyze, maybe Zheng Fan would have a certain probability of choosing to ignore the old, young, women and children, and slash down with the saber without mercy!

Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself!

Although there were moral flaws, it didn't matter!

But reality wouldn't slow down according to your needs. Without time to think and prepare to harden his heart, seeing a girl doll being thrown at him, and knowing that the next second, she might be cut in half by his sharp saber,

Zheng Fan's wrist twisted, the blade turned to the side, and the flat of the saber hit the girl doll.

In the end, at this moment, he was still... a Holy Mother.

Reason was certainly powerful, but emotion ran faster.

The woman seized this moment. Taking advantage of Zheng Fan's turning of the saber, she got close to Zheng Fan.

Her left hand was still holding the boy doll, but her right hand directly grabbed Zheng Fan's saber, and with a twist of her arm, the blade slid backwards, almost reaching Zheng Fan's neck.

This was directly using your saber to ask you to commit suicide!

In this moment of life and death crisis, Zheng Fan had no time to regret his previous Holy Mother behavior. He could only clench his saber handle tightly with both hands.

"Buzz!"

The blade stopped very close to Zheng Fan's neck.

The woman was a little surprised, because she hadn't held back at all, but the other party's grip was a little beyond her expectations.

This piece of trash in front of her was not a piece of trash, but a... trash with a very strong grip.

Behind her, the two living corpses had changed direction and were pouncing again. The little dwarf had also disappeared. The woman knew that she couldn't delay any longer.

She pressed down with her palm, exerting force downwards.

Zheng Fan, who had been struggling with all his might, "clang"ed and chopped the saber on the ground. Then, a crisp sound came.

"Hiss, my waist..."

The woman didn't stop at all. She didn't even pick up the girl doll on the ground and jumped away, holding the remaining boy doll.

At the moment the woman left, Xue San's figure reappeared behind her.

The woman was shocked, but she couldn't think too much.

"Puff!"

Xue San's dagger stabbed into the woman's back.

But the woman's figure wasn't affected at all, and she continued forward.

Unable to kill her with one strike, Xue San was about to chase after her, but at this moment, Liang Cheng let out a low shout:

"Don't chase!"

Xue San stopped, watching the woman leave the shelter with the child in her arms.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The two living corpses stood still. At the same time, their skin began to rot rapidly, and pools of pus dripped out, melting quickly like heated chocolate.

Liang Cheng "thump"ed and knelt on the ground. Clearly, controlling those two living corpses was too much of a drain on him now.

The reason he had told Xue San not to chase was because he had lost his combat ability and had even become a burden. If Xue San chased after her, the Master's safety wouldn't be guaranteed.

Zheng Fan supported himself with the saber handle in one hand and covered his waist with the other hand, slowly sitting down, constantly sucking in cold air.

Xue San walked to the girl doll. The girl doll didn't know why, maybe she had been drugged by the woman in advance, so she was still unconscious.

Then, Xue San went around the girl doll and came to Zheng Fan, asking with concern:

"Master, are you okay?"

Zheng Fan shook his head and immediately asked:

"Is your dagger poisoned?"

Xue San's mouth formed an "o" shape.

He liked such a wicked master very much.

However, he shook his head regretfully and said, "It was poisoned before, but after killing people on the battlefield some time ago, the poison was used up a lot. The last bit was smeared on, ordinary people might be poisoned to death, but that woman, I guess it's unlikely."

As he spoke, Xue San handed another dagger he had left to Zheng Fan. There was a small groove at the end of the dagger. After pressing it, a new opening was made. Inside was where the poison was stored. At the moment of assassinating the enemy, pressing this small mechanism would inject the poison into the other party's body like a venomous snake.

As for simply smearing the poison on the blade, it was simply too wasteful, and the effect wasn't good. If you really wanted to do that, it would be better to smear feces on it.

Don't laugh, smearing feces on arrowheads was a very common dirty trick on ancient battlefields.

After all, there was no penicillin or anything like that at that time. Once a wound became infected, whether you could survive or not was up to fate.

"Forget it, let her run if she runs." Zheng Fan turned his head to look at Liang Cheng and said, "Once the sandstorm stops, we'll leave immediately."

The outside world was too dangerous.

Ah,

My waist hurts so much.

………………

Although the sandstorm had passed its most violent stage, even its tail was still terrifying.

The woman was holding the boy doll and didn't have a horse, so she could only rush into this sandstorm. The dagger in her back was still stuck there. Her muscles had locked the wound, but as she walked, she found that her vision was starting to blur.

She knew that the dagger was poisoned, but in order to prevent pursuers from catching up, she could only choose to suppress the spread of the poison with her own strength. Fortunately, the toxicity wasn't very strong.

No matter what, the royal court's mission must be completed!

After walking for about half an hour, the woman could only rely on her experience and intuition to roughly distinguish the direction, but she wasn't sure how much error there was.

However, she heard the sound of horses' hooves ahead.

The woman was startled at first, but when she heard the sound of whips from the direction of the horses' hooves, she felt a little relieved.

The two knights had obviously discovered the situation here and soon came into view.

The woman widened her eyes. The two knights who appeared in front of her weren't wearing armor, just ordinary robes. These were the people she had arranged to meet her in advance.

They were disguised as a merchant caravan, active between Tiger Head City and the royal court all year round.

"I am Barbarian Master Ayi, where is your leader?"

The woman announced her identity.

"Greetings, Barbarian Master!"

One of the caravan guards immediately dismounted and paid his respects. Another guard, who was extremely burly, also dismounted, but looked a little silly. He first made a fist salute, then seemed a little at a loss. When he seemed to want to kneel down, his companion had already stood up, and he awkwardly made a horse stance.

"Reporting to Your Excellency, the leader is about ten miles from here. Because Your Excellency didn't meet us at the agreed time and we encountered a sandstorm, the leader told us to disperse and look for Your Excellency nearby."

"You have a good heart." The woman handed the boy doll in her arms to the caravan guard in front of her. "Tell your leader to gather all the usable subordinates and go northwest. There are assassins from the Li family there. There aren't many of them, take care of them for me."

"Yes."

At this time,

The woman noticed that the silly, honest-looking big guy was standing right in front of her, blatantly looking down at her body.

Her white robe had been thrown out during the attack, and she had only escaped wearing tight-fitting clothes. After experiencing the wind and sand in the sandstorm, there was a lot of her body exposed now.

Was this big, silly guy really stupid, daring to look directly at her body like this?

As a Barbarian Master with a noble status, to have her body looked at by a lowly servant, for a moment, she didn't know whether she should be angry or laugh.

But seeing that the silly big guy was still looking,

The woman raised her head,

Looking at him,

Her eyes were slightly cold,

And asked:

"Is it good to look at?"

The silly big guy had been staring at the dagger stuck in the woman's back,

Hearing this,

He nodded,

And said:

"Good to look at."

Then,

He raised the axe in his hand...