12dz Chapter 254 Kneel for Her
Chapter 254 Kneel for Her
Two years ago, he went to the East Border and was assassinated by him. During that period, the two fought constantly. He came to the border and pretended to be Yan Xiao to follow him to inquire about the news, but their real meeting was today.
Their eyes met, but there was no sharp confrontation, and there was no sign of tension on the surface.
Everything was contained in the two people's misty eyes, rolling silently and deeply, with undercurrents surging.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, then Lin Kaiji reached out, grabbed the person curled up on the carpet, and threw him on the snow with a plop.
The girl thrown to the ground was like a broken flower, lying silently on the cold snow, blood flowing from her arms, staining the white snow beneath her red.
The messy black hair was scattered, covering the pretty little face.
Although he couldn't see her face, Xiao Yan knew she was the real Lin Zhaoyue the moment he saw her.
Her body was trembling slightly, and it was obvious that she was being tortured badly.
There were thousands of soldiers and horses, but at this moment, there was deathly silence.
Xiao Yan tightened his grip on the reins and his heart ached suddenly, as if it was being strangled by an invisible big hand.
Xiao Yan calmly withdrew his gaze, looked at Lin Kaiji, and said in a calm voice:
"General Lin, long time no see"
There was no snow in the dead city, and the air was filled with dust. Apart from the sound of the wind, the only sounds in one's ears were the breath of the war horses.
When Lin Kaiji heard Xiao Yun calling him "General", he curled his lips into a smile, and then his eyes became sharp.
"I don't like the surname Lin. I prefer the Third Prince to call me Ye Yi."
Ye Yi, the King Wenxuan of the previous dynasty and the seventeenth brother of Emperor Ye Bingquan, disappeared after the Ye Dynasty was overthrown.
Xiao Yun stood still, not seeming to be at all surprised at Lin Kaiji's revelation of his identity.
Lin Kaiji stood up and walked out of the carriage.
"It seems that the Third Prince is not surprised at all by my identity? General Lin will not kill you, but I will. The Third Prince's troops are not enough for me to fight."
Xiao Yan curled his lips slightly, speaking in an arrogant tone:
"Prince Wenxuan, you can try and see whether your soldiers are stronger or my men are more powerful."
Their eyes met again, and there was no longer the undercurrent like before. Instead, it was like two volcanoes standing opposite each other, constantly boiling and surging, ready to erupt at any time and destroy the world.
At this moment, when Lin Kaiji revealed his identity, no matter whether it was the great general who became famous at a young age or the former crown prince who was the most famous in Kyoto, the two men who held great power, were above everyone else and equally talented, stood completely on opposite sides, with a clear distinction between them.
If they were friends, Lin Kaiji would admire his calmness and composure, but as an enemy, he wanted to break his pride and see how humble and lowly he was.
Lin Kaiji walked up to Lin Zhaoyue, stretched out his hand to grab Lin Zhaoyue's hair, and half-pulled her weak body up.
It would be more accurate to say that he was supporting the back of her head rather than pulling her.
Fearing that she would feel pain, Lin Kaiji used very little force in his hands.
Lin Kaiji fed her some medicine, and now she not only felt weak all over, but was also unable to speak.
Just now when they were outside the Dead City, they already knew that Xiao Yan was here to kill her. He hated her so much and wished she was dead. He hated her so much that even if she was caught here, he would come and kill her with his own hands.
She really didn't understand why Lin Kaiji wanted to use her to threaten Xiao Yan.
Although he didn't use much force when pinching her hair, he did throw her off the carriage just now.
The snow was very thick. Under normal circumstances, she would have been fine if she fell down, but the wound on her arm was torn and bleeding profusely.
Lin Kaiji pulled the hair off Lin Zhaoyue's face, revealing her beautiful face.
When Feng Xin saw Lin Zhaoyue's face clearly, his eyes were filled with shock and confusion.
"Didn't the girl just die? Why are there two girls?"
Xiao Yan didn't answer him, but stared at Lin Zhaoyue.
Feeling the severe pain, Lin Zhaoyue groaned subconsciously, but her mouth was open and no sound came out.
Xiao Yan noticed this and tightened his grip on the reins, his eyes bloodshot:
"Ye Yi, what did you do to her?"
Lin Kaiji looked at him with a slight smile on his face.
Just as he guessed, Zhao Zhao was his weak spot.
He took such a big risk and came to save Zhao Zhao at all costs, how could he not care?
As for why he wanted to kill that "Lin Zhaoyue" just now, it was probably because he realized that she was a fake.
Lin Kaiji laughed, mocking and provocative:
"Didn't the Third Prince say he was coming to kill her? Why is he like this now? Is he heartbroken?"
Xiao Yan looked at Lin Zhaoyue's face, which was as pale as paper, and his expression was terribly gloomy:
"Let her go. No matter what happens in the future, I will protect your life."
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Lin Kaiji laughed out loud, his eyes full of mockery:
"Third Prince, you still haven't figured out the situation. Now, as long as I give the order, my people will shoot you into a sieve."
Xiao Yan glanced at the dense crowd behind him. There were at least three thousand people. Together with the team led by Ye Qi, there were only three hundred of them. Judging from the lineup, there was no doubt that they would die.
But... just relying on these people, they wanted to kill him. Lin Kaiji thought he was... too weak!
Xiao Yun sneered, showing no fear of being suppressed at all.
"Ye Yi, these people of yours alone cannot kill me."
At this moment, accompanied by the messy sound of horse hooves and footsteps, Ye Qi's voice came over:
"Sir, he has a divine weapon on him."
Lin Kaiji turned his head and frowned deeply. At least half of Ye Qi's men were missing.
"What about the rest?"
Ye Qi rode his horse to Lin Kaiji's side. Although he was looking down from the horse, the oppressive feeling emanating from Lin Kaiji still made him feel breathless.
He stammered:
"The others...are all dead!"
As he said this, Ye Qi was afraid of being blamed by Lin Kaiji, so he turned over and got off his horse, plopped down on the ground with his legs straight, pointed at Xiao Yan and accused him:
"Sir, it was all him. It was the divine weapon on him that killed all the archers with one strike."
Artifact?
A hint of deep thought flashed across Lin Kaiji's eyes.
After a while, he looked at Xiao Yan and said:
"How about the Third Prince using your divine weapon to exchange for her?"
"Ye Yi, I don't believe you. Bring the person to the center. If you let him go, I will give you the artifact."
Xiao Yan said without hesitation.
"master……"
Feng Xin frowned, the Thunderbolt Bead was their last means of survival.
Lin Kaiji's eyes darkened, and the hand that was pulling Lin Zhaoyue's hair moved to her injured arm and pressed hard.
Bright red blood flowed from her injured wound, flowing down her slender fingers and staining her entire palm red.
Lin Zhaoyue was sweating profusely from the pain and her face lost all color, but she couldn't utter a single sound.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... How pitiful! He's in so much pain but he can't make a sound."
As he spoke, Lin Kaiji looked at Xiao Yan with an abominable smile:
"Do you know how she became mute? I thought she was too noisy, so I fed her some medicine. The medicine burned her throat, and she screamed for a whole hour. And this injury, she was too naughty and kept trying to escape, so I shot her with an arrow, and the arrow went straight through her arm..."
Bright red blood flowed down the reins, and Xiao Yun's jade-white finger bones turned white. It was unknown how much force he used, and the cowhide reins rubbed his palms.
"Ye! Yi!"
Those dark pupils revealed murderous intent.
He completely pissed him off!
Lin Kaiji felt extremely happy when he saw Xiao Yun losing control.
"Xiao Yan, you are not qualified to negotiate with me now. I want you to kneel down over there and present me with the divine weapon. Otherwise, I will break her neck right now!"
As Lin Kaiji spoke, he grabbed Lin Zhaoyue's slender white neck with his big hand.
Lin Kaiji pinched very hard, causing suffocation in her chest and a sunken Adam's apple. Lin Zhaoyue could not help but cough.
Even her cough was silent, but her tears flowed silently and her face quickly turned blue.
How could a proud man like Xiao Yan kneel down for someone he hated so much?
Lin Zhaoyue felt that Lin Kaiji was not using her to threaten Xiao Yun, but was simply torturing her.
Lin Kaiji was afraid that he would be soft-hearted, so he forced himself to look away and look at Xiao Yan.
"Hmm? The Third Prince still won't kneel?"
"Rebel, don't push your luck! The Third Prince of our dynasty is a child of destiny, with the blood of a true dragon. How could he bow down to a traitor like you?"
A guard yelled.
Lin Kaiji looked at the person who was speaking, his eyes were cold:
"Traitor? This world should belong to the Ye family. The Xiao family is just usurping the Ye family's world in the name of pacifying the world and improving people's livelihood. If we talk about traitors, he is the one, and the Xiao family is the one!"
"It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous! When the Ye family ruled the world, did they ever think about the suffering of the people? Did they ever think about the people's food and clothing? Did they ever regard the people as human beings? When the people encountered natural disasters, you even cried poor when providing disaster relief, but the pillars of the Golden Palace are all made of gold. You have only endlessly exploited and oppressed the people. I don't know how many people starved to death, how many people exchanged their children for food? How can you be an emperor if you don't care about the people! The Ye family should have been overthrown long ago!"
"The Ye family is not worthy of being an emperor..."
"The Ye family implemented harsh policies, killed innocent people, imposed heavy taxes, and caused people's livelihood to decline. Those in power only cared about indulging in pleasure, so how could they care about the starving people on the roadside? They should have been overthrown long ago..."
The others also shouted, and their voices hit the sand peaks and echoed throughout the dead city, and even the fine snow was shaking.
The scene was very shocking.
Twenty years have passed since the Ye family was completely overthrown, and people today are still filled with resentment when they talk about it.
Lin Kaiji didn't know what he was thinking of. The hand that was pinching Lin Zhaoyue's neck tightened unconsciously. Lin Kaiji was silent for a while, and then he said loudly:
"Throughout the dynasties, the royal family has ruled the world. Who is without fault? Which emperor's hands are not stained with blood? And which dynasty does not have a few termites? Palace fighting, dark lights and bloody shadows, boundless power, corruption is bound to occur! Such things have happened in the past, they are happening now, and they will happen in the future! How can the Xiao family be so self-righteous when they seize the world from the Ye family!"
Xiao Yun, who had been observing Lin Zhaoyue's condition, saw that Lin Zhaoyue's lips began to turn purple and veins on her forehead bulged. He gritted his teeth and said:
"Ye Yi, what do you want?"
Lin Kaiji suppressed his emotions, looked at Xiao Yan, and said coldly:
"I just told you to come here on your knees and present the artifact to me."
Don't they hold Xiao in high esteem? Don't they regard Xiao as their savior?
Today, he is going to trample their faith under his feet.
"I will only count down to three, three, two..."
Just as he was about to say a word, Xiao Yun loosened the reins and dismounted from the horse.
"Master, no..."
All the guards spoke anxiously, wishing they could get their master back on his horse.
"master……"
Under the gaze of everyone, Xiao Yun lifted his robe and knelt down.
All the guards stopped talking abruptly. They clenched their fists and glared at the people opposite them fiercely, wishing they could pull out their tendons and skin them alive.
The people on the opposite side all burst into laughter, with smug smiles on their faces.
"I never thought that the Third Prince would have such a day."
"When the Ye family was still around, the Xiao family was nothing. Even their ancestors were not worthy of carrying our young master's shoes..."
……
Xiao Yan knelt on the snow, his back straight, and moved forward little by little on his knees. The once most powerful man in Kyoto was now extremely humble...
She really couldn't figure it out, and couldn't understand why he could want to take her life without hesitation, but also kneel down for her.
Perhaps it was because the wound on her arm was too painful, or perhaps it was because Lin Kaiji was pinching her so hard that she couldn't breathe and was holding back tears. Lin Zhaoyue's eyes were sore and tears were falling from the corners of her eyes...
Crazy, all of them are crazy!
Lin Zhaoyue's eyelids became heavier, her vision blurred, and she slowly closed her eyes...
"Zhao Zhao..."
Xiao Yun's pupils shrank suddenly and he subconsciously called out Lin Zhaoyue's name.
Hot tears dripped on the back of Lin Kaiji's hand. Lin Kaiji turned around and saw Lin Zhaoyue who had fainted at some point.
And his hands were tightly around her neck.
Lin Kaiji's eyes immediately became flustered. He quickly let go of her hand and slapped her face with his hand:
"Zhao Zhao, wake up..."
Lin Kaiji forgot that when he used her as Xiao Yan's weakness, she was also his weakness.
"Sir, be careful..."
Someone was shouting. Lin Kaiji just reacted when he saw a black shadow coming towards him from the corner of his eye. He didn't have time to dodge and was hit in the chest by Xiao Yun's palm which was filled with 100% of his internal strength. His whole body flew out heavily.
Arrows were shot at him. Xiao Yun hugged Lin Zhaoyue, tiptoed to avoid the arrows, and threw a thunder bead at the same time.
There was a loud bang, dust flew up, and wailing was heard everywhere.
The crowd over there gathered, and a thunderbolt bead directly blew away more than fifty people.
"kill!"
Following Xiao Yun's order, the furious guards rushed forward without hesitation, holding swords and machetes.
Those guards all had a thunderbolt bead on them, which Xiao Ying gave them to save their lives at critical moments when they came to the border.
But at this moment, they just wanted to blow up those rebels on the opposite side, and make their masters kneel down, but they couldn't kill them.
"boom."
"boom."
"boom……"
The explosions came one after another. The huge noises bounced onto the sand peaks and were bounced back by the sand peaks. One explosion was louder than the other. The earth shook, strong winds suddenly arose, and the sky was covered with heavy rain.
Outside the dead city, larger and denser crowds are moving towards the dead city.
Looking at the trembling blood peak, someone laughed and said:
"Prince, it looks like they are making quite a fuss!"
"That's exactly what I want. I love watching this kind of dog-eat-dog drama, and I love the blood flowing like a river. The beauty of the blood gushing out of the human body is so beautiful that every scene is a masterpiece."
After a pause, the man in the prince's uniform said:
"Bring me my zither. I want to play a tune."
Someone handed the zither to the man, and another man said:
"The sound of the piano matches the blood, what a wonderful combination!"