Chapter 469: Happened To Miss Each Other
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation | Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The black-robed man hiding in the tree was so startled that he quickly dodged the bowl that came flying at him. However, no matter how fast he reacted, the bowl still smashed viciously into his arm.
The black-robed man only heard the sound of bones breaking. He cried out in pain and fell from the tree.
“Argh!”
Su Ying picked up a tree branch from the ground and walked towards him.
The black-robed man looked at Su Ying in bewilderment. His uninjured hand pulled out the sword hanging by his body and stabbed at Su Ying. Su Ying swung the branch in her hand, and the collision with the sharp sword jolted the sword into making buzzing noises. The black-robed man felt the numbness spread from his hand to his heart.
The black-robed man was so frightened that he dropped his sword and turned around to flee.
“You knocked over my soup, yet you still want to run!” Su Ying was so angry that she smashed the branch against his leg.
“Argh!” The black-robed man wailed in pain again.
They had searched for Xiao Jin the entire night, but they could not find him. This guy stood on a tree and saw the smoke coming from not far away. He assumed it was from Xiao Jin and he simply drew his bow and shot the arrow out without thinking. It never occurred to him that he would end up messing with the wrong fellow.
The other black-robed men nearby heard the commotion and quickly closed in on the noise source.
However, when they saw Su Ying, they realized that she wasn’t the person they were looking for.
As she looked at the black-robed men surrounding her, Su Ying gave a scornful sneer. “Who sent you guys?”
The black-robed men stared at Su Ying. She made it sound like they were here to kill her.
However, she had already discovered them, so they could not allow her to live. The black-robed men didn’t waste time talking and straightaway struck with their swords.
Su Ying also couldn’t be bothered to waste her breath on them. She swung the tree branch in her hand to fight with them.
In just a moment, the tree branch in her hand was chopped off by them.
Su Ying snatched the sword from one of the black-robed men and slit one of their throats. The rest of the black-robed men were very shocked. They looked as if they weren’t expecting Su Ying’s martial arts skills to be so powerful.
If they continued fighting, they would all perish.
“Retreat!”
The leader of the black-robed men gave the order, and the others quickly turned around to flee.
“You want to run? Did you ask for my permission?”
Su Ying flung out the sword in her hand and it stabbed viciously into the thigh of the black-robed men’s leader.
The black-robed man fell to the ground with a scream. When the other black-robed men saw that their leader had fallen, they could only turn around to save him.
Just as they were trying to save their leader, Su Ying had already arrived in front of them. Su Ying gave each of them a kick on the heart and the resulting pain made all of them collapse to the ground.
“Ugh! Pfft!”
Several black-robed men vomited blood after getting kicked. Their eyes were filled with fury as they glared at Su Ying.
“Speak! Who sent you guys here?”
The leader of the black-robed men had yet to complete his mission and did not want to die here.
“The person… the person we want to assassinate is not you.”
Su Ying gave a scornful laugh. “You are not here to assassinate me, but you guys still dared to knock over my pot of fish soup. How dare you!”
If the black-robed man who shot that damned arrow at Su Ying knew that this arrow would send him to the afterlife, he would never have come near Su Ying! “That…that was an unintentional action. It was not intentional.”
Su Ying looked at them with a disdainful sneer. “You guys knocked over my fish soup. It’s fine if you don’t admit your mistake, yet you still want to kill me after that? I hate people like you the most, the kind who refuse to atone for your mistake despite knowing your mistake.”
“We… will compensate you. We only ask that you let us go, heroine.”
If he died at the hands of this woman, the black-robed man felt that he would have suffered a terrible sense of injustice.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows. “How will you compensate?”
The black-robed man endured the pain and took out a silver banknote from his robe with two trembling hands.
“This is a hundred taels of silver, enough to buy many pots of fish soup. As long as you let us go, we will give you this silver as compensation, heroine.”
Su Ying took the banknote in his hand and looked at it. It was stamped with the seal of one of the capital city’s bigger private banks.
Su Ying lowered her eyes and put away the silver banknote. However, just as she was about to put it away, the black-robed man suddenly raised the sword in his hand and stabbed at Su Ying.
Su Ying’s expression clouded over at once. She quickly dodged the sword from the black-robed man with a 18o-degree backbend, but even so, her sleeve was still slashed.
Her eyes erupted with killing intent. Initially, for the sake of the silver, she had planned to spare their wretched lives, but since they were looking for death, she would fulfill their wishes.
Su Ying picked up a wooden stick as thick as her arm and smashed it into that black-robed man’s thigh.
“Argh!”
The black-robed man cried out in pain. He almost fainted from the pain, but Su Ying had no intention of letting him off.
The stick in her hand smashed the bones in his two legs again and again until almost all the bones in his legs were shattered!
The rest of the black-robed men were so shocked that their faces turned pale. They wanted to run, but their limbs had already been dislocated by Su Ying. They had no way to escape at all!
“Who are you? Who exactly are you?” The leader of the black-robed men was in so much pain that his face was shrouded with a deathly pall. He glared at Su Ying so balefully it was as if he couldn’t wait to devour her. Even so, he found that he was unable to hurt her the slightest bit.
“Your ancestor. Get lost!”
Pow! With a final smack, Su Ying’s wooden stick broke his sternum and pierced his heart.
The black-robed man’s eyes widened, and he died with wide-open eyes. Although the other black-robed men were not in such a sorry state as the leader, their outcomes were not much better.
However, Su Ying did not take their lives outright. Instead, she simply shattered their leg bones. Whether they could survive or not was up to their luck.
She was already very merciful by not killing them outright. After all, they were the ones who provoked her.
Su Ying returned to the campfire and looked at the fish soup that had spilled all over the ground. The fury in her heart flared up again. She quickly put away the pot and turned to leave. She was afraid that if she stayed any longer, she would not be able to resist sending all of them to hell.
Su Ying had barely left when Xiao Jin arrived with the officials.
Xiao Jin’s sharp eyes noticed the campfire and spilled fish soup on the ground.
He reached out with his hand to test the temperature of the fire. The fire was still very hot, proving that the person had not left for long.
Xiao Jin stood up and looked around. He vaguely saw someone squirming not far away.
He frowned and walked towards that location. Behind a dense forest, a swathe of black-robed men lay sprawled on the ground.
Some of these black-robed men were already dead, but there were quite a number who were still alive. However, their faces were filled with anguish, and they looked like they were better off dead than alive.
Xiao Jin came to a survivor and checked his injuries. When he touched the other party’s legs with both hands, he found that his leg bones were all shattered. The legs were wobbly when he touched them.
Xiao Jin’s eyes widened. He grabbed the black-robed man’s lapels and asked, “Who injured you guys to such an extent?”
The black-robed man was already on his final breath. He almost perished when Xiao Jin yanked him up.
The black-robed man looked at Xiao Jin and wanted to cry. The person they had been searching for so long actually appeared just as they were about to die. “Speak!” Xiao Jin grabbed the black-robed man’s neck when he refused to utter a sound.
This matter did not involve any secrets that could not be revealed. The black-robed man said hoarsely, “A… it’s a woman.”
“Where is she now? Where did she go?”
The black-robed man turned his head with difficulty and nodded in the direction that Su Ying had left. “That way. She went that way..”