Chapter 853: Counter-killing
"Brought, plus today's letter is a total of three, all here!" An Dashi handed over the three letters, "Your Excellency, I already know about the failure of the assassination, and I didn't expect them to dispatch so many people and still fail!" I immediately went to see them and asked them to continue looking for opportunities to do it, and they had to get things done after they received the money! β
The man in the black cloak took the letter into his arms and asked, "Does the Assassin's connector know your identity?" β
"I've only seen him twice, and each time I've changed my clothes and worn a hat to cover most of my face, he shouldn't know my identity!"
The black-cloaked man shook his head: "There are too many uncertainties about the consequences of this word, I can't let them find out about you, once they find out about your head, I'll be exposed!" β
An Dashi realized that the black-clothed cloaked man was about to kill him, he was horrified, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, don't kill me, I have something useful to Your Excellency, I have a lot of information about Qianguo that I can contribute to Your Excellency!" Listen to me, I have a backer in the Qianguo Imperial Court, and the people investigating the case dare not touch me casually, even if they arrest me, someone will soon send a message asking them to release me! β
The black-clothed man was very moved to hear An Dashi say that there was a lot of information about Qianguo, but he knew better that An Dashi said this completely for survival, maybe An Dashi did have a lot of information about Qianguo that was useful to the country, but all this was not as important as the safety of the mission!
An Dashi said that he had a backer in the Qianguo court, and the black-cloaked man believed that if there was no backer, An Dashi, a Sogdian foreigner, would not have been able to do such a big business in Chang'an City, and he was so rich but able to live in a big mansion unharmed, obviously covered by a big man.
But the man in black and cloak didn't believe that once the relevant yamen of the Qianguo State found out about An Dashi, the backer behind him would dare to come forward to say hello at this time, this case was too serious, even if the emperor's relatives were afraid that they couldn't hold it, whoever got involved in this kind of thing would stay away, where would he dare to come forward to protect him?
"An Dashi, you are also a regular customer who has been out for many years, do you believe that the backer behind you dares to protect you at this time? You're trying to trick me into a little bit! You must die today, but don't worry, I won't touch your family in Ami City! β
An Dashi's face changed greatly, he stared at the black-clothed cloaked man vigilantly, and began to step back step by step, "You want to kill me?" It's not so easy, I, An Dashi, have long sworn that I will never let others slaughter in this life! β
At this moment, several warriors with weapons in their hands ran into the Chenghuang Temple from the outside to protect An Dashi in the middle.
"I didn't think you still had a hand, which really surprised me!" The voice of the black-cloaked man came coldly.
An Dashi sneered: "I never have illusions about people like you!" Compared with Tocharostan, the security of the Daqian Empire is much better, at least the government here is still conscientious, and will not let the lawbreakers go unpunished at will, although there are also powerful people who oppress the common people, but after all, it is only a minority, and in Tocharostan, you can kill whoever you want, kill people if you are not happy, and kill people when you are happy, we Sogdians are worse than animals, if it weren't for the fact that it is difficult to leave the homeland, I would have brought my family to Chang'an a long time ago, why let them stay there and be bullied? From the moment I guessed your identity, I knew you wouldn't let me go easily, I didn't want to die, so you had to die! β
The black-cloaked man angrily rebuked, "Do you think that if you kill me, you will be fine, and you will be safe?" I advise you to think about whether it's worth it to do it to me! If you do it, you will definitely die, and your family in Ami City will definitely die! β
"That's not necessarily, I'll kill you first, and then kill Prince Wenhe and his party, and let them all die here, who in Tocharistan will know what happened here? Even if they finally knew, I would have already brought my family to Chang'an, and I wouldn't be able to catch anyone who wanted to! β
The man in the black cloak smiled: "You are so naΓ―ve! Come on, kill them, not a single one will be left! β
As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen black-clothed people appeared from all over the courtyard of the City God Temple, and these people quickly rushed towards An Dashi and several of his guards with weapons in hand.
"Protect the master!" One of the guards shouted, and immediately swung his knife and fought with the man in black who rushed over.
The number of people around An Dashi was too small, and he soon couldn't support it under the siege, and several died one after another, leaving only the last two who were still desperately protecting An Dashi.
At this moment, more than a dozen people suddenly emerged from the door, these people were armed with crossbows, and they shot arrows at the black-clothed people who were besieging An Dashi and the others while rushing.
"Whoosh Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
One by one, the black-clothed people were shot to the ground, and in just a few breaths, more than a dozen people who were called out by the black-clothed cloaked man were shot cleanly.
Only the black-clothed cloaked man was left, and he pointed at An Dashi in horror: "YouΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Hello insidious! β
"Hehe, how can you survive without any ability after so many years of going out and going south and north?"
The black-clothed man in cloak retreated and said, "You can't kill me, I'm the person next to the third prince Wen He, if you kill me, the third prince will never let you go!" β
"If you want to kill me, I'll let you die first!" An Dashi was furious and pointed at the black-clothed cloaked man: "Kill!" β
Several guards rushed forward and slashed the black-cloaked man to death.
These guards immediately began to inspect the corpses at the scene to see if there were any people alive, and after they checked it, one of the leading guards clasped his fists at An Dashi and said, "Master, they are all killed, and there is no living mouth!" Let's go back first, brothers, dispose of these corpses, if they are found and report to the government, I am afraid that it will cause an uproar again! β
An Dashi thought about it for a while, he wanted to muddy the water in this pool, leaving these corpses here, the government must be in a hurry, the Persian prince was assassinated before, and now the people around the prince have also been killed, maybe the government will suspect that these two sides are retaliating against each other.
But he also considered that almost all of the black-clothed people who were killed were killed by crossbow arrows, and once the government followed the clues of crossbow arrows, it would be a big trouble, so he could only give up his previous idea.
"Okay, hurry up!"
At this moment, a guard ran in from outside and quickly reported: "Master, it's not good, a team of Jinwu guards patrolling the streets is here!" β
"What?" An Dashi's face changed greatly, he hesitated, gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw, quickly withdraw!" β
There is such a big smell of blood here, it is impossible for the Jinwu guards patrolling the streets to smell it when they pass by the gate of the City God Temple, once they block it, I am afraid that it will be impossible to escape!
At this time, it was too late to deal with the scene and bury the body, An Dashi could only evacuate with his guards first, as for whether he would be found on his head, he couldn't care about it at this time, as long as he was not caught on the scene, he believed that he had a way to solve it.
An Dashi and his guards had just left when a team of Jinwu guards patrolling the streets came over.
The leader of the group held the torch and sniffed, his face gradually froze, he stopped his horse, turned his head and asked, "Do you smell anything?" β
The soldiers inhaled, and one of the soldiers said, "It seems to be bloody?" β
"No, it seems, it's indeed bloody, how dare I bet on the military salary in the past few months!" Another soldier said.
Shi Chang pointed to the two soldiers in front and ordered, "You two go to the City God Temple next to it!" β
"No!"
Two soldiers armed with spears, one on the left and one on the right, walked towards the temple with torches.
Soon, a shout came from the City God Temple: "Shi Chang, you'd better come in and have a look!" β
Shi Chang knew that something must have happened, and immediately shouted: "Follow me!" β
When he ran into the temple with the rest of the soldiers, the torches in the hands of the soldiers lit up the temple, and the courtyard of the temple was full of corpses.
Since being transferred to Jinwuwei, it was the first time that Wang Xiao'an had seen so many corpses, although he had seen more corpses on the battlefield before, but if it were not for the large-scale execution of death row prisoners in Chang'an City, there would never be so many corpses.
"Damn, it's a lot of fun now!" Wang Xiaoan rubbed his face, he calmed down, and immediately ordered: "Lu Laosan, you go and report to the top." Yang Zhang, you go to the Chang'an County Ya to inform the county magistrate and the warden that more than a dozen appointed murders have occurred here, so let them hurry up to investigate the scene! β
"No!" The two soldiers agreed and quickly left.
Wang Xiao'an instructed: "Others don't walk around and destroy the scene at will!" Wei Dingwu, you take two people to the outside of the City God Temple to check if there is anything suspicious or suspicious! β
"Command!" Wu Chang, who was named Wei Dingwu, immediately ordered two people and took them out of the City God Temple together.
The three of them went out of the temple and searched along the wall, and when they came to the entrance of the alley, the alley was darkly lit and blind, and there was no end in sight with torches.
"Captain Wu, do you want to go in and have a look?" One of the soldiers asked.
Wei Dingwu held a torch and looked into the alley, he could only see half of it, and he couldn't see it any further, he thought about it for a while, shook his head and said, "If you are a murderer, will you still hide around here after you kill someone?" β
"That won't happen, I'll run early!"
"That's it! Let's check it out on the other side! β
The three of them held it up or walked in the opposite direction.
After a while, a person came out of the alley, stuck out his head to look, and then learned that the insects called a few times, and more than a dozen people walked out of the depths of the alley under the leadership of An Dashi.
"Let's go, I'm afraid I won't have such good luck next time!" After An Dashi finished speaking, he immediately took his subordinates and left quickly, it turned out that An Dashi was lucky, he took the guards to hide in the alley, hoping that the Jin Wuwei patrolling the street did not find the murder, just waiting for the Jin Wu guards to leave, he took the guards back to the City God Temple to bury the corpse and deal with the scene, who knew that the nose of these Jin Wuwei was too sensitive, and they could smell blood from so far away, and they were almost discovered.