kvmb Chapter 113 Insidious move
Chapter 113 Insidious move
Li Yun looked at Li Guangqi with a proud expression: "Brother, look at Zhou Gang, he's a rough and uncultured man. He's really not someone who can be treated with respect."
Crown Prince Li Guangqi remained calm and composed, nodding and smiling at Li Yun, "Your Majesty is right."
"Hmph." Li Yun had always disliked his smiling face; it was hypocritical! He wanted to provoke him, but Li Guangqi was like an emotionless masked man, like punching cotton, leaving him feeling frustrated.
Li Guangqi remained calm and composed because he was betting on the last two aspects—archery and combat.
Zhou Gang possessed superhuman strength and had torn a tiger apart with his bare hands when he was young. Li Guangqi had already instructed Gao Zhan to pass on the order to Zhou Gang: if he failed to achieve his goal by archery, the final round would be a three-on-three martial arts duel where he should kill the other two directly on the arena without holding back.
No matter what they competed in or how many points they scored, it was all in vain. Li Guangqi looked up at the dazzling sunlight, slightly opened one eye, and the smile on his lips vanished for a moment. After all, only the living can become officials... the dead can only become tombstones...
The fourth item, foot archery, as the name suggests, involves shooting at moving targets while running. The field for foot archery is much larger, consisting of a forest. The distance from the starting point to the exit is 25 li (one li in ancient times was equivalent to 500 meters), and the target is to kill live targets placed along the way.
Bai Yu, Sun Haochong, and Zhou Gang, each wearing arrows of different colors, were at the starting point, ready to set off.
"Father," the Crown Prince suddenly requested, "In the past, archery practice was just shooting at scarecrows, which was rather boring. Why not let the death row inmates in, and at the same time test whether these three are decisive in killing and whether they have any womanly compassion?" He knew that his father loved novelty and always liked exciting and interesting things.
Sure enough, the emperor's face lit up with excitement after hearing this: "That's interesting."
"Father, you mustn't!" Li Yun understood Li Guangqi's intention. He wanted to take the opportunity to get Zhou Gang to hurt people: "Many of those death row inmates are murderers. If they resist and get injured, the competition will be ruined."
“Your Majesty is joking,” the Crown Prince said with a smile and a bow. “If they can’t even beat death row inmates, how will they capture the most vicious criminals in the future? How will they be qualified to oversee the Imperial City Guard?”
That same smiling tiger face again, utterly disgusting. Li Yun couldn't refute it and angrily flung his sleeves.
"Very well, the archery will be done as Your Highness wishes!" The Emperor was very satisfied with the Crown Prince's suggestion and readily agreed.
After the announcer declared the new rules, Bai Yu was taken aback and quickly reported it to Lu He and Li Cen on the other end.
"This is bad. Li Guangqi probably wants to kill them." Li Cen knew his younger brother too well. When they were young, he treated human life like dirt in order to achieve his goals: "He probably wants Zhou Gang to attack Bai Yu and Sun Hao in the chaos. Even if he can't kill them, he can cripple them. That way, even if they pass the archery test, they will be finished in the last martial arts competition."
Lu He had witnessed firsthand the dangerous nature of Crown Prince Li Guangqi, especially his rule of shooting living people—a brutal concept no normal person could conceive of.
"Bai Yu, you need to be especially careful of Zhou Gang. He might try to harm you secretly," Lu He warned.
Bai Yu touched his ear: "Let him come at me, I'm not afraid of him..." Bai Yu had never told anyone about his previous experience, and he was confident that he would not lose even if he faced Zhou Gang and Sun Haochong at the same time.
“However, on one hand, we need to guard against Zhou Gang, and on the other hand, we still need to get points. As for killing people…” Li Cen glanced at Lu He intentionally or unintentionally. This girl was kind-hearted and too benevolent. Could it be that her subordinates were also…
"Don't worry, death row inmates, there's nothing I can't kill. Have you all forgotten that I've killed people before?" Bai Yu's eyes were as firm as if cast in iron, and there was also a disdain for those dark and dirty tricks.
Right, didn't he just kill Han Biao cleanly and decisively?
Lu He suddenly remembered that when Nie Qing had tea with her later, she mentioned that she saw a flash of light in her eyes in a panic, so fast that she couldn't see anything clearly, and then Han Biao's throat was slit. However, when she said this, Lu He was thinking about other things and didn't notice for a moment.
It seems that Bai Yu still has secrets that she doesn't know.
Just then, the messenger shouted, "Out!" and hundreds of death row inmates were led out and driven into the woods.
"This!" Bai Yu's hand holding the bow trembled.
"What happened?" Lu He and Li Cen noticed that Bai Yu's voice sounded off, as if something unexpected had happened.
"They...they actually!" Bai Yu's voice trembled slightly. What had he seen?