kvmb Chapter 290 The No. 1 Female Assassin in Jianghu 9
Chapter 290 The No. 1 Female Assassin in Jianghu 9
The first information Zhang Xintong saw was about herself: Dark Night Rose, an A-rank assassin, the legitimate daughter of Prince Rui and Princess Rui, and Zhang Yong's biological sister. The rest of the information was a complete bamboo slip, detailing how she had been brought to the Shadow Gate, how she had been trained, and who had been assigned to her.
The next person Zhang Xintong saw was Sang Ye, a Class A assassin and the legitimate daughter of Li Qing, the Minister of Revenue.
Sang Ye turned out to be Li Qing's daughter. It seemed that one answer could be eliminated. The person behind the Shadow Gate would not capture his own daughter as a killer.
Next, Zhang Xintong saw the information of Kuang Dao. The information of Dark Night Rose, Mulberry Leaf and Kuang Dao were placed together.
Kuang Dao is not the sect leader's son. The sect leader deceived him. He used this method to deceive many children in the sect and made them work for him wholeheartedly.
Kuang Dao, an A-level killer, is the illegitimate son of Zhao Qing, the Minister of Works, and was born to his favorite concubine Yun Wan.
Zhang Xintong continued reading and unexpectedly came across another unique piece of information: Fei Ren, a Class B assassin, and the legitimate son of Prime Minister Wang Wenbo.
Zhang Xintong felt a chill in her heart when she saw this. The three people she had guessed before were not the one behind this. Who was this person? How could he be so all-powerful?
Ouyang Zimo found his sister's information
"Tongtong, I found it, come and see"
Zhang Xintong walked over and saw the information on her: Luoxue, a Class B killer, the legitimate daughter of the King Ouyang Yi, and the biological sister of Ouyang Zimo.
Finding the code name makes it easier to find the person. After reading the information all day, Zhang Xintong was hungry. She brought four dishes, one soup, and four bowls of rice to the table.
"Zimo, let's eat first! I'm hungry."
Ouyang Zimo hadn't eaten for a day and was hungry, so he washed his hands and started eating.
The two of them ate all the food and didn't want to move at all after eating. Although they didn't do any physical labor, they were still very tired.
The two were safe and sound in the space, but chaos had broken out outside. When the sect leader went to the database, he saw that it was empty and was so scared that he almost peed his pants. He felt that his life was in danger.
The sect leader sent people to search the entire sect, but found nothing unusual. Everyone verified that it was indeed him, and no one had sneaked in.
The leader who had been so powerful for nearly 20 years was dealt with the next day, and the Shadow Sect got a new leader. The first thing the new leader did was to recall all the assassins outside.
Although the place where Zhang Xintong entered the space was hidden, there were always people passing by after the Shadow Gate began to investigate. Zhang Xintong heard that there was a new leader and the new leader recalled all the assassins. No matter where Luoxue was, she would return to the Shadow Gate.
According to the order of the new leader, one month later, the Shadow Gate held a general meeting and every killer had to be present.
Zhang Xintong originally wanted to go to the Mission Pavilion to check on Luoxue's whereabouts, but now because the new sect leader was holding a general meeting, she didn't need to go and could just wait at the Shadow Sect.
Zhang Xintong and Ouyang Zimo were also busy for a month. They read through five bookshelves a day, and spent another 1 days to finish reading the materials on the remaining 5 bookshelves.
The two learned a lot of secrets about officials in the capital: some abused their wives, some embezzled and accepted bribes, some killed people to seize property, some were cuckolded, some had affairs with their brothers' wives, some were homosexuals...
Zhang Xintong also discovered the secrets of her father, Prince Rui. The information stated that Prince Rui had an affair with the current Empress, but the relationship ended when the Empress married His Majesty. However, because the Empress gave birth to the eldest prince prematurely, some speculated that the eldest prince might be Prince Rui's child.
Zhang Xintong found Prince Rui's information in a secret compartment. It seemed that the previous sect leader had looked it up privately and did not want his master to know.
Zhang Xintong was speechless when she found out that the melon had fallen on her head.
After reading the interesting secret information, the killer's information is rather boring.
The two of them have already read through the information of important killers. Basically, they are all families of officials above the fifth rank in the capital or serving in other places.
The information of mid-level killers includes the families of sixth and seventh rank minor officials, as well as the families of wealthy businessmen and martial artists.
The information of ordinary-level killers is about children captured from ordinary people's homes. These are relatively random. Some are picked up because they think they have good potential, and some are just picked up at random.
The important and mid-level killers all had spies around them, and some of them were each other's spies. The reason they survived was because someone was watching them from the dark.
All the children who died were captured from civilians' homes. The children from civilians' homes who survived were all gifted and relied on their own strength to fight their way through.
After reading the information, Zhang Xintong began to prepare the antidote. This antidote was different from the previous ones. It could cure the poison of the Shadow Gate, but it would cause the loss of all internal strength.
Zhang Xintong wanted to disband the Shadow Gate when she had the chance, but unleashing over 1 assassins without restraint would surely lead to chaos. Therefore, Zhang Xintong prepared this antidote.
Those who wanted to return home could take the antidote and lose their internal energy, allowing them to return home and live a good life. Even without internal energy, they still had the martial arts skills they had practiced over the years, which was definitely enough to protect themselves. Over the years, each killer had earned a lot of money, so their life would not be bad if they returned.
If you don't want to go home, then continue to stay in the Shadow Gate. From now on, the Shadow Gate will no longer be in the business of killing people, but in the business of buying and selling information, and you will make a lot of money.
Zhang Xintong had read the information these days for a good deal. She had already figured out who was behind the Shadow Gate. There was one person who had such extraordinary abilities and was over 40 years old. Zhang Xintong had forgotten one before, and that was the current emperor.
His Majesty the current emperor established the assassin organization Shadow Gate more than 20 years ago. On the one hand, it is the knife in his hand, and on the other hand, if any ministers are disobedient, their families will kill them, or they will become sacrifices and be killed, and their bodies will be sent back to their original homes.
Zhang Xintong also thought of the reason why the emperor wanted to kill Zhang Yong. Zhang Yong was a fierce general. The soldiers under Zhang Yong were left to Prince Rui by the previous emperor. These soldiers were not under the emperor's jurisdiction.
A few years ago, Zhang Yong led these troops to fight against the barbarians, but the emperor did not touch him. Now that the barbarians have been defeated and have surrendered to the Tiansheng Dynasty, Zhang Yong is no longer useful.
Zhang Yong was useless, and the troops under his command were not under the emperor's control. The emperor feared a rebellion between Prince Rui and Zhang Yong, so he wanted to get rid of Zhang Yong. As for why Prince Rui was not killed, it was because Prince Rui had a weak health as a child and had no martial arts training, making him incapable of leading troops in battle. Prince Rui had only one son, Zhang Yong, and with Zhang Yong dead, Prince Rui could not rebel.
Ouyang Zimo also thought of what Zhang Xintong could think of. He did not expect that the emperor was the real culprit behind the arrest of his sister.
The two of them were going to wait for Luoxue to come back at the Shadow Gate, so Zhang Xintong prepared all the antidotes. It took her six days to prepare the antidotes. It wasn't because she was slow, but because there were so many people. With more than 6 antidotes, she prepared them very quickly.
After finishing everything, there were still five days until the general meeting. Most of the people from the Shadow Gate had returned, and those who hadn't arrived yet were from a long way away. The two decided to go out and see if Luoxue had returned.