Chapter 1382: The Troublesome Spoiler

"I'm just repeating, repeating!" Dong Rui almost bumped into his back. "By the way, the men in black were wearing masks, and there was black smoke on their bodies, and a burnt smell. Don't you think they look like...?"

Black clothes, masks, black smoke, slogans of acting on behalf of Heaven, hehe.

"Like a P!" He Lingchuan said with a straight face, "Where is it like!"

When the Black Armor leader acts, when has there ever been a burnt smell?!

Where did these few pathetic, knock-off mountain bandits pop out from?

If you want to imitate him, at least try to make a high-quality imitation, can't you? "Where are we going now?" Dong Rui followed and asked, "Are you sure you can find Qian Yu and those fakes?"

"Not sure." He Lingchuan didn't look back, "I haven't even been to the scene, how would I know how to track?"

Killing people in the busy street, tsk tsk, the scene had long been trampled by the onlookers; even if there were any clues, they would have been trampled away.

"Oh right." Dong Rui finally remembered the serious business, "Did we get beaten to the punch by these guys before we even acted?"

They came to Shuangtian just for Qian Yu this time and had been following Qian Yu for ten hours, but the target was violently kidnapped by the Black Armor Army's low-quality fakes.

What is this called? "No." He Lingchuan turned to look at him, "It's already done."

"Eh?" Dong Rui was stunned, then relieved, "You've already acted?"

"Yes." Last night, He Lingchuan had already instructed the Nightmare to sneak into Qian Yu's dream and extract quite a bit of intelligence. Qian Yu himself was not a great general or high official of the Kingdom of Yao and had no Yuan power to protect his body; plus, after Dong Rui's bat demon puppet removed the mind-clearing talisman, he was unable to resist the Nightmare's invasion.

It could be said that the mission of this trip to Shuangxi was already completed.

"Then what are you in such a hurry to go?" Dong Rui was a bit confused, "Our business is done, what does the life or death of the target have to do with us?"

Since the intelligence was already in hand, what did Qian Yu's life or death have to do with them? He Lingchuan had managed to get it, but he didn't ask in detail. This person always had some strange skills, and he was already used to it.

Besides, who didn't have a few little secrets? Dong Rui had his own too.

"How is it unrelated to us?" He Lingchuan's face was gloomy, a bit unhappy. "Kidnapping people in the street is simple and brutal; do you think we can't do it?"

"Uh, it's a piece of cake." Those two men in black could kidnap Qian Yu, so Dong Rui and He Lingchuan were even more capable.

The work Qian Yu did was quite important, but in the end, he was just an accountant who checked and made accounts; if he died, someone else would take over. Besides, for so many years in the past, he had checked them well, and nothing happened. So the guards Xue Zongwu assigned to him were just conventional guards.

"Then why did I have to go through so much trouble, having to extract intelligence and not let Qian Yu know?" Besides killing in dreams, the Nightmare's ability was to let the person concerned wake up knowing nothing after asking for intelligence in the dream.

Qian Yu didn't remember leaking secrets last night at all.

"Afraid of alerting the enemy?" Dong Rui finished speaking and realized it himself, cursing "Damn it"! He and He Lingchuan were cautious just because they didn't want Qian Yu to sense anything unusual, thereby alerting Xue Zongwu.

Xue Zongwu would soon set off to return to the capital of the Kingdom of Yao; if there was any disturbance that made him increase his vigilance, the success rate of the Black Armor leader intercepting and killing him would naturally drop.

Now it's good; the news of Qian Yu being kidnapped would soon reach Xue Zongwu's ears.

This meant that the difficulty of the Black Armor leader intercepting and killing him would increase significantly.

Trouble.

"Where are we going now?"

"The government office!" He Lingchuan's mind was clear, "Xue Zongwu's account manager was kidnapped, the government office is likely in a mess, the bailiffs are all out, we can just take advantage of the emptiness."

The two had already left the small inn where they were staying; there were many people on the road, so Dong Rui had to lower his voice:

"Go to the government... go there for what?"

He Lingchuan asked him back: "Do you think Qian Yu can still come back alive?"

"That's likely not possible."

"That's definitely not possible." Turning into a small alley, He Lingchuan lowered his voice further, "Regardless of the motive of the men in black for kidnapping, since they shouted the four words 'deserve to die', they won't leave Qian Yu alive. So, this change will definitely alert Xue Zongwu."

Dong Rui also cursed, then continued: "If Xue Zongwu really treats these few guys as the Black Armor Army, that would be a case of hitting the mark by mistake!"

He and He Lingchuan went through so much trouble just because they didn't want to alert Xue Zongwu, but those few fakes directly hoisted their banner!

"These men in black hoisted the banner of the Black Armor Army, but they didn't even learn thirty percent of the appearance. Xue Zongwu is not a fool; a little questioning of the eyewitnesses will allow him to guess that these few might be fakes."

Dong Rui was unsure: "Is this good news?"

"Of course not!" He Lingchuan was annoyed, "If Xue Zongwu believes it to be true, he will increase his vigilance against the Black Armor Army; if Xue Zongwu sees through the disguise—which is likely—he will know that Qian Yu was not the real target of these few people, and he will also increase his vigilance!"

"How can he see that these few people don't want to kill Qian Yu?"

"To kill Qian Yu, using strong poison or cold arrows is the simplest and most convenient; why did these few have to choose to kill in the street in broad daylight, and shout a few slogans before acting?"

Although he knew the situation was annoying, Dong Rui still couldn't help laughing: "That's because they were afraid others wouldn't see or hear."

The Black Armor Army acts in a high-profile manner; isn't that the purpose? It seems those few people were just following suit.

"Shouting slogans is one thing, but they shouted them so perfunctorily and inaccurately, it was really just shouting casually." He Lingchuan shook his head. "If they really had a deep vendetta against Qian Yu, would they have shouted so perfunctorily?"

Dong Rui understood: "They don't know Qian Yu well either, but they kidnapped him, so they have another purpose? Hey, what does that have to do with us going to the government office?"

"Qian Yu was sent to audit public accounts, and now he was kidnapped halfway; the known reasons could be three: personal vendetta, account problems, and his relationship with Xue Zongwu." He Lingchuan analyzed, "We just said the possibility of involving personal vendetta is very small, so only the last two are left. In order not to let Xue Zongwu associate it with his own direction, we can only find ways to mislead him."

Dong Rui pondered for several breaths and finally understood the twists and turns here: "You want Xue Zongwu to think that the men in black came for the accounts?"

"When have you ever seen such public accounts that are clean and have no tricks?"

Even the accounts of the Yangshan Archipelago in He Lingchuan's hands have started to have tricks now, let alone this serious regional old-brand power, the Kingdom of Yao.

It's beyond the scope; Dong Rui could only honestly say: "I don't know, I really don't know."

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