Chapter 536

Even Su Qiao could be easily dragged into it.

"What's wrong?" Luo Yangxing asked, looking at Su Qiao curiously.

Su Qiao had actually just figured it out.

"There's a trap!"

Su Qiao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said.

"What trap?"

Luo Yangxing was stunned by Su Qiao's words.

In broad daylight, with nearly a hundred Embroidered Uniform Guards around, where could a trap possibly come from?

If anyone else had said this, Luo Yangxing would have slapped them twice without hesitation.

But what Su Qiao said was different!

At the very least, Luo Yangxing didn't think Su Qiao was fooling him.

"Brother Luo, think about it: how many days have we been searching brothels and gambling dens?"

"Three or four days!"

"Exactly. If there were anyone in Tianjin City with problems, they would have known about the search and hidden all clues. How could it be found so easily? How long have we been inside? Has even an incense stick's worth of time passed?"

Su Qiao explained his analysis to Luo Yangxing.

At first, Luo Yangxing was also somewhat bewildered.

However, after Su Qiao's analysis, he too felt something was wrong.

"That doesn't make sense. What about the Embroidered Uniform Guards who went inside?" Luo Yangxing turned his head to look into Ye Xiang Lou.

But there was no movement inside Ye Xiang Lou.

Or rather, since that cry of "Found something!", followed by more than twenty Embroidered Uniform Guards rushing in, now about half of the total Embroidered Uniform Guards had entered Ye Xiang Lou.

Yet now, there was not a single sound.

Not even a scream; suddenly, it was utterly silent.

How could this not be shocking?

At the very least, Luo Yangxing had now truly realized something was wrong; a drop of cold sweat dripped from the temple on his forehead.

"What's going on?"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

At that moment, a volley of arrows suddenly shot from behind.

Caught completely off guard, the Embroidered Uniform Guard immediately suffered another dozen or so casualties.

Originally nearly a hundred Embroidered Uniform Guards, now in the blink of an eye, only thirty-plus remained.

It was simply too fast!

Luo Yangxing was so furious he nearly vomited blood!

Su Qiao was lucky and was not hit.

However, one of the guards brought by Su Qiao fell.

Turning back, he discovered that on the opposite side of the street, atop a building, a group of assassins wearing black night-attire, masked and holding bows and arrows, had appeared at some point.

It seemed these people's target was specifically Su Qiao and Luo Yangxing.

Truly, one could not understand what they were thinking.

In such a dangerous situation, Su Qiao and Luo Yangxing quickly sought cover.

But since the assassins had set this trap, they apparently had no intention of letting Luo Yangxing and Su Qiao leave.

Dozens of black-clad, masked assassins charged out.

In their hands were precisely the narrow Japanese Wu Shidao, resembling Tang swords...

Charging straight at Su Qiao and the others.

Fortunately, Su Qiao's guards habitually carried hand crossbows.

They had saved them several times before.

All of them were interested in the hand crossbows: lightweight, reasonably powerful, and convenient to carry.

With the hand crossbows blocking them, the assassins did not immediately rush forward.

But they could not be held back for long.

Ma Kui, who had been guarding Su Qiao, pulled out a signal flare.

It was specially made with gunpowder and made a loud noise.

He pulled the trigger and launched it straight into the sky.

Whoosh... Boom!

"What is this?"

By this time, Luo Yangxing had calmed down.

They were now blocked inside Ye Xiang Lou.

They had not gone to the very back of Ye Xiang Lou because the fifty-plus men who had previously burst in had all gone silent.

There must be an ambush in the very back as well.

They already had very few people left; if more traps like this appeared, they would likely be completely finished.

So in this crisis, they dared not go inside and simply guarded the entrance.

Su Qiao explained to Luo Yangxing: "It's a signal flare. As long as we hold on for a little while, our people will arrive!"

Learning that reinforcements would arrive soon, everyone's spirits lifted.

They no longer looked as lifeless as they had just moments before.

Luo Yangxing spoke up, "There must be their people inside the Ye Xiang Lou as well. Brother Su, arrange your men behind to keep watch. 5.6, the rest of the Embroidered Uniform Guard will follow me to block these assassins!"

"Good!"

Since Luo Yangxing trusted him, what more was there to say?

Su Qiao agreed very decisively.

He immediately arranged the dozen or so people around him so that if there were assassins inside the Ye Xiang Lou, they could discover and block them at the first moment.

At this moment, Luo Yangxing had already led his men out to fight and kill the assassins outside.

He had been holding a belly full of anger deep in his heart for a long time.

Before, they had been pinned down by the assassins' arrows, and so many of their men had been killed.

How could he not be angry and furious now?

Luo Yangxing's martial arts were extremely high; in a short time, more than a dozen Japanese samurai assassins who fought him were dead.

All of them were killed with a single, clean, and decisive slash.

His manner of killing as if slaughtering chickens directly enraged the leader of the assassins.

That was the leader of this group of Japanese samurai.