Chapter 276

The four people including Li Chengyao heard this, all paused in their movements, and looked at Chen Yan in unison without saying a word.

It was very intriguing.

"Looking at their reaction, could it really have been guessed by Chen Yan?!"

"Are they really people from the Qi State???"

Yang Yaren repeatedly confirmed the expressions of the five people, widened his eyes, and said in disbelief.

"It is very likely..." Dugu Zhang nodded and judged.

"But my Chang'an is the capital, how could there be such a number of Qi State experts??" Zhao Qingshi grabbed his hair and asked the question.

This was not any other place, this was Chang'an!

The center of the entire Great Zhou, yet there were so many experts from the enemy state...

Thinking about it was terrifying.

"The assassin on the day of my wedding is in the same group as you all, right?" Chen Yan, who was tied up, restrained his smile and asked calmly.

"Chief Chen, you guessed it perfectly!"

Zhuo Puyu, after ordering people to tie up Dugu Zhang and the others, came to Chen Yan's front and laughed: "Yan Qingwu and Zhang Sui were both people of my Great Qi, but unfortunately, they were one move short..."

"And died at your hands!"

In his words, there was full of regret.

"So that woman was called Yan Qingwu..."

Chen Yan heard this, smiled indifferently, and after repeating it, sighed: "This name is truly pleasant to hear!"

He paused, changed the subject, and continued: "However, you were wrong about one point..."

"What?"

Zhuo Puyu was startled, examined Chen Yan, and asked in confusion.

"Chen Yan is still chatting?"

"Is he really not afraid at all?"

Dugu Zhang witnessed this scene, was simply unable to laugh or cry, and secretly thought in his heart.

Just now, before these people appeared, they had said they would let them all die together...

As a result, this Chief Chen actually had such leisure and elegance to praise a woman's name there?

"Neither Yan Qingwu nor Zhang Sui is dead; they are still living quite well!"

Chen Yan's mouth raised slightly, his eyebrows lifted, and he said meaningfully: "Their bodies are also extremely resistant to damage..."

Zhuo Puyu heard the hidden meaning and almost blurted out: "What did you do to them?"

Falling into the hands of the Mingjing Si and dying quickly was the best ending...

Now that they were living well, it meant that they were suffering inhuman torture!

"Nothing much!"

Chen Yan smacked his lips, smiling but not smiling, and sighed: "I am a kind-hearted person and cannot bear to see the refugees and beggars outside Chang'an being lonely and helpless, so I gifted these two to them..."

"Chen Yan, you are truly a beast!"

As soon as these words came out, Huang Mingliu, the youngest of the five, instantly exploded, cursing and rushing over with a knife, "I'll hack you to death!"

Don't look at that bastard surnamed Chen, speaking so grandly...

Sending a woman to refugees and beggars, anyone with a brain knew what the outcome would be!

Moreover, those dirty things, having been suppressed for too long in their daily lives, once they had the opportunity, they wouldn't even let go of men...

"Now is not the time to kill him!"

Zhuo Puyu stopped his furious little brother in time and said in a deep voice.

"Brother Puyu!" Huang Mingliu gripped his knife tightly, his teeth almost breaking.

Zhuo Puyu actually stopped him with his eyes.

"I can see that you admire that woman named Yan Qingwu..."

Chen Yan observed Huang Mingliu's expression, as if fearing the matter wasn't big enough, continued to add fuel to the fire, and laughed: "Actually, if you go to queue up now, it's still not too late; maybe she could even get pregnant with your child!"

The wording was extremely exquisite, and every word stabbed into the heart.

He was completely fearless.

"???"

"Is Chen Yan crazy?!"

"Still stimulating that guy, is he in a hurry to die?!"

While Chen was enjoying his verbal satisfaction, Dugu Zhang and the others were directly stunned.

Their lives were held in someone else's hands, and he was still fanning the flames there?

What on earth was he thinking?

Was he tied up until he was stupid?

"Chief Chen, I want to know, how did you guess our identities?" Zhuo Puyu pushed Huang Mingliu aside, handed him to Li Chengyao, and then asked.

"Very simple, because I extracted their identities from the mouths of Yan and Zhang..."

Chen Yan did not keep them in suspense and directly explained: "And since you want to kill me and also want to kill those few people beside me, isn't the answer obvious enough?"

After saying that, he gestured toward Dugu Zhang and the others.

Killing the Grand Chancellor's people on one hand, and killing the two Great Pillar States' people on the other, combined with the discovery that day, was there a second answer?

"The young military immortal is truly worthy of his reputation..."

Zhuo Puyu shook his head, put his blood-stained twin swords into the scabbard, and sighed: "No wonder you were able to win against the odds every time in your pacification of Qinzhou and suppression of bandits in Jingzhou!"

He paused, then continued to ask: "I suppose Chief Chen has also guessed our purpose, right?"

"Just like the assassination of my wife on the day of my wedding..."

Chen Yan nodded, his mouth raised slightly, and he laughed: "You want to use the deaths of us people to further intensify the conflict between the Grand Chancellor and the two Great Pillar States..."

"To make the extremely restrained infighting of the Great Zhou's top level completely lose control!"

Simply put, if you can't win on the battlefield, you have to play dirty...

Provoke infighting among opponents, disintegrate the Zhou Kingdom's resistance from within, thereby achieving military victory, unifying the northern land, and restoring the territory of the Former Yan.

"Impressive!"

Zhuo Puyu heard this, couldn't help but praise, and raised a doubt: "Chief Chen, are you really only seventeen years old?"

Such a sharp eye and penetrating insight made this enemy spy doubt the age of the person in front of him...

Because he really guessed it perfectly!

"Brother Puyu, don't chat with him about irrelevant things!"

"Do it quickly, lest there be complications!"

Huang Mingliu couldn't hold back the more he heard, and shouted to Zhuo Puyu: "Use Chen Yan's blood to avenge Qingwu and Zhang Sui!"

Thinking of the woman he admired being squirmed by those low-class people of the Zhou Kingdom and suffering inhuman torture, Huang Mingliu wished he could tear the culprit into pieces to vent his hatred!

"No!"

"We cannot kill Chen Yan; such a great talent, rather than dying like this, it is better to be used by my Great Qi!"

Zhuo Puyu raised his hand, rejected that approach, and said in a deep voice.

It was obvious that he had developed a sense of cherishing talent for Chen Yan...

"Then what should we use to provoke the infighting in the Zhou Kingdom?" Huang Mingliu asked through gritted teeth.

"Just strip off his clothes and put them on a bloody corpse, wouldn't that work?" Zhuo Puyu was unhurried and said.

"Truly brilliant!"

Chen Yan moved his neck and sighed.

He paused, changed the subject, and asked meaningfully: "However, you gentlemen of the Qi State, do you really think the overall situation is settled and you have the victory in your hands?"

"Otherwise?"

Li Chengyao laughed, thinking this was just bluffing, didn't take it to heart at all, and said: "Could it be that you still have some backup plan that can turn this situation around?"

Chen Yan, who was tied up, smiled without saying a word.

In the corner of the ruined temple, a wisp of extremely faint white gas suddenly rose, like thin mist that hadn't dissipated in the early morning, spreading silently.

At first, no one paid attention, just thinking it was frost brought by the night wind.

But in an instant, the white gas thickened, surging up from the ground, drilling along the cracks in the broken walls, crawling along the grain of the beams, like countless thin white snakes, wandering silently in the darkness.

It had no smoky smell, nor a pungent odor, only carrying a slightly sweet coolness; when it drifted over the scattered incense ash, it actually made the floating dust freeze in mid-air.

When it drifted over the residual mud sculptures on the shrine, it wrapped a faint white gauze around the brows and eyes.

"Where did this white smoke come from?!" The thin man was the first to discover the anomaly.

"This smoke is problematic, cover your mouth and nose quickly, do not inhale!" Zhuo Puyu warned at the same time.

Dugu Zhang and the others also hurriedly covered their mouths and noses.

"Why not?"

"Hahahaha!"

Just as everyone was guarding against the white smoke, a wanton and familiar laugh came from outside the ruined temple.

Immediately after, more than ten people stepped into the ruined temple.

A young man walked at the very front.

He wore a face that was familiar to the point of being overly familiar...

Zhuo Puyu and the others looked at each other, their eyes full of disbelief, and they exclaimed in surprise: "Chen Yan?!"

"How can there be two Chen Yans?!"