Chapter 1267: Faithful Dog's Care Rules 31

Li Zhi clearly cared more about his own fate, and the henchmen around him were all capable.

Naihe constantly faced ordinary commoners, yet that arrogance and ferocity were utterly inadequate before Yajiu.

After a few moves, all seven henchmen were miserably defeated and killed, and one corpse even fell before Li Zhi, blood pouring out.

Yajiu sheathed his blade; the tip hanging at his side still dripped blood. He lifted his gaze, his eyes locking onto Li Zhi, his expression growing icier.

"Who exactly are you!!"

Jin Chen remained leaning against the side, his posture unchanged, propping his cheek with one hand.

"As a lackey of the Successful King, plenty of people would want you dead—why ask so clearly?"

"Successful King..."

Li Zhi instantly understood their intent, dragging his heavy body under the table; as his hand barely touched the crossbow, his body jerked violently.

He painfully widened his eyes, spat out fresh blood, and suddenly flipped over, collapsing.

Yajiu's blade sank into Li Zhi's back chest, then he ruthlessly pulled it out and swiped the blade across his neck just in case.

Struck by two blades, Li Zhi was dead beyond death.

【Detected Villain Blackening Value -5, accumulated 45!】

Yajiu pulled out a handkerchief from his sleeve and quickly wiped the blood from the blade tip.

Jin Chen finally rose, rummaging through Li Zhi's desk, finding a token that could prove his lackey status.

A sound came from the room's mural; Yajiu looked sharply, instinctively stepping in front of Jin Chen, only to be gently embraced by him.

"It's fine, probably Along."

Yajiu then relaxed, pulling slightly away from the embrace, somewhat embarrassed, saying: "The smell of blood is strong."

He always felt his master disliked this smell, having known it from the start.

Jin Chen's lips curved into an arc, yet he still pulled him into his embrace.

Along and Dahu indeed emerged from the secret passage behind the calligraphy and painting, shaking off dust, saying: "We can leave now; the secret passage leads straight out to the main street."

Ahu frowned tightly, saying: "This person must have killed too many; it's specially used to dispose of ordinary commoners' corpses—there are plenty of bones in the secret passage."

The Successful King's lackeys, just like him, bully the weak, fear the strong, and treat lives as trash.

The two silently carried away the corpse.

Li Zhi's end was the same as Sun Zheng's: his head was cut off and sent to the Successful King, his headless corpse hung at the gambling house's main gate, and the indictment against Lord Wuyou was written all over the body once again.

Messages and carrier pigeon letters raced nonstop across the regions.

The Successful King repeatedly received heads, provoked to anger at the mere mention of the name Wuyou; the issued pursuit and arrest warrants sank without trace—no one could find Lord Wuyou, and some even claimed Lord Wuyou was not a single person, his appearance in Wu County differing from that in Shan Yin City, his personality diametrically opposed.

Afterward, Lord Wuyou spent only another half month, killing three staff members across various prefectures and counties in succession.

Among the Successful King's staff, some didn't even know each other's identities or residences, yet Lord Wuyou always precisely located them, staying no more than five days in any place, and killing according to that list.

By then, the Successful King's remnants lived in panic, none knowing if they would be next.

But after continuous searches, the Successful King was not without any clues.

He had already suspected the identity of the Han King's Heir Apparent, repeatedly sending assassins to investigate Jin Chen's whereabouts; meanwhile, Jin Xuanqi and Xu Wangyue, far away in Yangzhou, shifted from thinking the guess too absurd to gradually believing it.

Jin Xuanqi suspected that the one killing the remnants on the list was Yajiu.

But no matter how much he suspected, he couldn't leak anything outwardly; Jin Xuanqi assigned Jin Chen a nominal post in his military unit, having people check in daily, and managed to conceal it for a few days.

——

Another half month later, outside Wuyuan County, Bingzhou.

Here was the last person on the list, Qian Zhuo; it was said his whole family was rooted here, unable to relocate easily, and the county magistrate obeyed him in everything, so defenses were extremely strict, moreover, since five days prior, it had been exit-only, no entry.

The carriage had been parked here for three days, yet no suitable opportunity to blend in had been found.

Dahu and Along still felt it strange; logically, the Young Heir Apparent should have been able to find a way in before, but this time he wasn't in a hurry at all—instead, he kept Yajiu company in the carriage, tinkering with some mysterious gadget.

"Dahu, come up!"

Dahu, dozing off while leaning on a wooden stick, was startled into a jump, wiped his mouth, and ran onto the carriage.

"Eh! Young Master has come!"

Along peered out blankly, but discovered nothing mysterious.

Just as Dahu lifted the curtain, he saw his family's Young Master lounging lazily on the couch, Yajiu holding in his hand a……piece of human skin!

Yajiu coldly glanced at Dahu, gesturing for him to squat, his other hand gripping a sharp knife hilt, as if he could strike at any moment.

Dahu: "……"

He took a deep breath, eyes brimming with tears as he looked at Jin Chen: "Young Master, I've served you for so many years!"

Jin Chen raised an eyebrow, folded his jade fan, and beckoned: "Come here, come."

Dahu knelt before Jin Chen with a bitter expression: "Young Master… please don't kill me."

"Lower your head."

"... Oh."

Dahu obeyed again, still preparing to plead for himself.

Just as his mouth opened, his head was struck three times with a bang-bang-bang.

"All grown but no brain! Living fine, why would I kill you?"

Jin Chen pressed his jade fan against his forehead, forcing him to turn: "First, stick on this human skin mask."

It was just a human skin mask, after all; Dahu's tense shoulders suddenly relaxed, he drew a deep breath,

The feeling of a layer on his face was uncomfortable; to make the resemblance closer, Yajiu used various things to adjust the bone structure, finally affixing the human skin mask.

In the short span of a tea's time, Dahu could no longer see his original appearance.

【Wow! Superb disguise technique!】0731 exclaimed.

Dahu stared blankly, eyes wide, "All done?"

Yajiu nodded, casually wiped away the slime, and said, "All right, get up."

Da Hu rose with a chuckle, grinning widely at Jin Chen, "Young master! What do I look like now?"

Jin Chen's mouth twitched slightly, "Don't make that stupid expression by pressing your face against mine."

"Ah?!"

Da Hu panicked, hurriedly touching his disguised face.

"Have I become you? No…… why did you have me disguise myself as you?"

Jin Chen mysteriously took a sip of tea, "Plan."

Yajiu packed up his things, sat beside Jin Chen, glanced at Da Hu, then looked back at Jin Chen.

He frowned slightly, pursed his lips, and said, "Not like."

Why is it like this.

Yajiu felt a bit gloomy, "Master, my disguise skills have regressed."

"That's not necessarily true." Jin Chen smiled, ruffling his hair, "Let's give it a try."

"Da Hu, put on my outer garment and go for a walk."

"Oh, I'll try."

Da Hu scratched his head again, as previously mentioned, having served Jin Chen since childhood, he had memorized his every mannerism and movement, so disguising himself was not difficult.

He put on the outer garment, hands behind his back, and walked out.

The guard standing by the carriage immediately reached out to support him, "Young master, be careful."

Da Hu's Eyeball rolled, his sights set straight on A Long.

He gave a light cough, imitating the young master's voice.

"A Long, come over."