Chapter 440

Gazes met and collided, doubt and hostility rising and falling.

Three groups of people, their minds in turmoil.

If we talk about identities, looking at their figures and weapons, they were actually already out in the open.

Wu Zhi, Gao Lei, and the Japanese.

The Japanese were here to seek revenge and silence them, not to mention that, but the goals of Gao Lei and Wu Zhi were not exactly the same.

"Are the two of you together?"

The leading Japanese saw the awkward atmosphere between the two.

The two, who should have been from the same sect, snorted in unison.

"Hmph."

"Tch."

Under the night sky, the hostility between the two was even less concealed than during the day.

The leading Japanese also frowned.

"Tch... forget it, are you two leaving or not?"

"If you don't leave now, don't blame us for being impolite!"

The eight Japanese all gripped their saber hilts, but did not draw them. There were many schools of Japanese swordsmanship, but because the shape of the Japanese sabers was similar, basically every school had techniques for "drawing the saber."

So unlike the Central Plains Jianghu, the Japanese didn't need to draw their weapons; just placing their hands on the hilts was already a fully threatening posture.

Wu Zhi and Gao Lei both took a step back in unison.

Clearly, they had seen Japanese before.

Gao Lei had just jumped in, and this retreat took him to the wall.

Wu Zhi, however, retreated one step to the window of the main room, his back pressed tightly against the window, his hand gripping the sword hilt tightly, his teeth clenched. Among the three parties present, he was the weakest, and with his crotch injured, he had nowhere to run.

Actually, he had wanted to leave just now.

But now he couldn't leave.

Because Gao Lei, opposite him, was staring at him intently, and he had read the murderous intent in Gao Lei's eyes—he wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Although the two were from the same sect, they had been enemies for a long time, but Gao Lei was afraid of the sect and didn't dare to make a move. But today the Japanese had come, and Gao Lei had a scapegoat. If Wu Zhi left just now, Gao Lei would chase him down and kill him. But if Wu Zhi didn't leave, given the strength comparison of everyone present, he would definitely be the first to die.

As his thoughts raced, he gritted his teeth.

"I wanted to save your lives, but now I've blocked disaster for you... Since we are now grasshoppers on the same rope, don't just lie there waiting for me to save you!"

Once his mind was made up, Wu Zhi suddenly raised his elbow and viciously slammed it against the window behind him, intending to wake Li Miao to fight the enemy together!

Just as his elbow was about to hit the window—suddenly, Wu Zhi felt a numbness in the back of his neck, and a chill entered his dantian from the Fengchi point, instantly depriving him of the freedom of his body.

At the same time, an invisible true Qi emerged from the window crack, wrapping around Wu Zhi and freezing him on the spot.

"What... is going on!?"

Wu Zhi was terrified!

Although he couldn't move, he was still awake, and his five senses were functioning normally. He tried to struggle, but felt like an insect sealed in amber; no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move a bit.

Clearly there was nothing beside him, yet he felt clearly locked up. He had never even heard of such a thing, which simply reminded him of the ghost stories in storybooks, and a chill rose from the bottom of his heart.

But—the horror was yet to come.

"Senior Brother, since you've come, didn't you prepare any means of self-defense?"

Wu Zhi's voice came from behind Wu Zhi himself.

Wu Zhi felt his scalp tingle!

This was absolutely his own voice, even the tone and the hostility toward Gao Lei were exactly the same; even he himself would feel "it should be so" if he heard it.

But, that was not him.

Gao Lei, opposite him, clearly didn't notice anything wrong and replied coldly.

"Junior Brother, you only care about saving people, thinking it was nothing more than running into me, and you were certain I wouldn't dare to kill you, so you dared to come even without your injuries healed... but now you want to rely on me to survive?"