Chapter 1074

Clatter...

The oil lamp in Ding Yuan's hand fell to the ground and instantly went out.

Duan Yu, holding Ding Yuan by the neck with one hand, dragged him into the room and closed the door behind him.

Seeing that the intruder was Duan Yu, Ding Yuan's eyes widened, his face flushed purple from being choked, his legs kicked wildly, and he grabbed Duan Yu's hand with both of his own, trying to pry it off.

"Don't waste your energy. Just go on your way in peace."

Ding Yuan's wide-eyed gaze was filled with terror.

And he clearly wanted to say something.

However.

Duan Yu exerted sudden force with his arm, and with a crisp *crack*, Ding Yuan's neck tilted to the side; the next moment, his hands and feet went limp.

Carrying Ding Yuan's corpse with one hand, Duan Yu walked to the desk and picked up the horizontal blade placed to the side.

With a swift motion, he decapitated Ding Yuan in one stroke.

Since he had said he would hang Ding Yuan's head outside the pass, he would hang it outside the pass.

One must keep one's word.

It had been a long time since he had done this assassination work, and his technique was a bit rusty.

Duan Yu straightened Ding Yuan's corpse to sit behind the desk, carried the head out of the room, and even closed the door on his way out.

He could not open the city gates by himself yet.

There were three layers of gates on both sides of Hangu Pass.

The first layer was the standard gate, the second was the thousand-catty portcullis, and the third was the gate of the barbican.

Whether from the inside or the outside, one had to open all three layers to break through the pass.

Perhaps with good luck, he could open one gate by relying on the 10% probability of the 【Bloody Battle in All Directions】 trait.

But he could not rely on luck for the second and third layers.

The bed crossbows, heavy crossbows, rolling logs, stones, and fire oil on the ramparts would not give him enough time to perform.

Although Hangu Pass was well-defended, it could stop an army, but it could not stop him alone.

Duan Yu returned along the path he had come and arrived back at the camp outside the city.

Time flowed, the sun and moon alternated, and in the blink of an eye, it was dawn.

The soldiers who had been on duty at the pass all night let out a long sigh of relief.

And Zhang Yang, who had been on duty until dawn, also took a deep breath of the cold morning air.

After the cold air entered his lungs, Zhang Yang's muddled head finally cleared up a bit.

Footsteps came from behind.

Song Xian and Hou Cheng walked onto the ramparts together, yawning as they walked.

"Hard work for you, Attendant Zhang."

Song Xian curled his lips and said with a smile, "If you ask me, we should have shot Duan Yu dead yesterday; why bother making Attendant Zhang stand on the ramparts all night?"

Zhang Yang looked at Song Xian with disgust and did not say a word.

When they first took these men in, Zhang Yang had not been in favor of it.

Song Xian, Hou Cheng, and Wei Xu claimed they were unwilling to follow Duan Yu because they were homesick.

Zhang Yang had been suspicious of this statement from the start.

Lu Bu had followed Duan Yu for so long and had achieved fame and fortune; what kind of great man would choose to stay home instead of building a career?

Moreover, none of these men were the type to view fame and fortune as dirt.

Every one of them was vain.

Perhaps seeing that Zhang Yang did not speak, Song Xian laughed even more unscrupulously.

However, at this very moment.

A sound of something piercing the air came from far to near.

Whoosh~

Bang!

The next second, the soldiers on the ramparts all felt as if the ground beneath their feet had shaken.

Outside the pass, Duan Yu, riding on Xiao Hei, still maintained a throwing posture.

A long spear was nailed perfectly into the plaque hanging above the gate, which bore the three large characters for 'Hangu Pass'.

Song Xian, who had been mocking Zhang Yang, leaned over the crenel and looked cautiously at the spear.

With just one look, Song Xian was stunned.

On the black spear nailed into the gate plaque, there was a bloody head impaled upon it.

Although the face of the head was partially covered by blood-stained black hair, Song Xian recognized that familiar face at a glance.

"My... My... My Lord!"

Zhang Yang was startled.

My Lord?

Which lord?

Zhang Yang, who had glanced at Song Xian, also leaned over the crenel to look down.

Subsequently, Zhang Yang's eyes also widened.

Terror gradually occupied Zhang Yang's pupils, and then he looked at Duan Yu in black armor in the distance.

"No... No good..."

"No good..."

"The Inspector has had his head cut off!"

"It's bad, the Inspector's head has been cut off!"

A flurry of panicked shouts erupted from below the pass.

The soldiers on the ramparts fell into chaos upon hearing this.

Some had already discovered Ding Yuan's head, which had been nailed to the plaque hanging on the city wall by the spear Duan Yu had thrown.

"This Marquis keeps his word."

Outside the city, Duan Yu scanned Hangu Pass with a cold gaze: "I said I would nail Ding Yuan's head here today, and I will never break my promise!"

"Now, I will give you one more chance: open the gates before dark, otherwise your fate will be the same as Ding Jianyang's!"

Duan Yu's gaze fell upon Song Xian and Hou Cheng.

Stung by Duan Yu's gaze, both Song Xian and Hou Cheng felt as if they had needles on their backs, and a cold current washed over their entire bodies from head to toe.

"The next one..."

Duan Yu reached out a hand and pointed at Song Xian and Hou Cheng.

"The next one might be you... or it might be you..." ===== CHAPTER 1076 =====