Chapter 1249

Deceived!

The people in that carriage were not the He sisters at all.

They had been deceived!

Ji Ling was struck with terror.

They had been in pursuit for so many days, only to find they had been chasing the wrong target!

This... this was clearly a decoy meant to lure them away!

Ji Ling was no fool; in an instant, he deduced the crux of the matter.

Since this was a decoy, where were the He sisters?

"Pursue! Keep pursuing!"

Ji Ling immediately issued the order.

Even if the woman ahead was not one of the He sisters, as a decoy, she must be connected to them.

"Capture her, I want her alive!" Ji Ling shouted.

Since it concerned the He family, as long as they captured her and interrogated her, they would eventually get to the bottom of it.

With that, Ji Ling flicked the reins of his warhorse.

The warhorse picked up speed once more.

Duan Liuqing, in the midst of her flight, turned her head to glance behind her.

The distance was closing.

The pursuers behind were drawing nearer, and she could already see the ferocious expression on the face of the leading general.

Capture her alive.

Duan Liuqing heard Ji Ling's shout.

Run...

She knew she could no longer run.

The warhorse beneath her was already foaming at the mouth.

If she were captured alive...

As a student of Bai Tu, she had seen her teacher's methods of interrogation through torture.

As an intelligence operative, Duan Liuqing also understood that falling into enemy hands alive meant that even if she said nothing, the suffering she would endure was unavoidable.

At this moment, Duan Liuqing was fleeing toward the west.

Just as she had done on her journey from the grasslands and Bingzhou toward Liangzhou.

The pursuers behind were getting closer.

She could clearly hear their shouts.

A triumphant smile curled the corners of Duan Liuqing's lips.

She then turned her head to look at the pursuers behind her.

With only a few meters of distance, Ji Ling had already clearly seen the expression on Duan Liuqing's face.

A smile?

She was smiling?

What was she smiling about?

Ji Ling, who was chasing behind Duan Liuqing with a great blade in hand, was stunned.

However, in the moment Ji Ling was distracted, Duan Liuqing, fleeing in front, suddenly pulled out a dagger.

Without the slightest hesitation, she stabbed it into the hindquarters of her warhorse.

The warhorse, stung by the pain, burst into astonishing speed.

Duan Liuqing then yanked the reins, forcibly changing the horse's direction, and rode down toward the overgrown path to the side.

Just a hundred meters away from the road was a rushing river.

No!

Ji Ling was immediately alarmed.

She was going to jump into the river!

With no time to think, Ji Ling also accelerated in the direction of Duan Liuqing.

As for the large number of Tiger Bravery Army soldiers behind, they were limited by the terrain and could only stop on the official road for the time being; only a few cavalrymen followed Ji Ling in pursuit.

The warhorse beneath Duan Liuqing had reached its peak speed after the pain.

Blood flowed incessantly from the horse's hindquarters.

In an instant, she reached the edge of the riverbank.

Seemingly sensing the rushing river ahead, even in its pain, the warhorse immediately reared up on its hind legs, coming to a sharp halt at the edge of the bank.

There was a drop of two or three meters from this riverbank to the rushing river below.

Just when Ji Ling thought Duan Liuqing had failed and the horse had not jumped into the river...

Duan Liuqing, riding on the horse, endured the sharp pain in her feet and body, and stood up directly from the horse's back.

"Stop!"

Ji Ling roared.

But how could Duan Liuqing listen to Ji Ling's command?

Duan Liuqing, facing Ji Ling, smiled and then spread her arms.

Her blood-stained and tattered black dress danced lightly in the wind.

The next second, just as Ji Ling was about to reach out and grab her dress, Duan Liuqing's body tilted backward.

Ji Ling pulled hard on his horse's reins and leaned over to look down.

That black silhouette fell rapidly, then splashed into the water.

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

Ji Ling cursed while slapping his war skirt with his arm.

Just one step away, just one step away!

It was one thing that he hadn't caught the He sisters.

This woman must have known where the He sisters had fled.

Yet she had actually... jumped into the river!

These people...

Who exactly were they?

From the long pursuit from Luoyang, those who were unhesitating, including those who knew they were going to die just now, why were they so resolute?

Whose subordinates were these people, and what kind of person made them so willingly offer up their most precious lives?

Ji Ling could not fathom it.

Of course, these were not things he needed to think about right now.

What Ji Ling needed to think about now was how to report back.

The He sisters had not been caught, and for so many days they had only chased a decoy, and now this decoy had also jumped into the river.

"Damn it."

Ji Ling looked unwillingly at the rushing river below.

That black silhouette had long since disappeared.

Gritting his teeth, Ji Ling turned his horse's head and rode back toward the official road.

The last glimmer of the setting sun hid behind the mountains.

The night, like a black cloth covering the sky, shrouded the earth.

The silvery moonlight spilled onto the surging water, reflecting a shimmering white light.

A huge log rolled in the river, heading downstream.

Under the moonlight, a black silhouette had her arms tightly wrapped around the log. ===== CHAPTER 1251 =====