RPAGF Chapter 210 In the end, she was fighting alone.
Chapter 210 In the end, she was fighting alone.
Seeing this, the others raised their longswords and slashed the cages holding the venomous snakes, causing countless snakes to burst out of their shells like bamboo shoots after a rain...
The venomous snakes seemed to understand human speech. After crawling out of the cage, they split into two groups. One group went straight for Wei Jianning, and the other group went straight for Lan Zhi.
The soldiers all ran to the side to watch the spectacle, while Huo Batian, riding on horseback, and his father, Huo Jinzhou, the King of Tianwu Kingdom, also watched with great interest.
"Father, this woman is the one who saved Wei Jianning. Don't let her rural background fool you; she not only knows medicine but also some martial arts. Now it seems she's quite bold and a bit foolish, actually daring to challenge the venomous snake of our Tianwu Kingdom without regard for her own life."
"Hmph! Even if she has three heads and six arms, she will not escape death when she encounters our venomous snake. Tian'er, the suffering you endured in the Northern Wei Kingdom, I will make them pay double today."
"Father, that woman is good, don't kill her?"
Hawking looked at him with half-closed eyes.
"You've taken a liking to her?"
A sorrowful look appeared on Huo Batian's face, followed by a soft chuckle.
"This woman is so beautiful, wouldn't it be more satisfying to make her my bed plaything!"
Hawking immediately nodded in agreement.
"Okay, Dad promises you."
After saying this, he and Huo Batian spurred their horses forward, heading straight towards the direction where Lan Zhi was.
At this moment, the venomous snakes were looking at her with their little heads raised, neither moving forward nor retreating.
The venomous snake at Wei Jianning's feet was also flicking its tongue, repeatedly lunging at him, but was always repelled by an invisible barrier.
Wei Jianning, who was unconscious, seemed to sense something and suddenly opened his eyes. When he saw everything in front of him, he shouted with all his might.
"Wife, run..."
His voice, like a gentle spring breeze, reached Lan Zhi's ears, instantly filling her with ecstatic joy.
"My husband, I'm here!"
Although Wei Jianning felt completely weak, he still shook his head with all his might to stop her.
"Wife...go quickly, don't...don't worry about me, you...go..."
Wei Jianning is still alive. As long as he is alive, everything she did was worthwhile.
This further strengthened Lan Zhi's resolve to save him.
She raised her longsword, aimed it at the heads of the venomous snakes, and with a series of swift strokes, chopped several of them off.
This scene was witnessed by Huo Jinzhou and Huo Batian, who had just arrived. Huo Batian gasped in shock, and Huo Jinzhou exclaimed softly.
"Could this woman be a reincarnation of a demoness? How does she manage to keep these poisonous snakes away from her?"
Huo Batian pointed in the direction where Wei Jianning was, frowned, and replied:
"Dad, look over there. Those poisonous snakes seem to be blocked by something and can't climb up."
Hawking also noticed the anomaly over there, and he raised his arms in alarm, shouting...
"Men, seize this woman."
Lan Zhi looked up at Huo Jinzhou and Huo Batian, her face filled with anger and her eyes with murderous intent.
This father and son are the ones who drove her husband to this state; she wants to avenge him.
Thinking of this, she leaped up and charged directly at Huo Batian.
"Tian'er, be careful..."
Before Huo Jinzhou could finish speaking, Lan Zhi had already started fighting with Huo Batian.
Although Huo Batian was highly skilled in martial arts, he couldn't outmaneuver Lan Zhi's agility. With Xiao Xin's help, she quickly and successfully thrust her longsword into his throat.
Upon seeing this, Huo Jinzhou immediately shouted angrily.
“If you dare to harm my Tian’er, I will kill everyone in your Northern Wei Kingdom.”
Lan Zhi laughed dismissively.
"Go ahead and kill me if you dare."
Huo Batian looked at the long sword in Lan Zhi's hand and suddenly smiled lewdly.
"Wei Jianning is doomed, the Northern Wei Kingdom is finished. You might as well come with me, I'll guarantee you a life of luxury."
"Shut up."
Lan Zhi twirled the longsword in her hand, narrowing her disdainful eyes as she looked at him.
"Huo Batian, you've fallen into my hands today. If you don't do as I say, don't even think about leaving alive."
"Hahaha……"
Huo Batian roared to the sky.
"You think you, a woman, can defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tianwu Kingdom just because you know a little martial arts? Don't dream about it."
"Hmph! Order your men to retreat twenty miles now, or I'll kill you right now."
Upon hearing this, Huo Jinzhou immediately trembled and shouted in a muffled voice:
"If you dare to harm my Tian'er, I will surely raze your Northern Wei territory to the ground and make your Northern Wei disappear forever."
"What you do is your business, I don't care. Right now, I just want to save my man. Once I've gotten him out of here safely, it doesn't matter to me whether you flatten the Northern Wei Kingdom or even flatten the earth."
At this point, she no longer had the same thoughts as before about worrying about the country and bringing benefits to the people.
When she was alone, facing the enemy, and no one was willing to lend a helping hand, her heart had already turned cold.
These people are not worth her risking her life to save.
All she wants now is to save her man and his brothers. When that time comes, she will definitely ask them how they could be so heartless as to leave her, a woman, to face thousands of enemy troops.
The two sides were locked in a stalemate. Wei Jianning looked at Lan Zhi's lonely figure and felt as if a piece of his own flesh had been ripped out of his heart.
"Wife, don't worry about me, you should go quickly!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, but Lan Zhi couldn't hear him because he was too weak. His voice was so faint that only he himself could hear it.
"Miss..."
When he called out those two words again, Lan Zhi looked at him as if they were telepathically connected, and then gave him a big smile.
She shouted loudly towards where he was:
"My husband, wait for me!"
Wei Jianning shook his head vigorously at her, his face covered in blood, which broke her heart.
Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at Wei Jianning's unrecognizable face. She longed to rescue him right now and stop him from suffering.
Taking advantage of her distraction, Huo Batian suddenly snatched the long sword from her hand, then pulled her into his arms, drew out the short knife from his waist, and held it straight to her throat.
This scene made everyone's hearts leap into their throats. Wei Jianning used all his strength to try to break free from the restraints, but he was too weak at the moment. The rope, as delicate as a finger, was as hard as an iron wall to him.
"Miss..."
He frantically tried to break free and save her, but to no avail.
Lin Xingliang, who was waiting on the city wall, finally couldn't stand it any longer and raised his hand, saying:
"No, the Crown Princess is a woman, yet she dares to face 100,000 elite enemy soldiers. I, a man, am hiding like a coward. I would be ashamed of the Emperor's trust."
After speaking, he prepared to walk down the city wall, but was stopped by Madam Lin.
"Master, you can't go! There are not only enemy troops there, but also poisonous snakes. If you are bitten by those snakes, the consequences will be unimaginable!"
Lin Xingliang looked at him with a solemn expression, "Madam, you stay in the city. If Xinglong County falls, try to hide in a civilian's home. You must protect yourself!"