Cang Lan Dao - Chapter 24.1
Chapter 24.1
If she dead, then she’ll —
Being threatened with the knife, Luo Wanqing was a bit confused.
Zhang Jiuran?
Liu Xiniang had said that her real name was Zhang Jiuran. How did Qin Jue find out that she was related to Liu Xiniang? And why was he pointing a knife at her? What was his relationship with Zhang Jiuran?
She desperately pondered in her heart but remained calm on the surface. She couldn’t admit her relationship with Liu Xiniang out of the blue, so she frowned and answered confusedly, “Zhang Jiuran? Who’s that?”
“Whose blade technique you’re using? Don’t you know yourself?” Qin Jue inquired coldly, pressing closer to her, “Where is Zhang Jiuran?”
Luo Wanqing put her hands up to make him relax his guard, backing away while dissuading him, “Calm down. I don’t know who she is.”
“Then how do you know her technique……” He didn’t finish his words when Luo Wanqing raised her hand to grab his knife, seized his wrist, and pressed him back against the wall. Attaching the knife to his neck, she coldly said: “Now is not the time to say these. Listen to me.”
“You ……”
“I will at least ensure that you live!” Luo Wanqing snapped. “Don’t make trouble!” With that, there was a tap on the door from above.
Zhao Yuyan eagerly said, “Xiniang, they’re gone. Why don’t you let me in?”
Qin Jue and Luo Wanqing looked up. They glanced at each other, and Qin Jue whispered, “The people who were protecting me died in the room where she came out.”
“I know.” Luo Wanqing answered.
She never understood why Zhao Yuyan wanted to team up with Qin Jue. Then, before Zhao Yuyan separated from her, she said, “I’m afraid you won’t like the way I look for the keys,” After that, she never met Zhao Yuyan again. Instead, she found a room full of mutilated bodies. Then, when Qin Jue said that the people who protected him were all dead, he looked at that room that was full of corpses. It was evident that his protector people died in that room. In the end, Zhao Yuyan stormed in from that room and sent them into the tunnel. If the broken bodies were Zhao Yuyan’s handiwork, and her goal was to kill Qin Jue, then everything was logical. Zhao Yuyan’s comment that she couldn’t team up with her was also understandable.
She wasn’t sure if Zhao Yuyan was a good or bad guy, so she could only stop her outside for now. If she was the good guy and those killers were coming for Qin Jue, who was now a human target, then she wouldn’t implicate Zhao Yuyan. If Zhao Yuyan was a bad guy, then at the very least, she had saved Qin Jue for the time being.
Luo Wanqing thought about it and didn’t respond to Zhao Yuyan’s words, turning her head to survey the surroundings.
The sound of Zhao Yuyan tapping on the door from above paused, and a moment later, she gently said, ”Xiniang, you don’t have the keys yet, right? There’s only a quarter of an hour left. Even if you participate in the retest, you will only be a shadow if you can’t get the key. So, open the door for me, and I’ll give you the keys.”
Hearing this, Luo Wanqing moved. Qin Jue immediately grabbed her and shook his head, “Something’s not right with her.”
“Go.” Luo Wanqing pulled him and ran directly towards the tunnel ahead.
This underground place was originally a prison. Luo Wanqing dragged Qin Jue and quickly led him to a random room, dumping him and whispering, ”I’ll grab the keys. Hide well. They’ll find a way to come down and find you. I’ll lure them. The first test will be over in 15 minutes, and you can leave. When I return,” Luo Wanqing pursed her lips before saying, “You’ll tell me who you are.”
Qin Jue froze as Luo Wanqing turned around and cleared the traces before rushing out. She took several long leaps away from Qin Jue and then jumped onto the roof.
She stood in the most conspicuous position. If someone was still in the underground place, they could see her at a glance. In such an enormous place, it was unlikely that there was only one door. If Zhao Yuyan wanted to kill Qin Jue, and she had been the only one talking to them, then where were the others? Did they go into the underground place?
As Luo Wanqing thought about it, she felt the wind from a knife coming from behind her. She retreated with the point of her foot. Then, she saw the burly man, who chased after Qin Jue at the beginning, looking at her excitedly and shouting, “Come ……”
Without waiting for him to finish his words, Luo Wanqing sped up and burst his throat with a pinch! Flesh and blood exploded in her hands. She took his body and jumped off the roof, quickly searched his body took the keys, faked traces, and then ambushed in the surroundings.
Not a moment later, a few people rushed over. Anticipating Luo Wanqing to run, they left a person behind and chased towards the traces Luo Wanqing forged.
The person who stayed behind squatted down to check the state of the person lying on the ground. Luo Wanqing took the opportunity to leap out and slit the other person’s throat from behind and then fumbled around to get the keys.
After doing this, she cleaned up the traces before running back to where Qin Jue was.
After she killed two people like this, those people won’t dare to spread out any further. The likelihood of them searching for her and Qin Jue was much smaller. As long as they held out for another quarter of an hour, the first test would be over, and the people from the Inspection Department would be here. And at this stage, if Qin Jue encountered an assassin, he would surely die. Not wanting to gamble on that possibility, she hurried back.
Returning to the room, she saw no one there. Luo Wanqing’s eyes widened as she hurriedly attempted to chase. Then, she heard someone in the corner lift the straws and softly say, “I’m here.”
Seeing Qin Jue in the darkness, Luo Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief as she walked into the shadowy corner and sat beside him.
After the silence, Luo Wanqing whispered, “Wait another quarter of an hour for the people from the Inspection Department to come.”
“They won’t be able to come.” Qin Jue opened his mouth.
Luo Wanqing froze.
Qin Jue lowered his head and said softly, “The underground place is the retest location. Those eliminated from the preliminary exam will enter this place. You can only open it from inside after the door is closed.”
“How do I open it?” Luo Wanqing frowned.
Qin Jue calmly said, “A room in the middle of the underground place will open after the You Hour (*). That room can sense the weight. When you enter the room, close the door, and when the weight of the room is light enough, the ground will rise, and you can go out.”
T/N: 5 pm -7 pm.
“Light enough?”
“There’s a side room where you can pile up corpses.” Qin Jue explained, “Once you pile those corpses there, it will reduce the weight in that room.”
Hearing this, Luo Wanqing understood that this retest was murderous, and the one who survived was the winner.
“Must we kill them?” Luo Wanqing frowned tightly. “What about knocking them and throwing them over?”
“That would be death.” Qin Jue lowered his head and said softly, “We’re all death row inmates. Those who fail the test will be executed. No one will let you knock and throw them in the side room. It’s all a fight to the death.”
Luo Wanqing didn’t say anything, and after a moment, she responded, “So, Zhao Yuyan asked us to enter the underground place, and after we came in, as long as the door is closed from the inside, the Inspection Department won’t be able to enter.”
“Yes.”
“The only way for us to get out now is to win the retest?”
“Yes. All the eliminated prisoners should be waiting in that room for the retest now. The door to that weighed room will only open when the floor of that room rises.”
If that was the case, there was no need for the assassins to chase after them. They only need to wait in the retest place. If Luo Wanqing and the others didn’t come and Qin Jue didn’t have enough keys in his hand, then he’d be considered to have failed the test. Then, the Inspection Department will execute him.
If Luo Wanqing and the others went over and the assassins waited for them, they would also die.
Hearing this, Luo Wanqing fell silent.
Qin Jue pondered before calmly saying, ”Their target is me. You don’t need me to care about me. I was a person who deserved to die. Whether sooner or later, it was certain.”
Luo Wanqing did not make a sound. She lowered her head before slowly saying, “You …… are not Qin Jue, right?”