“P-Prime Demon Hong Ye!”
The Foundation Building Realm assassin’s whole body broke in shivers, as cold sweat covered his back when he saw this slender and beautiful figure standing on top of a roof of Wu Long’s small house not far from them. There was abject horror in his eyes now, in stark contrast to how alooef they were when they looked at Wu Long with cold arrogance and indifference before.
“Sub-branch leader Qian, where is your greeting?”
Hong Ye said in a cold voice, but her eyes were shining with amusement and excitement.
“B-But…”
The Foundation Building Realm assassin made a quick peek at Wu Long who stood still, looking intently at Hong Ye.
Seeing him and the other assassins hesitating, a frown appeared on her beautiful face, half covered by demon mouth silver mask.
As they trembled, they hesitated for one more split second, before all kneeling in her direction and cupping their sword-wielding hand with another, as their swords pointed to the ground.
“We greet the Prime Demon Hong Ye”
“Tshh…hehahahahaha”
As the leader siad this, the rest followed in unison, and a tinlking delighted laughter came out of Hong Ye.
“Haah, just as I started to get bored with all of the investigations I get to see such an amusing scene. Hey, hey, tell me, what’s this all commotion all about?”
She said with a voice full of amusement, which sent more shivers through the assassins surrounding Wu Long.
Wu Long was trying to get the situation, as it seems this Prime Demon, an equivalent of Prime Disciple for other sects in Bahshi Assassination Group, stumbled upon this scene that she was not aware of. This was extremely strange, as Bahshi followed a very strict system of control, and all missions and actions were approved through proper channels before they would make a move. The fact that she was somewhere here ‘investigating’ something and did not know of a large scale operation happening in the vicinity was mind-boggling.
What he knew for certain, is that she was extremely dangerous for the current him. He might not fear her if he advanced one or two Major Realms, but right now she was someone he did not want to go against, as doing so will cost him. He might not necessarily die, but getting out of this unscathed would be a foregone deal.
“W-We are doing a clean-up of a dangerous individual…”
“Hoooh~, I see, I see…So! Why am I not aware of such a dangerous individual needing cleaning up?”
She asked as she looked at the scene and her eyes narrowed at 16 corpses of their Revolving Qi Realm experts laying in various poses and sometimes parts around Wu Long, making a stark contrast in the white snow illuminated by a bright moon.
Her red eyes were filled with amusement and some interest towards this man.
“P-Prime Demon… I will explain everything once we-…”
“Aaah, shut up old fart, I’ll just ask myself”
She unceremoniously waived her hand with an annoyed ‘aaah’.
“Hey, you, the ‘dangerous individual’! What’s going on here?”
She turned her gaze to Wu Long and asked in a lively voice.
“As you can see I am being attacked by… seemingly your subordinates. As for the reason… I am not sure myself”
Wu Long feigned ignorance about their organization and replied.
“Hmm~ you’re quite good, got a name?”
“Wu Long”
“Hmm, Wu Long, Wu Long…. Wu Long ! Hehehehe, sounds good”
She repeated his name a few times in subtly different intonations, seemingly tasting the flavor of the sound, and then laughed with delight again.
“…T…hank you, I guess?”
He said a little amused by this girl. She was highly unusual for the Bahshi Assassination Group, which probably meant that her talent was just that high, so they ignored her personality.
Soon, dozens of figures approached from far away, and all stopped in different positions from behind Hong Ye. they all seemed very experienced and powerful, but were all slightly out of breath.
“Prime Demon Hong Ye. haa…haa…please stop leaving us behind … haa … and also we have yet to finish our investigations in Tingren Kingdom, you have also stopped the investigation in the Jurong Kingdom prematurely before that… Prime Demon Hong Yue will not be happy-…”
A frown appeared on Hong Ye’s face and she gave a sharp gaze to the one who spoke, as her voice turned colder than ice submerged into the cold ocean. There was a dangerous glint in her red eyes that terified the all of them.
“Are you trying to threaten me with Sister Yue?”
“T-This subordinate would not dare!”
The man was visibly shaken and cupped his fists white lowering his head.
Hong Ye looked at him some more and then returned her gaze, which already returned to normal, forward to Wu Long and those who surrounded him.
“Besides, I think I have found something”
As she spoke the others behind her all looked at the people surrounding Wu Long with suspicious gazes. They of course noticed the situation right as they arrived, it was just not their place to butt in when Hong Ye was already involved.
The members of the local sub-branch started visibly trembling under their gazes as their eyes shown fear.
“Wu Long, I will ask you this once, don’t lie to me, or I will get vee~ry very angry…”
Hong Ye started, as her voice returned to being lively again.
“How long have you been in this city?”
“About two weeks”
Wu Long replied truthfully.
“Hm?”
Puzzlement appeared on Hong Ye’s face as the mystery she thought was becoming clear was shrouded in fog again.
“The timing doesn’t fit…”
She thought.
“Then, have you ever met people with the same masks as ours?”
“No”
Wu Long lied without batting an eye.
He was not sure what was going on, but there seemed to be an internal investigation within the Bahshi Assassination Group, and the ones currently attacking him were making an unsanctioned operation, which was a very serious offence.
Hong Ye frowned as she could not detect any signs of lying from Wu Long. Her red eyes shone as she could measure his heart rate, body temperature and other such factors, but he was completely in sync with the situation. A slightly elevated heartrate in tone to the seriousness of being surrounded by armed hostile people, and temperature in accordance with having moved not long ago. Plus no suspicious facial muscle movement and no eye movement not consistent with normal behavior in such situation.
There was absolutely nothing suspicious about Wu Long’s reply. He was not overly calm for the situation, and was not overly excited.
That meant that her deduction that the previous teams were lost to Wu Long, and these people were trying to cover their tracks was false. The leader of the sub-branch now also followed the breadcrumbs of the conversation to learn what Hong Ye suspected, and a flash of regret appeared in his eyes. If he only framed this man in the incident Hong Ye was investigating and said that he was responsible, and that was why they went out to get him, he could maybe slime his way out of this, but it was apparent from his previous inability to answer that making that excuse now would be just further digging his own grave.
“Hmm, I see~ okay then. We’re all leaving. Sub-branch leader, I am going to hear your explanations on the way to the sub-branch”
Hong Ye said.
“Prime Demon, this man…”
The subordinate behind Hong Ye hesitantly raised his voice. This man seen and heard too much, not to mention how many of their assassins he killed.
“It’s fine, I like him, heheh, at least this trip was more interesting than that boring investigation because of him”
Hong Ye said. None of them dared to oppose her decision despite obvious concerns.
Wu Long almost audibly sighed with relief as this situation looked to be settled for now. He was not sure about the future, but in future he might not be so cautious of them either.
“I hope to see you again, Wu~ Long!”
Hong Ye playfully said as she waved and disappeared into a cloud of black smoke. 𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗹．𝐨𝗿𝗴
The sub-branch menbers took all their deceased members’ bodies and belongings under watchful gazes of the people who arrived with Hong Ye and also retreated. Wu Long willingly threw out the sword he picked from one of them, as, though it was a good sword that he lacked, he did not want to fight them over it now when he just got out of trouble.
His Guandao spear was quite damaged due to the Spiritual Spear Art he used earlier. Those two uses were enough for it to be in bad shape.
He looked without much care at the corpses of the bodyguards who were caught in the middle, and turned to look at the belatedly arriving people from the Luo family, who were terrified at seeing the scene.
“We received an attack from assassins, but they retreated. It is probably unlikely to repeat, but I am not yet sure”
He flatly said as he returned to his small house, leaving the dumbfounded guards and servants to clean up the field of battle.
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