0p0 Chapter 257 The pursuers are coming
Chapter 257 The pursuers are coming
"Why didn't you let me go after you left the palace?"
Xi Yao was trapped in Bai Xin and her friends' carriage. She looked at Bai Xin angrily and questioned him.
With her guidance and Bai Xin dressed up as her maid, the gatekeepers had seen Liu Sheng and Liu Li when they came in, so it was quite smooth for them to leave the palace.
"Miss Xi, I'm sorry to trouble you. In order to prevent you from leaking the information, I have no choice but to ask you to travel with us. When I return to the dome safely, I will have someone send you back to the city safely!"
Bai Xin looked at her and smiled, saying that it would not be so easy for her to let her go back. With one more bargaining chip in hand, they would be safer. After all, they were still in Xichang. They had to go to Jinquan City, the new city captured by Ye's army, which would take at least two or three days.
Although Bai Xin was unconscious when she was captured, fortunately Liu Sheng and Liu Li were often on tour and were familiar with various routes, so as soon as they left the palace, they ran towards Jinquan City without delay.
"You can't escape. The emperor will soon know that you have escaped and will definitely send troops to chase you out. By then, you will have no choice but to die!"
Xi Yao looked at Bai Xin and sneered.
"It's okay, you don't need to worry about it. As long as we don't die in your palace, we won't be at a loss!"
"Cough cough cough...!"
Bai Xin smiled disdainfully and said that her health was not very good. She started coughing before she finished speaking, and the pain in her heart was getting stronger and stronger. Moreover, she was still in confinement and had not had a good rest from beginning to end. Her qi and blood were severely deficient. Bai Xin once doubted that she could not hold on any longer, but she had to return to the dome no matter what.
Liu Sheng Liu Li didn’t know about Nian Nian’s situation, nor did he know how Lian’er and Xi’er were doing, or whether they were rescued in time.
They just received a message from Li Ze while they were touring in Xichang. The bandits who were knocked out by Bai Xin and his team were captured by Li Ze and his team. The great memory recovery technique made them confess that Bai Xin was captured to be Le Brun's concubine, so the Ye family army kept attacking the city to get Bai Xin back.
Ye Qiding knew that something had happened to her and Nian Nian, but it would take him more than ten days to conquer the Qiang and Hu countries and return to Gubo City at the fastest speed. He should still be on his way back, so she had to go back faster than him and bring Nian Nian to meet him.
But the more anxious she became, the more her blood and qi attacked her heart, and the worse Bai Xin's physical condition became. She just hoped that Lebrun would discover it slower and the pursuers would be slower.
"Oh, you're not pretending to be sick?!"
Xi Yao looked at Bai Xin, who was leaning against the chair with a pale face. Sheng Mo and Li Shang were both nervous as they gave her glucose and nutrition and massaged her to circulate her Qi and blood.
"If my body wasn't so weak now, your Xichang Emperor Le Brun would have died hundreds of times!"
Bai Xin looked at her and snorted.
"You really don't know what's good for you. It's hard for your cousin the Emperor to think so highly of you!"
Xi Yao was so angry that Bai Xin actually said that that she spoke up to defend Lebrun.
"I said he didn't know what was good for him. You defended him so much, but he didn't even look at you straight in the eye!"
"You, are going too far!"
Xi Yao was so pissed off by her, but now she was caught by them and couldn't resist. She could only glare at Bai Xin angrily, then leaned against the edge of the car and closed her eyes to rest, not intending to argue with Bai Xin anymore.
Seeing that she was finally quiet and stopped resisting, Bai Xin also closed his eyes and took a rest. Liu Sheng and Liu Li took turns to rest and drove the carriage while they traveled through the night.
On the last day, they arrived at the last city on the border of Xichang. Since the Ye family army was stationed not far outside the city, the city gate was only open for one hour every day at the time of Si. Bai Xin and the others watched the city gate open, tightened the reins, and drove towards the city gate.
"The pursuers are coming!"
Li Yun, who was in charge of observation, gestured to Bai Xin and the others, and everyone suddenly looked nervous.
"Don't be afraid, rush out with all your strength!"
Bai Xin made a gesture to them, and then Liu Sheng and Liu Li picked up the anesthetic needle and dagger, ready to meet the enemy.
The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and the soldiers guarding the city gate seemed to have received the signal to close the gate. They were urgently removing the heavy barriers and closing the city gate.
"Oh, you can't escape!"
Xi Yao looked through the car window and saw the pursuers rushing towards her from behind, and said excitedly.
Bai Xin just glanced at her and ignored her, signaling to Sheng Mo to send a signal to the Ye family army now and ask them to be ready for support.
Then he took out the Bagua Jade Box from his arms, pierced his finger with a dagger, and drew the last stroke in the hexagram.
"You, what are you doing?"
Xi Yao looked at Bai Xin's actions in shock. She saw her face gradually losing color and she was trembling and sweating because of the heart pain.
"what!"
After drawing the last hexagram, Bai Xin clutched the jade box tightly. The unbearable pain made Bai Xin hold his heart and groan, ignoring Xi Yao's questions.
Although Sheng Mo and Li Shang didn't know what Bai Xin had done, they could only support her with concern, wipe her sweat and rub her back to relieve her pain.
When Bai Xin raised her hand again, she saw that the jade box in her hand was broken into two pieces.
"If the Qian hexagram is broken, it will become the Kun hexagram, right?" Bai Xin murmured in his heart.
Without time to think about it, he put half of the jade box into Sheng Mo's operating room, gave him detailed instructions, and kept the other half for himself.
Given her physical condition and the current situation, she was afraid that she would not be able to hold on and become a burden to them.
The sound of galloping horses outside the carriage was getting closer, and shouts of "Stop" were heard one after another.
Their carriage was also approaching the city gate. Seeing that the gate was about to close, Liu Li and her companions jumped off the carriage first and ran straight to the gatekeepers. They knocked out a few of them with anesthetic needles in advance, and then confronted them head-on with daggers to prevent them from closing the city gate.
Liu Sheng was driving the carriage, protecting Bai Xin, and preparing to rush out of the city gate. At the critical moment, an arrow shot from behind the carriage and directly hit the two tall horses in Bai Xin's carriage.
The horse neighed in pain and fell down heavily, and the carriage was also overturned to the ground.
Bai Xin grabbed Xi Yao and jumped out of the carriage when it overturned. Liu Sheng had already jumped out of the carriage, and when he saw Bai Xin coming down, he hurried over to protect her.
However, the pursuers had already rushed over and were about to surround them inside the city gate.
Liu Sheng Liu Li became furious. He picked up the knives of the defenders that he had just cleared away and fought desperately with the pursuers and the defenders.
But they were women, and had fought with many gatekeepers, so they were already unable to hold on. Moreover, they could not hear and could not care about the attacks from behind.
They were no longer able to hold on any longer, and with wounds and blood all over their bodies they could only slowly retreat in front of Bai Xin and the others, watching them rush forward to fight to the death.
Bai Xin saw the Ye family soldiers rushing towards her from a distance outside the door, but if they wanted to take her with them, they would definitely not be able to wait for them to arrive.
These defenders are already closing the city gates. If they don't leave, Liu Sheng and Liu Li will die in vain.
Bai Xin pulled Xi Yao forward and gestured for them to rush out of the city gate and join up with the Ye family army. She held Xi Yao hostage to cover them.
Liu Sheng and Liu Li were extremely reluctant, and although they were seriously injured, they were determined to fight to the death. However, Bai Xin had already dragged Xi Yao in front of the pursuers, put a dagger on Xi Yao's neck, and shouted at the pursuers.
"Stop it, or I'll kill her if you keep chasing her!"
He also gave Liu Sheng and Liu Li a death order to rush out of the city gate.