Capítulo 2093: Chapter 2091: The Children Surrounded

These psychological activities almost passed in an instant, Bai Zepei had never felt so painful and helpless at that moment. He finally chose to stand still because he knew that if he saved his little sister but caused trouble for his parents, neither he nor his sister could forgive themselves.

Fortunately, a miracle happened the next second. Bai Zepei almost burst into tears, wonderful! His little sister was fine, wonderful!

Then he saw the circle of mechanical puppets around Bai Ruozhu begin to slow down, one by one unable to move, and then they fell to the ground, with many parts falling off.

Fen Jizhi was also stunned to see this scene and looked at Bai Ruozhu, asking, “How did you do it?”

Bai Ruozhu grinned, “I can poison people, and I can also poison mechanical puppets, however many come, however many will be wasted.”

Fen Jizhi showed a look of envy. Before, he looked down on using poison; no one in Jiuli regarded such so-called insidious tricks highly, but now he truly envied it. Without Bai Ruozhu’s poison skills, they could not have survived the second round of attack from more than a dozen mechanical puppets; perhaps by now, they would have already been lying on the ground.

Indeed, it depends on who uses it. Take Bai Ruozhu, who is skilled in poison, as an example: she wouldn’t use it to indiscriminately kill innocent people, but rather put it to good use to secure righteousness and self-protection, making poison skills an excellent thing.

The second elder’s face changed drastically. Before he could send someone to attack the two again, several elders beside him attacked him together.

Because the ninth elder had fallen off the stage, the great elder finally broke free from others’ restraint. He fell to the ground, gasping for breath with a sense of despair in his eyes. Suddenly, he saw Bai Zepei guarding his family and Bai Ruozhu attacking the Seven-Star Returning Yuan Array’s lead star with Fen Jizhi, and hope rekindled in his eyes.

He had done many wrong things in his life; his most sinful was killing Wei Yu, but the best thing he did was to agree to let the Bai Family into the valley, otherwise, they would all be the second elder’s prisoners by now.

Bai Ruozhu and Fen Jizhi dared not pause, desperately attacking. Finally, the defensive array was broken, and they saw they were about to seize the lead star!

With a sharp whistling sound, an arrow shot over. Bai Ruozhu hurriedly dodged, and then two more arrows followed, forcing Fen Jizhi to take a half step back.

She turned to look and saw that Jiuli had such an expert archer, unfortunately siding with the second elder.

That person looked around forty and stood on the beam, drawing the bow at a rapid pace, shooting arrows that flew out swiftly but wouldn’t harm the lead star behind Bai Ruozhu.

For a moment, Bai Ruozhu was forced not to dare to move rashly. Finally, she gritted her teeth and simply used magic techniques to protect herself, raising a dagger to stab toward the lead star.

With a clang, an arrow shot toward her, the force was too great; it seemed as though it would break her magic protection.

It seemed like Fen Jizhi flew over, using all his inner strength to knock the arrow away.

Bai Ruozhu no longer hesitated, the dagger viciously stabbed toward the lead star’s neck.

The lead star’s face suddenly showed a weird smile, Bai Ruozhu’s heart skipped a beat, and the next second, she was bounced away.

“Did you think the people of Wei Hall are just here for free meals? Let alone me, the head of Wei Hall?” The lead star sneered and said, “For such a long time, if we couldn’t set up another array, we wouldn’t need to mix in Wei Hall anymore.”

Bai Ruozhu’s wrist was painfully shaken, and her body stumbled. The next second, an arrow shot over; she hurriedly dodged, yet still let the arrow graze her arm.

Soon, more people raised their arrows and shot at them; anyway, the lead star and the others had set up the array again, so the arrows would not hurt them.

“Retreat first!” Bai Ruozhu gritted her teeth. She didn’t expect the people from Wei Hall to be so difficult to deal with. Having missed the great opportunity, if she stayed any longer, she and Fen Jizhi would be shot into hedgehogs.

The two of them quickly dodged, and Bai Ruozhu heard her second brother shout, “Ruozhu, come here!”

She glanced at her second brother and finally turned around to escape toward the Peach Blossom Forest.

“Protect father and mother!” she shouted, then quickly left.

She brought so many pursuers; how dare she lead them all to her second brother’s side? If her second brother couldn’t hold on, wouldn’t that endanger the family?

…

In Jiao Yunyun’s Diaojiao Building, Jianqi and Nanny Zhang looked particularly serious, and inside the house, Bengbeng and Tiaotiao seemed to have sensed danger and were crying loudly.

“Something must have happened in Jiuli, otherwise, the second elder wouldn’t dare to send people to surround this place now.” Nanny Zhang said, “Later, I’ll protect young master Tiaotiao, and you take Dengdeng and Bengbeng; let’s head to the Parliament Hall to find the Madam and the others.”

“No.” Jianqi said in a deep voice, “I’m afraid something has already happened in the Parliament Hall. Taking the young masters over would be too dangerous. Later, follow my command, let’s rush out, pass through the Peach Forest, and first hide in the mountains.”

He squinted his eyes. He had to protect the three children; he definitely couldn’t fight the other side freely, but once he hid in the mountains, he dared to say he could keep the young masters safe.

Nanny Zhang worriedly glanced at the two little dumplings, “But what if they keep crying?”

“Nanny, I’ll coax the brothers. They listen well, and I will protect them.” Little Dengdeng said seriously, with a little adult expression on his face, looking particularly adorable. If it were usual times, Nanny Zhang wouldn’t resist laughing.

But now, no one could laugh.

“We are going to hide in the Peach Blossom Forest. My mother said there’s a guardian deity of Jiuli in the Peach Blossom Forest; he will surely protect us.” Little Dengdeng continued, “Maybe mom will arrive soon too.”

“I’ll send a signal to the master, letting her know we’ve escaped.” Jianqi said, then prepared to pack, wrapping Little Bengbeng on his chest.

Little Dengdeng, not knowing how he communicated with his two brothers, but the cries of the two little guys were indeed much quieter.

Nanny Zhang also wrapped Tiaotiao on her chest and nodded to Jianqi.

Jianqi quickly grabbed a piece of clothing, stuffed a quilt inside, tied it up, and then threw it out the window.

Then he picked up Dengdeng and swiftly crossed the corridor, heading straight for the window closest to the Peach Forest, with Nanny Zhang following in a hurry.

Sure enough, that decoy attracted most of the attention. When they jumped out the window, there weren’t many guards below; Jianqi’s swift sword skills quickly killed three people, and Nanny Zhang also decapitated one; the two rushed into the Peach Forest with the children.

With the pressure around reduced a bit, Jianqi looked at the Dengdeng he was carrying and felt uncomfortable; such a small child had to face slaughter and bloodshed, not knowing if he was scared.

He found that Little Dengdeng was not scared dumb, didn’t even cry a sound, and even took something out of a small bag on his waist and scattered it backward.

He was shocked but soon felt comforted again; worthy of being the master’s child, to have such heart nature at such a young age.

Little Dengdeng looked up, trying hard to hide the fear in his eyes, pulling out a grim smile, “This is sleeping powder my mother gave me, and I know how to use it, oh.”