Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 866 Pretending to be an ostrich

"...Alas!" Gu Xun raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, sighing helplessly.

Seeing the snow girl whose expression gradually returned to calm, but whose inner restlessness and pain were not soothed at all, Gu Xun muttered a few times, but still didn't know what to say.

He could only lament in his heart that sometimes some inadvertent choices would really lead to irreparable consequences in the future.

When he killed Jing Ke, he only felt that he should send him on his happy journey, and it was not a waste of time for the two of them to get to know each other. How could he have expected that it would have such a big impact on Xue Nu in the end.

After scratching his hair, Gu Xun, who had a headache, had to choose the least effective method, but it was always useful.

Ostrich tactics!

Just bury your head in the sand and pretend you don't know.

Let time slowly smooth everything out.

He turned around and walked out of the alley, raising his hand to signal the snow girl to follow:

"First... follow me. Let's talk on the way."

Although Xue Nu was angry, she had no intention of competing with Gu Xun, and she smoothly raised her legs and followed him.

The two were silent for a while, Xue Nu didn't want to speak, and Gu Xun opened his mouth several times but felt like he had nothing to say.

In the end, Gu Xun broke the silence, but the topic was abruptly changed by him.

"What are you going to do now? Take the child away?"

Xue Nu's expression was much more natural than Gu Xun's. It seemed as if the question just now did not come from her mouth at all. She answered with a normal expression:

"He is brother Jingke's son. Of course I want to take him back."

"Hmm..." Gu Xun looked at the snow girl with a calm face, as calm as a glacier in winter, and sighed inwardly, but on the surface he tried his best to remain calm and continued to ask:
  "Then you don't plan to take care of the empire's next actions?"

The snow girl did not hesitate and replied directly, "I will still try my best to investigate as long as the child's safety can be ensured."

"But if I can't take care of it... for me, it's more important to protect Brother Jingke's son."

Gu Xun smiled and nodded, "It's reasonable to do this, but I think you might as well check the empire's actions."

Snow Girl frowned and turned her head to look at Gu Xun, "You seem...to want me to sabotage the empire's actions?"

Gu Xun smacked his lips and pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said in denial, "Well... this is not my purpose."

"If it's just to cause damage, I don't need to borrow other people's hands."

"I just hope you can...well, walk around more. It's no use wandering around the Central Plains all the time."

"This matter involves an ancient country that has long been lost in the desert of the Western Regions. It should be considered a journey that is neither long nor short."

"An ancient country in the Western Regions?" Xue Nu muttered, then asked Gu Xundao directly, "What is the purpose of Qin's action this time?"

"Do you know the Demon God of War?" Gu Xun raised an eyebrow and asked.

As expected, the snow girl was clueless, "What is that?"

"Well... to put it simply, it is a giant war machine that once belonged to Chi You's command..."

Gu Xun gave Xue Nu a brief introduction to the legendary Demon God of War.

In this regard, the snow girl's first thought was naturally:

"This is just a legend, right? Could there really be something like this that could destroy the world?"

Gu Xun shrugged, curled his lips, and replied, "I don't know about that."

"But since Gongshuqiu knows something about this thing, you, the Mo family, must also know a little bit about it."    "Well... it's just that you may not be aware of it."

Snow Girl is a Mo Xia, not a Mo Gong. Unless you go out of your way to understand the art of mechanism, you won't know much about it.

After listening to Gu Xun's words, she nodded and affirmed, "Probably only Master Ben and Juzi will know about this kind of thing. I really don't know."

"However, since Ying Zheng is going to war over this, it shouldn't be entirely based on suspicion. It really cannot be completely ignored..."

"But that child..." Yukionna hesitated.

For her, the life safety of Jingke's son cannot be ignored, but it would not be appropriate to sit back and watch the empire succeed.

Gu Xun then said with a smile, "I don't think you need to worry too much about the child's safety."

"Why?" Snow Girl raised her head and asked.

Gu Xun raised his eyebrows, smiled and pointed in the distance, "Because... you see."

At this time, the two of them had approached the place where Gu Xun and Tianming were chatting.

Xue Nu followed the direction of Gu Xun's finger and saw the Tianming trio who had just been rounded up by the Qin army in the open space in the distance.

Looking at Tianming who was being tied up by the Qin army, Xue Nu's face turned cold and she was about to charge forward with her sword in hand, but Gu Xun grabbed her wrist and stopped her.

Xue Nu struggled for several times, but failed to break free, so she could only give up and look at Gu Xun coldly.

Gu Xun smiled at her, but did not let go of his palm, but said, "Didn't you see the person guarding the side? If you go over now, you can't save the person."

At this time, the person supervising the Qin army's arrests was none other than Gong Shuqiu, and beside him stood two masters, the eldest and the young, Siming.

The distance between them and Tianming is no more than ten steps, and even with the speed of the snow girl, it is not enough to snatch the person directly from the two of them.

"But if that child falls into the hands of Qin..." Seeing that Tianming was in a critical situation, Xue Nu became agitated again.

Tianming's life experience is special. If he falls into the hands of the Qin State, his life or death is difficult to predict.

Gu Xun directly passed a breath of Qi along her wrist to help her calm down, and at the same time comforted her with words, "Don't worry, he will be fine."

"So far, no one in the empire knows his life experience, or... those who know it will not tell them."

"As far as Gong Shuqiu is concerned, he is just a border boy who accidentally got involved in the matter of the Soldier Demon God."

"What Gong Shuqiu wants is to get as much information as possible, not to kill people. Besides, I won't let anything happen to him."

After receiving Gu Xun's explanation and the physical meditation of Bingpo Zhenqi, Xue Nu's mood immediately calmed down, but her worries were not eliminated.

"Then we can't let him fall into the hands of the Qin army forever. I must follow up and wait for an opportunity to rescue him."

"Don't worry, you can just go to Loulan with the Qin army." Gu Xunyun suggested lightly.

"You mean... to let these children get involved in the War Demon God's affairs?" Xue Nu asked suspiciously, and immediately rejected it, "No, this is too dangerous, we can't let them get involved."

Gu Xun reminded her with a smile, "In fact, they got involved much earlier than you."

"Besides, it's hard for you to find a chance to rescue them midway."

Xue Nu looked at Gu Xun and said coldly, "But you can."

Gu Xun shrugged and replied awkwardly, "You know, my status is quite special, so it's not very convenient..."

The snow girl was not interested in listening to his nonsense and interrupted directly, "This time, whose position are you on?"

(End of this chapter)