Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 313 Alert
The sky was still overcast; in the woods, dark clouds drifted by, and the light of day flickered.

However, in Liu's eyes, the entire forest seemed somewhat gloomy.

The dim lighting mirrored Liu's mood, creating a somewhat oppressive atmosphere.

The leader, having noticed Liu's precarious state, dared not utter a word and continued to wait silently for a reply, without daring to urge him any further.

Just as Guard Liu was about to jump off the carriage and ask Jiang Xian for his opinion, Guard Li, who was riding next to Jiang Xian on horseback, spoke slowly to his leader.

It turned out that Jiang Xian had been prepared for this. While the leader was asking Guard Liu, Jiang Xian began to weigh the pros and cons of several ways of traveling.

Therefore, while Guard Liu hesitated, Jiang Xian had already made her decision and told Guard Li, asking him to convey her meaning.

"Is it possible to walk there?" Guard Li asked the leader.

Upon hearing this, the leader immediately understood what the speaker meant. Without thinking, he hurriedly said, "It's not that far, but it's definitely not close either, so..." He hesitated as he spoke.

However, he then looked up at the sky and said, "Judging from the sky, walking there probably won't work."

Having said that, although he firmly stated his thoughts, he also appeared quite embarrassed.

The leader naturally knew that the person speaking wanted him to follow his horse, but this was definitely not the situation he had anticipated.

Therefore, no matter what, he was going to go with him, which is why he spoke so firmly.

The core of the group was to stay with the people who were traveling with him, and he had already made that plan.

Since he had decided not to risk harming the other party on the road, he naturally had nothing to be afraid of.

As long as he can ensure that he doesn't frame the other party, he feels that there's no need to consider whether the other party will frame him, and he's unwilling to put any more thought into it.

For him, if the person opposite him wanted to take his life, it would be an easy thing, and there was no need to waste time and go in circles with him here.

Therefore, if the other party wants to do something to him, it is completely unavoidable. It is better to be more honest and reduce the other party's vigilance so that the other party can let down their guard.

Hearing what his leader said, Guard Li nodded in satisfaction, his eyes seeming to hold an indescribable meaning, as if he were expecting something.

He said to his leader, "Since the journey is not short and it is inconvenient to walk, we will go by horse. The road may be a bit bumpy, so you will have to bear with it."

The leader heard that the other party had agreed to let him ride a horse, and everything was proceeding as he had planned.

So the leader immediately replied with a beaming smile, "I'm sure I'm not afraid of the bumps! Although I don't have the same martial arts foundation as you all, my body isn't so weak that I can't even withstand a little bump. Although I don't have much skill, I am still a martial artist."

He spoke in a very straightforward tone, and his whole demeanor seemed open-minded and generous.

He was still basking in the joy of his scheme going smoothly when he didn't expect the person opposite him to dismount.

The guard walked straight toward him, and he was puzzled but could only wait quietly in place.

For some reason, his eyelids twitched erratically a few times, and suddenly, he felt a sense of panic.

His intuition was usually very accurate. He had just been communicating well with the other party, but he didn't know why he suddenly had this feeling, nor did he know what would happen next.

"Could it be a question? Surely they won't dismount and put me back on the horse?" The leader pondered to himself, watching the approaching footsteps.

Although Li had pinned his teammate's thigh firmly to the ground, he hadn't realized that the person approaching was so imposing.

Li, the bodyguard, walked step by step toward the location of the leader, making the leader feel very pressured.

The usually calculating and composed leader, now found his heart pounding.

Li, the bodyguard who walked to the leader's side, didn't say much. He just gave the leader a somewhat ambiguous look and then gestured for him to "please".

Li, the bodyguard, said to his leader, "Then please!"

After saying that, Guard Li gestured for the leader to follow him, and the leader could only nod in agreement.

Even now, he still doesn't understand why Guard Li made this trip.

Li, the guard, could have simply summoned him to their side, but he didn't expect to have to go through all this trouble.

But since it wasn't anything else, the usually vigilant leader relaxed a little and followed Guard Li's footsteps to Guard Li's horse.

Right now, it's not just the core member of the team who's confused by Li's actions.

There were others on the field who were puzzled by Li's actions.

First was Guard Liu. Guard Liu sat alone in the carriage, and compared to Guard Li, the distance between Guard Liu and Jiang Xian was slightly greater.

Since the carriage was not very close to the two horses, if he wanted to say a few words to Jiang Xian or Guard Li, he would have to get off the carriage and walk to their side.

But Li Huwei obviously did not dismount for that reason.

Li, the bodyguard, was very close to Jiang Xian. Moreover, after dismounting, he didn't head towards Jiang Xian or his bodyguard Liu, but instead headed towards the group of thugs opposite him, which puzzled Jiang Xian.

Guard Liu had no idea what decisions Guard Li and Jiang Xian had made while he was pondering the matter. Not only were the decisions made so quickly, but he was also somewhat baffled by Guard Li's actions.

He really couldn't understand why Guard Li would dismount and walk to the leader's side like this. He didn't know what the significance of this trip was.

He continued to observe the next actions of Li Huwei and Zhuxin.

He wasn't worried at all about any mistakes, because he knew that Guard Li had acted on the instructions of his young mistress, Jiang Xian.

Therefore, he only needed to continue observing and wait quietly in the same spot. When he saw Guard Li approaching, the most panicked person on the field was the thug who had been pinned to the ground by Guard Li with a short knife earlier, who was also his teammate Zhu Zi, who was sitting on the ground not far from the backbone.

As Zhu Zi watched Li Huwei approach in his direction, he trembled with fear.

He could only keep telling himself "don't be afraid," and he firmly believed that he would not end his life so easily at this moment.

Zhu Zi forced himself to calm down quickly, trying his best not to let the approaching Li guard and the other two on the other side notice anything unusual, and not to let others sense the cowardice he was showing at this moment.

Everyone has moments of cowardice. It's just that some people show it, while others suppress the thought of cowardice as soon as it arises, preventing it from showing in front of others.

Meanwhile, sitting on the ground in the distance, the teammate who had lost an arm, the pillar of strength, couldn't help but feel worried for his leader.

Previously, even if it was a teammate, he would never have cared about their life or death after the core member was involved in a rumor scandal. However, his attitude towards the core member has now changed drastically.

Now, his opinion of his mentor has changed. Just considering the fact that his mentor saved him, he was surprised the moment he saw his mentor's face.

But afterwards, he let go of all his doubts about his mentor and felt only gratitude. He knew he should repay his mentor.

Moreover, this incident made him feel somewhat guilty about all the bastard things he had done in the past.

Therefore, if he has the ability to help the leader, he will naturally want to repay the leader; this goes without saying.

He watched everything unfold quietly from a distance.

Similarly, he didn't understand why Guard Li would walk towards the location of the leader.

He couldn't hear their conversation clearly; he could only vaguely make out some general meanings, which he deduced from certain words and the expressions of both sides.

If they hadn't both deliberately raised their voices, he would never have been able to hear what they were saying from his current position.

He frowned deeply, and from the moment Li Huwei dismounted until Li Huwei walked up to the leader, he felt a deep tension for the leader.

He only felt relieved when he saw that his key figure was safe and sound and was even invited over by Guard Li.

He was unclear about the situation on the field; he could only follow the orders of his leader.

So he simply remained seated on the ground and waited. In truth, even the team's leader himself was somewhat unsure of the current situation.

He had seen good, evil, and complex people, but he had never seen anyone as incomprehensible as the group of people opposite him.

The three people opposite him seemed very strange to him.

He was able to discern multiple distinct personalities within a single person, which was quite a departure from his previous understanding.

Whether a person is good or bad, as long as they act normally, he is confident that he can lead them astray and make them fall into his trap step by step. But even so, he still finds it difficult to control people who act strangely.

Because eccentric behavior implies uncertainty. People who act eccentrically may not even be aware of or predict what unexpected things they might do next.

Upon reaching the horse that Guard Li had been riding, the leader glanced at Jiang Xian, clasped his hands in a salute to Jiang Xian, and showed him respect.

The leader himself was thinking something that no one among the crowd could read minds, and no one could know what was on his mind.

But one thing is certain: his predictions about Jiang Xian and the other two were absolutely far off.

Jiang Xian and the other two were not unpredictable or elusive. On the contrary, Jiang Xian and Guard Liu were definitely the cautious type.

Jiang Xian, in particular, was so calm that even her brother Jiang Xuan found it somewhat unbelievable.

Others may not know Jiang Xian, but Jiang Xuan, her older brother, definitely knows his sister best.

Jiang Xuan knew that his younger sister might still find it interesting to tease him about trivial matters, but when it came to important matters, especially when the two of them were put in danger while hunting, Jiang Xian's composure was almost unbelievable.

Jiang Xuan knew that his younger sister was the calmer and more composed she was, especially when it came to important matters.

Therefore, Jiang Yuan felt at ease letting Jiang Xian go hunting with Jiang Xuan. Otherwise, if Jiang Xuan were to go hunting alone, Jiang Yuan would not only disregard the training, but his mother, Lou Xingman, would also absolutely disagree.

Coincidentally, Jiang Xian, like her brother Jiang Xuan, is also a martial artist. As a martial artist, Jiang Xian needs this kind of training, which is why Jiang Yuan made such an arrangement for the two siblings.

If Jiang Xian didn't possess the same talent in martial arts as Jiang Xuan, his family wouldn't allow him to go to dangerous places with Jiang Xuan as an ordinary person. In that case, Jiang Yuan would have a real headache.

Therefore, Jiang Xian and Guard Liu, in terms of both personality and actions, are absolutely not related to the conjecture of "unstable personality".

While Li Huwei wasn't particularly cautious or thorough in his actions, he certainly wasn't the type to be considered unconventional in character or behavior.

The reason why the core leader felt this way was mainly because Jiang Xian and the other two did it on purpose.

It is highly likely that Li and Liu were unaware of this "deliberate act".

This is because Jiang Xian made some actions that seemed reasonable but were still somewhat unexpected, which made the core leader feel so disconnected from the three of them, and that made Jiang Xian feel strange.

But this is precisely part of Jiang Xian's plan to conceal his identity. He wants to reshuffle the personalities of the three of them. These disrupted personalities will naturally lead them to do things that make the leader feel something is wrong.

Li and Liu did not do this intentionally. Jiang Xian naturally couldn't explain too much to them, so it was precisely because of their natural reactions that the leader felt that the three of them were truly like that, and naturally wouldn't suspect that it was an act.

Jiang Xian knew perfectly well that the core members of this group had committed evil deeds more than once or twice.

However, this group of people were not dealt with or punished until today when she and her group of three encountered them. A big reason for this was that the leader of the opposing side had been advising their team for a long time.

(End of this chapter)