It doesn't matter what the lord is.

At the critical moment, fortunately, Alaiya was sleeping near Fang Shisan that day and noticed it first. When the assassin raised his knife to assassinate, Fang Shisan had already drawn his sword, and [Wandering Dragon] drew a sword light in the night, which hit the assassin's knife. As a professional assassin, the first thing he should do when he is discovered is to prepare to retreat and find another opportunity, but this assassin not only did not leave, but fought with Alaiya.

But according to Alaiya's description, the assassin had no intention of killing Alaiya. It seemed that her target was only Fang Shisan from the beginning. When fighting with Alaiya, she used the back of her knife to fight. In just three rounds, she pulled the sword out of Alaiya's hand, and then left without saying a word. The army outside could not do anything to this assassin.

Alaiya touched her wrist and said:

"If she had used the blade instead of the back of the knife..."

Defeated Alayya in three rounds, and used the back of a knife to knock the sword out of Alayya's hand... and so on.

Stop it! This is not an assassination at all!!

Aren't normal assassinations all about not engaging in direct confrontation, and aiming for a one-shot kill? How could someone not even run away after being discovered? With such strength, why would he be an assassin? It's more simple and brutal to rush in and kill all the way to the enemy general's head, isn't it?

I don't know what he was thinking. At least if he had used a blade, Alaiya would have become the second one-armed hero Yang. Although I wouldn't dislike Alaiya for this, if Alaiya found out that she couldn't protect me, she would probably dislike herself.

After hearing the whole story, He Yue also frowned, looking at a loss:

"I've never heard of such a tough guy in Li Neng. Entering the military camp alone, even Miss Alaiya couldn't do it."

When Fang Shisan attacked Yuxi City, Alayya tried to assassinate Fang Shisan several times, but none of them succeeded.

Alayya lowered her head, looking a little embarrassed.

He Yue quickly said:

"No, I'm not blaming Miss Alaiya. What I mean is, it's impossible for such a person to appear out of nowhere and become our enemy, right? When I was still in Yunhai, I also analyzed Li Neng with Bai Feng. He is better than Li Yi in commanding the army, but he is still arrogant and spoiled. He treats his subordinates very badly, and there are no people with special abilities willing to work for him... Could he be a mercenary? But where can he find mercenaries in such a short time?"

He Yue rubbed his head and suddenly asked Alayya:

"Compared to this, when Fang Shisan asked you to come back, did she tell him what she was going to do? Once you leave, there will be no one left to protect her. Hopefully one day there will be an obituary for that guy. I don't want to attend his funeral."

Although he was ruthless in his words, it could be seen from He Yue's words that he still cared about Fang Shisan.

Alayya shook her head and said:

"Filita and I can't help much if we stay there. Fang Shisan said she has a way, so let's go back to the city first and protect the young master."

13. Protect our city lord

I was daydreaming when I suddenly heard Alayya call "Master". I quickly came to my senses and asked:

"What? What happened? What happened?"

He Yue looked at me speechlessly for a while and said:

"Indeed. This idiot can't be left alone to protect him."

Alayya and Fileta nodded quietly.

Don't you believe me?!

Fileta said:

"Fang Shisan said we don't need to worry about her. The assassin apparently lived in Rivet City the whole time, but she only showed up when we were about to break into the city. She didn't kill anyone the whole time, and she only knocked out the sentry. We guess she probably just wanted to give us a warning. As long as Fang Shisan doesn't continue to attack the city, the assassin shouldn't embarrass her anymore."

There is another reason, which I guess they are not easy to say. Alaiya, who has the strongest individual combat ability, lost her weapon in the third round, which means that the two of them staying on the front line are no longer of much use.

He Yue crossed her fingers and asked me:

"Li De, do you have any impression of this assassin? If he is not Li Neng's own man, I can only think that he is a helper sent by Lord Yunyang."

I shook my head and replied:

"It is impossible for Yunyang Guard to have such a person. I don't know all the guest officials my father has. He didn't introduce many of them to me, and intended to leave them directly to my eldest brother Liyi. So I'm not sure if they are reinforcements sent by him, but from what Fileta said just now, I think it is unlikely. My father is a face-conscious person, and he would not let his son be bullied so badly by someone who was expelled from the family. If they were his people, I'm afraid he would have taken action long ago."

He Yue narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself:

"Who could it be... Are there any other enemies around us? Bai Feng... I don't think so. As for Fang Yuan, he is now on the same front as us. The most important thing is that looking at the whole thing, the assassin and the forces behind the assassin seem to have nothing to do with us. Take the assassin himself for example, he did not cause any casualties to our people, obviously to avoid becoming a mortal enemy with us. But the question is why are they still trying to hinder us?"

I saw that He Yue looked a little uneasy.

His brows were furrowed deeper than usual, which made me feel that he was worried about something.

If he had failed to capture these cities, he wouldn't have looked so angry.

He is more or less impatient now.

But then again, I guess that the one who can kill Alayya in three moves must be at least at the seventh level of perfection. Alayya is already at the fifth level of perfection, and is only a step away from the sixth level. At present, Heji, who is the most powerful in Yuxi City, is only at the sixth level of perfection. Now Heji can't even defeat Alayya in three moves. At least he must be at a higher level. But the problem is that I know in my heart that the seventh level of perfection is close to the eighth level of strength. If he really wants to fight, he can kill the entire Yuxi City army that night without any problem.

This realm reaches about the eighth level. Even if one is an absolute master in the human territory, there may not be many people in a territory.

I laughed and said:

"Well, don't worry too much. No one could have expected this kind of sudden situation, and it's not something that we plus Fang Shisan can solve. Compared to the commoners, we are already nobles; but compared to those wealthy lords and city lords, we are still a group of paupers. They have plenty of resources and can mobilize a person with a strength of about the eighth level just to defend such an unimportant city. It's clear that they don't want us to reach out to the east for the time being. If it doesn't work this year, let Fang Shisan withdraw his troops temporarily, and it won't hurt to come back next year."

He Yue didn't say anything. She seemed to be thinking about something, staring blankly with her eyes open.

I stretched out my hand and waved it in front of her eyes, and He Yue came back to her senses and said:

"Ah, nothing."

Alayya decided to take the blame and said:

"Master, if I could be stronger..."

I held my cheek, patted her shoulder, and said:

"If you can't beat him, you can't beat him. It has nothing to do with you. Even if you become stronger, there will be new invincible rebels who will come to you and slap you in the face. We must learn to be content. You see, Heji was a young talent in his youth. He was born in a wealthy family. He must have eaten a lot of family resources when he was young. Not to mention that he is alone now, he has only reached the realm of the sixth level of perfection. You are only sixteen this year. Before you are twenty, I guarantee that you will surpass him. Don't worry, and don't feel guilty. You are my bodyguard, and no one dares to say anything bad about you."

Fileta looked at Alayya with envy, and then looked at me expectantly. I said to her helplessly:

"The same goes for you. You are all geniuses, and you are all from Yuxi City. Believe in yourselves and become stronger slowly."

After comforting them for a while, He Yue came to his senses and asked Alayya:

"That assassin fought with you before. Did you see anything?"

Alayya thought for a moment and replied:

"She's not too tall, a little shorter than me. I can't see her face clearly, because she has her face covered. Judging from her features, she's a girl, probably quite young. And..."

Alaiya hesitated for a moment and said:

"Like a dead man."

I spit out the tea, plugged my ears, and complained loudly:

"Hey, hey, hey, stop it! Summer is over! It's not the season for telling ghost stories anymore!"

Fileta said:

"That's true. I saw it, too. That person had no human aura at all. His eyes were completely dark. It was terrifying."

When both of them said that, I had to cheer up.

Is there any magic to resurrect? Or a way to pull the dead out of the dead and continue working?

At least I haven't heard of it.

Alayya continued:

"Master, what I said may not be very good. It's not that she is dead, but that kind of... It's like a person without emotions. And she can hide her breath very well, it's really like someone living in the dark. If she didn't reveal a flash of murderous intent when she moved the knife, I would not be able to detect her existence at all."

I thought for a while and said:

"That's even less likely to be my father's man. Among the thirty-six lords of Yongtian, my father is definitely one of the best in terms of training this kind of killer...rubbish, otherwise other lords wouldn't have planted so many overt and covert chess pieces in their own homes."

At this time, He Yue said:

"As for the Anbu organization, I do know a little bit. I heard Bai Feng mention it by chance before, so I wrote it down. I wonder if it can be useful."

14. Not that simple

He Yue did not hide anything and told us frankly everything he knew.

To put it simply, almost all the big figures in this world have some things that they cannot do openly, such as assassination, counter-espionage, gathering intelligence, eliminating dissidents, etc.

Even if you don't need to do these things, you still have to be on guard against others doing these things to you, right? No one would complain that they have more cards in their hands, so every big shot would train some people who are absolutely loyal to them to take charge of these things. These people are called [Anbu], which means that they are full of mystery in both work and life, either hiding in the dark or hiding in the city, in short, they will never reveal their identity as [Anbu].

The territory with the most complete Anbu organization is none other than the Sea of ​​Clouds, which is right next to our Yuxi City.

The Lord of Yunhai was born as a merchant, and Yunhai was also the most prosperous territory for commerce. Merchants were one of the groups with the most intelligence exchanges. Traveling merchants had to pay attention to the local conditions and price changes in each region when traveling around. In order to expand their business, they also had to find local backers, and naturally they would come into contact with local bigwigs.

The Lord of Yunhai controls the business of Yunhai. A lot of information is gathered to Yunhai by merchants from all walks of life. Then, it is operated by the secret department of Yunhai Guards, and finally the information is presented to the Lord of Yunhai in different categories. It can be said that the [Chamber of Commerce] of the entire Yunhai is the secret organization of the Lord of Yunhai.

The second son of Lord Yunhai, Bai Feng, also controls the famous dark organization [Nirvana], and his influence spreads all over the world.

I still remember when I went to Yunhai, I knew nothing about Bai Feng, but he knew me very well. Bai Feng knew all the policies I issued after I came to Yuxi City and how I secretly developed the demon breeding industry. This only means that he had spies in Yuxi City at that time, and there were more than one or two.

However, although the Anbu of Yunhai Territory is powerful, it mainly focuses on collecting intelligence and secret protection, and it seems that assassinations are rarely carried out. If you think about it carefully, since Bai Feng presents himself as a gentleman, it is impossible for him to do something like assassination.

But just because Yunhai doesn’t do it doesn’t mean that every household won’t do it.

Lord Huaiwang's [Nocturne], Lord Zixuan's [Luochen], and Lord Lingwu's [Hidden Guard] are the three major dark organizations famous for assassinations.

After listening to the sound of He Yue for a long time, I felt itchy in my heart.

As a person who has been through this, I know the importance of intelligence warfare. Did Fang Shisan lose because she was not strong enough? Of course not. The formation formed by the ten cities was quite perfect, and the attack from the north and south did not achieve much effect. She lost because I, a despicable traitor, did all kinds of bad things, not only betrayed the formation intelligence, carried out the counter-espionage plan, but also broke into the city lord's mansion alone in the end and held Fang Lita hostage.

Speaking of which, I have been a member of an Anbu organization, but my power alone is still too small. The key is to mobilize the masses, unity is strength. If we can break the enemy apart before sending troops, or simply kill the enemy's main general with a club, then everything will become a piece of cake, right?

If that day comes, maybe I will know what color underwear the king wears even though I don't care what color underwear he wears. But if that day comes, maybe the letter I sent can bypass the prisoner's guards and reach the hands of the little princess Lanna.

After a good dream, I asked:

"Do we have such an organization in Yuxi City?"

He Yue looked at me as if I were a fool, stretched out her white and tender hand to me, and said:

"I want to do it too. Where are the people? Where is the money? We don't have the talent pool in this area, nor do we have the money to build such an organization. Since I left the Baifeng camp, Yuxi City's intelligence sources have basically all been bought from intelligence dealers at a high price. It's a waste of money, and it hurts me to see it."

I scratched my head and said righteously:

"He Yue, nothing is difficult in this world if you set your mind to it."

He Yue said seriously:

"I actually save a copper coin into the piggy bank next to my bed every day. Maybe one day I can save up enough to form our own [Anbu]."

No, no, no, with this speed of saving money, unless I start cultivating immortality now and practice for thousands of years, I am afraid I will not see that day.

Although I wanted to complain like this, I knew that He Yue was already in a state of panic, and Yu Xicheng really didn't have the spare money to do these things, so I smiled and said:

"It's okay. With Bai Huang's constant patrols, the safety of Yuxi City should still be guaranteed."

Alayya said:

"I will stay by the young master's side and protect him."

Felita held the staff, cheered up and said:

"me too."

I think I am not too weak in a one-on-one fight in this world, but I can't tell them this. So I just smiled and said:

"Don't be so nervous. The assassin obviously doesn't want Fang Shisan to take over Lineng's territory, which means she doesn't want us to continue to develop eastward. In this case, at worst we can withdraw the army and attack again in the spring of next year. Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean we can't do it in the future. The assassin is not a god, and I don't believe she can stay in Rivet City all the time and hinder our eastward advance."

He Yue bit her lip and didn't respond.

Alayya and Felita felt much more relieved.

So today's meeting was dismissed as usual, Alaya went to cook, and Fileta went back to her room to study the obscure magic book. I wanted to go back to sleep, after all, there was no sun outside today, the air was damp and cold, and the quilt was much more comfortable than outside.

Unexpectedly, just as I reached the door, He Yue reached out to stop me and said:

"Lid, I have something to tell you."

Seeing that he looked very serious, I also stopped and asked:

"what?"

He Yue thought for a moment and said:

"Go back and change into some casual clothes, and put on some simple makeup so that you don't stand out so much. I'll also get ready and take you out to see something."

I felt strange, but I didn't refuse. I went back and picked out a set of coarse cloth clothes to put on, then drew a mustache on myself, and drew a few strokes on my face with a piece of charcoal. I looked like someone's clumsy apprentice. After getting ready, I saw He Yue at the gate of the city lord's mansion. She changed into men's clothes for the first time in a long time. Her hair was tied up, revealing her snow-white neck. She was dressed in white and holding an umbrella in her hand.

Well, as a little apprentice, I immediately became his little follower when I walked with him.

I walked up, held out my hand, and said:

"Come, Brother Heyue, I'll help you hold the umbrella."

He Yue handed me the umbrella in his hand, and walked with me on the bluestone road. He whispered to me: