mynovelonline Chapter 419 The Inn Became a Battleground
Chapter 419 The Inn Became a Battleground
Gu Qingyue raised an eyebrow. Who was so concerned about her?
She drew her twin swords and stood quietly in the guest room, watching the man in black at the door get closer and closer, without moving an inch.
She watched as the man in black inserted his long knife into the crack in the door and gently loosened the bolt.
The door was gently pushed open, and a foot slipped inside.
'Pfft------'
Gu Qingyue's short sword ruthlessly pierced the chest of the man in black who was about to enter the room.
Fast as lightning.
Gu Qingyue's hands flew, then quickly retracted, blood splattering as she finished off two more with a diagonal thrust and a horizontal slash!
The battle is about to break out!
The sounds of fighting suddenly erupted in the room, like a thunderclap from a clear sky in the quiet night, carrying far in an instant.
Hearing the commotion, Gu Yuanen from the next room flung open the door and rushed out, piercing the neck of a man in black outside with his sword.
The men in black who had come from outside the door were startled and quickly scattered. In a moment, the sounds of fighting spread across the third floor of the inn.
'Bang------Bang------Bang' The sounds of swords clashing and tables and chairs falling over echoed continuously.
Strangely, none of the guests in the rooms on the third floor made a sound, let alone those in the rooms downstairs.
Either they had been drugged, or they were hiding and too afraid to come out. The entire inn was deathly silent except for the sounds of fighting.
Moments later, the two were surrounded by men in black.
Seeing the men in black around her looking murderous, Gu Qingyue raised her finger to her lips and let out a long howl. Before a cup of tea could be brewed, the roof of the inn was smashed open with a few loud crashes, leaving countless holes.
Dark figures kept jumping into the inn through the hole.
Amidst the rising and falling shouts of battle, the Yuanlai Inn had become a battlefield of carnage.
The people who came were naturally the young men from Moon Shadow Pavilion.
Gu Qingyue and Gu Yuanen joined hands, like Yama, the King of Hell, as swords and blades flew, reaping the lives of the men in black surrounding them.
The swordsmanship was fierce and ruthless, which made the black-clad men, who were already relying on their numbers, feel terrified and gradually lose momentum.
Meanwhile, the young men from Moon Shadow Pavilion, in groups of six, fought so fiercely that the men in black were thrown into disarray and forced to retreat in defeat.
"Withdraw------" A deep male voice rang out from afar. Immediately, the man in black turned and ran, quickly retreating from the inn and disappearing without a trace in a moment!
Gu Qingyue put away her twin swords, squatted down, and pulled down the mask of a man in black, revealing a very ordinary face.
whose people?
How could someone commit murder in the dead of night to take their own life?
Unbeknownst to her, not far from the inn, a pair of inquisitive eyes were intently watching the commotion on the third floor of the Yuanlai Inn.
It was the eyes of the gray-clad man who had followed them since the capital.
At that moment, commotion began downstairs as countless doors opened, and people secretly peered into the third floor.
"Oh dear!" Suddenly, a shocked voice came from the top of the stairs; it was the innkeeper.
He stood far away at the top of the stairs, too afraid to come up, and all he saw was a mass of dark corpses and a scene of utter devastation.
Gu Qingyue glanced at Gu Yuanen as she watched the shopkeeper's mouth gape in disbelief.
Gu Yuanen nodded to Gu Qingyue and walked towards the shopkeeper.
After watching Gu Yuanen comfort the shopkeeper and go downstairs, Gu Qingyue then had the young men of Yueying Pavilion clean up the mess.
She entered the room, which was so badly damaged that it was uninhabitable. The tables, chairs, the collapsed outer room, and even the partition screens were all useless.
She quickly moved Zhu Qing out of the space and placed her on her bed, then sat down beside the bed.
"master!"
"master!"
After a cup of tea, Cui Shuming and Jiang Wan walked in with their heads down and eyes lowered, their faces full of shame. As soon as they entered, they knelt down in front of Gu Qingyue.
Gu Qingyue ignored it.
"Master," Yue Ling's voice rang out from outside the door.
"Come in".
"Master, one guard is dead, three brothers have minor injuries, and the rest are unharmed. That group headed west, and Jiang Luo has gone to follow them."
"Alright, take good care of the injured brothers. You stay here and handle things here," Gu Qingyue waved to Yue Ling.
"Cui Shuming, get up. This is a one-time exception."
Seeing the ashamed expressions on their faces, Gu Qingyue didn't want to be too harsh on them.
Tonight's situation is special. Generally speaking, Cui Shuming or Jiang Wan are supposed to be on night duty, but she thought that Qianshan Town was prosperous and not far from the capital, so it was relatively safe and she let them go to rest.
This is a lesson learned; we must be more vigilant at night in the future to prevent this from happening again.
If she hadn't had Yue Ling and the others lie in ambush at another inn across the street beforehand, the situation would be very different now.
Of course, she can protect herself, but others who have been drugged may not be able to save their lives.
Fifteen minutes later, Jiang Luo returned.
"Master, they retreated to a small inn on the west side of town, met a woman, and then dispersed out of town."
"Oh? Who is it?" Gu Qingyue asked curiously.
She felt that apart from a few women she didn't get along with in the capital, she hadn't offended anyone in Qianshan Town.
"She was masked and dressed in black. Judging from her voice, she was about thirty years old. Those men in black were probably from an assassin organization, doing things for money. The woman told them not to take any more action and that the deal was canceled."
Gu Qingyue stroked her chin, pondering the woman's identity.
"Didn't they say anything else?"
Jiang Luo shook his head. After saying that, the woman dismissed the men in black and returned to the inn.
"Where is he now?" Gu Qingyue asked.
"They're still at the small inn on the west side. I've had people keeping an eye on them," Jiang Luo said before returning. He had arranged for others to continue watching, as he needed to come back and report to his master first.
“Very good, take me to see it.” After saying that, Gu Qingyue got up and led Jiang Luo downstairs.
In the distance, the gray-clad man only saw a silver-masked youth and a guard walk away. He didn't hear what they said, but he could vaguely see a woman lying on the bed, wearing a scarlet dress, who appeared to be unconscious.
That must be Miss Gu San.
Seeing someone come and close the door, he glanced at it again from afar before leaving.
Inside the small inn in the west of the town.
The woman dismissed the assassins and entered the upper room of the small inn with light steps.
Don't let the small size of this inn fool you; it's understated yet luxurious, in no way inferior to larger inns.
She pushed open the door and walked straight toward the young woman at the table.
The young woman was sitting leisurely, and a maid was applying nail polish to her. She looked at her hand for a moment, clearly in a good mood.
"Miss, the assassins—they failed their mission. The guards around Miss Gu are very skilled. More than a dozen of them died, but they still couldn't kidnap anyone."
The masked woman lowered her voice.
"A bunch of useless trash. So many of you couldn't even tie up a defenseless little girl. Let's just send them away."
Although the young woman said this, she wasn't angry at all. She clearly knew that the guards of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion were not simple, and it would not be easy for them to kidnap Miss Gu.
"Yes, I've already sent them away. Should we find someone else to do it?" the veiled woman asked cautiously.