Chapter 185: Footprints

In the black night, Han Tong, wearing a bamboo hat, shattered the layers of snow curtain. He ran madly, and around him, as if rolling with a great dragon, snowflakes were involuntarily swept into the airflow by him, turning into a tornado behind him.

Chen Ji followed behind him, his ears ringing with buzzing sounds. Blood flowing from his forehead soaked half his face, and the blood mixed with mud made his face blurred and ferocious. The explosion at Qing Bamboo Garden was too fierce, so fierce that his internal organs were still burning with pain at this moment.

Chen Ji was not a professional blaster and had no clear concept of the power of gunpowder. He only knew that he must leave behind Cloud Sheep and Bright Rabbit, leaving these two people no opportunity to stop Liang Dog Child's jailbreak. As for whether he himself would die in the explosion, whether Liang Dog Child would seek revenge on him afterward, or whether Han Tong would accidentally kill him, he did not care.

At this time, half of the secret agents were sent to rescue Gold Pig, Cloud Sheep, and Bright Rabbit, while the other half followed Chen Ji to chase and kill Han Tong. But the two people were too fast, and the secret agents could not catch up at all.

Chen Ji turned back and looked, seeing that the secret agents had already been shaken off and were nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, he said to Han Tong's back, "Stop, I still have something to entrust to you."

Han Tong stopped in the wind and snow and turned back, asking with anger, "White Carp, huh? Your people said, White Carp will be brought to White Clothes Alley tonight. Why is there no trace of her?"

Chen Ji breathed evenly, slowly walking to Han Tong's front. Only at this close distance could he hear the other's voice clearly over the ringing in his ears: "What did you just say?"

Han Tong angrily repeated: "White Carp, huh?"

Chen Ji answered: "The princess is still in the inner prison."

Han Tong turned and walked away, his voice cold as a knife edge, "Using me in the name of White Carp, I will hunt and kill all of you one by one later."

Chen Ji calmly said: "Sect Master Han, do you know where the inner prison is? To save the princess, you can only do as I say."

Han Tong stopped his footsteps: "A little boy with milk not dry wants to command me too?"

Chen Ji continued: "Sect Master Han, many people are risking their lives tonight for the sake of saving the imperial son and the princess. But if you think you can save people by directly killing your way into the inner prison, that's too naive. The inner prison is a cage, and what is this vast Luo City if not another cage?"

Chen Ji guaranteed: "Do as I say, and I guarantee you will still see the princess again." Han Tong turned back in the snow and looked around warily, his eyes sharp as a knife: "What do you need me to do?"

Chen Ji entrusted: "I want you to immediately go to the grain transport wharf and prepare a fast boat that can leave Luo City tonight. I don't care what method you use, this ship must be prepared. As long as she can be saved tonight, I will take her to settle down in Jing Dynasty and never return to Ning Dynasty."

Chen Ji wanted to leave Ning Dynasty, but when he left, he had to bring White Carp with him.

Han Tong pondered for a moment, then opened his mouth and asked, "I will certainly prepare the ship, but how will you send the person to the wharf?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "You only need to prepare the ship, you don't need to know the rest." Han Tong frowned: "How do I know you're not deceiving me?"

Chen Ji looked directly into Han Tong's eyes and said softly: "I will certainly save her."

Han Tong was startled, then said in a low voice: "As a Jianghu person, words must be believed, actions must bear fruit, and promises must be sincere. I hope you have not deceived me."

"Jianghu?" Chen Ji recalled the Thousand Years Army, and let out a light scoff. He lowered his head and looked at the messy snow on the ground: "Hit me with all your strength, cover these footprints in the snow, and then go to the wharf and do what you should do."

"Good!"

At this moment, footsteps could already be heard in the distant dark night. Chen Ji and Han Tong resumed their chase.

During the chase, Han Tong suddenly turned back. In that instant, he was seen punching out violently. As his fist swung, the tattooed Buddha on his wrist emitted golden light, and behind him, a huge golden Buddha dharma image phantom bloomed.

In the wind and snow.

The Buddha reached out and virtually pressed down, and Han Tong punched out. The actions merged into one. The fist had clearly not yet touched Chen Ji, but Chen Ji had already been flung away by a vast and immense force.

Chen Ji spat out a mouthful of fresh blood in the air and fell to the ground in a parabolic arc. His body slid several zhang across the snowy ground, stirring up the accumulated snow like waves, wiping away all the messy footprints where the two people had just stood. He listened to Han Tong's footsteps receding into the distance, knowing in his heart that this last and most important link had been completed. Whether the rest succeeded or not was all up to heaven.

Chen Ji lay flat in the deep snow, too tired to move.

In a daze, he saw the snowflakes in the sky falling on his face, and then the wretched faces of Cloud Sheep and Bright Rabbit appeared in his vision, lowering their heads and gazing at him coldly.

The two people had disheveled hair and were covered in injuries, completely lacking their handsome appearance as golden boy and jade girl. Chen Ji's heart was calm. Since he had not received the ice flow from the two people during the explosion, he already knew these two people were not dead. And at this moment, whether these two people were dead or not was not important.

Chen Ji said: "Two adults, the one who injured me is the Sect Master of Luo Heaven Sect, Han Tong. Quickly go chase him!"

Cloud Sheep said fiercely: "Were you plotting against us?"

Bright Rabbit squatted beside Chen Ji, tucking his scattered hair behind his ear, and said with a laugh: "I accompanied you to drink with good intentions, and you actually wanted to kill me?"

Chen Ji coughed out a mouthful of blood, wiped his mouth, and explained: "Two adults, the place was chosen by Adult Cloud Sheep. Why suspect me?"

Cloud Sheep laughed coldly, wiping the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth: "Whether it is you or not is not important." Saying that, he looked at Bright Rabbit: "Kill him directly."

However, just at this moment, Gold Pig arrived. He pushed the two people away with force and said coldly: "At that time, Chen Ji was also inside the cover building. If he wanted to kill you, why wouldn't he kill himself as well? I will report this matter to the inner minister adult, and let him judge!"

He said ferociously: "If you want to harm colleagues without distinguishing right from wrong, then come and try me first! If I don't die today, you will never have peaceful days afterward either."

Cloud Sheep and Bright Rabbit looked at each other, as if weighing the pros and cons.

What Gold Pig said was indeed reasonable: when the firearms exploded, Chen Ji was inside the cover building. If this was really done by Chen Ji, then Chen Ji would also have to die with them. They did not believe that someone could risk their own life for others; they were not such people, and they had never seen such people!

After thinking for a moment, Cloud Sheep squatted in front of Chen Ji and said: "I tentatively believe this matter is unrelated to you, but you..."

At this time, Chen Ji propped himself up on the snowy ground, pointing at Han Tong's footprints in the snow and said: "Several adults, now is the season of heavy snow, and traces cannot be hidden in the snow. As long as you follow the footprints to chase, catch Han Tong, and find Dream Chicken for interrogation, the truth will naturally be clear. Moreover, the inner minister wants to eliminate Luo Heaven Sect. Catching Han Tong can help the inner minister adult share his worries and is a great merit."

Cloud Sheep looked at the footprints.

Chen Ji urged: "You must be fast, otherwise new snow will cover the footprints." Bright Rabbit got up and walked, and Cloud Sheep followed closely behind.

Gold Pig lowered his voice and asked: "What about your injury?"

Chen Ji said: "Adult, you don't need to worry about me, catching people is important." Gold Pig lowered his voice and shouted angrily: "Is it worth it?"

Chen Ji lay back in the snow and said nothing. Someone had used six gold melon seeds to buy his life, and he did not plan to consider whether it was worth it or not.

Gold Pig saw that he was no longer speaking, bit his teeth, and finally still chased after Cloud Sheep and Bright Rabbit.

After the three people had walked far away, Chen Ji slowly stood up and looked into the distance. By the time the secret agents' office caught Han Tong, he and White Carp should already be on their way to Jing Dynasty.

Chen Ji took out a piece of gray cloth from his bosom to cover his face, turned around, and ran in another direction. The heavy snow filled the sky, gradually hiding the footprints in the black night.