Chapter 72: Waiting in Comfort for the Enemy's Fatigue?

  In the pitch-black cave, Wu Renjie was alone, hugging his knees and shrinking into a corner of the wooden bed, with his face tightly buried in his legs. His whole body kept trembling, and low sobbing sounds came from time to time. Only one candle burned around him, providing light for this small cave.

  At this time, Wu Renjie had been gone for two hours to find his mother. After returning from the well, he didn't do anything, just curled up there and cried silently, with a painful and helpless expression, as if he felt that his whole sky had collapsed, but Wu Renjie couldn't do anything else.

  There was no way to avenge, because his martial arts were lowly, at that time even if he made a slight sound would be killed by the assassins together, could only watch as his mother died above him, without knowing what the enemy looked like, there was no way. Even taking back his mother's body, not even being able to say a few words to her at that time was impossible.

  Wu Renjie felt regret and hatred in his heart, hating the enemy who killed his mother, taking away his own mother, and even more hating himself for being useless. In the past, he only knew how to indulge in pleasure and live a carefree life, but when real danger came, he still needed his mother to protect him.

  "It was me who killed my mother..." This thought suddenly emerged in Wu Renjie's mind, followed by a continuous stream of memories: his mother's kind smile, her worried expression, the tears she had secretly shed because of his own incompetence, and the image of her always protecting him despite being slightly disappointed with him for past mistakes...

  In the dimly lit cave, a dry sobbing sound echoed, accompanied by the occasional dripping of water, merging into one, "If only mother had jumped into the well first at that time, if..."

  Under the dim yellow light, Wu Renjie lifted his head, his prolonged crying had made him numb all over, his expression stiff and calm, with only a pair of eyes filled with hatred, faintly emitting a bloody glow.

  "I want revenge..."

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  The Wu family, after a large number of assassins' continuous two-hour-long massacre, had already lost all signs of life. Of course, this didn't include the blood-soaked assassins themselves. From guards to servants, several hundred people in total, were now lying on the ground, transformed into a sea of corpses.

  "How is it, have all the direct members of the Wu family been found?" The young man in fancy clothes sitting on a soft wooden chair in the highest attic building located in the center of the Wu family, surrounded by the three sword king-level assassins who followed him earlier, turned his head to look at the assassin who had returned to report and asked.

  "Return to the young master! The Wu family's direct descendants, except for one woman who was made a concubine, were all killed. The rest of the direct descendants have disappeared without a trace." The assassin replied expressionlessly as he knelt on the ground, his voice pausing slightly before continuing, "According to the information obtained from interrogation, the Wu family's eldest and second sons are studying at the Jiugong Mountain Gate, so they were not in the mansion. The Wu family's eldest daughter is currently a concubine of the Wen family, and although the third son was in the mansion, his whereabouts are unknown."

  "Bang!" The young man in the fine clothes slammed his hand on the chair, shattering the soft wooden armrest into powder. "Escaped!?" he roared. "I could've sworn that according to our intelligence, Wu San, the third son of the Wu family, was just a spoiled brat who didn't know any martial arts! And yet you let him get away! What's the point of having you all here?!" He kicked out with one foot, striking the assassin and sending his entire body flying backward. The assassin crashed heavily into the wooden wall behind him, producing a series of "creaking" sounds.

  The assassin seemed to be indifferent to his own injuries, and after getting up, he continued to kneel beside the young master, saying: "Wu San Gongzi has already disappeared without a trace. Also, according to our interrogation, six days ago, Wu's family had sent a team of people to hunt in the demon beast forest, which is an annual routine action for Wu's family. The personnel included 20 guards, as well as Wu Zongyue, the master of Wu's family, and Wu Yeyu, the fourth son of Wu's family. Among the 487 people currently in Wu's mansion, except for Wu San Shao Wu Renjie who is unknown where he is, all the others have been killed." After finishing his report, the assassin quietly knelt there, waiting for the young master to give orders.

  The young man in Chinese attire furrowed his brow, and his tender face was filled with gloom. A few flashes of sharpness darted across his eyes, adding a discordant note to his originally handsome appearance. After hearing the assassin's words, the young man did not rush to speak, but instead walked back and forth in the pavilion several times before suddenly raising his head, as if he had thought of something important. A faint, sinister smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

  Then he turned his head and said to the assassin kneeling on the ground: "Order to let people below set fires everywhere, I want to burn Wu's house into ashes!"

  "Yes! Young Master!" The assassin heard the young man's order, without any hesitation, and immediately took orders and flew down from the attic.

  The young man in Chinese clothes waited for the assassin to leave, and only then did he turn his head around and say to the three people who had been standing in the room all along: "This time we came to this poor and remote place, our goal was to get what we needed, and now that thing has also been obtained, so our task is already completed."

  "But now that we've already killed so many people from the Wu family, if we don't eradicate them completely and wipe out every last one of them from this world, it's inevitable that we'll be leaving behind future troubles. Although those few insignificant characters aren't likely to have any impact on us, if we just leave them be, they're still a potential calamity. Therefore, I have a task that I want to assign to two of you." The young man in the magnificent attire said, his expression flashing with a hint of unusual color as he gazed at the three sword kings before him.

  "But as you command, young master! Your subordinate will certainly die rather than disobey." The three men knelt down on the ground and said in unison after hearing the words of the youth in magnificent attire.

  "Hmm, okay!" The young man twisted his body and sat down on the chair, then continued to say, "This time, the action of annihilating the Wu family, the master of the Wu family and his fourth son are not in the mansion at this time, so the action can be said to have failed. And before the formal action, the guards had already sent out a warning signal, which caused the third son of the Wu family to escape, so this matter is your fault."

  The young man in Chinese clothing said, pausing slightly as he looked at the three people kneeling on the ground. "However, things aren't as bad as you thought. As you heard earlier, Wu's family hunting party has only been gone for six days and probably just entered the Beast Forest. Judging from the warning signal sent out by Wu's family guards, that hunting party likely saw it too."

  "In that case, the team would naturally lose interest in going to the demon beast forest again. They will definitely rush back hastily, and the most likely possibility is that Wu Jia's only sword king expert, Wu Zongyue, the master of Wu Jia, will drop the team and return alone with all his might." The young man in the magnificent clothes smiled slightly at this time, revealing a few hints of complacency on his face, leaning back against the chair as if everything was already under his control.

  "Since it's a full-force return, even with his strength as a Sword King, rushing for six days will inevitably leave him exhausted. And the fire I had someone set earlier was to make him even more anxious." The young man said, narrowing his eyes slightly.

  "Watching one's life work turn to ashes in the sea of flames would make anyone anxious, and they will definitely come to rescue at the first time. At that moment, I need two of you three to take action when he is distracted, and seize the opportunity to get rid of him! Then, we can wait for Wu family's training troops to return, and wipe them out with ease!"

  The young man in Chinese clothing looked at the three people kneeling on the ground and said, "You three are all masters of the Sword King. At that time, you won't be able to solve even one person who is exhausted and lost his mind, right? Hehehe~ Now it's up to you three to decide which two will stay behind to deal with the aftermath."

  The young man seemed to have done something unbearable at this time, and he didn't go to see the three people. Instead, he smiled and got up, came to the railing of the pavilion, admiring the sun that had just risen in the distance, as well as the Wu family's house which was already on fire everywhere, as if everything was under his control.

  The three people kneeling on the ground looked at each other, and they all saw a helpless look in each other's eyes. Since the young master had already given orders, they couldn't refute them either. After all, not listening to commands was a serious crime within the organization.

  After a round of eye contact, they decided to leave the two with slightly inferior martial arts skills behind to deal with the aftermath of the Wu family, while the one with the best martial arts skills accompanied the young master back, guarding his safety.

  In fact, the ins and outs of this matter, the three people who have been high-level assassins for so many years, had already analyzed it thoroughly. Whether it was to exterminate the Wu family or stay behind to wait for an opportunity, they had all considered it many times in their hearts. In the end, they found that coming to provoke the Wu family this time was a wrong move from the start, and when they received the task item at that time, they should have immediately rushed back to headquarters to report clearly.

  The revenge of the young man in Chinese clothes was delightful to the three of them, but it was a typical case of "giving people a chance to talk" and leaving trouble for himself. Also, because they didn't clarify the situation earlier, the Wu family unexpectedly had a team of people not at home, including the head of the Wu family, who was also the only sword king expert in the Wu family.

  Who can become a Sword King is not a simple person? Who has not experienced the vicissitudes of life? And since a Sword King-level expert can choose to seclude himself in such a small and remote county like Qing Shui, he must be someone who views fame and material wealth lightly. Not to mention if you burn down a house and leave it for him to see, even if you do it right in front of him, he probably won't bat an eye.

  At this time, should I stay behind and wait for the labor to come? This is simply letting me stay behind as an assassin, exposing myself in a bright place, waiting for people to come and kill.

  As long as the other party is a bit clever, they will choose to wait for their own strength to recover before responding to the enemy, let alone when the other party is a sword king master.

  At this time, the two sword kings who were left behind had already scolded that young master in their hearts, secretly saying: "The most correct thing this kid did was to distrust us, fearing that one assassin would not be able to handle him, so he left two of us..."

  The two remaining assassins exchanged a glance, shook their heads slightly, gazed at the young master's group that had already disappeared into the distance, and looked at the Wu family's estate which was now ablaze everywhere.

  One of them let out a soft sigh and said, "Alright, hurry up and find a place to hide. Don't wait until it's too late and we're caught off guard, huh!"

  "Damn it! This kid used to seem so reliable, rarely speaking and always polite to us, I thought he was a deep and thoughtful master, we could rely on him when we're old. But now it seems he's simply unbearable! When I get back, I'll apply for a transfer, even if it's to the lowest branch in some rural area, otherwise I'd rather not stay here with him! My old bones can't take this!" Another assassin said, exasperated.

  "Uh-huh, when it's time to adjust the team, don't forget to call me, we'll go together."

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