Chapter 109: Su Jingzhi Is Fu Jun
What was supposed to be a siege with closed doors turned into an open passage. The float sped madly out of the city.
One of the brave men chasing behind the float finally realized it and shouted belatedly: “Stop chasing! Everyone, stop chasing!”
“Why?”
“There’s fuel on the float. The more we chase, the less the Regent King dares to stop, and the faster he runs!”
They realized too late; the city gates were already closed.
Outside the Eastern Capital’s city gates was the moat.
Su Jingzhi had intended to throw the float into the water and jump in with Wei Wanlan to escape.
But as the poison gradually took effect, he struggled to fight on the carriage. After a moment of delay, the carriage had already left the range of the moat and entered the forest outside the city.
The carriage body heaved up and down, jolting Wei Wanlan so hard his internal organs felt displaced. On the float, broken Great Wei official Mandarin rang out, very stiff: “A lion injured while saving an ant, your bloodshed will soon be worthless!”
At this moment, Su Jingzhi could no longer see anything…
The Protective Golden Bell Jar prop began to show a flashing red countdown. Wei Wanlan’s body suddenly lifted into the air.
He was picked up again, and the two jumped from the float, which was over ten feet high. The smell of blood filled his nose. Carried by Su Jingzhi down from the carriage, they couldn’t land steadily. They tumbled off.
“Roll for your lives! Let’s see if you can leave the territory of Great Wei!”
As expected, the Turks didn’t jump off to chase them.
These Turkic warriors originally thought they couldn’t leave the city, so they used this method to create chaos and destroy the city. Now that the city gates were open by mistake, the Turks wouldn’t let this opportunity slip.
The float drove away…
Rolling off the carriage, they encountered a steep slope. The bottom was unknown, pitch black everywhere, and his vision kept flipping up and down…
Wei Wanlan was rolling.
The Golden Bell Jar countdown had ended. His fear turned into terror. His perception of the outside world sharpened, and he began to feel pain. The sharp stones and withered tree branches on the slope made crackling sounds from time to time.
But his vital parts were never exposed because Su Jingzhi protected him with all his might. Wei Wanlan closed his eyes tightly.
The Big Bad Guy’s hand was firmly covering the back of his head…
The Big Bad Guy held him tightly, almost melting him into his embrace.
Yet, he didn’t need to treat a little puppet like this at all.
Even if the court lost the emperor and fell into chaos for a few days, it wouldn’t affect the overall situation for the Regent King. He held great power; the emperor was just a symbol.
Why would he do this?
Why would he sacrifice himself to protect Us?
His eyes burned with swelling pain. Wei Wanlan couldn’t figure it out. He could only hug the Regent King tightly with both arms. The two fell to the bottom of the slope together.
The end of the slope was a shallow pool, thick with withered branches and broken leaves.
Wei Wanlan didn’t faint and still retained consciousness. But Su Jingzhi beside him was obviously severely injured. He had fought a fierce battle in the city and fell from the float, bearing the fall damage meant for two alone. Su Jingzhi had already lost consciousness.
The Big Bad Guy’s eyes were tightly closed now.
But he wasn’t peaceful. His forehead was covered with dense beads of sweat, as if not only external injuries but also internal injuries brought continuous pain. Wei Wanlan tentatively called out a few times.
“Regent King?”
“Wake up, Prince, Regent King?”
The other party still didn’t respond. But Su Jingzhi looked even more painful.
So Wei Wanlan dared not stay at the bottom of this slope for long. Although he didn’t know how to explain the situation, he looked up to survey the surroundings.
…They were quite far from the top.
He had fallen into a fan-shaped deep pit. Looking up, there were tree roots and shadows, and further up were the moon and stars.
Wei Wanlan bent down to help the Regent King up, wanting to take him away. He put one of Su Jingzhi’s arms on his shoulder, feeling the weight of Su Jingzhi covered in mud and blood. His eyes grew redder.
But in another instant, a thought suddenly popped into his head, catching him off guard…
The thought said:
“Look, the great powerful official has no ability to fight back. Kill him, and Mission One is complete.”
Wei Wanlan froze.
Kill the powerful official, quell internal strife, destroy the enemy nation.
These were the three main missions of Wei Wanlan’s transmigration.
Before, he couldn’t make progress on Mission One, angering 404 into leaving, so he was forced to do Mission Two first.
But unexpectedly, the progress of Mission Two was excellent. He killed many corrupt officials, established a new system, and won the hearts of the people. It seemed completing Mission Two was imminent, just a matter of days.
If he could conveniently complete Mission One now…
If he killed the Regent King…
He could complete two out of three missions.
Wei Wanlan hesitated for a moment.
The hesitation caused a slight pause in his movement of carrying Su Jingzhi up.
In that brief moment, he cast a hurried glance at Su Jingzhi, who was pressing on him. He saw the other’s completely unconscious appearance under the weak moonlight.
…Killing him now would be as easy as turning over a hand, right?
Different from before, different from any previous time.
It seemed this time, he was infinitely close to completing Mission One.
Wei Wanlan steadied his breathing. His emotions fluctuated violently, yet while taking a deep breath, he clearly smelled the Big Bad Guy’s woody scent mixed with the smell of blood again.
Wei Wanlan was stunned again, feeling lost. His little nose trembled.
The fragile Big Bad Guy suddenly mumbled a word: “You…”
Sorry, sorry, sorry!
QAQ QAQ QAQ!!!
He thought the Big Bad Guy had seen through his dark thoughts of murder, scaring him into apologizing repeatedly.
But the Big Bad Guy didn’t respond. His breath was unstable. He seemed to be speaking, yet also muttering to himself:
“Return…”
Where does the Big Bad Guy want Us to go?
“…to the city,” Su Jingzhi murmured repeatedly.
He had intended to take Su Jingzhi back to Luoyang.
Wei Wanlan was a bit distracted, replying to him: “Right. We’re going back to the city. Let’s go back to the city. I’ll take you back.”
But he didn’t expect the Regent King to push him.
The Big Bad Guy’s large hand obviously had no strength left, as this push completely exposed his exhausted state; he couldn’t even push Wei Wanlan.
Wei Wanlan’s heart hung in suspense again: “Regent King?”
No answer.
The Big Bad Guy’s condition seemed even more serious than he imagined.
Wei Wanlan shook him lightly. The voice driving him away already carried a warning tone, breathless but firm, a side of the Big Bad Guy he had never seen before.
A strange and shocking scene appeared:
“Return to the city.”
“Return to the city.”
“Little Wan, return to the city.”
“Return to the city, return to the city…”
The Regent King kept repeating “Return to the city.” He was urging him to climb out of this deep pit. Wei Wanlan was stunned. The scene was familiar; he seemed to have experienced it before.
When Fu Jun sacrificed himself to save him, Wei Wanlan already bore immense guilt, even escaping the posthouse to find a chance to make amends.
And now, even though the other party was the Big Bad Guy, Wei Wanlan still couldn’t bring himself to abandon someone and run away. An emotion completely different from before rose towards Su Jingzhi.
He could clearly feel: The Big Bad Guy isn’t that bad; the Big Bad Guy is doing it for his own good.
His heart clenched fiercely.
He felt at least he couldn’t kill the Regent King now because one should return kindness with kindness; he couldn’t return kindness with enmity. Besides, he had modified the mission plan to kill the Regent King at the very end.
He still needed the Regent King to defeat the Turks…
If the Regent King died now, although Mission One would be complete, Mission Three would be doomed!
This mental construction was easy to make sense of.
Wei Wanlan completely dispelled his hesitation, determined to take the Regent King away from this dangerous place. He wanted to save the Big Bad Guy!
The slope was hard to climb.
His dragon claws were pricked by gravel and wood branches, itchy and painful.
Because Wei Wanlan lacked physical strength, he couldn’t pull Su Jingzhi out. The two fell back to the bottom of the pit together, covered in mud and water.
Wei Wanlan ignored himself and hurriedly helped Su Jingzhi up again, checking his condition and asking repeatedly:
“Regent King, does it hurt? Are you okay?”
Receiving no response, he suddenly heard a sound from above the deep pit, not far away.
He thought the Turks had returned, scaring his ear tips into trembling. But listening carefully, it wasn’t Turkic warriors, but… wolves howling.
The wolf howl was incredibly mournful!
The alpha wolf howled, and the pack followed suit. It was impossible to tell how many wolves there were.
Not far from them, the pattering footsteps of the wolf pack seemed to be getting closer and closerā
Wei Wanlan suddenly realized Su Jingzhi wanted him to return to the city immediately because there was the smell of blood here!
It’s natural for beasts to chase the smell of blood to attack prey.
Staying in the wild for long would be dangerous, so he drove him away.
And if he really left first, the Regent King being found by Luoyang soldiers would be lucky. If not found, he might die in the mouths of the wolf pack… He would be torn apart by wolves, leaving no corpse.
Wei Wanlan’s heart-wrenching feeling turned into full sorrow and guilt.
Since transmigrating into the book, he called Su Jingzhi “Big Bad Guy,” guarding against him in everything and misinterpreting his actions.
But only now did he realize the Big Bad Guy was doing everything for his own good!
“Regent King…” Wei Wanlan called out softly again.
Su Jingzhi suddenly raised his voice, extremely stern, looking in another direction:
“Return to the city! Return to the city! I told you to go!”
Only then did Wei Wanlan realize more clearly that he not only couldn’t see but couldn’t hear either. He couldn’t distinguish his position or communicate with him. So although he was speaking, he seemed to be talking to the air!
Wei Wanlan was even more shocked.
He saw Su Jingzhi push hard.
But he pushed against a dirt slope, causing clumps of soil to fall. His voice was hoarse with despair, a deep helplessness Wei Wanlan had never felt from this person.
He fiercely threatened an invisible Wei Wanlan:
“Wei Wanlan! Go! Stay away from me!”
“Don’t expect me to save you again and again. Go back to the city yourself. If you dare stay here, I’ll make you carry five cubs, not one less!”
The wolf pack gradually gathered towards this deep pit.
The sound of wolves running seemed close at hand.
But Wei Wanlan didn’t move. He stared blankly, his pupils reflecting Su Jingzhi. In that instant, the Regent King perfectly matched the hero Fu Jun who had once accompanied and protected him.
Carrying five.
That was what Fu Jun teased him with.
Su Jingzhi had said he didn’t know Fu Jun at all, and Wei Wanlan never told anyone about this “carrying five” joke because he was too shy…
Su Jingzhi is Fu Jun.
The Big Bad Guy is the Hero!
He left Chang’an with him, accompanied him into Luoyang, protected him with his life in the Imperial Villa, and today tried to force him to leave, feeding himself to the wolves.
A belated swelling sensation instantly filled Wei Wanlan’s heart:
He also taught him to read, carried him in the Hundred Beasts Garden, saved him alone in the army formation, and tried to accompany him for every meal…
But it was too obscure; he never expressed it.
This isn’t a Big Bad Guy.
There is no one better to him than the Regent King.
Wei Wanlan, covered in mud at the bottom of the pit, suddenly burst into tears, crying breathlessly. He hugged Su Jingzhi from behind. The other party realized Wei Wanlan was actually behind him, pausing, wanting to push but reluctant to do so.
His five senses were about to be lost, but his consciousness remained for now.
He felt Wei Wanlan suddenly hug him, burying his head in his arms like a fluffy little ostrich. But despite his love, he couldn’t tell Wei Wanlan, afraid he wouldn’t live long and the other would be consumed by guilt.
āLittle Wan, I love you.
āBut I can no longer protect you.
If not born into the imperial family, would you be willing to be my Princess Consort in the next life?
A wolf head with eyes gleaming with ghostly light appeared in the fan-shaped deep pit.
Then a second, a third, countless pairs of eyes, like ghost fires in the night, surrounded them densely.
The alpha wolf howled, arching its back in an attack posture. They were about to become the wolf pack’s prey.
Wei Wanlan knew Su Jingzhi couldn’t hear.
This login password was wrong; he shouldn’t treat Su Jingzhi like this:
“Regent King, Big Bad Guy.”
ćLogin successful.ć
The entire golden screen popped upā
Since discovering the Wise Ruler Development System’s props were numerous but disordered, he actually started paying attention to some icons.
Slowly, he remembered a few props with names that easily indicated their effects, just in case. And because this broken system copied prop settings from xianxia novels, there wasn’t just the Person-Finding Talisman.
There was also the Teleportation Talisman.
Because it looked exactly like the Person-Finding Talisman, Wei Wanlan remembered it then.
Whatever the cost.
Wherever teleported.
He wanted to save the Regent King.
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