Chapter 40 - 40. Annihilation II

Third person POV

Xu Tingfeng arrived at a big door that Meiyun showed. He looked around the door and saw the door has mechanism. Meiyun stepped up and spun the mechanism, after she spun it for a few times, the door opened. They entered the room and saw the room was empty.

Meiyun: " He escaped!"

Xu Tingfeng: " Calm down kiddo, you got your sister there."

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On the other side, Bai Huiqing and the other group were on killing spree. They were like owls waiting for their prey to come out from the tunnel. They were merciless, as soon as someone came out from the tunnel, they immediately cut off their head.

There were some smart assassins that didn't escape from the tunnel because they knew it was a trap. The wind element assassins used their magic to fly but they underestimated Bai Huiqing and Huayun. They were killed by the wind element soldiers who had waited them from above.

After a few moment, a skinny man came out from a tunnel but he didn't expect that two people wearing a mask had been waiting for him in front of the tunnel. He immediately ran away but Bai Huiqing used her wood magic to prevent him from run away. Bai Huiqing wrapped him with her wood magic, making him look like a wooden doll.

The skinny man used his water magic to break the wood, he attacked Bai Huiqing with his water magic to make her busy. He charged towards Bai Huiqing with his sword, he disappeared and appeared behind Bai Huiqing. He swung his sword towards Bai Huiqing, she blocked the attack with her palm. He was shocked and took a step back.

He glared at Bai Huiqing and saw a barrier on her palm. ' So that's how she blocked my attack.' He sneered and disappeared again. He appeared above Bai Huiqing and swung his sword, Bai Huiqing blocked it again. Then he appeared behind her and swung his sword again, this time Bai Huiqing caught off guard.

Before the sword touch Bai Huiqing, a water arrow shot across his right hand. He screamed and the sword fell off his hand. The second arrow shoot his left hand, he screamed again. Both of his hands were hanging on his arm. He couldn't use his hand anymore, this thought made him furious. He looked up to the culprit and he saw a teenage girl with a red mask on. Just after he looked at her, she shot another arrow to his left leg.

Skinny man: " AGGHH, YOU B*TC-!"

Before he could finish his word, another arrow shot his right leg. He screamed in agony, the girl emotionlessly looked at him.

Huayun: " I won't kill you. But I will let you taste the pain Meiyun and I felt."

Skinny man: " Y-you are 01- AGGHH"

Huayun shot both of his thighs and arms, she didn't want to hear that name anymore especially from his mouth. The skinny man fainted, Bai Huiqing sealed him. Bai Huiqing hold Huayun's hands.

Bai Huiqing: " Aiyo, thank you for saving me. I'm bad at close combat as I never train like Tingfeng do. But if it's wide ranged fight, you can trust me."

Huayun: " No, Madam. It is me who had to thank you."

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30 minutes ago*

Hong er with her group entered the tower. She summoned her sword as she ran, she jumped to the third floor and stabbed an assassin. When an assassin was going to escape from the top of the tower, she made a whip with her water magic. She caught his leg and slammed him to the first floor, he coughed blood as his body slammed to the ground. But before he could move again, the soldier that was on the first floor immediately stabbed him.

Just after 10 minutes of fighting, all of the assassins in the tower were cleared. They used their magic to throw the corpse outside of the tower. They cleaned the tower and destroyed any trace that they left. As they were the elite forces, this was done very fast.

The fire element magic users burned the corpses to ashes and the earth element magic users bury the ashes deep into the ground. Hong er was helping them erase the evidence. After they finished this, they helped Xu Tingfeng's group to dispose the evidences.

Bai Huiqing launched a firework to gather them at here. 5 minutes after she launched the firework, Xu Tingfeng and Hong er arrived together with the other group. They saw a skinny man laying on the ground lifeless, he was sealed by multiple seals. Huayun stepped forward and reported what happened, including Bai Huiqing's case.

At first, Xu Tingfeng wanted to use ice water to wake him up but after he listened to Huayun's report, he decided to use lightning to wake him up. He rose his finger and pointed at the skinny man. A huge lightning struck the skinny man awake.

Skinny man: " AGGHHH"

The skinny man screamed, he wanted to move but he couldn't. He felt something tied him, he struggled and cursed. Bai Huiqing closed Hong er's ears with her hands and gasped. Xu Tingfeng grabbed a fist of soil and rammed it into the skinny man mouth. The skinny man choked and spit out the soil.

Skinny man: " *Cough coughcough, YOU B*STARD XU TINGFENG!"

Xu Tingfeng: " I'm going to ask you kindly, who is your client?"

The skinny man ignored the question and kept cursing. Xu Tingfeng took out his dagger and stabbed his left eye. The skinny man screamed his head off. Xu Tingfeng indifferently looked at the skinny head.

Xu Tingfeng: " Let me ask you again, who is your client?"

The skinny man only screamed, Xu Tingfeng stabbed his other eye and asked again. But he ignored Xu Tingfeng again, Xu Tingfeng knew that it will be hard to get any answer from the skinny man. Just as he was thinking about that, an owl flew towards them. All the soldiers immediately got alerted, they took out their sword and pointed it to the owl.

But after they saw the owl, they sighed and unsheathed their sword. Xu Tingfeng extended his arm and the owl landed on his arm. Xu Tingfeng took out a small rolled paper from the small tube that was tied to the owl's foot. He unrolled the paper and saw three words.

" I know." ( Wo zhi dao)