Chapter 800: Chapter 534, The Repeatedly Evasive Wang Zuo_2
Though the aim was poor, the intimidation was sufficient.
The man, hearing the bullets whizzing past his ears, immediately knelt on the ground with his hands raised above his head.
“Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, we surrender….”
The sequence of movements was swift and practiced.
The pursuing heavy sword infantry immediately advanced, restrained the kneeling supplicant, and firmly pressed him to the ground.
After a short while, Li Rong came over, limping.
She sat down opposite the kneeling man.
Crossing her legs, she lit a cigarette.
The man’s gaze swept over her slender thighs and he hurriedly cried out, “Sister Li, spare me, Sister Li, I dare not do it again, please don’t kill me.”
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The ferocity had turned into a face full of repentance.
“What’s your name?” Li Rong asked softly as she exhaled a puff of smoke.
“Wang Zuo, Sister Li, I won’t dare do it again!” Wang Zuo said, his head bowed.
“Who sent you to ambush me?” Li Rong continued to ask.
Wang Zuo paused slightly before saying, “No one, Sister Li, it was just a moment of folly on my part that I came to trouble you, I was wrong, Sister Li, please be magnanimous and let me go as if I were nothing more than a fart.”
Li Rong sneered, “You’re quite loyal.”
Turning to a subordinate, she said, “The rest of them, kill them all.”
“No,…”
Swish swish swish!!
A series of whooshing sounds rose, and the heads of Wang Zuo’s subordinates tumbled to the ground.
Blood splattered everywhere, and the corpses slowly collapsed to the ground.
Wang Zuo was filled with regret; why had he provoked this woman.
Moreover, he should have pressed on without stopping, not giving her a moment to breathe.
Now, look what has happened, they had cannons and rifles, and his team was wiped out.
Click!!
Li Rong took a rifle, loaded it, and pointed it at Wang Zuo’s forehead.
“Who’s the person behind you, dare to say a word of denial, and I’ll blow your head off.”
The cold muzzle felt as agonizing as a red-hot iron to Wang Zuo.
Large beads of sweat kept appearing, and he could envision his head blooming under a bullet.
He was done for.
At this point, he didn’t dare act tough and immediately said, “It was Cao Zhengzhi, he made me come to trouble you, it was all him, he told me that if I caught you, he would give me lots of resources, and that’s what swayed me, Sister Li, please spare me, I’m not a human being, I shouldn’t have troubled you.”
As he spoke, Wang Zuo had already burst into tears.
Inwardly, he was cursing Cao Zhengzhi for sending him to trouble Li Rong.
If it wasn’t for him, he would still be comfortably sleeping in the city.
Hearing Wang Zuo’s words, Li Rong began to recall the name.
Cao Zhengzhi!
She had no impression of him and wondered when she had made so many enemies.
“Do I have a grudge with Cao Zhengzhi? Why does he want to capture me?” Li Rong continued to interrogate.
Wang Zuo shook his head, “I don’t know that, he didn’t tell me.”
Looking at his expression, Li Rong felt that this did not seem like a lie.
She immediately said, “Give me the Book of Lords.”
Wang Zuo obediently handed over the Book of Lords with both hands.
Li Rong took it but found she couldn’t consume it.
This indicated that what Wang Zuo held was the Book of City Lord, and as just the mayor of a city, he had no right to decide the city’s fate.
“Cao! Who consumed your Book of Lords?” Li Rong, feeling frustrated, threw the book back at him.
“Uh, Cao Zhengzhi, he’s the one who consumed it,” Wang Zuo responded.
Li Rong turned to a soldier and said, “Take some people to clean up the battlefield, and then find a cart; we’re going back shortly.”
The soldier departed to collect spoils from the battlefield.
As for the corpses and the collapsed houses, they did not bother with them.
These were matters the villagers would handle.
Besides, Li Rong hadn’t yet settled the account of their conspiracy to ambush her.
Li Rong pondered over the matter concerning Cao Zhengzhi.
Her gaze fell once again on Wang Zuo, and she said coldly, “Do you want to live?”
“Yes, yes, yes, Sister Li, I want to!” Wang Zuo tried to throw himself at her feet but was kicked back.
“You wanted to kill me, so if I kill you right now, there’s nothing to discuss…”
“Sister Li, I want to live, Sister Li.”
Li Rong glared at him, continuing, “You draw Cao Zhengzhi out, let him die for you, or else you die.”
This….
Wang Zuo’s mouth gaped open, for a moment unsure how to respond.
Luring Cao Zhengzhi out, wasn’t this making him betray his own people?
He hesitated briefly.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Rong raise her gun again.
Frightened, Wang Zuo immediately said, “Okay, okay! Sister Li, you tell me what to do. I’m afraid I can’t lure him out.”
“Hmph! At least you know yourself well.”
Li Rong kicked the “Book of City Lord” on the ground with her toe, “Contact him and tell him that Li Rong has been captured.”
“Oh, okay!” Wang Zuo immediately got moving, opening a private chat to start sending messages.
And for realism, he even added some simple phrases.
‘Brother Cao, that bitch Li Rong has been taken down by me. What do I do next?’
Li Rong watched him send it, her eyelid twitched.
Wang Zuo quickly explained, “For realism, realism… ”
Indeed, soon Cao Zhengzhi replied, “She’s not dead, is she? Send me a photo to have a look.”
“He wants a photo…” Wang Zuo instructed Li Rong.
Li Rong’s face grew uglier, and through gritted teeth, she said, “Take it.”
She then lay on the ground with her hands behind her back as if she was subdued.
Wang Zuo took two pictures and sent them.
Cao Zhengzhi replied, “Bring her to your place. I’ll come and get her before nightfall. Don’t kill her and don’t go too far.”
“Understood!” Wang Zuo sent the reply.
Then, he looked toward Li Rong.
Li Rong extinguished her cigarette and said to a soldier beside her, “Call over five hundred brothers; we’ll all go and meet this person in his territory.”
“Yes!” The soldier swiftly departed.
…
Dusk, Wang Zuo’s city.
Atop the city wall, Wang Zuo and Li Rong watched a troop of men approaching from afar.
Wang Zuo looked down at the gun barrel pressed against his back.
He swallowed his saliva and whispered, “Sister Li, that’s Cao Zhengzhi’s troop. Look, I didn’t lie to you. I’m dead set on following you.”
“You should know what to say and do. Lure him in, and you can live. If he notices anything, I’ll blow you away immediately,” Li Rong’s icy voice rose from beside him.
Wang Zuo shuddered mightily.
Li Rong’s words were even colder than the chilling wind.
“Understood, Sister Li. Just watch,” Wang Zuo assured her, thumping his chest.
Li Rong patted his shoulder and descended the city wall, instructing a few soldiers to disguise themselves and stay by Wang Zuo’s side.
Soon, the distant troops had drawn near.
“Wang Zuo, open the gate, it’s bloody freezing out here,” Cao Zhengzhi’s voice came from below.
Wang Zuo reassessed his situation, knowing that one slip of the tongue and the militia around him could shoot or stab him.
He couldn’t take that risk, not for Cao Zhengzhi.
He immediately put on a smile and cursed, “Didn’t you see my Brother Cao coming? Open the gate quickly!”
The city gates opened.
Cao Zhengzhi led his men inside the city swiftly.
He brought over a hundred people, all clad in thick cotton armor, freezing from the journey.
Wang Zuo scurried down from the city wall, grinning, “Brother Cao, froze your butt off, didn’t you? If I had known earlier, I’d have sent her to you tomorrow.”
Cao Zhengzhi gave him a blank look and said, “I’m already here, what’s the use of saying these things now? Where is she, not dead, right?”
Wang Zuo knew he was asking about Li Rong.
He quickly said, “How could she be dead? I remembered, we need her alive.”
Cao Zhengzhi nodded, “Bring her out, I’ll take her away directly.”
Wang Zuo paused for a moment and continued, “Uh, Brother Cao, you’d better go take a look first, then take her. She’s not easy to take away right now.”
Cao Zhengzhi was startled, “Did you mess her up?”
“No, no, just come and see.” Saying this, he began to lead Cao Zhengzhi towards the City Lord’s mansion, not forgetting to turn back and beckon, “Hey you, take Brother Cao’s men to the room on the side to wait. Don’t let them all freeze.”
Cao Zhengzhi didn’t say much, nodding and letting his men follow.
…
The two entered the City Lord’s mansion.
Just through the main gate, something felt off.
The guards at the gate were a special fifth-order military unit.
Since when did Wang Zuo have special troops? How come he didn’t know?
Something seemed off!
As he analyzed the situation in his mind, he suddenly heard Wang Zuo’s voice, “Sister Li, I’ve brought you this damn bastard.”
Hm? Sister Li?
Damn bastard?
What’s going on?