Chapter Seventy-Three: The Rebel Fei Wuji

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  The night gradually deepened, and the lights in front of the Chu King's palace were still shining brightly. After Luo Siqi left, the Chu King once again increased the number of soldiers guarding the palace.

  Because there were other places in the palace that needed to be guarded, King Chu adopted Fei Wuji's suggestion and gave up the idea of drawing guards from other parts of the palace. Instead, he had thirty clever and strong guards drawn from Fei Wuji's mansion to add extra security to his bedroom.

  These guards were already the most elite forces in the Fei Wuji Mansion, and to show his loyalty, he specially asked for a chair from King Chu and placed it at the door of King Chu's bedroom. He himself wore a long sword and sat on the chair with the sword in his arms, personally keeping watch over King Chu for the night.

  The King of Chu was suspicious of Fei Wuji's ability to wield a sword, but he was satisfied with his loyalty. At this time, there was still a chair at the entrance of the King of Chu's bedroom, and on that chair sat Mo Jie, who had "betrayed" Luo Siqi and was willing to stay behind to guard the King of Chu.

  As the deputy commander of the Chu king's personal guard, he was now in charge of the entire night watch. To prevent Mo Ye's sudden attack, he couldn't take turns with other guards like before. The Chu king also gave him a chair, after all, Luo Siqi had left the capital and for the Chu king, Mo Jie who excelled at night battles became his most important force in protecting his safety.

  The King of Chu had been in poor appetite since Luo Siqi left, and tonight he slept later than usual. Sleeping late made him hungry, so the hungry King of Chu ordered food to be sent again in the middle of the night.

  There were over a dozen serving maids bringing in food, all dressed as maids and genuinely female. Fei Wuji casually waved his hand to let them in. Mo Jie, sitting on the other side, seemed preoccupied with something else, barely noticing the maids carrying various dishes as if they were invisible.

  The torches used for lighting were crackling, and just as the maids had entered a short while ago, a distant palace suddenly caught fire. The shouts of "Fire!" and the commotion were faintly heard, and the soldiers guarding the entrance to King Chu's bedroom began to get restless. A messenger rushed to the front of King Chu's bedroom to report the fire, but Mo Jie shouted at him to be quiet, allowing the messenger to enter before sitting back in his chair, lost in thought.

  At this time, Fei Wuji cast a somewhat panicked glance at him, Capricorn turned his head to one side, and muttered something under his breath.

  Fei Wuji's face gradually turned white because what he heard was Mo Jie mocking him: "You're useless!"

  The inner palace of the King of Chu suddenly erupted in chaos! The palace maids were screaming loudly, as if something like a table had been knocked over, and cups and saucers were shattering all over the floor.

  However, the cries of the palace maids soon stopped, replaced by the door of the bedroom being suddenly opened from the inside. Two golden-armored guards dragged out the messenger who had just entered. Apart from two obvious sword wounds on his body, four crossbow arrows were stuck straight into his chest!

  The arrow pierced through the thin armor worn by the messenger, and a dagger stained with someone's dark blood was thrown out along with it.

  After the assassin was dragged out, ordinary soldiers naturally had to take him away. The four soldiers closest to the palace, under Mo Jie's command, each took one of the assassin's limbs and left. Mo Jie didn't move; he just let the soldiers behind him come forward to fill in for the previous four. The soldiers who came up to fill in happened to be the ones from Fei Wuji's household who had been given to the King of Chu as guards.

  Two golden-armored maidservants threw the person in and then closed the door again. Capricorn, expressionless, said to Fei Wuji: "You, go ask about the situation!"

  Fei Wuji let out a sigh, revealing an unwilling expression, but still went in. Capricorn clenched his left fist slightly as Fei Wuji entered, but quickly released it.

  Inside the bedroom, a loud scolding voice of King Chu to Fei Wuji was heard. After a while, the scolding voice gradually disappeared. Fei Wuji walked out with his head down and said in a low voice to Mo Jie: "There is a mechanism for launching hidden weapons on the wall beside the bed. Five steps in front of the brocade curtain in front of the bed, there is another layer of brocade curtain like the one in front. Behind this layer of brocade curtain are two golden armor guards secretly trained by King Chu, who just threw out the assassin."

  Capricorn's face was calm, he nodded and listened to Fei Wuji continue: "Just now, the assassin took advantage of the fire in the distant palace, disguised as a messenger soldier, and suddenly appeared in front of the first layer of brocade. He drew out a dagger from his clothes and rushed in. Since the first layer of brocade was still five or six steps away from the king, the king had time to react and pressed down on the mechanism set up on the bed, triggering the strong crossbow arrows to shoot into the assassin's chest almost immediately. Moreover, the assassin did not expect that there would be golden armor guards in the brocade, so after being hit by the crossbow arrow, he was also stabbed by a golden armored warrior, and that one sword directly killed him!"

  Capricorn fell silent for a moment after listening, then asked Fei Wuji coldly: "I clearly saw him being hit by two swords just now, what's going on with the other sword?

  Capricorn's cold tone made Fei Wuji involuntarily shiver, he leaned in close to Capricorn and whispered in his smallest voice: "The wound from the other sword was actually inflicted by the enraged king using a dagger brought by an assassin, the dagger was coated with potent poison, the blood that flowed out was black, that's why the king is so furious with me!"

  Capricorn listened to Fei Wujie's words and asked him a question that had nothing to do with the matter. This sentence was different from before, he asked with a smile: "Although he is your master, being scolded like this, it must be very uncomfortable for him!"

  "It's not just unbearable, the king said I'm incompetent in guarding, letting assassins get in, and he even wants to demote me!" Fei Wuji's voice rose and fell as he saw Mo Jie stand up from his chair, walk to his front, press his right hand on his shoulder, and say seriously in a low voice: "Then, sir, you who are dissatisfied should rebel!"

  Fei Wuji looked at Capricorn with some hesitation, and he couldn't see any other color in Capricorn's eyes. His eyes were endless black, so thoroughly black that they seemed like two bottomless pits.

  He felt the weight on his shoulders growing heavier and heavier, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Alright!"

  The strength on his shoulders instantly disappeared, and Fei Wuji kicked open the door of the bedroom with one foot. The maids inside, who were still frightened by the sudden attack of the assassin, screamed again and shrank into the corner. Fei Wuji looked at these maids with eyes as if they were nothing, pointing to the position where King Chu was behind the embroidered curtain, and loudly shouted: "Kill him for me!"