"Have you made the necessary arrangements?"
Wang Chong tapped on the railing lightly with his index and middle finger, producing a crisp sound.
"Everything is ready."
Miyasame Ayaka replied calmly. She stood behind Wang Chong with her head held high and her hands behind her back, not moving in the slightest. In such a short period of time, she had already changed her attire. She was wearing a black bamboo hat with a thin veil hanging down around it. As the veil shook slightly, it completely covered her face, making it blurry and indistinct.
However, her eyes were still as cold as ever. Even through the veil, one could still feel a chill seeping into their bones.
Miyasame Ayaka's disposition as an assassin was deeply ingrained in her bones. Regardless of what she wore, it was impossible to conceal it.
"Very well. Tell them to pay attention to the person with a white halo around him later on. We only have an instant, so make sure to keep a close eye on him. Also, you just have to watch carefully. No one is to make a move. "
Wang Chong said impassively. As he spoke, he stretched out his arm and passed the wine cup in his hand over. It was indeed a little early for a fifteen-year-old to be drinking, but he could still learn to interact with it.
Not to mention, there was another soul hidden in his body.
"But gongzi, is this really fine? This is the territory of the Goguryeons. Furthermore, when we were discussing this matter, we were in the abode of the Goguryeons. "
Miyasame Ayaka squatted down slightly and took the cup from Wang Chong's hands naturally before placing it on the table by the side.
— — The women of Yingzhou were surprisingly docile in this aspect. Even though Miyasame Ayaka had become an assassin, she was still able to maintain her composure.
Of course, this was only applied to those who were stronger than her.
"The Goguryeons are vicious, and there are many of them. If we were to anger them, we might not be able to leave this place. "
Miyasame Ayaka glanced at Wang Chong with deep worry in her eyes.
Ordinary people knew nothing about the Goguryeons, so they were able to remain calm here. But to those who knew the ins and outs of the Goguryeons, standing in this place was like a dagger to their backs.
This was the feeling that Miyasame Ayaka was experiencing at the moment. She had crossed hands with the Goguryeons before, and they were fearsome people. When they fought, they were even more ferocious than assassins like them.
Miyasame Ayaka couldn't help but worry that Wang Chong intended to deal with them in the territory of the Goguryeons.
"Hmph, who said that this is the territory of the Goguryeons? This is still the territory of the Central Plains, so when did the Goguryeons have the right to call the shots here? "
Wang Chong stretched out a hand and leaned on the railing. He looked at the dense crowd outside and sneered.
The Central Plains was still around, and the Tang dynasty was still around. The calamity hadn't arrived yet, and the Central Plains wasn't so weak that it had to bow down to the Goguryeons. When did the Goguryeons become the ones making the decisions here?
In the past, they didn't make a move on the Goguryeons because the Goguryeons were well-behaved and didn't do anything too outrageous. However, since they were restless and wanted to make a move on the Tang dynasty, everything was different.
At this point, Wang Chong gazed out of the railing, and his eyes turned colder and colder. Not even Wang Chong himself had sensed that as he spoke, his body was exuding a chilling and domineering aura.
The three cavalrymen from the Zhuang Clan and the Chi Clan guards were taken aback. Even Miyasame Ayaka was dumbfounded.
This Wang Chong exuded an intimidating aura that instilled fear in others. It was completely different from their impression of him!
"But even so, we don't have any evidence! We don't have any evidence to prove that the Goguryeons are related to the people here. If we are careless and leave behind some evidence, the Chamberlain of Dependencies might turn against gongzi! "
Miyasame Ayaka said worriedly.
She knew what Wang Chong was up to. To be assaulted by the Goguryeons on his first day in the camp and nearly die on White Tiger Peak, anyone would be infuriated.
However, the Goguryeons in the west were different from others.
Even though they were known to be loan sharks and teach those who didn't pay their debts a lesson, other than that, they didn't do anything out of line.
Otherwise, the Tang dynasty wouldn't have tolerated them.
"Hehe, evidence? Of course I will. "
Wang Chong sneered coldly as a cold glint flashed across his eyes.
It seemed like the fact that the 'Goguryeons' in the west of the city were law-abiding citizens had spread far and wide. Even an assassin like Miyasame Ayaka knew that there was nothing wrong with the Goguryeons.
However, Wang Chong had a completely different view of the matter.
King Sosurim and his group of Goguryeon assassins were infamous in Great Tang, and everyone knew of them. Even though many people claimed that they had nothing to do with the Goguryeons in the west … But how could Wang Chong possibly believe them?
Birds of a feather flocked together. It was impossible for a person to leave their source. How could it be possible for King Sosurim and his group of Goguryeon assassins to have nothing to do with the Goguryeons here?
With so many Goguryeons here, this was the best hiding place for King Sosurim and his group of Goguryeons. Other than here, King Sosurim and his group of assassins wouldn't be able to do as they pleased anywhere else.
Even though the Bureau of Military Personnel and Bureau of Punishments had been monitoring them for decades, they didn't manage to find anything. But in Wang Chong's view, they had missed out on an important 'corner'.
The densely packed 'customers' who frequented the taverns and gambling dens!
Who said that Goguryeons could only work in Goguryeon restaurants, gambling dens, and shops as Goguryeons?
Why couldn't Goguryeons pretend to be Han?
As long as one could master the language of the Central Plains, there would be no difference between a Goguryeon and a Han.
Wang Chong had thought it through before. The Bureau of Military Personnel and Bureau of Punishments weren't useless people. The only reason why they hadn't found anything in the past decades was that they had been heading in the wrong direction from the start.
The person they were looking for wasn't in the taverns or taverns. Rather, it was somewhere else.
"Make the arrangements and have them carry it out immediately."
Recovering from his daze, Wang Chong waved his hands.
"Yes, gongzi."
After a moment of hesitation, Miyasame Ayaka nodded.
Outside the railing, a huge crowd could be seen. Standing in the tavern, Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka didn't attract anyone's attention. In such a luxurious place, there were simply too many scions like Wang Chong.
Time slowly ticked by, and around half a tea's time later, Wang Chong finally stood up. Amidst the bewildered gazes of the crowd, he slowly walked to the railing.
"Whether these Goguryeons are innocent or not, we'll know soon enough."
Wang Chong's gaze swept past the railing and landed on the huge crowd outside.
At this moment, time seemed to have stopped.
Peng!
Without any warning, Wang Chong raised his right leg and stomped lightly on the ground. Peng! In the next instant, an invisible ripple spread out in all directions with Wang Chong at the center.
In the most prosperous area of the Goguryeon-Controlled territory in the west of the city, Wang Chong released his Bane of the Battlefield halo.
The royal court had never been able to differentiate between real Goguryeon merchants and Goguryeon assassins. But Wang Chong was different.
The Bane of the Battlefield halo was the best way to identify such Goguryeons!
Weng!
The crowd outside the railing was silent, and there didn't seem to be any changes.
"Hmm?"
Looking outside, Wang Chong's eyebrows shot up, "Did I guess wrongly?"
Just when Wang Chong thought that his Bane of the Battlefield halo was ineffective, a sudden change occurred. In Wang Chong's sight, a white ripple suddenly appeared amidst the crowd, enveloping a plump man who seemed to be a wealthy merchant of the Central Plains.
Then, a second, a third, a third …
Eleven, twelve, thirteen …
Thirty, forty, fifty …
…
In just a short period of time, several hundred ripples of light appeared amidst the crowd in Golden Sky Gambling Den. Weng! In just an instant, the white ripples vanished without a trace. It was so fast that one thought it was just an illusion.
On the second floor of the tavern, Miyasame Ayaka and the Zhuang Clan's cavalrymen and the Chi Clan's guards had already noticed them. Even Wang Chong himself was so stunned that he couldn't speak.
The surroundings were deathly silent!
"To think that … there would be so many of them!"
The phenomenon caused by the Bane of the Battlefield only lasted for a short instant before vanishing. However, Wang Chong's heart was in turmoil.
In Wang Chong's initial plan, the Bane of the Battlefield halo was to identify the few Goguryeons in the crowd. But the outcome far exceeded Wang Chong's expectations.
There were actually several hundred orthodox Goguryeon warriors in the vicinity of a Golden Sky Gambling Den. This number far exceeded Wang Chong's expectations.
Furthermore, at the very last moment, Wang Chong clearly saw that the Goguryeon warriors were dressed in Han attire. Regardless of how they moved, it was impossible to discern them at all.
— — Wang Chong's conjecture had been verified.
"Did you see it clearly?"
Wang Chong asked.
Behind him, it was quiet. Everyone was stunned by the scene just now.
"Un. Gongzi, you've really guessed it! "
Miyasame Ayaka took in a deep breath. Deep astonishment could be heard in her voice. She had no idea how those white ripples appeared.
But after hearing Wang Chong's warning, no matter how slow Miyasame Ayaka's reaction was, she could easily guess that those caught in the white ripples were the real targets.
But wasn't this number a little too much?
"Lord, these Goguryeons …"
"Shut up. Stop talking! "
Behind her, the Zhuang Clan cavalrymen and Chi Clan guards were shocked as well. But before they could finish their words, Miyasame Ayaka had already interrupted them.
This place was too sensitive, and it wasn't a good place to talk about the Goguryeons.
It would have been fine if she didn't know, but now that she did, the atmosphere in this place immediately changed. Even Miyasame Ayaka couldn't help but reveal a fearful expression.
"Hehe, don't bother too much about it. You should have seen the situation clearly, right? Let's settle the bill and leave! "
In contrast to Miyasame Ayaka's wariness, Wang Chong smiled calmly. Flinging his sleeves, he pushed aside the chair by the side and left the tavern.
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