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Chapter 215 Lend a Hand



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Surrounded by enemy forces on all sides—that described the current situation in the Thirteenth District, while internal strife and external threats were the crisis of the entire empire.

Even though the Thirteenth District within the Empire liked to fight and plunder everywhere, they could unite and fight against foreign races without showing anybody mercy.

The goal of the Radiant Corps tonight was to purge the Thirteenth District, eliminate those decrepit and incompetent old things, and grasp the lifeline of the Empire in their own hands, but now the situation had changed.

Currently, the urban areas were tightly guarded, and figures dressed in black created disturbances everywhere before seizing the opportunity to leave the district to deliver messages.

As for the gates to the northwest, not a single person had attempted to breach them.

The warriors seeking the Green Mist Corps deliberately took a detour, turning towards that direction only after leaving the district, and even then, they maintained a sufficient distance.

After all, the only reason Lord Ying had survived a sniper attack jumping around alive was his own strength; as for them, they'd better not.

In a shadow not far from the West City Gate.

After dodging another patrol of soldiers, the girl listened to the chaotic sounds, faint though they were, from the district and wore a puzzled expression.

Because compared to other places, it was just too quiet here—no one was even running in this direction.

Something was definitely off!

This caused the girl, who was originally planning to scale the wall and leave, to cautiously stay behind and wait, but no matter how she observed, she couldn't find any hidden dangers.

The girl frowned at the bronze walls and iron ramparts nearby, and after a long moment, she turned and left the area.

It was simply too calm for comfort.

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Using the thick night and the curtain of rain as cover, the girl crossed behind a patrol of soldiers on her way to the South City Gate, an experience that could best be described as thrilling yet safe.

Compared to the quiet northwest gate, a large fire had broken out not far from here, causing chaos.

The girl seized the opportunity to shoot a grappling hook into a corner and nimbly scaled the steel city wall, moving into the night as if entering a realm unowned.

Once outside the city, the sky was vast and free for birds to soar.

In the same area but at a different distance, two figures did not pause as they streaked away into the distance, quickly diving into the dense forest to conceal their presence.

At that moment, the sound of something small and sharp cutting through the air suddenly came from behind them in the district.

Brilliant fireworks burst into the high sky.

—What's happened, a signal? Could it be the signal for an offensive in the north? We need to speed up!

—Eh? A signaler? Could it be the Special Envoy launched the signal for the Ninth District to make their move?

The two figures each had different thoughts crossing their minds, but they both accelerated at the same time, the rustling sound particularly clear in the dense forest.

The next moment, the girl abruptly stopped!

The black-clad figure who had been moving through the trees also sensed something amiss and stopped abruptly to look around.

Someone following us?!

It was as if responding to an unfounded intuition, the girl quickly turned her head to look towards a certain part of the tree, and her gaze happened to meet a pair of exceptionally bright eyes in the darkness.

Both immediately took a defensive stance and avoided any rash movements.

The person opposite, aside from those bright eyes that rivaled the moon's glow, was cloaked in black from head to toe and nearly merged with the darkness of the dense forest night.

"Who's there, skulking about so sneakily? Are you too afraid to be seen?" the girl called out first, furrowing her brow in reprimand.

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The person opposite didn't speak, but eyed the girl's figure up and down, coming to an understanding.

Even though it seemed as if the other party was just standing there, she was somehow blurred and indistinct, as if shrouded in a vague distortion.

The slight rain that couldn't penetrate the dense woods only brought a chill moving between branches and leaves, and the spilling Green Mist seemed like the miasma in the mountain forests at night.

Once the black-clad figure had confirmed that the girl's identity posed no threat, he turned and quickly vanished.

The girl immediately tensed up in vigilance, but after a long while, when no attack came, she concluded that the person must have left.

So... just another person trying to escape?

She stood in place for a while longer, then continued running towards the Green Mist Corps' encampment.

Not long after her figure disappeared, the black-clad figure who had just left suddenly appeared on a dark tree branch, closely following behind her.

After all, they were all heading in the same direction.

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In this blood-stained, tumultuous night of dark currents, a burst of fireworks added a dash of color—if that firework held no deeper meaning, it was quite marvelous.

Room 304 on the third floor of the Five-star Hotel.

The Capital Commandant quickly walked to the shattered window, discerned the position of the fireworks, then summoned the soldiers guarding the door to give orders.

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Afterward, he pressed his palm against the windowsill, ready to vault out, but in the next moment, seemingly recalling something, the Capital Commandant stopped his movements with a dark and heavy aura, and without any hesitation, raised his gun to shoot behind him!

Xu Shuo was in the midst of wiping ash from his forehead when he suddenly sensed danger and instinctively tried to dodge to the side.

However, his movements stalled for an instant.

"Bang! Bang!"

Xu Shuo grunted and fell to his knees, cold sweat dripping from his forehead as the Special Envoy beside him covered her mouth with a feigned cry of shock.

The Capital Commandant's eyes were fierce and merciless, like a wild beast choosing its prey: "Keep a close watch on them."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Having said this coldly, he flipped out the window, landing directly on the main street from the third floor's height and swiftly dashed towards the location of the signal transmission.

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Room 304 of the hotel.

Two severely injured people.

Before the Capital Commandant left, he shot Doctor Kong in both legs, and now the blood was pouring out, so the Special Envoy, with a worried face, brought over the freshly packed medical kit.

"Do you need my help?" she asked.

"Thank you, Madam, I can manage on my own," Xu Shuo forced a smile with pale, weak lips.

While feigning a smile, the shoulder he had just bandaged also began to show bloodstains. The Special Envoy watched, feeling strangely that there was a kind of sympathy between them, and her feigned concern began to include a trace of sincerity.

The Special Envoy helped open the medical kit and took things out, sighing, "I had heard before that the Capital Commandant of the Thirteenth District is capricious and tyrannical. I can't believe you used to speak up for him."

But why had the Capital Commandant chosen not to kill this man?

Did he have other uses?

The Special Envoy's gaze flickered slightly, but her expression remained unchanged, secretly sizing up the doctor in front of her.

Upon hearing this, Xu Shuo could only offer a helpless smile, bowing his head to tend to his wounds, with no emotion in his downcast eyes.

Doctor Kong now seemed to pose no threat at all, right?

Aside from a soldier guarding the door, there were just the two severely wounded people with limited mobility left in room 304, an environment even more convenient for action than the rest room.

The Special Envoy did indeed casually survey the surroundings.

But she had not yet found a reason to leave unnoticed; with the injury she had, it was a miracle she hadn't died already, relying on system props. It seemed difficult to escape from the layers of encirclement in the city district.

Not to mention delivering a message to the Ninth District.

It seemed the mission was beyond salvation.

The Special Envoy let out a deep sigh.

The next moment, she suddenly felt drowsy.

This wave of drowsiness hit suddenly, making the Special Envoy instantly vigilant; she tried to look at the person beside her but saw that Doctor Kong, who had been bandaging her wounds, had already fainted, with his leg wounds still unattended!

What was happening?!

She hastily looked toward the soldier at the door, only to find that the poor fellow had already slumped against the doorframe with his head drooping even earlier than they had!

Someone come quickly! We're under attack!

The Special Envoy wanted to scream out loud, but she couldn't muster any strength at all, and eventually, she had to close her eyes in resentment and fall asleep.

After she passed out, Xu Shuo opened his eyes, his calm face devoid of any trace of sleepiness.

He moved the flashlight beam away, then went to remove the thin-as-silk silver needles stuck in the Special Envoy and the soldier. The nearly invisible silver needles were a great tool for a surprise attack.

Without Doctor Kong's memories, Xu Shuo wouldn't have known this technique.

Afterward, in the dimly lit room, a frail girl with double braided ponytails stood up, putting away the dark green Bamboo Joint Cane that appeared in her hand.

Looking pale and fragile with a slim figure, she didn't seem dangerous at all.

The girl ransacked the entire room, not sparing the bathroom toilet, and only then did she walk to the door, pressing down the doorknob.

With a click,

Room 304 opened silently.

The soldiers standing guard in the hallway were on alert and looked over, but when they saw the girl, they inexplicably froze, their eyes locking with her vacant and lifeless ones.

"Where is this?" the girl asked softly.

"Uh... it's a Five-star Hotel," the nearby soldier answered blankly, completely failing to realize why a blind girl had come out from inside.

"I can't see; could you lend me a hand?" the girl said weakly, reaching out from the doorway toward the soldier.

"Oh... oh..."

The soldier instinctively reached out, but in the next instant, the girl who had reached out to him suddenly lunged forward, her scalpel piercing mercilessly through his throat!

Ssst—Blood splattered!

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