Chapter 229

There’s Already Someone in My Arms (1)

Expendable

What a cruel word.

His pair of eyes widened, before he stuttered, “Zhou Gu, have you forgotten what I told you before? Your son’s death was caused by the Wen Family!”

Chief Zhou laughed coldly and looked at him as if he was a dead man.

“I remember.”

He extended a hand, signaling the people around him to raise their bloodied swords.

“But Yong’er is not the only son I have.”

His ruthless voice faded away slowly. In the next second, a nightmarishly desperate cry could be heard in the gloomy darkness. The voice traveled far and wide throughout the woods, causing the few people listening to become horrified.

The aristocratic family holds quite a few positions in court. At this time, some were on a mission and walked purposefully through the forest. Others were terrified and pale, desperately wishing for this game of life-and-death to end soon.

Before entering the woods, they already had a hunch that the game tonight was not one they wanted to play around with. Their hunch was correct, but they didn’t know who to seek for protection!

In the deepest part of the forest, Mo Linyuan was holding onto a bow and arrow, while freely bringing Ye Mu around the forest!

He seemed to be in a good mood. His eyes shined faintly in the dark. Suddenly, he swiftly braced his bow and shot an arrow. The sound of a scream quickly followed, indicating the violent death of the ambusher.

Ye Mu was stupefied, “Who did you just kill?” His murderous intent didn’t waver at all. Were all these people spies?

Mo Linyuan hugged her waist and said in a low voice, “All my supporters are already secretly protected by me. Everyone in the forest is expendable!”

Ye Mu trembled in her sleeveless garment. Everyone in the forest is expendable?

Why does this ruthless sentence sound so unsettling?

The sound of numerous galloping horses was headed their way. Mo Linyuan calmly swerved in another direction. Right after, a group of people flew right past them!

“Search thoroughly, we must find the emperor! He only brought four guards with him. Find him!”

Ye Mu could feel their killing intent as they searched throughout the forest. She suddenly realized that the reason why tonight’s absurd game went smoothly was because Mo Linyuan used his life as bait. Normally, when he had a lot of people guarding him, others knew they shouldn’t attack. However, by participating in this game, everyone was stuck in the same situation so there was no other choice but to fight for survival!

After hearing them go farther away into the distance, Ye Mu then asked in a low voice, “What exactly do you want to accomplish tonight? What unresolvable conflicts made you use this method?”

Mo Linyuan patted her head, replying tenderly, “Little Mu’er, it’s true that we could resolve some conflicts with words, but when no one wants to back down, words can only go so far. If we want to break through this deadlock, we must make sacrifices. Yet, no one is willing to be sacrificed, so why not give everyone a fighting chance in battle.”

Ye Mu’s heart skipped a beat, “This is such a mess. If the amount of deaths were discovered tomorrow, how are you going to explain it to the hundreds of other governing officials?”

Mo Linyuan paused, then hugged her tightly. He whispered coldly, “As long as enough people die, that wouldn’t be a problem.”

After all, dead people don’t have the ability to bring any trouble.

Mo Linyuan confidently smiled and reassured her, “Whether you believe it or not, after this is over, no matter how many people died, they will act like this didn’t happen. I’d even say that everyone will only treat this as an accident.”

Ye Mu pondered over this, her heart trembling.

That’s right, if the people that died were important, then their supporters would have lost their higher ups. They naturally wouldn’t be able to protest. What’s more, for people who actually benefit from this battle, they would have even less to protest about.

That’s to say, this was a thrilling game of murder, with each person participating having a target in mind. Once involved, they were all driven to make life-and-death decisions