Chapter 256 - Double Kill
The Empress' Livestream
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In just one blink, Jiang Pengji had already taken off several heads without hesitation. The decisive and merciless look on her face shocked even the real assassins.
They were no match to an opponent like Jiang Pengji, and they had the intention to withdraw because they wouldnât be able to fight against her. Without hesitation, their heads were separated from their bodies.
There were dozens of dead bodies lying around Jiang Pengji. Without exception, they were all killed with only one strike. Some died from their throats being slashed open and others were decapitated. Their heads flew into the air and their blood splashed all over. Some of the heads were still partly attached to their necks; they werenât going to come off entirely.
Compared to the heavy losses of the assassins, Jiang Pengji didnât even have a scratch on her. There was sticky blood dripping from her blade nonstop.
âLetâs go! What are you afraid of? Letâs all go!â one of the âbanditsâ yelled at the others furiously. But his accomplices didnât feel encouraged at all. Instead, they were more frightened.
They paused their forward steps and took a step backward. Their faces were full of confusion and fright. They were nearly scared to death. No one wanted to risk coming near her, even though they still had the preponderance in people.
Who would take the frontline? The ones who just did all became dead bodies lying on the ground. Their blood was still hot.
The longer the stalemate they were in, the more scared they were. The big swords in their hands wouldnât bring them any sense of security at all.
Watching them act in such a way, Jiang Pengji couldnât help but sneer at them. âYou bunch of guys are as timid as mice.â
If they left everything behind and focused on defeating her, she might take them seriously. She would even look up to them.
After all, no matter how excellent her martial skills were, she wouldnât be able to dodge the swarm of blades coming towards her.
However, they flashed their fear to her just after a few dozen of their accomplices had their heads cut off and they attempted to retreat. People like them would always be âpower level fives,â even if they had the most advanced laser weapons in their hands instead of plain swords. Jiang Pengji wouldnât waste much time on slaughtering them.
Just because they showed the desire to retreat didnât mean Jiang Pengji would do the same.
She walked closer to her enemies by stomping hard against the ground. She shortened the distance between them quickly.
In the âbanditsââ eyes, it seemed like Jiang Pengji took off from the spot she was at and moved right in front of their faces in a second. She was crazy fast.@@novelbin@@
âGhost!â A âbanditâ was so terrified that he couldnât help but scream that out. Before he got the next word out, he felt something cold against his throat and the next second something hot surged out of the opening. His brain stopped and everything he saw faded and turned to grey.
It was not a matched kill. But the one who had the advantage was not the âbandits,â who had the numbers, but Jiang Pengji, who was soaked with blood.
Cheng Cheng and his wife were stunned where they were standing. They thought it was going to be a firm death for them, but it turned out they could be snatched from the jaws of death.
Mrs. Cheng pressed her lips together and supported her injured husband on the side so they wouldnât get involved in the fight. Cheng Cheng didnât forget what Jiang Pengji said to him earlier. He grasped his wifeâs hands hard as thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind.
âHusband...â Mrs. Cheng looked up to her husband and inquired about his thoughts with her eyes.
âDonât worry. Letâs wait a little longer.â He tapped the back of her hands to ease her anxiety.
While they were talking, Jiang Pengji had taken some more lives without hesitation. It seemed like she had taken a blood bath and it was impossible to tell the original color of her clothes. She was no different from a demon who stepped out of hell. This time, the âbanditsâ were truly scared to death. They couldnât control their legs.
But they never forgot their mission. They didnât have to do harm to Jiang Pengji if they were not able to, but they could kill Cheng Cheng anyway. If they didnât, their families would be killed and the would never find their bodies.
With that realization, they decided to work together to stall Jiang Pengji and send the others to finish off Cheng Cheng and his wife.
âHusband!â Mrs. Cheng noticed the two people rushing out of the crowd. It was such an emergency that she had to stand up to block her husband.
Everything happened so fast. Cheng Cheng saw them, but his wounds stopped him from avoiding the sword. His last bit of energy could only help him stand up. When he realized what was happening, he quickly reacted to shove the enemies away. The two swords were almost at his head.
Cheng Cheng was so frightened and shouted, âWife!â
However, neither him nor his wife, who had her eyes closed were waiting for the pain, got the swords they expected.
The huge swords stopped in the air and it seemed like there was a pause of time. The facial expressions on the two âbanditsââ faces paused at the moment of ecstasy. They saw that Cheng Cheng and his wife were dead, but it only turned out to be an illusion.
âI told you, just come and fight however you want. It will be my loss if you canât cross the line.â Jiang Pengjiâs sword was no longer in her hands. It seemed like that the two pausing âbanditsâ lives were taken by the âdisappearing sword.â Except the viewers in the streaming room, no one had any clue how she did that.
The two âbanditsâ didnât stand abreast, or front and back. How did she finish them both with one strike?
Jiang Pengji had her back to the two âbanditsâ and she had her hands tied up by the other enemies. How did she do that?
Everyone was at an important juncture of life and death. They didnât have much time to pay attention to that. From their current perspective, they werenât able to see the whole picture. But the viewers in the streaming saw what exactly had happened in that moment very clearly.
Laosiji Lianmeng: âItâs so cool. I noticed that the sword curved when our host threw it.â
Yin Yuejia Zhuge Qinmo: âBeautiful double kill!â
Da Zhuangzhu Furen: âI screamed out just now. My roommate really worried about me for a second. Itâs so thrilling.â
Yueye Huangye: âWhat our host just did made me fall in love with her. I really want to give you a whole pile of likes.â
The viewers gave her a series of likes and Jiang Pengji was nearly drowned by all kinds of rewards from her viewers.
The System normally would have bugged her when she received such a big surge of rewards like that, but it remained weirdly silent like it didnât exist anymore. No one understood, but Jiang Pengji was well aware why it reacted like that.
Kekou Kele: âWait up, our host doesnât have any weapon in her hands. What will she do???â
This bullet screen stood out and the viewers who sent all the likes to Jiang Pengji quivered at the idea.
Jiang Pengji had sneakily attacked the two âbanditsâ with her sword in order to save the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Cheng. She rescued Cheng Cheng and his wife from the dilemma but she trapped herself in a dead end. She no longer had possession of a weapon except for her own fists, while all the âbanditsâ surrounding her had big, sharp swords.
Cheng Cheng put his arms around his wife in fear. He spotted Jiang Pengjiâs situation, moved his lips, but didnât say a word to remind her.