Twang! Twang, twang!
Three successive tremors of vibrating bowstrings rang out.
Blood Spider's figure suddenly fell backward, slamming into the camp gate!
An arrow struck each of her shoulders, and another pierced her left leg. The three arrows pinned her body firmly to the gate, leaving her utterly unable to struggle.
Blood streamed down the wooden posts of the gate.
Gan Ning put away his greatbow and slowly walked over.
"I didn't shoot her vital points. I left her alive."
Gan Ning snorted. "Just as Bai Pu expected, the enemy really did send an assassin specifically to kill the rising talents who have recently made a name for themselves in our army! I want to see who sent her."
Bai Pu shook his head. "I'm afraid you won't get anything out of her."
Sure enough, when Gan Ning reached the gate, he discovered that Blood Spider had already stopped breathing! A trickle of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.
"I don't know whose death warrior she was, but she was formidable." Gan Ning's expression turned grave.
But Bai Pu could not say that Blood Spider was an awakened examinee, and that she had come to kill him merely to eliminate a competitor.
From his and Inkfish's perspective, they could see Blood Spider's slightly illusory figure transform into light and vanish. She had clearly returned to the real world.
"General Gan, although we failed to capture her alive, killing the assassin is still a great merit. At the very least, our soldiers no longer need to fear an assassin's attacks."
Bai Pu could only console him.
Gan Ning looked somewhat regretful. He had joined the Sun clan of Jiangdong quite some time ago, yet he had never found a good chance to earn merit.
With that, Gan Ning waved