Xiang Zhuang acted at once. In the dead of night, dressed entirely in black, she stealthily made her way to the side of Hangu Pass.
As the original protagonist, Xiang Shaolong naturally had a few cheats of his own. For example, he had once created some specialized tools for special forces to scale walls and rooftops. After years of improvements, those tools had been upgraded. The one Xiang Yu now carried was an improved version invented by his father, fitted with a mechanism that could fire it like an arrow and hook onto city walls for climbing.
However, Xiang Yu disliked things that looked like tools for sneaking around, so he gave them to his sworn younger sister instead. Xiang Zhuang, unlike Xiang Yu, adored such little gadgets. She had used them to kill several Qin officers before, and this time, she clearly intended to use the same trick to assassinate Fang Zheng.
Though Hangu Pass was surrounded by perilous cliffs, that was precisely what made it suitable for climbing. Using her grappling hook, Xiang Zhuang, clad in black, swiftly scaled the cliff without much effort and entered Hangu Pass. Yet once inside, the sight before her left her at a loss.
"What am I supposed to do now...?"
Standing atop the cliff, Xiang Zhuang looked ahead and saw Hangu Pass ablaze with light. Though it was night, it was scarcely different from daytime. She did not know whether it was her imagination, but the firelight inside and outside Hangu Pass seemed even brighter than that in her own camp, illuminating the entire pass.
Besides that, Xiang Zhuang could see several strange contraptions set up along both sides of the walls. They looked like cylinders, each containing a huge bronze mirror and a lamp. Light reflected by the bronze mirrors