Bodyguard Ambush

Inside the small courtyard room, Xiao Cui's footsteps gradually faded away, and a hint of relief appeared on Gu Sheng's face.

"Speak! Why were you shouting and screaming!"

Gu Sheng rather roughly pulled Li Qingyu's delicate head over. If this little girl didn't give him a reasonable explanation, he wouldn't easily let her off.

"How can you blame me!"

Li Qingyu pouted her small mouth, feeling extremely aggrieved, "It's fine if you kidnap someone, but you were planning to do that kind of thing to me. What's with that! Not professional at all, where's your professional ethics..."

Li Qingyu accused Gu Sheng of the shameless act of 'playing with' a young girl, saying that he, as a kidnapper, was not professional at all and had a tendency to develop into a lecherous villain. These words made Gu Sheng feel a little embarrassed. He seemed to have gone a bit too far, even now he was still kneading the little girl's face.

Her pink and tender little face looked flushed, but Gu Sheng's 'contribution' was not small, he 'deserved the credit' for each and every mark.

"Enough!"

Gu Sheng didn't want to lose face in front of the little girl, being rendered speechless by a girl, it would be embarrassing to tell others!

"But it's true! Where did I go wrong..."

Li Qingyu's eyes rolled, and then she continued to enumerate Gu Sheng's faults. She had already seen that this guy probably didn't really have any malicious intentions towards her, and might just want to kidnap her to earn a sum of money! If that's the case, she'd tell Qin Da and the others to be a little gentler later, and leave him here to relieve her boredom!

"You little..."

Gu Sheng was just about to launch another verbal attack when suddenly his ears twitched, and a flash of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes. He still vividly remembered how he had only discovered Qin Da when he reached the door.

At that time, he had too little experience and didn't pay attention to the surrounding movements at all times. With the successful cultivation of Inner Force boxing, he was very sensitive to the sound of human heartbeats, and before a martial artist reached the Innate stage, the sound of their heartbeat was difficult to conceal. Therefore, he could have discovered Qin Da's traces much earlier.

"Hmph~ Good methods!"

Gu Sheng chopped a palm at the back of Li Qingyu's neck, and the incessant flow of words stopped abruptly. This poor little girl lost her last 'pure land', lost control of her body, and could do nothing but blink her eyes.

Gu Sheng suddenly stood up, his eyes shining brightly. He had underestimated this 'colleague'. She looked like a soft and weak White Rabbit, allowing him to 'ravage' and bully her, but she had actually set him up in this situation. She must have sent a message to the maid outside when she just started speaking!

That maid was indeed clever, he had been observing her all the time and hadn't noticed any flaws at the time. But now that he thought about it, her heartbeat did change at that time, but he had focused most of his attention on her young mistress and hadn't paid much attention.

In the end, it was still a lack of experience. Although his theoretical plan could be called perfect, the actual operation was another matter. Neither Gu Sheng nor Teng Qinghu had any experience with similar things, and it was normal for them to reveal flaws on their first outing.

"Hmph~"

Gu Sheng's gaze constantly swept across every corner of the room, especially the positions of the doors and windows, his ears perked up, listening for movements outside at any time. Before long, a large number of people had arrived outside, surrounding the room tightly.

The ability of the commander outside was still quite good. Under his command, nearly a hundred martial artists had taken their positions without making too much noise. If Gu Sheng hadn't noticed it in advance, he might really have been caught off guard.

"What's going on!"

A burst of hurried footsteps came, it seemed that Lord Li had arrived.

"Lord!"

Qin Da, with a stern expression, lowered his voice and said, "The young mistress's maid, Xiao Cui, reported that the young mistress may have been kidnapped by the assassin who killed Qin San."

"Assassin!"

Lord Li frowned, his brow furrowing deeply. He knew that panicking wouldn't solve anything. "If you try to save her, how confident are you? Qingyu can't get hurt!"

Lord Li was most concerned about his daughter's safety. He lost his wife in middle age, and although he had married many concubines afterwards, he had not had any children, only this one daughter, Li Qingyu.

Qin Da thought for a while and replied, "This subordinate doesn't dare to say I have complete certainty, I can only say I'll try!"

"Trying to save her is fine, but once Qingyu is in danger, immediately withdraw and don't provoke the other party."

Lord Li's voice contained a hint of ruthlessness at the end. As a big businessman, he was determined to gamble in order to save his daughter, but he would never allow the guards to act recklessly in order to gain merit when his daughter was in danger.

"Yes!"

Qin Da nodded and gestured to the other three people who were obviously guard leaders, and the other three nodded at the same time.

The two carefully paced to the left and right windowsills, and another one, perhaps having practiced Inner Force body techniques, silently came to the roof. And Qin Da slowed down his pace and walked towards the main entrance.

"Four second-rate experts attacking from all sides, they really think highly of me!"

Gu Sheng's gaze swept over the four positions without a trace, and he took out a few small bottles from his arms and held them in his hand. This time, he came prepared for the sake of a smooth operation!

"Move!"

With a low shout, explosions and roars came from the four directions at the same time, and the small bottles in Gu Sheng's hand were also shot towards the four directions at the same moment. Although he didn't have Teng Qingshan's powerful hidden weapon skills, this trick was also practiced in the mountains.

"Peng! Peng! Peng!"

The three figures who shattered the tiles and fell from the left and right windows were simultaneously enveloped in a cloud of green mist. The three martial artists were suddenly attacked and knew that something was wrong, and reacted quickly by retreating and dodging.

Qin Da, who came from the main entrance, reacted even faster. Gu Sheng's small bottle was wrapped in his outer robe and thrown away before it could be detonated by Inner Force, and then his movements still rushed towards Gu Sheng and Li Qingyu in the center of the study at an extremely fast speed.

"So strong!"

These two words flashed through Gu Sheng's mind. This Qin Da obviously hadn't learned any special Inner Force body techniques, but his straight-line speed was probably three points faster than Gu Sheng in Horizon Strider state.

Unfortunately, although he solved Gu Sheng's hidden hand, he was still delayed for a moment. This little bit of time was enough for Gu Sheng to grab Li Qingyu and use his body technique to avoid pursuit.

"Peng~"

Qin Da's sword fingers forcefully poked at the position where Gu Sheng had just been, and a bowl-sized hole appeared on the desk behind.

"Damn it!"

Qin Da's gaze turned, Gu Sheng was standing with Li Qingyu a zhang (3.3 meters) away from him, one hand clasping the delicate neck of the young mistress, ruthlessly locking it, and the young mistress's face had changed color.

"Release our young mistress!"

Qin Da sternly pointed at Gu Sheng with his finger, the sword energy in his fingertips contained but not released. Although the three were so close, he didn't have complete confidence that he could kill the enemy with one blow while saving the young mistress.

"Back off!"

Gu Sheng held the young mistress Li Qingyu in front of him as a shield with both hands. Now was not the time to cherish the fairer sex!