"Director, it's done!"
"Assemble outside town. Prepare to withdraw!"
"Yes! Hurry, assemble!"
"Where are we going?"
Qin Shu followed behind Guo Dundun. Small and short-legged, he could only jog to keep up as best he could.
"To the next target." To rendezvous with Wu Bai.
Yet what he feared still happened. When they reached the location agreed upon with Wu Bai, no one was there. Not only was it deserted, something felt eerily wrong.
Guo Dundun had just realized something was amiss and was about to order a withdrawal.
The next second, a huge crowd suddenly appeared all around the previously tranquil valley. Judging by the sea of bobbing heads, there had to be twenty or thirty thousand of them.
Only then did he realize they had walked into an ambush. That damned Wu Bai.
"Where are you going?"
At that moment, Mr. Zuo abruptly appeared at the valley entrance, completely blocking their retreat. Behind him, Wu Bai was bound hand and foot, without a single patch of intact flesh left on his body. His eyes had been gouged out, leaving two horrifying bloody holes.
He tossed Wu Bai at his feet and looked at Guo Dundun with undisguised mockery. "You thought someone with this level of intelligence could fool me? I, Zuo Xianning, have roamed Beihai for thirty years. I've weathered far more storms than brats like you. You thought a mere feint to the east while striking west could deceive me? You're still far too green!"
Guo Dundun's pupils suddenly contracted. This Zuo Xianning fellow before him was actually a Transcendent Master. They were screwed.
Immediately, he quietly passed Qin Shu to the men behind him and instructed them, "Protect him when the fighting starts. Don't try to hold them off by force. Get as many people out