""Enjoy it?""
That voice appeared in An Zhe"s mind once more. It was both sudden and terrifying.
Andersen felt like a prisoner being watched from time to time, and the prisoner was the jailer.
He did not have any secrets while he was in prison. The other party knew everything about him.
As for himself, he didn"t even know who the other party was. There was a cold wall between the two of them, but the wall was only useful to An Zaiyue.
There was something very strange in his voice. It was as if he couldn"t believe it and was taking it for granted.
""Even I am a little surprised. When a person explodes with his full strength, he can actually reach a terrifying level.""
Your potential really makes me look at you in a new light. The reason why I chose you back then was because your blood was boiling.
""Now it seems that I have indeed underestimated you.""
""Who are you!""
An Zeng struggled to stand up and roared, but he didn"t know where that person was.
His voice unscrupulously echoed in An Zhe"s mind, seemingly containing some mockery. ""With your current strength, you can"t do anything to me.""
Was there a kind of shame about being watched?
I look forward to your performance.
However, I have already retracted the power I just lent you.
If you want to experience that kind of beauty again, you need to work harder. ""
The voice disappeared. No matter how much An Zhe shouted, he did not appear again.
""You … who are you talking to?""
Chen Zaiyan asked in fear.
An Zaiyan turned around and saw that Chen Zaiyan was completely awake. ""It"s nothing. Perhaps it"s because my body became extremely weak after borrowing some sort of divine artifact"s power that I had hallucinations. I"m fine now.""
Chen did not understand the matters of the cultivators, so he did not doubt what An Zhe said.
He felt that An Zhe didn"t have the strength to kill so many experts by himself. Otherwise, why would An Zhe have suffered so many injuries in the beginning?
It was obvious that An Zaiyue did not want others to know that he had some sort of divine artifact on him, which was why he had used it at such a crucial moment.
But no matter what, the danger in front of him had been averted.
But at that moment, the a.s.sa.s.sins on top of the city walls saw that Chen Zhiyan wasn"t killed, so they all rushed down from the city walls towards An Zeng"s group.
At this moment, An Zhe was completely exhausted. He couldn"t even stand properly. He didn"t even have the strength to continue fighting.
As he saw the a.s.sa.s.sins pounce on him, the distant Hortang, who had just ripped off an a.s.sa.s.sin, rushed over and arrived first.
He stood in front of An Zhe and pointed his finger forward.
Her finger pointed at the air, but it was as if it was touching water. The air rippled, and a circle of visible ripples appeared.
As Bowen spread out, a bubble appeared around each of the a.s.sa.s.sins.
At first, they didn"t notice, but by the time they realized what was wrong, it was too late.
The middle finger of Huodan Tang"s left index finger was pressed together. He stood upright as he muttered a word, ""Exterminate!""
The bubbles were all shattered, and the people inside were all blown to bits.
Such a quiet, gentle and weak girl was actually so terrifying when she killed someone.
An Zaiyue didn"t see the scene of her ripping the a.s.sa.s.sin apart with her hands. Otherwise, he was afraid that she would be even more shocked.
Four or five a.s.sa.s.sins were killed by the bubbles, not even a complete corpse was left.
At this time, the imperial guards who had rushed down from the city wall finally arrived.
They formed a line of defense outside of An Zaiyan and Chen Zaiyan. However, there were no more a.s.sa.s.sins alive at the moment.
A moment later, King Yan, Mu Changyan, walked over while being escorted by everyone. When he saw that most of the military officials had been killed, his eyes turned red.
""I was unable to protect you, I was guilty of being alone!""
Chen Zaiyan quickly kneeled down. ""How can we blame the King for this? If he hadn"t brought us out of the Ministry of Justice"s prison, we might have died already.""
Mu Changyan turned around and looked at the broken limbs on the ground. The viciousness in her eyes almost solidified, ""These people are already audacious … It seems that their target is you, but if you can kill me as well, they won"t give up.""
An Chengli!
""I"ll have people investigate this matter strictly and apprehend them one by one. I"d like to see just how many people will die alone!""
An Chengli took the life of the leader and turned around to arrange for the pursuing of the a.s.sa.s.sins who had just escaped.
Mu Changyan ordered loudly, ""Protect An Chou, Chen Zaiyan and the rest and bring them to the East Warm Pavilion of Empyrean Terminus Palace.""
In the future, I"ll stay in the same room as you. I"ll have to see if those people have the guts to commit murder in the East Warm Pavilion!
Even if Chen Zaiyan was guilty, it was not for others to kill him. He would only kill himself! ""
An entourage of imperial guards helped An Zeng, Chen Zaiyan and the others to their feet. They left the vicinity of the city gate and returned to the East Warm Pavilion at the fastest speed possible.
In an empty room, An Zeng and Chen Zaiyan were lying on separate beds. The imperial physician had already come over to bandage their wounds before leaving to prepare the medicine.
At this moment, only An Zeng and Chen Zaiyan were left in the room, it was extremely quiet.
""Thank you.""
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Zaiyan suddenly said thank you.
An Zhan shook his head, ""No need to thank me. If it was anyone else, I would have saved them as well.""
Chen Zaiyan was stunned for a moment. ""Are you saving people for this country?""
An Zhan smiled, ""Mister Chen, you think too much of me, I don"t have such a big heart.""
I only saved people because I wanted to save them. I just didn"t want to see people like you die.
To put it bluntly, my saving you had nothing to do with you. It"s just that I don"t want my conscience to be reprimanded in the future.
This has nothing to do with whether or not you are a member of the War Department. Even if you are an ordinary citizen, I feel that if he doesn"t deserve to die, I will save him as well.
""On the contrary, if I think he deserves to die, then no matter what his ident.i.ty is, I will kill him if I can.""
After being silent for a long time, Chen said, ""You are a very strange person … In this world, there are perhaps not many people like you.""
Some say that when a person can really do something wrong with a person, then he is possessed.
And when a person really does something wrong, then he is a saint. ""
An Zaiyue replied, ""It"s not that mysterious. I"m just an ordinary person who has his own views of right and wrong and has his own bottom line.""
I believe that the majority of people in this world are like me. However, some people feel that they are not that powerful, so they gradually lower their bottom line, never accepting certain things from others and become tacit and obedient.
But when they are capable, I am sure they will not remain indifferent to all the injustices. ""
Chen Zaiyan said, ""Human nature isn"t as beautiful as you think it is. Most people, even if they want to fight back, wait until it comes down to themselves.""
""As long as it doesn"t concern them, they won"t interfere in anything even if it"s not fair.""
Anjou did not want to argue with him, for Anjou knew that there were many people like himself who had persevered.
""Have you ever thought, because you saved me, that you might become a mortal enemy of the Empress Dowager?"" Chen asked.
They"ll try to get rid of you, just as they try to get rid of me now.
""They won"t allow anyone to stop them when they are powerful. They just want to make all those who dare to resist feel fear.""
An Zhan continued, ""If there"s no one to stop them, then wouldn"t they be even more powerful? Furthermore, they would be so powerful that they would be able to enjoy a smooth sailing.""
""You are not like me,"" Chen said. ""You may not have the idea of being the first person to die if the world is going to change and start with the dead.""
I had to do it at the most crucial and important time, with the fact that my death could trigger some changes.
Otherwise my death would be meaningless.
""But you are different, your good and evil are very clear, very direct, we are two kinds of people.""
As An Zeng lay there looking at the ceiling, he couldn"t help but think of one thing.
But he didn"t know if this was the right time to ask, because if he did, it might change a lot.
So he was silent.
Chen Zaiyan also looked at the roof and seemed a little sad, ""But you and I have some similarities, you and I seem to be walking on a narrow path, b.u.mpy … No, it"s not a path, it"s a one-way street.
In order to protect the right and wrong in your heart, in order to pursue the true power of this country, I walked on such a path.
If he was not careful, he would fall into the abyss and never be able to recover.
""But I also know that you and I are the kind of people who would never back down just because you walk on a single path, even if there are criminals blocking the way on a single path.""
An Zhan still did not say anything, and his mood became even worse.
Chen"s words stabbed his heart like needles.
Was Chen Zeyan a good man?
Not really.
Was Chen Zaiyan a good official?
Probably.
Because of the existence of people like Chen Zaiyan, the Yan Country, which had already been riddled with injuries, would continue to struggle with their lives on the line.
Once the empress dowager and her men truly took over power, the Yan Kingdom would most likely be on the verge of destruction as well.
By now, An Zaiyue already knew what the empress dowager"s goal was. She was an extremely selfish person, so she was extremely resentful.
Her goal was to control all of Great Yan"s strength and then take revenge on her home country.
Not only did she want to destroy the Yan Country, she also wanted to destroy the Zhao Country.
On the other hand, the State of Zhao probably didn"t notice it at all.
Zhao thought that Empress Dowager Su was doing this to repay her mother, so he sent hundreds of envoys to support her during the ceremony.
Chen Zaiyan was still muttering to himself. Perhaps this experience would have a profound effect on him. Even if he thought that he was someone who had experienced many vicissitudes of life, this was the first time such a life-and-death situation had occurred.
There were no words Chen Zaiyan said in An Zaiyan"s ears, his mind was a little muddled.
A lot of people appeared out of the corner he was hiding in, making An Zhe feel more and more irritated.
Chen Zaiyan"s incessant chatter had almost reached the critical point in the dispute.
Chen was still talking about his life, his ambitions, and his future.
He wanted to turn the Great Swallow into a powerful country. He wanted to be the most important partic.i.p.ant in this process.
Even though he didn"t want to hear a single word, the words still entered his mind.
The words seemed to become threads, lines that eventually formed a human face in the mind of the struggle.
That face was kind and firm.
An Zaiyan finally couldn"t take it anymore. He turned to Chen Zeyan and asked, ""There"s something I wanted to ask you when we faced a desperate situation below the city wall.""
But at that time, I still didn"t ask, because you and I might die, and since we are going to die, many things are no longer important.
""Now you and I are not dead, so I have an answer.""
""What is it?"" Chen asked.
An Zaiyan looked into Chen Zhiyan"s eyes and asked word by word, ""Elder Shang Shun, Hao Ping, did you kill him?""
Chen Zaiyan"s expression changed drastically, as if he had aged a few decades in an instant.
His eyes began to flicker, not daring to meet An Zaihai"s gaze.
The two of them seemed to have fallen into an ice cave at the same time, and the surrounding air was also frozen at the same time.
It was as if a century had pa.s.sed, and Chen had turned a blind eye to it.
""Yes sir!""
he said.