Chapter 186 The Darkness Before Dawn (Part )

Zhang Shao was so excited that his hands were shaking. He gently held up the two crystals with his hands without blinking his eyes. At the same time, he murmured madly, "You have performed a great deed. Tell me, what do you want? Beauty? Wealth? I can give you everything!"

Rapid success is what most people dream of. Faced with wealth and glory that is within reach, no one will refuse it.

However, at this moment, the imagined scene of gratitude did not appear, and there was no voice responding to Zhang Shao.

Zhang Shao subconsciously turned his eyes away from the crystal and glanced at the cloaked soldier in front of him: "What's the matter? Just tell me, even if you want the position of a centurion, I can give it to you."

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Shao's voice suddenly stopped.

Because at this moment, with the light emitted by the energy crystal, Zhang Shao clearly saw the face of the soldier in front of him.

That familiar face, although expressionless, looked extremely terrifying under the red light emitted by the energy crystal!
The two energy crystals fell powerlessly from Zhang Shao's hands and rolled onto the dark ground, dyeing everything within three meters around them a hellish blood red.

"what!!!"

As if he had seen the most terrifying monster in the world, Zhang Shao suddenly screamed and fell back to the ground. Then, almost subconsciously, he began to crawl backwards frantically, as if he was trying his best to escape from the terrible nightmare.

Wasn't that soldier assassinated by Master Yuange?
Zhang Shao was extremely frightened and couldn't figure it out, but there was at least one thing he was very clear about: this situation was definitely not a good sign!
Gollum—

At this moment, a hot spherical object rolled in front of Zhang Shao, blocking his way to survival, accompanied by a strong and pungent smell of blood.

With the help of the enchanting red light and firelight, Zhang Shao saw the spherical object clearly, which was clearly the head of his confidant!
Zhang Shao raised his head in horror, only to see Fei Yi, the soldier who had been "fawning" on him, holding a torch in one hand and a bloody black sword in the other, staring at him coldly like a wolf. At Fei Yi's feet, Fan Qiang's headless body was still bleeding warm blood.
Zhang Shao, feeling as if he were falling into an ice cellar, suddenly realized that all this was just a long-planned trap!

Almost at the same time, a dark golden sword, like the scythe of the god of death, slowly rested on Zhang Shao's neck from behind.

"You never thought that you would end up like this?" A deep voice without any emotion sounded slowly from the darkness behind him.

"What do you want?" Zhang Shao did not turn around, but just knelt on the ground, not daring to move even a finger, because he knew very well that behind him was an executioner who killed people without blinking an eye.

However, in this brief moment, Zhang Shao calmed down instead.

Since the soldier didn't kill him right away, it meant that he had some concerns. That's right! He was the son of a hero, a descendant of a general from the Kingdom of Shu. What did he have to be afraid of? !
"Stand up." said the soldier behind him.

Zhang Shao did as he was told. He stood up slowly, turned around and looked at the cloaked soldier with a calm smile: "That's right, we can talk slowly about anything, why bother with knives?"

The cloaked soldier looked at Zhang Shao with a blank expression. He was silent for three seconds, then said, "Actually, I wanted to talk to you just now, but... forget it."

He had no time to be afraid, nor time to react. The dark golden sword on Zhang Shao's neck slashed across his neck without hesitation, as easy as cutting tofu.

There was still a smile on Zhang Shao's face, but the light in his astonished eyes suddenly disappeared.

The blade of the dark gold sword was so sharp that it took three seconds before a neat blood mark appeared on Zhang Shao's neck. Afterwards, hot blood gushed out uncontrollably from the crack. As the body fell to the ground, the head on his neck rolled into the grass by the roadside.

In this darkest hour before dawn, Zhang Shao, the son of a famous hero, died here without anyone knowing.
The flesh on Fei Yi's face shuddered subconsciously. He looked at the bloody scene in front of him and listened to the "clicking" sound of heavy metal boots stepping on the ground, which was getting closer and heavier.

"Thank you for your hard work." The cloaked soldier walked closer and said as he put the dark gold sword back into the sheath.

In the flickering orange-yellow firelight, one can clearly see that the soldier's face is calm and composed, chilling people's hearts.

Fei Yi could not associate the soldier in front of him with his usual approachable appearance, and he could not imagine that after personally killing a hero's son of a noble status like Zhang Shao, he could still be so calm and composed. What a cold and strong heart this must have.
A feeling of sincere admiration quietly rose in Fei Yi's heart, causing him to slowly kneel on one knee at the feet of the cloaked soldier.

"I, your subordinate, swear to be loyal to you till death!"

Time still moves forward slowly at an eternal pace, from dusk to midnight to dawn.
When the sky was just beginning to turn pale, Wang Yao finally returned to the vicinity of the first defense tower on the top lane.

"Captain, what should we do next?" asked Fei Yi, who was following behind respectfully.

"Let's go to the first defense tower and meet up with Maomao and the others first." Wang Yao stretched lazily, breathing the morning air of the canyon comfortably, and said, "Then order the troops to have a good rest for two days." "Rest?" Fei Yi was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Are you not going to lead us to continue attacking the tower?"

"Let's not fight anymore. If we go any deeper, we will most likely be attacked from both sides by the enemy." Wang Yao said as he took off the bloodstained magic soldier cloak and threw it into the grass by the roadside.

Luna had already said that except for the top lane, the middle and bottom lanes had not even destroyed the enemy's first tower, and the enemy heroes were simply defending the towers unilaterally. In this case, it was hard for Wang Yao not to suspect whether there was a trap in the top lane that was easily penetrated.

No matter what, the most appropriate choice now is to let the troops rest well, recharge their batteries, gather other lines of troops coming from behind, and then work together with Luna and Huang Zhong to attack the enemy's high ground!

The war will end soon.
Just as Wang Yao was silently making all the plans in his mind, Fei Yi's voice suddenly rang out.

"Captain, you said before that you have ordered our troops to stay at the first defense tower and wait for orders. Is that right?"

"Any problem?" Wang Yao looked at Fei Yi.

Fei Yi pointed ahead blankly and said, "You should take a look for yourself."

Wang Yao subconsciously looked forward, only to find that the towering figure of the first defense tower had appeared in the distance without him noticing. However, under the tower, which should have been crowded with soldiers, was now——

Empty.

"Could it be that all these soldiers are hiding in the bushes and sleeping?" Wang Yao half-joked. Having said that, he still couldn't help but quicken his pace and rushed to the first defense tower with Fei Yi.

There was indeed no one around the defense tower. Not only that, even the turret on top of the defense tower was unmanned at this time!

Empty tower? What's going on?!

Wang Yao was stunned. Even he had not expected such a strange scene. Almost at the same time, for some unknown reason, Wang Yao suddenly began to feel uneasy.
"Ayao!!"

A hoarse cry suddenly rang out without any warning.

Wang Yao and Fei Yi's faces changed. They glanced to the side almost at the same time and saw a dark shadow staggering towards them from a distance in the hazy morning mist.

It was a soldier from Shu Kingdom. He looked in a very bad condition, as if he had just been in a battle. He was covered in blood, and his clothes and armor were full of cracks from swords and axes. His right arm had been chopped off. Blood kept flowing out from the broken part and dripping onto the ground, spreading all the way in a shocking manner.
"Captain, he, he, he is a soldier in the Yao family army!" Fei Yi shouted with a pale face.

“I know!” Wang Yao gritted his teeth and responded. At the same time, in the flash of golden light, he flashed directly in front of the broken-armed soldier: “What’s going on?!”

The soldier with the broken arm, who seemed to have already lost all his strength, fell headfirst into Wang Yao's arms, as if he had used up his last bit of strength. But even so, he still held on to Wang Yao's breastplate tightly, as if holding on to the last glimmer of hope, and shouted weakly and desperately: "Captain of the Thousands! Quick, go and save the Centurions... They, they, they are all trapped in the Wei Highlands!!"

Maomao and the others are in the highlands of Wei State? !

Wang Yao was stunned and panicked.

"Why is this so?!" This shocking news was so sudden that Wang Yao grabbed the soldier's collar and shouted.

Damn it, damn it! Before he left, hadn't he strictly prohibited the troops from leaving the tower without permission, and asked Maomao and the others to stay in the defense tower? !

"Yes, military advisor. He ordered us to attack the Wei State's high ground," the soldier said weakly.

"What a joke!!" Wang Yao felt his head explode with a buzzing sound, his vision went dark, and he almost fell to the ground.

Zhuge Liang's order? How is this possible?!
How could a great military strategist not see that there was a problem on the road? !

What the hell is going on? !

　I have reached the highest level of King, but I am not happy.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)