Chapter 306: The Assassin Arrives
Chapter 306: The Assassin Arrives
He dragged the box to the exact center of the living room, leaving enough space around it.
Li Daoxuan then reached out and tapped the “expand” button.
A brilliant light shone out, making the whole box gleam brightly.
Li Daoxuan’s naked eye couldn’t stand the glare, so he blinked; in that instant between closing and reopening his eyes, the box grew larger…
Its length and width both doubled directly.
It became a massive box five meters long and three meters wide, though the depth remained unchanged—Li Daoxuan could still reach the bottom if he leaned over the edge and stretched his arm down.
Now, Li Daoxuan’s field of view expanded to an enormous range of 1000 by 600 meters, covering the entire Gaojia Fortress, along with surrounding satellite villages, the firearms bureau, the prison, the barracks, the cavalry camp, and all else, instantly entering his sight.
This thrilled him immensely.
After the thrill, he had to consider a practical issue.
The living room was completely filled!
If the Rescue Index increased again and he could “expand” once more, what would he do?
The answer was simple: buy a house.
He had originally been just a freelance designer, relying on six wallets to get a small house to live in Shuangqing City, never daring to dream of buying property in this lifetime. But since acquiring the box and dabbling in Micro-sculpting and videos, he had earned a lot of money; now, the thought of buying a house didn’t faze him at all.
The box might keep expanding over time, so he decided to buy a larger house outright, preferably with a huge garden to place the box in, allowing for an extremely vast field of view when enlarged.
For ample space, buying a villa was best.
The big name “Zhaomu Mountain” immediately flashed into Li Daoxuan’s mind.
The most impressive villas in Shuangqing City’s urban area were mostly near Zhaomu Mountain.
Buying a house couldn’t be done on an online shopping site; he had to go in person.
Li Daoxuan surveyed above Gaojia Village and found it safe; he then clicked on Chengcheng County, seeing Bai Yuan working hard to form the new militia, Mr. Wang assisting the county magistrate with labor relief efforts, and Gao Yiye along with Third Lady leading the pious believers in casting a massive statue for the Deity…
Everything seemed fairly peaceful.
His brief absence should be fine.
Li Daoxuan hurried out the door, hailed a taxi, and rushed toward the largest real estate agency near Zhaomu Mountain.
A decorated villa with a garden and parking spot… looked promising…
…
As the sun set and evening darkened.
Li Daoxuan was still viewing houses, inspecting each detail, and hadn’t made it back home.
Bai Yuan returned to the bookstore in high spirits with two household servants.
Coincidentally, Gao Yiye also returned, trailed by a team of militia soldiers including Ground Rabbit and Zheng Gouzi.
The two met at the bookstore entrance.
Bai Yuan quickly gave Gao Yiye a deep bow. “Saint Lady, this humble one lacks talent, but today’s large militia formation work went smoothly—over fifty good recruits were added.”
Gao Yiye laughed. “Telling it to me won’t help; I don’t understand. Better to say it once the Deity is around.”
Bai Yuan: “Oh?”
He looked up — no low clouds were in the sky, clearly the Deity was not present.
So there was no need to urgently report work: “Then today we’ll rest early.”
The two entered the book bureau and each returned to their own guest room.
Only two Bai family servants and two Militia Soldiers remained “on guard duty” in the courtyard; everyone else went back to their rooms to rest.
Right at this moment…
Five heads stealthily appeared over the book academy’s low wall.
One among them was Big Honglang, the fourth leader of Wang Zuogua’s army; the other four were Forest Heroes he had brought—reckless outlaws.
This bunch were a total mess at warfare, but when it came to underhanded schemes and stealthy acts, they were absolute experts.
A Forest Hero whispered: “This is where Bai Family Fortress’s master, Bai Yuan, is staying temporarily. Hah, completely defenseless, with just four servants guarding in the yard.”
Big Honglang murmured: “Earlier, what was that woman’s situation? Bai Yuan called her Saint Lady?”
Another Forest Hero said: “I inquired in the city. She seems to be a Saint Lady in something called the ‘Dao Xuan Deity Teachings.’ Hmph, just a swindling fraud, one of those phony divine beings.”
Big Honglang scoffed: “If that’s the case, we’ll just kill her along with Bai Yuan later.”
The Forest Heroes nodded: “That woman looks fairly attractive too… hehehehe…”
The group let out knowing chuckles.
Big Honglang snapped impatiently: “We need to get away fast after the job’s done. Are you fools still thinking about that? Move quickly.”
A Forest Hero snickered: “Relax, my brothers are all fast. Three seconds tops. Only I’m slower, need at least half an hour.”
“Fuck!” the others cursed in unison.
Big Honglang raged: “Shut your damn mouths! Prepare to move. You four, slip over quietly. Act together, take out the four guards. Then rush straight into Bai Yuan’s room and hack him to pieces.”
The four Forest Heroes nodded, quietly scaled the wall, and using the night as cover, crouched low, skulking along the base of the wall…
Soon, they had snuck behind the two Bai family servants and the two Militia sentinels… then struck simultaneously…
All four men crumpled to the ground without even a whimper.
Only then did Big Honglang climb over the wall and drop into the courtyard. Smirking with satisfaction, he pointed towards Bai Yuan’s room.
The four Forest Heroes nodded and began to creep closer…
Right at that moment, a creaking sound came from Bai Yuan’s door—it was pushed open from inside. A young man with a longsword hanging at his waist emerged. It was Ground Rabbit.
Big Honglang and the four Forest Heroes froze in surprise.
Ground Rabbit found himself face to face with them, eyes locking straight onto theirs.
As it turned out, Ground Rabbit had hidden in Bai Yuan’s room long before Bai Yuan returned. When Bai Yuan entered, Ground Rabbit pleaded inside, begging him to teach swordsmanship.
But Bai Yuan didn’t know shit about swordsmanship and couldn’t possibly teach it.
Ground Rabbit refused to leave, insisting the Bai Family Fortress must have hereditary sword techniques, and so on. The two argued back and forth for ages in the room until Bai Yuan, losing his temper, kicked him out. Just as Ground Rabbit pushed the door open to leave, he saw two Bai family servants and two Militia sentinels lying collapsed on the ground. Five guys who clearly looked like trouble, ferociously poised to charge into Bai Yuan’s room…
“Who are you people!” Ground Rabbit roared in fury.
Big Honglang yelled: “Kill him!”
The four Forest Heroes simultaneously swung their waist knives, slashing viciously towards Ground Rabbit.
Ground Rabbit was terrified. His first instinct was to dodge aside. But then a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind – “If I dodge, these bandits will rush in! They’ll flood into Mr. Bai’s room and slaughter him!”
“Can’t dodge!”
“Must defend this doorway!”
CLANG!
Ground Rabbit drew his longsword. Instead of evading the four blades hurtling towards him, he pivoted and swept his own sword forward in a powerful counterstroke, striking directly at the four onrushing forest heroes.