Chapter 2407: Lies Told, Sincerity Repaid
Zu An facepalmed. No matter how much the Dragon King liked the Mermaid Queen, there was no way he would show such a crude side of himself in front of his subordinates. 'The Mermaid Queen is the most beautiful!' was just too absurd a phrase to use. And yet this female assassin had actually believed such a ridiculous password?
The Mermaid Queen was extremely embarrassed already when she said the ‘password’. How could she have expected that the other side’s reaction would be one of surprise?
Still, she was a famed cultivator in her own right, so she reacted quickly and immediately made a hand seal. The surrounding water seemed to immediately solidify. The guard's alarm whistle was thus confined to a small space and couldn't reach the outside at all.
The Mermaid Queen's waist swayed, and her body drew a beautiful arc. Her fingers tapped against several guards’ bodies. They froze in place, and their weapons fell straight to the ground.
Since there had recently been an assassination attempt, the Dragon King hadn’t wanted any more mistakes and only sent elites to guard this place. Everything had happened so suddenly that the Mermaid Queen almost couldn't react in time. The fact that she was able to instantly condense a wall of water around them and stop most of the guards was already quite excellent. But in that short amount of time, she could only stop most, not all of them. Two guards had seen that the situation was unfavorable and started to run. Additionally, they were running straight in the direction of Zu An, the ‘stupid guard’.
The Mermaid Queen’s heart turned completely cold.
What stupid guard? The stupid one was clearly me. I actually believed his ridiculous words. He's definitely going to use this chance to escape with those two guards, and then he’ll contact all of the other guards in the Four Way Palace.
Once she was surrounded, things wouldn’t end well even though she was the Mermaid Queen. She would also be dragging the Mermaid race with her into disaster.
Just then, however, the stupid guard actually fought… with his foot. He stuck out his right leg and just happened to stop a guard who was running past him. The latter was caught off guard and tumbled to the ground.