Chapter 1241: Entering A Dream
“I didn’t know. I just guessed.”
Ye Qing invited Taba Xuanwu back into his room and poured him a cup of tea. He answered, “Cloud Hue Pass is definitely a tiger’s den to those people, but it’s not like it’s perfectly secure, especially since there is no better time than now to act.”
“One, I am severely injured and incapable of wielding most of my powers. Two, you are so famous in the region that for the longest time, no one dared to start trouble in Cloud Hue Pass. You know this, I know this, everyone knows about this. This is even truer after you became a Half-Sage today. That was why they believed you would assume that no one would dare to infiltrate Cloud Hue Pass to kill me. They believed that you would grow careless and not guard me as zealously as you should.”
“Long story short, various factors convinced them now was the best time to act, and they would be remiss to miss this chance.”
“Is that... all?” Taba Xuanwu asked, “Don’t they realize how insanely risky this decision is? That the price of failure is death?”
“You truly are a man of the army, brother. You do not understand the hell that is a jianghu person’s heart.”
Ye Qing smiled. “A jianghu person is like a beast, cruel and merciless. They are vicious toward themselves and others, and they are audacious like a gambler. They enjoy gambling not just with other people’s lives, but also their own.”
“When their self-interest and opportunity are on the line, a thirty percent chance of success or twenty percent hope to succeed is usually enough to convince them to take a gamble.”
“It is based on this belief that I assumed that someone would show up tonight, and what did you know? I was right.”
“Those who gamble with lives treat both other people’s lives and their own like a child’s game—worthless.”
Taba Xuanwu sighed. “This is why I don’t like being a man of the jianghu. How can someone who doesn’t value their own life value another person’s life?”