Chapter 297 - 114 Reinforcements_5
Jiang Li stopped in her tracks, across the brush, she began to laugh softly.
In the calm brush, what was once an open space had turned into a lake that could swallow one whole, as if something sticky and flowing was encasing people inside. Figures struggled within it.
"Stop struggling," Jiang Li slowly said, "This is the most terrifying swamp in the area. The more you struggle, the faster you sink."
The moon gradually emerged from the clouds, her clothes and the hem of her skirt were smeared with the mud of the forest, but her face was oddly clean, her lips curled into a soft smile as she spoke terrifying words, "Oh dear, I just realized, you’re already waist-deep, there’s no saving you now. Even if someone came, they couldn’t rescue you, they’d just get pulled down with you." She covered her mouth and sighed, "Such a pity."
The black-clad assassins, looking at her with fury and ferocity, were half-sunken already, with one even having half his face entombed, likely due to his violent struggling, the swamp threatening to soon engulf his mouth and nose, and terror gleamed in his eyes.
The torment of waiting for death to come was unbearably excruciating. Jiang Li would be kinder to grant them a swift death with her sword.
Clearly not so compassionate, Jiang Li turned, mounted her horse, and left the swamp behind.
Xue Huaiyuan had once expressly forbidden her and Xue Zhao to play in these woods because of this marsh. But Xue Zhao, mischievous, saw it as a natural trap. They had constructed many traps for catching animals here, netting much game. Had the killers from Feng Yutang not appeared so suddenly today, arranging for Ye Mingyu to set the woods would not have been difficult, ensnaring the assassins in one fell swoop. Just as in warfare, strategy at times triumphs over brute force.