Chapter 155 - 113, Interrogation
The sky was not yet bright, the river water like black ink.
Chen Ji’s head emerged from the surface, gasping for air, the cold touch felt as though it seeped through his skin into the seams of his bones, burrowing into his bone marrow.
The soaked clothes clung to his body, retaining not a bit of warmth.
Chen Ji surveyed the waters around him, trying to find traces of Manager Yuan amid the waves, but his attention was suddenly drawn to the scene overhead.
One after another, meteors streaked across the river surface, trailing long tails like the rare meteor showers seen only once in many years, dazzling, brilliant, and radiant.
With bows fully drawn, the meteors covered a distance of a hundred paces, and more than twenty Elephant Armor Guards on the bridge didn’t even have a chance to retaliate before being pierced through one by one.
A tattooed man on the bridge hid on the other side of a carriage, dodging one meteor after another, and took a copper whistle from his waist to blow it.
A dense crowd of Elephant Armor Guards poured out of the alleys, responding to the whistle, rushing towards the Mudan Bridge like a brown torrent.
The tattooed man roared, "Catch Jin Zhu, cover the escape of our second brother! It’s just one Heavenly Horse, I don’t believe he could loose hundreds of bows!"
But no sooner had he spoken than the sound of iron hooves came from the distance.
Those iron hooves approached from afar, as if a great battle formation was marching, breaking through the icy river.