Chapter 257: The enemy strikes
They had been back for five days now and already, Chi Lian had made some changes to her routine. Part of her new routine was running at night, four times a week. Ever since her body was changed by the gene editing serum, she was filled with this immense energy which she often the need to burn off. Her body had become leaner thanks to these nightly runs.
Chi Lian enjoyed running in the cold wind, she loved the way it brushed past her face, cooling off the hotness and sweat her body emitted. She could run for hours steadily in the snow without feeling tired at all.
Just to be safe, Muyang insisted that she run with Blackguard, the big dog was her steady companion on these runs.
With music in her ears, she sang along to rock and pop music play list that T4 had put together, looking like she was having the most fun in the world.
However tonight, she was running with a different purpose, T4 had discovered that there was someone who seemed to be trailing her every time she came out for her run. It wasn’t one of Muyang’s secret men nor was it a soldier in the emperor’s courts. This was someone else, someone that carefully hid their face and gave her a wide berth.
According to T4 this person was carrying a knife and a semi thin rope, the kind some assassins used to take out their targets and Chi Lian seemed to be the target.
This all made Chi Lian wonder, how an assassin was able to get into the emperor’s courts in the first place. This residence was filled with cameras, trained dogs and highly skilled soldiers so where did this individual pass?
The only reasonable answer was that this assassin either lived in the emperor’s courts or they had been let in by someone in the aristocratic families.
Chi Lian had always known that she had an enemy within these walls but having an assassin sent after her so close to home really scared her a little bit. That’s why she chose to start running even on days when she was not scheduled to run. She wanted to personally confront this individual and finally know who her hidden enemy was.