“I seem to recall your last dagger was chewed up by a pig-faced brute. Hardly my fault, wouldn’t you say?” Jiang Wang said with a hint of helplessness.

“Give me back my talismans! Return my Dao yuan stones!” Su Xiuxing started to rant and rave, throwing a tantrum.

“I say, haven’t you got things a bit backwards?”

Jiang Wang grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and lifted him up. “You still haven’t explained why you were sneaking into my carriage? And why you pointed a dagger at me?”

This was a much more normal conversation.

Following this brat’s lead almost made him feel guilty!

Damn it, he only took a few of his talismans and Dao yuan stones because the guy tried to assassinate him first! Letting him live was already generous enough. How did it turn into him being the one in the wrong?

“You better take your hands off me.”

Whether it was a bluff or just desperation, Su Xiuxing’s expression suddenly turned serious, even stern. “Do you even know who I’m with now?”

Jiang Wang, of course, knew who he was with!

Back in Cangfeng City, when he asked the Ti Xia Lou’s Ace to send a letter to Yang Ting, he casually probed and asked Ace to clean house. Ace mentioned that Su Xiuxing had joined Hell Without Door.

Which meant his current boss was Yin Guan!

As a member of Hell Without Door, what was he doing running onto the official road and sneaking into a carriage?

Considering the carriage’s destination, the answer was obvious: he wanted to sneak into Linzi.

Su Xiuxing’s own identity made it difficult for him to enter Linzi, or rather, he didn’t want it known that he had been there.

So… what was Hell Without Door planning to do in Linzi?

“Oh? Who are you with now?” Jiang Wang feigned ignorance, acting curious.

“I’m, of course…” Su Xiuxing started to say, but probably remembered that his current organization wasn’t the Ti Xia Lou, where he could blab freely. So he swallowed his words.

He paused for a moment, then sneered. “You have no idea what kind of organization you’re provoking! You have no idea who you’re talking to!”

“I really don’t know,” Jiang Wang played along. “Why don’t you tell me?”

Su Xiuxing scrutinized Jiang Wang for a while, shaking his head. “Never mind.”

His tone was rather regretful. “We’re old acquaintances, after all. Our organization is too dangerous. It’s better not to involve you.”

“Oh?” Jiang Wang watched his performance in silence.

“Oh dear!” Su Xiuxing dramatically lifted the curtain of the carriage window, secretly observing Jiang Wang’s expression. Seeing that he didn’t seem to object, he continued, “It’s already this late! I have to go back. If my boss doesn’t see me later, he’ll definitely go crazy.”

“What happens when he goes crazy?” Jiang Wang was particularly supportive.

“It’ll be too bloody!” Su Xiuxing looked pained, describing it vividly. “He might kill all the way from Pingshi County to Linhai County, turning the land into a river of blood, corpses stretching for tens of thousands of miles. Those of you still on the road will hardly escape unscathed.”

The three Yang provinces already belonged to Qi. The western border county should be Hengyang County, but many still considered Pingshi the border county. Years of habit were hard to change.

Killing from Pingshi County to Linhai County meant cutting through the entire Qi territory. This boasting was a bit much.

But Jiang Wang still acted surprised. “Is your boss really that ruthless?”

“That’s nothing!” Su Xiuxing spouted nonsense. “He has a blue face and fangs, is twelve feet tall, and eats human hearts for every meal. He’s killed at least eighty to one hundred thousand people. My friend, you must avoid him!”

Now Jiang Wang was his “old friend” again.

“A wise man doesn’t stand under a dangerous wall!” Su Xiuxing earnestly advised.

Jiang Wang seemed to understand, lamenting. “I never thought you were so important to your boss. That such a terrifying figure would go crazy just because he didn’t see you.”

“Alas, though I haven’t been in the organization for long…” Su Xiuxing shook his head helplessly. “There’s no helping it. I’m just too outstanding.”

Jiang Wang nodded solemnly, expressing his deep agreement.

“Alright, let’s just chat until here today.” Seeing that his act was having the desired effect, Su Xiuxing decisively got up. “I have to hurry back and appease my boss. The safety of the common people is more important. Let’s put our personal friendship aside!”

Seeing that Jiang Wang really didn’t intend to stop him, he quickly scrambled out of the carriage window, disappearing as swiftly as he had arrived.

After jumping out of the carriage, Su Xiuxing ran wildly for a long time before stopping, letting out a sigh of relief. He almost applauded his own cleverness.

But he quickly slapped his forehead in annoyance. “My Soundless Formation Plate!”

He was in such a hurry to escape that he forgot to take it. That was worth a lot of Dao yuan stones. But he certainly didn’t have the courage to go back and ask Jiang Wang for it.

“Nothing good ever comes from meeting that Jiang guy! Forget it, just consider it pig feed!”

He cursed under his breath as he left.

In any case, the mission had to continue. He still had to sneak into Linzi.

He originally wanted to sneak into Linzi City. Seeing that this carriage could pass through without any trouble, with all the proper documentation, he had the idea. Who knew that it was… a fateful encounter!

He would have to find another way.

Sneaking in a carriage was a no go. Before climbing into the carriage, you never know if there would be a human or a beast inside!

Su Xiuxing thought viciously.

In just this short amount of time, Jiang Wang had been cursed in a dozen different ways in his heart. If he had learned Yin Guan’s curse techniques and had Yin Guan’s strength, Jiang Wang would at least be seriously injured by now. Unfortunately, he didn’t.

“What are you still doing here?” a voice suddenly asked.

Su Xiuxing shuddered, quickly turning around, and saw a man wearing a black mask.

The mask was a human face, revealing the eyes and mouth. But it was entirely black, with a stark white gate painted on the forehead, and inside the gate, the blood-red words “Judge Guan”.

This mask represented the fourth-ranked figure in Hell Without Door, Judge Guan!

Under the wanted notices issued by the Qu and Zheng Kingdoms, and the pursuit and encirclement of various experts, Hell Without Door had not only not been destroyed, but had instead developed at an astonishing rate.

As of now, the core of Hell Without Door consisted of ten people, known as the Ten Kings of Hell, who decided the fate of life and death. Underneath them were various personnel responsible for intelligence, operations, etc., and it had developed into the most famous assassin organization in the East Region. Su Xiuxing was one of the outer members later recruited by Hell Without Door.

Encountering Judge Guan here sent shivers down Su Xiuxing’s spine. He didn’t dare to act rashly and honestly replied, “Subordinate is trying to find a way to sneak into Linzi.”

Judge Guan’s voice was rough, as if he wasn’t very used to speaking. “You were fighting someone just now?”

“This…”

Su Xiuxing didn’t want to admit that he had just met Jiang Wang. Firstly, it would make him seem incompetent, and secondly, he didn’t want Jiang Wang to die.

Although he wanted to beat Jiang Wang black and blue, until the guy cried for his parents, it hadn’t reached the point where he wanted to kill him.

Especially since he knew very well that Jiang Wang had let him go, which allowed him to survive. It was like this back in Green Goat Town.

Of course, if someone was willing to pay a high price for Jiang Wang’s head, then he might consider it. Assassins didn’t have so much sentimentality.

Judge Guan took a step closer. “Hmm?”

Su Xiuxing’s hair stood on end!

He shouted with his eyes closed, “Subordinate did fight someone just now! I wanted to sneak into his carriage, but I was thrown out!”

“Where?”

At this moment, he heard another voice ask.