CHAPTER 701: CHAPTER 581: FOUND THE BLACK ARMOR ARMY

Lu Qi joined the group.

The three became four.

Si Snake and Lu Qi walked at the front.

Seeing Si Snake anxious, Lu Yuan didn’t compete for the leading position.

He walked in the middle.

Chen Long brought up the rear.

As for Ji Li, his position kept changing, but what stayed the same was his constant cursing along the way.

He didn’t trust Lu Qi, always feeling his pig teammates had gone brain-dead.

"How did you know the whereabouts of the Black Armor Army?"

Si Snake asked Lu Qi.

Lu Qi said, "Is this my condition for joining you?"

Si Snake paused, "No."

Lu Qi stared expressionlessly ahead, "Then there’s nothing to disclose."

Si Snake asked again, "Why not flee?"

Lu Qi replied coolly, "Can’t escape."

"If you go all out, we might not catch you."

Si Snake was speaking the truth.

It wasn’t that he was praising Lu Qi nor underestimating their group; it was because at that time, Lu Qi was injured, and everyone had relaxed their guard against him.

Plus, they hadn’t intended to kill him.

He had a good chance of escaping when the guard was down.

Lu Qi said truthfully, "If I did that, I’d be crippled, and by the time I recover, Black Armor Army would have nothing to do with me."

Lu Yuan glanced at him, "Saying that as if now you have something to do with them."

Lu Qi already knew Lu Yuan was skilled with words.

He didn’t want to pay attention, sulking.

If he paid attention, he couldn’t outsmart him in conversation.

After a while, he shifted his conflict outward, "You’ve been beaten up a lot, haven’t you?"

Lu Yuan smirked, "Come on, that trick doesn’t work."

Lu Qi couldn’t help but glance at the blue-eyed man beside him, then turn to look at the iron-faced young man carrying a heavy sword and the constantly chatting white-robed, black-haired master.

They seemed disorganized, yet were solid as a rock.

"You guys are Si Snake, Chen Long, and Rooster from the Twelve Guards?"

He looked ahead and asked.

"Answer first, just now why did you ask him if he was also one of the Twelve Guards?"

It was Si Snake who spoke.

He used "he".

Lu Qi thought to himself that getting information from these people really wasn’t easy.

He said, "I guessed."

Si Snake calmly looked forward, "You should understand, what you exposed with that sentence was that you have seen other members of the Twelve Guards before."

Lu Qi fiddled with the treasure sword.

Ji Li, who didn’t know when he moved to his other side, shook his folding fan and said, "Now you know, right? Our group, everyone is no simpleton. Your limited skills, we’re just sparing you. Honestly, with whom have you been in contact? Mao Tu or Wu Ma? Xu Dog or Zi Rat? Or was it that old cunning Ox?"

Lu Qi said, "It was him."

Ji Li was shocked, "That Ox is back from the dead?"

Chen Long and Si Snake helplessly closed their eyes.

Both of them heard that Lu Qi was being perfunctory; this Rooster was almost exposing their identities directly to Lu Qi.

Excluding those few, and the women Yin Hu, Prime Minister Xun’s minions Wei Yang and Hai Pig, who else remains?

Lu Qi smiled faintly, "Looks like I guessed right."

Ji Li said, "What do you mean you guessed right?"

Chen Long dragged him to the back, placing him between himself and Lu Yuan.

Ji Li bristled, "Why are you pulling this handsome guard around? Don’t think because you carry a sword, I don’t dare to kill you!"

Lu Yuan laughed a little, fell back a step, quickly grabbed Chen Long’s sword box, and using Qinggong, leaped onto a big tree, teasingly saying, "He’s unarmed, go at him."

Chen Long’s gaze turned cold, murderous as he looked at Lu Yuan, "Courting death!"

He went to beat Lu Yuan, but Ji Li blocked him with his folding fan, "Fight me first!"

This group started brawling at a moment’s notice.

After Chen Long and Ji Li fought, Chen Long went to beat Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan diverted the trouble, causing Ji Li to take a punch, so Ji Li joined Chen Long.

Chen Long refused his help.

He wanted to fight one against two.

Ji Li was instantly enraged, one against two huh? Who says he can’t!

A three-sided mêlée began.

Si Snake and Lu Qi led the way up front.

To be precise, Lu Qi led, and Si Snake always walked right by his side, keeping a tight watch.

Those three fought fiercely, but they didn’t fall behind.

Lu Qi tolerated it for a while and finally spoke his curiosity, "Aren’t you joining them?"

Fighting.

Si Snake, "Never."

Lu Qi sneered and asked, "I’m very puzzled, why insist on staying together when you’re clearly incompatible?"

Si Snake calmly said, "Not incompatible."

"Lu Yuan, you bastard!"

Lu Yuan tricked Ji Li again, making Ji Li take a palm from Chen Long.

Ji Li swung his iron fan at the two, the iron fan spinning swiftly. If they hadn’t dodged fast, they would’ve lost their cunning heads and dragon heads.

Lu Qi turned and pointed, "You call that...not incompatible?"

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The Black Armor Army had a force of ten thousand, such a massive army hidden away in a place that must be easy to defend, hard to attack, and incredibly concealed in deep mountains and forests.

Preferably flanked by mountains and rivers, with a gorge for entry and exit, plus a spacious mountain flatland for training.

Naturally, farmland was indispensable.

Self-sufficient farming could not only save more military funds but also reduce contact with the outside world.

The Eldest Princess’s territory was affluent, with fertile soil, making farming easy.

Lu Yuan touched a golden-yellow rapeseed flower growing by the roadside, "Looking at this, the Black Armor Army has been living quite leisurely these past few years."

After he said this, he turned to look at Lu Qi, casually saying, "Three days have passed, your injuries have mostly healed, any further delay, and we’ll go at you."

Lu Qi frowned, "The Imperial Grandson speaks so crudely."

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow, "Pretentious, scholarly man, lead the way then."

Lu Qi indeed intended to delay the journey using the excuse of leading the way until he recovered.

He had joined them just for convenience, and everyone knew once they truly found the Black Armor Army, they’d immediately part ways.

He didn’t want to enter the Black Armor Army’s camp with injuries, as that wasn’t favorable to him.

Meanwhile, he also wanted to take this opportunity to observe them more, hoping to discover some flaws or extract some information.

But reality proved that he underestimated them and overestimated himself.

Along the way, he felt stripped bare, all his thoughts exposed, especially the blue-eyed youth beside him, giving him the illusion of being transparent before him.

No, and Lu Yuan too.

This guy...had also seen through his thoughts early on.

Lu Qi said, "Just ahead, follow closely."

Ji Li said, "But up ahead is a waterfall."

Lu Qi solemnly replied, "The entrance is hidden within the waterfall. Should I go first, or will you?"

Chen Long glanced at him, expressionlessly walked a couple of steps forward, "You and I go together."

Ji Li sneered, "Don’t play tricks in front of Brother Long, it’ll end very badly."

Chen Long grabbed Lu Qi and leaped into the waterfall.

"This handsome guard coming through!"

Ji Li stomped with one foot and also flew into the waterfall.

Lu Yuan said to Si Snake, "You go first."

Si Snake didn’t exchange pleasantries with Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan was the last to enter the waterfall, behind which was a not-too-large nor too-small Shuilian Cave.

At that moment, only Ji Li and Si Snake were inside Shuilian Cave.

Si Snake asked, "Where’s Chen Long?"

Ji Li tightened his folding fan, "No idea, I didn’t see them when I came in! Hey, did that big snake leave us to find the Black Armor Army by himself?"

Si Snake rarely furrowed his brows.

Lu Yuan smiled, looked toward the other end of Shuilian Cave, "No need to look, Black Armor Army is over there."