The Human Emperor (200-400)

C290: Su Hanshan!

"There are traces of blood on the ground!"

"There has been a battle here!"

Wang Chong and Old Eagle stopped exactly where the masked man had encountered the huge group of men. There was a huge puddle of blood on the ground, and marks of battle could be seen across the entire area—holes all over the ground, the severed trees, and the wooden shavings here and there.

"The amount of blood here isn't normal. Most probably, someone died in the encounter."

Old Eagle stood up and glanced at the clear human silhouette formed using blood just a few steps away. Most probably, the pool of blood had flowed from the victim's body to mark out his shape on the ground.

Judging from the amount of blood that person had lost, even if he was still alive, it wouldn't be too long before he breathed his last.

"They have already carried the corpse away."

Wang Chong nodded in agreement to the other party's words. The men from the Duke of Liu Residence seemed to be intent on hiding this matter from everyone else. Thus, they carried the corpse away as soon as they could.

However, due to the limited time they had, not to mention that they had to dispatch most of their personnel to pursue the masked man, they hadn't been able to clean the blood traces and marks of battle in the area yet.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, a glint flashed across Wang Chong's eyes, and he walked swiftly to the edge of the forest. He bent down and picked up a piece of black cloth.

"This is the mask of that lad!"

Old Eagle walked over, and upon seeing blood dripping from the black cloth, worry immediately filled his eyes.

"To be even throwing up blood, it seems like he has suffered grievous internal injuries."

Old Eagle had been following the fellow who had been sneaking around Duke of Liu Residence for some time already, so he harbored some feelings for the latter. Besides, that lad was a person whom gongzi specially entrusted him to look into.

Even though he didn't understand why gongzi asked him to investigate that lad, he could sense that gongzi seemed to regard him as a friend rather than a foe.

Holding onto the blood-soaked cloth, Wang Chong fell into deep thought.

"Let's go!"

A moment later, Wang Chong tossed the black cloth to the side and advanced into the forest.

He was becoming more and more curious about the relationship between that fellow and the Duke of Liu Residence.

That fellow left Kunwu Training Camp just so that he could visit the Duke of Liu’s residence in the middle of the night to search for something.

What item in the Duke of Liu Residence could possibly belong to him? And also, the Duke of Liu didn't seem to regard him as an ordinary thief, either.

The Duke of Liu seemed to know that the other party would make a move and prepared such an elaborate trap for him: a trained eagle in the residence, as well as a team of experts that was ready to move at any moment.

Would the Duke of Liu need to go through so much trouble to deal with a common thief? There was surely something deeper beneath the surface.

With such a thought in mind, Wang Chong hastened his speed.

Old Eagle glanced at the bird above him, who was giving him an update on the situation. It seemed like the situation in front was getting worse and worse for the masked man. Even though the masked man was not an easy figure to deal with—just the fact that he could break out of the encirclement in the first place was a testimony to his prowess—it was unlikely that he could hold on for much longer against so many people.