Chapter 26: Wife encounters assassins on the road, I encounter assassins when buying wontons
Tonight, the city of Xinzheng seemed to be much more lively than before.
Usually at this time when Li Mo went back, the streets would already be sparsely populated.
But today was different.
There were still many vendors who hadn’t closed their stalls on the street.
Selling fruits, selling wontons, selling oiled paper umbrellas.
There were quite a few people at the wonton stall, sitting in groups of three or five, eating steaming hot wontons.
Li Mo, holding a bamboo pole, could smell the fragrance from afar.
There was a fork in the road ahead, he should have turned and gone in one direction to go back.
But after smelling the aroma of wontons, he paused, turned around, and walked towards the stall.
It was already late, his wife must still be waiting for him, he could buy some wontons to take back as a late-night snack for her.
His wife would definitely be happy!
The bustling street suddenly quieted down.
Pairs of eyes turned towards him unconsciously.
“Someone is coming in.”
“It’s a blind man!”
Two sets of eyes hiding in the darkness stared at Li Mo as he walked into the street.
One of them glanced at the old man beside him and asked, “Should we kill him?”
The Straw-Hat Guest was in charge of the Night’s information organization and was one of the Nightfall Four Evils.
He shouldn’t have been doing ambushes and assassinations, but when Bai Yifei went to Baiyue, he took two of the Hundred Birds Assassins with him.
And for this interception operation, Ji Wuye must win.
So he was sent over!
After a moment of consideration, the Straw-Hat Guest closed his eyes and shook his head, “Let him be, wait until the fish takes the bait.”
As soon as he finished speaking, his henchman beside him suddenly frowned and said, “He stopped.”
The Straw-Hat Guest opened his eyes and indeed saw Li Mo standing there, thinking about something.
“If there are no abnormalities, let him go, but if he acts strangely, show no mercy!”
Li Mo stood in the middle of the street, leaning on a bamboo pole, with the dumpling stall less than thirty meters away from him. However, this distance was already within the range covered by his divine sense. In recent days, the coverage of his divine sense had been expanding every day, increasing by nearly one meter on average per day.
Now, it had expanded directly from the initial ten meters to nearly thirty meters. He could clearly “see” every person on the dumpling stall. He could “see” their figures, “see” their faces, their expressions.
Even the sharp weapons gleaming under the table could be seen clearly!
Not only on the dumpling stall. In the fruit stall next to it, there were hidden blades among the pile of fruits. In the oil-paper umbrella, it was not the umbrella handle, but a long sword.
Li Mo knew that he had inadvertently walked into someone else’s encirclement, and they were waiting for their target. But that target was not him. Because when he stepped into this street, they had the same bewildered expression as him on their faces.
Obviously, his appearance had caught them off guard. Li Mo was considering whether to just retreat now to avoid unnecessary trouble, or to act as if he knew nothing and continue to buy dumplings.
After some thought, he chose the latter. If he were to retreat now, it would inevitably make them think that he had discovered something that needed to be silenced.
It was best to act as if he knew nothing, continue to buy dumplings, and then leave. Of course, even if he bought these dumplings, he would not be able to take them home for his wife to eat.
He would just discard them when there was no one around! Today was not a lucky day.
“It should be in determining the direction, a blind man who cannot see, can only rely on his ears to listen.”
The Straw-Hat Guest saw Li Mo walking towards the dumpling stall and said decisively.
“Proceed according to plan, ignore him.”
After hearing this, the henchmen beside him made a gesture towards the assassin disguised as the dumpling stall owner.
The owner nodded, and the street returned to normal.
“Two bowls of dumplings to go.”
Li Mo took out two coins from his pocket and handed them over.
The dumpling stall owner glanced at him, only then took the coins from his hand after realizing he was blind.
Opening the lid, a white steam surged out of the pot. Without looking, the owner haphazardly grabbed two dumplings from the side and threw them into the pot. Li Mo’s mouth twitched.
“Owner, how many years have you been selling dumplings?”
“Seven or eight years, old craftsmanship.”
Li Mo “watched” the dumplings in the pot being kneaded into two lumps, nodding approvingly. Hmm, good craftsmanship!
“Owner, a bowl of dumplings.”
Just then, a gloomy voice sounded as if it had come from the depths of the underworld. A man shrouded in a dark robe exuding a cold aura like a ghost appeared in front of the dumpling stall.
Li Mo sighed. Couldn’t you have waited for me to leave before showing up? As he looked at their target who appeared at the stall, the owner’s gaze suddenly sharpened.
“Kill!”
The hidden Straw-Hat Guest revealed a cold smile. In an instant, dozens of assassins rushed towards the two men.
