Chapter 391: What? The Snow Woman is Pregnant?
Li Mo certainly wouldn’t just stubbornly face the Bronze Door here.
He and Wei Zhuang were transported out through a formation.
While he was here contemplating how to open the Bronze Door, he also asked Wei Zhuang to check the place they had emerged from.
Some formations are two-way; since they could come out, perhaps they could go back in.
But now, listening to Wei Zhuang, it seemed his luck wasn’t so great.
That formation only allowed one-way transport.
It could bring people out but couldn’t send them back in again.
Wei Zhuang was thorough in his work—after such a long time checking, if there wasn’t truly nothing to find, he wouldn’t have returned so easily.
Jing Ni slightly nodded, acknowledging Wei Zhuang.
Although they had known each other since their time at Zilan Pavilion, both were people of few words; their total conversation probably didn’t exceed five sentences.
Most of the time, they merely spoke due to task assignments.
Li Mo nodded, saying, “Got it. Jing Ni brought a large amount of explosives over; I’m going to retrieve them with her.”
After several methods failed, now they could only pin their hopes on the explosives Jing Ni had brought.
However, upon hearing this, Wei Zhuang furrowed his brows slightly, his gaze toward Jing Ni now containing a hint of doubt.
“Explosives? When I asked you for them, didn’t you say that was all?”
A month ago, when Donghuang Taiyi fled to the Bronze Door, Li Mo sent Wei Zhuang back to ask Jing Ni for explosives.
The Armory worked day and night to produce them, and after Li Mo’s group left, they managed to prepare another batch.
When Wei Zhuang went back, it was on Li Mo’s orders.
Jing Ni wouldn’t hoard anything, so naturally, she would give whatever she had.
However, Wei Zhuang now faintly felt something was off.
The issue was that last time Jing Ni had brought all of her explosives, so where had she gotten a large amount this time?
Even if the Armory worked around the clock, time was too tight.
Wei Zhuang had returned to Loulan two days ago, while Jing Ni arrived only two days after him.
From Great Qin to Loulan, it would take at least half a month if the journey went smoothly.
This was even considering someone guiding them and not encountering a sandstorm along the way.
Having someone lead was not surprising since the last time he had returned, many of the Luo Network and Liu Sha assassins had a good sense of direction.
Jing Ni could easily command them.
This meant that to arrive today, Jing Ni had to have departed no later than two days after Li Mo left Great Qin.
With only two days, even if the Armory worked like crazy, they couldn’t produce that much explosives.
With Wei Zhuang’s question, Li Mo also sensed something was off.
But who was Jing Ni?
She was the one who had shared trials and tribulations with him, their bond so deep it was as if she was part of his very being.
Naturally, he wouldn’t doubt her.
Instead, he half-joked, “Oh dear wife, didn’t you secretly hoard some last time?”
Jing Ni was slightly taken aback but replied without changing her expression, “When did I ever secretly keep something your lordship wanted?
“The explosives I gave to Commander Wei were indeed everything the Armory produced. But on the day after Commander Wei left, Meng Tian returned from the border.”
“The Xiongnu at the border have been driven deep into the prairie, and with the battle over, it would be too dangerous to keep such dangerous items nearby. So, he simply took them back to Xi’an to return them to the Armory.
“I thought you might need them here, so I sent them over the next day.”
Explosives were an absolute game-changer on the battlefield in this era.
In the hands of individuals with ill intentions, they could incite bloody chaos.
Therefore, such important and dangerous items were something Jing Ni naturally wouldn’t trust others to transport.
It made perfect sense that she personally brought them over.
Hearing this, Li Mo felt relieved and said, “That makes sense; it must’ve been a lot of trouble for you to make this trip, my dear wife.”
After listening to Jing Ni’s explanation, he didn’t think too much more of it.
If it hadn’t been for Jing Ni coming through in a pinch and timely delivering the explosives, that Bronze Door would have truly left them in a bind.
Wei Zhuang’s sword brow was tightly furrowed, still sensing something was amiss.
But he was well aware of Li Mo and Jing Ni’s relationship.
For Jing Ni, Li Mo had even rejected Sister Zi and Nong Yu back in the day.
One could say that these two looked at each other as more important than themselves.
“Commander Wei, do you still have doubts?”
Jing Ni looked at Wei Zhuang with deep meaning in her eyes and asked coldly.
Wei Zhuang kept his expression unchanged, squinting slightly as he turned to Li Mo, saying, “I’ll accompany you.”
Though there were still questions in his heart, he didn’t press further.
Despite how obediently Jing Ni appeared before Li Mo, this cold-blooded female assassin wasn’t just some ordinary woman.
She was the Number One Killer who made the seven states tremble at the mere mention of her name.
Asking too many questions, who knew if she would suddenly blow up?
“Alright, let’s go.”
Li Mo said no more and led the group continuing out of the city.
Halfway there, glancing in the direction they were heading, Wei Zhuang scrutinized Jing Ni’s back before suddenly asking, “The explosives are outside the city?”
Jing Ni replied, “That’s right; I don’t know the situation inside the city, and it’s much safer to keep such things outside.”
Wei Zhuang nodded and didn’t pursue the topic further.
Instead, he switched the subject and asked, “What’s going on with Miss Snow Woman now?”
Li Mo and Jing Ni, walking side by side, halted their steps simultaneously upon hearing Wei Zhuang suddenly inquire about the Snow Woman.
The Grand Priestess, accompanying them, was left in a state of confusion and also stopped.
Li Mo turned around, looking at Wei Zhuang with an utterly strange expression.
“Why are you suddenly asking about the Snow Woman?
If it were someone else asking, Li Mo might not have been so surprised.
But Wei Zhuang was different!
Who was he?
He was a man whose mind was only focused on the sword.
If it were questions about swords, no problem.
But to ask about women? That was like seeing the sun rising in the west!
Moreover, it was about the Snow Woman, who had quite the connection with Li Mo!
“Why does Commander Wei ask about her?”
Jing Ni also wore a puzzled expression and looked at Wei Zhuang.
Suddenly, a glint of insight flashed in Wei Zhuang’s eyes as he asked Li Mo, “Didn’t she tell you? When I came from Great Qin, she asked me to relay a message about the Snow Woman’s condition.”
Li Mo was puzzled, “What’s wrong with the Snow Woman?”
Wei Zhuang pressed his thick lips together, his gaze landing on Jing Ni as he narrowed his focus on her, subconsciously brimming with vigilance.
Li Mo seemed to catch some signal from his gaze.
He turned his attention to Jing Ni as if waiting for her to explain the circumstances.
Jing Ni’s eyes flickered slightly, as if recalling something.
She looked up at him, feigning relaxation as she said, “It’s nothing; the Snow Woman fell ill a while back. But with Duanmu here, she recovered in just a few days; there’s no need for you to worry, dear husband.”
Just as Li Mo was about to nod in response,
Wei Zhuang suddenly turned cold, drawing his sword and pointing it directly at Jing Ni.
Instantly, killing intent surged forth!
“Who are you really?”
Jing Ni froze for a moment, her expression promptly turning icy.
Facing Wei Zhuang’s inquiry, she quickly grew angry: “Commander Wei, what do you mean by this?”
In light of this sudden turn of events, the Grand Priestess was completely dumbfounded.
She quickly glanced at Li Mo, wanting to ask what was happening.
Why would one of his men want to fight his wife?
Emotionally, Li Mo should have unexpectedly stood on Jing Ni’s side.
But rationally, he knew that Wei Zhuang was not one to act without reason.
He definitely sensed something!
Indeed, Wei Zhuang fixedly stared at Jing Ni, disdain curling his lip.
“As I came to Loulan, you explicitly told me to relay to him, right?”
Saying this, Wei Zhuang glanced at Li Mo and continued, “The Snow Woman is pregnant. Regardless of whether things succeed here, remember to return safely.”
Li Mo’s eyebrows shot up in shock.
“The Snow Woman is pregnant?”
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