.Chapter 792 Reasons for Assassination

Jealousy is poison.

At the Jiguan Mountain Fortress of the Elf Empire, Ye Xiao, the commander of the Silver Moon Legion, sat alone on a hillside, looking into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking. The guards standing not far away guessed that their adults might be worried about Northrend's family.

"Tread~Tread~Tread~" A rapid sound of horse hooves from far to near, and the loyal guards were immediately ready. The guard captain stepped forward and shouted, "Who is the one? Stop the horse immediately."

"Wow~" the man immediately stopped the horse and said, "Don't get me wrong, I am Rhodes, where is the commander of the Legion?"

"Sir, right above." The guard captain asked the guards to release the guards while answering.

"I'll go up and find him something, you guys stay here." Rhodes stepped forward and threw the reins of the horse to the captain of the guards, and walked up the hillside alone.

Hearing the footsteps coming from behind, Ye Xiao asked without looking back: "What's wrong?"

"Yun Kaishan has something to discuss with you."

"Do you know what?"

"He didn't say it, but it seemed like he was anxious."

"...Let's go back to see him and see what he wants to say." Ye Xiao turned around and said to Rhode.

Soon, the group rushed back to Jiguanshan Fortress. Ye Xiao saw Yunkaishan, and neither of them was in a polite mood at this time. He retreated and went straight to the point.

"Yun Kaishan, why are you so anxious?"

"Ye Xiao, I just received the news that your and my father have been found out where they are locked up. However, the guards in that place are so tight that we can't rescue your and my father by the power we stayed in Northrend." Yun Kaishan looked at Ye Xiao and replied.

Yun Kaishan's words made Ye Xiao happy and said with relief: "Has you found it? It's great. Since the rescue power is insufficient, let's send some more people."

"But the problem lies here."

“What’s the problem?”

"It's okay to send people, but after the rescue, Ye Xiao, where do you want to go?"

Ye Xiao was stunned. Yun Kaishan said nothing wrong. After successfully rescuing his father, the Elf Empire could not stay any longer. Judging from the current government affairs of the Elders, the Elf King Tuling was probably killed in 100 cases, otherwise the Feng Yang Empire would not have suddenly stopped the assistance to the Elf Empire. At the same time, it was claimed that if the Elf King Tuling was not seen in one day, the assistance would not be reopened. This sentence has been said for a long time, but the Elf King Tuling never responded. Not only Yun Kaishan and Ye Xiao, but also ordinary people in the Elf Empire felt something was wrong.

"What are your plans?" Ye Xiao asked out loud.

"...I'm going to Fengyang." Yun Kaishan was silent for a moment, and said as if he had made up his mind.

"Feng Yang?"

"Yes, Feng Yang."

“…Is there any reason?”

“……Apart from Feng Yang, where do you think we can go?”

Ye Xiao was speechless. Now the war on the continent of grace is everywhere, the real demons are destroyed, the iron furnace is gone, and the deep blue loses contact. Among the remaining countries, only the Orc Alliance survives. The Tianyu Empire surrenders to the God Realm, leaving Yun Kaishan and Ye Xiao with too few choices.

Seeing that Ye Xiao didn't speak, Yun Kaishan laughed instead, "It seems that Ye Xiao, you have thought of it too."

"...Yes, I thought of Yunkaishan, why did things turn out like this? A few years ago, our Elf Empire was a powerful country on the continent with many grace under the leadership of the Elf King Tuling. How could our Elf Empire be faced with a split situation in the blink of an eye?"

"Maybe things are not as bad as you think."

Ye Xiao shook his head and smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Yun Kaishan, you don't need to comfort me. I am not a three-year-old child, so I still have this psychological endurance. I just can't figure it out."

"I can't figure it out, but I don't want it out. I only know that the Elf King is no longer there, and the Elf Empire has lost the object of my loyalty. I will take the Dark Night Legion away from the Elf Empire. Of course, if anyone wants to leave, I will not stop it."

“…really leaving?”

"...Do you want to be loyal to that great elder Xia Yan?" Yun Kaishan asked back.

Ye Xiao shook his head, "This is too big, I need time to think about it."

"...At the evening after tomorrow, I will announce my decision to the Dark Night Legion later."

"Okay, I will give you an answer the day after tomorrow."

After seeing Yun Kaishan off, Ye Xiao returned to his room. At this time, he was very confused. He picked up a book and wanted to read it to calm his mind. However, he became more upset as he read it. He simply threw down the book and ordered the guards outside the door and said, "Go and find Solo and Rhodes for me."

After a while, Rhodes came, holding a bottle of strong wine in his hand.

"Where is Solo?" Ye Xiao asked.

Rhode replied, "Oh, that guy went to the camp patrol and came later. Ye Xiao, what did that Yun Kaishan tell you? I think you feel a little restless."

"It's okay, I just came to tell me that my father had been found out where he was detained. However, the rescue staff was a little short of enough, so I told me to select some good players to go to Northrend for help."

"That's great, there's news from the old commander. Well? No, Ye Xiao, it's a good thing to find the whereabouts of the old commander. Why are you frowning? Is there anything else?"

"Well, Yun Kaishan then discussed with me how I and him will go in the future."

"What did he say?" Rhode asked nervously.

"He said he wanted to go to Fengyang and asked me if I would go?" Ye Xiao said without hiding it. In Ye Xiao's eyes, Rhode, the person who joined the Silver Moon Legion with him, is a person worthy of his trust.

"Go to Fengyang? Well... this is a good choice. Ye Xiao, how did you answer?" Rhode said and handed Ye Xiao a glass of full wine.

Ye Xiao took a sip and said, "I told him I need to think about it and I will give him a reply the day after tomorrow."

"...Ye Xiao, are you worried about?" Rhode asked tentatively.

"Well, after all, the Elf Empire is my birthplace, and I can't do it if I betray her."

When he was upset, he would easily get drunk. With Rhodes’ intentional or unintentional drinking, Ye Xiao quickly got drunk and lay on the chair and fell asleep. Rhodes put down the wine glass in his hand and looked at Ye Xiao who was sleeping soundly with a complicated expression. He walked to the door and instructed the guards, "Get back, the commander of the legion is asleep."

The guards outside took the order to leave.

After sending the guard away, Rhode turned around and closed the door, carrying Ye Xiao to the bed and put it in place. He looked at Ye Xiao who was lying on the bed with a little struggle. After a long time, Rhode seemed to have made up his mind. Rhode bent down and reached out to pull out the dagger hidden in his boots. The dagger with a faint blue light was held in Rhode's hand, and Rhode's breathing became heavy at this time. Ye Xiao, who was lying on the bed, did not know that the danger was approaching.

"I'm sorry." Rhode said softly to Ye Xiao, then covered Ye Xiao's mouth with one hand and inserted the dagger into Ye Xiao's chest with the other.

Under the stimulation of the huge pain, Ye Xiao suddenly woke up, staring at Rhode who was covering his mouth with wide eyes, his eyes full of surprise, surprise, and disbelief.

"I'm sorry." Rhode avoided Ye Xiao's eyes and said softly again.

Feeling that Ye Xiao's struggle had gradually stopped, Rhode let go of his hand covering Ye Xiao's mouth. When he saw Ye Xiao's expression at this moment, Rhode's heart trembled. Years of partnership made Rhode understand the meaning in Ye Xiao's eyes at this moment.

"I'm sorry, I have my own dream, but you are the one who prevents my dream from coming true." Rhode said softly to Ye Xiao.

The blood had dyed the bed sheets under Ye Xiao's body red. Ye Xiao's eyes were still wide open, and Rhodes beside him was talking about explanations that only he could hear.

Ye Xiao died, and died at the hands of the person he trusted the most, and died indecipherable.

After saying that, Rhode stood up and covered Ye Xiao with a quilt. Seeing that Ye Xiao's eyes were still wide open, he reached out to close Ye Xiao's eyes. Unexpectedly, his right hand brushed Ye Xiao's eyelids, but Ye Xiao's eyes were still wide open. Rhode was startled by Ye Xiao's eyes and took two steps back in fear. He never dared to go forward to see Ye Xiao again, and turned around and escaped from the room.

When he returned to his room, Rhode was still in shock. In order to calm himself down, Rhode took out his hidden wine and started drinking.

"Come on, the commander of the Legion has been assassinated." The scream outside the room woke Rhode who had been drunk for some time. Rhode patted his face hard, and he knew that it was his turn to perform now.

Looking at the door of his room, Rhode took a deep breath, opened the door suddenly, grabbed a soldier who happened to run past him with panic and asked, "What's wrong?"

When the soldier who was pulled was Rhode, he hurriedly said, "Mr. Rhode, something is not good. The commander of the legion was assassinated. Go and have a look."

"Ah" Rhode screamed, and immediately left the talking soldier and rushed to the room of the legion commander Ye Xiao. When Rhode arrived at Ye Xiao's room, the room was already full of people.

"Get out of the way, let me in." Rhode pushed everyone away and rushed into the room.

There were not many people in the room, and only the deputy commander Solo and several commanders of the army. When Solo saw Rhode coming in, he immediately rushed to the crown and roared: "Shameless villain, die."

Rhode was shocked when he saw this, and panicked and avoided Solo's attack and exclaimed: "Sir Solo, I am Rhode."

"I'm the one I'm killing," Solo roared. Unfortunately, several ten thousand men who came to his senses worked together to hold Solo.

"Let me go, I'm going to kill this despicable villain," Solo shouted while struggling.

"Solo, calm down. We are as sad as you, but you can't blame Rhodes for being assassinated."

When Solo heard this, he immediately said anxiously: "What did I wronged him? He killed the commander of the legion."

When Rod heard this, he quickly shouted: "Sir Solo, I'm wronged. Ye Xiao and I are good friends who can talk about everything. How could I kill him?"

"Don't argue, don't think you can frame this matter to someone else by leaving a dagger. I tell you, I have evidence to prove that you killed the Legion Commander."

"...Okay, since Lord Solo said this, please give evidence. If it can be proved that the commander of the Legion was killed by me, Rhodes, I, Rhodes, are willing to take the crime."

"Hmph, look at what this is?" Solo said, lifting up the quilt that was originally covered on Ye Xiao's body, and the words "Rod" were written in blood on the snow-white quilt. Suddenly, the few people in the room looked at Rod with bad eyes. Seeing this, Rod smiled bitterly: "Sir, can you determine that the murderer is me with these two words? This is too hasty, right? Maybe this is the trick used by the real murderer to confuse the public."

Hearing Rhodes' words, the ten thousand men who had originally glared at Rhodes hesitated again, because what Rhodes said was not unreasonable.

Just when Solo was not sure about it, a riot broke out outside the room. Solo was furious and pushed open the door with a pale face. He saw Yun Kaishan, the commander of the Dark Night Legion, and he was confronting the soldiers of the Silver Moon Legion.

"What are you doing?" Solo asked angrily.

"Sir, they killed the Legion Commander." A soldier replied loudly.

"Who told you that the commander of the Legion was killed by the people of the Dark Night Legion? Come and take him down. We have not yet concluded who the commander of the Legion was killed, so you spread rumors everywhere, shake the morale of the army. Their hearts can be killed. Stop it and behead them," Solo immediately ordered.

For a moment, the audience was silent.

"What are you here to do?" Solo asked Yun Kaishan.

"Ye Xiao is dead, and I am puzzled by his death, so I brought a few people who are good at solving cases to see if I can find the murderer."

"...Please come with me." Solo said after pondering for a moment.

Yun Kaishan took people into the room, and the people he brought immediately began to investigate the scene consciously. After a while, one of them said to Yun Kaishan: "Sir, we have basically investigated the scene and found no traces of fighting. In other words, Lord Ye Xiao was killed on the bed, that is, he was killed after being drunk. We need to ask the people who served as guards outside the door last night to see when they left. At the same time, I would like to ask the people of the Silver Moon Legion to check how long it has been since Lord Ye Xiao died."

Yun Kaishan looked at Solo and sought the other party's opinions. In order to find out who was the murderer of Ye Xiao, Solo nodded and agreed to the other party's suggestion. Several other ten thousand men witnessed everything and felt that the Dark Night Legion did not have any suspicious actions, so he did not object. Rhode wanted to object, but when he thought that he was the suspect now, it would be better to say less and make mistakes.
To be continued...