Chapter 757: Chapter 306: Rebel Collaborators, Chaos and Opportunism, Long Mountain Changes Hands
"Go notify the leader, have him quickly bring the main forces back to defend the base."
"Traitors, traitors, traitors, those damned traitors from the Yucheng three families, they should have been exterminated long ago, should have killed them all long ago."
"I told the leader from the beginning, these three families are not trustworthy, just imprisoning a few high-ranking ones is useless, as soon as those in the dungeon were persuaded, they all turned, they all turned. Over 3,000 people, over 3,000 people all went over to Great Xia’s side, it’s over, it’s over..."
"Li Hu, Li Hu, you wretched beast, bearing the blood of my Li Family, yet colluding with outsiders, causing so many deaths now, I’ll kill you, I must kill you, ah......"
"It was Li Hu who led people to the dungeon and released the high-ranking members of the three families, it was him."
"I said, how could the Xia Army be so familiar with our Long Mountain base environment, charging towards the main building along the mountain as soon as they attacked from the north, none of the defensive setups in the building area worked, the traitor, it was Li Hu and Yang Zhong, these two traitors who revealed the base details to the Xia Army."
"I’ll skin you alive, Li Hu, you beast, beast!"
......
The top floor of the main building, the Long Mountain Council Hall was crowded with hundreds of people.
Unlike the usual grand spectacle, at this moment the hundreds of people’s faces were either filled with fear or desolation, devoid of any of the former dominant style of Longyou.
After a series of desperate and fearful roars, several Long Mountain members raised their broadswords and charged toward Li Hu, who was tied to a pillar at the front.
Li Hu’s upper body was stained red with blood, despite being injured, there wasn’t a trace of pain on his face. Instead, he looked at the crowd clamoring to kill him and let out a tremendously satisfying laugh.
"Everyone shut up!"
The whole hall was in chaos, accompanied by the sound of slaughter outside the main building, reaching an extreme level of noise, until the pale-faced Li Tiancheng shouted angrily, halting the charging members of the Li family in their tracks, finally bringing silence to the hall.
Yet the quieter it got, the clearer the battle sounds from the east side of the main building became, the fear on many faces grew stronger, with some women and younger, timid members beginning to tremble.
Li Tiancheng had already lost his left arm, he swung his empty sleeve and, lowering his gaze at the tied-up Li Hu, asked in a low voice:
"Was it you who informed the Xia Army about the ambush at Changbai Gully?"
"Of course it was me, the new army formed in June, 800 sets of Hundred Forged Armor, with White Abyss as the destination, given to Zhaoyang, it was all me who told the Xia Army!"
Li Hu directly met Li Tiancheng’s eyes without any avoidance.
Li Tiancheng closed his eyes, his expression immediately filled with extreme anguish.
"You are also a son of Long Mountain, the blood of the Li Family flows through your veins..."
"Shut up, old thing, I have never been a son of the Li Family, I took my mother Li Yuning’s surname, the blood that flows through me is the blood of the Zhaoyuan Li Family. With your Long Mountain Li Family, I have nothing but the enmity of a mother-killer, nothing more to do with you."
Li Tiancheng hadn’t finished speaking before he was interrupted by Li Hu.
Seeing the deep-seated hatred in Li Hu’s eyes, the amount of wrinkles on Li Tiancheng’s already aged face increased noticeably, and he seemed to wilt further.
There weren’t many people in Long Mountain, and Li Hu’s background, along with the injustices he suffered, were things Li Tiancheng had long been aware of.
However, there were many members of the Li family, and within them, Li Hu didn’t stand out with his talent, coupled with his stepmother Zhu Rou being the daughter of the Cold Resistance Level outsider Zhu Xing, so even knowing it, he found it hard to intervene.
His initial thought was that the trials Li Hu suffered would instead make him more accomplished than the other pampered members of the Li family.
Now it seems, indeed, he has become accomplished, but it is Great Xia’s accomplishment!
As Li Tiancheng closed his eyes and pondered, a woman wielding a sword emerged from behind and directly charged at Li Hu:
"You little beast, little beast, I’ve long said this ungrateful wolf couldn’t be raised properly, should have listened to me from the start and killed him. Now not only is my son captured by Great Xia, but such a catastrophe has occurred, let me kill him, kill him!"
The woman charging out happened to be Li Hu’s stepmother, Zhu Rou.
The ambush at Changbai Gully resulted in Li Yuanqing being captured by Great Xia, Zhu Rou had been brooding over it, and upon suddenly learning her son was harmed by Li Hu, her rage was understandable, as she rushed to kill Li Hu.
Li Tiancheng first glanced at Zhu Rou, then noticed the deeply ingrained hatred in Li Hu’s eyes when he looked at her. He sighed softly, his gaze suddenly sharp as he picked up a short sword from the table, hurling it fiercely at Zhu Rou.
Clang...
The short sword was struck down by a broadsword.
It was a middle-aged man with a face somewhat resembling Zhu Rou.
"Uncle Tiancheng, why did you attack my daughter without reason?"
Zhu Xing’s mouth had split open, evidently knocking down Li Tiancheng’s short sword was no easy feat for him, he looked at Li Tiancheng, spoke in a low voice, his tone carrying a very obvious questioning tone.
Everything happened too quickly, the people in the hall all looked bewildered, clearly unable to react.
Why did Li Tiancheng want to kill Zhu Rou suddenly?
Zhu Xing actually dared to intercept Li Tiancheng’s short sword?
Among the crowd, only Li Hu, still bound to the pillar, turned his head to look at Li Tiancheng, his expression froze slightly, as if he had realized something, showing a complex emotion in his eyes.
"Wrongs have their source, debts their master, Zhu Xing, with the fall of Long Mountain today, your daughter cannot escape blame. So many died and wounded in the Camp, she must atone with her life!"
Zhu Xing’s face darkened, seemingly unwilling to disguise any longer, he pointed directly at Li Hu and coldly laughed: "If I remember correctly, that other traitor, Yang Zhong, is your biological grandson, isn’t he? Your Li Family is unlucky, producing these two little beasts who let wolves into the home, instead of dealing with them, you want to kill my daughter, ’wrongs have their source, debts their master’.