The cold light flashed, and the dagger shot towards the two with lightning speed. Qiao Ying immediately used her own dagger to block it back. The sound of the blade collision was loud and powerful.
That person actually feinted, and more daggers appeared in his sleeves, stabbing towards the real target - Sack.
The speed was too fast. Qiao Ying's dagger had not turned back yet. Without thinking, she decisively used her own forearm to block it.
The dagger pierced through Qiao Ying's forearm, and the blade tip was only two centimeters away from Sack's eyeballs. A few drops of blood splashed onto Sack's face.
Sack was stunned.
The next moment, he got up angrily, roaring as he slammed the assassin to the ground, and punched the assassin's throat.
The assassin spit out a mouthful of blood and died directly.
But Sack hit him several more times before stopping.
He turned his head to look at Qiao Ying, with confusion and panic in his eyes.
Qiao Ying threw him a sentence: "Don't panic!"
She raised her blade and cut off the hem of her dress swiftly, quickly wrapping the injured forearm a few circles, tying it neatly with one hand and mouth.
Then she picked up her dagger and rejoined the battle.
On this side, Flowing Shadow and Moon Shadow were already fighting fiercely with the assassins.
The whole front hall was filled with the sounds of killing.
As more and more corpses fell, the strength of the four was also consumed almost completely, and their bodies were covered with wounds. Sack had almost no fighting capacity left, while there were still nearly half of the assassins in front of JOKER.
Moon Shadow, covering the wound on her abdomen, could barely stand: "......We can't keep fighting like this. We won't get killed by their blades, but their sea tactics will tire us to death."
Flowing Shadow wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, breathing heavily: "It looks like we're all going to die here today."
Moon Shadow looked at him: "I won't let you die."
Flowing Shadow replied: "I'm not afraid."
Moon Shadow looked up slightly: "I wonder how Green Shadow and Sword Shadow are doing."
Green Shadow and Sword Shadow did not leave, but went to the castle's control room. All the way there, it was also extremely dangerous.
JOKER's assassins and killers were not only those in front.
There were many more in the castle.
With just one order from JOKER, they would all come with their unbroken weapons and kill them like crushing ants – it would be that easy for JOKER.
Moon Shadow told Green Shadow and the others that escaping is the priority when necessary.
At this time, JOKER received a report from his subordinate. He said to Moon Shadow: "Want to know how Green Shadow and the others are doing?"
He turned the screen in front of him towards Moon Shadow and the others.
On the screen, Green Shadow was lying motionless in a pool of blood, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Surrounding him were JOKER’s people...
JOKER: "Notify the people above to come down." He ordered Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi: "Yes."
Xiao Yi took out his walkie-talkie and started issuing orders.
JOKER's cold eyes were as if looking down on ants: "Can't even get close to me, yet daring to want to kill me."
Qiao Ying counted the time: "It's not difficult to get close to you, but apparently, I just want to buy some time."
Flowing Shadow: "Your people should be here too, right?"
Qiao Ying: "Of course."
After Qiao Ying’s words fell, after a while, urgent voices of the technical staff in the control room were heard from the Bluetooth headset on Xiao Yi's ear.
Xiao Yi immediately reported the situation: "Leader, a large number of armed helicopters are detected approaching here."
In the headset, the urgent report from the control room staff was still continuing.
JOKER reached out and took Xiao Yi's headset.
Just in time to hear the control room door being broken open by someone, followed by the death gurgles of technical staff getting their throats slit by the long sword - it was Sword Shadow.
The control room instantly fell silent. Before their death, the technical staff had transmitted the surveillance footage onto the screen in front of JOKER.
Then,
JOKER saw a huge fleet of helicopters swarming over like locusts, heading towards the castle.
The sheer number of black helicopters covering nearly half the sky reached a frightening effect that could block out the sun. The sound of the spinning blades overwhelmed even the sound of the waves, with a “black cloud” pressing down from above.
The armed helicopters were marked with God's Army logo.
In one of the helicopters -
The robot said: "Coordinates locked."
The robot then asked the man next to him: "Unable to determine wife's location. Bombing blindly may injure the wife?"
The man had a cold expression, with the corners of his mouth pursed tightly. It was Qin Hanyue, who was supposed to be in Poland, but now appeared here leading God's Army and Black Water's elites in a magnificent show of force.
Qin Hanyue looked at the extravagant castle below like a country of giants.
The robot urged: "Hurry and make a decision."
The locator signal on Qiao Ying was too weak. Even if the control room in the castle was destroyed, it would still be very difficult to locate her.
Qin Hanyue stared tightly at the castle below and gave an order: "Act according to the original plan."
Qin Hanyue did not go to Poland. Halfway through the scheduled rest stop, he let Qin Yan, who was pre-arranged to meet him there, pretend to go to Poland to deceive JOKER’s spies. He then returned himself.
Qiao Ying had told him to come with all the firepower of God’s Army and Black Water at the agreed time and blow up this castle.
Qiao Ying rejected their plan to rush down and fight with JOKER’s professional assassins. This was JOKER’s headquarters, JOKER’s territory. Rushing down, even if fully prepared, even with a numbers advantage, would definitely lead to mutually assured destruction.
Qin Hanyue could only pray that, as Qiao Ying said, the underground part of the castle was very sturdy, and ordinary shells could not destroy it, while Qiao Ying was currently in the underground castle as calculated.
Only then could she escape the bombing.
This was the only chance to annihilate JOKER in one fell swoop.
Not daring to arbitrarily change the plan and having no other choice, Qin Hanyue could only choose to believe in Qiao Ying, believe in her promise to protect herself.
The robot immediately relayed Qin Hanyue’s order: “Target locked, ready to fire.”
With the order given, countless shells were fired from the armed helicopters, falling like large meteors, smashing into the top of the castle with unstoppable thunderous force.
A huge explosion sounded.
A corner of the castle was blasted into fragments in an instant, and the assassins inside directly turned into ashes...
The explosions on the ground also strongly affected the underground castle, making the entire structure shake.
Facing the huge helicopter fleet and absolute firepower, JOKER had no choice but to abandon the castle and flee.
He ordered the remaining assassins in a deep voice: "You stay behind, spare no effort to kill her for me."
Apart from some anger, there was no panic on his face.
Then he got up and left, instructing Xiao Yi who was with him: “Notify all ground units to retreat immediately.”
He didn’t want his painstakingly built JOKER to perish here.
Qiao Ying raised her blade and went after the departing JOKER.
The assassins obviously would not give her a chance to get close. They swarmed up to block Qiao Ying's way.
With the help of Flowing Shadow and Moon Shadow's final round of firepower, Qiao Ying successfully killed her way through a blood path.
Before chasing after JOKER, Qiao Ying suddenly threw something to Flowing Shadow: "Flowing Shadow."
