Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 1022 - 281: Deterrence Power_2

"Hiss!" The guard holding a long spear couldn’t help but inhale sharply, his face filled with shock, "So you’re saying these two large fellows are wanted fugitives by the Imperial Court? If we manage to capture them, wouldn’t that mean..."

"Holy shit! Have you lost your damn mind?" Startled, his companion quickly pulled him back and hissed through gritted teeth, "Do you know what they’ve done to have such a high bounty on their heads? The most notorious thing they did was attempt to assassinate the National Master!"

"You motherfucker... Thinking we two can capture such extremely vicious characters? Has your brain been eaten by a dog, or were you kicked by a donkey? It seems like you’ve been dazzled by a few thousand silver taels and need to cool down!"

The guard with the spear was also frightened, an attempt on the National Master’s life... Good Lord, these brothers have committed such horrifying deeds!

No wonder there was a bounty of several thousand taels of silver.

With such ruthless and wicked criminals, if the bounty hadn’t been that high...

It would probably have been somewhat hard to justify.

"What if... what if we light the signal fires and call for more people? After all, no matter how strong they are, it’s just two of them! If we had dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people, could those two large fellows still stand against thousands of our brothers? If we can’t manage that, we could call for the cultivators. With the cultivators’ help, could they still escape?"

The young guard holding the spear was voicing some impractical thoughts.

Then the back of his head was smacked hard by another guard beside him, who gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to die, don’t drag me into it. I want to live a few more years! In any case... I don’t want to die at the hands of the Yan brothers, Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu."

"Look at you, not only are you too young, you don’t even care to listen to rumors. It’s said that to eliminate Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu, the Imperial Court once sent tens of thousands of troops to lay an ambush and encircle them. Yet, both men were able to break out even with severe injuries."

As he spoke, his face was filled with terror, a mix of disbelief yet forced belief, "That was an advance encirclement by tens of thousands of troops, and they still slashed their way out. What good would a few thousand of us do?"

"Have you ever considered what if, after they broke out, they remembered our faces? Then, if they wanted to trouble us? It’s said these brothers are extremely vicious. What if they not only come after us but also decide to trouble our families?"

Word by word, these sentences left the young guard holding the spear dumbfounded and scared stiff.

Hearing this, the young guard felt his skin crawl and suddenly became panic-stricken, "Then... then boss, what should we do? Should we just let them leave like this?"

"As guards of the Imperial City walls, it would be too bitter to watch as two Imperial Court fugitives leave right before our eyes!"

"What? Did you see any Imperial Court fugitives? Where are they? Here? Or there? I didn’t see anything!" The other guard seemed utterly clueless, as if they’d seen nothing, a classic slippery character.

Although naive, the young guard holding the spear was no fool and quickly understood, "Cough cough! Ah... you’re right, boss, I must have been mistaken. I actually... actually didn’t see anything."

The conversation between the two guards might sound cowardly, but they had no choice—they were just two ordinary guards.

They had neither the ability to cultivate nor any significant backing.

When faced with such unapproachable characters, they’d naturally avoid provocation if possible, lest they carelessly... get themselves into trouble.

When Fan Wu and his group disappeared from their sight, only then did the two guards dare to rush to inform others.

Because they truly didn’t dare to run and alert others in the presence of Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu.

The area’s guards immediately became panicked because no one expected the Yan brothers to return—they had been expelled from the Imperial City years ago, right?

Why would they dare come back?

And during the time they were expelled from the Imperial City, how could the people of the Imperial Court be so incompetent as to not capture them?

Whatever turmoil arose on top of the city walls, Fan Wu and his party didn’t care.

Because they continued their journey for a while, they had now come to the base of the city wall that rose three hundred feet into the sky, within the Imperial City of the Shangwu Dynasty, not outside of it.

In fact, it was before they fully reached the base of the city wall that they caught sight of most of the bustling street views within the Imperial City of the Shangwu Dynasty.

By the time they truly arrived at the base of the wall, they had already blended into the bustling street scenes, where all they could see were dense crowds of people.

The prosperity of the Imperial City of the Shangwu Dynasty far exceeded many people’s imaginations; even the beggars begging by the roadside wore fairly nice clothes that did not seem like those of a beggar at all.

If it weren’t for the broken bowls in front of them, one wouldn’t be able to tell they were beggars.

Yet those beggars, who dressed fairly well, were met with head shakes and pity from the crowd, who then placed many copper coins on their broken bowls.

Yun Jiuqing was utterly astonished at this scene; in her eyes, those beggars on the street, if placed in the Great Zhou Dynasty, would at most be considered poor people whose homes weren’t wealthy, wearing clothes that required constant mending.

But here in the Shangwu Dynasty, such poor people had become beggars, and there were actually people who sympathized with these beggars who clearly looked well-fed and warmly dressed.

Ah, is everyone in the Shangwu Dynasty really this wealthy?

Yun Jiuqing found it utterly inconceivable. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

If that was the case, any minor noble family from within the Shangwu Dynasty, if placed in the Great Zhou Dynasty, wouldn’t they be equivalent to the top-tier noble families of the Great Zhou?

Yun Jiuqing didn’t know whether her guess was accurate or not; if it was... well, that was absolutely preposterous!

No wonder Huo’s Sea Trading, the company that had brought them from the Great Yan Dynasty, was eager to settle in the land of the Shangwu Dynasty.

It turns out the Shangwu Dynasty didn’t just surpass the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Yan Dynasty by a little bit; it was a difference of ten or a hundredfold.

Just as Yun Jiuqing wanted to check out what was being sold at a street stall in the Shangwu Dynasty, she suddenly found that passersby, upon seeing their group, reacted as if they had seen a harbinger of doom, their faces turning pale with fear.

Then, a series of panicked screams rose up along the entire street.

"It’s... it’s... it’s Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu, those two brothers! They’ve returned after so many years!"

The original cause of the commotion was someone suddenly shouting this.

When countless eyes fell upon Fan Wu and the rest of their group, they were instantly drawn to the imposing stature of Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu, causing panic to ensue.

Commoners on the street quickly ducked their heads and scurried, trying to run back to their own homes.

Street vendors hurriedly packed up their stalls and ran without stopping towards even further places.

Their speed left Yun Jiuqing completely dumbfounded.

In less than a hundred breaths’ time, the entire street was void of anyone except for Fan Wu and his companions...

It was completely deserted.

"Ah, this!"

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