Chapter 93: You Are Not In Exile You Are Clearly Traveling!
Chapter 93: Be Prepared for Rainy Days
He walked over and clasped his fists in gratitude. "I am Xie Yunshang. If it weren't for your timely information, we wouldn't have been able to rush over here..."
In reality, his swift arrival was thanks to Xiaoqing's efforts, or rather, Chen Xue's assistance.
Originally, several days ago, Chen Xue had learned about the bandits' impending attack, targeting herself. At the time, she was somewhat incredulous.
So, she utilized her empathic connection with Xiaoqing, allowing it to fly near the bandits and eavesdrop on their conversations, learning about their intentions and plans.
Upon learning this, she became anxious and immediately informed her father. The family gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
However, they couldn't come up with a good plan because they were prisoners and couldn't escape from the convoy.
Unable to escape, they could only hide among the crowd.
But since the bandits targeted them, with her father's portrait known to them, and with other prisoners possibly pointing them out to save themselves, they might be identified.
So, Chen Xue thought of using disguises.
Additionally, after informing her father of what she had heard, Chen Yuan decided to abandon the carriage. After all, the bandits knew that they traveled by carriage. If they didn't use it, coupled with disguises, they might survive the crisis.
However, this wasn't foolproof, so Chen Xue exchanged points from the system for soft armor, and even practiced the sleeve arrow technique continuously.
Furthermore, Chen Yuan subtly hinted to Captain Sun and Xu Tian, asking them to be vigilant. In these wildernesses, there might be bandit attacks.
Captain Sun didn't take it seriously. After all, Wen County wasn't far from here, nor was the next county town. Besides, the bandits weren't fools. How could they attack a convoy of exiles?
But Xu Tian seriously considered it, thinking it wasn't impossible. However, even if he raised his guard, he alone wouldn't make much difference.
The Chen family knew they couldn't rely on the bailiffs, so they didn't pin all their hopes on them.
Moreover, informing them of the bandits' potential attack was the most they could do.
As for the other prisoners, they were unfamiliar, and telling them wouldn't help. If they revolted again, they would truly be the masterminds behind it.
And the Chen family believed that the bandits' target was them; why would they care about the other prisoners?
Unfortunately, they underestimated the brutality of these prisoners.
In the following days, they continuously deliberated on how to openly abandon the carriage and hide among the crowd.
At the same time, they continued practicing the sleeve arrow technique as a means of self-defense.
Additionally, Chen Xue dispatched Xiaoqing to search for the bandits' whereabouts and the presence of General Ping Wei and his men pursuing the bandits.
And today, when Captain Sun's subordinates threatened them, Chen Yuan naturally went with the flow, giving up the carriage and allowing his family to blend into the crowd.
Later, when the bandits appeared and people were afraid, the Chen family knew the opportunity had come.
They had their servants surround them, and Chen Xue and the others immediately put on skin masks. Then, they had the servants wear masks too.
These skin masks were also exchanged from the system.
Each one required one hundred contribution points.
Fortunately, Chen Xue had accumulated a considerable amount of contribution points after her enlightenment, so she was not lacking in them. Even after exchanging for several soft armors, they still had one or two tens of thousands of contribution points left.
Taking advantage of the chaos when no one paid attention to them, Chen Xue and the others disguised themselves.
Then they instructed their servants to disperse and not gather with them to avoid exposure.
After all, the servants were dressed in white prisoner uniforms, while they wore coarse linen clothes.
This was something the officials informed them of on the first day of exile, so they didn't wear white prisoner uniforms. However, they couldn't wear their original clothes either, so they could only wear coarse linen clothes.
After disguising themselves, the group hid behind the crowd and watched what was happening in front. Everyone was shocked by Captain Sun's gruesome death, paying no attention to anything else.
When Captain Sun died tragically, Chen Xue had to use her contract to control Xiaoqing to find General Ping Wei and ask him to come and support them as soon as possible.
So, when Xu Tian was tortured, Chen Yuan wanted to go forward, but was stopped by his wife. Because even if he went up, it wouldn't help. Instead, if he exposed his identity, he would die even faster.
They could only wait for the right opportunity to appear again. As long as Xu Tian didn't die, they could save him. But for now, they could only endure some hardships.
Additionally, they didn't expect that after giving up the carriage, it would fall into Zhang Yiquan's hands. So, faced with Zhang Yiquan's mockery, they didn't get angry because there would be a time when he regretted it.
As expected, the bandits really went to find the carriage and took Zhang Yiquan down.
Seeing Zhang Yiquan's miserable state, the Chen family almost wanted to applaud. After all, he brought it upon himself.
But the fate of Little Fatty made them feel heavy-hearted. They never expected these bandits to be so ruthless.
If it weren't for considering that they didn't have the strength to fight and that Chen Yuan wasn't alone, but had his wife and daughter, Chen Yuan would have rushed out to fight with the bandits.
So, when the bandits were about to kill all the prisoners, Chen Yuan couldn't sit still because he had learned from Chen Xue that the bandits were here for him. Therefore, he couldn't hide anymore.
At least, he couldn't let more people die because of him.
Even though many of them deserved to die, as Xu Tian said, many were innocent.
Chen Yuan had actually prepared to come out. He and Chen Xue had considered the worst-case scenario beforehand.
So, Chen Xue exchanged tear gas bombs, smoke bombs, and even had Yang Xiao Hua's father prepare some chloroform. For this, Chen Xue even had her father practice using them in the space to avoid not knowing how to use them when the time came.
It just cost some contribution points.
However, no matter how important contribution points were, they weren't as important as life.
But in any case, this was also the confidence that Chen Yuan dared to stand up.
However, he didn't expect that Brother Hei would immediately attack him without a word.
Fortunately, he was wearing soft armor, so he wasn't injured. Then he began to follow the plan, mocking the bandits and challenging one person to fight against their group.
The purpose was to gather the bandits together and deal with them all at once!
Since the bandits had never seen tear gas bombs or tear gas, they didn't even attempt to dodge.
So, by the time they reacted, it was already too late.
Tear gas bombs could instantly incapacitate people.
And smoke bombs served two purposes: preventing the bandits from escaping or attacking them, and reducing their psychological burden, so they wouldn't hold back in shooting.
Coupled with the chloroform provided by Doctor Yang, the combination caught the bandits off guard, no matter how powerful Brother Hei was.
However, the ferocity of Brother Hei still shocked the Chen family. But fortunately, at a critical moment, General Ping Wei and his men finally arrived.
This relieved them, as their lives were saved.
However, they were somewhat worried because the bandits still had sleeve arrows in them, which was difficult to explain.
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