Nen Lu had actually been killed?
She and Nen Lu had grown up together. They had practiced martial arts together, so Er Huang was very familiar with Nen Lu’s martial arts abilities and knew it was on par with hers. Never in a million years could she have imagined that Nen Lu would die under the hands of the good-for-nothing Su Luo.
Nen Lu really had died with unresolved grievances.
“Looks like I really underestimated you, slut.” Er Huang cast sidelong glances at Su Luo, gnashing her teeth as her rage burst forth.
Er Huang was itching to finish off Su Luo with one sword strike. Regrettably, she could not kill Su Luo now. Su Luo was this continent’s almost extinct space mage. Furthermore, she was also a space mage that did not have any power to protect herself.
Er Huang secretly speculated that if she was to take Su Luo to an auction house and sell her, on the basis of this little slut’s innate gift and appearance, shouldn’t she be able to sell for an unpresented sky-high price?
It would indeed be a fortune that could tempt a person’s heart.
Su Luo examined Er Huang’s constantly changing sinister expressions and also turned her head to look at the corpse of the fallen Nen Lu. A bitter look appeared in Su Luo’s eyes.
Her secret having been discovered was disastrous. Due to this, Er Huang would certainly increase her vigilance. Su Luo’s small tricks from before could not be used again.
With a bitter smile on her face, Su Luo raised both of her hands in surrender. Er Huang had learned a lesson from Nen Lu’s mistake and as a result had become very cautious.
Er Huang took out a dark red blood-colored rope and tied both of Su Luo’s hands behind her back. Er Huang had bound Su Luo so tightly that the joint looked seamless.
“Behave. Don’t even think about escaping!” Er Huang warned with a stern voice.
Su Luo only made a slight movement. When Er Huang’s icy-cold long sword sliced at her neck, a thin thread of blood slowly seeped out of the cut.
Su Luo knew that if she resisted, on account of having killed two of the opponent’s sister-in-arms, Er Huang would probably without a second thought either break or cut off her arms and legs.
1) Five thousand kilometer Long March written in Chinese was ten thousand Li (2 Li = 1 kilometer) – This is a reference to the historical one made by the eventual communist leader Ma Zedong in October of 1934. Before World War II, China had a civil war/internal struggle for power between the Chinese National Party led by Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Red Army of the Communist Party. Chiang Kai-Shek was about to eliminate the red army at Jiang Xi when Ma Zedong and Zhou Enlai led the long march to escape the encirclement. The march was a bitter one that lasted a year with only 10% of the original troops surviving till the end.
2) The Chinese characters stated twenty five thousand Li = 125,000 kilometers; I took the figurative meaning here because the Long March was only 9000 kilometers.