They had originally used a few special methods to partner the Long family brother and sister together, in order to attract as many Swordbirds from the first and second level to the third level.
This location was the place they had set up to lure Jiang Chen to within the third level.
However, Jiang Chen’s hunting skills were great, and he had obtained enough green spirit pearls in spite of their plans.
Jiang Chen would even be able to complete his mission early, and leave without setting foot into the area they had set up.
Therefore, they had started executing another plan, which was to disguise themselves as Fatty Xuan and Hubing Yue. They had planned on acting out the ruse of inflicting an injury on themselves to win the confidence of Jiang Chen, and attack unexpectedly when Jiang Chen was looking at Fatty Xuan’s injuries.
Except, never in their wildest dreams did they think that Jiang Chen would be able to see through them! This was outside of their expectations.
One had to know, the killers of Hidden Hand were all masters of disguise. Even if they had to disguise themselves as a chubby character like Fatty Xuan, they portrayed him with a living resemblance.
Actually, Jiang Chen hadn’t even suspected that this was a trap in the beginning.
When the fake Ouyang Ping had led the way, Jiang Chen had only thought that it was vaguely strange. This Ouyang Ping was only six meridians true qi, how could he keep up with Jiang Chen’s pace?
This little bit of strangeness had bothered Jiang Chen, but it didn’t cause him to become suspicious.
The flaw that Jiang Chen truly did pick up on was the sentence the fake Fatty had said, when he said that he was of six meridians true qi.
One had to remember that on the bright morning before they had entered the catacombs, Fatty Xuan had come to specially tell Jiang Chen, gleefully, that he had broken through to seven meridians true qi.
Jiang Chen still remembered this matter vividly.
Except, the breakthrough had happened the night before they’d entered the catacombs. How was the killer pretending to be Fatty Xuan supposed to know?
However, even with this sentence, Jiang Chen had only suspected that maybe Fatty Xuan had said the wrong thing when he was injured.
But when he’d probed afterwards — You’re still six meridians true qi, at the very least, can’t you even handle this small thing?
Jiang Chen had once again emphasized six meridians true qi, and tested with his words.
This fake Fatty Xuan once again didn’t offer a rebuttal and didn’t correct him.
After twice in a row, as well as Jiang Chen’s God’s Eye, he finally discovered that there were still some differences in detail between the fake Fatty and the real one.
Many of the differences in detail were concealed by the boundless night. However, to Jiang Chen’s God’s Eye, they were as clear as looking at fire.
If you added the flaws in speech, it allowed Jiang Chen to discern that this was a trap.
So Jiang Chen turned the trick into something of his own use, and covertly applied poison to the two green spirit pearls, and then used the excuse of checking Fatty Xuan’s shoulder to lay a lethal blow onto the killer pretending to be Fatty Xuan.
The end goal of his continued steps of plotting was to decrease the other’s battle capabilities.
In this way, he had used one punch to kill number four who was pretending to be Fatty Xuan, and had employed poison to finish off number three who was pretending to be Ouyang Ping.
With this, there would only be the killer boss lying in wait from the shadows, and number two , who was pretending to be Hubing Yue, left.
“Heh heh, I was truly naive to think that the Duke of Soaring Dragon wouldn’t move against me here! Who would’ve thought that the Long family would go to such extremes to take care of me. They think highly of me indeed.”
Killing intent also surged within Jiang Chen’s heart. The Duke of Soaring Dragon had overstepped his bottom line again and again.