The Story of Dusk 306 HE DOUBTED HER

"Don't you hear the news?" Ju Long was squinted his eyes, as though he didn't believe Ye Xiu was oblivious with the recent situation in the L city and about the war between the Emperor and Xiao Jun.

"I don't." Ye Xiu answered truthfully.

Ye Xiu rushed to the northern fortress, so he didn't really know how the recent situation in this city.

"Well…" Ju Long sighed in distaste. He didn't like to relay this information. "Xiao's armies are in the border of the Capital City. They suffered great lost by losing Q city and L city, but somehow they managed to pull it through with the backup from Moon Dew Clan."

"How they could suffer great lost like that?" Senja narrowed her eyes. "Something must have gone wrong."

"You can say there are traitor among them." Ju Long shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

With that being said, strangely Ye Xiu wasn't surprise… he knew there must be someone pulled dirty trick behind their plan.

"Jun trusts the wrong person…" Ye Xiu mumbled. "Where they are now exactly?"

Ju Long tilted his head while thinking. "They will enter the capital city, the first thing in the morning."

Without a second thought Senja and Ye Xiu moved simultaneously toward their horses, there was no time to waste.

"Where are you going?" Ju Long looked at both of them. "Don't tell me you will come to the capital city?"

The firm looked that Ye Xiu gave him answered his question.

"You can't go there, there was a war there. Too dangerous." Ju Long shook his head. "You can't enter the city!"

However, Ye Xiu didn't bat an eye when he said. "That is why I called you. You will come with us."

"No! I will not come with you!"

Ju Long refused to come, but Ye Xiu didn't care about his rejection when he said. "You will be there with all the people from your clan to help or else I will come after you." He said coldly before he gave the horse a tap on its hindquarters with his leg.

Senja looked at Ye Xiu and Ju Long back and forth before she followed the white hair man, leaving the angry Ju Long behind.

"Ye Xiu! You can't treat me like this!" He roared, but of course Ye Xiu couldn't hear his protest as he had ran a few meters ahead.

It was a gloomy night without the moonlight, only the flickered of the campfire that Ye Xiu and Senja left behind that illuminated the whole place. With death body of the soldiers scattered all over the ground, it wasn't a pleasant sight to see.

After sometime, someone descended from tree nearby and knelt in front of Ju Long.

"What is your order Master?" He asked with the voice laced with respect.

Ju Long sighed deeply, he couldn't ignore Ye Xiu's order, he owed him his life. "Gather all the clan members and meet me in the border of the Capital City."

Without saying anything the mysterious man nodded and disappeared into the darkness.

"I hope this can pay off my debt."

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It took a week before Senja and Ye Xiu reached the village near capital city.

The cities and districts that both of them had been passing by was in the same condition as L city district 11, destruction everywhere.

"The Emperor had lost his mind." Senja exclaimed when she watched those people on the street.

They were the villagers near the Capital City who was houses and their belongings had been burnt into ashes.

"He didn't need to do this right?" Senja felt heartache when she sensed their despair. This made her feeling down somehow.

"His mind has long gone." Ye Xiu answered. Indeed the only thing that the Emperor had now was only greed and powerlust.

Both of them were walking the ruin and debris of the houses and street while holding the rein of their horses.

It had been a week since Xiao Jun's army invaded the Capital City. For now they must have made a perimeter inside the city as both of them saw the gates to the capital city were shut closed.

"Jun trapped the Emperor inside." Ye Xiu said when they saw the smoke from inside and around the outside of the gates

It was mean Xiao Jun needed to dethrone the current Emperor before the backup from outside the capital city's gate could make an entrance into the city.

"Xiao Jun locked down the Capital City?" Senja said, more like an affirmation than a question.

"Yes." Ye Xiu furrowed his eyebrows. "He will concentrate the defense on the gates and any entrance access…"

Ye Xiu had been collecting all the information along the way to the Capital City with the way Senja couldn't understand. The white hair man had many spies everywhere, but to think that his brother was a spy himself, Senja wasn't surprised with that.

This whole week, Xiao Jun's armies had managed to block the back up from the outside of the city's gates. The only thing that they need to accomplish now was to enter the palace and dethrone the Emperor, however it seemed something must have happened inside there.

If they could manage to isolate the city for a week and kept the backup out of their way despite there were traitors among Xiao Jun's people, why they couldn't penetrate the palace until now? By this time, Xiao Jun and Xiao Tianyao should have shown the result.

Senja looked down from the hill to the dozens of tents that littered near the city's gate.

"If they couldn't be able to enter the city," Ye Xiu pointed his chin toward the tents of Azura's Army. "It will be nearly impossible for us to sneak in too." His eyebrows wrinkled in concentration, wasn't sure what he should do next.

The options that left were; they could wait and see for the result, waiting for Xiao Jun to usurp the throne and opened the Capital City's gates or waiting for the Azura's army managed to penetrate the city's gate.

Both options required indefinite amount of time that Ye Xiu didn't have. He wanted to fulfill his promise to Senja and met Riana as soon as possible. He didn't have more patience to wait for the uncertainty, but if battalions of army couldn't pass through Xiao Jun's defense moreover the two of them, and this fact irritated him.

"Well… all we should do is to sneak in right?" Senja contemplated while looking at the lockdown city.

"Yes, and this almost impossible…" Ye Xiu muttered in annoyance.

However, Senja turned around and faced him, the bright smile on her lips saying that she didn't agree with Ye Xiu's statement.

"Impossible, huh?" She said smugly.

Ye Xiu raised his brows. "What? Do you think you can infiltrate the city?"

"Well… You can say so…" Senja drawled while devilish grin appeared on her lips.

This girl was interesting.

"Are you sure this is the way?" Ye Xiu asked curiously while following Senja.

They were walking on the debris and the ruin of the village that they had passed before. Senja knew that the secret entrance was around this place, but because the building had been torn down and burnt, it was quite difficult to find it.

In the other hand, Ye Xiu was curious about how Senja found out the secret way.

However, he doubted her now…

Chapter end

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