diskusbooks Chapter 130 She trembled all over, but her eyes were surprisingly bright
Chapter 130 She trembled all over, but her eyes were surprisingly bright
The cold blade of the long knife brushed across Tao Yao's face, leaving a shallow blood mark on her jaw.
But Tao Yao was completely unaware of such a subtle pain. She simply raised her hand and caught the blade with her palm. Not caring about the blood on her hands, she turned the blade in another direction and pointed it directly at Zuoqiu's chest.
Driver Zhang hurriedly tried to withdraw the knife, but Tao Yao immediately reached out her second hand and grabbed the blade with her bare hands. She gripped the blade with such force that the sharp blade had sunk three inches into her palm.
As the saying goes, the ten fingers are connected to the heart. This was not a kind of pain that ordinary people could endure. Zuo Qiu looked at the thin woman in front of him. Although she came from a general's family, it was obvious that she had never practiced martial arts. Yet, she could endure what ordinary people could not, which showed her extraordinary perseverance.
"Miss Shi, I can let you go, but this man must die."
Zuoqiu took a step forward indifferently, letting the blade touch his chest.
Tao Yao's eyes turned blood red, her whole body was trembling, but her eyes were surprisingly bright.
Tao Yao could tell Zuo Qiu was not a martial artist. If they wanted to rescue Lu Che, they had to deal with Zhang the rickshaw driver first. Without any martial arts guards to help, Zuo Qiu would be easy to deal with.
While Tao Yao was thinking in his mind, he loosened his hands that were tightly gripping the blade. The next moment, his hands, which were still bleeding, immediately climbed up Zuo Qiu's neck. With lightning speed, he gripped and twisted them, strangling Zuo Qiu's throat like a python.
Almost at the same time, driver Zhang's long knife was placed on Tao Yao's neck, only half an inch away from her throat.
Zuo Qiu was almost suffocated by Tao Yao. He did not expect that this thin woman could still have so much strength even though she was injured.
"Miss Shi, do you think... your hands are faster... or Lao Zhang's... knife is faster?"
Zuo Qiu's face turned pale and blue, and he used all his strength to squeeze out these few words from his throat to threaten Tao Yao.
As soon as Zuo Qiu finished speaking, the long knife in Zhang the coachman's hand instantly pressed against the skin of Tao Yao's neck. If it was any closer, it would probably cut into her throat, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
But Tao Yao didn't care about the threat at all. She stared at Zuo Qiu with a sharp gaze, and her expression was unexpectedly calm, in contrast to her previous panic.
"Miss Shi... if you kill me... my father... won't... let you live for even a few days... why... why bother? But... if... I let you go... we... can live in peace... from now on... wouldn't that be... better?"
Zuo Qiu couldn't hold on any longer. Tao Yao's hands were unusually strong. If she continued to pinch him, she might really strangle him to death.
Seeing this, driver Zhang lightly stabbed Tao Yao's skin with his knife, trying to scare her into letting go, but Tao Yao remained motionless like a stone.
Tao Yao took a deep breath and said word by word, "Young Master Zuo, you are right. Even if I kill you and escape, I won't survive for many more days. In this situation today, I no longer care whether I live or die."
She paused, and the scarlet in her eyes suddenly became more intense, as if it was a ball of fire ignited on a barren plain, destroying everything in its path. She was not afraid even if it burned her to pieces, and she had the momentum to die with the enemy.
"Since the lives of people like us are so worthless, as lowly as ants...why not, let you die with us? With the help of Young Master Zuo, our deaths can attract some attention, and there's a chance someone will vindicate us. Isn't that right?"
The deeper Zhang the driver's knife penetrated her skin, the stronger Tao Yao pinched Zuo Qiu's neck.
Zuo Qiu's eyes trembled. Tao Yao's words didn't seem false. It seemed like she could really kill him.
Tao Yao instantly noticed the hesitation in Zuo Qiu's eyes and increased the strength in her hands. At this time, Zuo Qiu's face was almost as pale as a dying man. The long period of suffocation made his mind blank and his eyes sore, as if some force was pulling his eyelids down.
A dangerous sleepiness suddenly swept over Zuo Qiu's body. Experience told him that this was not a good feeling.
At the moment when his consciousness was about to be drained away, Zuoqiu gave the driver Zhang a look and ordered him to put down his weapon.
Coachman Zhang had no choice but to pull the blade away from Tao Yao's neck. At the same time, Tao Yao also relaxed the strength of his hand a little.
Zuo Qiu finally got more oxygen. After a moment of breathing, he trembled and breathed deeply, unable to control the physiological tears that burst out of his eyes.
"Let us go." Tao Yao said coldly.
Zuo Qiu's heart moved, and he said, "Father has ordered..."
"I care about your father and mother!"
Tao Yao immediately interrupted him and increased the strength in her hands without saying anything. Her ten fingers almost sank deeply into Zuo Qiu's neck, leaving ten purple-blue marks.
"Master Zuo, I told you I'm not afraid of death! Aren't you afraid too?!"
The anger that Tao Yao had suppressed in her heart for a long time finally erupted. She roared and demanded, concentrating all her strength between her small hands, wishing she could break Zuo Qiu's neck in half on the spot.
Zuoqiu was finally defeated - if he had not admitted defeat, he would probably have died here today.
Zuo Qiu raised his hands tremblingly and asked Zhang the driver to step aside. Tao Yao slowly breathed a sigh of relief, but she still dared not let go of her grip. Zuo Qiu was cunning, and she could not trust him easily until the last moment.
"Let this driver carry Lu Che until he walks out of the teahouse gate, otherwise I won't let go easily." Tao Yao ordered.
As soon as the words fell, although the driver looked doubtful, he had no choice but to do as Tao Yao said.
Just like that, Coachman Zhang carried Lu Che down from the attic. Tao Yao grabbed Zuo Qiu's neck and held him in her arms, following Coachman Zhang all the way to the door of the teahouse.
In an instant, Tao Yao quickly released her grip on Zuo Qiu's neck and kicked him into the corner of the courtyard wall. Seeing this, the coachman quickly threw Lu Che to the ground and ran away to save his young master.
Zuo Qiu almost lost all his strength and collapsed to the ground, limp as mud. The driver, Zhang, hurried over to check his breath and neck temperature.
Zuo Qiu has been weak since childhood and cannot withstand any torture. He was just being pinched by Tao Yao for such a long time and he was lucky that he didn't faint.
Coachman Zhang picked up Zuo Qiu and asked in a low voice, "Young Master, what should we do next?"
Zuo Qiu's face turned ashen, and he barely had the strength to speak. He could only squeeze out a string of weak, mosquito-like characters from his throat: "Retreat... Quickly, quickly retreat..."