Lin Chong's Women's Cuju Team

Chapter 191 The Wolf King Jumps Over the Wall in Desperation

Knowing that Yelü Wen might be calling for help, Lin Chong waved vigorously to Wu Song, who was in the distance. Wu Song had been watching Lin Chong closely, and seeing him fighting Yelü Wen, he quickly ran to help him. Lin Chong and Wu Song then joined forces to fight Yelü Wen, whose three guards also came to their aid.

The fight in front of the Cuju Palace attracted everyone's attention, and the Wolf King naturally noticed Yelü Wen and Lin Chong fighting. He immediately rebuked the coerced Song officials: "None of you are allowed to move! Anyone who dares to run away, I will kill them!"

The officials immediately froze, even those who had stood up to watch the spectacle were terrified and returned to their seats. The Wolf King turned and saw that one official had run several feet towards the goal of the football match. He immediately ordered a guard in the distance, "Detonate the ghost ball under the fleeing official's feet!"

The imperial guards obeyed, drawing a burning fire arrow and shooting it at the feet of the fleeing official. However, the arrow failed to detonate anything, falling directly to the ground and extinguishing itself. How could this be? The Wolf King was startled. He clearly remembered that on the map of the burial of the ghost balls at the football field, there were clearly more than one ghost ball buried near the official.

So the Wolf King personally snatched the arrow from the guard, and after ensuring it burned brightly and wouldn't break easily, shot it at the side of the fleeing official. However, it still didn't detonate anything. The arrow the Wolf King fired merely grazed the official, igniting the hem of his clothing. The official screamed "Ah!" and quickly fell to the ground, rolling to extinguish the flames. Despite this, the buried sphere of the underworld remained unresponsive.

Wolf King's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. Could there be something wrong with this batch of Nether Spheres? But these Nether Spheres were personally escorted by Ning Zhanyan's Zhenyuan Escort Agency, and Mu Shen was also watching the whole process. How could they have been switched? How could there be a problem! The more Wolf King thought about it, the angrier he became!

"Your Highness, look over at the Cuju Palace gate. Another group of people is coming!" a guard pointed into the distance and reminded the Wolf King. The Wolf King looked towards the Cuju Palace gate and realized that Xiao Minghao had brought Emperor Huizong there. He noticed that instead of rushing out of the palace, they were fighting with the guards.

No! Emperor Huizong was the emperor; how could he personally fight the Imperial Guards? Could the emperor in the dragon robe be an imposter? Then who was the one who ran away first? Wolf King frowned, thinking carefully, and realized he had been tricked by Xiao Minghao and his group. He immediately pulled out a red flag from his robes, waved it at the gate of the Cuju Palace, and shouted, "Quickly go after that man who ran away alone; he is the true emperor of Song!"

Yelü Wen caught a glimpse of the Wolf King waving the red flag and realized that Lin Chong and Wu Song had deliberately entangled him, allowing "Ning Weizhi" to escape alone. It turned out that Ning Weizhi was the real emperor, and he had been tricked. He immediately told the imperial guards around him, "Run out of the palace gates and chase after him, take more imperial guards with you."

Upon hearing Yelü Wen's words, Xiao Minghao and Ning Weizhi also ran out of the Cuju Palace gate. They found that Emperor Huizong had long since disappeared. Xiao Minghao drew a fire arrow from his waist and sent a signal. A moment later, the sounds of fighting could be heard outside the palace closest to the Cuju Palace gate. Xiao Minghao said to Ning Weizhi, Lin Chong, and the others, "There's a team of guards I arranged last night in that palace; they should protect the Emperor. Judging by the time, Shen Daoyuan should have arrived at the palace gate by now. Don't worry! Let's deal with Yelü Wen and the Wolf King first."

Upon hearing Xiao Minghao's words, Yelü immediately became vigilant and decided to personally pursue Emperor Huizong of Song. After all, Shen Daoyuan was not an easy person to deal with; if he were to lead troops into the palace, a fierce battle would be inevitable, ending in a life-or-death struggle.

Seeing that Yelü Wen had personally gone to pursue Emperor Huizong of Song, the Wolf King felt relieved. He believed that as long as he kept these officials under control, the emperor wouldn't abandon them. However, he was still unwilling to give up and wanted to test the destructive power of the Nether Sphere.

So the Wolf King ordered two royal guards to dig up the nearest viewing platform. The two guards deftly unearthed three pyre orbs from under the platform. The Wolf King commanded them to light the exposed fuses with tinderboxes, but the fuses either burned halfway before extinguishing themselves or went out just as they reached the surface of the pyre orbs.

"Damn it! There really is something wrong with these ghost balls. Ning Zhanyan, how dare you mock me! I'll cut off your head and use it as a football!" the Wolf King said through gritted teeth.

"Uncle, don't get so angry! Were you just talking about your nephew? I'm here!" Ning Zhanyan stood behind the Wolf King and said to him sarcastically.

"Ning Zhanyan, I was just about to settle accounts with you, but you actually delivered yourself to my doorstep! You saved me a lot of trouble." The Wolf King turned around and said fiercely to Ning Zhanyan.

“You only hate me, there’s no need to detain these Song officials. How about we make a deal? As long as you release all the officials here, I’ll stay and do whatever I want with you.” Ning Zhanyan said calmly to the Wolf King, his hands clasped in front of his chest.

"No! I need to keep these officials alive to negotiate with the dog emperor. If you don't want to die, tell me now where those metal pieces for improving the Nether Sphere are!" the Wolf King said gruffly to Ning Zhanyan.

"Uncle, don't you understand yet? A dozen or so of the metal pieces I gave you were real, the rest were fake. The orb that the self-immolating witch detonated in front of the Cuju gate was real, but as for where the other real orbs are, I don't know either," Ning Zhanyan said with a smirk.

"I'm asking about the whereabouts of that batch of metal pieces, not about this batch of Nether Spheres. Ning Zhanyan, don't change the subject!" the Wolf King roared through gritted teeth.

“Let me think about it. It should be outside Yanmen Pass. As long as your Jin soldiers don’t invade the border city, I don’t think General Zhou will use those ghost balls. But if your Jin general finds out that you lost the football match between Song and Jin today, he might actually launch a secret attack on the city,” Ning Zhanyan said mischievously with his eyes half-closed.

The Wolf King was shocked to hear this. He hadn't expected that Ning Zhanyan had already conspired with Zhou Chengquan to improve the Nether Sphere, let alone that they would use it as a firearm in siege warfare against the Jin army. If the Jin soldiers were to actually attack the city, they would undoubtedly be courting death.

Thinking of this, the Wolf King panicked. He couldn't let the news of the Jin Kingdom's loss in the Cuju match today leak out, and he couldn't let the Jin Kingdom's 30,000 troops be wiped out by Zhou Chengquan's schemes. The Wolf King, in a fit of rage, slashed at Ning Zhanyan with his broadsword. Ning Zhanyan quickly dodged and swung his sword back.

The two began fighting, and the imperial guards nearby, seeing this, also joined in the fray. It turned out that when Ning Zhanyan impersonated Chen Ge, the commander of the imperial guards, he had secretly transferred many of his own men into the palace, and he had also bribed some of the original imperial guards. Now that Ning Zhanyan's men saw their master had broken ties with the Wolf King, they began fighting against the Wolf King's men.

Seeing the Imperial Guard in disarray and hearing Ning Zhanyan claim the Netherworld Orb was fake, the Song ministers lost their fear and fled for their lives. The viewing platform transformed into a gladiatorial arena, filled with the clanging of weapons. The Imperial Guard split into two groups: one group, whose belts were embroidered with eagle symbols, consisted of Ning Zhanyan's men; the other group comprised either the Wolf King's men or Imperial Guards bribed by Gao Qiu.

At this moment, Chai Nianci, Du Shiniang, and others on the football field also seized the opportunity to escape under Chen Jinhuan's guidance. Du Shiniang was worried about Lin Chong, so she said to Chen Jinhuan, "Your Majesty, you go first, I want to go see Brother Lin." Upon hearing this, Du Rushuang took Du Shiniang's hand and said, "I also want to go and persuade Awen again."

“Yelü Wen is not Zhang Ruowen, Shuang’er. What he did for the Wolf King today, I’m afraid the Emperor will not forgive him. Your persuasion will be in vain,” Du Shiniang said to Du Rushuang in a helpless tone.

“I also want to go and see,” Zou Xiaoyan said to Du Shiniang. “Today I saw Xiao Minghao risk his life to save the Emperor. I’m afraid he’s not sincere and may have some kind of conspiracy.”

"Alright. Let's all go over to the Cuju Palace gate together, but be careful and don't get close to the people fighting." Seeing that none of the sisters wanted to go first, Du Shiniang instructed them to be careful.