Chapter 318: Saving the Country in a Roundabout Way - Lester
Very rarely, Kayn and his teacher Lester reached a consensus.
Urgot must die.
If he had not died, nearly one million innocent civilians in the province of Barou might have died because of him.
So how do we get rid of this madman?
Kayn looked at Lester silently. When it came to killing, Lester was indeed qualified to be his teacher.
"Hmm..." But Lester was also in deep thought.
To get rid of a powerful and well-connected chapter leader without leaving any traces, and to prevent the nobles behind Urgot from getting hold of any evidence... this is indeed not an easy task .
If Urgot hadn't really pushed him to the edge, he wouldn't have been willing to take the risk.
"Urgot must die, but..."
"It's better not to use my own people."
There is no perfect plan in the world. If the assassin he sent was caught alive by mistake, it would be a big trouble.
The best strategy for killing Urgot is still...
"Killing with a borrowed knife." Lester muttered to himself.
"Hmm..." Kayn looked over in confusion. Borrow a knife? Whose knife?
Lester did not explain, but slowly spread out a military topographic map of the Province of Barou on his desk.
He had drawn a big circle on this map, which roughly covered the southwest of Barue Province and included an area of the entire Wuji Mountains.
Lester thought for a while, and finally, he lightly wrote on the Wuji Village marked with the Wuji Sword Sect: "It should be here."
“Where is this?” Kayn became more and more confused.
But all I heard was Lester saying, "Where the Leader is hiding."
"Leader, Leader?" Kayn's pupils shrank and he looked over in shock: "Teacher Lester, do you know where the Leader is?"
"That's about right." Lester smiled. "With a large-scale transfer of tens of thousands of people, they even landed in the mountains to rest several times during the flight. How could there not be any traces left?"
"In fact, I sent out trusted scouts to track them all the way, and confirmed immediately that they had left the Yipu River Basin—"
"Looking at the direction of flight, it probably went to the Wuji Mountains."
The Wuji Mountains are rugged and sparsely populated. Within hundreds of miles, there is only one human settlement recorded on the map, Wuji Village.
It is not difficult to guess the hiding place of the leader.
“This…” Kayn couldn’t believe it.
So General Lester knew where the Leader was all along, then...
"Why don't you tell me?"
"Why should I tell you?" Lester chuckled, "I'll tell you the truth. I was the one who helped clean up all the traces left by the Leader when he moved."
"Without me, this mob would have been found by the Empire long ago."
Kayn: “…”
Isn't this treason?
Kayn was shocked, but Lester's tone remained calm: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I can't explain the story behind this to you in a short time."
"In short, compared to Urgot and the bunch of parasites behind him, Windleader can even be considered as our helper."
"Sometimes, in order to save the empire, we have to sacrifice some of the empire's short-term interests first."
"This is called saving the country in a roundabout way—"
“Kayn, do you understand?”
As he spoke, Lester stared straight into Kayn's eyes, his sharp gaze seemed to be able to see through his heart.
Kayn thought for a moment and replied, "I only listen to you, Master."
"As long as you, teacher, think that the leader is a friend, then the leader is my friend!"
"Very good." Lester nodded with satisfaction.
He said to Kayn, “Go out and call my lieutenant.”
"This matter is very important. I need someone I can trust to have a good chat with the Leader."
Kaiyin nodded in agreement, but when he left, he paused quietly: "Teacher Lester, why don't you let me take care of this task?"
"You?" Lester was very hesitant.
He was indeed training Kayn as his most important disciple, otherwise he would not have revealed such a core secret.
But the time they spent together was still too short. Not to mention, Kayn was still too young.
“I can do it.” Kayn volunteered, “Teacher, please believe in my loyalty and ability.”
"Hmm..." Lester thought.
In his opinion, Kayn was just eager to show off in front of his teacher and consolidate his foundation as the general's confidant.
But Kayn was still too young. No matter what, Lester couldn't let him take charge of such an important task alone.
However...he doesn't dislike such motivated subordinates.
"Okay." Lester thought about it and finally decided: "Kayn, you go too."
…
After a long time, Wuji Village.
Lester's trusted lieutenant and Kayn rode on the flying magic bird and followed the instructions on the map to fly over Wuji Village as planned.
"The leader is really here!"
Looking down from the sky, Kayn couldn't help but feel secretly excited when he saw the large but orderly people training and working in the mountains and forests.
This kind of excitement is difficult for ordinary people to understand and is also very difficult to describe.
Or, the best way to describe it is to state:
"Finally found the organization!"
After knowing that he was also a wind leader, Kayn kept thinking back to the wind that covered the sky and the sun when it blew over Yipu River Port more than half a month ago.
He regretted not following them and joining them at that time.
Somehow, even though he didn't know most of them, Kayn instinctively felt an inexplicable sense of belonging to these strangers, thinking of their common beliefs.
Now, he can finally see them again and have the chance to return to the organization that belongs to him.
Kayn was thinking this...
"Be careful!" Suddenly, the adjutant shouted in surprise.
The flying demon bird beneath them also cried out in pain.
And then...
These two suspicious guys rode on Noxus military flying magic birds and swaggered over Wuji Village...
He was cut down by Master Yi's sword energy from a distance, and both the man and the "bird" fell from the sky, and finally landed heavily on the ground.
The adjutant got off to a bad start and hit his head on the ground, knocking him unconscious.
By the time the adjutant and Kayn came back to their senses from their dizziness, they had been tied up like dumplings by the angry people who had heard the news and were paraded to the village entrance.
But within just a few minutes, at least a hundred people gathered around excitedly.
"Everyone calm down!" The adjutant saw that the situation was not good and begged for mercy in a hurry: "It's a misunderstanding, it's really a misunderstanding! We are here to help you..."
"Help? Bullshit help!" The people swung down with sticks.
"I recognize you. Aren't you the lackey beside General Lester?"
These people are all war refugees who escaped from Yipu River Port with Riven.
The people who were responsible for the massacre at Yipu River Port, causing their families to be broken up and their loved ones to be displaced, were none other than the regiment led by Lester.
"Don't waste your time on him. Teach this Noxian executioner a lesson!"
The people angrily used hoes, sticks, fists and any other weapons they could get their hands on.
Even ordinary extraordinary warriors could not withstand such a stormy attack. Not to mention, there were also many extraordinary people among these people who harbored national hatred and family grudges.
In just a few moments, the adjutant was beaten half to death and finally fainted from exhaustion.
Only Kayn was left.
Because he was only a ten-year-old boy, no one paid attention to him for the time being. Now that the adjutant was gone to draw the fire, he appeared in the center of everyone's sight again.
"Is this... a child?" The people hesitated.
"So what if it's a child!" But soon an angry and dangerous voice emerged from the crowd: "The little Noxian bastards can kill people just the same!"
"Wait!" Kayn instinctively wanted to say something.
But when he looked up, he saw countless pairs of eyes filled with hatred.
This reminded him of the Yipu River Port more than half a month ago, when he was driven by the blades of the supervision team and attacked this prosperous city like a beast, and attacked the hometowns of the people in front of him.
"I..." Kayn suddenly lost the strength to struggle.
He sat back on the ground silently and closed his eyes.
It's like waiting for your own judgment.
Then……
Silence, still silence.
The people's uncontrollable anger gradually subsided.
"You...you won't hit me?" Kayn opened his eyes and asked blankly.
Everyone's fists were still clenched tightly.
But when they looked at Kayn's immature face, they finally gritted their teeth and said, "Of course we want to beat you up, or even kill you, little bastard from Noxus."
"But the Wind Leader told us that our enemy should be the Noxian Empire, not all Noxians."
"Especially for a child like you who was forced to go to the battlefield..."
“So…” People’s fists were still clenched: “We won’t kill you.”
Kayn: “…”
The crowd began to disperse, with noble, yet unwilling and incomprehensible looks.
The leader's book taught them many lessons.
But even if some principles can be understood, they are still very difficult to accept .
"I hope what the Leader told us is true. I hope people like you can really change!"
"...Wait!" Suddenly, Kayn stood up.
Everyone stopped and looked back with unhappy expressions: "What else do you want, little brat?!"
"I..." Kaiyin paused: "I want to say thank you to you ."
"Heh." No one would care to thank a Noxian. A perfunctory thank you, or confession, would not resolve hatred. It was meaningless.
"Thank you for giving me a chance."
Kayn spread his hands, his expression sincere and condensed into a breeze:
"I... won't let you down."
