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The horse was galloping at full speed when he gave it a sudden, brutal yank, wrenching its head to the side. It was not any fine-bred steed, just a common draft horse unused even to carrying a rider. Thrown off balance, it toppled with a long, piercing neigh, skidding across the ground as if forced into a sliding tackle.
The rider’s seat dropped sharply, scraping the ground before they were then flung clear. The silhouette’s target vanished in an instant; still hurtling through the air, it lashed out a snake-like appendage straight toward He Chunhua.
One strike from that thing would mean certain doom.
So, the mastermind had laid a double trap: one killer blow for Ke Jihai, and another for He Chunhua.
However, the He couple rolled with the momentum, tumbling into some undergrowth. The snake-like appendage missed He Chunhua’s face by barely several tens of centimeters, and then the distance grew wider and wider.
Madame Ying let out a scream.
Though her husband had shielded her in his arms during the fall, he could not protect her completely. A branch drove straight through her calf, piercing from front to back.
The dark figure landed with a catlike bounce, weightless as a shadow, twisting mid-air to spring once more at He Chunhua....
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