Chapter 27 - Don't Touch Her!

(From the Captain of the guard’s perspective)

“Help!” One of my guards came running. His uniform was completely drenched and he had weeds over his head.

“What the hell happened to you man?” My lieutenant snapped. “How dare you come to the captain looking like that!”

The guard fell to his knees “Forgive me captain, but it’s an emergency!”

I motioned for him to continue. Then he told me about them receiving the tip about a contraband ship from Yan and they seized the ship to inspect it, but then a man came and began kicking their asses, demanding to see me.

“Who is this man?”

The guard shook his head “We don’t know, he came out of nowhere and knocked me into the river from the other side of the boat!”

I scoffed at that. There was no way a man could throw another over a boat. Still, I had to set order in the town.

“Lieutenant, bring my sword. We’ll see about this stranger.”

We left the station on foot and were able to hear the commotion way before we saw it.

At least a dozen of my guards were swimming back to shore, and half that number were unmoving on the ground. Still, there were another dozen surrounding two men. Both were slightly taller than average, unarmed and also, clearly unafraid; whereas the guards all watched them warily despite the swords in their hands.

“How could anyone do this?” the lieutenant inspected the bodies on the ground, “they’re simply unconscious.” I raised an eyebrow at that. “To defeat so many…”

I heard a woman scream and looked up from the ground. One of the older guards had grabbed a woman by the neck and was threatening her with his sword.

There was a moment of silence before I watched dumbfounded as the man in white and black moved like a blur through the people and blew the guard’s head cleanly off with a single punch. I stood rooted to my spot and the same man casually passed his arm around the clearly frightened girl.

“Shen Long Mu.” My lieutenant whispered, turning completely white.

I gaped. How could I have not recognized him!? “STOP!” I shouted at my people, who were, thankfully, too shocked to do anything more stupid.

I ran to the site and fell to my knees in front of the man that had just seconds ago obliterated a guard’s head.

Without raising my head from the dirt, I shouted at the men to stand down “Bow before his majesty, you imbeciles!”