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"The gift is outside the City Lord's Mansion. If the City Lord doesn't mind, I will have someone bring it in right away."

As Xia Yun finished speaking, he glanced at Tuoba Jinghui.

"Okay, then present the gift first."

Richard laughed and agreed to Xia Yun's request on the spot.

In his opinion, Xia Yun had already fallen into his hands, and even if he wanted to play some tricks, he would never escape his control.

Upon hearing this, Tuoba Jinghui immediately stood up and walked quickly out of the lobby.

However, at this moment, Tuoba Jinghui also had some doubts in his heart.

Before arriving at the City Lord's Mansion, they didn't seem to have prepared any gifts.

Xia Yun never mentioned this matter.

"What does your Excellency mean? Do you want me to notify Jingcheng and then lead people to attack?" Tuoba Jinghui thought to himself.

This thought only lasted for a moment in his mind before he quickly rejected it.

At this moment, in the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Huyan Jueluo was the only one beside Xia Yun.

Even though Huyan Jueluo was a martial arts expert, it was difficult for him to protect Xia Yun from being surrounded by dozens of people.

While Tuoba Jinghui was hesitating, he had already arrived outside the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.

At a glance, Xiang Wentian was actually standing in an orderly manner outside the gate of the City Lord's Mansion with a dozen people.

"Brother Tuoba, the gifts are ready."

The moment he saw Tuoba Jinghui, Xiang Wentian spoke immediately.

It was only then that Tuoba Jinghui noticed that Xiang Wentian and a dozen other people were all holding a wooden box in their hands.

"Come in with me."

Tuoba Jinghui nodded immediately in response. At this time, he already had some guesses in his mind.

Since the order was given by Richard himself, the guards outside the gate naturally did not dare to stop him.

After a while, Tuoba Jinghui brought Xiang Wentian and a dozen others to the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Bring in the presents."

Without waiting for Tuoba Jinghui to ask for instructions, Xia Yun gave the order directly.

Zhang Lin, who was standing by, noticed that something was wrong and wanted to speak up to stop him, but when he saw that Richard was still confident and calm, he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Boss Xia, I wonder what gift you gave to this city lord?"

When Xiang Wentian and others walked slowly into the lobby holding wooden boxes, curiosity flashed in Richard's eyes.

"The city lord will know once he opens it."

In the moment when Richard didn't notice, a cold arc appeared at the corner of Xia Yun's mouth.

In fact, he couldn't wait to see what Richard's expression would be after he opened the wooden box.

"Okay, then let this city lord open it himself!"

Richard laughed, not worried at all about what Xia Yun was up to.

After a short break, Xiang Wentian led a dozen people to the center of the lobby.

At the same time, Richard also came to Xiang Wentian.

Out of eager curiosity, Richard immediately placed his hands on the lid of the wooden box and lifted it up with force.

But it doesn't matter if you don't open the lid.

After opening it, the items in the wooden box made Richard's expression change drastically!

"what!

Zhang Lin, who was standing by, let out a loud scream and his face turned extremely pale the moment he saw the thing in the river.

The reason for this scene was that the thing in the box was none other than a bloody head!

"Open all the gifts and give them to the Lord City Lord!"

At the same time, the sneer on Xia Yun's face reached its peak, and he immediately gave the order again.

"As ordered!"

A dozen people behind Xiang Wentian responded and opened the lid of the wooden box one after another.

As expected, the contents of the remaining dozen or so wooden boxes were also bloody heads!

"My Lord City Lord, these dozen heads are the heads of the commander of the east gate of Lantuo City and his personal soldiers. I wonder if my Lord City Lord is satisfied with this gift?"

Xiang Wentian, who was closest to Richard at this time, asked sarcastically with a rather treacherous look.

"You...you guys are so brave!"

Stimulated by Xiang Wentian's words, Richard finally came back to his senses, and an expression of extreme anger suddenly appeared on his face!

"What are you still standing there for? Quickly arrest these rebellious people from the Central Plains!"

Zhang Lin realized that something was wrong, and he waved his hand and gave orders to dozens of armored guards on both sides of the hall.

The guards immediately drew their swords from their waists and quickly moved towards the group of people below.

However, are Xia Yun and his group the kind of people who are just waiting to be captured?

"Do it!"

When a group of guards rushed up, a loud shout came from Xiang Wentian's mouth on the spot.

The dozen or so bodyguards following behind him immediately threw the wooden box in their hands to the ground and took out pistols from their arms.

The next moment, a burst of intense gunfire was heard in the lobby!

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

At the same time as the sound of gunfire rang through the night sky, hundreds of barbarian soldiers led by Tuoba Jingcheng, who were ambushed outside the City Lord's Mansion, also immediately launched a charge towards the City Lord's Mansion!

"Brothers, charge!"

"kill!"

"..."

The noisy sounds of killing echoed throughout the entire street where the City Lord's Mansion was located.

All of a sudden, countless merchants and members of the Dune Clan walked out of the room and turned their attention to the location of the City Clan Mansion.

"What happened? Why did a fight break out at the City Lord's Mansion?"

"Someone has invaded the City Lord's Mansion, and many people have died!"

"Now we are going to have a good show. This is the first time I have encountered something like this in all these years!"

"..."

Outside the street where the City Lord's Mansion was located, a noisy discussion suddenly broke out.

Some of them were dune people, some were merchants from various places, and there were also many travelers.

However, among these people, the figures of a group of men in black seemed extremely abrupt at this moment.

"Miss, that's gunshots. There should be a fierce gunfight going on over at the City Lord's Mansion."

In front of the black-clad crowd, a woman in a black robe and a black veil was looking in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion with a slightly frown on her face.

At the same time, a maid beside her spoke in a low voice.

"The sound of the gunshot doesn't sound like the sound of a flintlock rifle, but rather like the automatic rifle equipped by our Daliang Dynasty troops..."

The woman in the black veil murmured to herself, and a hint of hesitation quietly revealed in her beautiful eyes that were as clear as water.

……

The gunshots lasted for about dozens of breaths.

When the gunshots completely stopped, the entire City Lord's Mansion instantly became extremely quiet.

It was so quiet that you could even hear the noise of rats running around in the mansion.

Outside the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, the dozen or so guards who were originally guarding the gate had all fallen in a pool of blood.

In the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, dozens of armored guards also fell to the floor of the lobby, letting the blood flow freely.

Almost every one of these guards had an expression of extreme fear on their faces.