Transmigration: I, the Dragon Overlord, start by protecting my beautiful bride!

As the other person approached him step by step, knife in hand, Long Aotian knew perfectly well that if they didn't fight back with all their might now, they would all perish here.

Not only Long Aotian, but also his subordinate Jiang Beichuan and Luo Hongyan who helped him.

"Ahhhh!"

Long Aotian roared, his adrenaline surging. In a moment of madness, he grabbed his sword and slashed at the guard in front of him!

However, his chaotic and haphazard slashing was as simple as child's play in front of a second-grade martial artist.

So he simply flicked his wrist upwards, and his blade knocked the horizontal sword from Long Aotian's hand.

Then he took a step forward and kicked hard, and Long Aotian's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string!

A dull pain shot through my chest, and my stomach churned violently.

Now that the sword in his hand has slipped from his grasp, he has no chance of winning...

He fell to the ground and glanced up at his head. His gaze met Jiang Beichuan's.

This subordinate, who had been quite loyal to him, now had tears in his eyes...

"Suffer to death!"

The guard raised his knife and slashed fiercely at Long Aotian!

Long Aotian raised his arm to protect his head, curled up on the ground, trembling...

The expected pain did not come; instead, the guard's exasperated voice rang in my ears.

He opened his eyes and saw that it was Jiang Beichuan, who was holding onto the ropes binding him with both hands.

He swung up and kicked out, sending the guard with the knife flying back several steps.

Although both are second-rank martial artists, Beichuan's martial arts skills are clearly superior to Luo Hongyan's.

"My lord, help me untie the ropes!" Jiang Beichuan shouted at Long Aotian.

"Fine, since you want to die, then I'll grant your wish!" The burly guard was furious. To be defeated by someone who was seriously injured and bound was a disgrace to martial artists!

He angrily raised his knife and charged again. Although Long Aotian was terrified, he relied on his adrenaline to get up from the ground again and cut the ropes binding Jiang Beichuan with one stroke!

But at the same time, he himself was also stabbed in the back, and as Long Aotian slowly fell to the ground...

After being freed from his restraints, Jiang Beichuan used his toe to flick the knife and kicked it out, piercing straight through the chest of a guard!

He staggered backward a few steps with the bloodied tip of the knife still attached, before crashing heavily to the ground, lifeless...

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, another guard immediately tried to strike the gong, but Luo Hongyan seized the opportunity and suddenly attacked, kicking him to the ground with a spinning kick.

After taking down the last guard, Jiang Beichuan reached his limit and collapsed to the ground.

"Lord Shen, are you alright?"

Upon seeing this, Luo Hongyan quickly ran to Long Aotian's side to check his injuries.

However, he only suffered a knife wound to his back. Although the wound was frightening, it did not damage his internal organs.

"Damn it..." Long Aotian grimaced in pain, "It really hurts like hell..."

"I'm so sorry, sir, it's all because of Beichuan that you've been dragged down!" Jiang Beichuan said with great remorse upon seeing Long Aotian's injuries, "If it weren't for saving me, you wouldn't be so badly injured, sir..."

"Beichuan, what nonsense are you spouting?" Long Aotian said, wincing in pain, "If you hadn't bought me time on that big ship, how would I have escaped? I'm just doing what you did for me, so there's no need for thanks."

Jiang Beichuan lowered his head, deeply moved.

"We shouldn't stay here any longer, let's leave quickly." Luo Hongyan said, turning to look at Jiang Beichuan beside her, and asked, "How are you? Can you walk by yourself?"

Jiang Beichuan nodded, and after changing into guard uniforms, they walked out of the granary.

The village suddenly became deserted. Just moments ago, some sounds could be heard, but now there was nothing at all; it was eerily silent…

Just as they were about to leave the village, Long Aotian seemed to have discovered something, broke free from Luo Hongyan's hand that was supporting him, and looked down at the ground.

There was some black powder on the dirt road in the village...

He picked it up, held it to his nose, and sniffed it, further confirming his suspicions.

"Lord Shen, what are you doing? We'd better leave quickly." Luo Hongyan was very anxious. Although the three of them were disguised, the blood flowing from Long Aotian's back was easily noticeable with careful observation.

If they encounter any further obstacles, the three of them will likely perish here...

Long Aotian didn't say anything, but simply picked up a pinch of black powder from the ground, and then followed Luo Hongyan out of the village...

……

The next day.

At the prefectural government office, Dong Fuguang presided over the trial and interrogated Prefect Liu.

It turns out that just last night, Lin Boguang led his men to search the prefectural government office.

Not only were forged official ship lease contracts found in his residence.

They even found the secret ledger of the maritime trade market, where every transaction was recorded very clearly.

The annual income of the maritime trade market is equivalent to the income of the entire city of Qianzhou for three years!

Inside Prefect Liu's mansion, a considerable amount of gold and silver treasures were also found.

This includes accounts for the construction of flood control channels, as well as many other expenditures that match the accounts of the maritime trade market.

"That Prefect Liu is truly despicable!"

It took Dong Fuguang an entire night to compare all these accounts.

"Such a huge sum of money, all of it went into his pocket!" she said angrily. "This guy deserves to die! Where is he? Bring him here, I want to interrogate him myself!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Boguang immediately gave Wen Tao and Jiang Shou a look.

But when they returned, they were met with bad news.

Jiang whispered a few words in Lin Boguang's ear, and Lin Boguang's face immediately turned very ugly.

"You two, what's going on?"

"Reporting to Lord Dong, Prefect Liu committed suicide in the dark prison last night..."

"What?!" Upon hearing this, Dong Fuguang slammed his fist on the table and stood up abruptly. "Where is his body? Take me to see it!"

A group of people hurriedly arrived at the Black Prison of the Zhenye Division from the prefectural government.

Those imprisoned here are all the most vicious criminals.

Dong Fuguang stood with his hands behind his back and slowly walked into the prison. The vicious criminals immediately reached out from behind the iron bars and shouted that they were innocent.

After passing through a long corridor, we finally arrived at the place where Prefect Liu was being held.

He sat there, eyes closed, blood trickling from the corner of his lips…

"How did he die?"

"Reporting to Lord Dong, he committed suicide by biting his tongue."

Outside the prison gate, the speaker was Li Tongzhi, the deputy to Prefect Liu.

"How exactly were you watching him?" Dong Fuguang demanded angrily. "He's involved in a serious case, why weren't you keeping a close watch on him?!"