Si Ren watched the four wretches scurrying away in panic, a corner of his mouth lifting into a smile.
"Heh, well, that's assuming they manage to stay alive long enough. The attempt to assassinate you failed, and whoever ordered them to do it won't let them go. Whether it's to keep this secret safe or to extract information from them under interrogation, these fellows aren't going to survive."
Celestial Master Zhang was not a particularly soft-hearted man either. Besides, those few thugs were societal scum; other than causing harm to the people, they held not the slightest value to society or the country. If they died, they died.
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