The Tax Supervision Office director emerged from the shadows, stroking his short beard. His gilded armor scraped against a gunpowder barrel, sending sparks flying into the silence.
Twenty crossbowmen leaped from the rafters, their bolts tipped with the familiar indigo hue—the same lethal sulfur crystal poison used in the canal explosion.
"Does your lordship know that this batch of gunpowder explodes at the slightest touch of moisture?" Shen Xitang suddenly pried open the nearest barrel, grabbing a handful of granules mixed with hematite.
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