To an assassin, it was a mistake to know too much about his victim's life.
All it took for the two machetemen, who had lived dubiously in South City for many years, to reveal everything was a good flask of wine and a saber of the Golden Roc Fort. Although Gu Shenwei's face was badly scarred from all the fighting he had done, it seemed to conceal his age and made him appear a lot older than he was.
The two of them were from the same village as Nie Qing - Soldiers Camp in the northeast.
Many years ago, when the power of the Central Plain was at its peak, it set up many garrisons in the Western Region for its troops, which totaled more than a hundred thousand men. This gave it hegemony over nearly all countries at that time. When it returned to the Western Region after thirty years in Hedong and another thirty in Hexi, its troops had been reduced to only a few thousand, and Soldiers Camp, one of its garrisons, had been almost entirely abandoned.