The Human Emperor (200-400)

C208: Hope!

“Wang Chong, why are you here?”

Chen Burang asked in delight.

“What about you? Why are you here?”

Wang Chong returned with another question. He was rather curious about Chen Burang’s presence here as well.

“It’s a long story. In order to save them, I ended up getting marked by a rather formidable master archer. His archery is formidable, and he can fire eighty arrows in the blink of an eye! The boulder that I was hiding at before got crushed by his relentless attacks. If not for your intervention, I might have really died there.”

Chen Burang’s face was pale. It seemed like he had exerted himself greatly during this ordeal. However, he had an excited look on his face which showed no signs of fear at all.

“You’re able to tell how many arrows he shot in a single second?”

Wang Chong asked curiously.

“Shot in a second? Do you mean that he shoots very fast?”

Not comprehending Wang Chong’s question, a sliver of doubt flashed across Chen Burang’s eyes. However, he soon broke into a smile. His smile carried the simplicity of a mountain hunter and it felt extremely comfortable.

“Hunters like us must have sharp eyes and sensitive ears. Sometimes, it is impossible to see preys hiding in the grass; so, our ears must be sharp as well.”

“Our village head said that I’m born different from the others. I don’t really think so but I’m indeed able to hear the buzzing of a mosquito several li away.”

(li -> 0.5km)

Chen Burang said earnestly. He didn’t seem to think that there was anything remarkable about his ability.

“The buzzing of a mosquito?”

Staring at Chen Burang, Wang Chong’s heart abruptly beat wildly. It wasn’t surprising for an archer’s ear to be sharp. In fact, it was common as they were trained with such goals in mind.

But to hear the buzzing of a mosquito several li away…

Even the master archers Wang Chong met in his previous life were incapable of such a feat. He suddenly remembered how Chen Burang was able to determine that wolf fang arrows were about to fall on the Imperial Army guard when he himself couldn’t hear anything at all.

In that instant, Wang Chong seemed to have suddenly understood something and the gaze he directed at Chen Burang abruptly changed altogether.

“This person’s capability sure is formidable. It’s no wonder why he could become a known archer general and lead the elites archers of Great Tang.”

No one knew better than Wang Chong that even though Chen Burang had yet to establish his reputation, in the future, he would definitely become one of the top master archers in the world.

Putting everything else aside, just his hearing ability itself was already far beyond that of the Turk master archers.

“Do you know how many master archers there are outside?”

Wang Chong asked. The sky was dark, and the location of the master archers were impossible to trace by eye. The imperative matter at hand was to determine how many enemies there were.

“There is a total of 43 master archers. They are divided into two main groups, one with twenty-eight members and the other with fifteen. Of which, eleven are stationed in the east whereas fourteen are stationed in the west; eight in the south and eight in the north. The remaining two are hiding at the foot of the mountain three hundred zhang away in the forest!”