Huo Qingtong turned and handed the dagger back to Chen.
Chen nodded. "All right," he said to Fang. "We will not harm the Emperor. Give the child to me." As he spoke, he replaced the dagger in its sheath and stretched out his hands.
"Huh! Who"d believe you?" Fang replied darkly. "I"ll return the child only after you have left the palace."
Chen was furious. "We of the Red Flower Society hold to our word," he said. "Why would we bother to cheat an animal like you?"
"That"s why I don"t believe you."
"All right," Chen countered. "Then you leave the palace with us." Fang hesitated.
As soon as Qian Long heard Chen say that his life was spared, he was ecstatic with happiness and didn"t care less what happened to Fang. "Go with them," he said. "You have gained great merit today. I will naturally not forget it."
Fang shivered as he heard the Emperor"s tone, and realised that he was talking about honouring him posthumously. But all he could say was: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your benevolence." He turned to Chen. "If I leave the palace with you, what chance have I got to live?" He wanted Chen to promise to spare him.
"You"ve already done enough evil," Chen replied angrily. "You should have been consigned to Hell long ago."
Qian Long, worried that other complications could arise, and that Chen might change his mind, urged Fang on: "Quickly, leave with them now."
"But I"m afraid that once I"ve gone, they will try and harm Your Highness," Fang added.
"So what do you suggest?" Chen asked in exasperation.
"Allow his Imperial Highness to leave first and then I will accompany you out of the palace."
Chen could see they would have to let him go. "All right," he said to Qian Long. "Leave."
Qian Long did not concern himself further with the bearing an Emperor should maintain, and fled for the door as fast as his feet could carry him. Suddenly, Chen stretched out his right hand and grabbed him as he ran past, and boxed his ears sharply with his left hand --"bang, bang, bang!" the sound ringing out crisp and clearly. Qian Long"s cheeks immediately began to swell up. The heroes were taken by surprise, and there was a brief silence before they roared out their approval.
"Do you still remember that poisonous oath you swore?" Chen demanded, but Qian Long did not dare to make any reply. With a contemptuous wave of his hand, Chen dismissed him, and Qian Long stumbled out of the room and down the stairs.
"Get the child!" Chen shouted.
"Buddha" Zhao was holding his poisonous darts and looking out of the window, waiting for the right moment. As soon as Chen had hold of the child, and Qian Long appeared down below, he would fire off several dozen projectiles at the Emperor"s body.
Fang, meanwhile, was frantically looking around, trying to think of some way out for himself. "I want to see with my own eyes that His Highness is out of danger before I"ll hand over the child," he said, shuffling slowly towards the nearest window.
"You Turtle! You"re already a dead man," snarled one of the Twin Knights. They shadowed him, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Qian Long emerged from the main door of the pavilion, and the bodyguards waiting down below surged forward.
"You traitor," "Buddha" Zhao muttered to himself. "You traitor."
Fang saw the several dozen bodyguards gathered below, and decided it was better to take a risk than to simply wait to die where he was. So in a sudden movement, he embraced the child and threw himself out of the window.
Taken completely unawares, a cry of surprise went up from the heroes. One of the Twin Knights flicked out his Flying Claw and hooked it round Fang"s left leg, then tugged with all his might. Fang"s body flew up, the baby left his hands and the two began to fall. "Buddha" Zhao crouched down and launched himself like an arrow out of the window. As he flew through the air, his head pointing down and his feet up, he stretched out his left hand and grabbed hold of one of the child"s tiny legs while at the same time throwing three of his poisonous darts at Fang, hitting him squarely on the head and chest.
A shout went up from both the heroes in the pavilion and the bodyguards down below. Zhao steeled himself, hugged the baby to his chest and landed firmly on his two feet. The Twin Knights, Lord Zhou and some of the other heroes jumped down from the pavilion and surrounded Zhao and the baby to protect them. Zhao looked down at the child in his arms and saw it kicking and waving its arms about, chuckling away in delight. It obviously thought the leap a moment ago that had almost ended its life had been great fun and wanted to do it again.
Chen pushed their hostage Commander Fu to the window and shouted: "Do you want him to live?"
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