"We really are bandits."
The big man in the lead spoke stubbornly, but his eyes flickered.
They had indeed received a mission to go here and capture the Third Prince and Mu Xue. In order not to arouse their suspicion, they pretended to be bandits who raped women, but they didn't expect to be seen through.
"Yeah?"
Qian Jue sneered, opened the porcelain bottle, and approached the big man, "In that case, let's try my new medicine."
The medicine was poured into the palm of his hand, Qian Jue picked up the medicine and flicked it into the big man's mouth.
The big man was caught off guard and the medicine had already been swallowed.
He glared at Qian Jue angrily, "What did you give me to eat?"
Qian Jue slowly put the porcelain bottle back into his sleeve and said, "You'll know soon."
After a while, the man who had taken the medicine felt as if ants were gnawing at his whole body, and the pain spread all over his body. His face was grim, and he screamed miserably for Qian Jue to give him the antidote.
"I can give you the antidote, as long as you tell the truth."
The big man's face was covered with beads of sweat due to the pain, and at this moment he had completely forgotten about the mission that could not be revealed.
He gasped for breath, his eyes red, and begged for mercy: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything, give me the antidote."
Qian Jue smiled with satisfaction and fed him the antidote. "Now you can tell me who sent you here."
When the ants gnawing at his body disappeared, the big man said, "We received a mission to capture them. We didn't specify what we were going to do."
"Who gave you the news?"
The big man shook his head, "I don't know."
How could small fry like them possibly know who the people above them were?
"Really?"
The big man heard the warning in Qian Jue's tone and explained bitterly to Lai Nian, "Sir, we really don't know."
Yu Yiluo glanced at a few people, frowned, and couldn't help but connect them with the ambiguous words that Prince Duan said in Li Kingdom.
She looked at the big man and asked, "What country are the people above you from?"
The big man thought for a while and said, "I don't know. We can't see the people above us. We brothers were indeed bandits before, and we surrendered to them later."
This was their first mission, and they unexpectedly failed.
"You don't know either?"
Qian Jue glanced at the few people pretending to be quails behind the big man and asked in a cold voice.
"Sir, if Big Brother doesn't know, then we are even less likely to know."
They are the boss's subordinates and have no right to see the people above them.
"Since you can't provide any useful information, then you might as well die."
As soon as Qian Jue said this, the faces of several people changed instantly and they begged for mercy.
"Sir, please forgive us."
"Stop shouting," Yu Yiluo interrupted the cries of several people, "I'll give you some time to think carefully first. I think there is no valuable information."
After saying this, Yu Yiluo walked away with Qian Jue, and then said, "These people are just following orders. It seems that they don't know much."
Qian Jue turned around and glanced at those people, lifted his robe and sat on the ground.
"According to what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, Junior Sister and the Third Prince's trip to Xiangshan was a secret. How did these people know about it?"
Moreover, their mission was to capture the junior sister and the third prince, not to kill them.
So, what did these people do with them?
"First of all, it's impossible that he's from Tianqi."
Yu Yiluo was silent for a while and said in a firm tone.
At first she thought they were officials from Tianqi, but after hearing several people say that they just wanted to capture the two and not kill them, she denied this guess.
Since these people knew the whereabouts of the Third Emperor and his companions, they must also know that the Third Emperor was dying. Smart people know that it is not worth it to catch a dying person and get into trouble.
Unless there is some other use in capturing the Third Brother and the Third Sister-in-law.
…
As the sun set, Mu Xue and the third prince finally took off the Hehuan Powder on their bodies and came back to look for Yu Yiluo.
The two of them changed into new clothes, and the mess on their bodies disappeared, looking clean and tidy.
There was still some blush on Mu Xue's face, making her look less cold.
"Brother, Luo'er, did you find out anything?"
Mu Xue talked about business to ease the awkwardness of everyone knowing what they had just done.
"They know very little and can't get any useful information out of you. They just said that someone from higher up sent them to arrest you two."
The Third Prince covered his lips and coughed a few times, then said softly to Qian Jue, "Young Master Qian, please go and call them over."
Qian Jue stood up and walked towards the few people. He fed them poison before taking out the silver needles from their bodies and calling them over.
Several people followed him obediently and walked in front of Mu Xue and the Third Prince, "We are responsible for arresting you, we really don't know anything else."
If they had known, they would have said it long ago.
"What country are you guys from?"
The third prince raised his eyes and looked at the people in front of him and asked in a calm voice.
“We don’t know which country we belong to.”
"So you are at a border that is not under the jurisdiction of three countries?"
Yu Yiluo seemed to have thought of something and narrowed her eyes slightly.
"That's right," the big man scratched his head, "We are in the place where the Qiang and Li countries were expelled or where refugees fled."
There was no one in charge of that place, and it was a mixed crowd, so they were happy to be bandits.
"If that's the case, then the place should be unsupervised. Why are you still following others' orders?"
Yu Yiluo's face was tense, she felt that these people coming to capture the third brother was just the beginning, and there was a huge conspiracy behind it.
"Originally, there was no one to supervise them, but a month ago, someone secretly recruited these people. If you are unwilling to work for them, you will die."
Otherwise they would not submit to these people.
"Have you never seen the people above show up?"
Mu Xue frowned, "Even if I haven't met the people above, what about your boss?"
"They are extremely cautious in their actions. There is a special place for passing information. We don't need to contact anyone above us at all. Everyone lives their lives as usual, just like before."
[This is bad. Even if the border guards of Li Country monitor these people, they won't be able to detect anything unusual.]
Yu Yiluo's face looked extremely ugly and she asked in a cold voice.
"Have the people who organized you ever heard anyone talking about you?"
The third prince also realized the seriousness of the matter and asked in a deep voice.
"Everyone says he's a man who can win people over, and he's very powerful, but we haven't seen it."
【It's really mysterious.】
Yu Yiluo sneered in her heart.
[Looks like I'll have to trick Prince Duan once I get back.]
The big man glanced at a few people and said cautiously, "That's all we know. Can you let us go now?"
"One last question," Qian Jue glanced at the big man, "Why did you capture those two?"
"Sir, we really don't know about this."
Seeing the murderous intent in Qian Jue's eyes, the big man shrank his neck. "We really don't know, but we have a guess. They probably want to capture them and train them into special forces."
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