Chapter 26 An Accidental Mishap Wiped Out a Group of Elite Enemy Soldiers
"Your Majesty!" Just then, a patrolling guard rushed over. "Your Majesty, something strange has happened here! We've discovered many dismembered corpses! And a large amount of strange black liquid!"
"Take me to see it," Xiao Qidi's voice rang out.
He took a few steps, then turned back and asked, "Miss Ning, aren't you coming along?"
His voice was calm and emotionless, as if nothing had happened.
Ning Jinli frowned. Was he not angry at all? Was she overthinking things and scaring herself?
"Oh, here it comes!"
Ning Jinli secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed.
The two followed the patrolling guard for more than a hundred meters and found a lot of scraps of flesh in a pile of rocks.
Here a lump, there a piece.
The bones and flesh were mushy and mangled.
Ning Jinli felt a little nauseous, pinched her nose, and subconsciously asked, "An animal carcass?"
Xiao Qidi shook his head, "With such a long drought, besides the warhorses kept in the village, what other animals are there?"
"Oh, right..." Ning Jinli suddenly realized, her expression changing drastically. "Wait! If they're not animals, then these... are people?"
Xiao Qidi used his sword to pry open some of the stones.
Then he used the tip of the knife to poke up a severed hand. "That's right, it's a person."
Ning Jinli saw that the severed hand had its skin and flesh turned outwards, with red flesh interspersed with charred black marks as if it had been burned, and the tendons and bones inside could be vaguely seen.
"Hah!"
She turned around, bent over, and vomited profusely.
Having lived for twenty-two years, this was the first time she had ever seen a human corpse with her own eyes.
She now realizes that no matter how realistic the props in TV series and movies are, they are far less impressive than the real thing!
Xiao Qidi placed the tip of the knife in front of him, brought his nose close to the severed hand, and smelled it.
He analyzed without changing his expression:
"The body was very fresh, having died not long ago. It looked as if it had been directly crushed by some enormous force, and strangely, it also looked as if it had been burned by fire..."
“Yes, Your Majesty,” said the patrolling guard. “My brothers and I have also discovered this, and there are more in other places as well. I really don’t know what’s going on.”
"Ugh...you guys...ugh...can you go somewhere else to talk? Ugh!!" Ning Jinli vomited even more violently.
Xiao Qidi glanced at her sideways.
A slight smile appeared on his lips, and he gestured to the patrolling guards to take him to another location to continue his investigation.
It took Ning Jinli quite a while to recover.
Her mouth was filled with the bitter taste of bile, and her little face turned deathly pale.
She saw Xiao Qidi in the distance and mustered her courage to walk over. "I was just thinking, could it be that when they blew up the cave, they hit one of our own people..."
The location where the body was found was so coincidental, and the body was in such a state.
She worried that perhaps some soldiers who had planted explosives hadn't had time to leave the cave.
Although she remembered carefully counting the number of people after leaving the cave, she was no longer sure.
Xiao Qidi did not answer, seemingly lost in thought.
Ning Jinli tugged at his sleeve, her voice trembling with tears, "I don't know what happened. I didn't press the remote button, but the explosives just went off, boohoo..."
“They’re not one of ours.” Xiao Qidi turned around.
Ning Jinli was taken aback, "If it's not one of ours, then it could be someone else..."
Seeing her teary eyes and pale face covered in tears, Xiao Qidi instinctively reached out to wipe them away for her.
Ning Jinli subconsciously took two steps back.
Xiao Qidi's hand hovered in mid-air, and the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat awkward.
“Um… well,” Ning Jinli sniffed and wiped away her tears, “I’m afraid you’ve touched a corpse.”
Xiao Qidi's thin lips tightened, and he uttered two words, "No."
He turned around and said quietly:
“I’m pretty sure that all the people you summoned to plant the explosives with you left the cave. And judging from the number of dismembered bodies, even if all of us who went into the cave died, we wouldn’t have this many. I’m looking for objects to identify the bodies.”
Upon hearing this, Ning Jinli felt a wave of self-reproach wash over her.
She calmed down and spoke as she thought:
"Although natural water has the ability to purify itself, the water here needs to be treated before it can be used in the short term. Most importantly, we must not let people drink it directly."
"I'll get a batch of water disinfection supplies later and put them in the pool..."
"By the way, where is the Blackwater? Let me see what it looks like."
They meant well and wanted to help solve the drought problem here, but this unexpected incident happened.
She felt a little guilty about the sight of both corpses and black water.
A patrolling guard replied, "It's black and sticky, quite strange. It's also flowing from the ground. I can take you to the other side to take a look."
"A dark, sticky liquid?"
Ning Jinli was puzzled.
This sounds familiar.
Her eyes lit up. Could it be...?
Just as she was about to go and take a look, Xiao Qidi discovered some metal fragments.
"They're soldiers from the Yu Kingdom!"
His expression immediately turned gloomy and cold.
The patrolling guards around them changed their expressions drastically.
Ning Jinli stopped in her tracks. "How is this possible?"
Xiao Qidi's brows were clouded with gloom, and his well-defined fingers held some broken pieces.
"These are the armor of the soldiers of the Yu Kingdom."
"These are their knives."
"Moreover, it is equipment used by elite troops."
Ning Jinli covered her mouth in surprise.
Xiao Qidi looked up into the distance, his eyes narrowing slightly. "The only reasonable explanation is that there were a large number of elite soldiers from the Yu Kingdom inside when the cave exploded."
Ning Jinli exclaimed, "So, the cave has a passage through that mountain?"
Xiao Qidi nodded, his eyes filled with coldness. "No wonder Ba Yong suddenly led his troops to attack Linxian Village. He must have sent elite troops into the cave to launch a coordinated attack from within!"
Ning Jinli's hair stood on end, and cold sweat broke out on her back!
She didn't even dare to imagine what terrible consequences would occur if those elite soldiers from the Yu Kingdom successfully infiltrated the village and caught everyone off guard, leaving them attacked from both sides!
Xiao Qidi slowly exhaled, his gaze softening as he looked at her face, and said softly:
"Fortunately, you blew up the cave, burying them all inside. This is probably why Bayong suddenly withdrew his troops. Everything makes sense now."
"Miss Ning, you have saved all of our lives again."
Ning Jinli was still shaken.
She stumbled upon this by pure accident.
Just as he was about to exchange a few polite words, Xiao Qidi's eyes turned cold again, and a murderous intent surfaced.
"This move by the enemy means they already know the situation inside the village. There must be a traitor who leaked the intelligence! Issue an order to investigate this matter thoroughly. Also, severely punish the soldiers who were previously responsible for patrolling the village!"
The captain of the patrol guards beside him was trembling with fear.
Ning Jinli hurriedly asked, "Why are the patrol officers being punished?"
Xiao Qidi said coldly, "Given the current situation, if a traitor wants to leak intelligence, he can only sneak out and defect to the enemy. It is because the guards were not strict in their patrols and failed to prevent this, which almost led to a serious mistake!"
The patrol captain knelt down with a thud. "Your Majesty... the soldiers who were previously responsible for patrolling the village were all assigned by me. If Your Majesty wishes to punish someone, please punish me."
"Fine, I'll punish you for the oversight in the arrangements first."
Xiao Qidi's eyes were extremely cold as he raised his battle sword and slashed at the guard captain's neck!
In a flash, Ning Jinli stood in front of the captain, shouting, "Stop!"
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