"Don't cut off my hand! I'll tell you, it's not that I wanted to cause trouble on purpose. A man gave me twenty taels of silver and told me to cause trouble. I don't know why he told me to do this." The woman sobbed, her face covered in tears and snot, and she even peed herself in fear.
Upon smelling a foul odor, Qingyan and Qingluo's faces turned ashen. They really wanted to kill the woman, but they still needed her to identify the man, so they had no choice but to drag her away to find him.
Seeing his identity exposed, the man who had instigated the woman to cause trouble suddenly turned around and darted into the nearby bushes, his figure quickly disappearing into the grass.
"Trying to run? Too late." Zhu Lin smiled coldly, and a hidden weapon flew out swiftly from his hand. Everyone heard a muffled groan, followed by the sound of something falling and crashing to the ground.
Everyone understood that the person hadn't escaped and had been killed by a hidden weapon.
Zhu Qiuyu flew over, but found nothing useful on the man.
"It's alright, they're just spies sent by the Great Silver Kingdom anyway. Everyone be careful from now on, there should be more than one spy among so many people," Zhu Lin said slowly.
During the journey, a few more minor incidents occurred, but they were all eventually resolved. With so many people, there are bound to be a few who are difficult to get along with or particularly troublesome; it's impossible to avoid some problems.
No matter what they did, they couldn't delay their journey, otherwise they would be suppressed by force. Having experienced the methods of the secret guards a few times, the people were relatively well-behaved and dared not cause any more trouble.
Time flew by, and the three teams had been traveling for seventeen days. They were only three days away from Qingyang Prefecture when, that very evening, a sudden downpour began, and once it started, it showed no signs of stopping.
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