Just as everyone in the audience had their own thoughts.
The guards sent by Emperor Jing did not leave for long.
Two more guards came over with terrified faces and reported to Emperor Jing, "Your Majesty, when we were patrolling the periphery, we smelled a faint scent of blood. When we followed the scent of blood, we found it on a steep mountainside about 20 miles from here..."
Thinking of that scene, even the royal guards couldn't remain calm!
He gritted his teeth and continued, "There are broken limbs and arms all over the ground, and corpses piled up like a mountain. At least, there are thousands of people!"
If it weren't for the bloodshed, they wouldn't have been able to smell even the slightest smell of blood in the area they were patrolling.
When I got closer, I could smell not just a hint of blood, but a suffocating smell of blood!
As soon as these words were spoken, the expression on Emperor Jing's face changed obviously.
He asked solemnly, "What's going on?"
The guards continued with tingling scalps, "Based on the broken blades, we feel... feel... that it was one person who killed those people."
one person!
The faces of the people present were once again filled with horror.
"Who are those people? Are they assassins?"
"Look at the clothes on the bodies, and the various weapons scattered on the ground. They should be ordinary people in the capital."
"Ordinary people? How could ordinary people appear in the Jiuyi Mountains for no reason?"
"They are indeed ordinary people..." The guards couldn't figure it out either, but those pieces of clothing, as well as weapons like kitchen knives, sickles and even hoes, showed that they were indeed ordinary people.
"Who killed them?"
"There is no one else around. However..." The two guards glanced at a court official from the corner of their eyes, "We found the body of a woman in the ditch at the foot of the mountain. I wonder if it is relevant. The servants also brought it back."
"The body of a woman?"
"Yes, the servants think it looks familiar..."
These words were met with another gasp.
There is no village or shop in this desolate mountain, and the body of a familiar woman. Then... Emperor Jing said solemnly, "Carry it up."
Soon, guards came up carrying something covered with a guard's robe that obscured the woman's appearance.
But even though the dress was stained with blood, a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes dressed as a military officer still recognized it at a glance... It was his daughter!
At the same time, the women around Ling Ruolan also recognized the dress and felt a chill down their spines.
Isn’t that their companion, Yu Fangfang, who is also a member of the female cavalry?
The middle-aged man, Yu Fangfang's father, General Yu Zhonglang, almost staggered over and tremblingly lifted the guard's robe that covered his face.
Even though he had guessed that this was most likely his daughter, when he saw her miserable condition with his own eyes, something in his mind exploded.
The body was cold and bloodless, and only two bloody eye sockets were left at the eyes! The eye sockets were dark red and dry, and the eyeballs had been dug out alive!
Everyone who was close saw this scene. A woman next to Ling Ruolan said with a trembling voice, "Fangfang got separated from us while chasing a snow fox..."
"It's so cruel, who did this..."
Soon, one or two more imperial doctors came over and gave a rough examination. "Your Majesty, Miss Yu must have lost her eyes and couldn't see the road, so she fell down the mountain and died."
General Yu Zhonglang was speechless, "Your Majesty..."
Even though he couldn't form a sentence, Emperor Jing understood. His brows knitted together, "Search the mountain!"
"yes!"
A large number of troops gathered together, except for those who were protecting Emperor Jing and his party. The others were all dispersed and searched the mountain by digging three feet deep!
At this moment, there was a carriage parked completely outside the range of Mount Jiuyi, but very close to it.
The charming woman in the carriage looked at the body lying in the carriage. There was a blood hole the size of a little finger on the forehead, and the eyes were wide open, with the body still open after death.
The man driving the carriage also had a strange face. He spoke in a hoarse voice, "Saint, it is not appropriate to stay here for long."
“Hehe, the blood slave is dead! He died just like that!”
Aina's pupils straightened strangely, and an indescribable subtle smell emanated from her body.
Soon, dense swarms of insects like iron wires and a tide swam towards the carriage from the edge of the mountain!
The bugs avoided the man driving the carriage and got into the carriage. All of them, all entered the blood slave's body!
These bugs did not come from anywhere else. They were the bugs that had descended into the bodies of the people who had come forward to hunt down Baili Feiyue.
Feeling that the bodies of the parasites had almost no room left and suffered severe damage in an instant, Aina urged the Gu King to take them back.
Of course, even though Aina was able to control the poisonous insects on such a large scale, she still spat out a mouthful of black blood.
The man driving the car said, "Saint, let's retreat." The Saint has been exhausted today and must rest for a while.
Ayi Na narrowed her eyes, "The Gu King in my body can no longer sense the location of Miss Ling San."
"Didn't you already control her to jump off the cliff?"
"Heh, I did control her to jump off the cliff. But the new crow corpse I released couldn't follow her down the cliff to investigate. If I want to kill someone, I must see the body. Otherwise, it doesn't count as dead. Besides..."
What's more, the last thing the new crow corpse let her see was the purple-clothed man who appeared in the ring match and followed the third Miss Ling to jump down!
Who knows if a master like that can turn the tables on life and death!
"Puff!" Another mouthful of blood came out. She had indeed consumed too much energy. Ayi Na looked down at her white and tender fingers, which shrank in an instant. In an instant, wrinkles appeared and age spots covered her dry hands without a trace of blood.
No, I have to find a place to recuperate!
"Walk!"
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While Emperor Jing's guards were searching the mountains, they were also sending people to Kyoto. When the people they sent came back and said that Baili Feiyue, the third Miss Ling, and Mu Qing had not returned to the capital, and even the soldiers at the city gate did not see them passing by.
The hunting trip to Jiuyi Mountain ended early.
One third of them continued to search in the Jiuyi Mountain area, while the rest protected Emperor Jing and his entourage as they returned to Beijing.
The foreign envoys who were originally laughing at the joke also became inexplicably nervous.
After Emperor Jing returned to the palace, Ling Sheng, who was indeed bedridden, and Mu Qing's father, Minister Mu, rushed to the palace right after.
Ling Sheng was seriously ill. A usually majestic and imposing general could not even sit steadily and needed someone to support him!
Mu Qing's father was in good health, and his expression was solemn and ugly, which was rare for him.
And the incident was not only in Jiuyi Mountain. The entire Ministry of Justice, except for Minister Mu and Shangshu Wang, and the twenty or so officers and soldiers they took out to handle the case, were absent for the past two days.
No matter who the other people in the Ministry of Justice were, all fell ill with terminal illnesses overnight!
I can't even get up!
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