Chapter 172: Traces of Demonic Emissaries
At night, Jiang Yi sat bored on the railing at the door, staring at the stars in the sky, lost in thought.
At this moment, the sound of the door next to me opening was heard. It was Chen Yu who came out.
Chen Yu walked over to Jiang Yi and sat down on her right.
The atmosphere between the two was a bit awkward, and neither of them wanted to speak first.
Jiang Yi was still angry. Today, Su Mei said she would come to see her and sit with her. But when she arrived, Su Mei almost stuck to Shen Yu. It was obvious that she was coming for Shen Yu.
And Chen Yu didn't push her away, letting her get close to him.
Thinking of those scenes in the afternoon, Jiang Yi felt unhappy and upset.
She was jealous and thought that Chen Yu was interested in Su Mei, so she didn't push Su Mei away.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yi's anger grew stronger.
The two of them sat in silence for a while.
In fact, Jiang Yi has been suppressing the anger in his heart.
"How long are we going to stay here?" Chen Yu couldn't help but spoke first.
"I saw you were quite happy during the day, why were you in such a hurry to leave at night?" Jiang Yi wanted to answer calmly, but for some reason, the words he said were full of thorns. If you tasted it carefully, you could even smell the jealousy in it.
Chen Yu showed no sign of weakness: "What qualifications do you have to criticize me? I see you flirting with that eldest prince all day long. Do you want to stay here?"
"What's it got to do with you!?" Jiang Yi was very unhappy with what he said.
She even turned the tables. She and Su Jiu were obviously brothers and good friends, not as bad as Chen Yu said.
"I didn't say anything about my business, I just asked you." Shen Yu said with indifference.
The two of them now had eye contact.
After a moment of communication, they looked away at the same time.
"I can stay as long as I want. It's none of your business. Just go ahead and flirt with that princess." After saying that, Jiang Yi stood up and went back to his room.
The two parted ways on bad terms.
The next day, another murder occurred in the palace.
When a palace maid was washing up, she suddenly found that the cover of the dry well in the backyard had been removed.
Out of curiosity, she went over to take a look. The well was originally a dry well, and most of the bottom was buried. The well was not deep and the bottom could be seen at a glance.
This was a shocking sight, the palace maid discovered that there was actually a person inside.
She was so frightened that she screamed and called other palace maids around.
Everyone was panicked and scared, and successfully alarmed the eunuch in charge.
The eunuch in charge sent a brave man to go down and pull the man up.
After pulling the person up, everyone took a step back in fear.
The person is already dead, but their death is extremely tragic. They are described as haggard and shrunken, as if something has sucked all the energy out of them.
This time, because the dry well where the body was found was not far from Jiang Yi and Shen Yu's residence, the two of them quickly heard the noise, packed up and rushed to the scene.
The bodies had not been cleaned up yet and were left casually on the ground.
Judging from the clothes the corpse was wearing, Jiang Yi guessed that it was a palace guard.
His death was tragic and could definitely not have been caused by a human.
Then it can only be a ghost or a monster.
But the Ghost Festival has passed, and all the evil ghosts in the human world have been taken back to the underworld. Black and White Impermanence had promised her at that time that there would not be a single evil ghost in the human world.
Even if there are evil spirits remaining in the human world, the imperial palace is a key location, protected by dragon energy, and the entire country's luck is concentrated here, so the evil spirits cannot enter at all.
This eliminates the possibility that the murderer is an evil spirit.
Then there is only one possibility.
Jiang Yi and Shen Yu thought of this at the same time. They looked at each other and nodded to each other.
The murderer could only be the reason why they came to the human world this time—the demon messenger.
There was still a trace of demonic energy left on the dead guard, which ordinary people could not see at all.
However, Shen Yu was the Demon Lord, so he could see it clearly. Jiang Yi had been with Shen Yu for a long time, and his sensitivity to demonic energy was a little better than before, so he could also see the demonic energy wrapped around the guards.
"Why is there another death in the palace?"
"Doesn't this look exactly like the man who died in the capital a few days ago?"
"Have you seen it?"
"No, don't you know? Everyone says that the man who died on the street looked like he was sucked dry by someone. Look at him, isn't he the same?" The man said, pointing to the body of the guard on the ground.
At this time, some palace servants noticed Jiang Yi and Shen Yu.
"It's them, why are they here?"
"Come to think of it, this place is very close to where they live."
"Isn't it a close-range murder?"
"Hey, don't talk nonsense."
"That's right. Since the two of them entered the palace, two people have died in the palace, and their deaths were so strange. If you think about it carefully, this is too scary." After the palace maid said this, she couldn't help rubbing her arms.
After hearing her say this, the other palace people looked at Jiang Yi and Shen Yu, some with confusion, and more with unfriendly looks.
Everyone started whispering.
Jiang Yi used his spiritual power to eavesdrop and found that the word they said most often was "ominous".
They believed that the deaths of these people were all caused by Jiang Yi, and Jiang Yi's appearance was an ominous sign.
Three people make a tiger. Seeing that everyone was about to point the finger at the two of them, Jiang Yi quickly pulled Chen Yu away.
"Did you see it?" Jiang Yi asked first.
At this moment, the two of them no longer had the anger and quarrel from last night, and both had solemn and serious expressions on their faces.
"Yeah." Shen Yu nodded.
"It's like searching for gold everywhere, but it comes to you without any effort. We've been here for so long and haven't found any trace of him, and now it happens right next to us."
Jiang Yi analyzed carefully.
"He did it so obviously, isn't he afraid that we will find out?" Jiang Yi asked Chen Yu.
"Either he is very confident now and thinks his disguise can deceive everyone, or he is helpless now and has to absorb the energy of these people." Chen Yu expressed his own opinion.
"If the demon messenger appears next to us, the demonic energy on him cannot be concealed, and you will definitely discover it first." Jiang Yi said.
Chen Yu glanced at her. When they were catching monsters in the small town before, she always hit the nail on the head.
Very intelligent.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu lowered his eyes and suppressed his emotions.
"So?" Shen Yu asked her.
She always finds the exact problem.
"So, the demon messenger must be living in someone in the palace. He is sure that we can't detect it easily, so he commits crimes one after another." Jiang Yi said with a smile.
"I thought so too." Shen Yu nodded.
The two people's ideas coincided.
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