The prince kept his eyes on the bronze bell in the furnace, but even after the bronze bell melted into water, the roars from outside the city did not stop!
Is Chu Zhongyuan lying?
Su Yujiao's expression changed drastically as she watched the 'zombie roars' below the city wall!
The soldiers, their faces filled with terror, picked up their weapons again!
how so?
How did these monsters come back to life?
They thought they had already won!
At the same time, everyone was also relieved that the city gates hadn't been opened, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Su Yujiao observed that the situation was slightly better than before.
The Gu people below were just going berserk, but no one was controlling them. Some were still climbing the city walls, while others moved slowly in other directions.
"Keep pouring the kerosene and smashing the boulder."
"yes."
"We must defend the city gates."
After giving her instructions, Su Yujiao went to check on the situation with the Crown Prince.
Could it be that the Crown Prince made a mistake?
Or was the mother Gu stolen?
"What happened?"
The Crown Prince concluded, looking confused, "I don't know either."
"I did exactly as my cousin-in-law told me to do."
As the prince spoke, he pointed to the bronze bell in the furnace, which had already been melted.
Su Yujiao frowned. The copper bell had been refined, so how could the Gu worm still be alive?
Or... did Chu Zhongyuan lie?
But she quickly dismissed the idea. He had already told her all of Chen Yunniang's other secrets, so why would he lie about something like this?
Could it be that Chen Yunniang lied to him from the very beginning?
Is that even possible? Could Chen Yunniang, with her intelligence, possibly fool him?
Perhaps her purpose wasn't to deliberately deceive him, but rather to have a backup plan.
A selfish person like Chen Yunniang wouldn't hand over all her trump cards to someone else.
She must still have a trump card up her sleeve!
After all, once she was no longer of any use, she was afraid that Chu Zhongyuan would turn his back on her.
The roars outside the city gates continued, and the Crown Prince frowned deeply: "Sister-in-law, could he be lying?"
"It doesn't look like it."
"Perhaps Chen Yunniang lied to him."
"Chen Yunniang?"
Su Yujiao nodded: "Chen Yunniang accidentally obtained a forbidden book from the Southern Frontier Kingdom, and she used the method in that book to refine the Thousand Threads Gu."
"She hid the mother Gu inside a bell. By shaking the bell, she could stimulate the mother Gu inside, and the offspring Gu would also sense it."
"As long as the mother Gu is controlled, the millions of child Gu can be controlled."
"This copper bell was given to Chu Zhongyuan by Chen Yunniang."
"They even said that burning the mother Gu would destroy the offspring Gu."
"But now it seems she wasn't telling the truth."
"I suspect the real mother Gu is still in Chen Yunniang's hands."
"I need to go to the Southern Frontier Kingdom."
"You need to find a way to control these Gu people."
"There is enough grain stored in the city to last for a month or two without any problem."
"But I shouldn't need that long."
The crown prince's pupils contracted: "To the Southern Frontier Kingdom?"
"I'll fly there; I can get there before dawn."
"But..." The Crown Prince still looked uneasy.
"It's alright, we can still stop them from entering the city."
"You'll see if you go up to the city wall."
"They are a group of creatures without intelligence. Now that there is no one to control them and no human army to assist them, they won't be able to get in even in a month."
"I will go and return as soon as possible."
"Okay, then I'll have to trouble you, cousin-in-law."
"Zhang Xin, you will stay by my side and protect the county magistrate's safety."
"yes."
After arranging everything in the capital, Su Yujiao set off with Zhang Xin.
Before dawn, Su Yujiao and Zhang Xin had already arrived above the royal palace of the Southern Frontier Kingdom.
Zhang Xin was incredibly excited. Although this was his second time flying, he was still extremely thrilled.
The first time, they caught Chu Zhongyuan in just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea; he hadn't had enough of sitting there yet.
Moreover, at that time, in order to find the target, the plane was flying very slowly, circling within a range of only a few dozen miles.
Therefore, he did not experience the plane's actual speed at the time.
This time, he sat there all night, and he was excited all night long.
I never expected they could actually fly to the Southern Frontier Kingdom overnight. It was so fast, it felt like a dream.
Su Yujiao found an open space to stop, but before she could even come to a complete stop, she was surrounded by the guards of the Southern Frontier Kingdom.
Everyone held bows and arrows, aiming them at them.
Su Yujiao neither opened the window directly nor went down directly, lest she be riddled with arrows.
After Nan Sheng appeared, Su Yujiao appeared at the window. When Nan Sheng saw her, he immediately ordered his men to put down their bows and arrows, and Su Yujiao then opened the cabin door.
"Holy Maiden, is it really you?" The Crown Prince asked with delight.
Amidst their shock and excitement, the others knelt down and shouted in unison, "Long live the Holy Maiden! Her divine light shines upon the world, she is all-powerful!"
"..."
Su Yujiao's lips twitched. This slogan was really... hard to describe!
Never mind, what's considered vulgar can also be considered elegant.
"Holy Maiden, have you come here for Chen Yunniang?"
"Um."
"Lead the way, I need to see her."
"good."
"By the way, have you ever heard of the Thousand-Thread Gu?"
"Or do any elders in the clan know?"
Nan Sheng shook her head: "I've never heard of it."
"Ever since that incident on the day of the Moon Worship, I have sent people to investigate within the clan, questioning the ancestors, shamans, Gu masters, and even martial arts sects."
"No one knows about this curse, let alone how to cure it."
"However, there is some progress in treating the 'love-obsessed curse' on your body; the antidote is still being prepared."
"It will take at least one year, or at most three years, to remove the curse from your body."
Su Yujiao nodded: "That's good."
"However, let's deal with the immediate issue first."
"Chu Zhongyuan led a million Gu people to besiege the capital..." Su Yujiao briefly described the situation in the capital.
"Does your clan possess any Gu poisons that can make people tell the truth?"
Nan Sheng thought for a moment: "There is no Gu that makes people tell the truth directly, but there are many Gu that torture people. When the tortured person cannot bear the pain, they will tell the truth."
"But you'll also suffer..."
Su Yujiao frowned. She wasn't there to be tortured; this method was clearly not going to work.
She turned to Zhang Xin and asked, "I've heard that there's a kind of soul-capturing technique in the martial arts world that can control a person's mind and guide the controlled person to tell the truth?"
Zhang Xin respectfully replied, "This is just a rumor; I don't know if it's true or not. I don't know any such people."
"Forget it, I'll try it myself, but I don't know if I can succeed."
"I don't know if I'll be hypnotized after I succeed."
"If I'm asleep too, then you can ask me."
"Find out where she hid the real mother Gu!"
"yes."
"Is the person who knows how to disguise herself still by Her Majesty the Empress's side?"
"exist."
"Does the Holy Maiden need to disguise herself?"
"Um."
"Hypnosis can only be performed when the person is relaxed. If Chen Yunniang sees me, she will definitely be as excited as a mad dog, making it very difficult to successfully hypnotize her."
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