Boom boom boom!
Late at night.
Yunxi was woken up by his men knocking on the door and frowned unhappily: "What's going on?"
"Master, there's a fire in the room where the old lady of the Yang family is imprisoned." The person who reported it sounded anxious.
Yunxi stood up immediately after hearing this.
When he walked out of the house, he saw a fire in the distance, and many ministers living in nearby houses came over.
"My Lord, what's going on?"
"We've built this valley for over ten years, and there's never been a flood. How come it suddenly happened?"
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's put out the fire quickly. Otherwise, if the flames spread out from the top of the valley, it will attract the enemy, and then we will be in trouble." A minister said hurriedly.
Yunxi's face was gloomy.
He glanced around and quickly narrowed his eyes: "Why are there no envoys from the five countries?"
In this case, it was impossible for them not to hear the noise.
"Go see what's going on!"
"yes."
Soon the person who was sent came back and said, "Master, the envoys from the five countries were all fast asleep. They just woke up when we knocked on their door."
Soon, envoys from the five countries came hurriedly in their attire.
He asked what was going on with a confused look on his face.
Yunxi glanced at them one by one, but did not answer. Instead, he asked the people around him again: "Where is Shen Li?"
"Master, we've already looked for it. There's no one in Shen Li's room, but someone below found this on his bed." The subordinate handed over a black pill.
Yunxi took it and put it to her nose and sniffed it, her face suddenly darkening.
"Corpse poison?"
He immediately thought of something and turned around and quickly walked to the water source in the valley. He squatted down, scooped up some water and put it under his nose. At that moment, his face turned black and he immediately shouted, "Everyone, don't drink the water here anymore."
"My Lord, what happened?"
"Yeah, what's going on?"
The ministers and envoys following behind him asked in confusion.
Yunxi's face turned terribly dark.
The water source was poisoned.
And at this time.
The firefighters came to report that two charred bodies were found in the rubble.
Before Yunxi could take a closer look, another guard came hurriedly over. "Your Highness, this is bad! All the soldiers in the two secret passages leading down the mountain, south and west, have been poisoned to death. We just found the bodies of the guards at the exits..."
In addition to these, someone soon came to report that some people who had consumed the water had encountered accidents.
The expressions of the envoys from the five countries who heard about this suddenly changed: "Poisoned? How could he be poisoned when he was perfectly fine?"
"I was saying that I slept so soundly tonight, and when I woke up I felt a warm and uncomfortable pain in my stomach. Could I have been poisoned?"
"Me too, my stomach feels really tight and uncomfortable."
"My Lord, what is going on?"
The messengers asked questions one after another.
Yunxi's face became increasingly gloomy. He walked up to Aru, who had the loudest voice, and reached out to hold his wrist.
"Prince, what are you doing?" Aru subconsciously pressed the scimitar at his waist.
Yunxi took the pulse, then withdrew his hand and said coldly, "You are not poisoned, you were just drugged."
"Drugs?"
"Everyone in this valley is ours. How could someone drug us?"
"Yeah, there are no outsiders here..."
Yunxi was in no mood to waste time talking to them, and immediately ordered people to go down the mountain to capture the escaped Shen Li, while he took the ministers to the main hall to discuss.
The envoys from the five countries looked at each other in confusion.
Just as they were about to follow, Jerry, who had been following behind, spoke up: "Wait, don't you find it strange?"
"What's strange?"
The envoys from the five countries all paused and looked at Jerry, who was wearing baggy clothes and looked uncomfortable with them.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but everyone felt that Jerry looked hunched and shorter today.
However, everyone felt uncomfortable in their stomachs, so they didn't think too much about it.
Jerry glanced around and said in his broken Central Plains dialect, "We were doing fine, but as soon as the prince came back, he said someone was dead and we were drugged."
"What's so strange about this? Didn't the prince just mention that Chen Li?"
"You are stupid. You saw Shen Li back then. There were red lines on his face, which showed that he was controlled by the prince. How could such a puppet-like person kill people for no apparent reason and escape?"
Jerry moved closer and lowered his voice: "What do you think? Could this be the prince's plan to use us as a stepping stone?"
"What stepping stone?"
Luo Li asked with a frown.
Jerry glanced around, then leaned in closer and said, "Of course he wants us to charge into battle and serve as a stepping stone. You heard it before, the prince was certain that Emperor Wenyuan would die. Once he dies, it will be time for us to charge into battle."
"Once Emperor Wenyuan dies, it's natural that we will storm into the capital. What's so strange about that?" Xiongnu Aru said in a hoarse voice. He felt that Jerry was a little strange today and his words became a little roundabout.
Moreover, haven't they been united for several years just to wait for this day?
Jerry reached out and patted Aru's shoulder, whispering, "Be quiet and listen to me first."
"I heard that the people of the Central Plains are very cunning."
"Their intestines are all very complicated, especially at the most critical moment, when they are most likely to turn their knives against their companions. Don't forget how this prince of Yun State persuaded our king in the first place."
"Our king has been poisoned. Do you think there is such a coincidence?"
"I don't know if your king is smart, but my king is very clever. He figured out long ago that it must have been the Yun Kingdom prince who poisoned him. He only cooperated with him to get a piece of the action. After all, this continent is rich in material things, which our Alie Kingdom lacks."
"But my king has already said that when the critical moment comes, we must be careful to prevent ourselves from being used as pawns by Prince Yun. It is not easy for us in the Alie Kingdom to manufacture a few gunpowder guns."
“My people saw Shen Li go to Prince Yun’s house last night, but I don’t know what they said. Now that I think about it, it’s really too suspicious. I suspect…”
At this point, Jerry glanced around with a sly look and lowered his voice again. "I suspect all of this was orchestrated by Prince Yun. He deliberately knocked us out and told us that many people had died, so our position might have been exposed. He might also say that Emperor Wenyuan was dead, so that we could send a signal to the army to launch an attack together. Finally, he pretended to be a righteous man and used the Black Armor Army to kill us invaders, so that he could reap the benefits."
When the other four messengers heard these words, they fell silent.
They all looked at Jerry with suspicion.
It's true that Jerry talked a lot tonight, which was a little different from usual.
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