Chapter 444 Internal Conflict
Su Ying pulled off the hairpin on her head and flew over, hitting the other person's hand holding the knife.
"ah!"
The man's palm was pierced by the hairpin and he turned around to see Su Ying's pupils shrank. He turned around and wanted to escape through the window. Su Ying dodged and quickly stepped forward, grabbed his leg and pulled him back!
"ah!"
The man groaned and fell heavily to the ground. He tried to get up, but Su Ying stepped on his back and looked at Zhou Qing. "Are you in the same group?"
Zhou Qing looked at the man on the ground and then at Su Ying and didn't respond for a while.
Su Ying grabbed the man's collar, lifted him up and dragged him to another room.
The man looked at Su Ying with only one glance and countless thoughts flashed through his mind, as if he was weighing something.
"Who are you?"
Su Ying spoke directly.
"Who are you?" the man asked back.
Su Ying glanced at him from head to toe, "Are you in the same group with them?"
The man didn't say anything, so Su Ying simply went forward and tied him up and went back to the room where Zhou Qing was.
When Zhou Qing saw Su Ying coming back, all his nerves became tense.
Su Ying pulled a stool under the table in front of her, her eyes seemed to be filled with sympathy, "I didn't expect that before the people from Jin came to arrest you, you guys would start a quarrel among yourselves."
Zhou Qing looked at Su Ying in surprise, marveling at her sharpness.
"What did that person say to you after he came?"
Zhou Qing pursed her lips and did not answer.
"Did he ask you to defend against the Butu or did he just go ahead and kill you without saying anything?"
Zhou Qing still remained silent.
Su Ying was not in a hurry either, she just said quietly: "What I can tell you clearly is that the defense map is in my hands now."
Zhou Qing gritted his teeth, "I knew that the things were taken by you. Who are you?"
Su Ying frowned slightly and said, "He came to Jin to look for the Queen of Chu."
Zhou Qing's eyes flashed with shock, "What? Are you from Chu?"
Su Ying nodded and took out a token with dragon pattern from her body, "You should be familiar with this token."
Zhou Qing was even more surprised when she looked at the token. Of course, she was familiar with it. This was a secret token unique to the Chu royal family, and ordinary people could not possibly access it.
"Are you really the person sent by the Emperor to find the Empress?"
"kindness."
"What about the Queen? Have you found her?"
Su Ying said calmly: "This is not something you should ask."
Zhou Qing was half-believing and half-doubting. Although Su Ying had the token in her hand, it was not completely trustworthy.
Su Ying knew that Zhou Qing would not trust her easily, but this could at least allow her to let down some of her guard.
"That person just now wanted to kill you."
Zhou Qing frowned and struggled for a while before speaking: "He knew that the defense map was missing, and he said that we were not doing our job well and wanted to execute us on the spot."
Now that Su Ying has revealed her identity, Zhou Qing is not saying this because she completely believes her, but is testing her. She wants to know what Su Ying will do next.
Su Ying recalled that when her comrades were captured by the enemy during the battle, the first thing they did when they found them was to rescue them instead of silencing them.
A normal person would not attack his comrades for no reason.
After receiving this message, Su Ying returned to the room.
When the man heard Su Ying come in, he looked at her warily.
"I will ask you three questions. If you answer them truthfully, I will let you go."
The man said stubbornly: "I won't say anything, so don't waste your time!"
Su Ying sneered, "You don't have the final say."
Su Ying took out a silver needle from her body and walked towards the man. The man shrank slightly when he saw the silver needle shining with silver light, but he still pretended to be strong.
Su Ying came behind him and inserted the silver needle into his neck.
The man's body instantly became stiff, and then a strange feeling swept through his body. His vision gradually became blurred, and his eyes were filled with bloodshot.
"Mercy, mercy... my life..." The man was almost speechless. He felt as if someone was blowing air into his body, and even his head was swollen, making his whole body tense.
Those who could become spies had all gone through various tortures, but this torture, which seemed completely painless but could make a person's soul leave their body, almost took his life.
"Tell me, who are you working for?"
The man's face was ferocious, and the veins on his forehead and neck were bulging. "Chu, King, yes, I am from Chu...ah!"
Before the man could finish his words, the swelling on his body became more intense and his blood vessels felt like they would burst at any time.
"I'll give you one last chance to tell the truth. Who are you working for?"
The man's expression became more and more ferocious. "Mercy, mercy... Yes, yes... Uh!" Before he could finish his words, a stream of black blood spurted out of his mouth, and his head tilted and he died.
Su Ying reached out and pulled out the silver needle, then opened his mouth and saw that it was full of black blood. He died of poisoning.
Su Ying's face darkened.
She stood up and walked out of the house to untie Zhou Qing and her companions, "Do you all have poison hidden on you that can kill you at any time?"
Zhou Qing shook his head, "No, we are not assassins, and we don't have any poison on us."
"But the man just now died of poisoning during my interrogation."
Zhou Qing was shocked and confused. She walked into the next room and saw the man who was already dead.
She went forward to check and confirmed that Su Ying had not lied to her and that the man had really died of poisoning.
"What position does this person hold among you, and what is he usually responsible for?"
Zhou Qing said with a somewhat grim expression: "He is our deputy chief." He is the second in command in charge of investigating the situation in Jin State. He will be in charge of all the news they pass on to Chu State, except for the news she was forced to pass back by Su Ying yesterday.
If the second-in-command has ill intentions, it will be an absolute disaster for them.
If he was instigated by the State of Jin to rebel, all their arrangements in Jin would be cancelled. This would be the worst possible scenario.
Another possibility is that he was bribed by people in the State of Chu who had the intention of rebellion, and passed the information he obtained in the State of Jin back to the other party through them for emergency use.
"Anything done in this world will definitely leave clues. We are not sure if your boss has any problems. Since he is your deputy boss, you should know what he usually does and where he stays, right?"
Zhou Qing nodded. She was the assistant to the deputy director before. Although she didn't know everything, she still knew some matters. "I know some things."
"Then start from where you know and see if there is anything suspicious."
"Yes, I'll check it out right away."
Zhou Qing was about to turn around and leave when she realized something was wrong. She turned around and looked at Su Ying in surprise. How could this order sound so natural coming from her mouth?
The point is, she actually listened to it involuntarily?
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com