Upon hearing that shrill scream, the entire camp erupted in chaos. Thinking it was an invasion from outside, everyone grabbed their weapons and rushed out.
Bi Linglong and Zu An, who were standing next to the tent, also woke up instantly. Bi Linglong realized that she had actually slept on Zu An's body all night, and her pretty face immediately turned as red as an apple.
However, as the Crown Princess, she was not like a typical young girl who was prone to anxiety and indecision. She immediately realized the important matter at hand, stood up, and looked in the direction from which the sound came from.
Unfortunately, she had been sleeping in that position all night, which caused some blood and energy to stagnate in her legs. When she stood up suddenly, she felt dizzy and her legs went weak, and she was about to fall to the ground.
Zu An quickly helped her up; he had to admit, this woman was incredibly soft.
However, he quickly regained his composure: "The sound seems to be coming from outside the camp."
At this moment, Park Duan-diao hurriedly came to report: "Reporting to the Crown Princess, a corpse has been found outside the camp, it seems to be Bi Chang."
His gaze fell on Zu An's hand supporting Bi Linglong's waist, and his scalp tingled. What was wrong with the Crown Princess? She seemed to have no resistance at all.
The crown prince is still in the tent next door. Are you going to openly cuckold him just because he's stupid?
However, he didn't have a good impression of the Crown Prince either. These guards all preferred the beautiful and noble Crown Princess, thinking that her marriage to the Crown Prince was like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung.
Even if he's incredibly talented, he's still the Crown Prince. Doesn't the Crown Princess know the consequences?
Forget it, there are too many sordid things happening in the royal family, this is nothing, let's just pretend we didn't see it.
He and Jiao Sigun analyzed yesterday that, regardless of their relationship with Zuan or their own interests, it's best to pretend they didn't see it.
Otherwise, once exposed, they could easily be silenced by the Crown Princess or the Bi family. Even if they were dealt with, the Emperor, for the sake of the royal family's reputation, might still execute those who knew the truth.
Ultimately, they are all ordinary people whose fates are not in their own hands, so it's best to avoid being tempted or going in.
Bi Linglong quickly moved to the side, subtly freeing herself from Zu An's grasp, but upon hearing the name he uttered, her face paled instantly: "What!"
"What's wrong?" Zu'an asked curiously. The name sounded like someone from the Bi family. Could he be her relative?
Bi Linglong's face was ashen: "The person I sent back to the entrance of the secret realm yesterday to deliver a message was Bi Chang!"
Zu'an was also moved; the messenger he sent was dead?
What's even stranger is that he was walking back, while the main group was walking forward. They were going in completely opposite directions, so why did that person die in front of them?
Bi Linglong clearly realized this as well, and a chill ran down her spine.
A group of people rushed to the scene of the incident, where Zhao Xi and the others were already gathered. Upon seeing the two arrive, they all bowed and said, "Greetings, Crown Princess."
As for Zaun, they automatically ignored it.
Zuan quietly looked at the corpse in mid-air. The face looked somewhat familiar; it was indeed the one who had been sent back to report the news yesterday.
At this moment, he was impaled on a tree branch, his face contorted, his eyes bulging out, and bloody tears streaming down his face. Combined with the corpse's pale skin, he looked like a vengeful ghost, like something out of a horror movie. No wonder the person who saw him earlier let out such a shrill scream.
"Who killed him?!" Liu Xian's voice trembled slightly, and he subconsciously shrank behind his cousin Gao Ying.
With a light leap, Meng Pan landed on a tree branch. After examining the body, he said in a deep voice, "Judging from the wound on his chest and the color of the blood, this is not the crime scene. He was killed and then stabbed here."
Watching him examine the corpse with a calm expression, Zu An was secretly surprised. These scions of noble families weren't all good-for-nothings. No wonder they were selected by their respective families to participate in such an important mission; each of them had a skill.
"What concerns me even more is why his body is here. He went in the opposite direction yesterday, so there's no way he could have ended up in front of us," Zhao Xi asked, voicing the question that Zu An and the others had just been asking.
"Could it be a case of being lost in a maze, thinking he's heading out but actually getting lost?" Pei You analyzed.
“Impossible,” the Gu brothers said in unison. “They are scouts handpicked by the Bi family. They may not be the most skilled, but they have extremely rich reconnaissance experience and have survived countless battlefields. How could they possibly lose their way?”
“That’s right, we haven’t seen any maze-like terrain along the way,” Zhao Xi nodded in agreement.
"Could it be some kind of ferocious beast? I've heard of a butcher bird that loves to impale its prey on tree branches like this," Liu Xian said. Although his cultivation level was average, he had read quite a few miscellaneous books.
Meng Pan shook his head: "Impossible. If it were a butcher bird, it should have piercing marks from its claws or pecking marks from its beak. Although it has many wounds, there are no such marks. In addition, I found that it does not seem to have any fatal wounds."
"If there were no fatal wounds, how did he die?"
"Could it be a ghost?"
...
A group of people immediately cried out, feeling a chill run down their spines.
At this moment, Zu'an's voice rang out: "It's not that he didn't have a fatal wound, it's just that his fatal wound was hidden. He was probably directly shocked and his heart meridian was severed. The reason he rubbed it on the tree branch was to cover up the injury to his heart meridian in his chest. The other wounds were just a smokescreen."
Having served as an Embroidered-Robe Envoy for so long, I still possess this basic ability to solve cases.
Meng Pan was shocked and quickly re-examined him: "Indeed, his heart meridian is severely damaged. It seems he was killed by a single blow."
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