Wei Yao exclaimed in surprise: "What?!"
Wang Zebang frowned, staring suspiciously at the assassin: "He...he looks like the Prince of Ye? The Prince of Ye has a pair of phoenix eyes..."
"His eyes were closed, so I couldn't see clearly. Do you remember when he opened his eyes, weren't they phoenix eyes?"
Wei Yao thought for a moment and said, "It seems so..."
Zheng Quchi's eyes darted around, and she said, "Isn't there a simple way to determine this?"
She looked at Wei Yao.
Wei Yao immediately realized what was happening. He stepped forward, ripped open the assassin's collar, and turned his head to examine the back of his neck, where he found a red mark.
Wei Yao was shocked: "How could this be..."
Zheng Quchi also leaned over for a look, a strange expression flashing in his eyes for a moment: "It really is."
Upon hearing her say this, Wei Yao couldn't help but ask, "Madam, how did you know?"
"I had a dream about it last night, it just happened suddenly."
That's obviously just a way to fool people.
Actually, while on the road, she tried her best to sort out all the things that had happened recently.
She recalled that she first met this assassin at Wujue Temple on Yongfeng Mountain in Julu Kingdom. He did not know who sent him to assassinate Yuwen Sheng. The mission failed, and he was captured on the spot.
She didn't think much of it at the time, but upon reflection later, she realized there were many suspicious points.
If the goal was to assassinate a top expert like Yuwen Sheng, would sending just one assassin be enough? What was the mastermind behind this?
This is the first point of doubt.
Later, Gongshu Jiruo's words gave her a guess.
He was certain that even if Yuwen Sheng returned to Ye, he would be entangled in a huge trouble, just as Gongshu Jiruo knew some secrets.
This mysterious assassin, the one the bandits are now desperately trying to save—what connection could this assassin possibly have with Yuwen Sheng's troubles?
If so, what kind of trouble would he bring to Yuwen Sheng?
She thought of the missing eldest prince again. She had thought that Xing'an, who could command the bandits, was the missing eldest prince, but he wasn't. Where was the eldest prince?
The person whom the bandits went to such lengths and risked their lives to rescue must be someone of great importance...
After some thought, she suddenly came up with a bold guess.
If the person behind the scenes knew the assassin's true identity and deliberately sent him to assassinate Yuwen Sheng, and he ultimately died at Yuwen Sheng's hands, and then exposed the matter, then the trouble that Yuwen Sheng would get into would be unimaginable.
Wang Zebang was also taken aback: "The Crown Prince, whom the Prince of Ye has been searching for for many years without success, is actually in our hands..."
"Does this count as a meritorious deed?" Zheng Quchi asked curiously.
Wei Yao: "I guess so..."
But Zheng Quchi pointed at the unconscious assassin and uttered a deafening question: "Is it considered torture to death?"
Wang Zebang and Wei Yao broke out in a cold sweat: "..."
If we treat it and let it heal, it should still count, right? If not, then we can at least balance out the good and bad deeds.
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