Chapter 400 Help me kill her
Gongsun Qi did not come to the capital of Qingyang alone; he was accompanied by Murong Quan and Situ Jin. With their help, he was able to conceal his status as a wanted criminal, evade various investigations and suspicions, and successfully enter the capital.
Situ Jin has been very depressed these past two days. Ever since his grandmother told him those shocking secrets, his carefree life as a young master has been gone forever, and he is now working hard for the rise of the mechanical family.
It wasn't that he didn't want the rise of the mechanical experts; in fact, he looked forward to seeing that day. However, he still had other things on his mind.
Ah Quan, however, seemed quite happy, looking forward to the unknown new adventures, finally free from hammering rocks on the island every day.
Based on information provided by the Murong family, the two searched for Zhao Yuxiang's whereabouts in the capital of Qingyang.
The three walked through the bustling market. A-Quan bought them both hand-pulled pancakes, but Gongsun Qi refused, so he ate two by himself.
Situ Jin ate while watching Gongsun Qi. Although the man still looked calm and composed, he felt that if they hadn't found something yet, he would become very impatient.
"Initially, it was discovered that someone suspected Zhao Yuxiang was still alive in Donglan's area. Lin Chenghai was investigating the people who kidnapped the children of Yan Kingdom and found out about the traitors from the peasant families of Xuan Kui and Su Xing. These organizations took advantage of the war in many parts of Yan Kingdom to take away children who had lost their parents and trained them to become Rakshasa sorcerers from a young age."
"However, these people not only target children from Yan, but also kidnap children from other countries. But Lin Chenghai discovered that there is a group of people who only kidnap children from Yan."
Situ Jin recounted the previous events to Gongsun Qi: "A few years ago, several children that Lin Chenghai rescued said they saw an old man come to pick through the goods, eliminating children who weren't considered talented."
"The children said the old man looked terrifying, like a dead man, with rough skin and no right hand."
Gongsun Qi stopped and whispered, "It's him."
Just as Situ Jin was about to calm him down and tell him not to be impulsive, Gongsun Qi's Wind-Listening Ruler went off.
Gongsun Qi lowered his eyes and did not take it.
After the other party hung up, they sent another message. This happened several times before A-Quan asked, "Who was it?"
Gongsun Qi did not answer, but instead answered the telepathic message.
As soon as the call connected, I heard the girl complaining: "If you don't want to answer the telepathic call, you can just send a text message. Why do I have to call so many times?"
This is simply a case of the guilty party accusing the innocent first.
Gongsun Qi asked calmly, "What is it?"
"If you're not busy, could you make a trip for me and my senior brother to rescue Sister Yuezhen? My senior brother risked his life to steal the cloud chariot to send her out of Taiyi, and now the Golden Armor Army is on their way to capture her."
After a brief explanation, Yu Sui said, "I was placed under house arrest by my father as soon as I got home, and I can't get out."
Gongsun Qi said, "I can come to your house and help you lift the house arrest. You can go and rescue the people yourself."
Yu Sui laughed: "How do you interpret this? Burn down the Prince's mansion?"
Gongsun Qi: "Okay."
Yu Sui refused seriously: "Not now. If you burn down the Prince's Mansion, you'll burn Mr. Han to death too."
After a moment of silence, Gongsun Qi realized that the Mr. Han that Yu Sui mentioned was another world destroyer in Qingyang.
“Mr. Han is a distinguished guest whom my father painstakingly invited from the land of Legalism. We are currently discussing important matters and he cannot leave.” Yu Sui said deliberately, “If you would like to meet him, I can introduce you to him, how about it?”
Gongsun Qi said nothing and immediately hung up the telepathic message.
Yu Sui then sent him the location of Shi Yuezhen and the others, reminding Gongsun Qi that his senior brother would be heartbroken if these people died.
Gongsun Qi put away the Wind-Listening Ruler and said to A-Quan, "You two keep searching, I'm going somewhere else."
"Where are you going? When are you coming back?" A-Quan asked.
Gongsun Qi did not answer.
Situ Jin took a bite of the biscuit in her hand: "I guess they're going to do something shady, so it's not good for them to take us with them."
"Sigh, there are quite a few saints in the capital. If we encounter him, he won't show mercy like the saints of Taiyi. He'd better be careful," A-Quan said worriedly.
"I don't know why, but I have a lot of confidence in him and I'm not afraid at all." Situ Jin recalled the scene of Gongsun Qi fighting Kuang Chu in the Wujian Abyss and sighed, "Those who are not afraid of death are invincible."
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Yu Sui was relieved after he saw that Gongsun Qi had started to take action, and then went to help another unlucky guy.
She changed the time and location of some of the capital city patrol teams through the Communications Institute, sending them to the locations where Qiu Yan used to be.
As soon as the mountain spirit connected with Nian Qiuyan's Wind Listening Ruler, the golden snake moved swiftly, biting the Wind Listening Ruler that Nian Qiuyan had hidden in her sleeve and taking it away, then tossing it to the white-faced woman in black standing in the shade of a tree.
Tang Yingxiu reached out and caught Nian Qiuyan's Wind-Listening Ruler, smashing it to pieces without even glancing at it.
Nian Qiuyan watched this scene calmly without saying a word.
Tang Yingxiu looked him over and said softly, "Zhang Xiangyun said that when you were with Mei Liangyu and the others in Taiyi, you were always chatting and laughing. Why didn't you even give us a smile when you saw us?"
Another long golden snake hung from the tree trunk, its head raised as it looked at Nian Qiuyan, its scarlet tongue flicking out, and it said in a sarcastic tone, "You have a guilty conscience and dare not see us."
“I’m back, but you don’t seem very happy,” Nian Qiuyan said.
"You need to come up with something that will make people happy." Tang Yingxiu gently twirled the remnants of the Wind-Listening Ruler on her fingers. "What were you doing when Luo Fu was framed and killed by Mei Liangyu?"
"Am I supposed to risk exposing myself to save Luo Fu's life?" Nian Qiuyan calmly replied, "I can't be that magnanimous as to exchange my life for Luo Fu's."
Tang Yingxiu smiled and asked, "What about Zhang Xiangyun?"
Nian Qiuyan: "That day we split up. When he was fighting with Mei Liangyu, he was rescued. I thought it was Ou Rushuang who took him away."
Tang Yingxiu nodded, seemingly lost in thought, and said, "So all of this was an accident, something you couldn't control, something you couldn't foresee, and it has nothing to do with you?"
Nian Qiuyan said in a low voice, "I know you are very sad about Zhang Xiangyun's death, but his death has nothing to do with me."
Tang Yingxiu smiled but didn't say anything.
Wei Lingshu then asked, "As far as I know, the princess also went to the Fog Sea with you and knows the location of the secret stronghold. Why didn't you report it to Miss?"
Nian Qiuyan looked at Geng Hanfu and said, "Mr. Geng also saw the princess at the Fog Sea base. I thought he would reply on his own without me having to report it."
Geng Hanfu said slowly, "I heard that the princess went to Wuhai at the invitation of Ou Rushuang."
"Then why did you still conceal the princess's whereabouts after what happened at the Lake of the Dead?" Tang Yingxiu asked.
Upon hearing this, Nian Qiuyan glanced discreetly at Yuan Xi, who was grinning and joking beside her.
We overlooked this kid.
Qingkui probably already suspected him, so when she instructed Nian Qiuyan to investigate who was around Sheng Fei during that period, she also asked Yuan Xi to keep an eye on him and investigate again.
It turned out that Nian Qiuyan had concealed the fact that Yu Sui was also present.
Nian Qiuyan said, "I did not go to the Lake of the Dead. I only used divination to peek and had no idea that the princess was also there at the time."
"So this is another miscalculation?" Tang Yingxiu asked with a smile.
Nian Qiuyan asked Yuan Xi, "Did you discover the princess was also there through divination?"
"No, that's not it." Yuan Xi shrugged frankly, "But you didn't know that the princess entered the Lake of the Dead together with Gu Gan, did you?"
Nian Qiuyan said calmly, "I really don't know. Even if we entered the Lake of the Dead together, we might not have been with Sheng Fei at that time."
Tang Yingxiu said, "It seems your divination abilities have declined somewhat."
Nian Qiuyan suggested, "Why don't you let Tang Yuan try to divine the princess and see if he can guess correctly?"
He looked at the man standing next to Tang Yingxiu, dressed in black with a white shirt and a black wooden talisman hanging from his waist.
The man remained silent throughout, without uttering a single word.
But as soon as Nian Qiuyan said that, everyone else looked at Tang Yuan as if waiting for him to make a move.
In the silence, Tang Yuan's deep, cold voice rang out: "Are you sure you want me to perform divination for the princess?"
Nian Qiuyan: "If you don't believe my results..."
"Alright." Tang Yuan chuckled in a low voice, "Then let's use your life and the divine wood divination sticks to divine. Trading your life for divination is the most accurate way, and you won't be bound by the power of divination avoidance. Are you willing?"
Nian Qiuyan seemed completely unfazed, coldly saying, "Your life-swapping divination not only takes my life, but also consumes your own. Are you willing to do that?"
Tang Yuan replied, "I don't care."
Nian Qiuyan was speechless at his answer.
While the two were testing each other, Tang Yingxiu had already decided, "Then let him try the divination again."
As soon as he finished speaking, Nian Qiuyan sensed a sharp hissing sound emanating from the Five Elements Qi around him. Golden snakes crawled all over the eaves and the ground, their cold and evil golden snake eyes staring intently at him, sealing the Qi around him and rendering Nian Qiuyan unable to move.
Tang Yingxiu walked toward Nian Qiuyan, who was unable to move. Just as she reached the alley entrance, she heard the shouts of the patrol team behind her.
When the patrol team from the capital city turned the corner and came to the shaded path, the place was already deserted.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Nian Qiuyan escaped. Tang Yingxiu, who had been teleported away by Tang Yuan using a divination array, stood by the fence of the small building, looking down at the street below, and said, "Go back and tell Miss that Nian Qiuyan deliberately concealed the princess's whereabouts."
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Yu Sui came out after getting dressed and saw the mute woman in the courtyard checking the lunch brought by the maids one by one.
Just as she was about to go out, she noticed Ah Chun standing outside the courtyard gate, waving at the mute woman. The mute woman went over when she saw her, and after Ah Chun said a few words, the mute woman lowered her head and left with her.
The maids placed the food trays on the table and approached the girl who was still standing in the room, saying, "Princess, it's time to eat."
"Where did Grandma go?" she asked casually.
The maid replied, "Just now, Chun said that Madam wanted to see Mother-in-law, so Mother-in-law went over there first."
Yu Sui responded and sat down alone at the table.
The mute woman followed Ah Chun to Madam Su's courtyard and saw her sitting inside, coughing with her mouth covered. The room was filled with the smell of blood and bitter medicine.
The mute woman hurriedly stepped forward to help, handing Madam Su a new handkerchief and wiping the bloodstains from her hands.
“Mother-in-law.” Madam Su suddenly grabbed her wrist, her eyes filled with tears as she looked up. “I can’t wait any longer.”
Upon seeing this, the mute woman suddenly knelt down, letting Madam Su hold one of her hands, and lowered her head.
Now only the two of them were left in the room. Ah Chun quietly left and closed the door.
Madam Su frowned and said in a low voice, "The prince actually brought up those things with her... and you saw it just now, the child's attitude... she's already losing control. If this continues, it's uncertain who will ultimately get the Breath Soil."
The mute woman tried to comfort her, telling the lady that the prince would not be so cruel to her and would never abandon her.
But just as her other hand made a move, she heard Madam Su say wearily, "She doesn't want to die, you can see that too, right? She said she would never die to return the Breath Soil to me, so the next person to die is me. I've tolerated her for more than ten years, isn't that enough?"
Madam Su coughed again, her blood churning, and the incessant coughing made her face grow even paler.
The mute woman's fingers trembled slightly as she looked at Madam Su's pained expression.
Madam Su no longer wanted to endure it. She still had things she wanted to do and things she had to do. She was already living such a painful life; she couldn't let Qingkui suffer the same misery. Madam Su wanted to use her last bit of strength to help Qingkui and help her get what she wanted.
"Mother-in-law, please help me one last time."
Madam Su lowered her eyes, tears glistening in them, and said to the mute woman who was looking up at her, "Help me kill her."
The mute woman was slightly taken aback.
In that instant, the mute woman suddenly remembered the little girl who had fallen countless times and been helped up by her. She had accompanied that child through countless springs, summers, autumns, and winters, watching her grow taller year by year. Although she knew that the child's fate would eventually come to an end, she never thought that she would be the one to end it herself.
Looking into Madam Su's tearful eyes, the mute woman knew that no matter what choice she made, it would hurt another person's heart.
“I swore that my life was given to me by my wife, so I would do anything for her.”
The mute woman lowered her head and reached out to take the medicine bottle given to her by Madam Su.
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