Chapter 582 The suspect is missing
The corridor was already dark and he could only see by moonlight. He hadn't noticed anything was wrong before.
After the door shattered, Xiao Changheng discovered that the new door looked much more real than the original one, and he immediately realized that what Yun Qingqing had just broken was a layer of barrier.
At this time, the movement in the room became much more obvious, as if someone was struggling.
"Wait." Yun Qingqing threw down two words, kicked the door open and walked in.
As soon as the door opened, a cold breath hit me in the face.
Xiao Changheng's heart trembled, and he wanted to follow in, but when he heard Yun Qingqing's serious tone, he waited at the door and paid attention to the movements inside.
The room was filled with a spooky atmosphere, and Yan Ning was in the middle of the room, being entangled by a strange black fog.
The black mist twisted into a long strand, like a black snake as thick as a wrist, tightly wrapped around Yan Ning.
Yan Ning was struggling hard, his face was pale, veins on his forehead were bulging, and beads of cold sweat the size of beans fell to the ground. He heard the sound and raised his head, his pupils shrank slightly.
"Princess, be careful! Don't come over!" Yan Ning's voice was hoarse, and in desperation he burst out with a force that actually pushed away the black fog wrapped around his body a little, and tried hard to reach the Hanying sword at his waist.
However, the black fog seemed to sense the danger. The Yin energy suddenly surged, and the snake-shaped fog spread upward along his body and tightly wrapped around his neck.
Yan Ning suddenly couldn't breathe and his face turned red and purple.
At this moment, a yellow talisman came straight over, penetrating the black fog unhindered and stuck to Yan Ning.
The talisman paper burst into a bright golden light, and Yan Ning felt the cold black fog wrapped around his body stiffen for a moment, and then a shrill scream sounded in the air, almost bursting through a person's eardrum.
Yan Ning's eyes went dark, but he felt the restraints on his body loosen. He staggered and supported himself on one knee, gasping for breath.
The talisman on the chest was still emitting a gentle glow, dispelling the coldness brought by the black fog that penetrated deep into the bone marrow and even into the soul.
Yan Ning felt that he had never felt so at ease. He just breathed a sigh of relief, but he saw that the black mist that was retreating from his body seemed to be stimulated. Its size increased by more than twice and it rushed straight towards Yun Qingqing!
"Be careful!" Yan Ning screamed and tried to get up, but he was too weak to stand up.
I saw that the black fog was already approaching Yun Qingqing.
Yun Qingqing narrowed his eyes, raised two fingers, and a talisman appeared out of thin air between his fingers. Just as he was about to raise his hand, suddenly a green light flashed from above, instantly expanding into a light net that rushed straight towards the black fog.
In just a blink of an eye, the black mist was cut into countless pieces as if it were real and disappeared without a trace in a moment.
Yun Qingqing paused with her hand holding the talisman. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly. She looked speechlessly at the instigator of the light net - Dawn who had suddenly flown out by herself.
That light net was simply an illusion caused by Dawn swinging his sword too quickly.
Dawn is Yun Qingqing's natal magic weapon, which is closely related to her cultivation and state. After she recently made another breakthrough, she could feel that the sword spirit's consciousness had become much more active, with signs of awakening.
At that moment just now, perhaps the evil aura of the black fog stimulated Dawn, causing the sword spirit's main consciousness to wake up early.
If it weren't for the current situation, awakening at dawn would certainly be cause for celebration.
The problem is that Yun Qingqing was planning to "capture" this evil aura alive so as to investigate its origin. Now, the magic sword strikes, as fast as lightning, and all the evil is killed.
There is no hair left.
"Broken, dawn!" Yun Qingqing put away the talisman in her hand and gritted her teeth.
Poxiao, who was swinging his sword handsomely in the air, suddenly stopped. Then a green light flashed, and it changed back into the shape of a green jade hairpin. It floated in front of Yun Qingqing and fell down with a "click".
Yun Qingqing quickly caught the jade hairpin, only to see its light fade away and it lay motionless in her palm, as if it was no different from an ordinary piece of jewelry.
She tried to communicate with the sword spirit, but found that it looked like it had exerted too much strength and continued to sleep.
Yun Qingqing: “…”
Haha, it's obvious that he failed to look cool and realized that he got into trouble, so he started pretending to be dead.
Yun Qingqing rubbed her brows speechlessly, put the green jade hairpin back into her hair, and looked at Yan Ning, who had just stood up and whose face was still a little pale. The marks on his neck had turned a little black, which was a sign of Yin energy invading his body.
She immediately took out a talisman, rolled it into a small triangular piece of paper and handed it to Yan Ning, and also gave him a bottle of ointment:
"Keep this talisman close to your body, and apply the ointment once in the morning and once in the evening every day. Continue for three days and you will be fine."
"Thank you, Princess." Yan Ning took the talisman and the medicine and put them in her arms. When she saw Xiao Changheng coming in from the door, she immediately bowed and saluted, "Greetings, His Royal Highness the Regent."
Xiao Changheng nodded slightly to let him off the hook, and walked to Yun Qingqing's side:
"How is it going?"
"Poxiao did it too cleanly, so he wasn't caught." Yun Qingqing spread her hands, but still couldn't help but complain about Poxiao.
She turned to Yan Ning and asked:
"Commander Yan, how did you get attacked? Can you tell me the details of what happened before the attack?"
Yan Ning lowered his eyes and nodded, frowning as he recalled:
"The queen suddenly passed away half an hour ago. I was just surprised at the time and didn't think too much about it. But when I was patrolling the imperial city, I heard a palace maid who had just returned from an outing discussing rumors outside the palace, exposing all the evil deeds done by the queen... The problem is that many of the details are true."
"The princess told me that the attack on me must be kept secret. I have already issued a death order that the imperial guards present on that day will never discuss the matter in private."
"I felt something was fishy, so I planned to conduct a secret investigation in the palace to see if I could find the source of the information..."
Yan Ning paused here, his brows slightly furrowed, as if hesitant.
Yun Qingqing's heart moved, and she immediately asked:
"Did you find any clues?"
"I don't know if this is a clue..." Yan Ning said after careful consideration, "When the Queen was in Phoenix Terrace, there were not many people present. Apart from us and the imperial guards, there were only the maids around the Queen."
"You mean, Lan Rui?" Yun Qingqing recalled what happened that day.
"That's right," Yan Ning nodded, his face becoming serious. "After the Queen's deeds were exposed, all the people in her palace were detained. It was only because it was the New Year that their fate was kept until after the first month of the lunar year. But when I went to the Ministry of Punishment to look for Lan Rui, I found that Lan Rui was missing."
"Missing?" Xiao Changheng frowned. "When did it happen?"
"The jailer didn't notice it before. It wasn't until I went to pick her up that I discovered that Lan Rui was not in the cell. There was just some hay piled under the quilt, which looked like someone had laid it there."
Yun Qingqing asked:
"Then when were you attacked?"
Yan Ning said in a deep voice:
"The prisoner was missing, and I heard someone was spreading rumors. I was worried that something had happened to His Majesty, so I immediately rushed to the Emperor's bedroom. But halfway through, I felt a cold wind blowing, and when I came to my senses, I was already trapped here."
He thought for a moment and added:
"I remember clearly that we were attacked when the Jingyang Bell was ringing..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Changheng's expression changed.
"Royal brother!" he shouted urgently, turned around and rushed out.
Yan Ning followed closely behind, then stopped and looked at Yun Qingqing who was standing still and seemed to be thinking:
"……princess?"
Yun Qingqing pinched her fingers, frowned and said:
"Don't worry, the emperor is fine... As for Lan Rui's matter, let me tell you about it first."
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