The mute girl with twin children was also brought to the side room by the maid.
She calmly looked at the three people trapped like dumplings on the ground, then at the mugwort.
Ai Cao asked, "Are there any ghosts willing to be reincarnated in them?"
Even though she had developed a thick skin through repeated missions, she still felt a little guilty when she met the Crown Princess's gaze.
The Crown Princess seemed to want to say something, but she sighed and remained seated in silence.
The mute girl glanced at the three people on the ground and held up two fingers.
"Two ghosts willing to be reincarnated?" Ai Cao asked.
The mute girl nodded.
Ai Cao kicked the guard and said, "This one is still useful, keep it for now. What about the other two?"
The mute girl still held up two fingers.
Ai Cao nodded. She opened her skill panel and used the [Good Pregnancy] skill on one of them.
Her skill dimmed and then brightened again; she then used the "Good Pregnancy" skill on another person as well.
The skill dimmed briefly before turning back on.
The two men, whose bodies were tightly bound, let out a painful groan from their unconscious state.
The man on the left had a belly that swelled up as if inflated; the man on the right had a belly that remained flat, but a large pool of blood was flowing out from somewhere beneath him.
The Crown Princess gasped.
A hint of panic flashed across her face, but her voice remained calm: "This is... witchcraft?"
“It’s not witchcraft,” Ai Cao said with a smile. She looked at Song Tang and asked gently, “Song Tang, you can close your eyes and not look.”
Songtang shook his head.
She said, "I know, this is childbirth."
Song Tang stated her confusion frankly, "But I only knew that women could give birth, did I know that men could give birth too?"
“Generally speaking… men can’t have children,” Ai Cao explained. “But the mute woman beside me has a special ability: she can help wandering ghosts enter a suitable vessel, and then, as a human…”
The mute girl's expression was calm.
“This is witchcraft,” the princess said.
She had composed herself. She stood up and said, "Now you shall all leave the Crown Princess's residence..."
“Sister,” the princess said with a smile, patting her shoulder, “I had already kicked them out once when I first heard about this.”
The Crown Princess slapped the Eldest Princess's hand away and said, "If that person finds out about this, none of us will be able to escape."
The eldest princess blinked: "That's why we're in such a hurry. Once you've succeeded, what do we have to be afraid of?"
The Crown Princess frowned deeply: "Didn't you say it would take you half a month to train those so-called soldiers?"
The eldest princess proudly raised her chin: "As long as you're determined, one day is enough!"
The Crown Princess sighed, wanting to ignore her troublesome younger sister.
The two men lying on the ground groaned softly.
When no one was watching, their bodies blossomed into something beautiful—two wet women crawled out of the man's belly.
The men, drained of their energy, stopped breathing.
The women sat on the men's corpses to rest.
Ai Cao tentatively asked the Crown Princess, "Look, they've already given birth..."
We can't just let her put it back.
Although it's possible to turn them back into ghosts through the methods used on the dead, they all tried so hard to be born.
Doing this... isn't a good idea.
The Crown Princess took a deep breath.
Women were indeed "born" from men.
And they were two strong, able-bodied women.
The Crown Princess glanced at the two male corpses on the ground and calmly threatened Ai Cao: "...If things go wrong, I will personally cut off your head."
Artemisia nodded with a smile.
She exchanged a knowing glance with the eldest princess.
What they had done before was already pushing the Crown Princess toward the position of Emperor.
Therefore, the Crown Princess's promise and participation were nothing more than an insignificant straw.
As the Crown Princess, who is the counterpart to the Crown Prince, she must climb the social ladder. Only when she becomes the next "Emperor" can she truly escape... the future of a "princess".
After all, her younger sister, the eldest princess, was already planning for her own future.
Ai Cao kicked the guard again and said, "He should know where the prince's private soldiers are."
The unconscious guard turned over.
The eldest princess asked, "Then how can we get him to talk?" She hesitated for a moment, then said, "Even if we torture him, he might not talk."
Ai Cao smiled and looked at the mute girl.
The mugwort asked, "Does anyone know?"
The mute girl hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Ai Cao then picked up the unconscious guard and said, "The mute girl will show you the way."
Beneath the guard's tightly closed eyelids, his eyeballs rolled slightly.
A map of the capital and its surrounding area was laid out before the mute girl. She picked up her pen and began to write on a location outside the capital.
Fifteen minutes later, they stood outside the spot marked by the mute girl.
This is a small village.
Surrounded by green mountains, clear streams flow from the mountains, meander through the villages, and then flow in the opposite direction from the capital.
They stood on a hill higher than the village.
Ai Cao and the mute girl confirmed the location was correct. The Crown Princess, the Eldest Princess, and Song Tang stood a little further away.
It's lunchtime now, and wisps of smoke are rising from the village chimneys; young and old men greet each other in the village, and everyone's face is filled with a joyful and satisfied smile.
Ai Cao checked again: "Are all the ghosts here?"
The mute girl nodded.
In her vision, the solidified black halo around the mugwort finally began to slowly dissolve. It danced joyfully around the mugwort, then rushed happily towards the village.
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