The man in black first blew a puff of sleeping powder at Mu Run, then stuffed him into a sack, carried him over the wall, and jumped over.
A horse-drawn carriage was parked in the alley outside the wall.
The man in black put Mu Run into the carriage, then leaped away and disappeared.
The coachman was an old man. After the man in black disappeared, he whipped the carriage and drove away.
Mu Run opened her eyes inside the sack, then took out a bag of nutrient solution from her spatial storage and drank it, waiting to see who had kidnapped her.
The carriage left the capital and stopped at the back gate of the Temple of Invention.
Mu Run felt like she was being carried up again. The feeling of being upside down was really uncomfortable; her head was throbbing with blood.
She finally stopped just as she was about to vomit.
The sack was untied, and someone waved something near her nose. She smelled a pungent odor.
He slowly opened his eyes.
"Who...who are you? Where is this?" She feigned panic as she looked at the man in black in front of her.
The man in black lowered his voice and said in a sinister tone, "How come you're not dead? And where is Wei Wu?"
"I don't know who Wei Wu is?" Mu Run hurriedly backed away, but there was only a wall behind him, and he couldn't retreat any further.
"Your spiritual root has been dug out. Who saved you? Tell me the truth, and I'll give you a quick death. Otherwise..." The man in black slowly approached her.
“A miracle doctor named Gudong,” Mu Run replied.
"Gu Dong?" The man in black wondered if there was a renowned physician named Gu Dong, but judging from her expression, she wasn't lying. Could he be a rising star in the martial arts world?
"Since I'm going to die anyway, why don't you tell me who wants my spiritual root, so I can die knowing why?" Mu Run's eyes flashed with hatred.
The man in black scoffed, "It's fine to tell you, it's Princess Pingyang. With your innate spiritual root, Princess Pingyang has already been accepted as a personal disciple by the head of the Tianlan Sect."
"Mm." Mu Run nodded. "Thanks, you saved me a lot of trouble."
The man in black suddenly sensed danger and immediately took a step back.
Mu Run stood up and stretched. "Being carried like a sandbag all the way here must have been really uncomfortable."
"You weren't drugged?"
"Although the method of waiting for the rabbit to run into the tree stump is a bit clumsy, it can work sometimes." Mu Run did not rush to the palace to ask the old emperor for a DNA sample because she had noticed that there were always eyes watching her these past two days.
Surprisingly, the case was solved unexpectedly, saving a lot of trouble in the investigation.
Princess Pingyang... wait for me, I'll come find you right away.
He took out a silent pistol from his spatial storage and fired four shots at the man in black: one to the heart, one to the forehead, and one each to the abdomen and neck.
The man in black collapsed to the ground in despair!
It seems they have absolutely no idea how they died.
Mu Run put away his gun, then searched the man in black, finding a token, several large silver notes, and a letter.
She then handed the body over to Gudu, leaving it to do whatever it wanted with.
A monk was passing by outside.
Mu Run went out and put his hands together in front of the monk, saying, "Amitabha. I want to offer incense, but I've gotten lost."
"Please follow me, benefactor." The monk led Mu Run toward the front hall.
Mu Run donated two large silver notes that he had looted from the man in black, lit incense, and then left the temple.
On her way back to Beijing, she hitched a ride on an oxcart carrying firewood.
As soon as she arrived at the city gate, she saw a horse rushing out of the city gate, and the person sitting on it was her fake husband, Shi Xuan.
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