Chapter 205 Sneaking into the Palace
The team Xu Chuchu belongs to should be those who often perform in the palace. They are very well-trained. When they are waiting outside the palace, they neither look around nor whisper to each other. They are all resting quietly.
This also gave her great convenience, allowing her to hide quietly in the corner without being discovered.
The winter nights were chilly and although the dancers' skirts were colorful and layered, they were made of poor quality material and did not keep them warm.
To be on the safe side, she did not use her spiritual power, but just curled up to keep warm like most people.
I stayed half asleep and half awake until dawn, when I was finally able to line up and enter the palace.
The search inside the palace was also very strict, not at all compared to the perfunctory inspection when she and Xiao Yu entered the palace last time. The old maids in the palace searched the dancers from head to toe, and except for the fans and ribbons used for dancing, they were not allowed to take anything else.
Fortunately, Xu Chuchu made preparations early and hid all the other things he needed.
The team was checking and releasing people at the same time, and there were people counting on the side.
Xu Chuchu happened to be the last one in line, and when her turn came, there was one more person, as expected. But she reacted quickly and caught up with the person in front of her without waiting for the palace servant to ask any more questions.
The girls’ outfits and body shapes are very similar, and you can’t recognize them in the blink of an eye.
"Twenty-one people? Wasn't the reported dance list twenty? Those in front, come back!" The palace servant was puzzled and wanted to chase after them to find out, but suddenly a strong hand grabbed his shoulder.
"You're only allowing the palace to have extra people to help, but you're not allowing the dancers to have substitutes to avoid accidents?" A clear, deep male voice sounded from behind. "You didn't allow anyone in, and the performance went awry, angering the Emperor and Empress. Can you bear the responsibility?"
The palace servant looked back and was so frightened that he almost died. He immediately knelt down and said, "Sir, please spare my life. I know I am wrong!"
Isn't this the young master Xiao who has a strange disease? Why are you here so early for the evening banquet?
His face looks so grim, like a ghost. Is he drinking human blood and eating human flesh as the rumors say?! Don't eat him, his flesh is old!
However, when Xiao Yu saw that the palace servant had stopped chasing him, he casually let him go, shook his folding fan and followed him into the palace.
He came so early today because he wanted to use the excuse of attending the banquet to re-investigate the causes and consequences of the former queen's death.
Although the case was closed at that time due to the queen's suicide, anyone with a discerning eye knew that there were still many mysteries that had not been solved and many doubts.
He didn't know why Xu Chuchu suddenly came back, knocked him out and took away the dagger. He wanted to investigate but had no clues. He could only start over from the previous unsolved mysteries to see if he could find any clues.
More importantly... Ever since he knew Xu Chuchu had come back, he often thought of the look Xu Chuchu gave him when she asked him about the case and knew that he didn't continue investigating it.
Anger, disdain, and more than that, disappointment.
A person who claims to be impartial in investigating cases and seeking justice for the deceased, but gives up the truth, fabricates a case, and even abandons himself and principles, may not really deserve her forgiveness.
The look in his eyes at that time always troubled Xiao Yu, so he decided to reinvestigate the case and give an explanation to the Queen, Chu Chu and himself.
I didn't expect to make a new discovery as soon as I arrived.
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Xu Chuchu originally thought that after successfully sneaking into the palace, he would find a chance to escape, but he didn't expect that they were placed in an empty palace, which was not only surrounded on all sides, but also guarded by guards at the door.
As the sky grew brighter, everyone became more energetic and stood in groups of three or five to talk.
More and more people gathered around and secretly looked at Xu Chuchu, feeling that she looked unfamiliar.
If she continues like this, she will have no choice but to use her spiritual power to escape, otherwise she will be exposed sooner or later.
"Quiet, everyone, be quiet!" a maid approached and shouted, "A noble in the palace sympathized with your hard work performing in the cold weather and asked the Imperial Household Department to send us some thick blankets. We're distributing one to each of you now, and you can return them all after the performance!"
"Wow, thank you so much!"
"I wonder which noble person is so kind as to remember us!"
Everyone was shivering from the cold and happily crowded over to get blankets. Xu Chuchu also successfully got one and breathed a sigh of relief.
She curled herself up in a blanket and moved to another place. Now everyone was curled up tightly and no one could recognize each other.
After waiting for another morning, it was finally time for rehearsal. Xu Chuchu followed and walked out last. Seeing that the time had come, he didn't even get his lunch and quietly slipped into the alley and disappeared.
She found a lone palace maid, suffocated her with a fragrance, tied her up and stuffed her into an empty palace, changed her into a palace maid's clothes, and walked towards the northwest corner of the palace without stopping.
The entire palace building looks like a cicada from a distance, with its wings located right in the northwest corner. This is the center of the entire magic circle, and it also contains an energy pool rich in spiritual power.
When she and Xiao Yu first investigated the place, they happened to see the queen jumping into the pond and drowning. She was a little worried that the emperor would fill up or fence off the pond because of his grief over the queen's death.
However, when I got there, I found that it was not the case. The pool water was still the same, quietly located in the corner of the palace. It was clean, without fallen leaves or dirt, and it seemed that someone took care of it regularly.
Perhaps future generations would never have imagined that a queen had once drowned here.
Xu Chuchu stood by the pool, looked at the clear water, took a deep breath, and slowly stepped in.
The pool water, rich in spiritual energy, was even colder than she had imagined. The chill seemed to penetrate directly into her bones, causing pain like a knife scraping her.
Xu Chuchu gritted her teeth and endured it. When her calves got used to the temperature, she immersed her whole body in it again.
She swam to the bottom of the pool and hung cross-legged in the water with her eyes closed.
Today she will use the power of the pool water to restart her seventh-level cultivation.
The training from the fourth level to the seventh level will be very long, but it is not impossible to rush to the seventh level in a short period of time and maintain it for a few hours.
Xu Chuchu is different from others. Not only does she have an ability to mobilize spiritual power far beyond that of ordinary people, she is also a physiognomist who once reached the peak of the seventh level and has only temporarily lowered her level.
If we use a container to describe the upper limit of a physiognomist, and use the water in the container to describe the physiognomist's cultivation, then for most people, the size of the container is determined by the depth of the water.
There is a huge empty container inside Xu Chuchu's body, so water can be filled in more easily with the help of external force.
But the whole process was extremely painful.
The energy pool is very special. If you don't use spiritual power, it will just be icy cold and will not cause any harm to people.
But once the spiritual power was used, the pool water seemed to turn into the sharpest needles, which would pierce into Xu Chuchu's body without mercy. No part of his body could survive, and even his scalp felt as if it was bitten by millions of ants and insects.
Xu Chuchu backed off at the very beginning and thought of giving up, but was quickly overcome by reason.
She knew very well that the current method would be the one that would cause the least loss if she wanted to resolve this matter. As long as she persisted and sacrificed a little of her cultivation, everything would be resolved satisfactorily.
She also knew that this idea of hers was a bit of forced comfort to herself, but since she had made up her mind, there was no reason to give up halfway.
She gritted her teeth, imagined that this body was not her own, and continued to hold on.
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