Liu Xuenian was furious when he heard that the bird that was supposed to deliver the message hadn't been shot down. He glared at the man in black kneeling on the ground.
"Useless thing, you've been guarding the area for days and haven't even managed to shoot down a single bird!"
The man in black lowered his head and explained.
"My lord, it's not that I'm useless, it's just that the bird flew too fast and disappeared in a flash."
"A bird with that speed and size, I suspect, must be the gyrfalcon, the king of the skies."
"A gyrfalcon?" Liu Xuenian was also very surprised to hear that the bird delivering messages to the Prince's mansion was a gyrfalcon.
"Wasn't it supposed to be a regular carrier pigeon?"
How did it suddenly turn into a gyrfalcon?
Zhou Chengxing certainly had gyrfalcons, but he usually only used them to deliver important letters, and most of the time he would release them at night.
Therefore, the people in the Liu family never saw it.
Zhou Chengxing had only released his own gyrfalcon yesterday, and given the urgency of the situation today, he had no choice but to use Ning Bao's gyrfalcon to deliver the message.
Liu Xuenian's eyes turned cold.
"Go find a few skilled archers. No matter how powerful this gyrfalcon is, it's just a beast. I don't believe we can't shoot it down."
As soon as Bai Ming entered the Second Prince's residence at night, he saw the Second Prince leisurely sitting in the courtyard drinking sake, with wine cups and bowls set out opposite him.
Bai Ming very consciously sat down, picked up his wine glass, and took a sip.
"You poured me some good wine, didn't you?"
The second prince chuckled softly.
"I was just trying my luck, but I didn't expect to be so lucky today."
Bai Ming frowned.
"There's a strong smell of blood in your yard. Looks like quite a few people have come to assassinate you."
"Aren't we just sitting here like this, practically handing ourselves over to someone?"
The second prince sighed calmly.
"These are all minor incidents. By the way, I heard something strange today."
I've heard that gyrfalcons have been frequently spotted over Beijing recently, and that Liu Xuenian has spent a lot of money hiring many skilled archers...
The Second Prince didn't say the rest, but everyone was smart enough to understand that the Second Prince was trying to give him a message.
It seems the Second Prince knows perfectly well who released the gyrfalcon.
Bai Ming couldn't help but raise an eyebrow; it seemed that this second prince was quite capable.
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After leaving the Second Prince's residence, Bai Ming went directly to Ning Bao's place.
"Junior Sister, the Liu family has recently hired a lot of skilled archers, supposedly specializing in shooting gyrfalcons. Be careful these next few days."
"A master archer?" Ning Bao frowned.
"It seems we need to change our strategy from now on. No matter how skilled an archer is, they still need to see the target before they can shoot."
"Senior Brother, do you think if we make the gyrfalcon invisible, those archers won't be able to do anything?"
"Junior Sister means to use an invisibility talisman?"
Ning Bao nodded.
"That's right, if we use an invisibility talisman on the gyrfalcon, the archers won't be able to do anything, right?"
Bai Ming simply took out a lot of yellow paper and cinnabar from his storage talisman.
"I got these from the Bai family's shop. I've been feeling that something's off about the atmosphere in the capital lately."
Junior sister, please draw more talismans when you have time, just in case.
Bai Ming also gave Ning Bao a lot of the various pills he had recently developed.
Seeing that his senior brother had given him so many useful things, Ning Bao very readily took out a stack of talismans...
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