Chapter 186: Mausoleum
Gao Tang picked up the letter on the ground with a puzzled look on his face, and narrowed his smiling eyes.
"Your Majesty, isn't this... the Prince Regent imprisoned in the Dali Temple?"
"How could it be..."
At this time, Gao Tang's little apprentice Gao Yao rushed in, speaking in an urgent tone and swallowing anxiously.
"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened. The Imperial Master has...something terrible has happened!"
Looking at his silly apprentice, Gao Tang suddenly had a bad feeling.
Xin Hongying looked as if struck by lightning, his eyes gleaming with a cold light like thunder, his whole body exuding murderous aura, and his face was filled with a majestic coldness.
"What did you say? Say it again. What happened to the Imperial Master?"
Gao Yao took a few breaths to catch his breath and reorganized his words: "I don't know."
Xin Hongying: "Where is the injured palace maid you mentioned?"
Gao Yao trembled and said respectfully, "The person... is outside the hall."
Xin Hongying shook off the two of them and rushed out with big strides.
Seeing An Chi's head as if it were soaked in blood, his calm and composed expression cracked: "Where is the Imperial Master? What happened?"
An Chi's vision was blurry, and he was able to stand only through willpower and deep remorse: "I was near the rockery and was knocked unconscious. When I woke up, I found that the Imperial Master was gone."
"I hope nothing will happen to the Imperial Master."
"An Chi asks His Majesty to punish him."
Xin Hongying: "Father, you are here for me. I am the one who has implicated the Imperial Master."
"I will never let anything happen to the fairy!"
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Shen Tingyu was knocked unconscious, and never thought that she would be quietly taken out of the palace like this.
When she opened her eyes from her coma, the first thing she saw was the posthumous title engraved in gold on the empress dowager's tablet, as well as the majestic buildings and hundreds of eternally burning lanterns surrounding it.
And on the slightly arched platform, a coffin was placed.
The Queen Mother had already been buried in the mausoleum.
She instantly realized where she was and looked around cautiously.
Only then did I realize that my current perspective was a little strange.
The whole person seemed to be wrapped in a sack and hung in the air. Under the suspended body was a pot of burning charcoal.
Shen Tingyu was scared.
"Wake up."
A hoarse and slightly old male voice came from behind her, like a soul-catcher from hell.
Shen Tingyu shuddered all over. If she wasn’t a doll, she would have had goose bumps all over her body.
The suspended body would shake continuously with the slightest movement.
Shen Tingyu didn’t dare to move, not at all.
This was probably why the man was able to notice that she had woken up the first time.
Seeing that she had been discovered waking up, she asked directly: "Who are you?"
"Why did you bring me here?"
The man sneered and stood beside the dark coffin with a gloomy expression.
"National Master..."
"Are you afraid?"
The man's voice was hoarse, with a drawn-out ending that sounded quite meaningful, and the corners of his lips were slightly raised.
Shen Tingyu could not see his face clearly and suppressed the fear in her heart.
"Afraid!"
She pretended to be calm and asked back, "You tied me up so tightly, are you afraid of me?"
The Regent sneered, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, and laughed so hard that he bent over.
He tilted his back to her slightly, half turned his body, and finally revealed half of his weathered face. His beard and eyes were still as sharp as an eagle.
He laughed enough and straightened up, "This king, would be afraid of a little kid like you."
After seeing his face clearly, Shen Tingyu widened his eyes in surprise.
It's the Regent!
How could it be him!
Shouldn't he be in the Dali Temple prison, waiting to be executed in the autumn?
How could he appear in the Empress Dowager's mausoleum?
What is his relationship with the Queen Mother?
Besides, I have no grudge against him, so why would he kidnap me and hang me?
Shen Tingyu thought deeply about it bit by bit and figured out the key.
unless!
The person he wants to deal with is not himself, but the tyrant!
Shen Tingyu asked, "Shouldn't you be imprisoned in the Dali Temple now?"
"A mere Dali Temple cannot hold me prisoner. With my ability, escaping from prison is a simple matter."
"Although I lost the court, Your Majesty still can't do anything to me."
The Regent suppressed his smile and said in a deep voice, "My people have already figured out your details."
He stared at her with sharp eyes, walked towards her, and said in a hoarse but very firm voice.
"You call yourself a half-immortal, but in reality your magical power is weak and you have been in a period of decline for a long time."
"During this period of time, you are just a fragile doll. Just a little fire can burn you to ashes."
Oh my god!
The Regent knows too much!
Shen Tingyu was shocked. He actually had spies in the palace. They were hidden too deeply.
The Regent stopped and picked up the chopped firewood that had been placed aside.
He weighed it up and down in his palm for a few times, stroking the wood grain with his fingers. His dark eyes gradually became dangerous, intimidating without even being angry.
"These are all high-quality woods. They burn longer and more vigorously than ordinary wood."
After saying that, he threw the firewood in his hand directly into the fire.
The weak flame in the brazier burned more vigorously because of this piece of firewood. The firewood made crackling sounds and the flame suddenly shot up.
Shen Tingyu was so scared that she wanted to curl up into a ball. She jumped to break free from the rope that was hanging her and said in a cold voice.
"The Regent went to so much trouble to tie me up from the palace and bring me here, wasn't it to test whether I could be burned to death?"
She had already seen the tyrant's positioning red dot through the system panel, which was coming towards her at a rapid speed.
So she just needed to delay for a while until the tyrant came, and with his fighting power, she would be safe.
Shen Tingyu’s heart is very complicated.
She was worried about the tyrant's safety. She didn't want him to fall into danger and fall into the trap. At the same time, she was afraid of the flames that were rising like scorching tongues, and she longed for him to come and save her.
She put aside the messy and complicated thoughts in her mind and used her points to exchange for a pill from the system mall.
She felt full of strength, and the hemp rope that tied her up and hung her high began to become less difficult to move.
The Regent didn't know any of this. He stood with his hands behind his back, neither saying anything nor pointing it out, his expression calm and composed.
He had an expression on his face, as if he was sure of winning. He raised his eyebrows in surprise and smiled playfully.
"It seems that you are smarter than I thought."
Shen Tingyu gritted her teeth, wishing she could slap him. Her little hands, which were tied behind her back, exerted a little force, and the tough hemp rope cracked a little bit.
Her eyes lit up, it was almost time...she was about to break free from the rope.
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