"Take him to the palace dungeon. I want to interrogate him myself," Gu Mu ordered.
Consciousness left the hidden city.
Gu Mu carried Shen Ling and flew towards the palace. Before they even got close, they heard a series of sobbing sounds coming from outside the palace.
Several palace maids were crying so hard they could hardly breathe, and they almost fainted.
Gu Mu could still hear them muttering beside him, "Your Majesty...you died such a tragic death~"
"Your Majesty, we will definitely find the arsonist and avenge you..."
Such a large fire is clearly caused by human intervention.
In Gu Mu's bedroom, one corner pillar had collapsed from the fire, and the roof had tilted downwards.
The entire hall was pitch black.
On the bed in the palace, there was a human-shaped corpse that had been burned to a crisp.
Gu Mu was stunned for a moment. Could it be that the assassin had been hit by another trick and died in bed?
But he had already told the assassins that someone was going to kill him, and that they must be on high alert.
Even with the Hidden City as an escape route, were the assassins still so useless, dying in the fire?
Isn't it said that anything produced by the system is guaranteed to be of high quality?
Just as Gu Mu was wondering what was going on, he felt someone poking his shoulder with their finger. He turned around, but there was nothing there.
But based on his intuition, Gu Mu knew that they were assassins.
Did the assassin use this method to remind him that he wasn't dead?
Who was the person who died on Gu Mu's bed?
"Let's go take a look."
Gu Mu said coldly.
At this moment, the palace maids who had cried earlier turned around in astonishment, their faces full of embarrassment as they looked at Gu Mu.
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