But as they reached the deepest part, the assassins realized something was wrong.
The door to the deepest cell was wide open, and the cell was empty, but there was a pool of corpse water on the floor.
The assassin had seen this kind of corpse fluid before. Back then, in Gu Mu's study, he brought another fake Zhang Banxian, whose body turned into the same corpse fluid when he committed suicide in Gu Mu's study.
The assassins quickly confirmed that Zhang Banxian, who had been imprisoned the day before, was dead.
However, this Zhang Bansian was clearly not as enlightened as the previous one and was unwilling to commit suicide. Therefore, it must have been the real Zhang Bansian, or someone who worked for Zhang Bansian, who came to the prison and killed him.
Upon receiving the news from the assassin, Gu Mu immediately rushed into the cell, and sure enough, the scene before him was exactly as the assassin had described.
However, Qingqiu, who was imprisoned with Zhang Banxian, as well as Shenling, who came to monitor them, and the guards, all disappeared.
"It is very likely that when Shen Ling was monitoring Zhang Banxian with her guards, the assassins had already killed Zhang Banxian and were just about to leave when they happened to run into him."
"Given Ling'er's personality, she definitely won't let this go so easily..."
"But the prison only has one exit, so where will they go?"
Gu Mu silently analyzed in his heart.
Then, he thought of a possibility—a hallucination!
Previously, Little Green Tea and the Emperor of the Eagle Kingdom used an illusion in front of him to make him hallucinate because Little Green Tea was standing in front of him, when in fact she was not standing in that position at all.
Otherwise, Gu Mu would have killed the little green tea back then.
They may have left through the main gate of the prison, but they deceived the jailer with illusions, so in the jailer's eyes, only Shen Ling went in and has not left yet.
Because of Chen Ling, Gu Mu's eyes can now see through illusions.
He composed himself and tried to see through the details in the cell.
There were many wet footprints in the cell where Zhang Banxian was imprisoned, leading from the cell door to the main gate.
Furthermore, there were many dead insects on the ground.
It's not unusual to find bugs in a prison cell.
However, there are far too many of them, and these insects are not common insects.
Just as Gu Mu was staring at the insects on the ground, analyzing the battle that had taken place in the cell not long ago, one of the insects, which seemed to be dead, suddenly flapped its wings twice, took flight, and hovered in front of Gu Mu.
Gu Mu was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that this was a signal Ling'er had left for him.
After circling around Gu Mu twice, the insect began to fly towards the main gate.
Gu Mu followed without hesitation.
At this moment, the system unexpectedly added system tasks.
We must find the female lead! We must hurry!
Gu Mu felt a pang of pain in his heart as he looked at the newly added system task.
He seemed to have already imagined that Shen Ling was facing an enemy much stronger than himself, and was likely already injured in the fight.
The thought of Shen Ling's fair arms possibly being slashed by swords and knives filled Gu Mu with a burning rage, making him want to kill those who had put Shen Ling in danger.
But right now, he needs to find Shen Ling first.
Although the insects, due to their limited capabilities, could fly faster than ordinary insects, seemingly prioritizing speed, Gu Mu still found them to be incredibly slow.
He really wanted to grab the insect by the neck and make it fly faster. But that was a tricky job, because if he wasn't careful, the insect could be crushed between Gu Mu's two fingers and turned into a puddle of juice and crumbs.
Gu Mu could only glare hatefully at the insect as he followed behind it.
A short while later, the system added another system task.
[Please hurry! Please hurry! Please hurry!!!]
As he watched the repeated words and the exclamation marks following them, Gu Mu's heart sank lower and lower.
It's important to understand that systems have no emotions.
The fact that it can issue such an emotional command indicates that the matter is very serious.
maybe……
At this point, the system updated the information again at a rate that replenished system tasks every few breaths.
[If the host cannot find the female lead within half an incense stick's time, it will have irreversible consequences.]
The insect continued flying forward.
Gu Mu grew increasingly anxious.
He followed the insects while keeping track of the time.
As they got closer and closer to the half-stick of incense, the insects showed no sign of stopping.
If the insect hadn't flown straight in the same direction, Gu Mu would have doubted whether it could actually lead him to Ling'er.
The time for half an incense stick to burn is almost up.
The system had even started a countdown.
ten.
Nine.
...
three.
two.
"We've arrived." Gu Mu finally saw a familiar figure standing in the middle of the woods ahead.
She was dressed in flowing white robes, looking ethereal and otherworldly.
Standing with hands behind his back, holding an umbrella and a sword.
From this angle, you can see her profile, which is unbelievably perfect.
Her face was clean.
His eyes were icy cold.
It wasn't as messy as Gu Mu had imagined.
"Ling'er," Gu Mu called out.
Shen Ling turned her head, her eyes looking somewhat unfamiliar.
It felt so familiar... so much like... the look in that girl's eyes from that memory fragment...
However, upon seeing Gu Mu, Shen Ling's eyes gradually regained their clarity: "Your Majesty?"
It is a question.
It was as if memories were gradually returning, and in this dazed state, there was some uncertainty about the identity of the person in front of me.
But soon, Shen Ling reverted to the familiar demeanor Gu Mu knew, raising a smile and sweetly calling out, "Your Majesty, please come and pull..."
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