"The general's quiver seems to be heavier than the others'?"
Xiao Che's voice was calm and gentle, like a falling feather, yet it was also like an invisible Mount Tai, pressing heavily on Wei Xiao's heart, making it difficult for him to even breathe!
Wei Xiao's face drained of all color in an instant!
For the first time, an undisguised look of horror and panic appeared on that weathered, square face!
impossible!
That's absolutely impossible!
That place… he had inspected that place countless times. He had personally modified it, sealing the seams with special adhesive, so from the outside it looked like a single piece! Let alone searching it, even if you split open the quiver, you would never discover that hidden compartment unless you examined it carefully!
How did he know?!
“Your Majesty is joking,” Wei Xiao forced down the storm of emotions in his heart and squeezed out a dry smile through his teeth. “This quiver of mine is made of century-old ironwood to prevent the arrows from getting damp, so naturally… naturally it is a bit heavier than an ordinary leather quiver.”
He tried to use the most reasonable explanation to cover up his guilty conscience.
However, his explanation seemed so pale and powerless in the face of Xiao Che's eyes, which seemed to have seen through everything.
"Yeah?"
Xiao Che's cold smile deepened. He stopped wasting words with Wei Xiao and, in front of all the Imperial Guard generals present, drew a sharp, gem-encrusted dagger from his waist.
Everyone's eyes were instinctively drawn to his hands.
He turned the seemingly ordinary quiver upside down and, with the gleaming tip of his dagger, gently and with an almost elegant gesture, pried it open at a very concealed seam at the bottom of the quiver, a seam that was almost blending into the wood grain.
"Click—"
A very faint yet incredibly clear sound of a mechanism snapping open suddenly rang out in the deathly silent tent!
That voice, like the scythe of death, pierced through Wei Xiao's last line of psychological defense!
To everyone's astonishment, the bottom of the incredibly sturdy ironwood quiver silently opened up like a lotus flower, revealing a small, hidden compartment!
Inside the interlayer, a jet-black, strangely shaped arrow lay quietly on the dark red velvet!
The arrow was jet black, its material unknown, reflecting no light whatsoever. Its fletching wasn't ordinary feathers, but rather some kind of unidentified black scales. But most chilling of all was its triangular, barbed arrowhead, which faintly gleamed with an eerie, ghostly blue light!
"ah!"
A nearby Imperial Guard general couldn't help but let out a suppressed gasp the moment he saw the arrow clearly!
Because the shape of that arrow is exactly the same as the poisoned arrow that wounded the Empress yesterday!
boom--!
The entire audience erupted in uproar!
If everything before was just speculation, then this poisoned arrow found in the most private quiver of General Wei Xiao is now irrefutable and irrefutable evidence!
The truth, at this moment, is revealed in the most cruel and straightforward way!
Wei Xiao's body swayed violently, almost losing his balance. The color drained from his face the moment he saw the arrow, leaving it ashen.
It’s over…
Everything is over...
He couldn't understand it, he simply couldn't understand it! How could something he had hidden so secretly, something he was so confident no one could ever discover, be so easily found by this sickly emperor, right in front of everyone!
He was like a gambler who, when revealing his last card, discovered that his opponent had already seen through it all!
The immense contrast between heaven and hell, the despair and shock of the conspiracy being completely exposed, almost destroyed his sanity!
Xiao Che slowly reached out and carefully picked up the deadly poisoned arrow with two fingers. He held the arrow up to his eyes, his cold gaze slowly moving from the gleaming arrowhead to Wei Xiao's deathly gray face.
He walked step by step toward Wei Xiao, who was already distraught.
His footsteps were very light, but each step felt like it was treading on Wei Xiao's heart, making him uncontrollably retreat.
Finally, Xiao Che walked up to him and handed him the poisoned arrow.
His voice was icy cold, devoid of any emotion, like the final judgment from the deepest hell:
"General Zhenyuan, now, what do you have to say?"
Looking at the poisoned arrow that should have pierced the emperor's heart, and then at the emperor's emotionless eyes, Wei Xiao knew that his chances of turning the tide were slim and there was no possibility of a comeback.
He will face the fate of being slowly sliced to death and having his entire family exterminated!
A surge of madness born from despair instantly welled up in his heart!
die?
He admitted it!
Even if he dies, he'll take someone down with him! He'll make the woman who pushed him into the abyss pay the heaviest price!
"ah--!"
Wei Xiao suddenly let out a roar like a trapped beast!
He drew his sword swiftly from his waist, the movement as fast as lightning!
The surrounding imperial guards were terrified, thinking he was about to resort to desperate measures and assassinate the emperor, and they all drew their swords, ready to step forward!
However, Wei Xiao's target was not Xiao Che in front of him!
He suddenly turned around and, with all his might, charged in a direction no one expected—
That direction leads directly to the camp where Consort Su Jinxiu is located, which is under close guard by the Imperial Guards!
As he charged, he let out a shrill, venomous roar, a sound that echoed throughout the entire camp:
"Su Jinxiu! You poisonous woman!"
"We agreed to share the spoils after the deed was done, and now you dare to betray me!"
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