"The effect... is too scary." Wei Wushuang covered his nose and looked away, not daring to look at the corpse on the ground.
"But they are enemies..." Luo Youer was also very uncomfortable, looking like she was about to vomit, but she still insisted on following everyone, "The number of innocent people who died in the hands of these Donghai Gang cannot be counted too few."
"That's exactly the reason." Ning Wanjun looked refreshed and felt that she would not be affected by the enemy's tragic situation at all, "Think about the people in the grottoes in Gaoshan County. If you fall into their hands, I’m afraid the end will be even worse.”
Because he had already anticipated the scene below, Xia Fan was undoubtedly much calmer than when he first saw the murder scene. He knew in his heart that although foreshadowing and detonation were both methods, their actual effects were the same as thermal weapons. Compared with the cold weapon age, the most significant feature of the firearm age is that the killing efficiency has increased many times. If it were a sword fight, it might take a whole night to cause similar casualties, but if it were an explosion, it would only take a blink of an eye.
The fox demon crossed the crowd and walked towards a small room at the end of the hall.
"Li?" Xia Fan turned around and followed.
"That person was staying in this room before." She whispered.
"An family?"
Seeing Li nodded, Xia Fan drew his sword and held it in his hand, and walked into the house with her - the inside was also smoky, and there was still a lot of white ash on the ground. There were probably many books and papers placed here, but they are now burned to ashes.
It didn't take much time for the two of them to find the "An family" Li mentioned behind a broken door panel.
He seemed to be standing just behind the door when the explosion occurred, and the shock wave of the explosion blew the door away with him. The result was that his body was well preserved, but his spine was broken into two parts due to the violent impact.
Xia Fan let out a sigh of relief.
After all, the other party is the most difficult enemy to deal with in intelligence.
No matter how weird the methods he has and what kind of evil spirits he can drive, there is nothing he can do now.
"What is that?" Li's attention was suddenly attracted by several talismans under him.
Xia Fan squatted down, pushed away the opponent's already stiff body, took out the talisman and held it on his fingertips - it was a kind of talisman that he had never seen before. In the room with insufficient light, it actually emitted lavender fluorescence, and the light dimmed and faded. Bright, as if breathing.
"This is the Soul Gathering Talisman."
Ning Wanjun's voice came from behind.
"The Soul Gathering Talisman?" Xia Fan repeated.
"I also heard it from an acquaintance," Ning Wanjun spread her hands, "This kind of talisman has nothing to do with magic, it is more like a container. And what it contains is evil energy."
"You mean-" he couldn't help but said in surprise.
"Well, if the conditions are right, it can inspire evil spirits." The princess's answer confirmed his guess, "But this thing is very rare, and only those with the guard level are eligible to apply to the Privy Council. This guy has more than one in his hand. , it’s really a bit abnormal.”
"That's exactly what the An family is good at." Wuyueyao also walked in, "I didn't expect that he didn't even have a chance to fight back. In this battle... His Highness won beautifully."
"It has nothing to do with me. It's all Qing-ahem, Xia Fan's credit." Ning Wanjun turned the two short spears in her hands and said regretfully, "It's a pity that the victory was too clean and neat, and I couldn't clean the battlefield."
Xia Fan took the opponent's lag as a slip of the tongue, "These talismans... what should I do with them?"
"You can keep it." Ning Wanjun waved her hand magnanimously, "Although it cannot be exchanged for money, it is indeed a rare thing. Don't you want to study alchemy? This is a rare research material."
"Your Highness, the guard said that he found something. I hope you can take a look." Qiuyue suddenly reported at the door.
"Oh? What is it?" The princess turned around and asked.
"Some... dried corpses." Qiuyue bit her lip, "stuffed in the wall."
…
"This... was also done by the Donghai Gang?" Xia Fan looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but frown.
In a corner of the lobby, guards were seen pulling at the cracked gravel on the wall. In the exposed part, everyone saw a dozen mummies. What's even more incredible is that these corpses were obviously not stuffed casually. They were similar in size and had a sallow surface, as if they had been soaked in tung oil. In other words, they had been embalmed before being put into the wall.
"Do you know why they did this?" Ning Wanjun looked at Wuyue Yao.
The latter shook his head, "No, I don't know..."
"There seems to be something on the corpses." Li pointed at one of them.
At the princess's signal, someone quickly pulled it out from the crack in the stone.
When it lay flat on the ground, everyone gasped.
The body of the corpse was actually engraved with talismans.
This is a bit too evil.
Ning Wanjun was silent for a long time before saying to Xia Fan, "I have to admit that your guess is right. The An family's appearance here is not just for personal gain. Although we don't know what Dongsheng Kingdom wants to do yet. , but at least their calculations have failed.”
Then she ordered the guards, "Search this underground passage thoroughly. All the corpses found will be dragged outside and burned. No one should be left behind or lost!"
"As you command, Your Highness!" the guards responded in unison.
…
Jinxia City, inside the Wang family's residence.
"W-what did you say!?" Wang Yian shook his hands and the cup fell to the ground with a bang. "Have you confirmed this?"
"Sir, it's absolutely true." Master Lu replied in a trembling voice, "Last night there was a sudden drought thunderstorm in the south of the city, followed by constant roaring. In the morning, news came that Zhengshou Street and Wangfu Street had been blocked. Blocked. There was also a team of servants who came from nowhere and entered the Hongmu Building, saying that they wanted to arrest the Donghai Gang members hiding inside. I quickly sent people there to check the situation, but it turned out that even the other courtyards in the outer city were surrounded by people. Got it!"
Wang Yi'an sat back on the chair, "The person you sent out—are you sure there is an alchemist among the besiegers?"
Master Lu's face became even more ugly, "Yes, not only that, he also saw the leader of the headquarters himself."
Wang Yi'an's heart suddenly sank to the bottom.
Xia Fan!
Was he retaliating for the previous attack
Is this transaction going to end with me losing all my money
He clenched his fists bitterly.
Damn foreigners, didn't you say that the strength of those practitioners is not afraid of a mere local Privy Council? Why was Xia Fan caught in the act
"Master..." However, Master Lu's bad news did not end, "I also heard something..."
Wang Yian gritted his teeth and stared at him, "Say it!"
"Someone is spreading rumors at the scene that Princess Guangping's troops are also involved!"
He froze suddenly, and there was a roar in his mind!
your Highness? Why would she get involved in this kind of thing? The Donghai Gang failed to attack Xia Fan. It was reasonable for Xia Fan to take revenge, but what about the princess? What does this have to do with her!
In an instant, a terrible thought popped into Wang Yi'an's head.
The other party... shouldn't he have discovered the problem with the salt field
No - this is impossible. The peripheral members of the Donghai Gang do not know about this matter at all, and the core members are all from Dongsheng Kingdom. They naturally know how important this matter is, how could they reveal it so easily!
However, the more you worry about something, the faster bad things will happen. A servant ran into the study out of breath and bowed to Wang Yi'an.
"Sir, there is a letter from Princess Guangping, inviting you to a banquet at Fengyang Villa!"