Yan Liqiang came to the wellhead, but did not go up rashly. Instead, he carefully looked at the situation at the exit first.
The iron bed that had just tied the prince was abandoned in the secret passage, and His Royal Highness the Prince was no longer on the bed. In this case, there was no way to get the iron bed up. It was estimated that the accompanying guards and eunuchs had untied His Royal Highness the Prince from the bed, otherwise there was no way to get His Royal Highness the Prince up.
There were two corpses in the well, and the water in the whole well turned red. Judging from the servants of the two corpses, they should be the guards of the Eastern Palace. Looking at the two corpses, Yan Liqiang knew that something must have happened to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his entourage.
There was a faint noise coming from above the wellhead, but the noise was no longer near the wellhead, which meant that there should be no one above the wellhead.
Yan Liqiang jumped out of the well and landed in a courtyard. This courtyard was a dyeing workshop under the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau of the Imperial Capital City, located in the east of the Imperial Capital City. It was specially responsible for dyeing fabrics such as brocade, gauze, gauze, and satin used by the nobles in the palace. What no one knew was that there was a secret escape passage in the well of the dyeing workshop under the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, connecting to the East Palace in the Imperial Capital City.
The strong smell of blood came from this yard. As far as the eye could see, the whole yard was filled with corpses, no less than thirty or forty of them. Most of them were from the entourage of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, a group of eunuchs, and a pair of attendants and guards. Mixed in with those corpses were more than ten corpses. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be the workers in your dyeing workshop. The heads of those dyeing workers were either smashed or chopped off, and from their heads, one could still vaguely see the hideous looks of their faces when they were alive. These workers, like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, were infected with the devil insect eggs.
Yan Liqiang carefully observed the wounds on the bodies on the ground, and his brows suddenly frowned...
Judging from the situation at the scene, it seems that after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his entourage escaped here, they came out of the well and encountered the workers in the dyeing workshop. Then a fight broke out between the two sides. Afterwards, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his entourage lost a lot of people and left. However, after carefully looking at the wounds on the bodies of the guards and eunuchs accompanying His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Yan Liqiang made a new discovery. The wounds on the necks and faces of some of the eunuchs and guards who died here looked like they were bitten by wild beasts. There is no doubt that these people may have died from the workers in the dyeing workshop or even from the mouth of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was untied. However, what puzzled Yan Liqiang was that several of the eunuchs and guards had fatal wounds on their vital parts, which were obviously caused by weapons...
What happened? Was he ambushed by the White Lotus Sect? Or was there a traitor among the people around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
In this court, from the former prime minister to the chief physician, none of them were human. Therefore, it was not surprising at all that there were several traitors around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who turned against him at the critical moment.
There were many corpses in the yard, but there were definitely more people around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Many of them should still be alive. Yan Liqiang rushed out of the yard directly and came to the outside of the yard in a flash.
The dyeing factory was located on the bank of a river east of the Imperial Capital. Close to the dyeing factory were several towns and villages east of the Imperial Capital. As soon as Yan Liqiang left the dyeing factory, he heard a huge commotion coming from the surrounding towns and villages. Countless torches and lanterns lit up in the darkness, like stars in the sky. Countless people held up lanterns and torches, and fled into the distance in a chaotic and noisy manner. Those torches and lanterns merged into a flashing river on the road...
Such a scene cheered up Yan Liqiang. Although those towns and villages were in chaos, this chaos was not caused by the walking dead. Yan Liqiang saw that most of the people running out of those towns and villages were normal people. Some were riding horses, some were riding cows, some were driving carts, and they were fleeing with their families, carrying the elderly and children. This scene was completely different from the situation in the west of the Imperial Capital City where most people in the villages were completely infected by the eggs of the magic worms. In the villages on the east side, many people actually survived by chance. The eggs in the vitality soup these people drank should be the eggs of the magic worm that he had obtained. After discovering that the situation around the Imperial Capital City was not right and the beacon smoke rose in the city, these people instantly made a wise decision - escape!
After experiencing a night of misfortunes and separations, the scene before him, those twinkling lights in the darkness, became the most beautiful picture and glimmers of hope for Yan Liqiang, which made him feel comforted.
This at least let Yan Liqiang know that everything he desperately did tonight was worth it. Even in this imperial city, there are still people who survived the catastrophe because of him and started to flee. As long as they are alive and as long as they can escape, there is hope. It is better than everyone dying here!
There were also obvious bloodstains on the road outside the dyeing workshop, which extended to a bamboo forest not far away. After taking a look at the situation in the distance, Yan Liqiang retracted his gaze and quickly chased after the bloodstains on the road outside the dyeing workshop. After running only a few dozen meters, he found the body of a eunuch beside the Crown Prince in the bamboo forest. The chest of this body was scarlet, with a one-foot-long wound, still caused by a weapon. There were two cut bamboos next to it, and the broken ends were still fresh...
Yan Liqiang continued to chase forward. The bloodstains on the ground, the bodies of people he knew or didn't know that could be seen every ten meters or so, and the messy footprints on the ground in the woods were like signposts, guiding Yan Liqiang in the direction.
After rushing out of the bamboo forest for nearly a thousand meters, Yan Liqiang finally heard the sound of weapons clashing and people roaring in front of him. After rushing out a few hundred meters, he reached the edge of the bamboo forest. A river was crossing the road in front of him. On the riverside, there were two quiet courtyards and a medium-sized dock. The guards and eunuchs who rushed out of the East Palace were surrounded by the dock. Before leaving the palace, there were still a large number of people, at least several hundred people. But at this time, due to a series of changes, there were less than forty people...
The people surrounding them were none other than the White Lotus sect, there were hundreds of them. Lu Tianxing and Situ Fei, who had just had a fight with Yan Liqiang, were leading the White Lotus sect members to surround those who had escaped from the East Palace. As Yan Liqiang had expected, two men dressed as palace guards were standing on the side of the White Lotus sect and were besieging a group of palace guards.
As soon as Yan Liqiang appeared at the edge of the forest, he heard an old eunuch crying out in a shrill voice, "Your Highness the Crown Prince..."
A flash of knife appeared in the field. The prince, who looked like a walking corpse, was running around in the field for some reason, trying to bite someone. Then, Lu Tianxing chopped him from head to toe with a knife, and his whole body was split in two...
“Bah…” Lu Tianxing, who had chopped off the Crown Prince with a knife, spit on the ground and laughed strangely, “He’s already a walking corpse, and he’s still the Crown Prince. If this pile of rotten meat was the Crown Prince, wouldn’t I be your emperor? Hehe, but you also reminded me that chopping off the flesh of the current Crown Prince is at least a merit, and it has set an example for the sons of our Holy Church. Everyone, work harder and chop off all these dog slaves and eunuchs in the court to bury their Crown Prince…”
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(End of this chapter)