"..." Murong Lian didn't answer immediately, first rolled his eyes slowly, then without turning his head, he looked at the empty space in front of him and smiled, "Then Xihe-Jun will wait to turn his face with this king."
The self-proclaimed words have changed, this is obviously to lift the shelf of royal blood to suppress Mo Xi.
Mo Xi's heart is clear, his face is getting colder, and his temperament is daunting. There was silence in the hall for a while, no one spoke, and then Mo Xi spoke.
"Remember, Gu Mang bears countless secrets and blood debts, but because of your own selfish desires, an accident happened in your hands."
Mo Xi paused, his eyes sank, like ice shattering, "I won't let you go with this person. If Wang Shujun still has any advice, I'll wait and see."
"you!"
One of these two is the hereditary king and the other is the commander-in-chief of the army.
Murong Lian's face was pale and thin, and the movement of gnashing his teeth reflected on his skin was particularly shocking. He gritted his teeth for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Okay!"
"… "
"How dare you say that you won't protect him? How dare you say that you hate him?" Murong Lian's eyes flashed like poison, her smile tightened suddenly, "Mo Xi, did you realize it yourself? What this king said is exactly the same as what Gu Mang said when you were down and out and Gu Mang stood in front of you to protect you!"
Mo Xi looked down at him calmly, with some subtle emotions on his face.
"It's impossible for you to hate Gu Mang at all. If I hand him over to you today, he will definitely cause a major incident in the future!"
"… "
Suddenly, Mo Xi also laughed.
His smile was so handsome that it was almost extravagant, but his expression was cold: "What did Gu Mang protect me?... I only know that he left a scar on my chest that will never disappear, and I only remember that he wanted to take my life. ."
"I hate him." Mo Xi finally said calmly, his eyes like a cold snow falling, "You said he used to protect me, I'm sorry, Wang Shujun, that's all a thing of the past. Not clear."
He turned around, knelt down halfway toward the throne, and lowered his eyelashes slightly.
"Your Majesty, in Chonghua, there is no one who understands Gu Mang's magic better than me. In addition, if there is a mistake in Wang Shu's supervision, there will be today's disaster. Please, Your Majesty, allow me to detain him and return to the palace, and strictly monitor him."
Murong Lian turned around abruptly, and said sternly, "Mo Xi, why did you go so far as to protect him when you came back! What the hell do you have in mind!"
Mo Xi ignored Murong Lian.
Your Majesty thought for a while, and was about to speak, when a commander of the forbidden army ran outside the door and hurriedly said a few words to the messenger. Urgent report!"
The king almost kicked the case a few times: "The second time tonight, what's the matter?"
The waiter said with a white face: "There was a murder case in the Hongyan Tower in the north of the city. Almost all the prostitutes and guests in the building died, even, even Master Yu of Chengtiantai..."
"what?!"
All the ministers were shocked when they heard this.
Even Jun Shang suddenly got up from the throne and widened his eyes, "Who did it!!"
"No, I don't know... When the forbidden army found out that the situation in Hongyanlou was wrong, the perpetrator had already fled, and left a sentence on the wall—"
"What?!"
The waiter was still shocked, but he stammered and replied: "I, I am lonely, I sincerely accept my wife and concubines."
"I'm lonely, sincere you accept your wife and concubine?" Your Majesty read it twice, and said angrily, "What a mess, what kind of crazy old bachelor wrote such a thing, and killed a group of people, is he trying to kill or a woman? ?" After a pause, he became even more irritable, "Are there any other clues?!"
"For now, not yet."
Jun Shang scolded his catchphrase again: "Trash!!"
Leaning on the throne for a while, his eyelashes trembled, and when he caught sight of Mo Xi and Murong Lian, His Majesty suddenly moved in his heart, thinking about it.
"Gu Mang's affairs are on hold for now." Jun Shang slowly sat up and said.
Although the Hongyanlou case came at a wrong time, it could indeed be used. After all, the two people in front of the hall who competed against Gu Mang, one was a blood relative and the other was a high-ranking official, and it would be bad to reject either, but this kind of thing happened right now, which just happened to make him throw the stall out.
"It's unbearable that the imperial capital of Wangcheng could have such a bloody crime. I ordered the two of you to go to investigate the case immediately. Whoever catches the real murderer first will ask the person."
Murong Lian said, "Listen to what Your Majesty is saying, do you want to use Gu Mang as a lucky draw?"
Jun Shang glanced at him: "You guys are fighting like this to get revenge, why, is he not qualified?"
Murong Lian smiled and said, "It's good enough. But I'm here for revenge, Xi He Jun doesn't know why."
Mo Xi: "..."
"Okay, Murong Lian, Xi and Jun have always been a gentleman, don't talk about it for some personal vendetta." Jun Shang waved his hand impatiently to interrupt him, and then pointed to Gu Mang, who was sleeping in the middle of the Shennongtai guards. He said, "Xi He-Jun, Gu also wants to see who is more capable between you and Murong Lian. If you have no opinion, it will be settled as such."
Mo Xi said, "Yes."
"Then let's do it." Jun Shang turned the beads in his hand and said, "Whoever wins will take him away."
As a result, Gu Mang was in a daze and became the lucky winner of the two gods in solving the case.
But Murong Lian wanted the pain.
Mo Xi wants it…
Forget it, he didn't know if he really wanted Gu Mang back to the mansion, what would happen next. This wasn't something he should be thinking about at the moment.
Inside the Hongyan Building, Mo Xi, dressed in black as the commander of the Imperial Guard, stood with his hands behind his back, silently looking at the cursive script written on the wall with blood.
According to the order of the emperor, the medicine repairers of Shennongtai are disposing of the corpses in the building. And he and Murong Lian were arranged to find out the truth and arrest the murderer.
"Forty-one prostitutes died, thirty-seven guests died, and seven servants in the building." A Yao Xiu reported to Mo Xi, "In addition, after checking the directory, five prostitutes are still missing. ."
Murong Lian was also listening next to him, and frowned upon hearing this, "Missing?"
"Yes."
"Killing the whole building, even Master Yu was not spared... Those five prostitutes will not escape by themselves, most of them were taken away by the murderer." Murong Lian pondered, "The murderer took it away alone. What are these five women doing? Are they really caught as wives and concubines?"
Mo Xi came to the blood-stained stairs, and there were several medicine practitioners dealing with Elder Yu's corpse. Seeing him, they all saluted, "Xi He-Jun."
"Hmm. What are the traces of spells on Elder Yu's body?"
"Reporting to Xi and Jun, it seems to be the black magic art of Liao Kingdom, but it is not completely similar, you come here."
A Yao Xiu said, and lifted the corner of the shroud to show Mo Xi.
"Master Yu's eyes were taken out, and his heart was also dug out. The flesh and blood of the sore rotted very quickly. It didn't look like it was injured by an ordinary weapon, but it looked like..."
Mo Xi frowned and continued, "The devil eats people."
"Yes, it really looks like the trace of a ghost eating people."
Mo Xi glanced at the appearance of Elder Yu's tragic death. Black water had begun to flow from the sunken holes in his eyes, as was the hole in his chest. But Li Gui kills people often in confusion, and writing on the wall "I am lonely, I sincerely accept my wife and concubines" is not like Li Gui's style.
He pondered, his eyes slowly moved down, and stopped on Elder Yu's bloody chest: "Do other people's corpses like this?"
Yao Xiu turned over the case, shook his head and said, "No, only seventeen people have their eyes and hearts gouged out."
"I'll see the roster."
The first one who died like this was Elder Yu. The names behind Mo Xi were not familiar to all of them, but the four or five familiar ones were indeed the names of the young sons of aristocratic families.
"Are all the cultivators whose hearts were dug up?"
"Not sure yet, but as things stand, it should be."
The cultivator's heart is where the spiritual core is located, and the eyeball is second only to the heart where the spiritual energy is the most abundant. For Specter Ghosts, swallowing these two things is indeed of great benefit to their cultivation.
Mo Xi lowered his head and pondered.
At this moment, an imperial guard suddenly pushed the door and came in. He ran in a hurry, sweating on his forehead in winter: "Xihe-Jun! Look, look, look—"
Murong Lian glanced at her peach blossom eyes, and smiled amusingly, "Wow, what are you, are you mocking us, Xihe-jun, is a dog?"
The imperial guard swallowed his saliva: "Wang Shujun!"
"..." Murong Lian lost her smile and said angrily, "Give me a fucking breath before talking!"
The guard hurriedly responded, "Yes! There is new news. After Gu Mang ran away, the howling barrier in Luomei Bieyuan was destroyed. Just now, the steward counted the number of people in the garden, and found that there was one person missing!"
Murong Lian was startled, she stepped forward and grabbed the guard's collar: "What's going on? Didn't you check it three times before, saying that no one fled while the chaos was going on? Why are you talking less now? !"
The forbidden army hadn't answered yet, and a horse-riding team was in a hurry in the snowy night. As soon as she got off the horse, she threw herself on the ground, and said shyly: "Wang Shu-Jun, slaves should be damned! slaves should be damned!!"
Murong Lian was almost dizzy: "If you want to die and then die later, tell me first, whether you are blind or stupid, I said three times before and said that there are not many people, why are you suddenly saying less now? One! Say it!"
"I hope Shu-jun forgives my sins - woohoo, the slaves only paid attention to the little maids and singers in the garden before, and they carefully closed them several times. It is true that they are all honestly there, but, but the slaves forgot..."
"What did you forget!?!"
The mother-in-law wailed, "My servant forgot that there is a bedridden cook in the clerk's room!"
"Cook?" Murong Lian was taken aback.
Mother Qin cried: "Yeah, more than a month ago, you punished Gu Mang for confinement and thought about it, and he was too hungry to eat. He was so hungry that he went to the small kitchen to steal food. That cook ran into him at that time, right? He attacked and scolded him, but he triggered the sword formation and was slashed all over his body."
"… "
"The doctor said that the wound will be kept in bed for at least three or two months, so, so I didn't expect him to do anything wrong at first, but who knows, he actually took advantage of Gu Mang to break the barrier, Secretly, secretly…”
"waste!!"
Murong Lian was furious, kicked her in the chest, kicked her in the vast snow, pointed at her and said angrily, "Do you know how much trouble you have caused?!"
All the servants and little prostitutes in Luomei Bieyuan are all prisoners who have a deep hatred with Chonghua. Although they will be destroyed before entering the garden, the magic of each country has its own subtlety. I heard that Liao Kingdom used to have one. A black magician, able to reunite the shattered spiritual core. Therefore, outside the Fallen Plum Garden, several barrier formations were laid on top of each other.
But who would have guessed that Gu Mang's rampage this time would actually break all those barriers, and that's fine. There was still a "bedridden" cook who was suddenly able to run and move, and took the opportunity to slip away. find! What's worse, not long after the cook escaped, there was a bloody murder case involving nearly a hundred people in the imperial capital—
If this matter is calculated, whose dereliction of duty is it
Not him Murong Lian!
Thinking of this, Murong Lian's pale face couldn't help but blushed, and she was almost dizzy.
"Gu Mang... Gu Mang..." he shouted angrily, "It's another good thing you did!!"
He turned his head suddenly: "Why don't you go and investigate the cook's ancestry file for me!! What's the origin! This year, Gui Geng, I know how many women he's had in his life, and he's gone. !!"
"Yes! Yes!" The mother-in-law hurriedly staggered to get up, and hurriedly got on her horse and ran away.
Murong Lian slapped her sleeves and returned to the Hongyan Building in a hurry and anger. She raised her head and stared at the sentence on the wall, "I am lonely, I sincerely accept my wife and concubine."
The followers on the left and right suddenly couldn't help but make a premise: "My lord..."
Murong Lian said angrily, "What are you doing?!"
"That's not right."
Murong Lian was also confused and stunned: "What's wrong?"
"Gu Mang injured this cook a month ago, and a month later Gu Mang ran wild, and the cook fled..." The attendant's voice softened, and he gave Murong Lian a cautious look, "Don't you think it's a coincidence? ?"
Murong Lian was silent for a while, then narrowed her eyes: "You said that the cook had already figured it out and wanted to use Gu Mang?"
"Or maybe... Gu Mang wasn't being used? Now that something like this has happened, it's better for the Lord to make the worst guess. Do you think that Gu Mang had discussed it with the cook long ago?"
Murong Lian's heart tightened.
"Which country's prisoner is that wounded cook?"
The attendant was worried because of this, and he lowered his head and replied, "Liao Guo."
... ! !
Is he also a dog thief of the Liao Kingdom? !
Murong Lian was sweating coldly behind his back, he thought, Gu Mang... Gu Mang is still in the palace at the moment!
Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if he really had some unknown conspiracy with the cook, and the two echoed each other and moved the tiger away from the mountain, then...
Murong Lian's expression changed suddenly, and after a while, he strode outside into the snowstorm: "Call my golden-winged snow horse! I want to go back to the palace to see your majesty immediately!!"