Medical Consort vs. Evil Sickish Prince - C323 Tracing the cause of death(4)

Zhou Zhen himself did not enter the manor, and would instruct Xing’er or Rui Zhu to do these things. Wu Zhen could sometimes overhear them discussing about the plague and the parasites. She vaguely knew that there were unknowable changes outside.

Unfortunately, Rui Zhu had been controlled by now, and no one was able to tell her about the earth-shattering changes in the capital. She could only pretend to be crazy day after day, hoping that someone would come and save her, but no one would care about her at all.

That was about all she knew.

Zhou Zhen and Ling Xinning were the real masterminds behind the plague, and their true goal was still unfathomable. However, Helian Xianzi, a strong and weak woman, was willing to let them use her, so she did not think too much about what they were up to. Instead, she thought that they were for her own use.

After all, she was from the Northern Chu and secretly hoped that it would lead to chaos in the East Lake Region. Thus, the Northern Chu would have the opportunity to send troops south and use the plague to get rid of Gu Qing Li.

But why were Zhou Zhen and Ling Xinning in the lead of this chaos? As people of the Northern Chu, did they also hope that the Northern Chu would fall into internal strife? Unless there was some sort of internal strife. Or perhaps, they were not from the Northern Chu?

Xiao Yi Xiu thought that he should send someone to thoroughly investigate the two girls’ backgrounds. Whether Zhou Zhen was really Zhou Zhen, and whether or not Ling Xinning was Ling Yuanzhang’s illegitimate daughter were all things that she could not be sure of.

“Prince, I only want to live. I don’t know what happened outside, nor do I know about the wangfei …”

Seeing Wu Yu’s terrified expression, it was useless blaming her. After all, with her courage and knowledge, it was already difficult for her to survive until now. She did not dare to easily trust anyone, and the people in the mansion had long ignored this madman.

Xiao Yi Xiu waved his hand. “I’ll have someone send you home tomorrow. Are you willing?”

“Thank you, Prince!” Wu Dong’s face was covered with tears as he kowtowed continuously. Even though the dowager might not have good looks once she returned to her home, the Mo King Manor was a dangerous place and she really didn’t want to stay for a moment longer.

Xiao Yi Xiu brought Liu Yanyu to walk around Zhou Zhen’s courtyard. He sent people to search for a few times, but they didn’t find anything out of the ordinary.

Liu Yanyu kept sniffing the flowers as he tried to identify each and every one of them. He picked a few that Xiao Yixiu wanted to see if he could study them properly. From these flowers, one might be able to deduce the habits and nemesis of these Gu worms.

If the news of Mo Wangfei’s death were to spread out, it would definitely shake the capital city. However, Xiao Yi Xiu had completely suppressed this matter and had strictly forbade anyone from revealing this matter. Anyone who went against the orders would die.

No one understood what he meant. Only Liu Yanyu knew that Xiao Yixiu did not believe that Gu Qing Li was no longer in the human realm, or perhaps, he had already denied this matter from the bottom of his heart.

Liu Yanyu wanted to be like him as well, but every time he went down to the secret room and saw the coffin, he couldn’t help but cry and find it difficult to restrain himself.

Xiao Yixiu, on the other hand, stayed by the coffin all day and all night, staring at the woman beneath the crystal. She was so dazed that she felt as if her clothes would flutter, her eyelashes would flutter, and she would open her eyes and smile at him.

Ever since Wu Yu revealed the connection between Helian Xiufeng and the Beijing plague, Xiao Yi Xiu had also sent people from the Dark Pavilion to intercept the Helian siblings, but they were unable to stop them in time. The Northern Chu Mission had already left the East Abyss two days ago, and the Helian siblings travelled day and night on their journey.

What Xiao Yi Xiu didn’t know was that Helian Xiufeng had actually been forcefully taken away by Helian Yu. However, on the night before they left, Helian Xiufeng had received a piece of news.

Zhou Zhen and Helian Peng did not need to meet frequently because their most commonly used method of communication was through dreams.

For those who had been afflicted with the Ghost Bee Gu, their dreams would be manipulated. Zhou Zhen had entrusted her with one matter in her dreams, and told her to bring him and Little Chan out of the capital.

Helian Xiufeng had initially been unwilling to help, but Zhou Zhen had promised her that as long as she could help her this time around, she would be able to forever remove the Ghost Bee Gu from her dreams.

During her days of familiarity with Zhou, Helian Zhenren had felt that Zhou Zhen was humble and subservient to him, even giving him advice. However, she had always felt uncomfortable controlling her dreams. As time passed, the feeling of Zhou Zhen casually appearing in the dreamland was akin to a nightmare, causing Helian Shuang to reject it in his heart. He had always wanted to get rid of this feeling.

He wanted to be escorted out of the capital by Helian Yu Qiang, and there was also the matter of helping out, but it was not difficult at all. While the carriage was loading the goods, she had hidden Zhou Zhen and Little Chan inside the carriage.

For the past few days, Helian Yu had been feeling uneasy. He didn’t pay much attention to Helian Xianzi’s actions. He only felt that she had brought along a little too many Dongyuan specialties and that there were actually two large carriages loaded full of them. Looking at the carriages’ eating marks, it was hard to tell how many things he had bought.

By this time, the plague had almost subsided and the danger to the capital had been averted. They successfully left the inner city and were not interrogated on their way out.

Helian Yu did not ride a horse as usual, but sat inside the carriage instead. Following the rhythm of the carriage’s sway, the soul pearl in his hand also lightly swayed, and within the transparent soul pearl, the ethereal ancient characters seemed to ripple within the waves. When Helian Yu looked closer, he faintly felt that these characters seemed to have come to life.

“State Grandmaster, you said that the Soul Eating Pearl … Can it really hide her soul? ” Helian Yu carefully rotated the Soul Absorbing Pearl.

Helian divine ability sat across him with his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep. He clearly heard it, but he pretended not to hear it and did not answer.

Helian Yu was a little angry. He gritted his teeth and said, “Divine ability Helian, don’t put on airs. I’m not trying to …”

The Helian Divine Technique suddenly opened his eyes and changed his usual kind expression as he said coldly, “Crown Prince, you still have to believe in me. You have to borrow my power. Without me, even if I had the Soul Eating Pearl, I’d still be a piece of trash.”

Helian Yu’s sinister gaze swept across his face. Anger flowed in his eyes; it was clear that he had been touched in the wrong places.

With Helian Yu’s unparalleled personality, how could he tolerate the arrogance of others? But when his gaze fell upon the wisps of words floating within the Soul Eating Pearl, he forced himself to endure it and took a deep breath. His expression became heavy, from the night before the storm, and he slowly gathered the Soul Eating Pearl into his sleeve.

He once more closed his eyes. It was as if in this madman’s heart, not only was the Northern Chu Emperor not a problem, the crown prince was nothing at all.

In fact, only Helian Divine Technique himself understood. He was just overly nervous in his heart, so he pretended to be confident and used an arrogant attitude to avoid Helian Yu’s questioning.