The Tingyu Tower was quite peaceful now, but the capital was in a state of unrest all night long. The Yun family had all kinds of changes in succession, which made the whole family jittery and felt an inexplicable pressure.
And the pressure the Yun family felt was undoubtedly transferred to the whole capital, which made the whole capital feel like a storm was coming.
The search lasted all night until the second half of the night. In a corner of an alleyway, a soldier of the Yun Family suddenly screamed like a ghost and scuttled out of a corner, his face panic-stricken.
"Corpse, corpse, I saw a corpse …"
A captain grabbed him and shouted, "What are you screaming for? Speak slowly. "
"In the sewer under the alley, there is a corpse. It seems … seems … "
"What is it?" The captain's face was ashen, and his voice was trembling.
"It seems to be Young Master Chao," the soldier stammered, his face pale. Obviously, he was badly frightened.
"Bullshit! Young Master Chao is fine, how could he … "The captain slapped him and walked over with a few people.
After a while, a corpse was dragged out.
Turning it over, the captain was dumbfounded as if he had been electrocuted. The corpse hadn't had time to decompose, so it was completely bloodless and slightly swollen after being soaked in water. But it was obvious that this was Yun Chao.
The others were also dumbfounded. They didn't expect that Yun Chao, whom the Yun family had been looking for for most of the night, was already dead!
"Quick, quick, report it to the higher-ups."
Yun Chen had already ordered that if there was any news, they should report it to him immediately. Therefore, although this bad news made his subordinates somewhat at a loss, one of his confidants still quickly sent the news to Yun Chen.
Yun Chen was worried about Yun Chao's whereabouts, so he didn't sleep well.
After hearing this bad news, he couldn't believe his ears at all, and grabbed the confidant's chest, "Did you see with your own eyes that it was Chao 'er?"
The confidant's face was pale, and he shook his head, "It was a report from the subordinates, and it was sent here very soon."
"Impossible! Impossible! " Yun Chen was like a madman, constantly shouting, "My Chao 'er's forehead is full, and the ground is round, which is obviously a blessing. He couldn't have died young! You're lying, you're lying! "
Although Yun Chen was usually high and mighty, he didn't seem to panic no matter what happened.
Suddenly receiving this grievous news, his reaction was no different from that of an ordinary person. No matter how much he didn't believe it, his expression and actions had already betrayed him.
Because, under his sleeves, his hands were trembling slightly. His facial muscles were also twitching.
It could be seen that this sudden grievous news had dealt a heavy blow to him.
Hurried footsteps could be heard from outside the mansion. Someone outside cautiously said, "Clan … Clan Elder … has already brought him here."
Humans?
This was a nice way of saying it, but in reality, it meant that they had brought the corpse back.
Yun Chen sucked in a deep breath and said as if encouraging himself, "Impossible, impossible! This old man doesn't believe that my Chao 'er will be fine. You must be mistaken! "
As he spoke, Yun Chen rubbed his face with both hands as if to encourage himself as he walked out.
The corpse was placed in front of the hall.
Everyone who came in lowered their heads. No one dared to look Yun Chen in the eye. When they saw Yun Chen come out, they wanted to find a hole to hide in.
It wasn't that they were ashamed, but they didn't know how to face Yun Chen's thunderous rage. Of course, they knew how important Yun Chao was to the old man.
Yun Chao's death meant that all the old man's previous efforts would be for naught. All the slaves would be wasted.
They couldn't imagine how furious the three clan elders would be.
Although Yun Chen tried to pretend to be calm, his expression was very frightening. He tried to walk step by step to the corpse.
With just a glance, Yun Chen let out a blood-curdling screech and fell to his knees.
"Chao 'er!"
Yun Chen felt a sweetness in his throat, and then he coughed up large mouthfuls of blood. He didn't need to carefully identify his own grandson.
With just one look, he could see clearly that this was his most beloved and most valued grandson! The grandson that he had placed countless hopes on and inherited countless ambitions!
"Chao 'er, who did this? Who did this? I want his life! "Yun Chen wailed.
Yun Chen's other subordinates all felt the same. At the same time, their hearts were filled with hesitation. They felt as if their future had become incomparably bleak. It was as if the light that had always lit up their hearts had suddenly been extinguished. They felt extremely lost and hopeless about their future.
Without Yun Chao, all the efforts of the three clan elders would be for naught. They would no longer be able to compete with the other bloodlines.
Whether it was the throne of the Azure Net Nation or the future head of the clan, the chances of them falling into the hands of the three clan elders were minuscule.
This was originally a matter of shared glory and loss.
Yun Chen caressed the swollen corpse, tears streaming down his face. His withered old hands, a pair of bloody hands that had slaughtered many Jiang Family juniors, were trembling uncontrollably.
Was this retribution?
For the first time, the word "retribution" flashed through the old man's mind.
When he had besieged the Jiang Family, he had killed dozens of Jiang Family juniors, old and young, strong and weak, male and female. He had killed them all.
At the time, his heart had never softened, nor had he felt that there was anything wrong with it.
Only now, when his beloved grandson had been reduced to a corpse, did he understand the meaning of pain and despair!
The old man stood up, threw his head back and howled.
"I don't care who did this, I will get to the bottom of this! I will make you pay ten times the price, a hundred times the price! "
"Yun Zhao!" Yun Chen shouted.
"Your subordinate is here, Clan Elder." Yun Zhao was Yun Chen's younger brother. Although he hadn't become a clan elder, his position in the Yun Family was still quite illustrious.
"I order you to take three thousand men and leave the city tonight to capture Chao 'er's subordinates. You have three days to capture as many as you can. You must bring them back alive! "
Yun Chen slowly recovered some of his rationality from his grief and began to make arrangements.
Yun Zhao, however, was a bit hesitant. If he brought the elites of this branch out now, wouldn't it be disastrous if something happened to the clan?
"Clan Elder, I can take five hundred men. The situation in the capital is complicated right now. I don't feel at ease taking all the elites with me. Moreover, those people had escaped yesterday morning. If they're deliberately hiding, the world is vast, and it won't be easy to catch them. "
Leaving the capital was like searching for a needle in a haystack. Even ordinary Transcendent Mortals might not be able to find them easily.
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