Liu Sheng still managed to escape in the end.
Ren Baqian wanted to capture Liu Sheng since the herdsman wouldn't be able to cause much trouble.
However, it wasn't easy to capture a herdsman with such strength.
This was especially so in the middle of the night and in a completely unfamiliar forest.
Qi Ziting chased for almost an hour and couldn't even see Liu Sheng's shadow before returning resentfully.
At this point, all the jade-waisted slaves had been killed.
"Count the casualties and report to me," the empress ordered. Now that Gong Zheng wasn't around, it wasn't as easy to command the winged cavalry as before, which made her feel inconvenient.
In the end, more than ten people died.
There were more than a hundred lightly injured. Fortunately, as long as they didn't lose an arm or a leg, these people wouldn't take it seriously.
Furthermore, they were only able to achieve this result with the help of insecticide.
It was evident that the jade-waisted slaves with a commander were indeed a threat.
Even if they weren't strong individually, tens of thousands of them could still pose a great threat.
Not long after, Lin Qiaole, who had been beaten into a half-beast by the empress, woke up. She was tied up tightly by Ren Baqian and couldn't exert any strength.
Her nails were three inches long, but they couldn't touch any ropes.
It had to be said that Ren Baqian put a lot of effort into this tortoiseshell binding.
No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free. Instead, some parts of her body became even tighter.
"Lin Qiaole?" Ren Baqian looked down at Lin Qiaole, who was constantly struggling on the ground. Her eyes were still vertical, and there was a hidden green glow in them. Her face was full of ferocity.
"White Rabbit Creamy Candy!" Ren Baqian took out a piece of White Rabbit Creamy Candy and threw it into her mouth.
Lin Qiaole swallowed the White Rabbit Creamy Candy and calmed down for a few minutes before struggling violently again.
Ren Baqian threw another piece of milk candy into her mouth, grabbed a handful, and stuffed it into the hands of the guard beside him. He told the guard to give Lin Qiaole a piece every few minutes before going to look for the empress.
"Lin Qiaole hasn't recovered and seems to still be controlled by that herdsman. We have to catch him and find a solution." Ren Baqian found the empress leaning against a tree, sat down beside her, and held her hand.
However, it wouldn't be easy to catch that herdsman. Especially now that all his jade-waisted slaves were dead, it would be even harder to find him.
The empress muttered to herself, "How did you manage to keep those two Heaven-grade weapons?"
"Does Your Majesty mean to bring it back to Earth?" Ren Baqian immediately reacted.
"The herdsman's control over Lin Qiaole can't compare to Teng Yue's control over his Heaven-grade weapon," the empress said.
Just now, Ren Baqian really didn't think of this point, but the empress pointed it out in an instant. This was probably what it meant when one was closely involved in the situation.
"I'll give it a try tomorrow," Ren Baqian said. This method indeed had a high probability of success.
As long as she got rid of the Herders' control, Lin Qiaole would return to her original state.
Then, everyone came to the tree with the face of Justice.
Looking at the tree, no one knew what to do.
"Is he inside the tree?" Ren Baqian asked doubtfully.
Otherwise, why would the tree have the same face as him? However, the tree was only slightly thicker than a person's head. It couldn't fit a person at all.
"Remove the tree layer by layer! I want to see what's inside! "the empress said coldly.
Immediately, someone peeled the tree layer by layer from the bark to the inside, but there was no trace of justice.
"Underground!" Ren Baqian reminded.
Since he wasn't inside the tree, he must be underground.
"Dig it all up!" the empress ordered.
A moment later, everyone looked at the dug up ground and felt a chill in their hearts.
Sure enough, they saw Justice.
He was tightly entangled by the tree roots, and his skin was wrapped around his bones. He was no different from a dead person.
The originally tall and strong man was now almost unrecognizable. If it weren't for the tattoo on his body and the missing finger, no one would be able to recognize him.
Everyone could see that the tree roots weren't only entangling Justice but also piercing into his body, robbing him of everything he had, including his strength, blood, and even his soul.
Everyone finally knew why there was a face on the tree trunk.
This tree had actually absorbed everything about him.
The empress clenched her fists, and her face turned pale. She had never hated a person or a race so much in her life.
Besides Justice's corpse, there were at least seven or eight skeletons tightly entangled by the tree roots. Most of them were aboriginals, and only two or three were from beasts.
This was just one tree.
It was unknown how many aboriginals' souls were buried in this forest.
This wasn't the only forest like this.
At least, this was the third forest that they had seen.
"They deserve to die!" The empress squeezed out these bone-chilling words from between her teeth.
"I will catch them and cut off their flesh inch by inch," Qi Ziting cursed loudly.
Ba Man, Xiong Yue, and the other aboriginals were also furious.
The ones lying here were all aboriginals!
Furthermore, they were being used as nutrients.
Although they had heard that the jade-waisted slaves used the aboriginals as a breeding ground, they didn't expect this forest to be the same.
How many aboriginals would be killed by these jade-waisted slaves in this forest?
The empress walked to Gong Zheng, raised her hand, and pressed it on his forehead. Gong Zheng immediately stopped breathing.
"Destroy this entire forest!" the empress said coldly before turning and walking in a certain direction.
Ren Baqian hurriedly followed behind her. The two of them walked for more than five kilometers before the empress stopped and stood there in silence.
It was obvious that she was in a terrible mood.
Ren Baqian didn't say anything. He found a place beside her to sit down and think about something.
After a long time, the empress let out a long sigh as if a gust of wind had blown up.
With this sigh, the suffocating feeling in the empress's heart was slightly alleviated.
"They deserve to die! They deserve to die! "the empress said hatefully.
"They do deserve to die, but I just thought of something," Ren Baqian said.
"Speak!"
"The three herdsmen that we have seen so far have a forest like this around each of them. Furthermore, the jade-waisted slaves come to these forests at night. This kind of forest should be related to the jade-waisted slaves that the herdsmen graze," Ren Baqian said.
The empress nodded.
"According to Bor, there are more than 30 herdsmen here, so there are more than 30 such forests. Each herdsman has at least a few thousand jade-waisted slaves, and some even have tens of thousands of them. Just these jade-waisted slaves alone require the lives of 300,000 people. Including these forests, I'm afraid that even 500,000 to 600,000 people wouldn't be able to stop them.
With so many people disappearing, why didn't anyone discover this before? Why didn't anyone suspect anything? "
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