"…" The Murong Lian didn't reply immediately. Instead, he rolled his eyes slowly. Then, without turning his head, he looked at the empty space in front of him and said with a smile, "Then Lord Xi He can just wait to fall out with this prince."
The way he addressed himself had changed. It was obvious that he was using his royal bloodline to suppress Mo Xie.
Mo Xi knew this very well. His face grew colder, and his aura was intimidating. The hall was silent for a while. No one spoke. Then, Mo Xi spoke.
"Remember, Gu Mang has countless secrets and blood debts. But because of your own selfish desires, he died in your hands."
Mo Xi paused. His eyes darkened like ice breaking. "I won't let you have this person. If the Lord Wangshu still has advice for me, I'll wait and see. "
"You —!"
One of them was a hereditary king, while the other was a commander in chief. When their eyes met, it was like a flash of lightning.
The Murong Lian's face was pale and thin. His action of gnashing his teeth was particularly shocking. He gritted his teeth for a long time. Suddenly, he laughed loudly. "Good!"
"…"
"You still dare to say that you won't protect him? You still dare to say that you hate him? " The Murong Lian's eyes flashed like wine. His smile suddenly tightened. "Mo Xi, do you realize it yourself? What you're saying to this prince today is exactly the same as what Gu Mang said to you when you were in dire straits! "
Mo Xi looked down at him calmly. His face was filled with subtle emotions.
"It's impossible for you to hate Gu Mang. If I hand him over to you today, Chong Hua will definitely stir up trouble in the future!"
"…"
Suddenly, Mo Xi smiled.
His smile was so handsome that it was almost extravagant. However, his expression was very cold. "When did Gu Mang protect me? … I only know that he left a scar on my chest that will never disappear. I only remember that he wanted my life. "
"I hate him." Mo Xi finally said calmly. His eyes were as cold as snow. "You said that he once protected me. Sorry, Lord Wangshu. That's all in the past. This marshal doesn't remember clearly. "
He turned and half-knelt in front of the throne. He lowered his eyelashes slightly.
"My Lord, in Chong Hua, no one knows Gu Mang's magic better than I do. Moreover, the Lord Wangshu made mistakes in his supervision, which led to today's disaster. My Lord, please allow me to bring him back to my residence and teach him a lesson. "
Murong Lian abruptly turned around and said harshly, "Mo Mie, why did you try so hard to protect him the moment you came back! What intentions do you have?! "
The Murong Lian and the Murong Lian.
The Lord pondered for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, an imperial guard captain suddenly rushed to the door and hurriedly said a few words to the messenger. The messenger's expression instantly changed. He hurried to the front of the hall. "My Lord, there's an urgent report from the city!"
The Lord almost kicked the table. "This is the second incident tonight. What's the matter?"
The messenger's face was pale. "There was a murder case at the Hongyan Brothel in the north of the city. Almost all the prostitutes and guests in the brothel died. Even, even Lord Yu of the Sky Bearing Terrace …"
"What?!"
All the officials were shocked.
Even the Lord suddenly stood up from the throne. His eyes widened. "Who did it?!"
"I, I don't know … When the imperial guards found out that something was wrong at the Hongyan Brothel, the culprit had already escaped. He even left, left a sentence on the wall —"
"What sentence?!"
The messenger was still shocked. He stammered, "I, I am lonely. I am willing to take a wife."
"I am lonely. I am willing to take a wife?" Jun Shang read it twice and said angrily, "What kind of nonsense is this? Which crazy old bachelor wrote these words and killed a group of people? Did he want to kill people or women?" He paused and became even more irritable. "Are there any other clues?!"
"Not, not at the moment."
The Lord scolded his catchphrase again. "Trash!!"
The Lord leaned on the throne for a while. His eyelashes trembled. He glanced at Mo Xi and the Murong Lian. The Lord's heart suddenly moved. A plan came to his mind.
"Gu Mang's matter will be put aside for now." The Lord slowly sat up and said.
Although the Hongyan Brothel case didn't come at the right time, it could be used. After all, the two people who were fighting in front of the palace to get Gu Mang. One was a blood relative, the other was an important official. It wouldn't be good to reject either one. Now that something like this had happened, it was a good opportunity for him to throw the matter away.
"Such a murder case could actually happen in the imperial capital. This is simply unbearable. I order the two of you to immediately investigate the case. Whoever catches the real culprit first can ask me for the person. "
The Murong Lian said, "From the Lord's words, you want to use Gu Mang as a prize?"
Jun Shang glanced at him: "You guys are fighting like this just for the sake of revenge. What, is he not qualified?"
The Murong Lian smiled. "He is qualified. However, I am doing this for revenge. Lord Xi He doesn't know why. "
Mo Xi: "…"
"That's enough, Murong Lian. Lord Xi He has always been a gentleman. Don't talk nonsense because of a little personal grudge." The Lord impatiently waved his hand to interrupt him. Then he pointed at Gu Mang, who was sleeping in the middle of Shen Nongtai's protective array. He said, "Lord Xi He, I also want to see who is more capable between you and the Murong Lian. If you have no objections, it's settled. "
Mo Xi said, "Yes."
"Then go do it." The Lord turned the string of beads in his hand and said, "Whoever wins will take him away."
Thus, Gu Mang unconsciously became the prize for the two immortals to solve the case.
However, the Murong Lian wanted him to suffer.
Mo Xi wanted him to …
Forget it. He also didn't know what would happen if he really took Gu Mang back to his residence. This wasn't something he should be thinking about at the moment.
In Hongyan Pavilion, Mo Xi was dressed in the black uniform of an imperial guard commander. He stood with his hands behind his back and silently looked at the cursive writing on the wall that was written with blood.
According to the Lord's orders, the medicine cultivators of Shen Nongtai were dealing with the miserable corpses in the pavilion. He and the Murong Lian were arranged to find out the truth and arrest the culprit.
"Forty-one prostitutes died. Thirty-seven guests died, as well as seven workers in the pavilion." A medicine cultivator reported to Mo Xi, "In addition, after checking the list, five prostitutes went missing."
The Murong Lian was also listening at the side. Hearing this, he frowned, "Missing?"
"Yes."
"The culprit killed everyone in the pavilion. Even Lord Yu wasn't spared … Those five prostitutes definitely didn't escape on their own. Most likely, they were taken away by the culprit." The Murong Lian pondered, "Why did the culprit take these five women alone? Did he really capture them to be his concubines? "
Mo Xi came to the blood-stained staircase. Several medicine cultivators were dealing with Elder Yu's corpse. When they saw him, they all bowed and said, "Lord Xi He."
"Mm. How are the traces of magic on Elder Yu's body? "
"Reporting to Lord Xi He, it seems to be the Black Demon Art of the Burning Country, but it's not completely similar. Come here and look."
As a medicine cultivator spoke, he lifted a corner of the cloth covering the corpse and showed it to Mo Xi.
"Lord Yu's eyes were gouged out and his heart was dug out. The flesh around the wound is rotting very quickly. It doesn't look like it was caused by an ordinary weapon. Instead, it looks like …"
Mo Xi frowned and continued, "A malicious ghost eating a person."
"Yes, it does look like the traces of a malicious ghost eating a person."
Mo Xi's gaze swept across Elder Yu's tragic death. Black water was already flowing out of the two sunken eye sockets, as was the hole in his chest. However, malicious ghosts were usually delirious when they killed people. Inscribing something like "This humble one is lonely, sincerely taking a wife" on the wall didn't seem like a malicious ghost's style.
As he pondered, his gaze slowly moved down and stopped at Elder Yu's mangled chest, "Are the other corpses also like this?"
The medicine cultivator flipped through the file and shook his head, "No, only seventeen people had their eyes and hearts gouged out."
"Let me see the list."
The first person to die in such a state was Elder Yu. Mo Xi wasn't familiar with all the names after that, but the four or five names that he was familiar with were indeed the names of young masters of aristocratic families.
"Were all the people whose hearts were gouged out cultivators?"
"I'm not sure yet, but based on the current situation, it should be."
A cultivator's heart was where the spiritual nucleus was located. The eyeballs were the second most abundant spiritual energy after the heart. For malicious ghosts, swallowing these two things was indeed very beneficial to their cultivation.
Mo Xi lowered his head and muttered to himself.
At this moment, an imperial guard suddenly pushed the door open and came in. He ran in such a hurry that his forehead was still sweating in the winter, "Lord Xi He! Wang, Wang, Wang — "
The Murong Lian glanced at him with his peach blossom eyes and laughed, "What woof? Are you mocking our Lord Xi He for being a dog?"
The imperial guard swallowed his saliva, "Lord Wangshu!"
"…" The Murong Lian's smile suddenly disappeared and he said angrily, "You better f * cking breathe properly before you speak!"
The imperial guard hurriedly replied, "Yes! There's new news. After Gu Mang went berserk, the Howling Barrier of Falling Plum Garden was destroyed. Just now, the steward counted the people in the garden and found that, found that one person was missing! "
The Murong Lian was shocked and stepped forward to grab the imperial guard's collar, "What happened? Didn't we check three times before and say that no one escaped during the chaos? Why are you saying that one person is missing now?! "
Before the imperial guard could answer, a group of people on horseback came in the snowy night. It turned out that the steward of Falling Plum Garden, Mother Qin, had been brought here. As soon as she got off the horse, she knelt on the ground and trembled, "Lord Wangshu, this servant deserves to die! This servant deserves to die!! "
The Murong Lian was about to faint from anger, "If you want to die, then die later. Tell me clearly first. Are you blind or stupid? You checked three times before and said that no one was missing. Why are you suddenly saying that one person is missing now?! Hurry up and say it! "
"Lord Wangshu, please forgive me. Wuwuwu, this servant only paid attention to the young female singers in the garden and checked them carefully a few times. They were all still there, but, but this servant actually forgot …"
"You actually forgot what!?!"
Mother Qin wailed, "This servant actually forgot that there was a bedridden cook in the servant's room!"
"Cook?" The Murong Lian was stunned.
Mother Qin cried, "Yes, more than a month ago, you punished Gu Mang by confinement and deducted his meals. He was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, so he sneaked into the small kitchen to steal food. That cook bumped into him at that time and beat him up. As a result, he triggered the sword array and was cut all over his body. "
"…"
"The doctor said that he had to be bedridden for at least two to three months to recuperate, so, so I didn't think that he would do anything strange at first. But who knew that he actually took advantage of the fact that Gu Mang broke the barrier and secretly, secretly …"
"Trash!!"
The Murong Lian flew into a rage and kicked her in the chest, kicking her into the vast snow. He pointed at her and said angrily, "Do you know how much trouble you have caused?!"
All the servants and prostitutes in the Falling Plum Garden were captives who had a deep hatred for the Chong Hua. Although their spirit nuclei would be destroyed before entering the garden, each country had its own exquisite magic. It was said that there was a black sorcerer in the Burning Country who was able to reassemble the shattered spirit nuclei. So outside the Falling Plum Garden, several layers of barriers were set up.
But who knew that Gu Mang would go berserk this time and actually break those barriers. Not only did he break them, but there was also a "bedridden" cook who could suddenly run and take the opportunity to slip away, and the steward didn't even realize it until now! What was even worse was that not long after the cook escaped, there was a bloody case of nearly a hundred deaths in the capital.
If the Lord wanted to investigate this matter, who was the dereliction of duty?
Wasn't it him, the Murong Lian?!
Thinking of this, the Murong Lian's pale face couldn't help but turn red, and he almost felt a little dizzy.
"Gu Mang … Gu Mang …" He shouted angrily, "It's you again!!"
He suddenly turned around and said, "Why aren't you going to check the cook's ancestral records for me!! What's his background?! I want to know everything about his life, including how many women he has slept with in his life. Go quickly!! "
"Yes! Yes! "The maid hurriedly got up and ran away in a panic.
The Murong Lian flung his sleeves and angrily returned to the Hongyan Pavilion. He looked up at the words on the wall, "This humble one is lonely, and is willing to take a wife and concubine."
His left and right personal attendants suddenly couldn't help but come forward and say, "Lord …"
The Murong Lian said unhappily, "What?!"
"This is not right."
The Murong Lian was also confused and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Gu Mang injured the cook a month ago. A month later, Gu Mang went berserk, and the cook took advantage of the chaos to escape …" The attendant's voice softened, and he carefully looked at the Murong Lian, "Don't you think that it's too much of a coincidence?"
The Murong Lian was silent for a while and narrowed his eyes, "You're saying that the cook planned to use Gu Mang a long time ago?"
"Or maybe … Gu Mang wasn't used? Now that something like this has happened, Lord might as well assume the worst. Think about it, could it be that Gu Mang had already discussed with the cook? "
The Murong Lian's heart tightened.
"Which country's captive is the injured cook from?"
The attendant was worried because of this. He bowed his head and answered, "Liao Country."
…!!
He was also a dog thief from Liao Country?!
The Murong Lian's back was soaked in cold sweat. He thought, Gu Mang … Gu Mang was still in the palace!
It was better to be safe than sorry. If he really had some secret plan with the cook, and the two of them cooperated to lure the tiger away from the mountain, then …
The Murong Lian's face suddenly changed. He paused for a while and strode out into the wind and snow, "Summon my Golden Winged Snow Horse! I want to go back to the palace immediately to see Lord!! "
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