Chapter Eighty-Four: The Prince Is Missing!

"In Xia Yanqi, who is Your Excellency?" The big man in the black gold chain mail looked at the strange young man who appeared in front of him, his eyes were slightly sharp, he took a step forward, and asked in a deep voice.

"Brother Yan, this is the attendant of the East Palace. ”

A deep voice came, and behind the young man, another tall figure in armor walked in, it was Han Li, he looked at Yan Qi, bowed his head slightly, and said, obviously the two knew each other.

"Brother Han!"

When Yan Qi saw Han Li, he was shocked, and immediately his face became ugly, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he lowered his head and fell silent.

"What's the matter? What about His Royal Highness the Prince? I'm here to pick him up. The young man who came in first spoke.

The crowd was silent, silent, and no one answered his questions.

Seeing this scene, the young man's eyes sank slightly, he took out the prince's golden order, looked at Yan Qi with a cold expression, and said: "General Yan, under Li Yiqi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, is a student in the East Palace, dare to ask where my Royal Highness is?"

His dark eyes swept over the many forbidden army generals in the camp, and his eyelids couldn't help but jump slightly, no one answered his question at the moment, and the atmosphere in the camp was a little depressing, and many generals were like facing a great enemy, with a floating aura around them, and their faces were quite ugly.

When Yan Qi saw the crown prince Jin Ling, his heart was suddenly shocked, he gritted his teeth, knowing that he couldn't hide it, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "His Royal Highness the prince, he ...... He...... He's missing. ”

......

Half an hour ago.

In the hunting garden, in a valley, a group of lightly armed cavalry is slowly moving forward with torches, led by a handsome young man in a black robe, the young man gasped slightly, looking at the dark dense forest in front of him, his eyes flashed with persistence.

"Your Highness, the mountains here are high and dense, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, there are many passes, gates, let's not go forward. Beside the young man in the robe, a black-faced man like an iron tower had a solemn face, and he reminded in a low voice while looking around vigilantly.

"No, it's hard to find the trace of the demon, and this palace will catch it personally. Xia Qingmei's eyes flashed with determination, and her expression was extremely serious.

"Your Royal Highness......" Dong Xiong had a bitter face, he was not good at speaking, and he didn't know how to persuade Xia Qing, who was already determined to capture the demon python.

"You don't have to persuade this palace anymore, didn't the nasty ghost say that this palace needs to change, so let's start here. Xia Qing said with a solemn expression.

"This ...... Alas, do we have to wait for the next team......

Dong Xiong scratched his head, when he was saying words in his heart, his brows suddenly wrinkled, I don't know why, he suddenly felt that something was wrong around him, as if he felt that there was something strange, he looked around the team, and found that the surrounding dense forest was quiet, and there was nothing unusual.

"Someone!

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the ranks, and then an earth-shattering roar came—

"Roar!"

The earthquake trembled, and a huge rock in the mountains suddenly roared and the wind rolled down from between the cliffs, and smashed towards the team, Dong Xiong gasped and shouted at the team behind him: "Disperse!"

The crowd was chaotic, the horses were frightened, however, a wave of unsettled waves rose again.

"Boom-"

Another boulder rolled down, all the way in the direction of Dong Xiong and Xia Qing, the team along the way was smashed into meat foam by this thousand-pound boulder, countless broken corpses splashed into the air, Dong Xiong's heart was cold, the essence in the tiger's eyes skyrocketed, his eyes were round, his big hand was patted, and his burly body took Xia Qing into the air and rose several feet high, after they left, the two war horses that were still in place suddenly couldn't even make a wail, and were instantly crushed into minced meat.

"Roar!"

Another roar like a beast came, and everyone's eyes suddenly swept towards the top of the mountain, only to see that above their heads, in the direction of the huge rock rolling, in a dark dense forest, there was a pair of blood-colored eyes without any human emotion, flashing a strange red light in the darkness.

"This ...... What is this?"

The people who were targeted by this pair of blood-colored eyes all felt a chill in their hearts.

"Red Blood Demon Python!"

Dong Xiong's pupils shrank suddenly, this red-blooded demon python was the demon beast they were going to capture on this trip.

"What kind of monster is this!" Xia Qing was also taken aback by the scene in front of her, she forcibly endured the timidity in her heart, gritted her teeth and pointed at the pair of blood-colored eyes on the mountain, and shouted: "General, catch it!"

"Come on, rush forward!"

"The monster is there, grab it!"

“......”

The convulsions in the valley also aroused the vigilance of the surrounding soldiers, and the remaining seventy or so people instantly formed an encirclement and surrounded the mountain.

At this moment, everyone heard the sound of a 'click' tree being broken, and a huge black shadow was squirming and swooping down from the mountain.

"Be careful!"

"It washed down!"

"The stone was thrown by it!"

“......”

In front of him was an elite East Palace guard, who had the cultivation of the ninth order of the Yuan Qi Realm, and he watched a hideous and terrifying huge python head pounce towards him, and with a horizontal look in his heart, he raised his knife and slashed towards the python head.

It was only when he was close to his eyes that the guard saw the full picture of the demon beast.

It is a ten-zhang long demon python, the demon python has a dark red body, a scarlet letter in its mouth, the cold scale armor reflects an indestructible luster, the huge body of the demon python is squirming, and in addition to the blood-colored eyes flashing with a palpitating fierce light, there is actually a trace of 'spiritual wisdom' belonging to human beings.

......

"That's how it happened, we found General Dong, his armor was shattered, he was seriously injured, and he fainted, but we didn't find His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the demon python. Yan Qi said in a deep voice.

"Have you followed the trails?"

A hoarse voice came, and everyone heard the voice, only to see Li Yiqi with his head down, his long black hair hanging down, covering his eyelids, and he couldn't see the expression on the upper half of his face clearly, but judging from the grin at the corner of his mouth, the expression should be a little hideous.

"I looked for it, and I came to a cliff...... It's gone. The general, who was on his knees, bowed his head and replied tremblingly.

"How so!"

Li Yiqi's eyes were dull at this time, and his mind was blank, all of which were scenes of the prince's death in the mouth of the demon python, under the description of General Yan Qi, the scene was replayed in his mind over and over again like a slideshow, emphasizing a fact - the prince was dead.

What should I do now, losing the crown prince, the Li family no longer has the capital to participate in the battle for the prince, how can the Li family fight against those opponents who covet the power of the Li family?

In the face of the anger from the Xia Emperor and the Empress, how should Li bear it?

How could he explain why when the prince went into the eastern suburbs alone with a hundred light horses, he did not stop him, as an attendant?

There is a way for the lord to humiliate the ministers to death, but the masters are dead, do the ministers still have a way to live?

......

Questions lingered in Li Yiqi's heart, the more he thought about it, the more cold he felt in his heart, and at this moment, a strong unwillingness filled his heart.

"I can't give up, I can't give up, the prince may not be dead yet!"

Li Yiqi suddenly came back to his senses, his narrow eyes narrowed slightly, his dark eyes flashed with extraordinary calmness, looked at Yan Qi, and said solemnly: "General Yan." ”

"The end will be. ”

Yan Qi's body trembled, and he hurriedly responded, seeing Jin Lingru seeing the prince, in front of Li Yiqi, Yan Qi didn't dare to hold it up at all.

"Are you sure you haven't found His Highness's body yet?" Li Yiqi's eyes flickered, and he asked extremely calmly.

"This ...... Yes, we have searched all the way around, except for the wreckage of the guards all over the ground, there is no His Highness......" Yan Qi replied in a dry voice.

"What about under the cliff? Didn't you say that the trail disappeared when it reached the edge of the cliff?" asked Li Yiqi with some expectation.

"This ...... This lord, it is pitch black under the cliff, a hundred feet deep, and the sky is dark at this moment, and I can't go down. A man who looked like a lieutenant stepped forward and said with a bitter face, he was also one of the people who participated in the search and rescue before.

"If you can't go, won't you go? How many heads do you have!ah!" Li Yiqi heard this, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and suddenly anger rose in his heart, and he roared angrily at the lieutenant general.

A sudden roar startled everyone present, even Li Yiqi himself didn't expect him to have such an excited moment, he gasped for breath in his mouth, his eyes were calm, he looked at Yan Qi, and asked in a condensed voice: "General Yan, how many forbidden troops have come here to search the mountain?"

"A battalion. Yan Qi replied in a deep voice.

"It's only 10,000 people? With such a large mountain range, when will 10,000 people be searched?" Li Yiqi gritted his teeth in his heart, he saw the fires all over the mountains on the way here, and thought that the forbidden army would move at least a third of the way, not to mention that it had moved by at least a third, but he didn't expect that the 200,000 dragoon forbidden army would only send 10,000 people to search the mountain.

However, this is also Li Yiqi's assumption, 200,000 forbidden troops sound like a lot, but the main responsibility of the forbidden army is to protect the safety of the capital, for places outside the capital, the forbidden army rarely sets foot in it, if it is not for this monster beast escaped from the hands of the forbidden army, I am afraid it will be thrown to the generals stationed abroad to solve.

"Brother Yan, I have a question. ”

Beside Li Yiqi, Han Li, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, he looked at Yan Qi and asked very seriously, "Brother Yan, what is the strength of that demon python, why can't even Dong Xiong kill it." ”

"This ......" Yan Qi was silent for a while, and then said with an ugly face: "When this beast was captured, it was just a cultivator of the Gang Qi Realm, and it was seriously injured, and its strength fell to the Qi Sea Realm. ”

"And now?" Han Li frowned and asked, he and Dong Xiong had been partners all year round, knowing each other's strength, both of them were martial arts powerhouses in the Gangyuan Realm, fierce generals in the Great Xia Army, and they were able to split mountains and break mountains with all their strength, and there was no reason why they would be seriously injured in the face of a demon beast whose strength had fallen to the Qi Sea Realm.

"Now...... That beast was afraid that it had already broken through the Gangyuan Realm and was close to the second step of the martial arts. Yan Qi said with a gloomy face.

"What, how could this be!" Han Li was taken aback when he heard this.

"Alas! It's also to blame us, we were going to extract the beast's essence blood for alchemy last night, and those alchemists in the court were crazy, not to mention that the dying demon python's essence and blood were lost, it was not easy to make alchemy, and the essence and blood needed to be replenished, so I fed a lot of elixir to the beast to heal his wounds, but the beast was not low, and he actually took the opportunity to sweep away the elixir to be alchemy, and also devoured several alchemists and forbidden soldiers who guarded it. ”

Yan Qi gritted his teeth, and the green tendons on his knotted thick arms burst out, such a mistake actually happened to the forbidden army, which has always been known for its strict discipline, and the consequences of this mistake are too serious.

"I'll talk about that later. ”

An indifferent voice interrupted the conversation between the two, Li Yiqi looked at Yan Qi, and said calmly: "General Yan, I hope you can realize how serious this matter is, let go of the demon beast matter first, now I want you to immediately arrange all the people and horses to search for the traces of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince along the edge of the cliff, and at the same time send people to the capital to ask for help, and then transfer as many people as possible, the forbidden army will not come for a while, so transfer the Nine Cities Soldiers and Horses, the patrol battalion, in short, mobilize all the people you can find now." ”

"The last will understand. ”

Yan Qi's expression was solemn, and he looked back at the rest of the people in the camp, and without him opening his mouth, these several generals of the forbidden army had already walked out quickly.

"Maybe I'll have to ask the general to deal with that beast himself. Yan Qi secretly said in his heart, the demon beasts that were close to the second step of the martial arts were not something they could deal with.