Chapter 172: The Ghost in the Bear
"But is Miss Neon also hurt?" After Xiong Lie chatted with Yuan Jue for a while, his eyes noticed the wound on my arm wrapped in strips of cloth, and he expressed his confusion in surprise.
"A little injury, it's not in the way." I glanced at the wound and explained. As soon as I entered the tent after I came back last night, Gao Yong brought Jialan and talked with Jialan a lot, so much so that I had forgotten about the injury at all, even the strip of cloth wrapped around my arm.
Xiong Lie hesitated for a moment, and then his eyes fell on the place where Yuan Jue's clothes were torn off, and there was an obvious smile on his mouth. "Since you're with the second son, it's better to be more careful."
"However," Yuan Jue interrupted Xiong Lie's meaning, he was still pondering and slowly said the next words, "Could the person who attacked Ni Yin last night have something to do with the ghosts in Qu Xiong?" โ
Yuan Jue said, looking sideways at me.
As soon as he said that, I remembered something. "When I went to the barracks that day, I always felt as if someone was following me. I didn't see the man, though, and I'm even more unsure if he was the one who attacked me last night. โ
"Did you see the man who attacked you last night?" Yuan Jue had only heard me say that the person suddenly attacked the maple forest, and then disappeared, he didn't know what I saw, and listening to my words made him frown suddenly.
"I didn't see his face." "But when he led me out, he was standing outside my tent, and the candles of the camp reflected his silhouette on my tent, and I could see his figure and the way he was running, and I didn't think he was a man...... Or maybe he's a woman. โ
"Woman?!" Xiong Lie was shocked.
I didn't expect him to react like this, and then turned to Yuan Jue for help, Yuan Jue was slightly silent for a while, and then glanced at Xiong Lie before calmly explaining, "Because what we suspected before was a man." โ
"In that case, do you really suspect someone?" What's going on?! Is it a man they suspect? Could it be that they were already suspicious of someone in the camp?
But I couldn't have been wrong last night, what I saw was either a creature with a refined cultivation, or a woman, with a slender waist and a light body, no matter how you look at it, it can't be a man. But why did he stand outside my tent, reflecting the candle behind him, and shining his shadow on my tent? Did he deliberately want me to misunderstand? I can't see his figure, and mistakenly think that there is a tall and strong man standing outside the tent?
"It seems that this matter is getting more and more interesting." Yuan Jue sighed.
I came out of the big tent first, in order to avoid people's eyes, Yuan Jue will stay in the big tent for the time being, so that the people in the big camp will mistakenly think that Xiong Lie was assassinated and seriously injured. I had just stood outside the tent when a crowd gathered around me.
"Niyin girl, why didn't the second son come out with you?" Vice General Qiao still cared about Yuan Jue, and seeing that Yuan Jue did not come out with me, he was very worried.
Before I could answer, I heard Gao Yong ask again, "Miss Niyin, has this Qu Bear King really been assassinated?" โ
Then a crowd of people came up and asked that, and I was so big at the end of the day that they didn't give me time to answer. I had to push everyone back a bit, and said with the answer I had discussed with Yuan Jue Xiong Lie in the big tent before, "You asked me, I don't know." After I entered, I couldn't get along at all, and the doctors in the Quxiong tribe were very busy in front of the king, I think the king should have really been assassinated, otherwise how could he be pretending to lie motionless on the collapse. โ
It was Yuan Jue who instructed me to say this no matter who asked about it after the big tent.
Xiong Lie's plan, Xu just took advantage of the inner ghost to know that Xiong Lie would not set a trap at the cost of the army's heart. They didn't tell me who they were suspecting, but I could feel from Yuan Jue's demeanor that they had identified a certain man in the camp, and since I said it was a woman, Yuan Jue would never doubt the truth of my words, I am afraid that they had already realized that there was more than one ghost in the camp.
Through the crowd that surrounded the inquiring crowd, I saw Jialan standing aside, unimpressed by the qiฤ. But it was the aster outside the crowd that caught my attention, and she stood outside the crowd with the handmaidens who were close to her, worried.
Hey, these men are too unscrupulous to play conspiracy, in order not to startle the snake, they don't even tell the people around them, the guards of the big tent refuse to let Aster enter the tent to ask about Xiong Lie's condition, Aster can only stand outside the tent and wait for the news, looking in a trance.
Especially after listening to my words just now, Aster lowered her head slightly and looked sad. Then she looked up again, but when she noticed that I had noticed her, Aster turned and was carried by the maid towards her tent.
"Lady Aster." I pushed everyone away and chased after her, "You also came to see the king's condition." โ
When Aster was first stopped by me, she seemed a little panicked, and she stopped and explained calmly, "Yes, I heard this morning that the king was stabbed by the assassins who broke into the camp, and I really couldn't rest assured, so I wanted to come and see how the king was doing." But the guards stopped me in front of the tent, and they said that the king was in a critical condition and that no one was allowed to enter the tent. โ
"Why is this so, even you can't stop you." Although I understand their intentions, I can't understand their intentions to stop even the aster. "But why did you look a little nervous when I stopped you?"
"Oh, maybe I'm worried about the king's condition, I didn't come back to my senses for a while, and I was a little frightened when I heard the girl's voice." Aster is much more bland now, but when she speaks, her eyes are still looking at the big tent.
"I'm sorry, I just saw you suddenly, that's why I called you." I'm a little sorry, I didn't expect to scare her, "It's just, why don't they even let you in, aren't you the king's wife?" โ
Aster's smile was a little bitter, "Aster is just the king's side wife, her status is low, even the maids around the king are higher than Aster's status, this was the case in the past, and the guards naturally don't regard Aster as a lady." โ
"It's too bullying." I couldn't get angry, "I'm going to reason with them." โ
"No, Niyin girl." Aster grabbed me.
"Neon Girl." Unexpectedly, Gao Yong suddenly came over and stood in front of us, and he looked at the aster on the side.
Aster felt his gaze, so she raised her head to look at him, but she didn't expect her eyes to meet Gao Yong's gaze, and Aster quickly lowered her head, "Niyin girl, since you still have something to do, then Aster will retire first." โ
I didn't expect that she just made a little contact with Gao Yong's eyes, and she was already shy to become this appearance, maybe it was the cultivation of the lady of the king's side, seeing this scene, I really didn't want to keep her anymore, so I could only watch her leave, and then asked Gao Yong, "Is there something wrong?" โ
"Oh, that's right, Miss Niyin, I want to ask you, is the second son's lunch kept in the big tent of King Quxiong?" Gao Yong said.
"Huh?" I didn't expect him to ask such a question, and after thinking for a while, "I don't know, but why are you asking about this?" I think after a while, if Yuan Jue doesn't have the intention of coming out, the guards in the big tent will help him prepare. โ
"Then I'll rest assured, there's nothing else, Miss Niyin, I'll go get busy first." Gao Yong said, turned around and ran away.
It's just such a question, why do you want to ask me deliberately? Where does Yuan Jue eat, what's the use of asking me? It's weird, but now that I want to go back to Aster, I don't know where she went.
It's just that Jialan is still not far behind me, and I hesitate to ask her again, maybe she knows something. When she saw me look at her, she just shrugged her shoulders, and I immediately gave up on the idea.
As everyone had planned at the beginning, in the afternoon I went around the door of the tent again, and the guards kept me out without exception, and many eyes were watching behind me, and I had no choice but to leave.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on me, who had been lingering in front of the tent for a while, and no one would notice anything else at this time.
When I returned to my camp, Yuan Jue was already lying on my bed, with his legs crossed, full of splashy skin.
I really didn't bother to think too much about him, so I sat down and asked him, "Can this really lure out the ghosts in the camp?" What if the news of Xiong Lie's serious assassination spread before the inner ghost was introduced. โ
"Don't worry, Xiong Lie has arranged for his henchmen to guard the entrances and exits of the camp, and no one will bring the news out." Yuan Jue said, sitting up, he didn't look worried.
"However, Xiong Lie is distributed in the four camps outside, what if he doesn't get the order that Xiong Lie wants them to dispatch on time? Wouldn't they all doubt it? "I remembered what I heard Xiong Lie talk about when I was inspecting the morning training of the soldiers.
Yuan Jue seemed much more indifferent than me, "It has always been Xiong Lie who has privately passed the news to Jiang Yan who is outside, and then Jiang Yan will send the news to each camp, Jiang Yan is outside, only Xiong Lie knows how to contact him, and no one will suspect it at all." Unless ......"
"Jiang Yan himself is the inner ghost." I naturally thought about what he was going to say.
Jiang Yan is the only link between Xiong Lie and the four camps, and if there is a business trip in the middle, there must be no need to suspect the others.
Jialan opened the curtain at this time and walked into the tent, ignoring the rest and said, "I have done what you want me to do." โ
"Why is she still here?" Yuan Jue saw Jialan, and he was still so repulsed, and he unabashedly expressed his disgust for Jialan.
Jialan's words had already been brought to me, and as if I hadn't heard them, I turned around and went out again.
"Did something happen between you and Jialan?" I watched the situation between the two of them freeze to the freezing point several times, and I couldn't help but ask, "Why does she know who you are, but she ignores you?" You seem to know what is going on with her, so disgusted? โ
Yuan Jue asked, "Do you know who she is?" โ
Who is she? I'm embarrassed, Jialan really has too many identities, and I don't know what Yuan Jue hates.
"She's Wonhyuk's meticulous work." Yuan Jue said the answer to himself.
"Wonhyuk's fine work?!" I'm sure I heard it right, but, "How so?" How could she get involved with Won Hyuk? I thought, isn't she the person next to Yun Chu? โ
If I'm not mistaken, what has something to do with Jialan is Cheng Jing Biluo, or Yun Chu, how did he suddenly become Yuan He. "Then your attitude towards her, how can it be...... I remember when you saw her go to Yun Chu with your own eyes in the past, you just ignored it, why now, you are so disgusted with her, you are not such a personless person, you will do this, there is a reason for you, right? โ
Yuan Jue looked at me straight for a while, and finally relaxed his defense, "She did follow Aunt Yun Chu in the past, and she always hoped that Aunt Yun Chu could promote her and give her a chance." However, since his father was seriously ill, Jialan became a traitor with Yuan He's wolf Bรจi, helping Yuan He do whatever he wanted in the court and eradicate dissidents. Jialan, as Yuanhe's meticulous work, has framed Zhongliang in the DPRK many times, and now the Yu country is in danger, and it is the two of them who are responsible for it. โ
"How can this be...... "I don't know how to appease Yuan Jue, now this is something I didn't expect, it seems that a lot of things have happened in the ten years of my seclusion and cultivation, but I didn't expect Jialan to actually stand on Yuan He's side." She would be such a person. โ
"Here we are." Yuan Jue said suddenly, staring at the swaying figure outside the tent. He asked me softly, "Are you ready?" โ
"Hmm." I answered, and then stood up, and sure enough, in a few moments, the figure outside was reflected in the tent exactly like yesterday.
I chased out from one side of the tent, and Yuan Jue hurried to block from the other side. We flanked him one after the other, blocking the man where the camp was about to go out, and the camp guards heard the noise and surrounded us with their swords in a hula-la, and surrounded us in the middle.
This man was dressed in black at this time, and his face was still covered, but he was ...... I vaguely feel that it is not very similar to the man yesterday.
He was angry, drew a knife and slashed, I held Feng Ming in my hand to meet him, Yuan Jue Long chanted out of the sheath and attacked the man, he turned over and dodged, and quickly slashed the knife to Yuan Jue's neck, Feng Ming in my hand only exposed half of his body, covered the sword momentum with cold light, and cut his wrist. The knife fell to the ground with a clatter, and Yuan Jue held the dragon in his hand to his throat.
The guard intended, but hesitated and retreated.
The man in black pressed his injured wrist tightly with one hand, looked up at Yuan Jue, and then slowly ripped off the black scarf on his face with his blood-stained hand.
"Gao Yong?!" I blurted out.
How could it be Gao Yong?! Is Gao Yong the inner ghost we have been waiting to appear? (To be continued.) )