Chapter 1261: Murder in the Palace
An artifact is an artifact, and it originally needed to use a touch of divine sense to hover it in the clouds, but I didn't expect that as long as it was absorbing yin qi, it would automatically fly!
Retracting his senses, Xuan Bao glanced at the clouds, and walked to the bottom of the tower with the three girls, just about to say goodbye to them, but saw a war horse galloping on the street, heading straight for Wanfu Tower!
The red pupil has returned to Xuanbao, so he can see the identity of the other party at a glance, it is Ma Changming, the chief attendant, this time Xuanbao arranged for him to tidy up things in the palace, because it was going to be renovated immediately, but now he actually came out, and looking at his appearance, something big must have happened!
There were still dozens of steps away from the tower gate, Ma Changming had already turned over and dismounted, ran all the way, knelt in front of Xuanbao, and said urgently: "Your Majesty! Two Xuanbing brothers were killed in the palace, but there were no injuries on their bodies!"
"Huh?" Xuan Bao just frowned, but the three girls next to him exclaimed in surprise. Xuanbao was not verbose, turned his head and said to the third girl: "Bean sprouts, you bring Lianxin together, I take Jiao'er, let's go to the palace!"
The little bean sprouts responded, and pulled Lianxin to call the wind owl together, and Xuanbao also went up to the red rainbow with Jiao'er, and flew into the air regardless of the fact that it was daytime.
The borrowing light of the past few days is not in vain, and now the clouds in Kyoto City are more than ten zhang from the ground, although the red rainbow clouds and the wind owl feel uncomfortable, but they can finally fly at low altitude!
The four of them quickly arrived at the palace, and then found the place that Ma Changming said, which is not far from the main hall of Qiankun!
There were already a lot of people around, and when they saw the emperor and the ladies coming, everyone quickly knelt on the ground. Xuanbao waved his hand to everyone and said, "Get up, what's the matter?"
An internal attendant under Ma Changming hurriedly said to Xuan Bao: "Tell the emperor, these two people are the brothers who patrolled the palace last night, but they never went back to hand over the shift, and they were later found here by the Imperial Forest Army, but they are dead!"
In fact, the death of two people is not a big deal for Xuanbao's current identity, but the place where he died is relatively special!
This is the inner imperial city, or near the main hall of Qiankun, which was originally the territory of Yinhu, and the Yin army was driven out of the palace and out of Kyoto.
But there are still dead people here, could it be that Yinhu still has a killer here? This is where Ma Changming feels serious, and he doesn't dare not inform the emperor!
Lian Xin and Jiao'er squatted down, looking at these two corpses, and sure enough, like Ma Changming, there were no wounds at all, and there was no sign of being killed.
"It can't be that you died of illness after being hit by lice, right?" Little Bean Sprouts stood beside Xuanbao and took his hand. This little girl is now a lot bolder, and she is no longer afraid of the dead.
Jiao'er thought for a while, shook his head and said: "There should be no such possibility, Xuanbing has made preparations before and after entering the imperial city, and has drunk defensive medicines, but it is really unreasonable to say that he was still invaded by lice!"
A Xuan soldier said: "Dawu and Dahan are in good health, and they were wrestling with their brothers last night to make fun, and they are not sick!"
Jiao'er nodded, these two dead Xuanjun looked like five big and three thick, and they looked relatively robust, and they really didn't look like people who died of illness at a good end!
Since they did not die of illness, and they did not find the wounds of being killed, then how could they die in the palace in good sense? If this reason is not found, no one dares to guarantee that they will not die next!
Soon Ma Changming came back, as well as You Yong, Tong Huan, Meng Haoran and others. Everyone gathered around, saw Xuanbao and Jiao'er, and then carefully examined the bodies of the two, but still found nothing.
It's really a strange thing, two of them died, but they couldn't find the cause of death, if it was Xiao Yin here, she could already see Ni Duan.
You Yong said to Meng Haoran, "Have you noticed anything abnormal in your daily life?" Here is the Imperial Forest Army guarding, so now the most familiar with the palace is not Xuanbao, but Meng Haoran.
"Abnormal..."Meng Haoran frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, turned his head to the group of brothers beside him and said, "Have you noticed anything abnormal?"
Everyone shook their heads, but Xuan Bao saw a quiet-looking face in the crowd, which seemed to open its mouth, looking like it wanted to say something.
"What's your name, what do you want to say?" Xuan Bao asked him in a gentle voice as he looked at the Xuan soldier.
The Xuan soldier walked out of the ranks, knelt down on one knee to Xuan Bao, and said: "Tell the emperor, the villain's name is Luo Sanman, the third captain of the Iron Spear Team of the Royal Forest Army." The villain wanted to say that when he was visiting the palace the night before, he heard someone crying, but he never found anyone. Is this an anomaly?"
"This is a fart!" Meng Haoran went over and kicked him lightly and said: "There are so many people dead in Kyoto, of course some people are crying, maybe it's those unjust souls crying again, but we are all Xuanjun, and the unjust souls will not find our heads!"
Xuan Bao shook his head and said: "The most important thing is that you can't see the unjust souls, you can't hear their voices, and the unjust souls here don't have the ability to ask for their lives, from this point of view, it is not possible for the unjust souls to ask for their lives, but what Sanman said, we must also pay attention to it! Commander Meng, you immediately let people go back to the camp and ask who has heard the same cry!"
Meng Haoran didn't dare to delay, and said to Xuanbao: "I'll go back and ask in person, it won't be long!"
After a while, he came back, his face was a little solemn, and he nodded to Xuanbao and said, "Yes, there are quite a few, but they only hear their voices and don't see them! Everyone didn't say anything because they thought it was their own delusion and were afraid of being regarded as a coward by others!"
Xuanbao glanced at Jiao'er and Lianxin, who were also frowning. This thing is a bit weird, is there really a wronged soul who can't ask for his life? Could it be that the power of these wronged souls has suddenly increased under the clouds?
The Netherworld will harm people, because they need people's yang energy to refine the Netherworld Heart Pill, and they may not really be able to refine the Heart Pill, but as soon as there is more Yang Qi, Dan Qi will be formed, and with Dan Qi, you can borrow people's bodies and become ghost soldiers or ghost generals!
That kind of Netherworld is generally more than three or five years old, and even mortals, they can easily see their figures in some environments, and this kind of Netherworld already has a preliminary substance, and it also has the ability to harm people.
These unjust souls like Kyoto can't reach such an ability at all, they don't have the ability to penetrate the layer of prohibition between the netherworld and the human world, so they can't see mortals, and they can't harm mortals, with Xuanbao's eyesight, this abnormality is definitely not caused by unjust souls!
Who would it be? Who would cry in the palace in the middle of the night? If it wasn't a human being, and it wasn't a ghost, what would it be? Could it be a monster?
As soon as he thought of the demonic beast, Xuan Bao's eyes lit up, and he seemed to think of something in his heart, and immediately walked to the side of the two corpses and said to Lian Xin, "How much do you know about soul things?"
Lian Xin shook his head and said, "The people who know best are the eldest sister and the fifth sister!
Jiao'er and Xiaodou Sprouts next to him also shook their heads. Xuanbao had no choice but to lower his head, look at the two corpses in front of him carefully, frown, and asked, "Where are their helmets?"
Now the dress of the Imperial Forest Army is a copper helmet and heavy armor, on the one hand, it is to highlight the image of the Xuan Army, the copper helmet and heavy armor have a momentum when walking, on the other hand, it is to place some evil people's sneak attack, there are many people in the city who are afraid of the treasure in the palace, and do not hesitate to sneak attack the Xuan Army to steal inside, wear a copper helmet and heavy armor, which can effectively prevent the hidden arrow from hurting people!
But now these two corpses do not have helmets, but Luo Sanman said to Xuanbao: "The helmet has been picked up by us, in the back!" He was the first to find the corpses, so he was also the most familiar with the situation at that time.
Luo Sanman brought two helmets and held them in front of Xuanbao. Xuan Bao looked at the helmets carefully, but found that both helmets had a small impact damage that was not easy to detect, and they were both at the top.
"This is formed by the helmet falling to the ground!" Jiao'er also saw Ni Duan and whispered to Xuanbao.
Xuanbao nodded, this kind of helmet is heavy on the top and light on the bottom, so that it will not fall off when worn on the head, but when it is about to fall, because it is top-heavy, the top will land first.
The ordinary helmets of the Xuan soldiers are all strapless, that is, there is no tether, and with the weight of the helmet itself, there may be some padding in it to fix, so choosing a helmet is very important for the Xuan soldiers, and when the task is not over, it is easy not to take it off.
Then these two helmets should have been taken off from behind and fell to the ground, could it be that they were attacked from behind?
Xuan Bao turned his head to Meng Haoran and said, "Check the corpse again, focus on the head, and untie the hair!"
Meng Haoran waved his hand, and several Xuanbao walked over quickly, squatted next to the corpse and began to examine it again, and soon someone shouted: "There is a discovery!"
"Shave off your hair!" Meng Haoran shouted, and someone pulled out a Xuan knife and shaved off a piece of hair near the corpse's wound.
Xuan Bao leaned over and saw a bloody hole on the top of the corpse's head, only half the thickness of the little bean sprout's little finger, so the blood stains were not very much, but they were fatally wounded!
Jiao'er also looked at the wound, shook his head and said, "This is not like an arrow wound, I can't see how the wound was made!"
"I know!" Xuanbao's face was gloomy, his eyes looked around, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I forgot about them, I thought they were gone, but I didn't expect them to be still there!"
"Who?" the three girls asked in surprise at the same time, looking at Xuanbao's face, they also knew that he was angry in his heart at the moment!
Xuan Bao said fiercely: "Dementor Beast!" turned his head to Meng Haoran and said: "Inform the Imperial Forest Army, search the palace immediately, don't let go of any place, see a beast, kill it!"
You Yong said to Xuan Bao: "The Imperial Forest Army only has a thousand people, it may not be enough, the palace is so big, do you need me to send some more people to reinforce it?"
Xuan Bao nodded and said, "Okay! But you must ensure that the three of you have a torch! This is not for lighting, it is for self-defense, and the soul dementor is afraid of fire!"
Hearing Xuanbao's command, everyone moved. The two corpses were carried away, and Xuanbao really felt a little guilty in his heart at the moment.
When the flood came, he had obviously seen the dementors, and he also knew that these beasts had not withdrawn with the corpse soldiers, but because of a lot of things that happened later, he went to the East China Sea again, and almost came back, so he forgot about it and didn't tell anyone about it.
I didn't expect that these beasts had caused trouble again, and I didn't expect them to hide in the palace and didn't leave, so it was just right, these dementors didn't want to leave!