Chapter 381: A Little Clue
Prince Rui listened to Zhao Jingxuan's narration, and for a while he didn't know what words to use to describe the feeling of this moment.
But the black-clothed leader, who was rolling in pain on the ground, didn't know what was going on in his heart, only howled loudly.
“…… Beg...... Help me......"
The black-clothed leader didn't expect that the effect of the medicine would fade so quickly this time, and the pain he felt was even stronger than before, as if an invisible force had been pinching his throat.
Death seemed to be with us, about to devour him.
"I ...... I don't want to die ......"
The more he felt the imminence of death, the more he wished to live, an indescribable longing.
Zhao Jingxuan looked coldly at the ugly appearance of the black-clothed leader, and turned his eyes to Prince Rui.
"Lord Wang, now you can start interrogating."
“…… Good. ”
Prince Rui nodded with difficulty.
He found that after all these things, everything he had previously believed was shattered and reconstituted into what he did not understand.
"Say, who is the leader of the Zhen Yu Alliance, and what deal does the prince have with him!"
Prince Rui took a deep breath and collected his thoughts, he understood that his top priority was to sort everything out first, and the first thing to bear the brunt of was the prince's affairs.
What kind of secret does the prince have with the leader of the Zhen Yu Alliance, this is what he must find out.
"I... No...... I don't know ......."
The black-clad leader struggled to sit up from the ground, but soon collapsed, horrified to find that the strength of his body was losing at an alarming rate.
This made him feel very frightened, but there was nothing he could do, and he couldn't help but cry bitterly at the moment.
He also wants to get out of this situation, and if there is anything that can change it, he will definitely hold on to it.
But Prince Rui's question is not something he can answer, it's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't know at all!
"Lord Wang, let's replace me."
Zhao Jingxuan looked at Prince Rui and shook his head helplessly, it seemed that this prince really didn't have any experience in interrogating prisoners.
He knew very well that a person like the black-clothed leader, no matter how much the prince used him and seemed to trust him, there were some things that he would never let him know about a chess piece that could be discarded at any time.
But it doesn't matter, just because he is a close person to the crown prince, he must have access to more things than them.
Seeing through the essence of the phenomenon is what they should do.
"You answer me, who has the prince met with recently?"
Zhao Jingxuan's question is not difficult to answer, and there is no need to even hide it, as long as you check the prince's recent whereabouts, you can know who he has been in contact with.
The black-clothed leader's eyes flashed, unsure of Zhao Jingxuan's reason for asking, but he quickly answered.
"Yes, it's Uncle Cao Guo......"
"Uncle Cao? This is not surprising. ”
Prince Rui couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, thinking that the Cao family was the prince's mother after all, and it was not particularly unusual for the prince to see his uncle.
"Besides, who else did he come into contact with during this time?"
“…… Also, there are several first-class officials in the DPRK and China......"
The black-clothed leader's face became more and more strange, and he only felt that something was wrong when he listened to Zhao Jingxuan's question, but he asked him to think carefully about what was wrong, but he couldn't say it, and gradually just entered the mode of you asking me and answering.
Zhao Jingxuan picked up and asked a lot of seemingly marginal questions, if these questions have one thing in common, it is probably that these questions all revolve around the prince.
As he spoke, the black-clothed leader felt his mouth dry and his body felt even more uncomfortable.
"Alright."
Zhao Jingxuan suddenly chuckled, as if he had come to some conclusion, and instead beckoned to the subordinates beside him. "Give him the antidote that Dr. Zhang just developed."
Zhao Jingxuan directly used the black-clothed leader as a tool for experiments.
Zhang Qingting had just told him about the antidote earlier, but he hadn't done experiments on poisoned people yet, and he couldn't be sure that it would work.
This time it saved a lot of trouble, and simply let the black-clothed leader act as a guinea pig.
Seeing this, his subordinates immediately responded, took out a small porcelain bottle, poured out a dark green strange pill, pried open the mouth of the black-clothed leader and stuffed it in.
I saw that the black-clothed leader's Adam's apple moved, and he had obviously swallowed the pill.
In fact, even if he wanted to resist, the pill developed by Zhang Qingting was melt-in-the-mouth, and he was helpless.
Zhao Jingxuan didn't leave in a hurry after seeing him take the pill, but calmly observed from the side.
Everyone saw that the black-clothed leader, who was originally pale and looked like he had just been fished out of the water, gradually improved his complexion.
"This is the antidote?"
When Prince Rui saw this situation, he immediately understood what was going on, and he was immediately overjoyed, "Does this mean that the harm of Xun Xian San can be completely eliminated?" ”
"No, not necessarily, let's see what happens first."
Although Zhao Jingxuan also trusts Zhang Qingting's medical skills very much, the specific situation still has to wait for time to answer, after all, Zhang Qingyun only said that it was an experiment, and the result is still uncertain.
Zhao Jingxuan didn't want Prince Rui to be happy too early, otherwise the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
"Well, let them keep an eye on what is going on here."
Prince Rui had just experienced life and death, and after great joy and sorrow, he also felt very tired at this time, and he had no intention of investigating what happened to this black-clothed leader.
He waved his hand and walked slowly out of the cell.
In fact, there was one more thing in Prince Rui's heart that he hadn't asked, and he could see that Zhao Jingxuan had asked a lot of questions about the prince just now, and it seemed that he had ulterior motives.
But Zhao Jingxuan didn't mean to explain, he realized that it was mostly because of the presence of the black-clothed leader, so he didn't want to say it explicitly.
When he returned to the small courtyard where Prince Rui was temporarily staying, Prince Rui couldn't wait to ask, "What's going on?" Do you have a clue? ”
"It's just a rough guess."
Zhao Jingxuan shook his head, he only guessed a rough idea, and he wasn't sure that his idea was right.
"From the investigation of the people that the prince came into contact with during this time, it can be roughly inferred that the people of the Zhenyu Alliance are mixed in. However, these people are not necessarily the leaders of the so-called Zhen Yu Alliance, and it is more likely that they are the intermediaries who deliver the news, or, it should be said, the people who establish the connection between the prince and the leader. ”
"You mean, let the king investigate the people who have a close relationship with the crown prince?"
Prince Rui understood what Zhao Jingxuan meant, but he didn't think this method was good.
Even if this incident did not happen, he had always asked his subordinates to pay attention to the prince's movements, but for a long time, there was no special discovery, and he had not even investigated the prince's connection with the Zhen Yu League.
Prince Rui couldn't help but feel depressed when he thought of this.