Liansheng Imperial City, Tianhe Square.

It was almost the end of the hour, and it was already close to noon.

At this time of the day, for Tianhe Square, the largest square of 10,000 people in the Lotus Country, it is the most prosperous time when the sun is shining and people come and go.

In addition to the bustling crowd, the cries of various vendors come and go, and it is very lively.

But today it was more lively than usual, almost full of voices and gongs and drums.

The reason why it is so lively is because today is the annual flower god festival in the country of Lotus Birth.

Every year today, it is one of the few major festivals in the country of Lotus Sheng, also known as the Ten Thousand Demon Festival, every household will clean the house, light lotus lanterns in the garden and corridor, used to welcome the arrival of the god of flowers, and hold a grand celebration for this, with lotus decorated carriages carrying the statue of the god of flowers in a parade to celebrate.

Some pious people would also have silver pins tattooed on their eyebrows and a terrifying grimace mask on their faces to show gratitude or atonement for their sins to the god of flowers.

This flower god festival has a long history, and it is said that a long, long time ago, the country of Lotus encountered an unprecedented danger of annihilation, and all the streets and alleys were occupied by all kinds of monsters.

No one can say where these monsters came from, but just after midnight, as soon as I went out, I saw thousands of monsters hunting people everywhere.

The slow reaction was knocked to the ground by a group of youkai on the spot, and soon turned into a pile of white bones.

reacted quickly, immediately rushed home, locked the door, and escaped for the time being.

However, as there were more and more monsters outside, the gate was finally knocked open, and suddenly, all the people inside were spared, and finally turned into a pile of white bones.

So later, everyone no longer hid at home and waited for death, but dragged their families to embark on a thousand-mile escape.

Because this kind of monster is rampant and domineering during the day, but at night, it inexplicably falls into a lethargy, so everyone also chooses to travel overnight at night, and hide in underground secret rooms during the day, or rest in wild caves to recover their strength for the night rush.

Just when everyone desperately thought that this sudden national disaster would wipe out everyone, they didn't expect a miracle to happen.

I saw a beautiful woman appear out of thin air in the sky, carrying a lotus lantern in her hand, falling from the sky.

With a wave of her slender jade hand, countless silver lights flashed in an instant, and silver needles shot into the eyebrows of each monster, and those monsters fell to the ground one after another, turning into dry bones.

A human catastrophe was thus dissolved in an understatement, and if it weren't for the shocking white bones on the ground, no one would have believed that a large group of monsters had ever appeared.

Later, in order to commemorate this day, the people who survived deliberately named this day the Flower God Festival, because everyone felt that the fairy-like woman who appeared out of thin air that day, carried a lotus lantern, and saved everyone must be the god of flowers.

In order to reproduce the situation of that day more vividly, all the people spontaneously carved the statue of the god of flowers out of fine wood and carried it into a carriage to parade as a sign of respect for the god of flowers, which is also a ritual to pray for peace and happiness in the future.

However, they themselves dressed up as various yokai, wore special masks, and symbolically inserted a silver needle in the center of their eyebrows, and marched to commemorate the wonderful moment when the flower god killed all the yokai on that day.

Therefore, some people call that day the Ten Thousand Demon Festival.

If you go out on this day, no one will recognize anyone, because almost all the people are dressed up as all kinds of yokai, even children, and they have all turned into all kinds of cute little yokai.

Just when the people of every household in the entire imperial city dressed up as all kinds of monsters, walked through the streets and alleys, and flocked to Tianhe Square, no one thought that among these people, there were two noble people from the imperial palace who also walked in the crowd as monsters.

These two people are a man and a woman, although they also make up monsters, they can still feel that their temperament is different, and they both have a majesty and bearing that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

These two people are none other than the goddess who dressed up as monsters and quietly came here from the palace, the Empress Dowager Yanyu and the general Yuan Feng.

After Yuan Feng went to the Goddess Palace to meet the Empress Dowager Yanyu, the general Yuan Feng told Yanyu that he suspected that there was a small amount of plague similar to the northwest region in the imperial city.

The reason why it is similar and uncertain is that even the imperial doctor who followed Yanyu to the northwest to solve the plague crisis was helpless and could not find out at all.

In other words, the people who got sick in the imperial city were completely different from the people in the northwest plague outbreak area, so the imperial doctor was also at a loss, so he suggested that His Majesty should let the empress dowager help investigate.

After all, the Empress Dowager had just perfectly quelled the Northwest Plague Crisis before, and the Imperial Doctors who had followed the Empress Dowager to the Northwest Plague Outbreak Area afterwards admitted that if the Northwest Plague Crisis was not investigated by the Empress Dowager herself, I am afraid that if they were given another month, they would not be able to find out.

So His Majesty entrusted Yuan Feng, the general in charge of the security of the imperial city, to come early in the morning to ask the empress dowager to help investigate the truth.

Considering that this matter is very important, it is not appropriate to make a public announcement before the investigation is clear, so as not to cause panic in the entire imperial city.

Moreover, today is still an important flower god festival in the minds of the people of Liansheng Kingdom, so it is even more inappropriate to investigate it openly and with great fanfare, otherwise it will be seen by the sharp-minded people, and if it is publicized again, it will inevitably cause riots.

In such a crowded day, once a riot occurs, the consequences are unimaginable.

Therefore, after extremely careful consideration, Yanyu and the general Yuan Feng also disguised themselves, and left the palace unconsciously, followed the people from all over the country, and walked towards Tianhe Square.

Along the way, General Yuan Feng told the story in detail.

Because it was in the main hall of the Goddess Palace before, the general considered that there were other palace maids and royal guards nearby, so it was not appropriate to talk too much about it.

lest they know, it will inevitably spread in the palace, and it will be counterproductive.

So he was extremely general, vaguely and briefly hinted at Yanyu, and after making an appointment with the meeting place at the palace gate, he left.

And Bing Xue's smart Yanyu naturally understood what General Yuan Feng meant, so he didn't ask more.

Then she asked Phantom Lotus to help her prepare a set of monster costumes, and after getting dressed, she used the magic of her mask to quietly leave the palace and rush to a no-man's corner outside the palace.

The purpose of this is also to avoid leaving the palace with great fanfare, and she has to bring a large number of royal guards to protect her, so that the people outside the palace will know that she is the goddess and the queen mother.

At that time, not to mention the onlookers and sensations, it will also affect the two of them to secretly investigate the truth of the plague in the imperial city.

When Yanyu came to a no-man's corner at the gate of the palace and saw a man dressed as a monster waiting for her, she naturally knew that the other party was the general Yuan Feng, so she showed her figure.

Under the leadership of the general Yuan Feng, the two took a shortcut through a slum and rushed to Tianhe Square.

On the way to go, because it was a short road and a small road, there were almost no pedestrians nearby, so General Yuan Feng told the incident in detail, and Yanyu only knew the general passage.

It turned out that at noon two days ago, a bizarre and strange thing happened in Tianhe Square in the imperial city, saying that someone in the bustling and lively square first fainted, and then died, and finally the body disappeared in public for some reason.

At first, only one or two people fainted to the ground, and everyone didn't pay attention to it, thinking that there were many people, and it was hot, and it was very physically exhausting to visit such a bustling square, so they just carried those who passed out to a cool place, fed them some water, and then helped them fan to cool down, thinking that they would be able to wake up soon after resting like this.

After all, there was no sign of illness from the outside, even if it was Lang Zhong's pulse, he just felt that this person was a little weak, so he completely ignored this individual phenomenon.

However, it wasn't until half an hour later that everyone accidentally found that the person who had fainted and rested had died of extreme cold, and the family members who had been guarding him had passed out one after another, only to realize that things were not as simple as everyone thought.

What's even more bizarre and bizarre is that some of the dead people will disappear inexplicably.

So everyone felt that the situation was more serious, so they told the government, and after the government invited the imperial doctor to check on the unconscious person, they also felt that the pulse was very strange, and it was difficult to judge for a while, what kind of strange disease they had.

In order to prevent the spread of this disease in the imperial city, the imperial doctor did not dare to hide it, and immediately entered the palace to face the saint, and informed His Majesty in detail of the incident.

When His Majesty learned the news, he was also surprised! I also want to ask the Empress Dowager to come forward to investigate immediately.

But soon he felt that it was not suitable, because he thought that the Empress Dowager had just come back from resolving the crisis of the outbreak of the plague in the northwest, and before she had a good rest, she started to investigate because Princess Yidan was almost burned to death, and this matter was enough for the Empress Dowager to be busy for several days.

So His Majesty really couldn't bear to trouble the Empress Dowager anymore, but then I thought about it, once this bizarre thing in the Imperial City really broke out in a crisis, then the people of the entire Imperial City would be displaced.

Then it won't be long before it will be transmitted to the palace, and when the time comes, this kind of crisis will also break out in the palace.

It is bound to be seized by people with intentions to seize the opportunity to seek power and usurp the throne, and the situation of the entire Lotus Kingdom finally being unified will return to the point of fragmentation.

So after thinking about it, His Majesty immediately issued an order to let the general Yuan Feng enter the palace and immediately meet the Empress Dowager to discuss how to deal with this matter.

After learning of the seriousness of the situation, Yanyu did not hesitate to disguise himself as a monster, and came to Tianhe Square with the general Yuan Feng......

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