Chapter 102: Clues
About a month after Tula evacuated, the officials of the underground palace reported to Chu Qi that Tula, the commander of the underground palace, had absconded and disappeared, and had stolen all the utensils, weapons, and even winter carbon from the underground palace.
What's even more strange is that the smelter is clean, and there are no bones or buried corpses after smelting, and it is suspected that the 70,000 unicorns have not been burned at all.
Chu Qi was furious and asked where they had gone if the unihorns had not been burned.
What is the explanation for the outbreak of the plague in the underground palace, and no one has found out about the escape of 70,000 one-horns?
Where have the officials of the underground palace gone these days, and why are they only reporting now?
The chief official of the underground palace was trembling, and he couldn't answer a word, this matter is strange here.
The plague broke out in the underground palace, and he really saw that their bodies were covered with chickenpox and abscesses, bubbling with blood, and they were dying.
He and many underground palace officials saw it, and it couldn't be fake.
They also watched Tula escort the sick unicorns to the smelter.
Several caves were built in the smelter, and black smoke billowed all day long.
But now there is no one left there, not even a single corpse.
You must know that the smelting technology of this era is not yet developed, and although the temperature of the cave is high, it is impossible to turn all human bones into ashes, and there will always be corpses.
The unburned bone powder will be carried out by a special person and buried in the mountain behind the underground palace, but there is no trace of landfill there now.
A plague broke out in the dungeon, and the dungeon construction was suspended.
In order to prevent the spread of the plague, all the officials of the underground palace were evacuated, leaving only the officers and soldiers in charge of the escort work to deal with the burning and landfilling of the single horn.
Tula was in charge of the guards, but now not only he is missing, but also the guards who are in charge of specific affairs under him.
It's really evil!
After the outbreak of the plague in the underground palace, the people in the underground palace were panicked, and everyone was in danger.
The guards who wanted to survive took leave one after another, and they did not want to stay there, in case they were accidentally infected with the plague, and their lives would be lost in a few minutes.
Tula approved all those who took leave.
Tula has developed a lot of credible members from the unicorn of the dungeon, plus the people transferred from the headquarters of the Obstacle Forest, and in the later stage, all the guards in the dungeon are all people who save the independence society itself, so it is naturally very convenient to act.
In the past few months since the outbreak of the plague, Tula has been regularly reporting to the officials about the burning of the underground palace, and the officials above are all life-saving masters, and it is impossible for them to run to that unfortunate place without incident, and they have never been suspicious of Tula.
Tula also took the opportunity to apply for several fees for the purchase of firewood, winter charcoal, and utensils for the burial of unicorns, and the above approved them very happily.
It wasn't until Tula disappeared for a month that the official family above was shocked and asked someone to go to the underground palace.
Only then did they find that it was empty and desolate like a tomb.
Fortunately, the underground palace is still under construction, so there are no valuables, but all that is lost are some utensils, materials and the like, and there is no big loss.
The crux of the matter is, if these 70,000 unicorns were not burned as they suspected, where did they go?
Could it be that Tula thought it was too troublesome to burn the horns, so he killed the man and threw it into a nearby lake?
But that's 70,000 people~ I'm afraid that the corpses will be floating all over the field long ago.
Moreover, when they were plagued, and the rivers were soaked, was there not a plague?
There are no large number of one-horned floating corpses in the nearby river area.
Did you chop and feed the nearby jackals, tigers and leopards?
That will also leave bones~
I won't gnaw all the bones of 70,000 people.
Now in this situation, I really can't see anyone alive, and I can't see a corpse when I die~
Could it really be as rumored, the evil spirit of the underground palace is too heavy, and it is stained with bloody killing, and even the ghosts and monsters in the underworld can't stand it, and they devour all the living and dead, and even take away the corpse?
This is so strange!
The dungeon was originally a place of evil energy, but now it has been infected with so many killings, plus the unicorn that disappeared for no reason......
Just listening to it infiltrated people, and a few people dared to take over the matter.
All the officials of the underground palace knew that they had caused a big disaster, and they were terrified, and they couldn't hide it anymore, so they played to Chu Qi.
At that time, there was a plague in the underground palace, and I was afraid that if it spread, it would cause turmoil in people's hearts.
The burning of 70,000 unicorns is itself quite controversial.
After all, the killing was too deep, and it was inevitable that it would be criticized, and it was unknown if it was written into history by future generations.
Therefore, Chu Qi ordered it to be carried out in secret, and not many people knew about it.
Now that something has happened, it is naturally inconvenient to speak out.
Several ministers who knew about this at the beginning are now also looking at each other, and they are unwilling to clean up this mess.
Chu Qi thought about it, but he could only find Yan Qi and ask him to supervise the ins and outs of the whole matter.
After all, this matter involves 70,000 unicorns, although the identity of unicorns is lowly, half human and half beast, and they can't become the climate, but it is really disturbing that 70,000 people disappeared out of thin air.
Chu Qi has never believed in ghosts and gods, and the 70,000 unicorns were supposed to be burned, but now they disappeared out of thin air, which made him a little scared.
I'm afraid there must be some bigger conspiracy behind this.
Although Yan Qi is a general, she is thoughtful, and it is common for her to march and fight all year round, and it is common for her to travel thousands of miles.
Seventy thousand unicorns disappeared overnight, and if they had escaped in a premeditated manner, it would be impossible not to leave any traces.
Yan Qi has good strategy and knowledge, and he is loyal to him, and he is more relieved to hand over this matter to him for investigation.
There are no impermeable walls or foolproof schemes.
Yan Qi received Chu Qi's order, so she immediately went to the underground palace, investigated the underground palace for several days, and found several suspicious points.
Along with the 70,000 unicorns, there are also 70,000 unicorn seals in the secret vault of the underground palace, as long as there are horn marks, urge the compass, you can track the location of the unicorns.
If those 70,000 horns really disappeared out of thin air, why did the horn prints disappear as well?
is simply a thief with a weak heart, afraid of leaving a corner mark to be tracked, I am afraid that all this is a long-planned conspiracy.
According to the officials of the underground palace, the underground palace stopped working after the outbreak of the plague.
The burning of the landfill was all left to Tula alone, and they never visited it again because of the plague in the underground palace.
Now Tula's whereabouts are a mystery, whether he is dead or alive is unknown, and all the clues are broken.
Yan Qi flipped through the personnel files of the underground palace and found that this Tula was transferred half a year ago, in charge of the security and protection of the underground palace, and has always been harsh and cruel to the unicorn methods, typical of the brutality of the Beimo people, and won the appreciation of the head of the underground palace.
Soon after he took office, he recruited a new group of guards, who were promoted very quickly, and they were very easy to control the various guard teams in the underground palace.
During the outbreak of the plague, a large number of guards took leave, and Tula, who was born as a military general, always rewarded and punished clearly, and even tolerated such guards who escaped from the battle, and gave them a long vacation.
And the guards recruited by Tula himself all stayed in the dungeon without exception and disappeared with Tula.
All kinds of suspicions point to Tula, and it is because of this that the head of the underground palace believes that Tula is the mastermind of this matter.
Yan Qi recognized this Tula.
Thinking that when he escorted Princess Yu'er into the country, Tula was Yu'er's personal bodyguard.
At that time, Princess Yu'er dismissed all the members of the send-off team, leaving only one guard and two maidservants, which shows her trust in Tula. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "{?$article_title?} ", WeChat pays attention to "excellent reading literature", chatting about life, looking for confidants~