Chapter 14: Defeat

On the 23rd of the next month, they will destroy the imperial capital.

Ye Qing heard these words, but he didn't know what expression to make on his face.

Not to mention that the entire imperial capital is impregnable, even if they can sneak into the imperial capital, those old monsters in the imperial capital are not vegetarians, and there are those monsters in charge, don't think about secretly setting up a magic circle, such a big imperial capital, but any slightest bit of wind and grass will not escape their eyes.

Such an imperial capital, how can he destroy it.

Compared with this, Ye Qing was more curious about what Ouyang Ce was planning again, and what role he played in this series of events.

Chu Qi didn't answer, she only said that Ouyang Ce said this to herself, and there was nothing else to say.

"Alright, I'm done with what needs to be said, and I should go. Chu Qi got up and said.

"Wait, aren't you going back to the imperial capital with us?" Ye Qing asked.

"Why should I go back? I have already resigned, why am I involved in this. As he spoke, the corners of Chu Qi's mouth moved slightly: "But if the emperor wants to be a man who can get into my eyes, it's not impossible to go back." But, those people are all crooked and cracked, and they look upset. ”

After speaking, Chu Qi picked up the robe just now and threw it to Ye Qingdao: "After I go back, help me hand it over to Zhang Lin, that guy's favor, this can be regarded as having been returned." ”

After speaking, Chu Qi turned into a puff of green smoke and dissipated.

As soon as Chu Qi left, Ye Qing threw the Dao robe to Gao Lie again, "What is given to your master, you should take it back." ”

"But Master, he is long gone in the imperial capital. Gao Lie said sullenly, "This old man, I didn't expect to have some stories with the high priest......"

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After Chu Qi left, the first thing Ye Qing did was to find the coffin that had been dug up before, and after coming, there was a group of people in armor lying quietly next to the coffin, these people Ye Qing recognized that it was the people sent by Ouyang Ce to guard the coffin.

Ye Qing stepped forward only to find that these people were dead, but after a check, Ye Qing did not find any fatal injuries, and the internal organs were also intact. The only thing that stood out was that each of them had a hideous expression and wide eyes.

"These people must all be scared to death. Gao Lie walked over and said, "I've never seen such a strange way to die." ”

Ye Qing ignored Gao Lie's words, he followed the method that Qinggang told him before, wrapped his body with internal force, and walked towards the coffin, so that he really didn't see those things again.

Taking this opportunity, Ye Qing carefully observed the situation below, the soil under the coffin and around it was very new, it was estimated that the coffin had not been placed here for ten days, there was nothing in the coffin, the body should have been moved by Ouyang Ce, and it was very likely to be Ye Feng's body.

Who buried Ye Feng here, and how did Ye Feng die......

Write down these questions for the time being, Ye Qing pulled the coffin and pulled the coffin up directly, and the bottom of the coffin was really inlaid with a dark black jade as Qing Gang said, as soon as Ye Qing's fingers touched the jade, it turned into a ring and put it on Ye Qing's hand, and the coffin that lost the jade quickly began to rot and scattered all over the ground.

"What is this?" Gao Lie and Meng Ran asked in unison.

"I don't know, but it should be of some use. Ye Qing said.

After getting the jade, Ye Qing and the others also returned to the cave, and the three of them were still lying on the ground dying.

The last interrogation was only one person, and after the interrogation was over, the three of them were separated, so they shouldn't have time to confess, so this time Ye Qing separated the three people, and interrogated one by himself and Gao Lie Meng Ran.

But half a day has passed, and the information that comes out of the interrogation is exactly the same as the last time.

Their organizational hierarchy is very strict, the superior will only tell the subordinate what he needs to do, and nothing else, and the only thing these three know is their own code name and the code name of this operation.

The code name of the second child is Eagle, the code name of the third child is Turtle, and the code name of the fourth child is Snake. And the code name of their operation is:

"Soul Destroyer"

There's no way, no matter how much the three of them look like this, they can't find anything anymore, and now they can only bring them back to the imperial capital. After deciding, the three of them treated their wounds briefly, so that they would not die or anything.

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After processing, the east has gradually turned white, and the sun is about to rise.

It's getting dawn.

A few people rested for a while, and decided to leave Meng Ran in the cave to watch the three people, Ye Qing and Gao Lie went to Lingping City to take a look, maybe there would be something to gain.

After descending the mountain, there is only one road, and this road leads directly to the gate of Lingping City.

At this time, Ling Ping no longer had the formidable purple wall of light, and the fiery red light of the morning sun sprinkled on Ling Ping's city wall, which looked extremely good.

Ye Qing stood under the city wall, where there were scattered some bones, and the bones took on a strange purple color.

Ye Qing squatted down and lightly touched those bones with his fingertips, but the bones were weathered like powder.

The weathered powder slowly drifted into the sky. Ye Qing stretched out his hand, but he couldn't feel the powders at all, as if they didn't exist at all.

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The two walked into the city, and there was no trace of life in the city.

It was the rising sun, and it was the time when the rooster reported the dawn, and there was a dead silence in Lingping City, and the doors of every household were closed. Ye Qing casually pushed open a door, there must be several skeletons in the room that were weathering.

After passing more than a dozen households, when Ye Qing looked up again, the sky was already covered by a layer of gray things, and even the sunlight could not shine in.

Ye Qing felt that these things should be those things after the bones were weathered, but why did these things float above Ling Ping?

The bodies of these things did not exude the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power, and they didn't feel the slightest feeling when they reached out to grab them. It's as if none of these things exist.

Ye Qing frowned, he suddenly had a feeling that maybe these things were Dong Xin's ultimate goal.

But in the end, it's just some subjective speculation.

In the next whole day, Ye Qing seriously explored almost the entire Lingping City, and there was no sign of the existence of spiritual power at all, including the place where he had fought with Dong Xin before.

Immediately afterwards, they focused on searching the City Lord's Mansion, and also found the place where Chu Qi said that they saw the corpse, but now there was no corpse with corpse spots in that room, it was just an empty house.

The search was fruitless, and the sun was about to set, so Ye Qing and Gao Lie left.

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When the two of them returned to the cave again, they stood at the entrance of the cave and looked down at Ling Ping. A dark gray mist was wrapping around the entire city, as if something was brewing, and it looked a little creepy.

After resting for a night, after everyone got up the next day, they saw that the dark gray smoke over Ling Ping had not yet dispersed, and the three of them observed for another day, but the smoke showed no sign of dissipating at all.

So Ye Qing decided to go back to the imperial capital first to report Ling Ping's affairs, and left Meng Ran to watch Ling Ping's movements, and as soon as he returned to the imperial capital, he immediately transferred someone to replace Meng Ran back.

In this way, Ye Qing and Gao Lie embarked on the journey back to the imperial capital first.

On the way, Ye Qing also sorted out all the information he got when he came out this time.

First of all, Di Kui and the forces in the secret realm are definitely not the same faction, and secondly, if Chu Qi didn't lie to himself, then Dong Xin and Ouyang Ce are the same forces, what is their relationship with Di Kui and the people in the secret realm.

This time, Ling Ping was like a node, firmly locking the five forces including Jia Yeqing together. However, Ye Qing always felt that he was blocked from the periphery of this node, and he couldn't spy on what was going on inside.

This feeling made Ye Qing's heart very depressed, as if the truth was in front of his eyes, but he couldn't touch it at all.

Ye Qing faintly felt that Ye Feng was likely to be the breakthrough, but he didn't know how to break through, and Ye Feng's body couldn't be found, and now it could be said that almost all the clues had been broken, and only an almost terrifying dead city Lingping remained.

It's hard to do......

Although this time the character can be said to be a complete failure, the mission was originally to find Ye Feng's whereabouts, but there is only a little bit of news about Ye Feng, a body that may be Ye Feng, this news is still heard from others. But Ye Qing was not disappointed or anything because of this.

Because of this mission, he didn't want to come himself.

In the final analysis, looking for Ye Feng is only incidental, his real purpose is the emperor.

Almost at the same time that the waist card sent by Ouyang Ce came to the imperial capital, the Shenji Battalion also sent a secret letter back to the imperial capital.

This secret letter is about the emperor.

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Ten years ago, on the way back to the imperial court after the last battle, the emperor disappeared.

Every time there was a war, the emperor would personally drive the expedition, and that time was no exception. Everything went well, and when the invincible Iron Cavalry of the Empire returned to the dynasty for the last time, the emperor disappeared. On top of the royal chariot, in full view of everyone, the emperor disappeared.

Then the general Ye Feng found a letter on the chariot. It was an edict of succession.

Passing the throne to the crown prince.

The crown prince, that is, the current emperor.

No one knows where the emperor went. After so many years, the former emperor may have died in the sky.

But the emperor didn't believe it, he kept sending people to search everywhere for the whereabouts of the emperor, and this time, he finally found traces of the emperor's possible existence in Lingping, and it happened that Ouyang Ce sent this waist card, so the emperor asked Ye Qing to go to Lingping to investigate.

At the level of the first emperor, there are not many people who know, and even Gao Lie and Meng Ran don't know.

This operation, neither tracking Ye Feng's whereabouts nor detecting the figure of the former emperor, can be said to be a complete failure.