When Temulan saw the poor boy for the first time, she smelled the thick death breath on him, and guessed that he might have crawled out of the pile of dead people.

And at this time, one of the ingredients of the corpse incense in her hand was the death-stained soil that the boy brought back, but she didn't expect that she really found this place.

"Quick, let's keep digging. ”

"There are discoveries here. ”

"I have it here. ”

After a night of hard work, sixty-seven male corpses were exhumed in this mass burial place, all of them between the ages of eight and thirteen, and all of them were virgins. The skinny skin of all corpses showed green spots, and the appearance of death was the same.

The next morning, when these bones were transported back to the capital, they shocked the people of the entire capital.

The families of all the victims were told to go to the yamen to claim the bodies, and sure enough, the bones were the same boys who had been missing for more than two months.

All of a sudden, the people of the national capital were full of complaints, and everyone was angry and ruthless. When I knew that these corpses could be found overnight, it was all the credit of Princess Zhan, and I was surprised in my heart, but I didn't expect Princess Zhan to really have the ability to solve the case.

People also seem to have confidence in the promise that Princess Zhan can solve the case within five days.

After Ti Mulan, who hadn't slept all night, returned to the Battle King's Mansion to make up for a night's sleep, she first went to see the child with a big life, and then saw Bai Qionghua, so that she had time to see Master Zhang Mingqiu Zhang, who had been waiting for her for a long time.

"Let Master Zhang wait for a long time. ”

The place of the meeting was still the study of the war king, and when Tie Mulan walked in, Chu Tianqi was also there, and at this time he frowned, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Temulan looked at him generously several times, she can be regarded as a meritorious service, why do you have to have a compliment?

But seeing Chu Tianqi as if he hadn't seen her, Timulan pursed her lips and sat down a little lost.

"I don't know what Lord Zhang is looking for me?

Zhang Mingqiu nodded, with a sad face, feeling as if he had become a lot haggard overnight.

"Princess Zhan, there are a total of eighty families who came to claim the missing boy today, but we have found sixty-seven corpses, is it possible that the remaining thirteen children are still alive?"

Temulan also felt so, so she nodded and said in an affirmative tone: "Moreover, those villains must be in this capital." ”

Wait, a total of eighty children are missing, plus the one she rescued, it is eighty-one children. Temulan always felt that she might have neglected something? What did those villains do with so much boys' blood? What kind of evil magic could they not practice?

"Is there any other way for the princess to find those children? Time is pressing, this time we found these bones, we must have been scared, if we don't find those children quickly, I'm afraid ......"

Seeing that Timulan seemed to have fallen into deep thought, Zhang Mingqiu turned his head and glanced at the War King. Seeing that the War King was still silent, even if he was in a hurry, he didn't dare to interrupt the War Princess's thinking at will.

"Do you know what can be done with the blood of eighty-one boys? ”

"Could it be a human sacrifice?" Zhang Mingqiu's words suddenly reminded several people in the room.

"Yes, I seem to have heard that there are some evil sects in the rivers and lakes, and they specialize in using living people to sacrifice and cultivate evil skills, could it be that the people in the rivers and lakes did it?"

After listening to Chu Sen's analysis, Timulan directly looked away.

"If it was done by people in the rivers and lakes, why did they choose a place like the national capital, isn't this waiting to be tracked down by the imperial court?"

"Could it be someone in the court......" As soon as Chu Sen said his words, he quickly covered his mouth. Killing 81 people is definitely a capital crime! Who would dare to take such a big risk, unless it is a powerful person.

At this time, what Chu Sen was thinking in his heart was exactly what everyone in the study was thinking.

"Can't complain that the villains are so fearless, aren't they afraid of being known?" Zhang Mingqiu slapped the table angrily, this is eighty-one lives!

"If even if someone finds out, what if they can't do anything?" The words of the king of war made Zhang Mingqiu stunned.

He is the governor of the national capital, and all the security in the national capital is under his control, and if even he does not dare to offend the people, there are only royal people.

"Is it ......?"

Zhang Mingqiu gasped and his eyes widened in disbelief. How could a royal man do such a thing?

"I heard that there is a group of strange people around Empress Dowager Zheng, who specially refine the elixir of immortality for her. ”

A similar thing happened a few years ago, and it was a lot of noise at the time, but in the end, it didn't happen.

At that time, the palace often innocently disappeared young and beautiful palace maids, and it was later found out that it was Empress Dowager Zheng who used those young and beautiful women as living sacrifices in order to refine what kind of beauty pills.

There are many similarities between the incident of the missing boy today and the incident a few years ago.

In fact, many people know about this matter, but they all swallowed it in their stomachs and didn't dare to take it out! At this time, the King of War brought it up, but it reminded Zhang Mingqiu, but he still had no clue, would the Empress Dowager Zheng be stupid enough to repeat the old trick?

And Ti Mulan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly took the case.

"I see. ”

She said that she seemed to have overlooked something, and after Chu Tianqi's reminder, she could be regarded as remembering what she had missed. She had twice gone to the Yongde Palace of the Empress Dowager, and she smelled that rancid smell, could it really be that the Empress Dowager Zheng did it? This is not impossible.

Everyone looked at Tie Mulan, and after seeing that she lowered her head and was silent for a long time, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Chu Tianqi.

"Tonight, I'm going to take someone to search the Yongde Palace. ”

Listening to Tie Mulan's words, Chu Tianqi didn't react, but Chu Sen was startled.

"Princess, where are you going tonight?"

"Go to Yongde Palace. ”

"You're going to spot check Empress Dowager Zheng's Yongde Palace in the palace? Are you crazy?"

Seeing that Chu Tianqi's face had sunk and seemed to be opposed, Temulan spoke again.

"The last time you went to Yongde Palace to save me, what strange smell did you smell?"

Chu Tianqi thought about it seriously, he didn't smell the strange smell, but he just felt that something was weird, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.

Seeing that Chu Tianqi didn't answer his words, Tie Mulan knew that he didn't smell it.

"When I went to Eitokugu for the first time three months ago, I only smelled a strange putrid stench in the main hall, and the last time I entered the gate of Eitokugu Palace, I smelled the stench of decay. ”

"How is it possible? It is Yongde Palace, where Empress Dowager Zheng lives, how can it smell?" Although Zhang Mingqiu has never been to Empress Dowager Zheng's Yongde Palace, he also knows that this kind of thing is absolutely impossible. Who is Empress Dowager Zheng? For example, the most noble woman today, everything is the best in the world, how can it smell bad?

"Ordinary people can't smell it. Tie Mulan stood up, walked around the ground twice, raised her head to look at Chu Tianqi, and said: "That smell is the smell of unjustly killed souls, and the number of unjustly killed people must be quite a lot, at that time I was just suspicious, but now that I think about it, that place is the most suspicious." ”