That night, there were several poisoning and assassination incidents in the capital of Anguo, and more than 20 innocent people inexplicably lost their lives, which once again caused a lot of panic and almost crushed Gu Shenwei's improvised army.

The traitors of Xiaoyuetang originally wanted to assassinate the Imperial Master and Lotus Girl in the Wind Swallowing Valley, but after failing to do so, they fled all the way, and when they found that there was no way out, their madness came up, and they planned to fight the enemy to the death in the densely populated capital.

However, they finally maintained a trace of sanity, and did not keep the immortal corpse poison for use in the capital, but set it up in the post station on the way early, otherwise, the people in the city would be buried together, and even they themselves would not be able to escape death.

The first poisoning incident happened to a guard, someone asked to see him outside, the guard came in to report, just opened his mouth to say a word, the poison attacked, he seemed to be drowning suddenly, his face was red, his hands stuck in his throat, almost strangled himself, the air could not enter, but there was something in the body to come out, and he opened his mouth to squirt out a large amount of milky white liquid, and the range was near.

Gu Shenwei had been guarding against Xiaoyuetang's methods, so he reacted extremely quickly, as soon as the guards squirted out the liquid, he drew his knife and rushed over, cutting off the head with a knife, and then stepped aside and explained to the other guards who were stunned: "He was poisoned by the witch, and the things he spewed out were also poisonous." ”

Sure enough, the milky white liquid was corrosive, and where it fell, it turned a small piece of slate floor in the tax hall into a pothole.

Everyone's faces changed, believing the words of the new General Gu, but there was no doubt in their hearts, "The poison of the witch?"

Of course, Gu Shenwei couldn't let the guards plant the poisoning incident on the Great Snow Mountain, and it was too troublesome to explain the struggle between the two groups of people in Xiaoyue Hall, so he made up a story, "Well, this is a group of witches who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, they want to provoke a war so that they can profit from it, and I have been tracking them." ”

Everyone was even more surprised, Gu Shenwei paused for a while, and after everyone accepted this sensational news a little, he struck while the iron was hot, "We can't sit still, we have to take the initiative to kill the witch." ”

The Lotus Girl appeared at the door and held out a finger at Gu Shenwei, which indicated that she had killed the poisoner, and there were still seven traitors left in Xiaoyue Hall.

The second city-wide manhunt begins, this time targeting not the young man who is in hiding, but the terrible witch.

The disciples of Xiaoyue Hall are good at disguise, and it is difficult to identify them from their appearance, so Gu Shenwei reminded everyone to pay more attention to single women, and once they found something abnormal, they should not do anything, but immediately send someone to report to the general.

Gu Shenwei sat in the tax department, and the Dutch girl was secretly vigilant on the periphery.

The first poisoning failed, and the Xiaoyuetang traitors changed their strategy.

The guards hurriedly came in to report that a family three streets away had been killed, and six people had died violently, and the soldiers who searched the city strictly followed the general's orders and did not go in to conduct a detailed search.

The six of them were poisoned to death at first glance, their faces were purple, and their eyes were violent, but the corpse itself was not harmful, and the lotus girl pointed to the half-cut candle on the table, "Pear blossom incense candle, if anyone accidentally lights it, they will be poisoned to death immediately." ”

The candle looked extremely ordinary, and if it weren't for General Gu's strict order in advance, the soldiers would probably light it easily.

That night, Gu Shenwei had eaten a large number of pills, and he had no choice but to trust the Lotus Girl, which guaranteed that he could resist most of the Xiaoyue Hall poisons.

A similar trick to lure the enemy, the Xiaoyuetang traitors used it four more times, killing and injuring many innocent people, and three careless soldiers died just because they moved the chairs that stood in the way.

Panic grew uncontrollably, the death toll was exaggerated, and more and more people broke the curfew and rushed into the streets, some to the docks, some to the city gates, all wanting to leave the city shrouded in death.

Many soldiers dropped their weapons and joined the panicked crowd.

Among the temporary army of thousands of people, there are very few credible people, and Wu Zongheng, the leader of the guards, is one of them, Gu Shenwei ordered him to lead a hundred people equipped with weapons to defend the city wall, and no one who has nothing to do is allowed to go up, as for several city gates, the keys are all kept by General Gu himself.

Next, Gu Shenwei had to spend a little time stabilizing the morale of the army, patrolling around, encouraging those who stuck to their posts, punishing those who left their posts without permission, and announcing the true death toll to convince everyone that the situation was not as terrible as imagined.

Of all the measures, the most effective were the corpses of several "shrine maidens".

The Lotus Girl knows the methods of her fellow disciples well, and every time the other party sets a trap, clues will be exposed, and the Lotus Girl touches the melons and kills them one by one.

The arrest of the "witch" showed that General Gu was able to stop more poisoning, and the news made everyone very excited, first the soldiers gradually stabilized, and then the people of the whole city also turned from panic to wait-and-see.

After the third watch of the night, a total of fifteen shrine maidens were killed in the city, and only seven of them were true traitors to Xiaoyuetang, most of them died under the sword of the Dutch maiden, and only one was hacked to death by the soldiers while resisting ordinary inspections.

Eight others were killed by mistake simply because they looked strange and were single and unaccompanied.

The search for the shrine maiden is showing signs of getting out of control.

Gu Shenwei immediately ordered the killing to be stopped, claiming that the witch had been eliminated and that the city-wide search had been converted to normal patrols.

In fact, there is still one Xiaoyuetang traitor missing.

Guan Shang has not made a move, although she is a disciple of Xiaoyuetang and admires the secret arts, but she has been in Jinpeng Fort martial arts since elementary school, and she is not good at poisoning, so she stayed out of the matter several times.

The capital city of Anguo is not particularly large, accommodating tens of thousands of people is already crowded, Gu Shenwei participated in the inspection of almost all areas, and finally concluded that the customs merchants could only hide in one place.

The Dutch Maiden thought the same way as he did.

The soldiers' trust and reverence for General Gu increased every moment, although they were still far from going to the soup, but General Gu's orders would basically be strictly enforced, and this time, they retreated.

"This is the royal palace. One soldier whispered, incredulous at the general's decision.

The royal palace is the only place in the capital that has not been searched.

Although the king and queen fled, the palace was not empty, and many eunuchs and maids were left behind, and it is said that there was also a princess.

Anguo is located on the edge of the Western Regions, but it has been established for a long time, and the people's respect for the royal family is deep-rooted.

Gu Shenwei did not force the soldiers to break into the palace, and there was only one Guan Shang left, and he and the lotus girl could deal with it.

So he placed a large number of soldiers around the palace and ordered them to kill anyone who escaped if they found it.

Nearly four watch days, Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl sneaked into the palace over the wall, but the soldiers didn't find it, thinking that General Gu had gone back to rest.

The palace is not particularly large, far less than Jinpeng Castle, and even inferior to the private residence of the Meng family in Biyu City.

After a brief search, the two set their sights on the innermost room.

Pushing open the door, the two of them went in one after the other and saw Guan Shang.

Guan Shang gave up hiding, and in front of the Dragon King and the Lotus Maiden, the killer's stealth skills were of little use, and she resorted to a simpler method: taking hostages.

Guan Shang's narrow knife rested on the neck of an elderly woman, and four maids collapsed in a pool of blood nearby.

The woman was dressed in loose pajamas, and although she was frightened, she still had a touch of nobility, and she was obviously the master of the living palace.

There was a princess who did not flee with the king.

But Gu Shenwei didn't understand the significance of the customs businessman's move, and he wouldn't be jealous because of this.

Guan Shang was also very aware of this, so she immediately explained, "This is the queen mother of Anguo, the king's biological mother. ”

This still didn't make sense to Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl, and the two of them looked around carefully, although Guan Shang should be the last traitor of Xiaoyuetang, but he couldn't be careless.

"She is also the princess of the Central Plains. Guan Shang threw out the real threat, "The Dragon King wants to compete with Jinpeng Castle for hegemony in the Western Regions, and it is best to let the princess live." ”

The Dragon King and the Central Plains have actually broken up, only nominally allies, Guan Shang knows this clearly, but she is right, the Central Plains was caught off guard by the alliance of Jinpeng Fort and Beiting, temporarily in a weak position, no counterattack ability, but still one of the most important forces in the Western Regions, the Dragon King wants to return to the Western Regions, only the 10,000 patchwork army will not help, sooner or later he will have to compromise with the Central Plains.

"The Dragon King is a good means. Guan Shang continued, "I have deceived the people of the whole city, but sooner or later I have to tell my true identity, the Central Plains Lord will die in front of you, and the army of the Great Snow Mountain will fall into isolation, and the Central Plains will not forgive you." ”

Guan Shang's words are somewhat accurate, Gu Shen is a native of the Central Plains, he knows the code of conduct of the Central Plains court, and the emperor may ignore these princesses who marry away from foreign countries for the rest of his life, but once the princess is bullied, it is a challenge to the imperial power, and there have been many wars for this reason in the past hundred years.

However, time has changed, and the Central Plains' control over the Western Regions has been greatly weakened, and the closest army to Angola is thousands of miles away.

Gu Shenwei snorted, his eyes didn't even look at the two women, holding the unsheathed Wufeng Knife, he slowly walked around the maid in the pool of blood, "Which emperor's princess are you?"

The Queen Mother, who was kidnapped by Guan Shang, was frightened this night, and could only barely maintain her composure, and answered the Dragon King's simple question for a while before answering, "My father is Emperor An." ”

Emperor An was the emperor of the Central Plains three generations ago, and after calculation, the Empress Dowager An is the aunt of the current emperor of the Central Plains, and her rank is not low.

"Why didn't you run away with the king?" Gu Shenwei asked unhurriedly, his tone seemed to be chatting, and he didn't seem to care about the "Central Plains Princess".

"He is a disobedient unfilial son, betrayed the Central Plains, surrendered to the self-proclaimed Dubu King, and I have severed the mother-son relationship with him. Are you really a dragon king?"

"Hmm. ”

"General Gu was also elected by the people in the city?"

"Hmm. ”

The Queen Mother sighed lightly, not knowing whether to admire or be disappointed.

Gu Shenwei was sure that there was no one else in the room, so he turned to Guan Shang and said, "It's really strange, I haven't seen you for a few months, your sword skills have dropped a lot, and you can shed so much blood when you kill a few palace maids." ”

As soon as Gu Shenwei's words fell, the four maids who fell in a pool of blood "came back from the dead", and attacked at the same time, all of whom were Lotus girls.

These four people are flexible and fast, not weaker than Guan Shang at all, and they don't look like disciples of Xiaoyue Hall at all.

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