Published at 29th of October 2020 04:41:15 AM
Chapter 194: Chapter 194 - The Tunnel Monster
Although dressed like a servant, Leng Changxi still showed a kind of majesty that specially belonged to a royal descendant because of his handsome face, persistency and dignity .
“Grandma, I’m sorry for making you worry about me . ” Leng Changxi stepped forward and cupped his hands towards Old Madam . Then, he turned to Queen Mother, who stared at him all the time, and said, “Your Highness, thank you for your care . ”
It was reflected from her eyes that Queen Mother was moved . Leng Changxi nominally was Prince Ning’s exalted son, but actually, he was her grandson, which was to say, he was her most beloved daughter’s child .
Queen Mother nodded and showed no expression . However, she was really emotional inside and couldn’t calm down .
Leng Changxi turned back and took a look at Sima Han who didn’t look as dull as he was in the palace just now but smart and firm .
“I knew it was you who sent the message . ” Sima Han nodded and said .
Standing near the bed to check Emperor Zhaoxuan up, Leng Changxi frowned and said, “Last night, I took my 18 shadow guards to the palace . But we were late to stop everything from happening . When we arrived, Your Majesty got angry in the Qiankun Palace, ordering to imprison Prince Qiu in the Imperial Court . Princess Jing forced Infanta Zhaojing to come back to their mansion . Then Your Majesty felt heart pain, went faint and fell to the ground . When I noticed dangers and tended to take shadow guards to leave, we were already trapped . But we had prepared for this in advance . Thus, all my guards have escaped successfully, although they are not together now . Of them, Leng Wu is most seriously injured while some have minor injuries . ”
“Why would you take risks to come here?” Old Madam couldn’t help worrying about that Leng Changxi would be caught .
Leng Changxi pulled on Emperor Zhaoxuan’s eyelids and found from his eyes that he had no vital signs . Under such circumstances, he was either dead or temporarily losing the sensory perception, a result of taking a high dose of ecstasy powder .
“It is because I knew Yunuan would come to find me out of worry . ” After he finished, Old Madam sighed . He was right . Qin Yunuan indeed went here too, but she was missing . “You two,” Old Madam shook her head and continued, “You both are worrying . ”
Leng Changxi felt Emperor Zhaoxuan’s pulse and concluded, “Your Majesty is fine, but he has been controlled by some unknown drugs . ”
“You mean?” Sima Han stepped forward and asked .
Leng Changxi squinted and looked serious, “It is a kind of mind-control ecstasy drugs from the Western Regions . It is made of five kinds of poisonous insects . People can use some special instructions, an action, an instrument or some scent for example, to control the drug taker . So when Your Majesty wakes up, it’s highly possible that he is already under someone’s control . We can’t believe what he says . ”
“It must be Sima Ray doing this . ” Sima Han said immediately . “We should carefully check what strange objects he has latter . ”
“He disdains to do this by himself . ” Leng Changxi knew Sima Ray very well . “Don’t you remember Doctor Zhao, Sima Ray’s loyal henchman? I assume that it is Doctor Zhao who takes the object which can issue instructions . ”
“But I wonder how Sima Ray managed to put the drug in father’s meals that several eunuchs had tasted for safety and that many guards were protecting . ” Sima Han was confused . “Does he have some secret trump cards?”
Leng Changxi shook his head . Although it was unclear how Sima Ray did this, one thing for sure was that he was a human, and every human had weak points .
Right at this time, eunuchs outsides reported that Doctor Zhao was going to serve the emperor with the new medicine .
People inside looked at each other . Then Leng Changxi put on the mask made of human skin . After walking in, Doctor Zhao saw Queen Mother, who sat near the bed, looked miserable and worried, which was right what Sima Ray expected .
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“Doctor, the emperor is…”
Doctor Zhao bowed and said, “Your Highness, don’t worry . Your Majesty is just taking a nap and he will wake up soon after I insert the needles . ”
As usual, Doctor Zhao took out a bunch of medical silver needles from his case and inserted them to the emperor’s Baihui acupoint . His sleeve was sweeping over the emperor’s nose . Soon, the emperor woke up but seemed to be in a daze as if he was still dreaming .
“Your Majesty, you are awake . ”
“You all leave here . I’m tired . ” Emperor Zhaoxuan looked dull, and the first thing he did was to ask people around him to leave . They wouldn’t be willing to do so if they didn’t hear what Leng Changxi said . But now, they all understood that Doctor Zhao had controlled Emperor Zhaoxuan . All people in this palace had worked for Sima Ray now so they could do nothing .
Emperor Zhaoxuan repeated to ask people to leave in a dull way . Queen Mother shook her head and seemed helpless . “Fine . Send me back . ”
Duofu, who Leng Changxi disguised as, followed the crowd and got out of the Qiankun Palace .
“You . Wait . ” Sima Ray stood near the palace gate . At the very beginning, he thought this servant was unusual . After all, Leng Changxi’s every move and temperament were so distinct even if he changed his appearance and voice .
“Are you the servant working in Prince Fu’s mansion?” Sima Ray asked loudly .
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When Leng Changxi, who lowered his head, was going to answer, Du Sheng walked in hurriedly and whispered to Sima Ray . Exerting his inner energy, Leng Changxi barely heard a few words like “tunnel” and “runaway” . Hearing what Du Sheng said, Sima Ray had no mood to interrogate Leng Changxi and just murmured, “Damn . Qin Yunzhuang . ” Then he directly headed to the Jingchen Palace .
In the Jingchen Palace, Qin Yunzhuang looked at the empty East Side hall in a trance . She kept asking inside, “Where is Qin Yunuan?”
“What are you doing here?” Sima Ray shouted in a cold way . Qin Yunzhuang was terrified, and she directly dropped the pastries she held .
“I…” Qin Yunzhuang had nothing to say and stammered, “I’m afraid that Yunuan will get hungry after staying here for a long time, so I bring her some pastries . ”
“Bring her pastries?” Sima Ray angrily stamped on those delicate osmanthus pastries . “You actually want to add something to the pastries, right? I know it is you that ask servants to break this door . Qin Yunzhuang, I know what you want to do . This is the last time I warn you . If you dare to hurt her, I will kill you . ”
While saying this, Sima Ray chocked Qin Yunzhuang and pressed her against the padauk-made carved door . The delicate makeup on her face was already massed up . Sima Ray was so indifferent and didn’t stop chocking her . Moreover, she couldn’t believe that she was the loser at the very beginning, namely before she married to him . She didn’t expect that she would fail to earn Sima Ray’s favor even after she helped him so much to trick people and usurp power . He still loved that bitch .
“Get out . ” Sima Ray heavily kicked Qin Yunzhuang and ordered Du Sheng to take her back to the bedroom . Then, he rushed to the tunnel entrance which was on the wall .
Only a few knew this entrance, and most of them already died . Last time, Sima Ray took Qin Yunzhuang to walk through this tunnel to the lotus pond, letting her see how Qin Linfeng was drowned in person . But at that time, he didn’t take her directly to the destination . Instead, he covered her eyes and took a detour . He knew that Qin Yunzhuang wouldn’t be that smart to figure out where the existence of the tunnel was .
The switch used to open the tunnel was placed on a painting on which a garden in Spring was drawn . Sima Ray twisted the switch which was on the branch of a kapok tree . When the heavy flagstone tunnel door opened, he took a deep breath . He started to secretly build this tunnel after he was adopted by Empress Chen and lived in the Jingchen Palace . It was finished three years ago, and in all, he spent ten years on this project .
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This tunnel was connected to many places, including the emperor’s Qiankun Palace, Empress Chen’s palace and a path through which people could directly go out of the palace . Qin Yunuan must have escaped through this tunnel . It was fine if she just ran away from here . If she found out the biggest secret here, it would…While thinking of this, Sima Ray walked faster .
The passage in the tunnel grew narrower and narrower until it reached a giant dug hole from which a cold breeze came . This three-meter-high hole was spacious, but people still could smell some copper-made objects and the stink of rotten wounds . From time to time, a kind of deep and lowering roar could be heard . It sounded as if a trapped monster was growling .
Sima Ray walked in slowly . There was a dirty beast tied up with four arm-thick iron chains, of which a round lock was on the end . In the middle of the lock was the sharp and thin iron spike . Spikes had stabbed into the beast’s lambs, and in this way, it was locked up .
As the beast struggled, its blood would fly along the iron chain, feeding bloodsuckers on the wet wall of the one-meter-deep hole under this “cage” . These bloodsuckers were already full enough .
Covering his mouth and nose, Sima Ray took a look at the hole . When he made sure everything was fine and was ready to leave, a cold female voice suddenly came to him . “Good trick . If I didn’t see this in person, I would never believe that the General Meng, who was training soldiers in the suburbs, was a fake . The real general should be here . ”
Sima Ray turned back abruptly and found that Qin Yunuan had followed him all the time . He squinted and knew he was tricked . This woman really got something . Before he opened the tunnel, she might merely know there was a tunnel but didn’t know where it was, let alone the terrifying cage in it .
Qin Yunuan knew Sima Ray was skeptical, so the first thing he would do after coming into the tunnel was to make sure everything was fine . However, he didn’t notice that Qin Yunuan followed him and saw everything .
Sima Ray put on a murderous look . “Even though I love you, I won’t easily set you free now that you have seen everything here . ”
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