C321 Tracing the cause of death(2)

Xiao Yi Xiu called Suifeng over to ask around and found out that not only Zhou Zhen and Little Chan had disappeared, even Xing'er and Rui Zhu who were secretly monitoring them had also disappeared.

"When the king ordered the whole city to investigate, he kept investigating the whereabouts of all four of them. He never found them. That's weird. The entire capital is only so big, yet we can't find any clues. Isn't that weird?"

"It's not that strange. There are some places that we can't reach, or that we can't easily find." Xiao Yixiu's indifferent gaze landed on a distant place.

For example, the imperial palace, for example, those few royal palaces … The tight guards were destined that even if his forces could infiltrate in, they wouldn't be able to reach every nook and cranny.

The emperor and the few princes all had their own secret forces. More or less, they were all on high alert. How could they be so easily searched through every inch of land by him?

"Continue issuing orders for the Dark Pavilion to use all of their power to search for these four people. Even if they find them, don't act blindly without thinking, and report to me first."

"Yes."

Xiao Yixiu walked silently towards the direction of Zhou Zhen's Yu Muxuan. Since she had disappeared from that place and had lived there for several months, there must have been traces left behind by her.

After the rain, he suddenly heard the chattering of a singing voice, followed by a long and sad melody. It was Wu Yu singing: "Like this is true and false, making people hate you, like this is so cold and gloomy …" "Furthermore, you used people as a puppet to tie them together, causing so many ghosts to be left in the mortal world …"

Xiao Yi Xiu suddenly stopped and looked into the courtyard. He could hear the singing coming from behind the shadow wall. Shui Xiu's shadow turned and fluttered about. Even though it was a clear day, it still made people feel lonely and cold, and a little ghastly.

"Your Highness." Liu Yanyu followed behind him, reminding him to walk forward.

Xiao Yi Xiu, on the other hand, remained standing and unmoving. He was deep in thought as he stared at the rainwater.

As Liu Yanyu listened attentively to a few words, Wu Yu started singing again, "…" "Thousands upon thousands of snowflakes fell, leaving behind a lingering poison on the human world. Upon seeing the heart of the Blood Seal Throat's woman, it became like a wasp's tail needle …"

Xiao Yixiu had already stepped into the courtyard, so Liu Yanyu had no choice but to follow.

He turned around and the courtyard was swept clean, revealing a clean, neat, greyish stone floor. Wu Yu was dressed in a pear garden outfit. His sleeves danced as he sang a sad melody. His eyes were deep and hard to see through.

"Rui Zhu has always been waiting on you. Since when did she change?"

Liu Yan's eyebrows knitted together. Although this Lady Wu only entered the palace after he left, the matters of the Residence of the Prince of Mo had already spread around the capital. Who didn't know that he had heard that this woman had gone mad for a long time?

Sure enough, Wu Yu ignored them and continued singing her song, waving his sleeves.

"Zhou Zhen and Little Chan are both missing, so you don't have to worry about them harming you."

Wu Yu's movements slowed down, and he looked at Xiao Yixiu with sadness in his eyes.

"This King knows that you know full well that Ming Zhu died. The reason you've been pretending to be crazy for so long is to protect yourself, right?" "Xiao Yi Xiu's tone was cold and mocking, and it carried an almost imperceptible killing intent." If not for your act of hiding it and pretending to be crazy, This King would have known that Zhou Zhen was in trouble.

Liu Yanyu was slightly surprised. Why did he think Wu Yu was pretending to be crazy? If he had known, why didn't he come and interrogate them?

Wu Yu stopped and slowly lowered his head, looking weak and afraid.

After a long time, she whispered, "I'm afraid of death. They're ghosts. They're real ghosts …" The fear in her eyes became more and more obvious, as if she was recalling something.

"Your lyrics are reminding this duke. Do you still think that their people are still in the Prince's Mansion?"

"I don't know, I don't know!" Wu Yu hugged his shoulder, his body slightly twitching, still in a posture full of resistance.

Her vision blurred, and before she knew it, Xiao Yi Xiu had already appeared in front of her. He reached out and grabbed her throat, and with a slight tug of his slender fingers, he was able to break her delicate neck. His voice was cold and without the slightest emotion. "You have no choice. If you continue to run away, this king will make you die here."

Wu Yu continued to tremble under his palms, his tears flowing uncontrollably. After a while, he said while trembling: "I don't know …" "I don't know anything. Prince, please let me go …"

The memory of that night was too much for her to remember.

Xiao Yi Xiu didn't show any mercy, so no matter how hard he tried with his finger, Wu Yu's throat made a gurgling sound, and his eyes almost bulged out of his eyes, making him unable to say anything.

Following that, he loosened his grip and let go of her. A few red finger marks appeared on his throat.

Wu Yu covered his neck and coughed fiercely, unable to say a word.

Liu Yanyu felt sympathy in his heart, but he knew that she was the only clue, so he held back from going forward.

Wu Yu took a few deep breaths and looked at Xiao Yi Xiu with his pitiful eyes. However, he didn't show any emotion on his face, so she could only lower her head and say: "I have a request, can Your Highness agree?"

"Speak?"

"Hold me."

Xiao Yixiu didn't understand why she made such a request, but he still took a step forward and held her in his arms after a moment of hesitation.

Wu Yu had been shivering all the time. Xiao Yi Xiu could feel her fear even through the clothes he wore. He realized that she wasn't asking for any of that. He just wanted to give her some courage. He reached out his hand and lightly patted her back. "Rest assured, this king will protect you to the fullest."

"You can't, Your Royal Highness, you can't." She began to think back to that night.

She opened her eyes in the moonlight and saw a woman in white with black hair slowly approaching the edge of her bed. She slowly bent down and smiled at her. At that time, she was terrified, but her consciousness was still incomparably clear. She recalled that Jin Shu had told her that Madam Qin had a wild and beautiful rose on her shoulder.

Perhaps it was to confirm her guess, the white silk dress on the woman's shoulder slowly slid down, revealing the delicate rose.

Wu Yu was very timid and easily tricked by the Spirit God's words, but that didn't mean she was stupid. On the contrary, she was a very meticulous and smart woman. At the moment when she was almost scared to the point of fainting, she stared at the other party and felt that there was something wrong with the rose.

Wu Dong was an expert in painting, and knew a lot about paints. With a glance, he felt that the rose became more vivid under the moonlight, more and more feeling that it was painted with a bright color, and not a needle piercing into the skin.

There were few pigments to choose from for tattooing. After all, in order to avoid any harm to the human body, some poisonous raw ore and plant pigments such as cinnabar, yellow female, silver, and rattan yellow could not be used. And this bright-colored rose, was precisely the color of the cinnabar.

If the rose tattoo was fake and the ghost lady was dressed like a human, then what was her real purpose? It wasn't just to scare him for fun, was it?

As he thought of this, Wu Yu screamed miserably and fainted.