By the time the hunched-backed man delivered the last load of corpses, it was already dark.
After he left, Lu Xiaofeng stepped forward and looked through the body parts, not caring about the dirt at all.
But before that, he put the rusty sword in a place far away where the smell of corpses could hardly be smelled, in order to prevent the rusty sword from getting dirty.
After a while, Chu Qi saw him coming back.
As he walked, he wiped his hands with a silk handkerchief. After wiping it clean, he had no place to dispose of it, so he had to stuff the silk handkerchief back into his clothes.
"Let's go, Chu Qi, go back. I just discovered something incredible."
He said this, but he made no move to pick up the rusty sword again. Not only that, he even strode forward immediately after finishing his words, without any intention of waiting for her.
Chu Qi stared at his back for a while, not sure whether he meant what she understood by doing this. After thinking for a while, seeing that the person was almost gone, she changed back to her human form, first facing the chaos. The burial mound bowed before going after the man.
She trotted forward and caught up with Lu Xiaofeng in a few steps. She patted his shoulder gently and then walked side by side with him.
Lu Xiaofeng paused for a moment before continuing to move forward.
——It’s okay, you don’t need to bear this alone.
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It was daylight. Lu Xiaofeng had already taken a shower and changed his clothes. He was now recounting what he had seen last night with Huamanlou. When he talked about the corpses that had been destroyed and then randomly discarded in mass graves, he seemed particularly excited. Angry.
He and Chu Qi had been hurrying all the way since they left the mass grave, and finally returned to the inn before the sun came up. Once they returned to the inn, Chu Qi could no longer maintain his human form and turned back into the appearance of a rusty sword.
Just like a zombie, it disappears when exposed to light.
Lu Xiaofeng was also stuffed into the bathtub by Hua Manlou. As for the dirty clothes he changed into, of course they were all thrown into the brazier and burned clean, ensuring that no evidence against us would be left.
"Although their heads were smashed and their faces were mutilated beyond recognition, it was obvious that the people who did the work were very perfunctory and the skin behind the ears of the corpses was not even cleaned."
"I checked it very carefully. There are no traces of tattoos at all. You all know what this means, right?"
Lu Xiaofeng said angrily, and at the end he couldn't help but take a big sip of tea to calm his inner anger.
"The name of the new king is Falcon, and the dead soldiers who were rescued also have falcons tattooed on their bodies. I think they are the king's people."
With the rusty sword placed on the table, Chu Qi followed up and expressed his opinion angrily.
"Not really. Although all the clues currently point to the new king, I always feel... it's too obvious and too deliberate."
Hua Manlou listened in silence and expressed different opinions. Then he continued: "If the official document is submitted smoothly, we will be able to see this 'Falcon' in less than two days. We will observe it carefully then." It’s not too late.”
"Forget it, the soldiers will come to cover up the water and earth."
Lu Xiaofeng nodded and was about to pick up the rusty sword and go back to the room to catch up on some sleep. Unexpectedly, the door to the room was pushed open by Lao Bu the next second. He said that the prime minister here had sent someone to invite them to visit the house.
"Is he the old prime minister who is in an awkward position now?"
Lu Xiaofeng joked and turned to look at Huamanlou, ready to listen to his idea.
"...Since everyone has come to invite us, let's go and have a look."
Huamanlou agreed, and everyone immediately went downstairs.
As soon as I walked out of the inn door, I saw a large and luxuriously decorated carriage with four white horses riding side by side. Each one was kept smooth and in excellent condition.
Different from the carriages in the Central Plains, the carriages in the Golden Eyes Kingdom have a dome, and a golden bead is inlaid on the top, which shines in the sunlight.
Not only does this carriage resemble a large bulging pumpkin, but the upper and lower parts of the carriage are also made of gold-plated iron bars bent into various patterns, making it look particularly like a pumpkin vine.
After Lu Xiaofeng got in the car, she looked around and poked here and there with a rusty sword from time to time, which annoyed Chu Qi. If there were no outsiders outside, she would have cursed.
The carriage bumped back and forth in the market, and soon it turned into a large courtyard.
To everyone's surprise, the prime minister actually brought people to greet them personally.
He kept his posture extremely low.
He was an extremely thin old man, with gentle brows, a straight back, and a wisp of beard under his chin. He was wearing a simple robe that was not suitable for this compound.
He seems to be a very kind old man.
