Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 305 Arrived in Time (Part [-])
Li Heng said with a serious face: "I will keep Li Yi's blood. If it can be saved, it is the best. If not, then kill them all. You said that the resentful souls in their bodies will leave after Li Yi's death..."

"Wait a while, the sequence needs to be clarified. First let the resentful spirits come out of the child's body, and then kill Li Yi, and then those resentful spirits can leave."

"What if...you didn't leave?"

Wu Chen shook his head honestly and said:

"I don't know. If I meet them, I can find a way to send them away. If I don't meet them, I have no way of judging what will happen to them. However, as long as people like Su Chang and Li Yi don't meet them, the harm to living people may be less."

Li Heng pondered for a moment and said: "On the official road, we found two carriages separated by more than ten miles from north to south, each carrying five children. The strange thing is that the children do not eat or drink."

"Have your men tried it?"

"I tried it. The adults are obedient, but the children don't move."

"When will they arrive in Kyoto?"

"Tomorrow morning we will enter the city successively."

Wu Chen raised his eyebrows, and asked angrily, "If I don't ask, are you going to do it quietly?"

"Xing Yun takes people tonight..."

"Yuanniang has been poisoned by insects for a short time, and she can tear apart a strong man with her hands. Those children have already been poisoned deeply. What kind of power will they have? Xing Yun may be able to do it, but what about the people he brought? Why didn't you tell me about it?"

Li Heng frowned and said, "It's not that I can't see the ghost, Xing Yun and the others will be able to solve it."

"Xing Yun can see me too, can he solve me?" Wu Chen stood up angrily, and asked, "Which direction? Maybe I still have a chance to chase after them now. Did they bring Li Yi's blood?"

"Take it. They come from the north, so they will naturally enter the north gate. I'm afraid you won't be able to make it in time. They have already set off at dusk."

"Let me try!"

After Wu Chen finished speaking, he turned and rushed out of the hall.

Sitting on the couch, Li Heng was stunned for a while.

Liu Jinzhong carefully changed to a new cup of tea, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty didn't eat much at night, what do you want to eat now?"

"You mean, I really can't kill him?"

Liu Jinzhong knew who Li Heng was talking about, but pretended to be stupid and asked, "Kill who?"

"When I saw Chen Zhong today, he cried and complained about his mistakes, and tried his best to persuade Wu Chen not to stay. If you say Chen Zhong can't be trusted, who else can I trust? I will try it with the crown prince tonight. I thought Wu Chen would be very proud, but I didn't expect him to be shocked. Alas, the crown prince respects him as a teacher, even if he can protect him for decades, but he doesn't want it. Why don't you say he doesn't want it?"

"The old slave really can't figure it out, this is a great thing."

"That's right, in Wu Chen's eyes, even the most important things are troublesome things... The fifth princess has also reached the age to discuss marriage."

"Ah?!" Liu Jinzhong realized that he had been rude after exclaiming, and quickly covered his mouth.

"He doesn't want the prince's master, but what about the son-in-law?"

Liu Jinzhong hung his head and dared not make a sound.

"Xing Yun and the others have been out of the city for more than an hour. He said he wants to try. What to try? He has infinite strength and amazing hearing. Could it be that his legs can also run faster than a horse's hoof? Hmph, I just want to see if some things can be done without him."

……

Apart from the sophomore and Xu Da, few people knew about Wu Chen's fast running, and no one knew about the fact that he could keep running for a long time without losing his speed. So when Xing Yun saw Wu Chen, he was not so surprised but angry. He thought that the officials had arranged for Wu Chen to follow behind them all the time.

"Why did you wait until now to show up?!"

Wu Chen was very surprised. He thought that Xing Yun's people would suffer losses, but he didn't expect such a tragedy.

Originally, the two carriages went back and forth along the way, and they never went together. This is when they will enter the capital tomorrow, and the carriage in front will stop at the side of the road to wait for the one behind.

Xing Yun thought that taking advantage of the darkness of night, as long as he surrounds the two carriages and fires all arrows, the errand will be completed. As for whether those children will have a chance to save them, Xing Yun thinks it is purely due to Wu Chen's indecision. Such children, without their parents, will suffer a lifetime even if they are rescued.

It's a pity that the adults who escorted the children were not vegetarians. They had already sensed something was wrong when Xing Yun brought people close, and they didn't give Xing Yun the chance to surround him at all.

The bows and arrows prepared by Xing Yun and the others were useless in hand-to-hand combat, but because of their large number of people, they didn't panic. Xing Yun didn't even make a move, but after the fight, Xing Yun found that these adults were very skilled.

The children in the car were motionless at first, but after Xing Yun made a move, the children in the car got off.

Even though Xing Yun told the guards how scary the children were when they came, these guards had never seen them with their own eyes, so they underestimated the enemy, and because they were soft-hearted and couldn't bear to attack the children, they gave the children a chance.

As long as the child grabs the skirt of a person, that person will have no chance to swing his sword to kill him. One second he felt unbearable, and the next second he will be torn into two pieces. There is no chance to scream. Blood and viscera are sprayed everywhere. Even though it is dark night, the scarlet is still dazzling.

Who has seen such scenes?
This Xing Yun has seen the tragedy of the Yu Mansion after the incident, but he has never seen the incident with his own eyes. At this time, he is determined and ruthless. Seeing the viscera all over the place, his hands trembled, and he could only shout wildly: "Don't let the children get close, kill them!"

The ten expressionless children were not afraid of swords, and they stretched out their hands to grab them. The guards yelled for courage, and cut off the arms of four children in an instant, but the children with broken arms continued to move forward as if nothing happened at all. The guards were frightened, and their movements were deformed. Some guards were caught by the children when they dodged...

Xing Yun and the guards paid too much attention to the children's movements, which gave the adults a chance, and soon Xing Yun and the guards were injured.

When Wu Chen arrived, he happened to see Xing Yun being stabbed again. Xing Yun thought that Wu Chen had been following him, so he was naturally annoyed.

And the strong smell of blood made Wu Chen unspeakably manic. He ignored why Xing Yun asked such a question, but shouted:

"Take your people and retreat! Leave the rest to me!"

Hearing this sentence, Xing Yun almost burst into tears. He gritted his teeth and shouted: "Everyone listen to the order and retreat!"

They wanted to run without an order, but when they heard the order, all the guards retreated in a flash. The sudden change made the adults a little unresponsive. They just hesitated for a while whether to chase, and this moment of hesitation was Wu Chen's opportunity.

(End of this chapter)