Rebirth of the special forces: the only favorite concubine in cold love

Chapter 571 Puppet Technique

Nangong Qianmo was shocked: "But Qi You and the others have inquired around, and there is no difference with what the shopkeeper said just now..."

"If it's not that this person is very good at disguising, then this Jiang Yuandao is not the same as the one I saw in Yuezhou City." Mo Tingye said in a deep voice.

Nangong Qianmo couldn't help frowning after hearing this, if the former is fine, but if it's the latter, Huai'an City will be in serious trouble!Just imagine, if the other party can even replace the prefect, how many officials in the entire Huai'an city will be replaced...

Mo Tingye raised his hand to gently smooth her brows, and persuaded: "Don't think about it so much, what is right and what is wrong, you will find out when you go to the city tomorrow."

Rao was mentally prepared, but when she saw the scene in front of her, Nangong Qianmo couldn't help being shocked—the situation in Huai'an City was far worse than imagined, there were ruins everywhere, bricks and rubble , there are very few pedestrians on the street, and each of them looks dull and lifeless. How can there be half of the glory of Huai'an City in the past!
Qi You stepped forward to stop a peddler, wanting to inquire about the situation, but the peddler passed him straight away as if he hadn't seen him, and left, "Hey, what do you mean..."

Nangong Qianmo stopped him, and shook his head slightly at him.

"Boss, there seems to be something wrong with Huai'an City..." Qi You frowned and said in a low voice.Even if he is afraid of outsiders and doesn't dare to say more, he shouldn't have such an expression, it seems like he has been bewitched by something...

Looking at all kinds of pedestrians passing by them, Nangong Qianmo gradually formed a terrible guess in his heart. After a little thought, he said to Mo Tingye: "Well, let's split up. You and Qi You go to the prefect's mansion, and Han Che and I go to get drunk." Take a look at Qinglou. Meet here before sunset."

Just when the two were about to leave, Nangong Qianmo said worriedly: "Be careful in everything, don't startle the snake!"　
Mo Tingye nodded: "You too."

Like other shops on the street, half of the signboard of Zuiqinglou was missing and hung crookedly at the door. The door of the shop was ajar, obviously it had been abandoned for a long time.Han Che stepped forward to push open the door, and a burst of dust rushed towards his face.

"Ahem——" Han Che couldn't help coughing a few times, and then covered his lips and nose and walked in, "Master, take a quick look!" He pointed to a dusty account book on the table.

Nangong Qianmo immediately stepped forward, only to see that half of the flame symbol was hastily drawn on the opened account book. Judging from the ink marks, it should be that there was an accident before the complete pattern was drawn in a hurry.

"The Zuiqing Building in Huai'an City lost contact with the pavilion two months ago. Although the scene here is chaotic, there is no blood. It should be caused by a sudden attack. It seems that someone has taken them." Nangong Qian After looking around for a week, Mo analyzed.

Han Che frowned and thought deeply: "The rules in the pavilion are that there must be masters sitting in Zuiqinglou everywhere. It stands to reason that they shouldn't all be captured so quietly..."

"What if the opponent is a master of Gu?"

Han Che was startled: "Will anyone be able to use Gu techniques in such a short period of time?"

Nangong Qianmo patted the dust off his hands, with a serious expression on his face: "Let's go, go upstairs and see if there are any clues left behind."

At sunset, when Nangong Qianmo and Han Che arrived at the city gate, Mo Tingye and Qi You had already been waiting for a long time.

"How's the situation?" Seeing that the two of them finally appeared, Mo Tingye asked first.

"This is not a place to talk." Nangong Qianmo said in a low voice, then walked towards the alley not far away.The three of them followed her to an inconspicuous small courtyard.

After closing the courtyard door and making sure that there is no one around, Nangong Qianmo said, "It is basically certain that all the people in Zuiqing Building were captured in a short period of time. I suspect that the other party is a master of Gu, and it is very likely that they are The sound Gu in Zhao Yurou's body." Apart from the sound Gu, there is probably no second answer that can quickly sweep a large area within a short period of time.

"How about the prefect's mansion?"

When mentioning the prefect's mansion, Mo Tingye's expression darkened: "The guards are heavily guarded and it is difficult to get close. Even the guards in front of the mansion are rare masters, but there is a strange thing - when we were inquiring about the situation, Qi You I deliberately pretended to accidentally bump into one of them, and found that the person was abnormally cold, with a bit of bruise on his forehead, like..."

"Like a dead person." Nangong Qianmo accepted the words, and his heart sank a little.

"Exactly!" Qi You nodded heavily.

Mo Tingye's mind was sharp, and a flash of deep thought flashed across his brows, and he asked, "What did Mo'er guess?"

"Puppet art." Nangong Qianmo spit out three words from his mouth, and then explained: "The so-called puppet art is the highest state of Gu art. It uses Gu insects to manipulate people's minds, and turns people into things that can be used by the Gu people." A puppet. According to reports, this kind of puppet has no thoughts of its own and only knows how to obey the orders of its master, but its explosive power is more than ten times that of the original one, and it does not know the pain."

Thinking of the companions in the pavilion who were captured in Zuiqinglou, Han Che controlled his breathing, and asked cautiously: "Then these puppets controlled by Gu insects..."

"Dead." Nangong Qianmo tried to make her voice sound calmer, but there was still a slight tremor at the moment when the words came out.

Han Che's face suddenly turned pale, he clenched the long sword in his hand, and asked unwillingly: "Then what if we try to take out the Gu worms in their bodies?"

Nangong Qianmo closed her eyes and said, "As early as the moment the puppets were trained, they died."

"Hiss!" Qi You couldn't help gasping for breath after hearing this, feeling horrified in his heart, "According to this, aren't all the numb-looking people we saw during the day... puppets!" The dead people in the city were wandering around, and he couldn't help but get a chill down his spine.

The four of them were silent for a long time, Nangong Qianmo said in a deep voice, "I'm worried about another thing now..."

Mo Tingye exchanged glances with her, "Mo'er mean those forced laborers?"

Nangong Qianmo nodded, with a solemn tone: "According to what the shopkeeper said yesterday, Jiang Yuandao expropriated these coolies to repair the city walls and streets, but have we seen any traces of repairs along the way? So the question Come on, where have all these coolies gone, and what are they doing?"

Is it...

"Imperial Tomb!" Mo Tingye and Nangong Qianmo said in unison.

Qi You suddenly understood, and thought seriously: "That's right! The underground palace that Pei Ruoshui explained is under the imperial mausoleum. Although Mount Jiuhua has been razed to the ground, the force of the explosion is not enough to destroy the buried underground palace and disappear. These people are likely to be imprisoned in the underground palace."

(End of this chapter)