Origin

After reading the words on the note, Wu Zhongyuan suddenly felt a chill in his heart. In order to prevent everyone in the room from noticing the abnormality and affecting the ongoing Five Elements test, he forcibly restrained himself from leaving his seat and standing up.

"What do you think?" Wu Zhongyuan looked forward.

Wu Di took a deep breath, stabilized her emotions, pondered for a moment and said, "There is something fishy about this matter."

"Say." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"This is the news sent back by the Xiong Clan's team originally stationed in Lianshan," Wu Di said. "These people cannot get close to the palace. Unless Prince Jiang was attacked in public, they would not be able to get such important news. .”

Wu Di paused for a moment while Wu Zhongyuan relaxed his brows and tried to keep his expression natural, "Go on."

Wu Di said, "The banner says he was assassinated. The word "death" means that the details of the news sent back confirm that Prince Jiang is dead. However, if the assassin kills Prince Jiang, unless his head is cut off, it will severely damage Prince Jiang, and everyone in Lianshan will also be killed. We took him to a safe place for treatment, and we determined that Prince Jiang had been assassinated."

Hearing Wu Di's words, Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly. What Wu Di said made sense, and there was indeed something fishy about the matter. The word "assassinated" showed that the assassin did not compete with Jiang Zheng in a big way, but secretly attacked Jiang Zheng when Jiang Zheng was not careful. , since it was a secret attack, it was impossible to cut off the head. At best, it would be a chop or a stab. How dare the bear clan secretaries in Lianshan City dare to say that Jiang Zheng was dead.

Wu Di added, "Prince Jiang has no motive for rebellion, either emotionally or rationally. I feel that this matter is not a trap."

"Could it be done by foreigners?" Wu Zhongyuan asked in a low voice.

"Don't know." Wu Di shook his head.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan turning his head to look west, Wu Di hurriedly said, "For the best policy, it is not appropriate for the Holy One to leave Youxiong. You can send someone to Lianshan to determine the whole story."

Wu Zhongyuan thought for a while and nodded in agreement, "Let Wu Junyue and Jiang Dahua rush to Lianshan immediately, and you and Li Wanzi rush to Jiuli immediately to inform Prince Li about this and ask him to take precautions."

Wu Di nodded in agreement and turned around to leave.

"Ask Jiang Dahua to take Jiang Nan," Wu Zhongyuan said solemnly, "and bring weapons."

Wu Di turned around and nodded, walked down slowly, called Wu Junyue and others' position, explained the change, and then conveyed the decree.

Hearing Wu Di's words, Wu Junyue and others frowned slightly, while Jiang Dahua's expression changed drastically.

After asking for details, the four of them immediately split up and summoned their mounts to various places, flying in low circles and heading east and west.

Jiang Nan went directly from the harem to the back mountain. Everyone in the venue knew that the four people left suddenly, but they did not know that they had already left Youxiong.

Wang Xinran came over from behind and took the rice porridge that Wu Zhongyuan had put aside, "What happened?"

"The leader of the Niu Clan was assassinated." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran was greatly surprised, "How could something like this happen at this time? You have to be careful and don't mess up."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded. He was also worried that this move was a plan by the enemy to divert the tiger away from the mountain.

Wang Xinran said nothing more and took away the bowl of rice porridge. After such a big change, Wu Zhongyuan was naturally not in the mood to eat.

Since he didn't know what had happened to the Niu tribe, Wu Zhongyuan had no choice but to make various speculations. If the news was correct and Jiang Zheng was really dead, there would be no way to find out the true motive behind why the Niu tribe and the Bird tribe joined forces to attack Youxiong. The leaders are Jiang Zheng and Li Tai's father. Li Tai's father, his grandfather, has passed away, and the only insider is Jiang Zheng himself.

Considering this point of view, the person who assassinated Jiang Zheng was probably the other five Taoists in order to silence him.

But thinking about it again, it was wrong. If Wudao wanted to silence them, they could have taken action in advance. There was no need to pick a critical moment when Youxiong was conducting a five-element test on the warrior. Could there be a deeper conspiracy hidden in this matter?

If he learns about this and rushes to Lianshan immediately, will Wudao take the opportunity to attack Youxiong?

If you think about it carefully, this possibility is not very likely, because at this time, Youxiong has not only high-level warriors from the Bear tribe, but also high-level warriors from the Ox tribe and Bird tribe. Even if he leaves, Youxiong will still be able to resist. and defense.

Since he was not trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain, could he have set up an ambush in the mountains and waited for him to fall into a trap?

However, after thinking about it, I feel that this possibility is very small. If it is just to plot against him, there is no need for the other party to assassinate Jiang Zheng. There are many ways to make him relax his vigilance, and it will be easier for the other party to succeed.

Wu Zhongyuan was confused, worried and restless throughout the afternoon. Even the mountain city was more than two thousand miles away from the bear. Wu Junyue and Jiang Dahua could not send back the news until the next watch at the earliest.

When it was time to watch, Wu Di and Li Wanzi came back first. Everything in Jiuli City was as usual, without any abnormality.

After waiting for another half an hour, Wu Junyue returned.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan, Wu Zhongyuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was getting late at this time. Although the examination was still going on, there was no need for him to sit on the chair all the time. When Wu Junyue approached, he got up and walked to the palace, "What's going on? ?”

"Prince Jiang was assassinated and died." Wu Junyue said.

"What kind of person is the murderer? Have you caught him?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wu Junyue shook her head, "No one has seen the assassin. This person used a hidden weapon from a distance. Prince Jiang was penetrated by the hidden weapon between Yintang Qiang and died of serious injuries on the spot."

"Penetrate?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned and stopped. The strong point is an acupuncture point on the back of the head. The human skull is extremely hard, and it is impossible for ordinary hidden weapons to penetrate the human head.

"Yes." Wu Junyue nodded slowly, then raised her finger and pointed, "The hidden weapon entered from the Yintang, passed through the Self-Qiang Room, and was embedded in the stone wall of the palace wall."

"Where is the hidden weapon now?" Wu Zhongyuan asked eagerly.

"I brought it back," Wu Junyue lowered her hands and untied her waist bag, opened it, reached into it and took out a gray object.

Seeing this object, Wu Zhongyuan took a breath. What Wu Junyue held in his hand turned out to be a deformed warhead. The color plating of this warhead had been worn away by the rifling, making it gray, and the warhead itself had also been severely deformed.

Wu Zhongyuan was not an expert in this field, so he took the warhead and walked to the palace gate, "Come here."

He was speaking modern language, so Wang Xinran naturally knew that he was calling her, so he stepped forward and raised his hands in greeting to the two of them.

"What is this?" Wu Zhongyuan handed the warhead to Wang Xinran.

Wang Xinran reached out to take it, frowned and looked at it under the light of the brazier, and after carefully looking at it, he returned the warhead to Wu Zhongyuan, with an unusually solemn expression on his face, "This is a 1036-caliber sniper rifle bullet, assembled in a 200 sniper rifle."

"Are they coming?" Wu Zhongyuan asked in a deep voice.

Wang Xinran nodded slowly.

Wu Zhongyuan took a deep breath to stabilize his mood. He had discussed this matter with Wang Xinran before. According to Wang Xinran, foreign hostile forces are looking for the kind of black meteorite that can create space-time formations in modern times. Facts have proved that they have indeed found it. Not only did they find it, they also copied it. He used the teleportation formation to send people back.

"You don't have to worry too much. The spiritual stones they collected can only send one person back at most." Wang Xinran said in a low voice.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer. If one of these opponents could kill someone, why would he need the second one?

Since Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran were talking in modern language, Wu Junyue gave Wang Xinran a confused look. Seeing that the two were no longer talking, Wu Junyue said again, "Your Majesty, I see that the perpetrator is still hiding in Lianshan." The neighborhood never leaves.”

"Why did you say that?" Wu Zhongyuan looked sideways and tilted his head.

Wu Junyue said, "Prince Jiang was assassinated at the right moment. At the wrong moment, another guard was assassinated from outside the palace. Just like Prince Jiang, his skull was penetrated by a hidden weapon."

"Did a guard die?" Wu Zhongyuan asked doubtfully.

Wu Junyue nodded, "Just an ordinary guard. It was exactly two hours before Prince Jiang was assassinated."

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer the call. People at this time used twelve o'clock to tell time, and the custom of keeping time was to use odd numbers. Taking Zi hour as an example, it is from twenty-three o'clock to one o'clock in the morning, noon hour is from eleven o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon, and Chen Zheng time and Wei Zheng time refer to ten o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon respectively. This timing habit is only possessed by modern people, especially Westerners, who are more accustomed to using even numbers.

Wu Junyue looked at Wu Zhongyuan with questioning eyes. Wu Zhongyuan glanced at her and then tilted his head to look at Wang Xinran.

Wang Xinran looked directly at Wu Zhongyuan, and after a moment he said in a deep voice, "Send me there..."

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