Ouchi Cat Controlling, starting with the Ten Tiger Forms!

Looking at the bodies of the men in black one after another in front of him, the face of the King of Zheng turned ashen.

"Your Highness, are you frightened?"

"Please go back to the inn to hide temporarily. These assassins may have accomplices."

Xu Lang said respectfully.

But to the King of Zheng, these words were full of ridicule and sarcasm.

"Humph!"

The King of Zheng snorted coldly and walked away.

He wanted to go forward and take a closer look at the wound, but judging from the attitude of the eunuch in front of him, there was no chance.

After entering the inn, the King of Zheng immediately ordered his attendants: "Find a chance to check the wound, and then ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Immediately, the attendants took the order and left.

The King of Zheng came to the lobby of the inn and found that many people had been awakened.

When they saw the King of Zheng appear, they planned to go forward and ask a few questions.

As a result, the King of Zheng did not wait for them to speak, and directly said:

"It's nothing serious, go to bed early."

"We have to continue our journey tomorrow."

After that, the King of Zheng turned and went upstairs, not giving them a chance to talk.

Back in the room, the King of Zheng sat on the bed with a frown.

"It doesn't make sense."

He was a little confused.

The guards responsible for guarding the perimeter of the posthouse tonight were all the secret guards of the King of Zheng's mansion.

Although their strength is not top-notch, they are all deadly warriors who have received strict training since childhood.

The fifth-grade elite, with tacit cooperation, can't be eliminated so quietly even when facing a top-three-grade master.

Facing a top-three-grade master who is proficient in assassination, the secret guards can also react, and even if they are worse, they should issue a warning.

But just as the attendant beside him reacted, the flower-clothed eunuch shot a whistle arrow, and then the posthouse was surrounded, and the flower-clothed eunuchs displayed the bodies of the secret guards in front of the posthouse as if in demonstration.

Especially the wounds on the corpse, King Zheng really couldn't help but think about it.

He had previously given a death order to Wu Cheng, the leader of the secret guards, to find the trace of the Western Region Fire Demon.

Wu Cheng did give a reply within the deadline.

If King Zheng did not accept this reply, Wu Cheng was also ready to die to make his will clear.

Wu Cheng invited all the priests in the Zheng Palace to come, and repeatedly checked the place where the Western Region Fire Demon disappeared, and finally got an unlikely answer.

But the three-day deadline had expired, and Wu Cheng could only bite the bullet and submit his and the priests' speculations to King Zheng.

The Western Region Fire Demon was captured alive.

This can explain why the Western Region Fire Demon disappeared, and it also explains the disappearance of Zhu Wufeng before.

But if you want to capture a strong man of the upper third rank alive, especially a top existence in the world like the Western Region Fire Demon who has entered the second rank Hedao realm and can transform the realm into armor, it is more difficult to capture him alive than to kill him.

If a warrior of this level wants to escape, some of them will do it desperately.

Even if there are warriors of the same strength, it is difficult to keep three or five of them.

There may be a possibility of killing, as long as the opponent is willing to pay the same price.

But if he is not forced into a desperate situation, which second-grade warrior is willing to pay such a tragic price.

This method consumes vitality and foundation.

As long as there is no blood feud, who is willing to exchange one for one, or even several for one?

Especially when you are in an advantageous situation, you have to follow the enemy who is forced to rush and burn your vitality to chase. Normal people can't do this.

If the opponent runs away desperately, his strength will drop sharply in the future, and even fall into the realm, and it is common to become a useless person.

When you meet again, it will be a situation of sure death, so why rush?

Therefore, when the upper three-grades fight, most of them just fight a few moves.

No one can do anything to anyone, so why play with life?

The power and wealth they enjoy are brought by their strength.

Without strength, who can guarantee that there will not be a miserable end in the future?

The most important thing is that people at their level know how hard it is to get this cultivation. Who would just play around for no reason?

If you want to reach the upper third level with a dull mind, how lucky do you have to be?

If there is no fundamental problem, upper third level warriors rarely fight to the death.

The Western Region Fire Demon may have escaped or may have fought to the death, but the possibility of being captured alive is almost zero.

Unless he was confused and used desperate means to get into the encirclement that the enemy had prepared long ago.

But even at this time, knowing that his vitality was burned out and his cultivation would never be restored, any upper third level would have to fight with his last strength to self-destruct and take revenge.

This is the most common situation.

But some of the offerings in the Zheng Palace put forward another point of view.

In this case, there may be other possibilities for the Western Region Fire Demon.

The Western Region Fire Demon practiced magic skills, and his mind was far more fragile than that of warriors at the same level. In order to survive, it is not impossible to surrender to the enemy.

The other party has the strength to force the Western Region Fire Demon to beg for mercy, so capturing Zhu Wufeng alive is not a problem.

After all, Zhu Wufeng is one level lower than the Western Region Fire Demon.

Zhu Wufeng is arrogant and extremely loyal to King Zheng.

He should have been captured alive, and the Western Region Fire Demon must have surrendered to the enemy.

This is the opinion of some of the Zheng Wangfu's worshippers, and it is also the answer that Wu Cheng had to hand in.

Where there are people, there are disputes.

Although the worshippers of Zheng Wangfu have extraordinary strength, they are still human after all.

The disappearance of Zhu Wufeng affected many people's hearts. Later, some bad rumors spread in the Zheng Wang Mansion, which caused a lot of trouble.

Although Zheng Wang tried his best to suppress these news, some other worshippers who disliked Zhu Wufeng could not help but make some sarcastic remarks.

Among them, the Western Region Fire Demon was the one who made the most sarcastic remarks.

Now, it is the turn of the Western Region Fire Demon to disappear, and the cause and effect have returned to him.

It is somewhat insulting to say that a strong man like the Western Region Fire Demon begged for mercy and surrendered to the enemy in order to survive.

But if this is said to others, it is a pure insult, but it is not completely impossible to say it to the Western Region Fire Demon.

The Western Region Fire Demon has always been arrogant and perverse, and it is not easy to get along with him in his actions and words. He has been a worshipper in the Zheng Wang Mansion for many years, but there is no one who can be regarded as a friend.

His character makes it impossible for him to do anything.

And that slight possibility has become the only evidence that this argument can stand.

Those few priests who came to the conclusion had some intention of revenge on the Western Region Fire Demon.

This point was very clear to King Zheng and Wu Cheng.

But Wu Cheng had to bring up such a conclusion in order to get the job done.

In the end, King Zheng did not kill Wu Cheng, but only criticized him verbally, which actually showed his attitude.

King Zheng also had some doubts in his heart.

But for the sake of the overall situation, he had to stand firmly on the side of the Western Region Fire Demon.

This matter was hastily concluded.

But I didn't expect it to be exposed again today.

"Is it really done by the palace?"

"But where did this helper come from?"

King Zheng couldn't figure out when Emperor Yongyuan had mastered such power.

Even if all the priests in the Zheng Palace were dispatched, it might not be possible to stop the Western Region Fire Demon.

But Emperor Yongyuan...

King Zheng took a deep breath and didn't dare to think more.

"No wonder he dared to tour the south in advance, it turned out that he had such confidence."

King Zheng's face was uncertain, and the attendant who went to check the body returned at this time.

"Your Highness."

"Are there any results?" King Zheng's tone was a little anxious.

"The eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs didn't let the people in the post station go out, so I could only observe from a distance." The attendant first explained what he observed.

"The wounds on the bodies are exactly the same as what Huo Lao did."

"And the Ministry of Internal Affairs has just withdrawn and left..."

The attendant hesitated, but continued:

"A total of 72 bodies were laid out in front of the door, and they should all be our people."

As soon as these words came out, King Zheng's hands couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"Are you sure?"

The attendant immediately replied: "Your Highness, please forgive me. It was dark, and the secret guards were all wearing black scarves and night clothes. I can only judge from the fabric and other details."

"There is no doubt that there are 72 dead bodies, and the details observed can also match the secret guards..."

The attendant spoke more and more quietly.

Only they themselves knew how bad the situation was.

There were only 75 secret guards in Jinghou County tonight. If the bodies displayed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were correct and were not moved from somewhere to make up the numbers, the secret guards would have been almost wiped out.

"The three who delivered the letter survived?"

Zheng Wang muttered to himself, his expression dull.

"No, no!"

"There must be something strange in this!!"

Zheng Wang stood up and paced back and forth in the room, his face extremely solemn.

In his mind, Wu Cheng's previous report was like a seed with vigorous vitality, which quickly took root and sprouted, occupying all the thinking space.

Zheng Wang tried his best to think of other possibilities, but the possibility that Zhu Wufeng and the Western Region Fire Demon had betrayed him always lingered, like a poison that corroded his bones.

"Impossible, I treat them well, they will never betray me!"

Zheng Wang actually said this.

The four attendants immediately bowed their heads and retreated to the four corners of the room.

If there was anything, they couldn't listen, and if they did, they could only pretend not to hear it.

Prince Zheng slowly calmed down his excitement and sat back on the bed.

The room was silent for a long time, and the air was so frozen that it was almost impossible to move.

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has left, right?"

"Let's go out and take a look."

After saying this, Prince Zheng took the lead and walked out of the room.

The four attendants did not dare to delay and hurriedly caught up.

They came to the woods behind the posthouse and found some traces here.

"Alas..."

Prince Zheng stroked the remaining scorch marks in the woods and sighed helplessly.

"Where did the letter go before? Take me to see it."

The attendant immediately followed Prince Zheng's instructions and found the tree he had shot with the featherless arrow before.

The area around the tree remained intact, and there were no signs of fighting.

"Your Majesty, the battle broke out more than an hour after I shot the letter. The secret guard responsible for delivering the letter should be fine."

The attendant reluctantly said some words of comfort.

There has been bad news all night, and they really dare not think about the worst.

"We'll know tomorrow when we get to the next county town."

King Zheng dusted off his hands and found that the sky had brightened up. The morning light was shining through the branches and leaves, slowly illuminating the dark woods.

...

In the county government office, Emperor Yongyuan, who had already woken up, did not sleep any more and waited for Li Xuan and Xu Lang to come back and report.

"Your Majesty, the body has been displayed. Prince Zheng's servants have been secretly checking it for a long time. They waited until we gathered up the team before going in."

"All seventy-two corpses were collected and preserved, and no one was left behind."

Xu Lang reports on Yongyuan Dihui.

"Okay, leave the rest to Zhao Feng, go down."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Xu Lang immediately resigned.

Only Emperor Yongyuan and Li Xuan were left in the room.

"Can you really scare them, meow?"

Li Xuan asked curiously.

"It's not a problem to scare those ministers. Let them know that you can't rest easy just by relying on Prince Zheng."

Emperor Yongyuan sneered, obviously he had long-standing grudges against these civil servants who usually made trouble.

Now that we can use some extraordinary measures, we naturally have to scare them.

But Li Xuan knew that Emperor Yongyuan wanted more than that.

This southern tour is destined to make some people unable to return to the capital.

Seeing that everything was going well, Li Xuan couldn't help opening his mouth and yawned.

Although staying up all night was nothing to him, the method of imitating the fire demon of the Western Region just now really cost him a lot of effort.

Emperor Yongyuan reached out and touched Li Xuan's head and said to him:

"It's been a tiring night, thank you for your hard work."

"Let's go find Ankang and catch up on some sleep. There will be another great show in the next county tomorrow, so don't miss it."

Li Xuan nodded.

Mr. Shang had gone separate ways with him just now.

Emperor Yongyuan asked Mr. Shang to kidnap a corrupt official from the next county, probably because he had another trick up his sleeve.

King Zheng still doesn't know that his letter has been intercepted by Li Xuan, but he is afraid that his expression will look better tomorrow.

Li Xuan bid farewell to Emperor Yongyuan, then returned to Princess Ankang's room, hugged his head in his accustomed posture and fell asleep.

He had long been sleepy, and holding Princess Ankang's head felt even more at ease, and fell asleep soon after.

In his sleep, Li Xuan felt himself being picked up by Princess Ankang.

He wasn't hungry, so he simply continued to squint.

I am used to the food in the palace, but this time I am really not used to it.

Emperor Yongyuan didn't get royal meals during his southern tour. He didn't even bring an imperial cook with him on this trip.

The attendants around him were all from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and none of them were ordinary people.

It can be seen that Emperor Yongyuan was also aware.

After a while, there was a noise in his ears.

Li Xuan couldn't bear his curiosity and opened his eyes to take a look.

They were leaving the county government office. Emperor Yongyuan was walking at the front, followed by ministers and princes and princesses.

"Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty is wise!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving Jinghou County a clear sky!"

"Long live my emperor, long live Daxing!"

"Your Majesty, walk slowly and have a pleasant journey!"

"..."

At this time, both sides of the road were crowded with people, bidding farewell to the southern patrol team led by Emperor Yongyuan, which was in sharp contrast to the silence when they entered the city last night.

Li Xuan pricked up his ears and listened, and immediately understood what was going on.

The heads of criminals such as Song Xunchun, the former magistrate of Jinghou County, were hung up at the city gate early in the morning, and then officials and garrison troops made announcements throughout the city.

When the people of Jinghou County woke up, they found that the sky had changed.

Notices were posted all over the county, and officials continued to read them to the people.

The common people who understood what had happened rushed to the city gate to confirm, and sure enough they saw a few familiar heads hanging high in a conspicuous place.

Someone also read a notice here, and the crimes of each criminal were listed one by one. Many of them were old cases.

As the truth of these cases came to light and the injustice was brought to light, many people immediately burst into tears, crying so hard that they could not stand up and collapsed on the ground.

Most of them are the victims of the incident, or their relatives and friends. How can they not shed tears at this time.

Some people among the people began to pick up stones and hit the hanging heads, scolding these corrupt officials and gentry below for a good death.

The scene was chaotic for a moment.

The officials and garrison troops who maintained order allowed the people to vent for a while, and then told them that all this was because Emperor Yongyuan of the Southern Patrol returned justice to Jinghou County.

After that, there was the current scene where people spontaneously bid farewell.

Officials and garrisons maintained order on both sides of the road, and eunuchs in colorful clothes protected Emperor Yongyuan.

Emperor Yongyuan and the people on both sides of the road nodded in greeting.

King Zheng looked as usual, with a faint smile on his face.

But many of the civil servants had unnatural expressions.

Most of them have some relationship with Song Xunchun. If Emperor Yongyuan follows suit, they will inevitably be in trouble.

Li Xuan looked up at this scene and couldn't help but smile.

"Axuan, you're awake."

Princess Ankang touched Li Xuan in her arms, and then handed a small dried fish to his mouth.

"You didn't eat this morning. Are you hungry?"

Li Xuan opened his mouth to take it, click, click, and swallowed the two mouthfuls.

He shrank in Princess Ankang's arms and found a more comfortable position. He continued to squint his eyes, but his ears were raised high, enjoying the noise on the street.

Until Li Xuan felt the familiar bumps, the noise still did not dissipate.

Gradually, even Li Xuan's ears could no longer catch the noise, leaving only the sound of the wheels turning.

But he didn't feel too sorry, because he knew that such noise would happen again.

Will definitely do it again!