Chapter 250: The Traitor Exposed
Chapter 250: The Traitor Exposed
Crunch... Crunch... The leader felt his whole body suddenly stiffen, as if his joints were not his own.
His hands had a mind of their own, and his five fingers opened, and his sword fell to the ground.
Then, he uncontrollably made a toasting gesture with both hands, raised them slightly, and put them to his mouth.
"What a strange thing..."
The spy leader was horrified. As a warrior, he lacked the means to deal with magic.
He could only grit his teeth and vibrate the Qi Sea, trying to guide the Qi to disperse the meridians and regain control.
However, Gongshu Tianyuan did not give him a chance. While the opponent was controlled by the "toasting barbarian", the fat priest stepped forward with his hands behind his back.
When he lifted his hood, a face full of banditry was revealed.
He pressed a top-grade cinnabar talisman on the spy's forehead with his palm.
The leader felt dizzy, the light in his eyes went out, and with a plop, he fell straight down in the bamboo forest.
"Easy as a piece of cake."
Gongshu Tianyuan proudly threw out a hemp rope, and the rope moved on its own as if it were alive, tying up the other person.
At this time, two young priests came from the bamboo forest in the distance and bowed:
"Brother, the other two teams that fled separately have also been dealt with."
"Brother, those imperial guards arrived a little late..."
"very good."
Gongshu Tianyuan nodded arrogantly and said calmly:
"Send these people to the Shenji Camp."
"Yes!"
The two priests turned around and went to pick up the bodies on the ground.
Gongshu Tianyuan hooked his hand, took the leader of the spies who was tied up like a rice dumpling, and rushed towards the capital:
"I hope Brother Zhao won't wait any longer."
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In the city and in the banquet hall, the lights are on!
The entire courtyard was surrounded by officials from the imperial court who were urgently dispatched.
Inside the hall, the atmosphere was heavy and depressing. No one spoke a word, and everyone's face was filled with solemnity.
"Mr. Zhao, it's been so long, are we just going to keep waiting?"
Finally, Shi Meng couldn't help but speak.
As the commander of the Shenji Camp, he bears the greatest responsibility for tonight's dereliction of duty.
Nearly an hour had passed since Zhao Duan raised his sword to block the door.
Everyone's patience is almost exhausted.
Zhao Duan sat closest to the door, with the Frost Sword folded on his knees and his eyes closed, concentrating.
At this moment, he opened his eyes, glanced at the sky, and said:
"Don't be impatient."
The commander of the Three Thousand Battalions was also a little anxious at this moment, and said bitterly:
"It's not that we are anxious, but even if you have made some arrangements, you should have let us know so that we can be at ease. With His Majesty and Envoy Xue here, it is impossible for anyone in this hall to spread any news."
The commander of the fifth military camp echoed:
"Besides, it's getting late. We can wait, but we also have to consider His Majesty's health..."
"Yes, after so much time, I'm afraid the thief has already escaped from the capital...it's hard to catch him."
"Master Zhao, please say something."
For a moment, the military officers who were almost driven crazy by the solemn and silent atmosphere began to speak up.
Mo Chou, who was standing next to the empress, couldn't help but say:
"Lord Zhao wants to wait, and His Majesty has approved it, but how long do we have to wait?"
Xu Zhenguan returned to his taciturn "emperor" attitude and said nothing. Although he trusted him in his heart, he couldn't help feeling anxious.
But in the next second, the empress suddenly looked into the distance and her brows relaxed.
Zhao Duan seemed to be facing a pot of boiling water. Just as he was about to speak, his ears moved slightly. He turned his head and looked outside the hall, smiling:
"coming."
What's coming?
All the generals in the hall fell silent and looked over. Then, they saw circles of ochre-colored ripples suddenly appearing on the ground in the center of the heavily guarded courtyard.
The guard was startled and drew his sword, standing alert.
Then, a giant hand made of wood slowly emerged from the ripples on the ground.
It looked like the limbs of some giant puppet, with short and thick fingers and sharp edges.
The giant hand grabbed the edge of the ripples and suddenly exerted force. Then, a huge illusory puppet seemed to crawl out of hell and into the world of the living.
With only half of his waist exposed, he was already as big as a house.
He supported himself on the ground with one hand and slowly opened the other hand, revealing a rotating ochre-colored "silkworm pupa" in the palm of his hand.
"Crack!"
The silkworm pupa was split open from the inside out, and out walked Gongshu Tianyuan, who was standing with his hands behind his back and looking very imposing, holding the sealed spy leader in his hands.
"Sir... the leader of the bandits has been captured..."
The little fat boy wanted to show off in front of others, but halfway through his words, the corners of his mouth suddenly froze.
Green Bean's eyes widened as he saw clearly the man in the bright yellow dragon robe and the stunning face with a half-smile on the main seat in the brightly lit hall.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty?"
Gongshu Tianyuan was shocked. The puppet shadow woven by magic power under his feet collapsed. He was not careful, his knees went weak, and he almost fell to the ground!
Then he pretended nothing happened, clasped his two little hands together and bowed:
"Gongshu Tianyuan, I meet the Saint!"
The generals in the hall tacitly ignored the fat priest's failed divine manifestation, and looked stunned:
"Is it Master Zhang Tianshi's fifth disciple?"
"Priest Gongshu?"
"The one Zhao Chenshi is waiting for...is him?"
Xu Zhenguan nodded slightly, his snow-white chin lightly nodded, and said "yes" in a majestic voice:
"No need to be polite."
Gongshu Tianyuan was very thoughtful. He rolled his eyes and took the initiative to say:
"Your Majesty, Gongshu was entrusted by Envoy Zhao to capture the leader of the thieves who broke into the Firearms Bureau and brought him here. The rest of the thieves have been either killed or captured and sent to the Shenji Camp."
As he spoke, he kicked the leader, who was tied up like a wooden stake on the ground and had a yellow paper talisman stuck on his forehead, to the front of the hall.
There was a moment of silence in the hall, and then the long-suppressed exclamations broke out.
Even though many people in the field had guessed that Zhao Duan had a backup plan, they were still shocked when this scene really appeared before their eyes.
Xu Zhenguan raised her jade hand and pressed lightly, and the sound waves suddenly subsided.
She looked at Mr. Zhao, who was sure to win, with surprise and asked curiously:
"Mr. Zhao, can you help the generals in the hall solve their doubts?"
Zhao Duan let out a breath silently. It was only at this moment that his heart finally settled down.
The bet was won!
The calm smile he had pretended to have on his face finally became pure and sincere:
“Your Majesty, the matter is not complicated. In view of the theft of firearms last time, after today’s drill, I thought about making some preparations.
The method was quite simple. He just asked the priest Gongshu to make some methods that could be used for tracking magic on the drawings in the Firearms Bureau.
"I was just secretly protecting him, just to be prepared, but I didn't expect that the thief would fall into his trap."
Gongshu Tianyuan also smiled and said:
“That’s right. When these thieves sneaked in, I and some of my fellow disciples were nearby. We secretly used some magic tricks to make them think that they were doing well.
Then, according to the request of the envoy, I followed the thieves, hoping to dig out their lair, but after they succeeded, these scumbags tried to flee the capital, so I had to capture them. "
Beside her, Haitang looked confused.
She wanted to say:
That's not the case... This bastard wants us to pretend to steal...
But when the words came to my lips, they became: "Then we later..."
Gongshu Tianyuan glanced at her, said "Oh", and said lightly:
"When you arrived, the illusion I left behind had not yet been removed. Well, the corpses in the camp were only injured and unconscious."
Haitang opened her mouth and looked at Zhao Duan with complicated eyes.
She got it!
This guy clearly prepared two plans tonight.
If the enemy does not come, use deception.
If they come, the priest will take care of them.
There may even be many methods that have not been exposed.
However, fraud or other means are no longer necessary now.
"Your Majesty, since this thief is the leader of the rebels, perhaps we can find out the identity of the traitor."
Zhao Duan cupped his hands and spoke loudly.
At this time, the generals in the hall gradually came back to their senses and their expressions changed.
Ma Yan's mood was particularly delicate - when he came, he was in the car and felt sorry for Zhao Duan, thinking that he had not found the traitor and that it was not perfect.
Now, thinking about it carefully...where didn't Zhao Duan look for him?
He clearly took every step towards fishing.
Xu Zhenguan had a blank expression on his face. His eyes fell on the spy on the ground, and he suddenly said:
"Since it is the priest Gongshu who has arrested him, you can judge him."
Zhao Duan was stunned for a moment. From what Zhenbao said, it seemed that this little fat man had some means of interrogation.
"Hehe, as you command." Gongshu Tianyuan smiled, waved his hand, and took the yellow paper talisman back in his hand.
on the ground.
The spy leader whose five senses were sealed suddenly woke up and struggled instinctively, but found it difficult to move.
When his eyes adjusted to the light and he could see the generals of Dayu around him, Zhao Duan, and the empress, his pupils suddenly dilated.
Like falling into an abyss!
"Envoy Zhao, please ask." Gongshu Tianyuan said with a smile.
Zhao Duan blinked and was about to nod.
The spy on the ground suddenly spoke up, and he said very calmly:
"Don't ask. I know what you want to know, and I won't tell you."
The next second, his teeth rubbed against each other, and he was about to bite through the poison between his teeth, but failed.
"Don't try. I took it out for you a long time ago. And don't even think about biting your tongue. You know that doesn't work."
Gongshu Tianyuan said dimly, "It seems he is a deadly warrior."
Zhao Duan was not surprised and asked tentatively:
"There are experts in my prison who are good at using torture to deal with assassins."
Gongshu Tianyuan said, "No need to bother."
He suddenly turned around and took off the big bamboo tube on his back.
He pressed it to the ground with a "dong" sound and explained:
"I have a wild god named Fox Fairy. It can make people tell you anything you want. The price is that after you ask, the person's soul will be devoured and he will become a living dead."
On the ground, the spy who originally had a look of despair suddenly turned pale and widened his eyes:
"you……"
The next second, Gongshu Tianyuan slapped the bamboo tube hard.
I saw a wisp of white smoke rising, and the smoke slowly condensed into a fox with half of its body buried in a bamboo tube, half of its snow-white fur exposed, and its eyes were strange dark blue.
"Wild God..."
In the field, many people frowned slightly, but there was no sign of fear.
Wild god?
What kind of weird thing is this…How many strange props do you have on you…Zhao Duan thought to himself.
At this moment, the "fox fairy" with blue eyes, white hair and a strange appearance exuding a fairy-like aura slowly turned his head, stared at the spy, and the corners of his mouth slowly expanded, as if he was smiling.
At the same time, the terrified spy leader suddenly lost all expression as if he was possessed by evil spirits.
He looked into the fox fairy's eyes, as if he was trapped in a nightmare.
"Brother Zhao, you can ask now." Gongshu Tianyuan said with a smile.
Zhao Duan grinned, shifted his gaze away from the fox fairy, looked down at the spy, and said in a deep voice:
"Are there any people here who are colluding with you and working for you? Who are they?"
In the banquet hall, you could hear a pin drop.
The spy who was trapped in a nightmare showed a struggling look on his face, as if he was fighting against the "wild god". Veins bulged on his forehead and his eyes were bloodshot.
But in the end, he uttered a name in a hoarse voice:
"The person in charge of the Privy Council is Wang Heng."
In an instant, a series of extremely surprised glances were cast at the same time on the face of the fifty-year-old, thin Governor Wang in the crowd.
The latter had a blank expression on his face and let out a long sigh.
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(End of this chapter)