Chapter 1120: Knocked Out and Carried Away
I don’t know why, but after dawn, Yulan Pass City seemed even more deserted and quiet than last night.
The two thousand soldiers brought in yesterday barely slept all night.
Zhou Shiyue naturally didn't sleep either.
After daybreak, he also went down to patrol the city and met a team of soldiers on patrol. Looking at their tired expressions, Zhou Shiyue felt that this was not appropriate.
"Just let them make arrangements, take turns to rest and patrol, and so many people can't stay up all the time."
Zhou Shiyue said to his men.
"Yes. Your Highness, we just arrived last night and didn't know anything about the situation. We couldn't sleep well, so we thought about finding out the situation in the city first."
Qing Xiao also looked tired today. He had been injured before and had not yet fully recovered from the injury.
But because there are too many things to do now, he is not at ease watching the prince busy while he goes to sleep and rest, thinking that it is only for this period of time and he just needs to get through it.
Not only him, but everyone else thought so too.
They even felt that Lu Zhaoling would be more tired than them because a lot of things depended on her.
Qing Xiao felt that the princess was too powerful and he was really at a disadvantage.
They can only assist as much as possible.
I really hope that all these evil cultivators and demons in the Great Zhou can be eliminated, so that the world can be peaceful and the princess won’t have to work so hard anymore.
Let them handle the human affairs.
"Your Highness, you haven't slept all night. Why don't you go and rest for half an hour? We will wake you up immediately if anything happens." Qing Xiao said to Zhou Shiyue.
Zhou Shiyue rubbed his brows and shook his head.
"I am in good spirits now. I don't feel tired or sleepy." He was just a little worried about the current situation.
"I will take people out to find General Qiu's whereabouts."
"It is very important that you check the water source carefully again."
The situation of those soldiers defending the city was too strange, so he could only investigate in a more reasonable direction first.
If dozens of people have problems at the same time, it is reasonable to say that the most likely cause is through the mouth. And what everyone needs every day is drinking water.
Not necessarily food.
"Also, check the food that was transported here earlier. And check the medicinal herbs as well."
"The weather looks a little off." Although it was no longer snowing, the sky was still overcast.
Such weather makes people feel heavy and depressed.
Zhou Shiyue was actually a little worried now, but he was not used to showing it.
Qinglin ran over in a hurry.
He quickly said to Zhou Shiyue, "Your Highness, it's been a night, and Old Yu and his men are still standing there in the same state."
"I noticed that some of them had red eyes from being tired, and some even shed tears unconsciously. They looked very tired, but their expressions did not change. They still stood there motionless, looking out of the pass. I could not tell what was going on outside."
These people are really evil.
I checked them and found no obvious injuries on their bodies.
Zhou Shiyue frowned when he heard this.
"This won't work. They didn't know how long they had been enduring before we arrived."
"If they continue like this, even if they can be rescued, they will probably be exhausted and injured."
"Go over there, knock them out, and carry them down."
Zhou Shiyue gave the order.
"Yes."
There were only dozens of people in total, so it was not difficult to knock them all out. Anyway, no matter what we did, they would not resist at all.
Qinglin led people to carry out the mission. They knocked everyone unconscious at the same time, then carried them down and placed them in the original barracks to rest.
Zhou Shiyue arranged for other soldiers to go up to the city wall and guard the positions where those soldiers originally stood.
"Let them be aware of these and be vigilant."
"I don't know what's going on with those people. Is it possible that they are standing here guarding the tower, giving others an opportunity to take advantage of them? In this case, we must be alert when guarding the city."
"Tell them that they should not only guard against enemy attacks," Zhou Shiyue said, "but also pay attention if they suddenly feel something wrong with their body or the temperature."
Qinglin said, "Your Majesty, when I was about to leave, Uncle Yin chased me and stuffed a package into my hand."
He suddenly remembered this incident. "At that time, they said it was medicine residue and asked us to take it. Maybe it would be useful. At that time, I thought it was strange. What use could medicine residue be?"
"He told me at the time that it was the dregs of the medicine for Master Yin to drink. He said that he added some other things to the medicine for Master Yin to drink, so the boiled dregs still have some effect."
"Will what he said have any effect?" Zhou Shiyue asked.
"It seems that sprinkling it can drive away evil spirits. But I thought it was a little unbelievable at the time, so I didn't quite believe it. Besides, Uncle Yin is not a Taoist, he is just a doctor, and I really don't think it makes sense."
Qinglin said, "But we were in a hurry to leave at that time, and I thought that might be a little gift from Uncle Ying, so I just took it with me. So I took the package with me."
"Can it drive away evil spirits if you sprinkle it?"
Zhou Shiyue pondered for a while.
"Yin Qingyu's father Yin Jingting is indeed not from the Xuanmen. But Lu Xiaoer's master Yin Changxing is from the Xuanmen. If the person who gave you the medicinal residue is Yin Changxing, then this matter can be done."
"Your Majesty, how about trying it on Old Yu?"
"Then let Old Yu try it." Zhou Shiyue said.
"I will go over and try it right away."
In fact, they never thought that a little bit of medicinal residue would have such a great effect.
But the result surprised them greatly.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it really works."
Soon Qinglin ran over again and read the report with Zhou Shi excitedly.
"I just used my fingers to pick up a little bit of the medicine residue and sprinkled it on Old Yu's body."
"The dregs have been crushed into very small pieces, almost like powder. There is quite a lot in a large bag. I want to try it first, but I don't dare to use too much."
Qinglin is very surprised now.
Zhou Shiyue was also cheered up when he heard this.
"Just sprinkle the drug residue on Old Yu's body? Did he wake up?"
"Didn't we knock Old Yu unconscious earlier? I woke him up first, then I pinched a little bit of the medicine residue and sprinkled it on his face."
"As a result, Old Yu really came to his senses. He sat up immediately, and when he saw that his subordinate was very excited, he grabbed his subordinate's hand."
"Your Majesty, are you going to see Old Yu now?"
Zhou Shiyue immediately got up and left.
"Of course I'll go see him."
Old Yu was rushing out of the barracks.
However, perhaps because he had been standing guard on the city wall for too long, his steps were obviously a little unsteady.
A soldier came to help him.
"Hurry, hurry, help me go see His Royal Highness Prince Jin."
Old Yu didn't expect that Qinglin didn't even listen to him and just pulled his hand away and ran away.