Goddess Atlas, Starting from the Queen

Seeing Lin Yingqiu's vehement opposition after hearing her words, Chen Qingying's cold, jade-like face revealed a hint of confusion.

Lin Yingqiu realized that her reaction was a bit too much, so she tried to calm herself down and then said, "I suspect that he may have done it on purpose. Xiao Qingyun left this morning, and now he is going to the outskirts of the city. Moreover, he even sent someone to inform us before he left."

"Perhaps he's trying to lure us into searching for the Blood Lotus."

"Perhaps the Blood Lotus isn't in the Prince of Xiaoyao's mansion at all, but on him."

“If we search everywhere for the Blood Lotus after he leaves, he will definitely use it as an excuse to kick us out of the Carefree Prince’s Mansion when he returns.”

Hearing Lin Yingqiu's words, Chen Qingying pondered for a moment. She had also considered these things, but her idea was to have their people disguise themselves as outsiders and enter the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion to search for the Blood Lotus.

In this way, Yuehua Palace can distance itself from the matter. After all, so many martial arts forces have come to the capital recently for the Blood Lotus, and the theft of the Blood Lotus may not necessarily be the work of Yuehua Palace.

Although the Blood Lotus may not be in the Prince of Xiaoyao's Mansion, if Lu Ming did not take the Blood Lotus away, then this is the best opportunity for them to reclaim it.

However, she thought to herself that the Carefree King had specifically sent someone to remind them that regardless of whether the Blood Lotus was taken by their Moonflower Palace or not, it would probably be related to their Moonflower Palace.

After all, one of them is a Grandmaster and the other is a Great Grandmaster. If there weren't any Great Grandmasters among the outsiders, how could they possibly have taken the Blood Lotus under their protection?

Once the Blood Lotus is taken away, it is indeed possible that the Carefree King could use this as an excuse to make everyone from the Moonflower Palace leave the Carefree King's Mansion. She also wanted to make the Carefree King fall in love with her, and then cast a heart-locking spell on him, thereby pushing him to the throne and obtaining fortune.

We can't let the blood lotus cause this important matter to be delayed.

Compared to the Blood Lotus, controlling the Carefree King is more important. As long as she can control the Carefree King, not only will the Blood Lotus be hers, but most of the Great Zhou's fortune will also fall into her hands.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

Thinking of this, Chen Qingying said, "Aunt Lin, you are right. I acted impulsively."

Seeing that Chen Qingying had given up the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to search for the Blood Lotus, Lin Yingqiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Qingying then asked, "Did he tell you what he was going to do outside the city?"

Lin Yingqiu said, "No."

Chen Qingying's clear and smooth forehead furrowed slightly. Could it be that the Carefree King was really trying to lure them into making a move?

……

Zhenling Guard.

Wearing a dark blue Zhenling Guard uniform, holding a six-foot-long sword, and with her hair tied in a high ponytail, Mu Yunyan walked out of the Zhenling Guard and was planning to go to the Star Gazing Tower to ask the Supervisor when he planned to come out of seclusion.

In recent days, there have been more and more evil spirits around the capital. Without her father in charge, the entire Zhenling Guard is in chaos. If it weren't for her return to Zhenling Guard these past two days, Zhenling Guard would probably still be a disorganized mess.

That bastard Zhou Kunwei is clearly the deputy spirit guardian. Even if her father wasn't in the spirit guardian's territory, she, as a deputy spirit guardian, could handle all sorts of low-level evil spirit incidents. But in order to demonstrate her father's importance, Zhou Kunwei simply abandoned her post and ran out of the city every day, claiming she was going to investigate the evil spirit massacre of the village.

With the deputy town spirit envoy absent, there was no one to coordinate the task of eliminating evil spirits, resulting in many evil spirit incidents going unresolved.

The thought of Zhou Kunwei made Mu Yunyan angry.

Although it seemed Zhou Kunwei's intention was to make the court realize his father's importance so that his father could return to Zhenling Guard as soon as possible, Zhou Kunwei was actually trying to shirk responsibility, especially since the previous Zhenling Envoy had just died at the hands of evil spirits. Mu Yunyan put Zhou Kunwei's matter out of her mind; her most urgent task was to get the Supervisor out of seclusion as soon as possible.

At first, the supervisor's guards said that the supervisor would only be in seclusion for three or four days, but now so much time has passed and the supervisor has not been seen to come out of seclusion.

If he doesn't leave the pass, his father won't be able to get his original position reinstated.

As soon as Mu Yunyan stepped out of Zhenling Guard, she encountered a Zhenling Guard soldier leading someone to her.

"Chief Mu, someone from the Prince Xiaoyao's Mansion is looking for you."

Hearing this, Mu Yunyan was slightly taken aback. She glanced at the soldier from the Prince of Xiaoyao's mansion who had come to deliver the message and asked in confusion, "What do you want with me?"

The soldier from the Prince of Xiaoyao's mansion immediately said, "His Majesty requests your presence at the Prince of Xiaoyao's mansion. He wishes to investigate the evil spirits that massacred the village outside the city."

Upon hearing this, Mu Yunyan was slightly taken aback. Investigating the evil spirits that massacred the village outside the city?

Dealing with evil spirit incidents is the responsibility of their Zhenling Guard. Why is Xiaoyao Wang interfering? Although they did hope that Xiaoyao Wang could help their Zhenling Guard in a critical moment, Xiaoyao Wang's initiative to investigate evil spirit incidents still made her feel a little uneasy.

Moreover, when she thought about what Xiaoyao Wang had said to her before, she felt that Xiaoyao Wang was just looking for an excuse to get close to her. She was afraid that Xiaoyao Wang's real purpose was not for evil spirits, but for her, or more precisely, for the Zhenling Guard behind her.

After pondering for a moment, Mu Yunyan finally decided to go to the Prince Xiaoyao's mansion to see what kind of medicine the Prince Xiaoyao was up to.

After all, the reason why the Carefree King claimed to be helping the Zhenling Guard investigate the massacre of the village by evil spirits outside the city would be rather unreasonable if he didn't go.

Although the master who was possessed by evil spirits had been eliminated by the Carefree King, the Zhenling Guards' autopsy of the corpse did not find a human heart in his stomach.

One very obvious aspect of the evil spirit massacre incident is that the hearts of almost all the killed villagers were removed. So, although the Zhenling Guard has seemingly closed the case, they are actually still secretly investigating where those hearts are.

This is another reason why Zhou Kunwei is so eager to bring her father back. Zhou Kunwei realized that the real evil spirit that massacred the village may not have been found yet, and that the evil spirit that massacred the village is even more terrifying.

The Zhenlingwei's closure of the case was merely to give the imperial court an explanation, but if the massacre of the village by evil spirits is not thoroughly investigated, there is a high possibility that evil spirits will break into the capital again.

Soon, Mu Yunyan rode her horse to the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion. At this time, Lu Ming's carriage was already parked outside the mansion, and Lu Ming was preparing to enter the carriage.

He didn't plan to wait long, since he just wanted to try out the spirit summoning spell. He could go anywhere outside the city with a cemetery; he didn't necessarily have to go to a place where evil spirits had massacred a village.

Upon seeing Mu Yunyan arrive, Lu Ming said with a smile, "Commander Mu, you've come at the perfect time. If you had arrived any later, I would have already left the city."

"I'll trouble General Mu to lead the way from here."

This……

Mu Yunyan was slightly taken aback. She thought that the Prince of Xiaoyao had come to ask her about some details that the Zhenling Guard had investigated in the incident of the evil spirits massacring the village. She did not expect that he would ask her to lead the way.

Knowing full well the answer, Mu Yunyan asked, "Where is Your Majesty going?"

Lu Ming said, "Of course, it's those villages that were slaughtered by evil spirits."

Lu Ming wanted to go to that place because he felt the villagers' deaths were shrouded in mystery, making it highly likely that their spirits would be reborn. (End of Chapter)