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Bai Miao's eyebrows twitched as he watched.

She even put on makeup.

Seeing the nervous looks on Bai Miao's face, she smiled disdainfully: "Don't look at us like that. Who knows, we might get news halfway there that my father has suppressed the rebellious ministers and taken back Qingqiu?"

Bai Miao remained silent, simply watching as Ji Shaoqing got into the carriage.

"Get started!"

After the eunuch shouted something, the coachman slowly started driving the carriage.

Bai Miao and the others naturally had their own assigned seats. Bai Miao was to sit next to the coachman of Ji Shaoqing's carriage, serving as his personal guard. The other four were divided into two carriages, each carrying luggage and valuables.

The eunuchs and palace maids all followed behind the carriage on foot.

They were not qualified to get on the bus.

However, Ji Shaoqing's personal eunuch carried a fruit platter into the sedan chair, seemingly to serve Ji Shaoqing.

"Little Dingzi, how far will this trip take?"

Bai Miao, standing in front of the sedan chair, could clearly hear the conversation inside.

"Your Highness, if we travel south along the official road from here, we will reach the edge of the Great Shang in about ten days."

Shortly after leaving the palace, a thunderclap suddenly rang out in the previously clear sky.

Bai Miao subconsciously looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds had turned into a swirling vortex.

"Boom!"

Another explosion rang out, and the white clouds instantly turned blood red, like a bright red eyeball embedded in the sky, staring intently at Ji Shaoqing's convoy below.

Bai Miao felt a shiver run through his body and realized that his mental strength had dropped by 2 points. So he quickly shouted, "Everyone, lower your heads and don't look at the sky!"

Some eunuchs and palace maids didn't know why Bai Miao suddenly said that, and looked up at him in disbelief.

Upon seeing this, several eunuchs covered their eyes and screamed in shock, squeezing their own eyes until they burst open amidst the stunned silence of the crowd.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"Ahhh!!"

The scene immediately became extremely chaotic.

"All of you, shut the hell up!"

Bai Miao jumped off the carriage and slashed the ground with his sword. It must be said that the wide blade of the sword still looked very intimidating.

However, Bai Miao knew that these guys' depleted mental energy wouldn't recover anytime soon, so he picked up his sword and started performing a Nuo dance in an attempt to help them recover.

"What are you jumping around for? You're here to be my bodyguard, not to perform acrobatics!"

Unexpectedly, when Ji Shaoqing lifted the sedan curtain and saw Bai Miao dancing with a sword, he immediately rebuked him.

Damn it, can't I just stop jumping?

Bai Miao actually had the idea of ​​abandoning all the palace maids and eunuchs behind him; these people were the real burden.

After scolding them, Ji Shaoqing looked at the group of messy palace maids and eunuchs behind him: "And you all, what kind of behavior is this!"

He seemed completely unconcerned that several people had just gouged out his eyes.

Xiao Dingzi, who was inside the carriage, also spoke up: "When we were teaching you, we told you to keep your eyes to yourself. How could you servants possibly see things in the heavens?!"

"Please forgive me, Your Highness!"

The group of people knelt down in unison again.

"Get up, everyone, keep up!"

"Yes!"

After the brief interruption, the convoy continued on its way.

What appeared in the sky?

The other four quickly asked.

"It has big, blood-red eyes that deduct mental points when you look at them... Luckily, I'm tall enough to withstand the deduction."

"That was close... I almost couldn't help but look up."

"I have a feeling that this princess knows she shouldn't look up."

After a long pause, Wang Tan said, "The durability has reached 85, but I have also drawn 32 talismans, including 3 earth talismans, 6 fire talismans, 4 water talismans, 7 metal talismans, 7 wood talismans, and 5 immobilization talismans."

"Earth and wood talismans can create earth and wood for defense, while gold talismans can provide a defensive opportunity, and immobilization talismans can temporarily disable the enemy."

Yes, this durability reduction is quite worthwhile.

Bai Miao wasn't sure how powerful these talismans were, but having them was a different matter altogether, and this would at least slightly improve the team's combat capabilities.

"Okay, give me one earth and one wood talisman, two immobilization talismans, two fire talismans, and you can arrange the rest as you see fit."

Bai Miao asked for some things that seemed useful.

The carriage wasn't moving very fast, so Wang Tan got off to deliver the talisman and returned the Moon Flower.

"Although my mental energy is constantly being restored, I still feel very tired mentally, and I need to sleep for a while."

Zhang Peng was in the same car as Wang Tan. After Wang Tan fell asleep with his head tilted back, he became even more vigilant about his surroundings.

However, Bai Miao knew that the danger was definitely not now.

We're still inside the city, damn it. Once we leave the city, who knows what kind of monsters we'll encounter in those desolate wilderness areas.

So he closed his eyes and rested peacefully.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: What Year Is It Tonight?

"Sir, we're leaving the city. Please keep an eye on things..."

Bai Miao was woken up by the coachman beside him.

His short rest just now restored 1 point of his mental energy.

The coachman couldn't tell Bai Miao's identity; he just saw that Bai Miao was carrying a weapon and naturally assumed that he was a soldier.

"Okay, just focus on driving."

Bai Miao looked at the road, which was fairly smooth, and there was no hidden forest around.

However, considering that we had only just left the capital, the area around the capital must still be relatively safe.

"How may I address you?"

Bai Miao asked the coachman.

"My name is Chen Dalong, but you can call me Xiaolong, sir."

"Hmm, Xiaolong, where should we stay today?"

"Sir, it's getting late, and we certainly won't be able to travel too far today. We'll stop at the post station about ten miles away. I'm quite familiar with that post station."

Bai Miao then asked, "Do you know who you sent it to? Did you used to work for the palace?"

"Yes, sir. The three of us work in the palace. When the ladies need to leave the palace to visit their families, our caravan is responsible for it."

"Don't those ladies have their own coachmen?"

Chen Dalong looked puzzled: "Sir, what are you saying? Apart from the warhorses in the army and the horses in the palace, who is allowed to keep horses?"

Horses are not allowed?

Bai Miao quickly looked at the horse pulling the cart, only to discover that the horse actually had six legs.

The horse was bright red all over, with bulging muscles on its back, and every step it took was exceptionally steady.

"When did the Demon Suppression Division produce a commander like you? You don't even know the rules for raising horses?"

Ji Shaoqing overheard their conversation from inside the sedan chair and immediately reprimanded Bai Miao.

"Also, keep a close eye on your surroundings and don't go around asking around. If you encounter a monster attack and disturb me, I will hold you responsible!"

Chen Dalong's eyes showed a look of fear, and he quickly turned away, not daring to continue talking to Bai Miao, for fear of being caught in the crossfire.

Lin Yu then sent a message asking, "Did you get any valuable information from the princess?"

Bai Miao replied irritably, "It's a miracle this girl hasn't driven me crazy, let alone given me any information."

"I feel that your attitude at the beginning was not good enough. If you had been more gentle with her, she would definitely have told you everything she knew."

Bai Miao possessed excellent self-cultivation and extensive experience in breaking down defenses, allowing him to calmly tell Lin Yu: "Ji Shaoqing is completely unaware that she is on the run. In her eyes, this is just a day trip. It is only after we have a general overview of the situation that we realize how serious the situation is in Qingqiu."

"But just now there was a stage set up in the city for a theatrical performance."

"This is the capital city. Don't you understand the situation yet?"

Bai Miao then sent a private message to Zhao Mengsheng, also known as Little Witch: "What's going on with Lin Yu? You were in the same car as her, do you have any clues?"

Zhao Mengsheng seemed to have found a point to complain about, and frantically sent messages: "Oh my god, don't even mention it, I was almost driven crazy by her just now. Ever since you said not to look up at the sky, she has been saying that we should take those blind eunuchs with us and not leave them behind."

"Her reasoning was simple: those eunuchs were only blind, not dead, and could still walk. There was still room on the carts for them to get on. Not abandoning the wounded was a principle."

What the fuck...

Bai Miao gasped.

No way, no way? I've actually run into the real deal?

Could Lin Yu be that Zhao Ling?

"Then what did you say?"

"I told you that those eunuchs were blind and therefore dead. They were just still calling out, but they would soon stop breathing and there was no way to save them."

"However, she also said that she would try to protect her later, and that the princess would be more comfortable with her original servants after she arrived in Da Shang."

Bai Miao was silent for a moment: "What is her attitude towards the princess?"

"She thought the princess was a good person, because she took the people who had served her with her when she ran away, and did not abandon them and leave."

Zhao Mengsheng paused for a moment before sending a message: "I'm... a little confused about what she's thinking. What do you think, boss?"

Bai Miao was also getting annoyed to death by Lin Yu.