Chapter 828 Unsettled Case
“Does anyone have a dagger or a pocket knife? I want to borrow it for a while,” Lin ngya asked.
Seeing that she seed to have discovered sothing, Zhou Ling imdiately drew the knife from her waist and handed it to her.
It was only then that Lin ngya noticed that Commander Zhou carried a knife and a sword on her slender waist.
It seed that Commander Zhou was a rare master in martial arts.
Taking the knife from Zhou Ling, Lin ngya handed the torch over to the female guard beside her.
Then she beckoned for a few guards to provide illumination for her and examined the arms of the female corpses carefully with her sharp eyes.
As she expected, she found extrely small black dots from their wrists to elbows.
If she guessed correctly, these black dots should be small holes.
They were just too small to be discovered by ordinary people.
Then Lin ngya took out the knife and skillfully cut open the arm of a corpse.
As she expected, the bone of the arm was clean and smooth.
It ant that although the bone was still wrapped with muscles, the flesh and the bone had actually been separated.
Those small holes were supposed to be caused by the thing used to control the four corpses.
What a vicious ans of turning people into re tools!
“What’s going on?” Zhou Ling asked.
She had witnessed the killing, but she had seen very few of the Candle Dragon Cult’s various ans.
Now that Lin ngya had figured out what had happened to the corpses, the corpses beca useless.
She said, “Commander, please co with to give a report on this case. Regarding the corpses, carry them outside and instruct so trustworthy guards to watch over them.”
She was not sure if the wire puller had any other tricks up his sleeve. Up to now, she was one hundred percent sure that what had happened here had sothing to do with the Candle Dragon Cult.
Thinking of the Immortal Powder, which had almost ruined Long Tianyu’s life, and the copper slaves she had seen on the Qijue Peak later, she involuntarily considered the mbers of the Candle Dragon Cult were presumably a group of crazy scientific researchers.
Such a perverted thing could only be done by them.
She sighed and felt sorry for these innocent people who got killed for no reason.
Lin ngya suddenly realized sothing when she stood up and was about to leave.
She turned around and took a closer look at the four corpses’ faces.
Despite their rigid and ferocious expressions, she could still make out their facial features that had been delicate.
Although the Candle Dragon Cult did things in a weird way, they presumably had left so clues.
Could it be that the four won were chosen at random? Or did they have anything in common?
Seeing Lin ngya’s puzzled look, Zhou Ling thought it inappropriate to co up to disturb her.
In the beginning, she had been a little rude to Lin ngya, but later, Lin ngya proved herself to her with facts.
No wonder Mada Jingrou thought of Miss Helan as soon as she heard of this case.
Everyone had his specialty. Although Helan was far inferior to her in terms of martial arts, Helan was observant with quite a few extraordinary skills.
Zhou Ling thought she had apparently lost in this round.
She said, “These palace maids have nothing in common except that they all guarded this place. Do you have any clues?”
This did not make sense. Their bloody and terrifying move that day was still engraved in the depths of Lin ngya’s mind.
Could it be that they were really chosen at random?
Lin ngya furrowed her brows, preoccupied by quite a few doubts.
Nevertheless, she believed she would find out the truth one day.
Along the way, Lin ngya was gloomy with worry and kept thinking about the clues she got.
Zhou Ling, who walked behind her, unusually managed to suppress the urge to disturb her.
When they were about to reach the resting palace of the Emperor, Lin ngya stopped, looked at Zhou Ling apologetically and said, “Commander, I’m sorry for ignoring you. If you have any doubt, just spit it out.”
Lin ngya certainly knew that Zhou Ling had a lot of questions to ask.
Seeing Lin ngya smile gently, Zhou Ling was at a loss where to start.
After a while, she politely asked, “Miss, may I ask how you discovered the unusual condition of the corpses?”
The holes on the arms of the corpses were very small. Although they had examined the corpses carefully, they didn’t find anything in the dim light.
Unexpectedly, Miss Helan discovered the holes in a short ti, which was really puzzling.
“In fact, it’s because of the chanism we discovered. I suppose that soone must have done sothing to either the corpses or their clothes. Given that your subordinates must have checked their clothes, there must be sothing wrong with the corpses. In this case, why did I fail to discover it at the beginning?” Lin ngya said.
She always had no interest in taking all the credit, so she had figured out how to explain it on the way.
She decided to tell Zhou Ling about her deduction slowly when Zhou Ling asked her.
“Miss, do you an soone did sothing to the corpses while we were seeking clues? But all my subordinates are trustworthy. It’s absolutely impossible for any of them to be a spy,” Zhou Ling said.
There was sothing Lin ngya should definitely hide from Zhou Ling, so she asked on purpose.
Unexpectedly, Command Zhou was so straightforward and lovely that she succeeded in changing the topic effortlessly.
Lin ngya motioned for her to calm down and said in a low voice, “Of course, your subordinates are reliable. But there’s a saying in my hotown: neither hatred nor love cos for no reason. The four people were definitely not chosen by chance. Don’t you think there’s sothing fishy about it?”
Zhou Ling was by no ans an ordinary boorish person, but just had rarely been exposed to this kind of sche.
Therefore, Lin ngya didn’t need to put it bluntly, and she understood what Lin ngya ant.
She said, “Exactly. I sent soone to make an investigation, and learned that they ca from different places with different identities but just guarded the Linqiu Pavilion at the sa ti. Why did they get killed for no reason? It seems that the imperial palace is not peaceful.”
As smart people, they understood what the other party ant without further explanation.
Lin ngya glanced at Zhou Ling, revealing a gentle smile.
Then she raised her eyebrows with a cold look in her eyes.
Such a sordid thing was exposed after a downpour. It seed that a storm was coming into the imperial palace.
The two of them arrived at the Emperor’s resting palace, not expecting the Emperor to be there as well.
Zhou Ling seed to have t the Emperor frequently, hence, she was not very stiff.
anwhile, Lin ngya discovered the Emperor seed to be looking at her in a slightly different way today.
She couldn’t tell the exact difference, but just felt that the Emperor seed to be looking her up and down.
It was strange. She was not a stranger. Could it be that the Emperor did this because he forgot her appearance?
Fortunately, Lin ngya was not a busybody. After bowing respectfully, she stood with her hands down and did not dare to say anything.
“In response to Your Majesty and Mada, Miss Helan made an investigation and discovered quite a few suspicious things in the Linqiu Pavilion. This matter is serious, so I don’t dare to make wild guesses. Please make a judgnt, Your Majesty,” Zhou Ling said and saluted with joined hands without taking Lin ngya’s credit.
Hearing this, the Emperor fixed his eyes on Lin ngya, but didn’t ask her imdiately.
Instead, he picked up the cup at hand and took a sip before asking, “What did you find?”
He was obviously asking Lin ngya.
Lin ngya imdiately answered softly, “Your Majesty, Commander Zhou and I worked together to destroy the chanism the wire puller attempted to use to control the corpses. However, there is indeed sothing strange about the four ladies’ deaths. I can’t make sure now. The whole thing won’t co to light until tomorrow morning.”
Restricted by the condition at night, there were still so problems Lin ngya had not figured out yet.
Since the four ladies had different backgrounds, she could only seek the thing they had in common in themselves.
Although she was aware that a lot of traces would disappear overnight, she had no other choice at the mont.
“That’s all you found?” However, the Emperor asked.
It seed that he did not intend to accept the result of their investigation. Lin ngya slled a rat.
Nevertheless, the Emperor had always been an unpredictable person. He probably behaved like that because her conclusion was too hasty?
Lin ngya said, “That’s not the case. It’s just that Commander Zhou and I haven’t made sure of many things, and we are afraid of misleading you. Your Majesty, please don’t bla for failing to do my job properly.”
The Emperor wanted to say sothing else, but was interrupted by Mada Jingrou, “Your Majesty, Ling’er and Helan have worked hard all night. Let’s call it a day. You two may go back now and co to report tomorrow morning.”
“Okay,” Lin ngya answered.
She raised her head to glance at Mada Jingrou in puzzlent, but found nothing special about Mada Jingrou who acted as usual.
Why did the Emperor seem to be intentional to target her today?
Lin ngya bowed and got out of the resting palace of the Emperor with Zhou Ling. When she was about to say goodbye to Zhou Ling, she found that Zhou Ling was staring at her seriously.
Zhou Ling said, “Miss Helan, I want to tell you sothing.”
Lin ngya had long lost the desire to sleep after working overnight.
With a nod, she followed Zhou Ling to move aside.
Although the lotus flowers were scattered after being battered by the rain, they were bright and fresh.
It was graceful to admire lotus flowers in the moonlight.
However, the female general next to Lin ngya looked a little tense.
Lin ngya said, “Commander, if you want to tell sothing, just spit it out. But if it’s about the case, we have to talk about it tomorrow.”
Zhou Ling stared at Lin ngya and suddenly smiled at her.
Her slightly shy smile puzzled Lin ngya.
Zhou Ling said, “I used to think that Wanyan Yu was a worthless person who only cared about people’s appearances. Unexpectedly, he is quite discerning. Rest assured. After I go ho, I’ll tell my father not to bother His Majesty every other day. In fact, I don’t like Wanyan Yu. As a man, he looks even more delicate than many girls and not masculine at all.”
Huh? Obviously, Lin ngya did not realize what she ant.
In the next second, Zhou Ling looked at her with incomparable sincerity, no longer showing any intention to stand in sharp opposition to her.
Zhou Ling added, “In fact, I just want to give you a test. After all, it concerns the future of our Lieyun Empire, so we have to be cautious. But your performance is greatly beyond my expectation. I will definitely ask my father to help you be the Empress in the future.”
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