Chapter 224: The Trap
“Uh… is there anything else you want to ask? If not, I’d like to be alone with him for a while.”
The woman in the green dress said as she turned to look behind her. She had a lot to say to her disciple and was already impatient.
“It’s fine. You can go and rest first.”
Seeing that he couldn’t get any more information, Su Yan let them go back to rest. But seeing the hands of the woman in the green dress and the delicate young man clasped together… weren’t they a bit too intimate? Was it really just a simple master-disciple relationship?
“Are you alright?”
Xiao Wu asked at this moment. Ever since the woman in the green dress had said that, she had been silent, as if she had suffered a great blow.
“I’m fine.”
Long Bing took a deep breath and said, “It’s just that I can’t accept this matter for a moment.”
Although she was only holding an unknown gu worm and there was no evidence that the Prime Minister had made a move, she was already eighty percent sure in her heart. If it wasn’t the Prime Minister, then who else could it be?
She hadn’t suspected before, but now that she thought about it carefully, to be able to bring a gu worm into the imperial palace and avoid the guards’ inspection, it definitely wasn’t an ordinary person. The Prime Minister completely fit this condition.
And in connection with her secretly manufacturing weapons of war, the situation seemed to be very clear.
“But we don’t have any evidence. It’s probably not possible to just arrest her like this,” Su Yan said with some worry.
If it were an ordinary person, it would be fine. But now that the empress was in a coma, all the affairs of the Dragon Kingdom were controlled by the Prime Minister. To have a showdown with her at this time, the result would definitely not be good. If she said that she had been framed, very few people would believe them.
“We have to find evidence.”
Long Bing bit her lower lip, her face darkening.
The three of them discussed what to do together. The method they finally came up with was very simple: to do what they had been doing all along, to sneak into the Prime Minister’s residence, find the truth of the matter, and look for evidence related to the empress’s murder.
Xiao Wu was all too familiar with this process. But looking up at the time, so much had passed. A sliver of fish-belly white appeared in the distant sky. It was actually already dawn.
“There’s no chance now. We have to wait.”
Su Yan spread his hands. Long Bing glanced at the sky and nodded helplessly.
“The timing is not right. You two should have a good rest. Let’s talk about it at night.”
In the early morning, others were full of energy. It was obviously not appropriate to sneak in at this time. They could only wait until night.
It’s just…
Long Bing looked at the guest room with worry.
“I don’t know if the two actions last night will alert the enemy. It would be bad if they become vigilant.”
With deep worry, even though she hadn’t slept all night, Long Bing did not rest. Instead, she kept an eye on the movements in the Prime Minister’s residence.
To her relief, from the outside, it seemed that nothing had happened, which made her relax a little.
Sleeping in broad daylight, he always felt a little unaccustomed to it. But the strangeness of his mind could not resist the instinct of his body.
Having not slept all night, Su Yan felt very tired. He lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Who knows how much time had passed, but Su Yan was woken up by a gentle female voice.
“Wake up. It’s not early anymore. It’s time to get up.”
Su Yan was sleeping soundly and didn’t want to wake up at all. He mumbled a few times, directly covered his head with the quilt, and chose to ignore this voice.
“Hehe.”
A pleasant light laugh sounded beside him. The owner of the voice’s tone was full of doting.
“What a little lazy bug.”
As her voice fell, Su Yan felt his body was suspended in the air. He had actually been picked up.
“Hey, hey, hey!”
Such a violent action, it was impossible for Su Yan not to wake up even if he wanted to. He subconsciously looked for support beside him, hugged an unknown person’s soft waist, and then gently opened his eyes.
“Mmm… it’s you, Senior Sister. What are you doing? I’m not awake yet.”
Su Yan’s eyes were sleepy, and he looked at Xiao Wu with some resentment.
Xiao Wu smiled lightly and said, “Just look at what time it is. You’re still sleeping. Are you a little pig?”
“Eh?”
Su Yan looked at the sky outside. The dim, warm light shone into the bedroom. It was just dawn. No!
“It’s already dusk!”
Su Yan came to his senses, an embarrassed expression on his face.
“It’s already tomorrow, right? It’s time to act,” Xiao Wu looked at him and said.
“Act? What action?”
Su Yan was dumbfounded for a moment, and then he came to his senses.
Right! They had agreed yesterday to act today, to investigate the secrets in the Prime Minister’s residence. It was already time.
At this thought, Su Yan quickly got up to get dressed. During this period, Xiao Wu kept staring at him, which made Su Yan blush a little.
“Can you turn around?”
“What, are you afraid of me looking? Which part of your body have I not seen?”
“Don’t say any more!”
Su Yan quickly reached out to cover her mouth.
Honestly, his former senior sister was so gentle. How had she become so bad now, teasing him from time to time, and occasionally making dirty jokes? Who on earth had she learned it from?
Hearing Su Yan’s muttering, Xiao Wu looked at him with a strange expression. Who had she learned it from? He still had the face to ask? It was really speechless.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Noticing Xiao Wu’s gaze, Su Yan asked curiously.
“Nothing.”
Xiao Wu shook her head. Although she still wanted to tease her junior brother, now was clearly not the time. Her Second Junior Sister had been waiting for a long time. There would be plenty of opportunities in the future.
At this thought, Xiao Wu helped Su Yan get dressed and then walked towards the living room.
“You’re here.”
Seeing the two of them, an excited expression appeared on Long Bing’s face.
“Let’s go now.”
“Mm.”
Su Yan nodded. He hadn’t eaten after sleeping for a day and was a little hungry. But he understood his Second Senior Sister’s anxiety and decided to bear with it.
And so, the three of them, under the cover of night, came to the Prime Minister’s residence. Unlike other places, the Prime Minister’s residence was heavily guarded. They had to be careful even if they were to separate.
“It’s just as you said. There are Nascent Soul cultivators here. If it were the me from before, it would have been very difficult to hide and sneak in. But now it’s different.”
Because Xiao Wu had been supplementing with a large amount of milk these past few days, her strength was no longer what it used to be. Although she had not broken through yet, she was already on the verge of a breakthrough and could be considered a half-step Soul Formation cultivator.
Under Xiao Wu’s cover, the three of them easily snuck in and encountered countless traps along the way.
Su Yan looked at the various mechanisms before him, his heart full of surprise. When he had come a few days ago, he had only wandered around the periphery and had not encountered these things. Now that he thought about it, he was really lucky. If he had gone deeper, he would have very likely been discovered by others.
“Although these traps are tricky, it’s not that there’s no way.”
Xiao Wu and Long Bing each displayed their strengths along the way. When they encountered alarm devices like formations, Long Bing would make a move to dismantle them. And if they encountered a clever mechanism, it would be Xiao Wu’s turn to make a move.
“The destination is right ahead.”
Su Yan had been observing his surroundings all along. Seeing the room ahead, he said with some pleasant surprise.
“If a person wants to hide something, where is the most likely place? Of course, it’s the bedroom and the study!”
The first stop Su Yan and the others came to was the study. Because the Prime Minister usually worked here and did not allow outsiders to enter, the possibility was the greatest.
Long Bing and Xiao Wu undid the alarm device in the room, gently pushed open the door, and the three of them began to search here.
“Found it!”
Long Bing suddenly said. She picked up a stack of letters and quickly flipped through them.
Inside were the conversations between the Prime Minister and others, including the excavation of the ruin, the Prime Minister’s orders, and a list of the items excavated from the ruin.
Long Bing’s expression was grave. She saw the poison gu on it. The Prime Minister had ordered her subordinates to study the effects of this gu worm. After figuring it out, she had instructed her subordinates to make a move on the empress.
“It’s really her!”
Although she had been mentally prepared, when the evidence was before her, she still couldn’t believe it.
Her mother was so good to the Prime Minister and trusted her so much. How could she do this!?
“But that’s the truth.”
Xiao Wu sighed, not surprised. She had seen too many things. Wasn’t it just betrayal? This was a very common thing. After all, power moved people’s hearts. No one could guarantee eternal loyalty.
Seeing that his prediction had come true, Su Yan was both happy and worried.
He was happy that his intuition was right and that there was indeed something wrong with the Prime Minister. He was worried that there was a traitor in the Dragon Kingdom. His Second Senior Sister must be feeling very bad in her heart.
After comforting her a little, Su Yan began to think. The purpose of tonight’s action had been achieved. Logically, he should be relaxed. But he always felt that something was wrong, and he had a faint unease in his heart. Why was that?
“Things are going too smoothly.”
Xiao Wu walked to his side and said softly, protecting him behind her.
This posture… could it be…
Su Yan vigilantly released his divine sense and found that the room had been surrounded. Without them knowing, they had been blocked here.
“This is a trap?”
Su Yan’s eyes widened.
“Clap, clap, clap.”
With a series of claps, the door was slowly opened. The Prime Minister of the Dragon Kingdom looked at the few of them, and finally turned her gaze to Long Bing, saying coldly, “You little brat, I didn’t take you seriously before and let you investigate randomly. I didn’t expect you to actually find a clue. You were the one who ruined my good time last night, right? Now it seems, you can’t be left alive!”
Hearing the Prime Minister of the Dragon Kingdom’s words, Su Yan’s mind raced, and he instantly figured out the truth.
Last night, they had rescued the two of them, and the commotion had been too great. The Prime Minister had set a trap here, and they had foolishly fallen into it.
“Since you knew we would come, why did you put the evidence here?” Su Yan was completely baffled by this.
Xiao Wu said, “Probably to let us die with understanding?”
Although she said that, her face showed no nervousness at all. Seeing Xiao Wu so relaxed, the heart that had been in Su Yan’s throat also relaxed.
He had almost been scared by the other party. But on second thought, so what if they had more people?
For a cultivator, more people was of no use. Everything was based on strength.
Su Yan and Xiao Wu were whispering. Long Bing, on the other hand, had already had a falling out with the Prime Minister.
“I can’t believe it’s really you! Why did you do this?”
“Nothing. Just because I wanted to.”
