Chapter 196 p2:
Xin Yao, who had finally been let go, was miserable. She had to lie in bed for another two or three days before she could recover and get out of bed.
And in the five days since Jiang Zhanyu had returned to support and had killed the rebels, Xin Yao and Creamy Corgi and the others had still not been able to contact Ning Weishuang.
It was unknown if this person had been knocked out or what, but in any case, the messages sent to her were like a stone sinking into the sea, with no news at all.
But now, the imperial city was being guarded by the Lu Yu Army, inside and out. Jiang Zhanyu was also sending people to search the palace inch by inch. The scoundrel who had dared to kidnap the emperor would eventually have nowhere to run and would be caught sooner or later.
Xin Yao just had to wait.
But of course, she was not just idly waiting for news, leaving everything to Jiang Zhanyu to do. She was indeed very busy.
After all, she now had a very urgent and tricky matter before her—the mission! The mission! Still the damn mission!
Seeing that the rebellion was about to be suppressed, and the plot of the rebels besieging the city was about to be over, once this plot point was over, the emperor and empress would go offline, and there would be no more foolish monarch and demonic empress in the world.
But Jiang Zhanyu hadn’t fallen into an illusion yet!
Their mission this time was not only to assist the small world in evolving the plot, but the biggest goal was to lead Jiang Zhanyu into an illusion. If the plot point was over and the goal was not yet achieved, then the mission would fail.
So Xin Yao now urgently needed to get Jiang Zhanyu to enter an illusion before the rebellion was completely suppressed!
According to the original plot, the emperor and empress had secretly taken the supreme treasure that had always been stored in the national treasury—the Illusory Realm of Samsara—and had ambushed the person on the way south to pray for blessings when Jiang Zhanyu was not paying attention, causing the Prince of Yong’an to be trapped in it.
Xin Yao and Ning Weishuang had originally planned to follow the original plot and go and get the item before they set off.
No one had expected the plot to suddenly collapse, and the rebels to attack Shengjing without any warning.
So Xin Yao now had to take advantage of Jiang Zhanyu’s absence and sneak into the national treasury to get the plot item.
After resting in bed for three days, she was now lively and energetic again. Her little legs could finally close, and after getting out of bed, she was ready to quietly go to the national treasury.
But she hadn’t expected that at this moment, the little dog system’s voice would sound in her mind.
【Wait.】
【One piece of good news and one piece of bad news. Which do you want to hear first?】
Xin Yao, who was thinking of buying a prop in the mall to avoid the heavy gazes outside, paused, and then clicked her tongue in exasperation.
“Again?”
“There’s never a single day where things go smoothly.”
“What’s the good news?”
【The good news is that you don’t have to sneak into the national treasury.】
“And the bad news?”
【The bad news is that the small world’s consciousness told me that it just checked the national treasury and found that the Illusory Realm of Samsara is missing.】
【After investigation, it was Lu Zhaoyuan who, in accordance with the principle of taking her destiny into her own hands, had taken the Illusory Realm of Samsara in advance to secretly study it.】
【She can’t take important plot items out of the imperial palace, so the thing must still be hidden by her somewhere in the palace.】
Where else could Lu Zhaoyuan hide things?
Xin Yao, standing in the faint light of the mid-afternoon, slowly turned and looked up at the secret room behind her bed.
“It’s not that I’m criticizing you, but why did you only find out about such an important thing now!”
【The small world’s consciousness said it’s not its fault. It’s just that Lu Zhaoyuan is too cunning and restless. She’s all over the place, wanting to stick her nose in everything. It’s impossible to guard against her.】
“Alright, this small world’s consciousness is getting more and more lively. It even knows how to use the word ‘cunning’.”
After thinking about it, Xin Yao felt that it wasn’t bad. It was the same whether it was in the national treasury or hidden in the secret room. In the room, it would even save her the trouble of going out to look for it.
With this thought in mind, the eager to complete the mission Xin Yao, without a second thought, lifted her foot and was about to open the secret room and go in.
However, as the secret room door opened with a rumble, revealing the dark scene inside, Xin Yao’s movement paused. Then her face suddenly turned pale with panic. She finally, belatedly, realized something, and couldn’t help but feel a little panicked and scared.
She, what was all this stuff in her little room? Things that absolutely couldn’t be seen by others!
What if A-Yu found out? Not only would she be socially dead, but she would also be fucked to death. With A-Yu’s perverted excitement, she would catch her and play with all those little toys on her one by one!
If she was really seen, A-Yu would definitely think that she had strong needs and loved to play with little toys. In the future, she would definitely be even crazier when they did it.
Wuwuwu, she wasn’t. She didn’t like to play.
She didn’t want to be tied up, didn’t want to go into the little birdcage, and even less did she want to eat those strange, thick, and large jade pieces with carved patterns.
Before, because of the OOC restriction, Xin Yao had not been able to destroy this room. Now that she had the chance, it was too late to destroy it.
But as it happened, she had to go in and look!
Xin Yao’s strong sense of professionalism drove her to move. The mission was just one illusion away from completion. At the last moment, how could she possibly give up at this time!
Lu Zhaoyuan, you’ve really done a lot of things. You’ve killed me!
But after taking two steps, Xin Yao gradually calmed down, thinking, Why am I scaring myself?
A-Yu had said that she was going to a slightly further place this afternoon to clear out a defeated army, and would be back very late.
It was only just afternoon now. A-Yu had only been gone for a short while. How could she possibly appear at this time?
She would just go into the secret room and look. She would come out as soon as she found the thing. She would definitely not be discovered. It would be absolutely fine!
When she found the right time in these two days to use the Illusory Realm of Samsara, the mission might be completed very soon.
Thinking of this, Xin Yao felt even more at ease. She patted her small chest, took a deep breath, and walked towards the dark and gloomy secret room.
As she entered, the secret room door slowly closed again.
Xin Yao had thought everything through and planned everything well, but she had forgotten to count on how powerful, how much her wife liked her, and how clingy she was.
The defeated army was just a plate of loose sand. How could they be a match for Jiang Zhanyu? She had led her men over and had finished the battle in a short while.
The rest of the cleaning up of the battlefield and escorting of the prisoners no longer required her presence. Jiang Zhanyu naturally immediately returned to the city to find her wife.
She hadn’t seen Yao Yao for a whole hour. She was about to die.
Jiang Zhanyu hadn’t expected that when she happily returned to the imperial palace and entered her wife’s room, she wouldn’t see her.
When she asked the palace attendants outside, they all said that the empress was in the room, and they hadn’t seen her go out.
Almost immediately, Jiang Zhanyu remembered that the young Emperor Xia had disappeared from the palace and had not yet been found. Her face immediately changed, and her hands couldn’t stop trembling. This time, she really felt that she was about to die.
If anything happened to Yao Yao, she would go mad.
Fortunately, Jiang Zhanyu was not overwhelmed by panic and still maintained her composure. Since Yao Yao had disappeared from the room, there must be clues left in the room.
She closed the door and began to search the room carefully.
Jiang Zhanyu’s search methods were naturally much better than the inexperienced Xin Yao’s. She hadn’t paid attention before, but today, as she searched carefully inch by inch, she really did find something amiss.
That vase in the corner seemed a little off.
She stood in the faint light of the afternoon and frowned slightly. Without a second thought, she reached out and touched it.
As the vase was twisted.
“Rumble—”
Behind the empress’s soft bed with its embroidered phoenix patterned bed curtains, the hidden door in the crack slowly opened, revealing its shy little appearance.
Even Jiang Zhanyu was stunned for a moment. She had never thought that her empress, her little wife’s room, would have such a secret room.
Did Yao Yao know about the existence of this secret room? Or did Yao Yao make this secret room herself?
Where on earth had Yao Yao gone? Was she in this secret room now? Was she safe?
What was this place for?
It was better to go in and see than to think about it. So Jiang Zhanyu decided not to think about it anymore.
She was really too worried about Xin Yao. She lifted her foot and walked towards the empress’s secret little room.
She wanted to see what was inside.