Chapter 145 No Survivors (1)

Mo Linyuan bent over and carefully lifted the girl away from the pile of corpses, but the moment he made his move, he discovered that something was wrong. The blood on Ye Mu’s body didn’t actually belong to anyone else– the warm, fresh liquid in his hand told him that her body was currently oozing blood from the inside!

“What happened to you?!”

Mo Linyuan immediately tensed up. Then he saw Ye Mu shake her head and weakly speak.

“I’m fine… In order to control the internal energy in my body, I cut off my own meridians. Although my internal injuries are serious, my life is not in danger…”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

But Mo Linyuan actually guess this too, that she had chosen to do something so drastic in order to prevent herself from harming them. It was also because she was just the same foolish girl before that made his heart ache.

And before he could say anything, Ye Mu had already fainted.

Mo Linyuan was burning with anxiety as he hurriedly brought Ye Mu back to the palace. As for the corpses on the ground, no one bothered with them.

On the way back to the palace, someone asked Mo Linyuan about the mountain of corpses. When Mo Linyuan heard this, he said in a rather sinister manner, “Don’t worry about it. Someone will naturally go collect what belongs to her.”

Meanwhile, the empress dowager, who was waiting in the palace for joyous news after a good night of sleep, heard the most unexpected news instead.

“What did you say?!”

She ran barefoot out of the bed, grabbed ahold of the man’s clothes who had announced the news, and said in a shrill voice, “You said that evil creature is back here? How is that possible?!”

In order to absolutely ensure a landslide success, not only did she use her strongest trump card, but she also sought help from the great families of the Mo country to form a team of five hundred deadly assassins.

The face of the person under the empress dowager’s hold suddenly turned pale and trembled all over. When Zhao Yunqin saw that he couldn’t utter even a single word for a long time, she anxiously pushed him away and yelled,

“Where’s Yuan Wei? Tell him to come and see me!”

She couldn’t find any plausible reason for why the Emperor had already returned. After all, the person in charge of the imperial guards she had sent out had yet to arrive before him. They should have won!

The person fell to the ground, quivering, and then quickly kneeled down. Hearing the empress dowager’s question, he stammered, “Second Lieutenant Yuan…he-he’s outside…”

The empress dowager was too impatient and didn’t have time for a stuttering fool. Glaring at him and without waiting for him to finish speaking, she ran to the outer hall. With dread, she guessed that Yuan Wei must have failed his mission, so he didn’t dare come inside to meet her.

However, when she went out, she had the shock of her life—she discovered that there were thirteen corpses on the floor!

After a long time of surprise, she quickly tried to determine who was on the ground. Terrified, she discovered that the corpses were the captains of the thirteen squads she had sent out! Their faces were all washed clean of blood, but it was not hard to tell what happened to them back when they were alive from their mutilated bodies. Especially when many of them died with a horrid look, as if they had suffered hell.

Somehow, the empress dowager could only feel a cold chill rapidly rise from the bottom of her feet, causing her entire body to stiffen! It was a sweltering day in May, but she seemed to be in the middle of a blizzard in winter.

“This… What’s going on?!” Zhao Yunqin resiliently asked after a while. Her face deathly pale, “What about the other experts that were sent out? Find one to talk to me!”

Even if the quest had been a failure, why was she seeing a pile of corpses!?

But she didn’t expect that her words would cause her trusted aides to kneel down.

“All gone…” Someone said in a very low, hoarse voice.

“What do you mean gone? Say it more clearly!” Zhao Yunqin suddenly pressed closer to that person, feeling even more uneasy.

That person was so scared that he finally broke down and wept. He said with a tearful voice, “There’s no one left alive. All two hundred and thirty-seven men who had been sent out by our palace are all…all dead!”