Chapter 1029: Chapter 819, War is Imminent (One update today, after deleting and revising it, I'm sweating profusely.)_2 Chapter 1029: Chapter 819, War is Imminent (One update today, after deleting and revising it, I'm sweating profusely.)_2 Parchment was passed around one by one.
After the last person finished reading, the burly man sitting at the doorway said, “Then prepare, if the timing is right, kill this substitute.”
Everyone nodded in agreement with the plan.
Crack~!
The final memory fragment shattered.
Then, the shared vision of the battlefield came through.
After devouring the fleeing ghost, Bella returned to the scene of battle.
The Guard Team began cleaning up the battlefield, and the dead body of the robed figure was carried to a separate room nearby.
After a while, a figure wearing a hood appeared in front of the corpse.
Bella moved to the front for a closer look, with only a pair of eyes visible; the rest of the face tightly concealed.
Approaching the body, she commanded the Attendant to guard the door while she herself tore open a Magical Scroll.
As the scroll unfurled, the dense Necromantic Power enveloped the corpse.
The body lying on the ground sat up straight.
Its murky eyes looked towards the location of the person using the scroll.
Communicate with the dead?
It seemed that a “Communicate with the Dead” scroll was used.
Everything was well-prepared.
At that moment, a deep, somewhat aged voice came from under the hood, “Were you sent by the Crown Prince?”
The corpse answered, “Yes.”
“How many of you are there?”
The corpse answered, “Five.”
“Where is your gathering spot?”
The corpse answered, “In an abandoned hunter's cabin on the north side of the city outskirts.”
“Any further plans?”
“The plans are notified on an ad hoc basis; there's no fixed plan.”
The last question.
The man using the scroll brooded for a good while before speaking, “Were you responsible for the disappearance of several officials recently?”
“No!”
After answering, the corpse lay back down.
Hearing the two words “not us,” the man's gaze suddenly sharpened.
It wasn't these people.
This implied that there were other High Level professionals targeting them within the city.
The man's gaze flickered.
He stood still for a while before moving towards the corpse to search it.
After removing the equipment and the Space Ring, he stored them in his own ring.
“Come in!” he called to someone outside the door.
The Attendant who had been standing at the entrance walked in.
The man then tore another scroll, and a Teleportation Array materialized beneath his feet before he disappeared without a trace.
The shared vision ended.
Wu Heng released Bella again.
Glenda asked, “Got any intelligence?”
Xiao Xiao stood by, also awaiting news.
Wu Heng relayed what he had seen to the other two ghosts.
It included that the robed figures came from the Heavenly Wisdom Sect and had struck a deal with the Crown Prince to help him secure the throne.
A strange person had performed an interrogation of the corpse, and there were five people in total who had gathered previously at an abandoned wooden hut on the northern outskirts of the city.
Glenda nodded, “A pity the corpse was interrogated.”
Bella frowned and asked, “The person in the vision, called Your Highness, appeared to be over 40 with brown hair, why doesn't his hair color match that of the Second Prince or the Fifth Princess?”
It was certain that this person was the Crown Prince, but his appearance was different from what they had imagined.
Glenda said, “That's normal, Wu Heng, you have had plenty of women, so why not an old King?”
“Don't always use me for comparison,” Wu Heng said discontentedly.
Bella smiled, “Right, I missed that point.”
Wu Heng pondered and then added, “He used a Teleportation Scroll when he left; I'm not sure if they're still in the city.”
Bella also joined in, “I hesitated at the time, I should have killed him first.”
“No worries, even if we had killed him, we might not have been able to go in and retrieve the body,” Wu Heng said.
“So what do we do next?” Bella continued.
“No rush, let's see what moves they make.”
Tap tap tap~!
Footsteps rapidly approached from outside the window, and a large contingent of the Guard Team appeared again in the streets.
They herded the residents outside back into their homes and commenced another extensive search.
Wu Heng glanced down from the window and then said, “Let's go, we should head back and lie low for now, and we'll come back later.”
Zombie World.
Stepping through the boundary door, it was still the surveillance room.
Wu Heng sat down at the table, his gaze falling upon the A4 paper-bound book that lay there.
On the outermost book cover was written “Artefact.”
Li Yahong's efficiency was quite impressive; the talisman book had already been delivered.
The Three Ghosts also leaned in curiously, “Uncle, what's this?”
“It's a book on talismans, borrowed earlier from the front desk, and it's now been delivered,” Wu Heng casually replied.
“Will it work?” Xiao Xiao followed up with a question.
“Not sure; just have a look,” replied Wu Heng, “Go check if those three zombies have leveled up yet?”
“Okay!” Xiao Xiao agreed with a quick response and immediately flew out.
Glenda and Bella, curious, floated by his shoulder, examining the book in his hands.
He flipped to the first page, the pattern of the talisman on the right side.
On the left, the explanation and usage.
At a glance, it seemed somewhat like a fantasy picture book, with terms like “bestowed by the Jade Emperor” and “Taoist Primordial Monarch.”
“How do you use it?” Glenda asked.
“We might not figure it out ourselves; we'll find an Array Pattern Master to take a look later,” said Wu Heng after a brief look, as it all seemed quite cryptic, and he put it aside.
Xiao Xiao flew back from outside, “Uncle, still level 19, no change.”
“Leveling has slowed down, huh.”
“Yes!” echoed the Three Ghosts with a nod.
Dusk.
In the midst of collapsed ruins in the wild, four figures cloaked in black robes appeared, their faces grim.
“To kill a decoy, and we lose a man.”
No one had died in the attack on the Prince's mansion, yet a death had occurred in the killing of a decoy.
To the deceased comrade, there wasn't much regret in their hearts; after all, they were just hands plucked from various sects, strangers before forming a temporary team.
But the loss of one was indeed a blow to the whole squad's strength.
“Can't blame anyone for dying, only that our skills were inferior,” the strapping man at the entrance bluntly said, “We know it was a decoy that died, but others in the city don't, it will cause chaos for a while. Let's not make any moves these next few days, Crown Prince will send reinforcements, we'll plan further then.”
“That's fine, no objections.”
“Then let's rest for now, everyone is indeed quite exhausted today.”
Three days later.
Wu Heng returned to the private room in the tavern.
He sent out his Ghost to have a look; the entire tavern was closed for business.
Wu Heng set up his Soundproof Pot and got out the radio to contact Wen Mansha.
“Wen Mansha, how's it on your end?”
Quickly, Wen Mansha's voice came through, “Master, the Messenger you arranged has set off and will take the train to the city where the Second Prince is.”
“Good, the Second Prince might arrange for assassins and the like, be careful,” Wu Heng cautioned.
“What happened?”
Wu Heng recounted learning from the previous day's Communicate with the Dead that the missing official incident was not the work of the Crown Prince's people.
Wen Mansha understood the implication, “Alright, I'll make arrangements.”
The two ended the communication.
Bella flew back in from outside, saying, “Found that northern cabin, nothing was left inside.”
Wu Heng nodded, “The trouble with Space Rings.”
He waited in the room for a while.
Glenda also flew back in, “The Prince Mansion has been emptied out, from the outside it still appears guarded by guards, but the level 18 professionals inside have all left, almost like a ghost town.”
Wu Heng's eyebrows rose.
“Let's go, we'll check out the mansion.”
In a village.
Three men and a woman appeared at the entrance.
Stepping into the village, two figures walked towards them head-on.
Without any pleasantries, an oil lamp covered with verdigris was handed over.
Saying, “Special Item, users will consume Qi and blood, this is his hair, within a certain range, thrown into the oil lamp, will help you find your target.”
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