Chapter 252 Shocking News
Chapter 252 Shocking News
After Ruan Qingqing and others got rid of the Imperial Guards, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where is this?" Ruan Qingqing was a little dumbfounded as she looked at the desolate land in front of her. She had only been running to a place with few people, but she didn't expect to get lost.
Ruan Qingqing quickly took out a schematic diagram of the palace from her pocket and compared it with the current scenery.
"This is the cold palace in the backyard of the imperial palace." Chase suddenly spoke up.
"The cold palace? Where concubines and princesses who have committed crimes live?" Ruan Qingqing asked.
"Not bad!"
"What's that smell?" Old Shi wrinkled his nose and sniffed around.
"What happened to Mr. Shi?"
"There is a faint smell of blood nearby, but it has a sweet aroma," Old Shi looked at Chase solemnly, "Young man Cai, are you sure this is the cold palace?"
"Yeah." Chase nodded calmly.
"No, why would the cold palace have such a smell?" Old Shi walked forward.
The smell of blood plus a sweet aroma?
A bloody palace fight scene?
Ruan Qingqing felt a little uneasy.
But the damn curiosity in her heart made her unable to help but find out the truth.
Wu Shang saw Ruan Qingqing walking towards the palace complex and followed her reluctantly. Chase looked around and finally followed.
After climbing over the courtyard wall, Ruan Qingqing saw Shi Lao standing motionless in front of a luxurious palace. She walked forward curiously and looked inside through the slightly open door.
With just one glance, her eyes suddenly widened and her pupils suddenly shrank. But after a moment, she could no longer hold back and cried out "Wow", leaning on the pillar next to her, vomiting violently, wishing she could vomit out her own guts.
"Mad men, a room full of mad men!"
A group of babies inside were desperately waving their plump arms. A group of palace servants were standing at a small table, each with their heads down, doing something seriously. After a while, they raised something that was still beating and put it in front of their eyes for appreciation...
The little feet that were struggling on the table fell down weakly...
She thought of the situation when her mother was giving birth to her third brother and sister. It was such a difficult situation at the time, and everyone around her advised her to give up the younger ones, but she turned the tide and saved her third brother and sister.
Because those are two lives, they have the right to choose to survive!
But here...
They are so careless about human life! Ruan Qingqing felt a nameless fire burning directly from her heart to the top of her head.
"They are using babies' hearts to make pills!" It's hard to tell whether Old Shi's tone is sad or happy.
"Why must you be so cruel as to use the heart of a living baby to make elixirs?" Ruan Qingqing, who had nothing left to spit out, wiped the corner of her mouth, straightened her waist and walked towards the door step by step.
Shi Lao sneered, "The devil wants to achieve his goal, so why does he care whether the process is cruel or not?"
"No! We can't let them take human lives like that! There are still many living babies there. It's ok if they don't encounter them, but if they do, we must not let them succeed!"
The anger in Ruan Qingqing's heart grew stronger and stronger.
Wushang and Chase, who arrived later, saw this and there was anger in their eyes.
However, when Ruan Qingqing kicked the door open, the people inside not only did not realize that they were caught for doing something bad, but instead looked at them ferociously with bloody daggers in their hands.
Ruan Qingqing couldn't help but shiver. Is this the devil from hell crawling down to the human world?
She suppressed the chill in her heart and shouted loudly: "Let them go!"
Those people looked at each other and laughed. "Another nosy person has come! What happened to the last one?"
"Just throw it into the alchemy furnace and refine it!"
Ruan Qingqing took out a dagger from her boots, pressed her hand on the handle, and with a "clang" sound, the short dagger immediately turned into a long sword.
Ruan Qingqing pointed the sword at those people, her face dark, "I said let those babies go!"
"Who do you think you are?" One of them waved a dagger and rushed towards Ruan Qingqing's face.
Ruan Qingqing immediately started fighting with him.
"That's the Golden Guard!" Chase, who arrived later, couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Captain Cai, our Golden Guards and your Dark Guards have always kept to themselves. We are all working for the Emperor. Hurry up and get your people out of here! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"
A young man with a gloomy face came out and said to Chase.
"Yin Jiu, you...you actually allowed them to use the baby's heart to make pills?" Chase's eyes gradually turned red.
"Chief Cai, why are you pretending? We all work under the emperor. Who doesn't have a few lives on his hands? How come you have become less courageous after staying in Moliang for a while?" Yin Jiu glanced at Cai Si coldly.
"Although I have killed people, I will never easily take the lives of women, children and the weak!" Chase said angrily.
"Naive! Chief Cai, have you forgotten that interfering in the affairs of other departments will result in the death penalty?" Yin Jiu laughed.
"Stop talking nonsense and let's see who's the real deal!" Chase said as he went to beat Yin Jiu.
Yin Jiu dodged and stepped back, and immediately six thugs appeared and protected Yin Jiu behind them.
"What a reckless man! Who would fight with you!" Yin Jiu sneered.
Chase hooked his finger slightly, put it in his mouth and blew. The sharp whistle instantly echoed in the palace. Although the secret guards hiding in the dark didn't know what happened, they all quickly gathered in the direction of the cold palace.
"Chase! Are you crazy?" Yin Jiu then felt afraid.
"You are the ones who are crazy!"
At the beginning, everyone was arguing about how the emperor died. Suddenly, when they heard a big noise coming from the cold palace, they didn't care about continuing to argue and hurriedly sent people to the cold palace to check.
Not long after, someone came back trembling and reported, "The Golden Guards and the palace maids in the cold palace used the hearts of living babies to make elixirs, and somehow they got into a fight with a group of men in black."
As soon as the news came out, the whole audience was shocked.
Everyone present knew that the Golden Guards were a group of people who handled the emperor's private affairs. They participated in the alchemy using the hearts of living babies with the emperor's permission.
Everyone's eyes widened as big as copper bells, and gasps came one after another.
Their emperor is really good at hiding!
Then someone cried, "No wonder there were so many assassinations in the capital before, and no wonder there were so many cases of missing babies before, but nothing was done in the end! My poor grandson!"
"Then the emperor's death was his own fault? I don't care who killed him!" Someone couldn't help but spit in anger.
"Such a person with a beastly heart is not worthy of being an emperor!" Zhou Zheng immediately threw the ivory sceptre in his hand.
"Yes! Such a beast in human form is not worthy of being an emperor! Not only that, his descendants are not worthy of being emperors either!"
No one was discussing how to find the murderer as they rushed to the cold palace to rescue him.
More or less all the officials present had lost babies in their families, and they wished they could grow four legs so they could run desperately towards the cold palace.
In this chaotic moment, Zhou Che quietly walked into the imperial study...
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