Chapter 1147

"Aaaah!"

"Clap clap clap!"

General Ji Xia watched the good show and joined in the applause, clapping her hands in delight.

"Truly a fine show. So are you done acting? Ready to surrender?"

The next moment, the mercenary boss decisively raised both hands, and his underlings followed suit one after another.

"My lord, we surrender. We're innocent. I'll tell you everything I know. This guy hired us to make a run for the Lucina docks."

"What's he going to the Lucina docks for?" General Ji Xia asked, taking the cue.

"My lord, I don't know that, but you can ask this old fellow." The mercenary boss nudged Master Jianong underfoot, but Master Jianong stayed completely silent.

Looking down, the mercenary boss was stunned. At some unknown point, fresh blood had seeped from the corner of Master Jianong's mouth, his lips had turned purple, and his eyes had rolled back — clearly he had taken poison and killed himself.

"Damn, this old fellow's a bit too eager, don't drag me into it."

"What's wrong with Master Jianong?" General Ji Xia sensed something off from the mercenary boss's face.

"My lord, this old fellow actually took poison and killed himself. Do you have a physician here?" The mercenary boss said with his hands raised, still feeling something was off.

"What! Took poison and killed himself?"

General Ji Xia, not believing it, walked straight toward the mercenaries. The mercenaries on both sides along the way cleared a path, and among them, Master Jianong had indeed taken poison and killed himself, just as the mercenary boss had said.

With the lead cut off, General Ji Xia stamped her foot in fury on the spot, and her icy gaze swept directly over the group of mercenaries.

"Men, take everyone here back for interrogation!"

"You'd better pray I don't find out Master Jianong's death has anything to do with you, or I swear you'll end up far worse off than him!" General Ji Xia swept a warning look over everyone, the mercenary boss included.

"My lord, we're innocent! We're really just hired mercenaries." The boss was on the verge of tears. Originally, all they had to do was clear their connection to Master Jianong and they'd be released right away.

Now they had no choice but to go back and be interrogated along with the rest.

The soldiers of the Eternal Night Legion clamped shackles on the mercenaries one by one and strung them together with iron chains, preparing to take them back as a group.

General Ji Xia, meanwhile, silently made her way to a thicket not far from the mercenaries. Lin Cheng, Miss Qianhui, Valkyrie Ailin, and Little Red were waiting there, along with a dozen or so mechanical servants acting as guards, standing quietly on the ground.

Lin Cheng was also a bit surprised that Master Jianong had taken poison and killed himself without so much as a peep.

The amount of information behind this was honestly a bit much.

"What do we do now?" General Ji Xia asked.

"Report it truthfully to Lord Xuan. Whoever is behind Master Jianong really isn't something we can investigate. The truth Master Jianong was willing to take poison and die to hide — I'm afraid only Lord Xuan can worry about that. He might know something." Lin Cheng had a headache; he hated enemies like this most of all — ones who told no one anything and only cared about their own loyalty.

The lead, out in the open, was no different from having no lead at all.

"Mm." General Ji Xia nodded helplessly.

If Lin Cheng had no way to handle it, then she had even less.

At this point, they could only take Master Jianong's corpse back with them.

"This area nearby is the territory of Little Red's Blue Fox clan. I need to go check on it. How about you head back with the legion first?"