Chapter 2163: Surprise?

Su Xiao walked out of the main entrance of the Saint Court. At this time, he was wearing a duke medal on his chest, a duke medal!

Su Xiao just walked down the steps, and the imperial soldiers on both sides of the path raised their weapons, all kneeling on one knee, armor colliding, full of momentum.

This kind of scene was also one of the reasons why people pursued power. No matter where they went, there were people in awe, and people kneeling on the ground.

Su Xiao walked along the path, with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha behind him.

Just as he reached the end of the path, a carriage stopped there. There was a Moon Wolf emblem on the carriage, and the door was open.

"We although hate that old guy, we also believe in his vision."

Lilin was sitting in the carriage. This upright duke, no matter when, always put the overall situation first.

Old schemers were not necessarily bad people, just like Duke Lilin. He was ruthless when doing things, but most of the things he did were for the people and the empire. As for occasional selfishness, who would have absolutely no selfishness?

There was a saying in Yalanse City: without Duke Lilin, the empire would completely lose hope.

Even, more than 30% of officials would support Duke Lilin to become the Saint-Descendant King. As for the remaining 70% of imperial officials, they had already rotted.

Su Xiao got on the carriage. This time Baha glared at Amu, and Amu sat beside the coachman with some grievances. The coachman was trembling, wanting to say something, but didn't dare.

The carriage drove quickly out of Yalanse City. The two unicorns pulling the carriage were far from what rhinoceros horses could compare to.

At most 20 minutes, the carriage drove out of Yalanse City, and in about half an hour, it arrived at a vineyard, which was the winery where Angry Lion Duke was murdered.

The 'White Wine Winery' had been surrounded by soldiers. Conservatively estimated, there were tens of thousands of soldiers. Some small officials or rich businessmen gathered together, some already crying.

These people cried from the heart, not because of how deep their friendship with Angry Lion Duke was, but because after spending a large amount of gold pounds to pull strings, Angry Lion Duke died, which was equal to having nothing. Some of them would go bankrupt in a short time, and some would be dismissed from their official positions.

The soldiers gave way to a path for the carriage Su Xiao was in to pass. As soon as the carriage passed, the soldiers clustered together again, sealing the winery layer by layer.

The carriage stopped. Just as Su Xiao got off the carriage, he smelled a faint sour smell, and not far away on the grape trellis, the stems of the grape trees were withered, and bunches of grapes presented a gray-white color.

Someone had ingested the life force of the plants in the nearby area in a short time and converted this life force into hallucinogenic gas. Before this gas completely dissipated, there would be a sour smell.

Su Xiao stood in front of the grape trellis and observed for a while. With his combat experience, he could judge many things.

Along the gravel road of the winery, Su Xiao arrived in front of an old castle. This castle had some years, and the outer wall began to weather, presenting very beautiful stone patterns.

The main entrance of the castle was wide open, and a figure was lying at the door. Looking at the clothes, it was a maid.

Su Xiao stepped forward and immediately judged that this maid was not dead yet, just knocked out. This style of doing things made Su Xiao immediately think that the assassin didn't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and was even willing to bear extra risks for this.

Su Xiao's hand pressed on the back of the maid's neck. The maid's cervical spine did not appear broken, not even dislocated. Judging from the degree of damage to the subcutaneous soft tissue, the enemy's hand was not big.

Estimating from the size of this hand, the enemy's height was between 157 and 163m, weight not exceeding 50 kg, female.

Su Xiao could only judge these. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang stepped forward and sniffed.

"Woof."

"Rose fragrance?"

Su Xiao frowned. The season in the empire now was August, and roses bloomed in May to June. A female assassin, why would she apply floral fragrance on her body? Or rather, she touched it unintentionally.

Female, had been to a place where pollen fragrance was applied, the direction of the strike had a slight deviation, most likely there was an injury on the waist, affecting the balance of the whole body.

Su Xiao couldn't help but associate, an injured female assassin, hiding in a brothel in Yalanse City to heal, and before the action, she got stained with rose-made fragrance on a prostitute.

"Kukulin, don't block us."

Moon Wolf Madam blinked at Su Xiao. Su Xiao didn't speak, but walked into the castle.

Just after entering the door in front of the tasting room of the castle, Su Xiao smelled a strong smell of blood.

Pushing open the half-hidden door of the tasting room, an extremely cruel picture appeared.

A very strong corpse was hung up. There were more than a dozen holes in his chest, not blasted out, but flesh and organs dug out piece by piece by some sharp weapon.

This was Angry Lion Duke. His head was also dug out with a hole, and a large piece of skull was torn out.

Su Xiao stood obliquely below the corpse and observed for a while, basically restoring the battle scene.

Angry Lion Duke stayed here last night. This was a man who loved wine extremely. He wanted to have a drink this morning, but was paralyzed by the poison in the wine and couldn't move. There were two assassins, one male and one female. The male was responsible for the assassination, and the female was responsible for knocking down the servants around.

These two points were almost completed at the same time. From this, it could be judged that the two assassins were very familiar with the winery. They even lurked in the winery for several months or even longer to assassinate Angry Lion Duke, and gained the most basic trust of Angry Lion Duke to facilitate poisoning the wine.

"Duke Lilin, if I'm not mistaken, there were two assassins, one male and one female. They were servants or laborers in the winery, and they had worked in the winery for at least several months. They didn't have much contact on weekdays. The male was thin, and the female had left the winery recently and was injured. If they were dead soldiers, they would still stay in the winery, waiting for other dukes to arrive, that is, waiting for you and me to arrive. If they were not dead soldiers, after the assassination was successful, they would likely hide in..."

After Su Xiao briefly explained the situation, Duke Lilin was full of doubts.

"Since that's the case, I'll send someone to search."

Duke Lilin answered politely. In fact, he didn't think he could find the assassin so simply.

However, a few minutes later, a roar came from outside the castle, followed by a loud noise.

"Looks like dead soldiers."

Su Xiao waved his hand and threw out a small piece of ceramic fragment. The hemp rope hanging Angry Lion Duke broke, and the corpse fell to the ground with a plop.

Rapid footsteps came. Several soldiers rushed into the castle from the main entrance. They all held long weapons, and seven long weapons pierced the woman's body, lifting her up. The woman was already in a dying state.

And on the woman's waist, there was a blood-stained bandage. This was the female assassin.

"How, possible, why."

The female assassin muttered in her mouth, already extremely weak. There were still three sharp cones inserted in her body, limiting her from manipulating the energy in her body. She couldn't figure out why the plan that had been laid out for half a year was seen through just after being executed halfway, and even their physical signs were known. What was more fatal was that it was known that she was injured.

With blood on her face and dim eyes, the dying female assassin firmly believed that there must be a traitor, otherwise it would never be like this.

Lilin and Moon Wolf Madam turned their gazes at the same time and looked at Su Xiao. Lilin still maintained his seriousness, but his ugly face showed how bad his mood was at this time.

Think about it, Lilin and Moon Wolf Madam just restricted an old fox, but who knew, they released a more terrifying guy at this moment. The whole process took less than 10 minutes, and the assassin was dragged out. ===== CHAPTER 2164 =====