Chapter 1136: Ancient Academy Records, So Many Fun Stories 23

Tingyang saw the old master had already left; of course he knew this was tacit permission to scare General Song, so he jumped down at once and chased the big‑headed, big‑eared General Song around the courtyard.

"Ahhhh! Get lost!"

General Song was fierce outside but timid within; he drew his waist sword and stabbed at the zombie.

He didn't wound it, but instead he chipped the sword.

"Ah?!" General Song thought it was exaggerated, staring at the nick in the sword with a bewildered face.

Could it really be a ghost!

"Who are you! Speak quickly!"

General Song couldn't see the zombie's face, shouting angrily while retreating in fear: "Even if you're a soul‑reaping ghost, you must let this general know which ghost you are!"

It sounds quite imposing, if his leg weren't trembling nonstop.

Tingyang almost couldn't hold back, but he had experience as a ghost, so he immediately started to fish for information, deliberately disguising his voice as eerie, hoarse and raspy, without moving his mouth; the sound reaching General Song's ears seemed to come from all directions.

"Do you know who I am…… you didn't kill me, did you……"

"How would I know who you are! I've just killed a few Tianxuan soldiers…… you all are going to die anyway; being killed by this half‑self of mine is better than being killed by the Crown Prince!"

General Song had nowhere left to retreat, his back against a tree, wishing he could climb up, but his body, stouter than a fat pig, simply couldn't do it.

He trembled, constantly swallowing saliva to suppress his fear.

Upon hearing this, the five royal princes in the woodshed immediately turned cold‑faced, wishing to kill him right away.

Tingyang, this person is sharp, immediately continued to follow this line of questioning.

"You, since you know we are Tianxuan soldiers, originally from the same root, why kill……"

Perhaps because he spoke too smoothly, General Song also grew suspicious, hesitating not to speak, when he saw another female ghost, Youyou, float over, her eyes filled with blood vessels, terrifying to the extreme.

Scared, General Song almost wet his pants, and spilled everything.

"What's with all the why's? It's not because you wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape and leak news! Now the border city is already under the Northern Wind Kingdom's people; you were never going to live long anyway!"

As soon as this was said, everyone in the woodshed could not stay calm.

The border city has actually been occupied by the Northern Wind Kingdom's people! And the imperial city hasn't received any news!

Tingyang was also startled by this news, took a while to react; facing General Song's fearful gaze, he jabbed with the hidden‑weapon long fingernail concealed in his sleeve, and coldly used ventriloquism to press for answers.

"Whose person are you exactly! If you don't tell me, I won't die in peace!"

General Song's neck was stabbed, his pig‑like body trembled nonstop, and his speech lost any strength.

"I am the Crown Prince's man…! The Crown Prince of the Northern Wind Kingdom! He said there is an adult in the imperial city who has been undercover for a long time, but I… I haven't even met him!"

Si Ning suddenly approached, intending to continue questioning, but who would have thought that upon seeing her face, General Song trembled all over, and a urine‑like odor spread.

Then with a bang he fainted to the ground, literally frightened unconscious.

Tingyang: "……It's Ning sister's fault."

Its lethality is off the charts!

Si Ning was speechless for a moment, then everyone in the woodshed came out.

Wanzhou pushed the cart loaded with corpses, casually set it down, hoisted General Song onto it, revealing the simple smile of the laboring people.

"What a bountiful day today, hey!"

Jin Chen slightly raised his chin: "Search him, since he hasn't yet met the so‑called adult, he must still have a token of recognition on him."

"Right, right, right, I need to search quickly."

Wanzhou rolled up his sleeves and got to work; the urine smell made him not want to touch, but after much effort he pulled a pouch of brocade from General Song's bosom, turned around and saw the nine little companions already far away.

"Hey! You told me to search the body, why are you hiding so far away!"

Wanzhou felt unbalanced, grabbed the still‑smelling pouch and threw it at Tingyang.

Thus the eight people retreated again, staying a few steps from Tingyang.

Tingyang: "……"

"I also won't look, Xie Beiyou, you come look!"

Thus searching for clues mysteriously turned into a brocade‑pouch throwing contest.

Of course, no one dared throw this thing at Jin Chen; Jin Chen and Xie Yuancheng, who was always embraced by him, escaped unscathed.

Finally the smell on the pouches had been thrown away, and it returned to Wanzhou.

He resignedly opened it; inside was a dark blue jade pendant with unclear pattern, and a letter.

Everyone gathered tightly, carefully studying the letter's content.

It was nothing more than the Northern Wind Crown Prince's instruction to the undercover in the imperial city, stating that someone had scouted that the Deputy Pavilion Master of the Divine Pavilion had entered the academy, but the truth of the news is unknown, requiring the undercover to reply with information, and meanwhile send people to kill the Deputy Pavilion Master.

"That means these three people who came today, both overt and covert, ultimately aim to kill Jin Chen!"

Lan Wushang sighed, "What a sin."

Ling Xiuyu breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately during training we didn't leak Jin Chen's identity."

"Otherwise it would be even more troublesome."

"Damn it!" Xie Yuancheng inexplicably became extremely angry, his cheeks puffed, and he whistled to summon the dark guards.

Dark guards in black tight clothing appeared before him, kneeling awaiting orders.

"Go tell the father emperor that the academy is fraught with danger, have him quickly dispatch heavy troops to guard it."

"Yuancheng, no." Ling Xiuyu slowly shook his head, not agreeing: "Such a big fuss would be tantamount to directly telling that Crown Prince that Jin Chen is inside the academy."

"That's also true."

Xie Yuancheng frowned, turned to look at Jin Chen who seemed deep in thought, and asked glumly, "Then how can we protect you?"

Jin Chen came to his senses, raised his hand to gently rub his earlobe, and said gently: "No problem, everything as usual; even if discovered, I'm not that easy to die."

Perhaps because these past days Jin Chen has been frequently hands‑on, Xie Yuancheng didn't realize how ambiguous this gesture was, and he scratched his cheek with a finger.

"Alright, then I'll listen to you, but…… could we send a few more dark guards over."

Xie Yuancheng glanced at the shadow guard, 'Go.'

'Yes.'

The shadow guard received the order and immediately went to handle it.

Watching Xie Yuancheng and Jin Chen interact, Xie Beiyao suddenly realized something, frowned and exchanged a glance with Ling Xiuyu, both seeing the same worry in each other's eyes.

If this is true, His Majesty probably wouldn't agree.

Ling Xiuyu grabbed his sleeve and shook his head, indicating not to speak of it immediately, and said in a low voice, 'Let's talk to Yuancheng alone another day.'

'Good.' Xie Beiyao naturally listened to him, so he had no objection at the moment.

Others were still researching the token, while Ye Susu was puzzled, 'This Beifeng Kingdom's Crown Prince is quite cautious; the letter doesn't mention the undercover agent's name or identity at all, but the problem is this token…… we don't recognize it either.'

She held the Jade Pendant and swayed it before everyone, 'Do you recognize it?'

Everyone shook their heads; Ling Xiuyu looked at it for a while, but it didn't match any of the imperial clan members in his memory.

'Perhaps even if the undercover agent is in the Imperial City, they're not someone from the palace, just an ordinary merchant?'

Jiang Yao still felt it unlikely for an undercover agent to appear in the palace, 'Palace regulations are strict; if an undercover agent constantly communicated with the outside, how could they remain hidden for so long without being discovered?'

Jin Chen examined the Jade Pendant, narrowing his eyes slightly.

I had thought we could expose the current Prince Li as the undercover agent here, but I didn't expect that dog of a prince to be so cautious; even the token has nothing to do with Prince Li's identity, and probably only the undercover agent themselves could understand it.

He thought it over, then glanced at Xie Beiyao.

【You say, for the protagonist seme, whether his father is dead, or not only dead but also replaced in identity by an undercover agent, which would hurt him more?】

0731 also thought seriously for a moment, then replied: '【Perhaps the former; the latter would also make him angry, so it's not just sadness.】'

That makes sense.

Jin Chen was very satisfied; 0731 had finally grown.