Chapter 54: Global Observer

Life is like a play, but a play can be re-performed, while a person, once they take the wrong path, has a hard time starting over.

Zuo Captain of the Divine Machine Camp, a rough martial artist who eats imperial grain but whose monthly salary is not even as much as a doorman at Shuohuang Pavilion, became a hurdle that Qin Dengming couldn't overcome in his life.

Qin Dengming had sent people to investigate the Crown Prince's guards. Besides that old eunuch with unknown strength, Zuo Zixiong shouldn't have been there. The martial artist purely met the Crown Prince's motorcade on the way back to the capital and volunteered to protect the Crown Prince back to the capital.

How much money do you make a month, so motivated?

Qin Dengming's final scene was frozen in Shuohuang Pavilion.

That day, Zuo Zixiong resisted Bai Luo's sword with a hard blow, and then used his double-knife stunt—Hundred-Crack Slash—at him.

Zuo Zixiong was originally a master of the Meridian Opening stage in martial arts. This Hundred-Crack Slash was his trump card. If it weren't for the Crown Prince's order not to damage the Ming Tiao zither, Zuo Zixiong wouldn't have been so aggrieved for so long, not daring to use his real skills.

Qin Dengming felt something was wrong, and before he could look back, he used the Parasitic Stake Method to swap himself with the puppet that was inseparable from him.

It was just that he forgot that the Parasitic Stake Method has a limit to transferring damage. Once the trauma exceeds the bearing limit, the caster has to bear all the overflowing damage.

Zuo Zixiong's Hundred-Crack Slash was like the gale that was everywhere in the cold land, scraping on Qin Dengming one knife after another.

At this time, Qin Dengming and the puppet beside him were like goods suspended on a scale rod and scale hook.

Zuo Zixiong's Hundred-Crack Slash was the weight that kept increasing. When a hundred knife lights sank into his body, Qin Dengming's scale rod could no longer maintain balance, and the puppet beside him burst into countless broken limbs and pieces, scattering everywhere.

Without the puppet to bear the damage, and suffering from the backlash, how could Qin Dengming be Zuo Mad Dog's opponent?

In front, Zuo Zixiong returned a knife to defend against Bai Luo, and another knife was held in his mouth, tightened with steel teeth, and then he freed a hand to pull out a new knife from behind, blocking Qin Dengming's offensive.

The moment Bai Luo and Section Chief Qin's figures were blocked, Zuo Zixiong suddenly twisted his neck, and the third treasure knife held in his mouth cut open Qin Dengming's throat without any obstruction.

In the morgue, Xu Qing finished transcending all the Heavenly Heart Sect rebels and then set his sights on a Crown Prince guard who had been cut in half at the waist.

This corpse had just been sewn together by Wang Lingyuan and hadn't had time to be returned.

Xu Qing reached out to touch the other's body, the Transcendence Sutra turned pages, and some pictures from a different perspective than Qin Dengming's appeared.

On the official road to and from Linhe, the guards followed the motorcade, and a dusty Divine Machine Camp captain joined them on the way.

The other party said he was chasing Heavenly Heart Sect evil people here. Now that the evil people's whereabouts were unknown, he was afraid of startling the Crown Prince's motorcade and being unfavorable to the Crown Prince, so he wanted to fulfill his duty as a subject and protect the Crown Prince all the way back to the capital.

The Crown Prince heard this, lifted the curtain, and asked: "I am traveling incognito, how did you distinguish my identity?"

Zuo Zixiong was upright and didn't know how to be tactful, so he said bluntly: "The Crown Prince is traveling, everyone knows, why distinguish?"

Since then, the Crown Prince hadn't said a word to Zuo Zixiong, nor had he let anyone lead a horse for him to ride, just letting him follow the motorcade and walk all the way.

When they arrived in Linhe, the guard who was cut in half at the waist had been guarding outside the residence where the Crown Prince was staying, commonly known as watching the door.

However, this guard also had entertainment activities in private. Xu Qing quickly skipped the scene where he was watching spring palace pictures and comforting himself.

After finishing the work, the guard took out a yellow paper with a faint incense smell and wrote down the Crown Prince's detailed itinerary to Linhe with a charcoal pen.

Xu Qing wasn't surprised. He knew from the guard's life that the other party was never a simple Crown Prince guard, but a spy bought by the palace eunuchs long ago.

However, the two were always in single-line contact, and Xu Qing didn't know who the person behind the scenes who really wanted to monitor the Crown Prince's every move was.

After the guard finished writing the Crown Prince's travel report, he used a fire-starter to ignite the paper with strange fragrance. Xu Qing saw the ash-like handwriting turn red in the air for a moment, then hide in the wind.

This Crown Prince is really not easy to be!

The picture turned again, coming to Shuohuang Pavilion. It was still Bai Luo, Zuo Zixiong, and others shouting and fighting, only this guard was mixing in the middle.

Xu Qing could foresee that if the other party kept mixing, he would definitely not be cut in half at the waist. Thinking about it this way, he was really curious: how did this guard die?

In the picture, Qin Dengming was cut in the throat again. Bai Luo protector looked up at the old eunuch beside the Crown Prince, then turned back to look at Zuo Mad Dog, knowing the opportunity was lost.

At this moment, he no longer wanted to fight, casually took out a red pellet, stuck it into the zither string, and threw the Ming Tiao zither into the air above the lobby.

"Ming Tiao zither!" Miss Hanmeng screamed on stage.

Zuo Zixiong heard this and wanted to chase Bai Luo, but had to stop halfway, turning to protect the zither presented to the Crown Prince.

At this moment, the Mingtiao Zither thrown into the air suddenly exploded, and countless thunder-fire fumes shot out. Zuo Zixiong reacted quickly, immediately lifting his robes to cover his face, his body also turning like a spinning thread-spindle, darting and folding back in a trajectory that defied common sense.

The guard upstairs was still mixing in the muddy water. Seeing that the Heavenly Heart Sect's general trend was gone, he was ready to exert force to cooperate with his colleagues to retreat the enemy. 【54

It was at this exact juncture that the guard suddenly felt his legs stop obeying him, and his own upper body soared into the air. By the time the half-body fell, a torrent of fluids and viscera gushed out all at once.

That miserable sight was like a toad crushed by a wheel hub, with all the organs and blood hidden in the abdominal cavity squeezed out.

The guard struggled and screamed on the ground, but the old eunuch standing beside him acted as if he had done a trivial, insignificant thing. He casually tossed the blade back to the stunned guard nearby and said with a smile, "This one sees that your acting is tiring; why not let me grant you release sooner?"

A person cut in half at the waist does not die immediately; their consciousness remains clear for a period of time.

Amidst his terror, the guard trembled with his half-body and asked, "How did you know I was an inside man?"

The old eunuch ignored him, instead beckoning for a blood-soaked government office runner in the corridor to come over.

"What is your name?"

"Replying to my lord, this humble one is Zhang Jun."

In the morgue, it took a long time for Xu Qing to recover his senses.

At this moment, as an outsider, he was actually the person who understood the assassination of the Crown Prince the best.

From the start of the case to its end, whether it was the perspective of the Heaven Heart Sect rebels or the events in the Crown Prince's camp, he had seen it all.

"There is also a person in the Cuiyun Pavilion who looks like a eunuch, but that person's voice is not consistent with the old eunuch beside the Crown Prince."

The more Xu Qing thought about it, the more interesting he found it. It was just the Crown Prince going on an inspection tour, yet it could trigger so many incidents. It was just a pity that Protector Bai Luo of the Heaven Heart Sect was too disappointing.

The Crown Prince was right before your eyes; why did you run away?

With such hesitation and cowardice, how could you ever achieve the great cause of rebellion?

Xu Qing inwardly criticized the other party's actions, but in reality, he was just sorry that a high-quality corpse source that had reached his lips had flown away again.

There was nothing more regrettable in the world than this.

While Xu Qing finished performing funeral rites for all the corpses, the time for the results of the child scholar examination in the next room had also arrived.

"Junior fellow apprentice, are you not going to check the results?"

"I am! Senior fellow apprentice, since you have nothing to do, why not come with me? After we see the results, I will treat you to a night at the flower house!"

(End of chapter)