Chapter 448: Dagger Revealed

Zheng Zheng Anqi and Liu Jin's calculations finally became clear.

They wanted to repeat the Nanjing affair. Zheng Zheng Anqi used the people of Nanjing as grain to try to attain the perfect "Xuanlan," so Zheng Zheng Anqi could naturally use the officials as grain to restore the nature he had cut off and restore the perfect state!

Forcing the palace was not to usurp power.

Summoning the officials, and incidentally forcing the Emperor to appear. Zheng Zheng Anqi could capture the Emperor the moment he restored his state, then cooperate with the Yingzhou Heaven-Men and Liu Jin to sweep away the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and finally let Ji Tianrui lift the Emperor's Gu insect... If Li Miao had killed a minute or a second later that day, I fear everything would have proceeded as Zheng Zheng Anqi planned.

Fortunately, Li Miao rushed back overnight.

Fortunately, Li Miao was a killing machine with nothing but killing in his head!

Zhu Zai sighed long.

If Li Miao hadn't directly killed the officials, forcing Zheng Zheng Anqi to appear, and then gone to fight Zheng Zheng Anqi that night, beating him to heavy injuries, and the Yingzhou Heaven-Men took the opportunity to rebel...

Thinking about it now, Li Miao's rough behavior of killing whoever showed their head actually didn't leave Zheng Zheng Anqi any time to breathe or adjust his plan, which forced him to his current situation.

Back to the present.

Zhu Zai had already sorted out everything and was planning to get up from the chair and go out, but heard a cry of surprise from behind.

"Eunuch Zhu, he moved!"

"Lord Li moved!"

Zhu Zai's pupils shrank; he didn't care about his demeanor, leaped several zhang to the side of the coffin, and looked into the coffin at Li Miao lying inside.

One look, and his heart throbbed.

Still no breathing or pulse, even his complexion had turned pale, looking truly like a dead person... He had never seen Li Miao like this, his eye sockets sour, and he was about to shed tears.

But the second look, he was overjoyed.

Li Miao's fingers were twitching, and the eyeballs under his eyelids were also twitching, clearly looking like he was about to wake up.

Zhu Zai suppressed the urge to jump and cheer, and was about to order: "Take Lord Li away, take him out of the city—"

Halfway through the sentence, a very familiar voice said.

"Commander, I'm not dead yet."

"I don't have the habit of letting the old man and subordinates take the blame for me; if I want to escape and take refuge, you should go."

Zhu Zai heard this and instinctively got angry.

"You unfilial—"

And then he froze; just for a breath, he was in tears.

"Big Li..."

He didn't even have time to wipe his tears, looked down, but didn't see the scene he imagined of Li Miao sitting up from the coffin and looking at him with a smile.

Li Miao was still lying in the coffin, his complexion still pale; only the eunuchs beside him, whose faces were pale with horror, proved that he hadn't hallucinated.

"Big Li..."

"Commander, oh no, now I am the Commander, I'm used to calling you that. Just call you old man directly; I've wanted to call you that for a long time."

Li Miao in the coffin closed his eyes and muttered.

Zhu Zai leaned over to look at Li Miao.

"Big Li, you are..."

Li Miao curled his mouth and smiled with his eyes closed.

"Still some loose ends not cleaned up, but also gained some harvest. My mind is half awake, can speak and hear, can't see or move, and have no sense of touch. Just heard you were worried, so I came to cover for you."

"Old man, don't worry, I have a plan in mind."

But how could Zhu Zai be at ease?

Just looking at the Emperor's mental illusion, he knew that in his heart, Li Miao's status was even greater than the Zhu family's world he was willing to die for. Now, although Li Miao spoke lightly, he truly couldn't move or attack; any Heaven-Man could take the opportunity to assassinate him... He was truly afraid, afraid of seeing Li Miao lying in the coffin.

He was old, and what he feared most was the white-haired sending off the black-haired.

Li Miao seemed to have noticed his emotions, and his tone rarely lacked a mocking meaning.

"Alright, old man, this time it was my recklessness, sorry. I won't let you see me in such a sorry state again."

This "sorry" he said for the first time in his life almost made Eunuch Zhu, Grand Secretary Zhu, shed tears.

"Bastard."

Zhu Zai was also scolding Li Miao for the first time with such lack of confidence. But he saw Li Miao's expression turn solemn.

"Alright, old man, time is tight and the task is heavy."

"You just listen to me."

"Prime Minister Zhuge, Sima Yi, you know them, right?"

Zhu Zai immediately understood.

"You mean—"

Li Miao smiled.

"That's right, such a classic routine, I've wanted to play it for a long time. Don't worry, Zheng Zheng Anqi doesn't fear me, but he was forced by me to lose all his trump cards and had to fight for his life personally."

"He definitely fears me rushing his face again, but this is exactly the move to deal with him."

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The Emperor gritted his teeth and chased after Zheng Zheng Anqi.

With the realm of the two combining four paths, even crossing the palace city would only take less than a minute. But chasing and fleeing, it took a full half-hour.

Zheng Zheng Anqi was taking a detour.

He was heading directly to the Imperial Palace at first, but when he got close, he suddenly turned, taking the Emperor for another round, and then returned, then left again.

It was as if... he was dragging out time.

As if waiting for a timing to enter the palace city.

The Emperor had already understood, but didn't dare let Zheng Zheng Anqi disappear from his sight, so he could only grit his teeth and follow behind.

The seventh time approaching the Imperial Palace.

The seventh time passing the palace wall.

The Emperor had already slowed down in advance to prepare for a turn, and was ready to use "Jizhao" to directly control Zheng Zheng Anqi this time, not letting him escape again.

But the next instant, his pupils shrank!

Zheng Zheng Anqi actually turned suddenly and leaped into the palace city!

He didn't turn!

The timing he was waiting for had arrived!

The Emperor turned a breath too slow, gritted his teeth, followed closely, leaped into the palace wall, and chased straight after Zheng Zheng Anqi.

And at the other end of the Forbidden City, An Ziyang and Mei Qinghe chased all the way here, didn't have time to take the main gate, directly climbed the wall into the palace, and walked dozens of zhang in the direction indicated by the Gu insects.

Those Gu insects all lowered their heads to the ground.

"This is it!"

An Ziyang said in a low voice.

No need to say more, Mei Qinghe had already drawn his sword, "Sword Twenty-Three" ready to go, and the four eunuchs had also raised their true energy, ready to strike.

After waiting for about ten breaths, the ground shook.

An Ziyang had already gripped dozens of bags of poison in his hands, ready to trigger them at any time.

Just as the floor tiles were slightly lifted, the moment An Ziyang was about to scatter the poison into it, a noisy sound of talking and footsteps suddenly came from not far away.

"Is this it?"

"Really entered the palace! But General Bai, what should we do next?"

"Is it to go to the Palace of Heavenly Purity for a death remonstrance, or to go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony for a court meeting, to seek justice for the countless colleagues who died at the hands of that thief Tang Lanzhou?"

An Ziyang's pupils shrank.

"The civil officials were also sent here!"

"What do they want to do!"

Before he could react, he heard Mei Qinghe suddenly shout!

"Brother An, dodge!"

"Zheng Zheng Anqi!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 449 =====