Chapter 17 (1/2)

Ice Fantasy Chapter 17 – Liao Jian Died From Poisoned Needle

That night I didn’t sleep at all, my mind kept thinking about what happened just now. Somehow I could guess some of the things but they were still blurry to me; I knew I must have missed out something but I couldn’t think of what was that something.

That night seemed to pa.s.s by very quickly and there’s nothing happened after that.

I got up the next morning to see Shang Lie already standing outside my room. Surprisingly, Yue Shen and Chao Ya were also standing outside; Chao Ya was playing her zither and her smiled was calm and tranquil.

I walked over to ask her. “Chao Ya, yesterday night…”

“Chao Ya, did you sleep well yesterday?” Shang Lie cut me off.

“Very good. I did sleep well and had a dreamless sleep all the way to daybreak.”

“That’s good. You should rest since you are still weak.” Shang Lie smiled and his smile was so calm but there’s already a drop of sweat in my palm. Why did Chao Ya lie?

“Yue Shen, what about you?” Shang Lie continued.

“I wasn’t here. I went out.”

“Where did you go?” I asked.

She looked at me. “My king, I discovered something last night. I shall come over to your room tonight to tell you.” I could tell Yue Shen didn’t mean to be so secretive, she must have discovered something.

“My king, I have something to tell you tonight as well.” Huang Tuo looked at Yue Shen and told me.

That night Huang Tuo told me Liao Jian didn’t die from chronic toxic because he dug out Liao Jian’s body to do a thorough check after that, and then he discovered a tiny needle on top of his head am with hair covering it and it was coated with lethal poison.

“My king, do you still remember when we first entered in the West territory, are there any suspicious people around us?” Huang Tuo asked.

Yue Shen did tell me that there were several top killers there but they didn’t make any move because Yue Shen was there and no one dared to attack before her.

“My king, did you still remember when Liao Jian went down, Pian Feng was the first to rush over to hold him like he knew that he is going to fall. I could still remember Pian Feng was holding Liao Jian’s head.”

“Huang Tuo, what do you want to say?”

“My king, I just want to let you know that I have discovered something we had missed out earlier on. You can have your own judgment, my king.”

Just then Yue Shen was already at the door, she didn’t say anything when she saw Huang Tuo in my room:

Huang Tuo glanced at Yue Shen and turned back to me, saying. “My king, I shall go back to my room first.”

That night Yue Shen told me the same thing, she told me on the night when I got a.s.sa.s.sinated, she was out checking Liao Jian’s body. Yue Shen said the gra.s.s around the tomb was all withered and that’s because there’s poison in Liao Jian’s body and there’s a tiny needle hiding in his hair.

I didn’t tell Yue Shen that Huang Tuo was already aware of this matter. I just asked Yue Shen. “Who do you is the one who killed Liao Jian?”

Yue Shen didn’t suspect anyone among us. “My king, you remembered the lady with needles on her head?” She asked.

“Zhen?”

“Correct. I want to see if the needle on her head is the same as the one on Liao Jian’s head.”

When Yue Shen was about to leave my room, she turned back to face me suddenly. “My king, don’t you find the incident weird?”

“You mean…”

“Huang Tuo is the only one who saw the black figure and discovered the person running into the rooms at North Wing. He said everything himself and the cut before his chest, have you ever wondered if it was your icicle blade that cut his clothes?”

I looked at Yue Shen, fear and coldness started piling up in my heart.